at they were constrained to shut themselves up completely
within the castle. But the second day, after they had, as it were during
the night, constructed their platforms and gabionade and planted their
artillery, there was seen to begin a most terrible bombardment, which
seemed little by little to throw a part of the walls to the ground;
after which, and after the explosion of a mine, which in another part,
in order to keep the attention of the defenders occupied, appeared to
have made a passing wide breach in the wall, the places were
reconnoitred and the cavalry drew up in most beautiful battle-array, and
then was seen now one company moving up, and now another, some with
ladders and some without, and many valorous and terrible assaults
delivered in succession and repeated several times, and ever received by
the others with skill, boldness, and obstinacy, until in the end it was
seen that the defenders, weary, but not vanquished, made an honourable
compact with the attackers to surrender the place to them, issuing from
it, with marvellous satisfaction for the spectators, in military order,
with their banners unfurled, their drums, and all their usual baggage.

THE GENEALOGY OF THE GODS.

We read of Paulus Emilius, that first captain of his illustrious age,
that he caused no less marvel by his wisdom and worth to the people of
Greece and of many other nations who had assembled in Amphipolis to
celebrate various most noble spectacles there after the victory that he
had won, than by the circumstance that first, vanquishing Perseus and
subjugating Macedonia, he had borne himself valiantly in the management
of that war, which was in no small measure laborious and difficult; he
having been wont to say that it is scarcely less the office of a good
captain, requiring no less order and no less wisdom, to know how to
prepare a banquet well in time of peace, than to know how to marshal an
army for a deed of arms in time of war. Wherefore if our glorious Duke,
born to do everything with noble worth and grandeur, displayed the same
wisdom and the same order in those spectacles, and, above all, in that
one which I am about to describe, I believe that he will not take it
amiss that I have been unwilling to refrain from saying that he was in
every part its inventor and ordinator, and in a certain sense its
executor, preparing all the various things, and then representing them,
with so much order, tranquillity, wisdom, and magnifice