The anatomy of melancholy : what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut-vp / by Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

Robert Burton

Date:: 1638

Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut-vp / by Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$in his trad: De cur.grxc. affe^* manifeftly evinces as much of Socrates, whom though that Oracle of Apollo confirmed to be the wifeft man then livingjand faved him from the plague,whom 2000 years have admired of whomfome will as foonefpeak evill as of Chrifi,ya revera, hee was an illiterate idiot, as Y Anfiophanes cals him, irrtfor cJ- ambttiojus^ as his U^a^Q^AnftotlemmtsYiim^fcurraAtticus, as Zeno, an ^ cnemie to all arts dcfciences, as Athanetfs, to Philofophers & Travellers,an opinative 2 Omnium Aif- affe, a caviller, a kinde of Pedant 5 for his manners, as Theod.Cjrenfis de- fcribes him,a Sodomite,m thetji, ('fo convict by i^npus)iracundus ^ Puichmam ebriHs,dtcax^(^c.2i pot companion, by Plato*s own confelIion,a ftur- die drinkerjand that of all others he was moft fottilh, a very mad-man in his adions & opinions.was part philofopher,part magician, ohibat, ^6, or part witch. If you defire to hear more oiApllomus a great wife man, fometime paralleled by yUan the apoftate to Chrift, I refer you to that learned trad o^Eufebim 2i0^m^Hierocles,^ for them all to Lucians Pif cator,Icaromempi>us,Necyomantia:thdxa^ions,oynions ingeneral were foprodigious,abfurd, ridiculous,which they broached and maintained, their books and elaborate treatifes were full of dotage, which Tu/ly ad Att icum, long lince obferved, delirant flerumq-, fer if tores in librisfuk, their lives being oppofite to their words, they commended povertk to others,and were moft covetolis thcmfelves, extolled love and peace,and yet pcrfecuted oneanother‘ witli virulent hate and malice. They could give precepts for verfe and profe, butnot amanof themCas^e^^c^ tels - them home;could moderate his affedions.Their mufick did fhew usfle-fUmTxum biles modos,^c.how to rife aridiall, but they could not fo contain them- owwsta?. felves as in adverfitie not to make a lamentable tone. They will mcafure ground by Geometric, fet down limits, divide and fubdivide,but can¬ not yet preferibe quantum ho)nint fatts, or keep within compaffe of rea- fon & difcretion.They can fquare circles, but underftand not theftate of their own fouls,defGribe right lines,and crooked,&c.but know not what is right in this Me^quid in vita returnfit,ignorant‘s fo that as he faid, Nefcioani^nticyram ratio Hits defiinet omnem* I think allthc-^/^r/^r^Jwilnot reftore them to their wits, ^ if thefe men a jiuhrUui OoWjthat held ^ Xenodotus h.ezxtjCrates \\stx,EpEietus lanthorn,were fo fottifh,and had no more brains then fo many beetles,what fhall we think of the commonalties What ofthe reft'f b CorXenodeti Yea, but will you infer, that is true of heathens, if they be conferred with Chriftians,! Cor.^*ig. The wifedome of this world k foolifnej/emth Cod,earthly and devilijb, zs^mescdls it, 3.15. They were vainintheir imaginations,and theirfoolijh heart was full of dark nefe, Rom 21,22* JVhenthey frofeffedthemfelveswife, becamefooles. Their wittie works arc admired here on earth, whilft their foulcs are tormented in hell fire. la fome ievS.e,Chrifiiani Crafsiani,ChriUhns are Craftians,& if compared to that wifedome,no better then fooh^^kefifapens P Solus BeusfPy^ ^LihMm, thagoras replies,(r k only wife,Rom. 16. Paul determines, only good, as ^AufiinvftW conitndiS,andno man living ean bejufiifiedin his fight. Cod looked down from heaven ufon the children of men, to fee if any didun* derfiand,Pfa. j 3.2,3.but all OLtQQoxmp^zxiZtRom.^^.xi.None doth good,n9 C 3 not$

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