"Epimenides the Candian."] Bacon calls the ancient Cretan priest
Epimenides a "Candian," as Machiavel speaks of the capture of Rome by
the "Francesi" under Brennus. Mr. Pashley, in his _Travels in Crete_,
vol. i. p. 189., shows that Candia is a name unknown in the island; and
that among the natives its ancient denomination is still in use. The name
Candia has been propagated over Europe from the Italian usage.
"The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: 'Magna civitas, magna
solitudo.'"] See Erasm. _Adag._, p. 1293. It is taken from a verse of a
Greek comic poet, which referred to the city of Megalopolis in Arcadia:
"Ἐρημία μεγάλη 'στὶν ἡ Μεγάλη πόλις."--Strab. viii. 8. § 1.
"The Roman name attaineth the true use and cause thereof, naming them
'participes curarum.'"] To what examples of this expression does Bacon
refer?
"The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true: 'Cor ne edito.'"]
Concerning this Pythagorean precept, see Diog., Laert. viii. 17, 18., cum
not.
The saying of Themistocles is repeated in _Apophthegms_, No. 199. p. 392.
The saying of Heraclitus is repeated, _Apophthegms_, No. 268.; _De
Sap. Vet._, vol. xi. p. 346. It is alluded to in _Nov. Org._, ii. 32.:
"Quicquid enim abducit intellectum a consuetis, æquat et complanat aream
ejus, ad recipiendum _lumen siccum et purum_ notionum verarum."
"It was a sparing speech of the ancients, to say that a friend is another
himself."] See Aristot., _Mag. Mor._ ii. 11.: "Μία φανὲν ψυχὴ ἡ ἐμὴ καὶ
ἡ τούτου;" and again, c. 15.: "Τοιοῦτος οἷος ἕτερος εἶναι ἐγὼ, ἀν γε καὶ
σφόδρα φίλον τοιήσῃς, ὥσπερ τὸ λεγόμενον 'ἄλλος οὗτος Ἡρακλῆς,' 'ἄλλος
φίλος ἐγώ.'" _Eth. Eud._ vii. 12.: "Ὁ γὰρ φίλος βούλεται εἶναι, ὥσπερ ἡ
παροιμία φησὶν, ἄλλος Ἠρακλῆς, ἄλλος οὗτος."