Verrius for in the time of Paule the third Pope of Rome the fragments of the said stones were digged out of the ground betweene the Roman Forum and the broad street Via Sacra brought forth also laid abroad in the capitol to the view of the world To which as the true touch-stone certain learned men of late daies have laid to their owne labours in that kind namely Bartholomew Marliau of Millaine Onuphrius Panvinius of Verona Charles Sigonius of Modena and Francis Robortellus of Vdine comparing the same as also the annales gathered by Henry Glareanus before time with the foresaid antiquities of Verrius late found have recovered much light to the his torie of Livie and supplied his wants in that behalfe I thought it not amisse therefore to gratifie my countriemen in some measure this way also and deliver the same in English which I found annexed to the best editions in Latine as followeth A CHRONOLOGIE TO THE HISTORIE OF T. LIVIVS COMPILED ACCORDING TO THE TABLES AND RECORDS OF VERRIVS FLACCVS IN THE CAPITOLL AND SET OUT VVITH MOST PROFITABLE notes shewing the varietie and disagreement of Authors about the names of the Romane Consuls The causes of dissent and repugnance in Historiographers as touching the computation and relating of the yeeres from the foundation of the citie of Rome SInce wee entend to setfoorth a Kalender or Register of the Consuls mentioned in the historie of Livius which by reason of uncerteintie obscuritie and discordance of the times is so darke and intricate that not onely the learned and most experienced Historians of our age but the best writers of the Romane storie in auncient time estsoones complained thereof we thinke it not impertinent to our purpose briefely to search into the causes of this dissent which beeing once knowne wee may follow that account of the times which seemeth to accord best with the historicall truth and to be grounded upon the authoritie and testimonie of the most authenticall and approoved writers For seeing that an historie as Cicero hath most truly said is the witnesse of times what is more unfitting for it than to misse and want that which is the chiefest point therein and without due and diligent reckoning made to be ignorant what was first and what was last done It seemeth therefore that of this diversitie in the account and computation of the Romane Consuls there be three especiall causes The first is for that the yeere in which the first Consuls entred into that magistracie is by the Romane Historiographers not after one sort but diversly set downe For Dionysius a most diligent writer of the acts of Romans in his first booke in the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth reporteth that the KK reigned 244 yeeres which also is collected out of the yeerely computation gathered by Varro and approoved by the authoritie of others For Messala reporteth how upon the expulsion of the KK which hapned in the 244 yeer after the foundation of the citie the Romans were ruled under the yeerly government of Consuls To which opinion Livie also subscribeth in the end of his first booke saying that the regiment of KK continued 244 yeeres from the foundation of the citie unto the freedome and libertie thereof But Eutropius in his 1 booke writeth that the seven Kings reigned in Rome 243 yeers which account agreeth with Sex Ruffus in his abridgement In which varietie this is to be observed that these two last named reckon the yeeres onely of every kings raigne and out of the whole and grosse summe leave out the yeere of the interreigne which Dionysius Livius Messala and the rest insert betweene and that right truly and upon good reason for after the death of Romulus the interreigne continued one yeere Consider then and examine the thing diligently and yee shall find that in reckoning the yeeres of every kings reigne in severall Eutropius and Sextus Ruffus both attribute as many yeeres to the kings government as Denis Livie and the rest so that this difference is not much But others there be as Eusebius hath delivered in his Chronicles who write that the KK reigned but 243 yeeres and take the interregencie withall whose judgement Orosius Iornandes and Bede seeme to follow For Orosius in the 5. chap. of his second booke recordeth that Brutus the Consull in that very yeere namely the 244 put his owne sonnes to death the KK reigned not precisely so many yeeres just but for that some and namely Romulus went over some months and daies Dionysius and Livius reckoned them for a full yeere and laid it to Tarquinius Priscus but the other above named together with Eusebius left out those odde months and daies because they made not up a complet yere and assigned but onely seven and thirtie yeres to the raign of king Priscus To this may be added another reason of the like nature namely that as divers authours have doubtfully reported the yeere so they are no more certain of the month and day on which the first Consuls began their government For Plutarch in his problemes writeth that they entred upon the first day of Ianuary but Macrobius in the first book of his Saturnalia and seventh chapter seemeth to imply that they tooke their Consuls place the first of Iune saying according to the opinion of others That Iune tooke the name of Iunius Brutus for thaâ— in this month and namely upon the first day thereof according to a vow wherto he was obliged by the banishment of Tarquine hee solemnized a sacrifice to the goddesse Carnea upon mount Coelius Others againe write how this hapned the foure and twentieth of Februarie grounding herein upon the old antiquities and records of stone together with the testimony of Ovid who in the second booke of his Kalender thus writeth King Tarquine with his sonnes then fled The Consuls yeerly beare The soveraigne rule at Rome since that no king ever reign'd there Some there are besides of opinion that they entred the first day of Iulie and of their mind seemeth Ioachimus Perionius to be in his third booke of the Greeke magistrates In this repugnancie therefore of opinions very doubtfull it is which to follow As for that of Plutarch it hath long since bene clearly and learnedly confuted by two great and excellent clerkes Onuphrius Panvinius and Sigonius since it is plaine that it was the sixe hundred yeere from the foundation of the cittie and not before that the Consuls began their government the first of Ianuarie But in setting downe the certaine day they themselves are not well agreed For Sigonius after Marlianus inclineth this way and saith That the first day of the Consuls government was the sixe and twentieth day of May. But Panvinius thinketh that the first Consuls were created the 26 day of Februarie And this diversitie is found not onely in the day when the first Consuls tooke their government but also in the time after ensuing What was the usuall day of any
under an unknowne author hath in it thus written Poplicola III. Pulvillo Ruso Aquilino Valerio Tuberto Livie omitteth these Consuls in their place putteth downe M. Valerius and P. Posthumius but as Sigonius thinketh the fault is in the writers of the booke But that this yeere should necessarily come betweene Onuphrius thinketh according to the booke of M. Tullius Cicero entituled Brutus and certain it is that Verrius Flaccus in his Capitoline tables hath not rejected these Consuls Now this name Lartius is derived of Lars and so ought it to be written and not Largius as corruptly it is to bee seene in some coppies of Livie and Dionysius As for the surname to Herminius Onuphrius supposeth it to have been Esquilinus both for that the mention of that surname appeareth in a fragment of the Capitoline marbles as also because of what familie els it should be no writer ever hath delivered This Sp. Lartius was the brother of Titus Lartius the first Dictator as writeth Dionysius 249 M. Valerius P. Poslumius PLutarch as also Dionysius and Livius writeth that this M. Valerius was brother to M. Valerius Publicola and therefore truly is he said to bee the son of Volusus Postumius for his surname had Tubertus Witnesse Zonaras together with Plutarch in Poplicola and Dionysius in the fifth and sixt bookes Him Dionysius calleth the brother of Quintus where hee treateth of the Consular embassadours sent unto the Commons in the yeere 260. This Postumius as Onuphrius teacheth was by old authours written without the aspiration h either because of Postea Postumus and Postimius and so Postumius is derived or for that in old time they wrote umus without the said h. Now is he called Postumius who was borne last as Cesellius witnesseth in his commentaries of ancient readings Howbeit lawyers pronounce the word with the aspiration and call by that name him only who was born after his fathers death and with them accord Varro and Plutarch in the life of Sylla 250 P. Valerius IIII. T. Lucretius DIonysius Livius Plutarch and Cassiodorus report these for Coss. this yeere But the registers of Cuspinian deliver unto us Poplicola the fourth time and Tricipitinus Valerius Maximus in the fourth booke and fourth chapter writeth thus Valerius Poplicola began his Consulship with Brutus the same man bare three Consulates afterwards to the great contentment of the people 251 Agrippa Menenius P. Postumius DIonysius hath for Coss. this yeer Agrippa Menenius Lanatus L. Postumius the second time Livie Cassiodorus Cuspinians book and the Greek records disagree not from him Valerius Max. 4. booke 4. cap. corruptly calleth him M. Menenius Agrippa Now Agrippae are they called who are born into the world with extraordinarie throwes and birth-travels of their mothers namely not with their heads but their feet forward against nature 252 Opiter Virginius Sp. Cassius LIvius Zonaras Cassiodorus name these Consuls barely thus Dionysius yet is more liberall calling Sp. C. Ssius Vscellinus Opiter Virginius Tricostus But whome Dionysius calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cicero in his Laelius tearmeth Cassius Becillinus And Cuspinians kalender Viscellinus For first of Viscus commeth Viscellus so from thence they derive V. Scellinus Opiter to note that by the way as Sex Pompeius saith is hee whose father died before his grandsire And the word soundeth thus much as if hee were born after his fathers death or because he taketh his grandsire for his father 253 Postumius Commius T. Lartius LIvie Dionysius Zonaras and Cassiodorus name these simply thus But Cuspinians Kalender giveth to Postumius the surname Auruncus and to Lartius Ruffus And those whome Cuspinians booke nameth Ruffi the Greek registers by another word but to the same sence call Flavi 254 Sev. Sulpitius M' Tullius LIvie and Cassiodorus allow to these no surnames at all The Sicilian records give to Salpitius the addition of Camerinus like as the Kalender of Cuspinian and to Tullius of Longus as also doth Dionysius who writeth that Manius Tullius died in the time of his magistracie that in his place there was none substituted because the yeer was welneer at an end Of this M' Tullius Cicero speaketh in his Brutus saying As if I should avouch my selfe to be descended of M' Tullius the Patritian who in the tenth yeer after the expulsion of the KK was Cos. with Ser. Sulpitius This surname Manius as Sext. Pompeius saith commeth hereupon that some one was born mane i. in the morning like as Lucius who entred into the world by day light And in another place this Manius qd he consecrated the field Nemorensis from whom many noble and famous man sprung continued many yeeres Whereupon arose the proverb Multi Manij Aricia â—ther bee many Manij at Aricia Moreover he was called Servius who came of parents either both or one at least whiles they were in bondage or els who when his mother was dead lived still in her wombe and so was saved 255 C. Vetusius T. Ebutius THe forename of this Vetusius or Veturius in some copies of Livie as Marlian sheweth in his annales of Consuls is Caius in other Cneus in Cassiodorus Lucius in Dionysius Publius who also surnameth Veturius Geminus and T. Ebutius Helua and in some place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but faultily for the Latin writers also affirm his surname to be Helua The Greeke records likewise have Helua and Geminus Moreover they that write him Vetusius imitate the auncient manner of putting s. for r. as when they call men Fusij Valesij Papisij But they who call him Veturius follow the latter usage Of this matter Livie speaketh in the yeer 292. 156 Q. Clalius T. Lartius THus say Livie and Cassiodorus but Dionysius surnameth T. Lartius Fâ—avus and Q. Claelius Sâ—culus to whom accord the registers both of Cuspinian Sicilie This T. Lartius is the same as appeareth by Dionysius who before was Consull and therefore is his surname Flavus rightly added The house of the Câ—alij as also of the Iuâ—ij Servilij Geganij Curiatij and Quintilij descended from the Albanes first as Dionysius writeth 257 Au. Sempronius M. Minutius THus Livie and Cassiodorus deliver unto us these Coss. But Cuspinians registers and the Sicilian surname them Atratinus and Augurinus And Dionysius nameth them A. Sempronius Rhaetinus and M. Minutius Augurinus albeit he maketh no mention of Augurinus but in the second Consulship of Minutius As for Aulus hee was so called who being new borne was nourished and fostered by the gods 258 Au. Postumius T. Virginius THus are these Coss. set down by Dionysius Livie and Cassiodorus And to them verily the Greek records put to the surnames of Albus and Caelimontanus But the booke of Cuspinian ad Regillensis and Tricostus besides so that by him they are thus written Au. Posthumius Albus Regillensis T. Virginius Tricostus Caelimontanus 259 App. Claudius and P. Servilius LIvius and Cassiodorus record these for Consuls this yeare The registers as well of
