Book III

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The high priest of the sun was always one of the royal family; and in every generation after the first, was brother to the king. This office probably began with Rocha; as he was the first who was capable of receiving it, and as it was necessary, in the education of the prince, that he should be initiated in the sacred mysteries.

No. 22.

_A pearl-dropt girdle bound his waist below, And the white lautu graced his lofty brow._

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