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A20738	An auncient historie and exquisite chronicle of the Romanes warres, both ciuile and foren written in Greeke by the noble orator and historiographer, Appian of Alexandria ... ; with a continuation, bicause [sic] that parte of Appian is not extant, from the death of Sextus Pompeius, second sonne to Pompey the Great, till the overthrow of Antonie and Cleopatra ...; Historia Romana. English. 1578	Appianus, of Alexandria.	1578 (1578)	STC 712.5; ESTC S124501	657,207	745

brother when he was toward mane estate Which two being taken away he lay close a great whye and vexed Spayne wyth priuie robberies tyll he hadde good rescet to him and then he professed hymselfe to he Pompeys sonne a●● made open rodes and when Iulius Caesar was slayne he moued playne warre béeyng ayded wyth greate multitudes and forces of the suddayne gayning Shippes and publike treasure He ●ppressed Italy wyth famine and broughte hys enimies to what conditions he woulde and that most is when the wicked condemnation was executed in Rome he saued manye of the noble men that enioyed theyr Countrey by his benefyte but Fortune not fauouring hym he woulde neuer take the aduantage of hys enimie neglecting manye occasions he would lye still Thys was he that now is in bondage Titius commaunded hys army to sweare to Antony and put hym to death at Mileto when he hadde lyued to the age of fortye yeares eyther for that he remembred late displeasure and forgot olde good rurnes or for that he had such commaundemente of Antony There bée that saye that Plancus and not Antony dyd commaunde hym to dye whyche héeyng president of Syria had Antonyes signet and in greate causes wrote letters in hys name Some thynke it was done wyth Antonyes knowledge he fearyng the name of Pompey or for Cleopatra who fauoured Pompey the great Some thynke that Plancus dyd it of hymselfe for these causes and also that Pompey shoulde gyue no cause of dissention betwéene Caesar and Antony or for that Cleopatra woulde turne hy●auour to Pompey When hée was dispatched Antony tooke hys iourney into Armenia and Caesar agaynste the Slauonians continuall enimyes of the Romanes neuer obeying the Romane Empire but re●oltyng in euery ciuill warre And bycause the warres of Illyria are not thoroughly knowen vnto me nor sufficient to make a iust volume and can not ●e declared commodiously otherwise I h●ue thought it good to referre them to the time that the● were subiect to the Romances and making a compendious Treatise of them to ioyne th●● with the affayres of 〈◊〉 FINIS Faultes escaped in the printing of the fiue Bookes of ciuill vvarres of Rome Pag. Line Faulte Correction 1 1● shoulde shall ● 35 Li●bia Libya 4 1 duke of Loma gulfe of Ionia 4 vlt. Colligant Colligauit ● 20 of that of them that 13 2 Paperius Papirius 16 33 pastime pasture 25 25 Hirsians Hirpinian● 29 17 Falerno Ealerno 32 16 Canue Canne ●8 2● Cithegus Cethegus ●0 17 meanes malice 54 14 warres wayes 69 vlt. Garinus Garganus 70 8 birdes burdens 73 20 Cateline Catilina ●3 35 that Milo Milo that 85 26. 28. 29. Ptotolomie Ptolomie 95 3 Dirrachium Dyrrachium 97 2 Sypris Sycoris ●●2 ●4 mnaly● manly ●05 1 Baron barne 106 ●31 seyning seeming ●07 34 os .viij. C. sauing 800 ▪ ●●0 1 Ve●ona Velona 114 7 slingers slingers 110 ●● any 120. onely 120. 115 2 fourtie 40● 115 27 so soe 126 9 Methridates Mithridates ●40 ●7 came comming ●61 2 4● 400. ibid. 5 horse ho●●e ibid. ●● 〈◊〉 Tu●rci●● ¶ A CONTINVATION of Appian of Alexandrîa Wherein is declared the last acte of the wofull Tragedie of the Romaines bloudie Dissentions in the whiche Marcus Antonius was ouerthrown by sea at Actio and by land at Alexandrîa Where both he and Cleopatra killed themselues after the which Octauius Caesar was the only Monarch of all the Romane Empire alone In this we be taught That Gods vengeance is sharp although it be ●●●vv and that peoples rule must g●●● place and princely povver preuayle AT LONDON Imprinted by Raulfe Newberry and Henry Bynniman Anno 1578. ¶ TO THE RIGHT HONOrable his singular good Mayster Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Capitaine of the Queenes Maiesties Garde Vicechamberlaine to hir Highnesse and one of hir Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsayle AS the losse of old possessiōs is a griefe to the landed men euē so the decay of aūtient bokes is a smart to the learned sort Titus Liuius father of the Romane historie whom to see repaire was made of Gentlemen frō farre places vvhiles he liued hath not escaped the iniurie of time but bin left vnperfitte to the great sorovv of posteritie after he dyed Cornelius Tacitus that folowed him both in matter