Hidden

Use in the book

The Hermetic narrative describes hidden outflows from heavenly mysteries as helping order and increase things below. The effects are narrated while the outflows themselves remain concealed. Hiddenness therefore marks their mode of operation within the account, not their absence or inactivity.

Places to read

1. I.49.44.3Hidden outflows connect heavenly order with the lower realm.

Translation in this edition

“Hidden” is clear; avoid adding secret ritual content beyond what the passage says.

Use in the book

The book promises disclosure of mysteries that are strange and yet common. Its characteristic secret is not a rare possession withheld from everyone else, but the unnoticed richness of universal gifts. Even unknown goods influence desire before they become clearly identified.

Other secrets require trained inquiry: learning opens the inward glories of nature, and exercise discloses powers of the soul that cannot be confidently measured beforehand. This makes secrecy a temporary relation between object and knower, not necessarily an invitation to esotericism. Traherne wants hidden goods communicated and enjoyed. His delight in secrets should therefore be read beside his insistence on plain explanation, common inheritance, and active understanding.

Places to read

1. I.2Unknown goods exert a secret influence on desire.
2. I.3The promised disclosure concerns an inheritance hidden in familiar creation.
3. III.36Education opens previously unsuspected secrets and persons.
4. IV.97The soul’s secret strength is discovered through exercise and experience.

In this edition

Secret does not by itself signal an occult doctrine or an exclusive initiate’s teaching. Often the obstacle is customary inattention to publicly available gifts.

Use in the book

Burton introduces erotic melancholy harshly, then concedes an “honest,” or morally honourable, natural love. A “laqueus occultus,” hidden snare, captures hearts; love has an attractive, occult, adamantine property and powerful virtue. The Latin adds that men cannot be separated from women, while Burton's following English abbreviates that formulation. The ensuing praise of married affection describes mutual comfort, with peace expressly conditioned on the couple living lovingly rather than quarrelling. Occult here belongs to the account of a compelling natural attachment. It is not a separate accusation that the spouses practise magic. The sweeping assertion that no man escapes love is Burton's rhetorical generalization.

The same account calls attraction an “occult and powerfull motive,” following the image of magnetic force. In the later eye-and-heart imagery, a marginal quotation attributed to Tatius describes beauty streaming through hidden rays and engraving the beloved's image in the lover. That is an account of concealed transmission within the rhetoric of sight and desire. The quotation is related to the adjoining poem but is not part of the poem itself. Whether the mechanism is imagined physically or expressed poetically must be judged from its local argument; hidden by itself settles neither question.

“occult notes” concern another kind of concealment. Burton lists secret signs, concealed writing, ciphers and purported magnetic communication as ways lovers pass messages despite surveillance. Cabeo's rejection is attached to magnetic communication: it is not a denial that ordinary secret writing exists. The sequence presents ingenuity in evading watchfulness, then turns to employing an intermediary. Here hidden describes the communication's secrecy rather than an inexplicable natural property.

The Latin family gives important controls on the range. A hypocrite publicly denounces what he does “occultè,” secretly. In the demonic-cause discussion, spirits are described as “occulte repentes,” creeping in unseen: the supernatural identity comes from the attributed subject, not from the adverb. Envy is called a “vulnus occultum,” hidden wound, a metaphor for its inward damage. Each construction has its own agent or bearer: concealed human conduct, unseen demonic entry, and the concealed injury of an emotion. The Lipsius margin also prints “occultò,” while Jason Pratensis’s “occulte in visceribus operti” is compressed in translation to hidden within the organs. Burton appeals to experience for demonic effects on body and mind, but the successive accounts dispute the mechanism. He leaves undecided whether these effects occur through obsession, possession or some other means; his separate claim that Catholic writers fabricated supporting stories is a polemical assertion.

The distinction between hidden and manifest symptoms has particular force. Some people's melancholy is barely detectable in outward behaviour although intolerable to them. “Quædam occulta, quædam manifesta” contrasts what is hidden with what is evident; it does not mean that hidden suffering is insignificant or unreal. The next paragraph adds that people may conceal disordered imaginings while remaining judicious in other matters. In the counsel on friendship, “occulta mea,” my secrets, names what a troubled person needs a trustworthy listener to hear. Concealment can therefore concern another person's limited access to an experience, not an inherently unknowable cause.

