suddenly was buried in a Tomb in Frisia which had stood long beautifyed without any man buried because it was Prophesyed that a King of the Romans should be laid therein 138 Two brothers not knowing one another kill each other as a soothsayer foretold them 139 Sigthune King of Swethland as he sacrificed understood that by fatall necessity he was to die by Gold 140 Two Snakes found in the bed of Sempronius Gracchus 141 The Soothsayers answer to Marcellinus 142 Agigulph a Soothsayer counsells Antharis King of the Longobards to take Tolinda the Virgin to Wife 143 Batabaces Priest of the great mother Idea fore-shew's a great victory to the people of Rome 144 A Madman from Bellona shews to L. Sylla that he should obtain the palm of conquest 145 The builders of Ephesus consult the Oracle for direction where to erect it 146 The Locrians wooden Dog 147 Melanthus a banished man from his countrey received an Oracle 148 The Oracle Apollo Pythius directs Pausanias where to build Byzantium 149 A Sow that had Pigs made a divination to the Trojans of building a City 150 Tarquinius Superbus his founding the Temple of Jupiter Iuno and Minerva 151 Alexander a Priest of Minerva Prophesies to Alexander that he shall be a Conquerour 152 The interpretation of a divination by Calchas a Prophet 153 Aristander the diviner his interpretation of a Crow's flying when Alexander the Great assaulted Gaza 154 A Magpy sits on the head of Coelius Pontius declaring the Law 155 At Alexander the great his expedition into Asia a Cyprus Tree sweateth 156 The Siracusians besieged perform solemn rights to Hercules 157 Prodigies appear when Lucius Sylla went with an army to the Sociall war 158 The Hilt of P. Scipio Africanus his Sword springs with bloud 159 A Ram with one Horn sprung out of the middle of his forehead brought to Pericles 160 The Chaldean Prophets foretel the translation of the Persian Empire to the Macedonians 161 The Buckler of Maximinus the father set on fire by the Sun and his spear struck by a Thunderbolt 162 A Martin flying amongst a Navy of Ships lighted upon the very top of the Stern of the Ship wherein Dion was 163 An Eagle snatcheth a spear from one of the guard of Dion wherewith sublimely mounting at length she let it fall into the deep 164 The suburbs of Sardis filled with Snakes which the Horse of Croesus King of the Lydians going to Grasse devours 165 The Sacrifices offered by Dionysius the younger to the gods portend great prodigies 166 Tarquinius Superbus his dream 167 Strange sights appear to Hippocrates the most valiant Duke of Athens 168 Statues sweat with divers other formidable prodigies 169 The prodigious return of a child almost born to his Mothers belly again 170 Archelaus Tetrarch of Judaea and Idumea his dream 171 The Ensign of Barnabas Lievtenant-Governour shattered with a Thunderbolt 172 Zeno the Emperour flees to a little Castle upon an Hill called Constantinople 173 Frederick the second told by one who had a familiar spirit That he should die at the Florentine field 174 Adelheida a Lady of the noble blood of the Tuscans of so high a wit by observing the Heavens and Stars that she foresaw things to come 175 A fortune-teller's prediction to Machabaeus King of the Scots 176 Antonius of Leva animates Charls the fifth Emperour to war upon France 177 A Soothsayer's prediction to Amilcarus Duke of the Carthaginians 178 The Velitri consult an Oracle 179 Hadrianus Cornetanus Cardinal conceives hope of obtaining the Papacy by the Oracle of a Fortune-telling woman 180 Demophon's advice to Alexander given from his observations in Augury 181 A certain Syrian whose name was Eunus who delighted in Magical enchantments 182 Megistas Arcanas his Prophecy 183 Domitian the Emperour commands Ascletario to be burnt and Larginus Proclus to be hang'd for that they foretold the day of his death 184 Perusinus the greatest Magitian of al Italy 185 The Table of Dreams Visions Revelations c. The severall heads are to be sound by the figures in the Margin JUpiter sendeth a dream to Agamemnon 1 Cyrus King of Persia his dream 2 Socrates foresaw in his dreams that his Scholler Plato would be an excellent Orator and Philosopher 3 Hippocrates his dream 4 Alexander descended from Hercules by Carinus and from Aeacus on his Mothers side by Neoptolemus his dream 5 Sophocles his dream 6 Aeneas Seneca his dream the night after he undertook the Tutorship of Seneca 7 Fudemus a Cyprian his dream 8 Aspatia the daughter of Hermotimus her dream 9 The Mother of a certain Souldier her dream 10 Aesculapius of Athens his prescription by Oracle to Plutarch an Athenian 11 Themistocles his Vision 12 Lucullus going to Hellespont his Vision 13 Marcorius a Physitian of Augustus Caesar his dream 14 Laodice the Wife of Seleucus her dream 15 Publius Decius Tribune of the Roman Souldiers his dream 16 Gracchus brother of Tyberius his dream 17 Calphurnia Wife of Julius Caesar her vision predicting his death 18 Cornelius his foresight of his death 19 A beholder of Playes his dream 20 Great Sfortia his dream 21 Malgepa an Archer to Galeacius Sfortia his dream 22 Mark-Anthonie Taurell Duke of Guastella his dream 23 Horace Perusine servant of Alexander Medices Duke of the Florentines his dream 24 Baptista Cardanum his Vision with a voyce speaking to him at the instant of his Mothers death she dying far distant from the place where he had this vision 25 Ulysses his contrary dreams 26 â—indarus a Lyrick Poet his dream 27 Phail King of the Phocians his dream 28 Aristomenes King of the Messenians his dream 29 Alexander King of Macedonia understood by a dream that the right hand of Cassandra would prove mortal to him 30 Alcibiades his dream 31 King Croesus his Vision 32 Polycrates daughter of a Tyrant of the Samians her vision 33 Verses presented unto Hipparchus son of Pisistratus in his sleep 34 The like dream had Simon of Athens 35 Socrates his construction of a verse of Homer read unto him 36 Aterius Rufus a Roman Knight his vision 37 Julius Caesar not long before he was murthered seemed to himself in his sleep sometimes to fly above the clouds sometimes to joyn his right hand to Jupiter 38 Helius Cuma one of Caesar's friends his most fearful dream the night before his murther 39 Nero affrighted with dreams and evident signs of things to come 40 Galba the Emperour his dream a little before his death 41 Domitian his dreams immediately before he was slain 42 Anthonie Carocalla Emperour his vision a little before he was murthered 43 Himerea her vision 44 Cicero his vision 45 Quintus Catulus his vision 46 Vespasian the Father his Vision 47 Julian his Vision the night before his being declared Emperour 48 Stipo the Philosopher his vision 49 Hippias the sonne of Pisisttratus his dream 50 The Mother of Dionysius of Syracusa her vision when she conceived him 51 Astyages Cyrus his dreams
labour and returns to her guest who being angry for her absence she relateth the cause of her stay He exactly observed the time and hour of the day Go said the Midwife and tell the Woman in childbed that she hath brought forth one that shall be able to do more then the Emperour which said she carouseth a whole bowl of Wine and told what the Infant 's name should be and accordingly afterwards he was named Ablabius who had such excesse of fortune that in the time of Constantine the Great he was made Praetor by which office he could do more then the Emperour Eunapius in vita Aedosii TWo Jews Astrologers and Magitians promised Zira Prince of the Arabians Empire and long life if he would demolish the Christian Temples and Images of Saints which he put in execution but before a whole year came about he died and his Son intended to punish the Impostors but they fly into Isauria where Leo who after Theodosius the third Emperour was cast down was called Isaurus they find a boy of mean birth but endewed with a most excellent and towardly wit and genius they tell him that he should be Emperour and that so confidently that they swore by many Oaths that the event should answer their predictions if he would but do what they desired and he promised to do what ever they prescribed Afterwards Leo obtains the Empire in the ninth year after they require the performance of his promise and seek nothing but that he will abolish the pictures of Christ and his Mother The Emperour in observance of his promise puts down all Images and heavily punished all that worshipped or kept them Cuspinianus Zonara SImon Prince of the Bulgarians led his Army against the Crabats and fighting them in narrow places betwixt Mountains lost all his Army a certain man named John a Magitian and Astronomer comes to Lucapenus the Roman Emperour and adviseth him that he should send some body who might cut off the head or top of a Pillar which was placed over the Arch made in the remembrance of the Victory of Xerolophus and over against the Sun-setting promising that thereupon Simeon to whom it was fatall should presently perish and in the same hour the head of the statue was cut off as it was afterwards found by diligent inquisition made that Simeon died by the grief or sicknesse of his heart Cedrenus Guido Maltraversus Earl of Patavia and Knight of Lucius had a Son called Nicholas by Constantia the daughter of Obicius Marciones an Estensian whom Jambonus Andreas as well a Magitian as an Astrologian did predict a pernicious Citizen to his countrey and moved his Father if possibly he could to dis-inherit him Guido dyes whereby Nicholas becomes powerfull in Riches and credit conspires with Canes Scaligerus the destruction of his Countrey whereupon is raised a most bloudy war in which as it is reported an hundred thousand men and upwards were slain So the event proved the prophecy of Jambonus true Bernhardus Scardoneus Blandus lib. 8. Decad. 