Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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    Letter, and often find an Eafe to my Mind that way. Philo, and Origen, and the other Allegorical Fathers proceed this way in expounding the Scriptures ; and I think we mull follow the fame, to find a tolerable Senfe in many more things deliver’d by the Ancients, than fome Men feem willing to allow. The aforefaid Strabo fays, Some affirm the Corf antes to be certain Damons, the Children of Minerva, and the Sun, others the Children of Saturn, others the Children of Jupiter, and Alliope, and that they are the fame with the Cabiri and Curetes, and that their A&ions are myfti- cal; that ail Difcourfe concerning the Gods enquires into the ancient Opinions and Fables, occultly infinuating the natural Thoughts of the Ancients concerning things themfelves, and always expounding the Fable in difeouriing-: but clearly to folve all the /Enigma's, he thinks not eafy, tho’ it’s eafy to draw' together a Heap of agreeing and difagreeing Fables. Lillius Giraldus in his Syntag. Hi ft. Deor. intimates, that it’s a ^wonderful thing is delivered concerning the Cabiri, if it may deferve belief; viz,, that thofe who were ini¬ tiated in their Myileries were believed to efcape all Tempefts at Sea; which is very true, if it be taken in a right Senfe: for it imports no more, than that he that is initiated in thofe Myfteries is become fupe- riour to his Paffions, fo that nothing can move him. ■-Strepitumque Acherontis avari Subjecit pedibus. As for thofe that would fee more concerning the Curetes, &c. I refer them to Strabo, Lillius Giraldus, Calcagninus, in his Dialogue entitled, Equitatio ; Meur- fins, in his Creta j Guthelbertus, de Myfleriis Deorum Ca- birorum, &c. I fhall add one thing here concerning the Curetes. Delrius, in his Comment on Seneca s fhyeftes, writes thus : Arnobius tells us, irom Nigidius, that fome have thought the Lares of the Latins to be the R 2 fame