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Arch&ologia Attica, Lih. ^j.
SECT. II.
De Divinatione artisicioja, & pr'mode Ormthomama.
H E Technic all part os Divining , artificiostim genus
divinandi,'&% Cicero calls it,confjfted efpecially in the
observing of birds, and the Entrails of Beafls. Be-
fides which were <p>W or vijSivit ominous words, or things,
(n/l(/.i2o?.cj 'n'ofM, x>,n?oi lots, rssjrra fights, and indeed rnea uv'ei*
21 A ( as the Scholiaft saith upon Homer) infinite many more.- but:
the two sirfl were every where moft in ufe. Qua eft autem
freer. I. I, genssaut qua civitas, qiu non am extis pecudutn aat Augur urn,
Divin. aut fortium praditlione moveatur? In the fitft the Phrygians,
Chilians,Arabianssf-ijtdians,and the ZJmbrians excelled. The
Lacedemonians had so great efietmeoiit, thateveiy King had
his Augur to advise him, as well as the Senate. It was sirft
X, 7. c.55. invented, ( faith Pliny ) by one Car. Angaria tx a-vibm inve*
nit Car, a quo Carta nomen habet: adjecit ex caterii ar.muhbm
Orphem. Jmprov'dxt was very much by Calckas: fo that he
proved exceeding useful! to the Greeks in the Trojan expe-
^ dition, not only shewing them how they should pacisy T>i*
ma detaining the (hips at Aulis, and Apollo asssicting the peo-
ple with a Peftilence, but telling the number os yeares that
the warre should Jast, by the number os Spartcwes dtshoyv
ed by the Serpent in the ncst, as Cicero renders the verses.
Nam quot aves tetro maclatoi dente videtis
Tot nos ad Tro]am belli exantlabimui annos
Qua decimo cadet, & poena, satiabit i*Achivos.
And yet as cunning as he was, he died for gtiefe, becaufe he
could not tell how many Piggs wsre in the belly of a Sow
(fay'
SECT. II.
De Divinatione artisicioja, & pr'mode Ormthomama.
H E Technic all part os Divining , artificiostim genus
divinandi,'&% Cicero calls it,confjfted efpecially in the
observing of birds, and the Entrails of Beafls. Be-
fides which were <p>W or vijSivit ominous words, or things,
(n/l(/.i2o?.cj 'n'ofM, x>,n?oi lots, rssjrra fights, and indeed rnea uv'ei*
21 A ( as the Scholiaft saith upon Homer) infinite many more.- but:
the two sirfl were every where moft in ufe. Qua eft autem
freer. I. I, genssaut qua civitas, qiu non am extis pecudutn aat Augur urn,
Divin. aut fortium praditlione moveatur? In the fitft the Phrygians,
Chilians,Arabianssf-ijtdians,and the ZJmbrians excelled. The
Lacedemonians had so great efietmeoiit, thateveiy King had
his Augur to advise him, as well as the Senate. It was sirft
X, 7. c.55. invented, ( faith Pliny ) by one Car. Angaria tx a-vibm inve*
nit Car, a quo Carta nomen habet: adjecit ex caterii ar.muhbm
Orphem. Jmprov'dxt was very much by Calckas: fo that he
proved exceeding useful! to the Greeks in the Trojan expe-
^ dition, not only shewing them how they should pacisy T>i*
ma detaining the (hips at Aulis, and Apollo asssicting the peo-
ple with a Peftilence, but telling the number os yeares that
the warre should Jast, by the number os Spartcwes dtshoyv
ed by the Serpent in the ncst, as Cicero renders the verses.
Nam quot aves tetro maclatoi dente videtis
Tot nos ad Tro]am belli exantlabimui annos
Qua decimo cadet, & poena, satiabit i*Achivos.
And yet as cunning as he was, he died for gtiefe, becaufe he
could not tell how many Piggs wsre in the belly of a Sow
(fay'