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for the worthinesse of the matter it selfe: For I haue euer beene of that opinion, that of all the Ethnick Emperors, or great Captaines that ewer were, he bath farthest excelled, both in his practise, and in his precepts in martial! affaires. . . . I graunt it is meete yee haue some entrance, specially in the Mathematickes; for the knowledge of the arse militarie, in situation of Camp.es, ordering of battels, making Fortifications, placing of batteries, or such like.$"
It will be noticed that James is recommending to his son exactly the program that had been used upon himself, including the emphasis upon Caesar along with some military mathematics. But while James approved of Buchanan's program even to the phraseology of it, yet by 1599 he most decidedly did not approve of Buchanan's Historia. Presumably he already disapproved by 1584 when parliament condemned both the Historia and the De lure Regni. Still James had read the Historia carefully and on November 11, 1583, had included the De Jure" along with his Caesar, but not the Historia.
The De Officiis of Cicero still holds a place with Riuii tabulae in officiis Ciceronis, fol., and James still had the English translation of the remainder of the volume of moral philosophy Paradoxa Ciceronis in engliss, with Graftons Callender. Of similar import is Ethica Samuelis Heilandi ex 4ristotele, 8¨. There were also a few works of religious or controversial nature; The hurt of Seditioun; The true religion and poperie, 8¨; La Legende du Cardinal de Lorraine; Cauteles du canon de la Meese, 16¨. Perhaps we should place here also various pieces of heavily moralized modern literature; La Franciade, ¢¨; 2 Tomes des poemes de Reheard, L'Oliue augmentee, 8¨; Monomachie de Goliath et Dauid, ¢¨; Jephthe en francois, auec le Francis-
canus. Since these were French, we may place with them The Frenche tongue teacher, 8¨.
For Latin grammar and for rhetoric Rudimenta grammatical latinae, 4t¨; Terentii flares, 16¨; Demetrius Phalereus de elocutione, gr. et lat., all from previous lists. Dialectic appears as Dialectica Retorfortis, .p. The Latin poets, especially Virgil and Ovid, appear. James still had Virgilii eclogae et Murmellii tabulae, 8¨, the latter a work on metrics; Vergilius cum commentario Guellii, fol.; Vergilius cum Graecis collatus ab Vrsino, 8¨; Martialis castratus, 8¨; Metamorphoses Ouidii per Sprengium illustratae, 8¨; In Metamorphoses Ouidii
u Mcllwain, C. H., The Palitical Weeks of 7amesl, p. ea; ed. of Edinburgh, 1603, pp. 92-94. m In his dedication, Buchanan told James quite plainly why he had written De jute. If Buchanan failed, it was net for want of plain speaking.
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