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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$Lib. i.Setf. fllib.j.c.*. h JEUafl, Var. c &then 1,14. Rofin, 334 Acch*ohgi& Attica lutkie either in their nature, or the place they appeared in f were called ^Oior ttuc Wuchas were iurip.’mUcc. fently>ot nnfi^htly as we ufe to (ay ibut appeared ^ |JViC*,(as Av£fcty!m has it Jin their proper (fkeare at feat fucb they counted Doves,and the in matters of Love * as thcy did the Cocks, if they kept a continual! crowing in * matters of War. Forhereupon the Augures once foretold the Thebans a vi&ory, Propter ea quod avis ilia viBafelere [0- leret, canert, ft viciflet. Cock-fightings indeed were ufually ftydiio>\ faith ^ esfrtimedortsSi fignes of [edition and dif- ]cord. But then you muft except the Cock matches kept once a year in the Theatre, and inttituted by \>Themiftocles after the vidory gotten over the Perfians , from them c the Cock fir ft came into A thens. .This bird being alvvayes very much Iookt upon in matters of Warre, was the occafion that Marswis pi&ured with aCock; infomuch that it was thcic ordinary facrifice to Mars, and therefore Anflophanes in Avibtu calls it Aps®- viH** Mars his own bird.All birds, faith ^X.dnAti’ftofhQjjg J were either yL*vTiK&,or iiamug, ( I believe ) were not many befides Crowes, and Eagles, and Doves and Owies the moft noted of all. Some of them are thought to have had a kind of language • which the Augures came to underhand by being lickt by Snakes, or fome fuch venemous and veneneficall meancs: flljyi credit ifta ( faies FU*'f>& MehmpodiprofeBo aures;lmbendo dediffe lntelleBum Lib.io.ct49* aviiiin [ermonis Dracones non abnuet,velqua Democritus tram 4ft nominando^ves quarum confafof anguine ferpent gignatur, quern fi quifquam ed(rit, inte lie Burns fit avium colUquia. Eu» flattens faies, that Helenas and Cajfandra were thus licked cleane into Augures,e*€*« kr*^ AlinavO- *op~ rjzov 'i\Mirn<ope*< 4^ m'tZv t« #W{ %un\u«4 > s7Btv™ 4 I am glad I am faved ■ ; ■ the labour to reprove thofe fellows my felf. For it feems that the vvifer fort even amongfi them , did give but little heed to the wagging of a feather, or of a bird's taile, when they bad amind to beferious.Lookein Homer, and you (hall &na'iHeBor thus chiding with Poly damns the Theban An* *$

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