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A28438	Janua scientiarum, or, A compendious introduction to geography, chronology, government, history, phylosophy, and all genteel sorts of literature by Charles Blount ...	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3306; ESTC R2203	36,273	146

Consuls limited with Senators and Tribunes and in time of War or distress by Dictators who becoming perpetual were at last called Emperours Qu. How many were the first Kings of Rome name them in order Ans Seven to wit Romulus Numa Pompilius Tullius Hostilius Ancus Martius Tarquinius Priscius Servius Tullius and Tarquinius Superbus who by reason of his Tyranny was the last King of the Romans after whom they govern'd by Consuls till the Emperours times Qu. Who was the first Roman Emperour Ans Julius Caesar who making himself perpetual Dictator and having defeated Pompey took upon him the sole government of the Empire and so began the fourth Monarchy called the Roman which was afterwards established by Augustus Qu. How many years was it from the building of the City of Rome to the death of Julius Caesar Ans 710 years which was about 42 years before the Birth of Christ who was 14 years old when Augustus dy'd Qu. The first period of this Roman Empire reaching from Julius Caesar to Constantine the Great tell me in order the Names of the several Emperours Ans Julius Caesar Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero Galba Otho Vitellius Flavius Vespasian Titus Vespasian Domitian Nerva Trajanus Adrianus Antonius Pius Anton. Phylosoph Commodus Pertinax Didius Julianus Septimius Severus Caracalla Macrinus Heliogabalus Alexander Severus Maximinus Thrax Balbinus Puppienus Gordianus Philippus Arabs Decius Tribonianus Gallus Valerian Galienus Claudius secund ' Aurelianus Tacitus Probus Carus Dioclesian and Constantius Chloras Father of Constantine the Great Qu. How many years was it from Julius Caesar to Constantine the Great Ans About 355 years Qu. Why is the first period of the Roman Empire reckon'd but to Constantine the Great when he had so many considerable Emperours that succeeded him as Constantius Julian the Apostate and others Ans First because Constantine the Great was the first Christian Emperour and secondly because he removed the Imperial Seat from Rome in Italy to Byzantium in Greece where building a great City he call'd it after his own Name Constantinople which soon after produced a division of the Empire into East and West betwixt Arcadius and Honorius and so it continued for several years under two several Emperours Qu. What became of the Empire of the East after its division Ans The Empire of the East together with its chief City Constantinople was taken by the Turks who now possess it about 230 years ago from the last Greek Emperour Constantius Palaeologus whereupon 't is observ'd that as the City of Constantinople was built by a Constantine the first whose Mothers Name was St. Helena so likewise was it lost under a Constantine the eleventh whose Mothers Name also was Helena Qu. What became of the Empire of the West which was held at Rome after Honorius Ans About 100 years after Honorius the Empire of the West was destroy'd together with its Emperour Augustulus by Odoacer King of the Herulii which Empire hath been since succeeded by two Successions of Western Franks the first beginning with Charles the Great and the second with Radulphus Auspurgensis of the House of Austria who possesses the German Empire at this present time But here it is observable how that as the Roman Empire was founded by an Augustus so was it lost by an Augustulus Qu. How was the Roman Empire destroy'd Ans By the Invasion of Barbarians such as were the Hunns Goths and Vandals Qu. Which are the best Writers of this Fourth or Roman Monarchy Ans Caesar's Commentaries Dionysius Halicarnasseus Valerius Maximus Livy Plutarch Suetonius Tacitus both the Plinies Velleius Paterculus Ammianus Marcellinus Appian Lucius Florus Herodian Polybius Dion Cassius Salust Zozimus Procopius Jornandes Cassiodorus Agathias Historiae Augustae Scriptores and all the Byzantine Writers besides many learned modern Authors of the same Subject LIB IV. OF THE GREEK and ROMAN HISTORIANS Qu WHich are the most eminent of the Greek Historians Ans Herodotus Thucydides Xenophon Polybius Diodorus Siculus Dionysius Halicarnasseus Josephus Plutarch Philostratus Arrianus Laertius Appian Dion Cassius Herodian Eunapius Zozimus Eusebius and the Byzantine Historians as Procopius Agathias c. Qu. What account have you of Herodotus Ans Herodotus born at Halicarnassus a City in Greece is the most ancient of Historians we have extant next to Moses and therefore called by Cicero the Father of History He lived about 450 years before Christ when being a man of Quality and Power in his Countrey and opposing Lydamus his Cities Tyrant he was forced to fly to Thurium where he wrote those Nine Books of History which Posterity called by the names of the Nine Muses and which contained the most remarkable Transactions of the World during 240 years beginning from the time of Cyrus the first King of Persia and so on to Xerxes's time wherein Herodotus himself lived As for the Life of Homer though very ancient and ascribed to him it is thought to