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And they cried aloud
Trying to make him hear, if possible: and cut themselves
after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them;
so the priests of Heathen deities used to slash themselves on
their shoulders, arms, and thighs, in their devotions to them, as
many writers observe F26, fancying their gods were delighted
with human blood; particularly the priests of Bellona {a}, and
the worshippers of the Syrian goddess F2, and of
the Egyptian Isis F3.
FOOTNOTES:
F26 Vid. Kipping. Antiqu. Roman. l. 1. c.
10. p. 202. F1 Tertul Apolog. c. 9. Lactant. Institut.
l. 1. c. 21. F2 Apulei Metamorph. l. 8. F3 Herodot. Euterpe, c. 61. Manetho.
Apotelesm. l. 1. ver. 243, 244. Seneca de vita beata, c. 27.