a kind of divination by means of smoke, used by the ancients in their sacrifices. The words come from zwaeg, smoke, and garria, divination. The general rule was, when the smoke was thin and light, and rose straight up, it was a good omen; if the contrary, it was a bad one. There was also another species of capnomancy.

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1 Savigny's Geschichte des Römischen Rechts im Mittelalter, Bd. i S. 143. We quote Mr Cuthbert's translation, which, we are sorry to find, has not yet extended beyond the first volume. See likewise Eichhorn's Deutsche Staats- und Rechtsgeschichte, Th. i S. 346, and Conringius De Origine Juris Germanici, p. 63. edit. Helmstedt, 1720, 4to.

2 In reference to this subject, the reader may consult a work entitled "Commentatio de Marcipanis allisique similibus Formulis, Libri singularis: auctor Dr J. A. L. Seidensticker." Jena, 1818, 4to.

3 See above, vol. iv. p. 334.—The work described in the Biographie Universelle as a publication of various manuscripts, is merely a catalogue of Baluze's library. "Bibliotheca Baluziana, seu Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecæ v. el. Stephani Baluzii 'Tuteleensis.' Paris, 1719, 2 tom. 8vo. This library contained 10,799 printed books, and many hundred manuscripts. Of one of his early publications, which we had no opportunity of inspecting, we have copied a French title from Niceron, but the work is written in Latin: "Disquisition Seculi quo visit Sanctus Sacerdos, Episcopus Lemovicensis." Tutela Lemovicum, 1655, 8vo. Baluze obtained several other benefices besides those which we have mentioned in p. 333. Dis-mancy, consisting in the observation of the smoke rising from poppy and jasmine seed cast upon lighted coal.