the S ATYRS of the Ancients, 5 3 



fabulous or a Delufion. Non ajjentwr (faith f/J Bochartm) narrationi 

 Magni Scrfptork, in qua. Satyrus introdncitur Anton'min in Eremo rogans^ ut 

 profe communem Denm deprecetur, tanqnam Salutis in Chrijioparticeps fuiu- 

 rus. Non alios fervat Chrijim, qtuim quos affnmpjit. At non ajjkmpfit An- 

 gelas^ midio minus Dsmones ant Satyr os qui mtfqiiam funt^ fed femen A- 

 brahic: And tho' St. Jerome^ to confirm this Relation , adds, That in 

 Conflantine's time one of thefe Monfters^was feen alive at Alexandria in 

 JEgypt, and after it's Death, it's Carcafs was embalmed and fent to Anti- 

 och for the Emperor to fee it^ Yet I (hall plainly prove that this Satyr 

 was nothing elfe but that fort o^ Monkey I am now difcourfing about. 



This Story I find often- mentioned 5 but (m) P/jiloJiorgj;^ gives us the 

 moil: particular Account of it, and therefore i^ihall infert his own words 5 



^Q^, og -rhju KA^ct?\ljuu auyoTr^fftoTzvi '6^i, ilj cayotoipceg, K) tw4 ^ictyovoov to. f(J.rM 

 auyo<nti'\ri';, rtw ^ itoi?\.ia.v }y to gipvov }y Tag /^Aoc/iq >(cfJia.^c, rn^K'^, ov il, o 

 ■y^ 'Iv^v BxaiAljg KSvgctvTKfi dyngd^KSi. TSto ^ ro ^dov i^y\ f/Av (fi^fx^vov 

 a^^nvoi; IS/ tivi TiXiTiuctlt Slz tu 3m£/<>)^; dpfjodvov, STTSig dyriQc^vi, tcl^-^Aj' 

 aztvlii; ctuTL of ico^iZ^avTici;, .^diuccl©^ TrziQ^^&v dawurl^ac, ^iU)va.,fA.i-^^ liji; Kmv- 

 gctv-n-va hiawcptvlo 'zriAiceg. Ka; /uu>] S'oaSai to ^ciJov tStd "ETT^nvit; ymAuj t^&iv, 



^^^a, ^OTTOi&iv. ''Clmz^ sc, -r 'S.drw.^v. i. e. Tfjis Ape-form is mixt with 

 other Species of Animals ^ and this is plain^ fevcral beittg fent over to ut x, 

 as that which is called Pan, which in its Head had a Goat's face and Goafs 

 horns ^ from it's Loins downwards Goat's Legs ; but in it's Belly ^ Breafs-^ 

 and Hands was a pure Ape. Such an one the King of Ind'is. fent to Con- 

 ftantius. This Animal lived for fome time^ and was carried about inclofed 

 in a Cage, being very wild. When it died, thofc that looked after it, having 

 embalmed it to make a jJiew of this nnufual jight^fent it to Conftantinople. 

 Now L am apt to believe the ancient Greeks had feen this Animal, and being 

 furprifedat thejirangenefr of the fght, fancied it to be a God , it being ufual 

 for them to make a God of any thing that they admired or wondered at : as 

 they did the Satyr. 



Ti3 evident therefore by this Relation, that the Satyr is of the Ape or 

 Monkey-l^nd : For tA^k'^ here is generical , and includes both. But 

 there being feveral Species of them,they received a denomination accord- 

 ing to the refemblance they had to other Animals ; as in Fhilofiorgim are 

 mentioned before, the Leontopithecus, the Ar5fopithecus, the Cynocephalus 

 and Aegopithecus,v/h.ich laft feems to be our Satyr^from the refemblance it 

 hath in it's Head and Legs to a Goat. That their Legs and Face are like 

 a Goat'Sjis eafie enough to be believed : but the Horns that they clap upon 

 his Head, feem to me as an addition of the Poets^ot the Painters^ov both. 

 But what gave a foundation to this Invention^ poffibly may be the large- 



(1) Socharp. Hieroa^ok, part. pjler.]xb,^. cap. 7. p. 825. (m) FhikJlor^.NiJl, Ecdef:aJUc,hh.'}.ciip.ii. 



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