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the duke of Guise, that he was the greatest usurer in France, because he 

 had turned all his estate into obligations; meaning that he had left him 

 self nothing, but only had bound numbers of persons to him. 



P. 63. [4-8] To conclude. .. prince: Omitted in the Latin. [14] his 

 company: that is, his companions, the company he kept. The Latin 

 has ex familiar ibus. [20] the real passages: This expression, which is 

 omitted in the translation, either means the actual occurrences or the 

 truthful descriptions of them. [21] lively images: We should say 

 vivid pictures. [25] Suetonius, Jul. Cses. 56; Quintil. i. 7. 34- This 

 work, De Analogia, in two books, is again referred to by Bacon, De 

 Augm. vi. i, in which passage he is doubtful whether it treated of what 

 we should call philosophical Grammar, and not rather of elegance and 

 purity of language. It is quoted by Cicero (Brutus, 72) under the title 

 of De ratione Latine loquendi, and in the first book Caesar is said to 

 have laid down as a maxim verbornm delectum originem esse eloqnentite. 

 Aulus Gellius (i. 10) quotes another precept from the same book that 

 an unusual word is to be avoided like a rock (tit tanquam scopuliim sic 

 fngias insolens verbum). Again (ix. 14) he appeals to the Second Book 

 of the De Analogia as an authority for the forms hujus die and hnjus 

 specie, and to the work generally (xix. 8), without mentioning the book, 

 for the opinion that harena, ccelum, triticum could only be used in the 

 singular, and that quadrigae could only occur in the plural. Compare 

 also iv. 16. [28-30] This passage is slightly modified in the Latin 

 translation, which is thus rendered into English by Wats : that words, 

 which are the images of things, might accord with the things them 

 selves, and not stand to the arbitrement of the vulgar. [32] Suet. Jul. 

 Cces. 40. 



P. 64. [3] Anti-Cato: According to Suetonius (Jul. CJES. 56) this 

 was in two books. It was written in answer to Cicero s panegyric on 

 Cato, and is quoted by Aulus Gellius (iv. 16). Compare Cicero ad Att. 

 xii. 40, 41, xiii. 50; Plutarch, Jul. Caes. 54. 3. [4] victory of wit: 

 Archbishop Trench in his Select Glossary has given an excellent quota 

 tion from Bp. Reynolds, which illustrates the difference between the 

 present and past usages of the word wit. For I take not wit in that 

 common acceptation, whereby men understand some sudden flashes of 

 conceipt, whether in stile or conference, which like rotten wood in the 

 darke, have more shine then substance ; whose use and ornament are 

 like themselves, swift and vanishing; at once both admired and for 

 gotten ; but I understand a setled, constant, and habituall sufficiency of 

 the understanding, whereby it is inabled in any kind of learning, theory, 

 or practice, both to sharpnesse in search, subtilty in expression, and dis 

 patch in execution. Reynolds, The Passions and Faculties of the Soul, 

 c. xxxix. p. 514. [8] These Apophthegms (Cic. ad Fain. ix. 16), or 

 Dicta collectanea as they are called by Suetonius (Jul. Cres. 56), were 



