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Inßitutio Ordinis.

nitatis Inflitutor fuiffe memoratur, quem fecuti fimt alii Multi, paris In-duftnæ neque minoris Authoritatis. Suos tam ampli Nominis EquitesTroja venditat, HeBora, Troilum, Æneam, Atbenorem : ut de Multis aliisfrön dicam, inter quos, qualis Ordo Militaris, quam memoranda Socie-tas, & quantum decus extitit per ea que leguntur in Ipforurh Hiftoriisquis abunde decerpet. A quibus, excifajam Troja , redeuntes cum Victoreexercitu Greci principes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Felleus , Hercules, Viorne -des, Thelamon, Ulixes, Patroclus, & alij Complures : ob perpetuam Infii-per fili Memoriam relinquendam & Nobilem quoque Juventutem adVirtutes atque Magnanimitatem Suo & Achillis exemplo fimiliter accen-dendam inter Se (Conventu fàdo) flatuerunt quinquennalem inde foreCelebritatem j ad quam cum Venerando Virorum honore jam fulgen-tium & illuftrium atq; Oportumfii morum Judicum coetu Clariffimi qui-que Tyrones undique totius Gracia convolarent, fiiarum ibi virium &Ingenij periculum faduri, manifeflumq- Indolis fiiæ Specimen Exhibituri,quatenus in iftiufmodi Virtutum exercitiis magis atque magis indiesfuccrefcentes, ad honorem fe dignum denique pervenirent.

Sub Olympo flatis temporibus obfervata Celebritas efl, quadraginta dein-ceps dies. In Valle Monti circumjeda eoufcp quadratum ex omni parteSpacium, ut Convenientium illuc Honori Numeroq; refponderet. Res ipfaCelebrile Conventio fèu ludi (fi mavis) Celebres, in quibus fic Nobili-tas exornata fuit & Exercitata Juventus, de filis ibi fadis infignienda, ficut

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whofe Example many others neither of lefs Authority nor lefs Indußry followed.Troy glories in the Valour of her Knights , as Hedor, Troilus, Æneas,Athenor, and others too many to mentimi here : what the Order of Knight-hood among them, homi remarkable their Society and Valour was, may he readmore at large in their Hißories. From which, the Grecian Princes, Agamem-non, Menelaus, Achilles, Hercules, Diomedes, Ulixes, Patroclus, andmany others returning with their viBorious Army from the VeßruBion of Troy,refolved at a Meeting among themfelves, for a perpetual Remembrance of theirABions, and to enfiarne the daring Touth by Theirs and AchillesV Example toVirtue and Magnanimity, that a folemn Affembly ßould be held every fiveTears, at the which the nobleß Touth of all Greece, ßould ßew themfelvesbefore a venerable Affembly of Men renowned for their Virtue and Honour,and therefore the mofi proper Judges for this Purpofe, there to make Trial oftheir Strength and Genius, and to give evident Tokens of a virtuous Vifpofi-tion, fo that by their continual Improvement in thefe manly Exercifes they mightat laß attain to the Honour they were worthy of

The Meeting was kept at ßated Times at the Foot of Olympus and con-tinued forty Days together in the Valley lying round the Mountain, the Place be-ing for that Purpofe levelled on every Side, that it might be anfwerable to theNumber and Dignity of the Afietnhly. The Thing it felf whether we call it aglorious Affembly, or famous Games, in which the Nobility acquired ßill a fur-ther Lußre to themfelves, and the Touth were fo exercifed, as to make them-felves famous by their own ABions, as their Anceßors had dene before, beganto be called OJympicks. The Exercifes were wont to be performed naked at

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