Cuspinian as Sicilie Sabinus and Priscus But Dionysius more fully App. Claudius Sabinus and P. Servilius Priscus This App. Claudius was the top of the Claudian kinred first named Actius Clausus and afterwards App. Claudius who from Regillus a citie of the Sabines wherupon he was called Sabinus Regillensis came to Rome in the two hundred and fiftieth yeere after the foundation of the citie and was raunged among the Patritij as Livie Dionysius and Suetonius in Tiberius make report This man was grandsire to that App. Claudius the Decemvir As touching his forename there is some difference wherof ye may see Onuphrius and Marlianus in their Kalendars 260 A. Virginius and T. Vetusius THese are thus set downe by Livie Cassiodorus as here they be named Dionysius writeth them Au. Virginius Montanus and T. Veturius Geminus The register of Cuspinian barely Montanus and Geminus The Sicilian Caelimontanus and Geminus Montanus and Caelimontanus are both one Paedianus upon the Oration of Cicero for Cornelius calleth these Consuls Au. Virginius Tricossus L. Veturius Cicurinus wherby it may be understood that both of them had two surnames to wit the one Tricostus Caelimontanus and the other Geminus Cicurinus for so elsewhere other writers testifie Cuspinianus observeth that this Cicurinus is also called Coturnius by some writers 261 Sp. Cassius and Postumus Cominius SO Livius and Dionysius Of them speaketh Cicero also in his Oration for Cornelius But Cuspinian his bookes set soorth unto us Viscellinus and Auruncus The Sicilian records Aruncus and Vitellinus And that these same were Consuls together in this yeere and entred upon their government the first of September sooner than the custome was as Dionysius writeth 262 T. Geganius and P. Minutius DIonysius in the beginning of the seventh booke nameth for Consuls this yeere T. Geganius Macerinus and P. Minutius The same doth Livius in the second book Cassiodorus likewise and Eutropius Orosius also in the second book fift chapter leaving out one of their surnames But the Greeke records and Cuspinians book surname them both the one Macerinus the other Augurinus And these are ordinarie surnames this to the Minutij and the former to the Geganij 263 M. Minutius and Au. Sempronius SO Livie and Cassiodorus set them downe omitting their surnames as also the numerall note II. But Dionysius recordeth them fully in this manner A. Sempronius Atratinus the second time M. Minutius Augurinus likewise the second time This yeere reckoneth Dionysius for the nineteenth after that Poplicola the Consull published the law of appealing 264 Sp. Nautius and Sext. Furius AFter Au. Sempronius and M. Minutius Consuls Dionysius bringeth in to succeed them Q. Sulpitius Camerinus and Sp. Lartius Flavus the second time Cuspinian registers Cornutus and Flavus the Sicilian Camerinus and Flavus Moreover Cornutus also is an ordinarie surname to the Sulpitij as may be gathered out of the Capitoline tables of stone And that these Consuls are not to bee left out either according to the account of the Capitoll or to make up and digest the summe gathered by Varro appeareth by the triumph of P. Valerius which would not fall to the yeere 279 if wee should deduct these Consuls out of the Kalender 265 T. Sicinius and C. Aquilius NExt after the former Consuls there followed according to Dionysius C. Inlius Iulus and P. Pinarius Rusus Consuls Cuspinian his records deliver unto us Iulus and Mamercinus but the Greek Iulus and Rufus And that Mamercus is a surname to the Pinarâ— appeareth by another place These Consuls Livie over-passeth like as the other the yeere before upon whome they that undertooke the explication of the Capitoline tables have noted that there want Consuls for two yeeres So that of himselfe the like may be said to that which he writeth in the ninth booke of Piso in this manner These Consuls Piso bringeth in immediately after Q. Fabius and P. Decius leaving out two yeeres whereof wee have reported that Claudius Volumnius were Consuls in the one and Cornelius with Martius in the other Whether he forgat them in the digesting of the Annales or of purpose passed by them notwithstanding he thought of those two couple of Consuls it is uncertain Moreover the surname of C. Iulius was transformed every where into Tullus and Tullius but that it is to be read Iulus both Marlianus and also after him Panvinius sheweth For this surname Iulus is set from Ascanius the sonne of Aeneas and from the said surname is derived the denomination of a familie and therefore Virgill saith The Iulian house at Rome first came From Iulus great a prince of name And Livie speaking of the same in this wise faith Which Iulus the house of the Iulij avouch for the author of their name 266 Sp. Cassius Proculus Virginius BVt to leave these things Sp. Nautius and Sex Furius are by Dionysius Livius and Cassiodorus raunged Consuls in this yeere In Cuspinian his Annales there is Rutilius the surname of Nautius and likewise Viscellinus But in the Sicilian Nautius and Fusus 267 Servius Cornelius Q. Fabius ACcording to Livie the Consuls this yeere were T. Sicinius and C. Aquilius whome Dionysius and Cassiodorus name to be T. Siccius and C. Aquilius The surnames of these by the Greeke records and Cuspinians Kalender were Tuseus and Sabinus As for Aquilius hee was so called as Marlianus observeth who was aquilo colore i. of a duskish blacke or brownish colour 268 L. Aenrilius K. Eunius LIvie avoucheth Consuls for this yeere Sp. Cassius and Proculus Virginius and Dionysius Sp. Cassius the second time with Proculus Virginius And Diodorus in his eleventh book unto Virginius addeth the name Tricostas The Greeke records as also those of Cuspinian make mention of Rutilius and Viscellinus Now as concerning the name of Proculus some think they be so called for that they were born when their parents were old quasi Proculaetate progressi i. farre stept in yeeres 269 M. Fabius L. Valerius DIodorus in the said II booke declareth Q. Fabius Vibulanus and Servius Cornelius Cossus for this yeeres Consuls The same doe Dionysius Livie and Cassiodorus saving that they leave out the surnames But as touching the surname of Cossus that yee may be resolved men were named Cossi in the old time who had riveld and wrinkled bodies like to the wood-wormes breeding in trees called Cossi Plinius in his 17 book and 24 chap. saith Royot and wantonnesse hath brought up the use at the table of the daintier wood-wormes breeding in okes Hereupon Saint Hierome against Iovinian In Pontus quoth hee and Phrygia it is counted high and delicate fare to eat Xylophagion for so he calleth those plumpe and fat wormes which came of rotten wood and among them are reckoned to yeeld a great revenue and commoditie to the housekeeper Of them the Romanes tooke their names of Cossi Cossutij Cossanij and Cossutiani 270 Q. Fabius C. Iulius LVcius Aemilius the sonne of Mamercus and Caeso Fabius the sonne of Caeso
Sigonius and Onuphrius doe thinke that more credit is to bee given unto Diodorus than others especially seeing that in Livie there is mention made the yeere following of M. Aemylius Paulus Generall of the horsemen whome they all thinke to bee the same man that this Consull M. Livius is written Denter in the Capitoll records which surname Livie in another place addeth to the Livij Cuspinians booke in like manner setteth downe Denter and Pantius as the surnames of these Consuls The Sicilian registers Denter and Aemylius 453 Two Dictatours and no Consuls THis yeere also of two Dictatours without Consuls Onuphrius inserteth in his kalender howbeit directed thereto by the evidence of the Capitol fragments to the end that the calculation of Varro might agree in all respects which if this yeere were over-slipped should be wholly overthrowne although Diodore Livie and Cassiodore dissent there from and leave out this yeere altogether Whereof see Onuphrius more at large in his Kalender upon the yeere 453. 454 M. Valerius Q. Apuleius Pansa IMmediatly after M. Livius and M. Aemylius Livie and Cassiodorus letting passe the yeere of two Dictatours without Consuls bring in M. Valerius Q. Apuleius Pansa for Consuls The Greeke records shew Corvinus and Pansa It seemeth that Livie by Marcus Valerius meaneth Maximus for that hee saith that presently upon his Dictatourship he was made Consull Now that Mar. Valerius Max. was Dictatour the yeere before he writeth plainly 455 M. Fulvius Paetus T. Manlius Torquatus LIvie and Cassiodorus declare for Consuls this yeere M. Fulvius Paetus and T. Manlius Torquatus The Sicilian registers have Paetinus and Torquatus Livie saith that Q. Fabius refused the Consulship offered unto him without any suite of his But T. Manlius the Consull was by lot appointed to levie warre against Hetruria which tooke armes and prepared for warre against the truce accorded upon Now was he scarce well entred into the enemies confines but as hee exercised among men of armes and chanced to turne about his horse upon a full carrier hee was cast from his backe whereupon for the present hee lay for dead and within three daies after the said fall ended his life Then all the Centuries in generall by their suffrages chose M. Valerius Consul whom the Senate purposed to have made Dictatour Thus much Livie By M. Valerius hee meaneth Corvus whom Cicero writeth in his booke of old age Valerius Max. in his seventh booke and fortie eight chapter to have beene Cos. now the sixt time that between this and the first there were 46 yeres although Plutarch in the life of C. Marius saith they were but 45 Howbeith all of them call him Corvinus and not Corvus 456 L. Cornelius Scipio Cn. Fulvius CNeus Fulvius and L. Cornelius Scipio are recorded Consuls by LÃvie and Cassiodorus but Scipio and Centumalus by Cuspinians book Scipio Maximus by the Greek records 457 Q. Fabius Max. IV. P. Decius Mus III. LIvie and Cassiodorus alledged for Coss. this yeere Q. Fabius Max. the fourth time and P. Decius Mus thrice The same Consuls Cuspinians booke and the Greeke records deliver unto us The author that writeth of famous men and Frontinus in his booke of Stratagemes speake of P. Decius thrice Consull 458 L. Volumnius Appius Claudius LVcius Volumnius a commoner and Appius Claudius of noble blood were created Coss. this yeere even the same men who in their former Consulship were matched togither as Livie and Cassiodorus write but in the Sicilian registers they are found written Claudius and Violens Howbeit Cicero in his booke entituled Cato reporteth that betweene the two Consulships of App. Caecus were ten yeeres 459 Q. Fabius V. P. Decius IV. LIvie and Cassiodorus both witnesse that the Consuls next following were Q. Fabius the 5 time and P. Decius the 4 time who had been companions togither alreadie in 2 Consulates and in one Censorship The Sicilian registers have Rullus and Mus of which Consuls Cicero speaketh very often Valerius Max. likewise Paterculus also Plutarch Frontinus in his first booke of Stratagems the author of the booke of famous men Eutropius Orosius and others who all report that this Consull P. Decius following the example of his father offered himselfe to die for the Roman legions and by his death purchased a notable victorie to the people of Rome 460 L. Postumius Megellus M. Atilius Regulus THe Consuls next following were L. Postumius Megellus and M. Atilius Regulus as Livie and Cassiodorus write In the Sicilian records their surnames are Megellus and Regulus 461 L. Papirius Cursor Sp. Carvilius AFter Livie and Cassiodorus the Coss. this yeer were L. Papirius Cursor Sp. Carvilius After the Sicilian registers Cursor Maximus A stone in the Capitoll maketh mention of Papirius the son of L. nephew of P. surnamed Cursor whom Livie writeth to be the sonne of Papirius 5 times Consull Of these Coss. Plinie of Verona maketh mention in his 7 book and 60 chap. Val. Max. likewise in his 7 booke and first chap. Velleius in his second book and the same Livie in the yeere 456. 462 Q. Fabius Gurges Max. Decius Iunius Brutus son of Scavalini THe yeere following had Consuls Q. Fabius Gurges and D. Iunius Brutus Scaeva as witnesse Livie and Cassiodorus Zonaras nameth them Iunius Brutus and Q. Fabius Max. Cuspinians Kalender Maximus and Scaeva The Sicilian registers Brutus and Maximus Livie Plinie in his 7 booke the capitoll tables and Zonaras have delivered that this Fabius was the son of Q. Max. Rullianus who had been 5 times Cos. before And here an end of the Consuls for the first ten bookes 463 L. Posthunius C. Iunius SInce that after this Consulship ten bookes of Livie next ensuing be lost whome hitherto wee have had for the most sufficient witnesse of this storie so as now we are in manner destitute and deprived of the best helps of Annals namely Diodorus Dionysius and Livie from hence forward wee will use principally in digesting and reckoning the yeeres by the Consuls the authoritie and testimonie of Cassiodorus the Sicilian records and Cuspinians booke yet will wee not in the meane while reject what helpe soever shall be ministred unto us by others For this yeer therfore Cassiodorus writeth that L. Postumius and C. Iunius were created Coss. whose surnames Megellus and Brutus Bubulcus have not been left out so much as in Cuspinians kalender not in the Sicilian records Livie also maketh mention of them in his 28 booke saying thus Lu. Postumius Megellus the interregent was created Consul with C. Bubulcus by that very court and assembly which himselfe called and held 464 P. Cornelius Rusinus M' Curius Dentatus THe Coss. this yeere are recorded by Cassiodorus Pub. Cornelius Rufinus and M' Curius Denâ—atus for whom in the Sicilian registers appeare Maximus the third time and Mus the sixt time But of those forenamed Consuls Cicero maketh mention in his booke entituled Cato Paterculus in his first booke Valerius Max. in his sixt booke and 3
Florus Frontinus in his Stratagemes Plinie the younger Gellius Eutropius and Cassiodorus make mention But concerning the forename of Sulpitius Paterculus the Capitoline tables disagree one from another to wit those that carrie the records of the triumphs from those that shew the Consulships and other magistracies for in these latter monuments hee is called Quintus in the former Catus Whereby Goltzius doth conjecture that one man was not the author of both those records namely the Triumphall and the Consular 497 Cn. Cornelius C. Atilius CAssiodorus sheweth unto us Cn. Cornelius and C. Atilius Serranus for Consuls but Polybius C. Atilius The Capitoll tables C. Atilius Regulus Cuspinians Kalender and the Sicilian registers have Regulus and Blasio the second time But how Atilius should come by his surname Serranus Plinie sheweth in his 18 booke saying In these daies the fields were tilled by the very hands of L. Generals themselves and a man verily would beleeve therby that the ground joyed in a lauret ploughshare and a triumphant plowman Him they found a sowing unto him they presented those honorable dignities so tooke he his surname Serranus As concerning B'asio all authors wel-nere besides approove the judgement of Cuspinian but Goltzius supposeth that hee was not the same man that was Consull before and therefore hee writeth him the sonne of Cn. nephew of Lu. without putting to the numerall note II. 498 Q. Caeditius L. Manlius THe next Consuls that succeeded were by Cassiodorus his saying Q. Caditius and L. Manlius The Sicilian registers name them Vulso and Caeditius Zonaras M. Regulus and L. Manlius Eutropius M. Atilius Regulus and L. Manlius Vulso and Polybius M. Atilius and L. Manlius Insenus in his 41 book maketh mention of these Consuls But ye must understand that Q. Caeditius died whiles hee was in office and M. Atilius was substituted in his roume and made Consull the second time as appeareth evidently by the Capitoll tables wherein it standeth thus upon record Lu. Manlius Vulso Longus and in stead of Q. Caeditius M. Atilius Regulus the second time as also by Cuspinians booke wherein is written Longus and Regulus 499 M. Aemilius Paulus Ser. Fulvius Nobilior POlybius sheweth for the Coss. this yeere Serv. Fulvius and M. Aimilius Cuspinians Kalender Nobilior and Paulus The Sicilian registers Paetinus and Paulus Cassiodorus and Eutropius togither with the Capitoline records have Serv. Fulvius Nobilior and M. Aimilius Paulus 500 Cn. Cornelius A. Atilius CAssiodorus and Polybius report for this yeeres Consuls Cn. Cornelius and A. Atilius The Capitoll authors write A. Atilius Calatinas the second time and Cn. Cornelius Scipio Asina likewise a second time As touching Cn. Cornelius Asina twice Consull thus writeth Valerius in his sixt booke Cneus Cornelius Scipio Asina who being Consull was taken prisoner by the Carthagimans at Liparae when he had by the law of armes lost whatsoever hee had recovered all againe and was made Consull the second time so as of a Consull he became a captive and of a captive twise Consull 501 Cn. Servilius C. Sempronius CAssiodorus and Polybius put downe for Consuls Cn. Servilius and C. Sempronius The Sicilian registers Coepio and Blaesus Zonaras Servilius Coepio and C. Sempronius Eutropius and Orosius Cn. Servilius Coepio and Sempronius Blaesus Of the same Consuls Sabinus in his 30 book maketh mention as also a stone of the Capitoll 502 C. Aurelius Cotta P. Servilius CAssiodorus bringeth in as Coss. C. Aurelius Cotta and P. Gemines The Sicilian registers Cotta and Geminus but those of the Capitoll C. Aurelius Cotta and P. Servilius Geminus Zonaras Pub. Servelius and C. Aurelius Cicero in his booke entituled Lucullus writeth that C. Cotta togither with P. Servilius Geminus was twise Consull Frontinus also in his fourth booke of Stratagemes and likewise Orosius make mention of C. Cotta Consull in Sicilie 503 L. Caecilius Metellus C. Furius POlybius setteth downe for Consuls L. Caecilius Metellus and Cn. Furius The Sicilian registers Metellus and Pacilus Zonaras Caecilius Metellus and C. Furius Cassiodorus Lu. Caecilius and C. Furius Eutropius Osorius and a capitoll stone L. Caecilius Metellus and Cn. Furius Pacilus This is that Lu. Metellus twise Consull and high priest of whome Plinie writeth in his seventh booke and three and fortie chapter 504 