BOOK II. 321 



wrote run more easily. The translation has facile et filacide delabentur. 

 [5] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. ii. 9. 5. [9] bending: So ed. 1633; bynding 

 ed. 1605; binding ed. 1629. [24] St. Augustine (Confess, i. 16) calls 

 poetry vinum erroris ab ebriis doctoribus propinatum, and Jerome, in one 

 of his letters to Damasus (Ep. 146), says, D&amp;lt;emonum cibus est carmina 

 poetarum. Both these quotations are combined in one passage by Cor 

 nelius Agrippa, De Incert. &c. c. 4, and hence Bacon may have com 

 pounded the phrase vinum dcemonum, which he uses again in Essay i. 

 p. 2 : One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesie vinum d&mo- 

 num; because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is, but with the 

 shadow of a lie. [28] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. i. 3. 5. Mr. Ellis, in his 

 note on the corresponding passage of the De Augmentis, points out 

 that Aristotle, however, speaks not of moral but of political philosophy. 

 It is interesting to observe that the error of the text, which occurs also 

 in the Advancement of Learning, has been followed by Shakespeare in 

 Troilus and Cressida : 



&quot; Not much 



Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought 



Unfit. to hear moral philosophy.&quot; 



See Hector s speech in the second scene of the second act. Mr. Sped- 

 ding has shown that the same error is committed by Virgilio Malvezzi 

 in his Discorsi sopra Corndio Tacito. 



P. 212. [12] Seneca, Here. Furens, 251. [13] Juvenal, Sat. xiii. 105. 

 [16] Machiavelli, Disc. i. 10. [24] incompatible: Lat. insociabiles. 

 [Ib.] Cicero, Pro Murcena, xxix. 61. [31] See p. 209,!. 22-25. 



P. 213. [15] as was said : See p. 203. 



P. 214. [8] Which state of mind: i.e. With regard to, or concerning 

 which state of mind. [10] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. vii. I. I. [17] Pliny, 

 Paneg. c. 74. Pro nobis ipsis quidem hcec fuit summa volorum, ut not *ic 

 amarent dii quomodo tu. This panegyric was not a funeral oration, as 

 Bacon describes it, but was delivered at the beginning of the reign of 

 Trajan, who survived Pliny. [35] Col. iii. 14. [26] as: Omitted in ed. 

 1605, but inserted in the Errata and edd. 1629, 1633. [27] Menander : 

 Not Menander, but Anaxandrides. (Ellis.) See Meineke Grace. Com. 

 Frag. iii. 199 - 



Zpoj* aoif&amp;gt;t&amp;lt;TTov yiyvtrai 8ioda/ca\os 



atcaiov iro\v Kpf mcuv irpus ^^&amp;gt;v dvdpuncw 0iov. 



Compare Dryden s Cymon and Iphigenia. 



P. 215. [5] Xenophon, Symp. i. 10. [n] See Nov. Org. praef. [17] 

 transgressed: Lat. pratvaricati writ. [13] Is. xiv. 14. [14] Gen. iii. 5. 

 [18] Matt. v. 44; Luke vi. 27, 28. [24] Ps. cxlv. 9. [27] concerning 

 the culture and regiment of the mind: Lat. de Georgicis animi. [33] 

 Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione, p. 355. This story is omitted in the 



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