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facus for wine, and Myuns to furnifh him with victuals. 
To thefe Athenaeus adds two more, Palefcepfis 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 ftrangers, that come naked and 
vagabond among them, without name and character, or 
means of fubfiftence, 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 
eruel, 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. Salama, the Acab 
Saat, was condemned by the king the morning he entered 
Gondar, on his return from Tigré, and immediately hanged, 
in the garment of a prieft, 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 
fon-in-law, was likewife 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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‘* Xenoph. lib,i, | + Diod. lib, xii, 
