1 Plato, Laches, 190B–191D.

2 Herodotus, Hist., IV, cxxvii.

3 The invasion was in 1536. Cf. Du Bellay, Mémoires, VII, p. 129.

4 Francesco Guicciardini, Historia d’Italia, XIII, ii.

5 All here from St Augustine, City of God, IX, iv.