ABE

Affranius, verses of, translated by Elyot,
367

Agasicles, apophthegm of, 108, note b
Agesilaus, (qu. Agasicles?) the benevo-

lence of, 108; apophthegms of, 208,
260; his offer to lead an army into
Asia, 291

Aggregate, to, used as an active verb,
360, note d

Ailly, Pierre d', author of a treatise on
Conceptus et Insolubilia, 230, note b
Alexander, the Great, his want of affa-
bility, 47; his uncontrollable anger,
57; rebuked by Philip, III; his
generosity, 113; mimicked by his
servants, 177; his courage evinced
by his fighting barehcaded, 292; and

ANT

the wife of Darius, 313; his confi-
dence in his physician, 322; rebuked
by Androcides, 348; and Apelles,
story of, 403

Alexander of Pheræ, his unjust suspi-
cion, IIO

- Severus, see Severus

Ambition, disastrous, of certain Roman
generals, 298; why it is so injurious
to the state, 301

Ambitus, Lex, of the Romans, 297
Ambrose, Saint, on patience, 278
America, apparently not reckoned a
continent by Elyot, 329, note d

Anarchy, the evils of, demonstrated,

211

Androcides, his letter to Alexander the
Great, 348

Androclus, and the lion, story of, 169
Anger, characteristics of, described, 55
Animals, good qualities of, praised, re-

gardless of their stock, 37; surpass
men in gratitude, 167; exhibit proofs
of instinctive habits of obedience, 210;
order preserved amongst, referred to
by ancient writers, 210, note a;
certain qualities innate in, 364
Antigonus, King of Macedonia, coura-
geous answer of, 291

Antiochus, King of Asia, his self-re-

straint, 314; his moderation, 329
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, the Em-
peror, (qu. Alexander Severus?) per-
mitted liberty of speech, 45; his affa-
bility, 53; his tolerance of criticism

ANT

165; his curiosity to know the public
opinion of himself, 184; his treat-
ment of the children of Cassius, 281;
why called the Philosopher, 380
Antoninus Pius, how he received a re-
buke from his host, 54; benevolence
of, 107; his character for liberality,
114

Antonius, Marcus, insult offered to, after
death, by Marius, 58

Apocrypha, the term, when first applied
to the uncanonical books of the
Bible, 389, note c

Apparel, majesty displayed in suitable,
17; Act to regulate, 19 note a ; when
permitted to be sumptuous, 22
Apprentice, of the law, a barrister called,
in the 16th century, 19
Approbate, an obsolete word, 397,

note a

Architas, and his bailiff, story of, 332
Aristotle, his definition of a liberal man,
91; of liberality, 112; of friendship,
122; of justice, 186; (qu. Cicero ?)
opinion of, as to rulers setting the
example, 207; his division of courage
into five kinds, 271, note c; of a
valiant man, 272; of magnanimity,
289; of continence, 305; of tempe-
rance, 325; how he distinguishes be-
tween incontinence and intemperance,
326; of memory, 368; his De Anima-
libus Historia, 388, note a
Arras, cloth of, so called from the town
in France, 23, note a; made for
Henry VIII. by John Mustyan, 23,

note a

Arrogance, of men in authority, its
effects upon bystanders, 40
Articles, seven, to be committed to
memory by persons in authority, 2
Ashmole, Windsor Herald temp. Chas.
II., quoted, 200, note

Asia, accounted the third part of the
globe, 329

Athens, prosperity of, as long as liberty
of speech was permitted, 108; the
thirty tyrants of, 109

Attaints, the legal process of, Elyot's
intention to treat of, in another work,
249; described, 249, note a
Audacity, definition of, 263
Augustus, Octavius, the Emperor,
his piercing eye, 16; seldom spoke

CAS

without notes, 16; the innate majesty
of, 16; anecdote of, illustrating his
unvindictive nature, 54; his magna-
nimity to Cinna, 74; his tolerance of
liberty of speech, 282; sumptuous
banquet given by, 336; his frugal
habits, 337; profited by his studies
at Athens, 380

Authentic, derivation of the word, 394,

note c

Authority, involves loss of liberty,
209; men in, learning despised by,
in the sixteenth century, 302

ABYLON, the greatness of, 241

BA Baldasime, Belinger, story of, 439

Bardaxinus, Berengarius, probably the
real name of Belinger Baldasine,
439, note c

Bargains, fraud practised in, 221
Bartolus, divided nobility into three
kinds, 29, note b

Beneficence, definition of, 90
Benefit, vulgarly called a good turn,

90

Benevolence, definition of, 89; the

divine, 93; consists in justice, 96
Benignitas, explanation of the term,
27

Beroaldo, Philip, his version of Boc-
caccio, 132, note c

Bible, the, historical books of, 389
Blood, nobility compared to, 30; cor-
rupted, consequences of, 30
Boccaccio, Decameron of, story of Titus
and Gisippus taken from, 132 note c
Bracciolini, Poggio, on the fall of the
Roman Empire, 357, note c
Bribery, why good men are averse from,
309; of a governor, Burke's remarks
on, 310, note a

