Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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    i go Notes concer7ting Genii, are much more known by their Motion, which is, not by fetting one Foot before the other, but by a certain aerial Impetus, readily cleaving the Air, rather than by a walking through it. Wherefore the Egyp¬ tians make the Statues of their Gods with their Feet joined together, and as it were united. Which things alfo Homer knowing, as being an Egyptian, and in¬ truded in their fecret Learning, has intimated after an occult and intricate manner, leaving them to be underftood by thofe that can underhand them. So he fays of Palias, Atque truces oculi fulfere tuenti; And of Neptune, Namque pedum crurumque fimul 'vefligia pone Perfacile agnoui, remeante aurafque fecante. The Words perfacile remeante importing a flowing Paf- fage : from th s fort of paffing, the Gods are faid by the Greeks to Aide along. Theocritus3 Idyll. 27. writes, Imntortales 'vero njocantur Dii fine pedum ufu faPli. From fuch a Paffage AEneas knew his Mother going from him, Virg. 1. TEneid. v. 400. O' 5 /.Eneid. 647, <548, 649. Et 'Vera incejju patuit Dea, •viz,. As carried on by a light Wind, as a fmall Veifel, or as Aiding aw'ay by a flippery Motion, as on Ice« Nor have fuch Appearances of the Gods been ac¬ counted vain, but efficacious, and carrying with them fome falutiferous Aid, as being wont to portend, ei¬ ther Health to the Sick, or Comfort to the Afflided, or