The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

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Most at Caster by Yarmouth, found in a place called East-bloudyburgh furlong, belonging to Mr. Thomas Wood, a person of civility, industry and knowledge in this way, who hath made observation of remarkable things about him, and from whom we have received divers Silver and Copper Coynes.

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Belonging to that Noble Gentleman, and true example of worth Sir Ralph Hare, Baronet, my honoured Friend.

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A peece of Maud the Empresse said to be found in Buckenham Castle with this inscription, Elle n’a elle.

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At Thorpe.

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Brampton Abbas Jorvallensis.

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Plut. in vita Lycurg.

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Stowes Survey of London.

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Execrantur rogos, et damnant ignium sepulturam. Min. in Oct.

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Sidon. Apollinaris.

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Vigeneri Annot. in 4. Liv.

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Chifflet in Anast. Childer.

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Dionis excerpta per Xiphilin. in Severo.

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Olai Wormii monumenta et Antiquitat. Dan.

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Adolphus Cyprius in Annal. Sleswic. urnis adeo abundabat collis, etc.

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In Oxfordshire; Cambden.

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In Cheshire, Twinus de rebus Albionicis.

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In Norfolk, Hollingshead.

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Matt. 23.

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Euripides.

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Psa. 63.

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Χωρήσεις τον ἅνθρωπον ὄν ἡ οἰκουμένη οὐκ ἠχώρησεν. Dion.

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Cum lacrymis posuere.

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Lazius.

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About five hundred years. Plato.

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Vinum Opiminianum annorum centum. Petron.

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12. Tabul. l. xi. de Jure sacro. Neve aurum addito, ast quoi auro dentes vincti erunt, im cum illo sepelire et utere, se fraude esto.

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Plin. 1. xvi. Inter ξύλα ἀσαπῆ numerat Theophrastus.

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Surius.

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Gorop. Becanus in Niloscopio.

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Of Beringuccio nella pyrotechnia.

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At Elmeham.

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Sueton. in vitâ Tib. et in Amphitheatro semiustulandum, not. Casaub.

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Sueton. in vitâ Domitian

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S. the most learned and worthy Mr. M. Casaubon upon Antoninus.

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Sic erimus cuncti, etc. Ergo dum vivimus vivamus.

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Ἀγχόνην παίζειν. A barbarous pastime at Feasts, when men stood upon a rolling Globe, with their necks in a Rope, and a knife in their hands, ready to cut it when the stone was rolled away, wherein if they failed, they lost their lives to the laughter of their spectators. Athenæus.

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Diis manibus.

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Bosio.

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Pausan. in Atticis.

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Lamprid. in vit. Alexand. Severi.

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Trajanus. Dion.

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Plut. in vit. Marcelli.

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Britannia hodie eam attonitè celebrat tantis ceremoniis, ut dedisse Persis videri possit. Plin. l. 29.

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Topographiæ Roma ex Martiano. Erat et vas ustrinum appellatum quod in eo cadavera comburerenur. Cap. de Campo Esquilino.

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To be seen in Licet. de reconditis veterum lucernis.

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Old bones according to Lyserus. Those of young persons not tall nor fat according to Columbus.

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In vita. Gracc.

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Thucydides.

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Laurent. Valla.

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Ἑκατόμπεδον ἔνθα ἥ ἔνθα.

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Sperm ran. Alb. Ovor.

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The brain. Hippocrates.

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Amos 2. 1.

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As Artemisia of her Husband Mausolus.

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Siste viator.

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Kirckmannus de funer.

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Of Thomas Marquesse of Dorset, whose body being buried 1530, was 1608 upon the cutting open of the Cerecloth found perfect and nothing corrupted, the flesh not hardened, but in colour, proportion, and softnesse like an ordinary corps newly to be interred. Burtons descript. of Leicestershire.

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In his Map of Russia.

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The Poet Dante in his view of Purgatory, found gluttons so meagre, and extenuated, that he conceived them to have been in the siege of Jerusalem, and that it was easie to have discovered Homo or Omo in their faces: M being made by the two lines of their cheeks, arching over the Eye-brows to the nose, and their sunk eyes making O O which makes up Omo. Parean l’occhiaie anella senza gemme che nel viso de gli huomini legge huomo Ben’hauria quiui conosciuto l’emme.

