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P. 27. [5] Diog. Laert. Aristip. ii. 79; Apoph. 86. [10] Spaitianus 

 (Vita Hadriani, 15) tells this story of Favorinus. Apoph. 160. [24] 

 Lat. etiam ea qua impolluta et in stain suo manserunt. [25] the state : the 

 article was not unfrequently employed where we should now use a 

 possessive pronoun. See Glossary. 



P. 28. [6] The Latin adds, qnando nlmirum aut in rebus inanibus opera 

 insumitur, ant circa verborum delicias nimium insudatur. [10] Lat. 

 doctrina fucata et tnollis. [12-31] The whole of this passage is much 

 abridged in the Latin, apparently to avoid offending the Roman 

 Catholics. See p. 21, 11. 16-21, note. In the De Augmentis the 

 following is substituted : Intemperies ista, in luxurie quadam oralionis sita 

 (licet olim per vices in pretio habita fuerit), circa Lutheri tempora miris modis 

 invaluit. In causa praecipue fuit, quod fervor et ejficacia concionum tune 

 temporis ad populum demulcendum et alliciendum maxime vigebat ; ilia antem 

 populare genus orationis poscebant. Accedebat odium et contemptus Hits 

 temporibus ortus erga scholasticos, &c. 



P. 29. [4-15] And again . . . flourish: Omitted in the Latin. [5] 

 then : that then in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata. [6] John vii. 49. [23] 

 Osorius, bishop of Sylves in Algarve, died 1580; wrote De Rebus 

 Gestis Emanuelis, 1574. On his redundant style see Ascham, The 

 Scholemaster, pp. no, 129-131, ed. Mayor. [24] Sturmius : Joannes 

 Sturmius, born at Sleida, October i, 1507, died March 3, 1589, was 

 called the German Cicero. He was professor at Paris and Strasburg, 

 and wrote In Partitiones Oratorias Ciceronis Dialogi Quatuor, Scholia 

 in Hermogenem, De Imitatione Oratoria Libri Tres, and De Periodis 

 Liber, to all of which Bacon refers, besides many other works. [27] 

 Car of Cambridge: Nicholas Carr (1523-1568) succeeded Sir John 

 Cheke as Regius Professor of Greek in 1547. He obtained a great 

 reputation by his translations into Latin of the Olynthiacs and Philip 

 pics of Demosthenes, Plato s Dialogue on the Laws, and the Oration of 

 /Eschines against Ctesiphon. Besides these he wrote prefaces to the 

 Symposium and other dialogues of Plato, as well as to Eschines, 

 Theocritus, Sophocles, and some orations of Demosthenes. [28] Ascham : 

 Roger Ascham (1515-1568), in his Scholemaster, is constantly sounding 

 the praises of Cicero, whom he calls his master. [32] Erasmus, Colloq. 

 Decent jam annos &amp;lt;ztatem trivi in Cicerone. Echo. ovf. 



P. 30. [5] is: Omitted in ed. 1605. [8] secnndnm majus et minus: i.e. 

 to a greater or less degree. Seep. 171,!. 12. [13] Pygmalion: Ovid, 

 Metam. x. 243. [32] The Scholiast on Theocr. v. 21 attributes this 

 story of Hercules to Cleander kv Sfvripcv TWV napoip-icav. Bacon inserted 

 it in his Promus, fol. 16 a. [33] minion : migmon, ed. 1605. 



P. 31. [5] In the De Augmentis another kind of style is mentioned as 

 somewhat more healthy than the last-mentioned, though not altogether 

 free from vanity. The whole object of this is that the words should be 



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