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A46447 The tenth satyr of Juvenal, English and Latin the English by Tho Shadwell ; with illustrations upon it.; Satura 10. English & Latin Juvenal.; Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692. 1687 (1687) Wing J1293; ESTC R22449 27,406 63

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the Abyssines or Prester John's Country 75. The Mountains that part Spain from France 76. The high Mountains that part France from Italy and Germany As Livy writes by making vast fires upon the Rocks and pouring a huge quantity of Vinegar upon them he broke them and made them crumble But this is surely thought fabulous by Polybius who omits it as is supposed for that reason 77. An Elephant from the Getuli a people of Africk or as Lubin says from Getulia 78. When he was Conquered by Scipio Africanus in Africk he was Condemn'd to Banishment He fled to Antiochus King of Syria suspecting him be left him and came to Prusias King of Bythinia c. Of him the Romans demanded Hannibal to be sent to them Lubin renders Praetoria Regis the King's Judgment-Seat tho' it may be the King's Pavilion 79. The Great slaughter which Hannibal made of the Romans at Cannae where so many of the Equestrian Order fell that several Measures were fill'd with the Rings taken from their Fingers which he sent to Carthage To avoid being delivered to the Romans by the King of Bythinia he took Poyson which he had kept in a Ring 80. Alexander the Great born at Pella a City in Macedonia call'd by Juvenal here Pellaeus Juvenis who as Plutarch writes hearing Anaxagoras discourse of infinite Worlds wept and being ask'd by his Friends the Reason of his weeping Have I not reason says he since there are Infinite Worlds and I have with so much toyl and pain scarce conquer'd one 81. Gyara was a barren little Rockey Island in the Aegean Sea one of the Cyclades whither the Romans used to Banish people see Satyr 1. Aude aliquod brevibus Gyaris 82. Seryphus one of the Cyclades or Sporades too 83. Here at Babylon Cassander Poyson'd him 84. Athos a Promontory of Macedonia said to be cut off from the Continent by Xerxes and that then he Sail'd with all his Fleet about it 85. The Sea betwixt Sestos and Abydos which he joyn'd by a Bridg as Justin says lib. 2. It was of little Ships or great Boats. 86. The Persian Emperor 87. A Greek Poet who writ of this Expedition into Greece who Juvenal thinks wrote when he was almost drunk he wrote so extravagantly 88. An Island belonging to Attica near which Themistocles in a Sea-fight gave him a total defeat 89. For breaking his Bridg of Ships or great Boats as he did 90. Corus is a Westerly Wind and Eurus Easterly 91. The God of the Winds who is said to keep the Winds in Caves or Prisons and at his pleasure to let them loose See Neptunes Speech to him in the Aeneids 92. Neptune the God of the Sea who was feign'd to cause Earthquakes with a blow of his Trident whom Xerxes was said to Fetter when he made his Bridg. 93. When Slaves ran away and were taken again they Branded them on the forehead 94. A great Wood upon the Coast of Africk full of Monkies and Baboons 95. Wife to Veiento a Senator who ran away from her Husband with Sergius a Gladiator to Egypt Sat. 6. v. 83. 96. Themison was a great Physician commended by Pliny and Celsus 97. Those of the Provinces which were Conquered and had the Priviledges of Romans were call'd Socii or Associates 98. A Praefect or Governor of Provinces 99. Irus a notorious cheating Guardian by Lubin he is call'd Irus by Schrevelius his Edition with the Notae variorum he is call'd Hircus 100. A Lewd Common Whore Sat. 6. v. 307. 1. A filthy Sodomitical Schoolmaster 2. Licinius or as some will have it Cinnamus who in Juvenal's youth was his Barber now a rich Senator as the Scholiast and Lubin say The Poet here repeats the same Verse of him which he wrote of him in the first Satyr Vers 25. 3. An Infamous Common Strumpet who had been long in a Baudy-house before he had her she stood at the door to inveagle Passengers No doubt the Poet had some one in his Eye who had done this 4. The Romans lay'd the Bodies of the Dead upon a Funeral Pile burn'd them and put the Ashes into an Vrn with the Bones These Vrns were Vessels of Earth or Brass holding four Gallons and a half a piece and so they placed the better sort in stately Vaults belonging to their Families Pancirollus tells us Lib. 1. Tit. 62. To preserve the Ashes from mixing with other Ashes they wrapt the Body in a Sheet made of a sort of Flax called Asbestinum and Asbeston mentioned by Pliny lib. 29. cap. 1. which would not burn and fire did but cleanse it which is now to be seen 5. Nestor King of Pylos who liv'd almost 300 years The Crow they believed to live 900. 6. The Ancient Greeks reckon'd their Figures to a Hundred upon the Left hand and to a Thousand upon the Right so when he had lived past a 100 he reckon'd his Age upon his Right hand 7. The Father of Achilles was so unhappy to live till old age to bewail the death of his Son treacherously slain by Darts by Paris and Deiphobus in Apollo's Temple when he thought to have Married Polixena 8. Vlisses for whom his old Father Laertes mourn'd while he wandred for Ten years at Sea after the Siege of Troy ere he could get home again He was call'd Ithacus from Ithaca an Island in the Ionian Sea of which he was Lord. The Poet insinuates that these two old men had been happier if they had died before these Misfortunes of their Sons 9. Priam the last King of Troy slain by Pyrrhus at the destruction of Troy after he had reigned Fifty two years 10. Priam's Son Priam had 49 Sons more and 12 Daughters 11. Priam's Daughter a Prophetess 12. Polyxena another Daughter very fair whom Achilles desired in Marriage c. And after the destruction of Troy in revenge for Achilles his death was kill'd by his Son Pyrrhus Neoptolemus upon his Fathers Tomb. 13 Another Son of Priam's who set out a Fleet to steal Helena the Wife of Menelaus which was the occasion of the destruction of Troy after ten years siege 14. Where he was slain by Pyrrhus 15. The old useless Ox for there was a Law both among the Romans and the Graecians De non mactando bove aratore not to kill a Plowing Ox despised by the ungrateful Plow is a very bold Catechresis but 't is my Authors Ab ingrato jam fastiditus aratro 14. Hecuba Wife to Priam who for her perpetual reproaching the Greeks and lamenting the fate of her Husband Children and the Trojans was feign'd to be turn'd into a Bitch 15. Mithridates King of Pontus aged sixty nine years had Reign'd fifty seven Warr'd against the Romans forty being at last wholly overthrown when he could not dye by Poyson having in his life time as 't is said constantly taken Antidotes against it made one of his Soldiers kill him See Florus lib. 3. cap. 5. 16. King of Lydia the richest Man then living shewing