The S ATYKS of the Jncients. 4.7 



Religionem anjtftos proprius accedentium^ pr£terque horror em dati (fc. Mon- 

 tis) fuper nubila^ at que in viciniam Lunark circuli. Eundem no&ibus mica- 

 re crebris ignibu^^ j$)gipanum, Satyrorumqtie lafcivia impleri^ Tibiarum ac 

 FifiuU Cantii, dJ" Cymbalorum Sonitufirepere. And then adds, H£c cele- 

 brati Authores prodidere. And (o CgJPomponius Mela, Z)ltra hunc finum 

 Mons altui (ut Gr£ci vacant) Qiw t-)(^fxa., perpetnk ignibm flagrat : ultra 

 montera viret CoUk longo tra&u, longis littoribus obdu^us , unde vifuntur 

 patentes magk Campi^ quam ut projpici pojjint, Panum, Satyrorumque. Hinc 

 opinio eafidem cepit, quod cum in hk nihil culti fit, nuUa habitantium Sedes,^ 

 nulla Vejiigia, falitudo in diem Vajia, ^ filentium Vajlius, noUe crebri ignes 

 micant, & veluti Cafira latejacentia oftenduntur^ Crepant Cj/mbala © Tjim- 

 pana, audiunturque Tibi£ Sonantes majus humank. Where we may ob- 

 ferve that what Pliny calls JEgipanes, Mela calls here Panes. And the 

 Satyrs being commonly called Fauni, I can't but think, that the idle 

 Stories we have about the Fairies, muft come from hence : For they like- 

 wife have their Revellings, Dancing, and Mufick by Night. And as 

 even to this day, to fright Children, they tell them Stories of Fairies and 

 Hobgoblins, fo the Ancients did ufe to call any great fudden Fear, as we 

 do now, a Panicl^Fear, from this Pan. For as (h) Paufanias tells us, 



•rat (yx, rsT» (paai ywiSiouj' i. e. EJ no&e Panicm il/os incejjtt terror. Terrores 

 enim nulla ex caufa Ortos ab eo (fc. Pane) immitti aiunt. And fo> 

 ^i) Euripides: 



Saturnij (Senis) Tank tremendo flagello (iGcus } trepidifs. 



And fo (10 Tiionyfius Halicarnaffkm fpeaking of the Faunus, fays, Tarda 

 ^ avaTVrSsaoi 75? tkifjuovi 'VoefUMt'oi -nx. Tlavi^^ ;t( cW (psco^alct a, otz aMo/a§ 

 f^ovlx (i^o^^a?, el? o^iv a,vQ^MTta>v i'^yov2), ^s^iumIo, tpi^vla," \. e. Huic enim 

 Romani Panicos terrores adfcribunt, ^ qu£cunque alia Spe&ra, qu£ varias 

 induentia formas in Hominum conj^e^um veniunt, d^ Metum ipfis incutiunt-, 

 And (I) Ovid : 



'Faunique bicornes 



Nttmine conta&as attonuere fuo. 



How jolly therefore foever and merry tht Satyrs xm.y b&^ night amongd: 

 themfelves,with their Dancing and Mufick : yet they have been frightful 

 to Men formerly, as the Stories of the Fairies and Hobgoblins are(as I faid 

 before) to Children now jand indeed,the telling. Children Stories of this 



(g) Pomf. Mela defitu Orbit, lib. 3. cap. 9. p. m. 63, (h) Paufanias in Phodck. (i)EHripides Itk: 

 Rhafi. (k) Dionyfij HalicarnaJJ', lib. i-ca^. S' V} Ovid in PMra. 



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