2. THe French men having to their Generall Guido Appius and fighting against Martinus besieged the Town of Livius at that time when the Sicilians celebrated the French Vespers Guido Bonatus Prince of the Forolivensian Astronomers and without doubt a Magitian also foretold the Earl of Mount-ferrat that the day before the Calends of May he should make a sally contrary to the expectation of all men whereby he should obtain most assuredly victory over his enemies but that he should receive a wound in his hip and being a skillfull Physitian and Surgion he took with him Ovalls Glisters and necessary things with him to bind up his wound when he sallied out against the Enemy nor was the event contrary to this presage for the French were overthrown Platina in Martino 4. Blandus lib. 8. Decad. 2. ANtiochus Tibertus excellent in Chiromancy Pâ—romancy and Physiognomy at Cresena foretold to Guidon a servant whose sirname was Guerra that upon suspition of infidelity he should be killed by his intimate friend To Pandulph the Tyrant he also told that he should be banished to Malatesta in Armenia should in extream poverty dye a banished man and not long after Pandulphus killed Guidon for that he was jealous of his fidelity and commits Antiochus himself to Prison that he might try the event of his presages Antiochus so far prevailed with the daughter of the Jaylour that he obtained of her a rope by which he was let down out of the Prison into a Ditch but being by the noise of his shackles discovered he was taken as he was flying away and brought back heavily beaten for his escape and he and the maid both secured At length Pandulphus a banished man poor and forsaken of all men died in a poor Inne So many things were portended to befall Tiberius himself which notwithstanding his warning he could by no means avoid Jovius in Elogiis PEtrus Leonius of Spoleto a famous Physician who first opened a dore to the learned Art of Physick publishing Galen's most studious labours therein he was a most dexterous Astronomer and Magitian and therefore knowing that his sudden death was portended to him by the danger of water to avoid frequent Navigations he departed from Petavius and the Venetians to Umbra and Spoleto Shortly after being invited to the company of Lawrence a Physitian he by the fallacious Art of Astronomy predicted to him recovery of his health and present deliverance from a sicknesse under which he grievously laboured which made him neglect all means to obtain his former health by rejecting Lazarus Placentinus an illustrious Physitian who sent to him by Lewis Sfortia brought Physick to him when it was too late by reason of his neglect Wherefore Antiochus blamed and hated of all men after the death of Lawrence whether by his own desperate action or by the violence of Peter the Son of this Lawrence it is uncertain he was precipitately drowned in a stinking ditch belonging to a Town near adjacent Jov. in Elogiis BArtholomaeus Cocles a Bononian Scholler to Antiochus and a most exquisite Palmist and Physiognomist warn'd Goricus the Astrologer that he should beware lest he suffered most violent tortures when he was at Leucas But he not minding his advice in his Ephemerides that a little after he made predicted that Joannes Bentovolus should be thrust both out of his Country and Government for which the Tyrant caus'd him to be five times tossed in a cord And so he received the reward of his Art This same Cocles told one Coponus that he would very shortly commit a most horrid murder and also told Hermes the King's son That he should be banished and kill'd in fight Hermes therefore commands Coponus to kill Cocles his evil Prophet Cocles foresaw his danger of death by his art and therefore wore a private helmet to defend himself and alwayes carried a great two-handed sword But Coponus in the habit of a Porter whilest he was earnest
bring the Tegeates into captivity and so make use of their fetters But having fought them they themselves were vanquished and those that came alive into the enemies hand were fettered with those very ropes they had brought and put to mow and till the Tagean Land being restrained within the length of their fetters Those very fetters remained in the Temple of Minerva Alea at Tegea within the memory of man being hung up as a Trophie for that victory Herodotus lib. 1. CLeomenes King of the Spartans consulting the Oracle at Delphos had this answer Eum Argos esse capturum which runs either thus That he should take Argos or That Argos should take him or he the Argians Which Oracle understanding in the more favourable sense he was very confident of taking the City Argos but when he had surrounded some Troopâ— of the Argi in a Grove and there burnt them asking who was the Deity of that place and being told it was Aâ—gus he complained the Oracle had deluded him and then quitted all hope of conquering Argos Herodotus lib. 6. PHilomelus the Phocensian having taken the Delphick Oracle began to compell Pythia to tell him something of the future event of the affairs of his Country At whose imperious carriage the woman being much moved said unto him Sir you may do what you please At which words Philomelus very much rejoyced taking them as a most apt answer to his demands and the prediction of his future successe and presently hereupon gave out in writing That the Gods had licensed him to do what he pleased and after the custome calling together the people in a speech he made to them expounded the Oracle exhorting them to be of good courage for the future and after this wholly bent his resolution and endeavours for military designs There happened also a Prodigy in the Temple of Apollo in this manner An Eagle hovering over the roof cast her self down to the very ground and followed some Doves that were carried into the Temple preying upon them at the very Altar which those that pretended skill in matters of that nature expounded an undoubted token of the good successe of Philomelus and the Phocensians in the Delphic Warr which lasted nine years dubious but at last terminated with the destruction of the Phocenses Diodor. lib. 16. CRoesus demanding of the Oracle at Delphos Whether he should reign long or no received this answer from Pythia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whenso'ere a mungril Mule shall have the Crown Wanton well fed shall frisk it up and down With 's tender hoofs then fly and make no stay To ask what is the news away away Craesus concluding with himself that there would never any Mule reign over the Medes instead of a Man thence infer'd that his rule should be perpetuall not understanding that by a Mule was understood Cyrus because he was descended of two severall Nations his Mother Mandane being of a better extract then his father Cambyses For she was a Mede and Astyages the King his daughter and he but a Persian when they were subject to the Medes Herodotus lib. 1. ARcesilaus being driven from his Kingdome with his Mother Pheretima being at Samos sollicited all persons he could meet with in hope to regain his Country and having got together a very considerable army he sent to Delphos to consult the Oracle there about his return into his own Kingdome to whom Pythia returned this answer During the time of four Battus's and as many Arcesilaus's to wit eight Generations of men Apollo hath granted thee to reign and further dehorts thee to endeavour And likewise perswades thee when thou art in thy own seat to remain in peace But if thou findest a furnace full of Pitchers or pots be sure thou boil them not but fling them out and if thou dost fire the Furnace take heed of entring a place that is compassed with water for if thou dost thou shalt perish and the Bull do what he can Arcesilaus taking those forces he had gathered in Samos returned to Cyrene and having recovered his Kingdome and somewhat setled his affairs not minding the Oracle he called his adversaries to Judgment and those that he could lay hold on he sent to Cyprus to be executed whom the Cnidians when they were brought into their Countrey rescued and sent them to Thera Some that had privately conveyed themselves into a strong Tower-building combustible matter round he burnt the Tower and all When he had done he began to remember this was that the Oracle had forbidden him and went out of the City Cyrene fearing the death predicted for he conceived Cyrene to be that circumfluous place he was warned to avoid and betook himself to the King of Barcaeans called Alazeris whose Neece he had married where some as well Barcaeans as Cyrenean Exuls espying him walking in the forum set upon him and divided both his and his Cosen Alazeris heads from their bodies Herodotus lib. 4. NEro Caesar being warned by some Mathematicians that the ruine of his Empire was portended by the Stars but some of them differ'd in opinion in one