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A18047	The fountaine of ancient fiction Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent.	Linche, Richard.; Cartari, Vincenzo, b. ca. 1500. Imagini de i dei de gli antichi.	1599 (1599)	STC 4691; ESTC S107896	106,455	205

it is written with some shee hand to hand slew Pallantes the most fierce terrible and mightiest of them all Whereupon shee afterwards got the name of Pallas and was so entearmed But other writers affirme that shee was called Pallas for some other reasons whereof it shall bee now needlesse to speake only it is sufficient that they all agree that Minerua and Pallas were all one and the same Many haue written also that Bellona was goddesse of the warres and the same as Minerua but by their Statues and Images dedicated vnto them these differences doe appeare By Minerua was vnderstood and intended the wise councels and aduised prudencie of Captaines and Officers in managing their militarie affaires and by Bellona were meant all bloudie stratagems massacres surprises executions and fatall meetings of the enemie whatsoeuer and therfore she was depictured to hold in one of her hands a whip of redhotyron strings and in her other hand a great earthen basen filled vp with coniealed bloud shee was held also to be the goddesse of wrath furie and anger and many times depainted with a trumpet at her mouth as shee that gaue the signe of battell and of generall encounters But most writers doe agree that shee was most commonly depictured with a flaming firebrand in her hand for that the Auncients as it is read with Licofrones before the vse of the Trumpets was found out when they intended to giue a signall or token of battell accustomed to send a slaue before the campe of the enemie with a flaming torch or firebrand in his hand the which after that hee had shaken three times in his hand would throw it downe towards the face of the enemie and presently after begun their battell furious encounters on both sides Claudianus Statius doe report that this Bellona was the first that was seene to carrie in her hands this fierie token of fight And thus much shall suffice for her description as she is taken for Bellona Minerua by most writers was depictured in the shape of a young woman of a liuely and fresh countenance yet something threatening and angrie in hir lookes her eyes were very fixe assured and stedfast and much like the colour of a blewish greene or that of a troubled sea and shee was armed complete at all peeces with a long speare in one hand on hir other arme a shield or target made of the purest Christall on the top of her helmet was placed a garland made of Oliue branches and hard by her side were drawne forth and portraied two young children with naked kniues in their hands seeming as it might appeare by their lookes to menace one another the one was called Feare the other Horror as that those two alwaies waited and were conuersant in warres and bloudie controuersies Wherevpon Statius writing that Mars commanded by Iupiter to set warres and quarrels betweene the Argiues and Thebans sayth there that Mars sent before him those two Feare and Horror Pausanias writeth that the picture of Feare was shaped forth in seuerall formes by the Auncients as that sometimes it was made with the head of a Lyon terrible and furious which manner was vsed much by the Grecians and which forme was engrauen on the shield of Agamemnon with some other it was framed with the face and bodie of a woman but of so vgly and deformed countenance as is possible to imagin The Corinthians dedicated this picture so made vnto the sonnes of Medea slaine and murthered for bringing such fatall gifts to the daughter of old Creon whereby she and all that regall familie perished and were for euer extinct The Oliue tree was consecrated to Minerua for that as Virgil sayth the Athenians vsed to crown the heads of Conquerors and triumphant commanders with garlands thereof Many writers doe disagree in the description of Minerua and especially those of Greece Touching the birth of her it is written that she was borne without a mother and that shee issued and came forth into the world out of the head of Iupiter according to the opinion of all fantasticke Poets By which is meant vnderstood that all human knowledge and vnderstanding proceedeth from the superior and diuine guidance aboue whereby these intellectuall parts become celestiall and despisers of terrene delights But Martianus interpretes it to the disgrace of women being indeed a great and sore enemie vnto all that sexe but his exposition being too seuere and rigorous in that behalfe it shall not be pertinent further to declare it Whose opinion also Aristotle himselfe something embraced affirming being too much opinionated therein that as Minerua was borne without a mother so all women generally are of themselues without wit knowledge secrecie or assured constancie but such inuention proceedes onely of malice and some other seed of rancour which was indeed irradicated in his breast against that praise-worthie sexe Wherin I dare in some sort contradict Aristotle in that it is apparent that there are in the world women of as great spirit wit capacitie and setled resolutions as most men are and are as eloquent in deliuery of their thoughts as scholler-like in chusing fit and significant words in composing annexing their pithie sententious and well-placed phrases as most men are whatsoeuer exempting some famous professed Doctors and daily Students But returning to Minerua the Auncients as I haue said framed her Statue to be all armed throughout in the fashion of a most valerous and hardie warrior she wore on her head a wonderfull rich helmet all made and hammered of massie gold which with the beauty thereof shined most gloriously sending forth a most excellent lustre and delicate transparencie Homer sayth That by this helmet so infixed on her head is signified that the wit and policie of man which alwaies resteth in the braine of the head is as a man may say so armed and at all times prouided readie that it desendeth the bodie from all eminent dangers mischeefes and inconueniences that it doth shine is made beautifull with vertuous worthie works studies of contemplation and diuine meditations The same Homer sayth That the excellent wit of man doth neuer discouer all that it knowes nor yet leaueth all that it discourseth of easily to be vnderstood conceiued wherein such words are cōpared to the doubtfull answeres of an Oracle or the darke and intricate speeches of Sphinx whereby belike it came that in a certaine part of Aegypt they placed in the temple of Minerua the Statue and portraiture of this Sphinx which the people there reuerenced adored beleeuing it to be the goddesse Isis Pausanias speaking of the Athenians sayth That there was in that countrie a very stately and curiously built Image of Minerua which had engrauen on the top of the helmet the shape forme of Sphinx and on both sides of it were cut out carued the portraitures of two Griffins which are held indeed

