Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GO eh eT eh _ A thing fomething parallel to this we read in the Roman hiftories: that, that very day four years, that the civil wars were begun by Pompey the father, Cafar made an end of them with his fons ; Cneius Pompeius being then flain, and it being alfo the laft bartle Cafar was ever in. (Heylin in the kingdom of Corduba.) The calender to Ovid's Fafto- rum, fays, Aprilis erat menfis Gracis aufpicatif- fimus, a moft aufpicious month among the Gracians. As to evil days and times; fee Amos s, 1% and6, 3. Ecclef. 9, 12.: Pfal. 37, 19.. Obad. 12. Jer..46, 21. And Job hints it, in curfing his birth-day. Cap. “3, v. 1, 10, rr. See Weaver, p. 458. Farly in a morning In an evil tyming, Went they from Dunbar. Horace, lib. 2. Ode 13. Curfing the tree that had like to have fallen upon him, fays, ite nefafto te pofuit die; intimating that it was planted in an unlucky day. The Romans counted Feb. 13, an unlucky day, and therefore then never attempted any bufinefs’
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