Note 1122 — Chapter III · RELIGION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Giov. Villani, iv. 29, vi. 46. The name occurs as early as 1150 in Northern countries. It is defined by William of Malmesbury (iii. 237, ed. Londin, 1840): ‘Epicureorum ... qui opinantur animam corpore solutam in aerem evanescere, in auras effluere.’