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A00997	The Roman histories of Lucius Iulius Florus from the foundation of Rome, till Cæsar Augustus, for aboue DCC. yeares, & from thence to Traian near CC. yeares, divided by Flor[us] into IV. ages. Translated into English.; Epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri II. English	Florus, Lucius Annaeus.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.; Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?	1619 (1619)	STC 11103; ESTC S102361	97,168	532

with his owne hand in the face of the Court and the companies of his fellow-souldiers displaying about him their banners they layd siege in armes to that whole vsurped soueraignetie and from mount Auentine where their first campe was dragd it downe into the gaole and fetters CHAP. XXV The cities third discord THe dignitie of marriages kindled the third sedition in which the commons stood for freedome of ioyning in marriage with the nobles And this tumult brake forth in mount Ianiculum by the instinct of Canuleius Tribune of the people CHAP. XXVI The cities fourth discord THe desire of honour in the commoners who aspired to be also created magistrates mooued the fourth great stirre Fabius Ambustus had two daughters one of which hee bestowed in marriage vpon Sulpitius a gentleman of Patritian bloud the other vpon Stolo a Plebcian He because his wife was frighted at the sound of the serieants rod on his doore which was neuer heard there till then and for that respect was proudly enough scoffed-at by her other sister brooked not the indignitie Therefore hauing gotten to bee Tribune he wrested from the Senate whether they would or no the participation of honors and high offices Neuerthelesse in the very hottest of these distempers a man shall see cause to admire the generous spirit of this princely people For so much as one while they busied themselues in the rescue of freedome another while of chastitie then stood for dignitie of birth and for the ensignes ornaments of honour But of all these worthie things there was not any one ouer which they held so wakefull an eye as ouer libertie nor could they bee corrupted by any gifts or good turnes as a value for betraying it For when in a mightie people and growing mightier daily there were in the meane space many pernicious members of them they punished Spurius Cassius suspected of affecting souereigntie because hee had published the Agrarian law Maelius for that hee gaue lauishly both of them with present death Indeed his owne father tooke reuenge vpon Spurius but Seruilius Ahala master of the Roman horsemen or cauallerie by comandement of Quinctius the Dictator ranne his sword through Maelius in the middle of the Forum But Manlius the preseruer of the Capitol carrying himselfe because hee had freed most men of their debts ouer loftily and aboue the garbe of a fellow-citizen they pitcht him headlong from the top of the castell which himselfe had defended Such were the people of Rome at home and abroad in peace and in warre during this working current of their youth the secund age of their empire in which they conquered all Italie betweene the Alpes and Sea by force of armes The end of the first Booke of Lveivs FLORVS THE HISTORIE OF THE ROMANS The second Booke CHAP. I. WHEN Italie was now brought vnder made mannageable the people of Rome hauing continued almost fiue hundred yeeres was in good earnest growne a man and if there be any such thing as strength and lustie youth then certainely they were strong and young and began to be hard enough for all the world They therefore which is a wonder and incredible to be spoken who had kept a struggling at home for well-neere fiue hundred yeeres so difficult it was to set vp an Head ouer Italy in onely the two hundred yeeres which ensued marcht thorow Afrike Europe Asia and in briefe thorow the whole world with their victorious armies CHAP. II. The first Carthaginian or Punike warre THe people therefore conquerours of Italie after they had runne thorow all the length thereof to the sea it selfe like a fire which hauing consumed all the woods in it's way is broken off at the bank of some riuer passing betweene in like sort stop a while But when they saw within kenn a wondrous rich bootie lopt off as it were and torne away from their Italie they burnt with so extreme a desire of atchieuing it that whereas they could not come at it by bridges nor shut out the sea they were resolute to vnite it to their dominion by force of armes and so to make it againe a parcell of their continent But lo the destinies willing to open them a way there wanted not a wished occasion Messana a confederate citie of Sicilia