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Rous, Francis; Bogan, Zachary [Editor]
Archaeologiae Atticae Libri Septem — Oxford, 1658

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Arch&ologU K^itticte, Lib. j] 365
ther or the like,such as this Clara dies Pau/ibena Umporade-
mtatanni^ not to disparage those more Asirologicall and
Rationalljach as that of Virgil.
Luna reverttnt(mt&c. wllh the reft.
CAP. It
De rim Divinandi ex vocibass & rebus cminatij,
All this which I have spoken is to conjecture by things)
but there is a way by Words alfo; by which according
as the words were good or bad, they prefaged fucb and
fucbevent'.Such words were called whAVs? or ?iV*',from
refutable to the name of ?ropheta:)a men comes from ore*
men,quia fit ore(qnoth Feftus.) You may render it vsjctiL.i.Divitt.
(for ib we ufe to call thofe prophetick speeches, which we
heare we know not srom whence,3s the Scripture alfo does)
& Tally called them by the name of vcces;Vjthagorei mn {0-
lum voces deorum obfervarunt fedetiam heminum. Any words
that either boded i!l,or signified that which they difliked,
they called jil'n?»M':Sind he thatcfed them to another.either
to hurt him . or to vex him , was said to BAa^w^WT-ci* to /<,„ x 88
blalphettie him ^'^yibvj. @ha.o®»i*idy Ewipides calls it, where
he speaks of certaine ominous (peeches let sa 1 at a seast by a
servant jost as one os the company was going to drink
TheLatinescall it cbl(<£nare,*nd the words themseives male
ominata verba (as it is in Horace.) we may englifh it halt**
ni«q [setches. Such words as these they had alwsies a super-
stitious care to avoid:insomuch that they would f3y insieed
os J\crp.v7m°v a prison jiMu* a hottse.hnd fo sor 'Eehiuts, 'Ev
uivi&t-and 2sp«j Ststi: for ™J»k&^vlca: sor ^cm^a.y'^-'zttd EP'st.ai Cajsi-
the like. For there is a kind of words, which ('as Ttilljum'
saies of Nulla (pes Reipttblicx) non licet, or (to fpeak in the
phrafe of Terence) Religio eft dicere, they mate a (cruple to
ZZ3 fpea^
 
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