and age could not auoyde that iniquitie althoughe the Emperor Tacitus commaunded his bokes to be written ten times euery yeare This Authour Appianus Alexandrinus hath had the like lucke for al the estimation he vvas in the halfe of his labour being lost and the last part of the vvhole ciuill tumult not now to be had frō him but briefly supplyed otherwise that the end of the Romanes wo the beginning of our ioy might be declared the one successiuely folovving of the other The vvhich it may please your honour to accept according to your accustomed goodnesse beseeching the liuing Lord long to preserue the same Your Honours humble seruaunt H. B. A Continuation of Appian of Alexandrîa till the ouerthrow of M. Antonius vvhiche vvas the laste ciuill dissention after the whiche Octauius Caesar had the rule of all the Romane Empire alone AFter that Octauius Caesar and M. Antonius had agréed with Sextus the yonger sonne of Pompey ▪ the great ▪ it was determined that Antonius shold make warre vpon the Parthians to reuenge the death of Crassus Wherefore presently he sent Ventidius to represse the Parthians and he to gratifie Octauius was content to marie his sister and to be made the holy minister of Iulius Caesar that was dead he remayning in Rome ruling by common consent with Octauius Caesar as well the matters of the Cittie as of the whole Empire And as it befalleth betwéene such Princes to make pastimes in play and matches Antonie alwayes had the worse at the whiche he was somewhat moued He had in his company an Aegiptian after the maner of a Soothsayer who eyther to please Cleopatra or to shew the very truth tolde Antonie then that hys fortune was obseured by the fortune of Octauius Therefore hée aduised him to go furder off For sayth he whē thou art abrode thy nature is noble and coragious but when thou art with him it is deiect and afrayde of his Antonie whether by this motion or his owne inclination was content to leaue all there to Octauius and to go towarde his olde loue of Aegipt yet carying his new wife with him into Graecia pretending an earnest desire to reuenge the iniurie that was done to Crassus which was after this sorte Crassus Pompey and Caesar were all suters for the Consulship in Rome agaynst them stoode Cicero and Cato Crassus and Pompey were chosen and they continued Caesars authoritie in France for fiue yeares longer which he only desired In castyng lottes for the prouinces Spayne fell to Pompey whereof he was glad beyng giuen to please his wife and the people was gladde beyng desirous to haue Pompey nigh the Citie Syria fell to Crassus whereof he was

infinite and incomparable but bycause of the short time it was like a bright lightning The whiche beyng diuided into manye Prouinces part of them continued noble a good whyle But our kings only dyd maintaine two hundred thousande footeinen fortie thousand horsemen thrée hundred Elephants vsed to the warre two thousande armed Chariots and so muche armoure as woulde serue thrée hundred thousande Besides this prouision for the lande they had two thousande of the small vessels and of galleys little and greate a thousande fyue hundreth with double furniture eyghte hundred shippes of shewe whiche they vsed for pompe with stems and sternes of golde seauen hundred and fortie talents of Egipt in their treasure al the whiche appeareth by the Princes recordes which be yet extant The seconde king of Egipt after Alexander who of al other was moste able to spende most bountifull to bestow most desirous to get lefte this behinde him Other Princes were not muche inferiour but by mutuall discorde of their posteritie which is the onely destruction of great kingdomes they came to nothing But the Romane Empire passed for greatnesse and felicitie for continuaunce and wisedom in the Senate neither wanted they manhoode nor patience nor painefulnesse til they had established their power nor gaue place to misfortune they loste sometime twenty thousande sometyme fortie and fiftye thousand at a battaile ▪ diuerse tymes the Citie was in daunger by famine pestilence and sedition Yet all this woulde not abate their ambition by the space of seauen hundred yeares stryuing with paine and perill till they brought their dominion kéeping stil●one ●rade ▪ to this heigth as they receyue moste ample fruits of their wisedome and happinesse These things many Gretians and Romanes haue put in writing and the Historie is farre excéeding the Macedonians and where as I haue considered their valiauntnesse and would sée it in euery nation my penne hath carried me from Lybia to Vberia from Iberia into Sicilie or Macedonie or to embassages confederacies of sundrye nations and then