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'Arch&ologi& Attic&, Lib. 5. Cap. 19. 241
they might not be allowed to fpeake to him : as thinking him
w'osiov h&yn, so unholy a thing, as that he might not have
the name oi a Man, as Euripides saies i)Sti/tflp
The Scholiast upon * Homer, out os Callimackm, saies, that a-.*JI-
mong the Thessali, they used to drag him about the grave,
where the party was buried whom he had ssaine; as Etiridmu*
did Simon for Killing his brother Thrasjntu.
CAP. XIX.
De claudendis octilis, pul/andis axeis vtttit,
& amichndo corpore.
IT was theCustome among the Greekes, as well as among
the Jewes and the Romanes, whenaraan wasa dying, or
his Sunne was a setting as they used to say ——akiov auut JWV- r^ -
khv to have his eyes closed by the Parents, or the nest of the
kindred.* and they call'd it zJy&iaiv n o«£**t©-. The perform-
ing os this ceremony by the Kindred, was so much valued,
that it was bewaild as a very great unhappineffe, to dyein^ _
(uch a place where a roans sriends could not be present to do ' '
it: uVljti**M**^
Oars Kct^ois iw*ai Smvovn— —
Ifa w<*» died luddamlyjaVexiTo (saies the * Scholiast upon Ho-*.,
mer) it was attributed to Apollo*, is a Woman to Dian*. 1 know
not whether I may here venture to tell you, from an old
Scholiass upon Tbeocrttus, that juft at the time of death, they
had a custome likewise to make a great ringing with vtfcllt
of brap (Tells, some render it) to fright away the Hob-
goblings, and Furies from the Soule. For fuchakindof
iound ( he saies ) is x.*&t&{ «V»?.«g7>wr f$f fu*.3p.!tm>v of a
speciall virtue sor such effe&s. But elfe I fhoald rather ima-
gine it to have been done for the fame end, that a Roman
Conclamatitn was, vU. to try whether the patty were but
H h dead
they might not be allowed to fpeake to him : as thinking him
w'osiov h&yn, so unholy a thing, as that he might not have
the name oi a Man, as Euripides saies i)Sti/tflp
The Scholiast upon * Homer, out os Callimackm, saies, that a-.*JI-
mong the Thessali, they used to drag him about the grave,
where the party was buried whom he had ssaine; as Etiridmu*
did Simon for Killing his brother Thrasjntu.
CAP. XIX.
De claudendis octilis, pul/andis axeis vtttit,
& amichndo corpore.
IT was theCustome among the Greekes, as well as among
the Jewes and the Romanes, whenaraan wasa dying, or
his Sunne was a setting as they used to say ——akiov auut JWV- r^ -
khv to have his eyes closed by the Parents, or the nest of the
kindred.* and they call'd it zJy&iaiv n o«£**t©-. The perform-
ing os this ceremony by the Kindred, was so much valued,
that it was bewaild as a very great unhappineffe, to dyein^ _
(uch a place where a roans sriends could not be present to do ' '
it: uVljti**M**^
Oars Kct^ois iw*ai Smvovn— —
Ifa w<*» died luddamlyjaVexiTo (saies the * Scholiast upon Ho-*.,
mer) it was attributed to Apollo*, is a Woman to Dian*. 1 know
not whether I may here venture to tell you, from an old
Scholiass upon Tbeocrttus, that juft at the time of death, they
had a custome likewise to make a great ringing with vtfcllt
of brap (Tells, some render it) to fright away the Hob-
goblings, and Furies from the Soule. For fuchakindof
iound ( he saies ) is x.*&t&{ «V»?.«g7>wr f$f fu*.3p.!tm>v of a
speciall virtue sor such effe&s. But elfe I fhoald rather ima-
gine it to have been done for the fame end, that a Roman
Conclamatitn was, vU. to try whether the patty were but
H h dead