Diod. Sic. L. 1. Plut. de Iside et Osiride [Diodorus Siculus (fl. 1st century BC), a Greek historian who wrote Bibliotheca historica; the second reference is to the lst-century Greek writer Plutarch’s religious essay “On Isis and Osiris,” contained in his Moralia.]

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Herodot. L. 2. [Herodotus’ Histories.]

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Diod. Sic. L. 1. and 3.

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Id. L. 4.

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See the particulars in Diod. Sic. L. 1. and 3.

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Dionysia Brauronia. [Every fourth year in the town of Brattron, Attica, a festival in honor of Artemis was held, at which young girls performed a ceremony in which they imitated bears.]

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in ... naturalibus] stark naked.

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Vide Photium in excerptis è Conone [Photius’ (c. 820-891) Bibliotheca, a digest of Greek prose literature, contains 50 stories from Greek mythology by Conon.]

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Simon... Eutyches] Simon Magus (fl. 1st century AD), according to New Testament accounts, offered to buy the power of transmitting the Holy Spirit from the apostles Peter and John; various heretical sects were founded based on his reputation. Eutyches (c. 378-c. 450) was reputedly the founder of Eutychianism, a form of Monophysite heresy.

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John ... Neuster] Jan Beuckelson (John of Leiden; c. 1509—36), a Dutch anabaptist preacher who led a Protestant rebellion in 1534 and was executed in 1536; David Joris (c. 1501—56), another anabaptist leader, founder of the sect of Davidists or Jorists; Adam Neuster (d. 1576), a German theologian who denied the divinity of Christ.

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furor] nymphomania.

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deorumm ... curœ] offenses against the gods are the gods’ business (not ours).

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Asgil ... Coward] John Asgill (1659-1738), eccentric Irish writer and pamphleteer who argued that death was not obligatory upon Christians; Matthew Tindall (1657-1733), deist who argued that the essential part of Christianity was its ethics, rather than any supernatural revelations; John Toland (1670—1722), deist and writer of Christianity Not Mysterious; William Coward (1657?-1725), wrote Second Thoughts concerning [the] Human Soul, in which he argued that there is no such thing as a separate soul.

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Epsom and Dudley] Sir Richard Empson (?—1510) and Edmund Dudley (c. 1462—1510), two ministers of Henry VII who were convicted of treason and executed immediately following Henry VIII’s accession to the throne.

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Margarita ... Valentini] Francesca Margherita de l’Épine (?—1746), a celebrated singer of the period; Katherine Tofts (c. 1680-c. 1758), vocalist whose professional rivalry with Épine was celebrated in contemporary verse; Valentini, a celebrated male soprano performing in London, c. 1707—15.

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jus divinum] divine law (or, divine right).

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pretender in Spain] James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), son of the deposed James II of England and claimant to the British throne. During his exile, he distinguished himself fighting for the French in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701—1714).

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Psalmanazar] George Psalmanazar (c. 1679—1763), French literary imposter who “translated” the Church of England catechism and a book about Formosa (Taiwan) into “Formosan,” a language he invented.