[13] M. omits the epigram. It is the forty-seventh epigram of the twelfth book, and is translated thus in Henry G. Bohn’s Epigrams of Martial (London, 1877): “You are at once morose and agreeable, pleasing and repulsive. I can neither live with you nor without you.” It has been several times translated into English verse.
[14] i.e., “As many opinions as persons.”
[15] From the Greek words μονος, “one,” “single,” and πας, “all;” thus meaning, “homogeneous.”
[16] The Monophysites held that there was but one nature in Christ. They were condemned at the fourth general council held at Chalcedon in 451, but the decision of that council was a few years later set aside by an imperial encyclical issued by the emperor Basilicus. During the next century the Monophysites split up into many sects, and fought among themselves. The Monophysites still exist in Armenia, Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia; and are represented by the Armenian National church, the Jacobite Christians of Syria and Mesopotamia, the Coptic church, and the Abyssinian church. The schismatic Christians of St. Thomas are now connected with the Jacobites. See Addis and Arnold’s Catholic Dictionary, pp. 597, 598.
[17] M. greatly abridges this paragraph, among other things omitting all mention of the Monophysites. D. also omits the latter.
[18] At this point M. adds “who are the true Indians, so named from the River Indus or from Indostan, for our Indians are so by catachresis or misusage.”
[19] The title of the Franciscan Juan de Torquemada’s book, is as follows: Ia (–IIIa) Parte de los veynte y un libros rituales y monarchia Indiana con el origen y guerras de los Indios occidentales de sus poblaçones, descubrimiento, conquista, conversion y otras cosas maravillosas de la misma tierra (Sevilla, 1615; in three parts).
[20] The title of Antonio de Ramesal’s book is Historia general de las Indias Ocidentales, y particular, de la governacion de Chiapa, y Guatemala. Escrivese juntamente los principios de nuestro glorioso Padre Santo Domingo, y de las demas religiones (Madrid, 1620).
Remesal was born in Allariz in Galicia, and took the Dominican habit in Salamanca, where he also became doctor of theology. He was sent to Central America in 1613, and on his return wrote his book. See Moreri’s Dictionaire, vii, p. 68; and Hoefer’s Nouvelle biographie générale, xli, col. 956.
[21] See Vol. VIII, p. 38, note 1.