Som animadversions and observations upon Sr. Walter Raleigh's Historie of the world wherein his mistakes are noted and som doubtful passages cleered / by Alexander Ross.

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Som animadversions and observations upon Sr. Walter Raleigh's Historie of the world wherein his mistakes are noted and som doubtful passages cleered / by Alexander Ross.
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Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
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London :: Printed by William Du-Gard for Richard Royston ...,
[1648]
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Raleigh, Walter, -- Sir, 1552?-1618. -- History of the world.
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Lib. 2. cap. 2. § 6.

IN the reign of Hercules and Typhon seven years were spent] This was that Hercules who made an expedition into Spain, and erected those Pillars at Gades, called by his name, There a temple was built to him, and sacrifices offered, after the man∣ner of the Phenicians. Typhon, for his wickedness and crueltie, was called a gyant by the Grecians. Hee made War against the gods: hee travelled in∣to Caucasus, and at last was struck down by Jupi∣ter's thunder, and died near the lake Serbonis, as Apollonius witnesseth,

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Therefore Plutarch relate's, in Antonio, that the Egyptians called this lake 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Ty∣phon's exhalations The gyant also Typhaeus, who rebelled against Jupiter and is buried under Aetna in Sicilie is called Typhon, and somtimes Briareus. For these three are taken promiscuously one for ano∣ther. Typheus is called by Pindarus c 1.1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, hundreth headed: and by d 1.2 Virgil, Centum g'minus Briareus. e Apollodorus make's Typhon to have 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the n ture both of a man, and of a serpent: Hyginus make's him the childe of earth and hell, having a hundred dragon' heads growing on his shoulders. e Philostratus make's Typhon

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and Enceladus all one, beeing fast bound under the hill Aetna, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. But of Typhon wee have spo∣ken more f elswhere. f Mystagng. Poēt.

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