thing and some in another at last being sick he sent to Delphos to be resolved what should be the fate of his state and received in answer this That he should beware of the 73. year Which when he heard being an inconsiderate man and scarce above thirty he so wholly gave himself up to security that he feared nothing concluding that the Oracle had promised him a peaceable reign during his whole life and that he could not dye before the appointed year set down by the Oracle insomuch that he arived to that height of insolence vaine conceit that having lost some precious jewells in a tempest he was confident the fishes would export them to land for him as they were in duty bound in his conceit With these fond extravagancies was he elevated even till on a sudden he was left destitute by all his friends and subjects and forced to a most ignominous end so well did Apollo's Counsell steed him But least this father of lies should seem to deliver any untruth the night before his death he made Nero hear a voice cursing the name of Nero and extolling that of Galba that so he might understand it was by the will and institution of the Oracle that he fell for Galba succeeded him for the space of seventy three years Petrarcha ex Suetonio Xerxes the Son of Darius having dig'd up an old Monument of Belus found an Urne of Glasse in which a dead Corps lay in Oyl but the Urne was not full but empty a hands breadth from the hips of the body near which there stood a little Pillar or column on which was contained written that it should go ill with him that opened the Sepulchre and did not fill the Urne which when Xerxes had read he was taken with much dread and horrour and commands presently Oyl to be
them Suetonius TIberius Caesar that he might learn the Art of the Chaldeans had a teacher one Thrasyllus As often as he consulted about these kind of matters he went into a private and out-house suffering no one to be privy to his business but one free-man onely He was altogether unlearned but of a robustious strong body and had gone before him through roughs and craggs for the house stood upon a rock and this Thrasyllus his Art Tiberius was resolved to try For as he returned if he suspected him of any fraud he had resolved to precipitate him down a rock in his return that there might no one remain privy to this his levity After he had most exquisitely told Tiberius how he should be Emperour and many other future events he askt him If he could calculate his own birth-day He answered Yes and looking into his destiny the more he look'd the more he quak'd and trembled and at last cryed out That some eminent and imminent danger attended him When Caesar saw this he ran to him embraced him and told him what his danger was promisiâ—g him for that he knew it he should be safe of it On a time Tiberius as he was walking on the Sea shore with him in much perplexity of mind Thrasyllus advised him to be of good comfort and hope better things but when he grew so dejected that he was almost ready to cast himself into the Sea being in great fear of his father in law Augustus Thrasyllus espying a Ship come sailing towards them affirmed to him very confidently That that very Ship brought him good tydings The ship being put into the Haven he received Letters from Augustus and Livia whereby he was recalled to Rome according to his hearts desire Dion in Augusto CLaudius the Emperour a little before his death creating Consuls predicted to them the moneth wherein he should dye and having assured them of the very utmost limit of his time in his last counsel he did obtest that his sons should live brotherly and lovingly commending them to the Senate and professed it again and again to them that were present and who were very sorry desiring the contrary that he should dye as he had told them Suetonius NEro being born early in the morning before Sun-rising a certain Astrologer looking into the course of the Stars said That he should reign at Rome but should kill his own Mother which when Agrippina his Mother heard she said Let him kill me so he may be Emperour The event declares that the Astrologer predicted truth Xiphilinus in Nerone AScletarion a Mathematician being brought to Domitian the Emperour because he was so bold as to predict somewhat concerning his end when he did not deny but he had reported those things which by his Art he foresaw Domitius growing very angry commanded him to tell him what his own end should be and he told him To be torn to pieces by dogs and that very shortly Whereupon he presently commanded him to execution and that body his should be burnt to ashes and that the ashes should be buried to try the truth or rather to disprove the falshood of his assertions But Fate would not be altered for when the pile and all was prepared an exceeding showr of rain came so violently that all the executioners and company left the dead body by the pile and that while the dogs came and tore it Whilest he was at Supper Latinus his Jester telling him this amongst the rest of that dayes fables and conceits he was so enraged as if from this time he had been past hope of life and lay obnoxious to all the strokes of malevolent fortune Sabellicus ex Suetonio DOmitian the Emperour superstitiously given to Mathematical Predictions and thereby being informed of the time of his death the day before he was killed having fruit brought him as a Present he commanded them to be set by and kept till the next day and saith If I may I will make use of them And then then turning to them who were next to him he saith The Moon tomorrow being in Aquarius will look red and bloody which demonstrates some horrid wickedness as all men throughout the World expect He being advised by Mathematicians to take heed of the fifth hour of that day was solicitous to take their Judgment What great mischance would come by reason thereof who said That it portended great mutation in the World He therefore when that day came sitting idly and scratching a little Wart on his forehead he broke it so that some blood ran down his face which seeing he said God grant I have no greater hurt then this And enquiring what a clock it was it was answered purposely That it was the sixth hour though it was the fifth hour which he so much feared whereupon thinking all danger past he joyfully riseth intending to refresh his body but instantly his Chamberlain Parthenius came to him telling he was to speak with one in his bed-Chamber upon an important business whither coming he received from him and his confederates seven wounds whereof he dyed in the fourty sixth year of his age and fifteenth year of his reign Sabellicus lib. 4. Ennead 7. HAdrian the Emperour was not onely excellent in other Arts but also in Astronomy which Marius Max. doth so far declare that he knew all things concerning himself insomuch that he foreshewed his Acts which he should perform every day even to the last hour of his life It is manifest that he told Verus whom he adopted That the Fates shew to terrene creatures what shall be done beyond which nothing can proceed here He wrote to that very year yea and the moneth of that year in which he departed and shewed that he could not out-live that moneth Fulgosus lib. 8. cap. 11. SEptimus Severus Pertinax is said to have been a most skilfull Mathematician When his wife Martia the Mother of Bassianus was dead he calculated the Nativities of all about him and finding that Julia though not nobly descended yet by the Planet under which she was born it was signified that she should be Empresse he took her to wife who was the Mother of Greta Valeteranus The same man travailing towards Brittanie told That he should not thence return and that in the roof of the Palace in which he used to sit in Judgment he left his predictions in writing so that all men might see them wholly except that part of them which treated of the hour of his birth Xiphilinus Dionis Niraei abbreviator in Severo A Certain Aegyptian from the Mendosian coast comming to Constantinople went into an Inne the hostesse whereof was a skilfull Midwife who assoon as she had drawn some Wine for her guest tells him with an extended loud voice that a friend of hers now in labour of her third child was in great danger unlesse she had speedy help whereupon she suddenly left the Aegyptian went and helped the woman from the misery of her travell or
