Scientia potentia est man which constitute power; in this list, "sciences" or "the sciences" are given a minor position: In the English version this passage reads as thus: On a later work, "De Corpore" (1655), also written in Latin, Hobbes expanded the same idea: In Jean Hampton, "Hobbes and the social contract tradition" (1988), Hampton indicates that this quote is 'after Bacon' and in a footnote, that 'Hobbes was Bacon's secretary as a young man and had philosophical discussions with him (Aubrey 1898, 331). The closest expression in Bacon's works is, perhaps, the expression ""scientia potestas est"", found in his "" (1597), which
Menander army to civil war by crossing the River Rubicon. The popular form "the die is cast" is from the Latin "iacta alea est", a mistranslation by Suetonius, 121 AD. According to Plutarch, the actual phrase used by Julius Caesar at the crossing of the Rubicon was a quote in Greek from Menander's play "Arrhephoros", with the different meaning "Let the die be cast!". See discussion at "the die is cast" and ""Alea iacta est"". "Lewis and Short", citing Casaubon and Ruhnk, suggest that the text of Suetonius should read "Jacta alea esto", which they translate as "Let the die be