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296 GODDESSES.
bunt, sed Varum ilium nominant his verbis : ea tempestate Varus,
romano more, superbe et avare erga subditos se gerens a Germanis
deletus est.
Some later writers also mention the tradition. About 1373
91, an ecclesiastic, Klichlin, composed in rhyme a history of
Augsburg l for the burgomaster Peter Egen the Young, who wished
to have his house painted with illustrations from it. Cap. 2, fol.
99 says of the Swabians :
Sie bawten einen tempel gross darein
zu eren (in honour of) Zise der abgottin,
die sie nach heidnischen sitten (after heathen ways)
anbetten zu denselben zeiten (adored in those days).
Die stat ward genennt (city got named) auch Zisaris
nach der abgottin (after the goddess), das was der pris.
Der tempel als lang stund unversert (stood uninjured),
bis im von alter was der val beschert (its fall decreed),
und da er von alter abgieng (as from age it passed away),
der berg namen von im empfieng (the hill took name),
daruf gestanden was (whereon had stood) das werck,
und haist noch hut (hight still to-day) der Ziscriberck.
Oonf. Keller s Fastn. sp., p. 1361. Sigism. Meisterlin, in his Augs
2
burg chronicle (which is in print from the 8th chap, of bk 1),
treats of this Cisa in chaps. 5-6 of bk 2. In the imprinted chap. 4
of bk 1, he unmistakably refers to Klichlin, and again at the end of
chap. 7 : das er auch melt (tells) von der gottin Cisa, die auch
genent wird Cizais, das sy geert habend (they honoured her) die
doch aus Asia warend ; dawider seind die andern, die von Cysa
schreibent, die sprechent, das sy die Vindelici habend nach
schwebischen sitten angebettet. von der
mer haben, ob got wil (buch 3. cap. 5.
6).
gottin wirst du hernach
(See Suppl.)
Hopeless contradictions lie on the face of that fragment.
Bogud, a Punic ship s-captain, who lived in the year 494 of Eome,
or 260 B.C., 3 is here turned into a Macedonian king ; and his son
Avar is made contemporary with the Ciceronian Verres of 200
years after, or even of the still later Varus. Yet Bogudes and
Varus do occur as contemporaries of Pompey in Dio Cassius 41, 42.
1 Cod. Monach. Lat. 61 ; likewise sent me by Sehmeller.
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Augsb. 1522 fol. Meisterlin wrote it in 1456. and died about 1484.
3 Niebuhr s Rom. Hist. 3, 677.