15. et Epist. 70. et 12.

2764. Lib. 2. cap. 83. Terra mater nostri miserta.

2765. Epist. 24. 71. 22.

2766. Mac. 14. 42.

2767. Vindicatio Apoc. lib.

2768. "Finding that he would be destined to endure excruciating pain of the
feet, and additional tortures, he abstained from food altogether."

2769. As amongst Turks and others.

2770. Bohemus de moribus gent.

2771. Aelian. lib. 4. cap. 1. omnes 70. annum egressos interficiunt.

2772. Lib. 2. Praesertim quum tormentum ei vita sit, bona spe fretus,
acerba vita velut a carcere se eximat, vel ab aliis eximi sua
voluntate patiatur.

2773. Nam quis amphoram exsiccans foecem exorberet (Seneca epist. 58.) quis
in poenas et risum viveret? stulti est manere in vita cum sit miser.

2774. Expedit. ad Sinas l. 1. c. 9. Vel bonorum desperatione, vel malorum
perpessione fracti et fagitati, vel manus violentas sibi inferunt vel
ut inimicis suis aegre faciant, &c.

2775. "No one ever died in this way, who would not have died some time or
other; but what does it signify how life itself may be ended, since
he who comes to the end is not obliged to die a second time?"

2776. So did Anthony, Galba, Vitellius, Otho, Aristotle himself, &c. Ajax
in despair; Cleopatra to save her honour.

2777. Incertius deligitur diu vivere quam in timore tot morborum semel
moriendo, nullum deinceps formidare.

2778. "And now when Ambrociotes was bidding farewell to the light of day,
and about to cast himself into the Stygian pool, although he had not
been guilty of any crime that merited death: but, perhaps, he had
read that divine work of Plato upon Death."

2779. Curtius l. 16.

2780. Laqueus praecisus, cont. 1. l. 5. quidam naufragio facto, amissis
tribus liberis, et uxore, suspendit se; praecidit illi quidam ex
praetereuntibus laqueum: A liberato reus fit maleficii. Seneca.

2781. See Lipsius Manuduc. ad Stoicam philosophiam lib. 3. dissert. 22. D.
Kings 14. Lect. on Jonas. D. Abbot's 6 Lect. on the same prophet.

2782. Plautus.

2783. Martial.

2784. As to be buried out of Christian burial with a stake. Idem. Plato 9.
de legibus, vult separatim sepeliri, qui sibi ipsis mortem
consciscunt, &c. lose their goods, &c.

2785. Navis destitutae nauclero, in terribilem aliquem scopulum impingit.

2786. Observat.

2787. Seneca tract. 1. 1. 8. c. 4. Lex Homicida in se insepul