Il. 1.] THE FIRST BOOK. IL 
came in embassage to Rome, and that the young men 
of Rome began to flock about him, being allured with 
the sweetness and majesty of his eloquence and learn- 
ing, gave counsel in open senate that they should give 
him his dispatch with all speed, lest he should infect 
and enchant the minds and affections of the youth, and 
at unawares bring in an alteration of the manners and 
customs of the state. Out of the same conceit or 
humour did Virgil, turning his pen to the advantage of 
his country, and the disadvantage of his own profession, 
make a kind of separation between policy and govern- 
ment, and between arts and sciences, in the verses so 
much renowned, attributing and challenging the one to 
the Romans, and leaving and yielding the other to the 
Grecians: Zu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento, 
He tibi erunt artes, &c. So likewise we see that Anytus, 
the accuser of Socrates, laid it as an article of charge and 
accusation against him, that he did, with the variety and 
power of his discourses and disputations, withdraw young 
men from due reverence to the laws and customs of their 
country, and that he did profess a dangerous and per- 
nicious science, which was, to make the worse matter 
seem the better, and to suppress truth by force of elo- 
quence and speech. 
‘2. But these and the like imputations have rather a 
countenance of gravity than any ground of justice: for 
experience doth warrant, that both in persons and in 
times there hath been a meeting and concurrence in | 
learning and arms, flourishing and excelling in the same 
men and the same ages. For as for men, ‘there cannot 
be a better nor the like instance, as of that pair, Alexander 
the Great and Julius Cesar the Dictator; whereof the one 
was Aristotle’s scholar in philosophy, and the other was 
