teram ad emendum et vendendum:"" which our author applies to Asher. It seems much more plainly to describe the conduct related of Galba; that he was eminent for his justice before his elevation to the empire; and that he afterwards submitted to be governed by favorites, who bought and sold justice, till he was said to have been assassinated by the enraged soldiery.

VIII. Otho-Dan-Scorpio.

THE description of Scorpio in the words of the patriarchal blessing, apply so exactly to the treachery of Otho, to Galba, that the resemblance will be immediately discerned by every reader of Tacitus and Suetonius. He was a serpent to his Emperor, and as an adder biting the horse's heels. Through his means Galba was murdered, or resigned his place in the Zodiac.

This similarity between the traditions is but a small part of the proof, which enables us to identify the Roman Emperor with the sign Scorpio. The great star in the CorEdip.

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Scorpii, is called Antares, and is used synonymously with the sign itself: this assertion may excite some surprise in my reader; but I hope to make it plainly appear, that Antares, Dan, and Otho, are one and the same word; they appear to be different on account of the variety in the manner of pronouncing them; but they are in reality as much one, as Louis the Eighteenth, and Louis Dix-huit, are the same individual.

By the rules of etymology, laid down at the beginning of this treatise, labials may be changed into labials; dentals into dentals. T, D, and Th, are always therefore convertible.

Scorpio, as Sir William has shewn, was esteemed an accursed sign, and the ancient

astronomers were consequently very un

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willing to pronounce the name. thought a bad omen to do so. It was usual among the Jews to avoid all mention of the sacred tetragrammaton, in their excessive veneration for the God of their fathers. The Hindoos are still taught to meditate upon the mystic word Om or Aum; and even in our own time, we have seen an English gentleman of great attainments, respectable family, and of the highest pretensions, decline to mention the name of Napoleon Buonaparte; choosing rather to meditate on the perfections associated with that name, and pointing out the object of his admiration by the significant word Him. From these instances we learn, that it was not unusual to avoid a particular word altogether, and to express it by another of similar import. The sign Scorpio was

known by the Chaldee particle Da, this, or

the;"

Hæc, ista, hoc, illud, says Buxtorf." The vowel was of course frequently omitted and the D only retained.

Now if T, D, and Th, are the same letter, we have only to get rid of the prefixes and affixes of the three words, and we shall find the remaining radical will identify them as one and the same.

Otho. By another rule of Etymology, all vowels may be dispensed with at pleasure. Consonants only being radical, strike off the two O's, and Th remains.

Dan. This is the particle D, compounded with the word An, a fountain. The stars were all considered as fountains of light; and