LIBER SEPTIMUS. 731 



Infoelix, utcunque ferent ea facta 1 minores.* 



Id ipsum licet intueri in cceua ilia, ad quam invitati sunt 

 M. Brutus, C. Cassius, et alii. Illic enim cum ad animos explo- 

 randos circa conspirationem in caput Caesaris intentam, quaestio 

 astute mota esset Num licitum foret tyrannum occidere 9 ibant 

 convivae in opiniones diversas ; dum alii dicerent, plane licere, 

 quod servitus ultimum esset malorum ; alii minime, quod tyrannis 

 minus exitialis esset quam bellum civile ; tertium autem genus 

 veluti ex schola Epicuri asserebat, indignum esse prudentes peri- 

 clitari pro stultis. 3 Verum plurimi sunt casus de Officiia Com- 

 paratis, inter quos frequenter ille intervenit ; utrum a justitia 

 deflectendum sit propter salutem patrice, aut hujusmodi aliquod 

 insigne bonum in futuro ? Circa quern Jason Thessalus dicere 

 solebat, Aliqua sunt injuste facienda, ut multa juste fieri pos- 

 sint*: verum replicatio in promptu est; Authorem prcesentis 

 justifies habes ; sponsor em futures non habes. Sequantur ho- 

 mines quae in praesentia bona et justa sunt; futura Divinae 

 Providentiae remittentes. Atque circa doctrinam de Exem- 

 plari, sive de Bono, haec dicta sint. 



CAPUT III. 



Partitio Doctrine de Cultura Animi, in Doctrinam de Cha- 

 racteribus Animorum, de Affectibus, et de E-emediis sive 

 Curationibus. Appendix Doctrines ejusdem, de Congruitate 

 inter Bonum Animi et Bonum Corporis. 



NUNC igitur, postquam de Fructu Vitas (sensu intelligimus 

 philosophico) verba fecerimus ; superest ut de Cultura Animi 

 quas ei debetur dicamus ; sine qua pars prior, nihil aliud videtur 

 quam imago quaedam aut statua, pulchra quidem aspectu, sed 

 motu et vita destituta. Cui sentential Aristoteles ipse disertis 



1 In the original, as also in the corresponding passage of the Advancement of Learn- 

 ing^ fata is put for facta. J. S. 



2 Virg. JEn. vi. 823. It is less difficult to sympathise with Sultan Mahmoud of 

 Ghisnee. When he had killed the adulterer, he said " Now bring a light," and after 

 looking at the corpse called for water. " God is merciful I was mistaken. I thought 

 no man would have ventured to commit such an outrage but my son ; and since you 

 told me of it three nights ago, I have neither eaten nor drunken." See Malcolm's 

 History of Persia. 



3 See Plutarch in Brutus ; where however the story is somewhat differently told. 



4 Plut. Reip. Ger. Traecep. 817. 