Two theological uses concern limits of inquiry. The maxim “de occultis” advises remaining in doubt about hidden things rather than quarrelling over uncertain locations of the afterlife. Later “Judicia Dei occulta, non injusta” says that God's judgements are hidden, not unjust, as Burton answers the despairing sufferer's complaint. The first recommends restraint in disputed speculation; the second asserts divine justice despite human inability to grasp its reasons. Their arguments differ even though both employ the same hidden/evident vocabulary. A different theological construction, “occultas cogitationes,” secret thoughts, appears in a pagan speaker’s objection to the Christian God investigating everyone’s conduct. The voice returns to Caecilius in Minucius Felix despite an intervening Mela reference; it must not be mistaken for either Christian author’s unqualified declaration.

Hidden injury also appears outside envy: “pestis occulta,” a hidden plague, belongs to the Bernard-attributed marginal attack on ambition. “morbus occultus,” a hidden disease, describes rulers’ jealousy and suspicion on slight grounds in the Commynes passage. Neither phrase alone supplies a particular diagnosis. “partes occultas,” hidden parts, belongs instead to a catalogue of Egyptian medical specialists; Burton’s body calls them lower parts, a difference that should not be silently harmonized.

Concealment can be an ordinary action. The ruined dependent in Lucian’s allegorical picture is “pudorem occultans,” covering his shame while naked. A marginal question asks where seasonally visible creatures “se occultant,” hide themselves. In the flower-and-lover comparison, “Sole se occultante” makes the sun the one hiding, whereas the flower closes in response. A serpent “occuluit” itself beneath grass in the verse warning against choosing a wife by beauty alone. The Caledonian wife’s retort uses “occulte” for secret sexual conduct: the Latin makes men the agents and Roman women the objects, although the modern uses a passive construction. Burton’s comment that the reply is largely true is his own added assent.

“occulto formæ præsagio” gives concealment an anticipatory sense. In the Athenais story, her father’s secret presentiment concerning her beauty explains his leaving her an education rather than a dowry. The supplied rendering interprets the presentiment as inspired by her beauty; Burton’s following English shifts to foreknowledge of her fortune. The subsequent imperial marriage gives that expectation its narrative fulfilment.

Book titles require their own distinctions. “de occ. Phil.” accompanies Burton’s reuse of Agrippa’s stone-throwing image to warn vulnerable readers; “De occult. Philosop.” supplies Saturnine correspondences that he expressly separates from acquired melancholy. The shorter “de occul. Philos.” occurs in a marginal report about spirits suffering pain. Agrippa’s book is also cited for passions affecting bodies and for the converse problem of the material body acting on the soul. In the optical discussion, “occult. philos.” supports an explanation of frightening images as lifeless reflections; Burton then locates most deception in the brain while asserting that the Devil often deludes melancholy people and those who are ill. A title does not impose one causal theory upon all these arguments.

Lemnius’s “de occult. nat. mir.,” rendered On the Hidden Wonders of Nature, can support providential affliction or bodily explanation; his praise of salt is explicitly countered by Burton’s appeal to common experience. The shorter “de occult. nat.” becomes On the Hidden Things of Nature in advice to resist intrusive imaginings. In the cure debate, Agrippa appears among authorities affirming efficacy, but the “de occult. Philos.” margin beside the cure-at-any-cost argument is attached to Paracelsus in the body. Burton distinguishes supposed efficacy from lawfulness and condemns resort to forbidden means. The particular title attribution remains uncollated.

