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Heraclius (575 - 641)
Eastern Roman Emperor from 610 to 641 and responsible for introducing Greek as the Eastern Empire's official language. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius Relevant locations: Birth place in Cappadocia, AnatoliaReferences in Documents:
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638)
LET Let Swan-like, some lawfull joyes youthead did bring:
My songs are mournings, which may clearly shew
Th'inconstant course of all things here below:
Yet guided by that steadfast hand alwayes
Which, midst confusions great, the ballance stayes:
Thus Heraclitus -like sometimes I mourne
At giddie Fortunes reelings: thence I turne
Like to Democritus in laughter wholly
To see th'inconstant changes of her folly.
Thus do I mourne, and laugh oftimes, by course,
As giddie Fortune reeles from good to worse:
For neither is the battell to the strong,Eccles. 9. 11.
Nor doth unto the swift the race belong,
Nor bread to these whose wit should have commanding,
Nor riches to the men of understanding:
Nor favour doth to men of knowledge fall,
But chance (as would appear) doth order all.
So, if the second causes we do view,
We shall finde out a paradoxe most true.