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The Athenians have also another harbour at Munychia, and a temple of Artemis of Munychia, and another at Phalerum, as has been stated by me before, and near it a temple of Demeter. Here too is a temple of Sciradian Athene, and of Zeus at a little distance, and altars of gods called unknown, and of heroes, and of the children of Theseus and Phalerus; for this Phalerus, the Athenians say, sailed with Jason to Colchis. There is also an altar of Androgeos the son of Minos, though it is only called altar of a hero, but those who take pains to know more accurately than others their country’s antiquities are well aware that it is the altar of Androgeos. And twenty stades further is the promontory Colias; when the fleet of the Persians was destroyed the tide dashed the wrecks against it. There is here also a statue of Aphrodite of Colias and the goddesses who are called Genetyllides. I am of opinion that the Phocian goddesses in Ionia, that they call by the name of Gennaides, are the same as these at Colias called Genetyllides. And there is on the road to Athens from Phalerum a temple of Hera without doors or roof; they say that Mardonius, the son of Gobryas, burnt it. But the statue there now is (as they say) the work of Alcamenes; this, indeed, the Persian cannot have touched.

Of English parents, and of a good English family of clergymen, Swift was born in Dublin in 1667, seven months after the death of his father, who had come to practise there as a lawyer. The boy went to school at Kilkenny, and afterwards to Trinity College, Dublin, where he got a degree with difficulty, and was wild, and witty, and poor. In 1688, by the recommendation of his mother, Swift was received into the family of Sir William Temple, who had known Mrs. Swift in Ireland. He left his patron in 1694, and the next year took orders in Dublin. But he threw up the small Irish preferment which he got and returned to Temple, in whose family he remained until Sir William's death in 1699. His hopes of advancement in England failing, Swift returned to Ireland, and took the living of Laracor. Hither he invited Hester Johnson, Temple's natural daughter, with whom he had contracted a tender friendship, while they were both dependants of Temple's. And with an occasional visit to England, Swift now passed nine years at home.

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Restaci solamente, al presente, a ragionare de' principati ecclesiastici: circa quali tutte le difficultà sono avanti che si possegghino: perché si acquistano o per virtù o per fortuna, e sanza l'una e l'altra si mantengano; perché sono sustentati dalli ordini antiquati nella religione, quali sono suti tanto potenti e di qualità che tengono e' loro principi in stato, in qualunque modo si procedino e vivino. Costoro soli hanno stati, e non li defendano; sudditi, e non li governano: e li stati, per essere indifesi, non sono loro tolti; e li sudditi, per non essere governati, non se ne curano, né pensano né possono alienarsi da loro. Solo, adunque, questi principati sono sicuri e felici. Ma, sendo quelli retti da cagioni superiore, alla quale mente umana non aggiugne, lascerò el parlarne; perché, sendo esaltati e mantenuti da Dio, sarebbe offizio di uomo presuntuoso e temerario discorrerne. Non di manco, se alcuno mi ricercassi donde viene che la Chiesia, nel temporale, sia venuta a tanta grandezza, con ciò sia che da Alessandro indrieto, e' potentati italiani, et non solum quelli che si chiamavono e' potentati, ma ogni barone e signore, benché minimo, quanto al temporale, la estimava poco, et ora uno re di Francia ne trema, e lo ha possuto cavaredi Italia e ruinare Viniziani: la qual cosa, ancora che sia nota, non mi pare superfluo ridurla in buona parte alla memoria. Nicolò Machiavelli

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