Essaies: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion

these. In the first place are Founders original: Conditores, the founders of states. In the second place are Lawgivers original: Legislatores, who are also called second founders, or Perpetual Princes original: Perpetui principes, because they govern by their laws original: "ordinances" even after they are gone. In the third place are Liberators original: Liberatores, such as those who settle original: "compound" the long miseries of civil wars, or deliver their countries from the servitude of strangers or tyrants. In the fourth place are Extenders original: Propagatores or Defenders of the Empire original: Propugnatores imperii, such as those who, in honorable wars, enlarge their territories or make a noble defense against invaders. And in the last place are Fathers of their Country original: Patres patriae, who reign justly and make the times good in which they live.

Degrees of honor in subjects are: first, Partners in Cares original: Participes curarum, those upon whom Princes discharge the greatest weight of their affairs—their "right hands," as we call them. The next are Leaders of War original: Duces belli, great leaders, such as are a Prince’s lieutenants, and who