Albeit many melancholicke, madde, fearefull, and weake sensed men, doo oftentimes imagine many things which in very déed are not, and are likewise deceiued, sometime by men, or by brute beasts: and moreouer mistake things which procéede of naturall causes, to be bugges and spirites, as I haue hitherto declared by many examples, yet it is most certaine and sure, that all those things which appeare vnto men are not alwayes naturall things, nor alwayes vaine terrors to affray men: but that spirites doo often appeare, and many straunge and maruellous things doo sundry times chance. For many such things of this sort, are to be red in diuers graue and auncient Historiographers: and many men of no small credite, haue affirmed, that they haue séene spirites both in the day and in the night also. And here I will orderly declare a fewe histories out of diuers allowed authors, touching spirites which haue appeared and shewed themselues. [Sidenote: Triton appeared to Iulius Cæsar.] =Suetonius Tranquillus= writeth, that when =Iulius Cæsar= marching out of _Fraunce_ into _Italie_ with his army, and comming to the riuer _Rubico_, which diuideth _Italie_ from the hether _Fraunce_, staying there a while, and reuoluing with himselfe howe great an enterprise hee had taken in hand, as he was wauering in mind whether he shuld passe the water or not, suddeinly there appeared a man of excelling stature and shape sitting hard by, pyping on a réede. (=Melancthon= in his Phisickes calleth him =Triton=) vnto whom when not only shepheards, but also very many souldiers from the campe, and amongst them diuers trumpetters had flocked to heare him, he sodeinly snatched a trumpet from one of them, and leaped to the riuer, and with a lustie breath blowing vp the alarum, went to the farther side. Then sayd =Cæsar=, good lucke mates, let vs goe whither the gods warnings leade vs, and whither our enemies iniquitie calleth vs: The dice are throwne. And so he transported ouer. [Sidenote: Theseus seene in the battaile of Maratho.] =Plutarke= writeth in =Theseus= life, that many which were in the battaile of =Marathonia=, against the =Medians=, did affirme, that they sawe the soule of =Theseus= armed, (who long time before died of a fall) before the vauntgard of the =Grecians=, running and setting on the barbarous =Medians=. For which cause the =Athenians= afterward were moued to honor him as a demigod. =Pausanias= writeth in =Atticis=, That in the field of =Maratho=. 400. yeares after the battaile there foughten, there was heard the neying of Horses, and the encountring of souldiers, as it were fighting euery night: And that they which of purpose came to heare these things, could heare nothing, but those that by chaunce came that way, heard it very sensibly.