. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . d Mountain where it ftood to himlelf, conftitutingP/&i£77i9//0(?Prleftefs, or Pythia, there. As for Pinchrs Story of the t*o Eaglesrneeting at Delphos, when Jet fly by Jupiter, one from the P-aft, andthe other from the /r^/, as in the Middle of the Earth, which occa-/iond Jupiter to fix an Oracle there, it is ridiculd by Strabo^ and allt e wifer Heathen. [e) Plutus—Fabld to be the God of Riches, and Brother ofB-jtes i he was Son, fays He/iod, of Cere:, by Jafion, Son ofJupiter and EleBra; hinted at alio by Theocritus,

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. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . d Mountain where it ftood to himlelf, conftitutingP/&i£77i9//0(?Prleftefs, or Pythia, there. As for Pinchrs Story of the t*o Eaglesrneeting at Delphos, when Jet fly by Jupiter, one from the P-aft, andthe other from the /r^/, as in the Middle of the Earth, which occa-/iond Jupiter to fix an Oracle there, it is ridiculd by Strabo^ and allt e wifer Heathen. [e) Plutus—Fabld to be the God of Riches, and Brother ofB-jtes i he was Son, fays He/iod, of Cere:, by Jafion, Son ofJupiter and EleBra; hinted at alio by Theocritus, in his thirdJdyltium-y but Servius makes Corythus, King of Corythe, to be hisFathc, on Account of his acquiringimnienfe Riche* by his Parfimonyand Oeconomy: Some paint him young, beautiful, and fwift iaFlight; but others, lame, blindi-and-infirm, as reprelented in thisTale. Hefiod terms the Guardian Daemons, Ploutodotas^ that is,Beftowers of Riches upon Mankind. (f) /Kgyprbn Balm^^Sec the Story of ^menofhisy King of£^//, hoiV curd of his Blindiiefs, in Emblkm

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