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felix! Palingen. lib. 18" (sic). The words "Vade igitur felix liber" occur in Palin- genius's 'Zodiacus Vitse,' bk. xii. 581. (Cf. Ovid, * Tr.,' I. i. 3-4, 15.)

P. 11, 1. 8 from foot ('D. to the R.'; p. 1, 1. 12 from foot, in 6th edit.): "ex fortuita atomorum collisione." (Cf. Cic., ' Acad. Post.,' i. 2, 6, "de corpusculorum ita enirn appellat atomos concursione fortuita loqui.")

P. 11, 1. 6 from foot (p. 1, 1. 10 from foot, in 6th edit), 'Of Motes in the Sun.' See Lucr., ii. 114-22, where the dancing of motes in a sunbeam is employed as an illus- tration to show what is meant by the per- petual tossing about of atoms in the great void.

P. 12, 1. 14 from foot (p. 2, 1. 14, in 6th edit.) : "Democritus, as he is described by Hippo- crates" Burton's marginal note is **Hip. Epist. Damaget." The epistle in question is No. 17 of ' Hippocratis Epistolse ' (p. 298 in R. Hercher's 'EpistolographiGrseci,' Paris, 1873). P. 12, 1. 5 from foot (p. 2, 1. 22, in 6th edit.) : " and often I find him cited by Constantinus and others." Burton's marginal note is, "Const, lib. de agric. passim." The book referred to is the 'Geoponica,' compiled by Cassianus Bassus. its ascription to Con- stantine Pogonatus or Constantine Porphyro- genitus was due to an error. For a list of places where Democritus is cited in the 'Geoponica' see the 'Index Auctorum' at the end of J. N. Niclas's edition (Leipzig, 1781).

P. 12, 1. 2 from foot (p. 2, 1. 24, in 6th edit.) : "and, as some say, could understand the tunes and voices of them." Burton's marginal note is, " Volucrum voces et linguas intelligere se dicit Abderitans. [sic 4th edit., 6th edit. A. R. S. alters the word to " Abderitanus." Ought it not to be " Abderitanis " ?] Ep. Hip." See 3 of letter 10, which purports to be from the Senate and people of Abdera to Hippocrates. It will be seen that the words in Burton's note are nearer to the Latin rendering printed by Hercher than to the Greek text as given by him. I regret that I cannot at present refer to any early text or translation of Hippocrates.

P. 13, marg. notes 2 and 4 (notes r and s, p. 2, in 6th 6dit.) : "Naturalia, moralia, mathematica, liberates disciplinas, artiumque omnium peritiam callebat," and " Veni Athenas, et nemo me novit." These quota- tions come from Diog. Laert., ix. 7, 5, 37, and ix. 7, 5, 36. Of the Latin translation by Ambrosius Traversarius which Burton used Cobet wrote, "Cette traduction latine est 1'etable d'Augias."

P. 14, marg. note 4 (note d, p. 3, in 6th

edit.) : ^ Phil. Stoic, li. diff. 8" (as a reference to Lipsius). The 4th edit, has the same. The abbreviations have been curiously perverted. The reference should be to Lipsius's 'Man- ductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam,' lib. iii. dissertatio 8 (vol. iv. p. 775 in the 1675 edit, of Lipsius's works).

P. 16, 1. 8 (p. 4, 1. 25, in 6th edit.): "ne quid mentiar " (1. 38 of the prologue prefixed to Plautus's ' Casina ').

P. 17, 1. 15 (p. 5, 1. 11, in 6th edit.): "As Scaliger observes, nothing more invites a reader than an argument unlocked for, un- thought of, and sells better than a scurrile pam- phlet." Burton's marginal note is, " Scaliger, Ep. ad Patissonem. Nihil magis lectorem invitat quam inopinatuin argumentum, neque vendibilior merx est quam petulans liber." This quotation is compounded of two sen- tences from different places of J. J. Scaliger's ' Confutatio Stultissimae Burdonum Fabulse,' the latter part, "neque" to "liber," being taken, with some verbal changes, from near the beginning of that work (p. 52, part ii. of the 1612 edit, of J. J. Scaliger's 'Qpuscula'), and "nihil" to "argumentum" being found, again in a slightly different form, a little later (p. 54 ; these pages, in my copy at least, are incorrectly numbered 420 and 422).

P. 17, 1. 12 from foot (p. 5, 1. 14, in 6th edit.) : " Many men, saith GdUus, are very conceited in their inscriptions, and able (as Pliny quotes out of Seneca) to make him loiter by the way that went in haste to fetch a midwife for his daughter, now ready to lie down."

Burton has two marginal notes here. That which refers to Gellius (though the reference mark is misplaced in the text in 4th edit, and 6th edit.) is "Lib. xx. c. 11. Miras sequun- tur inscriptionum festivitates." In 4 of Gellius's preface to his ' Noctes Atticse ' are the words " nihil imitati festivitates inscrip- tionum." Until the middle of the seven- teenth century this preface was printed as part of the last chapter of the last book (see Martin Hertz's critical edition). Hence the ref. to lib. xx. c. 11, which Shilleto leaves unexplained. Burton's second note (that to Pliny) is " Prsefat. Nat. Hist. Patri obste- tricem parturienti filise accersenti moram injicere possunt." The passage in Pliny's preface to his * Nat. Hist.' which Burton was thinking of is " inscriptions propter quas vadimonium deseri possit" ($ 24). The miras which Burton inserts in his quotation from Gellius may have been due to "Inscrip- tionis apud Grsecos mira felicitas" in this same section of Pliny. Pliny, however, does not quote Seneca here. The passage in the latter author which Burton had in his mind