in Princes with the Title of Excellency and in Doctors those of the mind The Dukes thought then that the sentence was favorable on their behalf wherefore with a scornful smile they said to the Doctors These Judges have cleared the question once for ever At the hearing whereof the Doctors who smiled inwardly at the simplicity of these Titolati not to give themselves any further trouble answered nothing But when the Princes had conferred with their Learned Councel who told them that the sentence made for the Doctors they prest his Majestie that they might be suffered to appeal Apollo troubled at the Princes pressures bad them be quiet for they vilified the Title of Excellency who bought it with their monies not they who had won by their labour and study And that if the Dukes and other Tâ—…tolati would purchase infinite honor to themselves they should open their purses and by rewarding the Professers of Learning acquire unto themselves the Title of Liberal which with men of sound judgement and perfect understanding was thought to be much above that of Excellency Highness nay even that of Cesars sacred Imperial Majesty The LI. ADVERTISEMENT A Marquiss who caused his Genealogy to be made by Scipio Ammerati found himself so ill dealt with by him as he redemands the reward he gave him AT Scipio Ammerato's first entrance into Parnassus he opened a publick shop where he still professes the mystery of making Genealogies and Pedigrees for principal Families at which he is so expert as he hath the chief work in this Court of that nature Wherefore some months ago a Marquiss of some condition desired him that he would draw a Pedigree of all his Family and endeavor carefully to find out the first original thereof for which he would not be unthankful to him and in part of payment he presently gave him 200 crowns of Gold Ammerato spent divers months in this business and at last found all that was possible to be found of that Lords Family and drew it up into an exact form By that Genealogy it was seen that this Lords Predicessors had been Marquisses for above one hundred years and that the first of his Family that possessed any Estate was a Captain who for his good service done to an Emperor of Germany had a Castle given him which was called Marquiss Ammeratus found that this Captains Father was a Physitian that this Physitian was the son of a Notary that the Father of this Notary was an Oyl-man descended from a Serjeant who for some roguery was hanged that this Serjeant was son to a Matrix-maker who was descended from a Gentleman of Savoy who for having conspired against his Prince was put to death Whose son when he was very young being sent by the Prince of Savoy to shift for himself was taken into the house of meer charity by the said Matrix-maker who having taught him his Art adopted him his son The Gentleman of Savoy was son to a great Count whose Father Grand-father great Grand-father and great great Grand-father had been of good esteem in that County which was purchast by a Courtier a great favorit to the Prince of that time This Courtier was found by authentick Records to be the son of a certain Jew whose name was Salamon who becoming afterwards a Christian was called Arnoldo and this Jew being come from Rhodes his pedigree could be no further pried into Ammirato having arived at this presented the Lord with this Genealogy who seeing the great bulk thereof not looking into the contents seemed to be well satisfied and gave Ammirato a thousand crowns But when he read the loathsomness of his Family and the mean condition of divers who were registered in his Genealogy he returned to Ammirato and told him that instead of an honorable pedigree which he had desired him to make he had composed an infamous Libel against him Then giving him back his Genealogy re-demanded the moneys which he had given him saying he used to reward those who would cover his shame not those who would lay it open to the world But he was soon quieted when Ammirato told him he should do wisely in not being over-curious in seeking far into the Antiquity of his house for that the wheel of this world turning continually round and in a short space of time laying those low who a little before were at the highest pitch they who were too ambitiously desirous to know who their progenitors were from the flood would find many in their Genealogy stained with the like blemishes as his was The LII ADVERTISEMENT A dispute arising amongst the Vertuosio touching the truth of certain Sayings and Speeches of wise men their true meanings were argued and resolved in the General Dyet celebrated in Helicon THe Sayings Sentences and Answers of the wise are the Laws Acts and Statutes which are observed by the Vertuosi in this State and therefore Apollo is very careful that they may be perfectly true and exactly good And because many days since a great dispute arose amongst the Literati touching the truth of some of them according to custom in a business of so great weight the General Diet of the Vertuosi was intimated in Helicon Wherein the first thing that was called in question was whether or no the common saying was true That wise men and fools are cozened by fair words and foul deeds Many were for the Affirmative saying that the cunning of divers modern wits was arrived at that height of double dealing as there were many good people who being fed with good words were afterwards paid with bad performances and that it was daily seen that double dealers did by their fallacious speeches turn and winde plain meaning men as they listed and led them by the nose at their pleasure though they