]Leo Afer speaks of many of his countrymen so cured, without all other
physic: amongst the Negroes, "there is such an excellent air, that if any
of them be sick elsewhere, and brought thither, he is instantly recovered,
of which he was often an eyewitness." [3192]Lipsius, Zuinger, and some
others, add as much of ordinary travel. No man, saith Lipsius, in an
epistle to Phil. Lanoius, a noble friend of his, now ready to make a
voyage, [3193]"can be such a stock or stone, whom that pleasant speculation
of countries, cities, towns, rivers, will not affect." [3194] Seneca the
philosopher was infinitely taken with the sight of Scipio Africanus' house,
near Linternum, to view those old buildings, cisterns, baths, tombs, &c.
And how was [3195]Tully pleased with the sight of Athens, to behold those
ancient and fair buildings, with a remembrance of their worthy inhabitants.
Paulus Aemilius, that renowned Roman captain, after he had conquered
Perseus, the last king of Macedonia, and now made an end of his tedious
wars, though he had been long absent from Rome, and much there desired,
about the beginning of autumn (as [3196]Livy describes it) made a pleasant
peregrination all over Greece, accompanied with his son Scipio, and
Atheneus the brother of king Eumenes, leaving the charge of his army with
Sulpicius Gallus. By Thessaly he went to Delphos, thence to Megaris, Aulis,
Athens, Argos, Lacedaemon, Megalopolis, &c. He took great content,
exceeding delight in that his voyage, as who doth not that shall attempt
the like, though his travel be _ad jactationem magis quam ad usum reipub._
(as [3197]one well observes) to crack, gaze, see fine sights and fashions,
spend time, rather than for his own or public good? (as it is to many
gallants that travel out their best days, together with their means,
manners, honesty, religion) yet it availeth howsoever. For peregrination
charms our senses with such unspeakable and sweet variety, [3198]that some
count him unhappy that never travelled, and pity his case, that from his
cradle to his old age beholds the same still; still, still the same, the
same. Insomuch that [3199]Rhasis, _cont. lib. 1. Tract. 2._ doth not only
commend, but enjoin travel, and such variety of objects to a melancholy
man, "and to lie in diverse inns, to be drawn into several companies:"
Montaltus, _cap. 36._ and many neoterics are of the same mind: Celsus
adviseth him therefore that will continue his health, to have _varium vita