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CHAP. LXXV.
Of Pasturage.
BY the same Reason, from the feeding of Cattle came the Families of the Bubulci, Statilii, Tan∣ri, Pomponii, Vituli, Vitelli, Porcii, Cato's, Annii, and Ca∣prae. Dioclesian was rais'd from a Shepherd to be an Emperour. Spartacus, that Terror to the Roman Pow∣er,
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was a Shepherd. Paris and Anchises the Father of Aeneas were Shepherds: so was the fair Endymion, so much beloved of the Moon; together with Polyhe∣mus and the Hundred-eyed Argos. Among the Gods, Apollo himself fed the Herds of Admetus King of Thessaly. And Mercury inventor of the Oaten-Pipe, was the Prince of Shepherds; as also his Son Daph∣nis. Pan was the God of the Shepherds; and Pro∣theus was both a Shepherd and a God: and that we may not forget some of the Hebrew Patriarchs, Judges and Kings, the greatest men among them, and most belov'd of God, were Shepherds. So was Abel the Just, Abraham the Father of many Nations, Jacob Father of the chosen People; also Moses their Law∣giver, a Prophet very familiar with God; and David their King, a man after Gods own heart. Among the Ancient Grecians every most Illustrious man was a Shepherd; whence some were call'd Polyarne, some Polymele, some Polybute, from the numerous Herds and Flocks of Lambs, Sheep, and Oxen which they possest. Thus that Italy was so nam'd from Vitulus a Calf, which the Ancient Greeks call Italus, as all men of read∣ing well know. So both the Bosphori, the Cimmerian, and the Thracian, the Aegean-Sea, the Ships Argos and Hippion, were so call'd from the Passage of Bulls, from Goats and Horses. And Numidia a Province of Africa hath its Name from the abundance of Pasturage there∣in. The first Course of Life that men led after the Fall of Adam, was the Graziers and Shepherds Life. For Pasturage, besides that it affords us all sorts of flesh for Food, it produces Milk, Chese and Butter, as also Wool, Skins and Hides, most useful and necessary for our humane Subsistance and Being: None of which man had the liberty of using till after, whereas man before was sed with the spontaneous Herbs that grew in Paradise.
Of Pasturage.
BY the same Reason, from the feeding of Cattle came the Families of the Bubulci, Statilii, Tan∣ri, Pomponii, Vituli, Vitelli, Porcii, Cato's, Annii, and Ca∣prae. Dioclesian was rais'd from a Shepherd to be an Emperour. Spartacus, that Terror to the Roman Pow∣er,
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was a Shepherd. Paris and Anchises the Father of Aeneas were Shepherds: so was the fair Endymion, so much beloved of the Moon; together with Polyhe∣mus and the Hundred-eyed Argos. Among the Gods, Apollo himself fed the Herds of Admetus King of Thessaly. And Mercury inventor of the Oaten-Pipe, was the Prince of Shepherds; as also his Son Daph∣nis. Pan was the God of the Shepherds; and Pro∣theus was both a Shepherd and a God: and that we may not forget some of the Hebrew Patriarchs, Judges and Kings, the greatest men among them, and most belov'd of God, were Shepherds. So was Abel the Just, Abraham the Father of many Nations, Jacob Father of the chosen People; also Moses their Law∣giver, a Prophet very familiar with God; and David their King, a man after Gods own heart. Among the Ancient Grecians every most Illustrious man was a Shepherd; whence some were call'd Polyarne, some Polymele, some Polybute, from the numerous Herds and Flocks of Lambs, Sheep, and Oxen which they possest. Thus that Italy was so nam'd from Vitulus a Calf, which the Ancient Greeks call Italus, as all men of read∣ing well know. So both the Bosphori, the Cimmerian, and the Thracian, the Aegean-Sea, the Ships Argos and Hippion, were so call'd from the Passage of Bulls, from Goats and Horses. And Numidia a Province of Africa hath its Name from the abundance of Pasturage there∣in. The first Course of Life that men led after the Fall of Adam, was the Graziers and Shepherds Life. For Pasturage, besides that it affords us all sorts of flesh for Food, it produces Milk, Chese and Butter, as also Wool, Skins and Hides, most useful and necessary for our humane Subsistance and Being: None of which man had the liberty of using till after, whereas man before was sed with the spontaneous Herbs that grew in Paradise.