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do elicere voces inauditas compel strange
30. 1 , because such symptoms are cured by purging; and as by the striking of a flint fire is enforced, so by the vehement motion of spirits, they do elicere voces inauditas , compel strange speeches to be spoken: another argument he hath from Plato's reminiscentia , which all out as likely as that which [2715] Marsilius Ficinus speaks of his friend Pierleonus; by a divine kind of infusion he understood the secrets of nature, and tenets of Grecian and barbarian philosophers, before ever he heard of, saw, or read their works: but in this I should rather hold with Avicenna and his associates, that such symptoms proceed from evil spirits, which take all opportunities of humours decayed, or otherwise to pervert the soul of man: and besides, the humour itself is balneum diaboli , the devil's bath; and as Agrippa proves, doth entice him to seize upon them. — from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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