the first place are conditores imperiorum, founders of states and commonwealths; such as were Romulus, Cyrus,[1] Cæsar, Ottoman,[2] Ismael. In the second place are legislatores, lawgivers; which are also called second founders, or perpetui principes,[3] because they govern by their ordinances after they are gone; such were Lycurgus,[4] Solon, Justinian,[5] Eadgar,[6] Alphonsus of Castile,[7] the wise, that made the Siete partidas. In the third place are liberatores, or salvatores,[8] such as compound[9] the long miseries of civil wars, or deliver their countries from servitude of strangers or tyrants; as Augustus Cæsar, Vespasianus, Aurelianus,[10] Theodoricus,[11] King Henry the
- ↑ Cyrus the Great, 559–529 B.C., founder of the Persian empire.
- ↑ Osman I. (Othman, or Ottoman), died 1326, founder of the Ottoman empire. He became chief of his tribe in 1288, and assumed the title of emir (not of sultan) in 1299.
- ↑ Perpetual princes.
- ↑ Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, lived probably in the 9th century B.C. He is the traditional author of the laws and institutions of Sparta.
- ↑ Flavius Anicius Justinianus, 'the Great,' 483–565 A.D., Byzantine emperor, 527–565.
- ↑ Eadgar, or Edgar, 944–975, called 'the Peaceful,' great-grandson of Alfred, King of England, 959–975.
- ↑ Alfonso X., 1221–1284, King of Leon and Castile, 1252–1282, surnamed 'the Wise' and 'the Astronomer.' He was the author of the Spanish code of laws, which is called Las Siete Partidas, from 'the seven parts' into which it is divided. Alfonso X. made Castilian the national language of Spain by causing the Bible to be translated into it, and by requiring all legal proceedings to be conducted in Castilian.
- ↑ Liberators or saviours.
- ↑ Compound. To settle or compose (disturbance, strife, difference, litigation).
"Rise, Grumio, rise: we will compound this quarrel."
Shakspere. The Taming of the Shrew. i. 2.
- ↑ Claudius Lucius Valerius Domitius Aurelianus, 212(?)–275 A.D., Emperor of Rome 270–275 A.D. Aurelian was the conqueror of Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, in 272 and 273. He was called by the Roman senate, the 'Restorer of the Roman Empire.'
- ↑ Theodoric the Great, 454(?)–526, King of the East Goths. In mediaeval German romance Theodoric is celebrated as Dietrich von Bern (that is, Theodoric of Verona).
