Volume 1
The anatomy of melancholy / edited by Rev. A.R. Shilleto.
- Burton, Robert
- Date:
- Reprint 1896 (3 vol set)
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy / edited by Rev. A.R. Shilleto. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![get themselves credit, and by that means the more to be respected, as artificers usually do, novo qui marmori ascribunt Praxitelen suo} ?Tis not so with me. 2 Non hie Centauros, non Gorgonas Harpyasque Invenies, hominem pagina nostra sapit. No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find, My subject is of man, and human kind. Thou thyself art the subject of my discourse. 3 Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus, nostri farrago libelli. Whate'er men do, vows, fears, in ire, in sport, Joys, wandrings, are the sum of my report. My intent is no otherwise to use his name, than Mercurius Gallobelgicus, Mercurius Britannicus, use the name of Mercury,4' Democritus Christianus, &*c. Although there be some other cir- cumstances, for which I have masked myself under this visard, and some peculiar respects, which I cannot so well express, until I have set down a brief character of this our Democritus, what he was, with an Epitome of his life. Democritus, as he is described by * Hippocrates, and QLaertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days,7 and much given to solitariness, a famous Philosopher in his age, *cooeviis with Socrates, wholly addicted to his studies at the last, and to a private life, writ many excellent works, a great Divine, according to the divinity of those times, an expert Physician, a Politician, an excellent Mathematician, as 9 Diacosmus & the rest of his works do witnesse. He was much delighted with the studies of Husbandry, saith 10 Columella, and often I find him cited by 11 Constantinus and others, treating of that subject. He knew the natures, differences of all beasts, plants, fishes, birds; and, as some say, could 12 understand the tunes and voices of them. In a word, he was omnifaridm doctus, sl general scholar, a p Phaedri Fab. Book v. Prologue, 11. 5, 6. Who put Praxiteles' name on their new marble statue. ] 2 Martialis, lib. 10. epigr. [iv. 9, 10.] 3 Juv. Sat. i. [85, 86.] 4 Auth. Pet. Besseo edit. Colonise, 1616. 5 Hip. Epist. Damaget. 6 Laert. lib. 9. [cap. 7.] 7 Hortulo sibi cellulam seligens, ibique seipsum includens, vixit soli- tarius. [Ibidem. ] 8 Floruit Olympiade 80; 700 annis post Troiam. 9 Diacos. quod cunctis operibus facile excellit. Laert. [lib. 9. cap. 7.] 10 Col. lib. 1. c. 1. II Const, lib. de agric. passim. 12 Volucrum voces et linguas intelligere se dicit Abderitanus. Ep. Hip.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21270818_001_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
