Cosmographie in four bookes : containing the chorographie and historie of the whole vvorld, and all the principall kingdomes, provinces, seas and isles thereof / by Peter Heylyn.

The old Kings of Italy of the Aborigines.

• 1 Janus,* 1.1 the first King of the Aborigines, who lived in the same time with Boax and Ruth. He received Saturn flying out of Crete from Jupiter, and left him his Kingdom at his death. He is sayd to be the founder of the Citie of Gen••a, and to have given name to the Hill in Rome called Janicula, on which it was supposed that he had his dwell∣ing.
• 2 Saturn, who taught the people the use of dunging of their lands, and for that cause was honoured by them as a God, under the name of Stercutius, as St. Austin hath it. He reigned first together with Janus, and afterwards by himself alone, the whole time of both their reigns was 33 years.
• 3 Picus,* 1.2 well skilled in divination by the flight and chattering of Birds, and therefore feigned by the Poets to be turned into a Pye. He entertained Evander and his Arcadi∣ans, giving them the Hill (called after Aventine) to build upon. 37.
• 4 Fannus,* 1.3 the sonne of Picus, and the husband of Fatua, in whose time Hercules came into Italy, vanquished the Giants of Cremona, and killed the Giant C••cus who had fled out of Spain. 44.
• 5 Latinus,* 1.4 the sonne of Faunus, who entertained Aeutas comming from the wars and de∣struction of Troy, and gave him his daughter Lavinia to wife, with his Kingdom, after him in Dower. 36.
• 6 Lavinia,* 1.5 daughter to Latinus, and Queen of the Latins, maried to Aeneas, whom she out-lived, he being slain in his Wars against Mezentius the King of Tuscany, the sonne or successor of that Mezentius (an ungodly Tyrant) whom Aeneas had before slain in his war with Turnus and the Latins. 7.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A. M. 2637.
• * 1.2

  2670.
• * 1.3

  2707.
• * 1.4

  2751.
• * 1.5

  2787.