and fell upon him but was by one blow with his sword suddenly dispatched The King then catching hold of a bough of the Tree within his reach helped himself off his knees and begun to provoke his enemies to fight in which interim Peusestes one of the Squires of the Kings body scaling the Wall was the first that came to the defence of his Prince and after him many more who put the Barbarians to flight and delivered Alexander from further danger Diodorus lib. 17. A Certain servant a Syrian born in Apemea whose name was Eunus who delighted in Magicall enchantments and circulatory legerdemains served amongst the Eunensians in Sicilia This fellow would take upon him that he could by instinct and revelation from the Gods who appeared to him in his sleep tell things to come shortly after he bragged that he could foretell future events not onely for that the gods appeared to him asleep but also waking and that they plainly told him of things to come when as by many of his Prophesies he was found a notorious liar yet in the mean time some things came to passe according to his predictions which was a reason that no man questioned him for his false Prophecies but what he chanced truly to foretell was so observed and applauded that the people shortly had a high esteem of him at last he devised to blow a flame of fire out of his mouth with a certain fanatick fury he Prophesied like as it had been one of the Priests of Apollo to which purpose he had a nut or something of like nature bored through in which he put fire and combustible matter to nourish it and putting it into his mouth and blowing sometimes sent forth sparks and sometimes flames this fellow was used before any defection to brag that the Syrian goddesse did appear to him in his sleep and tell him that he should obtain regall dignity and he did not tell this onely to the ordinary sort of people but likewise he daily related the same to Antigines the Eunensian his own Master his relation raysing much laughter and Antigines taking great delight in his prodigious lies had him as a jester to wait upon him at his feasts and would enquire of him concerning state-affairs and what would become of all the company and when he answered them all with great confidence and promised that it would come to passe that he should shew great lenity and clemency to his Lords he raysed great laughter amongst them The common people raysing a tumult come to this Eunus and asked him if the gods favoured their enterprise he approving the thing perswaded them to go on therein and presently four hundred of his fellow servants taking him for their Captain brake into the City and made such a horrible slaughter that they spared not very sucking Infants and this was the beginning of the servile Warre which made such horrible destruction in Sicily that Rutilius at length with much ado made an end of it Diodorus Siculus lib. 34. WHen at the Thermopilae long Mountains passing through Graece to the Egaean Sea three hundred Lacedemonians were to fight against Xerxes Megistias Acarnas a Propher of the race of Melpodes told that it was apparent That death was imminent over all their heads though Leonides offered openly to dismiss him that he should not undergo such hazard of his life yet he would not depart but also caused his onely son to go along with him and be a Souldier all the rest of his fellow-Souldiers which were discharged of their service went their wayes the Thesbiensian and Theban Souldiers went on and continuing with the Lacedemonians they all perisht together Herodotus lib. 7. WHereas it was often given out as an Edict That whosoever either privately or publickly did predict or foretell the death of any man should suffer death at length Domitian the Emperour commanded Ascletario to be burnt and Larginus Proclus to be hang'd for that they foretold the day of his death the one of these Fortune-tellers was sent by the Governour of the Province of Germany to Rome where he constantly affirmed what he had predicted concerning Domitian and named a certain day not long too wherein the verity or vanity of his Art might be judged therefore it pleased the Emperour to defer the execution of his senâ—ence till that day upon which his prediction came to passe wherefore by the favour of the noble Roman he was freed P. Aerodius Suetonio GRillandus saith That Perusinus was the greatest Magitian of all Italy who singing Mass upon a certain day and coming to that part of it at which he was to turn to the people and say Orate pro me c. he said Pray for the Castles of the Church who are now expiring their lives and at the same instant the Souldiers of a Castle twenty five miles distant from Perusium where he said Mass were slain The like story we read in Philip Comineus of a certain Italian Archbishop of Vienna who in the presence of King Lewis the 11th celebrating Mass upon the day of the Epiphanie at the Church of St. Martin at Turon when he offered the Pax to the King to kiss pronounced these words Peace to thee O King thy enemy is dead And it appeared that Charls Duke of Burgundie dyed the same hour at Nanceum in Lotharingia Cominaeus telleth many things of this Archbishop which seem to be the certain effects of meer Witchcraft Of the Dreams Visions Revelations and other such kind of Legerdemanes and mockeries of Evil Spirits AGamemnon leader of the Greeks against Troy when he had taken Briseides from Achilles Thetis interceding Jove for her son that he would subject the Graecians to the Trojans till they really perceived and found by wofull revenge what losse trouble and vexation they had caused to Achilles by their injurious dealing with him Jupiter sends a dream to Agamemnon wherein he commands him to draw out his Army 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for now he should take Troy Jove cannot lye that he full well knew yet he well saw that he could not take the City that day Jupiter plaid or sported with him by the abstruse meaning of the word for the adverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies in the Greek not onely present but instant and hath that latitude that it signifies past and not much past and to come and not far off Jupiter therefore meant by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the tenth year which was then present which was not long from the destruction of Troy But Agamemnon interpreting or construing his Dream to mean the present day he drew out his Army immediately and received a great overthrow Iliados β. CYrus King of the Persians leading an Army against the Massagetians being at rest dreamed that he saw Darius the eldest son of Hystaspes having two wings with the one whereof he overshadowed Asia and with the other Europe This Darius being twenty years of Age at this time was left by his father at
Aristimentum in Persia Cyrus awakened out of his dream and suspended with this nocturnal vision and casting many wayes what should be the meaning thereof at last said That thereby was revealed to him from the gods that Hystaspes and his son Darius did lye in wait to surprise him and his Kingdom he used therefore his utmost endeavours to return into his own Countrey the Massegetians being conquered and leaves his son in his place but that Vision foretold That Cyrus should be shortly overthrown and that ere long Darius should obtain his Kingdom which came to passe after a short reign of Cambyses which came betwixt this and Darius his Conquest Sabellicus lib. 6. Ennead 2. SOcrates foresaw in his dreams that his Scholler Plato would be an excellent Orator and Philosopher for the day before he being brought to him by his father Socrates in his dream saw a white Swan fly into his bosome which by his musicall striking of his wings filled the Ayr which Dream as soon as Plato was brought to him he declared Pausanias in Atticis HIppocrates in his Epistle to Philopomenes relates his Dream thus That meditating solicitously of Democritus to whom being called to cure the Abderitani he saith that health would meet him in the morning I saw quoth he Aesculapius and as we were both before and even at the ports of the Abderitari Aesculapius appeared not as his pictures speak him mild and gentle but with squalid habit and an horrid aspect and there followed him Dragons a fierce kind of creeping creatures of huge length hissing in desarts and lawnes he had in his company likewise men that followed him with boxes of medicaments handsomely closed up immediately he reacheth forth his hand to salute me which God knowes I most joyfully imbraced I desired to wait upon him and to serve him in his administring Physick but he answered for present 't was not needful for this goddess of mortals and immortals will conduct thee being a stranger Whereupon turning my self I beheld a goodly fair Lady neatly and gloriously adorned about whose eyes there appeared such a circle of shining splendour that exceeded the glorious brightnesse of Stars He thereupon departed but the Lady taking me kindly by the hand leads me on a grave pace through the City and when we approached near a house wherein I thought I should have been entertained she departed like a ghost saying To morrow I shall find you with Democritus To whom as she was going away I said Dear Lady who are you and how may I call you Truth sayes she but she that thou seest coming towards thee and presently another Lady not uncomely appeared to me of a more bold aspect and more fierce whose name she told me was Opinion and that she lived with the Abderetani When I therefore awaked from my Dream I conceived the interpretation of it to be That Democritus needs not a Physitian God departing from administring of Physick when there is no matter or sicknesse which requires it but that Truth which alwayes dwelleth with Democritus saith he is in health and that Opinion which saith he is sick remaineth amongst the mad Abderetani ALexander was descended from Hercules by Carinus and from Aeacus on his Mothers side by Neoptolemus as it was verily thought It is reported that when Phillip King of Macedon first courted Olympiades taken with her beauty by the help of her brother Arybba whom Diodore in his sixteenth book calleth Arymba whose friendship he obtained he stole her away from her Parents and