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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 186. 



p. 31. "Time, which is the author of authors." 



In Nov. Org., i. 84., Time is called " Auctor auc- 

 torum, atque adeo omnia auctoritatis." 



P. 34. " But of these conceits Aristotle speaketh 

 seriously and wisely, when he saitli, ' Qui respiciunt 

 ad pauca de facili pronunciant." 



The editor does not attempt to trace this pas- 

 sage. Query, If it is not in Aristotle, where is it 

 to be found ? 



P. 60. " Ulysses, ' Qui vetulam prastulit immortali- 

 tati ' is a figure of those which prefer custom and hahit 

 before all excellency." 



The editor refers to Cic. de Orat, i. 44., where it 

 is said that such is the love of country, 



" Ut Ithacam illam, in asperrimis saxulis, tanquam 

 nidulum, affixam, sapientissimus vir immortalitati ante- 

 poneret." 



Another application of the saying is made by 

 Bacon in his Essay VIII., " On Marriage and 

 Single Life :" 



" Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore con- 

 stant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of 

 Ulysses, • vetulam suam prajtulit immortalitati.* " 



The passage in Cicero, does not agree with the 

 dictum quoted by Bacon, which seems to be a re- 

 ference to the Odyssey, v. 136. 208-10. 



P. 62. " Claudus in via antevertit cursorem extra 

 viam." 



The same proverb is quoted in Nov. Org., i. 61. 



P. 85. " Omnia mutantur, nil interit" — 



from Ovid, Met, xv. 166'. 



Several passages are cited by Bacon from Seneca, 

 which the editor does not trace. Thus, in p. 146., 

 it is said, — 



" Nocet illis eloquentia, quibus non rerum cupiditatem 

 &cit, sed sui." 



Page 147.,— 



" Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securi- 



tatem Dei." 



The same passage is also quoted by Bacon in 

 Essay v., " On Adversity," and in the treatise De 

 Sap. Vet., vol. x. p. 343., edit. Montagu. 



Again, p. 159. : 



« De partibus vitae quisque deliberat, de summa 

 nemo." 



Page 152.,— 



« Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris," &c., 

 repeated in part in the " Essay on Death." 



This last passage is taken, witli considerable 

 verbal variations, from Epist. 77. § 6. 



" Therefore Aristotle, when he thinks to tax Demo- 

 critus, doth in truth commend him, where lj.e saith. If 

 Vie shall indeed dispute, and net follow after similitudes," 

 &c. 



The passage referred to is in EtJi. Nic, vi. 3. ; 

 but it contains no allusion to Democrltus, who is 

 not even named in the Ethics; and the word which 

 Bacon renders dispute {aKpi^oKoyeltrQai) means to 

 speak icith precision. 



P. 163. " For as the ancient politiques in popular 

 states were wont to compare the people to the sea, and 

 the orators to the winds." 



The allusion is to a couplet of Solon : 



" €| avffxaiv 5e daKaaaa Tapdaaerai' ^v S4 ris avTrjv 

 ju.^ Kiyf], irivTciiv ecrrl Si/caiOTOTij." 



Fragm.'i. 8., ed. Gaisford. 

 And to a passage of LIvy (xxviii. 27.) : 



" Multitudo omuis, sicut natura maris, per se im- 

 mobilis est, venti et auras cient." 



Compare Babrius, fab. 71. 



P. 165. " Did not one of the Fathers, in great in- 

 dignation, call poesy vinum damonum ? " 



The same citation recurs in Essay I., " On Truth : " 



" One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy 

 vinwn dcemonum." 



Query, Who is the Father alluded to ? 



Page 177., the saying " Faber quisque fortunes 

 propriae" is cited; and again, p. 178., "Faber quis- 

 que fortunes sute." In Essay XL., "On Fortune," 

 it is quoted, with the addition, " saith the poet." 

 The words are to be found in Sallust, Ad Coesar. 

 de Rep. Ord., ii. 1.: 



" Sed res docuit, id verum esse, quod in carminibus 

 Appius ait, fabrum suae esse quemque fortuna?." 



The Appius alluded to is Appius Claudius the 

 Censor. 



Bacon proceeds to say : 



" This conceit or position [viz. ' Faber quisque,' &c.], 

 if it be too much declared and professed, hath been 

 thought a thing impolitic and unlucky, as was observed 

 in Timotheus the Athenian, who, having done many 

 great services to the estate in his government, and 

 giving an account thereof to the people, as the manner 

 was, did conclude every particular witli this clause, 

 ' And in this Fortune had no part.' And it came so to 

 pass, that he never prospered in anything he took in 

 hand afterwards." 



The anecdote is as follows : — Timotheus had 

 been ridiculed by the comic poets, on account of 

 the small share which his own, management had 

 had in his successes. A satirical painting had 

 likewise been made, in which he was represented 

 sleeping, while Fortune stood over him, and drew 

 the cities into his net. (See Plutarch, Jieg. et Imp. 

 ApopMh., vol. ii. p. 42., ed. Tauchnitz; iElian, V.H., 

 xiii. 42.) On one occasion, however, having re- 

 turned from a successful expedition, he remarked 

 to the Athenians, in allusion to the previous sar- 

 casms, that in this campaign at least Fortune had 

 no share. Plutarch, who relates the latter anec- 



