(Vol. vii., pp. 6. 80.)
Essay IX. p. 21. (note _a_). "They used the word 'præfiscini.'" See
_e. g._, Plaut. _Asin._, ii. 4. 84. (Weise):
"Præfiscini hoc nunc dixerim: nemo etiam me adcusavit
Merito meo."
(Leonida boasts of his integrity.)
Ditto, p. 22. (note _c_). "From the _Stichus_ of Plautus," ii. 1. 54.
Ditto, p. 23. "Which has the character of Adrian the Emperor." See _Hist.
Aug. Script._, i. 149., _ut supr._ (Spartian. _Vit. Hadrian._ cap. 15.)
Ditto p. 26. "It was well said." By whom?
Essay X. ditto. "A poor saying of Epicurus." Where recorded?
Ditto, p. 27. "It hath been well said, 'That the arch flatterer,'" &c. By
whom, and where?
Ditto, ditto. "It hath been well said, 'That it is impossible,'" &c. By
whom and where?
Ditto, ditto. "The poet's relation." Ovid. _Heroid._ xvi. 163.
Essay XI. p. 28. "Cum non sis qui fueris," &c. Whence?
Ditto, p 29. "Illi mors gravis incubat," &c. Seneca, _Thyest._ 401. (ed.
Lemaire), Act II. extrem.
Ditto, p. 31. "That was anciently spoken." By whom?
Ditto, ditto. "Tacitus of Galba." Tac. _Hist._, i. 49.
Ditto, ditto. "Of Vespasian." Tac. _Hist._, i. 50.
Essay XII. ditto. "Question was asked of Demosthenes." See Cic. _De Orat._,
III. 56. § 213.
Ditto, p. 32. "Mahomet's miracle." Where recorded?
Essay XIII. p. 33. "The desire of power," &c. Cf. Shaksp. _Hen. VIII._,
III. 2. "By that sin (ambition) fell the angels," &c. {449}
Essay XIII. p. 33. "Busbechius." In Busbequii _Legationes Turciæ Epist.
Quatuor_ (Hanoviæ, 1605), p. 133., we find this told of "Aurifex quidam
Venetus."--N. B. In the Index (_s. v._ Canis) of an edition of the same
work, printed in London for R. Daniel (1660), _for_ 206 _read_ 106.
Ditto, ditto (note _b_). Gibbon (_Miscellaneous Works_, iii., 544., ed.
1815) says, "B. is my old and familiar acquaintance, a frequent companion
in my post-chaise. His Latinity is eloquent, his manner is lively, his
remarks are judicious."
Ditto, p. 34. "Nicholas Machiavel." Where?
Ditto, p. 35. "Æsop's cock." See Phædrus, iii. 12.
Essay XV. p. 38. "Ille etiam cæcos," &c., Virg. _Georg_. i. 464.
Ditto, ditto. "Virgil, giving the pedigree," &c. _Æn_. iv. 178.
Ditto, p. 39. "That kind of obedience which Tacitus speaketh of." Bacon
quotes, from memory, Tac. _Hist_., ii. 39., "Miles alacer, qui tamen jussa
ducum interpretari, quam exsequi, mallet."
Ditto, ditto. "As Machiavel noteth well." Where?
Ditto, p. 40. "As Tacitus expresseth it well." Where?
Ditto, p. 41. "Lucan," i. 181.
Ditto, ditto. "Dolendi modus, timendi non item." Whence?
Ditto, ditto. "The Spanish proverb." What is it? Cf. "A bow long bent at
last waxeth weak;" and the Italian, "L'arco si rompe se sta troppo teso."
(Ray's _Proverbs_, p. 81., 4th edit., 1768.)
Ditto, p. 43. "The poets feign," &c. See _Iliad_, i. 399.
Ditto, ditto (note _y_). "The myth is related in the _Works and Days of
Hesiod_," vv. 47-99., edit. Göttling.
Ditto, p. 44. "Sylla nescivit." Sueton. _Vit. Cæs._, 77.
Ditto, p. 45. "Galba." Tac. _Hist_., i. 5.
Ditto, ditto. "Probus." Bacon seems to have quoted from memory, as we find
in Vopiscus (_Hist. Aug. Script., ut supr._, vol. ii. 679. 682.), as one of
the _causæ occidendi_, "Dictum ejus grave, Si unquam eveniat salutare,
Reip. brevi milites necessarios non futuros."
Ditto, ditto. "Tacitus saith." _Hist_., i. 28.