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Thomas Hobbes,Three Discourses. A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes, ed. Noel B. Reynolds and Arlene W. Saxonhouse (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995), IX + 181 pp.

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  1. Strauss, L.,The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its basis and genesis, translated from the German manuscript by E.M. Sinclair (Oxford 1936; repr. Chicago 1952, 1966).

  2. Tuck, R.,Philosophy and government 1572–1651 (Cambridge 1993); Idem, Tuck, R.,Hobbes (Oxford 1989).

  3. Thomas Hobbes,The Correspondence, ed. N. Malcolm (Oxford 1994); Malcolm, ‘A summary biography of Hobbes' in T. Sorell, ed.,The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge 1996), pp. 13–44.

  4. Skinner, Q.,Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge 1996); Idem, Skinner, Q., ‘Thomas Hobbes: rhetoric and the Renaissance construction of morality’,Proceedings of the British Academy 76 (1991), p. 1–61.

  5. Aubrey, J.,Brief Lives, ed. A. Clark, 2 vols. (Oxford 1898), vol. 1, p. 331.

  6. Skinner,op. cit., Skinner, Q.,Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge 1996); pp. 238–44.

  7. The fourth discourse in the volume, William Cavendish'sDiscourse against Flatterie, had also been published separately in 1611.

  8. p. 4, referring to L. Strauss,op. cit.)The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its basis and genesis, translated from the German manuscript by E.M. Sinclair (Oxford 1936; repr. Chicago 1952, 1966)., p. xii, n. 1.

  9. Reynolds and Hilton first announced their statistical results in theInternational Hobbes Association Newsletter n.s. 14 (1992), pp. 4–9, and inHistory of Political Thought 14 (1994), pp. 361–80 (given as 1993 at 12, n. 16). Arlene Saxonhouse had already discussedHorae Subsecivae in ‘Hobbes and the “Horae Subsecivae”,Polity 13 (1981), pp. 541–67, and in her 1972,Yale dissertation, ‘The origins of Hobbes’ pre-scientific thought: An interpretation of theHorae Subsecivae’

  10. J.J. Scaliger,De Emendatione Temporum (1583); Idem, J.J. Scaliger,Thesaurus Temporum (1606).

  11. ‘On the life and writings of Thucydides’,ad fin.

  12. Seneca,Hercules Furens, 251, usually given asprosperum ac felix...

  13. A quick check in a copy of the third edition (Antwerp 1588) suggests he was not. Hobbes readspopuli Romani prospera vel adversa, Lipsius,veteris reipublicae prospera vel adversa (Ann. 1.4); Hobbes:deterrerentur, Lipsiusdetererentur (Ann. 1.4; with a note defending the spelling); Hobbes does follow Lipsius in one of his emendations that is still printed:munimentis forMonumentis (Ann. 3.5).

  14. Malcolm in Sorell, ed., 1996, p. 19 dates the stay in Rome to October 1614.. The reference to ‘Father Owen, lately dead’ (Discourse of Rome, p. 92) seems to give aterminus post quem for the date of composition. Thomas Owen, S.J., Rector of the English College, died on 6 December 1618, according to theDictionary of National Biography. The reference to the ‘house newly built by this Pope [Paul V] at the foot of Monte Quirinale’ (p. 89) and other architectural references might also be helpful.

  15. Malcolm in Sorell, ed., 1996, p. 19. Cf. the accounts in C. de Seta,L'Italia del Grand Tour: da Montaigne a Goethe (Napoli 1992), ‘Gli Inglesi,’ and A. Brilli,Le voyage d'Italie: histoire d'une grande tradition culturelle du XVIe au XIXe siècles, tr. S. Valicio-Bosio (Paris 1989), pp. 24–40, ‘Le voyage pédagogique du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle’; this sentence from the latter might apply to Hobbes: ‘Dans la plupart des cas, les accompagnateurs des jeunes aristocrates étaient des intellectuels qui ne demandaient mieux que de profiter des avantages cultures offerts par la charge qu'on leur avait confiée’. See also Francis Bacon's essay, ‘Of travel,’ and John Locke,Some Thoughts concerning Education.

  16. Hobbes may have known this saying from the life of Heraclitus in Diogenes Laertius,Lives of Eminent philosophers (IX.1.2), which in recent decades had attracted the attention of Henricus Stephanus and Casaubon among others. Francis Bacon knew and esteemed the Presocratics (e.g.,Novum Organum [1620], I.71).

  17. I have been unable to find this phrase in Demosthenes; is it a misattribution of Isocrates, 12.138: πα̑σα πολιτεία ψυχὴ πόλεώϛ ἐστι?

  18. Cf. Tuck, “Hobbes's moral philosophy,” in Sorell, ed., 1996, p. 205, n. 30

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Silverthorne, M. Thomas Hobbes Tutor. Int class trad 4, 411–417 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686428

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