An Account of the remains of the worship of Priapus : lately existing at Isernia, in the kingdom of Naples; in two letters : one from Sir William Hamilton ... to Sir Joseph Banks ... : and the other from a person residing at Isernia : to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus : and its connexion with the mystic theology of the ancients / By R.P. Knight.

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1786
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Credit: An Account of the remains of the worship of Priapus : lately existing at Isernia, in the kingdom of Naples; in two letters : one from Sir William Hamilton ... to Sir Joseph Banks ... : and the other from a person residing at Isernia : to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus : and its connexion with the mystic theology of the ancients / By R.P. Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 124 ] guttural afpirate, and adds it arbitrarily to Iiis words to make them more folemn and fonorous.* The guttural afpirates and hilling terminations more par- ticularly belonged to the ^Eolic dialect, from which the Latin was derived ; wherefore we need not won- der, that the fame word, which by the Dorians and lonians was written and E^f, Ihould by the ^olians . be written or Ceres, the Greeks always accom- modating their orthography to their pronunciation. In an ancient Bronze at Strawberry-Hill this God- defs is reprefented fitting, with a Cup in,one hand, and various forts of Fruits in the other; and the Bull, the emblem of the power of the Creator, in her lap.d* This compoBtion Ihews the frudtification of the Earth by the defcent of the creative Spirit in the fame man- ner as defcribed by Virgil. Vere tument terrae, & genitalia femina pofcunt; Turn Pater omnipotens foecundis imbribus aether Conjugis in gremium laetas defcendit, & omnes Magnus alit, magno commixtus corpore, foetus. J jTther and Water are here introduced by the Poet as the two prolific elements, which fertilize the Earth, I * As in the word Jktto?, ufually written by him -j- See Plate VIII. Fig. i.
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