"Abeunt studia in mores.">[ From Ovid's Epistle of Sappho to Phaon, Ep. xv. 83.
"Let him study the schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores.">[ The word κυμινοπρίστης is applied in Aristot., Eth. Nic. iv. 3., to a miserly person; one who saves cheeseparings and candle-ends.
Essay LII. Of Ceremonies and Respects.—See Antith., No. 34. vol. viii. p. 371.
"It doth much add to a man's reputation, and is (as Queen Isabella saith) like perpetual letters commendatory, to have good forms.">[ Query, Which Queen Isabella was the author of this saying?
Essay LIII. Of Praise.—See Antith., No. 10. vol. viii. p. 358.
"Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantium.">[ From Tacit. Agric. c. 41., where the words are: "Pessimum inimicorum genus, laudantes." Laudantium for laudantes in the text of Bacon is an error.
Essay LIV. Of Vain-glory.—See Antith., No. 19. vol. viii. p. 364.
Essay LVI. Of Judicature.—
"Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare.">[ Compare Aph. 44. and 46., in the eighth book De Augmentis.
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