272 ‘  WOrns, 
copies of ed. 1605 which I have seen. Mr. Markby quotes prejudicial as 
the reading of others. [33] ragioni di stato: reasons of state, political 
considerations. 
P. 14. [1] Catena, Vita di Pio V. p. 31 (ed. 1586), reports a saying of 
the Pope, something to this effect, with reference to the maxim of Louis 
XL of France, ‘Chi non s& simulare non s& regnare.’ See also 
Gabutius, Vita Pii V. lib. vi.c. 7 (Acta Sanctorum, 5 Maii, ed. 1866), 
and lib. ii. c. 3. [9] Lat. ad regendos eventus vite etiam in uno homine. 
Perhaps the reading of the English should be ‘for the events even of 
one man’s life.’ [27] positive and regular: Lat. pertinaces et difficiles. 
[30] latitude: Lat. constantiam. 
P. 15. [5] Guicciardini, Hist. xvi. 5. [8] Cic. ad Att. xvi. 7. [9] 
Phocion: see his life by Plutarch. [11] Pindar, Pyth, ii. 21 &c.: 
Bacon interprets the fable of Ixion in the present work, p. 123. [13] 
Cicero, Ep. ad Att. ii. 1. 
P. 16. [2] according to nature: nature consentaneis. [4] and not in 
the purchase: i.e. not in that which is acquired by it. [10] Seneca, 
Ep. i. 3. Quidam adeo in latebras refugere, ut putent in turbido esse, 
quicquid in luce est, from Pomponius. [24] Plutarch, Demosth. viii. 2, 
where the story is told of Pytheas, not A’schines. Comp. Apoph. 114. 
[32] of both: The Latin adds et negotiorum et literarum. 
P. 17. [4] duty taught and understood: officium oculatum. [8] mani- 
able: Some copies of ed. 1605 read amiable, [10, 11] Lat. guod ex 
historia clarissime patet. [14] Plutarch, Cato, ii.6, Cic. Acad. Queest.. 
ii. 2. § 5; De Senect. i. § 3. 
P. 18. [2] The Thirty Tyrants: After the battle of AUgospotami 
(Sept. B.c. 405), which virtually terminated the Peloponnesian War, 
a committee of thirty was appointed for the government of Athens, 
with Critias and Theramenes among the chief. Their rule lasted 
only eight months (.c. 404-403) and was put an end to by Thrasy- 
bulus. [9] for sovereign medicines: i.e, to be sovereign medicines. 
{20] Hor, Od. i. 3.2. [21] influence: A word derived from the old 
astrology. See Eng. vers. of Job xxxviii. 31. 
P. 19. [8] Lat. Fratribus mendicantibus (pace eorum dixerim). [8, 8] 
to some friar...to whom: Compare for the construction, Book ii. 
§ 10. p. 80, ll. 4, 5. [10] Machiavelli, Disc. sopra Liv. iii. 1. Quoted 
for a different purpose in the tract On the Controversies of the Church 
(Bacon’s Life and Letters, ed. Spedding, i. 80). [31] Epist. 1. ad C. 
Czsarem, De Republica Ordinanda, ascribed to Sallust. 
P. 20. [1] A saying attributed to Diogenes the Cynic. See Diog. 
Laert. vi. 54. [6] Prov. xxviii. 22. [7] Prov. xxiii. 23. [13] For 
the construction ‘in comparison of,’ see Judg. viii. 2, 3. [22] Tac. 
Ann. iii. 76: Sed prefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus, eo ipso quod effigies 
eorum non visebantur. [25] traduced to contempt: i.e. contemptuously 
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