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Archtsologit Attic&, ,Cap, 10. 223
CAP. X.
De Liberorum educations.
IT is said of Greece, that it took the best course in bree-
ding up of Children, of any Country in the world. 3d so
much that Euripides is therefore thought to have given it the
Epithete of Kk^o?©', by way of excellency above the rest.
But how is it then that Homer gives the same to Ithaca: as
Cicero does that of a T^idulm} In Aristophanes his Thefmophs-
riazufa, the Tr<eco, calling upon the Women, to provide to
sacrifice to such and such Gods, among the rest brings in
But whether this here be Tel/as in general!, the Mother
and the Nurse of the Creatures; or whether it be only Tellus
^Attica, Athens mr'^tyj^, the best Nurse of the beft, 1 know
not, but thus much is deliverd by Suidas, viz. that Eritlho-
niut the poor exposd child of Vulcan, inathsnkfuil ac-
knowledgement os his education in that land, first sscrificed
to this rijKK^o?©-, and having built an Altar of purpose
to her, made a Law that whosoever would sacrifice to any
other God, should tou/Vh s^:^?, doe it to her first. Well let us
lee a little what their manner os education was. They say
the Children were usually taught <^Zt.i uKv(t0t, sfahtfr 3
5jat«siesT«, sirst to famine and dive, and then to read; Vety good
method. Js the Father was poor, he was brought up to a
trade; if able and rich, to Philosophy, Musick, dymnieaJI
exercifcs, hunting, and the like. If he were brought up to no
calling at all, in case his Father should come to poverty, he
was not bound to maintaine* him, as. otherwise he was.
Many times the boyes were taken up, and maintaind by t|ie * »"
greater sort in a lustfull manner (as they have been by the'""*
Romans) and were called their ««sV*du Tttnes: all such sat4-
mites ovGanjmtdes wre usually called * jj£tat, though i**f^i
know
CAP. X.
De Liberorum educations.
IT is said of Greece, that it took the best course in bree-
ding up of Children, of any Country in the world. 3d so
much that Euripides is therefore thought to have given it the
Epithete of Kk^o?©', by way of excellency above the rest.
But how is it then that Homer gives the same to Ithaca: as
Cicero does that of a T^idulm} In Aristophanes his Thefmophs-
riazufa, the Tr<eco, calling upon the Women, to provide to
sacrifice to such and such Gods, among the rest brings in
But whether this here be Tel/as in general!, the Mother
and the Nurse of the Creatures; or whether it be only Tellus
^Attica, Athens mr'^tyj^, the best Nurse of the beft, 1 know
not, but thus much is deliverd by Suidas, viz. that Eritlho-
niut the poor exposd child of Vulcan, inathsnkfuil ac-
knowledgement os his education in that land, first sscrificed
to this rijKK^o?©-, and having built an Altar of purpose
to her, made a Law that whosoever would sacrifice to any
other God, should tou/Vh s^:^?, doe it to her first. Well let us
lee a little what their manner os education was. They say
the Children were usually taught <^Zt.i uKv(t0t, sfahtfr 3
5jat«siesT«, sirst to famine and dive, and then to read; Vety good
method. Js the Father was poor, he was brought up to a
trade; if able and rich, to Philosophy, Musick, dymnieaJI
exercifcs, hunting, and the like. If he were brought up to no
calling at all, in case his Father should come to poverty, he
was not bound to maintaine* him, as. otherwise he was.
Many times the boyes were taken up, and maintaind by t|ie * »"
greater sort in a lustfull manner (as they have been by the'""*
Romans) and were called their ««sV*du Tttnes: all such sat4-
mites ovGanjmtdes wre usually called * jj£tat, though i**f^i
know