1 ARCHEOLOGIA GRECA: OR, THE ANTIQUITIES O F GREECE. The NINTH EDITION. By JOHN POTTER, D. D. VOLUME the SEC.OND. CONTAINING, I. The Military Affairs II. Some of their Mifof the GRECIANS. cellany Customs. Simili frondefcit virga metallo. VIRGIL. Quis reprehendet noftrum otium, qui in eo non modo nofmetipfos hebefcere & languere nolumus, fed etiam, ut plurimis profimus, nitimur? CICERO. LON D ว Printed for W. STRAHAN, J. and F. RIVINGTON, L. HAWES, MDCCLXXV. THE Chap. V. Of the Officers of the Athenian and Lacedæ- Chap. VI. Of the feveral Divifions and Forms of the Grecian Army, and other military Terms Chap. VII. Of their Manner of making Peace, and de- claring War; their Ambaffadors, &c. Chap. VIII. Of their Camps, Guards, Watches, and Chap. IX. Of their Battles, their Generals Harangues, Chap. X. Of their Sieges, with the most remarkable of their Inventions and Engines used therein Chap. XI. Of the Slain and their Funerals Chap. XII. Of their Booty taken in War, their Gratitude to the Gods after Victory, their Trophies, &c. Chap. XIII. Of their military Punishment and Rewards, 120 Chap. XV. Of the Parts, Ornaments, &c. of Ships 125 Chap. XVII. Of the Inftruments of Wer in Ships 135 Chap. XVIII. Of the Mariners and Soldiers HAP. I. Of the Care the Grecians bad of Funerals, and of Perfons deftitute thereof Chap. II. Of the Ceremonies in Sickness and Death 172 Chap. III. Of the Ceremonies before the Funeral 178 Chap. VI. Of their manner of interring and burning the Chap. VIII. Of their Funeral Orations, Games, Luftra- zinme Chap. XIV. Of their Customs in Child-bearing, and ma- Chap. XV. Of their different forts of Children, Wills, Inbe- ritances, the Duties of Children to their Parents,&c.335 Chap. XVI. Of their Times of Eating Chap. XVII. Of the feveral forts of Entertainments 354 Chap. XVIII. Of the Materials whereof the Entertain- Chap. XIX. Of the Customs before Entertainments 365 Archæologia Græca: OR, THE ANTIQUITIES O F GREE CE. BOOK III. СНАР. I. Of the Wars, Valour, Military Glory, &c. of the antient T Grecians. HE antient Grecians were a rude and unpolished Sort of Mortals, wholly unacquainted with the modern, and more refined Arts of War and Peace. Perfons of the highest Birth and Quality, and whom they fancied to be defcended from the Race of the immortal Gods, had little other Bufinefs to employ their Hours, befides Tilling the Earth, or feeding their Flocks and Herds; and the Rapine of thefe, or fome other petty Concerns, which was looked on as a generous and heroical Exploit, occafioned most of the Wars, fo famous in their Story. Achilles in Homer tells Agamemnon, that 'twas purely to oblige him, he had engaged himfelf in fo long and dangerous a War against the Trojans, from whom VOL. II. B he |