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Arch&ologU Attica. Lib,^ .Cap. 13. 22p
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CAP. XIII.
De ascriptione in Ephtborum cex[nm,& in album Ltxiarchku.
WHen they came to be eighteen yearesold, nnimv'ttt
t9H.Sus, they were listed among the number of thosc
that were hngapuberes. And to this purpose they had cer»
taine Officers appointed to search them, to see whether they
were so or no, and to prove them whether they were able (as
they called it) -sfeistAs/V w' rjtl m^tv, to keep Guard, or doe
servicein the City. ( of which hereafter. ) This search or
examination was called Ahuuzoix, . if they were found to
hcpuberes, sound wind and Limb, and like to prove Souldi-
ersj they were led into the Temple of v>4rgulust where they
took a soiemne oath conctptit verbis, to be true to the Gods
and the Country. The time when this was done, was upon '
K«ps<DV« too, and that may be the occasion of the disference
1 lately Ipake of. Neither were these later rites performed
without cutting of baire too. But commonly the sashion
was, either then, or at any other time but the first, to con*
secrate their haire, not to this or that God, but to theru Sthl.in
vers, especially such as belonged to the Country they lived in Hom.il. 4.
Thus much may be gathered from hPe* b ^"M'*
leus his voVe to consecrate his haire to the River Sperchiut, is f pt/Mr
t^cbi/ks returned in safety: and » Mtmnons performance of
the like to the river of 2Vj/#/: so (ts*Paul shsved his haire at ,8il8;
Cemhrta, upon the like occasion,) The Nazarites, whmtbey
cut their baire of * consecration, were to make use of the con- Num. <. j.
trary Element, and to throw it in the fire. But amongst the
Greeks the custorne of paying tribute of their haire, when
they cut it, to the Water (as to a principallcause of life and
growthj was very usoail both in men & women, efpecially in
times os mourning, when they cut it most. I remember He-
lena in Euripides, where she bemoans the condition os the
Ff 3 poor
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CAP. XIII.
De ascriptione in Ephtborum cex[nm,& in album Ltxiarchku.
WHen they came to be eighteen yearesold, nnimv'ttt
t9H.Sus, they were listed among the number of thosc
that were hngapuberes. And to this purpose they had cer»
taine Officers appointed to search them, to see whether they
were so or no, and to prove them whether they were able (as
they called it) -sfeistAs/V w' rjtl m^tv, to keep Guard, or doe
servicein the City. ( of which hereafter. ) This search or
examination was called Ahuuzoix, . if they were found to
hcpuberes, sound wind and Limb, and like to prove Souldi-
ersj they were led into the Temple of v>4rgulust where they
took a soiemne oath conctptit verbis, to be true to the Gods
and the Country. The time when this was done, was upon '
K«ps<DV« too, and that may be the occasion of the disference
1 lately Ipake of. Neither were these later rites performed
without cutting of baire too. But commonly the sashion
was, either then, or at any other time but the first, to con*
secrate their haire, not to this or that God, but to theru Sthl.in
vers, especially such as belonged to the Country they lived in Hom.il. 4.
Thus much may be gathered from hPe* b ^"M'*
leus his voVe to consecrate his haire to the River Sperchiut, is f pt/Mr
t^cbi/ks returned in safety: and » Mtmnons performance of
the like to the river of 2Vj/#/: so (ts*Paul shsved his haire at ,8il8;
Cemhrta, upon the like occasion,) The Nazarites, whmtbey
cut their baire of * consecration, were to make use of the con- Num. <. j.
trary Element, and to throw it in the fire. But amongst the
Greeks the custorne of paying tribute of their haire, when
they cut it, to the Water (as to a principallcause of life and
growthj was very usoail both in men & women, efpecially in
times os mourning, when they cut it most. I remember He-
lena in Euripides, where she bemoans the condition os the
Ff 3 poor