Ohjervations &c. 279 



hy the Way of the Roof. For as xie^itwi or teguL•, λλΙιΐοΗ origi- 

 nally perhaps denoted a Roof of Tiles^ like thofe of the Northern 

 Nations , were afterwards applyed to the Te6tum ' or Α^μα. in 

 general, fo the Meaning of letting down a Perfon into the 

 Hoiife per tegidas, ors^' rfii Μ^ίμαι, can depend only upon the 

 Uie of the Pra;poiition Λ*. Now both in ^&s 9. i6. ^^\s* 

 [βωτίν] a/^ ?τ6ίχ«5 and 2 Cor. 11. 35. £;^λ*«3^ν a/^' tS Τ6<'χ«5, (wliere 

 the like Phrafeology is obferved as in St. Luke) a/^ is rendred 

 in both Places ky, that is, a/ong the Side or hy the Way of the 

 Wall. By interpreting therefore a/^ in this Senfe, a/^ •^ 

 «ρά^οών TusSts--» a^-n'i, will be rendred as above. They let h'lm down 

 over or ^ the Way of the Wall, juft as we may fuppofe M- 

 Anthony to have been, agreeable to a noted PafPage in Tully \ 

 An Action of the fame Nature feemsto be likewife implyed in 

 what is related of Ji^iter (Ter. Eun. 3. 5•. 37.) where heisfaid 

 fefe in hominem convertiffe atque per alienas tegulas veniffe 

 clanculum per Impluvium. And of the Snake, which we learn 

 ( Ter. Phorm. 4. 4. 47. ) per Impluvium decidiffe de tegulis. 

 What Dr. Lightfoot alfo obferveth out of the Talmud, upon 

 Mark τ. φ. will, by an Alteration only of the Pr^pofition 

 which anfwereth to ^*, further vouch for this Interpretation. 

 For, as It is there cited, " when Rahh Honna was dead, and 

 '^ His Bier could not he carried out through the T)oor, being too 

 ^\flraight, therefore'' (in Order, as we may fupply, to bury It) 

 " ['S'!i?bu? noDj They thought good to let It down [i'jj iin] through 

 '' the Roof, or through the Way of the Roof, as the Dr. renders 

 It, but It ihould be rather, as in ^ ιΡ^^^ίμαι or Λ« ^τύχνί, hythe 

 Way, or over the Roof, viz. by taking It upon the Terrace, 

 and letting It down by the Wall, that Way, into the Street. 

 We have a Paflage in Aulus Gellius ' exactly of the liime Pur- 

 port, where it is faid, that if '^ any Ter Jon in Chains fiould 

 " tnake his Efcape into the Houfe of the Flamen Dialis , that 

 '^ he fljould he forthwith loo fed: and that his Fetters fijould he 

 " drawn up through the Impluvium, upon the Roof (Terrace) 

 " and from thence he let down into the Highway or Street Γ 



1 Quemque in teguWs videritis alienum — videritis hominem in noftris teguVis &c. ?lam. 

 Mil. 2.2. De/f^tt/ii modo nefcio quis infpedavit voftrarum familiarium pci• noflrum J?«/'/ttv/«?7i 

 intusapud nosPhilocomafium, atque hofpitem ofculantis. Ptoif. Mil. 2. 2. I.7. Vinftum, 

 fi sdes ejus [ F//iH»«ii Dm/ij• ] introierit, folvi neceffum eft^ & vincula per Impluvium in 

 tegulas fubduci, atque inde foras in viam dimitti. yiul. Gell. Nod. Attic. 10. rj. Qu^um 

 tamen tu node focia, hortante libidine, cogente mercede, per tegulas demitterere. Cic. 2. 

 Phil. 45-. Αίτο Ji 7Ϊ -AyQ; « ^vov o'l ruv χίζαμογ Ινομάζχιπγ Λ>λίί &c. Jul. Poll, Onom. J. 7. c. 33. 

 2 Vid. Nut. ut fupra. 3 Vid. AuL Gell. ut fupra. 



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