C. Atilius Regulus L. Manlius POlybius placeth for this yeeres Consuls C. Atilius and Lu. Manlius Cassiodorus C. Atilius Regulus and L. Manlius Orosius and a capitoll stone have C. Atilius Regulus and L. Manlius Vulso both Coss. the second time Zonaras C. Atilius the brother of Regulus and L. Manlius The Sicilian records Regulus and Vulso 505 P. Claudius L. Iunius CAssiodorus and Polybius inferre for Consuls the next yeere Pub. Claudius and L. Iunius Zonaras L. Iunius and Cl. Pulcher. Florus and Suetonius in Tiberius put to Claudius the surname of Pulcher and Censorinus to Iunius of Pullus which also are upon record in the Sicilian and capitoline tables This P. Claudius Cicero in his bookes of Divination and of the nature of gods calleth the sonne of Appius Caecus but Plinie in his seventh booke and three and fortie chapter nameth him his nephew of sonnes sonne The capitoll writers take part with Cicero Valerius Maximus in his first booke and fourth chapter speaketh of the same Consuls 506 P. Servilius C. Aurelius FOr Consuls this yeere Cassiodorus putteeth downe P. Servilius and C. Aurelius Cicero in his booke Lucullus saith that these were twice Consuls Which also is apparant by the Capitoll and Sicilian tables in which their surnames are to be seene Geminus II. and Cotta II. 507 L. Caecilius N. Fabius IT is recorded by Cassiodorus that the Consuls of this yeere were L. Caecilius and N. Fabius but Zonaras nameth them Caecilius Metellus and Numerius Fabius Cuspinians Kalender and the Sicilian registers have them in this manner Metellus II. and Buteo II. But the capitoline tables shew them thus Lu. Caecilius Metellus II. N. Fabius Buteo II. Plinie also reporteth in his seventh booke that Metellus was twice Consull 508 M' Fabius M' Otacilius CAssiodorus setteth downe as Consuls M' Fabius and M. Otacilius The Sicilian registers Crassus and Licinius Gellius in his tenth booke and sixt chapter hath Fabius Licinius and Otacilius Crassus The capitoll marble stones M. Fabius Licinius and M' Otacilius Crassus Besides Gellius in the place before alledged Florus likewise in his 19 Breviarie upon Livius maketh mention of these Consuls as also Suetonius in Tiberius 509 M. Fabius C. Atilius CAssiodorus reckoneth M. Fabius and Cains Atilius Consuls for this yeere The Sicilian tables Buteo and Bulbus But those of the capitoll M. Fabius Buteo and C. Atilius Bulbus Of Fabius the Consuls shipwracke Florus speaketh out of the nineteenth booke of Livie 510 A. Manlius C. Sempronius FOr this yeeres Consuls Cassiodorus setteth forth unto us A. Manlius and C. Sempronius The Sicilian records Torquatus and Blaesus Cuspinians booke hath Atticus and Blaesus The capitoline tables shew Aul. Manlius Torquatus Atticus and Casius
Africanus II. T. Sempronius Longinus LIvie Cassiodorus the monuments both of the capitoll and Sicilie match Consuls together this yeere P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus the second time and T. Sempronius Longus Of them Cicero maketh mention in the oration of Cornelius accused of felonie as appeareth in Paedianus 561 L. Cornelius Merula Q. Minutius Thermus LIvie Cassiodorus the capitoll authors write that the Consuls chosen to succeed in this yeere were L. Cornelius Merula and Q. Minutius Thermus The said surnames are found in the Sicilian records Probus speaketh of them in Anniball and Frontius in his booke of stratagemes 562 L. Quintius Flaminius Cn. Domitius Aenobarbus LVcius Quintius Flaminius and Cn. Domitius Aerobarbus were this yeeres Consuls as Livie Cassiodorus and the capitoll records testifie The Sicilian registers also shewe their surnames 563 M. Acilius Glabrio P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica THe Consuls created for this yeere were P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica and M. Acilius Glabrio sonne of Cn. as testifie Livie Cassiodorus the capitoll records Plutarch in Quintius and Appian in his Syriack historie In the Sicilian registers named they are Glabrio and Nasica In these Consuls yeere the same authours report that the war against Antiochus king of Syria and against the Aetolians was proclaimed which in the capitoll monuments in Paterculus and Macrobius is called the Antiochian but by Florus and Plinie the younger in Cato the Syrian warre This was the 562 yere from the citties foundation as Macrobius writeth in his first booke of Saturnals 564 L. Cornelius Scipio C. Laelius CAssiodorus Livius and the capitoll tables put downe for Consuls this yeere L. Cornelius Scipio and C. Laelius The Sicilian registers have Scipio and Laelius The same men Gellius in his sixteenth booke and fourth chapter nameth C. Laelius sonne of C. and L. Scipio sonne of P. To Laelius Cassiodore onely addeth the surname Africanus This L. Scipio surnamed Asiaticus was brother to Africanus 565 C. Manlius Vulso M. Fulvius Nobilior CNeus Manlius Vulso and M. Fulvius Nobilior are nominated Consuls for this yeere by Livie Cassiodore and the tables both of the capitoll and Sicilie Manlius was Pretor in the yeere 557 and Fulvius anno 560. 566 C. Livius Salinator M. Valerius Messala THe Consuls next following were M. Valerius Messala and C. Livius Salinator as Livie and Cassiodorus testifie together with the Sicilian and capitoll tables 567 M. Aimilius Lepidus C. Flaminius THe next Consuls were M. Aimilius Lepidus C. Flaminius as witnes Livie Cassiodorus Zonaras Strabo in his fift booke the Sicilian capitoll tables Of them Valerius maketh mention in his sixth booke This is that M. Lepidus who was the Arch-bishop twise Consull Censor and President of the Senate sixe times chosen by the Censours And this is that C. Flaminius who afterward by Cato the Censor was displaced out of the Senate and disrobed 568 Sp. Posthumius Albinus Q. Martius Philippus LIvie Cassiodorus Eutropius and the capitoll tables report Consuls for this yeere Sp. Posthumius Albinus and Q. Martius Philippus The Sicilian Registers name them barely Albinus and Philippus Valerius maketh mention of them in his sixt booke third chapter Likewise Plinie in his 33 book tenth chapter 569 App. Claudius Pulcher. M. Sempronius Tuditanus FOr this yeeres Consuls were Appius Claudius Pulcher and M. Sempronius Tuditanus as Livie Cassiodorus and the capitoll records do testifie They stand in the Sicilian records by the names of Pulcher and Tuditanus 570 P. Claudius Pulcher. L. Porcius Cicinius THe Consuls that followed for this yeere were L. Portius Licinius P. Claudius Pulcher witnesse Livie Cassiodorus and the capitoll tables Pulcher and Licinius they bee called in the Sicilian records 571 Q. Fabius Labeo M. Claudius Marcellus AGainst this yeere were created Consuls M. Claudius Marcellus Q. Fabius Labeo according to Livie Cassiodorus and the capitoll marble stones Their surnames bee found also in the Sicilian tables Whiles these were Consuls Atticus wrate that Annibal died as Probus maketh report in Anniball 572 L. Aemylius Paulus Cn. Boebius Tamphilus C Neus Boebius Tamphilus L. Aemylius Paulus were created Consuls for this yeere as Livie Cassiodorus the capitoll yea the Sicilian tables do testifie although these last have regard only of their surnames This L. Aemylius is the sonne of that L. Aemylius who was slaine at Cannae as Plutarch and Velleius doe witnesse 573 P. Cornelius Cethegus M. Boebius Tamphilus PVblius Cornelius Cethegus and M. Boebius Tamphilus succeeded Consuls this yeere after Livie Cassiodore and the capitol tables Cethegus and Tamphilus they be called in the Sicilian records Of P. Cornelius and M. Boebius Consuls Plutarch made mention in Numa Of P. Cornelius and M. Boebius Tamphilus Valerius speaketh in his first booke first chapter Of P. Cornelius Lentulus and M. Boebius Tamphilus in II booke first chapter But Plinie in his 13 booke and 13 chapter calleth the one P. Cornelius Cethegus son of Lucius and the other M. Boebius son of Q. surnamed Tamphilus 574 A. Posthumius Albinus C. Calpurnius Piso. LIvie Cassiodorus and the capitoll monuments exhibit unto us for this yeeres Consuls A. Posthumius Albinus and C. Calpurnius Piso. The Sicilian tables Albinus and Piso. Piso was Pretour in the yeere 567. And Albinus anno 568. But when as a pestilence had reigned now three yeeres so as it dispeopled the citie of Rome and all Italie it hapned that C. Calpurnius died not without suspition that he was murdered by Quaria Hostilia in whose roume Q. Fulvius Flaccus his father in law or mothers husband was declared Consull 575 L. Manlius Acidinus Q. Fulvius Flaccus LIvie Cassiodore and the capitoll records shew for Consuls this yere L. Manlius Acidinus and Q. Fulvius Flaccus The Sicilian tables Acidinus with Flaccus Cicero maketh mention of Acidinus a Consull in his second booke of a perfect oratour Also observed it is in the capitoll monuments that these Consuls were german brethren the same hath Vellejus in his second booke reported And thereby it commeth to passe that in the capitoll tables L. Manlius Acidinus is surnamed also Fulvianus after the manner of those that are adopted 576 M. Iunius Brutus A. Manlius Vulso NExt Consuls created were M. Iunius Brutus and A. Manlius Vulso as Livie Cassiodore and the capitoll records doe testifie Brutus and Vulso they bee named in the Sicilian monuments This Brutus was Pretour in the yeere 562 and Vulso in 571. 577 C. Claudius Pulcher. Tib. Sempronius Gracchus CAtus Claudius Pulcher and Tib. Sempronius Gracchus are matched Consuls this yeere by Verrius Flaccus Livie Cassiodorus Of this Tib. Gracchus Cicero speaketh in his first booke of divination and Frontinus in his first of stratagemes 578 C. Cornelius Scipio Hispalus Q. Petilius Spurinus C. Valerius Laevinus LIvie Cassiodore and the capitoll records exhibit unto us for Consuls Cn. Cornelius Scipio Hispalus and Q. Petilius Spurinus The Sicilian registers Scipio and Petilius But when as Scipio returning out of the mount Albanus
fell into a fit of Apoplexie and so into a dead palsey whereupon hee went to the bath at Cumes where by reason that his disease grew upon him he departed this life Q. Petilius the other Consull created for his companion to enter presently upon the government C. Valerius Laevinus Thus saith Livie 579 P. Mutius Scaevola M. Aimilius Lepidus II. ORosius putteth downe for Consuls Lepidus and Mutius Cassiodorus and Obsequens M. Lepidus and P. Mutius The Sicilian tables Lepidus and Scaevola The capitoll monuments P. Mutius Scaevola and M. Aemilius Lepidus II. The election of the Consuls this yeere is lost in Livie Cicero likewise writeth in his discourse of provinces Valerius also in his sixt booke and sixt chapter that this M. Aemylius Lepidus was twise Consul 580 Sp. Posthumius Albinus Q. Mutius Scaevola CAssiodorus setteth downe for Consuls Sp. Posthumius and Q. Mutius The capitoll records Sp. Posthumius Albinus Paulus and Q. Mutius Scevola Cuspinians book hath Paulus Scaevola Plinie maketh mention of these in his second booke and 31 chapter The election of the Consuls this yeere is lost in Livie 581 L. Posthumius Albinus M. Popilius Laenas THe Coss. for this yere created were L. Posthumius Albinus M. Popilius Laenas as Livie Cassiodorus the capitoll monuments do testifie Albinus and Laenas are put downe in the Sicilian records Whiles these were Consuls the feast Floralia was instituted first as Ovid sheweth in his fift booke of his kalender 582 C. Popilius Laenas P. Aelius Ligur THis yeere had for Consuls C. Popilius Laenas P. Aelius Ligur as Livie Cassiodorus and the capitoll records do testifie The Sicilian registers name them Laenas Aelius To this day had no Coss. in one yere bin matched together both commoners and this was the first time that both Consuls were created out of the commons as is observed in the capitoll monuments After this you shall never find the Consuls both Patritij commoners ye shall have them both twaine many a time and often but most of all a Commoner and a Patrician one with another 583 P. Licinius Crassus C. Cassius Longinus THe Consuls next ensuing for this yeere were P. Licinius Crassus and C. Cassius Longinus as it appereth in Livie Cassiodorus Orosius and the capitoll tables For in the Sicilian records they are named no otherwise than Crassus and Longus Of the very same Consuls Plinie maketh mention in his seventh booke Gellius also in his ninth booke fourth chapter Whiles these were Consuls the people of Rome began warre against Perseus king of the Macedonians son of Philip which Florus and Eutropius together with Orosius call the second Macedonian war whereof Livie and Plutarch write more at large 584 A. Hostilius Mancinus A. Atilius Serranus CAssiodorus setteth next after for Consuls C. Hostilius Mancinus C. Atilius The Sicilian registers Mancinus and Serranus The capitoll monuments Au. Atilius Mancinus and Au. Atilius Serranus As well the election of these Consuls as their acts are missing in the Annales of Livie 585 Q. Martius Philippus II. Cn. Servilius Caepio LIvie Cassiodorus and the capitoll tables match together in the Consulship of this yeere Q. Martius Philippus the second time and Cn. Servilius Caepio The Sicilian catalogue hath barely Philip and Caepio Cicero in his bookes entituled Brutus and Cato writeth that Ennius the Poet died in their Consulate 586 L. Aemylius Paulus II. C. Licinius Crassus THe Consuls that next succeeded were Lu. Aemylius Paulus the second time seventeene yeeres after his first Consulship and Caius Liâ—â—nius Crassus witnesse Livie Cassiodorus and the capitoll monuments In like manner they are named in the Sicilian registers Paulus and Crassus As touching this second Consulate of L. Paulus Plutarch Velleius Orosius Eutropius Florus and Iustinus in his 33 booke doe write Plutarch addeth thus much saith That Paulus was threescore yeeres of age when he was chosen Consull the second time 587 Q. Aelius Paetus M. Iunius LIvie bringeth in for Consuls next after Qu. Aelius and M. Iunius The Sicilian records Paetus and Pennus Obsequens and Cassiodorus Q. Aelius Petus and M. Iunius Pennus Cicero likewise in Brutus speaketh of Mar. Iunius Pennus Consull with Q. Aelius Now from this yeere forward we want the complet storie penned by Livie 588 M. Marcellus C. Sulpitius LIvie and the capitoll monuments shew for this yeeres Consuls M. Claudius Marcellus and C. Sulpitius Gallus Obsequens and the title prefixed before the comedie Andria in Terence exhibit Mar. Marcellus and C. Sulpitius This is that Marcellus who after he had beene thrice Consull perished in the sea Nephew he was of that Mar. Marcellus who had been five times Consull as Paedianus reporteth Of these Consuls Iustine Plinie in his second book and many other have made mention 589 Cn. Octavius T. Manlius CAssiodorus Obsequens inserre Consuls this yeere Cn. Octavius and T. Manlius The Sicilian tables Octavius and Torquatus The capitoll stones Cn. Octavius and T. Manlius Torquatus Mention there is made of these Consuls in the title set before Hecyra in Terence Cicero in his first booke of Finall ends likewise in many other places speaketh of T. Torquatus Consull with Cn. Octavius 590 A. Manlius Q. Cassius CAssiodorus matcheth together Consuls in this yeere A. Manlius and Q. Cassius The Sicilian catalogue hath Torquatus and Longinus The capitoâ—â—ecords A. Manlius Torquatus and Qu. Cassius Longinus who died in his Consulship These also had been companions together in their Pretourship anno 586 as Livie beareth witnesse 591 Tib. Sempronius M' Iuventius CAssiodorus saith that the Consuls this yeer were T. Sempronius and M' Iuventius Obsequens nameth them Tib. Gracchus and M' Iuventius The capitoll monuments shew T. Sempronius Gracchus the second time and M' Iuventius Thalva In the Sicilian registers Dolabella Thalva but not well as it is to be doubted Cicero Valerius and Plutarch have made mention of Tiberius Gracchus twice Consull And that M' Inventius died whiles he was Consull Plinie in his seventh booke and Valerius also doe report 592 P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica C. Martius CIcero in his first second booke of the nature of gods Verrius Flaccus Obsequens Cassiodorus report for Consuls Pub. Cornelius Scipio Nasica and C. Martius Figulus But for that there was an error committed in their creation and there upon they resigned up their place as the foresaid authours witnesse together with Valerius Plutarch and Plinie P. Cornelius Lentulus and Cn. Domitius Aenobarbus entred in their steed 593 M. Messala C. Fannius CAssiodorus putteth downe for Consuls M. Messala and C. Fannius The Sicilian catalogue Messala and Strabo The capitoll records and the title before Phormio in Terence represent unto us M. Valerius Messala Caius Fannius Strabo Of these Consuls Suetonius maketh mention in his book of excellent Rhetoricians Likewise Cicero in Brutus Plinie in his ninth booke and fiftieth chapter and Gellius in his second booke 594 L. Anicius M. Cornelius Cethegus CAssiodorus and the title set
