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'4ych&ologi& Attic a. Lib, 5. Cap, 16. 235
this custome exceeding well, for (saies hej Jgnotis Cadaveri*
bus humum congerimus, & insepultim qmdlibet corpus nulla je-
siinatio tam rapida transcurrit, ut non qamtulocunque veneretur
aggejlu. And if any one omitted the duty,he must make saris*
faction by sacrificing a Sow-pig porcam * pracidaneam (as they
called it) to Ceres. But the Sckuliasi upon Sophocles in tslnti' * Fcjlui c. s+l
gone goes farther.- 01 vixpov igui/ni i-npov u*ij.»m.uivoi mhv \.
v*yus It) tJtintiv. Whosoever saw a dead body.and did not turne
up the dull upon it, was not only a breaker of the Law,
but a scelssSs an accurfed devoted sellow , arfathema,
(for what should the body doe any longer in the aire, which
is not able to draw? ) and therefore they accounted w « ra-
ps, (tty.izqj.ivx., saies the Scholiati upon * Euripides, and ■* in Hc&b.
kc\> ig.ia.fov'm3w (*» hark |Bj very much feared that the
Gods under ground would be angry, if any belonging to them
were above giound. No greater imprecation to an ene«
my amongst them , then ?$o*iss that he might not be * nmeri
covered with the earth. Mee thinkes 1 see* Hettcr upon his Sopboc,
knees to tAchilhs, as he was ready tostabbehirn; and * A\nx
in his prayers to Jupiter (before he fell upon his sword; ear-
nestly beseechingchem not to susfer their bodies, whentheic
soules were removed,to be left behind in the lurch, to be meat
sor the dogges and the birds. Hence surely it was, that the an-
cients slood so much in feare of a death upon the sea: or a
shipwrack because of death: for there they could never be
interred.
Dem'ite natifritgium & mors mihi mntitu erit.
sates Ovid. Iosomuch that when they went to Sea, or at Ieass:
when they feared to becasiawaj (as we call it, for there if
the Soule be gone, we have lost the body too) their custome
was to fasten to one part or other of their bodies, a reward
sor him that should sind it, and bury it, ificwerecasta
shore. $i(eiv «< ns/.luj c*7ap/or iiv Ut vauny* nr^h\ 0 sj eiy»
&jcst6TOc5a( 7tJ jgtatMttf>rtt •joKKt^'lnov. Saies Synesim in one
Gg 2 os
1
this custome exceeding well, for (saies hej Jgnotis Cadaveri*
bus humum congerimus, & insepultim qmdlibet corpus nulla je-
siinatio tam rapida transcurrit, ut non qamtulocunque veneretur
aggejlu. And if any one omitted the duty,he must make saris*
faction by sacrificing a Sow-pig porcam * pracidaneam (as they
called it) to Ceres. But the Sckuliasi upon Sophocles in tslnti' * Fcjlui c. s+l
gone goes farther.- 01 vixpov igui/ni i-npov u*ij.»m.uivoi mhv \.
v*yus It) tJtintiv. Whosoever saw a dead body.and did not turne
up the dull upon it, was not only a breaker of the Law,
but a scelssSs an accurfed devoted sellow , arfathema,
(for what should the body doe any longer in the aire, which
is not able to draw? ) and therefore they accounted w « ra-
ps, (tty.izqj.ivx., saies the Scholiati upon * Euripides, and ■* in Hc&b.
kc\> ig.ia.fov'm3w (*» hark |Bj very much feared that the
Gods under ground would be angry, if any belonging to them
were above giound. No greater imprecation to an ene«
my amongst them , then ?$o*iss that he might not be * nmeri
covered with the earth. Mee thinkes 1 see* Hettcr upon his Sopboc,
knees to tAchilhs, as he was ready tostabbehirn; and * A\nx
in his prayers to Jupiter (before he fell upon his sword; ear-
nestly beseechingchem not to susfer their bodies, whentheic
soules were removed,to be left behind in the lurch, to be meat
sor the dogges and the birds. Hence surely it was, that the an-
cients slood so much in feare of a death upon the sea: or a
shipwrack because of death: for there they could never be
interred.
Dem'ite natifritgium & mors mihi mntitu erit.
sates Ovid. Iosomuch that when they went to Sea, or at Ieass:
when they feared to becasiawaj (as we call it, for there if
the Soule be gone, we have lost the body too) their custome
was to fasten to one part or other of their bodies, a reward
sor him that should sind it, and bury it, ificwerecasta
shore. $i(eiv «< ns/.luj c*7ap/or iiv Ut vauny* nr^h\ 0 sj eiy»
&jcst6TOc5a( 7tJ jgtatMttf>rtt •joKKt^'lnov. Saies Synesim in one
Gg 2 os
1