eople of Rome; who in this signify no less
than that they had a scorn of slavery beyond the fear of ruin, which is
the height of magnanimity.

The like might be shown by other examples objected against this and
other popular governments, as in the banishment of Aristides the Just
from Athens, by the ostracism, which, first, was no punishment, nor
ever understood for so much as a disparagement; but tended only to the
security of the commonwealth, through the removal of a citizen (whose
riches or power with a party was suspected) out of harm's way for the
space of ten years, neither to the diminution of his estate or
honor. And next, though the virtue of Aristides might in itself be
unquestioned, yet for him under the name of the Just to become universal
umpire of the people in all cases, even to the neglect of the legal ways
and orders of the commonwealth, approached so much to the prince, that
the Athenians, doing Aristides no wrong, did their government no more
than right in removing him; which therefore is not so probable to have
come to pass, as Plutarch presumes, through the envy of Themistocles,
seeing Aristides was far more popular than Themistocles, who soon after
took the same walk upon a worse occasion. Wherefore as Machiavel,
for anything since alleged, has irrefragably proved that popular
governments are of all others the least ungrateful, so the obscurity,
I say, into which my Lord Archon had now withdrawn himself caused a
universal sadness and clouds in the minds of men upon the glory of his
rising commonwealth.

Much had been ventilated in private discourse, and the people (for
the nation was yet divided into parties that had not lost their
animosities), being troubled, bent their eyes upon the Senate,
when after some time spent in devotion, and the solemn action of
thanksgiving, his Excellency Navarchus de Paralo in the tribe of Dorean,
lord strategus of Oceana (though in a new commonwealth a very prudent
magistrate) proposed his part or opinion in such a manner to the Council
of State, that, passing the ballot of the same with great unanimity
and applause, it was introduced into the Senate, where it passed with
greater. Wherefore the decree being forthwith printed and published,
copies were returned by the secretaries to the phylarchs (which is the
manner of promulgation) and the commissioners of the seal, that is
to say, the Right Honorable Phosphorus de Auge in the tribe of Eudia,
Dolabella d'Enyo in