Fabius Maximus L. Hostilius CAssiodorus this yeere delivereth unto us for Consuls Q. Fabbius Maximus together with L. Hostilius Cicero in Laelius and Plinie in his five and thirtieth booke and fourth chapter nameth them Qu. Maximus brother of Scipio and L. Mancinus Of this Q. Fabius Maximus Aemylianus Valerius writeth in his second booke and first chapter This Q. Fabius was the sonne of P. Aemylius adopted by Q. Fab. Max. the sonne of Verrucosus as Appianus writeth in Hispanensis and therfore in the fragments of a capitoll table there is to be seen the second surname Aemylianus Plinie was deceived who in his one thirtieth booke and eleventh chapter calleth him Qu. Allobrogicus brother of Scipio who was the sonne of this Fabius 610 Ser. Galba L. Aurelius THis yeere had for Consuls Ser. Galba and Lu. Aurelius according to Cassiodorus those Valerius in his sixt booke nameth Serv Sulpitius Galba and Lu. Aurelius Cotta whome the Sicilian catalogue sheweth under the bare names of Galba and Cotta But the capitol fragments have Galba and L. Valerius Cotta This is that Sulpitius Galba who being Pretor as Suetonius writeth stirred up the war before against Viriatus for hee was a vehement Oratour of whom Cicero speaketh many times And as for L. Cotta he it was whom afterwards being accused by Africanus Qu. Metellus Macedonicus defended Cicero in Brutus for Murena and against Verres maketh mention of him Likewise Frontinus of them both in his first booke of water-conduits 611 App. Claudius Q. Metellus CAssiodorus nameth for this yeeres Consuls Appius Claudius and Q. Metellus Orosius App. Claudius and Qu. Caecilius Metellus The Sicilian registers have Claudius and Metellus The capitoll fragments shew Pulober and Q. Caecilius Macedonians Of the same Frontinus speaketh in his booke of water-conduits and Valerius in his seventh booke Now this Metellus is he who being Pretour subdued the Macedonians and Achaeans whereupon he was surnamed Macedonicus whom Plinie 7 book sheweth to be the son of Lu. and nephew of Quin. 612 L. Metellus Q. Maximus CAssiodorus putteth downe for Consuls Lu. Metellus and Q. Maximus The Sicilian records Metellus and Maximus Orosius L. Caecilius Metellius and Q. Fabius Maximus Servilianus In like manner the capitoll fragments Calvus Servilianus The Servilianus is the brother german of Quintus Servilius Capio the Consull two yeeres after as witnesseth Appian and the adopted son of Q. Fabius Aemylianus for they were both adopted by Q. Fabius Max. the son of Verrocosus the one out of the house Aemylia the other of Servilia L. Metellus is the brother of Q. Metellus Macedonicus as writeth Valerius in his treatise of Witnesses 613 Cn. Capio Q. Pompeius CNeus Caepio and Q. Pompeius are recounted Consuls by Cassiodorus Velletius in his second booke saith thus Whether there were two or three houses of the Pompeies the first of that name was Consull with ACn. Servilius Of this Q. Pompeius Cicero maketh mention oftentimes writing that hee was of base and obscure parentage Him Valerius in his chapter of witnesses nameth Ausidus but corruptly through the fault of the copiers in steed of Au. F. i. the sonne of Aulus In the same fort Appianus in Hispanensis nameth him Qu. Pompeius Aulus for A. Filius Cicero in his Orations against Verres and in that for Fonteius Valerius also in his chapter of Witnesses sheweth that there were two brethren named Cneus and Quintus both Servilij Capiones 614 Q. Caepio C. Laelius AFter this were Consuls made Qu. Caepio and C. Laelius my authours are Cassiodorus and Obsequens together with the Sicilian tables and Frontinus in his treatise of Water-conduits This Laelius as Cicero in his eleventh Philippicke and Velleius doe report was the sonne of Laelius the Consull anno 564 whom as Cicero in his second book of Duties and in Laelius was the first that was surnamed Wise whereof Plutarch in Gracchi yeeldeth a reason 615 Cn. Piso. M. Popilius CAssiodorus sheweth for this yeeres Consuls Cn. Piso with M. Popilius Appianus and the Epitomist have M. Popilius Laenas but they be named M. Popilius Laenas and L. Calpurnius by Valerius in his first booke writing thus That Cornelius Hispalus lord cheese justice for strangers when M. Popilius Laenas L. Caelpurnius were Consuls by an edict commanded all the Chaldaean Astrologers to depart out of Rome and Italie within ten daies next ensuing 616 P. Scipio D. Brutus PVblius Scipio and D. Brutus are named for this yeeres Coss. by Cassiodorus Florus in his 55 Epitome P. Cornelius Nasica surnamed Serapion in mockerie by C. Curiatius a Trib. of the Com. D. Iunius Brutus Coss levied and mustered soldiors c. This Scipio was sonne of that Nasica who was surnamed Corculius and twise was he Consull and Censoralso nephew to that Nasica who by the Senate was deemed the best man in the citie and father to him that warred upon Iugurtha as Velleius saith This Decius Brutus Cicero in his Brutus calleth the sonne of Marcus who bare the Consulship in the yeere five hundred ninetie seven and in the capitoll tables is called Pennus Moreover of these Consuls Cicero speaketh very oft Valerius also in his 3 booke chap. 7.5 book chap. 3. 9 booke chap. 15 Likewise Plinie in his 21 booke and lastly Frontinus 617 M. Aemylius C. Hostilius Mancinus CAssiodorus and Obsequens match together in the Consulship this yeere M. Aemylius and C. Hostilius Mancinus The Sicilian registers Lepidus and Mancinus Orosius Appian M. Aemylius Lepidus and C. Hostilius Mancinus Of this Consull Mancinus there remaine yet some tokens to be seene in broken marbles of the capitoll Cicero maketh mention oftentime of Lepidus as well in other places as in Brutus Likewise Valerius Florus Paterculus and Plinie in his treatise of Famous men 618 P. Furius Sex Atillius Serranus CAssiodorus putteth downe for Consuls P. Furius and Sex Atilius Serronus Cicero in his third booke of Duties L. Furius and Sex Atilius Obsequens L. Furius Atilius Serranus The Sicilian registers Philus and Serranus Of this Furius Cicero writeth thus in his Brutus Lu. Furius Philus was reputed for a man of very good language and to have spoken more learnedly than others In the capitol fragments there appeareth yet some shew of Serranus the Consull 619 Ser. Fulvius C. Calpurnius THe next Consuls are set downe by Cassiodorus and Obsequens Ser. Fulvius and Q. Calpurnius The Sicilian catalogue hath Flaccus and Piso. Orosius nameth Servius Fulvius Flaccus and Qu. Calpurnius Piso. The capitoll fragments shew Piso as for Fulvius Flaccus the Consull mention there is made of him in the Epitome 36 Appian also in his Illyrica speak of him and in Hispanensis of Calpurnius Piso. 620 P. Africanus C. Fulvius Flaccus THe yeere following had P. Africanus and C. Fulvius Flaccus for Coss. as it is written in Cassiodorus and Obsequens But Scipio and Flaccus in the Sicilian catalogue The same Flaccus the Capitoll fragments doe shew Of this C. Fulvius mention there is made
also in the 56 Epitome and of Africanus twice Consull by Appian in Hispanensis by Orosius Florus and Valerius in his eight booke 621 P. Mucius L. Calpurnius THis yeere had Consuls P. Mucius and Lu. Calpurnius as witnesseth Cassiodorus The Sicilian registers shew Scaevola and Calpurnius Valleius nameth P. Mucius Scaevola and L. Calpurnius Of these Consuls Paedianus upon the Orations against Verres maketh mention in these words Scaevola a right learned man in the lawes was Consull with L. Piso that yeere wherein Tab. Gracchus was killed In the broken marbles of the capitoll he standeth by the name of L. Calpurnius Piso surnamed also Frugi that truly For Cicero in one Oration against Verres and in another for Fonteius writeth that he was the first of the Pisones called Frugi This man when he was Tribune or Provost of the Commons made a law against the extortion of magistrates when Martius Manilius were Consuls he wrote also the annaples of Rome as Cicero testifieth in his booke Brutus 622 P. Popilius P. Rupilius AGainst this yeere were Consuls created as Cassiodorus writeth P. Popilius and P. Rupilius after the Sicilian records Laenus and Rupilius Cicero maketh mention of them in his thirteenth booke of epistles to Atticus and against Verres Also in the capitoll fragments we read of P. Popillius son of Caius and P. Rupilius sonne of P. and nephew of Publius Velleius in his second booke nameth the Consuls Rupilius and Popilius Cicero in Laelius speaketh of Rupilius and Laenas And of P. Rupilius there is mention made in the epitome or breviarie 59. 623 P. Crassus L. Valerius CAssiodorus putteth down for Consuls this yeere Pub. Crassus and Lu. Valerius Crassus and Flaccus the Sicilian catalogue L. Valerius Flaccus and Pub. Licinius Crassus according to Cicero in his eleventh Philippicke against Antonie Of this Consull Pub. Licinius Crassus all they have spoken who wrote of the warre of Aristonicus This P. Crassus surnamed Dives by Cicero in his bookes of a perfect Oratour and in Brutus is called the brother of Scevola Whereupon Velleius in his second booke nameth him Mutianus betokening thereby that hee was adopted out of the house of Mutij into the familie of the Crassi This man Gellius writeth in his first booke and three and twentieth chapter to have beene of all others the richest man the noblest personage and the most eloquent Orator the deepest lawyer and the supreame bishop withall 624 C. Claudius M. Perpenna APpius Claudius and M. Perpenna are matched in the Consulate together this yeere by Obsequens and Cassiodorus Cuspinians booke and the Greeke records shew Lentulus and Perpenna This Claudius haply was adopted into the familie of the Corneij Moreover Cicero in his third booke of Lawes and in the Oration for Plancius calleth this man C. Claudius This also is confirmed by an old table of stone commonly knowne wherein is to bee seene this inscription C. Claudio and M. Perpenna Coss. Which evidence Sigonius and Onuphrius following named him C. Claudius and not Appius Of this M. Perpenna as many as wrote the warre of Aristonicus have made mention and namely Valerius in his 3 booke and 4 chap. Valleius Strabo Orosius Eutropius 625 C. Sempronius M. Aquilius THis yeere had Consuls M. Aquilius and C. Sempronius as witnesseth Cassiodorus But Aquilius and Tuditanus according to the Sicilian registers C. Sempronius Tuditanus and M. Aquilius after Orosius Cicero speaketh of them in his booke of the nature of gods and to his brother Quintus Paterculus also in his second booke Strabo in his 14 booke Appian in his first booke And both of them are taken out of the triumph records in the capitoll 626 Cn. Octavius T. Annius NExt followed as Consuls Cn. Octavius and T. Annius as Cassiodorus testifieth and none but he For Cuspinians book and the Sicilian catalogue have Octavius and Rufus Plutarch also writeth that one T. Annius contended with Tib. Gracchus in a sedition As for this Cn. Octavius son he was to that Cneus who was Consull in the yeere five hundred eightie nine 627 L. Cassius L. Cinna CAssiodorus nameth for this yeeres Consuls L. Cassius and L. Cinna The Sicilian records Longinus and Cinna Cuspinians books set out Rulla corruptly for Ravilla and Cinna This L. Cassius was his sonne who bare the Consulship in the yeer five hundred ninetie and he was afterwards Censor in the yeere 629 surnamed Ravilla by Frontius 628 M. Aemylius L. Aurelius CAssiodorus Obsequens reckon for Coss. this yeere Mar. Aemylius and Lu. Aurelius The Sicilian catalogue sheweth Lepidus and Orestes Censorinus hath M. Aemylius Lepidus and L. Aurelius Orestes Cicero in Brutus Mar. Lepidus and L. Orestes 629 M. Plautius M. Fulvius CAssiodorus and Obsequens avouch Consuls this yeere M. Plautius and M. Fulvius The Sicilian registers Hypseus Flaccus Orosius and Frontinus in his treatise of Water-conduits M. Plautius Hypseus and Mar. Fulvius Flaccus Valerius also in his discourse of Pride maketh mention of them 630 C. Cassius Longinus C. Sextius CAssiodorus and Obsequens report that the Consuls following were C. Cassius Longinus C. Sextius The Sicilian catalogue sheweth Longinus and Calvinus Velleius writeth that the colonie Fabrateria was planted by Cassius and Calvinus Cicero in Brutus speaketh of C. Sextius Calvinus Eutropius declareth for Consuls C. Cassius Longinus and Sextus Domitius Calvinus not without suspition of a fault or errour 631 Q. Cacilius T. Quintius CAssiodorus nominateth for Consuls this yeere Q. Cacilius and T. Quintius The Sicilian records Metellus and Flaminius Eutropius and Orosius Q. Caecilius Metellus and Titus Quintius Flaminius Cicero in his Oration pleading for his house calleth them T. Flaminius and Q. Metellus This Qu. Metellus was the eldest of the foure sons of Macedonicus whome Plutarch in his treatise of the Romanes fortune calleth Q. Metellus Balearicus of the Baleares whom in this magistracie he conquered 632 Cn. Domitius C. Fannius CAssiodorus and Obsequens joine in fellowship of the Consulate this yeere Cn. Domitius and C. Fannius The Sicilian records Aenobarbus and Fannius Cicero writeth of them in his Brutus and Plinie in his second booke and two and thirtieth chapter Three moones qd he appeared when Cn. Domitius and C. Fannius were Coss. which most men called the night-mares 633 L. Opimius Q. Maximus THis yeere had for Consuls Lu. Opimius Q. Maximus as witnesseth Cassiodorus The Sicilian catalogue sheweth Opimius and Maximus But Obsequens L. Opimius and Qu. Fabius Maximus Plinie speaketh of them in his second booke saying About the sunne there appeared an arch or bow when L. Opinius and Q. Fabius were Consuls This Qu. Fabius Maximus is by Cicero in Brutus Florus in his Epitome Velleius in his 2 books and Paedianus upon the Orations against Verres rightly named the nephew of Paulus and son of Fabius Aemylianus And so may Strabo Appian and Plinie bee well reprooved for making him and his father Aemylianus all one The same man as Cicero and Plinie testifie
