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On the Seventh Day (h) of every Lunar Month, in honour of Apollo, to whom all Seventh Days were sacred; because one of them was his Birth-day; whence he was sometimes call'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (i); the Story we have in Hesiod (k),
At this Solemnity the Athenians sung Hymns to Apollo, and carry'd in their Hands Branches of Lawrel, with which also they adorn'd their Dishes.—〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.—The seventh Day is sacred, 'Cause Phoebus then was of Latona was born.
Another Festival there was of this Name, which Private Families observ'd upon the Seventh Day after the Birth of a Child; but of this I shall give account in it's own place.
Suidas, Proclus in Hesiodi Dies.
Plutarchus Sympos. lib. VIII. Quaest. I.
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