Prolicionycion [sic]

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Prolicionycion [sic]
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Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364.
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[Westminster :: Printed by William Caxton,
after 2 July 1482]
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¶ Othonyel ¶ Capitulum 16

AFter Iosues deth Israel serued chusan kyng of Mesopota¦nia eyght yere / Netheles this eyght yere be acompted with Othonyels tyme Calephs broder / by the hebrewes / ¶ But the yeres of reste and of thraldome were acompted to geder vnder Iugges of Israel / the sothnesse of the acomptes wold not stan∣de in the historye ¶ Augustinus libro octodecimo ¶ About this tyme that woman Lathona bare Appolyn in to the Ilond Dels· R / But not that other appolyn delphicus that had longe bifore be / but that Appolyn that serued the kynge admetus with the latter hercules. ¶ Me seyth that this Latona was the same woman that he••••r Isis ¶ Than othonyel was leder of Israel fourty yere for to rken the forseyd eyght yere of thraldome Neptunus regned and was the fyfth kyng of Athene Cady∣nus regned in th cyte thbes of his doughter semela was born Denys bachus that was callyd also Liber pater· that is the fre fader· In his tyme was lynus of thebe in Egypt the grete chaū¦toure in his floures / ¶ Fenyx bylde bythynya that heete som∣tyme Mariandyna. Ysidorus libro secundo capitulo quinto ¶ And as Fenyx yaue the Fenyces. somme rede lettres R Therof boke more in the first book. capitulo quinto decimo Fe¦nicia / Ysidorus libro secundo ¶ The lettres of grece that cadin{us}

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yaf hym speleth wordes and stondeth for nombres ¶R The lettres of grece from the first to the tenth as· A / standeth in ordre of A b c so they stande for nombre amōg the grekes / for the first standeth for one / and the seconde for tweyne and the thyrdde for thre / and soo the fourth vnto the tenth. But the .xj. letter stan∣deth for twenty / the twellyfth for thrytty the xiij for fourty· & so vnto an C for an C / standeth the / xix than the twenty lettre standeth for the one and twenteth for thre honderd / the ·xxij for four honderd & so forth Petrus Crafte & vse of yren was foūden in egypt. the dedes that me telleth of demetra / and of dan Per••••us moder befell that tyme. and the cyte corinthy was buyldd tha tyme·

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