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A54811	The two first books of Philostratus, concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus written originally in Greek, and now published in English : together with philological notes upon each chapter / by Charles Blount, Gent.; Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Book 1-2. English	Philostratus, the Athenian, 2nd/3rd cent.; Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing P2132; ESTC R4123	358,678	281

Nymphs and some say to Ceres to be educated by them who in reward of their good service were receiv'd up into Heaven and there changed into Stars now called Hyades Ora micant Tauri septem radiantia Flammis Navita quas Hyadas Graius ab imbre vocat Pars Bacchum nutrisse putat pars credidit esse Tethyos has neptes Oceanique senis Ovid. lib. 5. Fastor When Bacchus came to be of age he passed through greatest part of the World and made War upon the Indians whom he overcame and in their Countrey built the City Nisa here mention'd by Philostratus He is said to be the first that introduced the custom of Triumphing at which time he wore a golden Diadem about his head his Chariot was drawn by Tygers his Habit was the skin of a Deer and his Scepter was a small Lance adorn'd with branches of Ivy and Vine-leaves He invented the use of Wine which he gave to the Indians to drink who at first imagined he had given them poyson because it made them both mad and drunk They did at first frequently sacrifice men unto him but since his Expedition into India he was content with other Sacrifices such as Asses and Goats to signifie that those who are given to Wine become as sottish as Asses and as lascivious as Goats Sine Cerere Bacch● frig●● Venus Bacchus was brought up with the Nymphs which teacheth us that we must mix Water with our Wine He never had other Priests but Satyrs and Women because the latter had follow'd him in great companies throughout his Travels crying singing and dancing after him in so much that they were called Bacchanales Mimallones Lenae Bassarides Thyades and Menades Names that express fury and madness The greatest Solemnities perform'd in honour of this God were celebrated every three years and call'd therefore Trieteria or Orgya from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a transport of anger because the mad Women cloathed themselves with the skins of Tygers Panthers c. when with their Hair hanging about their ears they ran over the Mountains holding lighted Torches in their hands and crying out aloud Eu hoe Evan eu hoe Bacche which is Good Son a Name given him by Iupiter when in the War with the Giants this Bacchus in the form of a Lion ran violently upon the first and tore him in pieces Bacchus was usually painted riding on a Tyger having in one hand a bunch of Grapes in the other a cup full of Wine with a Mitre on his head an ornament proper to Women or with a bald pate which signifies the eff●ct of the excess of Wine He wore sometimes a Sickle in one hand a Pitcher in the other and a garland of Roses on his head He did always appear young because Wine moderately taken purifies the Bloud and preserves the Body in a youthful strength and colour His Temple was next to Minerva's to express how useful Wine is to revive the Spirits and enable our Fancy to invent for which reason the Heathens did sacrifice to him the quick-sighted Dragon The chattering Pye was also sacred to Bacchus because Wine doth cause us to prattle more than is convenient his Sacrifices were usually perform'd in the evening and at night Also it is reported of him that he carried a Torch before Proserpina when she was led to be married to Pluto the infernal God Iuno could never endure the sight of him wherefore she labour'd to drive him out of Heaven and to banish him from all society he fled from her fury and as he was reposing himself under a Tree a Serpent named Ambisbaena bit him but he kill'd it with a Vine branch which is a mortal poyson to some Serpents Iuno continued her hatred for him because he was her Husband's Bastard until she cast him into a Fit of madness which made him undertake an Expedition against the Indians and over-run all the Eastern Countreys Lusus was his Companion from whom Portugal is called Lusitania The truth of this Fable is that Liber otherwise call'd Dionysius Bacchus or Osiris by the Egyptians was a King of Nysa a City in Arabia Faelix who taught his people and the Inhabitants of the adjoyning Countreys many useful Arts as the ordering of the Vine and the preserving of Bees He establish'd several good Laws and is therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He perswaded the people to sacrifice to their Gods for the which he was much honour'd by all civil Nations The Grecians establisht several Festival days in honour of him the chief are their Trieteria kept every three years in remembrance of his Indian Expedition perform'd in that space of time also their Apaturia their Phallica and their Lenaea in the beginning of the Spring for his blessing upon their Vines This latter Festival was named Orgya