A decorative woodcut headpiece at the top of the page featuring symmetrical scrolls of foliage and vines, with two outward-facing animal or satyr heads with horns at the center.

C. JULIUS HY-

GINUS AUGUSTUS THE

FREEDMAN’S BOOK

OF FABLES.

A large historiated woodcut initial 'E' depicting a winged muscular figure, likely a Titan or primordial deity, surrounded by swirling acanthus leaves and floral ornaments within a square border.

Ovid calls them Morpheus, Icelus, and Phantasus.

These are called Hesperthusa and Arethusa by others.

FROM DARKNESS, CHAOS.
From Chaos and Darkness, Night, Day, Erebus, Aether.
From Night and Erebus, Fate, Old Age, Death, Destruction, Restraint, Sleep, Dreams: that is, Lysimeles, Epiphron, Dumiles, Porphyrion, Epaphus, Discord, Misery, Wantonness, Nemesis, Euphrosyne, Friendship, Compassion, Styx, the three Fates: that is, Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos: the Hesperides, Aegle, Hesperie, Aerica.

Poverty, the Pole.

From Aether and Day, Earth, Heaven, the Sea.
From Aether and Earth, Pain, Deceit, Wrath, Lamentation, Falsehood, Oath, Vengeance, Intemperance, Altercation, Oblivion, Sloth, Fear, Pride, Ingestion, Battle, Oceanus,

Perhaps Ophion, about whom Orpheus writes in Apollonius, Book 1.

Themis, Tartarus, the Sea, and the Titans, Briareus, Gyges, Steropes, Atlas, Hyperion, and Prolus, Saturn, Ops, Moneta, Dione, the three Furies, that is, Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone.

Eriolas. Memphis, perhaps Apis.

From Earth and Tartarus, the Giants, Enceladus, Coemse, Lentesmophius, Astraeus, Pelorus, Pallas, Emphitus, Phorcus, Ienios, Agrus, Alemone, Ephialtes, Erylus, Effra, Corydon, Pheomis, Theodamas, Othus, Typhon, Polibotes, Menephiarus, Abseus, Colophomus, Iapetus.