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Job 2:12

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

and among various nations; so when Achilles bewailed the death of Patroclus, he is represented by Homer taking with both his hands the black earth, and pouring it on his head; so Aristippus among the Athenians is said to sprinkle dust on his head in token of mourning on a certain account.

"Tum pius", Aeneas, &c. Virgil. Aeneid. l. 5. prope finem. amfoterhsi te cersin, &c. Iliad. 18. ver. 23. Vid. Odyss. 24. "Sparsitque cinis", &c. Seneca, Troad. Act. 1. Chorus. Heliodor. Aethiop. l. 1.

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