Book 1. :2 /j2 Temple ^/VVifdcme. Iw9

ons, adding moreover that -^/'oYw////^ walking iipcii a day with the chief men of the City to obfeve the fcituation of the place, happened upon a ruinous Pillar, and enquiring into the purpole of that, the Citizens related unto him, that in the dayes of Caius Cdsfar when the City had been fhaken with nii Hartn-quake AiC.Qoei^^ t/
^ ^ Tt} ^n^ei CLUT'^ 'iy^cL'^iV ^(Tei
Tv^f -wJ^D^'f etTpaynii ytvofjCiv^i Kctv^iv tu ItcIvcotv kIov©' ff)]^Attov %^iiji' One Debborim it'Ialifman to prevent the
• fallhtg of the City m cafe an Earth quake fho'dd happen again, fet jo this pillar and upon that a marble Peroral infer ibed ^(rct^Ay cWtcota, but which in procefs of time b^d been confumed by lightnings &c. The Citizens therefore were earndl with hm^, to fet up a new
. Telernie,but Apollonius f 7» Toiii ,o lihicu.ct .^fei ffeij'y^v re'ufed'to inah^ any further Tele f}ms a gain ji the Earth quakes \ but the Ci- tizens being urgent upon him, he rook writing Ta- bles and foretold ;JS followec'p. Yicti G\i to^kcuva* ry^io-
Aiyietholg OoivTiia-i ^u.h "ttaKiv rrd^^oi^.
And thou mi fer able City o/" Annexe li j^^lt p-'f^r twice^ and a third time jhall come upo^tihee^ rrherem thou (halt be confumed by fire^ even in th.it p;:ri /y which i rentes Amneth, And it may be thou Jhah fiif,\r yet ona more.
This written, he delivered the Tables to the Ci- tizens, and departed uizo Seleuti/r^ ?n(i trom tneure into hgyPtj- ls.dr7ch Aoy.vi Q- o fo^cJTdT^ (j'JViy^.'^cHTo
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3CO v^e Temple^/ Wifdome. Book I
Buc the moft concering lelefme to the matter in hand that agninft the Scorpions, C^i/^y? H Wok^n^- hiff^ctlv u.vinrl^'TrQKH (^VTioyitcL Tw^yLoycLh)} ) ;^ J^/c^tb?
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/ipoUonius caufedan Image of a Scorpion to be molten inhraffe^ that treacktrousfjgn Scorpeo Afc/nded^ and in Geomancy this fi ute was in the firji ket a and fa it * ^ 7ip upon a little pillar in ike midjl of the City of f\n- * tioch, and the Scorpions vaftijhed out of all their '^ *■. CoajU. -^ ^■
A like Telefnie cothis wasfet up at J;empts a City of Syria Afamea^ that which Vtolomy calleth iy.tcad. In the middle ofthis, Gith an Arabic^Gcc^ graphcFj a ftone there is fet up in a wali^ having up- on it tlie figure of a Scorpion, i!idwhen any one is bitten, he bringeth C Uy and toketh out the hgui e^ which having applied to the place affc^ed, he is im- liiediatdy cured.
In thenechcr Picgion qf Grand Cafro the Croco- diles were harm-elTe, in the upper they deitroyed the Inhabitants^, To provide agaiiift this, ihtlaltfrnam caft a leaden Crocodile which written upon with Jin /Egyptian charm they buried in the foimdatioa of a Temple. This for a long time defended the people, but when at the commaiid of Achmet BeH Jtolon the Caliph^zhe leaden image was melte. jthe Cro^ codiLs rcri!riicd to their own malice again.
The Tvx^ 't To^iug^ or fortune of Byz .fJtium Skood Vikh one toot nialbipofbrafT'j tiie Statue concer- ns thegencrailGf«i;/^ofthe whole City. The Ship was a lelefme, errc:icd agiiiidl'thc dangers of that te-mpciluous Sea; and •vvt)il€. ic (\ooi\ eiuire billed
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