Or rather, because Priests having their functions determinate and certaine, and the kings, undeterminate and uncertaine, it was not possible, that when the occasions and times of both concurred together at one instant, one and the same person should be sufficient for both: for it could not otherwise be, but many times when both charges pressed upon him and urged him at ones, he should pretermit the one or the other, and by that meanes one while offend and fault in religion toward God, and anotherwhile do hurt unto citizens and subjects. Or else, considering, that in governments among men, they saw that there was otherwhiles no lesse necessitie than authority; and that he who is to rule a people (as _Hippocrates_ said of a physician, who seeth many evill things, yea and handleth many also) from the harmes of other men, reapeth griefe and sorrow of his owne: they thought it not in policy good, that any one should sacrifice unto the gods, or have the charge and superintendence of sacred things; who had been either present or president at the judgements and condemnations to death of his owne citizens; yea and otherwhiles of his owne kinsfolke and allies, like as it befell sometime to _Brutus_. THE END. ---- _Printed by_ BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. _Edinburgh and London_ BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CARABAS. _Crown 8vo Volumes, Printed on Hand-made Paper, with Wide Margins and Uncut Edges, done up in Japanese Vellum Wrappers._ Issued under the general Editorship of Mr. ANDREW LANG. _THESE VOLUMES WILL NEVER BE REPRINTED._ I. _CUPID AND PSYCHE_: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. Done into English by WILLIAM ADLINGTON, of University College in Oxford. With a Discourse on the Fable by ANDREW LANG, late of Merton College in Oxford. Frontispiece by W. B. RICHMOND, and Verses by the EDITOR, MAY KENDALL, J. W. MACKAIL, F. LOCKER-LAMPSON, and W. H. POLLOCK. (lxxxvi. 66 pp.) 1887. _Out of print._ II. _EUTERPE_: The Second Book of the Famous History of Herodotus. Englished by B. R. 1584. Edited by ANDREW LANG, with Introductory Essays on the Religion and the Good Faith of Herodotus. Frontispiece by A. W. TOMSON; and Verses by the EDITOR and GRAHAM R. TOMSON. (xlviii. 174 pp.) 1888. 10_s._ _Out of print._ "Mr Lang deserves no small thanks from all who love the quaint and delightful stories of Kings and their tombs, of gods and their temples, told to Herodotus by the priests of Egypt, and by him to the world."—_The Spectator._ "It is not necessary to quote or point out the best of the many good things which will be found in 'B. R.'s' translation of 'Euterpe.' To begin it is to read it to the end."—_The Saturday Review._