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origin of this saying is to be found in a fragment of Theophrastus : 

 SoKti ydp -fj iratdda, Kol TOVTO irdvTt$ ufj.o\oyovai. fyfj.fpovv rdt i^v\a9, 

 d&amp;lt;paipov&amp;lt;ra r&amp;lt;5 OypiwSts KO.I dyvajpov (Stobeei Florilegium, ed. Gaisford, Iv. 

 A PP- P- 55* ed. 1822). [23] examined and tried: observe the Latinized 

 construction of the participles. [29] Eccl. i. 9 ( There is no new 

 thing under the sun ), quoted from memory. [30, 31] The Latin 

 has, qui pone aulaa caput inserens organa quibus moventur et filamenta 

 cernit. 



P. 68. [3] for a passage: that is, a pass or ford. The Latin has 

 propter pontem aliquem. [4] Plutarch (Ages. 15. 6) relates that Alex 

 ander called the battle between Antipater and Agis a battle of mice. 

 The news was brought to him soon after the battle of Arbela. [9] 

 Compare Seneca, Nat. Quaest. i. prol. 10: Formicarum isle discursus est 

 in angusto laborantium. [20] See Epictetus, Enchir. 33, and Simplicii in 

 Epict. Comm. c. 33. The dramatic form of the story is apparently 

 Bacon s own. [24] Virg. Georg. ii. 490. [33] rationem totivs : appa 

 rently referring to Eccl. xii. 13. 



P. 69. [5] Plato, Alcib. Prim. ii. 133. [6] Mr. Spedding quotes 

 another form of this sentence as Bacon had entered it in the Promus, 

 4 Suavissima vita indies meliorem fieri. It appears to be derived from 

 Xenophon, Memor. i. 6. 8. The same sentiment occurs in Dante, 

 Parad. xviii. 58, quoted by Mr. Ellis. Comp. also Adv. to the E. of 

 Rutland (Works, ix. p. 7). 



P. 70. [6] Virg. Georg. iv. 561. [9] over the will: The Latin adds 

 licet liberam et non astrictam. [23] Rev. ii. 24. [24] force : face in ed. 

 1605, corrected in Errata. [31] A saying of Hiero s, recorded by Plu 

 tarch (Reg. et Imp. Apoph.), is perhaps what Bacon was thinking of. 

 Xenophanes complained that his poverty did not allow him to keep two 

 servants. How is that? said Hiero : Homer, whom you worry with 

 abuse, dead as he is, supports more than ten thousand. 



P. 71. [10] exceed the pleasure of the sense: So in the Errata to ed. 

 1605. The original editions have exceed the senses. The Lat. is 

 oblectamenta sensuum excedent. The true reading is probably exceed 

 the pleasures of the senses. [15] satiety: sacietie, ed. 1605. [16] ver 

 dure: In edd. 1605, 1629, 1633, it is verdour, which perhaps shows what 

 the old pronunciation was. In Cotgrave s French Diet, and Florio s 

 Ital. Diet, of 161 1, the spelling of the word is as we have it. See note 

 on p. 48, 1. 17. [17] deceits of pleasure: that is, deceptive, unreal 

 pleasures. The Lat. has umbras tantum et fallacias voluptatum. [20] 

 ambitious princes : Bacon was perhaps thinking of the Emperor Charles 

 V., who resigned the crown of Spain in favour of his son in 1556, and 

 retired to the monastery of San Yuste. See Ess. xix. p. 76. [22] it, 

 that is, knowledge, is omitted as the subject of appeareth. The 

 whole sentence stands thus in the Lat. : ut neces&e sit hujus delectationit 



