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VErse 2. Cumae,] A City in Campania, upon the Sea-coast neer to Puteoli, built by the Cumaeans, a people of Asia, whose Generall Hippocles joyning with Megasthenes Generall for the Chalcidians, the Articles between them were so drawn, that Hippocles was to have the naming of the City, and Megasthenes the right of colony or plantation, Strabo lib. 5. Thus the Cumaeans of Aeolia gave the name to that Town, from which the Sibyll called Cumaea received hers.
Verse 4. Baiae,] Another City of Campania, so named from Baius one of Vlysses his Mates there buried. Neer to this City were the Baths, or that confluence of warm Springs whereunto the noblest Romans resorted both for pleasure and health, which made it flourish with many fair and Princely Buildings, Martial to Valerius Flaccus.
Vt mille laudem Flacce versibus Baias, Laudabo dignè non satis tamen Baias. Should I with thousand verses Baiae praise, Her praises to her worth I could not raise.As much in commendations of the place is said by Horace in his Epistles.
Nullus in orbe locus Baiis praelucet amoenis. Sweet Baiae no place in the world excells.
Verse 5. Prochyta,] A little desolate Island in the Tyrrhene Sea, one of those called the Aeolian Isles: some say it was a Mountain in the Isle
of Enarime, which by an Earthquake was from thence poured out, and therefore by the Graecians called Prochyta. But Dionys Halicar, lib. 1. af∣firms the name to be derived from Prochyta Nurse to Aeneas.
Verse 6. Suburra,] One of the fairest and most frequented Streets in Rome. Festus from the authority of Verrius saith it had the name a fuccur∣rendo, for as much as the Courts of Guard were there which relieved the Watch, when the Gabines besieged that part of the Town; and to shew that the change of the letters came only by the vulgar errour of pronoun∣cing, he tells us that in his time the Tribe or Inhabitants of the Suburra was written Tribus Succurranea, not Suburrana; nor Suburana, as Varro would have it called, for being under the old Bulwark, sub muro terreo. Varro lib. 4. de ling. lat.
Verse 10. Poets that in August read.] Among the sufferings of those that lived constantly in Rome, my Author reckons the torment they were put to by the Poets, whom they could not be rid of, even in the moneth of August, when the extremity of heat was enough to kill a man that, being pressed by their importunity, must stand in the open Street to hear their ridiculous Verses read; and Vmbricius seems the more sen∣sible of the misery in regard it only fell upon the meaner sort; for all the great persons of Rome were then at their Country-houses, to which they removed upon the Calends or first day of July.
Verse. 12. At the ancient Arc by moist Capena] An Arc was a Mo∣nument of stone raised like to the Arch of a Bridge in memory of some triumph or victory: and this Arc was built in honour of the Horatii: af∣terwards it was called the distilling or dropping Arc, because over it the pipes were laid that carried the water into Rome from Egeria's Foun∣tain, Ovid Fast.
Egeria est quae praebet aquas Dea grata Camenoe: Illa Numae Conjux consilium{que} fuit. Egeria waters us, the Muses prize her: She was King Numa's Wife and his Adviser.
Verse 13. Where Numa every night his Goddess met.] Numa Pompilius, second King of the Romans, was born at Cures a Town of the Sabines. He was famous for Justice and Piety: He pacified the fury of his Neigh∣bours, and brought the Roman Souldiers (that were grown cruell and savage in their long War under King Romulus) to a love of peace and reverence of Religion. He built the Temple of Janus, which being opened signified war; being shut, times of Peace: and all the whole Reign of Numa it was shut, but stood open after his death for fourty years toge∣ther. He created the Dial Martial and Quirinal Flamens or Priests. He instituted a Colledge of Twelve Salian Priests of Mars. He consecra∣ted the Vestall Virgins: declared the Pontifex Maximus or Chief Bishop: distinguished the dayes Fasti and Nefasti, the Court-dayes, and Va∣cation or Justicium: divided the year into twelve moneths: and to strike a Veneration into the hearts of the Romans, and make them observe what he enjoyned, out of an awfull religious duty; he made them believe that every night he met a Goddess or Nymph which he called Egeria, from whose mouth he received his whole form of government: their place of meeting was in a Grove without the Porta Capena, called afterwards the Muses Grove, wherein was a Temple consecrated to them and to the Goddess Egeria, whose Fountain waters the Grove. Ovid that calls her Numa's Wife saith likewise, that she grieving for his death, wept her self into a Fountain, Metamorph lib. 15. which Fountain, Grove and Temple at a yearly Rent were let out to the Jews, grown so poor after the
Sack of Jerusalem, that all their Stock was a Basket for their own meat▪ and hay to give their Horses. Lastly King Numa, after he had reigned fourty years beloved and honoured by his own People and all the neigh∣bour-States, died, not having any strugle with nature, meerly of old age. By his Will he commanded that his body should not be burned, but that two stone-Chests or Coffins should be made, in one of which they should put his Corps, and in the other the Books he had written, Plutarch in Numa, where he saith (and quotes his Author Valerius Ansius) that the Coffin of Numa's Books contained four and twenty, twelve of Ceremo∣nies, and twelve of Philosophy written in Greek. Four hundred years after, P. Cornelius and M. Baebius being Consuls, by a sudden inundation the earth was loosned, and the covers of the Coffins opened; but there was no part of his body found in the one, in the other all the Books intire, pre∣served by the earth and water: But Petilius (then Praetor) had the read∣ing of them, which occasioned their destruction by fire; for he acquanit∣ing the Senate with their Contents, it was not thought fit by the great Councell of Rome, that secrets of such a nature should be divulged to the People; so the books were brought into Court and burned.
