[92] Lib. vi.
[93] Persic. lib. ii.
[94] Kircher, Scrutinium de Peste. He quotes Diodorus (without reference), and Orosius, book v., as his authorities: the passage in Diodorus we have not been able to find.
[95] “Λοιμογραφία, or an experimental relation of what hath happened remarkqueable in the last Plague in the city of London, &c. by W. Boghurst, apothecary in St. Giles’ in ye Feilds: London, 1666: MS. Sloane, 349.” Our attention was directed to this book as being likely to contain some curious details of the plague of 1665, but with the exception of this prefatory matter it is too exclusively medical to suit our purpose.
[96] “Oecumenical (ὀικουμενικὸς, from ὀικουμένη), relating to the whole habitable world.”—Johnson.
[97] Of Persia.
[98] A pile of wood, which, when they laid the corpse on it they fired, and afterwards buried the bones.
[99] Apollo, to whom the heathens attributed the immission of all epidemic or ordinary diseases.
[100] Thucyd. ii. 47, 54. Hobbes’s Translation has been used throughout the volume; it has been compared with the original, and corrected where necessary.
[101] It was in name a state democratical, but in fact a government of the principal man.—Thucyd. ii. 65.