"diance dudit Procureur du Roy Daulphin. Nous" "Vybally & Juge fufdir feans dans l' Auditoire du "Pallaix Delphinal de Vienne le dix feptieme jour du "moys de Juing l'an mille cinq cens cinquante troys. "Prefens a ce Me Philibert Collins, Alexandre Relland, "Claude Maguin, Charles Perdomey Pierre des Vignes, "&plufieur autres Praticiens de Vienne illec eftans, " & moy Greffier foubfigné, Chafalis.

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Dudit jour environ l'heure de mydy aprés que l' Effigie dudit Villeneufve avoir efté faicte au devant dudit Pallaix Delphinal, icelle Effigie par François "Berode Executeur de la haute Juftice, lequel l'on a envoyé querir à ces fins, a efté mife fur un tumbe

reau avec cinq balles des livres composés par icelluy "Villeneufve, & aprés ledit tombereau, chargé def"dits Effigie & livres, a efté conduyt & mené par le-’ "dit Executeur des la porte dudit Pallaix par les car"refours & lieux accoutumés jufques au lieu de la "Hale de la prefente Ciré de Vienne, & fubfequem

ment en la Place appellée la Charneve, dans laquel "le ladite Effigie a efté attachée à une potence expref"fement érigée, & aprés bruflée avec lefdits livres à petit feu par ledit Executeur, lequel a mis à deue " & entiere execution ladite Sentence pour le regard

de ladite Effigie, felon la forme & teneur, en pre"fence de Guigues Ambrofin Crieur & Trompette de "Vienne, Claude Reymet, Michael Baffet Sergens "Royaulx Delphinaulx, Sermer des Chams

de Vienne, & de plufieurs aultres gens illec af "femblés pour voir faire ladite execution. Ainfi à "efté procedé, & par moy Greffier foubnomine re

ceu. Chafalis. Extrait des Regiftres de la Cour du "Balliage de Vienne par moy Greffier foubfigne. Chafalis.

When this Sentence was pronounced against Servesus, it was a common thing to burn the Proteftants in France. That very Year many of them were flain for the Word of God; and for the Testimony which they beld.

Tantum

Tantum Religio potuit fuadre malorum.

An Historical Commentary upon thofe Latin Words, would be a very Curious Work, and an admirable Antidote against Perfecution.

Cruelty is the peculiar Character of the Church of Rome. Thofe, who have felt the difmal Effects of a falfe Zeal for Religion, those who came out of great Tribulation, are in a more particular manner obliged to express their Abhorrence for Perfecution upon all Occafions. I am,

SIR,

Your, &c.

See the Second Letter in Article XVI.

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ARTICLE XI,

UL M.

Latin Differtation has been printed here concern. ing Coins and Medals. The Author difcourfes, among other Things, of thofe Gold Pieces, call'd Rainbow-Drops, Falling Stars, (in German, RegenbogenSchuffelein, Sternfchofs,) that are to be found in this Country. They are hollow on the one fide, and convex on the other, Some Types may be feen on both fides; but they are generally very much worn out on the convex Part. The People look upon them as Productions of the Rainbow, that fall from the Clouds with the Rain. They afcribe to them imaginary Virtues; and fome are fo fuperftitious, as to hang them about their Necks as a Charm. The Author believes that thofe fmall Pieces are true Coins, ftruck by fome Barbarous Nations of the North, fuch as the

Franks

Feanks, the Burgundi, the Goths, the Vandals, or the Normanni. Some will have most of those Pieces to have been ftruck in Sicily by the Vandals, because fome of them have a Triangular Figure, and others three Points marked upon them; which, in their Opinion, denotes the three Promontories of that Inland.

ARTICLE XII.

M. MINUCII FELICIS OCTAVIUS, ex iterata Recenfione JOANNIS DAVISII, LL. D. Coll. Regin, Cantab, Socii cum ejufdem Animadverfionibus ac Notis integris Def. Heraldi & Nic. Rigaltii, necnon Selectis aliorum. Accedit COMMODIANUS ævi Cyprianici Scriptor, cum Obfervationibus antehac editis, aliifque nonnullis, quæ jam primum prodeunt. Cantabrigia, Typis Academicis. Impenfis Cornelii Crownfield, celeberrima Academiæ Typographi. M DCC XII.

