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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abandon_v	carthage_n	enclosure_n	34	3	11.6616	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54666	Antiquitas theologica & gentilis, or, Two discourses the first, concerning the original of churches and their direct or collateral endowments : the second, touching the religion of the gentiles, their temples, priests, sacrifices and other ancient rituals : work necessary for divines, lawyers, antiquaries, historians and poets / by Thomas Philipot ...	Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1990; ESTC R894	37,666	180

helping and hurting which ●●us incorporated he saith are ●●iled by the Egyptians Statuas ●nimatas spiritu sensu plenas The sum of all this Mystery is ●hat Images are made as Bodies 〈◊〉 be inform'd with Daemons as ●ith Souls so that an Image ●as but an Ambush or Engine 〈◊〉 catch Daemons and an Arti●●e so to oblige them to a place ●at they might keep them from ●●ndoning it And this was 〈◊〉 reason they bound their I●●ges with such massie Ligatures and Chains hoping that by these Restraints and Confinements they might so oblige them to fix their residence in those Receptacles that no Charm or Magical Address might seduce them to desert that place or station they were not only engaged to protect but likewise to assert A Transcript of which Charm or Address as it is set down by Macrobius i● his Saturnalia is here represented the Words made to speak English are these that follow And thou especially whosoever thou art the Patron of this City and People I pray and beseech and with your leave require you to abandon the People and City of Carthage t● forsake the Places Temples Ceremonies and Enclosures of their City to go away from them and to strike some terrour and astonishment into that People and City and having left it to come to Rome to me and mine and that our Cities Places Temples Ceremonies be more acceptable and better lik'd of you and that you would take the charge of me of the People of Rome and of my Souldiers or as we may know and understand it if you do so I vow to build you Temples and to appoint solemn Sports for you When they invok'd the Infernal Gods to depart a City they touch'd the Surface of the Earth when they mention'd the Supernal Deities they erected their hands to Heaven when they recited their Vow they affix'd their hands to their Brests And indeed this may appear a probable reason why God so frequently in the sacred Pages with the menace of the severest penalties and other formidable prohibitions does deter the Jews from framing any Graven Images to bow down before them and worship them because the universal Assertion of the Gentiles was their Gods or Daemons were Tenants to those graven Mansions I should now represent a Register of those Tutelary Deities the Gentiles stil'd their Dii Minores or Daemons or Dii Medioxumi or Deastri but before I advance farther in this Discourse I shall make some compendious Remarques on those they call'd their Dii Majores or their greater and more eminent Deities and then subjoin a Catalogue of the other As for the Dii Majores that were the Protectors and Tutelary Guardians of the Grecian States they were circumscrib'd within a narrow Circle their whole Number swelling but to a List of twelve Namely Jupiter Juno Saturn Sol or Apollo Luna or Diana Mars Mercury Minerva or Pallas Neptune Pluto or Orcus Vulcan by them stil'd Mulciber and lastly Venus or Urania or Lilithia or Anaitis for so she was named by the Phoenicians Syrians and Arabians To whom the Romans superadded these eight viz. Bereinthia or Cybele or Vesta for under all these Appellations she was adored by the Romans which flowed from one and the same Deitie Coelus Ops or Tellus Bacchus Alcides or Hercules Ceres and lastly Proserpina and Janus Now to some of these they gave special Attributes some of the principal of which I shall now recite Jupiter by the Romans was called Jupiter Stator or Jupiter the Stayer because in a Fight between Romulus and Tatius King of the Sabins when the Romans began to retreat Romulus vowed to erect a Temple to him under that Attribute if he would infuse new courage into the faint and drooping Romans and stop the flight of the one and the victorious progress of the other which accordingly say the Roman Historians being effected Romulus paid and accomplish'd his Vow and Jupiter in subsequent Ages was in that devoted Temple ador'd under that Notion Secondly He was nam'd Jupiter Lapis hence per Jovem Lapidem jurare does frequently occur in the Roman Antiquities now the reason of this Attribute was this In those publick Contracts the Romans entred into either with their Allies or Enemies they cast away a Stone with this Imprecation annex'd to it May Jupiter that is the great Witness to this solemn Contract so reject and cast away us as we do now this Stone if we by a false and injurious violation infringe this signal and publick Stipulation In relation to this practice of theirs Grotius in his Treatise De Jure Belli Pacis discourses excellently well his words are these Qui per Lapidem jurat says he si falsum juraverit perjurus est quia non te audit Lapis loquentem sed punit Deus fallentem And in another place he subjoins this reason to fortifie what he had discoursed of before Neque honos ullus deberi potest Deo says he si nihil praestet colenti nec ullus metus si non irascitur non colenti Thirdly He was Jupiter Labradeus from his being portray'd or insculp'd on ancient Coins and Images holding an Axe or Hatchet which amongst the Grecians was the Symbol and amongst the Egyptians the Hierogliphick of Justice Fourthly He had the Appellation of Jupiter Pistor or the Baker and the reason of this Attribute was because when the Gauls had besieged the Capitol and much distressed the Garrison Jupiter instructed the Romans in their sleep to fling out their Bread to them which caused the Gauls to abandon the Siege believing the Capitol to be well furnish'd and stock'd with Provision to secure it against the Distresses of an approaching Famine He had other Epithetes of less Estimate some of which I shall reflect upon and the rest entomb in silence as Nenius God of Hospitality Philus God of Love Neterius God of Fellowship Homogenius God of Kindred Phratrius God of Tribes Enhoreius God of Oaths to intimate to us what a respectful or cautious regard men should have of Hospitality Love Fellowship Kindred Tribes and Oaths But he had two signal Attributes bestowed upon him by the Gentiles namely Jupiter Teretrius and Elicius Jupiter Teretrius was call'd so from the Globous Figure of the Earth which is teres rotundus and which he is insculp'd with in ancient Coins sometimes supporting it in his hand and sometimes treading upon it with his Foot or rather from terendo Hostes from wasting and destroying the Enemies of the Roman Grandeur Secondly He was stil'd Jupiter Elicius ab eliciendo Suppetias because when the Romans were engag'd in perplexed difficulties he rescued them from those prejudices by an extraordinary Supply and Support Juno likewise had several Titles attributed to her She was stil'd Nebo and Baaltiis amongst the Assyrians and Soticena Sospitatrix and Opipena amongst the Romans because she was favourable and helpful to Women in the agony and pangs of Child-birth hence that usual Address of the teeming