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P. 54. [3] Suetonius, Dom. 23, quoted again in Ess. xxxv. p. 150, and 
in a letter from Bacon to King James on a Digest of the Laws of 
England. [7-13] of which. .. altogether: de quibus sigillatim sed brevis- 
sime verba faciam. ‘The following paragraphs, as far as p. 58, 1. 32, are 
much condensed in the Latin. [11] Hor. Od. ii. 10, 19. [15] Tac. 
Agric. 3: ef guamquam primo statim beatissimi seculi ortu Nerva Cesar res 
olim dissociabiles miscuerit principatum ac libertatem. [21] Hom. Il. i. 42; 
ticeay Aavaot éyd Sdxpva cota: BéAeoow. Dio Cass, (Xiphilinus) lxviii. 
p- 771. [24] Matt. x. 41. 
P. 55. [2] This story is told of Gregory the Great in his life by Paulus 
Diaconus, c. 27, and in that by Joannes Diaconus, lib. ii. c. 44; and is 
referred to by Joannes Damascenus, De iis qui in Fide Dormierunt, c. 
16. See also Dante, Purgatorio, cant. x.'73 &c. Vision of Piers Plough- 
man, 6857-6907, ed. T. Wright. [10] Plin. Epist.x. 96. :[12] Adrian: 
Dio Cass. Ixix. 3, 11. [17] Philip of Macedon: Some copies of ed. 
1605 have ‘and Macedon.’ The story is told ‘by Plutarch, de Adul. et 
Amico, 27; Symp. ii. 1. 12; and repeated by Bacon, Of the Interpreta- 
tion of Nature, p. 230, Apoph. 159. .[26] It was not Hadrian, but Alex- 
ander Severus, who is said, in his life by Lampridius (c. 29), to have 
had, in the shrine where his Jares were placed, figures of Apollonius, 
Christ, Abraham, Orpheus, and others. And again (c. 43), Christo tem- 
plum facere voluit, eumque inter deos recipere. [32] Trajan’s: Mr. Sped- 
ding conjectures Trajan, which no doubt is more correct, though Trajan’s 
is probably what Bacon wrote. 
P. 56. [3] Aurelius Victor, Epit. xli. 13. Quoted again in a Letter 
from Bacon to King James, Of a Digest to be made of the Laws of 
England (Cabala, p. 75). :[11] policing: the regulating and governing 
of a town. Edd. 1605, 1629 have pollicing, ed. 1633 pollishing. ‘He 
-gave also multitudes of charters and liberties for the comfort of corpora- 
tions and companies in decay.’ Bacon, Offer of a Digest of the Laws of 
England. [16] Antoninus: the three old editions have Antonius. [19] 
Dio Cassius, Ixx. 3. Comp. Juliani Cesares. ‘If his wit be not apt to 
distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoole-men ; for they 
are cymini sectores.. Bacon, Ess. 1. p. 206. [31] Acts xxvi. 28. 
P. 57. [2] Lucius Ceionius Commodus, son of Elius Ceesar, and 
‘Marcus Annius Verus, were adopted by Antoninus Pius, and on his 
death in 161 succeeded him with the titles of L. Aurelius Verus and 
‘M. Aurelius Antoninus. [4] Spartianus, Vit. Alii Veri, c. 5: idem 
Martialem epigrammaticum poetam Virgilium suum dixisse. [6] Lucius 
Verus died of apoplexy 4.p. 169: Marcus Aurelius survived till a.p. 180. 
[10] Juliani Czesares, xviii. [22] Lampridius, Vita Severi, 5-10. [31] 
the world: ‘the’ omitted in ed. 1605. 
P. 58. [1-5] Compare Bacon’s Letter to the Lord.Chancellor, touching 
the history of Britain, where he speaks of Queen Elizabeth in nearly the 
