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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    Vi i Pag,12. k In $p>cile. g'is. /Strabo & Pauf. Iocis priei. a Varro a pud Auguft.l. 18. c. 9. de fivit. Dei. if In Th m. p. 87* 1. (t*sb» ^ Archrfologidt Attics* Lib* r. Cap. 1. terafeafon, and Cecrops having married the Daughter of Athene, glories in his Cecropia(and Athens Cecropu,andCe- crop* civitat, and after that Cranaa, from Crananthe King that fucceeded him Ithis Cranitts among other of his daugh- ters.had one / Atthu, from whom alfo was derived Atiht and Attica,next Pofidcnia and Minerva, from Neptune and Pallas An this region flood Athens,Queen of Greece,10 called from that viftory which Minerva got over Neptune, when Cecrops moved with a Prodigie oi a fudden (hooting up of an Olive, and bubling forth of a laic fprwg in the Acropolis, confulted the Oracle of ApoV.o, who taught them that the one did {i£nifieM/>t#»f,and the other /Ww.nvt.taking there¬ fore the men into fnffrages for Neptune, and the women for Minerva, who had mod voices fhould carrie it.The females being more, the Qoddefs bore away the Bell. Lo acre a wit¬ ty Dwel to bring in ^ XwV *«<,Gods of his own making,to infold the fuperftitious in an ignorant zeal. However let us leave the fhadow of poetical fiftions,& take the true draught out of Mt thole pie, Plutarch is of opinion that the ancient Kings, driving to draw away their Subjefts rrom feafaring negotiations.and a defire to live by failing, unto ullage and manuring of ground, gave oecafion of the fpeech that peunezni Minerva did altercate aboutMthe City. *H Neptune is put for the Sea, and bufineffes thereof Minerva for Arts and ingenious kind of life, nayfaies Ovtd m his Ka- \ender,MilleDea eft operum,(he isGoddefs o. a 1 oooTrade,. Others fay that the City was confecrated to her by Amphs- clyon,& nomen civitati Athenas dedit. c Juftm.Others in the time of EreElhetu, among which is Herodotus, will have this name given. Wch Author d Marcianm Heracleotedoth foj- low, o-Ayuno xei><“< *1*^* 'T T A . * rUo' •n&anyeuM AttMr.This was that E reft bent,who in a time of drought over all the world excepttsEgjpt, brought Corn to \thens,znd taught ihz E leufinian M,sltri:t 3dw\iing this Cicy hath been to v£g]pt for other Kings-, to wit, e Cecrops and Memthem; foe bis Father Petes was an Egyptian. In the time of Diodorm Siculus ,%nd before him it was a receiv-