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284 Arch&ologi& Attica. Lik6.Cap,^»
serve the turne : as when Demoflhsnes swbre by wOwMa-
gg9»c<, s/wjs s/srfs valiantly dyed in the battle of \JfrTarathon*
Sometimes for over much hast ot confidence, orsomeiuch
reason, they left it to the party , to whom they swore, to
chuse any os the gods, wh jmsoever him pleased to be tryed
by: in this manner , "o^.vvym'p.Wi %!?nnv, aswe say: lie lay
a L. z.Ep. z. you what you vAll, This forme you may sind uk-d by 'Plato
ixlhadro, and by ^rissenettis in his Epistie osa Euxitbeta
to Pythias. Sometimes they swore by many gods together
in the pluiall number, without specisying whom they meant.
And sometimes by all their twelve gods, ( as the Lacedtmoni*
b AsijsopJ}. in ens did by their tVvo i$ g«s> Qassor and Tollux) b(Mt 7a\}
JWlsig! 2bw—by the whole \wy os the gods, ( neither ho-
ned nor true; only they thought them to be Majorum genti-
um , of the higher house , and Deos confentes, and so they put
them together.) Other times againe, they fwore by this or
that god in particular, to whom either the assaires they hand-
led , or the place where in they were, especially belonged;
expresiing his name. For so in the Mirket in buying and sel-
ling , or the like businesfe, they commonly swore this Oath
vh TcE?stku r Appcaiiv , by .Mercury. But then you fhould have
some that out os meete deisidiemony, would say no more then
c Aridttb is s^7'0"' B) &c> 'w-Qtiaixfyiv hnvznyilow.voi, wiih a c religious
aposiopefis, forbearing to name the God. Hitherto you may
reduce the oath by an oath it (elfe, d {ta im ojsw. ci) or yd with vai
besore it, in the Poets, was sor an afsirmative oath; and for
a negative.
CAP. V.
De ritibtu in 'Jttramento Magno.
'jpH E customes in taking a Great oath, if it were in a
publike manner, and by way of vindication os the truth,
were thefe. The gods used to list up their hands,- as Apollo
in
San.
d Pind.Nem
serve the turne : as when Demoflhsnes swbre by wOwMa-
gg9»c<, s/wjs s/srfs valiantly dyed in the battle of \JfrTarathon*
Sometimes for over much hast ot confidence, orsomeiuch
reason, they left it to the party , to whom they swore, to
chuse any os the gods, wh jmsoever him pleased to be tryed
by: in this manner , "o^.vvym'p.Wi %!?nnv, aswe say: lie lay
a L. z.Ep. z. you what you vAll, This forme you may sind uk-d by 'Plato
ixlhadro, and by ^rissenettis in his Epistie osa Euxitbeta
to Pythias. Sometimes they swore by many gods together
in the pluiall number, without specisying whom they meant.
And sometimes by all their twelve gods, ( as the Lacedtmoni*
b AsijsopJ}. in ens did by their tVvo i$ g«s> Qassor and Tollux) b(Mt 7a\}
JWlsig! 2bw—by the whole \wy os the gods, ( neither ho-
ned nor true; only they thought them to be Majorum genti-
um , of the higher house , and Deos confentes, and so they put
them together.) Other times againe, they fwore by this or
that god in particular, to whom either the assaires they hand-
led , or the place where in they were, especially belonged;
expresiing his name. For so in the Mirket in buying and sel-
ling , or the like businesfe, they commonly swore this Oath
vh TcE?stku r Appcaiiv , by .Mercury. But then you fhould have
some that out os meete deisidiemony, would say no more then
c Aridttb is s^7'0"' B) &c> 'w-Qtiaixfyiv hnvznyilow.voi, wiih a c religious
aposiopefis, forbearing to name the God. Hitherto you may
reduce the oath by an oath it (elfe, d {ta im ojsw. ci) or yd with vai
besore it, in the Poets, was sor an afsirmative oath; and for
a negative.
CAP. V.
De ritibtu in 'Jttramento Magno.
'jpH E customes in taking a Great oath, if it were in a
publike manner, and by way of vindication os the truth,
were thefe. The gods used to list up their hands,- as Apollo
in
San.
d Pind.Nem