dee th pete 8 ro 
BOOK 11.  3i7 
p- 229; in Apoph. 180; and in the Speech against Duels (pp. 28, 29. 
ed. 1614). See note on the Essay. [4] De Augm. vii. 2. [8] Plautus, 
Pseud. ii. 2. 14, Condus promus sum procurator peni. Baret (Alvearie) 
gives: ‘He that hath the keeping of a storehouse, or drie larder: alsoa 
buttler. Promus.’ And ‘A Steward, or he that keepeth the store of 
houshold, Condus.’ Bacon in this passage evidently regards condus as 
the officer who collected the stores, and promus the one who dispensed 
them, so called guia promit quod conditum est. [11, 12] whereof the 
latter seemeth to be the worthier: In the Latin this is expanded; Atgue 
hic posterior, qui Activus est et veluti Promus, potentior videtur et dignior ; 
ille autem prior, qui Passivus est et veluti Condus, inferior censeri potest. 
[16] Acts xx. 35. [17] but esteemeth, i.e. but he esteemeth. [23] the 
state: Lat. securitas et mora. [24] Seneca, Nat. Queest. ii. 59. § 7. 
5] Prov. xxvii. 1. [28] Rev. xiv. 13. [32] Sen. Ep. x. 1. § 6, quoted 
also in Essay ii. with slight variations from the original, ‘eadem feceris,’ 
for jamdiu idem facias,’ and ‘fortis aut miser aut prudens’ for ‘ prudens 
et fortis aut miser,’ 
P. 194. [6] By Seneca, Ep. 95. § 46: Vita sine proposito vaga est. 
[7] any: ‘and’ ed. 1605; ‘any’ is the reading of 1629, 1633. [8] 
though in some case it hath an incidence into it: Lat. guamquam 
nonnunquam ambo coincidant, [13] gigantine: i.e. seditious, rebel- 
lious, like the giants who warred against the gods, See p. 103, and 
Ess. xv. [16] Sylla’s epitaph, written by himself, was this,—‘ That no 
man did euer passe him, neither in doing good to his friends, nor in 
doing mischiefe to his enemies,’ North’s Plutarch, p. 488 (ed. 1631). 
Compare p. 240, 1. 30, [19] active good: Lat. bonum activum indivi- 
duale saltem apparens. [20] See p. 189. [23] For let us take.. and 
rightly: Omitted in the Latin, [33] multiplying and extending their 
form upon other things: The ed. of 1605 has ‘ multiplying their fourm 
and extending upon other things.’ 
P. 195. [6] in state: Lat. in suo statu. [9] Virg. En. vi. 730. [30] 
by equality: ‘by the equality,’ ed. 1605, corrected in the Errata. [31] 
evil: ‘ Euils’ in some copies of ed. 1605. 
P., 196. [4] See Plato, Gorgias, i. 462, 494. [19-20] Compare what 
Bacon says in Essay xix. p. 76; ‘ That the minde of man is more cheared, 
and refreshed, by profiting in small things, then by standing at a stay in 
great.’ [27] Plutarch, Solon, 7, Again quoted by Bacon in Cogit. de 
Sc. Hum. frag. 3 (Works iii. 197). [31] Comp. Essay ii. p. 6: ‘Certainly, 
the Stoikes bestowed too much cost upon death, and by their great pre- 
parations made it appeare more fearefull.’ 
P, 197. [4] Juv. Sat. x. 358; quoted again in Ess. ii. p. 7. The true 
reading is spatium for finem, [10-16] For as... life: Omitted in the 
Latin. t 
P, 198, [22] Comp. Ess. xlviii. p. 200: ‘ For lookers on, many times, 