Related entries

Fascination; Virtue; Sympathy and antipathy; Imagination; Characters; Obsession and possession; Friendship; Despair

Places to read

1. · paragraph 27–28Agrippa’s abbreviated title and the caution to readers
2. · paragraph 9–11secret conduct and public condemnation; marginal note 673
3. · paragraph 37–39Saturnine correspondences distinguished from acquired melancholy; uncertain final marginal locator
4. · paragraph 19–24Lemnius’s title in the providential explanation of affliction
5. · paragraph 38–41the shorter occul. title and attributed claims about spirits’ bodies
6. · paragraph 11–21unseen demonic action, differing bodily mechanisms, an Occult Philosophy citation and the unresolved possession question
7. · paragraph 24–27Lemnius’s praise of salt countered by common experience
8. · paragraph 1–2book titles and the bodily action of imagination and passions
9. · paragraph 1–3envy as a hidden wound
10. · paragraph 19–22ambition as a hidden plague in the Bernard-attributed margin
11. · paragraph 24–28the ruined dependent concealing his shame in an allegorical picture
12. · paragraph 45–48material body, immaterial soul and reciprocal influence
13. · paragraph 7–9suffering concealed from outward observation
14. · paragraph 27–30Occult Philosophy cited for lifeless optical images and qualified accounts of deception
15. · paragraph 34–53efficacy versus lawfulness, Agrippa’s place in the authority list and the Paracelsus-associated title; the printed sequence jumps from 216 to 220 at 067-37 (PDF327–328)
16. · paragraph 38–40seasonal disappearance framed as a question, including se occultant
17. · paragraph 1–2continuation of the proposed inquiry into natural wonders
18. · paragraph 27–29doubt about hidden matters of the afterlife; marginal note 5405
19. · paragraph 12–16Lemnius’s shortened title and resistance to imaginings
20. · paragraph 38–40personal secrets and a trustworthy friend
21. · paragraph 19–23hidden parts in the margin versus lower parts in the body; medical criticism and its limits
22. · paragraph 1–11natural honourable love, hidden snare, magnetic attraction and powerful impulse
23. · paragraph 56–58the separate Tatius margin's hidden rays, with note 9165 itself on
24. · paragraph 58–60secret communication and the disputed magnetic device
25. · paragraph 7–11the sun hiding and the dependent flower/lover analogy
26. · paragraph 34–40secret presentiment about beauty and the Athenais marriage narrative
27. · paragraph 18–23rulers’ jealousy as a hidden disease
28. · paragraph 59–63the hidden serpent and beauty concealing a bad mind
29. · paragraph 27–31the Caledonian wife’s sexual retort and Burton’s limited assent
30. · paragraph 5–13secret thoughts within a pagan objection to Christian divine scrutiny
31. hidden but just divine judgement in Burton's counsel

In this edition

“Occult” becomes “hidden” in the natural-love passage. The encompassing phrase “attractive, occult, adamantine property, and powerfull vertue” becomes “compelling, hidden, magnetic quality and powerful force.” The word-by-word responsibilities remain distinct. “an occult and powerfull motive” becomes “a hidden and powerful impulse,” whereas “occult notes” becomes “secret signs.” Neither impulse nor signs is the meaning of occult by itself.

The Latin phrases are translated before Burton's own explanations where both occur. “Quædam occulta, quædam manifesta” becomes “Some things are hidden, some evident”; “occulta mea” becomes “my secrets.” “Judicia Dei occulta, non injusta” retains the explicit negation: hidden does not become unjust. The compact records isolate original Latin inside Burton-labelled notes from the supplied editorial translations. The reading identifies the edition's wording and unresolved attributions without claiming fresh collation of the quoted authorities.

The hidden-parts margin is translated as “hidden parts,” while Burton’s adjoining English says “lower parts.” In the Athenais story the Latin names beauty and the separate English gloss names fortune. The title abbreviations are expanded in the supplied reading, without making the expansions part of the original wording; the doubtful Book 10 locator following Agrippa remains unresolved. These differences belong to the local edition record, not to a single interchangeable gloss for occult.

Hidden Wonders of Nature · de occult. nat. mir.

Printed “de occult. nat. mir.” (Latin; title_family). Attestation: abbreviated title.

Citation convention

Meaning: On the hidden wonders of nature; abbreviated title.

Here: Lemnius supports a providential explanation of affliction as a means of reform and salvation.

Context: This book title also accompanies diet and bodily explanation in the selected contexts; it does not make all these accounts magical.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Levinus Lemn. l. 2. c. 29. de occult. nat. mir.

