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It may further bee demanded, how c 1.1 potency and greatnesse may bee acquired, whereby the authori∣ty of a Prince may bee made more illustrious and resplendant?
IS it to bee purchased with money, to whom d 1.2 all things do stoope? Or is it to bee acquired by Armes rather? for this is an infallible rule, that large Empire and Dominion, is not gotten, kept, or maintained by e 1.3 idlenesse, but by the vse and exercise of Armes, and Millitary Discipline? Or is
it not gotten by these meanes alone, but by f 1.4 firme counsell, and wary circumspection also? Or may it be attained vnto, by making g 1.5 firme leagues, and sure peace with forraigne Princes? Or to con∣clude, may it bee gotten by the h 1.6 benefite of for∣tune, who (most what) doth maruailously fauour and aduance some speciall sorts of men?
Liuy lib. 2. Potency is the high-way to gaine authori∣ty.
Arist. Rhet. II. cap. 16. & horat. Serm. 11.
Tacit. 15. An∣nal.
Tacit. 11. An∣nal.
Arist. Rhet. ad Alex Cap. Vltim.
Quint. Curt. lib. 8.