[95] “_Λοιμογραφία_, or an experimental relation of what hath happened remarkqueable in the last Plague in the city of London, &c. by W. Boghurst, apothecary in St. Giles’ in ye Feilds: London, 1666: MS. Sloane, 349.” Our attention was directed to this book as being likely to contain some curious details of the plague of 1665, but with the exception of this prefatory matter it is too exclusively medical to suit our purpose. [96] “Oecumenical (_ὀικουμενικὸς_, from _ὀικουμένη_), relating to the whole habitable world.”—_Johnson._ [97] Of Persia. [98] A pile of wood, which, when they laid the corpse on it they fired, and afterwards buried the bones. [99] Apollo, to whom the heathens attributed the immission of all epidemic or ordinary diseases. [100] Thucyd. ii. 47, 54. Hobbes’s Translation has been used throughout the volume; it has been compared with the original, and corrected where necessary. [101] It was in name a state democratical, but in fact a government of the principal man.—Thucyd. ii. 65. [102] See the analysis of the Knights in chap. iv. [103] See Thucyd. iii. 87. The Athenian army at the commencement of the war consisted of 13,000 heavy armed soldiers of the former class, and 1200 horsemen, including the horse archers, who were not citizens. Such being the mortality of the upper classes, we may safely suppose that a quarter of the whole population perished.—Thucyd. ii. 13. [104] See Mitchell’s Preliminary Discourse, p. 74, 84, and the Platonic Dialogues there quoted. See also the Clouds, especially the concluding part, and the dialogue between the Logos Dikaios and Logos Adikos. [105] Evagrius adds to this a greater marvel; that the citizens of infected places, who were absent from home, sickened and died, even where no other trace of the plague appeared. [106] _φάσματα δαιμόνων_