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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    el a eal Lia tbe dee Ses HON arenes Plutarch de daentat.Socrat, 368 Archaologi« Attice.Lib.7, asifit had ftood fo farre out,that he could not heare hime felfe when he fneezed. Ousé Aéyes,Ced cca0? Brey wach» & wanter Tis puvds ronu Ot axcis ameyer. Iofomuch that ifaman {neezed at fuch a time.oron fach a fide,they were either perfwaded to,or difcouraged from the bofinefle undettaken. Socrates (as emanéle aris as he was had fo little fenfe himfelfe, asto fetch advice from a nother man’s xofe, and tomake aSneeze ferve infteed ofa genius ora demonium, totell himthe good and the bad: for it did both, according to circumftances.If a manSneex'd in the afternoone it was a good omen:bat ill in the morning and thereafon is difpured by Ariffotle in the Problem:.1f a man Sneezed at table while they were taking away: orif another hapned to foeeze onthe deft hand of a man; then beware all is not right. Bat if it happened on the other hand all was well. If Jmay take Ewphrantides his jodgment, encouraging Zhemiftocles his Souldiers to fight,upon no o- ther ground then {uch a fneeze,aua H aiaeuds cu Seesav eoupnve, Such a {neeze while Xenophon was making his {peech, was enough to make him a Generall. But another, while he petlwaded the Souldiers to fight, was to them {ach an uF men of ill luck,that they were fane to noncu pate a publique vote forthe expiation of it. However (I think) ordinarily it was reckon‘d for goodsas in Homer that of Telemachus was, prefently after a {peech made of Vly ffes his rcturne, and res vengiog himfelfe of his of his enemies, Os 92 Te, Ag uanes JV Ley salapeye—and fo Pz- nelope tooke it {for faies the, laughing and rejoycing) Ov Conaséucs ues erew]ace racwémon, And the reafon may be becaufe {neezing is commonly healthy and wholfome, comes adts:? which perchance was underftood by the aforefaid Ex- phrantidesswhen headded {zw 58 Somplay 72 wvink ree to%s “Exo, Bot now at laft rmuft tell you of this way of di- vining too (as I did of the former) that it was long agoe lighted