Modern rendering: Levinus Lemnius, On the Hidden Wonders of Nature, 2.29

Word and construction: The modern expands Lemn., occult., nat., mir. and the book/chapter locators. Hidden Wonders of Nature renders the title, not the theological assertion in the separate quotation.

Alignment convention

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Hidden Wonders of Nature · de occult. nat.

Printed “de occult. nat.” (Latin; title_family). Attestation: abbreviated title.

Citation convention

Meaning: On hidden things of nature; shortened title reference.

Here: Lemnius is cited for resisting imaginings that steal into the mind and grow difficult to dislodge.

Context: The source prints the shortened title without mir.; the supplied rendering says Hidden Things, while the editorial identification connects it to De occultis naturae miraculis.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Lib. 2. c. 16. de occult. nat.

Modern rendering: On the Hidden Things of Nature, book 2, chapter 16

Word and construction: The modern expands the abbreviated title and moves book 2, chapter 16 after it. Hidden Things is the supplied expansion of the shorter form, not additional printed Latin.

Alignment convention

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judicia dei occulta non injusta

Printed “Judicia Dei occulta, non injusta” (Latin; phrase).

Printed form, Source wording, Original wording: Judicia Dei occulta, non injusta

Citation convention

God’s judgements are hidden, not unjust.

Context: Burton’s theological answer to despair; explicit negation and limits of human understanding retained.

Source: original body

Modern rendering: God’s judgments are hidden, not unjust

Word and construction: Judicia Dei gives God’s judgments; occulta hidden; non injusta not unjust. Are is supplied for the Latin nominal sentence; the negative is explicit.

Alignment convention

laqueus occultus

Printed “laqueus occultus” (Latin; phrase).

Citation convention

Meaning: A hidden snare.

Here: Hidden snare, an image of love’s capturing force.

Context: Attributed natural-love account; subsequent Latin inability to separate is not part of occultus alone.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: laqueus occultus captivans corda hominum

Modern rendering: a hidden snare that captures men’s hearts

Word and construction: Laqueus occultus gives a hidden snare; captivans corda hominum gives capturing men’s hearts. The modern that turns the participle into a relative clause; a is supplied.

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morbus occultus

Printed “morbus occultus” (Latin; phrase).

Citation convention

Meaning: A hidden disease.

Here: The jealousy of rulers, whose grief and suspicion rest on very slight grounds, in a Commynes-attributed passage.

Context: The surrounding examples distinguish jealousy of successors, rivals and authority from jealousy directed at spouses; the phrase does not name a separate diagnostic species of melancholy.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: hic est morbus occultus, qui in familiis principum regnat

Modern rendering: this is a hidden disease that reigns in rulers’ households

Word and construction: Hic est gives this is; qui... regnat gives that reigns; in familiis principum gives in rulers’ households. Occultus contributes hidden, not the political identity of the sufferers.

Alignment convention

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occulo

Printed “occuluit” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Meaning: Has hidden or concealed; third-person singular perfect.

Here: A serpent concealed in grass is the image for a bad mind masked by beauty.

Context: The verse is deployed in the misogynistic warnings about choosing a wife by beauty alone. Its attribution to Horace, letter 15, is unresolved; Hydra need not designate the many-headed monster.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: Sæpe etenim occuluit pictâ sese Hydra sub herbâ

Modern rendering: For often a serpent has hidden itself beneath bright grass

Word and construction: Occuluit gives has hidden and sese itself; Hydra gives serpent, pictâ... herbâ bright grass, sub beneath. It is a form of occulo, related to occultus, not an inflection of that adjective.

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occult

Printed “occult” (English; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Hidden in operation, describing natural love’s attractive quality.

Context: Burton explicitly calls the love natural and honourable; neighbouring adjectives and virtue carry their own meanings.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: attractive, occult, adamantine property, and powerfull vertue

Modern rendering: compelling, hidden, magnetic quality and powerful force

Word and construction: Occult gives hidden; attractive compelling; adamantine magnetic; property quality; powerfull vertue powerful force. These separate responsibilities must not be collapsed into a definition of occult.

Alignment convention

occult motive

Printed “occult and powerfull motive” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Hidden and powerful impulse or moving force.

