The central region of the Apennines. For ancient Rome the Sabine hills were the country of witchcraft, and “the Sabine” is a traditional epithet of magicians. Also in allusion to the proverb, Sabini quod voleunt somniante (the Sabines dream what they will). Tritheim, in Epistolas ad diversos, 1507, berated George Sabellicus as “a worthless fellow, who should be castigated to stop his proclaiming of abominable and sacrilegious doctrines... He has chosen to call himself Magister Georgius Sabellicus, Faustus junior, fons necromanticorum, astrologus, magus secundus, chriomanticus, aeromanticus, pyromanticus, in hydra arte secundus.” Sabellicus may be the same Johann Faust from Simmern who called himself the “Demigod from Heidelberg” and who died in Wurtemberg in 1540. The Sabiens mentioned in Chapter 52 are an Arab tribe famous for incense.