because his Proselytes did express in it nothing but fury and madness although this Name is sometimes taken for all his other Festivals The Romans had appointed the Ascolia in honour of Bacchus at which time they carried the Statues of this God about their Vineyards as the Papists do beyond Sea their Host or the Priest's God about their fields that he might bless the Fruits of the Earth Afterwards the Procession of Bacchus did return to his Altar where raising the consecrated Victim on the top of a Lance they did burn it to the honour of Bacchus then taking his Statues and Images they hung them on high Trees imagining that they would contribute to the increase of their Grapes and Vines This Festival is called the Festival of God and was celebrated about the month of May. Tit. Livius lib. 39. relates a strange Story of the Festivals of Bacchus in Rome introduced by a Fortune-teller of Greece that three times in a year the Women of all qualities did meet in a Grove called Simila and there acted all sorts of Villany those that appear'd most reserved were sacrificed to Bacchus when that the cryes of the murder'd and ravish'd Creatures might not be heard they did howl sing and run up and down with lighted Torches but the Senate being acquainted with these night-meetings and filthy unclean practices banish'd them out of Italy and punished severely the promoters of them Now the Beasts that were dedicated to Bacchus were the Goats and the Dragons the Egyptians offer'd Sows The Trees consecrated to him were the Ivy-tree the Oak the Fig the Vine the Smilax and the Fir-tree It was the custom that all those who sacrificed to Bacchus did approach the Altars with a Branch or Grown of one of those Trees in their hands which they offer'd unto him Bacch●s was sometimes seen with a Garland of Daff●dil or Narcissus about his head His Priests as I said before were Women painted in frightful shapes with Snakes for their Girdles and Serpents twisted about their Hair to represent their Cruelty This God did as the Poets tell us punish all those persons who neglected or opposed his Worship

than from Cruelty to dumb Beasts which made him so great an Enemy to Fowlers Fishermen and the like Concerning Pythagoras's Precepts most of them were abstruse resembling the Aegyptian Hierogliphicks he held that the Principle of all things were Numbers and their Proportions But of this see more in Plutarch's Morr as also in Diog. Laert. lib. 8. Pythagoras founded his Sect of the Pythagoreans A. M. 3360. about the time that Ierusalem was besieged by Nebuchadnezzar 2 Samos is an Island in the Ionian Sea call'd Cephalenia wherein is a Town of the same Name but now it is call'd Porto-Guiscardo Laertius tells us that this was the Birth-place of Pythagoras 3 Euphorbus a Nobleman of Troy that was slain in the Trojan War by Menelaus This Euphorbus's Soul Pythagoras affirm'd to have been transmigrated into his own Body according to that of the Poet Ipse ego nam memini Trojani tempore belli Panthoides Euphorbus eram Ovid Met. lib. 15. Pythagoras held that God was the Soul of the World and that from him each Creature receiv'd his Spirit and return'd it to him again at his Death so that afterwards the Almighty did bestow the same Soul upon other Men or other Beasts according to his divine Will and Pleasure But of this I have treated more at large in the last Chapter of Philostratus's 8th Book concerning Apollonius 4 Heu quantum scelus est in viscere viscera 〈◊〉 Congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus Alteriusque animantem animantis vivere Letho c. Ergo ne pietàs sit victa cupidine ventris Parcite vaticinor cognatas caede nefandas Exturbare animas nec sanguine sanguis alatur Ovid. Metam lib. 15. Thus Ovid in the 15th Book of his Metamorphosis gives us a full and admirable Character of all Pythagoras's Tenents whereof the abstaining from Flesh-meats was one however not out of Superstition as some would have it but rather as Laertius observes for conveniency and healths sake as thinking all those sanguinary Meats too gross and stupifying for the Brain and therefore most disagreeable with the study of Philosophy 5 Mankind being for the most part ill-natur'd and unapt to oblige others without some reward as also judging of God Almighty by themselves did at fir●t conceive the Gods to be like their Eastern Princes before whom no man might come empty-handed And thus came the original of Sacrifices Now the crafty Sacerdotal Order who like Swine fatten'd with trough were maintain'd and made rich out of the Follies and Passions of men did above all things improve and propagate this Opinion and that because great part of the Offerings fell to the Priests share Wherefore they soon left off Pythagoras's poor Institution of Frankincense Fruits Flowers c. which lasted till their Gods or to speak truely their Priests grew so covetous that nothing but the Blood of Beasts could satiate them and so fell to sacrificing first Beasts then Men Women and Children and the very Gods themselves if they could have got them And all this was to bring Rost-meat to the Priests But