complayning of the Carthaginians out-rages who aymed at the conquest of Sicilia as well as the Romans both of them at the same time and with equall affections and forces hauing in proiect the lordship of the world Therefore for assisting their associates that was the colour but in very deed spurred on with loue of the prey though the newnesse of the attempt troubled them yet valour is so full of confidence this rude this shepheardish people and meere land-men did well shew that manhood made no difference whether it fought on horse-back or on shipboord vpon the earth or waters Appius Claudius Consul they first aduentured into those streights which had beene made hideous with poëticall monsters and where the current was violent but they were so farre from being deterred thereby that they made vse of the furie of the hurrying tide as of a fauour for falling in therewith they forthwith set vpon Hiero king of Syracuse with such celeritie that himselfe confest hee found himselfe ouercome before hee saw the enemy Duilius and Cornelius Consuls they durst also fight at sea And the speed then vsed to build and rigge a nauie was certainely a signe of speeding For within threescore dayes after the timber was fell'd an armada of one hundred and threescore saile ridde at anchor out of it so that they seemed not the worke of shipwrights but as if by a kind of metamorphosis the gods had turned them such and changed trees to vessels But the report which goes of the fight is maruelous where these slugges and heauie bottomes seized vpon the quick and nimble nauie of the aduersaries who were much more cunning at sea so farre as skill to shift aside oares and to dally out the strokes of beake-heads by yare and readie turning For the hands of yron and other the grappling engines of the Romans the enemie made much sport at before the battel 's ioyned but were then compelled to trie it out in good earnest as if they had fought on firme land Thus giuing the ouerthrow at the Iles of Liparae their enemies armada either sunke or fled this was their first sea-triumph The ioy whereof how great was it when Duilius Captaine generall in that seruice not thinking one daies triumph enough did neuer come home from any supper so long as hee liued but hee would haue torches borne lighted and flutes play before him as if hee triumphed euery day The losse in regard of so great a victorie was but light The other of the Consuls Cnaeus Cornelius Asina entrapt by the enemie vnder colour of parley so surprised became a lesson against giuing credit to the faithlesse Carthaginians Calatinus Dictator

a cold snowie day hauing first well warm'd themselues at fires and suppled their limbs with oyle men a wonder to bee spoken cōming out of the South and sun-burnt climats ouercame vs at home with our own winter The third lightnings of Annibal flew randome at vs by Trasimenus lake Flaminius our Generall There also the Carthaginians vented another new trick of their trade For the lake lying hiddē vnder a thick mist the cauallerie shadowed from sight with twigs long osiars which grew in the marsh gaue a suddē charge vpon our rere Neuerthelesse wee cannot blame the enemie but our selues For swarms of bees which clustred vpō the Romā ensigns their gilt eagles vnwilling to come out and an huge earthquake at the ioyning of the battels all of thē vnlucky signes had forewarned our rash Generall of the euent and preuented it but that the concourse of the horse foot the extraordinary lowd clashing of their weapons gaue to Flaminius alone the honor of leading them on against the other Consuls liking The fourth the almost deadly wound of the empire was at Cannae an obscure village of Apulia but through the greatnesse of the blow which was receiued there it got to be famous at the cost of fortie thousand liues In that place the General himselfe earth heauen the day and all things else consented to the fall of that vnfortunate army For Annibal not content to haue put counterfeit fugitiues vpon vs who seeing their vantage forthwith set vpon our men at their backs but that most dangerous captaine hauing moreouer in the open fields markt the nature of the place where the sunne-beams did beat hottest the dust was infinite and the easterne winde blew stint as it were he so marshall'd his battels that the Romans standing with their faces towards all these disaduantages himselfe had the whole fauour of the skie the winde the dust sun at once to fight for him The enemies therfore were so glutted with the execution of two most mighty hosts that Annibal himself bade his souldiers spare the sword Of the two Consuls the one fled the other was slaine hard to say whether of