married her and that the night before they enjoyed nuptial rights in a dream he thought he saw Jove touch his belly being descended from Heaven in thunder whereupon there was a huge fire which arose and presently dispersed it self into flames all about The same Philip a short time after his marriage dreamed That he sealed his Wives belly and that the sculpture of the seal as it seemed to him was the Image of a Lyon which vision he declaring to some that took upon them the interpretation of dreams they advised him to set a strict Watch or Guard upon his Wife but Telemesus said She would bring a Lyon-like child for that no vain thing is to be sealed therefore the dream signified that she would have a child of perfect animosity and courage Plutarchus in Alexandro SOphocles did often dream that Hercules speaking to him by name called him thief because he had stoln a golden vessel out of his Temple And that being detected and brought before the State he confessed himself guilty of the theft whereof Hercules accused him wherefore from that time ever after the Temple was called by the name of Hercules his Temple Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 5. ANnaeus Seneca a Senator of Rome being commanded by Claudius the Emperour to undertake the Tutorship of Nero as yet a child hopefull by a towardly genius the night after he received him as 't is reported he dreamed that he had to his Scholler Caligula whose famous cruelty had appeared to the World Not long after the conditions and manners of Nero changing or rather being detected appearing he proved himself to have a soul void of humanity insomuch that it was admired because he was so like Caligula how it could otherwise come to pass but by the transmigration of Caligula his soul out of Hell into Nero. Petrarcha ex Suetonio Dione EUdemus a Cyprian a familiar friend of Socrates travelling into Macedonia cometh to Pherae a rich and famous City of Thessaly but oppressed and brought somewhat low by the inhumane tyranny of one Alexander he was there taken with such heavy sickness that Physitians despaired of his health who thus afflicted dreams that he saw a gallant young man who coming to him assured him of three things to come That he though now extreamly sick should shortly recover his health That the Tyrant of that City should dye within a few dayes And that he within five years should go to his own Country And the two first did manifestly come to passe accordingly for he beyond all hopes recovered his health the Tyrant was slain by his Wives brothers the third was somewhat more obscure for about the end of the fifth year as he was going from Sicily where he then lived to Cyprus he was taken out of this World by Wars at Syracusa we find that Interpreters of Dreams excuse the not coming of Eudemus home according to the dream by saying That by death his soul was delivered from the bonds of his body and returned to her Countrey Petrarcha ASpasia the daughter of Hermotimus after her Mother Phocensis dyed in labour together with her child being educated in penury and want of a Parent yet modestly and handsomely she often dreamed that she saw one who told her that her fortune should be such that she should be married to a gallant and honest Gentleman it chanced to the Maid that a swelling rose upon her very chin most ugly to behold which was
much glory By which dream the most valiant man most thirsty after glory yet not so much affrighted as encouraged unto the desire of his promised end began to decline no kind of danger and being admonished by friends that he should fight the more warily he opened unto them his dream and purpose Then notwithstanding being beyond thought unhurt he brought the army out safe from the jaws of their enemies But after three years passed between the late truth was brought to sleep For in the Latine War himself being Consull sacrificed himself for the Common-wealth and being brought into the middle of the enemies Armies he dyed with such glory that he stirred up his son unto the like desire of an hereditary death These almost after this manner are both written in the Annals of Rome and related by Tully C. Gracchus saw the shape of his brother Tiberius who was killed in the sedition of the field Law in his sleep saying He might delay as much as he would yet he must perish with the same death by which he had died Which also happened For when after most destructive Lawes published he had possessed the Mount of Aventine with an armed multitude by Lucius Opimius he was slain Cicero in Book 1. Of Divination Plutarch in the life of the Gracchians CAlpurnia the Wife of Julius Caesar saw in her rest that night which was the last he lived on the Earth that he was slain with many wounds laying in her bosome and being exceedingly affrightned through the cruelty of the dream ceased not to intreat him that the next day he would abstain from the Court But he not moved with a Womans dream thought to do that he earnestly desired to go to the Senate in which the hands of Parricides were brought on him where by Brutus and Cassius he was slain Valerius Book 1. chap. 3. L. Cornelius Sylla not onely foresaw his death but also wrote somewhat of it For in the twenty second Commentary of deeds done by him two dayes before he deceased he set to the last hand and saith the Chaldeans foretold him That where he had famously lived he was to depart in the flowr of happiness He telleth also That his son who had dyed a little before Metella was seen in a dream to stand by him in an unusual garment and to have prayed his father that he would lay aside cares and would go forward with him to his Mother Metella there with her to live in rest Plutarch in Sylla A Beholder of Playes who standing in the place of beholding had mused in his sleep that he was slain by a sword-player who seemed to be present by and by he told the sitters by that he had seen the Dream so being killed by him with an Eel-spear he taught by experience the vain dream to be true by a miserable issue Alexander book 3. chap. 26. GReat Sfortias the day before he departed from Orthona against Braccius who besieged the City Aquila in the year 1425 dreamed about the morning That being overwhelmed with a deep heap of waters was conversant in the greatest danger of his life and to have beheld a man in a Gyant-like shape very like to D. Christopher of whom even with a great and often repeated voyce he besought help in vain But he being nothing warned by his dream departing by Orthona in the crosse passage of the small River Aternus which at this day hath its name from the Town Piscaria while he brought help unto a Lad his Armour-bearer being in jeopardy his right hand being stretched forth pitching in the muddy Foord his horse although famous failed in his hinder legs and so his armour weighing him down he was drowned Jovius in his Life MAlpaga an Archer was not an unacceptable servant unto Galeatius Sfortias Duke of Mediolum among his household-servants This man the day before that Galeatius was killed he saw in the night at the time of rest as if himself had been present at the thing him being thrust thorow with wounds made to be put together with his father in the same Coffin That which afterwards he waking beheld to be done Galeatius being dead while a proper coffin was made for him Which sight the same Malpaga before the Duke was killed being through fear astonished had told unto his Earls Fulgosus B. 1. ch 5. Of Examples MArk-Anthony Taurell Earl of Guastella when he warred in the Kingdom of Neapolis in that War which Ferdinand the Elder King of Arragon waged with Renatus King of Andegavia in the standing Camps which he had in the Country of the Brutians arising in the morning from his bed he told those his Souldiers who had stood about him that he saw in his sleep that he was drowned in the water and therefore decreed to abstain from swimming to which he had accustomed himself But when at noon-day after sleep being cloathed with a Souldiers warlike garment naked from above he had come to walk to the neighbouring Lake and saw some of his Souldiers swimming being unmindfull of his night-dream and perchance the destinies so drawing him letting himself down with some others into the Lake to swim according to the dream that he had seen he was drowned when as none of his Souldiers could bring him help Fulgosus book 1. chap. 5. HOrace Perusine servant of the Feasts or Junkers unto Alexander of Medices Duke of the Florentines a little before that he was killed by Lawrence of Medices was vexed with a Feaver from a vapour as is meet to be believed of black choler he had a sight thrice in the night in the which he beheld the Prince to be stabbed by Lawrence Which images of things drave the sick-man that he told it to Paschall the Prince's Physitian to be related to the Prince But Paschall carefully doing duty found the Prince in that mind that he said it was a fable of a dreaming sick man admiring why the whole house had conspired together for hatred of Lawrence The Supply of Sabellicus book 22. out of Jovius BAptista of Cardanum studying at Papia on a certain night as soon as he arose tryed to kindle a sparkle of fire In the mean time he heareth this voyce Go my son go to Rome And he saw a great brightnesse like a bundel of burning chaff He being affrighted his fire-light being laid aside lay hid under the bed untill his chamber-fellows returned out of the University When they returned thinking him to be sick they knock at the door he openeth it Straightway to them enquiring the cause he answereth He thought his Mother to be dead and told what he had seen and heard and also wept They turned the thing into a jest partly laughing at him partly comforting him The day following when as yet he had not received a message concerning his Mothers sicknesse he was certified of her death that she breathed out her soul in that very hour wherein he had perceived these things The Town of Cardanum is
