260 GIORDANO BRUNO PART 



There follow as " virtues " : Sagacity, judicious 

 election or choice, affability, magnanimity (Aquila) ; 

 divine enthusiasm or rapture (Pegasus} ; hopefulness, 

 faith and sincerity (the Triangle} ; virtuous emulation, 

 tolerance, sociability (and friendship the Pleiades) ; 

 love (peace and friendship Gemini) ; conversion or 

 emendation, heroic generosity (or magnanimity, again 

 Leo) ; continence, equity (and justice Libra) ; 

 sincerity (observance of promises Scorpio)\ contempla- 

 tion, the love of solitude (freedom of mind), temperance 

 (Aquarius) ; just reserve and taciturnity, tranquillity 

 of mind, industry, prudent fear, vigilance for the state, 

 kindliness, liberality, judicious sagacity (Hydra) ; divine 

 magic (and soothsaying), abstinence (the Cup /), the 

 divine parable (the sacred mystery, Chiron) ; sincere 

 piety and wise religion (the Altar) ; honour, glory, and, 

 finally, health, security and repose, as the due reward 

 of the virtues, and remuneration for zealous work and 

 endurance. 1 



It will be seen that the list is redundant, and it is 

 more so in the text, where several virtues are usually 

 given under each head. Several of the names do not 

 denote virtues in the ordinary sense (e.g. knowledge of 

 magic, ability to interpret the divine parables) : they 

 are merely qualities which it is desirable for the good 

 man to have. Others refer to qualities which could not 

 be acquired by any one destitute of them (e.g. hope, 

 love, piety), while others represent rather the outcome I 

 of the virtuous life than any one of its constituent \ 

 elements, e.g. Knowledge, Divine Enthusiasm, Con- 

 templation, Honour. There remain the familiar virtues 



1 Cf. also p. 488. Another list of virtues is in the eulogium on Julius in the 

 Oratio Comolator'ta (Op. Lot. i. i. 47 fF.). There also the constellations typify dif- 

 ferent virtues. 



