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gufhed out fo violently that it could not be fianched, til 
the king took the diadem from his head, and with it 
-bound up the wound; which at that time was looked 
upon as an omen that Lyfimachus was ta-be king, and fo 
it foon after happened. 
Tue kings of Abyffinia anciently fat upon a gold throne, 
which is a large, convenient, oblong, {quare feat, like a fmall 
bed-ftead, covered with Perfian carpets, damafk,and cloth of 
gold, with fteps leading up.to it.. It is ftill richly gilded ; 
but the many revolutions and wars have much abridged 
their.ancient magnificence. The portable throne: was a gold 
ftool, like that curule ftoolkor chair ufed:by: the Romans, . 
which we fee on medals. It was, in the Begemder war, 
changed to a very beautiful one of the fame form inlaid 
with gold. Xerxes is faid to have been {pectator of a naval . 
fight fitting upon a gold ftool*.. 
_ Iris, in Abyffinia, high-treafon to fit-‘upon’ any feat of © 
the king’s ; and he that prefumed to do this would be in- 
ftantly hewrr to pieces, if there was not fome other collater- 
al proof of his being-a madman.. ‘Ihe reader will find, in 
the courfe of my hiltory, a very ridiculous accident on this . 
fubject, in the king’s tent, with Guangoul, king of the Ber-- 
tuma Galla.: . 
Ir is probable thar:Alexander’had heard of this law ‘ins 
Perfia, and difapproved of it; for one day, it being extreme-- 
ly cold, the king, fitting in his chair before the fire, warm-.- 
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* Philoftrate lib. dis, 
