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Altars, which y4haz ere6ted 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 the Houfe, • 

 becaufe under the perpetual View and Obfervation, as it may 

 be fuppofed, of the Family) provided his n'by 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 n'^^', which, upon this Suppofition, made only 

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

 probably be colletled from the Ardbick Verfion of -Os^oJo* 

 ^Cisf). 59. where It is not rendered ^^aJc as in Ver. 57. but 

 ^!/^ Girfat\ intimating perhaps that Part or particular Chamber 

 of the ^<^^ where the Damfel was laid. The falling likewife 

 of Eutychus from the third Loft ( as the Context feems to 

 imply) of the 'ua^i?ov^(for there is no Mention made of an Houfe) 

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

 pofition. 

 rheox^tbuiit For it hath been already obfervcd that thefe Olees are built 

 'vajiJon wM with the fame Conveniences as the Houfe ; confequently, what 

 Pofition foever the -us^aoi may be fuppofed to have, from the 

 feeming Etymology of the Name, will be applicable to the 

 n^ -i^^ov ^"^ ^s well as to the other. Though ftill \^mi will admit of 

 7»ftliSM- ^"other Interpretation in our Favour, denoting not fo much 

 '"i- a Chamber remarkable for the high Situation of It, as Eufia" 



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

 is eredled upon or hejond the Walls or Borders of another ' ; 

 juft as thefe Olees are actually contrived in Regard to the \_c^>'] 

 The Accent Houfe. Ncithcr will this Interpretation interfere with the 

 high Situation that •ks^^^'h may be further fuppofed to have, 

 from being almoft conftantly joyned with ha£><i.imt or MUCxmi. 

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

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

 prefled by Words of fuch Import : whereas the 0/ees, being 

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

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



I Vid. Not. ult. p. 281. 2 Tw^f^w pro ■w^'iTioy, contra(9:e &: Attlcc dicltur, ut ™7j?or 

 pro •MtfcSiov. Didio componitur ab vj^ & wiroc, quod Fimbriam fignificat & Extremitatem. 

 Primam vero hujus vocis originem ducunt a nomine o/V Sktk'sh r o n'j a. atque ideo pro limbo 

 accipi : 07J 0/ «pp^o< locjScfTBC fiaiMie. Ii'eSoOAoi' -mt ^ 'tyjmw xfUTitanJhK, i.e. quod antiqui aliquid 

 de pellibus ovium extremis vcftibus adjicerent. Hincfaftum, ut pro quacunque extremitatc, 

 ima, fumma, autaliaquavisaccipiatur. Car. Gerardi Annot, in PluTim Ar'iftophanis. p. 83. 



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