Creech's Translation.
Page 25. Aliena negotia, &c. From Horace's Satires, sixth of Book
II.
Page 25. Dors, cockchafers.
Page 26. Pan huper sebastos. Lord over All.
Page 27. Perditur haec inter misero Lux. Horace, Satires, II., 6.
This whole Satire is in harmony with the spirit of Cowley's Essays.
Page 29. A slave in Saturnalibus. In the Saturnalia, when Roman
slaves had licence to disport themselves.
Page 29. Unciatim, &c. Terence's Phormio, Act I., scene 1, in the
opening: "All that this poor fellow has, by starving himself, bit
by bit, with much ado, scraped together out of his pitiful
allowance--(must go at one swoop, people never considering the price
it cost him the getting)." Eachard's Terence.
Page 30. [Greek text which cannot be reproduced], &c. Paul to
Titus, "The Cretans are always liars, EVIL BEASTS, SLOW BELLIES."
Page 31. Quisnam igitur, &c. Horace's Satires, II., 7. "Who then
is free? The wise man, who has absolute rule over himself."
Page 31. Oenomaus, father of Hippodameia, would give her only to
the suitor who could overcome him in a chariot race. Suitors whom
he could overtake he killed.
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