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Tirin. in Ezek.

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Rituale Græcum opera J. Goar in officio exequiarum.

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Similis reviviscendi promissa Democrito vanitas, qui non revixit ipse. Quæ, malùm, ista dementia est; iterari vitam morte. Plin. l. 7 c. 55.

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Καὶ τάχα δʼ ἐκ γαίης ἐλπίζομεν ἐς φάος ἐλθεῖν λειψαν ἀποιχομένων.

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Cedit enim retro de terra quod fuit ante In terram, etc. Lucret.

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Plato in Phæd.

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Vale, vale, vale, nos te ordine quo natura permittet sequemur.

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Tu manes ne læde meos.

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Russians, etc.

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Francesco Perucci Pompe funebr.

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Del inferno. cant. 4.

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Tibullus.

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Oracula Chaldaica cum scholiis Pselli et Phethonis. Βίη λιπóντων σῶμα ψυχαὶ καθαρώταται. Vi corpus relinquentium animæ purissimæ.

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In the Psalme of Moses.

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According to the ancient Arithmetick of the hand wherein the little finger of the right hand contracted, signified an hundred. Pierius in Hieroglyph.

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One night as long as three.

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That the world may last but six thousand years.

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Hectors fame lasting above two lives of Methuselah, before that famous Prince was extant.

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Θ The character of death.

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Old ones being taken up, and other bodies laid under them.

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Gruteri Inscriptiones Antiquæ

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Cuperem notum esse quod sim, non opto ut sciatur qualis sim. Card. in vita propria.

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Omnia vanitas et pastio venti, νομὴ ἀνέμου, βόσκησις ut olim Aquila et Symmachus.

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Jornandes de rebus Geticis.

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Isa. 14.

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Angulus contingentiæ, the least of Angles.

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In Paris where bodies soon consume.

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A stately Mausoleum or sepulchral pyle built by Adrianus in Rome, where now standeth the Castle of St. Angelo.

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Plato in Timæo.

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fronde tegi silvas.

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διαίρεσις in opening the flesh. ἐξαίρεσις, in taking out the rib. σύνθεσις, in closing up the part again.

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For some there is from the ambiguity of the word Mikedem, whether ab oriente or a principio.

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Josephus.

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Sushan in Susiana.

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Xenophon in Oeconomico.

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Καλὰ μὲν τὰ δένδρα, διʼ ἴσου δὲ τὰ πεφυτευμένα, ὀρθοὶ δὲ ὁι στίχοι τῶν δένδρον, εὐγώνεα δὲ πάντα καλῶς.]

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Cicero iæ Cat. Major.

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Benedict Curtius de Hortis. Bapt. Portainvilla.

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Of Marius, Alexander, Roma Sotterranea.

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Wherein the lower part is some what longer, as defined by Upton de studio militari, and Johannes de Bado Aureo, cum comment. clariss. et doctiss. Bi sæi.

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Casal. de Ritibus. Bosio nella Trionfante croce.

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Decussatio ipsa jucundum ac peramænum conspectum præbuit. Cart. Hortar. l. 6.

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ὄρχοι, στίχοι ἀμπελῶν, φυτῶν στίχος, ἡ κατὰ τάξιν φυτεία. Phavorinus ὄρχοι, στίχοι ἀμπελῶν, φυτῶν στίχος, ἡ κατὰ τάξιν φυτείαPhiloxenus.

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συστάδας ἀμπέλων. Polit. 7.

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Indulge ordinibus, nec secius omnis in unguem Arboribus positis, secto via limite quadret. Georg. 2.

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Eccles. 2.

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Vet. Testamenti Pharus.

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Which King Numa set up with his fingers so disposed that they numerically denoted 365. Pliny.

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Of a structure five parts, Fundamentum, parietes, Aperturæ, Compartitio tectum, Leo. Alberti. Five Columes, Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, Compound. Five different intercolumniations, Pycnostylos, dystylos, Systylos, Areostylos, Eustylos. Vitru.