Verse 25. Vmbricius.,] A man rare at divination by the entrails of sa∣crificed beasts, Pliny. He foretold the death of Galba, Tacit. but those honest Arts not bringing in sufficient to maintain Vmbricius in Rome, he scorned to use cozning Arts, by playing the Mountebank for a lively∣hood, as you see by his words.
—How your Planet runs I know not; promise Father's deaths to Sons, Nor can, nor will I: I did ne're dissect Toads entrails.—
Upon these Premisses he concludes.
What should I doe at Rome? —From whence, contemning the vanities and baseness of the Town, with his whole household in a Waggon, this poor Aruspex went out in greater triumph at the Porta Capena or Triumphal Gate, then ever any Con∣queror entred by it into Rome.
Verse 30. Daedalus,] An Athenian Handicraft-man, Sonne of Mition, the most ingenious Artist of his time. From his invention we have the Saw, the Hatchet, the Plummet and Line, the Auger, Glue and Cement. He was the Inventor of Sails and Sail-yards, which undoubt∣edly occasioned the Fable of his invention of Wings. He set eyes in Statues, and by secret springs, wheels, and wyers, gave motion to those men of marble so artificially as they appeared to be living: an Art revi∣ved, in the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, by his Mathematician Janellus Turrianus. See. Strada in his Hist. Dec. 1. How Daedalus built the Labyrinth, was imprisoned in it, and escaped by the VVings he made himself; you have in the Comment upon Sat. 1. From thence flying to Sardinia, then as farre as Cumae; there he laid down those Wings, the Wings of Sails, as Virgil calls them, and rested upon the Terra firma. Lucian lib. de Astrolo. tells us, that Daedalus was a Mathematician: and his Son Icarus taught Astrology, but being a young man full of fiery imma∣ginations, he soared too high, pride bringing him into error, and so fell into a Sea of notions, whose depth was not to be sounded.
Verse 33. Lachesis.] The three fatall Goddesses which the Heathens believed to dispose the thread of mans life, were Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, the Daughters of Erebus and Night. The first bore the Distaffe, the second spun the Thread, and the third (when it came to the determi∣ned
end) cut it off. Apuleius thinks the ternary number of the Destinies or Parcae, to be derived from the number of three points of time; that the Flax wound about the Distaffe signifies the time past, the Thread in spinning, the time present; and that which is not twisted, the time to come. The old Latins called these three Sisters Nona, Decima, and Morta.
Verse 36. Arturius and Catulus.] These two from poor beginnings had raised themselves to great Estates and Offices, and made use of their wealth and authority to ingross all good Bargains, and to monopolize all beneficiall places and employments, even to those of the Scavenger and Gold-finder.
Verse 40. Spear.] At Auctions or publick sales of mens goods (part whereof was their Slaves) the Romans ever stuck up a Spear, to give no∣tice to the Town, Cic. Phil. and when they came in, there was upon the place an Affix posted up, which contained a Particular of the parcels to be sold, with their several prices Sig. de Jud. Under the Spear sate the Cryer, asking who giveth most? and by him an Officer, some Arturius or Catulus, for Voucher.
