But I could have told the Doctor where he might have read of _Empusa_ as being the name of a certain sport or game, and that is, _in Turnebus Adversaria_, lib. xxvii. cap. 33. There he speaks of several games mentioned by Justinian in his _Code_, at the latter end of the third book, one of which he takes to be named _Empusa_; adding withal, _that the other are games, it is indisputable_, only _Empusa in lite et causa erit, quod nemo nobis facile assensurus sit Ludum esse, cum constet spectrum quoddam fuisse formas, varie mutans. Sed quid vetat eo nomine Ludum fuisse? Certe ad vestigia vitiatæ Scripturæ quam proximo accedit._ Yet he only is satisfied in this conjecture, till somebody else shall produce a better. And now what shall I say? Was not Turnebus as good a critic, and of as great reading as Dr. Wallis, who had read over Pollux, and yet is afraid that nobody will believe _Empusa_ to have been a game, and all he allegeth for it is, _quid vetat_? Truly, all I shall say, and so conclude this business, is, that he had read over an infinity of books, yet, had not had the happiness, which the Doctor had, to consult with _Junius’s Nomenclator, Thomasius and Rider’s Dictionary, authors sufficient in such a case_. I now come to the Doctor’s last and greatest triumph, at which I cannot but stand in admiration, when I consider he hath not got the victory. Had the Doctor been pleased to have conversed with some of the fifth form in Westminster School, (for he needed not to have troubled the learned master), he might have been better informed than to have exposed himself thus. Mr. Hobbes had said that στιγμὴ signified _a mark with a hot iron_; upon which saying the Doctor is pleased to play the droll thus: “Prithee tell me, good Thomas, before we leave this point, (O the wit of a divinity doctor!) who it was told thee that στιγμὴ was a mark with an hot iron, for it is a notion I never heard till now, and do not believe it yet. Never believe him again that told thee that lie, for as sure as can be, he did it to abuse thee; ϛιγμὴ signifies a distinctive point in writing, made with a pen or quill, not a mark made with a _hot iron_, such as they brand rogues withal; and, accordingly, ϛιζω δῖαϛιζω, _distinguo_, _interstinguo_, are often so used. It is also used of a _mathematical_ point, or somewhat else that is very small, στιγμὴ χρὸνου, a moment, or the like. What should come in your cap, to make you think that ϛῖγμὴ signifies a mark or brand with a _hot iron_? I perceive where the business lies; it was ϛίγμα ran in your mind when you talked of ϛιγμὴ, and, because the words are somewhat alike, you jumbled them both together, according to your usual care and accurateness, as if they had been the same.”