Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets
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208That the Moon may be a World. Eclipſe, relates, that at ſuch time it was a
cuſtom
amongſt the Romans (the moſt civil and
Learned
People of the World) to ſound Braſs
Inſtruments
, and hold great Torches toward
the
Heaven.
Τῶν δε Ρωμαίων (ὤσπερ {ἐστὶ}ν ἐνομισ {μέν}ον)
χαλκ
{οῦ} τε τατό γι;
ὰνακαλ{ου} μένων τοφῶς ἀυτῆς {καὶ} πυ{ρὰ}
11In vita
Paul
. Æ-
mil
.
πολλὰ δαλοῖς {καὶ} δαοτίν ἀνε{χό}ντων πρός {οὐ}ῥοανον.
For
by
this means they ſuppoſed the Moon was
much
eaſed in her Labours, and therefore
Ovid
calls ſuch loud Inſtruments the Auxilia-
ries
or helps of the Moon.
Cum fruſtra reſonant æra auxiliaria Lunæ.
22Metam.
Lib
. 4.
Gantus & è cælo poſſunt deducere Lunam.

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