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A59170	Medea a tragedie / written in Latine by Lucius Annæus, Seneca ; Englished by E.S., Esq., with annotations.; Medea. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1648 (1648)	Wing S2513; ESTC R17531	52,518	122

those who will have the Nuptialls of Iason and Medea performed at Sea Apollonius will have them celebrated in the Island Corcyra Some at Byzantium others in Colchis and with the Privitie of Aeëta Valerius Flaccus makes them to be begun in the Island Peuce and interrupted by the comming of of Absyrtus 9 Of all the Wealth by Scythians rapt away From Sun-scorch'd Dwellers of Rich India Meant by the Easterne Scythians Scythia by Geographers being divided into Scythia Europaea and Asietica Scythia Europaea concerning which see Pomponius Mela l. 2. and Pliny l. 4. extends from the Banke of Tanais Palus Maeotis and the sh•…ares of the Euxine Sea to the mouth of Ister Asiatica beginning from the limits of the opposite shores towards the East as farre as the Seres on the North bounded with the Ocean on the South stretching to the Mountaine Taurus on the West to Cappadocia and Armenia Though those Countries were likewise under the Subjection of the Scythians Ptolomy l. 6. Cosm. divides this Scythia Asiatica into Scythia intra Imaum Montem and Scythia extra Imaum Montem That intra Imaum he terminates on the West by Sarmatià Asiatica on the East by the Mountaine Ima•…s on the South by the Nations beyond the Caspian or Hyrcanian Sea and on the North by the Land called by him terra incognita That Extra Imaum hath on the East the People called Seres on the North terra incognita on the South India extra Gangem and on the West Scythia interior Both of these are properly called Scythia 10 Phaebus with Sysiphus his Nephews joyne Meaning the Issue of Medea Daughter of Aeëta Son of Phaebus with the Off-spring of Crensa Daughter of Ceron Sonne of Sysiphus Upon the CHORUS 11 When Ister like a Torrent r•…w'ld Ister is a part of Danubius or the Danow a famous River of Germany which as Pomponius Mela sayes Maintaining his course along while through divers Lands is called Danubius after by the Inhabitants of the Countries through which it passes Ister Ptolomy more particularly tells us That when Danubius is come as farre as the Citie of Accium a Citie of the Lower Mysia neare the Confines of Dacia in the 47 degree and of Northerne latitude It loses it's name and from thence untill it falls into the Sea is called Ister Which having receiv'd into it threescore Navigable Rivers falls at length into the Euxine Sea with as many streames as Nilus into the Aegyptian It arises not farre from the Hercynian Wood from a cleare Spring now inclosed within the Castle of Donaweschingen a House of the Counts of Furst•…nbergue Thuilius of all the Rivers of Europ as pliny sayes alone maintaining a continued course Eastward Vid. Plin. l. 4. c. 2. and 12. 12 Not Rhodanus with rapid course Rhodanus or the Rh•…ane is a River of Gallia Narbonensis arising from the Grison Alpes and from thence as it were compassing the Country with his winding streames falls at length into the Galliek or Massilian Sea 13 Not Haemus when the Suns hot Beames Haemus is a Mountaine of Thrace upon the Borders of Mysia inferior by 〈◊〉 reported to be of that eminent Height that a man from the Top thereof might behold both Egaean and Ionian Seas though Strabo seemes not to allow of this for a truth This mightie Mountaine if wee beleeve the Poets was once a man and the neighbouring Mountaine 〈◊〉 his Sister of whose Transformation see Ovid's Metam l. 6. 14 The sacred Grove which Pelion crown'd c. Pelion is a most noted Mountaine of Thessaly in a Cave or Grot in which Peleus marrying The•…is entertain'd as the Poets Fable and feasted all the Gods Vid. Claudian de Nuptiis Honor Mar. and Euripides in Iphigenia From whence a great part of the Timber that built Argos was feld and taken 15 To an unskilfull Pylot c. Who this should be that succeeded Typhis in the Pylot-ship of Argos is not agreed on some say An•…aeus others Euphemus but the most generally receiv'd opinion is that it was Ergynus the Sonne of Neptune afterwards slaine by Hercules 16 'Mongst unknowne Ghosts lies tomb'd in sand Typhis on a sudden as he held the Helme fell dead and was buried in Mariandinum a famous Cave in Bythinia Acherusia but whether before he came to Colchos or in the Return is not knowne Vid. Apollonii Scholiasten l. 2. 