“Nihil sciri siquis putat id quoque nescit, An sciri possit quod se nil scire fatetur.” 73. Pope Alexander III., in his declaration to the Doge, said,--“Que la mer vous soit soumise comme l’epouse l’est à son epoux puisque vous in avez acquis l’empire par la victorie.” In commemoration of this the Doge and Senate went yearly to Lio, and throwing a ring into the water, claimed the sea as their bride. 74. Appolonius Thyaneus, who threw a large quantity of gold into the sea, saying, “Pessundo divitias ne pessundare ab illis.” 75. The technical term in fencing for a hit-- “A sweet touch, a quick venew of wit.” _Love’s Labour Lost_, act v. sc. 1. 76. Strabo compared the configuration of the world, as then known, to a cloak or mantle (_chalmys_). 77. Atomists or familists were a Puritanical sect who appeared about 1575, founded by Henry Nicholas, a Dutchman. They considered that the doctrine of revelation was an allegory, and believed that they had attained to spiritual perfection.--See Neal’s Hist. of Puritans, i. 273. 78. From the 126th psalm St Augustine contends that Solomon is damned. See also Lyra in 2 Kings vii. 79. From the Spanish “Dorado,” a gilt head. 80. Sir T. Browne treats of chiromancy, or the art of telling fortunes by means of lines in the hands, in his “Vulgar Errors,” lib. v. cap. 23. 81. Gypsies. 82. S. Wilkin says that here this word means niggardly. 83. In the dialogue, “judicium vocalium,” the vowels are the judges, and Σ complains that T has deprived him of many letters that ought to begin with Σ. 84. If Jovis or Jupitris. 85. The celebrated Roman grammarian. A proverbial phrase for the violation of grammar was “Breaking Priscian’s head.” 86. Livy says, Actius Nevius cut a whetstone through with a razor. 87. A kind of lizard that was supposed to kill all it looked at-- “Whose baneful eye Wounds at a glance, so that the soundest dye.” --_De Bartas_, 6^{me} jour 1{me} sem. 88. Epimenides (Titus x. 12)-- “Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσται κακὰ θηριά γαστέρες αργαὶ.” 89. Nero having heard a person say, “When I am dead, let earth be mingled with fire,” replied, “Yes, while I live.”--Suetonius, _Vit. Nero._ 90. Alluding to the story of the Italian, who, having been provoked by a person he met, put a poniard to his heart, and threatened to kill him if he would not blaspheme God; and the stranger doing so, the Italian killed him at once, that he might be damned, having no time to repent. 91. A rapier or small sword. 92. The battle here referred to was the one between Don John of Austria and the Turkish fleet, near Lepanto, in 1571. The battle of Lepanto (that is, the capture of the town by the Turks) did not take place till 1678. 93. Several authors say that Aristotle died of grief because he could not find out the reason for the ebb and flow of the tide in Epirus. 94. Who deny that there is such a thing as science.