[461] Gruter. Inscript. lxxvi. n. 6.
[462] Ibid. lxxvi. n. 7.
BONO DEO
PUERO POSPORO.
Gruter. Inscrip. p. lxxxviii. n. 13
[463] Lucretius. l. 4. v. 1020.
[464] Propertius alludes to the same circumstance:
Nam quid Prænestis dubias, O Cynthia, sortes?
Quid petis Ææi mœnia Telegoni? l. 2. eleg. 32. v. 3.
What in the book of Hester is styled Purim, the seventy render, c. 9. v. 29. φρουραι. The days of Purim were styled φρουραι—Τῃ διαλεκτῳ αυτων καλουνται φρουραι. so in c. 10. The additamenta Græca mention—την προκειμενην επιστολην των φρουραι, instead of φουραι and Πουραι: from P'Ur and Ph'Ur, ignis.