one of the wisest among the Heathens who was guilty neither of this Folly nor this Impiety sings you another Song saying Non Bove mactato coelestia Numina gaudent Sed quae praestanda est vel sine teste fides Ovid. But if you would discover the whole Roguery of these Priests in this matter you may find it written at large in a Piece that is lately stolen forth under this Title Great is Diana of the Ephesians or the Original of Idolatry and politick Institution of the Gentiles Sacrifices Cum sis ipse nocens moritur cur victima pro te Stultitia est morte alterius sperare salutem 6 A Hecatomb was a Sacrifice wherein were offer'd up an hundred Beasts of a sort all at one time as an hundred Oxen an hundred Sheep or an hundred Swine Vota Iovi Minos taurorum corpora centum Solvit Ovid Met. 8. This Sacrifice is said to have been first instituted by the Lacedemonians who having subdued a hundred several Cities made an Offering of Oxen proportionable to the Towns they had conquer'd 7 If Preachers Teachers and Pastors of the Church disagree about Matters which they preach up as necessary points of Faith they deservedly lose all their Credit and Authority for who will believe Witnesses on their own words if they disagree in their Testimony 8 One chief Command which Pythagoras imposed upon his Disciples as well as upon himself was a five years silence In all which time though they were to refrain from speaking themselves yet might they receive company and hear others discourse to them Asserit haec Samius post docta Silentia Lustri Pythagoras Sidon Apol. Again At non Pythagorae monitus annique silentes Claud. Now this refraining from Discourse did not only corroborate the Memory but heighten'd the Fancy and improv'd the Understanding by such a constant and uninterrupted Meditation far beyond any Converse or Study For that Reading is like E●●ing and Contemplation like Digestion where if we observe out of all the twenty four hours two only are sufficient for Eating and all the rest for Digestion Nor are any men so considerable in a Kingdom and so odious to a dissolute Prince as such thinking Subjects who must needs contemn him in their hearts 9 Among all the Beasts of Sacrifice none was higher esteem'd for that purpose than the Ox who at all such times was offer'd up with great Pomp and Ceremony as you may learn from the Poet Victima Labe carens praestantissima forma Nam placuisse nocet vittis praesignis auro Sistitur ante aras auditque ignara precantem Imponique suae videt inter cornua fronti Quas coluit fruges Ovid Metam lib. 15. After all things were in readiness and the Priest had ended his Prayers to God Ianus and the Goddess Vesta without whose Intercessions they might not have access to any other Gods then did he lay upon the Beast's Head a little Corn together with a Cake made of Meal and Salt call'd in Latin Mola Spange salsa cala taurorum mola Sen. Oedip. Act. 2. Then giving a long crooked Knife to under-Officers call'd from thence Cultrarii they kill'd the Beast therewith See Rosin Antiq. lib. 3. chap. 33. CHAP. II. How Apollonius having foretold many Things was accused for Magick when at the same time Plato Socrates and Anaxagoras were not taxed with the like Crime although they were likewise divine Men and foretold the most remote Things IT would be a very 1 unjust thing for any Man to tax Apollonius with such a Crime only because he foresaw and foretold sundry Things In as much as 2 Socrates will come under the same Condemnation for the Things which he foreknew by the help of his Genius as also 3 Anaxagoras for the many Things which he by his Wisdom foretold would come to pass For who knoweth not that Anaxagoras at Olympia when

Creature saith Topsel which hath so great demonstration of the Power and Wisdom of God as the Elephant both for proportion of body and disposition of spirit which though like a living Mountain for bulk no little Dog is more easily handled and rendred more serviceable tame or tractable These Beasts saith Pliny lib. 8. ch 11. are usually bred in hot Eastern Countreys for not being well able to endure cold they delight most in the East and South as India and some Parts of Africa Before the days of Alexander the Great there were never any Elephants in Europe but he fighting against Porus King of India wan several Elephants from him How many wounds these Beasts receiv'd and how bravely they fought for their Masters Curtius hath related lib. 8. The Indian Elephants are most commonly nine cubits high and five cubits broad but in Africa they be about eleven foot high and of bigness proportionable to their height Their Colour is for the most part of a Mouse-dun or black yet there was once one seen in Aethiopia all white And in Pegu the King hath many of that colour it being part of his Title King of the white Elephants Purchas Pilg. lib. 5. They have a Skin so hard excepting on their Belly that it is almost impossible to pierce it with any Sword or Spear It hath on it very few hairs and is full of Chaps or Crevises wherein there is such a savour as invites the Flyes to a continual Feast when by shrinking