was surnamed Allobrogicus upon a victorie over the Allobroges Of this Lucius Opimius Consull after whose name there was a wine called Opimianum Plinie maketh mention in his foureteenth booke and fourth chap. Plutarch also in C. Gracchus and Velleius in his second booke 634 P. Manlius C. Papyrius CAssiodorus insereth for this yeeres Consuls P. Manlius and C. Papyrius The Sicilian records Manlius and Carbo This is that Caisis Papyrius Carbo who being a Tribune of the Commons when Claudius and Perpenna were Coss. was afterwards by C. Gracchus appointed for one of the Triumvirs to devide lands who first tooke part with the Commons but afterwards raunged with the nobilitie of whom Cicero in many other places and namely in his second booke of a perfect Oratour maketh mention 635 L. Cacilius L. Aurelius CAssiodorus and Obsequens put downe for Consuls Lucius Caecilius and Lu. Aurelius The Sicilian catalogue Metellus and Cotta Plutarch in Marius speaketh of Caecilius Metellus and Cotta Consuls Which Marius he writeth to have borne the Tribuneship of the Commons when these were Consuls and to have cast Metellus the Consull into prison This is that Cotta in whose consulat roume Velleius reporteth that C. Caesar Flamin of Iupiter was created 636 M. Cato Q. Martius THis yeere had for Consuls Mar. Cato and Q. Martius witnesse Cassiodorus and Obsequens Cato and Martius according to the Sicilian registers But Eutropius nameth them M. Porcius Cato and Q. Martius Valerius speaketh of them in his first booke and Plinie in his second booke and one and thirtieth chap. Gelleius also in his 13 booke and 19 chapter 637 L. Lucilius Q. Mutius COnsuls next ensuring by Cassiodorus his saying were L. Caecilius and Q. Mutius After the Sicilian registers Metellus and Scaevola if ye go by Eutropius L. Caecilius Metellus and Q. Mutius Scaevola Now is this that L. Caecilius Metellus who afterwards upon subduing the Dalmatians was surnamed Dalmaticus whom Plutarch in Coriolanus and in his booke of the Romane fortune nameth Diadematus for that a long time he bound up his forehead with a frontlet or wreath which they call a diademe to hide an ulcer that hee had there Hereupon when Pompeius bound up his leg with a white band or garter It makes no matter qd Favonius in what part of the bodie a man weareth the diademe upbraiding and reproching him for his king like power in tearming a small clout or peece of cloth by that name This is that Q. Mutius Scaevola the Augur of whom Cicero in his booke Laelius and in the first booke of an Oratour maketh mention 638 C. Licinius Geta. Q. Maximus CAssiodorus coupleth together in societie of Consullship this yeere C. Litinius and Qu. Maximus The Sicilian registers name them Geta and Eburinus Of this Q. Maximus Cicero speaketh in his Oration for Muraena That this man was of the house of the Fabij his surname Eburinus sheweth of whome writeth Festus in this manner Qu. Fabius was called Pullus Iovis surnamed Eburivus of whitenesse for that his buttocke was blasted with lightening Quintilian in his third Declamation reporteth that this Fabius Eburinus had a sonne unchast of his bodie whom he examined at home in his house and thereupon put him to death The same man Valerius calleth Qu. Fabius Servilianus As for the name of this Licinius his father obscure and unknowne heretofore Goltzius out of an old antiquitie of coin hath restored it wherin as he saith was written plainely C. Licinius Geta son of Publius 639 M. Metellus M. Scaurus THe Consuls next following by Cassiodorus his report were Mar. Metellus and M. Scaurus As for Metellus the third sonne he was of Macedonicus But as touching M. Scaurus whome the writer of the booke entituled of Famous persons calleth M. Aemylius Scauras thus writeth Paedianus M. Scaurus quoth hee was a Patritian indeed and of noble bloud but so as the gentric of his house for those discents before him lay obscure for neither father nor grandsire by reason of their poore estate and for want of putting forth themselves in the world attained to dignitie in weale publicke Moreover of him Cicero maketh mention oftentimes in his Oration for Murena and in Brutus Valerius also in his fift book and eight chapter and Plinie likewise in his second booke and sixe and thirtieth chapter 640 M' Acilius Balbus C. Cato CAssiodorus setteth down for Consuls this yeere M. Atilius Balbus and C. Cato The Sicilian catalogue Balbus and Cato Obsequens M. Acilius and C. Portius Of the same Consuls Plinie speaketh in the 2 booke chap. 29 and 58. Plutarch in Marius giveth to Acilius the forename Manius This C. Cato is the brother of that M. Cato who foure yeers before was Consull nephew to M. Cato Censorinus Africanus sisters sonne as saith Velleius Cicero against Verres and in Brutus 641 C. Caeilius Cn. Papyrius CAssiodorus and Obsequens set downe for next Consulls C. Caecilius and Cn. Papyrius The Sicilian registers Metellus and Carbo Eutropius C. Caecilius Metellus Cn. Carbo The same men Tacitus in his booke of the manners of Germanes reported to have borne the Consulship anno 640 after the foundation of Rome in which yeere both he and Obsequens doe report that the people of Rome began first to war with the Cimbrians and the Teutones This C. Metellus was the fourth sonne of C. Metellus the sonne of Macedonicus whom when he died he left a man of Pretors calling and in suit and election for to be Consull This man gat a surname by way of reproch as Cicero testifieth in his second booke of a perfect Oratour Now surnamed was hee Capriarus as Plutarch saith in the Life of the Romans 642 M. Livius Drusus L. Piso. CAssiodorus exhibiteth unto us for this yeers Consuls M. Livius Drusus and L. Piso. The Sicilian catalogue Drusus and Piso. L. Piso surnamed Caesonius a man of Consular degree was slaine after by the Tigurines when Lu. Cassius was Consull as Orosius testifieth 643 P. Scipio L. Calpurnius Bestia CAssiodorus nameth this yeere for Consuls P. Scipio and L. Calpurnius Bestia The Sicilian records Nasica and Bestia Obsequens Pub. Scipio and L. Calpurnius Salust Eutropius and Orosius P. Scipio Nasica and L. Capurnius Bestia Of these Consuls P. Nasica Scipio L. Bestia Valerius likewise maketh report lib. 1. cap. 6. Moreover Cicero in his Brutus writeth that P. Scipio the sonne of Pub. Scipio surnamed Serapion and fellow Consull to L. Bestia died in his Consulship Of this Bestia there is some mention to be seene in a capitoll fragment 644 Sp. Postumius M. Minutius CAssiodorus setteth downe for Consuls Sp. Postumius and M. Minutius The Sicilian registers Albinus and Rufus Salust Sp. Albinus and Q. Minutius Rufus Of M. Minustius Velleius and the threescore and seventh Epitome make mention 645 Q. Metellus M. Silanus CAssiodorus saith that the Consuls next following were Q. Metellus and M. Silanus The Sicilian catalogue sheweth Metellus and Silanus Paedianus and Eutropius Qu.
Caecilius Metellus Numidicus and M. Iunius Silanus Of them also Cicero speaketh in Brutus This Metellus was surnamed Numidius for the conquest of Numidia as witnesseth Velleius 646 Ser. Galba M. Scaurus CAssiodorus and Obsequens deliver for the Consuls of this yeere Servius Galba and M. Scaurus The Sicilian evidences Sulpitius and Scaurus Cicero in the Oration for Rabirius saith that Servius Galba was a man of Consular degree when Marius was the sixt time Consull Of M. Scaurus the Consull Velleius and Tacitus make mention This is that Mar. Aurelius Scaurus who being afterwards in embassage was by the Cimbrians murdered as appeareth in the threescore and seventh Epitome 647 L. Cassius C. Marius CAssiodorus joineth in the Consulship this yeere L. Cassius and C. Marius Cuspinians booke and the Sicilian records Longinus and Marius Plinie also maketh mention of them in his tenth book and thirteenth chap. Cicero in his Oration for Plancius Plutarch in Marius and Cicero againe in his third booke of Duties writeth that C. Marius having taken the repulse twise for the office of Aedileship was created Consull 648 Q. Servilius Caepio C. Atilius OBsequens and Cassiodorus match Consuls together this yeere Q. Servilius Caepio and C. Atilius Serranus The Sicilian monuments Caepio and Servilius In this yeere upon the third day of Ianuarie Mar. Tullus Cicero was borne as Gellius in his fifteenth booke and eight and twentieth chapter hath left written Much mention there is made of these Consuls in Cicero and other ancient writers 649 P. Rusilius Rusus C. Manilius PVblius Rutilius Rufus and C. Manilius are put downe by Obsequens and Cassiodorus for this yeeres Consuls This P. Rutilius Cicero in Brutus calleth the sonne of Marcus About the other Consull the Annales doe varie and disagree some forename him C. others Cneus Some name him M. Manlius others Mallius or Manilius But all this controversie is decided by an old antiquitie in stone at Puteoli the inscription whereof testifieth that P. Ratilius and Cn. Mallius were Consuls as also the evidence of the Sicilian registers wherein written it is Rufus and Mallius Of this Mallius mention there is made in Ciceroes Orations for Plancius and Muraena likewise in Valerius Salust Tacirus Elorus Eutropius and Orosius That hee was not onely a base man and of low birth but also without all vertue and wit in the course of his life also vile and contemptible Cicero writeth in his Oration for Plancius Whereby it easily appeareth that the Mallij were a kinred different from the Manlij For of Cn. Manlius a Patritian and that of a most noble house Cicero would never have spoken in such tearmes 650 C. Marius II. C. Flavius Fimbria THe next Consuls are set downe by Cassiodorus C. Marius the second time and C. Flavius Fibria by Obsequens C. Marius and C. Flavius By the Sicilian registers Marius and Fimbria by Paedianus upon the Oration for Cornelius C. Marius the second time and C. Fimbria Item C. Marius and Caius Flavius Besides Cicero Velleius Valerius Plutarch and others speake often of these Coss. 651 C. Marius III. L. Aurelius Orestes CAssiodorus reporteth for this yeeres Consuls C. Marius the third time and L. Aurelius Orestes The Sicilian catalogue Marius and Orestes Moreover Marius even in his absence was elected Consull the third time for feare of the Cimbrian warre which was differed as Velleius Eutropius the Breviarie and Cicero in his Oration concerning provinces doe testifie 652 C. Marius IIII. Q. Lutatius NExt after them are put downe for Consuls by Cassiodorus and Obsequent C. Marius the fourth time and Q. Lutalius The Sicilian registers exhibite unto us Marius and Catulus Plutarch and Eutropius Caius Marius the fourth time and Q. Lutatius Catulus Of these Consuls Cicero and Plinie oftentimes make mention 653 C. Marius V. M' Aquillius THen succeeded in the Consulship by the testimonie of Cassiodorus C. Marius the fift time and M' Aquillius Of this C. Marius five times now Consull Plutarch and Florus give report And Cicero in his second book of a perfect Oratour nameth M' Aquilius for the companion of C. Marius in his fift Consulship Of whom Plutarch in Marius speaketh and calleth him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as also Appian in Mithridatica Now this Manius Aquillius a Consular man is the same who afterwards being an embassadour was by king Mithridates taken prisoner and most villanoustly tormented and mangled 654 C. Marius VI. L. Valerius Flaccus CAssiodorus and Obsequens shew unto us for this yeeres Consuls C. Marius the sixt time and Lu. Valerius Flaccus The Sicilian records Marius and Flaccus This L. Flaccus afterwards Censor was President of the Senat and master of the horsemen under Sylla Dictatour Of these Consuls Cicero speaketh verie often and namely in his Brutus in his oration for Rabirius against Catiline and Antonie and also in the defence of Plancius Plinie likewise in his second booke Velleius and Paedianus upon the oration against Piso. Moreover Plutarch and many authours besides In this yeere upon the twelfth day of Iuly then called Quintilis as Macrobius witnesseth was C. Caesar borne who afterwards was surnamed Dictatour 655 M. Antonius A. Postumius REported it is by Cassiodorus and Obsequens that M. Antonius and A. Postumius were Consuls this yeere The Sicilian registers shew Albinus and Antonius In a fragment also of the capitoll marbles mention there is of Au. Postumius Cuspinians booke and the Greeke records have Antonius and Albinus Of these Consuls Cicero speaketh in his oration to the citizens of Rome after his returne out of exile Likewise Plinie in his 8 booke and 7 chapter where he noteth this the 655 yeere Also Gellius in his 4 booke and 6 chap. 656 Q. Metellus T. Didius QVintus Metellus and T. Didius succeeded Consuls next in this yeere as Cassiodorus and Obsequens doe write And Paedianus upon the oration for Cornelius nameth them Curio saith he accused Q. Mettellus Nepos son of Balearicus and nephew of Macedonicus who was Consull with P. Didius Cicero speaketh of the same man in his oration after his returne 657 Cn. Lentulus P. Crassus NOt onely Cassiodorus but the Sicilian registers also doe testifie that Cn. Lentulus and P. Crassus were Consuls this yeere and Obsequens nameth them Cn. Cornelius and P. Licinius Plinie writeth of them in his tenth booke and first chapter also in his 33 booke and second chapter 658 Cn. Domitius C. Cassius THis yeer had for Consuls Cn. Domitius and C. Cassius as Cassiodorus and Obsequens do witnesse Cuspinians annals and the Greeke registers shew Aenobarbus and Longius A fragment of Verrius Flaccus his marbles Aenobarbus and C. Cassius sonne of Lucius Paedianus speaketh of them upon the oration for Cornelius 659 L. Crassus Q. Scaevola LVcius Crassus and Q. Scaevola were Consuls next following according to Cassiodorus and Obsequens In a fragment of the capitoll records as touching Consuls is to be seene Crassus and Mattius In Censorinus we find Lu. Licinius son of Lucius Câ—c in his Brutus
writeth that Crassus the oratour bare all dignities of magistracie togither with Scaevola the high-priest except the Tribunat of commons and the Censorship also that whiles they two were Consuls Q. Hortensius pleaded the first cause that ever he undertooke at the barre Paedianus upon the oration of Cicero for Cornelius maketh mention of L. Licinius Crassus the Orator and Q. Matius Scevola the arch-bishop an oratour besides and a professed lawier both Consuls togither 660 C. Caelius L. Domitius Cassiodorus and Obsequens declare for this yeeres Consuls C. Caelius and â— Domitius The Sicilian registers Caldus and Aenbarbuâ— In a capitoll fragment they are Caldus and Lu. Domitius sonne of Cn. As for Caldus it is the surname of Caelius For Velleius maketh mention of one Caelius Caldus under Augustus In like manner Cicero in his booke entituled The suing for a Consulship and in his oration for Muraena Also Paedianus upon the Oration for Cornelius Againe Cicero in his Brutus nameth them next before Herrennius 661 C. Valerius Flaccus M. Herennius THere are matched by Cassiodorus and Obsequens for Consuls this yeere C. Valerius Flaccus and Mar. Herennius The Sicilian records Flaccus and Herennius A broken stone of the capitoll hath Flaccus and M. Herennius Plinius in his 29 book and 3 chapter Cicero also in his Oration for Muraena and in Brutus speaketh of them 662 C. Claudius Pulcher. M. Perpenna COnsuls this yeere were C. Claudius Pulcher and M. Perpenna as witnesse Cassiodorus and Obsequens Likewise in a capitoll broken monument and in the Sicilian register it is Pulcher and M. Perpenna Cicero maketh mention of this Claudius as Pretor of Sicilie in the fourth Oration against Verres and as Aedile Curule in his second book of Offices So doth Plinie in his 8 booke 663 L. Martius Sext. Iulius CAssiodorus and Obsequens name for Consuls this yeere L. Martius and Sext. Iulius The Sicilian records Philip and Caesar. Eutropius and Orosius Sex Iulius Caesar and L. Martius Philippus A capitoll fragment Philip and Sex Iulius son of Caius Plinie speaketh of them in his 2 booke 8 chapter also in the 33 booke and 3 chapter In like maner Cic. many times and Valerius 664 L. Iulius Caesar. P. Rutilius Lupus ACcording to Cassiodorus and Obsequens the Consuls this yeere were L. Iulius Caesar and P. Rutilius Lupus And so it is in Paedianus Velleius and the 73 Epitome as also in other authors who have written of the Marsian warre In a fragment of the capitoll they are seene written Caesar and P. Rutilius son of Rusus In the Sicilian records Caesar and Lupus Cicero in his booke of Divination speaketh of them both and in his oration for Plancius he writeth that L. Caesar missing of an Aedileship became a Consull 665 L. Portius Cn. Pompeius CAssiodorus setteth downe for Consuls this yeere L. Portius and Cn. Pompeius Paedianus upon the Oration for Cornelius surnameth Cn. Pompeius Strabo and L. Porcius Cato The capitoll fragment shew no more but Strabo and Cato Appius hath made mention of these Consuls so have Orosius and others that have penned the Marsian warre This Cn. Pompeius was father to that Cn. Pompeius the Great as Appianus witnesseth and Paedian upon the oration against Piso. 666 L. Sylla Q. Pompeius CAssiodorus