nficere: itaque latebram suam, quod tuto latuisset,
vocari maluit Latium, & urbem Saturniam de suo nomine. * * Ejus filius
Jupiter Cretae excluso parente regnavit, illic obiit, illic filios habuit;
adhuc antrum Jovis visitur, & sepulchrum ejus ostenditur, & ipsis sacris
suis humanitatis arguitur_: and _Tertullian_; [176] _Quantum rerum
argumenta docent, nusquam invenio fideliora quam apud ipsam Italiam, in qua
Saturnus post multas expeditiones, postque Attica hospitia consedit,
exceptus ab Jano, vel Jane ut Salii volunt. Mons quem incoluerat Saturnius
dictus: civitas quam depalaverat Saturnia usque nunc est. Tota denique
Italia post Oenotriam Saturnia cognominabatur. Ab ipso primum tabulae, &
imagine signatus nummus, & inde aerario praesidet_. By _Saturn_'s carrying
letters into _Italy_, and coyning money, and teaching agriculture, and
making instruments, and building a town, you may know that he fled from
_Crete_, after letters, and the coyning of money, and manual arts were
brought into _Europe_ by the _Phoenicians_; and from _Attica_, after
agriculture was brought into _Greece_ by _Ceres_; and so could not be older
than _Asterius_, and _Europa_, and her brother _Cadmus_: and by _Italy_'s
being called _Oenotria_, before it was called _Saturnia_, you may know that
he came into _Italy_ after _Oenotrus_, and so was not older than the sons
of _Lycaon_. _Oenotrus_ carried the first colony of the _Greeks_ into
_Italy_, _Saturn_ the second, and _Evander_ the third; and the _Latines_
know nothing older in _Italy_ than _Janus_ and _Saturn_: and therefore
_Oenotrus_ was the _Janus_ of the _Latines_, and _Saturn_ was contemporary
to the sons of _Lycaon_, and by consequence also to _Celeus_, _Erechtheus_,
_Ceres_, and _Asterius_: for _Ceres_ educated _Triptolemus_ the son of
_Celeus_, in the Reign of _Erechtheus_, and then taught him to plow and sow
corn: _Arcas_ the son of _Callisto_, and grandson of _Lycaon_, received
corn from _Triptolemus_, and taught his people to make bread of it; and
_Procris_, the daughter of _Erechtheus_, fled to _Minos_ the son of
_Asterius_. In memory of _Saturn_'s coming into _Italy_ by sea, the
_Latines_ coined their first money with his head on one side, and a ship on
the other. _Macrobius_ [177] tells us, that when _Saturn_ was dead, _Janus_
erected an Altar to him, with sacred rites as to a God, and instituted the
_Saturnalia_, and that humane sacrifices were offered to him; 'till
_Hercules_ driving