The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. / A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.

by Nostradamus

XC.

French.

Le grand Satyre & Tygre d’Hircanie,

Don presenté a ceux de l’Occean,

Un chef de Classe istra de Carmanie,

Qui prendra Terre au Thyrren Phocean.

English.

The great Satyr and Tyger of Hircania,

Shall be a gift presented to those of the Ocean,

An Admiral of a fleet shall come out of Carmania,

Who shall Land in the Thyrren Phocean.

ANNOT.

By the great Satyr and Tyger of Hircania, is meant, the King of Persia, who is also King of Hircania, abounding with Tygers.

That King of Persia shall be made a gift to those of the Ocean; that is, shall be either drowned in it, or do some wonderful things upon it.

Carmania is a Province in Asia, belonging to the Turk.

The Thyrren Phocean is the City of Marseilles in France, so called by the Author in this Book; because it was a Colony of the Phocenses in Greece; it is also called Thyrren, because it is seated upon the Tyrrhenean Sea, as Virgil saith,

————Thyrrenum navigat Æquor.