Cleomedis Meteora Graece et Latine (Balfour 1605)

...a prince who is plainly heavenly? You alone of all people understand that heavenly doctrine: it takes hold of you most of all. For among many other things, you have this proof of your heavenly origin and divinity, that the knowledge of celestial things delights you uniquely. Nor can that seem a wonder to anyone who sees the wonderful agreement between you and them. By Hercules, the meteors themselves do not go more by meteora those things which are aloft than your own high and elevated mind: nor certainly do the stars proceed in a more orderly and certain course than your actions. The consistency of your morals and the pattern and composition of your entire life is plainly heavenly and divine. The heaven and those shining stars perpetually circle the earth, traversing all its regions so that they might equally cherish everyone with their heat and light: you inspect all the parts of Aquitaine, the greatest and the least, so that you might simultaneously illuminate and adorn them all with the light of your justice. Nor is the splendor of the sun more welcome or more beneficial to the lands than the radiance of your justice is to the people of Aquitaine. For that polyoimatos nous many-eyed mind of yours (to speak with Agapetus A 6th-century Byzantine author who wrote "Ekthesis," a mirror for princes.) original: "polyoimatos nous, os kybernetes agrypnei dia pantos, diakatechon asphalos tous tes eunomias tous oiakas, kai apothoumenos ischuros tes anomias tous rhuakas, hina to skaphos tes ses politeias me peripipte kumasin adikias." Translation: "many-eyed mind, which like a helmsman keeps watch throughout all, holding the rudders of good order safely, and strongly pushing back the currents of lawlessness, so that the ship of your state does not fall into the waves of injustice." acts as a helmsman who keeps watch through all things, holding the rudders of good order safely, and strongly pushing back the currents of lawlessness, so that the ship of your administration does not fall into the waves of injustice. By your vigilance and experience in many matters, you govern this province, hold the tiller firmly, and repel the waves of injury so strongly that you do not allow the boat of the republic to be tossed by the waves of injustice. One might boldly say that Neptune would never allow this ship to go anywhere but straight. Our Cleomedes, contrary to the foolish opinion of Epicurus, teaches that the stars are not as small as they appear to us, but are of immense size, and far larger than the earth itself: and you certainly, who seem to be one man among men, are much greater than a man, and by the vigor of your fiery mind and the greatness of your spirit you stand far above the condition of earthly men. The sun in the midst of the ether, surrounded on both sides by the crowds of other planets, provides light to the lands through the conjunction of common rays and drives away the darkness: you in...