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the duke of Guise, that he was the greatest usurer in France, because he 
had turned all his estate into obligations; meaning that he had left him- 
self nothing, but only had bound numbers of persons to him.’ 
P. 63. [4-8] To conclude... prince: Omitted in the Latin. [14] his 
company: that is, his companions, the company he kept. The Latin 
has ex familiaribus. [20] the real passages: This expression, which is 
omitted in the translation, either means the actual occurrences or the 
truthful descriptions of them. [21] lively images: We should say 
‘vivid pictures.” [25] Suetonius, Jul. Cees. 56; Quintil. i. 7. § 34. This 
work, De Analogia, in two books, is again referred to by Bacon, De 
Augm. vi. 1, in which passage he is doubtful whether it treated of what 
we should call philosophical Grammar, and not rather of elegance and 
purity of language. It is quoted by Cicero (Brutus, 72) under the title 
of ‘De ratione Latine loquendi,’ and in the first book Cesar is said to 
have laid down as a maxim verborum delectum originem esse eloquentia. 
Aulus Gellius (i. 10) quotes another precept from the same book that 
an unusual word is to be avoided like a rock (ut tanguam scopulum sic 
fugias insolens verbum). Again (ix. 14) he appeals to the Second Book 
of the De Analogia as an authority for the forms hujus die and hujus 
specie, and to the work generally (xix. 8), without mentioning the book, 
for the opinion that harena, celum, triticum could only be used in the ~ 
singular, and that guadrige could only occur in the plural. Compare 
also iv. 16. [28-30] This passage is slightly modified in the Latin 
translation, which is thus rendered into English by Wats: ‘ that words, 
which are the images of things, might accord with the things them- 
selves, and not’stand to the arbitrement of the vulgar.’ [32] Suet. Jul. 
Cees. 40. 
P. 64. [3] Anti-Cato: According to Suetonius (Jul. Cees. 56) this 
was in two books. It was written in answer to Cicero’s panegyric on 
Cato, and is quoted by Aulus Gellius (iv. 16). Compare Cicero ad Att. 
xii. 40, 41, xiii. 50; Plutarch, Jul. Ces. 54. § 3. [4] victory of wit: 
Archbishop Trench in his Select Glossary has given an excellent quota- 
tion from Bp. Reynolds, which illustrates the difference between the 
present and past usages of the word ‘ wit.” ‘ For I take not wit in that 
common acceptation, whereby men understand some sudden flashes of 
conceipt, whether in stile or conference, which like rotten wood in the 
darke, have more shine then substance; whose use and ornament are 
like themselves, swift and vanishing; at once both admired and for- 
gotten; but I understand a setled, constant, and habituall sufficiency of 
the understanding, whereby it is inabled in any kind of learning, theory, 
or practice, both to sharpnesse in search, subtilty in expression, and dis- 
patch in execution.’ Reynolds, The Passions and Faculties of the Soul, 
c. xxxix. p. 514. [8] These Apophthegms (Cic. ad Fam. ix. 16), or 
‘Dicta collectanea as they are called by Suetonius (Jul. Cees. 56), were 