were held generally to be wise men Yet it was resolved by the major part of the Dyet that in times past the saying was allovv'd of with much reason and practised as a true one but that novv adays by the overdaring boldness of dissemblers vvho vvere openly seen to cheat and cozen the eyes of the simplest and very Ideots vvere so opened as believing onely such things as they savv plainly by noon-day and touched vvith their hands none but fools vvere cheated vvith good vvords and bad deeds for vvise men vvho vvere avvare of these vvicked mens vvays did not onely not at all believe them but holding them to be Crosbiters and Cutpurses shunn'd them as they vvould do the Plague So as such as these being upbraided with their double dealing durst no longer shevv their faces amongst honest men but like Ovvls and Bats appeared onely by night to hide their shame by darkness It vvas next taken into consideration vvhether the proverb Omne solum Forti patria est To a stout man all the vvorld is his Countrey vvere absolutely true or no. The first day vvhich vvas vvholly spent in hot disputation upon this point the Dyet seemed to think it vvas
be compleated fell into so great lamentations as being followed therein by the other Vertuosi Lipsius who knew that his Oration could not be heard by reason of the great noise which those sighs and groans made came down from his seat being satisfied for the injury which Pausanius had given him by that interruption with the consolation he received from the Encomium he had made of his Country the Flemmish Nation It was believed by all the Learned of this State that great intimacy and friendship was contracted between Cornelius Tacitus and Giustus Lipsius by reason of the many reciprocal courtesies which had past between them but to the wonder of all the Learned in Parnassus the contrary happened For two daies since Lipsius accused Tacitus for having said some very impious words in his first Book of Histories His Majestie much incenst to hear such an accusation commanded Tacitus to appear before him the next morning and to make his defence Tacitus obeyed this command with such undaunted alacrity as his learned Friends who had been much astonished were greatly cheered I who give you an account of these Informations was present when Beato Renano and Flavio Orsino both of them being Tacitus his good friends drew Lipsius aside and earnestly entreated him that he would desist from that accusation which would prove a great dishonour to himself if he should not be able to make it good and would prove very unfortunate if he should prove it For Tacitus being the first Politick Baron of Parnassus and therefore much followed by potent men who have long hands and short consciences they would certainly in time work their revenge To this Lipsius answered that howsoever he would discharge his conscience which being said he appeared before Apollo where came likewise Tacitus attended by the most pollisht Vertuosi of this Court. Then Lipsius thus began That he was a friend to Socrates a friend to Plato but a greater friend to Truth Here Tacitus interrupted him and bad him leave those preambles which smelt so rammish in that place and fall roundly to his Impeachment for his fellow Polititians could not with patience hear premeditated preludiums from them from whom they expected fowle performances Then replyed Lipsius You in your first Book of History have taken the freedom to say That God cares not otherwise for mans welfare then in what concerns punishment a conceit so much the more impious for that it would be a great fault in an earthly Prince much more in God whose peculiar Vertue Mercy is and Charity to all mankind to say a thing so exorbitantly wicked Your very words said he are these Nec enim unquam attrocioribus Populi Romani Cladibus magisve justis judiciis approbatum est non esse Cura Deis securitatem nostram esse Ultionem Tacit lib. 1. Hist. T is true that you may plead in excuse of this your great fault that you were led thereinto by unwary Lucan who having said the same thing before you wrot these Verses Foelix Roma quidem Civesque habitura superbos Si libertatis superis tam Cura placeret Quam vindict a placet Blest Rome great Citizens might well have had Had the Gods minded her good as well as bad When Tacitus had heard this It grieves me said he my Lipsius that you who have boasted your self to be the only Oracle of my obscurest meanings have so grosly erred in a poynt which so much imports my reputation For those words of mine which you have now recited are so farr from being impious and wicked as you accuse them to be as I will prove them to be pious and holy and that you may know I speak truth I will by a circumlocution of many words interpret that my conceit which according to my custom being exprest in few you cannot conceive After having in the beginning of my Histories acquainted the Reader with what I intended to treat of in my whole Work I said I undertook a labour full of various chances Atrox praeliis discors seditionibus ipsa etiam pace savum Quatuor Principes ferro interempti tria Bella Civilia c. Cruelty in Wars seditious discord savageness even in peace four Princes assassinated three civil Wars c. When I had related the great calamities and miseries which the Romans suffered after Nero's death I said they were so many in number and such in quality as it had never at any time been better verified by the bitter sufferings of the Romans and by Divine Justice that that same God who had formerly so favoured and protected the people of Rome as being as it were inamored of their greatness it seemed