The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton

[3039]. Or plain, as Patricius holds, which Austin, Lactamius, and some others, held of old as round as a trencher.

[3040]. Li. de Zilphia et Pigmeia, they penetrate the earth as we do the air.

[3041]. Lib. 2. c. II2.

[3042]. Commentar. ad annum 1537. Quicquid dicunt, Philosophi, quaedam sunt Tartari ostia, et loca puniendis animis destinata, ut Hecla mons, &c. ubi mortuorum spiritus visuntur, &c. voluit Deus extare talia loca, ut discant mortales.

[3043]. Ubi miserabiles ejulantium voces audiuntur, qui auditoribus horrorem incutiunt hand vulgarem, &c.

[3044]. Ex sepulchris apparent mense Martio, et rursus sub terram se abscondunt, &c.

[3045]. Descript. Graec. lib. 6. de Pelop.

[3046]. Conclave Ignatii.

[3047]. Melius dubitare de occultis, quam litigare de incertis, ubi flamina inferni, &c.

[3048]. See Dr. Reynolds praelect. 55. in Apoc.