Brutus, and Cassius, the fate of, 245
Bullinger, the Reformer, on the ne-
cessity of observing oaths, 234, note b

cause of the conspiracy against,
49; reputed father of Brutus, 49;
character of, 51; his merciful dis-
position, 60, 73, 282; his industry as
a pleader, 275; his ambition, the cause
of his death, 299

CAL

Calchas, the diviner, 441
Carneades, the philosopher, his remarks
on flattery, 181

Cassius, the children of, how treated
by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 281
Dion, a Latin translation of, pub-
lished in 1526, 292, note b
Catiline, not to be reckoned among
valiant men, 269

Cato, the Censor, apophthegm of, 286
- of Utica, his conduct on his re-
jection for the consulship, 285; his
steadfastness, 324; anecdote attri-
buted to him probably by mistake
for the Emperor Claudius, 379,

note a

Charity, definition of, 89

Cheke, Sir John, A Remedy for Sedition
erroneously attributed to, 40, note a
Children, accustomed to swear in the
16th century, 253, note b

Chilo, author of the maxim Nosce te
ipsum, 203

Chrysostom, Saint, on the inconstancy

of friends, 321, note b; the Opus
Imperfectum attributed to, 321,
note b; his work De reparatione lapsi,
370
Churches, ought to be adorned, in
honour of God, 194

Cicero, a passage in, wrongly attributed

to Aristotle by Elyot, and to Plato by
Patrizi, 207, note a; his remarks on
fraud, 214, 215, 222; his story of
Labeo, the deceitful arbitrator, 218
Cincinnatus, Quintius, the Dictator, 34
Cinnamus, king of Parthia, story of, 241
Claudian, Elyot's translation of, 9;

quoted by King James I., 9, note a;
not translated until 1817, 11, note b
Claudius, Emperor of Rome, his hasty
temper, 59

Cleopatra, Queen, her wager, 348
Clicthove, a Flemish theologian, his
treatise De vera Nobilitate, 26, note a;
his definition of nobility, 29, note c
Cocles, Horatius, an example of valour,
265

Codrus, king of Athens, his patriotism,

102

Coinage, English, debased in the 16th
century, 36, note d

Commodus, Emperor of Rome, his
devilish impatience, 282

DAN

Commons, House of, held only morn-
ing sittings in the 16th century, 341,
note b
Compendious, derivation of the word,
399, note a

Concoction, the word, used for diges-
tion, 340, note c

Condign, derivation of the word, 413,

note a

Congregation, derivation of the word,
398, note a

Constancy, or stability, commended, 320;
of women in the 16th century, 320
Consultation, the definition of, 427;
what is requisite for, 436

Context, derivation of the word, 392,

note a

Continence, the definition of, 305, 312
Contract, ceremony observed by Turks
in ratifying, 247; breach of, inade-
quate punishment for, in England, in
the 16th century, 248
Conversant, to be, remarks on the
phrase, 417, note a

Coriolanus, Marcius, his self-denial, 305
Cormorant, etymology of the word, 345,
note d

Coronation, of kings, why ordained to
take place in public, 197
Costume, for lawyers, what would be
held ridiculous in the 16th century,
18; indicative of the wearer's charac-
ter, 20

Counsel, the definition of, 427; the
three requisites of, 430
Counsellors, the various qualities and
dispositions of, 437

Courteously, derivation of the word,
411, note a

Courts of Law, used to sit only in the
forenoon, in the 16th century, 341
Covenants, should be distinguished by
simplicity, 220

Credence, the definition of, 226
Cruelty, the most odious of vices, 73
Curius, Marcus, his self-denial, 306
Curtius, Marcus, his patriotism, 103
Cyrus, king of Persia, anecdote of, illu-
strating his benevolent disposition,

DAR
Chrestiens en leur accoustrement, 21,
note g

Darius, king of Persia, apophthegm of,
303

David, his loyalty to Saul, 237; the
warlike character of his reign, 352
Decii, the, although plebeians by birth,
ought to be called noble for their
valour, 36

Decoration, of a nobleman's house,
should be in harmony with the rank
of the owner, 22

Default, derivation of the word, 413,
note c

Defence of good women, The, Elyot's
book, 79, note b

Derision, derivation of the word, 422,
note a

Desperation, what it is, 271

Despite, derivation of the word, 380,
note d

Detraction, the vice of, described, 418;
derivation of the word, 418, note b;
how represented by Apelles, 422
Devil, malice of the, Patristic view of,
93, note b

Diocletian, his persecution of the
Christians, 7; his abdication of the
Empire, 300

Dionysius, king of Sicily, reduced to
teach in a school, 43; his mistrust
of his own daughters, 110; the
servants of, mimicked Plato's pecu-
liarities, 177

-

- of Halicarnassus, confounded with
Diodorus Siculus, 356, note a
Distemperature, derivation of the word,
405, note a

