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among the works which Augustus suppressed. [16] Eccl, xii. 11, froin 
the Vulgate, though not quite literally. [21] Suetonius, Jul. Czs. 70. 
[25] cashiered: cassiered in ed. 1605, a form of spelling which points 
to the derivation of the word from Fr. casser. In Wats’s trans. of De 
Augm. the Latin is rendered, ‘and seditiously prayed to be cassed.’ 
[26] by expostulation thereof: Lat. hoc postulato. 
P. 65. [6] Suetonius, Jul. Cees. 79. [15)] Rex was a surname with the 
Romans: comp. Hor. Sat. i. 7.1; Bacon, Apoph. 186. [17] Plutarch, 
Jul. Cees. 35. § 4. 
P..66. [1] Suet. Jul. Cees. 77. [15] Xen. Anab. ii. 5. 37. [16] the 
great king: of Persia. [25] The saying here ascribed to Xenophon is 
in Schneider’s edition of the Anabasis (ii. 1. § 12) given to Theopompus. 
Xenophon, who is described as serving merely asa volunteer, and hold- 
ing no command in the army, could hardly have taken part in the parley 
with Phalinus. Diodorus (xiv. p. 409) attributes the speech to Proxenus. 
In Stephens’s edition of 1561, which Bacon may have used, the reading 
is Bevopar, 
P. 67. [7] Jason the Thessalian (assassinated B.c. 370) was later than 
Agesilaus, though Bacon mentions him first. See Smith’s Hist. of 
Greece, p. 473. [8] Agesilaus: See Plut. Ages. 15; Smith’s Hist. of 
Greece, p. 439, &c. The date of the attempted invasion of Persia by 
Agesilaus was B.c. 396-394. Compare Bacon’s treatise, Of the True 
Greatness of Britain (Works, vii. §0): ‘And those that are conversant 
attentively in the histories of those times, shall find that this purchase 
which Alexander made and compassed was offered by fortune twice 
before to others, though by accident they went not through with it; 
namely, to Agesilaus, and Jason of Thessaly. For Agesilaus, after he 
had made himself master.of most of the low provinces of Asia, and had 
both design and commission to invade the higher countries, was diverted 
and called home upon a war excited against his country by the states of 
Athens and Thebes, being incensed by their orators and counsellors, 
which were bribed and corrupted from Persia, as Agesilaus himself 
avouched pleasantly, when he said That an hundred thousand archers 
of the kings of Persia had driven him home: understanding it, because 
an archer was the stamp upon the Persian coin of gold. And Jason of 
Thessaly, being a man born to no greatness, but one that made a fortune 
of himself, and had obtained by his own vivacity of spirit, joined with 
the opportunities of time, a great army compounded of voluntaries and 
adventurers, to the terror ofall Greecia, that continually expected where 
that clond would fall, disclosed himself in the end, that his design was 
for an expedition into Persia, (the same which Alexander not many 
years after achieved,) wherein he was interrupted by a private conspiracy 
against his life, which took effect.’ [14, 15] Ovid, Ep, Pont. ii. 9. 47. 
Ovid has Adde quod for scilicet, Mr. Ellis has pointed out that the 
