Some enquiries concerning the first inhabitants, language, religion, learning and letters of Europe / By a member of the Society of Antiquaries in London [i.e. F. Wise].

  • Francis Wise
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1758
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    Saturn reigned over | Fs ays who ise the ses pa the Wefern parts. of the Titan empire, is faid to have reigned over the (1) Weftern parts, feems to have taken not only more than his fhare, but the moft rich and fruitful countries; fuch as the conti- nents lying upon the Mediterranean, Syria, Egypt, Greece with the ifles, Italy, Gaul, Spain &c. By this fituation he had the advantage of Shipping, which perhaps the other Titans wanted, and were not acquainted with, for the art does not appear to have been then long found out; and by this means became more than a match for them. , ; | The Titans feem to have kept os is ; a » ball fe poffeflion of the (2) Northern sats : ’ and to have made feveral attempts to recover the others; and fometimes not without fuccefs, as is plainly intimated by the (3) flight of the Gods into Egypt; till after a (4)ten years ftruggle, or more, they were in the end ‘entirely fubdued by Jupiter. In the Northern parts therefore, if any where, I think we may expect to find them. ‘The Titans and their offspring are deicribed as men of gigantic ftature; and this has always (1) bac F Kesvoy x2! thn Sunertav, 0 Atboby, er St P Irerlaw’ x94 70 cwworoy ey Tis mess hareeay Toms cuando rw Basra. Diodor. Lib. III. p.136. Vid. etiam Lib. V. iF gicitod . (2) When the Titans were worfted in the war with the Gods, they re- treated to the great and well fortified cave called Cira in the country of the Getes, as is reported by Dion Caffius. Ba 7 aniauoy rw Keipl xaauulubu eseg- coven. [Craffus] Ter jae uépsov Te dum xo doupdratey Te Saas ty, ws H Tes Trraves is one, pS tu) ay my “a AW Oxav M opin woul, ovyrgragvyen pudewedu. Hift. — Rom. Lib. 51. p. 530. : (3) Apollodor. Lib. I. c.6. Ovid. Metamorph. Lib.V. Antoninus L1- beralis Metamorph. c. 28. ; (4) Sweyews tuanovro Abyg. metus 7 enauats. Hefiod. Theog. v. 636. Mazouver } airway tnaurés déya. Apollod. Lib. I. c.6. been
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