sheweth for this yeers Consuls L. Sylla and Q. Pompeius and the same is written in Obsequens Velleius Eutropius Orosius Appian Plutarch and others The Sicilian records have Sylla and Rutilus Sylla after his victorie in the civill war would needs have himselfe surnamed Foelix and therefore Paedian and the avouchers of the capitoll monuments in reporting this consulate write thus L. Sulla who afterwards was called Foelix The same man in his second Consulship which appeareth upon record in the capitoll is named the sonne of Lucius and nephew of Publius Moreover of Q. Pompeius Rufus Cicero maketh mention in his Brutus 667 L. Cornelius Cinna Cn. Octavius REported there are by Cassiodorus and the Sicilian registers for Consuls this yeere L. Cinna and Cn. Octavius Appian Velleius and the rest who have recorded the historie of this time name them L. Cornelius Cinna and Cn. Octavius Plutarch writeth that L. Cinna being of the adverse faction to L. Sulla was by him made Consull upon condition that he should not crosse nor stand against the proceeding of the said Lu. Sulla and so soone as hee was entred into place of government hee began to trouble and disquiet the present state of the common-weale yea and intended an action against Sulla by the meanes of Virginius a Tribune of the commons Howbeit Sulla contemning Virginius made an expedition against Mithridates 668 L. Cinna II. C. Marius VII AFter this were Consuls C. Marius the seventh time and L. Cinna the second time according to the records of Sicilie Cassiodorus and those that wrate of the civill war Plutarch saith that Marius was the first man that was seven times Consull of Rome Moreover as it is to be read in Appian and in the Breviaries L. Cinna and C. Marius without any lawfull assembly for Election declared themselves Consuls against this yeere and the very same day that they entred into their magistracie Marius commaunded Sext. Licinius a Senatour to be throwne downe from the rocke Tarpeia who after hee had committed many hainous crimes and outrages ended his daies upon the Ides of Ianuarie in whose roume was subordained Lu. Valerius Flaccus even hee as men think who before-time was colleague to Caius Marius in his sixt Consulship of whome Cicero maketh mention in his oration for his sonne Flaccus 669 L. Cinna III. Cn. Papirius CAssiodorus witnesseth that the Consuls succeeding in this yeere were L. Cinna the third time and Cn. Papirius The Sicilian records have Cinna and Carbo In the 83 Breviarie it is written that Lu. Cinna and Cn. Papirius Carbo for two yeeres togither usurped the Consulate Also in the booke entituled Of famous persons wee read that Cinna made himselfe Consull a second and third time Of these Consuls Plutarch speaketh in Sulla Appian in Mithridatica and in the first booke of civill warres 670 L. Cinna IV. Cn. Papirius II. NExt were Consuls after Cassiodorus and the Epitomist Lu. Cinna the fourth time and Cn. Papirius the second time Cicero in his Tusculane questions mentioneth Cinna foure times Consull so doth Suetonius in Caesar. And of Cn. Papirius Carbo twice Consull the capitoll tables doe yeeld testimonie As for the Sicilian records they put downe for Consull not without suspition of error Carbo and Scribonius 671 L. Scipio C. Norbanus BEsides the Sicilian tables Cassiodorus Obsequens Appius Eutropius Florus and Tacitus in his ninteenth book do witnesse that Lucius Scipio and Caius Norbanus were Consuls In the capitoll fragments it is written Lucius Cornelius sonne of Lucius nephew of L. Scipio Asiaticus 672 C. Marius Cn. Carbo III. I Find in Cassiodorus Appianus Velleius and others the next Consuls to have been C. Marius and Cn. Carbo the third time This C. Marius was
been twice Pretour was hanged and strangled to death when Cicero was Consull for that he had conspired with Catilin whose grandfather was P. Lentulus Presedent of the Senate as Cicero saieth pleading for his house and inveighing against Catilin as also Paedianus 684 M. Crassus Cn. Pompeius NExt to them were Coss. M. Crassus and Cn. Pompeius according to Cassiodore Plutarch Appian and the Sicilian records Their surnames for certaine were Dives and Magnus All the old writers speake much of this their first Consulship Plutarch reporteth that Licinius Crassus atteined to the Consulare dignitie by the meanes of Pompeius the Consull Besides Cicero Salust Paedian writing upon the oration for Cornelius and all other authours speake of these Consuls 685 Q. Metellus Q. Hortensius THen followed Consuls Q. Metellus and Q. Hortensius as Cassiodore and the Sicilian catalogue doe testifie Paedianus matcheth Q. Metelius Creticus with Q. Hortensius that great Oratour Likewise Iosephus in his foureteenth booke of Iewish antiquities Cicero in Brutus calleth this Q. Hortensius the sonne of Lucius Q. Metellus afterwards upon the conquest made of Crete surnamed Creticus was the sonne of Lucius Dalmaticus as may bee gathered out of Paedianus upon the Oration of Tullie called Divinatio against Verres 686 L. Metellus Q. Marcius PAedianus writing upon Tullies Oration against Piso Dio likewise Cassiodorus joine together in the Consulship this yeer L. Caecilius Metellus Q. Marcius the Greeke records Marcius Rex and Metellus This Metellus Dio writeth to have died in the very beginning of his magistracie that hee also who was substituted in his roume left this life before hee entred into the governement and thereupon it was not thought good to subelect any more and by that means Quintus Marcius bare that dignitie alone and him Salust entituleth with the surname of Rex This Lucius Metellus was brother to Quintus â—reticus as Paedian witnesseth 687 C. Piso. M' Glabrio THere succeeded Consuls C. Piso M' Glabrio witnesse Cassiodore the Sicilian records And in Dio they follow immediatly by the name of Manius Acilius and C. Piso. Cicero in his twelfth book of Epistles to Atticus speaketh of C. Piso and M' Acilius Glabrio men of Consular place and calling Paedian in his comentaries upon the oration for Cornelius maketh mention of C. Piso and the law Calpurna by him made as touching inordinat and indirect suite after dignities of state Moreover of them Valerius in his fourth booke writeth 688 M' Lepidus L. Volcatius CAssiodore putteth down for Consuls Manius Lepidus and with him L. Torquatus but untruly The Greeke records have Volcatius Tullus Dio Lu. Tullus and Aimilius Lepidus Salust in Catiline L. Tullus and M' Lepidus Paedian upon the oration for Cornelius M' Lepidus and L. Volcatius Cicero in his oration for Sulla hath L. Volcatius Tullus so as it appeareth it should bee M' Aemilius Lepidus and L. Volcatius Tullus 689 L. Cotta L. Torquatus THe Consuls elect were L. Autronius Paetus as it appeareth upon a monument of a triumph in the capitoll and not Antronius as commonly it is read and P. Cornelius Sulla who being condemned for ambitious seeking after that office and having therefore suffered condigne punishment their accusers stept into their place of government namely L. Aurelius sonne of Marcus surnamed Cotta and L. Manlius sonne of Lucius surnamed also Torquatus as testifie Salust Dio Paedian upon the oration for Cornelius and that which hee made in his white robe and lastly Tranquillus in Caesar. 690 L. Caesar. C. Figulus THe yeere next ensuing had for Consuls by the testimonie of Cassiodore Paedianus and the Sicilian records L. Caesar and C. Figulus whome Dio calleth Lucius Caesar and Lucius Martius son of Caius surnamed Figulus Cicero in his oration for Sulla nameth them Lucius Iulius and C. Figulus so doth Salust in Catilina This L. Iulius Caesar is his sonne who was Consull in the Marsian warre 691 M. Cicero C. Antonius THe Consuls this yeere were M. Tullius son of M. surnamed Cicero and C. Antonius son of M. as testifie Dio in his seven and thirtieth booke Cassiodore Salust in his Catilinarie oration Velleius in his second booke Ioseph in his Iewish antiquities 14 booke 8 chapter Plinie in his eight booke and three and fiftieth chapter Tranquillus in the life of Augustus Appian Eutropius Paedian and others 692 D. Silanus L. Muraena THere followed Consuls next D. Silanus and L. Muraena as Cassiodorus Salust and the Sicilian records do witnesse Dio calleth them D. Iunius son of M. surnamed Silanus and L. Licinius son of L. surnamed Muraena Eutropius nameth them D. Iunius Silanus and L. Licinius sonne of that L. Muraena who in qualitie of Pro-pretour triumphed over Mithridates as Cicero saith pleading for Muraena himselfe being accused and in trouble for unlawfull seeking to be Cos. In this assembly for election of Coss. L. Sergius Catilina suffered the second repulse for anger whereof in a melancholy hee brake out into a conspiracie and practised against the state and likewise Servius Sulpitius Rufus the lawyer who afterwards accused Muraena for the crime aforesaid 693 M. Pupius M. Valerius CAssiodorus setteth downe for Consuls this yeere M. Pupius and M. Valerius The Sicilian registers Piso and Messala Dio M. Pupius sonne of M. surnamed Piso and M. Valerius son of M. surnamed Messala Niger Of this Messala Niger there is also mention made by Paedian upon the oration for Scaurus Also of M. Messala and M. Piso in Plinies seventh booke and sixe and twentieth chapter seven and thirtieth booke cap. second and the eight book chap. sixe twentie And in Caesars first book of the Gaules warre Of M. Piso Paedian likewise speaketh writing upon the oration against Piso. 694 Q. Metellus Q. Afranius CAssiodorus the Sicilian registers nominate for this yeeres Consuls Q. Metellus and L. Afranius The like doth Obsequens and Cicero in his first booke of Epistles to Atticus Dio nameth them L. Afranius sonne of L. and Q. Caecilius sonne of Q. surnamed Metellus Celer Both of them were advaunced to the Consulate as Dio witnesseth by the means of Pompeius for they had beene both twaine his lieutenants serving under him in Asia 695 C. Caesar. M. Bibulus CAssiodorus Suetonius together with the Sicilian tables and the Breviaries do match together for Consuls this yeere C. Caesar and M. Bibulus Dio C. Iulius sonne of Caius Caesar and M. Calpurnius Plutarch and Appian C. Iulius Caesar and Calpurnius Bibulus Albeit Appian as also Eutropius and Orosius give Bibulus the forename of Lucius Of Caesar and Bibulus Cicero speaketh in his first booke of Epistles writing to Lentulus 696 L. Piso. A. Gabinius CAssiodorus and the Sicilian records shewe for Consuls this yeere L. Piso and A. Gabinius Dio L. Calpurnius sonne of Lucius Piso and A. Gabinius sonne of Aulus Caesar Cicero Plutarch and Cassiodorus L. Piso and A. Gabinius Caesar writeth of them in his first booke of the Gaules warre and Plutarch in the life
he had with them to give over the Consulship and to depart the cittie The goods of the king and his sonnes he commanded to be seised upon and rifled A field of theirs be consecrated to Mars which was named afterwards Campus Martius or Mars field Hee beheaded certaine young gentlemen of the nobilitie together with his owne and his brothers sonnes for conspiring to receive the king and his complices againe into the cittie Vnto the bondslare Vindicius that bewraied the complot he gave his freedome of whom Vindicta tooke the name Having led an armie against the king who had assembled a power of Veientians and Tarquiniens and made warre he died in battell together with Aruns the sonne of Superbus and for his death the dames of Rome mourned one whole yeare P. Valerius the Consull propounded and made a law concerning Appealing unto the people The Capitoll was dedicated Porsena king of the Clusines warring in the quarrell of the Tarquines and being come to the Iamculum was by the valor of Cocles Horatius empeached that he passed not the Tyber who alone whiles others hewed downe the Sublician bridge withstood the Tuscanes and when it was broken downe leapt armed as he was into the river and swam over to his fellowes Another example of manhood is reported of Mutius who being entred the camp of the enemies with full intent to kill Persona and having slaine his principall Secretarie whom hee tooke for the king was apprehended and thrusting to his hand into the fire of the altars whereupon they had burned sacrifice suffered it there to frie untill it was consumed and said withall that there were behind him three hundred more besides that had sworne the death of the king himselfe Who wondring at their resolution was driven to offer conditions of peace and upon taking of hostages to give over warre amongst whom one virgin Cloelia beguiled her keepers made an escape and swam over Tyber to her friends and being rendred againe was by Porsena sent honorablie home and had her statue or image on horsebacke set up for a memoriall App. Claudius abandoned the Sabines and fled to Rome of whom the tribe Clausia tooke the name and was added to the rest The number of tribes was encreased to be one and twentie Against Tarquinius Superbus who with a power of Latines waged warre A. Posthumius the Dictator obtained a prosperous battell at the lake Regillus The commonsrising for being enthralled unto their creditors retired themselves into the mount Sacer and were by the policie and counsaile of Menenius Agrippa reclaimed from their sedition and appeased The same Agrippa being deceased was by reason of his povertie buried at the citties charges There were created five Tribunes of the Commons Corioli a towne of the Valscians was taken by the valour and industrious meanes of Cn. Martius who thereupon was surnamed Coriolanus T. Latinus a meane Commoner was warned in a dreame to make relation to the Senate of certaine religious ceremonies and for neglecting the same lost his sonne and sell himselfe to bee lame of his lims and being brought into the Senate in a chaire after hee had declared the same returned sound on his feet home againe Cn. Martius Coriolanus after he was banished became general of the Volscians and with an armie of enemies approached the cittie of Rome unto whom first Embassadors were of purpose sent and afterwards the Priests and whole Cleargie persuaded with him not to make warre against his native countrey but all in vaine Howbent Veturia his mother and Volumnia his wife entreated him and obtained that hee should depart backe againe The law Agraria Concerning division of lands among the poore commons was now first put up and proposed Sp. Cassius and Alderman after he had beene Consul was condemned for aspiring to be king and suffered death therefore Oppia á Vest all Nun was for incest buried quicke Against the Veientians neeve enemies and ill neighbours yet indeed troublesome rather than noisome and dangerous the house alone of the Fabij required to be emploied in services and set out three hundred and fixe armed men to the field who everie one were by the enemies slaine neere the river Cremera and left but one onely at home alive of that name under foureteene yeares of age Ap. Claudius the Consull having fought unfortunately against the Volscians and that by meanes of the stubbornesse and unrulinesse of his armie cudgeled everie tenth man of his souldiors Over and besides this booke containeth the exploits against the Volscians Aequtans and Veientians and the seditious discords betweene the Nobilitie and Commons NOw will I describe from henceforth the acts both in war and peace of the people of Rome a free state now from this time forward their yearely Magistrates and governours the authoritie and rule of laws more powerfull and mightie than that of men Which freedome of theirs the last kings pride made more acceptable and welcome As for the other kings before him they raigned so as that they might bee counted all of them and that worthily builders of sundrie part of the cittie one after another according as they everie one by himselfe added still one new place or other for the multitude by them encreased to inhabite Neither is it to be doubted but that even the verie same Brutus who deserved so great honour and glorie for expelling the prowd king Tarquine should have done the same to the exceeding danger of the weale publick if for desire of unripe and untimely freedome he had wrested the roiall dignitie and governement from any of the former princes For what would have come of it if that communaltie consisting of heardmen and fugitive strangers resorting out of their owne countries there to dwell having under protection of a sanctuarie and priviledged place gotten libertie or at leastwise impunitie being now freed and past feare of a roiall majestie had begun to be troubled and disquieted with the ruffling stormes and seditious tempests of the Tribunes and in a new and strange cittie sowen debated and intertained variance with the Nobilitie before that the furest pledges of wives and children the dearest affection of the verie place and soile which requireth long time of liking and loving had united and knit their hearts together Certes the state not yet come to full growth and maturitie had by discord faded and come to naught which a peaceful and gracious governement cherished and fostered and by cherishing and nourishing brought to that passe that now being come to ripenesse and perfection of strength it might be able to bring forth and beare the good and wholsome fruits of libertie The beginning of this freedome you must account in regard hereof That the Consularie regiment was annuall and from yeare to yeare rather than that the roiall power and jurisdiction that the kings had was any whit abated diminished For the first Consuls had the same absolute authoritie held all the former roialties and retained still the regall ensignes
