Montaigne’s Classical Bookshelf
- Montaigne’s Classical Bookshelf
A graduate of the University, is Professor of Latin in the University of California.
Footnotes
1. “The Sieur de Montaigne and Cicero” (University of Toronto Quarterly, IX, 1940, 222–30).
2. My quotations are from Charles Cotton’s capable translation. I regret that in my former article I was careless enough to mischristen him Thomas. The errors of foot-note writers are verily legion and past finding out, and they are perpetuated by all too many willing copyists. All quotations in this article will be from the sixty-seventh essay except those for which another number is specifically given. These numbers are as in Cotton’s edition; more recent editions have effected considerable change in this respect.
3. Essay xcvi.
4. Essay ciii.
5. Essay lxxxix.
6. Essay lxxiv.
7. Essay xxv.
8. Essay xxv, Like the “young gentleman” I recently fell in with, who thanked God in my presence that he would never have to read another line of Milton as long as he lived.
9. Essay lxxiv.
10. For example, IV, 519: From those who are to enter life, the gods Conceal the truth, to make them cling to life, That death is better.
11. Essay xxv.
12. Essay lxxiv.
13. J. W. Mackail, Latin Literature (second ed., London, 1896), 49.
