ISBN: 9781231081594

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 172 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 172 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1789 Excerpt: . . . them with a bite. O holy nations, for whom are born in gardens 10 These deities! Every table abstains from animals bearing Wool: it is there unlawful to kill the offspring of a she-goat, But lawful to be fed with human flesh. When Ulysses Was teHing, at supper, such a deed to the astonishd huntress. Juvenal seems to mistake here, for Herodotus observes that Diana was worshipped in that country under the name of Bubastis; which adoration, under another name, might occasion this mistake. But fee Ainsw. Bubastis. 9. A fin to violate a leek, and c. Perhaps our poet, here, goes a little beyond the strict truth, to heighten the ridicule, though there might be possibly some foundation for such an opi-, nion, from the scrupulous abstinence of some of that nation from particular vegetables, as lentils, beans, and onions, the latter of which the priests abominated, as some pretend, because Dictys, who had been brought up by Isis, was dro. vned in seeking after them; or rather, because onions alone, of all plants, thrive when the moon is in the wane. See Ant. Univ. Hist. vol. i. p. 484. --For the religion of gypt, fee also Ib. p. 467, and seq. ; 1 and Abr. of Hutchinson, p. 122. 10. 0 holy nations, and c Meaning the various parts of gypt, whose worship of leeks and onions he has just mentioned. This sarcasm is very natural after what he has said. 11. Every table, and c i. e. They never eat sheep, or lambs. 12. Offspring of a Jhe-goat. i. e. A kid. The hatred ot the gyptians to the Israelites, both as shepherds and as Hebrews, is supposed to have arisen from the latter killing and sacrificing those beasts, which were held sacred and worlhippcd in gypt. See Gen. xliii. 32; and xlvi. 34. See Ant. Un. Hist vol iii. p. 358, B. 13. Hum. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<