12. Gloss over.

13. A foolish man who breaks up the weighty reality of things with fine verbal quibbles (not Aulus Gellius but another Roman rhetorician, Quintilian. Bacon quotes freely from The Education of an Orator, X.1.130, where Quintilian is describing Seneca).

14. Protagoras, 337A – C. Protagoras and Prodicus taught philosophy and rhetoric in Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.

15. Find it easy.

16. And try to gain credit by objecting and foretelling difficulties.

17. Accepted.

18. A penniless man, though to the world he does not appear so.

19. To be thought well of.

20. A man who is somewhat ridiculous rather than one who is all show.