Macc. xiv. 14, 15.
456
Origen. contra Celsum, lib. i. pp. 123, 124.
457
Herodot. lib. iv.
458
Phlegon. de Mirabilib. 18. Gronov. Antiq. Græc. p. 2694.
459
Aug. de Curâ pro Mortuis.
460
Rosweid. vit. P. P. lib. ii. p. 480.
461
Sozomen, Hist. Eccl. lib. i. c. 11.
462
Vit. P. P. lib. ii. p. 650.
463
This story is apparently the same which we related before under the name of Haidamaque, and which happened in 1729 or 1730.
464
Supplem. ad visu Erudit. Lips. an. 1738, tom. ii.
465
Tertull. de Resurrect. initio.
466
Aug. Confess. lib. vi. c. 2.
467
Aug. Epist. 22, ad Aurel. Carthag. et Epist. 29, ad Alipi. Item de Moribus Eccl. c. 34.
468
Aug. lib. viii. de Civit. Dei, c. 27.
469
Aug. Serm. 35, de Sanctis, nunc in Appendice, c. 5. Serm. cxc. cxci. p. 328.
470
Antiquité expliquée, tom. iv. p. 86.
471
Mela. lib. ii. c. 4.
472
V. Moréri on the word stryges.
473
There is reason to believe that this is only a repetition of what has already been said in Chapter X.
474
"Neu pransæ lamiæ vivum puerum ex trahat alvo."
Horat. Art. Poet. 340.
475
"Carpere dicuntur lactentia viscera rostris,
Et plenum poco sanguine guttur habent,
Est illis strigibus nomen."
476
Capitul. Caroli Magni pro partibus Saxoniæ, i. 6: – "Si quis à Diabolo deceptus crediderit secundùm morem Paganorum, virum aliquem aut fœminam strigem esse, et homines comedere; et propter hoc ipsum incenderit, vel carnem ejus ad comedendum dederit, vel ipsam comederit capitis sententià puniatur."
477
Le Loyer, des Spectres, lib. ii. p. 427.
478
Mich. Glycas, part iv. Annal.
479