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[35] Vid. Istorie di Matteo Villanni, l. I. c. 2.

[36] Mezeray Hist. de France, Tom. i. p. 798.

[37] Villani, loco citato.

[38] Vid. Huet. Histoire du Commerce des Anciens, p. 88.

[39] Relation Historique de tout ce qui s'est pa.s.se a Ma.r.s.eille pendant la derniere Peste.

[40] Vid. Serv. Comment. in Virgil. aeneid, l. iii. v. 57.

[41] This was a kind of _Expiatory Sacrifice_, as the _Scape-Goat_ among the Jews, _Levit._ xvi. And the Wretches thus devoted to dye for the Sins of the People were called +Katharmata+, _Purgations_. Vid.

Aristophan. in Plut. ver. 454. et in Equit. ver. 1133. et Scholiast.

ibid. _Suidas_ adds that when the Sacrificed Person was cast into the Water, these Words were p.r.o.nounced, +Peripsema hemon genou+, _Be thou our Cleansing_. And I observe, by the by, that the Apostle _Paul_, 1 _Corinth._ iv. 13. alluding very probably to this wicked Custom, makes use of both these Words, where speaking of himself in the plural number, he says, +Hos perikatharmata tou kosmou egenethemen, panton peripsema+; for some of the best MSS. instead of +Os perikatharmata+, read +Hosper+, or +Hosperei katharmata+; that is, _We have been looked upon as Wretches fit only to be Sacrificed for the Public good, and cast out of the World by way of Attonement for the Sins of the whole Society._

[42] Vid. Le Brun Voyage au Levant, c. 38.

[43] Vid. Ludolf. Histor. aethiop. lib. i. c. 13. et D. August. De civitat. Dei, lib. iii. c. ult.

[44] Vid. Ludolf. Histor. aethiop. lib. i. c. 5. et Comment.

[45] J. Leo Hist. Afric. lib. i.

[46] Lib. vi. v 1100.

[47] Rhas. et Avicen.

[48] Essay on Poysons, p. 178.

[49] Cicero de Nat. Deor. lib. i. -- 36. speaking of these Birds, says: _Avertunt Pestem ab Aegypto, c.u.m volucres angues ex vast.i.tate Libyae vento Africo invectas interficiunt atque consumunt; ex quo fit ut illae nec morsu vivae noceant, nec odore mortuae._

[50] Newton's Optics, Qu. 18 to 24.

[51] Gastaldi, De Peste, p. 116.

[52] Journal de ce qui s'est pa.s.se a Ma.r.s.eilles, _etc._

[53] Vid. The London Gazette, July 23, 1743.

[54] Kircher, Langius, _&c._

[55] Toulon, Traite de la Peste.

[56] _Hippocr._ Epid. l. iii. That _Hippocrates_ describes here the Const.i.tution of Air accompanying the true _Plague_, contrary to what some have thought, _Galen_ testifies in his Comment upon this Place, in libr. De Temper. l. i. c. 4. and in lib. De differentiis Febr. lib. i.

c. 4.

[57] Vid. _Mercurial._ Praelect. De Pestilent.