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Theomagia, or, The temple of wisdome

Chapter 60

Book I. i^e Temple t;/VVifdome. 197

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* The mightiel} in operation of this fort was Apollottius1yane%is^ a man of that note in the Hea- then ballance, that Hierodes the Stoick^^ put him ip.to the Scale With Chrift himfelf, nay he accoun- ted hinuhe better man of the two, but which is fuf- ficiencly returned upon him by Eupbius famph^Cont, Hierodem
But chc/^frforwMwCfs of this man had fuch appea. ranees of wonder, that they eicforted this doubt from the Oithodox themfielves, E/ ^io
&c If God ce the Cr:ato and Lord of the iTorld-j how Comes it to fiifs chat -. poll on; us his Te/ifmes h^ve fo much over-rul d the csurfes ? for we fee that thej alfo have ftilled the waver of the Sea ^ andthe r ,gingof the hindes^ and prevailing agaijjji the noyCome flies and incurfwns ofwild:^ beafis^&c. Sec Gregror/s Notes thefe Obfervations are his, and who dare deny theAuchonty of (o good an x^uthor
And though rhihfiratusm that large Legended his life hath no memory of thefe things, yet they are 'conftandy afcribedunto thisriamehy Codm,Cedren, H:fychiuSj Oly^fipiodorns^ t^e Gr^rek Mf. cited by Leun^ claviusy The Chronicon Ahxandrin:r,n and John Jze-^ tzesy C.^o.ofhis third Chiliad quod oynnino legendum (faith Scaliger^ fiquidem horiim ^Qtyj.icov noti iam habere placet^ & fane leCl.o rhm injucunda. Nam in illoCtifite ^pollonius fcidpturn C uHcmn & Ciconiarum, culices An - ti'jChia^^ Ciconias I yzantium ingredi prohibuit ^
But a fuller Tradition of this imuer I (hall here N 3 ^'^ fet
1 1;8 'ihe Temple oj Wifdome. Book I.
(et down out oiVo yninm cited by Joannes ^jntioche" nus Mdalii \n the tenth Book of his Chronogra- ph^e.
Tojv 'Bv(!^a,vTicov^^ToTO}•/ TlihctpySv. iyro tv AvhuTora.y.HTH 7(p iJ.i(rii tTh 'TToKia^ Tra.^c^^oy.iv^: ^ To 'f yjKai'yif )y to rav
i^i^^ay k'TToin \i^ rot? aJ^ol; '^(jKu? o ^ti^Tof r fTroy^mio^
i7roiy, ^* Tm> civctToKr^Yw I'o^TAv-
' hi thefamt times of the Ke.igne of Vomit i an ^ flour ified the mojUearned Apollonius Tyaneus who gothnvfelf a great nave by travel ling about and mailing lelefmes in all flaces whert he earned for the cities and the Ccir.ttrie:, From P^ome he went to Byzanc'uini^ and entring into that City of ^yzw:^ (jtow more happily called Conltanci- r.oplej he made there alfo wany lelefnus atthe inllan'e of the Citizens^ as that againji the (iork^s. aginn{} the river Lycus which paffeth by through the middle of the City ^ that againli the JortoifcS^ that aiainft Horfcs and other jirange thmqs. Then afterward leavin(r^ ■■^yzanriiirii i^e Went and did thelik^in other Cities from Tyanis he came into Syria, and fo to Anciorh the great ^ where al^o he wasde(ired by the chief then of the City tomal*e fuch Tflffin/s as the had need of, And he wade one a- (lainji the Northern yvind^andfetit ufupn the Ealffart of the City. ■ ' -^
The Author goeth on, and at large defcribeth Ajpollonim hiscbarmes aganift thsGiUts and ^^corpi-
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