soudered with lead Both these chests had a superscription upon them in Greeke and Latine letters to this effect That in the one of them lay buried Numa Pompilius the sonne of Pompo sometime king of Rome and in the other were bestowed the bookes of the said Numa The owner of this ground opened these coffers by the advise and counsell of his friends and that which carried the title and inscription of the kings sepulture was found emptie without any shew or token of the reliques of a mans body or anything els by reason the bones and all were rotten and consumed in continuance of time after so many yeers past In the other were found two fardels wrapped within waxe candles or ceare-clothes conteining either of them seven bookes which were not only whole and sound but also seemed very fresh and new One seven of them were written in Latin as touching the Pontificiall law the other seven in Greeke entituled The discipline or doctrine of Philosophie such as those daies might affourd Valerius Antias saith moreover That they were the bookes of Pythagoras according to the common received opinion of Numa that he was the disciple of Pythagoras herein giving credit to a probable lie resembling a truth These books were first read by those friends of his who were present at the place where the chests were opened but afterwards as they came into more mens hands to be read it chaunced that Q. Petilius the lord cheefe justice of the citie desirous to peruse those bookes borrowed them of L. Petilius with whom he was familiarly acquainted by reason that the abovenamed Quintus Petilius had chosen the foresaid Lucius into the decurie of the Scribes and Secretaries Who after he had read the titles with the summaries and contents of every chapter and finding the most part thereof tending directly to abolish the state of religion then established said unto L. Petilius that he purposed to fling those bookes into the fire but before hee did so hee would permit him to use what meanes hee thought by order of law or otherwise would serve his turne to recover the said bookes out of his hands and good leave hee should have to take that course without his displeasure or any breach of friendship betweene them The Scribe or notarie aforesaid goeth to the Tribunes for their assistance the Tribunes put the matter over to the Senat before whom the Pretour said plainely That he was readie to take his corporall oth if he were put to it that those bookes ought neither to be read nor kept Whereupon the Senate judged that for such a matter the offer onely of the Pretors oth was sufficient and that the bookes should be burned with all speed possible in the open place of assemblies called Comitium but they awarded withall that there should bee paied unto Q. Petilius the right owner as much money for the bookes as the Pretour and the more part of the Tribunes of the Commons esteemed them worth The Scribe would touch none of the money but his bookes were burnt in the foresaid place before all the people in a light fire made by the ordinarie servitours attending upon the sacrificers The same summer there arose suddainely a great warre in higher Spaine The Celtiberians had gathered a power of five and thirtie thousand men a number more than lightly at any time before they had levied Now as Q. Fulvius Flaccus lord Deputie of that province Hee for his part because he was advertised that the Celtiberians put their youth in armes had raised and assembled as great aids of the confederates as he could but nothing came hee neere to the enemie in numbers of souldiours In the beginning of the Spring hee led his armie into Carpetania and encamped before the towne Ebura after hee had planted a meane garrison within it A few daies after the Celtiberians pitched their tents within two miles from thence under a little hill When the Romane Pretour perceived they were come he sent his brother Marcus Fulvius with two companies of the horsemen of allies in espiall to view the enemies campe willing him to approach as neere to the trench and rampier as hee could and to see what compasse the campe tooke but to forbeare skirmish and in any hand to retire in case he perceived the Cavallerie of the enemies made out against him According to this direction hee did in every respect And so for certaine daies together there was nothing done but onely these two companies of horsemen shewing first and afterwards retiring backe so soone as the Cavallerie of the enemies issued out of their campe At length the Celtiberians also came forth and advaunced forward with all their power as well horse as foot and having set them in ordinance of battell staied as it were in the middes betweene The whole ground was a smooth and even plaine fit to joyne a battaile in There stood the Spaniards I say expecting their enemies but the Romane Pretour kept his men within the rampier foure dayes togither and they likewise of the other side held the same place still in battaile array The Romanes all that while st irred not a foot The Celtiberians then seeing the enemies refused fight held themselves quiet also within their camp onely the horsemen rid forth and they kept a corps de guard to be in readines if peradventure the enemies should be busie come abroad Both of the one side and the other they went out at the back-side of their camp to purvey forage fewel and impeached not one another The Roman Pretor supposing now that after so many daies rest the enemies were borne in hand and hoped fully that hee would never begin first commanded L. Actlius to take with him the left wing of the cavallerie six thousand of the provinciall auxiliaries and to fetch a compasse about the hill which stood behind the enemies and from thence so soone as they heard a crie to run downe a maine and charge upon their campe And because they might not be dscovered in the night time they departed Flaccus the next morning by peepe of day sent out C. Scribonius a colonell of the allies against the enemies campe with the extraordinarie horsmen of the left wing whom when the Celtiberians beheld both approaching neere toward them and also more in number than uually they had bene they put forth all their Cavallerie at once out of the gates withal gave the signal to the Infanterie also to come abroad Scritonius according to the direction given him so soon as ever he heard the first noise shout of the horsmen turned the head of his horse and retired back full upon the campe therwith the enemies followed more freely first the horsemen and within a while the footmen also making full account to be masters of the Roman leaguer that day verily now were they not past halfe a mile When Flaccus supposed that they were trained farre enough from their owne camp for succouring
education to the end that being there brought up hee might from his first infancie be acquainted with their fashions and converse with the people of Rome His suit and request to them was that they would vouchsafe unto him not onely the ordinarie entertaiment and protection that private persons affourd to their guests but also to take the charge of publicke tuition and as it were the guardianage of him This embassage of the king was well taken of the Senat and pleased them highly Whereupon they ordained that Cn Stnius the Pretour should let out a mansion house with all the furniture wherein the young prince and his traine might keepe their resiance The Thracian embassadours likewise presented themselves before the Senat to debate their owne controvercies in their hearing and withall desired their friendship and amitie They obtained their suite and besides their was sent unto them by way of present the summe of 2000 Asses apeece Glad were the LL. of the Senate that these States were received into their societie by reason that Thracia lyeth hard on the backe-side of Macedonie but to the end that they might have perfit intelligence and notice how all things went in Asia and the Ilands they sent thither T. Claudius Nero and M. Decimius in embassage whome they commaunded also to visit Creete and Rhodes and withall both to renew the amitie and also to spie and observe whether the hearts of those allies had been sollicited and tempted by K. Perseus As the citie was thus in doubtfull suspence and expectation of the event of this new warre behold in a tempest that arose in the night a certaine columne or pillar garnished and set out with the beake-heads of warre ships which had been erected in the Capitoll during the first Punicke warre by M. Aemylius the Consull who had for his companion in government Serg. Fulvius was by a clap of thunder and lightning rent and cloven from the very base to the chapter This was taken for a prodigious token and report thereof was made to the Senat. The LL. gave order that the Aruspices should be conferred with about it and their advise taken likewise they commaunded the Decemvirs to looke into their bookes of Sibylla The Decemvirs for their part pronounced and declared that the citie should be purged and hallowed publicke supplications and prayers made unto the gods and greater beasts killed for sacrifice as well at Rome in the Capitoll as in Campaine neere the promontorie of Minerva Also that with all convenient speed there should be plaies solemnly exhibited for ten daies togither in the honor of most mightie and most gracious Iupiter All this was done with diligence accordingly but the soothsayers and Aruspices aforesaid made answer out of their learning That this prodigie portended good and signified the advancement and enlarging of their owne territories togither with the ruine and destruction of their enemies for that those beak-heads which the storme overthrew and cast downe had been the spoiles of ships woon from the enemies There happened other occurrents besides to encrease the scrupulous religion and devotion of men for reported it was how at Saturnia within the towne it rained bloud three daies togither Item At Calatia an asse was soled with three feet and a bull togither with five kine were strucken starke dead with one thunderbolt and flash of lightning last of all at Oximum there was a showre of very earth and nothing else In regard of these woonders also sacrifices were celebrated supplications made and one day kept holiday and all shop-windowes shut Yet were not the Consuls departed into their provinces because they neither would obey and condescend unto the Senate in proposing the matter as touching Popilius at the councell table and the LL. were as resolute for their parts to let no decree passe before that were done The spight and heart-burning they bare against M. Popilius grew the more by occasion of his owne letters wherein hee wrate and gave them to understand That being Proconsull hee had now a second time fought with the Statellates in Liguria and put ten thousand of them to the sword by reason of which hard courses and extremities of warre the other nations likewise of the Ligurians were entred into armes At which newes not onely Popilius was blamed behind his backe for making warre against all law and equitie upon them that had yeelded and thereby provoking those who before were quiet to goe out and put themselves in action of rebellion but the Consuls also were checked to their faces in the Senate because they set not forward to their charge and government M. Martius Sermo and Quintius Martius Scylla two Tribunes of the Commons seeing the LL. of the Senat thus drawing all in a line tooke heart unto them and both menaced the Consuls to fine them unlesse they made more hast unto their province and also recited in the Senat a law which they had drawne and framed and were upon the point to promulge as touching the foresaid Ligurians who had submitted The tenure whereof ran in this forme THAT VVHAT PERSON SOEVER OF STATELLAE HAD YEELDED HIMSELFE AND VVAS NOT RESTORED TO LIâ—RRTIE AND FREEDOME BEFORE THE CALENDS OF SEXTILIS NEXT ENSUING THE SENAT UPON THEIR OTH SHOULD ORDAINE ONE SPECIAL COMMISSIONER TO MAKE INQUISITIONEY VVHOSE FRAUD COVIN AND NOTICE HEE VVAS IN VILLENAGE AND PUNISH THE PARTIE ACCORDINGLY Then by authoritie and approbation of the Senate they published this for a law Now before that the Consuls tooke their journey the Senat assembled in the temple of Bellona in regard and favour of C. Cicereius the Pretor of the former yeere Where audience was given him and after he had declared what exploits he had performed in Corsica there upon demaunded triumph which when hee could not obtaine he made no more adoe but rode triumphant in the Albane hill for now it was taken up and grown for a custome so to doe and aske the authoritie and the State no leave The foresaid law proposed by the Martij the Commons with a generall consent by their voices graunted and enacted By vertue of which act of the Commons C. Licinius the Pretour put to question in the Senat Whom they would have to sit upon the inquisition according to the forme of the said law And the LL. ordained himselfe to be the inquisitor Then at length and not asore the Consuls put themselves in their way toward their province received the charge of the armie from M. Popilius This Popilius durst not yet returne to Rome for feare hee should be called in question and put to his answere before that Pretour and supreme judge who had required the advise of the Senate as touching that enquest framed and drawne of purpose against him knowing full well as he did how the Senate was not well affected to him and the people much more maliciously bent and set against him But the Tribunes of the Commons thought they would prevent and meet with
