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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    ee Ss ee 5 bi Se = ~ ~ ¢ Loco laud. 88 “Urchedloeie Attice Lib. 2. Cap.A1. nes cals wesfegpery oy myaxtors the mot excellent firft, the next to him fecond,and next to him third ( which was no {mall praife,according to that’ of Quimilian,as 1 remember, Hone- fiun eft in fecundis tertiifve confiftere ), and. no other. For which caufe! fuppofe the Poets before reciting, were wont to facrifice, and pray for the favour of the Judges and fpe- &ators. * Ariffophan. Our om Tens THO YIKAV TOS KPL]aNS, Kal wis bells ain --- Where the Scholiaft interprets Suyups truly asit isto be underftood,%u,euat, to fupplicate. And good reafon.For if they pleafed not the people in reci- t Lib.6.c. 19. 202. x AL{chines contra Cte- fiph:p. 98. * Beintfius Prolegom. ¢ Sat.P of. y Platone p. 220. riftophanes points,faying = ¥% Adonero'; nay fometime would they hiffle chem, which they terme nate & ovelr en , fome- time flamp them out of the Theater,which they call zJecve- nomeiy,oy * Pollux interpreted sfbnia & a épvans xg. rakp sev. ANO* ther difference is that the Comick Judges were punithed if they jadged not right, the Tragick not fo.And for thefe rea- fons have fome conjectured, nay pofitively written,that their Judges were of two forts, old and new , in which matter, if there be place for a conjeCture,maine is, that they cofounded both,making no odds between the Critick Judgesof Tra- ecedies and Comedies But of this, Reader, you may deter- mine as your Author® fhall afford authority. Before Judges, as I fajd, the Poets in emulation prefented their labours,and they who ia theic opinion loft the day,werefaid * txmafev, by Cafaubon interpreted non ftare. Thetime of exhibiting cheir Tragedies, were the holy daies of Bacchus called Diony- fiain agris,or Lenga,in the month Po/fideen,on the Anthesteria, or Dion fain Lymn, in the month Anthefterien, On Dicny- fia in urbe in the month Elapbebolion, towhich ].find added the Panathenea by Thralylusiny Leertins, which fome den yet the fame write that when Sophocles exhibited but pale was at this feftivall.l fay but one, becaufe it was acoftome among the Potts ofancient daies to entertaine their . with a pen <I apeteneeptenee tM te ee a sere RT LEN ° CPR YS xe