Archaeologiae Atticae libri septem. Seaven books of the Attick antiquities. Containing the discription of the cities glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices,account of their year, a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rous. With an addition of their customes in marriages, burialls, feastings, divinations, etc. With an addition ... in the foure last bookes. By Zachary Bogan.

  • Francis Rous
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1675
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Credit: Archaeologiae Atticae libri septem. Seaven books of the Attick antiquities. Containing the discription of the cities glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices,account of their year, a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rous. With an addition of their customes in marriages, burialls, feastings, divinations, etc. With an addition ... in the foure last bookes. By Zachary Bogan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «V« Iavl* Vj TKtvTif tbhlujii yi)fip&7t. prom javan came Jonia and all the Greeks- And in Scripture we have Javan put for Jofeph Antiq Qreecer{n Daniel twice, c And when 1 am gone forth, loe the l.i-c.7. prince of Qrecia /hall come. And again, d He/hall Air up all again) the Realm ofGrecU Where although tbe oldTranfla. tion renders it not Javan, yet it is found in tbe Original. fDan. 10. 2o. He then coming into the Countrey,called Afterwards^m*. d Cap. 11. 2. cay left unto it his own name , whence it was tearmed Jonia and jas, J7 $ \oiU2. )y ]d* ir&>>H70. V OY AttlCA was anciently called Jonia and In which words we (HU retain fome reliques of thcRadix.notwithftanding tbe (mall e Strabo 1. difference of the termination. But if we pleafe to view after p. 3.92. what title the fons of \avan were Oiled jaones3 we (hall come nearer home. Strabo, in the above quoted place, O j vj'f qTcim (fi)-E?9«ABoiani ^ \x ovif — 7av Adl/xmim hiyet. < Homer,when be hksXhere the Boeotians and ]^o«e/,fpeaks of the Athenians. Tbe Scholia/} of i/E/chyha on thefe Words, fltOV'OV ykJi OlyZTttl viKtef, IAov $ %n lHovi? oi >.iy>v7xi it m@- IelovQ’ B&nh&Jov- t-9- It is to be underfioodtquoth be,that the Athenians f In perfis are tearmed jaones3from one Jaon( he means Iavan ) that was P*-*3 J* their King.Neitber is it Grange that tbe vau or is left out-, for though it be not wriiten, yet perfwaded I am, that it was as much pronounced,as other 4*/Dip:hong$ were.por theg antique Latines & the Greeks fpake it as broad, as if it had been Thefaros,noi Thefauros. Sir Walter Raleigh is of opinion , That A fiat he kfs had people before C/rece had any 5 and that Iavan did not flie from Babylonia into Greece^hut took ^Donat. in the lefs in bis pajfage, and from thence pafi over the neare/l Ter. p. 133» way,leaving his own name to fome maritimatc Province on that fide,as he did to that part fo called.ln which.although the au¬ thority of fo worthy & judicious a Man might move much, yetit Chall be fuffickntfor me.only to go fo far, as antiqui¬ ty will bear me out, a Thucydides reports, that it is manifeft that all Greece was not Sj/SaiVc 0)firmly inhabited, but that there were continual Pilgrimages,or Removings of the inhabitants, forfaking their former places, being driven out r - • - by