L. VIVES.
FOr (a) Satan] Confest by Porphyry and Iamblichus both. The deuills most especiall pro∣perty is lying, and still they assume the faces of other Gods, saith the first. De sacrifice
St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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- St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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- 1610.
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lib. 2. Their euill spirits often assume the shapes of good, comming with brags and arrogance to men sayth the second. In Myster. (b) Proteus] Sonne (saith Hesiod) to Oceanus, and T•…•…∣tis: a great prophet, and as Virgill saith skild in all things past, present and to come. Ho•…•…er faigneth that hee was compeld to presage the truth of the Troian warre to Agam•…•…, and Uirgill saith that Aristeus serued him so also. Valerius Probus, saith hee was an Egipti•…•…, and called Busyris for his tyranny: Virgil calls him Pallenius, of a towne in Macedonia, and there was hee borne (saith Seruius) mary reigned (as Virgill saith) in Carpathum. Herodo∣tus, saith hee was of Memphis, and King there when Paris and Hellen came into Egipt, * 1.1 and for their adultery hee would let them stay there but three daies. In Euterpe. Diodor•…•… saith that the Egiptians called him Caeteus whom the Greekes called Proteus, that hee was * 1.2 a good Astronomer, and had skill in many artes, and reigned in Egipt in the time of the Troyan warre. The Egiptian Kings vsed alwaies to giue the halfe Lyon, or the Bull, or Dragon for their armes, and thence the Greekes had this fiction. I thinke hee changed his escutcheon often.
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Lib. 2.