282 Phyfical and MifceUaneous 



Altars, which Ahaz erefted upon the Top of His. For, befides 

 the fuppofed Privacy of his Idolatry, (which could not have 

 been carried on undifcovered in any Apartment of theHoufe, 

 becaufe under the perpetual View and Obfervation, as it may 

 be fuppofed, of the Family) provided his n'^y had been only 

 one fmgle Chamber of the [hd] Houfe, it is reafonable to ima- 

 gine, that the Roof would have been afcribed to the Latter, 

 and not to the π''7>% which, upon this Suppofition, made only 

 one Chamber of It. A Circumftance of the like Nature may 

 probably be colleded from the AraVick Verfion of -l^^» 

 u4as(). 39. where It is not rendered ^^3^ as in Ver. 37. but 

 '^b^ Girfat ; intimating perhaps that Part or particular Chamber 

 of the i^AJifi where the Damfel was laid. The falling likewife 

 oiEutychus from the third Loft (as the Context feems to 

 imply) ot the •v:is?Siov,(for there is no Mention made of an Houfe) 

 may be received, I prefume, as a further Proof of this Sup- 

 pofition. 

 noeo\^,yuut For it hath been already obferved that thefe Olees are built 

 %aZn2l with the fame Conveniences as the Houfe; confequently, what 

 theHouf:. Pq^j-Iq^ foever the -C^oio» may be fuppofed to have, from the 

 feeming Etymology of the Name, will be applicable to the 

 ^, , c„~ one as well as to the other. Though ftill Ois^So» will admit of 



The vj^ftov '-' . 



ereaed u{on anothcr Interpretation in our Favour, denotmg not fo much 

 Zf^'" "a Chamber remarkable for the high Situation of It, as Εηβα• 

 th'ius ' and others after him give into, but fuch a Building, as 

 is ereoled upo;i or i^eyond the Walls or Borders of another ' ; 

 juftas thefe Okes are aftually contrived in Regard to the [c^'i] 

 Houfe. Neither will this Interpretation interfere with the 

 high Situation that -Ci^^oi may be further fuppofed to have, 

 from being almoft conftantly joyned with ifaCcc/vM» or MUCximi. 

 For the going in or out of the Houfe, whofe Ground Floor 

 lyeth upon the fame Level with the Street, could not be ex- 

 preifed by Words of fuch Import : whereas the Olees, being 

 ufually built over the Porch or Gate-Way, a fmall Stab: Cafe 

 is to be mounted before we can be faid properly to enter Them, 



I Vid.Not. ult. p. 281. 2 TTTt^Sov pro ■ώ^'ώ/οΐ'. contrafte & Atticc dicitur, ut ?«»??«» 

 pro TMiicSioy. Didio componitur ab •ώ^ & ^'ioy, quod Bmbr'iatn iignificat & Extremitatcm. 

 Primam vcro hujus vocis originem ducunt a nomine wV {χταββ ? ο eli β. atque ideo pro limbo 

 accipi : av o) app^to» OoCd-mv /ίσματα ίν'ίζα>•>.ον -ηκ <τ^ Ίμαναψ nfn.'xaeniJbif, i.e. quod antiqui aliquid 

 de pcllibusovium extremis veftibus adjicerent. Hincfadlum, ut pro quacunque extremitate, 

 ima, iumma, aut aliaquavisaccipiattir. Car- GaArdi hnnot in Flutmi Ariflophanis. p• 85. 



and 



lite Afcad 

 into the 

 KiSfaoy. 



