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

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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    Farther Additaments concerning PREepic- TIONS; “FATALITY, APPARITIONS, &c. From the ‘various Hiftory of fELIAN. Rendered out of the Greek Original. By Mr. T. igh SB HE. wifdom A tae Borie Magi was (befides other things proper to them) converfant in prediction: they foretold the cruelty of. Ochus towards his fubjects, and his bloody difpofition, which they collected from fome fecret figns. For when Ochus, upon the death of his father Artaxerxes, came to the crown, the Magi charged one of the Eunuchs that were next him, to obferve upon what things, when the table was fet before him, he firft laid hands; who watching in- tentively, Ochus reached forth both his hands, and with his right, laid hold of a knife that lay by, with the other, took a great loaf, which he laid upon the meat, and did cut and eat greedily.. The, Magi, hearing this, foretold. that there would be plenty during his reign, and.much blood fhed. In which they erred not. | It
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