The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay Daulphinois, Lord of Arfeuile, chamberlaine and geographer ordinarie to the King of Fraunce conteining sundry singularities which the author hath there seene and obserued: deuided into foure bookes, with threescore figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, according to the diuersitie of nations, their port, intreatie, apparrell, lawes, religion and maner of liuing, aswel in time of warre as peace: with diuers faire and memorable histories, happened in our time. Translated out of the French by T. Washington the younger.

Of the Athenians.

Chap. 32.

AS for the Athenians, Iustine in his 12. booke reciteth, that they were the first that taught the art of spinning of wooll, making of wines and oyles, to plow the ground, & to sow corn: for at the first they fed on nothing but on acornes, & for theyr dwellings had none other lodgings, thē litle cabbins & caues. Doxius was the first that builded houses in Athens, which (fol∣lowing therin the maner of the swalows) he builded of earth. In the daies of Deucalion, Cecrops raigned as king ouer the Athe∣nians, & is he whom the Poets haue fayned to haue 2. forheads because he was the first that ioyned the men & the women by the right line of mariage. After him succeeded Granaus, which had a daughter called Athis▪ which gaue the name vnto the re∣gion. After that reigned Amphitrion, which first cōsecrated the citie vnto the goddesse Minerua, & named it Athene. In his time was the great flood & inundation of the waters, which marred and drowned the most part of Grecia, & in this great deluge, were only saued those that could get vp to the mountaines▪ or the other which were cōueyed towards Deucaliō king of Thes∣salia. By whom according to the feinings of the Poets, the world was by order of succession restored. The kingdome being since come vnto Eristheus, during his reigne the sowing of corne was brought in & inuented in Eleusine by Triptolemus, & therfore in remembrance of this good thing the nights were sacred vn∣to him. The Athenians being esteemed the wisest amongst the Graecians (for that the administration of their common wealth

was gouerned by the sage & wise doctrines of the Philosophers) made a lawe that to euery one of them it was permitted to take two wiues, but thereby were streightly forbidden to keepe any concubine, saying it to be a thing without all honesty, to keepe other mennes wiues, and to giue vnto his owne an yll exam∣ple of liuing. And this they did for the opinion which they had that a man could not liue without women and company: and when the one was brought to bed or sick he might go vnto the other, or els if the one were barren the other might be fit to bring forth children and succession, and to her that was fitt to conceaue, the gouernement and administration of the house was giuen, and the barren woman was vnto him as a seruaunt. Plinie is one of his Epistles saith, that the Athenians were wont to marry the brother with the sister, but not the Vncle with the nephew, alledging for his reason, that the marriage of a brother with the sister was an euen match: but the Vncle with the ne∣phew was the marrying of the olde with the young.