List of Latin quotes from the works of Francis Bacon
List of Latin quotes from the works of Francis Bacon
This page relates to Latin phrases quoted by Francis Bacon in his works, whether written in English or Latin.
With regards to his works that were originally written in Latin, e.g. *Novum Organum * this page includes only phrases quoted by Bacon in these very works.
The page does not include Latin passages from such works that are fragments of Bacon's own creative writing.
"Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mors ipsa."
Translation: "The pomp of death is more terrible than death itself"
Source: -Probably suggested by a letter of Seneca to Lucilius.
Quoted in Bacon's Of Death .
"Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis, aut miser, sed etiam astidiosus potest."
Source: Seneca. Quoted in Bacon's Of Death.
"Livia, conjugii nostra memor, vive et vale."
Translation:"Livia mindful of our wedlock, live, and farewell."
Source: Seufonius, Aug. Vit.. Quoted in Bacon's Of Death.
"Jam Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, deserebant:"
Translation:"His powers and bodily strenght had abandoned Tiberius, but not his dissimulation."
Source: Annals vi 50., Tacitus. Quoted in Bacon's Of Death.
"Ut puto Deus fio:"
Source: Quoted in Bacon's Of Death.
"Feri, si ex re sit populi Romani,"
Translation: "Strike, if it be for the benefit of the Roman people."
Source: The Histories, Tacitus,..Quoted in Bacon's Of Death.
"Adeste, si quid mihi restat agendum,"
Translation: "Hasten, if anything remains for me to do."
Source: Quoted in Bacon's Of Death.
"qui finem vitæ extremum inter munera ponat naturae."
Translation: "He who account the close of life among the boons of nature."
Source: Juv. Sat.. Quoted in Bacon's Of Death.
"Nunc dimittis"
Translation: "Now you dismiss"
Source: Luke, the Vulgate translation of the New Testament.
"Extinctus amabitur idem."
Source: Horace.
Quoted in Bacon's Of Death.[2]