Doctrine, the word employed by Sir

T. Elyot to denote learning, 377
Dogs, the faithfulness of, 168

Doric order, traces of the, in Sicily,
102, note a

Dress, extravagance in, denounced by
the clergy in the 16th century, 21,
note g
Dugdale, his Origines, similarity be-
tween, and The Governour, 18, note a

CCLESIASTICUS, book of, er-

been written by Solomon for his son
Rehoboam, 354, note f

FAI

Edgar, King, his challenge to the king
of Scotland, 293

Edmonds, Clement, a writer of the
16th century, 51, note a
Egyptians, their method of punishment
for perjury, 251

Elijah, called Helias, 98

Elyot, Sir Thomas, erroneously called
Sir John, 24, note b; an instance of
his tact, 107, note a; his intention
to write another volume, 189, 249
Emperors, Roman, who encouraged
learning, 8; who were distinguished
for moderation in dress, 21; who
were not really liberal, 115
Encumbrance, derivation of the word,
429, note b

England, condition of, in the 16th cen-
tury, described, 81

Entertain, etymology of the word, 411,
note b

Enunciative, derivation of the word,
390, note b

Epaminondas, king of Thebes, his self-
denial, 307

Epistles, the Pauline, &c. form an epi-
tome of history, 393

Epitome, the word, remarks on, 394,
note b

Equality, of all men, in certain respects,
206

Erasmus, recommends the reading of
history, 9, note; his hints to preachers
to adapt their discourse to their
hearers, 17, note a; his description of
nobility, 26, note b; his remarks on
slavery, 206, note a; his Institution
of a Christian Prince, commended by
Elyot, 280

Evyéveia, signification of, 29
Eustathius, quoted by Elyot, probably
from a MS. copy, 360, note b; his
work not printed till 1542, 360,
note b

Experience, the definition of, 383
Examiner, the word not used prior to
the 16th century, 410, note b

FAN

antiquity of, 252, note e; the founda-
tion of justice, 258; how necessary
to a Governor, 259

Fantasy, derivation of the word, 384,

note e

Ferdinand I., king of Aragon, an ex-
ample of fidelity, 242
Ferne, a writer of the 16th century, his
definition of a gentleman, 27, note c;
of nobility, 29, note d; probably
acquainted with The Governour, 31,

note a

Fides, various meanings of, 225
Filastre, Guillaume, author of la Toison
d Or, 288, note a

Flatterers, various kinds of, described,

176; ought to be put to torture, 179;
compared to crows, 181; description
of some subtle, 183

Flower-beds, shape of, in the 16th
century, 443, note a
Fortitude, definition of, 263: the prin-
cipal properties of, 272
Fortune, mutability of, examples of,
43

Fraud, the insidious character of, 215;
most repugnant in the sight of God,
216; definition of, 217; perpetrated
by Q. Fabius Labeo, 218; on the
Gibeonites, 219; pious, 221, note c
Friend, a, styled the other I, 130
Friends, noblemen ought to take care
in choosing, 175

Friendship, uncommon in the world,

Gentilis, Albericus, distinguished nobi-
lity from dignity, 38, note a
Gentleman, origin of the term, 27;
etymology of the word, as given by
Selden, 27, note b; definition of,
given by Ferne, 27 note c; a, story
of the shoemaker who wished to be
taken for, 255, note b

Gentleness, origin of the term in Eng-
lish, 27

Geson, meaning of the word, 22, note b
Gluttony, attributed to the Normans,
by Harrison, 335, note b; preva-
lence of, in the 16th century, 338,

note a

Gorgon, as described by poets, expla
nation of, 56

Gospel, etymology of the word, 391,
note b

Gospeller, the word, used ironically,
212, note b
Governors, the duty of, 207; the duty
of, to set a good example, 208; the
office of, resembles that of a phy-
sician, 404; practical suggestions
for, 407

Gun, antiquity of the word, 254, note a

tion, 120; as defined by Aristotle,
122; by Cicero, 122; by Elyot, 125;
between whom it seldom subsists,
125; between whom it most com-
monly subsists, 127; cannot be evil,
logically demonstrated, 163; the in-
constancy of, Ovid on, 164; how
affected by good or evil fortune, 172
Froude, Mr., his exaggerated view of
the prosperity of England in the 16th
century, 81, note d

Frugality, the word, originally used in
a more extended sense, 336, note a
Furtherance, an Anglo-Saxon word,
412, note a

ADDY, the country of En-gedi
called, 236, note b

the word, 418, note a

Hadrian, the Emperor, the moderation
of, 331

Hannibal, the conduct of, towards the
Saguntines, cannot be accounted pro-
wess, 269; his stratagem to escape
from the Romans, 274
Heliogabalus, the Emperor, the gluttony
of, 345

Helots, why made drunk by Lacedæ-
monians, 340

Henry V., story of his committal to
prison when Prince of Wales, 61
Henry VII., and the Earl of Oxford,
story of, 193, note a

Henry VIII., his royal residences, 24,
note a, 25, note, 192, note b
Hentzner, Paul, his description of
England in the 16th century, 24,
note a, 25 note a, 120 uote c