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ABraham (a) sate by them] The vulgar readeth, and Abraham droue them away and so hath the Hebrew: Hier. But the Seauenty read it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sate by them. (b) The goate their] This creature is in a perpetuall feuer. Arist. ex Almaeone (c) The ramme] This is the leader of the flock or rather that Kingly ram. Dan. 8. (d) The Turtle-doue] Those (saith Pliny) doe hide themselues when they cast their fethers. Neither the Turtle nor the Pigeon (saith Aelian) will haue to doe with any but their owne cocke. (e) The Pigeon] That liueth tamely with vs. (f) The fowles] This is a type saith Iosephus of his euill neighbours of Egypt. (g) Heauinesse Some read it sleepe, some an extasie and so the seauenty doe. (h) Rhinocorura] This word (saith Hie∣rome) * 1.1 is not in the Hebrew, but added by the Seauenty to make knowne the place. Pliny (lib. 5.) calleth it Rhinocolura, and placeth it in Idumaea. Strabo, in Phaenicia. But without al questi∣on the Iewes and the Egyptians claimed it to themselues, and peopled it with the Ethiopians whom they conquered and cut off their noses. Actisanes the King of Ethiopia (saith Diodorus Siculus. lib. 2.) hauing conquered all Egipt partly by force, and part by condition, set vp a new lawe for theeues, neither acquitting them, nor punishing them with death, but getting them altogether hee punished them thus: first he cut off their noses, and then forced them to goe in∣to the farthest parts of the deserts, and there he built a citty for them called Rhinocorura of there want of noses: and this standeth in the confines of Egipt and Arabia, voide of all things fit for the life of man, for all the water of the country is salt: and there is but one fountaine wtihin the walls, and that is most bitter, and vnprofitable. Thus farre Diodorus.