ON COUKSINC;. 



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who regard their safety, supplicate the Gods at embarkation ;•' Chai-. 

 and, after dangers escaped, oiler np sacrifices of gratitude to 

 the sea-deities, Neptune, Amphitrite, and the Nereids.* Cul- 

 tivators of the soil do the same to Ceres, her daughter, and 

 Bacchus;^ Artificers, to Minerva and Vulcan;^ Professors of 



TriK69eu iyyvs iSvTes, avayKairj S' arlvuKTOs 

 ireiderrdai, k. t. A. 



3. "Oaoi vavrlWovTai, airh Qfuiv &pxovrai. The sea-deities were numerous, and of 

 various gradations. Spence arranges them in six classes. See Milton's invocation 

 of Sabrina, in his Comus, vs. 867. for the names of many of these Dii Marini. 

 Arrian mentions only Neptune, his Queen, and the Nereids — lords of the mediterra- 

 nean or inland seas : superior to whom were Oceanus, " Pater rerum," and 'I'ethvs. 

 Moreover, it appears from Apolionius Rhodius, that Apollo, for particular reasons, 



{avrhs yap inaiTios en\fv aeOAiav, says Jason, addressing iraTpwiov ^AiroWwva,) was L. i. vs. 3.59. 



worshipped, under the name of 'E/ujSajrios, by the Argonauts at the time of their ^^i^d vs. 1186. 

 embarkation, and under that of 'EKPacrios at disembarking. See also Homer. Odyss. 



II. 430. where Telemachus pours forth " the holy goblet to the powers divine," but Pope's Odyss. 

 principally invokes, for a specific reason, " the blue-eyed progeny of Jove." ' "' 



4. ^Ai/aaudevTfs xap'O'Trjpta Ovovmv, 



Votaque servati solvent in littore nauta;, &c. Virg. Georg. 



L. I. 43G. 



and again, ^neid. xii. 766. 



Servati ex undis ubi figere dona solebant 

 Laurenii divo, et votas suspendere vestes. 



Several votive monuments are engraven in Pere Montfaucon's Antiq. Expliq. 

 Tom. II. with inscriptions, SALVOS IRE, SALVOS REDIRE, &c. : and Pitis- 

 cu3 (Lexic. Antiq. Rom. V. ii. p. 164.) has others, NEPTUNO REDUC. SA- 

 CRUM, &c. 



See the indications of the Dii Marini appearing in dreams to sea-faring people, in 

 Arteniidorus, L. ii. 38. 



5. "Otrot rT]v yriv epyd^ovrai. Every art and science had, in classic mythology, 

 ■ts divine guardian, from whom it first emanated, and by whose liberal condescension 

 mankind were instructed in the rudiments of their several callings : 



Ke7voi Koi Tfxvas TToAvKfpSeas avOpdwoKTiv Oppian. Hal. 



&\Kos 5' aWoioiaiv iiruvvfios fTrXero ^aifioiv 

 epyois, olaiv eKacrros tiriaKoirov TJpaTo Tifxriv. 