were eaten and destroyed in such sort with multitudes of Rats that the inhabitants in the end although they daily endeuoured to kill them were notwithstanding for penurie faine to leaue and forsake their Countrey Marcus Varro writeth That there was a Towne in Spain scituated on a sandie ground which was so vndermined by Connies that in short time it sunke and was vtterly decaied Neither haue these chances happened only in wild Countries and many continents but in places also enuironned with the sea as that it is written that one of the Isles Cyclades called Giare was by the ouer-abundance and multitudes of Rats and Mice left void and destitute of inhabitants being so tormented and annoied with them that very necessitie caused them to forgoe their Countrie It is also reported that in Fraunce a very famous towne was by the said vermine so abounding therein left void vnfrequented of any Inhabitants The like chance also as it is written happened in a certaine country of Affrica by the swarmes of Locusts and Grashoppers Plinie reporteth That in a certaine Prouince adioining to the confines of Aethiopia Ants and other small vermine exiled thence all the inhabitants thereabout The people of Megaris in Greece were constrained by bees to leaue and forsake the countrey Theophrastus speaketh of another Countrey which was destroyed by Palmers which are little wormes long and rough hauing many legs and in Latine may be called Bruchi Campe or Multipede Antenor writing also of the Isle of Crete sayth That a certaine multitude of Bees chased out of a great Cittie all the inhabitants thereof vsing their houses in the stead of hiues But returning to our former matter which was that the people of Aegypt verily beleeued that those Moles were sent by Vulcan into their Countrey to destroy and driue away their enemies the Arabians then entred into the land It is crediblie written by Plutarch and others that the people of Arabia do at this time infinitely abhor hate those kind of beasts and doe lay all plots and deuises to kill destroy them wheresoeuer they heare them to remaine which kind of vermine also the Ethiopians especially the coniurers of Persia hold an opinion to be very odious displeasing to their gods But it is not written that the Aegyptians beleeued that Vulcan should send them those Moles nor what reason moued them vnto that conceit in the embracing of such opinion but it is so recited as is before spoken of by that Author Alexander Neapolitanus without any further explication of it Although with some writers it is thus expounded By Vulcan say they is meant the drinesse and extreame heat of that season which was summer or else indeed the naturall drinesse and warmth of that Countrey of Aethiopia And Plinie writing of those vermine sayth they doe encrease and multiply in most aboundant manner alwaies coueting those places which by the ardent furie of the sunnes vertue become drie sandie and crased as likewise most of the countrey of Aethiopia is and further expositions are not found to bee deliuered by anie Writers touching that opinion and conceit of the Aegyptians The opinions and writings which the Ancients haue made of Vulcan remaine diuerse many and in that respect hee is shaped forth sometimes in this forme and sometimes in another with some hee is depictured standing working and hammering in a Smiths forge on the hill Etna in Sicilia framing thunderbolts for Iupiter and fashioning arrowes for the god of loue and was taken to bee the rarest workman that euer liued vnto whome when the gods had anie occasion to vse such maner of weapons they presently repaired as Thetis went vnto him to desire him to forge an armor for her sonne Achilles and Venus for her sonne Aeneas Some depicture him lame of one leg and of a very blacke and swart complexion as one all smokie of a general ill-shaped proportion of all his lineaments It is not read that vnto Vulcan were appropriated any beasts plants or trees as vnto all other of their gods onely Elianus writeth that the Egyptians consecrated vnto him the Lyons in that those beastes of all other are most hot drie fierie by nature by which abundance of heat within their bodies it comes to passe that they doe so exceedingly feare and are astonied at the sight of fire which they can by no meanes indure but run from it with great affrightment It is read also that on the hill Mongibell in Sicillia there are certain great dogs which do there guard and keepe the Temple of Vulcan which is seated hard by a woods side adioyning to that Mountaine and the people thereabouts doe worship and adore Vulcan in that Temple and in those consecrated woods and bushes It is written by the Poets that Vulcan was the husband of Venus as lawfully married vnto her and that they are alwaies depictured together as accompanying one the other By which is vnderstood that the generation and birth of creatures meant by Venus cannot bee effectuall without a moderate heat warmenesse which is also vnderstood by Vulcan Some also doe adioine Mars as the companion to Venus meaning by him the heat of the Sunne wherevpon the Alcitans people inhabiting the furthermost parts of Spaine as Macrobius reporteth made the Statue and Image of Mars so adorned and beautified with the beames of the sunne in as liuely manner as could bee deuised which picture was there reuerenced with wondrous zeale and adoration Macrobius also sayth That the gods being the substance of the celestiall fire were onely different in name and not otherwise and that Mars was generally taken for that heat and warmenesse which proceeded from the vertue of the Sun By reason whereof the liuely heat and bloud which is within vs is easily set on fire enflamed with anger furie and desire of warre of which things Mars also is held and supposed to bee the god And after that fashion the Auncients worshipped adored him dedicating vnto him many sumptuous Statues Images and Pictures and they shaped him of aspect most fierce terrible and wrathfull with hollow red eyes very speedie and quicke in their reuolutions his face all hairie with long curled lockes on his head depending euen to his shoulders of a coale-blacke colour he stood all armed throughout with a speare in one hand and in the other a whip and sometimes they depicture him riding on a horse sometimes drawne in a chariot whose horses were called Feare and Horror And some other say that his chariot was drawne with two men which alwaies accompanied him wheresoeuer he went and they were called Furie Violence The which thing Statius imitateth when he sayth That Iupiter sent for Mars and commanded him to raise and stirre vp bloudie warres and quarrels between the Argiues and Thebans And in this place Statius describeth the armes of this god to bee these He wore sayth hee on his head a helmet most bright