[6.] In the year 1606, when the Jesuits were expelled from Venice, Pope Paul V. threatened to excommunicate that republic. A most violent quarrel ensued, which was ultimately settled by the mediation of France.
[7.] Alluding to the story of Œdipus solving the riddle proposed by the Sphynx.
[8.] The nymph Arethusa was changed by Diana into a fountain, and was said to have flowed under the sea from Elis to the fountain of Arethusa near Syracuse.—Ov. Met. lib. v. fab. 8.
[9.] These heretics denied the immortality of the soul, but held that it was recalled to life with the body. Origen came from Egypt to confute them, and is said to have succeeded. (See Mosh. Eccl. Hist., lib. i. c. 5. sec. 16.) Pope John XXII. afterwards adopted it.
[10.] A division from the Greek διχοτομια.
[11.] The brain.
[12.] A faint resemblance, from the Latin adumbro, to shade.
[13.] Alluding to the idea Sir T. Browne often expresses, that an oracle was the utterance of the devil.
[14.] To fathom, from Latin profundus.
[15.] Beginning from the Latin efficio.