Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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    Neither will I have recourfe for refuge to that old tetraftich, ‘ntrat Avaloniam duodena Caterva virorum Flos Avimathie Fofeph, Pe. becaufe I have even now blamed the liberty-of the ancient rhymers. He means by Mors ali. ena, fome ftrange kind of death; though a/i- ena fignifies in quite another fenfe than there ufed. I fhall take particular notice here of the third of November, both becaufe ’tis my own birth-day, and alfo for that I have obferved . fome remarkable accidents to have happened thereupon, Conftantius, the Emperor, fon of Conftantine | the Great, little inferior to his father, a worthy warrior, and good man, died the third of No- vember: Ex veteri Calendario penes ine. Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salifbury, that great man, and famous commander~ under Henry IV. V. and VI. died this day, by a wound of a cannon-fhot he received at Or- Jeance, E MSS. quodam, & Glovero, So
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