Thomas Browne - The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

The rich mountain of Peru.

Q. Calaber lib. 1.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Gumbrates King of Chionia a Countrey near Persia.

Arnoldis Montanis not in Cæs. Commentar. L. L. Gyraldus. Kirkmannus.

12 Tabul. part. 1 de jure sacro. Hominem mortuum in urbe ne sepelito, neve urito. tom. 2. Rogum asciâ ne polito. to. 4 Item vigeneri Annottat in Livium, et Alex. ab Alex. cum Tiraquello Roscinus cum dempstero.

Ultima prolato subditu flamma rogo. De Fast. lib. 4. cum Car. Neapol. anaptyxi.

And therefore the Inscription of his Tomb was made accordingly. Nic. Damasc.

Which Magius reads ἐξαπόλωλε.

Diodorus Siculus.

Ramusius in Navigat.

Martialis the Bishop. Cyprian.

Amos 6. 10.

Sueton. in vita. Jul. Cæs.

As that magnificent sepulchral Monument erected by Simon. Mach. 1. 13.

Κατασκέυασμα θαυμασίως πεποιημένον, whereof a Jewish Priest had alwayes the custody unto Josephus his dayes. Jos. Lib. 10. Antiq.

In one sent me by my worthy friend Dr. Thomas Witherley of Walsingham.

Hominum infinita multitudo est, creberrimaque ædificia ferè Gallicis consimilia. Cæs. de bello Gal. l. 5.

In the ground of my worthy Friend Rob. Jegon, Esq., wherein some things contained were preserved by the most worthy Sir William Paston, Bt.

From Castor to Thetford the Romans accounted thirty-two miles, and from thence observed not our common road to London, but passed by Combretonium ad Ansam, Canonium, Cæsaromagus, etc., by Bretenham, Coggeshall, Chelmeford, Burntwood, etc.

Most at Caster by Yarmouth, found in a place called East-bloudyburgh furlong, belonging to Mr. Thomas Wood, a person of civility, industry and knowledge in this way, who hath made observation of remarkable things about him, and from whom we have received divers Silver and Copper Coynes.

Belonging to that Noble Gentleman, and true example of worth Sir Ralph Hare, Baronet, my honoured Friend .

A peece of Maud the Empresse said to be found in Buckenham Castle with this inscription , Elle n’a elle.

At Thorpe.

Brampton Abbas Jorvallensis.

Plut. in vita Lycurg.

Stowes Survey of London.

Execrantur rogos, et damnant ignium sepulturam. Min. in Oct.

Sidon. Apollinaris.

Vigeneri Annot. in 4. Liv.

Chifflet in Anast. Childer.

Dionis excerpta per Xiphilin. in Severo.

Olai Wormii monumenta et Antiquitat. Dan.

Adolphus Cyprius in Annal. Sleswic. urnis adeo abundabat collis, etc.

In Oxfordshire ; Cambden.

In Cheshire , Twinus de rebus Albionicis.

In Norfolk , Hollingshead.

Matt. 23.

Euripides.

Psa. 63.

Χωρήσεις τον ἅνθρωπον ὄν ἡ οἰκουμένη οὐκ ἠχώρησεν. Dion.

Cum lacrymis posuere.

Lazius.

About five hundred years. Plato.

Vinum Opiminianum annorum centum. Petron.

12. Tabul. l. xi. de Jure sacro. Neve aurum addito, ast quoi auro dentes vincti erunt, im cum illo sepelire et utere, se fraude esto.

Plin. 1. xvi. Inter ξύλα ἀσαπῆ numerat Theophrastus.

Surius.

Gorop. Becanus in Niloscopio.

Of Beringuccio nella pyrotechnia.

At Elmeham.

Sueton. in vitâ Tib. et in Amphitheatro semiustulandum, not. Casaub.

Sueton. in vitâ Domitian

S. the most learned and worthy Mr. M. Casaubon upon Antoninus.

Sic erimus cuncti, etc. Ergo dum vivimus vivamus.

Ἀγχόνην παίζειν. A barbarous pastime at Feasts, when men stood upon a rolling Globe, with their necks in a Rope, and a knife in their hands, ready to cut it when the stone was rolled away, wherein if they failed, they lost their lives to the laughter of their spectators. Athenæus.

Diis manibus.

Bosio.

Pausan. in Atticis.

Lamprid. in vit. Alexand. Severi.

Trajanus. Dion.

Plut. in vit. Marcelli.

Britannia hodie eam attonitè celebrat tantis ceremoniis, ut dedisse Persis videri possit. Plin. l. 29.

Topographiæ Roma ex Martiano. Erat et vas ustrinum appellatum quod in eo cadavera comburerenur. Cap. de Campo Esquilino.

To be seen in Licet. de reconditis veterum lucernis.

Old bones according to Lyserus. Those of young persons not tall nor fat according to Columbus.

In vita. Gracc.

Thucydides.

Laurent. Valla.

Ἑκατόμπεδον ἔνθα ἥ ἔνθα.

Sperm ran. Alb. Ovor.

The brain. Hippocrates.

Amos 2. 1.

As Artemisia of her Husband Mausolus.

Siste viator.

Kirckmannus de funer.

Of Thomas Marquesse of Dorset, whose body being buried 1530, was 1608 upon the cutting open of the Cerecloth found perfect and nothing corrupted, the flesh not hardened, but in colour, proportion, and softnesse like an ordinary corps newly to be interred. Burtons descript. of Leicestershire.