54 -^ Philological Effay concerning 



nefs of their Ears {landing off from their Head, and which are very re- 

 markable. And this l^hnrmitm (jt) gives as the reafon of it. Horace 

 ( (7 J takes notice of their Ears, but ill defcribes them in making them 

 Iharp pointed, whereas they are round. 



— £J^ attres 



Capripedum Satyrorum aaitas. 



But by this Account it likewife'appears, that Van was a Name of this 

 fort of Monkey 5 and Plydojlorgiusi Remark at the Conclufion of this Paf- 

 fage, I think is very jufl: ; for'iis certain that this Animal was worl¥ipped 

 in India as a Deity ^ as a Dog was by the /Egyptians t, and 'twas Death 

 for any Body to kill one of them : For thus faith ()?) Diodori^ Siculus , 



^o/LUvoi, >(^Qci7n^ -Tizi^ klyjTniQiq 01 K^viq' ik tz t^ 7nt^i(ntAjx^tv'j)v <Cf 7o?5 tk- 



cmyo^xg. \' iTj^Jcnxf ^^orst; txh"? -Trutai f^id to Tik&.'^ov ^wo 7-^ -Tn^KUV, aoaxn^ 

 yra^' rfjiv ^Tn.T^f 3^£v. Toi's ^ "ix^Kl&ivxsi tSto to ^sSoy, oei hnon-rton to. jjJt- 

 ^ij-st, ^oxolKB^ cS^g'o it^gii^jcv. A»o (5^ ;t, ■JTagp: tzoiv o^i^vff^v d* Tra^ifAxi /jt.i- 

 f^c-t. ?\.iyiiJL&vov '^^ T^^ dvxI&tvo/ji/ivcDV, on 'm^KH. xifjuc 'Trolta&ixv. i.e. Eafdem e~ 

 nim domus Simie quas Honiines fieqaentant ; ^ pro Diis habentur apnd i'llos^' 

 nt apiid JEgyptios Canes 5 paratas etiam in Cellk penariis cibos, qitando lihet^ 

 7j.emine prohibente, htc bejiitefnmunt^ nominaqne ut plurin/um a Simik, ut 

 apud nos k Dih^ Parentes Liberkfitis imponnnt. ^d Animal hoc interfe- 

 cerint^ in eos^ tit nefari<e Impietatk reos^ fupplicio capitk anim advert it ttr. 

 Ideo apnd nonnnllos Proverbij vlcem obtinitit, quod in magnificefe efferentes 

 dkitur ; Simi£ Cniorem bihijii. And in another place (^) Diodorus tells 

 us, that Pan was in the greateft Veneration amongft the /Egyptians^ and. 

 bis Statue was irr every Temple. And (r) Juvenal remarks, 



Effigies Sucri nitet aurea Cercopithecr.^ 



The Superftition -of worfhipping this ^«i/»(?/ obtained not only a- 

 mongft the Ancients, but there are Inftances likewifeof a later date, and 

 what (s) Johannes Linfchoten relates, is very remarkable. ' How that in; 

 *^ the Year 1554. the Portiiguefe having taken the Ifland of Cej//(7«,they pro- 

 ' pofed to rob a Temple on the top oi Adam's Pik§ 5 but they found no- 

 ' thing there,but a little Cabinet adorned with Gold and Jewels,in which 

 ' was kept the Tooth of an Ape^ which they took away, to the great grief 

 ' of the Kings of that Place ; who fent AmbafTadors to the Ptfr?i(/:^«e/e,and 

 ' offered them Seventy thoufand Ducats for the Tooth ; which the Por- 

 ' tHgtiefe were willing enough to take, but were diflwaded from it by 

 *• their Bifhop GaJ^ar, who told them, that it was a Crime, thus to encou- 

 ' rage the Idolatry of the Indians 5 whereupon he burnt the Tooth, and 

 ' flung the Afliesinto the River. Joh. Eufeb. Nierembergim (f) hath the 



fn) Phwmm de Nat. Veorum. Cap. de Pane. p. m. yr. ( o) Horace Odarum , Lib. 2. Ode 19. 

 (p) Diodor.Skul.Biblktb.Hili.\.2o.^.m.-jg-^. (q) Diador.Sicul.ibid.ti.'^.m.iS. (r) Juven. Sntyr. I <,. v. 4. 

 Q,)J.Lin[chten apnd Theod.ds Bry Ind'm 0Ajt.part,2.ctp./^6.^.va,iii. (t)J-.En[.Nkremberg,Hifi.'SatA.9. 



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