A supplement to the Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning / [by J. Dunton?] By a member of the Athenian Society.

John Dunton

Date:: 1710

Credit: A supplement to the Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning / [by J. Dunton?] By a member of the Athenian Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Athenian Daler» == 47S, fhe may the better, receive, the], 4. Certain Animals are found’ refrefhing of the moift” Seafon. | Under the dominition of ‘one®. he. crying of, Cats, Ofpreys,|and the fame. Star, of which” MS SAE ng i ’ Pees } re ope ayy ALES i ‘ 1G Wt oice Ravens, and other Birds, upon fubjection they Hav e fome cha~ the:.tops of houfes , ,in the, radter either external or inter=': ; nal. “And *tis credible that’ all’. bodies, éfpecially ‘Plants, have™ figures” or Characters of ‘their : virtues, either within or with-' out.” Thus., they fay, thofe Plants which are prickly, and@ whole leaves have the fhape of: a {pears point, or other’ offen.” five Arms, are vulnerary ;thofe: which have the {pots or {peck- les of a Serpént, are noted to’ be good againit poylfons ; and all are ferviceable for ‘the con-* fervation of fuch parts, and, cure,of fuch dileafes as they re-_ femble in figure. In like man- mer, tis probable that the Cock? hath a cértain internal Cha~ sacter which particularly ranks _ ‘him under the dominion ofthe Sun; and that this is the caufe_ that he crows when his predo- minane Planet poffefles one of the. three Cardinal Points of: . pO es CE seks ii PPE RS OM, Heaven), in which’ the fame . night-time, are oblery’d.by the. vulgar to,. pre-fignifie death to the fick; and thole creatures, are thoughtto know the .ap-. preach, thereof by, their cada- verous, Scent , which appeats notto us till after theirdeath,by tealon of the dulnels of our. fentes. 3 it. being no le{s admi- rable. that. fuch carrion Birds. {mell beter than. we; than. ’tis to feea Dog diftinguith by, his ‘{melling the traces of a. Hare). which are inperceptible to, us. But ic may, as well be, that thefe Birds cry by, chance up- qu.the firlt houfe .where they light, and are heard Mai by fuch. as watch in, attendance wpon Perfons dangerouily, ficks: they being likewife Birds of, bur.a weak, fight,.and chege- foxe flying, abroad, molt, com=. monly, itt the dark. . As for ahe,.tgielight of fertility. by. the,, Boneton;: and..of a.calm,. by, the Halcyon of Kings fifhers, _ thele ought to be refer'd to the, fame, PHS of Nature, which. guides. the Spider to weave her Web, and the Swallow yt hath molt power, namely in. the Ban “light there fis recurning towards him ;* in the South, at: which’ time he rejoyces to fee'it atthe high- ed.pitch of fuength and” ae mid-Night, becaule he feels that it is then [beginning again | to approach to oir Hemilphere, » But he ‘crows, not at Sun-fet, eing fad then for its depar-. ture,and for that he is depri-. ved ofits light. And, forthis reafon, in fome Mens Opini-~ on, the Romans chiefly made _ ufe of young Chickens, from which to, collec their augu-— ries; becatife they conceiv’d | ‘Ranch ii, bev n vik !. e build 1€T Neil. i] ey ee Rerb sory “3a There” is a clofe connex.. ion between the. fuperior, and. inferior bodies:,,-the*,.chain. whereof is to us imperceptible,} their confecution be, infallible. This was figniti’d, by Tiifmegi., jius, when he pronounc’d that that which, is. below is like thay which ,is on. high, and therefore ’tis not to, be won- are if one be the fign of the eI Nictegtd in Mai j F$

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