[91] In the margin is a reference to II Timothy, 4.

[92] Piper betel; the method of using it as a stimulant is described in Vol.  IV, p. 22a.  The coca to which the betel-nut is here compared is the dried leaf of a Peruvian shrub (Erythroxylon coca). of stimulant and tonic qualities.  From it is obtained the well-known anaesthetic cocaine.

[93] Marginal references (of which some throughout this page of Chirino are too indefinite to be verified):  II Paralipomenon (the appellation, in Roman Catholic versions of the Bible, of the books named “Chronicles” in the Protestant version), 16.  Onuphrius, book 2.

[94] Marginal references:  Fastorum Plutarchi in Sylla.  Plinius, book II, chap. 10. Ecclesiastes, 34. Sermo 15 of St. Jerome, 9.

[95] Marginal references:  II Paralipomenon, 35. Job, 3.  Aristotle, cited by Varro, book 6.

[96] Marginal references:  Judges, 4, and thereon Procopius of Gaza—­probably a reference to his commentaries, Commentarii in Octateuchum (a Latin translation; Tiguri, 1555).

[97] Marginal references:  Herodotus and Diodorus, book 3.  Pineda’s Job, 3, v. 16—­the Commentarium in Job libri tredecim of Joannes de Pineda (of Sevilla).

[98] Marginal references:  Josephus, Antiquitates, book 13, chap. 15; book 16, chap. 11.  Gregorius Giraldus, Syntagma de funeratibus.  Eustatius, on Homer, p. 393—­referring to one of the works on Homer by Eustathius of Thessalonica.

[99] Marginal references:  Athenaeus, book 7.  Alessandro Sardi (of Ferrara), De moribus ac ritibus gentium libri III (Venetiis, 1557).

[100] A side note in the original gives the Hebrew dvmh duma, which means “silences,” and hence “sepulchres.”

[101] Marginal references:  Virgil, AEneid, 6.  Hosea, 10, v. 15.  Pineda’s Job, 3, v. 13.

[102] A marginal note refers to Ecclesiastes, 1; but it is not quoted directly by Chirino, who seems only to use it as a suggestion for his own thought.