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52 Arch&}logi£ Attics Lib: 2. Cap, j*
and on each part made a letter, and putting wheat upon the
letters they brought in a Gock, and observing srom what
letters he teok up the g"airje,they at Iast joyned them toge-
ther and so knew their succefsorSjhusbands &c. Sror^ttosw-
7«'a, opening a book os Homer and by the firft verse that they
lighted upon, to divine, as that os the death os Socrates, who
so foretold it, meeting with that verse os Homer, which
speakes os the arrival! os Achilles Within three daics at 7hef-
M^Mnf fc^' 1 ^l 1um'ams@ema}a ?ro vaticiuiis,&c. and bccausepo-
12,013" ems were accounted Prophesies, as Poets Prophets, they
were most busy in them: Hence in publique causes, had the
Roman recourse to the Sibylline Oracles, and the private Gre-
cian? to the verses os Htmer. And that Sors was put for the
., _ , writing of Oracles, is maniseft out os the words Sortes Vet •
AristJnPjut. s^ic^for fore-telling or divination, a 1 know the (hee Prieft
tAristid.T.3 os Apllo being inspired with a kind of holy sury, spake to
pag. 25. those who asked counsail. Whence the word b(Mv1mti at this
time read sorSoothsaying, was anciently called fw/»ii,mad-
neffe. And yet that their cunning men had a kind of lottery,
In Hippol. is as cie^r a8 days the <= Scholiaft os Euripides teftifying; done
§inlla p.26 it fee™'™ matters os queftionaso kky\&v JiycZx, may intimate
as much as'to undergoe tryall.Prediftions there were.d saith
Enftath, out oftignes and wonders3 as also of the noisc that
leaves make when they are burned. To which fome adde
attftiAylei* or divination by the ayre, quoting for ic Arifis°
shanes in Nubibus3 which 1 now remember not.
CAP. VII.
De templis & Afylis.
i'Tp'Heir Churches were of two forts; facred to their Gods
/ X in Greek cs®?, U$ And facred to their Demigods
moft properly awiol. But the word is promifcuoufly ufed by
ihe Tragoediana, C/sm«»i Alexandrinui is of opinion that the
firft
e
and on each part made a letter, and putting wheat upon the
letters they brought in a Gock, and observing srom what
letters he teok up the g"airje,they at Iast joyned them toge-
ther and so knew their succefsorSjhusbands &c. Sror^ttosw-
7«'a, opening a book os Homer and by the firft verse that they
lighted upon, to divine, as that os the death os Socrates, who
so foretold it, meeting with that verse os Homer, which
speakes os the arrival! os Achilles Within three daics at 7hef-
M^Mnf fc^' 1 ^l 1um'ams@ema}a ?ro vaticiuiis,&c. and bccausepo-
12,013" ems were accounted Prophesies, as Poets Prophets, they
were most busy in them: Hence in publique causes, had the
Roman recourse to the Sibylline Oracles, and the private Gre-
cian? to the verses os Htmer. And that Sors was put for the
., _ , writing of Oracles, is maniseft out os the words Sortes Vet •
AristJnPjut. s^ic^for fore-telling or divination, a 1 know the (hee Prieft
tAristid.T.3 os Apllo being inspired with a kind of holy sury, spake to
pag. 25. those who asked counsail. Whence the word b(Mv1mti at this
time read sorSoothsaying, was anciently called fw/»ii,mad-
neffe. And yet that their cunning men had a kind of lottery,
In Hippol. is as cie^r a8 days the <= Scholiaft os Euripides teftifying; done
§inlla p.26 it fee™'™ matters os queftionaso kky\&v JiycZx, may intimate
as much as'to undergoe tryall.Prediftions there were.d saith
Enftath, out oftignes and wonders3 as also of the noisc that
leaves make when they are burned. To which fome adde
attftiAylei* or divination by the ayre, quoting for ic Arifis°
shanes in Nubibus3 which 1 now remember not.
CAP. VII.
De templis & Afylis.
i'Tp'Heir Churches were of two forts; facred to their Gods
/ X in Greek cs®?, U$ And facred to their Demigods
moft properly awiol. But the word is promifcuoufly ufed by
ihe Tragoediana, C/sm«»i Alexandrinui is of opinion that the
firft
e