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Rous, Francis; Bogan, Zachary [Hrsg.]
Archaeologiae Atticae Libri Septem — Oxford, 1658

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Jrcl'dtoUgid' Attk£ Lib, i. Cap. 6. 47'

GAP. VI.
"Be Sitperftiliene Athenienstum, & Vaticiniis.
LOng since were the Athenians taxed by the Apcftle sor
superuition,which though it properly signifies <! a wor- , ^ r^:
stiipping oi the Gods too much, yet under it these sollies are ^ p
comprehended.Purification after fearefull dreame5,in -Au- fRamsp.i74
flophanesevsiepv ^K^eiv. In which sense, some undetftand yide&Mch.
fersw. Nodem famine rurgare. Wearing os rings againft V1/^"8' p!i
wichcraft as a spell, called s AxtjaIw pas^WTSs. z Spitting j, gg. &
into their bosomes thrice at the sight os a mad man, or cne g Thoph.Chs
troubled with an EsiUp/ie. Of which also tbcaritus. <&<
\imv 'inmost. xJhvrov. 1 know not whether the custome os our
silly people have reserence to this soppery,who uic to spit at
the naming of theDivell. Certaine it is, that anciently they
did spit in defiance, hence ttJubj- is put sor t&.iu.tp&v&v and bt
%Avi hoySmwi tocontemneor set little by, as the h Scholt- /;Ant»goneW
ast os Stshocks on these words, *1v<ms Ao-^Ss. Wash- d
Sng with water the head as osten as sie (hall goe into the
streets u<p<tMi htsoa.^; iJhophrastus: Anointing os ft ones, i Charad, •
divers it seems srom those heaps sacred to Mercury, termed
"Efswtjuj. This hath been of old done indeed as a token os
thankFulInesse by k Jacob in Bethel, where he took the flone * Qe^ag^g,
that he put sor his pillow, and set it up, and powred oyle on
the top os it, in his journey to ?ai*n Arm. Henes crow-
ing, the bold entrance os a black dog into their houses.Ser-
penuseen h t» IikSa, saies "Iheoprnsiufa os which a Terence
Introit in <edes ater alknus canis , Angus per impltrviutn deci- ^cn sc *^
tit detegulis; Gallina tecinih Put to these a bGatorWcesel b '
(the word signisieth both) eroding his way.the Mouse eating ihecs.
his sait bag. Not unlike them now adaies,whose clethes the '
svats or Mice (hall chance to eat, deemed not long after like
?9 Hve by our ignorant, or that he ssiall have great ill betide
fairs*
 
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