The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3Browne, Thomas, Sir
Religion
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3
Browne, Thomas, Sir
Christianity; Ethics; Religion and medicine
12. A Vestal Sinner in the Cave with a Table and a Candle.
13. An Elephant dancing upon the Ropes with a _Negro_ Dwarf upon his
Back.
14. Another describing the mighty Stone falling from the Clouds into
_Ægospotamos_ or the Goats River in _Greece_, which Antiquity could
believe that _Anaxagoras_ was able to foretell half a year before.
15. Three noble Pieces; of _Vercingetorix_ the Gaul submitting his
person unto _Julius Cæsar_; of _Tigranes_ King of _Armenia_ humbly
presenting himself unto _Pompey_; and of _Tamerlane_ ascending his
Horse from the Neck of _Bajazet_.
16. Draughts of three passionate Looks; of _Thyestes_ when he was told
at the Table that he had eaten a piece of his own Son; of _Bajazet_ when
he went into the Iron Cage; of _Oedipus_ when he first came to know that
he had killed his Father, and married his own Mother.
17. Of the Cymbrian Mother in _Plutarch_ who, after the overthrow by
_Marius_, hanged her self and her two Children at her feet.
18. Some Pieces delineating singular inhumanities in Tortures. The
_Scaphismus_ of the Persians. The living truncation of the Turks. The
hanging Sport at the Feasts of the Thracians. The exact method of
flaying men alive, beginning between the Shoulders, according to the
description of _Thomas Minadoi_, in his Persian War. Together with the
studied tortures of the French Traitours at _Pappa_ in _Hungaria_: as
also the wild and enormous torment invented by _Tiberius_, designed
according unto the description of _Suetonius_. _Excogitaverunt inter
genera cruciatûs, ut largâ meri potione per fallaciam oneratos repentè
veretris deligatis fidicularum simul urinæque tormento distenderet._
19. A Picture describing how _Hannibal_ forced his passage over the
River _Rhosne_ with his Elephants, Baggage and mixed Army; with the Army
of the Gauls opposing him on the contrary Shore, and _Hanno_ passing
over with his Horse much above to fall upon the Rere of the Gauls.
20. A neat Piece describing the Sack of _Fundi_ by the Fleet and
Souldiers of _Barbarossa_ the Turkish Admiral, the confusion of the
people and their flying up to the Mountains, and _Julia Gonzaga_ the
beauty of _Italy_ flying away with her Ladies half naked on Horseback
over the Hills.
21. A noble Head of _Franciscus Gonzaga_, who, being imprisoned for
Treason, grew grey in one night, with this Inscription,
_O nox quam longa est quæ facit una senem._
22. A large Picture describing the Siege of _Vienna_ by _Solyman_ the
Magnificent, and at the same time the Siege of _Florence_ by the
Emperour _Charles_ the Fifth and Pope _Clement_ the Seventh, with this
Subscription,
_Tum vacui capitis populum_ Phæaca _putares?_
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