9. We will not omit the works of _Nicander_, a Poet of good antiquity: that is, his _Theriaca_, and _Alexipharmaca_, Translated and Commented by _Gorræus_: for therein are contained several Traditions, and popular Conceits of venemous Beasts; which only deducted, the Work is to be embraced, as containing the first description of poysons and their antidotes, whereof _Dioscorides_, _Pliny_, and _Galen_, have made especial use in elder times; and _Ardoynus_, _Grevinus_, and others, in times more near our own. We might perhaps let pass _Oppianus_, that famous Cilician Poet. There are extant of his in Greek, four Books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by _Ritterhusius_; wherein describing Beasts of venery and Fishes, he hath indeed but sparingly inserted the vulgar conceptions thereof. So that abating the annual mutation of Sexes in the _Hyæna_, the single Sex of the _Rhinoceros_, the Antipathy between two Drums, of a Lamb and a Wolfes skin, the informity of Cubs, the venation of _Centaures_, the copulation of the _Murena_ and the Viper, with some few others, he may be read with great delight and profit. It is not without some wonder his Elegant Lines are so neglected. Surely hereby we reject one of the best Epick Poets, and much condemn the Judgement of _Antoninus_, whose apprehensions so honoured his Poems, that as some report, for every verse, he assigned him a Stater of Gold. 10. More warily are we to receive the relations of _Philes_, who in _Greek Iambicks_ delivered the proprieties of Animals, for herein he hath amassed the vulgar accounts recorded by the Ancients, and hath therein especially followed _Ælian_. And likewise _Johannes Tzetzes_, a Grammarian, who besides a Comment upon _Hesiod_ and _Homer_, hath left us _Chiliads de Varia Historia_; wherein delivering the accounts of _Ctesias_, _Herodotus_, and most of the Ancients, he is to be embraced with caution, and as a transcriptive Relator.