have been wrote by some other hand Herodotus his Stile like Homer's is sweet and easie his Dialect Ionick Some as Plutarch and Chrysostom esteem him fabulous but Camerarius Stephens especially our late Voyages and Discoveries have sufficiently vindicated him He dyed and was buried at Thurium Qu. What account have you of Thucydides Ans Thucydides was twelve years younger than Herodotus and lived 438 years before Christ Being but a Boy he wept at the hearing of Herodotus repeat his History whereby Herodotus presaged his future parts He was the Son of Orolus of a Royal Extraction and married a rich Wife the King of Thrace his Daughter by which means he expended much money both to the Athenians and Lacedemonians for good intelligence of their proceedings whereof being well informed he wrote his History and call'd it A possession for everlasting which gives an account of the Peleponesian Wars with the Athenians for one and twenty years together in 8 Books whereof the last seems uncorrect and unfinished to the former seven which makes some think it wrote by his Daughter others by Theopompus but Vossius by Thucydides himself whilst he was sick His method is preferr'd above all others His Stile pithy and full of matter His Dialect most pure Attick However Dyonisius accuses him of using obsolete words His Orations filled with good Argument but tedious Lastly he was an enemy to Fables and his Relations most faithful writing only of such things as were acted in his own time and knowledg which advantage Herodotus wanted Qu. What account have you of Xenophon Ans Xenophon by Birth an Athenian and Son of one Grillus lived 400 years before Christ He was a second Tresmegistus being a great Captain Phylosopher and Historiographer His Attick Dialect was so pure that he was called Apes Attica and was therefore envy'd and hated of Plato He was so generous that he exposed the Writings of Thucydides which he might have delivered for his own Xenophon's History treats of 46 years Transactions of the Greeks and begins where Thucydides ended shewing

't is thought by Lipsius and other Learned men to have been written by neither Now among these many Judicious persons who extol this Author Vossius though he prefers the Eloquence of his History before that of his Annals yet allows him to be every where Grave and Elegant Also Lipsius calls him a sharp and prudent Writer and Imitator of Salust Sidonius would have him never mention'd without Praise But the Emperour Tacitus had so great a veneration for his Ancestor and Name-sake that he made his Books be transcrib'd no less then ten times in one year and caused his Statue to be erected in all publick Libraries Notwithstanding he hath not been totally exempt from Censure For Alciatus rather out of Affection than Reason preferr'd his Friend Paulus Jovius before him and Ferret as well out of Ignorance as Vanity accuses Tacitus of writing ill Latine However Pliny the younger magnifies his Eloquence therein Also Vopiscus only to justify his Assertion that all Narrations are mixt with untruths accuses Tacitus of delivering falsities but gives no instance where Likewise Chrysostom and Tertullian bribed rather with Religion than Judgment accuse Tacitus as an Imposture for that he derides the Christians abuses the Miracles of Moses and upbraids the Jews for their adoring the Effigies of an Ass in the fifth Book of his History Which as coming from an Heathen is not altogether so criminal but rather to be condemn'd for a digression than for an Impiety Finally he equals as well Thucydides as Salust in the number of his choice Sentences out of which the wisest Politicians have selected their most prudent Maxims of State Qu. What account have you of Lucius Florus Ans Lucius Annaeus Florus descended from the Noble Annaean Family and thereby allayed to the Senececaes lived under the Emperour Adrian and composed an Epitomy of Roman History in four Books Some question whether he was the same Author that annex'd the Arguments to Livy's History but 't is a great errour to imagine that he ever design'd the Epitomy of all Livy's works much less that he should occasion the loss of any part of them His stile is Poetical using like Virgil Hemesticks in his Periods and writes more like a Declamer than a Historian which makes Sigonius brand him for impertinent His account of the Suns being seen to fall into the Ocean and there heard with Horrour to extinguish its Beams in the Waves as mention'd in his Description of Brutus his Sea Voyage also his Report of two Spirits in the shape of young men appearing in Rome near the Temple of Castor and Pollux when he speaks of the defeat of Cimbri by Marius are things altogether incredible and not fit to be inserted in History as Scaliger in his Comment on Eusebius well observes Yet notwithstanding Vossius allows him to be a Writer that is both Elegant and Eloquent and except in some few places truly Florid. 