For among the Athenians we behold the An∣cient Musaeus among the Thebans, Linus Ofwhich two, the former, reported to be the Son of Eumolpus, is said to have first made But they are grosly mistak'n, while they attribute to the Barbarians the fa∣mous Acts and Inventions of the Grecians, from whom not only Philosophy, but even the Race of Mankind had its first Beginning. To which Zoro∣astres afterwards succeeded several other Ma∣gi, under the various names of Ostanes, As∣trapsychi, Gobryae, and Pazatae, till the to∣tal subversion of the Persian Monarchy by A∣lexander. From whence to the Time of Alexander the Mace∣donian, were to be numbred Forty Eight Thousand, Eight Hundred Sixty three Years: In all which space of Time, there appeared Eclipses of the Sun, no less than Three hun∣dred seventy three of the Moon, Eight hun∣dred thirty two, From the Magi, of whom the chiefwas Zoroastres, the Persian, by the computation of Hermodorus the Platonic, in his Book of the Sciences, to the Taking and Destruction of Troy, were five thousand years: though Xanthus the Lydian reck'ns from Zoroastres to the Descent of Xerxes not above six hundred years. Of Nilus from whom, among them, Philoso∣phy first commenc'd and over which they who presided as Presidents and Guardians, were both Priests and Prophets. Add to this, That the Egyptians asserted Vulcan to be the Son Among the Phoenicians flourish'd Ochus Zamolxes grew famous among the Thracians, and At∣las among the Lybians. Among the Gauls were another sort, that went by the name of Druids, or Semnotheans, as Ari∣stotle reports in his Magic, and Sotion in his Thirteenth Book of Succession. For that among the Persians there were the Magi among the Babylonians or Assyrians the Chaldaeans and the Gymno∣sophists among the Indians. SOme there are who affirm, That the study of Philosophy deriv'd its first O∣riginal from among the Barbariàns.
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