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Pys-mantia the mag-astromancer, or the magicall-astrologicall-diviner, posed, and puzzled / [John Gaule].
- Gaule, John, 1604?-1687
- Date:
- 1652
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pys-mantia the mag-astromancer, or the magicall-astrologicall-diviner, posed, and puzzled / [John Gaule]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![abduit his houfhold Gods ( which the diviners feared for omi- nous ) that he defperately made himfelfe away. Nicias the Athenian Captain was fo exceeding fearful of the portent of an ecclipfé, nat he fate ftill and faffered himfelfe to be environed by bis €nemies: and fo betrayed both’ himfelfe and 40000. fouldiers to deftrudtion. : Pomeralius ( by his predi&tions .) was the caufe of a great flaughter to Conftatine the fonne of Irene : and of ‘his own death to boot. Stethatus ( accounted the chiefe Attrologer of his time ) by a foolith vaticination, brought deftru@ion both to Akexius andhimelfe. EmznnelConnucau the Emperour, much addi&ed ro this madneffe, timely (befides the perpetuall infamy) brought himfelfe,and 2 great Navy to utter confufiom Peter Leonius,a Phyfician,by his vaine confidence of the Mathes maticks,gave occafion to the death of Laurence de Medices, and’ his own after that. Andronicus having made fomewhat too fevere anedi&, not onely againft Conjurers, and Necromancers, but againft all their relations : to redeem the hatred of fuch feverity,he began to encourage,and confult them himfelfe. And enquiring about his Succeffor, the magicall diviner ufed his featsin water; and there was feen written backward (Si for I/- ) the two firft letters of his fucceffors name. Noting Z/sciws, that lew him and ‘raigned in his ftead Didius Iulianus making the like in- uifition by a glaffe , achild looking in it, obferved Iulians fliaphier ind the fucceflion of Severs. So was Iulian the Apox tate deluded by his diviners to ‘his utter deftru@ion. Orhs Sylvius was led on by his predi&ing Aftrologers, to ufurpation, andriot, and'tokill himfelfe defperately at laft. Maxentius was {o deluded (by his prognofticators) with affu- rance of vi&tory,that he went on confidently,but was vanguithe: and perifhed. Licinius called together his Augurs, Aigyprian dis viners, Necromancers, Veneficks, praltigious facrificers, and pfeudoprefagers, to enquire what thould be the fuccefle of the warre againtt omftantine. They all at once prediG&ed vidory without doubt. The inchanters made odes, and rimes; the: Auzures prefignified happy fuccefle, by the flight of birds: fo did the Arufpicall facrificulifts from tthe intrayles: and thus they made him confident to his vanquifhment, flight, and ex- tream confufion.. Ttalicns ‘4 wd Ks ee ie = * . — - - =x - %] “ - BON ch ASA ts Wis tht Zi ZAMS fs | SS cis ae Wo. ZAb -_ IR IRS ARN efi “ARN @ fk “ZAR Ma AIS. ~~ fit AN nfo * AN.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30328962_0002_0415.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
