Another example of στιγμὴ used in this sense, is in the collections out of Diodorus Siculus, lib. xxxiv. as they are to be found at the end of his works, and as Photius hath transcribed them into his _Bibliotheca_. He saith that the Romans did buy multitudes of servants and employ them in Sicily: Οἷς, ἐκ τῶν σωματοτροφείων ἀγεληδὸν απαχθεῖσιν, ἐυθύς χαρακτῆρα ἐπέβαλλον, καὶ στιγμὰς τοἴς σώμασιν. These are the words but of one author, but ought to pass for the judgment of two, seeing Photius, by inserting them, hath made them his own. Besides, it is the judgment of a great _master_ of the Greek tongue, that _stigmata non tam puncta ipsa quam punctis variatam superficiem Græci vocaverunt_. I need not, I suppose, name him, so great a critic as the Doctor cannot be ignorant of him. Nor, were στίγματα commonly, but upon extraordinary occasions, imprinted with an hot iron. The letters were first made by incision, then the blood _pressed_, and the place filled up with ink, the composition whereof is to be seen in Aetius. And thus they did use to _matriculate_ soldiers also in the hand. Thus, did the Grecian emperor, in the precedent example of Zonaras. And if the Doctor would more, let him repair to Vinetus’s comment upon the fifteenth Epigram of Ausonius. And now I conceive enough hath been said to vindicate Mr. Hobbes, and to show the insufferable ignorance of the puny professor, and unlearned critic. If any more shall be thought necessary, I shall take the pains to collect more examples and authorities, though I confess I had rather spend time otherwise, than in matter of so little moment. As for some other passages in his book, I am no competent judge of _symbolic stenography_. The Doctor (Sir Reverence) might have used a cleanlier expression than that of a _shitten piece_, when he censures Mr. Hobbes’s book.