That the augmentations of Kingdomes are vnfitly ascribed to Ioue. Victory (whome they call a goddesse) being suf∣ficient of her selfe to giue a full dispatch to all such businesses. CHAP. 14.
NOw heree is a question; why may not Soueraignty it selfe bee a God? What should hinder it more then (a) hinders Victory? Or what need men trouble I•…•…e, if Victory be but fauourable ynough, and will stay with such as she meaneth to make conquerors? If she be but propitious, let Ioue mind his own businesse, the nations shall come vnder. (b) Yea but it may bee they are good men and loth to wrong their neighbours that wrong not them, or to prouoke them to warre, witho•…•…t a iuster cause then meere desire to inlarge their Kingdome. Nay bee they of that minde, I commend them with all mine heart.
L. VIVES.
THen (a) Victory] Cato the elder built hir a little Temple by the Market place. She had al∣so a greater Temple by that little one: which P Posth. Megellus beeing Aedile built with * 1.1 the mulot-money hee hadde gathered; and dedicated it in his Consulship, with M. Attill. Re∣gulns, in the Samnites warre. Sylla ordained playes for her in the ciuill warres. Ascon. P•…•…d. Cicer. in Verr. Actio. 1. She was daughter to Styx and Pallas. (Hesiod.) and had Zeale, Power and Force to her bretheren, which alwaies sitte by Ioue, nor raigneth he nor any King without them. (b) It may be] There are some copyes that differ from vs heere, but they are corrupted.