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What account have you of Suetonius Ans Caius Suetonius Tranquillus whose Fathers name was Suetonius Lenis as he himself testifies in the Life of Otho was Secretary of State to the Emperour Adrian till being suspected of too great Familiarity with the Empress Sabina he was removed from that Employ After which he apply'd himself to writing and compos'd these several Pices To wit The Lives of the Twelve first Roman Emperours beginning with Julius Caesar and ending with the death of Domitian in the 98th year of Christ which piece is now extant Together with other Tracts of the Illustrious Grammarians Rhetoricians and Poets whereof at this day only some Fragments remain Besides a Discourse of the Roman Games a piece call'd the Republick of Cicero and of the most Illustrious Families of Rome all which are perish'd in the ruines of time Ausonius likewise tells us of another Book of Kings divided into three parts Which he saith was written by Suetonius and afterwards contracted into a Poem by Pontius Paulinus But for that Treatise of the Life of the Elder Pliny which goes under the Name of Suetonius it was certainly none of his for the great Intimacy betwixt our Author and the younger Pliny would have produced a more Honourable Character of his Friends Uncle the Elder Pliny than is there to be found had Suetonius been the Writer of it Some are of opinion that the beginning of his first Book of the twelve Caesars is wanting because there is no mention of the Birth and first years of Julius Caesar as there is of the Original and Education of all the other Emperours in the rest of their Lives As for the Censures that are passed upon Suetonius they are chiefly two the first For his exclaiming against the turbulent Superstition of the Christians And the second for his Description of Vice in the Lives of Tiberius Nero and Caligula whereof if you will pardon him the first as an Heathen I see not how he could avoid the other as a Faithful and True Historian Nevertheless Pliny calls him A most Learned and Honest Author Suidas the famous Roman Grammarian Vopiscus a fair Candid and Compendious writer But Ludovicus Vives saith That of all the Greek and Latine Historians He is the most pure and diligent speaking Truth boldly Nay many prefer him before Livy Salust or Tacitus which Character though Vossius will not assent to yet doth he approve of those other Encomiums given him by Vopiscus and Vives This Author was at first rendred into English by that Voluminous Translator Dr. Philemon Holland which gave occasion for one merrily dispos'd to break this quibling Jest upon him Philemon with Translations doth so fill us He will not let Suetonius be Tranquillus Qu. What account have you of Justin Ans Justin flourish'd under Antonius Pius and abbreviated those forty four Books of the Vniversal History of two thousand years from Ninus to Augustus which Trogus Pompejus had before composed under the reign of Tiberius and whereof nothing but this Epitomy remains which nevertheless we find not to occasion the loss of the Original as some imagine Martin the Polander as well as Munster confound this Author with Justin the Martyr making them one of the same because they were Contemporaries but without any colour of Reason as appears by the Scurrilous Invective made by this Historian against the Jews in his 36th Book which the Martyr would never have been guilty of Now of this Author as well his Method wherein he follows his Original even in the very number of Books as his Stile are both highly commended The seven first Books comprehend the Infancy of the World or first Inhabitants thereof beginning with the description of Kings Places and Countries of the first Assyrian or Babylonish Monarchies and from the seventh to the one and fortyeth Book is a continued Series of the Empire of Macedon beginning with Philip the Father of Alexander the Great He used no direct Orations for that had rendred him guilty of the same errour which Trogus himself condemned in

Honour of the Jews from a Work which Apion had publish'd to the disadvantage of Philo and his Countrey-men Josephus tho' Hebrew was his Mother-Tongue wrote his Books in Greek wherein he was most perfect to have them more generally understood by the Greeks and Romans The credit of his History is blamed by many as Maldonat Melchior Canus Pererius Baronius and others as Gregory who says in his Posthuma that Josephus destroys several Miracles in Holy-Writ only to make them seem credible Nevertheless Justin Martyr Eusebius St. Jerom Suidas Calvisius and Scaliger prefer him to the best of Writers next those of the Holy-Writ as doth the Letters of King Agrippa approve him for the truest of Authors As for his Testimony of Christ in the 22 d. Book of his Antiquities it is by the most judicious Criticks thought to have been inserted by another hand though very ancient Josephus publish'd his Writings also as well in Hebrew as Greek Finally Josephus has not only writ many things contrary to Moses but also omitted many Evangelical Truths as the coming of the Wise-men to Judaea also Herod's Massacre of the Infants and therefore ought to be read with caution Some as Munster confound with this Author that Counterfeit Josippus Gorionides his Wars of the Jews Qu. What account have you of Plutarch Ans Plutarch who lived under Domitian and Nerva but flourished chiefly under Trajan about 100 years after Christ was born at Cheronaea in Baeotia He was a Priest of Apollo and both a great Historian and Phylosopher First as for History he wrote the Lives of 24 Famous Grecians