A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research / [Thomas Pownall].

Thomas Pownall

Date:: 1782

Credit: A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research / [Thomas Pownall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Homer fays, that the night-hawk was called by the men cumlndis; but by the gods calchh\ now callea$ is in Welfli this very bird. The fa6t here reverfes my deduct ion. The poet fays, there was a Taphos In the plain of Troy, which the gods called the tomb of Myrinne, while men called it limply Batteia : Now Beth in Wellh is a grave, and Beddiad (the fame as Bettiat) is in the plural a colleftive burying-place. The,people thus called this burial Taphos by its generical name, while the gods in naming it had reference to fome old ftory of its being a burying-place of merchants, who came there formerly to trade with this foreign people. Horappollo fays, that the fymbol in piclure-writing for mer- chants trading in foreign parts, was the Mupc/Jm^ or lamprey. Homer in his Odyffee gives the name of a medicinal plant as called by the gods Moli. He does not mention any diftinft name by which men called it. ]\loft likely they adopted the name when they learnt and adopted the ufe of it, fo as to call it by the fame. There was a fecret in ga- thering this plant known only to the gods;$