5 8 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



motions above other Apes. They are hardly taken, except 

 sicke, great with yong, old or asleepe ; for Sylla had a 

 Satyre brought him, which was taken asleepe neare Apol- 

 lonia, in the holy place Nyinphcruin, of whom he (by divers 

 interpreters) demanded many questions, but received no 

 answer, save only a voice very much like the neighing 

 of a horse, wherof he being afraid, sent him away alive. 



" Philostratus telleth another history, how that Apollonius 

 and his colleagues, supping in a village of Ethiopia, 

 beyond the fall of Nilus, they heard a sudden outcry of 

 women calling to one another ; some saying, Take him, 

 others, Follow him; likewise provoking their husbands 

 to helpe them : the men presently tooke clubs, stones, 

 or what came first to hand, complaining of an injury 

 done unto their wives. Now some ten moneths before, 

 there had appeared a fearfull shew of a Satyre, raging 

 upon their women, and had slain two of them, with 

 whom he was in love : the companions of Apollonius 

 quaked at the hearing hereof, and Nilus, one of them, 

 swore (by Jove) that they being naked and unarmed, 

 could not be able to resist him in his outragious lust, 

 but that he would accomplish his wantonnes as before : 

 yet, said Apollonius, there is a remedy to quaile these 

 wanton-leaping beasts, which men say Midas used (for 

 Midas was of kindred to Satyres, as appeared by his 

 eares). This Midas heard his mother say, that Safyrcs 

 loved to be drunke with wine, and then sleep soundly, 

 and after that, be so moderate, mild and gentle, that a 

 man might thinke they had lost their first nature. 



" Whereupon he put wine into a fountain neere the 

 highway, whereof, when the Satyre had tasted, he waxed 

 meeke suddenly, and was overcome. Now that we 

 thinke not this a fable (saith Apollonius) let us go to 



