Two Apologies and Dialogue with Trypho

DEDICATION.

we enjoy the hospitality and company of the gods, and in one small corner of Europe, we recognize with wonder how much letters and liberty can achieve, finding a hundred cities, and in each as many citizens, equal to the Roman Empire in spirit and virtue. But eventually, the weariness of even that celebrated Greece takes hold of our traveler. Having therefore gained Alexander as a companion for his journey through the same benefits, he traverses Asia, and while he strikes down the Persians who oppose him in vain, our traveler meanwhile

original: "ἄβλητος καὶ ἀνύτατος ὀξέϊ χαλκῷ / Δινεύει κτ’ μέσσον, ἄγει δέ ἑ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη / Χειρὸς ἑλοῦσ’, αὐτὰρ βελέων ἀπερύκει ἐρωήν." — "Untouched and unharmed by the sharp bronze / He moves through the midst, and Pallas Athena leads him / Taking his hand, and she wards off the rush of weapons." (Homeric echoes depicting divine protection)

He follows him through the conquered world, and not content with that, he likewise seeks new worlds. It is pleasing to know another human race, and a life cultivated by other arts, and the long line of naked kings,

original: "Fataque fortunasque virum moresque manusque." — "And the fates, and fortunes, and customs, and deeds of men."

Yet, not even so, having traversed both worlds and grasped the history of all nations, is a great and noble mind satisfied with knowledge. Another history remains, which he judges to pertain to himself no less, and indeed even more: namely, that of cognition and science itself, and of those things by which we surpass other animals with our own praise, not with disgrace. He thinks this history of men should be called such, rather than that which narrates only wars and frauds, and a continuous series of crimes and thefts. It is now pleasant to seek the various and diverse opinions of men concerning the greatest matters, and at once the whole