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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46427	Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.; Works. English. 1660	Juvenal.; Stapylton, Robert, Sir, d. 1669.; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.	1660 (1660)	Wing J1280; ESTC R21081	275,181	643

by too great a CLEARNESSE of his stile made for the most part by their own self-reflexions for guilty men are shrewdly apprehensive Afterwards to remoter parts and strangers to the ROMANE Customes he appeared OBSCURE and was looked upon like the Moon in an Eclipse as drowned in the shadow of a forein clime Lastly though the greatest Scholars have made use of JUVENAL'S authority as CUJACIUS in the civil Law DE LA CERDA to explane TERTULLIAN and GROTIUS to assert the Rights of Peace and War yet in our seed-plots of Learning there sprung up a Sect of little formall Stoicks that for a few wanton words all they could make sense of cast JUVENAL out of their hands just as if Pygmyes should throw away Diamonds set in Tablets bigger then themselves only because their foils were black My Copie will not I hope be liable to these exceptions The first falls to ground of it self for the bitterness of these Satyrs being only PERSONAL to the ROMANS cannot touch the ENGLISH therefore I have made it my businesse to clear them from all OBSCURITY which is the second charge To perspicuity I have added language so well-qualitied that I am confident the third sort of accusers will never inform against this JUVENAL for Immodesty And if when I took off his obscenity I could have set on the full perfections of his Pen my industry had been crowned to my wish But though I am too much composed of earth to ascend to my desires I know your Lordship participates so much of Heaven as to descend to the acceptance of intentions Yet when your name now flying in the breath of every University shall be the Protection of such learned Pieces as I cannot SHOW but only can CONCEIVE thus far my present Dedication will be happiest as being first authorised by your Lordship which I look upon as the earnest of a generall approbation for the noble follow your opinion all your example But if there should be some one that dislikes my way because I goe not his such an Adversary I shall not think considerable since the Judge from whom no Scholar will appeal gives sentence for Your Lordship's Most humble Servant ROBERT STAPYLTON THE PREFACE AGathocles that being Son to a Potter raised himself by military virtue to be King of Sicily commanded earthen pots to be set upon his Cupboard of gold-plate and pointing to them when he would incourage his young Souldiers said Look friends from these I am come to this It may as much incourage the Youth of England if they consider how high this Nation is in prosperity and honour purchased by the industry and valour of their Ancestors from the low beginnings of the Britons mentioned in these Satyrs Juvenal takes notice of one great Souldier here Arviragus and names him as the terrour of Domitian Caesar but this only shews the Gallantry of our Country-men what was then their Art of War their Fortifications poor huts what their Manufacture baskets what their Erudition Lawyers Rhetorick taught them by the French what their Breeding to be ranked with the Scythian Picts the Agathyrsians But now if Juvenal could live to review the World he would find that the spirit of Arviragus is diffused into thousands of our Souldiers every one of them able to lead an Army against his Romans That our Island is famous for the noblest Merchants the greatest Scholars and the civilest persons living which I have a particular ingagement to acknowledge for the acceptance of my first Translation wherein they not only pardoned mine and the Printer's Errours but likewise the corruptions of those Copies which I then steered by Therefore when the most perfect and authentick Impression came to my hands from Paris I thought my self obliged to render it in English as well in Gratitude to as for the Benefit of the publique Yet I could not rest altogether satisfied without making some as I conceive necessary Additions of my own In the first place from the subject-matter of Juvenal I have given a Title to his Satyrs viz. Mores Hominum The Manners of Men not without the warrant of a president from Horace that calls his own Satyrs Sermones Withall I have invented a Frontispice conteining in one Picture my Authors generall Designe together with sixteen other Pieces expressing the particular of every Satyr whereunto I have writ Explanations in English and also in Latin that foreiners if they please may understand the Cuts and our Country-men make use of their interpretation as my former Arguments inlarged Lastly that nothing within my power might be wanting I have taken care in a new Comment to set down clearly though briefly every Grecian and Roman Custome Law and History for all which I quote my Authors yet I am not ignorant that our new Mode of writing will no more allow of quotations in the body of a Work then in the beginning of a Preface but I shall desire to be excused in both for I humbly conceive that reason is never out of fashion and in matter of weight or controversie he cannot justly hope for credit that shews not authority and he that doth it well makes a Book a Library By the way I must give you this caution that you will find the Historie of the Ante-Trojan Times more pleasant then true being wrapt up by the Greeks in Allegories in whose respective Mythologie I have endeavoured to unfold the mysterious Wisdome of the Ancients How this will be taken I know not but I am sure 't is not conclusive from a former favour to infer the necessity of a second Howsoever I am no Alcibiades for I dare trust my Country with my Life much more with my Book I shall conclude with a Request to my Reader that he will not charge upon me the literall or other coincident errours of the Printer which for the most part if not totally are corrected in the Table Figura Prima OCcurrunt oculis 1 Capitolia Regia Romae Clara uti Sol novus in terris splendore triumphi Elicito ex captis Armis 2 Regumque Coronis Roma tamen propiùs spectata videbitur atra Area lata patet 3 Circi pugnaeque theatrum Multiplicis coràm saevi dux femina ludi Tuscum figit aprum in proprium magis effera sexum Furtiva uxoris benè potus Leno 4 maritus Oscula dissimulans vigili sibi munera somno Augurat Insumpsit bona qui praesepibus haeres E Româ impellens currus ad Caesaris aedes 5 Flaminiam laceransque viam contemnit avorum Oppositas Statuas majorum transvolat Vrnas Alea ubi 6 Dominos exercent praelia servos Obnubit pompam Latialem 7 sportula sordes Ecce trahit Procerum Libertinusque Tribuno Se dives praefert lecticam aulaeque ministros Summovet exclusos qui magnum limen adorant Dicite jam servi quid nomine dignius Orbis A Româ victus vitiis an Roma subacta Dicite cum cives agitet manifesta