L. VIVES.
IOue (a) or Iupiter] For they are both declinable nominatiues: Genetiuo, Iouis and Iup•…•…ris: though wee vse the nominatiue onely of the later, and the other cases of the first, as the Greekes doe 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (b) Uirgils] Georgic. 2. calling the inuestigators of causes hap∣py, as the Philosophers did, of the Peripatetiques and Academikes, Arist. Ethic. 10. Cicero de finib. 5. (c) Soranus] Mentioned by Cicero, de Oratore. 1. Plin. lib. 3. Solin. Polihist. Plut. Probl. Macrob. Saturn. Seru. in Georg. 1. Hee was a learned Latine, counted the best schol∣ler of the Gowned professors. Cic. de orat. 1. Varro was so held also but Soranus before him, as Ennius the best Poet before Uirgill. Hee had honors at Rome, and the tribuneship for one: and because hee spoake the secret name of Rome which no man might vtter, hee lost his life. Pli•…•…. Solin. Macrob. and Plutarch, though in Pompeyes life Plutarch saith that Q. Valeri•…•… the Philosopher (which most vnderstood to be Soranus) was put to death by Pompey. But this is but at the second hand (saith he) from Oppius: let vs beware how wee trust a friend to Caesar in a stori•…•… of Pompey. Some say hee died suddenly: Others, that hee was crucified. Seru. (d) Iupiter] The old copies read Iupiter omnipotens, regum rerum{que}, deum{que}, for the first verse. (e) G•…•…∣uer of seede] Orph. Hymn.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 &c. God as a man begets, as woman, breedes.
(f) World is] So held all the best Philosophers against Anaximander, Anaximenes, Aristar∣chus, Xenophan•…•…s, Diogenes, Leucippus, Democritus and Epicurus, all which held many worlds.