The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

  • Robert Burton
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1628
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Memb.i,SubC3* Pafta3.Se(5l:.4, Religious Melancholy, 600 heire,hcr bkth-day was folemnized long after, and to make it a more plauft- bic holy-day^they made her Goddeffc of flowres , and facrificed to her a- mongft the reft. The matrons oiRome^ as Dionyfim Bahcarnafixm relates, becaiile at their entreaty CorioUnm defiftcd from his warres, confccrated a 1 AntbVerdure Churcli ForttmA ^ Venm BarhatAidid a temple ere<fted,foi’thac Stocks, foiiiewhac wasamiffeaboiu reft. r»/^writes to^tticu^, dido (pie?iden^ that his daughter TMoU might be made a Goddefle,and adored as luno & tn amcimine, jv///?fr/i«>t,and as well iTe deferued it. Their Holydaies and adorations were 'JftimmtverT all out as ridiGuIous,thofe Lupereds of Fm^F Lor ales of Flora, Bona dea. An- flormes cona^ Ferenna^Saturnds^&e,^% how they were celebrated,with what lafciuious and wantongeftures,baldeeremonles,t by what bawdy Priefts, how they pukimlib.ii, hang their nofes oner the fi-noke offacrificcs/aith ^ Luckn, and licke bloud ftiesjthat was fpillcd about the Altars. Their carued Idols, gilt Images \kneljmtm ofwcModjkon,ivory/iIuer,brafte3ftone,t>/i?» tramus €ramfiic,wtxQ moftab- quxfoffit adifl- fiird^^as being their owne workmanfhip, for as Seneca notes, adorant ligneos mTare!Zut. interim quifecerant,contemnunt, they adore the worke, con- * Lib. deftcrifi. temne the workeman, and as Tertallian followes it. Si homines non effent cikiFumo m- dtjspropity>,non effent Ay, had it not beeue for men, they had neuer beene rminrmem’ Gods,but blocks ftill,and ftupid ftatues,in which mice,fwallowes,birds made fatifljmm ««-' their neaftsjfpiders their webbes,and in their very mouthes,laid their cxcre- ttients. Thofe Images I lay were all out as grofle,as the (hapes in which they * did reprefent them; lapiter with a rams head, Mercury a dogges, Pan like a goat,with-three heads,one with a beard,another withouc5 fee more in c . Carterirnm^ t Verdurim of their monftroiis formes and vgly pictures-.' and rSIT which was abfurder yet,they told them thefe Images came from heauen, as (GTipt, * that of Miner uaiwhtt ^mrp\e.dX. Athens,quo d''e ccelo cecidijfe credebantac^ coUfdth Paufanias^ They formed fome like ftarkes,apcs, bulls, and yet feri- oufty bcleaied,and that which was impious and abominable,they made their Gods notorious whoremafters, inceftioUs Sodomites, ( as commonly they were all,aiwell as lupiter^Mars^LMpoUo^Mercury, Neptune^ ^ ^cj theeues, {]a.uzs^drudges/(ov Apollo ^ Neptune made tiks in Phrygia,) keep fheepc, f De vef,retig, ^LercuUs empty ftables, Vulcan a blackTmith, vnfit to dwell vpon the earth indtgvi for their vilkmies,much lefle inhcaiicn,as t C^tornay well faith, and yet they quiierrm cal- gaue them ouc to be fuch,fb wcake and brutifh,fometo whine, lament, and ’ roare as I [is for her fonne and Cenocephalus ,. as ajfo all her weeping Priefts, TO lup^erTra- iMars in Homer,to hz woundedjVexed^FJ?;^^ runne away crying, and the which,v/hat can be more ridiculous? Nonneridiculum lugere quod niiiT ' jplaspvel colore quod/«^^^(which f Minutius obie(5Is) Si dij curplangitis,fi k S^oSacrl ^ ii^^rXicll if‘^' Lucian, that adamantine perfe- ^yg\a ^^i|fiqUutorof4iipe^ and Pliny covM fofeoffe at them and their horrible ijfmor reckons Idolacrv,as they did.- If Diagoras tookz Hercules Image,and put it vnder his o^ which re^d his pottage,which was,as he faid,his 13th labour.But fee more of more in cap. i. their fopperies in Cypr,r\,tra6i je idol, •varietat, ChryfoBome advtrf.Gentil, oi LaurenttM Arnob,adu,G€ntes. Auftinde civ,dei, Theodoret, de curat, Gruec, affeB. Cle^ ^^mthara- Alexandrinus,MinHtiusFalix,Eufebius,Ld6iantius,Stuckfus^S*c, La- - ^m,acaurc of tnentablc,tragicall,and fearefull thofe Symptomes are j that they fhould bee fo farreforth affrighted with their ftdiious Gods , as to fpend their goods, 4^.1, ’ imes,fortunes3prctioiisdme,beft daicsiritheir honour , to ^ facrifice vnto ' ‘ ' them