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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    a footed froole upon the hole, anda Maid upon ir confecrated fora Prieftefle , whofe common name was Pythia, and ber office to put te Oracle into verfe and deliveritout. For f faies P futal ch 1 ) the moras are hers, epi Anelle Tas gavlecies ma« Lien; » Ofa Whifpering like with the bellowes to fet her thofé D2’ 2S23 an //aiahc. , . Where he fpeaks of fach ¢yagipartes or belly Pro hets that peepe 306 mutters AL eive fonh as the Pythiawas, outoft hs fe setts the ‘Di vell (pake iio dd he Ee his Prophefics wi.ha {mall peeping voycelikeachid’s. But did ir hh fief: that Prophet in another place comes neerer to as, laying,thou fed Chriftia foalt My eak out of the ground, ana thy [pe eres be low out of 2 3 60 Ro : Towne serie F OWE the duft andat shy woyce fhall be as one that Psi amiliar [pirte, ge Bar mun ; bC.29.0.4. Ht of the ground,and thy {beech foall Wwhifper out bokrbe duft. Now fome fay the Tripus auieted tit fpake, wasa pot filled with du ft, thorow which the afflatus, the wicked infbiration, W35tO paffe into the belly of the Wench, and fo to go forth at her mouth for an Oracle. And therefore it is that thofe Prophets Plutarch. de whieh in shofetime es had a familiar (pirit withinthem, were Orac, de fec ? commonly called by the name of mnerewey QT, & seppopray]es aS cAnd Euri- well as xuSwres, and © ’Euppeads the manner of her fitting &c. clide from when fhe took t he/piricio , becaufe it may not fo fly be exs Eurycles 3 prefled in Englifh, J defire to Bive youitia the words of the Prophet of d Scholiaft,’ Em oh 2 InUs wn te Si od? H, , » Neue 0 ze let oun UE ESV xa, Tesey that name, YSp Le d) fa Sid y: epuye 6d P eds AJo “Lo ele av. x) —ibhe Bio ALE Ay uae, %) agesy Ch a Ariftoph, in Te scuaT® cmrpmygow x, udlvuce, TAs WAY Tela bh UAV WaT ley eg rth She was no fooner infpired but fhe fell a tearing her haire.an running round, ple ine > atthe mouth, and cutting her Ae fh as bad as ever the Prophe 8 Of Baal did. Laétanzius thus Speaks of their geftures, Settis nama, humerts & ntvag, manw diftrittos glaaios exerentes currant, efferantur, infaninne. But this peeping may not make me prepo fterous : and therefore J. will cell you more of che Wench and the Tripus. The firft Maids name that Prophecied in that place, was Phenomene. Allthe reft were young Virgins , as the was, till Echecratesa Theflalian Avia. _ es The fal id Wome fii