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Annotations and conjectures upon the seventeenth Booke.
(a) BRasmatiae,] or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Arist. de mundo, are those earthquakes which shake the earth upward and downeward, ad angulos rectos, so called of the resemblance of water boyling, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. to seeth or boile up.
(b Clinatiae.] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as I guesse, because they bend sidelong: or Climatiae, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. pervertere vel diruere, as Marcellus Donatus thinketh.
(c) Chasmatiae,] of Chasma in Greeke, which signifieth a gaping or wide chinke, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to gape. Aristotle maketh mention of them De mundo.
(d) Mycematiae,] or rather Mycetiae, as Aristotle tearmeth them, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. to bellow, to loow, or roare.
(e) Donative] was a largesse or liberalitie bestowed upon the souldiors by the Generall: or upon the people by the Prince.
(f) Cicero in his second booke de Divinatione, writeth thus, It is reported, that in the terri∣tories of the Tarquinienses, when an husbandman ploughed the ground, and tooke one deeper stitch than the rest, there started up out of the earth on a sodaine this Tages, and spake unto the said Plough-man: (now this Tages, as is found written in the Tuscane bookes, seemed in personage and countenance a verie child, but for wisedome was equall to the aged:) who being affrighted at this sodaine sight, cryed out, in so much as out of all Tuscane the people flocked soone thither. And then Tages uttered many speeches in the hearing of them all, which they noted and put in writing: and this his speech contained the whole knowledge and learning of Soothsaying. Ovid also in his Metamorphos writeth of him. But it is like he was some base and obscure fellow, who by his impostures deceived the world, professing as he did the art of Divination.