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2i4 K^sfchmhgh ivrfttk&i Lib, 5. Cap. 6.
to change his name from Simon to Simonides: and thus they
took new names when they came to be made Kingtj as a-
mong the Persians &c or Gods>as every where besides, which
appeares in those names of PaUmon and Jguiriwis, & a great
many more.
CAP. VI.
De PHerpetarum Lustrationibus'',
TH HE Mother after her delivery (though some say it
was done after the fit st nights lying with her Husband )
hungup her Zona to Diana Awt'^avn, (Cinxia you may'ca!!
her in Latine) and her clothes too (sates Callimachus) to Du
ana X/Wcoi Untill stie were purified, she was as carefully
fliundj as any Woman of the Jewes, inlosnuch that reckon-
ing her among the (uisuaj^ they loathed to goe into the
house where she lay, as much as if (he had lay en lor dead: or
if they happened to goe in unwittingly or by constrainr;
when they came forth againe, they would be sore to wash:
whence that of Diog. Lamias in the life of Pythagoras, &btb
KWmxjhiyvi £ y.ia't}[jLttT©- wa'cT©-: which puts me in mind of
lphigenia 'xa Euripides: when bemoaning the condition of 0-
restes, whom the Scythians designed for a Sacrifice to Diana,
Ihespake her mind so plainly in relation to her curiousnesse,
to have no body come neer her, that came from a Woman
in Child-bed, or a ssiughter, or a funerall, &c. I desy (saies
(he) thehypocrisy of that Goddejse whatever/he be, that jhall take
delight in the murthering of men, and yet mtwithsianding out os
purity, sor scoth, Jhall sorbid fuch & such to come neer her Altars.
——*■ ty'o-mv $ bSi 77S a <P'w*
A saying so cutting to the folly os the best of the heathen
Theology, that it would have sounded very well from the
mouth
to change his name from Simon to Simonides: and thus they
took new names when they came to be made Kingtj as a-
mong the Persians &c or Gods>as every where besides, which
appeares in those names of PaUmon and Jguiriwis, & a great
many more.
CAP. VI.
De PHerpetarum Lustrationibus'',
TH HE Mother after her delivery (though some say it
was done after the fit st nights lying with her Husband )
hungup her Zona to Diana Awt'^avn, (Cinxia you may'ca!!
her in Latine) and her clothes too (sates Callimachus) to Du
ana X/Wcoi Untill stie were purified, she was as carefully
fliundj as any Woman of the Jewes, inlosnuch that reckon-
ing her among the (uisuaj^ they loathed to goe into the
house where she lay, as much as if (he had lay en lor dead: or
if they happened to goe in unwittingly or by constrainr;
when they came forth againe, they would be sore to wash:
whence that of Diog. Lamias in the life of Pythagoras, &btb
KWmxjhiyvi £ y.ia't}[jLttT©- wa'cT©-: which puts me in mind of
lphigenia 'xa Euripides: when bemoaning the condition of 0-
restes, whom the Scythians designed for a Sacrifice to Diana,
Ihespake her mind so plainly in relation to her curiousnesse,
to have no body come neer her, that came from a Woman
in Child-bed, or a ssiughter, or a funerall, &c. I desy (saies
(he) thehypocrisy of that Goddejse whatever/he be, that jhall take
delight in the murthering of men, and yet mtwithsianding out os
purity, sor scoth, Jhall sorbid fuch & such to come neer her Altars.
——*■ ty'o-mv $ bSi 77S a <P'w*
A saying so cutting to the folly os the best of the heathen
Theology, that it would have sounded very well from the
mouth