Gynaikeion: or, Nine bookes of various history. Concerninge women inscribed by ye names of ye nine Muses. Written by Thom: Heywoode.

The daughters of TRITON.

A Cesander calls Triton the sonne of Neptune. Numenius in his booke de pis∣catoribus, deriues him from Oceanus and Tethis. Lycaphron in those verses wherein he tells of a cup presented vnto him by Medea, calls him the sonne of Nereus. The Poets ascribe to him the inuention of the trumpet, and that it was first vsed in the Gigomantichia, the great battaile betwixt the gods and the gyants: for in the midst of the skirmish, when the euent of the battaile grew doubtfull, Triton blew so shrill a blast, that the gyants thinking it had been the voyce of fome dreadfull and vnknowne monster that vndertooke the party of the gods, turn'd their backes and fled; by which accident they obtained a more suddaine and safe victorie. Pausonias calls Tritia the daughter of Triton, who was at first one of Mineruaes priests, who being comprest by Mars, brought foorth Menalippus, but that he had more than her, I haue not read.

Ino. She was the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, who with her sonne Me∣licerta, were entertained into the number of the Sea-gods; he, by the name of Palaemon; she, of Leucothea: both these are said to haue predominance ouer saylers, and power in nauigation. That she cast her selfe headlong into the Sea, I haue before related in the tractat of Iuno. She was a stepmother, and so prosecuted the children of Nephetes, that she would haue sacrificed one of them to the gods; for which (as Polizelus saith) her husband Athanas did pro∣secute her with such rage, that flying to Gerania (a mountaine amongst the Megarenses) from a rocke called Maturides she cast her selfe with her son into the sea; and of the same opinion is Pausonias: some thinke it hapned at the same time that the Nereides were dancing there, and that his bodie was transported by the waues to Sisiphus, from Exhaenuntia where the Ithnian pastimes were first celebrated to his remembrance. They of the cittie Megera affirme, her bodie to be cast vpon their shore, and by Cleso and Tauropolis, the daughters of Cleson, tooke vp and buryed. She was afterwards called Matuta, as Cicero in his Tuscal. disputations saith, Ino the daughter of Cadmus, Is she not called by the

Greekes Leucotoe, and by vs Latines Matuta. And that she is taken for the mor∣ning, is manifest by Lucretius, lib. 5. Pausan in his Messanaicis saith, that she was first named Leucotoe in a small village not farre from the cittie Corone, and that she had clemencie in the securing and preseruing of ships, and pacifying the violent and troubled billowes of the Ocean-Palaemon is also called Portu∣nus, or the Key-carrier (as one that keepes a key of all the ports and hauens, to exclude and keepe out all forreine enemies) and the sonne of Matuta, or the Morning; in that time commonly the winds begin to breath and rise with the departing of night, and because that from the land they rush vpon the wa∣ters, they are therefore said to cast themselues head-long into the sea; for the morning is the most certaine interpreter either of succeeding winds and tem∣pests, or of the countenance of a sereane sky and faire weather. Strabo calls Glaucus the sonne of Anthedon, a Boeotian; but Theophrastus will haue him the is∣sue of Polybus the sonne of Mercury and Euboea: Promathidas Heraclaeota, deriues him from Phorbus and the nymph Pampaea, borne in Anthedon, a famous cittie of Boetia: Thelytus Methimnaeus in his Bacchik numbers, brings his progenie from Nopaeus. Epicus in one of his Hymnes, from Euanthes the sonne of Neptune and Maedis. He is said to haue rauisht Syma, the daughter of Iclemis and Doris, and to haue transported her into Asia: and was after marryed to Hidua, the daugh∣ter of Sydnus Scioneus, one that vsed to diue and fetch things vp from the bot∣tome. But of his issue there is nothing left remembred. It is commented of him, that being a fisherman, and hauing taken more fishes that he could carrie vpon his backe with ease, and laying downe his burden to rest him by the shoare, there grew an hearbe which the dead fishes no sooner touched or ta∣sted, but they instantlie recouered life, and one by one leapt into the sea: hee by tasting the same hearbe to prooue the vertue thereof, was forced to leape after them, and so was made a Sea-god. Others are of opinion, that wearied with the tediousnesse of his age, he willing lie drowned himselfe.