Paradigma is called in latine exemplum. It is a shewing of an exam∣ple, exhorting or deterring.
Fabius defineth it after this maner: Paradigma est rei gestae vtilis ad persuadendum, id quod intenderis commemoratio. It is a declara∣tion of a thynge done or as done, proffitable to persuade that whiche thou intendest.
* 1.1An example of a paradigma, exhorting, is written in Iames when he exhorteth to prayer by the example of Elias.
* 1.2The like is in Mathew, where Christ exhorteth vs from carefulnes, by the example of the foules of the aire, whiche do neither sowe, nor reape, nor gather into the barne, yet the heauenlye father doth feede them.
* 1.3An example of paradigma deterring, is written in Luke: memores estote vxoris Loth. Remember Lottes wife, by whiche example he woulde not haue vs to looke backe vnto filthines.
There is none other difference betwene similitudo and paradigma, but that examples are taken out of thynges done, as this: As a horse if he be occupied is made tamer and milder to suffer greate labours: So the body of man (if it be vsed by degrees vnto great thynges) it is able to beare and susteyne, that whiche an other dare not touche.
Examples are taken out of persons eyther true or fabulouse, out of brute beastes and thinges without lyfe. As the Elephantes do not vse carnall copulation, but in moste secret places, and if any man do come in the meane tyme, they kyll hym. Howe muche more ought shamefastnes to be had in the congresse of man and wife, although it he lawfull?
Also as the Dolphins do not suffer the yonge ones to wander vnac∣companied, how much more behoueth it man to appoint vnto his tender children a gouernour and scholemaister?
Again, as euerye tree doth nourishe that whiche it bringeth forth, so it becōmeth naturall mothers to nourishe their children with their owne milke.
Thus muche I thoughte good to speake of this figure homaeosis.