. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . h he knew he was caííd to Rome byTiberius* Mother through Craft and Treachery, yet he dif-fembled it, and fearing violence if he íhould be thought tojinderftand it, made what haft he could thither (1$). Andthis Diffimulation is yet more neceflary in the Errors andVices of Princes, for they efteem them as enemies, whoare acquainted therewith. In the Banquet at which Germa-nicus was poifond, fome ran fort, but the more prudentfat ftill looking upon Nero, that they might not be thoughtto miftrufl the Murther, but rather to believe that i
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . h he knew he was caííd to Rome byTiberius* Mother through Craft and Treachery, yet he dif-fembled it, and fearing violence if he íhould be thought tojinderftand it, made what haft he could thither (1$). Andthis Diffimulation is yet more neceflary in the Errors andVices of Princes, for they efteem them as enemies, whoare acquainted therewith. In the Banquet at which Germa-nicus was poifond, fome ran fort, but the more prudentfat ftill looking upon Nero, that they might not be thoughtto miftrufl the Murther, but rather to believe that it wasnatural (16). (13) Eo sgrius accepit rechdi qua premeret. Tac 4. ann. (14) HandcunBatus eft ultra Germanicus ; quanquam fingí ea jeque per invidiamparto jam decori abftrahi intelligeret. Tac. 2. ann. (15) Si intelligerevideretur, vimmetuens, in urkm properat. Tac. 2. ann. (16) Trepida*-turn a circumjedentibus, diffugiunt imprudentes, at quibut alt tor intel/e-ftus, refiftmt defixi, & Ñeronem intuentes. Tac. 13. ann. EM- V* EMBLEM TH E Lion, the body of this devife, was among the<s£gyptians the Emblem of Vigilance, and usd tobe fet in the Frontifpieces and Porches of theirTemples. Hence Alexander the Great was engraven uponhis Coin with a Lions skin upon his head, to intimate thathe was notlefs carefulland vigilant than valiant; for if at antime affairs requird that he fliould not fpend much time infleep, he was usd to lie with his arm out of bed, holdingSilver ball in his hand, that if he fliould fallafleep, thatfalling into a brafs Bafon fet underneath for that purpofe, mighwaken him. He had never conquerd the world, hadbeen fleepy and lazy, he ought not to ihore away his timewho has the Government of People committed to him f Wow deeet ignavum tot& producere fomnumNoble virum, jub conftlio, fub nomine cujusTttpopuli degunt, cut rerum cura, fidefjueCredit* fummarum eft. Thus Vol. I. Vigilance and DiJJimnlation as wellasfoc. 317 Thus the Lion knowing
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