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

Date:: 1675

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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$detaining the (hips at AM, and Apollo affliding the people with a PeftiWnce , but telling the number of years that the war Oiould laft3by the number of Sparrows deftroyed by the Serpent in theneft.as Cicero renders the verfes. ^ Nam quot aves retro maUatns dente vi^etts Tot r.os adTrojam bdlt cxjwtUbwus anmr Vo* decirno cad^t, & p*.na fadabit Achivos. And yec as cunning as he was, he died for grief, becaufe he could not tell how many Pigs were in the belly of a Sow ( fay feme ) or how many pigs upon the Pig tree ( faith He- fiod) which Mo?fa, with whom he.contefted was able to cell.Tbc name they called it by was, 'cpmZzucunfaor c/virwi, It was at fir ft with an omicron, according to Plato,z 9 being 6f ra tyji**oi*t *'»<*;: but now ( faith Arif}ides) they write itwkh omega rl 2 nptJ.vovn^to oive the better qrace to the word: and it is ftill ufed as the old word was,for any kind of divination-as o??/*>and o)a,)i a bird, are for any other ominous thing Now among the the Greeks it was the Augur** fafhion to wear a white garment( whereas- kwas Purple, or Scarlet, among the Latines. ) and to have clean izrieiov his place and bis feat appointed for the purpofe, t&j JfeAmigpn* btoKM,, El$ yi 7&Kcudv 3t5^/9> iCpv Sates he in Sophocles. And the Seboliaft upon the word idm, in Eu¬ ripides faies, it was a place made in Thebes, where Tinfiat ufed to fit and divine. When they wtnt to it d diurono'mi « JV\7ois ‘tcnt/j.HHVT* rcctc f (aith the fame Scho]iail^ doubting their memory might not ftrdncc.tbey carried their Table bcel^s with them,and wrote down the name, and the flight of the Bird; and every thing belonging thereto. This and the fed*g too Tire fiat being blind, and only able to fore-fa, and judge of things as they were told him, was fain to ha ve his daugh¬ ter to do for him: by which means fhe berfelf at length, after the death of her father, became very famous at Thebes for her skill in the art. Yea not only the habit of the Greek Augusts , but their manner of obferving was diflferentfrom other people. JjW, quod aliis emits* utnhtser, et!w {fast* ? i * * ' “1'“- Aliterc$

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