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1. Computruit fluvius; and before the Septuag. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 where the vulgar Edi∣tion says, Computrescent aqua; that is, fervebit, vel effervescet fluvius, relating perhaps to Blood, which when it corrupts Boils, and burns as it were in the veins: when the water had been corrupted in this manner, it is no wonder if it produced a great number of Frogs; but the wonder consists in that the number was so infinite, in that it was so suddenly produced upon the action of Aaron, and that contrary to their nature, they came to molest the Egypti∣ans in their very houses. The like judgement with this we finde in prosane Histories, and to be attributed to the same hand of God, though the Rod was Invisible. Athenaeus in his 8 Book, and 2 Ch. reports, that in Paonia and Dardanium (now called Bulgarie) there rained down so many Frogs from heaven (that is, perhaps they were suddenly produced after great showers) that they filled all the publike ways, and even private houses, that their domestical furni∣ture was convered with them, that they found them in the very pots where they boiled their meat; and that what with the trouble of the Living, and the smell of the Deadones, they were forced at last to forsake their Countrey. And Pliny reports in his 8. B. Ch, 29. That a whole City in Gallia hath been driven away by Frogs, and another in Afrique by Locusts; and many examples of this kinde might be collected.
2. Sen lib. 4. Quaest. Natur. c. 11. Nilus brings both Water and Earth too to the thirsty and sandy soil; for flowing thick and troubled, he leaves all his Lees, as it were, in the Clests of the parched ground, and covers the dry places with the fatness which he brought with him, so that he does good to the Countrey two ways, both by over flowing, and by manuring it. So that Herod. calls it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, The Husbandman. Tibul. Te propter nullos Tellus tua postulat imbres, Arida necpluvio supplicat herba Iovi; for which reason Lucan says, that Egypt hath no need of Iupiter,
—Nihil indiga mercisAut Iovis, in solo tanta est fiducia Nile.