Context: Continues magnetic attraction imagery in praise of married love.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: an occult and powerfull motive

Modern rendering: a hidden and powerful impulse

Word and construction: Occult gives hidden, powerfull powerful, motive impulse. The selected original includes an, rendered a; the family key is a normalized phrase, not the exact full wording.

Alignment convention

occult notes

Printed “occult notes” (English; phrase).

Citation convention

Secret signs used for covert communication.

Context: List includes ordinary concealed writing and disputed magnetic communication; Cabeo’s rejection concerns the latter.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: Such occult notes

Modern rendering: such secret signs

Word and construction: Occult gives secret and notes signs; Such supplies such. The modern’s introductory There are lies outside the selected alignment and is not assigned to the phrase.

Alignment convention

Occult Philosophy · de occ. Phil.

Printed “de occ. Phil.” (Latin; title_family). Attestation: abbreviated title.

Citation convention

Meaning: Of or concerning Occult Philosophy; abbreviated title reference.

Here: The stone-throwing book image is reused to warn susceptible readers about symptoms and prognostics.

Context: Agrippa’s address concerned hostile critics; Burton applies it to melancholy readers and then recommends cautious reading, after the preceding warning not to read those sections.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: so said Agrippa de occ. Phil.

Modern rendering: as Agrippa said of Occult Philosophy

Word and construction: So said gives as... said; Agrippa is the named author; de occ. Phil. supplies of Occult Philosophy. This is a title reference, not an adjective modifying the reader.

Alignment convention

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Occult Philosophy · De occult. Philosop.

Printed “De occult. Philosop.” (Latin; title_family). Attestation: abbreviated title.

Citation key, Modern rendering: Occult Philosophy

Printed form, Source wording, Original wording: De occult. Philosop.

Citation convention

Meaning: On occult or hidden philosophy; abbreviated title.

Here: Agrippa is cited for Saturnine correspondences that Burton distinguishes from acquired melancholy in plants and animals.

Context: The body explicitly excludes naturally Saturnine things from the artificial melancholy it is about to illustrate. The final Book 10 locator in the note cannot be attached confidently to Agrippa.

Source: original marginal quotation

Word and construction: The supplied editorial explanation identifies the abbreviated original title as Occult Philosophy; this is title identification, not an independent translation or a silently expanded original. De (On) is omitted in that conventional English title.

Alignment convention

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Occult Philosophy · de occul. Philos.

Printed “de occul. Philos.” (Latin; title_family). Attestation: abbreviated title.

Citation convention

Meaning: On occult philosophy; abbreviated title as printed.

Here: A marginal reference for spirits’ feeling pain and burning into visible ashes within the discussion of assumed bodies and transport.

Context: The body surveys what most writers hold credible; the marginal claim is retained as attributed testimony, not certified observation.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Agrippa, lib. 3. cap. de occul. Philos.

Modern rendering: Agrippa, book 3 of Occult Philosophy (chapter number omitted in print)

Word and construction: The title’s shorter occul. spelling is retained. Lib. 3 gives book 3; cap. is an incomplete chapter reference, and the parenthesis describes that omission rather than translating additional source words.

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked in supplied source; no fresh historical-witness collation

Occult Philosophy · Occult. Philos.

Printed “Occult. Philos.” (Latin; title_family). Attestation: abbreviated title.

Citation convention

Meaning: Occult philosophy; abbreviated title.

Here: Agrippa’s book is among sources for the effect of passions on the body.

Context: The following account describes imagination, heart, spirits and humours. At 056-46 the same work appears in the reverse question, the material body’s action on the immaterial soul.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: Occult. Philos. l. 1. c. 63.

Modern rendering: Occult Philosophy, book 1, chapter 63

Word and construction: Occult. Philos. names the work; l. 1. c. 63. supplies book 1, chapter 63. It is not the English descriptive adjective occult in the body’s causal explanation.

Alignment convention

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Occult Philosophy · occult. philos.

Printed “occult. philos.” (Latin; title_family). Attestation: abbreviated title.

Citation convention

Meaning: Occult philosophy; abbreviated title.

Here: Agrippa is cited for optical images mistaken for demons or shades.

