
Supplicio laus tuta semel.
He that was worthy of praise was one free from punishment.
Un Indien que lon disoit estre si bon archer & de-
xtre à tirer à l’arc, qu’il passoit sa flesche, de loing par
dedens un anneau) estant quelque fois importuné &
pressé, de tirer par le commandement d’Alexandre, ne
pour cela, ne s’y voulut jamais acorder, ce que voyant le

Roy, commanda qu’on le pendist. Donq, comme on le me-
noit au suplice, & qu’on l’interrogeoit (ce pendant)
pourquoy il ne vouloit tirer, il fit response, qu’il avoit
peur de faillir, pour autant qu’il y avoit long tems qu’il
n’avoit tiré. Dequoy estant averti Alexandre, & con-
noissant qu’il ne le faisoit par contumace, mais par crein-
te de moquerie: le fit adonq relacher: s’esmerveillant
de l’esprit cupide de los & gloire, & davantage consi-
derant, qu’il avoit plustot aymé mourir, qu’estre trouvé
aucunement indine de sa renommee.[1]
1. This story is from Plutarch, Sayings of Kings and Commanders, (English edition by E. Hinton, 1878), p. 181.
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