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Introductory Note.

[1698] Lupanaria.

[1699] See above, c. xxv. p. 206.

[1700] Gen. i. 28.

[1701] Gen. 1.26.

[1702] Gen. 1.26.

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.

Chapter XXIX.—The Pythagorean Doctrine Refuted by Its Own First Principle, that Living Men are Formed from the Dead.

[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.

[1715] Signatur. Rigaltius reads “singulatur,” after the Codex Agobard., as meaning, “The single origin of the human race is in principle maintained,” etc.

[1716] Temere.

[1717] Recensentur.

Chapter XXXII.—Empedocles Increased the Absurdity of Pythagoras by Developing the Posthumous Change of Men into Various Animals.

[1718] Hujus.

 

 

 

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