them the more braue therein Aemilius ashamed to suruiue Varro despaired not of better Signes of the greatnes of the ouerthrow were these the riuer Aufidus ran bloud for a while a bridge of dead carcases made at Annibals commādemēt ouer Gellus brooke two bushels of gold rings sent to Carthage and the estimate of Roman gentlemen slaine calculated not by tale but measure It was then past all doubt that Rome had seene her last day that Annibal within fiue dayes might haue feasted in the Capitol if as the Carthaginian Maharbal Bumilcar's sonne is reported to haue said Annibal had as well vnderstood how to make vse of his victory as how to obtaine it But as the common voice goeth either the fate of Rome ordain'd to bee empresse of the earth or Annibals euill Genius or the Gods of Carthage now auerted carried him a diuerse way For when hee might haue put his victory home he rather made choise to enioy it suffred Rome to rest while hee progrest to Campania Tarent where both he and his armie lost by and by their spirit so as it was truly said that Capua was Annibals Cannae For him whom neither the Alps nor force of armes could daunt Campania alone and the delicate warme springs of Baiae did who would beleeue it subdue Meanwhile the Romans tooke breath and rise as it were from death to life againe Weapons wanted they tooke them downe out of the temples Fresh souldiers wanted they minister the oath of warre to their bondmen and make them free Treasure wanted the lords of the counsell bring gladly all they had leauing no gold to themselues but what was in their brooches belts and rings the knights and gentlemen followed the Senatours example and the comoners the gentlemens to bee briefe Leuinus and Marcellus Consuls such abundance of riches was brought together out of priuate contributions for the publike seruice that the eschequer had scarcely bookes and clerks enow to enter the particulars What shall we say of them at this time in the choise of magistrats how great was the wisdome of the centuries or hundred-men when the yonger sort askt coūsel of the ancient whom they should nominate for Consuls For it stood them vpon not to deale with faire force onely against so cunning an enemie who had so often beaten them but to meet with him also in his owne policies The first hope of their empires recouerie and as I may say reuiuall thereof was Fabius who inuented a new method of vanquishing Anibal Not to fight And from hence it was that in happie time for Rome hee got the nick-name to bee called The draw-backe or Cunctator and from hence it came that the people stiled him The shield of the state Hee therefore so ground and punned Annibal by coasting him thorow all Samnium the forrests of Falernus and Gaurus that whom plaine strength could not breake in pieces delay might fret and weare Soone after Claudius Marcellus Generall they durst also encounter him came hand to hand draue him out of his Campania and forced him to rayse his siege from before Nola. They durst in like sort Sempronius Gracchus Generall pursue him thorow Lucania and set vpon his backe in his retreat though O the shame the Romans were compelled to fight with the hands of their bondslaues O the horrible confidence of a people among so many aduersities O the high haughtinesse and brauerie of their spirit in their so extreme afflicted estate that being doubtfull of keeping Italy they durst notwithstanding tend to other places and when their enemies flew vp and downe at their throats ouer all Campania and Apulia and made halfe Afrike in Italie did both at one time beare the brunt of his assaults and at the same time dispatched forces into Sicilia Sardinia Spaine and other parts of the world Marcellus was sent into Sicilia which held not out long for the power of the whole Iland was put apart into one citie Syracusae that great and till that time vnconquered chiefe-towne though defended by the wit of Archimedes did yeeld at last Her treble wall alike number of castles her hauen of marble and her fountaine Arethusa so farre renowned what auayled they other then thus farre onely that the citie was spared in respect of her beautie Gracchus seized Sardinia neyther did the wildnesse of the Ilanders nor the monstrous cragges of their mad mountaines for so they were called stand them in any stead A terrible course was taken with their cities and with their Citie of cities Caralis that the head-strong nation scarce worth killing might bee tamed at last with the lacke of their natiue soyle The two Scipio's Cnaeus and Publius sent into Spaine had pluckt away once all hope from the Carthaginians but lost their hold againe being destroyed by the cunning inuentions