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

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AvchMlogis Attica Lib. 4. Cap. 5.

CAP. v.

Z?e Pfo//tr*r & incantamentisamaioriu-

BUT what if (he could not be wooen over byfair means.?
was there then never an Arrow left in the Quiver to
wound her with.? or a jogling trick to bewitch her? Yes,
but firft they muft get something or other of hers into their
possession, and work upon that, according to the Nurses
advice to Ph£dra in wooing of Hifpoliim

And if they could come to the sight of her, your Hikes oculi
(in Apuleius) theres nothing like it for a fascination.opSw*.
(dr ririedn&w isicanlcmTo, he threw a sbeepes eye at her
s saith* Heliodom) The proverb, that Love comes in at the
Window, end goes out at the Z)oor,may not absurdly be under-
flood of the Eyw,which Maxima Jyrius calls <? -i^x^*
theDoors of the Soul.which seem to be the way & the pas«
sage by which the two loves go in and out.b<pStthfMs Jl' ScToj
*?jVj saith MustHi'. or if you will3the eyeiof cither party are
aTorch lighted by the others.to kindle the fire in the hearU

* Lib.$. 'o^Stt^os ivdmi r '£wr*, saith *Eujlatbius) and so * Lucian
* in makes the sight the first ftep * in Cupid'i ladder of Love. To
*Oculifunt in try therefore what this Card could doe, they would go to
mere duces, tj,t house where she lived, and the fafliion being for the
Daughter om%otur to fill drink to the Stranger:(as Scsthenes
commanded his Daughter to doe to '[menias) after the old
solk had drunk, when it came to their Miftresses to drinke
^ to them, they observed at what part os the cup she drank s
Am m to ^e sure 10 drin* at the sanie ' accosdiDg to that of the

Euripides


*Poet

Fee primus radios illius taila labellis
• Focula 5 quaqu? bibit farte Puella, bibe.

Forsooth