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[75] Solomon's Song, chap. vii. v. 13.

[76] See the word _Dudam_, in Dr. Kitto's Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature. The learned doctor has given a sketch of the plant Mandragora, a copy of which the reader will find in plate VI.

[77] Onkelos was a celebrated rabbin contemporary with St.

Paul, and to whom the Targum, that is, a translation or paraphrase of the Holy Scriptures, is attributed.

[78] Lib. IV., cap. 76.

[79] Quoted by Oct. Celsius in his "_Hierobotanicon_," Part I., par. 5. art. _Dudaim_, from Epiphan: Physiolog. c. 4.

[80] Pliny's "Natural History," Vol. IV., p. 397 (Bohn's Cla.s.sical Library).

[81] Columella _De hortorum Cultu._, v. 19, 20.

[82] See a ma.n.u.script Interrogatory still preserved in the "Bibliotheque Nationale," Fonds de Baluze, Rouleau 5.

[83] See "_De l'imposture des Diables_," par Jacques Grevin, Tom. IV., p. 359.

[84] From Weir "De Mag: demonia:" Cours Complet d'agriculture par l'Abbe Rosier, Tom. VI., p. 401.

[85] Recollections des choses merveilleuses Advenues en notre temps par George Chastelain, Edition de Coustelier, p. 150.

[86] Lettres d'Amabed, Vol. x.x.xIV., p. 261. Edition Beuchot, Paris.

[87] Mandragola, Atto II. Scena 6. See also La Fontaine's tale of "La Mandragore," founded upon the above comedy.

[88] See Warburton on Shakespear's Oth.e.l.lo, Act I., Scene 8.

"_By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks._"

[89] See Speed's Historie of Great Britaine. Richard III.

Book II., page 913 folio edition, 1632.

[90] Exercitatio de Rachelis Deliciis, 420, 1678.

[91] Atlantica ill.u.s.trata, 1733.

[92] Hierobotanicon, 1745.

[93] "Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D., 1697."

[94] _Orchis_ is a Greek word signifying _t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e_, a name given by the ancients to this plant on account of the supposed resemblance of its root to that organ.

[95] Eustathii Commentarii ad Homerum, Vol. I., p. 325, 403-9. Editio Lipsiae, 1827.

[96] Juliani Calixenae Epistola.

[97] "Amatorio poculo furorem versus, quum aliquot libros per intervalla conscripserat."

[98] Epist. dissuas: ad Rufinum C. 22. Tom XII. p.

245, ad Varon.

[99] Remarks on the life and poems of Lucretius, p. vi.

(Bohn's Cla.s.sical Library).

[100] Probably to Anticyra, a Greek town situated at the mouth of the river Sperchius, and reputed to produce the genuine h.e.l.lebore, recommended by the ancient physicians as a cure for insanity, whence the well known adage, "Naviget Anticyram."

[101] Sueton. Calig. 50.

[102] Juvenal. Sat. vi. v. 614.

[103] Hor. Epod Lib. Carm. V. 1703. See also the admirable notes of Dacier and Sanadon upon the above ode.

[104] Disquisitionum Magicarum, Lib. III. Quaestio III. De Amatorio Malaficio, page 7.

[105] Cinq livres de l'imposture et tromperie des diables.

Lib. II., p. 216, 1569.

[106] De Margarum Daemonomania. Lib. I., Cap. III., p.

27.

[107] aeneid, Lib. IV., v. 13, 14, 15, and 16.

[108] Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio, Lib. V., c. 27.

[109] In his work "De valetudine tuenda."

[110] Traite universel des drogues simples.

[111] The Holy Guide by John Heyden, Gent., [Greek: Philonomos] a servant of G.o.d and a Secretary of Nature, Lib. v. p. 61.

[112] Ibid., p. 62.

[113] Anatomy of Melancholy.

[114] Essays, Vol. II., p. 262-3. Translated by Cotton.

London, 1743.

[115] "Cujus rei istud est argumentum, quod ubi rem veneream exercemus, tantillo emisse, imbecilles evadimus."--_De Genitura._

[116] Tome 52, p. 286, et seq.

[117] Juvenal, Sat. 6, v. 302. "Ad venerem," says Lubinus in a note on this pa.s.sage, "miris modis instigant (_i.e._, ostreae), inde turp.i.s.simae illae bestiae (feminae) ostrea comedebant, _ut ad Venerem promptiores essent_."

[118] De la generation de l'homme, p. 272.

[119] Traite des dispenses et de Careme, Paris, 1709, en 12mo, reimprime trois fois.

[120] Names given to the female slaves or concubines in the harem of the Sultan.