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[28] _Ibid._, p 48.

[29] For some ingenious and learned observations on the Tau or Crux Ansata see Cla.s.sical Journal, No. 39, p. 182.

[30] Chap. ix., v. 3. "And the Lord said unto him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the forehead of the men that sigh and cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof."

[31] For a description of some of the above-mentioned Crosses, see Plate V., also "_Voyage dans la ba.s.se et la haute-Egypte pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte_, 1802 et 1829," par Denon--Planches 48, 78.

[32] This city was the birth place of the deity Priapus, whose orgies were there constantly celebrated.

Alexander the Great, in his Persian expedition, resolved to destroy Lampsacus on account of its many vices, or rather from a jealousy of its adherence to Persia; but it was saved by the artifice of the philosopher Anaxamenes, who, having heard that the king had sworn to refuse whatever he should ask him, begged him to destroy the city.

[33] Journal d'Henri III. par l'Etoile. Tom. 5.

[34] Historie Religieuse du Calendrier, p. 420.

[35] Johannis Goropii Becani, Origines Antwerpianae, 1569, lib. i., p.p. 26 and 101.

[36] The foreskins, still extant, of the Saviour, are reckoned to be twelve in number. One was in the possession of the monks of Coulombs; another at the Abbey of Charroux; a third at Hildesheim, in Germany; a fourth at Rome, in the Church of St. Jean-de-Latran; a fifth at Antwerp; a sixth at Puy-en-Velay, in the Church of Notre Dame, &c., &c. So much for relics!

[37] Dulaure, Singularites Historiques de l'Historie de Paris, p. 77. Paris, 1825.

[38] Letter of Sir W. Hamilton prefixed to Payne Knight's "Wors.h.i.+p of Priapus."

For a representation of the ancient, _Ex voto_, in silver, the size of the original see Plate VI., figure 1. It is copied from an additional plate inserted by M.

Panizzi, late librarian of the British Museum, in the fly-leaf of Payne Knight's "_Wors.h.i.+p of Phallus_."

[39] To these the canon law adds sorcery, ligature or point-tying.

[40] Zachais, Quaest. medico. leg. lib. II., t.i.t. I, quaest.

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[41] See _Lectures on Comparative Anatomy_ by Sir Everard Home, Bart. Vol. III., p. 166. London 1823.

[42] Lib. I., Epigram. 91.

[43] Juvenal Sat. I., vv. 204, 105.

[44] Orlando Furioso, Can. I, stanz. 49, 60.

[45] Rapport, Tom. I., p. 335.

[46] Sir Charles Morgan, Philos. of Morals, p. 25.

[47] Nosographie philosophique.

[48] Medical Essays published by a society in Edinburgh, vol. I., p. 270. Case reported by W. c.o.c.kburn, M.D.

[49] Rapport, tome II., p. 422.

[50] Essays, Book I., chap. xx. Cotton's translation.

[51] Hippocrates de Aer: aqua et loco, 210.

[52] Treatise on the Venereal Disease.

[53] Comment. de Aer: aqua et loco, 210.

[54] Voltaire, Pucelle d'Orleans, Chant. xii.

[55] Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords.

[56] Herodotus Enterpe clx.x.xii.

[57] De Legibus, lib. ii.

[58] Ecologa viii.

[59] Amor., lib. iii., Eleg. 6.

[60] De Asino Aureo, lib. ii., v. 3.

[61] Tacitus Annal., lib. iv., 22.

[62] Lib. v., Sentent, t.i.t. 23.

[63] De rebus gestis Francorum, lib. 4. cap. 94.

[64] Histoire des Francais.

[65] Nominated to the Bishopric of Evreux by Henry IV. of France. His favourite authors were Rabelais and Montaigne.

[66] Demonologie, 1603, Book I., Chap. III., p. 12.

[67] "Hercules, puer, L. Virgines, una nocte, gravidus reddit."--Clius, lib. 14, cap. 8.

[68] Traite premier de la dissolution de Mariage pour l'impuissance et froideur de l'homme, ou de la Femme, par Antoine Hotman, p. 63.

[69] Tableau de l'Amour considere dans l'etat du Mariage, par II., chap. 2, art. 3.

[70] Art. Portugal. rem. F.

[71] Boileau Despreaux, Satires, Satire VIII.

[72] Willick's Lectures on Diet and Regimen, p. 538, et seq.

[73] From [Greek: mandra], relating to cattle, and [Greek: agaron], baneful, injurious.

[74] Genesis, Chap. x.x.x., v. 14, 15, 16, 17. The last verse must be considered as decisive of the efficacy of the mandrake.