An sciri possit quod se nil scire fatetur.”
[73.] Pope Alexander III., in his declaration to the Doge, said,—“Que la mer vous soit soumise comme l’epouse l’est à son epoux puisque vous in avez acquis l’empire par la victorie.” In commemoration of this the Doge and Senate went yearly to Lio, and throwing a ring into the water, claimed the sea as their bride.
[74.] Appolonius Thyaneus, who threw a large quantity of gold into the sea, saying, “Pessundo divitias ne pessundare ab illis.”
[75.] The technical term in fencing for a hit—
“A sweet touch, a quick venew of wit.”
Love’s Labour Lost, act v. sc. 1.
[76.] Strabo compared the configuration of the world, as then known, to a cloak or mantle (chalmys).
[77.] Atomists or familists were a Puritanical sect who appeared about 1575, founded by Henry Nicholas, a Dutchman. They considered that the doctrine of revelation was an allegory, and believed that they had attained to spiritual perfection.—See Neal’s Hist. of Puritans, i. 273.
[78.] From the 126th psalm St Augustine contends that Solomon is damned. See also Lyra in 2 Kings vii.
[79.] From the Spanish “Dorado,” a gilt head.