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Herodici in corpore, cujus meminit Aristotcles 1 ; ilium scilicet 

 nihil aliud per totam vitam egisse quam ut valetuilinem cu- 

 raret, et proinde ab infmitis rebus abstineret, corporis interim 

 usu quasi multatus; ubi si hominibus officia societatis con- 

 sectari cordi sit, ilia demum valetudo maxime est expetenda 

 quae quaslibet mutationes et impetus quoscunque ferre et vin- 

 cere queat. Eodem modo et animus ille demum vere et proprie 

 sanus et validus censendus est, qui per plurimas et maximas 

 tentationes et perturbationes perrumpere potest. Ita ut opti- 

 me Diogenes dixisse visus sit, qui eas vires animi laudarit 

 qucs non ad caute dbstinendum sed ad fortiter sustinendum vale- 

 rent^ ; quaeque animi impetum etiam in maximis praecipitiis 

 cohibere possint ; quaaque (id quod in equis bene subactis lau- 

 datur) prsestent ut brevissimo spatio et sistere se et vertere 

 possint. 



Postremo, redarguit idem teneritudinem quandam et inepti- 

 tudinem ad morigerandum, in nonnullis ex antiquissimis phi- 

 losophis et maxime in veneratione habitis notatam ; qui nimis 

 facile se a rebus civilibus subduxerint, ut indignitatibus et 

 perturbationibus se exuerent, atque magis, sua opinione, illi- 

 bati et tanquam sacrosancti viverent ; ubi consentaneum esset, 

 constantiam hominis vere moralis talem fore, qualem idem Con- 

 sal vus in homine militari requirebat; nimirum ut honor ejus 

 contexeretur tanquam e tela crassiore ; minimeque tarn tenui 

 ut quidvis illud vellicare et lacerare possit. 



1 Rhct. i. 5. 10. A similar account is given of Herodicus in the third book of 

 Plato's Republic. In illustration of the assertion that philosophy came to be a " pro- 

 fessorium vitse genus," see Aulus Gellius, ix. 2. and elsewhere. 



2 r"b Kparslv Kal fj.^) rjrra<rQai r]86vcai/ a.purr'bv, ov rb /trj xP^ ff ^ al - But this was not 

 said by Diogenes, but by Aristippus. See Diog. Laert. in Aristip. Bacon has else- 

 where (v. sup. p. 449.) confounded these two names. The error in both cases may 

 perhaps have arisen from a wrong entry in a commonplace book. The inaccuracy in 

 the present passage is the more remarkable as the most celebrated of Aristippus's say- 

 ings occurs in immediate juxta-position with the words I have quoted from Diogenes 

 Laertius; 



[I should rather think that Bacon alludes to the following saying of Diogenes, 

 which is also in Diogenes Laertius : eTrr/j/et rovs fJLf\\ovras ya^v Kal fi^ yafjieiv 

 Kal rovs /j.f\\ovras irAe?v Kal /JL^ KarairXeiv rovs fi.\\6vras iro\iTe6e(rOai Kal fi^i iroAt- 

 Teuecrflai* Kal rovs 7rai5oTpo</>eu/ /xeAAocras KOI jtt^j iraiftorpofyeiv Kal rovs vapaffKtva^o- 

 fiecoi/s (Tv/j-fiiovv rots SuvdffTais Kal /ujj irpoffiovras : meaning that he admired the man, 

 not who was without passions, but who could command them. J. 5.] 



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