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Arch&olog'u Attica. Lib. 7. 335
lochia, and Mopfus King? os Argivi were Augurs too. title-
mu and C«[sandra Children of a Ktng^one wis an Augur,and
the other a Sjbill. But to a Phjsitia»,\i wis reckoned so neces.
sary, that ^Alschylut has used i&t&{ a Thjsttiaa^nd (M.i>nsa
'Prophet, one for the other.which made Achilles in time os the
PistiSence, to seek to uavrmri for a cure. The Scholiaft upon
Homer speaks os two men, Melampm and Poljidw , that were
excellent in both Professions. Credit it had among the best
Philosophers ( especialiy that ofDrearaes, and Emhysiasmss)
maintained by Plato ind the Socraticks, Zs»cand the Stoicks,
Arisiotle and the Peripiteticki. Pythagoras indeed was agiinsi:
exujplcina^ Divination by entrails; and only Epicurus against
that and all the rest.
Predi&ion of things to come, was either from men, called
M*e7«et: or from the Qods, properly called ^nrrxU an Oracle.
According to that of the 1 Scholiast upon Sophocles, ^i»c/j.,c;3l»0ed.Tj
/& e SrtSv, uavl** %J dvspuTTw. Indeed uaviH'j. scemes to
bethe genus, & -^^Uthe fpecies. The same Prophesy which
when it was (poken by a god, was a -^wcuoi, when it was de'
livered by bmen, was uat-Tsi'a. In the Oracles the word wasb Emltul
Fart ( ntfa me Apollo fat is fan&a dementem invitam citt) where
as in the other it could be but/>r,c/<js*Veatthe wisest. The sa*
culty in the fir st h fw7/*w ( 3> we now called it,c fati&i&hw tJc Plato*
7 ip0a.\Qv?u ) or» uavmh as Plato called it ( for,a» Tireftas said,
70 ua.ua At ua li'-b* vt>*b/} \yn ) is divided by Plutarch , and
Cicero, into sirsi ny*t*.\w anisicio/am , that which is ac uired
by observation and experience , tbfervMit Ungo tempore signi* Eurip. in
ficationibus &c And 2ly,"Andrei- or uJlJbulw natttralem,(or Bice. I??,
which we tike little or no painces. These two (pedes are said
to be 0 tor0i>&s<tis!>t*'&ptfonvct, the tv?ins, or the doub'e le-
gacy, which Apollo bequeathed to Janus his sonne, and to
his Family after him. The natarall or insused faculty of Di-
vination , rnost ptoperly called, proceeded sirft a
motufurente, srom a Frantick motion, Which though they
took it sor a help to prophsfy j yet it seemesrather to have
been
lochia, and Mopfus King? os Argivi were Augurs too. title-
mu and C«[sandra Children of a Ktng^one wis an Augur,and
the other a Sjbill. But to a Phjsitia»,\i wis reckoned so neces.
sary, that ^Alschylut has used i&t&{ a Thjsttiaa^nd (M.i>nsa
'Prophet, one for the other.which made Achilles in time os the
PistiSence, to seek to uavrmri for a cure. The Scholiaft upon
Homer speaks os two men, Melampm and Poljidw , that were
excellent in both Professions. Credit it had among the best
Philosophers ( especialiy that ofDrearaes, and Emhysiasmss)
maintained by Plato ind the Socraticks, Zs»cand the Stoicks,
Arisiotle and the Peripiteticki. Pythagoras indeed was agiinsi:
exujplcina^ Divination by entrails; and only Epicurus against
that and all the rest.
Predi&ion of things to come, was either from men, called
M*e7«et: or from the Qods, properly called ^nrrxU an Oracle.
According to that of the 1 Scholiast upon Sophocles, ^i»c/j.,c;3l»0ed.Tj
/& e SrtSv, uavl** %J dvspuTTw. Indeed uaviH'j. scemes to
bethe genus, & -^^Uthe fpecies. The same Prophesy which
when it was (poken by a god, was a -^wcuoi, when it was de'
livered by bmen, was uat-Tsi'a. In the Oracles the word wasb Emltul
Fart ( ntfa me Apollo fat is fan&a dementem invitam citt) where
as in the other it could be but/>r,c/<js*Veatthe wisest. The sa*
culty in the fir st h fw7/*w ( 3> we now called it,c fati&i&hw tJc Plato*
7 ip0a.\Qv?u ) or» uavmh as Plato called it ( for,a» Tireftas said,
70 ua.ua At ua li'-b* vt>*b/} \yn ) is divided by Plutarch , and
Cicero, into sirsi ny*t*.\w anisicio/am , that which is ac uired
by observation and experience , tbfervMit Ungo tempore signi* Eurip. in
ficationibus &c And 2ly,"Andrei- or uJlJbulw natttralem,(or Bice. I??,
which we tike little or no painces. These two (pedes are said
to be 0 tor0i>&s<tis!>t*'&ptfonvct, the tv?ins, or the doub'e le-
gacy, which Apollo bequeathed to Janus his sonne, and to
his Family after him. The natarall or insused faculty of Di-
vination , rnost ptoperly called, proceeded sirft a
motufurente, srom a Frantick motion, Which though they
took it sor a help to prophsfy j yet it seemesrather to have
been