[61] "Le monde est un branloire perenne" (Book III, Essay 2). Florio translates that particular sentence: "The world runs all on wheels" a bad rendering.
[62] B. III, Chap. 3.
[63] B. II, Chap. 17.
[64] It may fairly be laid down as practically certain, from what we know of the habit of circulating works in manuscript at that period, and from what Florio tells us in his preface, that translations of some of the essays had been passed about before Florio's folio was printed.
[65] Varia Historia, XII, 23.
[66] The story certainly had a wide vogue, being found in Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, iii, 1, and in Nicolas of Damascus; while Strabo (vii, ii. § 1) gives it further currency by contradicting it as regards the Cimbri.
[67] B. II, Chap. 5.
[68] B. II, Chap. 3.
[69] Richard III, I, 4; V, 3.
[70] The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy, 1893, p. 80-5.