Verse 43. Revers'd Thumbs.] At any Sword-play, either in the Cir∣cus or upon Theaters, it was in the power of the People to make the Gladiators or Fencers fight it out, and die upon the place: or to dis∣charge them; and likewise to restore them to their liberty, lost by the baseness of their calling, for the present, and if they pleased for ever. The first was done by bowing down their Thumbs; the second (as by these words appears) with turning up their Thumbs; the third by gi∣ving them a Rod or Wand, called Rudis; the last by bestowing Caps upon them. Qui insigniori cuique homicidae Leonem poscit, idem Gladia∣tori
atroci petat Rudem, & Pileum praemium conferat, He that will have a notorious Murderer exposed to the Lyons, even he will give to the bloody Gladiator a Rudis, and reward him with a Cap, Tertul. de Spect. cap. 21.
Verse 54. Toads Entrails.] The skilfullest Aruspex that ever divined by Toads Entrails was Locusta, much imployed in that service by Agrip∣pina, and by, the Son of her vitious Nature, Nero.
Verse 65. Dark Tagus.] Tagus is a River of Lusitania rolling gol∣den sands, Plin. by which my Author conceives the stream to be dark∣ned. Neer to this Spanish River (if we credit Pliny) Mares are hors'd by the West-winde, and foale Ginnets infinite Fleet, but their time of life is swifter; for they never live to above three years old.
Verse 71. Greek Town.] Rome, where Graecians (that were Johns of all Trades, and could do every thing to please the humour of a Roman) carried away the men like ships, with a breath: and where the very wo∣men affected and spake the Greek tongue, Sat. 6.
—old Woman! fie, let Girls doe so: Wilt thou fourscore and six be Greekish? chast Greek is not when 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, thou say'st Life, soul: and fool'st thy husband in a crowd With words, for which thy Sheets were late a shrowd.
Verse 73. Orontes,] A River of Caelesyria, that springs up not farre from Mount Lebanon and the City of Seleucia Pieria, where it sinks un∣der ground, and riseth again in the Apemene Territorie, running by An∣tioch, and falling into the Sea neer Seleucia. It was called Orontes by his name that first made a Bridge over it, for before they called it Tryphon, Strab.
Verse 76. Circus,] The great Shew-place at Rome, neer to that part of Mount Aventine where the Temple of Diana stood. Tarquinius Priscus built Galleries about it, where the Senators and People of Rome, to the number of a hundred and fifty thousand, might see the running of great Horses at Lists, Fireworks, Tumbling, and baiting or chasing of wilde Beasts. In after Ages there was likewise to be seen Prizes played by the Fencers or Gladiators: and in Vaults underneath it stood women that would prostitute their bodies for money, Rosin. Antiq. and as you may see in this Satyr.
And hackney-Sluts, that in the Circus stand.
Verse 79 Our nointed Clown] The meanest sort of Roman Fencers had their necks nointed with an artificiall Clay made of oyle and earth; and so that they were able to compass such a nointing, with a Trechedip∣na or a poor Poste-Gown, in which they might runne to the Sportula (either to get a share in the hundred farthings, or in the Clients plain Supper) their ambition was satisfied. But the Greek Peasants, though farre meaner (as subject to these) scorned such low thoughts, aiming to recover that by cozenage, which they had lost by fighting with the Romans.
Verse 81. Andros,] An Island in the Aegaean Sea, being the principall of the Cyclades, where there is a Spring whose water every year upon the fifth day of January tastes like wine, Plin. lib. 2. Samos is an Island in the Icarian Sea right against Ionia, Ptolomy. Amydon a City of Paeonia or Macedonia, that gave assistance to the Trojans. Alaband a City in Caria, Plin. Ptol. infamous for effeminate men and impudent singing women; only famous for the birth of Appolonius the Rhetor. Trallis a Town of Caria in the Lesser Asia, Plin. lib. 5. Sicyon an Island
in the Aegean Sea, opposite to Epidaurum, very high and eminent, Plin. From this Isle Minerva was called Sicyonia, because Epopaeus there built a Temple to her for his victory against the Boeotians.
Verse 83. Mount Esquiline.] The seven hills that Rome stood upon, were the Palatine, the Quirinal, the Aventine, the Caelian, the Esquiline, the Tarpeian or Capitoline, and the Viminall; the last being so called from the VVickers or Oziers growing upon it.
Verse 88. Isaeus,] The fluent Orator, whose Scholar Demosthenes was.
