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among the works which Augustus suppressed. [16] Eccl. xii. n, from 

 the Vulgate, though not quite literally. [21] Suetonius, Jul. Cses. 70. 

 [25] cashiered: cassiered in ed. 1605, a form of spelling which points 

 to the derivation of the word from Fr. casser. In Wats s trans, of De 

 Augm. the Latin is rendered, and seditiously prayed to be cassed. 

 [26] by expostulation thereof: Lat. hoc postulate. 



P. 65. [6] Suetonius, Jul. Caes. 79. [15] Rex was a surnamt with the 

 Romans: comp. Hor. Sat. i. 7. i ; Bacon, Apoph. 186. [17] Plutarch, 

 Jul. Cses. 35. 4. 



P. 66. [i] Suet. Jul. Cses. 77. [15] Xen. Anab. ii. 5. 37. [16] the 

 great king: of Persia. [25] The saying here ascribed to Xenophon is 

 in Schneider s edition of the Anabasis (ii. i. 12) given to Theopompus. 

 Xenophon, who is described as serving merely as a volunteer, and hold 

 ing no command in the army, could hardly have taken part in the parley 

 with Phalinus. Diodorus (xiv. p. 409) attributes the speech to Proxenus. 

 In Stephens s edition of 1561, which Bacon may have used, the reading 



is KVO&amp;lt;{&amp;gt;UV. 



P- 67. [7] Jason the Thessalian (assassinated B.C. 370) was later than 

 Agesilaus, though Bacon mentions him first. See Smith s Hist, of 

 Greece, p. 473. [8] Agesilaus: See Plut. Ages. 15; Smith s Hist, of 

 Greece, p. 439, &c. The date of the attempted invasion of Persia by 

 Agesilaus was B.C. 396-394. Compare Bacon s treatise, Of the True 

 Greatness of Britain (Works, vii. 50) : And those that are conversant 

 attentively in the histories of those times, shall find that this purchase 

 which Alexander made and compassed was offered by fortune twice 

 before to others, though by accident they went not through with it; 

 namely, to Agesilaus, and Jason of Thessaly. For Agesilaus, after he 

 had made himself master of most of the low provinces of Asia, and had 

 both design and commission to invade the higher countries, was diverted 

 and called home upon a war excited against his country by the states of 

 Athens and Thebes, being incensed by their orators and counsellors, 

 which were bribed and corrupted from Persia, as Agesilaus himself 

 avouched pleasantly, when he said That an hundred thousand archers 

 of the kings of Persia had driven him home : understanding it, because 

 an archer was the stamp upon the Persian coin of gold. And Jason of 

 Thessaly, being a man born to no greatness, but one that made a fortune 

 of himself, and had obtained by his own vivacity of spirit, joined with 

 the opportunities of time, a great army compounded of voluntaries and 

 adventurers, to the terror of all Graecia, tha,t continually expected where 

 that cloud would fall, disclosed himself in the end, that his design was 

 for an expedition into Persia, (the same which Alexander not many 

 years after achieved,) wherein he was interrupted by a private conspiracy 

 against his life, which took effect. [14, 15] Ovid, Ep. Pont. ii. 9. 47. 

 Ovid has Adde quod for scilicet. Mr. Ellis has pointed out that the 