brought me againe as a forced man to Sicilie and to Carthage and eftsoones carried mee away from these vnperfect til I had gathered by partes howe of tthey sent ambassadours or armyes into Si●ily and what they did in that Iland til they had conquered it Thē how many ambassages how many leagues were made betwéen them what ouerthrowes on bothe sides were giuen till Carthage was ouercome and Africa made a prouince and then Carthage restored againe to the state that it is nowe I haue done the like in euerye prouince bycause I would know what the Romaines did euery where that I might sée the manhoode or fayntnesse of al natiōs and the vertue and fortune of them that conquered and whatsoeuer other matter chaunced Thinking this woulde be acceptable to other also to vnderstand the Romaines actes after thys sorte I haue written of euery nation by it selfe leauing to write what was done in the meane time of other placyng them seuerally To set the times to euery thing I thought it too much the moste notable I will expresse by their distance of time At the firste the Romaines had one name as al other after came another and at length the thirde also was added to some of them to be known by some marke of body or vertue of mind as the Grecians had surnames ioyned to their names Some time I wyll put all chiefly of the noble men that they may be the better knowen the most I will name by the one or the other as shal be moste fitte And where there be thrée bokes that declare the Romaines doings in Italie I call them thrée the Romaines actes with the Italians and for the multitude of matter are thus diuided The firste conteyneth the reignes of the seauen kings therefore I call them The Historie of the Romane Kings Then followeth the Booke of matters done in Italy beside them that dwell in the coast of Ionia the which Booke for a difference is called The Romanes warre after the Kings The last of all in that land were the Samnites next the Ionian sea a nation most fierce and warlike fighting with the Romanes fourescore yeares till they and the Grecians their fellowes that inhabite Italy were subdued and this booke for the difference from the other two is called The Romanes warres with the Samnites All the other haue their seuerall titles as The Romanes warre with the Galles the Sicilians the Iberians with Hanniball with Carthage with Macedonia and so forthe The order of the whiche is after the order of the time in the which they were done though that many other things happened by the way The ciuill seditions and warre among themselues most horrible of all the rest shall be declared by their names that were chiefe doers of the same as Marius and Sylla Pompey and Caesar Antony and Caesar Augustus and the killers of Caesar the elder Then shall be shewed of Antony and Caesar whiche made an end of ciuill warre when Aegipt came vnder the Romanes dominion So all the warres are diuided into bookes of their nation or to the names of the Captaines if they be ciuill The last booke shall declare what armies they haue what reuenue they take of euery Nation ▪ what charges they be at with their ordinarie garrisons by sea and suche other And séeing I shall wright of their vertue it shall be fitte to beginne of theyr originall Who I am that haue written these things many knowe I haue shewed it before and to tell it more playnely ▪ I am of Alexandria accepted in my Countrey and exercised at Rome in causes of Justice touching the Emperoures til it pleased them to thinke ine worthy their seruice He that will know the rest may learne it of the Bookes that I haue written ¶ The Romanes warre with Mithridates King of Pontus by Appian of Alexandria WHen the Romanes had ouercome Mithridates the King after xl●j yeares warre they made Bithinia Cappadocia and other nations bordering vppon thē inhabiting the sea called ●●xinu● subiecte vnto them And in the same warre they wonne of Cilicia those that were not yet of their obedience and of Syria Phoenitia Coelosiria and Palestina and the midde land to the floud Euphrates not béeing vnder Mithridates but by the violence of that victory And to some they put tributes by and by to some afterward Paphlagonia Galatia and Phrygia and Mysia ioyning to Phrygia and after them Lydia and Caria and Ionia and all the rest of Asia that is aboute Pergamo and old Grecia and Macedonia whiche Mithridates hadde gotten they recouered soone agayne and to manye of them appointed tributes that neuer had payd any For that which I thinke they call this chiefly the greate warre and the victory of it also greate and the Captayne of it that was Pompey in their proper language they name greate to this day for the number of the