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Roger Bacon, Op. Tert. ii. 21 : "Quinta propositio geometriæ Euclidis dicitur Elefuga, id est fuga miserorum."

85, 3.cp. John vi. 60.

85, 4.The child of inconstancy; Mr. Thomas discovered the source of this passage in the De disciplina scholarium, a work long attributed to Boethius.

86, 7.Gratian collected the decrees and constitutions of the Popes into a body of canon law.

87, 3.cp. Donatus' life of Virgil, c. xviii.

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88, 11.Aristotle, cp. Met. i. 2.

89, 1.Sceptre in her left hand, cp. De Cons. Phil. i. pr. 4.

89, 5.cp. the passage in the 5th Bk. of the Republic cited by Boethius.

89, 20.the charioteer of his father's car, "currus auriga paterni," cp. Ovid, Met. ii. 327.

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91, 4.Though one should speak, cp. I Cor. xiii. I.

91, 10.cp. Wisdom xvii. 18.

92, 6.cp. Ovid, Remed. Am. 139.

93, 4.No iron-stained hand, etc., from the Eutheticus, or introductory verses to the Policraticon of John of Salisbury:—

"Nulla libris erit apta manus ferrugine tincta,
Nee nummata queunt corda vacare libris.
Non est ejusdem nummos librosque probrare;
Persequitur libros grex. Epicure, tuus.
Nummipetæ cum libricolis nequeunt simul esse;
Ambos, crede mihi, non tenet una domus."

93, 10.Mammon, cp. Matt. vi. 24.

93, 14.The demon who derives his name from knowledge, cp.