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fer us to believe that the defir'd to eat of them, nor that they were Mandrakes: For it is obferved, that it was in the Days of Wheat Harveft, that is at the end of April or beginning of May, which was the time of their Harveft in Paleftine, and in which the Mandrakes only begin to Bud, not producing their Fruit till the Autumn.

This has obliged Junius, Tremellius,and Pifcator to render this Word by those of fine and lovely Flowers,and fome Rabbies, as farki, by that of Violets or Jasmin, which agrees pretty well with the time of which Mofes fpeaks, and to the Expreffion of the Spouse in the Canticles. Others think that this Word denotes the Lilly, which in Syria is of a moft agreeable Beauty and Smell, and which grows there in the Fields; and this feems to be its true Signification.

Annotations on Chap. VIII.

See Pliny Hift, Nat. l. 16. c. 16. Belon Obferv. 1. 2. c. 56, 80. St. Jerom Comment. ad Ifa. 41. 19. and Joel 3. 18. and Micah 6. 5.

As St. Jerom, Theophraftus, Mathiolus, (2.) Profper Alpinus and Veflingius, Obfervat.

ad

ad P. Alpin, C.

4.

Philo de infomniis,

&c.

As Exod. 25. 5, 10, 13, 23, 28. and (3,) 26. 15, 26, 32, 37. and 27. 1, 6. and 30. 1, 5. and 35. 7, 24. and 36. 20, 31, 36. and 38. 1, 4, 10, 15, 25, 28. and 38. 1, 6. Deut. 10. 3. Ifa. 41. 18. As Gen. 4. 20. and 13. 3. Joj. 7. 21. Fudg. 7. 8. Fob. 22. 23. Dan. II. 45.

&e.

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As Garfius Anomat. 1. 1. c. 16 and 17. (5-) Jul. Scaliger Exercit. 142. Sect. 6. Bauhinus in Mathiolum 1. 1. Diofcor. c. 21. J. H. Urfinus Arboret. Sac. c. 3. and 43: and Hort. Aromat. c. 2. Diofcor. 1. 3. c. 19. and 22. Plin. Hift. Nat. I. 27. c. 4. Serapion de temperamentis fimplicium. Bochart Canaan. 1. 1. c. 46.

For Almugim is manifeftly composed (6) of the Negative Syriack or Arabick Article All, and the Verb Mog, which fignifies to Corrupt. And Algummim is compos'd of the Caldee Word Gumin, which fignifies a Rufh or a Reed. See 7. H. Urfin. Arboret. bibl. c. 2. and 43. Plin. 1. 13.c. 15, 16.

Pineda de rebus Salom. 1. 4. c. 18. Li- (7.) penius Solomon Ophir Navigat. p. 691. Plin. Hift. 1. 16. c. 36. Scaliger Exercit. 166, &c.

See

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(10.)

(11.)

(12.)

(13.)

See Strabo, Geogr. 1. 16. Diodorus Siculus 1. 19. p. 724. Trogus Hift. 36. JoSephus Antiq. 1. 4. c. 3. lib. 9. c. 1. and de bell. Jud. 1. 15. c. 4. Hegef. 1. 4. c. 17. Jofeph, Gor. Hift. 1. 4. c. 22. R. Kimchi ad 2 Reg. 20. 14. Plin. Hift. Nat: l. 12. c. 25. Marinus 1. 3. c. 14.

See Ruellius 1. 1. c. 94. Mathiolus in Diofcor. 1. 1. c. 107. Belon Obfervat. fingul 1. 2. c. 74. Dodoneus p. 6. 1. 2. c. 3. in Liguftro. Baubinus ad Mathiolum loc.

cit.

Athanafius, Ifiodorus, Dam. Epift. 1. 1. Epift. 5. and 132. Paulinus Carm. de foEpist: an. Bapt. Pantalion Diac. de Luminibus Sanctis, Lud. Cappellus Comment. p.473. As Luther, the Verfion of Zurich, Zehnerus adag. cent. I. adag. 58. Martinus de Roa. Singular, p. 2. 1. 1. c. 4. Gejerus, Salazar and Corn, a Lapide.

See Grotius, J. H. Urfinus Arboret. Bibl. c. 33. Virgil, Geo. 1. 2. Theophraftus,

&c.

4. C. II.

See Bochart Hieroz, T. 2. 1. and p. 1. 1. 2. c. 51. The Samaritan Version, Munster, Pagnin, Arias Mon tan. Leon Juda, Malvenda, Ainsworth, Junius, J. H. Urfinius, Hort. Aromat, 1. 3. c. 4. The fame amendment is to be made 2 Kings 20. 13, Ifa. 39. Pr Fer.

Jer. 8. 22. and 46. 7. and 51. 8. Ezek

27. 17.

As Strabo 1. 16. D. 10. d. Sic. p. 724. (10.) Trogus 1. 36. Jofephus Antiq. 1. 4. c. 3. and 1. 8. c. 2. Hegef. 1. 4. c. 17. Kimki and R. Levi ad 1 Reg. 22. 13. Bockart Canaan, l. 1o. c. 28.

See Exod. 34. 26.Numb. 28. 26. Deut. (15.) 18. 4. and 26. 2. R. Solomon ad Levit, 2. 11. Maymon Tract. Berac. c. 8. Kimki ad 2. Chron. 35.5. Fof. de Bell. Jud. 1. 5. c. 3. Jofeph Ind. Navig. c. 138. Plin. Hift. Nat. I. 13. c. 4. Philoftratus Apol 2, Erpenius Prov. Arab. Cent. I. Prov.30. Bochart Hieroz. Part. 1. l.

4. C. 12.

See Jofephus Antq. Jud. Anton. Dufing. (16.) Fafcic. Differ. Select. de Dudaim, P. 354. and Sqq. Pfeiffer Dub. Vex. S. Cent. I.

1.59.

CHAP. VIII.

That Tranflators ought to take notice of the Antient Customs and Notions, and reduce the ways of Speaking that allude to them to Expreffions which are plain and decent in our Language.

TH

HE Ancients had feveral Customs and Notions very different from ours, which most of our People know nothing of, and they had likewife feveral ways of fpeaking which were Noble and Emphatical, and fome which were plain and proper in their Language,which have noGrace at all in ours, and are fometimes mean and undecent, and often unintelligible.

I. The Verfions fay, That Saul ftript off his Cloaths, and Prophefied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that Day, and all that Night, 1 Sam. 19. 24. That Ifaiah did loofe the Sack-cloath of his Loyns, and put of His Shoes from his Feet, walking naked and barefoot, Ifa. 20. 2, 3, 4

and