his only care was to render them perpetually victorious triumphant and Masters of the World was seen so to change his mind after Nero's death as it did evidently appear Non esse Curae Deis securitatem nostram which is That he had quite given over the care of their welfare esse ultionem which is that he minded only to take revenge for the great distastes which they had given him Is it then Lipsius a wicked conception to say that by reason of the great excesses committed by the people of Rome both before and after the death of Nero Gods care of protecting them from all evil was turned to severe Justice in afflicting them with all sorts of misery The thing which you have said said Lipsius is very pious but it doth not square with the words which I accuse of wickedness which will then receive the interpretation and sence which you give them when the words securitatem nostram were only to be understood of the people of Rome but they being universal it is apparent that you comprehend all mankind That by the word Nostram upon which I perceive you chiefly ground your self replyed Tacitus I only understood the people of Rome Lucan makes it clear unto you who you were pleased to say led me into this error he expressing my very conceit in Verse mentions only the Romans affirming that Rome would have been perpetually happy and would have kept with her Citizens in continual glory if God Almighty had been as well pleased to preserve her in her ancient Liberty as he was to revenge himself of her And do not you think it to be true Lipsius that the Romans who could never put a period to the insatiat ambition which they had to rule over the whole world did so provoke Gods anger against them by laying so many Noble Monarchies and gallant Commonwealths dessolate by having plundred the world and filled it with fire and bloud to satiate their unquenchable thirst after wealth as after having delivered them over into the hands of cruel Tyrants by whom they made tryal of the most deplorable miseries he at last permitted that by exemplary shame they should be trampled upon by the most barbarous Nations of the earth Certainly a most unfortunate end but much merited by the Roman ambition cruelty and avarice precipices
mov'd to hear the barbarity of these Military Laws Only Apollo shewed no compunction but with an angry countenance thus answered those souldiers Who forceth you to forgo your own homes and to change the wholsom human Laws under which you are born with those severe ones which are practised in War He who falls down of himself deserves not to be raised up nor is there any mercy to be hoped for from one who is so very cruel to himself This request having received its answer much to the delight of all the Vertuosi that were at the Audience the famous Printers appeared before Apollo namely Sebastian Grifo Guilielmo Ruell of Lyons Christofano Plautino of Antwerp the Giunti of Florence Giolito Valgresi and many others from Venice and amongst these the learned Aldo Manutio did not disdain to make one who in the name of all his fellows told Apollo That of all Modern Inventions found out by the wit of man he thought the precedency ought to be given to the Press both for the use and admirable felicity thereof A benefit which had the ancient Litterati had they would not have so lamented the burning of former Libraries and that now the Press had not only for ever secured the past and present labours of the Vertuosi but had made the way to Learning much more easie and that his Majesties State wanting so excellent an invention if he should so please they would for the publick good bring it upon their own cost and charges into Parnassus Apollo absolutely refused that offer and said That men praised the Art of Printing upon very indiscreet grounds for it was that that had infinitely obscured the glory of the Liberal Sciences For having made Libraries more numerous then good they were admired only by the ignorant and that when with infinite labour the writings of other men were copyed out by the pen such as deserved not to pass through the hands of his Litterati they and their shame died in the house of their unfortunate Author whereas now so great abundance of foolish and ignorant volumes were printed as that Libraries were shamefully cram'd with them to the little reputation of the Liberal Sciences and of his Litterati and that by the reason of the unexhausted store which were printed of the learned labours of the Vertuosi the Homers Virgils Ciceros divine and painfull labours which for the miracle of their wits ought to be shewn to men only upon some particular daies of the year were polluted by flies and moths in every Book binders shop That therefore they might be gon when they pleased for he would by no means admit of the break-neck of the too ambitious Litterati into Parnassus Presently after this Seneca the Moralist appeared before his Majestie who had caused his cruel enemy Publio Suilio to be personally cited before that Audience and rather in rage then anger complained of certain injurious words which that man had spoken to the prejudice of his reputation wherefore he pressed that he might be punished as a slanderer Apollo commanded Suilio to repeat the words by which Seneca took himself to be so highly injured Suilio confest ingeniously that moved thereunto rather out of truth then any privat hatred upon a certain occasion which arose he had reproached Seneca with these words used by him Qua sapientia Quibus Philosophorum preceptis intra quadrienium regia amicitiae ter millies sestertium paravisset Romae testamenta orbos velut Indagine ejus