[74] Genesis, Chap. xxx., v. 14, 15, 16, 17. The last verse must be considered as decisive of the efficacy of the mandrake. [75] Solomon's Song, chap. vii. v. 13. [76] See the word _Dudaïm_, in Dr. Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature. The learned doctor has given a sketch of the plant Mandragora, a copy of which the reader will find in plate VI. [77] Onkelos was a celebrated rabbin contemporary with St. Paul, and to whom the Targum, that is, a translation or paraphrase of the Holy Scriptures, is attributed. [78] Lib. IV., cap. 76. [79] Quoted by Oct. Celsius in his "_Hierobotanicon_," Part I., par. 5. art. _Dudaim_, from Epiphan: Physiolog. c. 4. [80] Pliny's "Natural History," Vol. IV., p. 397 (Bohn's Classical Library). [81] Columella _De hortorum Cultu._, v. 19, 20. [82] See a manuscript Interrogatory still preserved in the "Bibliothèque Nationale," Fonds de Baluze, Rouleau 5. [83] See "_De l'imposture des Diables_," par Jacques Grévin, Tom. IV., p. 359. [84] From Weir "De Mag: demonia:" Cours Complet d'agriculture par l'Abbé Rosier, Tom. VI., p. 401. [85] Récollections des choses merveilleuses Advenues en notre temps par George Chastelain, Edition de Coustelier, p. 150. [86] Lettres d'Amabed, Vol. XXXIV., p. 261. Edition Beuchot, Paris. [87] Mandragola, Atto II. Scena 6. See also La Fontaine's tale of "La Mandragore," founded upon the above comedy. [88] See Warburton on Shakespear's Othello, Act I., Scene 8. "_By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks._" [89] See Speed's Historie of Great Britaine. Richard III. Book II., page 913 folio edition, 1632. [90] Exercitatio de Rachelis Deliciis, 420, 1678. [91] Atlantica illustrata, 1733. [92] Hierobotanicon, 1745. [93] "Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D., 1697." [94] _Orchis_ is a Greek word signifying _testicle_, a name given by the ancients to this plant on account of the supposed resemblance of its root to that organ. [95] Eustathii Commentarii ad Homerum, Vol. I., p. 325, 403-9. Editio Lipsiæ, 1827. [96] Juliani Calixenæ Epistola. [97] "Amatorio poculo furorem versus, quum aliquot libros per intervalla conscripserat." [98] Epist. dissuas: ad Rufinum C. 22. Tom XII. p. 245, ad Varon. [99] Remarks on the life and poems of Lucretius, p. vi. (Bohn's Classical Library). [100] Probably to Anticyra, a Greek town situated at the mouth of the river Sperchius, and reputed to produce the genuine hellebore, recommended by the ancient physicians as a cure for insanity, whence the well known adage, "Naviget Anticyram." [101] Sueton. Calig. 50. [102] Juvenal. Sat. vi. v. 614. [103] Hor. Epod Lib. Carm. V. 1703. See also the admirable notes of Dacier and Sanadon upon the above ode.