Book I. lAie Temple t/Wifdome. 191

ferecomfleta. Then immediately Emius Verulanm the Cardinal laid the ^v^ftone.
The cnrious may fee feveral Nativities of Cities, Forts, andCaftles, with the Judgements given in CaHrichs^JundtH^ GarcanSy&c.
The b igure ot the Old Lodging at Affrro« Col ledge is yet to c feen in one of the Wardens Windowes. I fet it not here down, becaufe it is already done by another, in his Book called Sir, Cbr.Heydtyn's defence for Aftrology.
Thefe Catholical Nativities were fo much belee- V^dinbythe Ancient Kings^ faith H^/j*, that they enquired into the Genitures of all the principal Nati under th^ir dominions, where if the Planets were found to look with a nialitious eye upon the Nati* vityof the Kingdome, Inter fie icuhant eum pierumj quod ejus ilegnumerat contrar'B.egHum ip forum.
It may be feen alfo what Zonaras hath reported of 7'iherim and Vomitian , Tom, 2. AnnaL p, 174. & igS.
Now becaufe that in the W^tftiz/iriw o( Cities «j ItI ^yivUioif as in the Genitures oimtxiy ^faith ftolemyy the Aftrology is the fame.
Therefore after conlideration had of the life and being of the City from tht Horefcofe^ the next care taken was of the kk^^^ twj tf^wf, or fart of Fortune^ the fecond Afcendent^Co called in the Figures of men, or the Horofcofm Athhrum.
•^ Th e F^rt 0/ For r««^ found our, was myfterioufly included in a Statue of Brafs, TftMr/xwf, lelefmati^ caVy prepared. The Rites were, Jo,Antiocb, A pure Virgin was offered up in Sacrifice, A Statue of the Vir^ gin fet up^ impofed upon mth a New and fecret 'Name^ and '^lacrifice done to that. And all this «ri «tpx'«P*«'^ % PiA^s-^ %\i Ty'x^K :^ ^-TPftft^^^e^^/ttcv Tv.i ^«MA'f. For
191 T^he Temple of Wifdomg, Book f,
fo the Statue was called Ihe Fortune of the City.
So ia Seleucus his foundation of Antiocb^ ^vanci^ ijrotnffctt Koftfu Tttf^ivop ovlyLdLtt '^tiid^tiy ^naret^ dvJ^e^opTQ-
I he like Ceremonies were o ferved by the fame Founder at the building ofApawea, ^us-idv 'sttmai fh «tuTo
The Fortune of old Byzantium was called K^eefn, Ceroe. When this was repaii:ed into Confiantinople^ the Emperour's Statue wias fet up. /ScAretVi^rati^ t? S^i^i^ dvr^ %uejt rnv X^x^w tyu aut^ toAsw^ tiv c¥,Ah.i7%v ^^v^^itrav. Holding in his right hand the Fortune of the City yphich he called Anthufa. But the Sacrifice was not as before.
The EfHperour offered up ApdiflAvroif ^v(rUv, In^ cruentum Sacrificiunty )^ ^ ^ia : A Sacrifice without blood, and riot to the Fortune of the City^ but to God himfelf.
Briefly thus: The founders of old, at the buil- ding of their principal Cities, Caftles, or the like^ the HeavenSy under which the firft ftone might be laid. The Part of Fortune found out in thisfirji Fi* gure was made the Afcendent of another. The firft judged of tfte lively hood and duration. The fe- cond of the outward Glory z\\A fortune of the City under the influence of this latter configuration,, ihey erected ^ Statue of Brafi into which this fort««tf and Genius of the City was to be called by Art. Thus fpirited with this Cecret power, it was difpoCcdt of in fome eminent or recefleful place of the City, ^nd lookt upon as that thing which was only con**, cernM in the fortune ?Lndfatdity of all.
Such a one was the Trojan paUadium^ no JVo^sTtf.
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