Verse 96. At Athens born.] Daedalus that put off his VVings at Cumae, as before.
Verse 100. Syrian Figs] Syrian Figs, Sea-coal, and the Grecians came in with one wind and for one purpose, viz. to be sold in the Market at Rome.
Verse 102. Sabine Olives.] Olives growing in the narrow, but long Country of the ancient Sabines, which reached from Tyber as farre as the Vestines, and was bulwarkt on both sides by the Apennine Mountains, Plin.
Verse 106. Antaeus,] A Giant, begot by Neptune upon the Earth, sixty four cubits high. He spent his youth in Libya at the Town of Lixus, afterwards called the Palace of Antaeus. Ever when he found himself weary or over-toyled, he recovered his strength and spirits by touching of the Earth his Mother; and therefore Hercules, when they two wrast∣led together, held him up in the aire, that the earth should not refresh him. The great Roman Souldier Sertorius, at Tygaena a town of Libya, digged up the Sepulcher of Antaeus, and found his body, Plutarch.
Verse 111. Doris,] A Sea Nymph, Daughter to Oceanus and Thetis,
and VVife to her Brother Nereus, by whom she had an infinite number of Children, Sea-Nymphs, that from their Fathers name were called Nereides. Her Picture was alwayes drawn naked, and so it seems the Greek Players acted her.
Verse 112. Thais,] A famous Curtesan born in Alexandria, that set∣ting up for her self at Athens, drew the custome of all the noble Youth of that learned City. She was rarely charactered by Menander the Poet in a Comedy, which probably was acted in Rome by the rare Greek Comedians, Demetrius, Antiochus, Stratocles and Haemus.
Verse 137. Gymnasium] is here taken for any Room wherein the Greek Philosophers read to their Roman Pupills.
Verse 139. Bareas.] Bareas Soranus was impeached of high Treason by his Friend and Tutor P. Egnatius, that took upon him the gravity of the Stoicks in his habit and discourse, to express the Image of an honest Exer∣cise, Tacit. but the Informer was paid in his own coyn; for he that im∣piously and basely had murdered his Scholar in Nero's time, was him∣self in the reign of Vespasian condemned and executed upon the informa∣tion of Musonius Rufus, Dio, Tacit.
Verse 142. A feather fell.] In Cilicia P. Egnatius was born, at a Town as lying as himself; for there, as their History sayes, Bellerophon's Horse Pegasus (having stumbled in the aire and sprained his Fetlock) dropt a feather from his heel, and ever since the Town was called Tarsus.
Verse 144. Erimantus.] Erimantus, Protogenes, and Diphilus were Greeks, which the Great men of Rome trusted with the government of their Children.
Verse 158. Lictor.] See Praetor Sat. 1. whose Officer the Lictor was.
Verse 156. Modia] Modia and Albina were rich Ladies that had
not any Children of their own, and therefore the Roman Lords courted them in as servil a manner as the Lords were attended by their Clients, Sat. 5.
Trebius oblig'd, has that for which he must Break's sleep, and run ungarter'd and untrust, For fear lest his saluting rivals may Have fill'd the Ring by dawning of the day; Or at the time when the Seven-stars doe roll Their cold and sluggish Wain about the Pole.
Verse 160. The Tribune.] I conceive this Tribune to be the Militarie Tribune that commanded in chief with Consular power; not one of those six that had every of them a thousand men in a Legion, consisting of six thousand.
Verse 161. Catiena.] Catiena, Calvina, and Chio were rich Curtezans, too dear for the Common sort of Romans; for mean people were hardly able to pay their Sedan-men or Chair-bearers.
Verse 166. Cybel's Host.] Scipio Nasica, whom the Senate judged to be the best man; and therefore when Cybele Mother of the Gods was first brought to Rome, with advice from the Oracle, that she should be en∣tertained by the best man, they voted her to be lodged in his House. When he found himself inauspiciously named for Consull by Gracchus, he resigned his Authority. When he was Censor, he made the Con∣sulls Statues be pulled down, which had been set up in the Forum by every mans ambition. When he discharged the Office of Consull, he took the City of Deiminium in Dalmatia. His Army put upon him the name of Imperator, and the Senate decreed him a Triumph, but he refused both. He was very eloquent, very learned in the Law, and
with an excellent wit, a most wise man; and in the esteem of all Rome, worthy his noble Ancestors the two Africani. He left not money e∣nough to pay for his Funerall expenses; therefore they were defraied by the People; and in every street through which the body past they strew∣ed flowers, Plin. lib. 22. cap. 3.
