CAP. XXXIII. The cure of Erotique Melancholy, and Love. Madnesse.
DIogenes going one day to the Oracle at Delphos, to aske counsell, what was the most soveraigne and speediest Re∣medy for the cure of his sonne, that was growne mad for Love: received this an∣swere, that he must enjoy Her, that was the cause of his Madnesse. The same coun∣sell did Ionadab give to Amnon, who doa∣ted on his sister Thamar; Hippocrates, to King Perdicca's sonne: and Erasistratus, to Antiochus, King Seleucus his sonne. This opinion is also set downe in expresse tearmes by Hippocrates, about the end of his booke De his quae ad Virgin. spect. thus: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