Context: The margin calls these images lifeless. Burton next says that most deception is in the brain, while expressly asserting that the Devil often deludes melancholy people and those who are ill.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Lib. 1. occult. philos.

Modern rendering: Occult Philosophy, book 1

Word and construction: Lib. 1. moves after the expanded title as book 1. The title does not cancel the quotation’s insistence that the perceived demons are only images.

Alignment convention

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Occult Philosophy · de occult. Philos.

Printed “de occult. Philos.” (Latin; title_family). Attestation: abbreviated title.

Citation convention

Meaning: On occult philosophy; abbreviated title.

Here: The marginal title accompanies the cure-at-any-cost argument assigned to Paracelsus.

Context: Do not automatically assign this occurrence to Agrippa: the body says Paracelsus. Burton grants supposed efficacy before condemning the recourse to forbidden means; the specific title attribution remains uncollated.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Lib. 1. de occult. Philos.

Modern rendering: Book 1, On Occult Philosophy

Word and construction: Lib. 1. gives Book 1; de gives On. The book reference is distinct from the ensuing assertion that the curing agent does not matter.

Alignment convention

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occulte · occultè

Printed “occultè” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Secretly, in contrast to public denunciation.

Context: Original marginal Latin describes hypocritical human conduct; not inherently magical.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Execrari publice quod occultè agat

Modern rendering: To denounce publicly what one does secretly

Word and construction: Occultè supplies secretly, while publice gives publicly. Execrari is the infinitive to denounce; quod... agat becomes what one does, with one supplied for the implicit subject.

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked against editorial translation within the Burton-labelled note; translation is not original evidence

occulte · occulte repentes

Printed “occulte repentes” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Printed form, Source wording, Original wording: occulte repentes

Citation convention

Meaning: Creeping secretly or unseen.

Here: Creeping in unseen.

Context: Tertullian’s attributed demonic account; the agents are identified elsewhere in the construction.

Source: original body

Modern rendering: creeping in unseen

Word and construction: Occulte supplies unseen/secretly, repentes creeping. The English in is a contextual directional supply, not an explicit preposition in this selected Latin phrase.

Alignment convention

occulte · occulte in visceribus operti

Printed “occulte in visceribus operti” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Printed form, Source wording, Original wording: occulte in visceribus operti

Citation convention

Meaning: Secretly concealed within the internal organs.

Here: The marginal wording accompanying Jason Pratensis’s account of demonic infiltration.

Context: The spirits are the agents in the attributed theory; the body subsequently mixes them with melancholic humours, rather than making hidden a synonym for supernatural.

Source: original marginal quotation

Modern rendering: hidden within the organs

Word and construction: Hidden compresses both occulte (secretly) and operti (covered/concealed); within the organs renders in visceribus. It is not an isolated one-word equivalent for the adverb.

Alignment convention

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occulte

Printed “occulte” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Meaning: Secretly.

Here: The Caledonian wife’s retort contrasting her own community’s select partners with Roman women’s concealed sexual conduct.

Context: The Latin makes men the agents and Roman women their objects; the supplied English changes to passive voice. Burton calls the reply largely true, an assent distinct from its original dramatic speaker.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: vos Romanas autem occulte passim homines constuprant

Modern rendering: but you Roman women are secretly debauched by men indiscriminately

Word and construction: Occulte gives secretly; passim indiscriminately. Vos Romanas is the object, homines the subject, constuprant the active verb; the English passive preserves those roles.

Alignment convention

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occulto · occultò

Printed “occultò” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: word form.

Citation convention

Meaning: Secretly or unseen; the adverb is printed occultò here.

Here: Unseen demonic action in the Lipsius margin.

Context: The paragraph reports Tertullian, Taurellus and Lipsius. Burton has just appealed to experience for effects on both body and mind, then distinguishes contested mechanisms and leaves the later possession/obsession question unresolved.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Irrepentes corporibus occultò morbos fingunt

Modern rendering: Creeping into bodies unseen, they create diseases

Word and construction: Occultò gives unseen; irrepentes corporibus gives creeping into bodies, and morbos fingunt they create diseases. This is the adverb occulto, distinguished from the homographic hiding verb; the accent and final vowel are preserved, not silently changed to occultè.

