HKB
THE THIRTY-NINTH CHAPTER
How the Priests of the goddesse Siria were taken and put in prison, and how Apuleius was sold to a Baker.
After that we had tarried there a few dayes at the cost and charges of the whole Village, and had gotten much mony by our divination and prognostication of things to come: The priests of the goddesse Siria invented a new meanes to picke mens purses, for they had certaine lotts, whereon were written:
Coniuncti terram proscindunt boves ut in futurum loeta germinent sata