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wrote run more easily. The translation has facile et placide delabentur.’ 
[5] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. ii. 9. 5. [9] bending: So ed. 1633; ‘ bynding’ 
ed. 1605; ‘binding’ ed. 1629. [24] St. Augustine (Confess. i. 16) calls 
poetry vinum erroris ab ebriis doctoribus propinatum, and Jerome, in one 
of his letters to Damasus (Ep. 146), says, Demonum cibus est carmina 
poetarum. Both these quotations are combined in one passage by Cor- 
nelius Agrippa, De Incert. &c. c. 4, and hence Bacon may have com~ 
pounded the phrase vinum demonum, which he uses again in Essay i, 
p. 2: ‘One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesie vinum demo- 
‘num; because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is, but with the 
shadow of a lie.’ [28] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. i. 3.5. Mr. Ellis, in his 
note on the corresponding passage of the De Augmentis, points out 
that ‘ Aristotle, however, speaks not of moral but of political philosophy. 
It is interesting to observe that the error of the text, which occurs also 
in the Advancement of Learning, has been followed by Shakespeare in 
Troilus and Cressida: 
* Not much 
Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought | 
Unfit to hear moral philosophy.” 
See Hector’s speech in the second scene of the second act.’ Mr. Sped- 
ding has shown that the same error is committed by Virgilio Malvezzi 
in his Discorsi sopra Cornelio Tacito, 
P. 212, [12] Seneca, Herc. Furens, 251. [13] Juvenal, Sat. xiii. 105. 
[16] Machiavelli, Disc. i. 10, [24] incompatible: Lat. insociabiles. 
[Ib.] Cicero, Pro Murzena, xxix. 61. [31] See p. 209, 1. 22-25. 
P, 213. [15] as was said: See p. 203. 
P. 214. [8] Which state of mind: i.e. With regard to, or concerning 
which state of mind, [10] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. vii. 1.1. [17] Pliny, 
Paneg. c. 74. Pro nobis ipsis quidem hec fuit summa votorum, ut nos sic 
amarent dii quomodo tu, This panegyric was not a funeral oration, as 
Bacon describes it, but was delivered at the beginning of the reign of 
Trajan, who survived Pliny, [25] Col. iii. 14. [26] as: Omitted in ed, 
1605, but inserted in the Errata and edd. 1629, 1633. [27] Menander: 
‘Not Menander, but Anaxandrides.’ (Ellis.) See Meineke Graec, Com. 
Frag. iii, 199: 
épus copiorod yiyvera: SiidoKnados 
oKauo0d woAd Kpeirrav mpds Tov dvOpwmav Biov. 
Compare Dryden’s Cymon and Iphigenia, 
P. 215. [5] Xenophon, Symp. i. 10, [11] See Nov. Org. praef. [12] 
transgressed: Lat. prevaricati sunt. [13] Is. xiv. 14. [14] Gen. iii. 5. 
[18] Matt. v. 44; Luke vi. 27, 28. [24] Ps. cxlv.9. [27] concerning 
the culture and regiment of the mind: Lat. de Georgicis animi. [33] 
Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione, p. 355. This story is omitted in the 
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