The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. 2. A wicked woman.

With the wife of Macro, that made her own prostitution to become her husbands pro∣motion, may not unfitly be yoaked, the mother of Sex. Papinius that made her own lust her sons overthrow: Whether this were the Papinius that was the last years Consul, or his son, or some other of the same name and family, it is no great matter worth in∣quiring, but whosoever he was, infortunate he was in his mother: for she caused his end, as she had given him his beginning. She being lately divorced from her husband, betook herself unto her son, whom with flattery and loosness she brought to perpetrate such a thing, that he could find no remedy for it, when it was done but his own death. The consequent argueth that the fault was incest, for when he had cast himself from an high place, and so ended his life, his mother being accused for the occasion, was banished the City for ten years, till the danger of the slipperiness of her other sons youth was past and over.