capi Italiam Provincias immenso fenore hauriri Tacit. lib. 13. Annall Seneca perceiving that Apollo was very much scandalized at the excessive getting of seven millions and a half of monies in so short a time told Apollo the world knew his wealth though it were very great proceeded not from any greedy desire he had of riches but from Neros meer liberality Apollo who did not approve of Senecas excuse said freely to him That the floud of that his immence wealth which was very shamefull in such a Philosoper as he was especially when gotten in the twinkling of an eye must of necessity have received troubled waters from the torrents of fowl industry To which Seneca answered That his condition was not to be considered according to Suilios rotten tongue which was so accustomed to lying as he lived only by the infamous practice of slander and back-biting but by the so much praised and admired writings which he had published Suilio finding himself thus bitterly offended by Seneca answered boldly that it was not the pen which exactly shew'd what men were but the leading of their lives For works not words were the true touchstone whereby to know the true allay of mens genius Seneca being about to reply Apollo who was nauseated by that hatefull difference turned towards him and bad him say no more for great riches gotten by any whosoever in a short time brought but little of reputation with them and that it behooved of necessity that to the sweet of so rich treasure the sowre of publick mumurs should be added At last fetching a deep sigh from the bottom of his heart Apollo said I heartily wish O Seneca that either thou hadst never been born or that thou hadst not left the seed of so many punctual followers of thy behaviour Seneca quitted the Audience with this but smally satisfactory resolution When the two Noble Princesses the Roman Lucrece and Katherin Sforza bowed to Apollo to whom Lucretia to whose share it fell to speak first said That by witness of all Historians who had written the affairs of Rome the fowle outrage which Tarquin the proud had done her having been the only powerfull cause why the Kingdom of Rome was turned into so famous a Commonwealth and which was so much celebrated throughout the world she had not notwithstanding obtained so honourable a place in Parnassus as she thought she deserved and which in the opinion of all the Vertuosi was due unto her And that Helen of Greece who compared to her had been the occasion of but trivial novelties had obtained a much higher place She therefore desired that if his Majestie should think she had suffered wrong she might be righted Apollo answered Lucretia That the change of the Roman servitude into Liberty and the driving of the Tarquins out of Rome was attributed to the outrage done to her by those only who understood but little of the worlds affairs but that those who saw further into State-affairs knew very well that the Tarquins lost so famous a Kingdom when by their bad comportments they made themselves so hatefull to the Plebeians on whose good will their greatness was grounded for it was hard to bring such a Kingdom as was that of the Romans which by reason of the infinite priviledges it enjoyed might be said to live in a sort of Liberty to receive total bondage without openly provoking the enmity of the Senat and of the whole Roman Nobility which were by natural instinct given to
peculiar to great Ulysses who having travelled through many Countreys had seen and observed the fashions of divers Nations a benefit which was much furthered by the use of Navigation which was very necessary for mankind were it onely for that God as well became the immencity of his power having created this world of almost an incomprehensible greatness having filled it with pretious things and endowed every Province with somewhat of particular navigation which is the rarest Invention that could ever have been thought on or put in practice by humane wit had brought it into so little a compass as the Aromaticks of the Molucchi though above fifteen thousand miles from Italy do so abound in Italy as if they grew there Thus ended Bias when Cleobelus rising up seeming with a low bow to crave leave to speak said thus I clearly perceive wise Gentlemen that the reformation of the present Age a business of it self very easie becomes by the diversity and extravagancy of our Opinions rather impossible then difficult And to speak with the freedom which becomes this place and the weight of the business we have in hand it grieves my heart to find even amongst us that are here that common defect of ambitious and slight wits who getting up into publike pulpits labor more to shew the rarity of their own wits by their new and curious conceits then to profit their Auditory by useful precepts and sound doctrines for to raise man out of the foul mire and dirt whereinto he is fallen what need we undertake that dangerous manifacture of making little windows in mens breasts according to Thales his advice and why should we undertake the laborous business of dividing the world into equal partitions according to Solons proposition and the course mentioned to be taken by Chilo of banishing gold and silver from out of the world or that of Pittacchus of forcing men to walk in the way of merit and vertue or lastly that of Bias that mountains should be raised higher and made more difficult to pass over then nature hath made them and that for the future the miracle of navigation should be extirpated which shews to what pitch mans ingenuity can arrive are they not sophistical fancies and mear Chimera's Our chiefest consideration