17 He from the Vocall Muse that springs Orpheus Who by generall consent of the ancients was held to be the Sonne of Phaebus begotten on the Muse Calliope de Orpheo vide Vic. Com. Santi Albam de Sapientia veter c. 11. cui Titulus Orpheus sive Philosophia Iereniam Hoelzlinum in Prolegomenis ad Apollonium p. 33. F•…lgent Mytholog 18 Dragg'd unto Haebrus streaming head Haebrus is a River of Thrace famous for the memoriz'd Tragedy of Orpheus into which the furious Bacchanalls after they •…ad torne his body in Pieces threw his head it is now called Meritza 18 Alcides Boreas Issue slew Calais and Zetes the Sonne of Boreas were slaine by Hercules in the Island T•…nos who as Apollonius hath it in the first of his Argonauticks in Memoriall thereof erected upon their Sepulchre two Pillars the one whereof was said to move at the blowing of the North Wind. The Cause of their death as I find collected by the Scholiast of Apollonius is variously delivered Some say the reason of it was in they that diswaded the Returne of Argos into Mysia to take in Hercules some say that Hercules did it to revenge the injury he had received from their Father Boreas in the Island of Cos where he distrest him with a storme Others in that they contended with Hercules about the Dividend of the Guifts given by Iason among the Argonauticks and some for that having received Hercules as their Guest they treacherously conspir'd his Death 19 He who could various shapes indue From Neptune who derives his Birth c. Periclimenus who by the guift of his Father Neptune could change himselfe into sundry shapes slaine by Hercules after he had transform'd himselfe into an Eagle 20 Forc'd the Stygian Sound Hercules as the Poets faigne descended into Hell on this occasion Theseus and Perithous attempting to steale thence Proserpina were by Pl•…to taken Prisoners Whose Rescue Hercules undertooke and by force perform'd and dragg'd from thence Cerberus Vid. Ovid Met. l. 9. 20 Alive on Aeta's Pyre repos'd His limbs to cruell Flames expos'd While mingled goares Infection c. Nessus attempting to ravish Deianira after he had transported her over the River Evenus was by Hercules yet on this side the River shot through with one of his poysonous Arrowes He to be reveng'd of Hercules cunningly before he dyes insinuates into Deianira That a shirt dipt in his Blood and sent to her Husband to be put on would reclaime his love from others and regaine his languishing Affection towards her Which advice she beleeving presently puts in execution and

YOu 1 Nuptiall Powers and thou 2 Lucina * * Proeses Puerperii se•… Praefecta Parturientibus Head And carefull Guardian of the 3 G•…niall Bed And 4 thou who Tiphys taught'st as with a rein To guide the 5 first Ship through the subdu'd Maine 6 Dread Soveraigne of the Seas thou ever bright Phaebus that to the world divid'st thy light 7 Three-formed Hecate that dost display On nightly mysteries thy conscious Ray And all yee Gods by whom false Iason swore Or you Medea rather should implore Darke Chaos deeps Infernall damned soules The King who Hells sad Monarchy controules And * * Proserpina Queen with better faith was ravished Heare whilst we imprecate yee 8 Furies dread The punishers of guilt in bloudy hands Grasping your pitchy-blacke and sulph'ry Brands With snaky Curles and squallid looks appeare As horrid at our Nuptialls as you were Death on the new-made * * Creusa the Daughter of Creon King of Corinth whom Iason repudiating Medea had newly married Euripides in Medea some others give her the name of Gl•…uca Bride on Corinths King And our owne Progeny untimely bring And with some imprecation yet more dire 'Gainst my false Husband my fell minde inspire