absent from Papia fourty two miles Cardane Of the variety of things book 15. chap. 84. tells this of his Kinsman ULysses after his return into his Countrey being affrighted with often contrary dreams called together most skillfull Interpreters telling that a certain Image was seen by him of a very laudable beauty between the countenance of a man and a god suddenly to be sent forth out of the same place The which to him desiring to embrace with the greatest desire and stretching forth his hand it was answered unto him in a man's voyce That such a conjoyning was wicked because it was of the same bloud and birth for thereby the one would destroy the others work And then to him more eagerly asking it and desiring to learn perfectly the causes of that thing a certain sign arising from a male came between his sight and that second power or jurisdiction of his cast upon him to have disjoyned both Which thing all who were present pronounced to be destructive with one mouth warning him to take heed of the layings in wait of his son So Telemachus by his fathers will is banished into the fields which were in Cephalenia He himself going apart into hidden and separated places endeavoured to avoid the force of the Dreams At the same time Telegonus whom being sprung from Ulysses Circe had brought up at the Island Acaea when he was of ripe years going to search out his father came to Ithaca bearing in his hands a certin spear whose top was armed with the bone of a Sea tortle to wit a token of honour of that Island in which he had been brought up Being instructed where his father Ulysses lived by the keepers of the ground being at his first passage more mistrusted is forbidden when as he more eagerly resisteth he is on the contrary repulsed he begins to cry out It was an unworthy act that he should be forbidden from the embracement of his father So Telegonus being thought to come to bring force on the King he is more sharply resisted for it was not certainly known to any that Ulysses had also another son But the young man when he saw himself the more exceedingly and by force to be repulsed being raised up through grief killeth or being greatly wounded weakeneth many of the keepers Which things after they were known to Ulysses he thinking the young man to have been sent by Telemachus going forth of doors casts the Lance which he had wont to carry for his own defence against Telegonus After that the young man escaped this stroak he sends a notable dart against his present father When Ulysses fell down with the stroak he gave thanks for his fortune and confessed it was very well done by him because being slain by the force of a strange man he had freed Telemachus a most dear son to him from the wickednesse of parricide And holding back the residue he asketh the young man who he was and from what place risen who durst kill Ulysses the son of Laertes famous for counsel and war Telegonus then knowing it was his father tearing his head with both his hands uttered a most lamentable weeping being exceedingly tormented for the death brought by him on his father Dictys in book 6. PIndare a Lyrick Poet his age being now finished seemed to see Persephone to stand by him in his sleep and to complain That she onely of all the gods was not adorned with his verses But when he had come unto her he should also make an hymn on her Indeed a little after and even before the tenth day from that dream he finished the duties of life There was at Thebes a certain old woman joyned to Pindare by kin and very much exercised in singing forth many of his songs Pindare shewing himself to her at the time of rest sung a song on Persephone She being presently awakened wrote down all things which she had heard Pindare singing through a vision in her sleep Truly in that song amongst other sirnames of the hell-goddess is Chrysenius to wit from the golden rains which thing it is sufficiently manifest to have served for the snatching away of Proserpina Pausanias in his Boeoticks UNto Phayll King of the Phocians after the Temple of Delphos spoyled he scarce as yet having come to his command such a shew by a dream was set before him Among the things offered to Apollo there was a very old image of brass of a man whose flesh being consumed his bones alone were left They of Delphos said it was dedicated by Hippocrates the Physitian Phayll seemed to see himself made like to this And a few dayes after pining away with leanness he fulfilled the issue of the dream Pausanias in his Photicks A Little before the destruction of Messena in the twenty first year of the War Aristodemus King of the Messenians seemed at the time of rest to see when as now arms being taken up he was to go forth to battle the intrails of sacrifices being placed on a table his daughter whom six years before being sacrificed for the safety of his Country he had slain with his own hands standing by him in a black or mourning garment and her breast being naked shewing her wounds and then the intrails being removed from the table the weapons being withdrawn her self to be endowed with that golden crown and white garments He therefore thought this dream to betoken death unto him because the Messenians lift up the Nobles being crowned and covered with a white garment And without delay when by the devoting of his daughter he saw he could nothing profit his Country at his daughter's Tomb he brought death on himself Plutarch in Cleomenes ALexander King of Macedonia first knew by a dream that the right hand of Cassander would prove mortal to him before that in the end he felt it For he thought himself to be killed by him when as he had never seen him At then sometime coming between after that he had come into view the image of his night-fear being disclosed as soon as he knew it to be the son of Antipater a Greek verse being added which raiseth up the truth of the dreams he beat back the suspition of poysoning now prepared against his head whereby it is reported he was slain with the hand of Cassander Valerius Maximus book 1. chap. 7. Sabellicus book 6. Ennead 4. ALcibiades taking a sleep thought himself in his sleep to be covered with the cloak of his Concubine The truth whereof straightway followed For Critias when he saw Alcibiades very much to prevail in favour and authority endeavoured to take him out of the midst of them Therefore he sent Tisimen or as others name him Susametres and Bagous that they might kill him He when he was with his Leamond being killed in her bosome and was cast away unburied was covered with the garment of his Concubine Justine book 5. Plutarch Probus in his Life THat was an effectual Image of rest which
falling sicknesse was cured hence it came to passe that the Kings of England were wont on Good Friday with many ceremonies to hallow the Ring the which whosoever put upon his finger should never be troubled with this disease Polydor. lib. 8. THe Statue of Saint Paul an old piece which Andronicus Comnenus Tyrannus adorning with Gold placed in the Church of holy Quadraginta which wept when the time approached that Andronicus was destroyed Andronicus hearing thereof commanded his servants to find out whether that were true to which service besides others his beloved servant Hagiocristophorita Stephanus by stairs ascended for the Statue was in a high place and wiped the eyes thereof with fine linnen whereupon tears more plentifully fell from them as if they had flowed from a spring which with great amazement he told Andronicus struck thereupon with great grief often shaking his head he said Paul wept for the great destruction that is to come to himself for he accounts it his own cause for he most cordially loved Paul and did infinitely esteem his sayings and was as well beloved by Paul And not long after hanged up by the heels he expired his life by horrible torments Nicetas lib. 2. LEo the fifth of Ironomacum his Mother as it seemed to her saw in the Temple of the Virgin Mary at Blachernes a certain woman her sonne apparelled in white following her and the floor of the Church being besprinkled with blood another woman carrying a Spear in her hand commanded a vessel to be filled and to be given to the Mother of the King which refused by her she said to her Thy son destroyes and gluts himself with the blood of all that worship we wherefore I and my sonne are not without cause moved with wrath against him The Mother of the King affrighted out of her sleep presently declares what she had by Vision and earnestly desires him to desist from the persecution of Images But he like the deaf Adder stopped his ears though he was somewhat afraid and the more for that the dream of another was