Again, p. 159.:
"De partibus vitæ quisque deliberat, de summâ nemo."
Page 152.,—
"Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris," &c.,
repeated in part in the "Essay on Death."
This last passage is taken, with considerable verbal variations, from Epist. 77. § 6.
"Therefore Aristotle, when he thinks to tax Democritus, doth in truth commend him, where he saith, If we shall indeed dispute, and not follow after similitudes," &c.
The passage referred to is in Eth. Nic., vi. 3.; but it contains no allusion to Democritus, who is not even named in the Ethics; and the word which Bacon renders dispute (ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι) means to speak with precision.
P. 163. "For as the ancient politiques in popular states were wont to compare the people to the sea, and the orators to the winds."
The allusion is to a couplet of Solon: