[605] Summa, Op. Lat. i. 4. 93, 95.
[606] Lampas, Op. Lat. iii. 45.
[607] “Scepsius,” behind whose authority Dicson shelters, is, according to G. P., Dicson himself.
[608] Ellis and Spedding, ii. 13.
[609] Historia Ventorum, Ellis and Spedding, ii, p. 51; cf. Nov. Org. ii. 12. The source of the Mount Athos legend is certainly Aristotle’s Problemata (xxvi. 39), while that for Olympus is either Solinus, or more probably Bruno, in the Cena de le Cenere (Lag. 167. 13). Bruno, on his part, refers to Alexander of Aphrodisias; it is not to be found, however, in Alexander’s commentary upon the Meteorologica (E. and S. refer to Ideler, i. 148).
[610] Nov. Org. i. aph. 45.
[611] Ib. ii. 9.
[612] De Augm. i. p. 466; cf. Bruno’s Cena, Lag. 177. 27. Elsewhere, however, Bacon condemns the habit of “some of the moderns,” who have attempted to base natural philosophy upon the first chapter of Genesis and the Book of Job, and other sacred scriptures.—Nov. Org. i. ax. 65.
[613] De Augm. i. 479, and Bruno, passim.
[614] Nov. Org. i. ax. 84; cf. 77 (the argument ex consensu), and De Augm. i. p. 458. In their note E. and S. refer to Esdras, c. 14, v. 10: “the world has lost its youth, and the times begin to wax old”; and to Casmann’s Problemata Marina (1596), as well as to Bruno’s Cena (1584).