“A little of the fool.”

“Thou carriest Cæsar and his fortunes.”—Plut. Vit. Cæls. 38.

“The Fortunate.” He attributed his success to the intervention of Hercules, to whom he paid especial veneration.

“The Great.”—Plut. Syll. 34.

A successful Athenian general, the son of Conon, and the friend of Plato.

Fluency, or smoothness.

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread.”—Gen. iii. 19.

“In the sweat of the face of another.”

In the middle ages the Jews were compelled, by legal enactment, to wear peculiar dresses and colors; one of these was orange.

“A concession by reason of hardness of heart.” He alludes to the words in St. Matthew xix. 8.

See note to Essay xix.