The Anatomy of Melancholy

Name: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton

1651 English with a close modern English rendering

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English Introduction · Branch 1294 of 1495

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Recorded uses: DJR-124 — Plato: Plato, Laws, book 6; Benjamin Jowett translation.; DJR-140 — plato: Plato, Laws 6. The discussion of marriage and family circumstances.; DJR-142 — Plato: Plato, Laws 6, penalties for remaining unmarried after thirty-five.; work/audit-040/sources.json — 124-Plato: Plato, Laws, book 6; work/audit-045/sources.json — 140-plato: Plato, Laws 6. The discussion of marriage and family circumstances.; work/audit-046/sources.json — 142-Plato: Plato, Laws 6, penalties for remaining unmarried after thirty-five..

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Plato, Phaedo 69c. Jowett translation. Plato, Phaedo 61c–62c. Socrates on waiting for divine necessity; compared with Burton’s characterization. Plato, Phaedo, burial and final tears. Plato, Phaedo 61c–62c. Socrates on waiting for divine necessity

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Recorded uses: DJR-012 — phaedo: Plato, Phaedo 69c. Jowett translation.; DJR-066 — Plato: Plato, Phaedo 61c–62c. Socrates on waiting for divine necessity; compared with Burton’s characterization.; DJR-094 — phaedo: Plato, Phaedo, burial and final tears.; work/audit-021/sources.json — Plato: Plato, Phaedo 61c–62c. Socrates on waiting for divine necessity; work/audit-030/sources.json — 094-phaedo: Plato, Phaedo, burial and final tears..

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Plato, Phaedrus 250d, Benjamin Jowett translation, for comparison. Plato, Phaedrus 244a–b: divine madness and prophetic women. Plato, Phaedrus 244a–b

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Recorded uses: DJR-110 — Plato Phaedrus: Plato, Phaedrus 250d, Benjamin Jowett translation, for comparison.; DJR-151 — plato: Plato, Phaedrus 244a–b: divine madness and prophetic women.; work/audit-035/sources.json — 110-Plato Phaedrus: Plato, Phaedrus 250d, Benjamin Jowett translation, for comparison.; work/audit-049/sources.json — 151-plato: Plato, Phaedrus 244a–b.

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Plato, Republic, book 10, myth of Er, Benjamin Jowett translation: souls drawing lots and choosing human and animal lives. Plato, Republic, book 10, myth of Er, Benjamin Jowett translation

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Recorded uses: DJR-026 — PlatoRepublic: Plato, Republic, book 10, myth of Er, Benjamin Jowett translation: souls drawing lots and choosing human and animal lives.; work/audit-007/sources.json — PlatoRepublic: Plato, Republic, book 10, myth of Er, Benjamin Jowett translation.

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Plato, Republic, book 3 (405a–b): courts, physicians, and civic disorder. Jowett translation. Plato, Republic 3, opening, Benjamin Jowett translation: education in reverence followed by rejection of terrifying accounts of Hades for the guardians. Plato, Republic 3, opening, Benjamin Jowett translation

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Recorded uses: DJR-013 — Plato3: Plato, Republic, book 3 (405a–b): courts, physicians, and civic disorder. Jowett translation.; DJR-154 — PlatoRepublic3: Plato, Republic 3, opening, Benjamin Jowett translation: education in reverence followed by rejection of terrifying accounts of Hades for the guardians.; work/audit-050/sources.json — 154-PlatoRepublic3: Plato, Republic 3, opening, Benjamin Jowett translation.

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Plato, Republic, book 4 (420b–c): happiness of the whole community. Jowett translation.

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Recorded uses: DJR-013 — Plato4: Plato, Republic, book 4 (420b–c): happiness of the whole community. Jowett translation..

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Plato, Republic, book 5 (473c–e): rulers and philosophy. Jowett translation.

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Recorded uses: DJR-013 — Plato5: Plato, Republic, book 5 (473c–e): rulers and philosophy. Jowett translation..

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Plato, Symposium, Pausanias’s two loves and Diotima’s daemon, Benjamin Jowett translation, for comparison. Plato, Symposium, Agathon’s speech in Benjamin Jowett’s translation: love brings peace on earth, calm at sea, still winds and sleep; contextual parallel. Plato, Symposium 215a–b, Benjamin Jowett translation, for comparison. Plato, Symposium 178a–c, 189d–192e and 202d–203c: Love’s ancestry, divided humans, the offer of fusion, and Porus and Penia. Plato, Symposium: Pausanias on lovers’ oaths. Plato, Symposium, Agathon’s speech in Benjamin Jowett’s translation Plato, Symposium 178a–c, 189d–192e and 202d–203c Plato, Symposium

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About This Reading Edition

Robert Burton’s Anatomy ranges across medicine, philosophy, poetry, religion, and everyday life in its inquiry into melancholy. This complete parallel edition pairs the 1651 English text with a close modern English rendering, preserving the three Partitions, Democritus Junior’s address to the reader, verse, and the historical index.

Historical Text and Translation

The historical text follows the sixth edition, printed at Oxford for Henry Cripps in 1651, using the McGill University Library copy. The supplied edition documents missing printed pages 98–99 supplied from another 1651 copy at the Bavarian State Library. Historical folio labels and their irregularities remain visible; web reader numbers identify reflowed passages and do not claim to reproduce PDF pagination.

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Diotimos Editions prepared the close modern English rendering and editorial matter. All 8,755 original and modern passage pairs remain aligned, with verse breaks, italics, continuations, and linked annotations preserved. Burton’s 6,781 historical notes retain their attribution; 6,895 editorial notes remain distinct. The introduction, Note on the Text, contextual lexicon, indexes, source documentation, and bibliography are included. The engraved frontispiece remains available in the original downloads.

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