The Major Works (English Library) (71 page)

12
. ‘Wherein M.
Dugdale
hath excellently well endeavoured, and worthy
to be countenanced by ingenuous and noble persons’ (Browne marg.). The reference is to Sir William Dugdale’s antiquarian labours, worthy of Camden’s classic
Britannia
(1586 ff.).

13
. Actually Helen (according to Cicero,
On Invention
, II, 1). ‘Centos’ means patched garments.

14
. In the time of Henry II, according to Camden’s
Britannia
(Browne marg.).

15
. Horace,
The Art of Poetry
, 471.

16
. ‘The most outstanding diamond comes from ancient rock’ (Browne marg., in Latin).

1
. ‘The rich [in silver] Mountain of
Peru
’ (Browne marg.). Cf. above,
p. 158, note 129
.

2
. According to tradition, Adam was formed of dust from the four quarters of the earth. Hence the four letters of his name – in Greek at any rate: ’A (
να
ολ
),
(
σ
s
), ’′A (
ρκ
ος
), M (
εσημβρ
α
).

3
. i.e. from the earth’s surface which nourished them.

4
. During the Flood (Genesis 7.17 ff.).

5
. Moderated.

6
. Genesis 25.9.

7
. Deuteronomy 34.6 in the light of Jude 9.

8
. Who is said to have cremated the warrior Argeus.

9
.
Iliad
, XXIII, 161 ff.;
Odyssey
, XXIV, 65 ff.

10
. Statius,
Thebaid
, XII, 60 ff., and VI, 1 ff.

11
. Judges 10.3–5.

12
.
Iliad
, XXIV, 782 ff.

13
. ‘Gumbrates King of
Cbionia
a Countrey near
Persia
. Ammianus Marcellinus’ (Browne marg.).

14
. So Arnoldus Montanus on cremation, as supported by the scholars Giraldi and Kirchmann (Browne marg.).

15
. i.e. of eastern Europe.

16
. In his
Natural History
, X, 60.

17
. In the Roman code of the Twelve Tables (Browne marg., quoted in Latin).

18
. ‘Finally a flame was applied to the pyre’ (Browne marg., quoting the Latin of Ovid,
Fasti
, IV, 856).

19
. Currency, popularity (R).

20
. Tacitus,
Annals
, XVI, 6.

21
. ‘And therefore the Inscription of his Tomb was made accordingly’ (Browne marg.). The source here is Nicholas of Damascus as reported by Perucci, one of the three scholars liberally used throughout this chapter (see previous
page, note 14
).

22
. ‘Which Magius reads
ξαπóλωλ
(Browne marg.). The Greek adapts a word from
Odyssey
, IV, 511, to justify ‘totall destruction’.

23
. So Diodorus Siculus, V, 18 (Browne marg.).

24
. So Ramusius (Browne marg.).

25
. i.e. preferring rather to be placed (in the grave) than to be destroyed (by fire).

26
. Bishop Martialis, as reported by Cyprian (Browne marg.).

27
.1 Samuel 31.12.

28
. Amos 6.10 (Browne marg.).

29
. Jeremiah 34.5, 2 Chronicles 16.14 and 21.19.

30
. So Suetonius,
Julius
, LXXXIV, 5 (Browne marg.).

31
. ‘As that magnificent Monument erected by Simon’ (Browne marg.): 1 Maccabees 1.13.

32
. ‘ “A wonderfully made work” [quoted in Greek from Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities
, X, xi, 7], whereof the Jewish Priest had alwayes the custody unto
Josephus
his dayes’ (Browne marg.).

33
. Most violent treatment (R).

34
. Psalm 16.10, Acts 2.31, John 19.36.

35
. Substance, material (
OED
;
M
).

36
. Types or prefigurations of the Resurrection in that the first two were translated to heaven, and the last was delivered from the whale’s body.

37
. Bandages.

38
. ‘O Absolom, Absolom, Absolom. 2 Samuel 18.33’ (Browne marg.).

39
. ‘shout or noise of many together’ (Blount).

40
. ‘experts in those thinges, that appertayne to the ministration of a common weale’ (Elyot).

41
. Obtuse rather than insensitive (
§176
). Browne is probably thinking of Ross who vigorously defended the existence of the phoenix in 1651 (as he did that of the unicorn: above,
p. 214, note 26
).

1
. The accompanying plate appears in the 1st edition at the outset of
Hydriotaphia
, immediately after the epistle dedicatory (above,
p. 265
). The quotation from Propertius (IV, xi, 14) reads: ‘I am a weight that may be lifted with five fingers’ – where the reference to five contains, in anticipation of
The Garden of Cyrus
, ‘the merest hint of the quincunx’ (§198).