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Uti constat ex pergamena apud Chifflet; in B. R. Bruxelli, et Icon. f. Stradæ.

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Macc, 1. 11.

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Aristot. Mechan. Quæst.

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δικτυοτά.

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Cant. 2.

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Ἄσβεστος δʼ ἅρʼ ἐνῶρτο γελως. Hom.

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De armis Scaccatis, Masculatis, invectis fuselatis vide Spelm. Aspilog. et Upton. cum erudit. Bissæo.

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As in the contention between Minerva and Arachne.

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In Eustachius.

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Plato.

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In the disposure of the Legions in the Wars of the Republike, before the division of the Legion into ten cohorts by the Emperours. Salmas. in his Epistle a Mounsieur de Peyresc. & de Re militari Romanorum.

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Polybius Appianus.

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Agathius Ammianus.

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Ælian. Tact.

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ἐν πλασίω.

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Secto via limite quadret. Comment. in Virgil.

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Diod. Sic.

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Antonio Agostino delle medaglie.

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Aristot. Mechan.

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Plut. in vit. Thes.

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Capitula squammata Quercum Bauhini, whereof though he saith perraro reperiuntur bis tantum invenimus, yet we finde them commonly with us and in great numbers.

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Antho. Græc. inter Epigrammata γριφώδη ἐνδον ἐμῶν μητρὸς λαγονων ἔχω πατέρα.

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Jer. 2, 22.

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Stratiotes.

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In met. cum Gabeo.

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Schoneveldus de Pisc.

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Doctissim. Laurenburg horr.

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The long and tender green Capricornus rarely found, we could never meet with but two.

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Elem. li. 4.

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Gom. de Sale.

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Elegantly conspicuous on the inside of the striped skins of Dive-Fowl, of the cormorant, Goshonder, Weasell, Loon, etc.

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1652. described in our Pseudo Epidem. Edit. 3.

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Orchis Anthropophora, Fabii Columnæ.

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Suet. in vit. Aug.

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Found often in some form of redmaggot in the standing waters of Cisterns in the Summer.

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Quantum vertice ad auras Æthereas, tantum radice ad tartara tendit.

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Galen. de med. secundum loc.

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Hedera formosior alba.

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Lux orco, tenebræ Jovi, tenebræ orco, lux Jovi. Hippocr. de diæta.

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S. Hevelii Selenographia.

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Car. Bovillus de intellectu.

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δίκη

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Δενδρον, Θάμνος, Φρύγανον, Πόα, Arbor, frutex, suffrutex, herba, and that fifth which comprehendeth the fungi and tubera, whether to be named Ἄσχιον or γύμνον, comprehending also conserva marina salsa, and Sea-cords, of so many yards length.

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Elleipsis, parabola, Hyperbole, Circulus, Triangulum.

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πεμπτας id est nuptias multas. Rhodig.

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Plato de leg. 6.

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Plutarch problem. Rom. 1.

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Archang. dog. Cabal.

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Jod into He.

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Or very few, as the Phalangium monstrosum Brasilianum, Clusii et Jac de Laet. Cur. poster. Americæ, Descript. If perfectly described.

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Lev. 6.

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τέσσαρα ἔν κε four and one, or five. Scalig.

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Ἀγαθὴ τυχὴ, or bona fortuna the name of the fifth house.

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Conjunct, opposite, sextile, trigonal, tetragonal.

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Πρότασις, ἐπíτασις, κατάστασις, καταστροφή.

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Unifolium nullifolima.

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Hyades near the Horizon about midnight, at that time.

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De insomniis.

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Artemodorus et Apomazar.

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Strewed with roses.

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Depinxit oculos stibio. 2 Kings 9. 30. Jerem. 4. 30. Ezek. 23. 40.

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Jona 4. 6. a Gourd.

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ἄπιστος θέα. Philo.

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Radzivil in his Travels.

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G. Venetus Problem 200.

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Lib. 18. Nat. Hist.

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Acts 2. 13.

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Theophrast. Hist. Lib. 4. Cap. 7. 8.

