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Pag. 18. lin. 10. The Women carried it for Minerva against Neptune.] There is another account given of this Story, that these two Gods be∣ing in a contest, which of them should be intitled to the Presidence of this City Athens, they did each of them, to oblige the Community in
their favour, by a Miracle cause to rise out of the ground, the one (Neptune) an Horse, to denote Prowess and warlike Courage, the other (Minerva) an Olive-tree loaden with fruit, an Emblem of Peace and Fruitfulness; and that the Citizens preferr'd the latter, as the greater merit and more welcome blessing.
Lin. 26. Juno, Salacia, Proserpina.] Juno was Jove the Thunderer's Consort, as Proserpine was the forc'd Mate of grim Pluto, the infernal Queen. The third, Salacia, Lady of the Sea, was Wife to Neptune, as▪ S. Austin hath it out of some of the old Roman Writers: though among the Poets she generally pass by the name of Amphitrite.
Pag. 19. lin. 25. Amalasincta, Artemisia, Nicaula, &c.] These brave Ladies or She-Heroes are famous upon record, and need not any thing further for their commendation, but their Name. This Artemisia men∣tioned here, was not the Wife of Mausolus, a vertuous and magnificent Woman too, but another who lived in Xerxes's time, a great Com∣mandress, in alliance with him. Nicaula, it seems, though whence he learn't her Name, I cannot tell, for Scripture gives it us not; was she, who is there called the Queen of the South, a great admirer of Solomon's Wisdom.