"Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris," &c.,
repeated in part in the "Essay on Death."
This last passage is taken, with considerable verbal variations, from
Epist. 77. § 6.
"Therefore Aristotle, when he thinks to tax Democritus, doth in truth
commend him, where he saith, _If we shall indeed dispute, and not
follow after similitudes_," &c.
The passage referred to is in _Eth. Nic._, vi. 3.; but it contains no
allusion to Democritus, who is not even named in the _Ethics_; and the word
which Bacon renders _dispute_ ([Greek: akribologeisthai]) means _to speak
with precision_.
P. 163. "For as the ancient politiques in popular states were wont to
compare the people to the sea, and the orators to the winds."
The allusion is to a couplet of Solon:
"[Greek: ex anemôn de thalassa tarassetai? ên de tis autên]
[Greek: mê kinêi, pantôn esti dikaiotatê.]"
_Fragm._ i. 8., ed. Gaisford.
And to a passage of Livy (xxviii. 27.):
"Multitudo omnis, sicut natura maris, per se immobilis est, venti et
auræ cient."
Compare Babrius, fab. 71.
P. 165. "Did not one of the Fathers, in great indignation, call poesy
_vinum dæmonum_?"