A Budget of Paradoxes Volume II Part 58

[660]

"May some choice patron bless each grey goose quill; May every Bavius have his Bufo still."--POPE, _Prologue to the Satires._

Bavius has become proverbial as a bad poet from the lines in Vergil's _Eclogues_ (III, 90):

"Qui Bavium non odit, amet tua carmina, Maevi, Atque idem jungat vulpes, et mulgeat hircos."

"He who does not hate Bavius shall love thy verses, O Maevius; and the same shall yoke foxes and shall milk he-goats."

Bavius and Maevius were the worst of Latin poets, condemned by Horace as well as Vergil.

[661] See Vol. II, page 158, note 279.

[662] "Honest," "useful," "handsome," "sweet."

[663] "Let not the fourth man attempt to speak."

[664]

"In those old times,--ah 'Twas just like this, ah!"

[665] See Vol. I, page 382, note 12 {785}.

[666] These remarks were never written.--S. E. De M.

[667]

"Fleas, flies, and friars, are masters who sadly the people abuse, And thistles and briars are sure growing grains to abuse.

O Christ, who hatest strife and slayst all things in peace, Destroy where'er are rife, briars, friars, flies and fleas.

Fleas, flies, and friars foul fall them these fifteen years For none that there is loveth fleas, flies, nor freres."

[668] "It is my plan to restore to an unskilled race the worthy arts of a better life."

[669] The first sentences of the first oration of Cicero against Catiline: "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?" (How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience?) "Quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?" (How long will this your madness baffle us?) "Nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, ... nihil horum ora voltusque moverunt?" (Does the night watch of the Palatium, ... do the faces and expressions of all these men fail to move you?) "In te conferri ..." (This plague should have been inflicted upon you long ago, which you have plotted against us so long.)

[670] "Beware of the things that are marked."

[671] "Farewell, ye teachers without learning! See to it that at our next meeting we may find you strong in body and sound in mind."

[672] See Vol. I, page 336, note 8 {713}.

[673] See Vol. I, page 229, note 2 {515}.

[674] This proof, although capable of improvement, is left as in the original. Those who may be interested in the mathematics of the question, may consult F. Enriques, _Fragen der Elementargeometrie_ (German by Fleischer), Leipsic, 1907, Part II, p. 267; F. Rudio, _Archimedes_, _Huygens_, _Lambert_, _Legendre_. _Vier Abhandlungen uber die Kreismessung_, Leipsic, 1892; F. Klein, _Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry_ (English by Beman and Smith), Boston, 1895; J. W. A. Young, _Monographs on Modern Mathematics_, New York, 1911, Chap. IX (by the editor of the present edition of De Morgan.)

[675] See Vol. I, page 69, note 2 {95}.

[676] See Vol. I, page 137, note 8 {286}.

[677] Joseph Allen Galbraith who, with Samuel Haughton, wrote the Galbraith and Haughton's _Scientific Manuals_. (Euclid, 1856; Algebra, 1860; Trigonometry, 1854; Optics, 1854, and others.)

[678] This note on Carlyle (1795-1881) is interesting. The translation of Legendre appeared in the same year (1824) as his translation of Goethe's _Wilhelm Meister_.

[679] Michael Stifel (1487-1567), also known as Stiefel, Styfel, and Stifelius, was an Augustine monk but became a convert to Lutheranism. He was professor of mathematics at Jena (1559-1567). His edition of the _Coss_ appeared at Konigsberg in 1553, the first edition having been published in 1525. The + and - signs first appeared in print in Widman's arithmetic of 1489, but for purposes of algebra this book was one of the first to make them known.

[680] Christoff Rudolff was born about 1500 and died between 1540 and 1552.

_Die Coss_ appeared in 1525 and his arithmetic in 1526.