A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

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1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    They employ’d it fymboiicaily : Ubi fa- cris initiatur (qua Leonttca vocant) quis, Aqua locOj in Manus Mel affundehant, ab omnibus Noxiis, Sceleribufque ac TriJIitiam inferentibus fic expur gar i arbitr antes. When any was admitted into the facred Orders called Leontic, they poured Honey, inftead of Wa¬ ter, upon his Hands, as believing he would thus be focured from Mifchief, Sin and Me¬ lancholy : And they fcoured his Tongue with Honey from all wicked Pollution. Linguam item Me lie detergebant ab omni \Peccati labe. They fo much apply’d it to facred Ufes, that tho’ they ufed to offer to feveral Deities fuch Animals as were peculiar to them, as Arno bins hath it (l. 7. p, 265*.) llle Tauris PDeuSi Hadis alius honoretur\ aut Ovibus: Hie lablentibus Porculis : Alter intonfs Agnis. Hie virginibus Bubulis: Capris Me comatis, &c. One God was honoured with Bulls, another with Goats, or Sheep, &'e. And fo there was a Divifion of Animals among the Gods; yet Honey almoft always made one thing in their Sacrifices, to which God feever they were offered. Maimonides lets us know, that the Gentiles anointed their Sacrifices with Honey. ‘Plato ft. 6. de Legib.) faith, in the fir ft Ages they did not facrifice Animals, but Fruits, and Flowers, and Honey. Athenaus (\Deipn. 65.) reports that the Grecians facrificed to the Sun Honey. Rho~ F z digin
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