Alignment convention

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occulto · pudorem occultans

Printed “pudorem occultans” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Citation convention

Meaning: Concealing his shame; occultans is a present participle.

Here: The ruined, naked dependent covers himself in Lucian’s allegorical picture.

Context: Burton redirects the literary account towards prodigality. Shame here belongs to the bodily gesture and nakedness, not necessarily to a privately hidden feeling.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: læva pudorem occultans, dextra seipsum strangulans

Modern rendering: concealing his shame with his left hand and strangling himself with his right

Word and construction: Læva and dextra supply the left/right-hand contrast; pudorem supplies shame and occultans concealing. His, hand and and make the compressed Latin construction explicit.

Alignment convention

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occulto · se occultant

Printed “se occultant” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Citation convention

Meaning: They hide themselves.

Here: A question about the seasonal disappearance of creatures seen in snow, within the inquiry about birds.

Context: The marginal quotation does not identify its subject independently; the body frames seasonal appearances as questions to investigate, followed by competing hibernation stories.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: ubinam vere, æstate, autumno se occultant

Modern rendering: where do they hide themselves in spring, summer and autumn

Word and construction: Se gives themselves; occultant gives they hide. Ubinam and the seasonal ablatives supply where and in spring, summer and autumn. Do is supplied for English question syntax.

Alignment convention

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occulto · Sole se occultante

Printed “Sole se occultante” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Citation convention

Meaning: When the sun hides itself; an ablative absolute with a present participle.

Here: The solar condition for the flower’s closing, then an analogy for the lover’s dependence on his mistress.

Context: The sun, not the flower, is the subject of occultante. A coming storm is a separate alternative; the body renders the solar event as sunset.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Sole se occultante, aut tempestate veniente

Modern rendering: When the sun hides itself or a storm approaches

Word and construction: Sole names the sun, se its reflexive object, occultante hiding; When makes the ablative construction explicit. Aut tempestate veniente supplies the distinct storm alternative.

Alignment convention

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occultus · Quædam occulta, quædam manifesta

Printed “Quædam occulta, quædam manifesta” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Printed form, Source wording, Original wording: Quædam occulta, quædam manifesta

Citation convention

Some things are hidden, some evident.

Context: Outwardly scarcely discernible melancholy can still burden the sufferer intolerably.

Source: original body

Modern rendering: Some things are hidden, some evident

Word and construction: Quædam supplies some (things), with things supplied to express its neuter nominal use. Occulta and manifesta give hidden and evident; are is supplied for the verbless contrast.

Alignment convention

occultus · de occultis

Printed “de occultis” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Citation convention

About hidden things.

Context: Attributed Augustinian maxim ending the disputed afterlife-location discussion.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: Melius dubitare de occultis, quam litigare de incertis

Modern rendering: Better to remain in doubt about hidden things than to quarrel over uncertainties

Word and construction: De occultis gives about hidden things, using occultis as a substantivized adjective. Melius dubitare and quam litigare supply the better-to-doubt versus quarrel contrast; de incertis supplies over uncertainties. The maxim keeps hidden things and uncertainties lexically distinct.

Alignment convention

Edition note: checked against editorial translation within the Burton-labelled note; translation is not original evidence

occultus · occulta mea

Printed “occulta mea” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Citation convention

Meaning: My hidden things or secrets; substantivized neuter plural with possessive.

Here: My secrets or concealed concerns.

Context: Terentian speaker quoted in counsel about confidential friendship.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: expromere occulta mea

Modern rendering: disclose my secrets

Word and construction: Occulta is a substantivized neuter plural of occultus, here secrets; mea explicitly supplies my. Expromere supplies disclose, outside the indexed two-word phrase.

Alignment convention

occultus · occultos radios

Printed “occultos radios” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Citation convention

Meaning: Hidden rays; accusative plural.

Here: Hidden rays carrying beauty to the lover’s breast.

Context: Tatius-related marginal quotation, not part of the adjoining Musaeus poem; original and editorial translation isolated.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: per occultos radios in pectus amantis dimanans

Modern rendering: streaming by hidden rays into the lover’s breast

Word and construction: Occultos radios gives hidden rays. Per supplies by; in pectus amantis into the lover’s breast; dimanans streaming. The exact phrase’s literal meaning excludes the surrounding account of beauty.

