Caucasus

P. R. 3. 318; 7. Logic 427; 8 Prolus. 7. 457. (2. Praxis) 175; 7. 3 Prolus. (See also Hyrcanian.) The great chain of mountains between the Black and the Caspian Seas, supposed to have been the scene of the punishment of Pro me the us. Milton’s reference to the “Hyrcanian cliffs of Caucasus,” though somewhat conventional, is perhaps dependent on the lines of Virgil quoted in the Logic. They may be translated: “Neither was a godde your mother, nor Dardanus the founder of your race, traitor! but Caucasus bristling with rugged rocks begot you, and Hyrcanian tigre es gave you suck.” (Mneid 4. 365-7.) Cazan (Casan). 8. Moscovia (1) 8. 475 (twice); (4) 8. 492; (5) 512, 518. Kazan, a city of eastern Ru ia, on the Volga. In a pa age to which Milton refers in a note, Jenkinson writes: “We came unto an Island one league from the citie of Cazan, from which falleth downe a river called Cazanka rec a, and entreth into the Cazan is a faire town after the Ru e or Tartar foresaide Volga. fashion, with a strong castle, situated upon a high hill, and was walled round about with timber and earth, but now the Emperour of Ru ia hath given order to plucke downe the old walles, and It hath bene a citie of great to builde them againe of free stone. wealth and riches, and being in the hands of the Tartars it was a king do me of itselfe, and did more to vexe the Ru es in their warres, then any other nation, but 9 yeres past, this Emperour of Ru ia conquered it, and tooke the king captive, who being but young is no we baptised, and brought up in his court with two other princes, which were also kings of the said Cazan, and being ech of them in time of their raignes in danger of their subjects through civil discord, came and rendred themselves at several times unto the said Emperor, so that at this present there are three princes in the court of Ru ia, which had bene Emperours of the said Cazan, whom the Emperour useth with great honour.” Celtic a. (Hak. 1. 324.) See Gaul. 93