BOOK II. 293 



Homer was in fact a Bible, and guarded with all the care and all the 

 piety that belong to such a book. Prof. Blackie, Art. on Homer, 

 Encyc. Brit, eighth ed. This is true generally, and not only of the 

 later schools of the Grecians. But what really conveys a more 

 vivid impression of the influence of Homer in Greek education, than 

 any anecdotes about schools and schoolmasters, is the very apt and 

 easy way in which all Greek men are everywhere found quoting Homer 

 from memory, and applying it for the need of the moment, by a sort 

 of habitual &quot; accommodation,&quot; just as we see many a devout father of 

 the Christian Church, and the ancient Jews, constantly quoting the 

 Old Testament, without any curious inquiry as to the exact critical 

 propriety of the text so applied. Blackie, Homer and the Iliad, i. 

 308. [24] this third part of learning : It should be this second 

 [27-32] But . . . harangues : Omitted in De Augm. 



p I0 5- [3] Tne tnird book of the De Augm. begins here. [29] philo- 

 sophia prirna : See p. 40, 1. 8. 



P. 106. [i] a certain rhapsody: Lat. farraginem quandam et massam 

 inconditam. [27] The instances of these participles in nature given by 

 Bacon in the De Augm. are, moss, which is intermediate between putre 

 faction and a plant ; fish that adhere and do not change their place and 

 are between a plant and an animal ; mice and other animals which are 

 between those propagated by putrefaction and those propagated by 

 impregnation ; bats, which are between birds and quadrupeds ; Hying 

 fish, between birds and fish ; seals, between fish and quadrupeds, and so 

 on. See Nov. Org. ii. 30. 



P. 107. [8] Euclid, Elem. Book i. Axiom 4. [9, 10] an axiom., 

 mathematics: In some copies of ed. 1605, and in the edd. of 1629 and 

 1633, this clause is inserted by mistake after the following sentence. 

 The error is noted in the Errata at the end of a copy of ed. 1605 in the 

 Bodleian Library, and the true reading is given, preceded by the follow 

 ing remark: In some few Bookes, in Ff: fol. 21, and the beginning of 

 the second page thereof, there is somewhat misplaced, and to be read 

 thus. The catchword of the previous page is And. [10] This ana 

 logy between commutative (or corrective) and distributive justice is 

 derived from Aristotle (Eth. v. 3, 4). Of distributive justice Sir Alex 

 ander Grant in his notes on the passage gives the following summary : 

 Justice implies equality, and not only that two things are equal, but 

 also two persons between whom there may be justice. Thus it is a 

 geometrical proportion in four terms ; if A and B be persons, C and D 

 lots to be divided, then as A is to B, so must C be to D. And a just 

 distribution will produce the result that A + C will be to B+D in the 

 same ratio as A was to B originally. In other words, distributive 

 justice consists in the distribution of property, honours, ^c., in tlu- state, 

 according to the merits of each citizen. And of corrective, or as liacon 