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Edition note: checked against editorial translation within the Burton-labelled note; translation is not original evidence

occultus · partes occultas

Printed “partes occultas” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Citation convention

Meaning: Hidden parts; accusative plural adjective with partes.

Here: The marginal catalogue of Egyptian medical specialists.

Context: Burton’s body instead says lower parts. The wider transition blends Egyptian specialization with the Babylonian marketplace custom; he subsequently affirms medicine while distinguishing its abuse.

Source: original marginal quotation

Source wording, Original wording: alius curat oculos, alius dentes, alius caput, partes occultas alius

Modern rendering: one treats the eyes, another the teeth, another the head, another the hidden parts

Word and construction: Partes occultas gives hidden parts, not the body’s lower parts. Curat is carried over in the elliptical subsequent clauses; the article the is supplied. No precise anatomical identification is established here.

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Edition note: checked in supplied source; no fresh historical-witness collation

occultus · occulto formæ præsagio

Printed “occulto formæ præsagio” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Printed form, Source wording, Original wording: occulto formæ præsagio

Citation convention

Meaning: By a hidden presentiment of, or concerning, beauty.

Here: Leontius’s anticipation of his daughter’s prospects explains his leaving her upbringing rather than a monetary dowry in Burton’s story.

Context: The Latin explicitly names beauty; Burton’s following English says foreknowledge of her fortune. The next unit tells of Athenais’s imperial marriage and Burton praises the match.

Source: original body

Modern rendering: through a secret presentiment inspired by her beauty

Word and construction: Occulto gives secret; præsagio presentiment; formæ is the genitive of beauty. Through and inspired by express the supplied rendering’s causal interpretation; her is contextual. Fortune belongs to Burton’s separate English expansion, not to formæ.

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Edition note: checked in supplied source; no fresh historical-witness collation

occultus · occultas cogitationes

Printed “occultas cogitationes” (Latin; lemma). Attestation: phrase.

Citation convention

Meaning: Secret thoughts; accusative plural adjective with cogitationes.

Here: Divine scrutiny described in the pagan Caecilius’s criticism of the Christian God.

Context: Despite the intervening Pomponius Mela reference, this quotation returns to the pagan speaker in Minucius Felix. It is not a declaration by that work’s Christian author or Burton’s unqualified endorsement.

Source: original body

Source wording, Original wording: in omnium mores, actus, & occultas cogitationes inquirentem

Modern rendering: investigating everyone’s conduct, actions and secret thoughts

Word and construction: Occultas modifies cogitationes only. Inquirentem supplies investigating; omnium supplies everyone’s across the list. Conduct and actions translate mores and actus separately.

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Edition note: checked in supplied source; no fresh historical-witness collation

pestis occulta

Printed “pestis occulta” (Latin; phrase).

Citation convention

Meaning: A hidden plague.

Here: Ambition’s destructive inward force in the Bernard-attributed marginal catalogue.

Context: The body assigns adjoining descriptions to Ambrose and Bernard; the margin credits the quoted hidden-plague phrase to Bernard, letter 126. Exact attribution remains uncollated.

Source: original marginal quotation

Locator qualification: Do not remove bracketed or repeated-page qualifier.

Source wording, Original wording: secretum virus, pestis occulta

Modern rendering: a secret poison, a hidden plague

Word and construction: Pestis occulta gives a hidden plague; secretum virus gives a secret poison, a separate description. English indefinite articles are supplied.

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Edition note: checked in supplied source; no fresh historical-witness collation

vulnus occultum

Printed “vulnus occultum” (Latin; phrase).

Citation key, Printed form, Source wording, Original wording: vulnus occultum

Citation convention

Meaning: A hidden wound.

Here: A hidden wound, metaphorically envy’s inward harm.

Context: Cyprian is credited with the phrase; the preceding discussion connects envy with melancholy.

Source: original body

Modern rendering: a hidden wound

Word and construction: Vulnus supplies wound and occultum hidden; the indefinite article a is supplied. The emotional cause is given by the surrounding envy discussion.

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