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Plin. lib. 13. cap. ultimo.

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Dan. 4. 9. Ps. 1. 14. 12.

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Sbacher from Sbachar festinus fuit or maturuit.

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Plin. lib. 14.

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Terebinthus in Macedonia fruticat, in Syria, magna est. Lib. 13. Plin.

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Hosea. 4. 13.

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Judges 20. 45, 47. Ch. 21. 13.

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Isa. 9. 10

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1 Chron. 27. 28.

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1 King. 10. 27.

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Amos 7. 14.

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Psal. 78 47.

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Luk. 17. 6.

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D. Greaves.

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Gen. 26. 12.

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Gen. 41. 56.

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Gen. 45. 9, 11.

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Theoph. Hist. l. 8.

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Ægypt ὁμιχλὼδης, καὶ δρόσερος Vid. Theophrastum

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Gen. 41. 48.

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De causis Plant. Lib. 1. Cap. 7.

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Καλλικαρπεῖν οὑκ ἔξει.

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De horticultura.

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Καλλιέλαιον Rom. 11. 42.

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Bellonius de Avibus.

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Theophrast. l. 9. c. 6.

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Linum folliculos germinavit, σπερματίζον Septuag. Serotina, Lat. ὄψιμα, Gr.

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Radzevil’s Travels.

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Plin. lib. 18. cap. 18.

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Columella lib. 2 cap. 22.

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Varro lib. 1. cap. 49.

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Psal. 120. 4.

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Job 30. 3, 4.

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2 Sam. 18. 9, 14.

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2 King. 18. 4.

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A journey to Jerusalem, 1672.

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Jer. 10. 5.

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Ainsworth.

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Matt. 21. 19.

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Heinsius in Nonnum.

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D. Hammond.

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Jer. 24. 2.

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S. Mark 14. 67. S. Luke 22. 55, 56.

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S. John 18. 18.

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Micah 7. 1.

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Plin. 13. cap. 4.

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Cant. 4. 1.

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Levit. 3. 9.

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Aristot. Hist. Animal. lib. 8.

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Cant. 4. 2.

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Psal. 144. 13.

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Levit. 23. 40.

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Curtius de Hortis.

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Ezek. 40. 5.

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S. Matt 27. 30, 48.

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Josh. 16. 17.

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Josh. 3. 13.

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Ecclus. 24. 26.

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ἐξαίρησθαι. Theophrast. Hist. Plant. l. 8.

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De Horticultura.

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De Theriaca ad Pisonem.

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S. Joh. 21. 9, 10, 11, 13.

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De Bello Gothico, lib. 1.

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See Vulg. Err. B. 3. c. 10.

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Vulg. Err. B. 5. c. 3.

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De Re Accipitraria, in 3 Books.

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De Re Rustica.

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Cor. 13. 1

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Velè the Founder of the Convent.

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El Vinet. in Auson.

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Tract 2. Part lib. 1.

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V. Cl. Spelmanni Concil.

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[Sir William Dugdale. – Ed.]

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Leland. in Assertione Regis Arthuri.

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Wormius in Monumentis Danicis.

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Cambd. Brit. p. 326.

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Published 1656, by Dan. King.

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Sueton.

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Sueton.

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Gen. 13. 10.

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See Vulg. Err. l. 7. c. 12.

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Herod. l. 1. 46, 47, etc. 90, 91.

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Προλέγουσαι Κροίσω, ἢν στρατεύηται ἐπὶ Πέρσας, μεγάλην ἀρχήν μιν καταλύσειν. Herod. Ibid. 54.

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Herod. l. 1. 85.

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Plut. in Thes.

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V. Herod.

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Ah pudet et scripsi Getico sermone Libellum.

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Cum mors venerit, in medio Tibure Sardinia est.

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In the King's Forests they set the Figure of a broad Arrow upon Trees that are to be cut down. Hippoc. Epidem.

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Bellonius de Avibus.

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Monstra contingunt in Medicina Hippoc.

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Strange and rare Escapes there happen sometimes in Physick. Angeli Victorii Consultationes. Matth. iv. 25.

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