Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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    So Seneca, in CBd. ALL 2. where Or eon fpeaks, Gemina Parnaffi nivalis Arx trucem Sonitum dedit Imminens P hoe baa laurus tremuit & movit domum,. * Incipit lethaavates fpargere horrentes comas, Et pati commota Phoebum. Contigit nondum fpecum Emicat vafto fragore major humano /onus. * 0 So Ncnnusy where he makes mention of the Oracle given to Cadmus, fays, the 4Tripod was a circular Body giving a Sound of it felf; and that it fee ms likely, when the terrible Sound of the Tripod began to ceafe. the Pythonijfa were put into a Fury, as in the Orgia of Bacchus, the ringing of the Cymbals put the Bac¬ chants and Tygers into a Fury : And I am inclined to think, that befide that great Node, there was a ring¬ ing of Brafs ufed in the Divinations at Delphos, the Lebetes here being of the fame kind with the Bafons of Dodona; and as Dr. Spon fa);s, in his Dijfertation de Tripode, he conceives that fome Perfons attending the Oracle, ufed to ftrike with Rods on the 1Apod, as on a Mufical Inftrument, making it to yield more obtufe or acute Sounds, and fometimes fitting their Voices to^ it, obferving a certain Harmony; fo that thefe, with the loud Noife, might join in Harmony as a Treble and Bale : And Pindarus tells us, there were beautiful Virgins who ufed to fing from the upper Part of the Brafen lemple at Delphos, when Oracles were given; which Temple Paufanias tells us was fwallowed up by an Earthquake, and melted by the Fire; and which Singing we may judge fupplied the Place of the noify Mufick there, after the Tripod came in Ufe. Before^ I fpeak farther of the great Noife which was earned in the Tripod, I (hall f fir ft give you the following Account of the Tripod which was in the Cuftody of the Learned Peireskius. In the Year as