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1. ’80: is in no ways like his uncle…

2. Cicero wrote to Luxeius, and Pliny the Younger to Tacitus, asking for a place in their histories.

3. Not really. Terence may have been a Carthaginian slave freed by Terentius Lucanus. In the Prologue to the Adelphi (15–21) he says he is flattered by the imputation that great men helped him write his comedies, which may or may not mean what Montaigne thinks it does.

4. Plutarch, Life of Demosthenes.

5. Horace, Carmen Saeculare, 51–2.

6. Virgil, Aeneid, VI, 849–51.

7. Plutarch: Life of Pericles (twice) and (tr. Amyot) Dicts notables des anciens Roys, Princes et grands Capitaines, 192C.

8. Seneca, Epist. moral., XCV, 2–3.

9. Ibid., XXI, 4–5.

10. Plutarch (tr. Amyot), Dicts notables des anciens Roys, Princes et grands Capitaines, 208A.

11. Etienne de La Boëtie.

12. ’80: disjointed and difficult; and I know… (Montaigne sees his style as marked by the dry, everyday language of Latin comedy. Cf. Seneca, Epist. moral., C, 10.)

13. ’80: haughty. Those whom I love cause me pain if I have to tell them I do so. I present myself…