Solon:

"[Greek: ex anemon de thalassa tarassetai? en de tis auten]
[Greek: me kinei, panton esti dikaiotate.]"
_Fragm._ i. 8., ed. Gaisford.

And to a passage of Livy (xxviii. 27.):

"Multitudo omnis, sicut natura maris, per se immobilis est, venti et
aurae cient."

Compare Babrius, fab. 71.

P. 165. "Did not one of the Fathers, in great indignation, call poesy
_vinum daemonum_?"

The same citation recurs in Essay I., "On Truth:"

"One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy _vinum daemonum_."

Query, Who is the Father alluded to?

Page 177., the sayings, "Faber quisque fortunae propriae" is cited; and
again, p. 178., "Faber quisque fortunae suae." In Essay XL., "On Fortune," it
is quoted, with the addition, "saith the poet." The words are to be found
in Sallust, _Ad Caesar. de Rep. Ord._, ii. 1.:

"Sed res docuit, id verum esse, quad in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum
suae esse quemque fortunae."

The Appius alluded to is Appius Claudius the Censor.

Bacon proceeds to say:

"This conceit or position [viz. 'Faber quisque,' &c.], if it be too
much declared and professed, hath been thought a thing impolitic and
unlucky, as was observed in Timotheus the Athenian, who, having done
many great services to the estate in his government, and giving an
account thereof to the people, as the manner was, did conclude every
particular with this clause, 'And in this Fortune had no part.' And it
came so to pass, that he never prospered in anything he took in hand
afterwards."

The anecdote is as follows:--Timotheus had been ridiculed by the comic
poets, on account of the small share which his own management had had in
his successes. A satirical painting had likewise been made, in which he was
represented sleeping, while Fortune stood over him, and drew the cities
into his net. (See Plutarch, _Reg. et Imp. Apophth._, vol. ii. p. 42., ed.
Tauchnitz; AElian, V. H. xiii. 42.) On one occasion, however, having
returned from a successful expedition, he remarked to the Athenians, in
allusion to the previous sarcasms, that in this campaign at least Fortune
had no share. Plutarch, who relates the latter {495} anecdote in his _Life
of Sylla_, c. 6., proceeds to say, that this boast gave so much offence to
the deity, that he never afterwards prospered in any of his enterprises.
His reverse of luck, in consequence of his vainglorious langua