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6 Archjtohgix Ait'icx Lib. u Cap. 2.
:himselse • even to the same purpose names it Sethina.
•i: • •! Vndiqv.e fic miserienobis spe&aniur Athene,
Dedalaq-asPalias fesc coluijfe'negaret, ■
g^as, Neptune pater, nunquam tua mzniadicas,
Indeg inn Sethina vacant.
■ We wretched Athens renin d doe view, which now.,
"Though .onceingenuQus P,allas\lov.e3 -s her {ham;, ;
And t'have been.thme,-Nspt//«f,wouIdst difavoiv,
To which the Homebred give Sethinaname.
C A P. II.
Athenarum situs. "Ary. %5^/ir.'A)tsowoA/s. Herb.e Ivxentes, Mu-
ms, Pelafgkus CvMoniv.s, Propylsea. Cirpiihus 'veterts
vrbis, & nov£. w *va & xs.ru rrbhi;. Pirxei brachia. Murus
Phalerkus. Ports. Aer. Laus paflim apu'd fcriptores. Ce-
phijfus Flavins.
GRecce, faies b Ariflides, is placed in the midft os the
Whole earth, and in the midft of it ihnds Attica ; the
fi 171, 172. naveii whereos is Athens, by. which all Greece clofeted
in the womb os time, received nouristiment besore an
happy birth had brought her forth into the light. She
is feated upon a high rock, which habitations doe encom-
passe, as cStrabo: on the top of which• Hands that renowned
305 9'p fabrick even to this day, which Cecrops srom himselfe
* Plin. Nat. names * Cecropia ; of old a.Vu the City, by a kind of excel-
hift. 1.7. c.56. lence, in a bravado cf their antiquity, concerning which
they were in a perpetuall contention with the Argivi. Wit-
d In Atcpag. nefle d Pansanias. e Cerent, An in astu venit ? Donat. Sic A-
33- '* 1 thenienfes urbem fmm v k ibant^unie ipfi incoliti^ai vocantur.
5Efc""Ch" So> faith Iie;,t(ie Athenims called their City, whence the Ci-
tizens themfelve s are called ajioi. Aster that they called it
/Attic, p.24 *'oK,{ f Pt'fari*5' Which in his time was called 'Kigp-rnKK
L43. ' or the high City, although it be osten interpreted Arx a.
- Caftle;