Verse 166. Numa.] See the beginning of the Comment upon this Satyr.
Verse 167. He that sav'd our Pallas.] L. Metellus the Pontifex Maximus before mentioned, that when the Temple of Vesta was burned down, rescued from the flame the Palladium or wooden Image of Pal∣las, brought from Troy: But his piety had a very sad success, for ventu∣ring too desperately into the fire, he lost both his eyes, Plin. lib. 7. cap. 44. This Metellus in the first Punick VVarre, for his victories over the Carthaginians, had a most glorious triumph; for he led through Rome thirteen great Commanders of the Enemie, and sixscore Ele∣phants.
Verse 174. Samothracians.] Samothracia or Samothrace is an Island in the Aegaean Sea, neer to that part of Thrace where the River Hebrus falls into the Sea, Stephan. It was anciently called Dardania, from Dardanus the Trojan, that is reported to have fled thither with the Palladium; but the first name of this Island was Leucosia, Aristot. in his Republick of Samothracia. The Gods worshiped by these Islanders, were Jupiter Juno Pallas, &c. from the Samothracians brought to the Romans, whose peculiar Deities were Mars and Romulus.
Verse 188. Vain Otho.] L. Roscius Otho when he was Tribune passed a Theatrall Law, wherein he distinguished the Roman Knights from the Common people, assigning fourteen Benches in the Theater only
for the Knights, that is, for such as had an Estate worth four hundred Se∣stertia, being about three thousand one hundred twenty five pound of our money, by which Law they that were not worth so much incurred a penalty if they presumed to sit upon any of those Benches, Cic. Philip. 2. See likewise his Orat. for Muraen.
Verse 191. Aediles.] The Romans had three sorts of Aediles. The first they called Aediles Curules, from the Chariot they rid in: these were chosen out of the Senate, Pilet. in lib. 2. Cic. epist. fam. 10. and had in charge the repairing both of Temples and private Houses. The second sort were Aediles Plebeii, chosen out of the People; and these came into Office when the Curules went out, they ruling several years by turns, Alex. Gen. Dier. lib. 4. c. 4. these were impowred (together with their charge of Temples and private Dwellings) to punish the falsifying of Weights and Measures, to look to the publick Conduits, and to make provision for Festivall Playes. The third sort were Clerks of the Mar∣ket, looking to the Corn and Victuals sold in publick, Alex. ibid. these were the Aediles Cerealis in ordinary: the extraordinaries were the An∣nonae praefecti, Rosin. Antiq. l. 7. c. 38.
Verse 198. Marsians.] The Marsians were a poor but stout People of Italy, Neighbours to the Samnits, descended from Marsus Sonne to the Witch Circe: Men that with their spittle cured such as were bitten by Vipers, Plin.
Verse 199. Sabellian Food.] Such pitifull poor meat as served the Sa∣bellians, which inhabited that part of Italy lying upon the Mountains betwixt the Marsians and the Sabines. They were conquered by M. Curius the Dictator. Their ancient name was Samnites, Stephan lib. 3. cap. 12.
Verse 206. The pale gaping thing.] The vizarded Fool in the Play.
Verse 215. What giv'st thou] To the Lord Cossus his Chamber-keepers, to let thee in.
Verse 216. Veiento] Fabricius Veiento, a Lord of the Senate: how proud he was of his honour and excessive wealth, may be gathered from hence, poor men not being able to get so much as the favour of a look from him, unless they bought it of his Servants: how politick a Courtier he was, you may see Sat. 4. and how unhappie in his Wife Hippia, in Sat. 6.
Verse 222 Cold Praeneste] Thus, not moist Praeneste, it should have bin printed in the Satyr, if the Transcriber had not mistaken. It is a Town of Latium fortified by nature, as standing very high: it was a Greek Plan∣tation, as appears by the old name Polystaephanus. In this Town was the Temple of Fortune, which L. Sylla (the Fortunate) richly paved with square stones, Plin. l. 36. ca. 25.
Verse 223. The Volscian Cliffs.] Those that dwell upon the rockie Mountains in Latium. Camilla was a Volscian, she that assisted Aeneas against Turnus, Aeneid. 7. Of all the Volscians the poorest were those of Gabium.
