The S ATYKS of the Jncients. 5 5 



fame Story, but varies in the Account of feme Particulars. ' And Jah. 

 Petruf Mafehfs (u) gives us a Relation of one of their Temples,vvhich for 

 Magnificence, mightvie withany atfi(7/«e.- His words arethefe^ Sanefa.- 

 num eU S)mi£ dhatum : Cnjut dtmtaxat Pecori in viStimarHm tifitm cujiodi- 

 endo^ Porticus miram in longiUidimm excitrrit^ Cohtffinarum SeptitigentarHm 

 e Mczrmore, tant£ magnitudink^ ut Agripp£ Coliir/inas^ qH£ in ccleberrimo 

 quondam omnium Deorum Templo Rom£ vifitntur^ fine duhio ad^quent. Now 

 thefe Animals being worfhipped by the Indians as Godt, 'tis natural to 

 believe (as Lucretius fuggefts) that they would invent and relate prodigi-- 

 ous things concerning them ; and no doubt this gave the occafion to the 

 Poets and Hijiorians of making fuch fabulous Reprefentations of them: 

 How far the latter might be concerned in the addition of Horns to the 

 ^^/jrx Heads, I (hall not at prefent enquire : I call it an Addition, becaufe 

 there is no Account from any credible Author, that there were ever obfer- 

 ved any of the Ape-kind to have Horns. Poffibly fome ancient Statues or 

 Paintings might give fome light into this matter : for the ancient Statua^ 

 r/e J- and Prfw/er/ were curious in reprefenting them , and Pliny recom- 

 mends, as excellent in this kind, the Satyr oiMylo^ oi Lucippm^ Jntipha- 

 lus^ Protogenes, Arijion, and Nicomachus^ as Pieces admired in thofe days. 



Albertus Magnus (vp) who was happier in gueffing , than in proving 

 or defcribing what he meant ; tells us indeed, that the Satyr (whom he 

 calls Pilofffi) was of the Ape-kind , but he makes~ fuch an odd Compofi- 

 tion of him, that one would take it to be rather a Chimera , than a real 

 Being : You may fee his words in the Citations. 



(a) Jih.Pet-.MaMj Hifi.IndkXib.i.'p.m.'SiS, (wj Albert, Mdgnui de Animallb. lib, 22. p. m. 225-, 

 Filofifi eft Atiimd Compofmmi ex homine fuperins, (fy- Capra inferitti i fed Cornua habet in fimte ; fy efi de 

 genere Stmiarum ; fed muhiim monllriioftm ; 1^ diqmtiens incedit erellum, iy effidtur dimhum. Hoc afferunt 

 in Vifertii habitare /Ethiopia; ify- aliquotiens captum fy in Alexandriam dedHilum-i^ mortmm fale infufum 

 ^ in Confttintinopolin delatum. 



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