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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    “rie Archeologia Attice Lib. 2,Cap,tt, 89 with more plaies then one, Mos antem Tragicorum Greco~ yum fait Athenis, wt modo fingulis committerent fabulas , wods plures, {aies 7 Cafauben: Sometimein the fame yeare three, z De Satyrica and then was it called zpsaco/z: fometime foure,& then they Poefi p.131. filed it rereadozi2,* Te 4} rer ]aee Acduare nardn TET P A- AoTIA. Whereof,faies mine Author,the fourth was a Saty- ricall play,the three others now treating of. the fortunes of one and the fame man,as thofe of AUfchylus,named therefore a Laertius loco citato. oy ‘a Oreftia, to Wit, Ajauzuvoy. Xongoess. Evgwides. Which are all 2 extant;the fourth was Protews Satyricws. At other times they te were not of the lame fubje&, as chat of Eripides. Medea. 27 a | Philogetes. Didys. The fourth was cecu?, faiesthe Author a | of theargument to Medea. Where the interpreter feems to me | me not to reach to the expreflion of the Greek word O¢excu?, me EdweG-; Meffores, Satyros ; he ought to have rendredic thus, ine Meffores , DrammaSatyricum. Forthat the word bears this bedi fence is (ufficiently dilucidated by ¢ Cafaubon. That the grea- , 54 24 (Ita | teft task of adtion lay on theChorws,is as apparent as the Sun he ‘a | atnoone. The number of them in Comecdies were twenty | foure,and fix jaga Ceach jugum confifting of foure; but seizes mated foure,each oi, @ fix men)in Tragocdies fifty,untill the time Th of Ai{chylus his Eumenides, the number of which fo terrified cet the People, chat the children and younger fore fainted, and ¢ Author vie a | the women fuffered abortion;for which reafon, (aies Pollux. tx Afchyli. Tr | the number was leffened ( which fome deny) by law. They a | were by the A ‘% brought to fiftéene, five juga: F fay juga, bee biting caufe they were divided into sviyus, & Cuzd. Zudy was when ’ the Chorus entred by chree,& then ic was called x7! 2ujd m- e9SG-,by file SiG, when they came on the ftage in rankey five aca time;& chisthey terme x2! solves. Sometime one of them entred alone, which they fay x28’ ¢ve. Of interlocutors the ancients for the moft part never had above three;butifa fourch{pake, that they named dep iifiuasand if the Chorus fupplied the part of a fourth aGor, it was tiled @oacubsroy. To {peak of the feverall verfes of Tragedies, is adum sate | an