L. VIVES.
ANd (a) Fabricii.] Fabricius was Consull in Pyrrhus his warre at which time the Romaines * 1.1 vertue was at the height: he was, valourous, poore, continent, and a stranger to all pleasure, and ambition. (b) If nature haue giuen thee] The Stoikes held that nature gaue euery man * 1.2 some guifts: some greater some lesser: and that they were graced, increased, and perfitted by discipline, education, and excercise. (c) it is now day] Alluding vnto Paul. Rom. 13. 12. The night is past, and the day is at hand. The day, is the cleere vnderstanding of goodnesse, in whose * 1.3 powre the Sunne is, as the Psalmist faith. The night is darke and obscure. (d) in some of thy Children] Meaning, that some of the Romaines were already conuerted vnto Christ. (e) no stone of the Capitol] Ioues Idoll, vpon the capitoll was of stone: and the Romaines vsed to sweare by * 1.4 Ioue, that most holy stone: which oth became afterwards a prouerbe. (f) who will neither lim∣mit] They are the words of Ioue in Virgil, Aeneid. 1. promising the raysing vp of the Romaine Empire. But with farre more wisdome did Saluste (orat. ad Caium Caesarem senen) affirme, that the Romaine estate should haue a fal: And African the yonger seeing Carthage burne, with the teares in his eyes, recited a certaine verse out of Homer, which intimated that Rome one day should come to the like ruine. (g) Iuno did not] Aeneides the first.