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Archxologia Attica. Lib, *fl 371
CAP, III.
De Sorties,
'THis way ofDivir.ation isdeane disserent srom the sormer,'
because in it(as Cicero soia)temeritM & casus, non ratio
& consiliumvaltt. For though there might be calm of the
things in the former, yet there was skill withaliinthe
person to give the signification.lt was invented by Minerva;
onely supiter took away her credit, to make the better trs.
ding for Apollo. Catting, or Drasting lots, was either with
tfVsctjaAc/, or tali caft into a box.-or viithtessera (ww*™!*
Vlutarch calls themjlittle woodden tables with letters up*
on them drawn oat of a pot, or calculi little balls os earth, ^abio]
With markes upon them sor the names.sometimes taken out
of a pot.and sometimes throwne into a weiiswhether to fee
which came upsirst.or how it was I cannot tell) Taufanias
speakes os the wooden tables, that they were used in the
temple os Hercules B%.<)»{ in Achaia.And the like(they say)
were used by the Varliament of sive hundred, with the chw bDemUpral
rafters os the ten sirft letters upon them, to shew to which
os the ten Courts every judge was to goe(together with the
/mage os a rod the ensigne os ^m^j.theGodofLsr/)
he that had the Alpha, went to that Court which had the
signeof v4lph«, and they had the reft to the Courts that
bare the names os the letters. One of thefewaies ot all
{which / know not) was so much ufed by the TbrU (the
three Hjmphes reported to have beene the nudes of Apollo)
that at length the word thru came to be ufed for fortes,lots3
according to that
Calculi were much used in ancient times in fudging oscau-
ses.sndin^resilingmatches, and the like: though(it seetm)
in sicero's time not fo much. jQuis enim magtftratus^ut quis «»• , 1
virillfijlrior xtitur(ortibtu,ctttru vtrh in locis plane rtfrixt. *"2»
A a a Z runt*
CAP, III.
De Sorties,
'THis way ofDivir.ation isdeane disserent srom the sormer,'
because in it(as Cicero soia)temeritM & casus, non ratio
& consiliumvaltt. For though there might be calm of the
things in the former, yet there was skill withaliinthe
person to give the signification.lt was invented by Minerva;
onely supiter took away her credit, to make the better trs.
ding for Apollo. Catting, or Drasting lots, was either with
tfVsctjaAc/, or tali caft into a box.-or viithtessera (ww*™!*
Vlutarch calls themjlittle woodden tables with letters up*
on them drawn oat of a pot, or calculi little balls os earth, ^abio]
With markes upon them sor the names.sometimes taken out
of a pot.and sometimes throwne into a weiiswhether to fee
which came upsirst.or how it was I cannot tell) Taufanias
speakes os the wooden tables, that they were used in the
temple os Hercules B%.<)»{ in Achaia.And the like(they say)
were used by the Varliament of sive hundred, with the chw bDemUpral
rafters os the ten sirft letters upon them, to shew to which
os the ten Courts every judge was to goe(together with the
/mage os a rod the ensigne os ^m^j.theGodofLsr/)
he that had the Alpha, went to that Court which had the
signeof v4lph«, and they had the reft to the Courts that
bare the names os the letters. One of thefewaies ot all
{which / know not) was so much ufed by the TbrU (the
three Hjmphes reported to have beene the nudes of Apollo)
that at length the word thru came to be ufed for fortes,lots3
according to that
Calculi were much used in ancient times in fudging oscau-
ses.sndin^resilingmatches, and the like: though(it seetm)
in sicero's time not fo much. jQuis enim magtftratus^ut quis «»• , 1
virillfijlrior xtitur(ortibtu,ctttru vtrh in locis plane rtfrixt. *"2»
A a a Z runt*