NOTES AND QUERIES ON BACON'S ESSAYS, NO. II.
(Vol. vii., p. 6.)
Essay I. p. 2. "One of the fathers." Who, and where?
Ditto, ditto. The poet. Lucretus, ii., init. "Suave mari magno," &c.
Ditto, p. 3. (note i). Plutarch. Does Montaigne allude to Plutarch, De Liberis educandis, vol. ii. (ed. Xyland.) 11 C.: "τὸ γὰρ ψεύδεσθαι δουλοπρεπὲς κ.τ.λ."?
Essay II. p. 4. "You shall read in some of the friars' books," &c. Where?
Ditto, ditto. "Pompa magis," &c. Does Bacon quote this from memory, referring to "Tolle istam pompam, sub quâ lates, et stultos territas"? (Ep. XXIV. vol. ii. p. 92.: ed. Elzev. 1672.)
Ditto, p. 5. "We read," &c. Tac. Hist., ii. 49. "Quidam milites juxta rogum interfecere se, non noxâ neque ob metum, sed æmulatione decoris et caritate principis." Cf. Sueton. Vit. Oth., 12.
Ditto, ditto. "Cogita quamdiu," &c. Whence is this?
Ditto, ditto. "Augustus Cæsar died," &c. Suet. Vit. Octav., 99.
Ditto, ditto. "Tiberius in dissimulation." Tac. Ann., vi. 50.
Ditto, ditto. "Vespasian." Suet. Vit. Vespas., 23.
Ditto, ditto. "Galba." Tac. Hist., i. 41.
Ditto, ditto. "Septimus Severus." Whence is this?
Ditto, p. 6. (note m). "In the tenth Satire of Juvenal." V. 357., seq.
Ditto, ditto. "Extinctus amabitur idem." Hor. Epist. ii. l. 14.
Essay III. p. 8. "A master of scoffing." Rabelais, Pantagruel, book ii. cap. viii. (p. 339. vol. i. ed. Bohn, 1849.)
Ditto, p. 9. "As it is noted by one of the fathers." By whom, and where?
Ditto, p. 10. "Lucretius." I. 102.
Ditto, p. 11. "It was a notable observation of a wise father." Of whom, and where?
Essay IV. p. 13. "For the death of Pertinax." See Hist. Aug. Script., vol. i. p. 578. (Lugd. Bat. 1671.)
Ditto, ditto, (note f). "The poet." Ovid, Ar. Am., i. 655.
Essay V. ditto. "Bona rerum secundarum," &c. Does Bacon allude to Seneca (Ep. lxvi. p. 238., ut sup.), where, after stating that "In æquo est moderatè gaudere, et moderatè dolere;" he adds, "Illa bona optabilia sunt, hæc mirabilia"?
Ditto, ditto. "Vere magnum habere," &c. Whence is this?
Ditto, ditto. "The strange fiction of the ancient poets." In note (a) we find "Stesichorus, Apollodorus, and others" named. Whereabouts?
Ditto, p. 11. (note c). "This fine passage has been quoted by Macaulay." Ut sup., p. 407.
Essay VI. p. 15. "Tacitus saith." Ann., v. 1.
Ditto, ditto. "And again, when Mucianus," &c. Ditto, Hist., ii. 76.
Ditto, ditto. "Which indeed are arts, &c., as Tacitus well calleth them." Where?
Ditto, p. 17. "It is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard." What is the proverb?
Essay VII. p. 19. "The precept, 'Optimum elige,' &c." Whence? though I am ashamed to ask.
Essay VIII. p. 20. "The generals." See Æsch. Persæ, 404. (Dindf.), and Blomfield in loc. (v. 411. ed. suæ).
Ditto, ditto. "It was said of Ulysses," &c. By whom? Compare Od., v. 218.
Ditto, p. 21. "He was reputed," &c. Who?
(To be continued.)
P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.