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THe Galli (a) are] Cybele's priest: of these wee haue spoken. Festus saith they gelded them∣selues, * 1.1 because hauing violated their parents name they would neuer be parents. Bardesa∣nes the Syrian saith that King Abgarus made all their hands to be cut off that had vsed them∣selues so: and so this ceremonie ceased: Macrobius interpreteth the passages of Cybele and Atys, Ve•…•…s and Adonis, Isys and Osyris, all one way: calling the women the earth, and the men the sunne. (b) Porphiry] Of him else-where: this place is in his booke De rational. n•…•…. Deor. Atys and Adonis (saith he) are the fruites, but Atys especially the flowers that fall e•…•…e the fruite bee •…•…ipe, and so they say hee was gelded, because the fading flowers beare no fruite. (〈◊〉〈◊〉) Atys man or mans like] Alluding to Plato's riddle. De rep. 5. A man and no man, hauing sight and no sight, smote and smote not, a bird and no bird, with a stone and no stone, vpon a tree and no tree: that is, An eunuch, purblinde, threw and but touched a Batte with a pumyce stone, •…•…ittng * 1.2 in an Elderne tree.