# The Essays of Francis Bacon/II Of Death

II. Of Death.
* ↑ "For the wages of sin is death." Romans vi. 23.
* ↑ Mortification. Humiliation, penance.
* ↑ The surroundings of death strike more terror than death itself. L. Annaei Senecae ad Lucilium Epistularum Moralium Liber III. Epistula III. Seneca lived 4–65 A.D.
* ↑ Blacks. Black clothing for mourning; hangings of black cloth used in churches, etc., at funerals. In Shakspere's time the upper part of the stage, technically called 'the heavens,' was hung with black when tragedies were performed. "I would not hear of blacks, I was so light, But chose a color orient like my mind: For blacks are often such dissembling mourners, There is no credit given to 't; it has lost All reputation by false sons and widows." Middleton. The Old Law. ii. 1.
* ↑ Mate. To daunt ; to stupefy. "My mind she has mated and amazed my sight." Shakspere. Macbeth. v. 1.
* ↑ Pre-occupate. To occupy before; to anticipate.
* ↑ Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman emperor, 32–69 A.D.
* ↑ Provoke. To stimulate to action; to move; to excite. "And let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and to good works." Hebrews x. 24.
* ↑ Think how often you do the same things. A man may wish to die, not so much because he is brave or miserable, as that he is tired of living. L. Annaei Senecae ad Lucilium Epistularum Moralium Liber X. Epistula I. "It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live." Sir Thomas Browne. Religio Medici. Part I. Section 44.
* ↑ Caius Octavius, called later, Caius Julius Caesar Octavlanus Augustus, great-nephew of Julius Caesar, and first Roman emperor, lived 63 B.C. to 14 A.D.
* ↑ Livia Drusilla was the mother of Tiberius and the third wife of Augustus. 'Caesar Augustus died in a compliment.—I hope 't was a sincere one!—quoth my Uncle Toby.—'T was to his wife, said my father.' Sterne. Tristram Shandy. V. 3.
* ↑ Livia, mindful of our union, live on, and farewell. C. Suetoni Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus Liber II. D. Octavius Caesar Augustus. 100.
* ↑ Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, stepson of Augustus and Roman emperor, lived 42 B.C. to 37 A.D.
* ↑ Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian, lived from about 55 to about 117 A.D. He wrote De vita et moribus Julii Agricolae; Germania; Historiae, accounts of the reigns of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian; and Annales, a history of the Julian dynasty from the death of Augustus.
* ↑ His strength and vitality were now deserting Tiberius, but not his dissimulation. P. Cornelii Taciti Annalium Liber VI. Caput 50.
* ↑ Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus, Roman emperor, 9–79 A.D.
* ↑ I suppose I am becoming a god. C. Suetoni Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus Liber VIII. T. Flavius Vespasianus Augustus. 23.
* ↑ Servius Sulpicius Galba, Roman emperor, lived 3 B.C. to 69 A.D.
* ↑ Strike, if it be for the good of the Roman people. Cornelii Taciti Historiarum Liber I. Caput 41.
* ↑ Lucius Septimius Severus, Roman emperor, 146– 211 A.D.
* ↑ Make haste, if anything remains for me to do. Dion Cassius. Liber LXXVI. 17.
* ↑ Who considers the end of life as one of nature's blessings. The thought is Juvenal's, D. Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirarum Liber IV. Satira X. 358–-359. Bacon quotes the verse again in the Advancement of Learning. II. xxi. 5.
* ↑ Dolours. Griefs, sorrows. "About this time I did light on a dreadful story of that miserable mortal, Francis Spira; a book that was to my troubled spirit, as salt when rubbed into a fresh wound: every sentence in that book, every groan of that man, with all the rest of his actions in his dolours, as his tears, his prayers, his gnashing of teeth, his wringing of hands, his twisting, and languishing, and pining away under that mighty hand of God that was upon him, were as knives and daggers to my soul." Bunyan. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. The Works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan, Minister of the Gospel; and formerly Pastor of a Congregation at Bedford. Vol. I. p. 49. (New Haven. 1831.)
* ↑ Nunc dimittis, or the Song of Simeon. Luke ii. 29–32. "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." It is one of the canticles for Evening Prayer in the Church of England.
* ↑ The same man, dead, will be loved; i.e., he who is envied and suffers from detraction in life, may become a hero after death. Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolarum Liber II. Epistola I. Ad Augustum. 14.