ought to be that the remedy to be applyed to the undoing evils may be easie to be put in execution that it may work its effect soon and secretly without any noâ—…e and that it may be chearfully received by those who are to be reformed for by doing otherwise we shall rather deform the World then reform it And certainly not without reason for that Physician deserves to be blamed who should ordain a medicine for his sick patient which is impossible to be used and which would afflict him more then his disease Therefore it is the requisite duty of Reformers to provide themselves of a sure remedy before they take notice of the wound That Chyrurgion deserves to be punished who first opens the sick mans vein and then runs for things to close it up withal it is not onely foolishness but impiety to defame men with publishing their vices and to shew to the World that their maladies are grown to such a height as it is not in the power of man to cure them Therefore Tacitus who always speaks to the purpose if he be rightly understood doth in this particular advise men Omittere potius pravallada adulta vitia quam hoc assequi ut palem fieret quibus flagitiis impares essumus Those who would fell an old Oak are ill advised if they fall to cut down the top boughs Wise men do as I do now lay the ax to the greatest root I then affirm That the reformation of the present world consists wholly in these few vvords Premiar I buoni e punire gli scelerati in rewarding the good and punishing the bad Here Cleobelus held his peace whose Opinion Thales Mileseus did with such violence oppose as he shevved hovv dangerous a thing it is to offend such though by telling truth vvho have the repute to be good and vvise For he vvith a fiery countenance broke forth into these vvords My self and these Gentlemen most vvise Cleobelus since you have been pleased to reject our Opinions as sophistical and meer Chimera s did expect from your rare wisdom that for cure of these present evils you had brought some new and miraculous Bezoar fron the Indies wheras you have propounded that for the easiest cure which is the hardest and most impossible that could ever be fancied by the prime pretenders to high mysteries Caius Plinius and Albertus Magnus There is not any one of us my Cleobolus that did not know before you were pleased to put us in mind of it that the reformation of the world depends wholly upon rewarding such as are good and punishing the wicked But give me leave to ask you Who are those that in this our age are perfectly good and who exactly ill And I would know Whether your eye can discern that which could never yet be found out by any man living how to know true goodness from that which is counterfeit do not you know that modern hypocrites are arrived at that height of cunning as in this our unhappy age those are accounted to be cunningest in their wickedness who seem to be most exactly good and that such really perfect men who live in sincerity and singleness of soul with an undisguised and unartificial goodness without any thing of hypocrisie are thought to be scandalous and silly Every one by natural instinct loves those that are good and hate those that are wicked but Princes do it both out of instinct and interest And when hypocrites or other cunning cheaters are listened unto by great men and good men supprest or undervalued it is not by the Princes own election but through the abuse of others True vertue is known onely and rewarded by God and vices discovered and punisht for he onely penetrates into the depth of mens hearts and we by means of the windovv by me propounded might have penetrated thereinto had not the enemy of mankind sovved tares in the field where I sovved the grain of good advice But nevv lavvs hovv good and vvholsome soever have ever been and ever vvill be vvithstood by those vitious people vvho are thereby punished The Assembly vvere mightily pleased vvith the reasons alledged by Thales and all of them turning their eyes upon Periandro he thinking himself thereby desired to speak his opinion began thus The variety of opinions which I have heard confirms me in my former Tenet That four parts of five that are sick perish because the Physicians know not their disease who in this their error may be excused because men are easily deceived in things wherein they can walk but by conjecture But that we who are judged by Apollo to be the salt of the earth should not know the evil under which the present age
for the perpetuating of his Dominion to make use of that cruel great Proscription the onely cause whereby after having reigned happily so long he had power to transmit the Roman Empire as Hereditary into the Person of Tiberius The XXXI ADVERTISEMENT Marcus Cato having to the infinite dislike of Princes writ the word Libera underneath the Motto Pugna pro Patria which was set upon his gate is commanded by Apollo to put is out SInce the first day that Marcus Cato one of the Lavii Grandi of this Court built his house in Parnassus he made these words Pugna pro Patria be ingraven and written in gold Letters upon his Portal to the which some few days ago he added Libera which the Princes of this State observing they made great complaints to Apollo protesting that unless that seditious word which might set all the world on fire were rased from off the Portal great mischiefs were likely to arrive in Parnassus And did further very much desire that Cato being the first instituter of that wicked generation of men who that they may appear to the base Plebeians to be lovers of Truth do practice an impertinent Liberty and superstitious pride over men