educated at Sparta and Athens and of 25 Romans bred up under the several Governments at Rome His Greek Lives begin with Theseus King of Athens in the year of the World 2750. and end with Philopaemenes General of the Achaians in the year of the World 3821. which was 121 years before Christ His Roman Lives begin with Romulus the Founder of Rome and end with Galba and Otho about 70 years after Christ and 820 from the building the City of Rome Now secondly for his Phylosophy contain'd in the Book of his Morals he learnt it partly from his Father Lampras his Oratory partly from his Grandfather Nicarchus his Phylosophy and partly by the Converse of his Brother Timon but mostly from his Aegyptian Tutor Ammonius and Travels into Aegypt He is esteem'd by all as a most wise grave Author both in Phylosophy and History Qu. What account have you of Philostratus Ans Philostratus flourish'd from Severus to Phillippus and at the request of Julia Augusta Severuses Wife whose Secretary he was wrote the Life of Apollonius Tyanaeus a Pythagorian Magician in eight Books wherein he followed the Relations of Damis the Assyrian and Apollonius his Associate in his Travels as also the Records of Maximus the Aegaean and two others besides Apollonius his own Testament of himself and written with his own hand From hence Hierocles who is for that cause Answered by Eusebius attempts to prefer Apollonius before Christ which has rais'd an unjust out-cry of the PRIESTS against our Author Philostratus ☜ whose Style is Elegant Greek as well as his Geographical Descriptions especially of India useful and such as are not to be found in others But to say the worst of him Philostratus is as Merric Causabon observes though fabulous where he would make a God of a Magician yet for some strange Relations once suppos'd false and now approv'd true well deserving to be Read Qu. What account have you of Arrianus Ans Arrianus of Nicomedia a City in Bithynia was a Priest of Ceres and Proserpine and flourish'd under the Emperours Adrians Antonius Pius and Marcus Aurelius Antonius He was as well a Phylosopher as Historian being Educated under Epictetus the Stoick whose Phylosophy he collected from his Discourses and afterwards published in Writing as an Enchiridion Besides which he published of his own Composure seven Books of the Expeditions of Alexander the Great and an eighth Book of so much of the East-Indies as was known in his time He wrote also ten Books of Alexander's Successors whereof at this day there remains only Photius's Abridgement He wrote likewise four other Tracts none of which are at this time extant one of Timoleon of Corinths Acts in Sicily Another of the Art which Dion of Syracuse used to free those Countries from the Tyranny of Dionysius the Second A third of the Parthians descent from Sythia and Wars with the Romans under Trajan And the fourth called the Alanick History which makes some believe him to be the same Arrian that Dion says was Governour of Cappadocia under Adrian that made War upon the Alanians His Greek is so Attick and Sweet that it gave him the name of the new or young Xenophon whom attempted to imitate Not only Lucian and Photius of old but also Scaliger Vossius and Bodin of the modern Criticks prefer him to the best of the Greek Historians provided you will pardon his Arrogance in the middle of his first Book where he boasts himself to exceed all other Authors as much as Alexander excell'd all other Conquerors Finally of his eight Books the only that are extant of him he professes in the first seven concerning Alexander to follow the Relations given him by Aristobulus and Ptolomaeus Lagus their Writings who were Captains under Alexander and in his other eighth and last Book of the East-Indies to follow the Geography of Marinus Tyrius who in this point far exceeds Ptolomy Qu. What account have you of Diogenes Laertius Ans Diogenes Laertius so called from Laerte a Town in Cilicia where he was born liv'd under Antonius Pius or soon after He wrote the Lives and Apothegms of the Phylosophers in ten Books beginning with Thales and ending with Epicurus whom being himself an Epicurean he favours even to a fault making him place his chief Happiness in the pleasures of the mind and not of the body which is contrary to the Character given both by Cicero and other Ancient Authors of Epicurus Nevertheless from hence Gassendus too much enclin'd to this Epicurian Sect takes occasion to write so favourably of its Founder However as Lactantius treats only of the Moral Phylosophers so we owe our best account of Natural Phylosophers to Laertius notwithstanding Keckerman who is more studious of Modern than Ancient Writers condemns him Finally Ludovicus Vives tells us that this Piece was written by Laertius to a woman Qu. What account have you of Appian Ans Appian of Alexandria remov'd thence to Rome where he liv'd under Trajan Adrian and Antoninus Pius at first the quality of Advocate but afterwards for his parts preferr'd to be one of the Emperors Proctors He wrote in 24 Books an History Royal beginning with the taking of Troy and success of Aeneas and extending to the reign of Augustus nay with some reflections even to the times of Trajan But of all these we have none at this time extant save his Punick