Live he through Townes despis'd and friendlesse rove Feare hatred poverty and exile prove Wish me his Wife againe and harbour from A stranger crave now a knowne Guest become And then which none a greater curse can be Children be get he like himselfe and me See! our Revenge doth with our Wish conspire These we have borne We Plaints in vaine expire Why rush we not upon our Foes and there The Bridall Tapers from the Bearers teare Extinguish them and bury all in Night Behold'st thou this thou Fountaine of all light Phaebus 9 the Radiant Author of our Race And driv'st through Chrystall skies thy wonted space Runn'st thou not back unto the East and Day Remeasur'st O! to me resigne thy sway Give me the Guidance of those burning Reines That rule the Coursers with the fiery Maines I 'ld scourge 'till Corinth whose 10 small Land divides Two opposite Seas and breakes their battering Tides Consum'd in Flames should make them way to joyne Nought rests to doe but that a Nuptiall Pine We beare and when the holy Prair's and all The Rites are done then that our victimes fall Through thine owne Bowells reach at thy Revenge Soule if thou liv'st all Womanish Feares estrange Let thy stout minde on her old strength presume And more then Scythian Ferity assume What Ills once 11 Colchos now shall Corinth see Horrid unperpetrated crueltie Terror to Men and Gods workes in my Minde Wounds Death * * See the Annotations at the number 11 in fine spred Funeralls of Limbes dis-joyn'd Pish what flight triviall Ills doe we recount Acts of our Virgin hands Our Rage should mount Ills more sublime more horrid Acts of Bloud Suite with our married state and Motherhood Courage then On to act thy Tragedy With all thy Furie that Posterity Thy fatall Nuptialls and divorce may finde Equally signall Stay thou rash of minde Thy spouse by what meanes leav'st thou by the same I once did follow him All sence of shame Abandon and delayes as fruitlesse flye The Faith by Ills confirm'd by Ills shall dye Ex. Medea CHORVS Of Corinthian Women Singing an Epithalamium to the Nuptialls of Jason and Creusa 12 You Gods whose Empire in the skies Or in the tumid Ocean lies These 12 Princely Nuptialls blesse we pray 12 Whilst all due Rites the people pay First to those 13 Powers that thunder fling And Scepters beare for offering A Bull white without spot shall dye A Heifer that did never try The servile Yoake then snow more white Thee 14 O Lucina doth delight 15 To her who Mars his bloudy hands Doth ma•…acle in peacefull Bands Who strifes of Nations doth compose Whose 15 Horne with growing plenty flowes Shall fall a gent•…er Sacrifice 16 And thou who these Solemnities And Rites * * As oppos'd to Medea's Nuptiall•… which were 〈◊〉 and Illegitimate 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this Chorus Legitimate dost grace And the nights sullen darknesse chase With thy auspicious hand come drown'd In Wine thy 16 Head with Roses crown'd 17 And thou bright Star with silver ray Fore-runner of the Night and Day That slow to those dost still returne Who with loves mutu'all flames doth burne Mothers that long Daughters new wed Wish thee thy early beames to spread 'Mong the 18 Cecropian Dames the Pride For Beauty vaile unto the Bride The Virgins of the 19 Wallesse Towne Who on 20 Taygetus his Crowne Themselves as is their Countries guise In 20 manly Pastimes exercise And those their limbes in 21 Dirce lave Or in 22 Alphaeus sacred Wave To the 23 Aesonian Youth for grace And Forme shall 24 Bacchus selfe give place Who to the Yoake •…ierce Tygers chaines Or he who o're the 25 Trypods raignes Milde Brother to the 26 sterner Maid The 26 Swan-got Twins faire Laedae laid Castor with Pollux who for blow Of weighty 27 Sledge doth all out-goe Yeeld to * * Iason Aesonides the day So so Caelestiall powers we pray All wives excell the the beauteous Bride The Bride-groom passe all men beside When with the Virgin Quire * * The Bride she joynes Her look 'bove all with lustre shines So when the Sun his Beames displayes The splendour of the Stars decayes So fade the 28 Pleïads scarcely