78, 10.the over-mastering love of books, "librorum amor hereos"; nearly all the MSS. read hereos one MS. herous, ereus. The word is one of the few unsettled cruces, if not the only crux, in the Philobiblon and baffled even Mr. Thomas's efforts; he proposed δεινὀς in view of the difficulty of hereos, "of which no trace is to be found in the dictionaries." But surely the MSS. are correct; "amor hereos" reminds one of Chaucer's phrase, "the loveres maladye of Hereos," i.e. the lover's disease of Eros (Knight's Tale, 515), amor hereos=love-passion, "hereos" being used in apposition to amor or adjectively.
78, 16.the scorpion in treacle, cp. Arist. Opp. Lat. 1496 f. 573: "Hæc scientia utilis est, ut est utilis scorpio in tyriaca; quæ licet sit toxicum tamen si datur patienti dolorem minuit et præstat remedium." The De Pomo, a treatise on the immortality of the soul, was falsely attributed to Aristotle, being really translated from the Hebrew by Manfred, son of the Emperor Frederick II.
79, 1.cp. Luke xi. 34-36.
79, 4.for the regulation of social life, cp. Wisdom viii. 9.
79. 6.synteresis, "a naturall power of ye soule, set in the highest part thereof, mooving and stirring it to good, and abhorring evil" (the Doctor and Student, dialog, i. c. 13).
XII
82, 3.royal roads, "stratas regias."
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84, 18, 21.Horace, A.P. 333, 343:—
"Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetæ."
"Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci."
85, 1.Pons Asinorum, the original reads "elefuga," cp.
