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A Treatise of Witchcraft

Note Additional note — A true Narration of some of those Witch-crafts which Marie wife of

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Fifth Proposition, note

s.

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Sophocles in Trachinijs vocat δρῦν πολυγλωσσον, quia ut eius Scholiastes interpretatur ἤτοι πολλὰ μαντευομενος, και δια τουτο πολλα φθεγγομένος, ἢ τῆς διαφοραις διαλέκταις χρησμοδήσης και κατα την ..άνου των μαντευομένων γλωσσαν.

Sophocles,

Trachiniae

l. 1168 (ed. Jebb):

πρὸς τῆς πατρῴας καὶ πολυγλώσσου δρυός

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Et hinc Argo Lycophron in Alexandra sua λαληθρον κισσαν nominat quæ ex Didones quercu malum habuisse traditur quæ aliquoties locuta est vt apud Apollonium Argonauticωn quarto ideo & ἔυλαλον Αργος Orpheus appelat

Lycophron,

Alexandra

1319 (Loeb text, ed. Mair):

εἰς τὴν λάληθρον κίσσαν ἡρματίξατο

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