seen When with her borrowed shine night's Queen Inorbs her Crescent so to th' eye White blushes with 29 Phaenician Dye So when day dawnes Sols ruddy light Shewes to the dew-wet Shepherds sight From 30 Phasis horrid bed releast Wont with unwilling hand the Breast To touch of such a barbarous Bride With Parents wills first ratifi'd Now happy wed a Grecian dame Now Youths with Taunts permissive game And in loose Rimes chant sportive words Rare is this licence 'gainst your Lords Faire 31 Issue of the God of Wine T is time to light thy carved Pine 32 With Wine-wet fingers then put out The solemne Flame whilst all the Rout With mirthfull jollity doth ring And the 33 Fescennine youths doe •…ing Their Festive Flouts shee want these Rites And grace of Hymeneall l•…ghts Who as a fugitive shall wed Her selfe unto a forraigne Bed Act the Second Scene the first Enter MEDEA and her NURSE MEDEA OH I am slaine the * * The Marriage Song Hymeneall's sound Hath pierc'd my Eares and giv'n my Heart a wound The Ill I suffer I scarce yet beleeve And thus could 1 Iason cause Medea grieve When from my Father Countrey Crowne and State H' had brought me thus to leave me desolate In a strange Land could he our merits slight Cruell and thanklesse wretch whose pow'rfull might Seas rage he saw and force of Flames out-went Thinks he then all our stock of Mischiefe spe•…t Perplex'd and wav'ring my unquiet Mind Labours which way she may her vengeance find Would Heav'ns he had a Brother

a River of Germany taking his beginning in the County of the Hermunduri in the antient Province of Rhaetia in times past as Taeitus sayes in his Book de Moribus Germaniae a famous River and well knowne now onely heard of At this day called the Elbe Rhine or the Rhene is the most celebrated River of Germany the Westerne Boundure of that Countrey having his beginning according to the fore-named Author on the top of the inaccessible Rhaetian Alpes •… whence running with a Course winding somewhat Westward hee at length falleth into the North or German Ocean 25 The time shall come wherein the Marine M'unloose c. N•…r Thule be Earths farthest bound Not a little doe the Spaniards glory in this Prophecy of Seneca as pointing forth the discovery of America by them first found out Sanè non vana si de Hispanis Hispanus sayes Delrius Nor is it lesse admired by some of our owne Countrey-men I cannot but wonder at th•…t bold Prophecy of Seneca say•…s Doctor Hackwel Apolog. c. yet my Lord Bacon in his Essay of Prophesies seems not to allow of this for one See Plato in Phoedone de Orbe incogn•…o Aelian in his various History de Colloquio midae Silen•… l. 3. c. 18. But particularly concerning this Prophesie of Seneca see Abrahamus Ortelus in his Mappe of the West-Indies Concerning Thule there is no small difference among Authors The Poets generally in their Expressions us'd it for a place farre remote and beyond which there was no knowne land Pliny makes it to bee an Island six dayes saile from Britaine Northward some have made it to be an Island in Britaine and others Britaine it selfe so called Strabo confesses the Story of Thule to be most obscure And Petrarch l. 3. Epist. 1 having said much though nothing positively concludes at last thus Vt nihil•… videatur occultior ipsa Insula quam veritas Mercator makes it to be Izland and Ortelius will have it to bee Tylemarke a Tract of Norway Our English Pausanias the learned Cambden supposes it and most probably to be Shetland or Hethland an Island in the Scottish Seas lying betweene Norway and Scotland and under the Dominion of the latter which his Conjecture he strengthens by the Authority of Pucerus who in his Booke de d mensione Terrae sayes that by Sea-men it is cald Thylensel To this adding the site of the Island agreeable to that wherin Ptolomy places it he assures himselfe certainely to have found Thule and pronounces the matter to be at an end and questionlesse Which opinion of his the much-knowing Selden seemes likewise to approve of in his Mare Clausum l. 2. c. 1. p. 121. The name of this Island Suidas derives from Thules