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OF MVSAEVS▪
Out of the worthy D. Gagers Coll••ctions.
MVsae••s was a renown'd Greeke Poet, borne at Athens, the Sonne of Eumol∣pus.
The divine poem of Musæus. First of all bookes. Translated according to the originall, by Geo: Chapman
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- The divine poem of Musæus. First of all bookes. Translated according to the originall, by Geo: Chapman
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- Musaeus, Grammaticus.
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- London :: Printed by Issac Iaggard,
- 1616.
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"The divine poem of Musæus. First of all bookes. Translated according to the originall, by Geo: Chapman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07934.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2025.
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Hee liu'd in the time of Orpheus, and is saide to bee one of them that vvent the Famous voy••ge to Colchos for the Golden Fleece. He wrote of the Gods Genealogie before any other, and inven∣ted the Sphere. Whose opinion
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was, that all things were made of one matter, and resolued in∣to one againe. Of whose works, onely this one Poem of Hero and Leander, is extant; of himselfe in his sixte Booke of Aene. Virgil, makes memo∣rable mention, where in Elisi∣um
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hee makes Sybilla speake this of him.
Musaeum ante Omnes (medium nam plurima Tu••ba Hunc habet) at{que} humeris extantem suspicit altis.Hee was borne in Falerum, a
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Towne in the middle of Tus∣cia, or the famous Countrey of Tuscany in Italy, cal'd also Hetruria.