02.8. Footnotes

Footnotes {1} That is, a deficiency.

{2} Genesis 30:11 {3} Vide Cic. de Offic. lib. iii. cap. 33.

{4} Or mines.

{5} Or, unsuitable.

{6} "Charity does not inflict punishment because an offence has been committed, but lest an offence should be committed."

{7} "He that is not inclined to-day will be more inclined to-morrow." This is reversing the saying of the poet--"Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit" Ovid, Remed. Amor. ver. 94.

{8} "She does not see what is in the bag behind her." Sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est. (Catul. Carm. xxii. ver. 21) There is an allusion here to one of the fables of Æsop. Jupiter, says Æsop, placed two bags upon men. The one, which contained their own faults, he put upon their back, and the other, which was filled with the faults of others, he suspended from their neck, upon their breast. In this way, we cannot see our own misdeeds, but, perceiving those of others, we censure them freely. (Phaed. Fab. Æsop, lib. iv. fab. 10.)

{9} These are terms (locus inventionis, the place or topic of invention, and medium, the argument or middle term of a syllogism) which, belonging to the dialectic art, were employed by the school-men. All the arts and sciences have certain general subjects connected with them which presuppose particular facts, axioms, and rules. These general subjects, being used in the invention of arguments, were called topics or common places. "They were so called by Aristotle, as if they were the seats from which arguments were to be brought forth." (Sic appellatæ ab Aristotele sunt hæ quasi sedes e quibus argumenta promuntur). Cic. Top. cap. ii.

{10} We grant and solicit in our turn this indulgence. Hor. De Art. poet. ver. 11.

{11} Or, condescendence.

{12} Or, without its begetting love.

{13} Overlook it.

{14} Most.

{15} The word homo (man) has been supposed to be derived from humus (the ground) because man sprang from the earth. Quintillian’s objection to this derivation of the word is that all other animals have the same origin. (quasi vero non omnibus animal bus eadem origo. Instit. Orator lib. i, cap. 6) Such an objection however has but little force. For though, according to the account which Moses gives of the creation, the earth at the command of God, not only brought forth man, but other creatures, (Genesis 1:24) man alone was called Adam אדם because he was formed of the dust of the ground, אדמה Genesis 2:7.--Joseph, Antiq. lib. i, cap. 1.

{16} That is, "humble beings."

{17} Humility is "the seasoning of the virtues," as well as "the garb." Cicero represents suavity of speech and manners to be the seasoning of friendship (condimentum amicitiae). De Amicitia, cap. 18.

{18} That is, "an ornament and covering."

{19} Crede mihi, bene qui latuit, bene vixit; et intra fortunam debet quisque manere suam. "Believe me, he who has not attracted the notice of the world has lived well, and every one ought to keep within his own proper sphere." Ovid Trist. lib. iii. eleg. iv, ver. 25.

{20} "He who falls on a smooth surface, (yet this rarely happens,) falls in such a way that he can rise again from the ground he has touched." Ovid, ut supra, ver. 17.