Tbe feventli Booke of 



inftitutcd the cxcrcife of wreftlers and champions at Olympia : and Pythfisw^s the firft playv G 

 erattcnnife, the Lydian gave the firft proofe of painting and limning, in^gypt:but 

 in Greece,E»c^/r a coufin of D^dalm was the firft painter jas ArTjlctk fuppofeth : but {kzttkor 

 ff)raflus^ it was Polygmtm the Athenien. Bmam was the firfl that failed with a fiiip, and fo hee 

 pafled the feas from /Egypt to Greece : for before that time they ufed but trough s or flat planks, 

 devifedby kingErythra tocrofle from one Hand to another in the red fea. But v^emeetwith 

 forac writers who affirme, that the Trojans and Myfians were the firft failers, and devifed naviga- 

 tion before them in Hcllefpont , when they fet out a voyage againft the Thracians. And even at 

 this day in the Britifb oceanjthere be made certains wicker boats of twigs covered with leather 

 and ftitched round about : in Hilus^ of paper^ cane-reedjand rufhes . Fhiloftei^hanm witnelfeth, 

 ihzilafon firft ufed the longfhipor galley rbutf^?//^; faith, that itwas Pardu^ : C/(y/4/ artribu- \{ 

 teih it to Smyas : Safhanus^io Semyramisi and Anhimachus^o Mgeon^Bamdftcs teftifieth,that 

 theErythrseans made theBireme or galley with two bankes of oM^s.Thucydides writeth^that A- 

 mfiocles the Corinthian built the firft Trireme with three rowcs of ores to a fide, Ariftoile faith^ 

 that the Catthaginians were the firft that fet to featheQuadrireme with4rankes of oarcsto a 

 fide: and iVfj?f^r^tf» the Salaminian, fet afiotethe'firft Quinquereme with 5 courleof oaresorj 

 either fide. Z£'«4^tfmofSyracufa brought up thofe of fixe : andfofromittothofeof ten,Aff3^- 

 figeton was the inventer. It is faid, that Alexander the Great built galleys for 1 2 bankes to a fide : 

 and Philolle^hanm reportethjdiat Ptolomx fiirnamed Soter yiofc to fifteene : Bmtiriui the fonne 

 of AntigonMijiO thirtie : Fto/omte PhiUdel^hy^s ^loiomt : and Ptplomji Philopator furnamcd Try- 

 p^tf/?,to fifue. As for fhips of burden and merchandife, as hoycs^bic JJippsf^ Tyrim invented I 

 tliem. The Cyrenians^madefregates ^ thePhoenicianSj the batke - the Rhodiansjthe pinnace 

 and brigantine : and laft of alljthe Cyprians made the hulke and great carrack. The Ph(ssici- 

 ans were the firft that in failing,obfervcd the courfe of the ftars. The Copeans devifed the oare ; 

 the Plateans invented the broad and flat end thereof: Jcarm the failes :Z>^fi'^/^^^ the maft^and the 

 crofTefaile-yard. Theveflelsfor tranfportingofhorfesjweie .the invention of the Samians,oE 

 clfe of Pericles the Athenien.The Thafijhadthe honour for framing thclongfhippes covered 

 with hatch for before- time they fought oncly from put of the hindecke in the poupe , and the 

 fore-caftle in the proe.Then came Ptfepi^ the Tyrrheae, and armed the ftemme and beake-head 

 of the fhip with iliarpetine^ and pikes of brafle : devifed the znchoi i t^naharfis 



made it firft with two teeth or floukes : the grapling hookes and the yron hands were the devife ^ 

 of the Athenien: and finally, TJ^///; invented the helpeof the helme^forthe pylotto 

 fteere and rule the lliip.The firft that fet out an Armada to the fea for fight, was Minos, The firft 

 that killed beafts was Byperbim the fonne of MAn: and Prometheus ventured to flay an oxe or a 

 boeufe. 



Chap, lvii* 



^ wherein appeared frfi the generdl agreement of dl nations 4 



THe fecret confent of all countries was fliewed firft io thisgThat they fhould univerfally in all 

 places ufe the Ionian letters. 



^ of Antique letters^ 



THc old characters of Greeke letters, were the fame in mantier that the Latinebe iri thefs 

 daies: and this appearcthfufficiently by an antique table of brafle which came from the 

 temple at Delphosj the which at thisday isinthe great librarieof the Palatium dedica- 

 led to Mffjerva^ by the liberalitie of the Emperours, with this or fuch like infcription upon itj 

 Nco/triKf (CTts ma-ctit-ivis K^Luou.&'^'KcfK )^ k^hjjx avfe^sKtv, ii T'lauficrates (the fonne) of Tijmmm 

 an Athenien, caufcd this table to be made and fet Up to the noble virgine Mimr'va„ 



Chap, lix. 



^WhcnB4rhersmrefrfifeeneatRme, 



THe next thing that all people of the World agreed in, was£denterfameBarbers,butit was 

 late firft ere they were in any rcqueft at Rome. The firft tharcntred into Italie came out of 

 Sicilieaand it was in the 454 y eerc after tlie foundation of Rome. Brought in they were 



