BOOK I. 281 



P- 54- [3] Suetonius, Dom. 23, quoted again in Ess. xxxv. p. 150, and 

 in a letter from Bacon to King James on a Digest of the Laws of 

 England. [7-13] of which . .. altogether : tie quibus sigillatim sed brevis- 

 sime verba faciam. The following paragraphs, as far as p. 58, 1. 32, are 

 much condensed in the Latin, [n] Hor. Od. ii. 10. 19. [15] Tac. 

 Agric. 3 : et quamquam primo statim beatissimi seculi ortu Ncrva Casar res 

 olim dissociabiles miscuerit principatnm ac libertatem. [21] Horn. II. {.42; 

 riatiav Aavaol t^a Sdrcpva aoiat &t\(aaiv. Dio Cass. (Xiphilinus) Ixviii. 

 p. 771. [24] Matt. x. 41. 



P- 55- [ 2 1 This story is told of Gregory the Great in his life by Faulus 

 Diaconus, c. 27, and in that by Joannes Diaconus, lib. ii. c. 44; and is 

 referred to by Joannes Damascenus, De iis qui in Fide Dormierunt, c. 

 16. See also Dante, Purgatorio, cant. x. 73 &c. Vision of Piers Plough 

 man, 6857-6907, ed. T. Wright. [10] Plin. Epist. x. 96. [12] Adrian: 

 Dio Cass. Ixix. 3, ii. [17] Philip of Macedon: Some copies of ed. 

 1605 have and Macedon. The story is told by Plutarch, de Adul. et 

 Amico, 27 ; Symp. ii. I. 12 ; and repeated by Bacon, Of the Interpreta 

 tion of Nature, p. 230, Apoph. 159. [26] It was not Hadrian, but Alex 

 ander Severus, who is said, in his life by Lampridius (c. 29), to have 

 had, in the shrine where his lares were placed, figures of Apollonius, 

 Christ, Abraham, Orpheus, and others. And again (c. 43), Christo tern- 

 plum facere voluit, eumque inter deos recipere. [32] Trajan s : Mr. Sped- 

 ding conjectures Trajan, which no doubt is more correct, though Trajan s 

 is probably what Bacon wrote. 



P. 56. [3] Aurelius Victor, Epit. xli. 13. Quoted again in a Letter 

 from Bacon to King James, Of a Digest to be made of the Laws of 

 England (Cabala, p. 75). [n] policing: the regulating and governing 

 of a town. Edd. 1605, 1629 have pollicing, ed. 1633 pollishing. He 

 gave also multitudes of charters and liberties for the comfort of corpora 

 tions and companies in decay. Bacon, Offer of a Digest of the Laws of 

 England. [16] Antoninus : the three old editions have Antonius. [19] 

 Dio Cassius, Ixx. 3. Comp. Juliani Caesares. If his wit be not apt to 

 distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoole-men ; for they 

 are cymini sectores Bacon, Ess. 1. p. 206. [31] Acts xxvi. 28. 



P. 57. [3] Lucius Ceionius Commodus, son of ./Elius Caesar, and 

 Marcus Annius Verus, were adopted by Antoninus Pius, and on his 

 death in 161 succeeded him with the titles of L. Aurelius Verus and 

 M. Aurelius Antoninus [4] Spartianus, Vit. JILlii Veri, c. 5 : idem 

 Martialem epigrammaticnm poetam Virgilinm situm dixisse. [6] Lucius 

 Verus died of apoplexy A.D. 169: Marcus Aurelius survived till A.D. 180. 

 [10] Juliani Ciesares, xviii. [22] Lampridius, Vita Severi, 5-10. [31] 

 the world : the omitted in ed. 1605. 



P. 58. [1-5] Compare Bacon s Letter to the Lord Chancellor, touching 

 the history of Britain, where he speaks of Queen Elizabeth in nearly the 



