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e brother_ and a third brother.... They yoke the seven to the one wheeled car; _one horse named seven_ bears it along; the three-axled _wheel is undecaying, never loosened and in it all these regions of the universe abide_.... Immature, undiscerning in mind, I inquire of those things _which are hidden from the gods_ [_cf._ Hymn to Amen-Ra, p. 388, where the same expression is used], the seven threads which the sages _have spread to envelop the sun in whom all abide_" (Chambers' Encyclopaedia, article India). 122 Fig. 72, 1, is referred to on p. 319. 123 The original name for Phrygia is said to have been Askanios, from Askanios its first ruler. The cenotaph of Midas is built in the rock at Jazylykaia, in the vicinity of Kumbet, where other similarly decorated royal tombs exist. 124 It would be interesting to learn whether the Arabian title Om-al-kara, "the mother of cities," has ever been connected with Roma by investigators. 125 It is recalled here that the twin brothers Romulus and Remus are supposed to have been the issue of the union, in the temple of Mars, of the vestal virgin Rhea Silvia with a personification of the god Mars. 126 The recurrence of the square plan, employed in Babylonia and Egypt (see pp. 333 and 369), is noteworthy. 127 In course of time each Roman civitas, or political canton or community, possessed such "a centre, which was termed capitolium, _i. e._ the height, from being originally fixed on a height or hill-top, corresponding to the Greek akra. Round this stronghold of the canton, which formed the nucleus of the earliest Latin towns, houses sprang up, which were in turn surrounded by the oppidum or the urbs (ring-wall connected with urbus, curvus, orbis); hence, in later times, oppidum and urbs became, naturally enough, the recognized designations of town and city."--Chambers' Encyclopaedia. 128 Diocletian (A.D. 292) revived dual rulership and quadruplicate organization by instituting the quadruple hierarchy of two Augusti and two Caesars. The prevalence of quadruplicate division with current cosmical conceptions is shown by the following text: "The usual form of taking an augury was very solemn; the augur ascending a tower, bearing in his hand a curved stick called a _litus_. He turned hi
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