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1605 read times. [27] estates : Perhaps we should read estate; Lat. de 

 reipublicce navi. [31] stand : i. e. stand firm, keep their position ; Lat. 

 incolumes permaneant. 



P. 24. [3, 4] howsoever fortune may tax it : Lat. utcunque e&amp;lt;z quando- 

 que afortuna mulctentur. [10] Lat. quod non facile se applicant et accom- 

 modent. [16] Ascribed to Epicurus by Seneca, Ep. i. 7. n. Quoted 

 again in Ess. x. p. 36 : It is a poore saying of Epicurus ; Satis magnum 

 alter alteri theatrum sumus : as if man, made for the contemplation of 

 heaven, and all noble obiects, should doe nothing, but kneele before a 

 little idoll, and make himself subiect, though not of the mouth (as beasts 

 are) yet of the eye ; which was given him for higher purposes. [Ib.] 

 not: Omitted in some copies of ed. 1605. [18] Lat. aciem animi, instar 

 oculi. [19] Lat. Secunda vero causa est probitas morum et simplicitas. 

 [27] Lat. ut ilium inflectas, verses, et ad libitum circumagas. [31] the 

 custom of the Levant : Lat. mos Orientis. Comp. Her. i. 99. 



P. 25. [3] Prov. xxv. 3. [14] Plutarch, Them. ii. 4; Cimon, ix. i. 

 Quoted again in Ess. xxix. p. 118: The speech of Themistocles the 

 Athenian, which was haughtie and arrogant, in taking so much to 

 himselfe, had been a grave and wise observation and censure, applied at 

 large to others. Desired at a feast to touch a lute, he said ; He could 

 not fiddle, but yet he could make a small towne, a great citty. [20] Lat. 

 quibus tamen in communi vita et quotidianis reculis nihil imperitius. [22] 

 Comp. Apoph. 196; Plato, Symp. Hi. p. 215; Xen. Symp. v. 7. 

 Socrates is compared not to the gallipots of apothecaries but to the 

 images of Silenus, of which Rabelais (Gargantua, prol.) says, Silenes 

 estoyent jadiz petites boytes, telles que voyons de present es bouticques 

 des apothecaires ; painctes au dessus de figures joyeuses et frivoles. 

 Mr. Spedding, with great probability, conjectures that Bacon may have 

 had this passage in his mind. [24] Lat. qu&amp;lt;z exterius inducebantur simiis, 

 ululis, satyrisque. 



P. 26. [3] solemn parasites : Lat. barbatos parasitos. [4] Lucian, De 

 Mercede Conductis, 33, 34. [6] Lat. catulum suum Melitceum. [12] Du 

 Bartas, Second Jour de la Semaine : 



4 Tous ces doctes esprits dont la voix flatteresse, 

 Change Hccube en Helene, et Faustine en Lucresse, 

 Qui d un nain, d un batard, d un archerot sans yeux, 

 Font, non un dieutelet, ains le maistre des dieux, &c. 

 See also Judith, bk. v. [14] modern: The ed. of 1605 has morall, which 

 is corrected in the Errata to moderne, the reading of edd. 1629, 1633. 

 [Ib.] dedication: ed. 1605 has dedications. It is curious that the 

 translator in the De Augmentis followed the uncorrected copy : neque 

 vero nimis laudo morem ilium receptum libros patronis nuncupandi. [26] 

 Aristippus, not Diogenes. See Diog. Laert. Aristip. ii. 69. Comp. 

 Apoph. 161. 



