whom Nero requested to acte a Mimike of his vpon the stage: and yet hee neuerthelesse was after that, a gentleman of Rome. For hee that is forced to offend the law, is held not to offend it. But from this decree of plaiers exclusion, the Actors of the Comedies called Attelanae were exempted, for their comedies were more graue, and their iests came nearer to the old Italian forme of discipline: Liu: and Valer. And therefore they vsed no Visars on the stage, as the rest did. Festus (b) The Censors in their view] Which went ouer the estate and conditi∣ons of euery man, euery fifth yeare (c) truely Romane] The text is Germané Romanum. The Latines vse Germané, for truely, natiuely, expressly, and naturally: So doth Cicero (to shut vp all examples in one) in his fifth oration against Verres: As then (quoth he) I said much, and this a∣mongst the rest to shew plainely the great difference betweene him, and that same Numidicum Ve∣rum & Germanum, that true and expressly Numidian, Metellus: So say we Germanè Romanum, truely Romane. Romane is here vsed by Augustine for Generous, and honestly bent. (d) the Ro∣mane valor florished a long time] Very neere foure hundred years. (e) Plebeyan] There were three orders of Roman Citizens: the Senatorians, the Patricians, and the Plebeyans; which were the lowest: of these hereafter. He doth not say, a Plebeyan tribe, as though there were any such distinct one, but because there were Plebeyans, men of the base and common sort, in euery tribe. (f) the Greekes propound thus:] The Logicians, and the Rhetoricians following them, diuide a perfect argument (called by the Greekes Syllogismus, by the Latines, Ratiocinatio) in∣to three parts: the first that includes and declares the summe of the argument: this is called the proposition, or exposition, the second which assuming from the proposition, selects an espe∣ciall thing which wee are to know more fully: and this is called the Assumption: The third, shuts vp the argument, and is called the Conclusion. How these are placed in discourse, it mak∣eth no matter: the conclusion is sometimes before, and the assumption often-times the second, or the last [And here our false Logicians spoile all; out of their ignorance of all good artes: and thinke that change of place doth alter the nature of things: lying as fast as they can in∣uent: and seeming in the schooles more then men, in ciuill conuersation abroade are lesse then children.]