_Lipsius_[7] lets fall a good caution to take off doubts about suspension delivered by ancient Authors, and also the ambiguous sence of κρεμάσαι among the _Greeks_. _Tale apud Latinos ipsum suspendere, quod in crucem referendum moneo juventutem_, as that also may be understood of _Seneca_. _Latrocinium fecit aliquis, quid ergo meruit? ut suspendatur._ And this way of crucifying he conceiveth to have been in general use among the _Romans_, until the latter daies of _Constantine_, who in reverence unto our SAVIOUR abrogated that opprobrious and infamous way of crucifixion. Whereupon succeeded the common and now practised way of suspension. But long before this abrogation of the Cross, the _Jewish_ Nation had known the true sense of crucifixion; whereof no Nation had a sharper apprehension, while _Adrian_ crucified five hundred of them every day, until Wood was wanting for that service. So that they which had nothing but _crucifie_ in their mouths, were therewith paid home in their own bodies: Early suffering the reward of their imprecations, and properly in the same kind. [7] _Zipsias_, 1672. CHAPTER XXII Compendiously of many questionable Customs, Opinions, Pictures, Practices, and Popular Observations. [Sidenote: _The ground of many vain observations._] 1. If an Hare cross the high way, there are few above threescore years that are not perplexed thereat: which notwithstanding is but an Augurial terror, according to that received expression, _Inauspicatum dat iter oblatus Lepus._ And the ground of the conceit was probably no greater than this, that a fearful animal passing by us, portended unto us some thing to be feared: as upon the like consideration, the meeting of a Fox presaged some future imposture; which was a superstitious observation prohibited unto the _Jews_, as is expressed in the Idolatry of _Maimonides_, and is referred unto the sin of an observer of Fortunes, or one that abuseth events unto good or bad signs; forbidden by the Law of _Moses_[SN: Deut. 18.]; which notwithstanding sometimes succeeding, according to fears or desires, have left impressions and timerous expectations in credulous minds for ever. [Sidenote: _The Emblem of superstition._]