2. Melicertes and Leucothea are precipitated into the sea, and subsequently become sea-divinities. The Castors1    Most editors read, “Castor and Pollux.” die by turns, that they may live. Æsculapius is struck by lightning, that he may rise into a god. Hercules, that he may put off the man, is burnt up in the fires of Œta. Apollo fed the flocks of Admetus; Neptune founded walls for Laomedon, and received—unfortunate builder—no wages for his work.  The cave of Jupiter is to be seen in Crete, and his sepulchre is shown; and it is manifest that Saturn was driven away by him, and that from him Latium received its name, as being his lurking-place.2    Latebra. He was the first that taught to print letters; he was the first that taught to stamp money in Italy,3    [“Litteras imprimere…signare nummos.” How could the art of printing have failed to follow such inventions and such words? Every coin was a hint of the printer’s art.  God only could have restrained the invention till the set time.  Dan. xii. 4.] and thence the treasury is called the treasury of Saturn. And he also was the cultivator of the rustic life, whence he is painted as an old man4    According to some readings, the words “an old man” are omitted. carrying a sickle. Janus had received him to hospitality when he was driven away, from whose name the Janiculum is so called, and the month of January is appointed. He himself is portrayed with two faces, because, placed in the middle, he seems to look equally towards the commencing and the closing year. The Mauri, indeed, manifestly worship kings, and do not conceal their name by any disguise.

II. Melicertes et Leucothea praecipitantur in maria, et fiunt postmodum maris numina. Castores alternis 0567A moriuntur ut vivant. Aesculapius ut in Deum surgat fulminatur. Hercules ut hominem exuat Oeteis ignibus concrematur. Apollo Admeti pecus pavit. Laomedonti muros Neptunus instituit, nec mercedem operis infelix structor accepit. Antrum Jovis in Creta visitur , et sepulchrum ejus ostenditur, et ab eo Saturnum fugatum esse manifestum est. Inde Latium de latebra ejus nomen accepit. Hic litteras imprimere, hic signare nummos in Italia primus instituit: inde aerarium Saturni vocatur. Et rusticitatis hic cultor fuit: inde falcem ferens senex pingitur . Hunc fugatum hospitio Janus exceperat 0568A ; de cujus nomine Janiculum dictum est, et mensis Januarius institutus est. Ipse bifrons exprimitur, quod, in medio constitutus, annum incipientem pariter et recedentem spectare videatur. Mauri vero manifeste reges colunt , nec ullo velamento hoc nomen obtexunt.