declared to him For Tarasius the Patriarch appeared to a certain man calling vehemently upon one whose name was Michael that he should go to Leo and kill him in revenge of them whom most impiously and cruelly he had put to death for their Religion And not long after while he was in the Temple at divine service he was slain by the conspiracy of Michael Traulus Cuspinianus BArdus Durus a little before his destruction dreamed That as he was making haste with the Emperour Michael to the solemnization of a certain holy-day to the great Temple whither when they approached near they followed certain men apparelled in white who led them to Seats about the Tribunal wherein they saw a certain old man sitting alone whom he thought to be Peter chief of the Apostles at whose feet Ignatius was cast down whom a little before they had severely bound and castigated in revenge of the wrongs he had done moreover Peter delivering a sword to one of them who stood by commanding that Theorgistus for so he called Caesar as obnoxious to divine wrath should be placed amongst those who stood on the left hand and cut in pieces and Asebotecnus by this name he deciphers that Emperour as an impious son Cedrenus A Nocturnal Vision discovered to Aâ—brose the Mediolanensian Bishop the bodies of the Martyrs Gervasius and Protasius it not being known to that day where they lay they appearing to him in his sleep such as when they were found So at Jerusalem in the seventh year of the reign of the Emperour Honorius it appeared to Gamaliel Lucianus a Priest by dream where the body of Stephen the Protomartyr and the bodies of the sons of Abiba lay nor did he give credit to his dream or Vision till the same was thrice presented to him in his sleep and then seeking for the bodies he found them in number and form according to his Vision the Church keeps a holy-day for the invention of Stephen at this time in testimony hereof Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 5. SOzomenus gives a large narration how Pulcheria sister to Theolosius found out the fourty Martyrs which suffered under Lucinius at a certain placed Sebastes in Armenia whose reliques as by digging she caus'd to be search't for Thirsus the Martyr appearing to her suggested and admonish'd her to translate them to him and afterwards the fourty Martyrs in a military habit splendidly apparelled manifested themselves to her Sozomenus lib. 9. cap. 2. Nicephorus saith that Stephen the Protomartyr appeared to Pulcheria whose reliques when the Citizens of Constantinople desired to take away and keep with them he saith the Mules which drew the Coach wherein the reliques were spoke with a voyce like to men THere appeared to a certain Husbandman named Calemorus belonging to the Nice-President Chophares near Eleutheropolis in Palestine the Prophet Zacharias who taking into a certain Orchard shewed the places digged wherein his reliques lay Sozomenus lib. 9. cap. 8. IT was commonly reported amongst the Venetians That it was not for a long time known in what place the body of St. Mark lay and that it was either by divine power translated from the place wherein it had there layn or was stoln away but upon publike warning of a solemn day set apart to fast and pray and observation thereof accordingly the Citizens following the Clergy to the Temple of the Saint they say this miracle happened that an arm rising out of a side of the Church appeared to the anxious and solicitous multitude whereupon with great joy they remove the body and lay it in a more honourable place moreover it was decreed that it should onely be lawfull for the Prince and Procurators of the Temple to come to the most sacred Tomb of St. Mark Sabel lib. 3. Ennead 9. SAint Benedict appeared to Pope Urban in his sleep and said Doubt not but my body rests at Cassinum and for a testimony of the certainty hereof thou rising with thy brethren to perform the office of the Church for Nocturns shalt be cured of the Plurisie wherewith thou art now afflicted The event proved directly according to the Vision Chronicon Cassinense lib. 4. cap. 5. BAsilius Macedo who afterwards obtained the Empire of Constantinople when he was a child lost his father His mother much afflicted with poverty resolved by her labour in service to maintain her self and son coming to Megalopolis at night because poor woman she wanted wherewithall to defray her charges at an Inne she went to the Church of Saint Diomedes and being wearied with her travel fell asleep the holy Martyr that night appeared to a certain Deacon of that house which had not yet taken the orders of a Priest in a dream and commands that he take into the house the King which lay out a doors in a ditch close to the porch of the Temple The Deacon awakened with his dream went out and finds Basil a young
with an evill spirit 366 A spirit in shape of a horse kills twelve men 367 The treasure Arcolius near Lutetia discovered by Magick 368 A Lawyer and his companions seeking by Conjurations for treasure are affrighted by spirits from their enterprise 369 Satan deludes many by binding fast their eyes 370 A Witch who enfeebled an Horse by witchcraft 371 A way to free Cattle from sorcery by using a sieve 372 Witchcraft 373 A Mason tormented by Witchcraft 374 White witches or those who cure and deliver from harm 375 A Witch cures a sick woman whom she had bewitched 376 A Sorcerer of Flanders 377 A Bishop bewitched 378 Triscalanus a witch whom the King of France pardoneth confesseth the way by which sorceries are conveyed 379 Satan enters a man mortally wounded 380 A Butcher discovers many witches in a Wood in the night 381 The confession of three witches who were condemned to dye for witchcrafts which they had committed 382 The Sorcerers of Potezana their confession 383 The confession of a Witch at Biturgum 384 The confession of a Witch who could not rest unlesse she did some evil every day 385 The Devills declare what is done in divers Nations at a convention 386 There is no meeting of Witches and Devills without dancing 387 A witch anointing her self lyes void of sense for three hours after which returning to her body relates things from divers Countreys 388 A witch departs from her body for a whole night to the convention of Devills and witches and her spirit returns to her body in the morning 389 The Devill in form of a great Hee-goat adored by Witches 390 The admirable judgment of seven Magitians 391 Baro of Razii who was condemned for using Magick his confession 392 A most diabolicall bloudy Mid-wife 393 Cazereis a cursed Witch of Tholossa 394 A Magician who upon a sudden oftentimes flew 395 Articles against Aegidius Garnerius whereof he was accused and Convicted 396 Peter Burgottus and Michael Verdunus their confessing their sacrificing to the Devill 397 A Witch taking the form of a Wolf wounded with an arrow 398 Witches in the forms of Wolves and Cats 399 The Lappi sell calms and storms 400 A Jew who at any time when he pleased could transform himself 401 Nothing more clear by History then that many have been transformed into beasts 402 An English Souldier at Cyprus turned into an Asse by a Witch 403 A dialogue betwixt a stage-player and an Asse in Aegypt 404 Two witches turn men into beasts transform a Player into an Asse 405 Atheisticall men turned into Asses 406 Witches raise lightnings storms and tempests 407 How a witch caused a storm 408 How some wicked Priests caused showers 409 How witches kill Cattle 410 Children killed in the wombs of their Mothers by witches 411 A cursed witch Christneth two Toads 412 Witches with a powder kill Hearbs 413 A witch who by his voice could kill men 414 The Devil teacheth a Conjurer to shoot darts at a crucifix 415 An Hermophrodite a Witch attached discovers the conjuration conventicles and diabolical acts of Witches 416 A Witch at Laodunum who debilitated and screwed men awry and destroyed beasts and fruit 417 A Conjurer in the sight of the people flying up towards Heaven snatch'd his Wife with him laying hold on him and a Maid also who stood by them to the great wonder of the amazed people who beheld them wavering in the Ayr 418 The Table to the Second Book being of Oracles Prophecies c. The severall heads are to be found by the figures in the Margin THe counsel which Telephus receives from the Oracle at Delphos for cure of his wound 1 Croesus King of the Lydians consults the Oracle at Delphos for the cure of his son being dumb 2 The Minyae the Plague raging upon man and beast consult the Oracle 3 Atheniensis son of Craterus King of the Persians consulting the Oracle was told That he should kill his own father 4 Oedipus kills his father according to the prediction of the Oracle 5 The strange death of Eumelus King of the Bosphorean Cymerians 6 Cyrus King of the Persians consults Orpheus his head at Lesbos 7 Polycrates the Samian Tyrant consults the Oracle at Delphos 8 Great slaugter to happen revealed to Julius Caesar by evident and wonderful Prodigies 9 Titus the Emperour his death foretold by the Oracle 10 Mauritianus the son of Justinianus the Emperour being slain by the Goths the Oracle was fulfilled 11 Manuel Comnenus after he had reigned 38 years excepting 3 moneths hoping to prolong his life put himself into Monastical habit 12 Polycrates the Theban consults the Oracle at Delphos for the