Note 740 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
vii. 148. In 1541, Sir Thomas Elyot published The Image of Government, compiled of the Acts and Sentences of Alexander Severus, as the work of Encolpius, an imaginary secretary to that emperor. Some have thought this genuine, or at least no forgery of Elyot’s; but I see little reason to doubt that he imitated Guevara. Fabric. Bibl. Lat. and Herbert.