—Pope, Il. viii. 26.
[24.] An argument where one proposition is accumulated upon another, from the Greek σωρειτης, a heap.
[25.] Alluding to the second triumvirate—that of Augustus, Antony, and Lepidus. Florus says of it, “Respublica convulsa est lacerataque.”
[26.] Ochinus. He was first a monk, then a doctor, then a Capuchin friar, then a Protestant: in 1547 he came to England, and was very active in the Reformation. He was afterwards made Canon of Canterbury. The Socinians claim him as one of their sect.
[27.] The father of Pantagruel. His adventures are given in the first book of Rabelais, Sir Bevys of Hampton, a metrical romance, relating the adventures of Sir Bevys with the Saracens.—Wright and Halliwell’s Reliquiæ Antiquæ, ii. 59.
[28.] Contradictions between two laws.
[29.] On his arrival at Paris, Pantagruel visited the library of St Victor: he states a list of the works he found there, among which was “Tartaretus.” Pierre Tartaret was a French doctor who disputed with Duns Scotus. His works were republished at Lyons, 1621.
[30.] Deucalion was king of Thessaly at the time of the deluge. He and his wife Pyrrha, with the advice of the oracle of Themis, repeopled the earth by throwing behind them the bones of their grandmother,—i.e., stones of the earth.—See Ovid, Met. lib. i. fab. 7.
[31.] St Augustine (De Civ. Dei, xvi. 7).
[32.] απηγξατο (St Matt. xxvii. 5) means death by choking. Erasmus translates it, “abiens laqueo se suspendit.”