Verse 224. Tibur,] A City of the Sabines, sixteen miles from Rome, watered with many pure Springs, and seated in an excellent aire, Ovid. 4. Fast. The three Sonnes of Amphiraus, Tiburnus, Catillus, and Chorax built the Town, to which the eldest Brother gave the name. Solin. Sex∣tus the Graecian. The Fort of Tibur stood so very high, as to those that looked upon it at a distance it seemed to be bending and falling like Grantham-Steeple.
Verse 233. Three stories high.] Poor Romans, such as Vcalegon, dwelt in Garrets, Sat 10.
—but in that sad time, Seldome the Souldiers did poor Garrets climb.
Verse 237. Codrus,] the Author of the lamentable Heroick Poem, in∣tituled Theseis, Sat. 1. one that could neither make Friends nor money to buy a Bed long enough for his Dwarf-wife Procula.
Verse 253. Euphranor,] A noble Picture-drawer, and as rare a Statu∣ary, one that writ some Volumes of Symetry and Colours. He flou∣rished in the hundred and fourth Olympiad: many excellent pieces he likewise cut in brass, Plin. l. 34. ca. 8.
Verse 253. Polyclet.] Polycletus for his accuratness and the sweetness of his touches excelled all Statuaries, Quintilian. He did things in brass honoured with the commendations of great Writers, particularly that of his Gamesters playing at Dice was thought to be incomparable. He was a Sidonian and Schollar to Gelades. Two Statues he made of one and the same designe; the first according to art, by his own judgement; the other following vulgar opinion, as any that came in desired him to alter it: when they were finished, he exposed them to the common view, and that which he did of himself was infinitely commended, the other thought to be nothing neer it: But friends (said he) you must know, this which you cry up, is my worke; that which you dislike, your own.
Verse 261. Circus] See the former part of the Comment upon this Satyr, there you will finde the reason why the Romans were so loath to leave the Circus for any other place, where they were not like to have such rare sport for nothing.
Verse 262. Fabrateria,] A poor Town of Campania. Sora, another of the same Country, taken (and I suppose sleighted) by the Ro∣mans, Plin. lib. 3 cap. 5. Frusino another neighbour Town in the Fa∣lern
Territory, anciently called Frusinum, Ptolom.
Verse 268. Pythagoreans,] The Disciples of Pythagoras, that first gave name to Philosophy, and made himself be called Philosophus, not Sophus, a Lover, not a Master of Wisedom, that title being proper to God a∣lone, Laer. in prooem. l. 1. See Comment upon Sat. 15.
Verse 278. Dull Drusus,] One that it seems was as drousie for a Man▪ as the Seal or Sea-Calf for a Fish.
Verse 291. Corbulo,] A man of a vast body, and that spoak high and mighty words, Tacit. lib. 13.
Verse 298. Ligurian Stones,] Marble digged out of the Quarries in Liguria, upon the Appennine Mountains between France and Hetruria, now Florence.
Verse 308. Charon,] Brother to the Destinies; the Ferry-man of Hell, that carries no Souls in his Boat under farthings a piece.
Verse 323. Achilles.] See the Comment upon Sat. 1. from whence you may fancie in what impatient postures the Players would act Achil∣les, when he was in fury for the death of his friend Patroclus.
Verse 355. Pontine Fenns.] The Volsian Fenns neer to Forum Appii, not farre from Tarracina, twenty miles from Rome: they were drained by the Consul Cornelius Cethegus, to whom that Province fell, and tur∣ned into good Land, Liv. l. 47. After this it was overflowed again and a Trench for Theeves, untill the reign of Theodoric King of the Goths, by whose Command it was drained once more. The Gallin Wood stood neer to the Cumaean Bay, and was another shelter for Theevs.
Verse 368. Aquine.] Aquinum a Town of the Latins, Plin. watered by the River Melpha, Strab. now called Aquino, famous for the birth of two men incomparable for their several kindes of Learning, my Author
Juvenal the Satyrist, and Thomas Aquinas the Schoolman, called by our Country-men St. Thomas of Watering, a word expressing the moistness of the place, which may likewise appear by the adjacent Temple of Ceres, the Goddess of Husbandry, by the Title of Elvin Ceres, that is, Ceres of the Washes or Marshes, from whence the Spring and River of Elvis took their names; yet there was drie ground neer to Aquine in Juve∣nal's own Land, called Diana's Hill, Martial to Juvenal, lib. 2. Epig. 18.