Most loathsom, filthy, foul, and full of vile Disdain.

And vpon a ſet day Herod arayed in royall apparell, ſate vpon his throne, and made an Oration vnto them.

There was, however, an inclination in pre-Christian Greek philosophy to speak of philautia in a different way. In Plato's Laws we first encounter the saying, apparently traditional, that every man is naturally his own friend. This idea was to provide Aristotle with a developed theory of friendship.

Cla. By heauen, I thinke there is no man ſecure / But the Queenes Kindred, and night-walking Heralds,[…]