might for the correction and dread of others be severely punisht Cato was immediately sent for by Apollo whom his Majesty blamed for having given just occasion of complaint and rumor to Princes by the addition of that word Cato boldly answered that good men ought not to forbear to do or say any thing that became them and what their Consciences bad them do for the threats of whatsoever Princes that it was a cruel thing and which onely became ignorant and malicious men to cozen others with sentences which were onely specious in words and that he thought it was great impiety to make the common people understand that they were bound to defend that even with their lives and faculties as a thing properly belonging to them wherein they had not the least interest that therefore the word Libera was necessary to declare the full signification of the sentence for as it would be a great folly in one to take upon him to defend the title of a House which he had onely hired so that Country deserved to be defended by teeth and hands even to the effusion of the last drop of blood wherein a man commanded like a Master not that wherein he obeyed like a slave Apollo answered Cato that he was in a great error for it was not onely gross ignorance but tending to sedition to affirm that Princes had not Authority to compel their people to take up Arms and to defend their common Country when they were assaulted by their enemies Cato replyed that he did not deny but that Princes had such Authority but confest he said that there was neither any power or violence which could inforce a man who took up Arms against his will to shoot right forward but that he might let his first shot flye rather towards his friends then towards his enemies To this Apollo answered that Princes had likewise Authority to force their souldiers to shoot justly and to behave themselves couragiously but that they must be good Princes who have this Authority such as by their Liberality and great love shown in their excellent Government did force their subjects to defend their Princes Dominions with the same gallantry and undanted valor as they did their own private Patrimony and that onely avaritious Princes and such as thirsted after their subjects blood were too far from reaping any good by those soldiers whom they forst to go to the wars as that they found them to be cruel enemies That therefore he commanded him to take the word that was added to the Sentence immediately from off his gate which was not onely superfluous for the Reasons which he had given but for that when it was otherwise gallant men understood it to be there though it were not written it not being fitting that the baser sort of people should be acquainted with the great secret that that is onely the freemans Country where he is born the slaves that where he is best accommodated The XXXII ADVERTISEMENT Socrates being found dead in the morning on his bed Apollo useth all possible diligence ta learn the true reason of so suddain a death THis morning Socrates was found dead in his bed who was well when he lay down the last night and his body being exceedingly swoln many do more then suspect that he was poysoned and the Perepateticks bitter enemies to the Socratical sect were very much blamed the rather for that every one knows that Aristotle the Prince of so great a Sect is very well verst in handling poyson The very same morning Socrates his whole family was imprisoned out of which nothing could be got but that some days before Socrates was seen to be very much troubled and seeming to be exceedingly grieved inwardly he oft times cryed out O corrupt world O depraved Age O most unfortunate mankinde Apollo who was exceedingly grieved at the loss of so famous a Phylosopher commanded that his body should be carefully opened and that it should be seen whether any signes of poyson were to be found by his bowels which being done all his intrails were found to be open Whence it was cleerly known that Socrates having taken too much wind of scandal at the great discomposures and infinite misbehaviors which he was necessitated to see in this depraved age did even burst Great were the Obsequies which were made for this noble Pesonage and Marcus Tullius Cicero one who was very affectionate to the Socratical Sect having in an elaborate Oration infinitely praised the truth of so famous a Philosophers Doctrine and his exemplary life did with many tears bewail the sad calamitie of these present times wherein it being under pain of severe punishment forbidden to play the Satyr gallant men who saw things every day committed which ought to be publikely declaimed against were forst to see to say nothing and to burst for vexation The XXXIII ADVERTISEMENT The Hereditary Princes in Parnassus do very much press Apollo that the Emperor Tiberius may be removed from their Classis and placed in that of Tyrants and he defends his cause Victoriously before his Majesty IT is above 1500 year since Tiberius who succeeded Augustus was admitted into Parnassus and had an honorable place alotted him amongst the Legitimate hereditary Princes where he hath lived with such glory and splendor as he hath always been held by the greatest Potentates of Parnassus to be the Prince of wisdom the very picture of vigilancy not onely the Counceller but the Oracle of all those Princes who go about by violence and severity to establish not onely a new Tyranny but the mastery of any newly conquered State For though it be to be confest by all men that Caesar the Dictator was he who laid the first foundations of the Roman Empire and that Augustus raised up the walls