T^he QttincunK Mifticatty Confidered* 1 87 



he delivereth in that borrowed expreffi- 

 on from Plttff > Decufiwit wnt in univerfe 9 

 the hint whereof he would have Plato de 

 rive from the figure of the brazen Ser 

 pent, and to have miftaken the Letter X 

 for T, whereas it is not improbable, he 

 learned thefe and other myftical expref- 

 fions in his Learned Obfervations of JE- 

 gypt, where he might obvioufly behold 

 theMercurial charafters^the handed crot 

 fes, and other my fteries not throughly 

 underftood in the facred Letter X, which 

 being derivative from the Stork, one of 

 the ten facred animals, might be original 

 ly Egyptian, and brought into 

 Cadmus of that Countrey. 



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