A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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by him, and depended vpon his resolution.
[Footnote r: _Philostratus de vita Apollonius lib. 6. cap. 13._] And thus the [s]Image of _Memnon_, when the Sunne did shine vpon it, and his beames touched the lips thereof, (which was at the arising in the East) speake vnto them who were present. [Footnote s: _Sophocles in Trachinijs vocat +drun poluglôsson+, quia ut eius Scholiastes interpretatur +êtoi polla manteuomenos, kai dia touto polla phthengomenos, ê tês diaphorais dialektais chrêsmodêsês kai kata tên hekasta tôn manteuomenôn glôssan.+ Et hinc Argo Lycophron in Alexandra sua +lalêtrin kissan+ nominat quæ ex Didones quercu malum habuisse traditur quæ aliqoties locuta est vt apud Apollonium Argonautic+ô+n quarto ideo & +eulalon Argos+ Orpheus appelat, vide plura apud Strabonem lib. 17. & eius de hoc sono iudicium perpende. Pausanias in descriptione decem regionum veteris Græciæ, libro primo in Atticis. Iuuenalis Satyro 15. Psellus de Dæmonum natura. Tacitus libro secundo Annalium._] And considering, as hath beene mentioned before, that there passeth betweene the Witch and her Diuell, a compact, as with a Maister and a Seruant, it must therefore consist vppon prescript tearmes of commaunding, and obeying; and then of necessity is required a conuersing together; and conference whereby the same couenant may be ratified. _The sixt Proposition._ |
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