The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 289 pages of information about The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 289 pages of information about The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.
saith, that the third was the Cretan Jupiter, Saturn’s son, whose sepulchre was shewed in Crete:  and the Scholiast upon Callimachus [174] lets us know, that this was the sepulchre of Minos:  his words are, [Greek:  En Krete epi toi taphoi tou Minoos epegegrapto, MINOOS TOU DIOS TAPHOS. toi chronoi de tou Minoos apeleiphthe, hoste perileiphthenai, DIOS TAPHOS. ek toutou oun echein legousi Kretes ton taphon tou Dios.] In Crete_ upon the Sepulchre of Minos was written Minois Jovis sepulchrum:  but in time Minois wore out so that there remained only, Jovis sepulchrum, and thence the Cretans called it the Sepulchre of Jupiter_.  By Saturn, Cicero, who was a Latine, understood the Saturn so called by the Latines:  for when Saturn was expelled his Kingdom he fled from Crete by sea, to Italy; and this the Poets exprest by saying, that Jupiter cast him down to Tartarus, that is, into the Sea:  and because he lay hid in Italy, the Latines called him Saturn; and Italy, Saturnia, and Latium, and themselves Latines:  so [175] Cyprian; Antrum Jovis in Creta visitur, & sepulchrum ejus ostenditur:  & ab eo Saturnum fugatum esse manifestum est:  unde Latium de latebra ejus nomen accepit:  hic literas imprimere, hic signare nummos in Italia primus instituit, unde aerarium Saturni vocatur; & rusticitatis hic cultor fuit, inde falcem ferens senex pingitur: and Minutius Felix; Saturnus Creta profugus, Italiam metu filii saevientis accesserat, & Jani susceptus hospitio, rudes illos homines & agrestes multa docuit, ut Graeculus & politus, literas imprimere, nummos signare, instrumenta conficere:  itaque latebram suam, quod tuto latuisset, vocari maluit Latium, & urbem Saturniam de suo nomine. * * Ejus filius Jupiter Cretae excluso parente regnavit, illic obiit, illic filios habuit; adhuc antrum Jovis visitur, & sepulchrum ejus ostenditur, & ipsis sacris suis humanitatis arguitur:  and Tertullian; [176] Quantum rerum argumenta docent, nusquam invenio fideliora quam apud ipsam Italiam, in qua Saturnus post multas expeditiones, postque Attica hospitia consedit, exceptus ab Jano, vel Jane ut Salii volunt.  Mons quem incoluerat Saturnius dictus:  civitas quam depalaverat Saturnia usque nunc est.  Tota denique Italia post Oenotriam Saturnia cognominabatur.  Ab ipso primum tabulae, & imagine signatus nummus, & inde aerario praesidet.  By Saturn’s carrying letters into Italy, and coyning money, and teaching agriculture, and making instruments, and building a town, you may know that he fled from Crete, after letters, and the coyning of money, and manual arts were brought into Europe by the Phoenicians; and from Attica, after agriculture was brought into Greece by Ceres; and so could not be older than Asterius,
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