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![amove captum cum delituisset noctu simulachro cohcesisse, ejusq; PART II. cupiditatis esse indicem maculum. Lucian also has the story in sect 7. his Dialog. [Amores.'\ p<h:- 97- And the constitution o/Nero in his Spintrian rec7-eations.^ The Author doth not mean the last Nero, but Tiberius the Emperour, whose name was Nero too; of whom Sueton. Secessu vera Capreensi etiam seUariam excogitavit sedern arcanarum libidinum, in qvnm undique conquisiti puellarum et exoletorum greges monstrosiq; con- cubitus repertores, quos spintrias appellabat, triplici serie connexi invicem incestarent se coram ipso, ut adspectu deficientes libidines excitaret. Suet, in Tib. 43. / have seen a Grammarian toure and plume himself over a single Sect. 8. linein Horace, and shew more pride, etc.] Movent mihi stomachum 9'' GrammatistcB quidam, qui cum duas tenuerint vocabulorum origines ita se ostentant, ita venditant, ita circumferunt jactabundi, ut prce ipsis pro nihilo habendos Philosophos arbitrentur. Picus Mirand. in Ep. ad Hermol. Barb, quce extat lib. nono Epist. Politian. Garsio quisq; duas postquam scit jungere partes, Sic stat, sic loquitur, velut omnes noverit artes. I cannot think that Homer pin'd away upon the Riddle of the Pag. 99. Fishermen.^ The History out of Plutarch is thus : Sailing from Thebes to the Island Ion, being landed and set down upon the shore, there happen'd certain Fishermen to pass by him, and he asking them what they had taken, they made him this Enig- matical answer. That what they had taken, they had left behind them; and what they had not taken, they had with them: meaning, that because they could take no Fish, they went to loose themselves ; and that all which they had taken, they had killed, and left behind them, and all which they had not taken, they had with them in their clothes: and that Homer being struck with a deep sadness because he could not interpret this, pin'd away, and at last dyed. Pliny alludes to this Riddle, in his Ep. to his Friend Puscus, where giving an account of spend- ing his time in the Country, he tells him, Venor aliquando, sed non sine puqillaribus, ut quamvis nihil ceperim, non nihil referam. Plin. Ep. lib. 9, Ep. 36. Or that Aristot. did ever drown himself upon the flux or reflux of Euripus.] Laertius reports that Aristotle dyed of a disease at 63 years of age. For this and the last, see the Author in Pseudodox. Aristotle doth but instruct us as Plato did him, to confute Atm- self] In the matter of Idea's, Eternity of the world, etc. I could be content that we might procreate like trees without con- seet. 9. junction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without Pv- v». this trivial and vulgar way of Coition: It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.] There was a Physitian long before](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650349_0001_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