finding of treasure 13 Psameticus encouraged by the Oracle gains the King of Egypt 14 Manuel Comnenus Emperour nameth his son Alexius in observance of the Oracles doubtful speech 15 Boetia being spoyled those of that Countrey who escaped run to the Oracle 16 The Teucri Cretensians seek themselves new habitations by the advice of the Oracle 17 The Phrygians carried by Aeneas their Captain into the Lawrel field were not willing to go any further but hearkned to the Oracle 18 The prediction of the Oracle at Delphos to the Lacedemonians 19 Codrus King of the Athenians in observance of the Oracle voluntarily sacrificed himself for the safety of his people 20 The Oracle predicteth the overthrow of the Athenians by the Persians 21 Valerius Torquatus swallowed up by the ground in which place an Altar is built according to the advice of the Oracle 22 In the Cimbrick Warr the goddess mother of great Idaea declared victory to the Romans 23 The Oracle at Delphos declares victory to the Romans against the Vientians 24 The Dorienses obeying the command of the Oracle got Elea 25 The Oracle's advice to the Lacedemonians how to overcome the Tegeans 26 An Oracle given out in the time of Tiberius Emperour of Rome 27 The Devil speaketh in the Idol of Zemus 28 An Oracle given to the Ancestors of Sardanapalus 29 An Oracle given to the Poet Hesiod 30 Epaminondas his charge from the Oracle at Delphos 31 The Oracle given to Cambyses the Persian King 32 Pythia predicteth the death of Philip King of Macedon 33 The doubtful Oracle given him at Delphos 34 Aescylus the Athenian tragick Poet his death foretold by the Oracle 35 Daphidas the Sophister Ironically consults the Oracle at Delphos 36 Dionysius senior Tyrant of Syracusa acted a Tragedy to the Athenians in their Bachanalian feasts 37 Fatal necessity unavoidable 38 Hannibal the famous Carthaginian Captain his death predicted by the Oracle 39 Appius Claudius consults the Oracle 40 The Antianaean Oracles their advice to C. Caligula 41 Parhonius foretold by the Oracle to succeed in the Empire 42 A Shepherd laid down by Orpheus his Tomb falling asleep chants forth Orpheus his verses in a sweet tone 43 The Scythian Islanders send the tenth of their treasures they get out of the silver and gold Mines yearly to Apollo at Delphos 44
An aequivocal Oracle given to the Messanensians 45 The answer of the Oracle at Delphos to the Phocenses 46 The Lacedemonians consult Pythia 47 Cleomenes King of the Spartans consults the Oracle at Delphos 48 Philomelus having taken the Delphick Oracle compells Pythia to tell him somewhat of future events 49 The Oracle's answer to Croesus at Delphos 50 Arcesilaus being driven from his Kingdome sent to Delphos to consult the Oracle 51 Nero the Emperour warned by Mathematicians that the ruine of the Empire was portended by the Stars 52 Xerxes the son of Darius finds an Urn 53 Silvester the Pope reported to have obtained the Popedome by evils works 54 Whas encouragement the Aeginetians received by the Oracle at Delphos to Warr 55 The wisdom of the Persian Magies 56 An huge beard groweth upon the chin of the Priest of Minerva at Pedesensia upon a sudden immediately before a diverse fortune seizeth upon the people 57 Beleses a Chaldean encourageth Arabes General of the Medes to invade the Babylonians 58 Thales the Milesian discovers the plenty one year and scarcity another by the rising of the seven Stars 59 Boeotius the son of a common cryer his fortune told by a Chaldean 60 The birth-day of the Emperour Augustus observed 61 Scribonius the Mathematitian 62 Tiberius Caesar makes use of Thrasillus a cunning Chaldean 63 Claudius the Emperour predicteth the time of his own death 64 An Astronomer foretold Nero his being Emperour and his killing his Mother at the time of his birth 65 Ascletario a Mathematician foretelleth his own death 66 Domitian the Emperour superstitiously given to Mathematical predictions 67 Hadrian the Emperour an excellent Astronomer 68 Septimius Severus Pertinax a skilfull Mathematician 69 A Midwife of Constantinople at the birth of Ablabius foretells his being Praetor 70 Two Jews Astrologers promise Zira Prince of the Arabians Empire and long life if he would demolish the Christian Temples and Images of Saints 71 The advice of John an Astronomer and Magitian to Lucapenus the Roman Emperour 72 Nicolas son to Guido Earl of Patavia predicted pernition to his Countrey by Jambonus Andreas an Astrologian 73 Guido Bonatus foretold the Earl of Mountferrat that he should receive a wound in his Hip by a salley which he should make the day before the Calends of May 74 Antiochus Tibertus foretells Guidon that he should be killed by his intimate friend upon suspition of Infidelity 75 Petrus Leonius a dextrous Astronomer discovered by his Art that sudden death was portended to him by water 76 Predictions by Bartholomeus Coclecles an excellent Physiognomist 77 An Astrologer foretells Rodulphus the Haspurgensian Earl his being Emperour 78 The Mathematitians predicted Sfortia his high Empire 79 Braccius the Montenensian Duke seeing the body of his Enemy Sfortia drowned praised him with exquisite Encomiums 80 Henry a Bohemian an Astronomer his predictions 81 Basil a Southsayer foretells the death of Alexander Medices Duke of Florence 82 John Liechtenberg his prediction 83 The tenth day of September fatall to Peter Alois 84 Brazen tables wherein was engraven a prediction That the Grecians were to overcome the Persians 85 A wonderful thing in the second Carthaginian War 86 Verses found in a table of stone when the walls of Chalcedon were made equal with the ground 87 A table of stone found in the bank of the River Scirtus with Hierogliphical Egyptian letters written on it 88 Chaldeans foretell Alexander's danger if he went to Babylon 89 What Aretas King of the Persians gathered by Southsayings 90 Apollonius an Egyptian foretold the death of Caius Caligula the Emperour 91 Apollonius foretold Cilix his slaughter 92 Larginus Proclus foretells the death of Domitian the Emperour 93 The death of Constance discovered by a Souldier observing the intrals of beasts and birds 94 Alexander Severus Emperour desiring to begin his speech to his Souldiers with a lucky word Fortune brought him one clean contrary 95 A woman meeting the two Maximines in the Market-place falls dead 96 Dioclesian his being Emperour is foretold by a Woman 97 Marian a most wise Earl his predictions 98 A Soothsayers prediction to Agilulph Duke of the City Taurina 99 Antonine his prediction to his Schollers 100 Remex a Rhodian his prediction 101 An old Proverb in Carthage 102 Spartan guests ravish the daughters of Scedasus 103 The Speech of a Magitian of Egypt to Anthonie 104 The Roman Captains forbid to go with weapons beyond Ctesiphon by reason of an ancient Prophesie 105 Sybill her Prophecie of the destruction of Antichrist 106 The god Ammon answereth the Tementes 107 Sybill foretells the warlike glory of the Macedons 108 A Child having teeth speaketh the same day in which he is born 109 A Child within twenty four hours of its birth spoke and made signs with its hands 110 A Syrian seeing a Ship running with full sayles foretold it should be sunk 111 Phericides foretold an earthquake within three dayes 112 The answer which the Oracle at Delphos gave to Glaucus enquiring counsell concerning unjustly deteyned money 113 Alphonsus King of Arragon besieging Neopolis had the taking thereof foretold him by a man of a reverend aspect 114 Women who guessed at things to come by whirl-pools and noyse of Waters 115 Abaris of Seuthias a divine of the Hyberboreans 116 Aedesius the son of Chrysanthus had a body so nimble that it exceeded humane belief 117 Agias divined unto Lysander that he should conquer the name of the Athenians 118 Philumena a Soothsaying maid 119 Saint Augustine reports of Algibertus that he knew all secrets 120 Basilacius a man of an unaccustomed life a fortune-teller 121 Merlin begotten by a spirit called Incubus and a Brittish Noblewoman foretold many things to come 122 An unclean spirit having possessed Jacoba speaks in her 123 A notable Impostor of Peter Brabantius who as oft as he pleased spoke from the bottome of his belly without moving his lips 124 Amphiarus a soothsayer by the gaping of the earth swallowed up with his Chariot and Horses 125 Actius Navius a shepheard boy a soothsayer 126 Posthumus the Sooth-sayer 127 Spurina foretells to Julius Caesar his danger of being killed 128 A German Prophesyeth to Agrippa thou prisoner his deliverance and future prosperity 129 The Adelittans and Almogonens divine from the flying of Birds and meeting of Wild beasts 130 Alexander the Emperour given to riot and Magick 131 Simeon Duke of the Bulgarians 132 An Idoll built by Mahomet whereunto a legion of Devills are ingaged by Magick to which Christians cannot come without danger 133 The manner how the Biarmians Bothynians Finlanders divine 134 How Jannes the master of Theophilus the Emperour foretold things to come 135 Apollonius the Emperour slain at Rome by Stephen according as Apollonius spoke in an extasy at the instant of his death at Ephesus 136 Stephen the Hagio-Christophorite knew from the Devill by Sethus a Magitian that destruction hanged over the head of Andronicus Comnenus 137 William King of the Romans dying unfortunately and