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[1694] Comp. De Resurr. Carnis, xlv.
[1695] So Plato, Phædo, p. 64.
[1696] Materiæ.
[1698] Lupanaria.
[1699] See above, c. xxv. p. 206.
Chapter XXVIII.—The Pythagorean Doctrine of Transmigration Sketched and Censured.
[1703] Phædo, p. 70.
[1704] [Hermes. See Bacon, De Aug. i. p. 99.]
[1705] De posteris defunctis.
[1706] De posteris defunctis.
[1707] From καταβάλλειν, to knock down.
[1708] From πάρεδος, sitting by one.
[1709] From πυθωνικός, an attribute of Pythius Apollo; this class were sometimes called ἐγγαστρίμυθοι, ventriloquists.
[1710] Visualitatis.
[1711] Insipientiam. “Imbecility” is the meaning here, though the word takes the more general sense in the next clause.
[1712] Deferatur.
Chapter XXX.—Further Refutation of the Pythagorean Theory. The State of Contemporary Civilisation.
[1713] A probable allusion to Varro’s work, De Antiqq. Rerum Humanarum.
[1714] An allusion to Plato’s notion that, at the end of a thousand years, such a restoration of the dead, took place. See his Phædrus, p. 248, and De Republ. x. p. 614.
Chapter XXXI.—Further Exposure of Transmigration, Its Inextricable Embarrassment.
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