2$i Archaologia Attica. Lih.^.Caf. 2:5#-
Persians at Salamis, saies he, i%m \£hm ttJ -dya t&I $j* In ~2&\<i.
sitpi TihtLnoivrtiV x-ii^.SK x£u! 'EtoaVk. It had btene no lejse then dc
sert, is all Greece hadbeene fvaved at theburiallosthofegallant
(ouldiers that djed at the sight os Salatnis. Is thissussice not, you
may take the testimony of Euripides, who would have the
whole Councrey of the Cyclopias to do the like.
And he himselfe when he dyed (as Solium reports) was mour-
ned for after this manner, by no worse man than tsirchtlaui
the King of the CMzcedons. In reference to this custome^
Strabo speaksof a Towne in soppadecia caWed Comona, srom
the mourning-haire, cut in that place by Oreftes and Jphigeni*.
So you shali meet with the like praflise os Tellm in the behalse
of Thaiton ; and os Z?<?rc^*« the god (zsintonfiu as hesvai)
sot the losfe of his wife. Nay you shall sind sob himselse at
this very worke upon the newes os his Childrens death. And
a c. 7. v. 19, i° the Prophecy osa sermj you may read Cm off thy haire,and
cafl it aVpjy, and take up a lamentation. Tis true, they were to
b ra/c.-^/.j. be blamed for theie follies, and in b Cicero you shall meet
with a saying of Eton himselfe , deriding the use os this cu-
stome in Agamemnon,Perinde ftultijstmum Regem in luBu capil-
lum sibi evt'Mere, quast cahitio maror levaretur, as is he aggrava*
ted the former losfe of his friends, with another os his hair?:
What if it be objedUd to all this,(which we confesse to be true
too) that it was a custome to cut the baire in token os joy ?
For sirsl among the Jewes, if you look into the Bible,you shall
finde soseph cutting his haire, whenhecameoutosPrison;
and sonathans Sonne, when he met with David sor joy doing
the like. Nay that a&ionof sobitkWe, is by Origen (the ,4/-
x legoricall interpreter) thought to have been an cxpressionnoC
os Sorrow, but os a kind os joy, or a cheeresull patience an*
der his asflidion. 2ly Among the Romansr you know their
squallid prifoners let their haire hang downe long, that they
might looke the more deptted, and somove the Judges to
Persians at Salamis, saies he, i%m \£hm ttJ -dya t&I $j* In ~2&\<i.
sitpi TihtLnoivrtiV x-ii^.SK x£u! 'EtoaVk. It had btene no lejse then dc
sert, is all Greece hadbeene fvaved at theburiallosthofegallant
(ouldiers that djed at the sight os Salatnis. Is thissussice not, you
may take the testimony of Euripides, who would have the
whole Councrey of the Cyclopias to do the like.
And he himselfe when he dyed (as Solium reports) was mour-
ned for after this manner, by no worse man than tsirchtlaui
the King of the CMzcedons. In reference to this custome^
Strabo speaksof a Towne in soppadecia caWed Comona, srom
the mourning-haire, cut in that place by Oreftes and Jphigeni*.
So you shali meet with the like praflise os Tellm in the behalse
of Thaiton ; and os Z?<?rc^*« the god (zsintonfiu as hesvai)
sot the losfe of his wife. Nay you shall sind sob himselse at
this very worke upon the newes os his Childrens death. And
a c. 7. v. 19, i° the Prophecy osa sermj you may read Cm off thy haire,and
cafl it aVpjy, and take up a lamentation. Tis true, they were to
b ra/c.-^/.j. be blamed for theie follies, and in b Cicero you shall meet
with a saying of Eton himselfe , deriding the use os this cu-
stome in Agamemnon,Perinde ftultijstmum Regem in luBu capil-
lum sibi evt'Mere, quast cahitio maror levaretur, as is he aggrava*
ted the former losfe of his friends, with another os his hair?:
What if it be objedUd to all this,(which we confesse to be true
too) that it was a custome to cut the baire in token os joy ?
For sirsl among the Jewes, if you look into the Bible,you shall
finde soseph cutting his haire, whenhecameoutosPrison;
and sonathans Sonne, when he met with David sor joy doing
the like. Nay that a&ionof sobitkWe, is by Origen (the ,4/-
x legoricall interpreter) thought to have been an cxpressionnoC
os Sorrow, but os a kind os joy, or a cheeresull patience an*
der his asflidion. 2ly Among the Romansr you know their
squallid prifoners let their haire hang downe long, that they
might looke the more deptted, and somove the Judges to