[71] By Friar Bacon. See Chapter viii.
“... nec fulmine tanti
Dissultant crepitus ...”—Æn., xii. 922.
[73] Siphons, of whatever kind, were known before sea-fire. On hearing of the Moslem preparations to attack him in 671, Constantine Pogonatus ordered the siphon-bearing warships (δρόμωνας σιφωνοφόρους) to be put in commission.—Theophanes’ “Chronography,” i. 542.
[74] “Alexander,” c. 35; tr. by Stewart and Long.
[75] “Natural History,” xxxvi. 53.
[76] See Boivin’s notes on the “Kestoi” in Vet. Mathematicorum ... Op., ed. Thévenot, 1693, p. 357; and Gelzer’s S. J. Africanus, 1880, i. 13.
[77] In the Deipnosophists of Athenæus a juggler is represented as producing automatic fire, c. 16, e.
[78] Πίσσα καὶ δᾷδες καὶ ἄσβεστος Corp. Script. Hist. Byzant., Pt. xxii. p. 537.