of his skin together he incloses them and kills them not being able to drive them away with his Tayl. He hath a long trunk Nose and mighty Teeth whereof four being within his mouth serv● to grind his meat and two hang down from his upper Jaw He hath a Tayl slender and short like ● Rat but his Legs of an infinite strength His Head is very large but his Ears small like the Wings of a Bat and some have no Ears at all Their Eyes are like the Eyes of Swine but very red Of their Teeth our Ivory is made His two chief Enemies are the Dragon and the Mouse call'd Rhinocero which last destroys him by running up his Trunk The Elephants are long-lived some being almost 200 years old For the manner of taking them Mu●ster saith it is by cutting down a Tree against which they use to 〈…〉 they sleep Another way whereby they use to take them is by setting wild Elepha●●● to fight with those that are tame when in the mean while during the combate they ●etter and ensnare them These Creatures are said to be so modest and bashful that the Male never covereth the Female but in secret and that never but once in two years when the Male is five years old and the Female ten Of this see more in Topsel Ges●er Purchase and Swan's Speculum Mundi also Maffaeus lib. 1. CHAP. VI. That there are three sorts of Elephants Of an Elephant above four hundred years old and that he had sometimes fought for King Porus against Alexander Also of another Elephant call'd Ajax taken four hundred years after a certain War in Lybia Their Opinion untrue who would have the Teeth of Elephants to be rather Horns than Teeth Finally what Teeth are blewish what white what great what small and what easie to be cut MOreover that they had heard how some Elephants live in the Fens others in the Mountains others in the Plains that they are taken for the use of War and fight with Turrets on their backs wherein ten or fifteen Indians do stand and out of them as out of Forts they throw Darts or discharge Arrows against the Enemies The Beast himself accounteth his Trunk as his Hand and useth it to dart things away from him And as much as a Lybian Elephant is bigger than a Nysaean Horse so much is an Indian Elephant bigger than an Elephant of Lybia As for the Age of Elephants and that they are very long lived is recorded by others But they say they lighted on an Elephant near 1 Taxilla the greatest of all the Cities in India whom the Natives anointed and crown'd with Garlands for that it was one of them that fought for King 2 Porus against Alexander which for the ready service that he perform'd in that Battel Alexander consecrated to the Sun He hath also golden Chains about his Teeth or if you had rather call them so his Horns and on the Chains these Greek Letters inscribed 3 Alexander the Son of Iupiter dedicateth Ajax to the Sun For this Name Ajax he gave to the Elephant as beautifying him being great with a great Name Now the Natives conjecture that it was about 350 years from the abovesaid Fight not relating withal how old the Elephant was when he fought in the Battel But Juba who sometimes reign'd over the Lybians reporteth that the Lybian Riders mounted on Elephants did on a time fall together by the ears and that the one party of the Elephants had a Tower graved on their Teeth but the other had nothing graved on theirs Now when the night grew on and gave a period to the Fight that party which had the Tower graved on their Teeth being worsted fled into Mount Atlas one whereof he took 400 years after and found the mark hollow in his Teeth not worn out by time The said Juba supposeth that they ought rather to be call'd the Horns than the Teeth of Elephants in that they grow out of their Temples And for that they fasten them not on any other thing they likewise abide the same that they grew at first without any shedding or growing again like Teeth But I assent not to those Reasons for Horns if not all yet at least those of Elephants shed and grow again But as for Teeth indeed those of men do shed and grow again nevertheless there is no Beast whose Teeth fall out of themselves being double or standing out or come again in the place of them that fall out for Nature hath implanted the Teeth in their Gums to serve them instead of Arms. Besides the Horns do every year draw as it were a certain Circle about their roots like Sheep Goats and Beeves The Teeth spring up very smooth and unless they be broken remain so perpetually for they seem to partake the matter and substance of a Stone likewise those living Creatures only have Horns which part the Hoof. But an Elephant hath five Claws and a Foot parted into many clefts that he may not fasten his foot deep in the ground when he standeth in a moist place Furthermore Nature giving hollow Bones to horned Beasts produceth likewise outwardly a Horn whereas the Bones of Elephants are full and every where alike so that if any one open them and inspect the middle of them he shall find in the midst a little hole such as is wont to be in Teeth As for the Teeth of such Elephants as live in the Fens they are blewish porous and hard to be wrought