. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . from aromatic plantsgrowing in their own country. The modes in whichthey applied them were various. (Alabaster; Or-naments, Personal, &c.) Perfumes entered largelyinto the Temple-service, in the two forms of in-cense and ointment (Ex. xxx. 22-38). Nor werethey less used in private life: not only were theyapplied to the person, but to garments (Ps. xiv. 8 ;Cant. iv. 11), and to articles of furniture, such asbeds (Prov. vii. 17). On the arrival of a guest thesame compliments were probably paid in ancient asin modern times (Dan. ii. 46). When a royal pe
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . from aromatic plantsgrowing in their own country. The modes in whichthey applied them were various. (Alabaster; Or-naments, Personal, &c.) Perfumes entered largelyinto the Temple-service, in the two forms of in-cense and ointment (Ex. xxx. 22-38). Nor werethey less used in private life: not only were theyapplied to the person, but to garments (Ps. xiv. 8 ;Cant. iv. 11), and to articles of furniture, such asbeds (Prov. vii. 17). On the arrival of a guest thesame compliments were probably paid in ancient asin modern times (Dan. ii. 46). When a royal per-sonage went abroad in his litter, attendants threwup pillars of smoke about his path (Cant. iii. 6).The use of perfumes was omitted in times of mourn-ing, whence the allusion in Is. iii. 24. Ferga (L. fr. Gr.; compare Pergamos), an an-cient and important city of Pampiiylia, situated onthe river Cestrus, sixty stadia from its mouth, andcelebrated in antiquity for the worship of Artemis(Diana), whose temple stood on a hill outside the. Perga, Part of the Ancient Wall.—From Texier and Pullan, Byzantine Architecture.—(Fbn.) town. The Cestrus was navigable to Perga; andSt. Paul landed here on his voyage from Paphos(Acts xiii. 13). He visited Perga again on his returnfrom the interior of Pamphylia, and preached the Gospel there (xiv. 25). There are still extensiveremains of Perga at a spot called by the TurksEski-Kdlesi. Perga-mos (Gr.; popularly derived from Perga- PER PER 837 mus, son of Pyrrhus, who settled there; but ap-parently connected with Gr. purgos = a tower, andEng. burgh, in names of places, L. & S.), a city ofMysia, about three miles N. of the river Bakyr-tehai, the Caicus of antiquity, and twenty milesfrom its present mouth. The name was originallygiven to a remarkable hill, presenting a conical ap-pearance when viewed from the plain, and stronglyfortified by nature and art. The local mythologicallegends attached a sacred character to this , one of
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