[425] “In that man there was such great strength of body and mind, that, in whatever station he had been born, he seemed as though he should make his fortune.”

[426] “A versatile genius.”

[427] “A little of the fool.”

[428] “Thou carriest Cæsar and his fortunes.”—Plut. Vit. Cæls. 38.

[429] “The Fortunate.” He attributed his success to the intervention of Hercules, to whom he paid especial veneration.

[430] “The Great.”—Plut. Syll. 34.

[431] A successful Athenian general, the son of Conon, and the friend of Plato.

[432] Fluency, or smoothness.

[433] Lord Bacon seems to use the word in the general sense of “lending money upon interest.”

[434] “Drive from their hives the drones, a lazy race.”—Georgics, b. iv. 168.