308 NOTES. 
P. 162. [1] is: Compare Macbeth, i. 3. 141: 
: ‘And nothing és 
But what -is not.’ 3 
{Ib.] an element of fire: Empedocles recognised the existence of four 
elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and among these gave the most 
important place to fire. Heraclitus assumed the elemental principle to 
be fire, as the most subtle and active of the elements. See Tennemann, 
Manual of the Hist. of Phil. §§ 103, 106, trans. Johnson. [5] Prota- 
goras affirmed that man is the measure of all things. Arist. Met. x. 6. 
{7] The Anthropomorphites, who were a branch of the Monophysites, 
held that God was of human shape, and interpreted literally ‘all the 
passages in the Scriptures in which mention is made of his eye, ear, arm, 
orhand. See Gibbon, Decline and Fall, c. 47; Nicephorus, Hist. Eccl. 
xiii. ro, The monastic sect of Audzans, founded by Audzeus, or Audius, 
in Mesopotamia in the fourth century, maintained that the expression, 
*God created man in his own image,’ is to be understood in its most 
literal sense. A sect of Anthropomorphites was in existence in Italy in 
the tenth century. [8] Epicurus: Cic. De Nat. Deor. ii. 17, &c. Comp. 
Of the Interp. of Nat. p. 241, for the original form of much in this para- 
graph. [11] Cic. De Nat. Deor. i. 9, § 22: Quid autem erat quod concu- 
pisceret Deus, mundum signis et luminibus, tanquam edilis, ornare? [Ib.] 
Epicurean’ In the ed. of 1605 this is spelt Epicurian, but in p. 191 the 
spelling is the same in the old as in the modern editions. The word in 
Bacon’s time was pronounced with the accent on the third syllable, as 
in Shakespeare, Ant. and Cl. ii. i. 24: 
‘ Epictirean cooks 
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.’ 
[13] The curule ediles were at first appointed to take charge of the 
ludi Romani, but the Judi scenici, or dramatic representations, and the 
ludi megalesii also came under their control. ‘The decoration of the 
Argentarie, with the gilded shields of the Samnites, at the triumph of 
Papirius, in B. c. 309, is said to have first suggested to the Aediles the 
idea of ornamenting the Forum and its vicinity with statues, pictures, 
embroidery, and other works of art, during solemn processions and the 
celebration of the public games.’ (Ramsay, Rom. Ant. p. 159.) [19] 
number : ‘numbers’ in some copies of ed. 1605. [22] Let us consider 
again: i.e. Again, let us consider, &c. These false appearances are the 
Idols of the Cave. See Nov. Org.i. 42. [24] Plato, Repub. vii. sub init. 
P. 163. [1] in our first book: See p. 40. [3] These are the Idols of 
the Marketplace : See Nov. Org. i. 43. [7] This is quoted as a saying 
of Aristotle by Roger Bacon, Opus Majus, i. 4: Quare Philosophus dicit in 
secundo Topicorum, quod sentiendum est ut pauci, licet loguendum sit ut plures, 
He was perhaps thinking of Aristotle, Top. ii. 2.5. ‘He that wyll wryte 
well in any tongue, must folowe thys councel of Aristotle, to speake as 
