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The Columbiad

by Joel Barlow

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No. 21 His Eldest Hope, Young Rocha, at His Call, Resigns His Charge Within the Temple, Wall

Book III. Line 29.

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.

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