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"Pluribus persuasio inerat, antiquis sacerdotum literis contineri, eo ipso tempore fore, ut valesecret oriens, profectique Judaea rerum potirentur." Tacit. Hist. lib. v. cap. 9 13. The character of the new institution was, in other respects also, ungrateful to Jewish habits and principles. Their own religion was in a high degree technical.
Regia utilitas est==regibus utile est. XLV. Pigrum. Cf. A. 10: pigrum et grave. The Northern or Frozen Ocean, of which T. seems to have heard, though some refer it to the northern part of the Baltic. See Ky. in loc. Hinc. For this reason, viz. quod extremus, etc. In ortus. Plin. Sonum aspici. The aurora borealis, some suppose. Persuasio adjicit.
24 Persuasio ad non credentes terrarum diuersitates per orbem terrae. 25 De Armenia, et Persia. 26 De Ethiopia et diamantibus, ac de infima et media India. 27 De foresto piperis. 28 De Ecclesia beati Thomae Apostoli. 29 De quibusdam meridionalibus insulis, et farina et melle. 30 De Regno Cynocephalorum, et alijs Insulis. 31 De multis alijs insulis Meridionalibus. 32 De bona regione Mangi.
For the colveres ben norysscht in tho places, where thei ben sent to; and thei senden hem thus, for to beren here lettres. And the colveres retournen azen, where as thei ben norisscht; and so thei doe comounly. Secunda pars. Persuasio ad non credentes terrarum diuersitates per orben terrae.
B.G. 6, 13: disciplina in Britannia reperta atque inde in Galliam translata esse existimatur; and he adds, that those who wished to gain a more perfect knowledge of the Druidical system still went from Gaul to Britain to learn. His. Ang. Sax., B. 1, chap. 5. Persuasione. See the same use of the word, His. 5, 5: eademque de infernis persuasio. In periculis. Ferociae.
The common belief adds, i.e. it is further believed, cf. His. 5, 5. 13: persuasio inerat. Illuc natura. Tantum is to be connected with illuc usque. Thus far only nature extends. So thought the ancients. Cf. A. 33: in ipso terrarum ac naturae fine. Et vera fama is parenthetic. The author endorses this part of the story. Ergo marks a return from the above digression. Suevici maris. The Baltic.
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