Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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    'Truth, we muft not think it a fmall and vulgar thing which was then t ran faded at the Place of the Oracle. So far CleomlrotuSy who relates this Story, by the by, as he had heard it, thoJ he afterwards declares it his Opinion, that Damons prefided in the Oracles. Now, as for the foregoing Story, I fhall give you my Senfe of it in fhort; viz. I look on the Serpent, or Python, which is faid to be overcome and Haiti by Apollo, to be the animal or old Man fubdued and (lain by the Holy Spirit, which attends a regenerate State. This is that Python of which Virgil {peaks in his 4 Eel Occidet & Serpens, & fallax Herha Veneni Occidety Ajfyrium vulgo nafeetur amomum. And a little beneath, Pacatumque reget patriis vir tut thus Orient. As for applying all the Particulars before fet down, according to this Interpretation, I leave it to Men acquainted in the Work of Regeneration. As for others, perhaps fuch Applications might feem tedious to them, or be received with contempt. The laid Plutarch, in his Treatife concerning the word Eiy which is engraved on the Gate of Apollo s Temple at DelphoSy tells us of many other things W'hich deferved to be conhdered there; viz. Why they never burn there but the Wood of the Fir- Tree, to keep in the eternal Fire ? Why no Perfume is there made but oi the Laurel-Tree ? Why in that Temple there are the Pictures only of two-Defiinies, and not of three, as there are every where elfe ? Why it is not permitted any Woman to approach the Oracle ? And fuen other Matters, which incite and draw all Men of Thought to ask, defire, hear, and difeourfe of the Meaning of thefe Things. To fhew X the