Why with early tunelefs Noise, ΙΟ ODE Πᾶσαν ἐγὼ ἢ νύκλα κινύρομαι· ετε δ ̓ ἐπέλθη All Night my Eyes their am'rous Vigil keep, On Defart Hills unhappy Itys mourn, Leave me in Peace to wooe foft Sleep's Return. Ω Δ Η ΙΓ ́. Εἰς Ἑαυτόν. Οι μου, καλίω Κυβήβω Ἐν ἔρεσιν βοῶνα, Oi VER. 1. Soft Attys, as we're told by Fame.].Attys was a young Phrygian of great Beauty, and paffionately belov'd by Cybele the Mother of the Gods, who fet him to prefide over her Myfteries, on Condition he preferv'd his Virginity; but he having violated it, Cybele, to punish his Incontinence, afflicted him with Madness; in the Transports of which, he cut away the Distinction of his Sex, and had flain himself, if the Goddess had not chang'd him into a Pine-Tree. Lucian fays he was a Lydian, and that he was the first who taught the Mysteries of Cybele to the Lydians, Phrygians, and Samothracians Macrobius tells us, that by Attys, the Ancients underftood the Sun. Attys, fays he, is figured with a Pipe and a Rod; with a Pipe, to fignify the various Temperatures of the Air, because, in Winds which owe their Being to the Sun, there is no Equality; and with a Rod, to denote the Power of the Sun, whofe Influence governs all things. But Porphyrius informs us, that by the Caftration O DE XIII. Ο Ν HIMSELF. OFT Attys, as we're told by Fame, SOFT When to refound fair Rhea's Name, He o'er the echoing Mountains flew, And Caftration of Attys, and his being turn'd into a Pine, is meant the Barrennefs of all thofe Trees, which either bear no Fruit, or shed it in the Bloom. And Julius Firmicus interprets the Fable of Corn, and other Fruits of the Earth, which, when cut with a Hook or Sickle, die in the Granary, and revive in the Seed when fown. VER. 2. When to refound fair Rhea's Name. ] Rhea, otherwife call'd Magna Mater, and from the Places where she was worshipp'd, Berecynthia, Pefinuntia, Dindymene, Mygdonia, and Idea Phrygia, was fabled to be the Daughter of Calus: But Lucian tells us, she was Europa, the Daughter of Agenor the Phænician, and the Mother of Minos the Cretan Jupiter. Her Name, Cybele, or Cybebe, which Anacreon ufes in this Place, was given her, as Diodorus informs us, by Cybele the Daughter of Meones, King of Phrygia; for when she and her Son Corybas return'd into Phrygia, after the Death of her Husband Jafius, they carried thither the Myfteries Οἱ ; Κλάρα παρ ̓ ὄχθαις Λάλον πιόνες ὕδωρ, Μεμηνότες βοῶσιν. 5 Εγω of the Mother of the Gods, and Cybele call'd the Goddefs after her Name, and Corybas call'd her Priests Corybantes. By the Name of Cybele, or Rhea, Varro tells us, the Ancients worshipp'd the Earth. She was reprefented in the Form of a Woman, fitting in a Chariot drawn by Lions, with a Drum in her Hand, and a Corona Turrita on her Head, like Aftarte and Ifis. VER. 5. And those who tafte the Clarien Flood.] Claros was a little Town near the City Colophon in Ionia, which had a Fountain confecrated to Apollo. Anacreon calls the Water, adλov, because those who drank of it were immediately feiz'd with a Divine Fury, and deliver'd Oracles. Tacitus, in the Second Book of his Annals, gives us the following Account of it; fpeaking of Germanicus, he fays, Appellitque Colophona, ut Clarii Apollinis oraculo uteretur. Non fæmina illic, ut apud Delphos; fed certis è familiis, & fermè Mileto accitus facerdos, numerum modò confultantium & nomina audit: tum in fpecum digreffus, haufta fontis arcani aquâ, ignarus plerumque litterarum & carminum, edit refponfa verfibus compofitis fuper rebus quas quis mente concepit. He touch'd at Colophon, to confult the Oracle of Apollo Clarius. It is not a Woman who delivers the Oracles there, as at Delphos, but a Man, who is chofe out of certain Families, and very often fetch'd from Miletus; he only informs himself of the Number and Names of the Confulters; And those who taste the Clarien Flood, With more than Mortal Fury rave. 5 Me fulters; after which he defcends into a Grotto, where, having drank of the mysterious Water, he answers to the Thoughts of his Enquirers in Verfe, tho' for the most part he's an illiterate Perfon, and entirely ignorant of Poefy. VER. 6. To Daphne-crown'd Apollo vow'd.] Apol lo was the God of Phyfick, Poetry, and Mufick; and, according to Ovid, the Son of Jupiter and Latona: Cicero tells us, that there were four Apollos, and that the moft ancient was the Son of Vulcan; but Hefiod makes him the Son of Hyperion and Thea, Θεία δ' Ἠλιόν τε μέγαν, λαμπράν τε Σελήνην, From beauteous Thea and Hyperion's Flame, And thro' the Courts of Heav'n, her chearful Rays. Diodorus feems to confirm this Opinion of Heficd's; for he writes, that Helius and Selene were the Children of Hyperion and Bafilea, who were the Children of Uranus and Titaa, King and Queen of Egypt. Uranus conquer'd the Atlantides, a People of Ethiopia; and Hype D 5 rion |