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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64914	The lives of the illustrious Romans writ in Latin by Sextus Aurelius Victor ; and translated by several young gentlemen educated by Mr. Maidwell.; De viris illustribus urbis Romeo. English.	Pliny, the Younger.; Suetonius, ca. 69-ca. 122.; Nepos, Cornelius.; Victor, Sextus Aurelius.; Maidwell, Lewis, 1650-1715.	1693 (1693)	Wing V342; ESTC R13291	41,581	228

Conversation for Your Kind Wishes which Great and Good Qualities none Expresses and Extends more than Your Lordship who besides Your many Virtues which in Reverence I shall not now mention being so well known are by Your Condescention so truly great and Noble I heartily pray that all things may fortunately succeed according to Your desires to Your Self and Your Noble Relations and that You would believe me to be MY LORD Your Lordships most Obedient and most Humble Servant L. MAIDWELL THE LIFE OF Sextus Aurelius Victor SExtus Aurelius Victor was first published by the Learned Andreas Schottus and flourished under the Emperors Constantius and Julian for in the Life of Marcus Antonius the Philosopher He says That Nicomedia in Bithynia was destroy'd by an Earthquake in his time in the Consulate of Cerealis which was the next year after the Ninth Consulship of Constantius And that in his Reign when Flavius Philippus was Consul the Eleventh Century contrary to Ancient Custom was celebrated without and Solemnity Hence without doubt he was the same Aurelius Victor who was Consul with Valentinian Junior A. U.C. 1121 and certainly the same Person whom Ammianus Marcellinus mentions in his 21 Book to be an Historian of great Reputation of his Sobriety and of Consular Dignity whom Constantius made Governor of Pannonia and afterwards honoured with a Brazen Statue and the Praefecture of Rome In the Life of Severus he owns himself to be the Son of a mean illiterate Country-man and to have advanced himself by his Virtue and Learning 'T is very probable he was a Pagan in his Religion as many privately were in the time of Constantius and openly like good Courtiers in the Reign of his Successor Julian the Apostate this may be gathered from his approving of Adrian's Sacrifice to his beloved Antinous with the Complement of a Pious and Devout Action Yet after all 't is much disputed whether this Victor who writ the Lives of the Caesars be the Author of the Illustrious Romans For our Book ' though it goes under his name is of a far different stile and gives you better Latin than that of the Emperors which is harsh and unequal yet sententious and may recommend the Writers Judgment though not his Phrase Therefore some have rather ascribed these Lives to Cornelius Nepos Pliny Junior or Suetonius Others will have it to be according to the Title amongst whom is the Learned Vossius Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum THE LIVES Of the Illustrious ROMANS Writ in Latin by SEXTVS AVRELIVS VICTOR TRANSLATED by Mr. JOHN AUSTEN From the Building of Rome to the Year 244. PROCA King of the Albans PROCA King of the Albans had two Sons Amulius and Numitor Befo●● the Bir●● of Christ 810. to whom he left his Kingdom with the Condition of Reigning yearly by turns Amulius at the Expiration of his Term refus'd to surrender the Kingdom to his Brother and intending to deprive him of Issue made Rhea Silvia his Daughter chief Priestess of Vesta that she might always live a Maid But she was got with Child by Mars and brought forth Romulus and Remus Which surprize provok'd Amulius to imprison her and throw her Children into the Tiber but they being preserv'd by the Ebbing of the Water and left upon the Shoar their Cries invited a She-Wolf to hasten to their Relief and give them suck Some time after they were found by Faustulus the King's Shepherd and by him brought home to his Wife Acca Laurentia to take care of them These young Princes when grown up slew Amulius and restored their Grandfather Numitor to his Kingdom and then by the help of the Shepherds who in great numbers joyn'd them they built a City which Romulus called Rome he having had the better Fortune in Augury to see twelve Vultures and his Brother but six And that he might begin to secure his City by the Observation of Laws before he built Walls for its Defence he gave order that none should presume to go over his Rampire which Remus leaping in derision is said to have been killed with a Mattock by Fabius Celer the Centurion ROMULUS First King of the Romans U. C. Or from Building of Rome the first Year Romulus to increase his People set up an Asylum or Place of Refuge for all Strangers and of them composed a great Army But considering the want of Wives he sent Embassadors to demand them of his Neighbours Before Christ 750. which being denied he pretended in Honour of Neptune the Celebration of Horse-Races called Consualia and when a great Concourse of Men and Women came to see those Sports he gave a certain Signal to the Romans to take away the Maids by force One of which was so beautiful that she mov'd the Spectators to inquire where they carried her It was answer'd to Captain Thalassius Which Marriage proving very fortunate it was ordain'd they should invoke the Name of Thalassius in all future Nuptials The first who made War for this Rape were the Caeninenses against whom Romulus marched in person and overcame them killing Acro their General in a single Combat and consecrating his rich Spoils to Jupiter Feretrius in the Capitol Then the Antemnates Crustumini Fidenates Vejentes with the Sabines were Confederates against them on the same Account who approaching nigh to Rome seiz'd the Virgin Tarpeja as she went to the Tiber to draw Water for the Sacrifices King Titus Tatius proffer'd her the choice of any Reward if she would let his Army into the Capitol To which she consenting demanded all they wore on their Left Arms meaning their Rings and Bracelets which being promised with Equivocation and the Gate left open the Satines gain'd the Castle and by Titus's Order pressed her to death with the Shields carried also on their Left Arms Romulus drew out his Forces against Tatius who had possess'd himself of the Tarpejan Hill and fought him in the place now the Roman Forum where Hostus Hostilius one of his best Officers fighting valiantly was slain By whose death the Romans were discouraged and began to give ground yet after that Disorder upon Romulus's vowing to erect a Temple to Jupiter Stator if he would stop his Army's Flight the Soldiers made a stand either by Accident or some Divine Instinct In this Juncture the Women came between both Armies and mediating with their Fathers and Husbands at last procured a Peace Romulus then made a Solemn League with the Sabines and received them into Rome as Fellow Citizens uniting the People by the common Title of Quirites from Cures a Town of the Sabines He established an hundred Senators who for Reverence were stiled Fathers and instituted three Centuries of Knights the first were called Ramnenses from his own Name the second Tatienses from Titus Tatius and the third Luceres from Lucumo He divided the common People into thirty Companies and distinguisted them by the Names of the principal Women But