332 APPZNDIX. 



tive termination, which no adverb from Civitas, 

 or Urbs, could afford them; but,* I fear, for 

 some other design perhaps, to make the inter- 

 pretation of the text (a practice too usual with 

 them and other) to lacquay it to the espoused 

 opinions, and to serve the xup/a J'&^a, and so to 

 whip theology with grammar's rods ; but so 

 loosely bound up, that at the first stroke they fly 

 in the air and prove ineffectual; every Alpha- 

 betarian knowing well, that the Latin of it is Urbs, 

 or Civitas : and Oppidinn, in the precise propriety 

 of language (which ought in such cases to be 

 kept), KwjUoVoAk at the most, in middle state be- 

 twixt a city and a drop ; and in the ancient 

 glosses ■\ no more than Tloxi'/yioy, civitatula at the 

 highest. 



And now, I shall not take upon me as some 

 have done, to number the cities under Titus's ju- 

 risdiction. It is true, in Homer's time Crete was 

 'ExocTOfXTToXiT, J famous for its hundred cities : but 

 in Ptolemy's age they arose not to half the num- 

 ber ; and Pliny, having named about forty, saith 

 plainly, that of the other sixty memoria e.vtat, no- 

 thinof remained but the memory. In the times of 

 the Greek empire, there were about twenty suffra- 

 gan bishops, under four archbishops, as Magnius§ 

 reckons them up ; but, at this day, under the 

 Venetian, not half so many of either sort. So 



■* See Mr. Hooker's Preface. f Glos. Philox et Cirilli. 



X Centum urbium clara faraa. Plin. lib. 4. cap. 12. 

 § In Gregor. pag. 183. b. 



