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PAg. 48. l. 1. When a Nod.] See Virg. Aeneid. lib. 9.
—idque ratum Stigii per flumina fratris, Per pice torrentes, atraque voragine ripas, Annuit, totum nutu tremefecit Olympum.This by his Brother's Stygian Streams he swore, And by the Brimstone Lake, and dismal Shore, By the Black Gulf, and the Infernal Pit, Whose Nod Olympus shook, confirming it.
Jupiter is said to do all things nutu, with Nodding;
whence the Word Numen, Turneb. l. 26. c. 30. See Scaliger, l. 5. c. 3. Nannius Miscel. l. 7. c. 14. observes, That what in Men is a Nod, in Jupiter and Juno is Thunder.
Ibid. l. 22. Headed like a Shock.] Those Houshold Gods, or Penates, had Humane Shapes, but Headed like Dogs.