a King of Aegypt Isidore from the Sunne and some from the Saxon Word Tell which signifies a Limit as if it were a Bound of the North and West Vide Cambden de Insulis Britanius p. 8 •… ANNOTATIONS Vpon the third ACT 1 ON Pindus snowy Top or Nysa's Crowne Pindus is a Mountaine upon the Borders of Thessaly neare Thrace Nysa when alone without any other Attribute for there are ten Places Cities and others of that Name is taken for a Citie of India seated at the foot of the Mountaine called Meros mentioned by Quintus Curtius in the 8th Booke of his History in a Cave in which Bac•…hus was said to be nurst The Scholiast of Apollonius makes it as our Author here a Mountaine of India Delrius yet disassents from him and conceives that he confounds Nysa with Meros and would have it to be one of the Tops of P•…rnassus Pindus and Nysa were places consecrate to Bac•…hus where his Frantick Solemnities were us'd to be celebrated 2 With a Lymphatick Rage possest Those were said to be Lymphatick who having by chance espyed some Nymph or wat'ry Deietie in the River were by them for that discovery dispossest of their Sences Or else so called as conjectured in that from the abundance and superfluitie of the Braines moisture proceeded their distraction As Lunatick in regard that the Moone is predominant over the humours 3 The undrench'd Arctos turnes By Arctos is meant the Constellation of the Northerne Beare as likewise the Artick Circle in which that Constellation is included called Arctos as well as Arcticus Of which see Ioseph Scaliger his Learned Annotations upon Manilius p. 75. in l. 1. seu Sphaer The reason of that Epithite undrench'd you shall find in the Annotations upon the fourth Act 4 Scylla's or Charybdis Caves Of Scylla wee have already spoken Charibdis was faigned to be an old greedy Hag slaine by Hercules for stealing away his Oxen and cast into Sea antiently called Euripus Taurominitanus running 'twixt Sicily and Italy at this day by the Italians called Garo faro Vid. Paul Merulae dissertac de Mar. Others •…aigne that she was by Iupiter strooke dead with Thunder and converted into a Rock in that Sea bearing her name Concerning whom that noted Adage is in every mans Mouth I•…cidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim Which yet as Sanctius upon Alciat notes is not rightly understood by those who apply it to such as avoiding a small mischiefe fall into a Greater but is meant by the Contrary Scylla being a lesser Evill then Charybdis and therefore Cyrce in Homer advices Ulysses to steere his Course rather neare Scylla then Charybdis 5 What Aetna under which Typhaeus lies Expiring flames c. Typhaeus was one of the Gyants that invaded the Heavens struck downe by Iupiter with Thunder over whom according to Pindarus and Ovid Aetna according to Homer and Virgill In•…rime Iovis Imperiis imposta 6 Nor wrathfull Euxine Seas by Corus force c. Of the Euxi•…e Sea wee have already spoken Corus according to the opinion of some is a Westerne wind blowing toward the North so likewise Luean makes it 5 Phars though the Censurer of him and all Poets reprehend him for it who will have it to arise and rightly from a Point of the North and from thence directly bowing Southward Vid. ejus Poet l. 5 seu Critic 7 Shall wee for small Jolcos make Iolcos was the Birth Place of Iason called likewise Larissa as Pomponiu's Mela testifies l. 2. which gave a Title to Achilles who by Virgill is stiled Larissaeus The place as Pindarus in his fourth Pyth. writes from whence Iason with his Argonanticks first set sayle for Colchos 8 Thessalian Tempe Tempe was a most celebrated Grove of Thessaly and sacred to the Muses Aelian who at large descrbes this place in his various Histories l. 3. c. 1. writes that the victors in the Pythian Games were us'd to becrown'd with the Laurell of this Grove in Memoriall of Apollo who after he had slaine Python was there crown'd with a Wreath of Bayes an Altar being afterwards erected to him in the Place where it was done 9 Seas The witnesses of our wrong'd Nuptialls Our Author seemes to follow the opinion of