“Securus est quem civium servat fidem” – “he whom the citizens’ loyalty preserves is safe” (

George Buchanan was a major source of inspiration for John Milton. His tragedy Baptistes sive Calumnia (1577), written in Latin, offers an insight into Buchanan’s political theory such as expounded in his famous dialogue De Iure regni apud Scotos, namely his view of a limited monarchy, a theory which in many ways has a revolutionary potential.