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facus for wine, and Myuns to furnifh him with victuals. 

 To thefe Athenaeus adds two more, Palaefcepfis and Percope, 

 to yield him clothing and furniture. This precifely, to this 

 day, is the Abyffinian idea, when they conceive they are en- 

 tertaining men of rank ; for Grangers, that come naked and 

 vagabond among them, without name and character, or 

 means of fubfittence, fuch as the Greeks in Abyffinia, are 

 always received as beggars, and neglected as fuch, till hun- 

 ger fets their wits to work to provide for the prefent exi- 

 gency, and low intrigues and practices are employed after- 

 wards to maintain them in the little advancements which 

 they have acquired, but no honour or confidence follows*. 

 or very rarely. 



IN Abyffinia, when the prifoner is condemned in capital 

 cafes, he is not again remitted to prifon, which is thought 

 cruel, but he is immediately carried away, and the fen- 

 tence executed upon him. I have given feveral inftances of 

 this in the annals of the country. Abba Sala-ma, the Acab 

 Saat, was condemned by the king the morning he entered 

 Gondar, on his return from Tigre, and immediately hanged, 

 in the garment of a prielt, on a tree at the door of the king's 

 palace. Chremation, brother to the ufurper Socinios, was 

 executed that fame morning; Guebra Denghel, Ras Michael's 

 f ;ii-in-law, was like wife executed that fame day, immediate- 

 ly after judgment; and fo were feveral others. The fame 

 was the practice in Perfia, as we learn from Xenophon *,. 

 and more plainly from Diodorus f. 



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