ue
between Phoenix and Vinitor: Vinitor, upon occasion discoursing of the rare
virtues of that shrine, telleth him that Protesilaus' altar and tomb
[5818]"cures almost all manner of diseases, consumptions, dropsies,
quartan-agues, sore eyes: and amongst the rest, such as are lovesick shall
there be helped." But the most famous is [5819]Leucata Petra, that renowned
rock in Greece, of which Strabo writes, _Geog. lib. 10._ not far from St.
Maures, saith Sands, _lib. 1._ from which rock if any lover flung himself
down headlong, he was instantly cured. Venus after the death of Adonis,
"when she could take no rest for love," [5820]_Cum vesana suas torreret
flamma medullas_, came to the temple of Apollo to know what she should do
to be eased of her pain: Apollo sent her to Leucata Petra, where she
precipitated herself, and was forthwith freed; and when she would needs
know of him a reason of it, he told her again, that he had often observed
[5821]Jupiter, when he was enamoured on Juno, thither go to ease and wash
himself, and after him divers others. Cephalus for the love of Protela,
Degonetus' daughter, leaped down here, that Lesbian Sappho for Phaon, on
whom she miserably doted. [5822]_Cupidinis aestro percita e summo praeceps
ruit_, hoping thus to ease herself, and to be freed of her love pangs.

[5823] "Hic se Deucalion Pyrrhae suecensus amore
Mersit, et illaeso corpore pressit aquas.
Nec mora, fugit amor," &c.------

"Hither Deucalion came, when Pyrrha's love
Tormented him, and leapt down to the sea,
And had no harm at all, but by and by
His love was gone and chased quite away."

This medicine Jos. Scaliger speaks of, _Ausoniarum lectionum lib. 18._
Salmutz _in Pancirol. de 7. mundi mirac._ and other writers. Pliny reports,
that amongst the Cyzeni, there is a well consecrated to Cupid, of which if
any lover taste, his passion is mitigated: and Anthony Verdurius _Imag.
deorum de Cupid._ saith, that amongst the ancients there was [5824]_Amor
Lethes_, "he took burning torches, and extinguished them in the river; his
statute was to be seen in the temple of Venus Eleusina," of which Ovid
makes mention, and saith "that all lovers of old went thither on
pilgrimage, that would be rid of their love-pangs." Pausanias, in [5825]
Phocicis, writes of a temple dedicated _Veneri in spelunca_, to Venus in
the vault, at Naupactus in Achaia (now Lepanto) in which your widows that
would have