[2751] It was probably a doctrine of Magic, that an adept must not be deficient in any of his limbs.
[2752] After being conquered by the Roman general, Corbulo, he received the crown of Armenia from Nero, A.D. 63.
[2753] All vegetable substances were divided, according to their doctrine, into the pure and the impure, the rule being strictly observed at their repasts.
[2754] See end of this Book.
[2755] See B. xxv. c. 80.
[2756] Like the assertions of the famous impostor of the close of the last century, Count Cagliostro.
[2757] A mistake, of course; and one for which there is little excuse, as its eyes are easily perceptible. It is not improbably, however, that it was an impression with the ancients that its sight is impeded by the horny covering of its eyes.
[2758] In B. xxix. c. 27.
[2759] See B. xii. c. 51.
[2760] It is doubtful what is meant by this male white “water-serpent.” In B. xxxii. c. 26, he appears to include it among the fishes.