II. i.] THE FIRST BOOK. 



came in embassage to Rome, and that the 

 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: Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento, 

 HCB tibierunt 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 

 1 times there hath been a meeting and concurrence in J ^ / 

 I learning and arms, flourishing and excelling in the same J 

 J 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 Juli^_Csesaj^he Dictator ; whereofme^one- &quot; 

 was Aristotle s schokrin philosophy, and the other was 



