[Footnote 13: Pachymer, (l. i. c. 12,) who speaks with
proper contempt of this barbarous trial, affirms, that he
had seen in his youth many person who had sustained, without
injury, the fiery ordeal. As a Greek, he is credulous; but
the ingenuity of the Greeks might furnish some remedies of
art or fraud against their own superstition, or that of
their tyrant.]