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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 74 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=5mm, Gew.=122gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of th… Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 74 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=5mm, Gew.=122gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ILLUSTRATIONS. Page 82. Ver. 16. Ore the left Reside the f Sages skill'd in Nature's lore: t i. e. The Euvates; one of the three classes of the Druids, according to Am. Marcellinus. Studia liberalium doctrinarura inchoata per Bardos, Euvates, et Druidas. This class, Strabo tells us, had the care of the sacrifices, and studied natural philosophy; which here, by the changeful universe, is shown to be on Pythagorean principles. Whenever the. priests are mentioned in the subsequent parts of the Drama, this order of men is intended to be meant, as distinguished from the Druids and Bards. Page 87. Ver. 12. Thou shalt live; Yet shalt thou live an interdicted wretch, All rights of nature cancell'd. Alluding to the Druidical power of excommunication Note. The above quotations, from antient authors, are here thrown together, in order to support and explain some passages in the Drama of Caractacus, that respect the manners of the Druids; and which, the general account of their customs, to bs found in our histories of Britain, does not include. mentioned by Caesar. Si quis aut privatus, aut publicus, eorum decreto non stetit, sacrificiis interdicunt. Haec poena apud zos est gravissima. Quibus ita est interdic- tum, ii nuniero impiorum ac sceteratorum habentur? neque iis petcntibus jus redditur, neque honos ullus communicatur. Caes. Com. Lib. VI. Page 90. Ver. 15. Are the milk-white steers prepar'd f In the minute description which Pliny gives us of the ceremony of gathering the misletoe, he tells us, they sacrificed two white bulls. See Pliny's Natural History, L. XVI. c. 44, which Dray ton, in his Polyolbion, thus versifies: Sometimes within my shades, in many an ancient wood, Whose often-twined tops great Phoebus' fires withstood, The fearle...<

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William Mason,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books works-of-William-Mason~~William-Mason General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial ac… Mehr…

William Mason,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books works-of-William-Mason~~William-Mason General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ILLUSTRATIONS. Page 82. Ver. 16. Ore the left Reside the f Sages skill'd in Nature's lore: t i. e. The Euvates; one of the three classes of the Druids, according to Am. Marcellinus. Studia liberalium doctrinarura inchoata per Bardos, Euvates, et Druidas. This class, Strabo tells us, had the care of the sacrifices, and studied natural philosophy; which here, by the changeful universe, is shown to be on Pythagorean principles. Whenever the. priests are mentioned in the subsequent parts of the Drama, this order of men is intended to be meant, as distinguished from the Druids and Bards. Page 87. Ver. 12. Thou shalt live; Yet shalt thou live an interdicted wretch, All rights of nature cancell'd. Alluding to the Druidical power of excommunication Note. The above quotations, from antient authors, are here thrown together, in order to support and explain some passages in the Drama of Caractacus, that respect the manners of the Druids; and which, the general account of their customs, to bs found in our histories of Britain, does not include. mentioned by Caesar. Si quis aut privatus, aut publicus, eorum decreto non stetit, sacrificiis interdicunt. Haec poena apud zos est gravissima. Quibus ita est interdic- tum, ii nuniero impiorum ac sceteratorum habentur? neque iis petcntibus jus redditur, neque honos ullus communicatur. Caes. Com. Lib. VI. Page 90. Ver. 15. Are the milk-white steers prepar'd f In the minute description which Pliny gives us of the ceremony of gathering the misletoe, he tells us, they sacrificed two white bulls. See Pliny's Natural History, L. XVI. c. 44, which Dray ton, in his Polyolbion, thus versifies: Sometimes within my shades, in many an ancient wood, Whose often-twined tops great Phoebus' fires withstood, The fearle...<

ISBN: 9781458909916

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