Ohjervations &:c. 275) 



ky the Way of the Roof. For as xie?'^' or tegulte, which origi- 

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

 Nations, were afterwards applyed to the Te6iu7n ' or a^jmx. m 

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

 Houfe per tegn/as, or a/^ -r^ «px^y, can depend only upon the 

 Ufe of the Prsepofition 5^*. Now both in ^c^s 9. z6. ks^k^ 

 [ooTTv] 2^ ^ rtiyyi and 2 Cor. 11. 33. e;^A=taS?/v ^cf. tS Tixy^i, (where 

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

 in both Places hy^, that is, along the Side or by the Way of the 

 Wall. By interpreting therefore "^^ in this Senfe, ^^ t^ 

 wpixitwov K5t9«i(5t» o^'^S will be rendred as above. They let him down 

 over QX by the Way of the Waif juft as we may fuppofe M- 

 Anthony to have been, agreeable to a noted Paflage in Tully *. 

 An Ai5lion of the fame Nature feems to be likewife implyed in 

 what is related oi Jupiter [Ter. Eun. 3. 5-. 37.) where he is faid 

 fefe in hominem con'vertiffe atque per alienas tegulas veniffe 

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

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

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

 Marht. 4. will, by an Alteration only of the Pr^epofition 

 which anfwereth to 5ia, 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) 

 \^y^'i^ -t^d] They thought good to let It down [fUJ I'n] through 

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

 It, but It fliouldbe rather, asin^a-j^x^paitoyvor l^'^xuysa^ by the 

 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 fame Pur- 

 port, where it is faid, that if " any Terfon in Chains pDOuld 

 make his Efcape into the Houfe of the Flamen Dialis , that 

 he ffjould be forthwith loo fed: and that his Fetters fJjould be 

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

 and from thence be let down into the Highway or Street T 



1 Quemque in tegu]!is videricis alienum^videritls hominem in noftiis tegul'is &c. ?laut. 

 Mil. 2.2. Xiiz tegul'is modo nefcio quis infpcdlavit voftrarun:! familiarium per noltrLimL«/>/«v;«w 

 intusapud nos Philocomafium, atque hofpitem ofculantis. P/^«f. Mil. 2. 2. 1./. VinL^tum, 

 fi sdes ejus \^¥liimmsDid\s\ introicrit, folvi neceffumefti & vincula per Imp I imimi in 

 tegulas fubduci, atque inde foras in viam dimitri. yiul. Gell. Noft. Attic. 10. i j. Quum 

 tamen tu nodle iocia, hortante libidine, cogcnte mcrcedc, per rf^;'/.!X deinitterei'c. Cic. 2. 

 Phi!, 45'. AJto e/^ TO T?')©", V iMVov a) vtw yJ^a^MY ovoya.^\iinv a.».i &C, 7tll. Foil, Onom. I. /. C. 27. 



2 Vid. Not. ut liipra. 3 Vid. Aid. Gdl. ut lupra. 



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