Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the MarvellousE. Churton, 1835 - 362 pàgines |
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Pàgina 46
... Cicero's time this mode of divination was at a very low ebb . The sortes Homerica and sortes Virgiliana which succeeded the sortes Prænestine , gave rise to the same means used among chris- tians of casually opening the sacred books for ...
... Cicero's time this mode of divination was at a very low ebb . The sortes Homerica and sortes Virgiliana which succeeded the sortes Prænestine , gave rise to the same means used among chris- tians of casually opening the sacred books for ...
Pàgina 51
... Cicero in the following manner : " A peasant , " says he , " ploughing in the field , his plough- share running pretty deep in the earth , turned up a clod , from whence sprung a child , who taught him and the other Tuscans the art of ...
... Cicero in the following manner : " A peasant , " says he , " ploughing in the field , his plough- share running pretty deep in the earth , turned up a clod , from whence sprung a child , who taught him and the other Tuscans the art of ...
Pàgina 57
... Cicero supposes the Pythoness was inspired , or rather intoxicated by certain vapours which ascended from the cave . Some say that the Pythoness being once debauched , the oracles were afterwards delivered by an old woman in the dress ...
... Cicero supposes the Pythoness was inspired , or rather intoxicated by certain vapours which ascended from the cave . Some say that the Pythoness being once debauched , the oracles were afterwards delivered by an old woman in the dress ...
Pàgina 67
... Cicero , who ridicules it in his second book of Divination , as if the spirit of prophecy , supposed to be excited by subterranean effluvia , had evaporated by length of time , as wine or pickle by being kept is lost . Suidas ...
... Cicero , who ridicules it in his second book of Divination , as if the spirit of prophecy , supposed to be excited by subterranean effluvia , had evaporated by length of time , as wine or pickle by being kept is lost . Suidas ...
Pàgina 92
... Cicero reckons up three of the names of Escu- lapius . The first the son of Apollo , worshipped in Arcadia , who invented the probe and bandages for wounds ; the second the brother of Mercury , killed by lightning ; and the third the ...
... Cicero reckons up three of the names of Escu- lapius . The first the son of Apollo , worshipped in Arcadia , who invented the probe and bandages for wounds ; the second the brother of Mercury , killed by lightning ; and the third the ...
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