280 NOTES, 
solus literatus fuit. [22] fathers; Father in ed. 1605. -[24] Amm. Mare. 
Xxii, 10. 7; XXV. 4. 19. Comp. Gibbon, ch. 23; Juliani Epist. xlii. The 
Lat! adds cetera viri egregii. [30] Paulus Diaconus, iii, par. 33. Comp. 
* Iviii. p. 232 ; Gibbon, ch. 45. 
P. 50. [4] Scythians: The Scythians or Tartars invaded the Gothic 
empire a.D. 375. See Gibbon, ch. 26. [5] Saracens: The Arabs under 
Abubeker conquered Syria a.p. 633-639. See.Gibbon, ch. 51. [9-16] 
And we see. .. knowledges : Omitted in the Latin, [22 &c.] With this 
paragraph compare Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 221. [27] Pss. 
XIX. ClY. 
P. 51. [3-8] Comp. Nov. Org. i. 89. [4] Matt. xxii. 29. This text 
is made the subject of the section De Heresibus in Bacon’s Medita- 
tiones Sacre. [25] See Herodian, Hist. iv. 2, [26] dives in some 
copies of ed. 1605. [32] honours heroical: honour heroicall in edd. 
1605, 1629, 1633. 
P. 52. [1-19] Comp. Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 223: ‘ The 
dignity of this end (of endowment of man’s life with new commodities) 
appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided there- 
unto. For, whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, 
fathers ofthe people, were honoured but with the titles.of Worthies or 
Demigods, inventors were ever consecrated amongst the Gods them- 
selves. And if the ordinary ambitions of men lead them to seek the 
amplification of their own power in their countries, and a better ambi- 
tion than that hath moved men to seek the amplification of the power of 
their own countries amongst other nations, better again and more worthy 
must that aspiring be which seeketh the amplification of the power and 
kingdom of mankind over the world; the rather because the other two 
prosecutions are ever culpable of much perturbation and injustice; but 
this is a work truly divine, which cometh ix aura leni without noise or 
observation.’ [9] as was: Soin edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. For construc- 
tion compare Luke v. 10. [13, 14] for a latitude of ground: Lat. pro 
amplitudine tractus terre. [18] coming in: In ed. 1605 this is printed 
com- in, the first syllable occurring at the end of a line. It was altered 
to commonly in in edd..1629, 1633, but the passage Of the Interpretation 
of Nature above quoted, and the Lat. veniuntque in aura leni, show that 
‘coming in’ is the true reading, The Vulgate of 1 Kings xix. 12 is post 
ignem sibilus aure tenuis, Bacon uses the expression again in a letter to 
Sir Toby Matthew (Life and Letters, ed. Spedding, iii. 74). [24] Philo- 
strati Junioris Imagines, vii. 'Comp. Discourse on the Plantation in 
Treland (Life and Letters, iv. 117), and De Sapientia Veterum, 11. 
P. 53. [10] Plato, Repub. v. p. 473. A favourite saying of Antoninus 
Pius (Capitolinus, Vit. Ant. P.c.27). Rabelais, Gargant.i.45. [31] six 
princes: six sciences in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata. [33] for temporal 
respects: We should say ‘ix temporal respects.’ 