That is,

A SECOND EDITION of a Dialogue of MINUCIUS FELIX, entitled OCTA VIUS, by JOHN DAVIES, LL, D, Fellow of Queen's College at Cambridge; with his own Obfervations, and thofe of Heraldus and Rigaltius, befides felect

Notes

Notes of others. To which is added COMMODIANUS, a Writer who lived in the Third Century, with the Remarks formerly publish'd, and fome others, never before printed. Cambridge, 1712. in 8vo. Pagg. 269.

THIS Second Edition of Minucius Felix, pu

blished by the Reverend Dr. Davies, will be very acceptable to the Publick, not only because it contains all the Notes of Heraldus and Rigaltius, and, the beft Remarks of fome other Learned Men, but because the Editor has reformed and very much en larged his own Obfervations in a great many Places. He undertakes to clear the Senfe of the Author; to juftify the common Reading, when there is Occafion for it; to illuftrate feveral Expreffions by comparing them with those of other Ancient Writers; to explain the Cuftoms alluded to by Minucius Felix; and even to mend the Text in feveral Paffages. Dr. Davies is one of those few Criticks of our Time, who difcovers a great Sagacity in removing the Faults, that have crept into the Ancient Books. I fhall give fome In ftances of this Part of his Performance, being perfuaded that the Readers will infer from thence, that his other Obfervations are not lefs judicious and valua ble.

Pag. 20. Nec immerito DISCEDENS (Octavius) vir eximius & fan&tus, immensum fui defiderium nobis reliquit.

It plainly appears from the whole Dialogue of Mi nucius Felix, that he compofed it after the Death of his Friend O&avius. But (lays Dr. Davies) if we read difcedens in this Paffage, it cannot be inferred from it that O&apius was departed this Life. Whereupon he quotes thefe Words of St. Jerome, Ep. VII. of the laft Paris Edition: Non minus mihi dereliquit abeundo defiderium, quam attulerat veniendo lætitiam ; Which are meant of a Perfon that was still alive.

Our

Our judicious Critick reads therefore the Paffage of Minucius Felix thus: Nec immerito DECEDENS vir eximius. & fanctus immenfum fui defiderium nobis reliquit. To confirm his Emendation, he quotes among other Paffages thefe Words of Phedrus, Lib. IV. Fab. 4. Quidam DECEDENS tres reliquit filias,

Pag. 71, 72. Hoc fente defluxit Arcefile, & multo poft Carneadis & Academicorum PLURIMORUM in fummis questionibus tuta dubitatio; quo genere phi lofophari caute indocti poffunt, & docti gloriofe.

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The Learned Editor raifes an Objection against the Word plurimorum in this Paffage. Why fhould Cæcilius (one of the Interlocutors) fay, That most Aca-. demicks doubt of every Thing, fince it was the Character of all thofe Philofophers? Dr. Davies proves it by a Paffage of Cicero, and another of Arnobius; and then reads the Words in queftion thus: Hec fonte defluxit Arc file, & multo poft Carneadis, Academicorum, PYRRHONIORUM, in fummis queftionibus tuta dubitatio, &c.. The Academicks and the Pyrrbonifts are frequently mentioned together by the Ancient Authors. Nay, (continues the Editor) in the xxxth Chapter of this Book, wherein Octavius anfwers what Cæcilius lays here, we read thefe Words: Arcefilas quoque & Carneades, & PYRRHO, & omnis ACADEMICORUM multitudo deliberet. Dr. Davies, not contented with this Paffage, whereby his Emendation is fo happily confirmed, adds a Paffage of Seneca, and another of Origen. I fhall only infert that of Seneca, Ep. LXXXVIII. PYRRHONII, (fays that Philofopher) & Megarici & Eretrici, ACADEMICI novam induxerunt fcientiam, NIHIL SCIRE. I

Pag. 125. Jam finitimos agro pellere, civitates proximas evertere cum templis & altaribus, captos cogère, damnis alienis fuis fceleribus ddolefcere, cum Romulo regibus ceteris, & POSTREMIS ducibus difciplina. communis eft.

Dr. Davies obferves upon thefe Words, That the first duces of the Romans were not lefs guilty of the Crimes mentioned