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ArchtologU Attica. Lib.*) .Cap. s. 213
it would continue so. But (with reverence be it spoken) I
rather believe it to have been upon the tench day (or the
tenth nigbt rather) because the seast which they kept was cal*
iedc/Ww, and thosewhich then saenfied (sor thacwastobe
done fiist) were said to Ju&ilw SuV, or <h»J,7hM IswVor.and at the
same feasrsfaies JW<sojwere the Kindred wont tomeetallto.
gether, to be witnesles (as we call it) to the naming os the
child, after the manner os the Romans at the Ncmha/ia. A-
gaine, besides the authoiity os a Scholiasl upon the word
t'W™ (in Avibus tAriftoyhanis) I have the plaine teftimony
of the Poet himselfe in the same Comedy in another place,
where he brings in Ptftkterej thus speaking os Athens, in an
allusion to the custome.
'OuK&sti SvutLuj J\y&7lw 7oU/'jk *j«
Now a a Father might give what name he pleasd to any of *^tt5^dnlU
his children: buc usually the eldeft sonne was called by the
name os the Grand sather. I cannot say that they kept this
name, and had no more; sor many times they changd their
name, as thty changd their condition. Thus the daughter
os Troteus, when she came to be elder and wiser, ssTumed the *j"f
name os Theonoc, thus * Leucippe when slie was bought, was/, 5,
new namd Lacam; and J/mmas, Atraces, when he became Eu'sstt.1.9.
enflivd. And indeed sor the Servants, it was an ordinary
thing to give up their names, and ail to their Mutters, who
prelently gave them new, fuch as they thought sit. Either
srom the Country, 0 aO'p©-; or the colour and complexion,
as; ggsdw ori/n#V. or fame good quality in him, aso Tboc. Biblmb.
st?.-, and 0 J}o\/.avs or else from the day or the time whereon Coi. 179.
they bought him , as« Nn««j>{«&. At Rome the Matter gave
them a name of their owne: but twas when they fee them
sree, and foa new name wis a token of liberty too: or of
something better, as os an adoption, (when the adopters see Rev. 1,17.
name was the better os the two) or some oiher good for-
tune: which made him in Lucian, when an Eftate sell to him,
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it would continue so. But (with reverence be it spoken) I
rather believe it to have been upon the tench day (or the
tenth nigbt rather) because the seast which they kept was cal*
iedc/Ww, and thosewhich then saenfied (sor thacwastobe
done fiist) were said to Ju&ilw SuV, or <h»J,7hM IswVor.and at the
same feasrsfaies JW<sojwere the Kindred wont tomeetallto.
gether, to be witnesles (as we call it) to the naming os the
child, after the manner os the Romans at the Ncmha/ia. A-
gaine, besides the authoiity os a Scholiasl upon the word
t'W™ (in Avibus tAriftoyhanis) I have the plaine teftimony
of the Poet himselfe in the same Comedy in another place,
where he brings in Ptftkterej thus speaking os Athens, in an
allusion to the custome.
'OuK&sti SvutLuj J\y&7lw 7oU/'jk *j«
Now a a Father might give what name he pleasd to any of *^tt5^dnlU
his children: buc usually the eldeft sonne was called by the
name os the Grand sather. I cannot say that they kept this
name, and had no more; sor many times they changd their
name, as thty changd their condition. Thus the daughter
os Troteus, when she came to be elder and wiser, ssTumed the *j"f
name os Theonoc, thus * Leucippe when slie was bought, was/, 5,
new namd Lacam; and J/mmas, Atraces, when he became Eu'sstt.1.9.
enflivd. And indeed sor the Servants, it was an ordinary
thing to give up their names, and ail to their Mutters, who
prelently gave them new, fuch as they thought sit. Either
srom the Country, 0 aO'p©-; or the colour and complexion,
as; ggsdw ori/n#V. or fame good quality in him, aso Tboc. Biblmb.
st?.-, and 0 J}o\/.avs or else from the day or the time whereon Coi. 179.
they bought him , as« Nn««j>{«&. At Rome the Matter gave
them a name of their owne: but twas when they fee them
sree, and foa new name wis a token of liberty too: or of
something better, as os an adoption, (when the adopters see Rev. 1,17.
name was the better os the two) or some oiher good for-
tune: which made him in Lucian, when an Eftate sell to him,
D d 3 to