Archæologiæ Atticæ libri septem. Seven books of the Attick antiqvities. Containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and towns within the Athenian territories. their religion, superstition, sacrifices. account of the year, a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rovs ... With an addition of their customs in marriages, burials, feastings, divinations, &c. in the foure last bookes. By Zachary Bogan.

  • Francis Rous
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1658
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Credit: Archæologiæ Atticæ libri septem. Seven books of the Attick antiqvities. Containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and towns within the Athenian territories. their religion, superstition, sacrifices. account of the year, a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rovs ... With an addition of their customs in marriages, burials, feastings, divinations, &c. in the foure last bookes. By Zachary Bogan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRM SOS ARP WicRiePTERE SOI REO ERNOO Re. oe SEE a ROP 120 Archeologia Attice Lib: 3: Cap: 3: in caufes capital] an other proceeding,like to that intheCi- ty of Venice; whire they gave two fentences. In the firft they aContaren: determined whether they fhould condemne or free: Ifin mae Ven: the firft he was condemned, the. manner of punifhment was ‘3 ordained in the fecond But if in the firft thay found no caufe of death,they bad the accufed co fine himfelfe, which 4 Ye- , — nophon intimates by vaenuay, & if ic were too little theJud- b Apolog: : Socr:p:263. gesdoubrlefle made it more, as the® Scholiaft of Ariftopha- nes; if] forget not: The cuftome is fetdown by Cicero, {peaking of Socrates: Ergo ille quog, damnatus ef ec. Andhe c De Orat:1, too was condemned; not only by the fir ft fuffrages, but alfo fol.61.b, by thofe which by the appointment of the Lawes they were to give the fecond time. For in Athens the accufed being found guilty if the offence were capitall, they weighed and confidered thepenalty. When the fentence was to be givenby the Judges they asked the defendant, what he thoughc himfelfe to have deferved to forfeit, &c.(In the Ve- netian Common-wealth thisis not obferved.) In tryall if there be more for the prifoners liberty then againft him,he is ... fteeight acquited,but if more then halfe be in the pot of con- pepeesis ng demnation he fuffers. 4 Socrates at the firft had two hundred ion vl eighty and one more againft him, then on his fide;& at the next eighty more were added to the former,fo in all he had three hundred threefcore and one condemnatory fuffrages, But fewer might have done as much.For we read in in ¢ Des mosthenes of Cimon like topunnifhed with death. ug¢ gpe%< f Pag.430, 18 Ligue, if theree had not been wanting.And againe f ge¢is ) udvor Ligor Subbeyxay 78 wi Surdro nuiout.Nay one was fuf- ficient, * Demofthene. Mid pavoy dadvar Lipw But Vlpian bAriftoph.p, °F the place dcse mixedy MSbvae tiuwelay, faies that he was 244, lightly punnithed. If the voices were equal], then was the prifoner loofed; becaufe fometimes he might be accufed up- on fufpition; or of thofe things which he did not willingly i Probl.Jun. commit, or perhaps was {ued out of envy, and many other x6. reafons given by i Ariffotle: therefore did the reuplier Cave ¢Pag.436, g Pag,338, jar (ot jane ive id! 5 the veil ciel yew s¢ fupp Jug