Howbeit this we thinke good to advertise and admonish the reader by the way that albeit in the digesting and reckoning of the Coss. we have set before our eies to follow the marble tables monuments of Verrius Flaccus and according thereunto have framed applied the computation of the yeers yet that yeer before the 250 as also the other which Verrius rejected we have inferted with the rest that our accompt might fall out just with the sum of the yeeres as they are collected by Varro Which before us Onuphrius Panvinius a most learned man hath done in his Kalender thinking that the yeere which Verrius and they that followed him rased out was the 423 and therefore he hath put it to the rest without Consuls according to the Capitoline records Of the computation of times usually observed by the Romanes and of the yeere of the cities foundation THe calculation of yeers was taken and observed by men in old time divers and sundrie wayes The Achaeans as wee read received it from the revolution of the starres the Argives from their women priests as for example if Chrysis such a yeere were chiefe priest to offer sacrifices they counted the number of yeeres from the said Chrysis But many have derived fetched the course and consequence of their acts and affaires from the yeeres before Troy was built or else after the winning thereof Howbeit from the 408 yeere after the captivitie thereof by occasion of the Olympian games which Hercules first instituted in the honour of his great grandâ—â—re by the mothers side and which by his sonne Iphiclus or Iphitus as some will have it were renewed that yeere from that time I say they began to number the yeeres by the Olympiads especially among the Grecians whose storie as Eusebius affirmeth is not of any credit but from the time of the first Olympias The Hebrewes like as other nations in the East received the denomination and reckoning of the yeeres from their kings The Atheniens from their Eponymi as they called them but that in their Archaeresiae that is the elections of their magistrates which were woont to hold for certain daies about the beginning of the yeere they counted in this â—ise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the tenth or eleventh of the first Prytancia And hereof it seemeth that the name commeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if from thence their acts received both the time and also the name After the example of the Atheniens and others the Romanes reckoned their daies made their calender and registred their acts by such and such Consuls noting thereto otherwhiles the yeere from the cities foundation Mary about it there is much more diversitie in authors than about that wherein the first Consuls took their government And seeing the cleering and declaration of that point is not impertinent to this place briefly wee will rehearse the opinions of authors as touching the time when the citie of Rome was founded To begin therefore at them who according to the common received opinion of others have written longer agoe and further off Timaeus Siculus I know not upon what reason induced hath recorded how the citie was built by Romulus much about the time that Carthage in Africke by the Tyrians namely in the 38 yeere before the first Olympias L. Cincius a Senatour of Rome by calling faith it was in the fourth yeere of the twelfth Olympias Q. Fabius Pictor amost auncient writer of the Romane storie and of greateest credit attributeth it to the first yeere of the eight Olympias Polybius Megapolitanus and Diodorus Siculus quote the second yeere of the 7 Olympias Apollodorus Q. Lutatius Catulus C. Cornelius Nepos Eratosthenes M. Porcius Cato Dionysius Halicarnassaeeus Theophilus Antiochenus name the first yeere of the 7 Olympias M. Verrius Flaccus the avoucher of the Capitoline stone-records T. Livius C. Iulius Solinus Clemens Alexandrinus and others will have it to be the fourth yeere of the 6 Olympias L. Taruntius Firmanus M. Terentius Varro T. Pomponius Atticus M. Tullius Cicero Augustus Caesar C. Plinius Secundus Plutarchus Chaeronaeus Domitianus Caesar Augustus P. Cornel. Tacitus Cassius Dio A. Gellius L. Septimius Severus Augustus Censorinus M. Iulius Philippus Augustus Eusebius Pamphil. Caesariensis Eutropius Paulus Orosius Paulus Diaconus Longibardus and after the time of C. Caesar Dictatour the common opinion of the people of Rome which wee also goe by will have the citie to be founded the third yeere of the sixt Olympias But by what motives and reasons each one of these authours is induced and whereby they would seeme to confirme their severall opinions needlesse it is in this place for to declare both because the speculation hereof pertaineth properly to another profession and also for that besides Piutarch in Romulus Solinus in the I chapter of his Polyhistor and Camers in his annotation thereupon the question hath been so throughly handled by Onuphirius Panvinius in the first booke of his Calender that the thing requireth no further examination Now for the day on which the foundation of the citie of Rome was laid by Romulus it was the eleventh day before the calends of May called Parilia or Palilia Now was this a festivall day to Pales the goddesse of shepheards celebrated by the said shepherds upon the eleventh calends of Maie in the fields and countrey villages for the chasing away of wolves for the preservation of their sheepe and cattell from diseases or for the safe yeaning and bringing forth their young whereupon they were called Parilia Of this matter writeth Propertius in his 4. booke in this wise A feast there was Palilia our fathers did it call And on that day they first began for Rome to build a wall Ovid also in the fourth booke of his Fasti A time full meet they chose with plough the plot to marke Dame Pales was at hand and so began the warke The same is avouched by M. Tullius Plutarch Solinus and others And that these Palilia were solemnized ordinarily the eleventh day before the calends of May appeareth as well by the old marble Romane calenders as also by the same authors before rehearsed Of the first soveraigne magistrates of the citie of Rome namely of the KK who were in number seven ALl sorts of policies and governments in a Common-weale which are set downe and named by auncient Writers the cittie of Rome were it by the fatall course of destinie or upon some troubles in the State hath received and endured every one so as no common-weale in manner there can be found wherein they succeeded so one after another as they did in the very cittie of Rome For in the beginning the KK ruled it but when they for their excessive outrage and inordinate lust exercised upon their citizens and subjects were deposed and expelled the Consuls and after them the Tribunes militarie in Consuls authoritie held the soveraigntie But in processe of time when this frame and forme of Common-weale simply the best was by the
Sp. Posthumius as Livie and Cassiodorus report but Priscus and Albinus as Cuspinian saith And by Dionysius his testimonie Sp. Posthumius Albinus and Q. Servilius Priscus the second time but Diodorus nameth Q. Servilius and Sp. Posthumius Albinus Howbeit in the fragment of the Capitoll marble Sp. Posthumius is surnamed Albus Regillensis and not Albius and so Marlian thinketh it ought to bee read 289 L. Ebutius P. Servilius LIvius nameth T. Quintius and Q Fabius Cassiodorus T. Quintius the second time and Q. Fabius the second time Diodorus T it Quintius Capitolinus and Q. Fabius Dionysius T it Quintius Capitolinus the third time and Q. Fabius Vibulanus the second time 290 L. Lucretius Tricipitinus Veturius Geminus ACcording to the Capitoline table Aulus Pesthumius out of Livie Dionysius and Cassiodorus Pab Furius Fusus are noted for Consuls this yeere Diodorus putteth to Furius the other gentile surname Medullinus for Fusus This Au. Posthumius was the soone of A. Posthumius the Dictatour 291 P. Volumnius Serv. Sulpitius LIvie and Cassiodorus write that there followed as Coss. this yeere P. Servilius but Dionysius nameth L. Aebutius and P. Servilius Priscus Diodorus Lu. Aebutius Elva and Pub. Servilius Stractus The Sicilian registers shew Priscus and Flavus Cuspinian Elva and Priscus The Capitoll stones exhibit unto us P. Servilius the soone of Sp. P.N. i. the sonnes sonne of Publius and surnamed Priscus 292 C. Claudius soone of Appius P. Valerius Poplicala LIvie Cassiodore and Denis represent unto us as Consuls this yeere L. Lucretius Tricipitinus and T. Veturius or Vetusius Geminus but Diodorus L. Lucretius and T. Veturius Cicurinus Cuspinian his Kalender Geminus and Tricipitinus The Sicilian registers Tricipitinus and Veturius the Capitoline monuments L. Lucretius Tricipitinus 293 Q. Fabius Vibulanus III. L. Cornelius Maluginensis LIvius and Cassiodorus prosesse for Consuls this yeere P. Volumnius and Serv. Sulpitius Dionysius P. Volumnius and Serv. Sulpitius Camerinus The Capitoll marbles have P. Volumnius Amintinus Gallus Of The same Consuls Valerius speaketh in his first book and sixt chapter 294 L. Minutius C. Nautius LIvie and Dionysius name P. Valerius Publicola and C. Claudius Sabinus Consuls for this yeere Diodorus P. Velerius Poplicola and C. Claudius Regillanus The Sicilian registers and Cuspinian call them Poplicola and Sabinus The Capitoline marble hath this record P. Valerius P.F. sonne of P. Volusi N. i. the sonnes sonne of Volusus surnamed Poplicola but Livie Dionysius Orosius and they that have raunged the Consuls in the Capitoll have reported that P. Valerius the Consull was flame in the battell against the bond slaves who this yeere under the leading of Ap. Herdonins the Sabine held the Capitoll by force and that in his stead L. Quintius Cincinnatus was substituted 295 Q. Minutius C. Horatius Pulvillus LIvius togither with Cassiodorus declare for Consuls this yeere Q. Fabius the third time and L. Cornelius Maluginensis Dionysius Q. Fabius Vibulanus the third time and L. Conelius Diodorus Q. Fabius Vibulanus and L. Cornelius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Sicilian registers and Cuspininan Vibulanus and Maluginensis The Capitoll marble Q. Fabius Vibulanus the third time 296 M. Valerius Sp. Virginius BOth Livie and Cassiodore deliver unto us for Consuls L. Minutius and C. Nautius Dionysius L. Minutius and C. Nautius and second time Diodorus L. Minutius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and C. Nautius Rutilius The Capitoll stones C. Nauticus Rutilius the second time What this surname 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should meane Sigonius and Onuphrius confesse they know not and thinke instead thereof wee should read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Valerius Maximus 5 booke 2 chap. Of thankfull persons writeth these Consulls corruptly Q. for Nautius and Minutius 277 T. Romulius Sp. Veturius LIvie and Cassiodorus name for Coss. this yeer Q. Minutius M. Horatius Pulvillus but herein they do amisse as Sigonius Onuphrius suppose for the same Livie writeth that Caius Horatius Pulvillus died beeing Augure in the yeere 302. Diodorus nameth L. Posthumius and M. Horatius Dionysius Q. Horatius and Q. Minutius The Capitoll records C. Horatius Pulvillus And the Sicilian registers Pulvillus and Augurinus 298 Sp. Tarpeius A. Atterius IN Livie Cassiodorus and Dionysius we find Coss. this yeere M. Valerius with Sp. Virginius But in the twelsth booke of Diodorus M. Valerius Lactuca and Sp. Virginius Tricostus In Cuspinians Kalender Maximus and Caelimontanus In the Sicilian Maximus and Virginius In that of the Capitol M. Valerius Max. As for Lactucinus Plinie sheweth that it is a surname of the Valerij Of these Consuls also Censorinus maketh mention in his discourse of the plaies called Seculares 299 P. Curiatius Sext. Quintilius ACcording to Livie Cassiodorus and Dionysius this yeere C. Veturius and T. Romilius entred upon the Consulship Diodorus delivereth unto us C. Veturius Cicunus and T. Romulius Vaticanus Cuspinians kalender sheweth Geminus and Vaticanus The Sicilian Rocus and Veturius The Capitoline records T. Romulius son of T. nephew or sonnes sonne of Ti. Vaticanus Of the same Romulius Plinie speaketh also 7. booke chapter 28. 300 T. Menenius P. Sestius Capitolinus SPurius Tarpeius sonne of M. and nephew of M. surnamed Montanus Capitolinus the kalender of Verrius Flaccus sheweth unto us for one Consull this yeer Of whom Diodorus Dionysius Livie Pedianus upon Cicero his Oration for Cornelius and Cassiodorus make mention save onely the surnames Cuspinians booke and the Greeke records have Capitolinus As for his Colleague they dissent and disagree For Diodorus would have him to bee Aulus Asterius Fontinalis but Dionysius Aulus Termenius Livie and Plinie the seventh booke chapter seven and twentie A. Aeternius Solinus chapter 4 Gell. I booke chapter II. A. Thermus Lastly Cassiodorus Au. Aterius Whom Sigonius and Onuphrius follow 301 App. Claudius T. Genutius LIvie and Cassiodorus likewise report for this yeere Consuls Sex Quintilius and P. Curiatius Dionysius Sex Quintilius and P. Horatius Diodorus Sex Quintilius Tergeminus The Capitoll stones name him Sext. Quintilius sonne of Sex nephew of Pub. For this surname Tergeminus is common both to the Horatij and Curiatij But Sigonius and Onuphrius allow Horatius rather 302 Sext. Quintilius sonne of Sextus nephew of Pub. TO this Consull the Greeke records give the surname of Varus and so the Capitoline tables of stone do represent him But Diodorus Dionysius Livie and Cassiodorus deliver the same man unto us without the surname Who was his Colleague it is doubtfull For by Dionysius it was P. Horatius by Livie and Cassiodorus Pub. Curiatius by Diodorus Tergeminus which is a surnmane as well of the Curiatij as the Horatij Onuphrius rather approoveth of Curiatius 303 Decemvirs Consular LIvie and Diodorus together with the Capitoline registers as farre foorth as may bee gathered by the broken fragments of the tables shew that App. Claudius and T. Genutius were Coss. elect for this yeer but they resigned up the place in regard of creating Decemvirs Now as touching this Decemvirat the law Terentia brought it into the
of the people of Rome in that hee sent backe unto them that schoolmaster who betraied their children as Livie Plutarch write Valerius not without some suspicion of error writeth in his sixt booke that Camillus did this beeing Consull whereas Plutarch saith hee was never Consull 361 L. Lucretius Flavus Serv. Sulpitius Camerinus AFter fifteene yeeres saith Livie Coss. were created againe L. Lucretius Flavus and Serv. Sulpitius Camerinus Diodorus and Cassiodorus passe over the surnames The Sicilian registers doe shew Flavus and Camerinus 362 L. Valerius Potitus M. Manlius Capitolinus LVcius Valerius Potitus and M. Manlius surnamed afterwards Capitolinus are by Livie reported Consuls this yeere Dionysius in his first booke maketh mention of these Consuls naming them L. Valerius Potitus and T. Manlius Capitolinus Cassiodorus delivereth them by the names of L. Valerius and M. Manlius Diodorus of L. Valerius and A. Manlius but the Sicilian registers of Potitus and Capitolinus 363 L. Lucretius Serv. Sulpitius M. Aemilius L. Furius Medullinus VII Agrippa Furius C. Aemilius II. BY occasion that the Coss. lay sick thought good it was to renew the government by meanes of an Interregencie therefore after they had deposed the Consuls by an act of the Senat six Tribunes militarie were created with Consular authoritie by the Interregent who upon the first day of Iulie began their magistracie as Livie saith Diodorus mentioneth but foure namely L. Lucretius Serv. Sulpitius C. Aemilius and Lu. Furius As for Sulpitius Zonaras calleth him Rufus which surname Onuphrius also hath put unto him 364 Q. Fabius Ambustus The ij breethren of Q. Fabius Ambustus Q. Sulpitius Longus Q. Servilius IIII. Servil Cor. Maluginensis THese are by T. Livius recorded for Tribb. militarie in Consuls authoritie but Diodorus reckoneth the three Fabij Q.K. and C. and the other three besides Plutarch in Camillus Gellius out of Verrius Flaccus in his 5 booke and 17 chapter Macrobius also in his first booke of Saturnals make report of Quintus Sulpitius a Tribune militarie 365 L. Valerius Poplicola II. L. Virginius P. Cornelius A. Manlius L. Aemilius L. Postumius ACcording to Livie these were created Tribunes militarie after the winning of the citie but by Diodorus they were Pub. Cornelius L. Virginius Valerius A. Manlius and L. Posthumius Of these Tribunes Macrobius speaketh in his first booke of Saturnalia 366 T. Quintius Cincinnatus Q. Servilius Fidenas V. L. Iulius Iulus L. Aquilius Corvus L. Lucretius Tricipitinus Ser. Sulpitius Rufus THese Tribunes militarie in Consuls authoritie for this yeere Livie thus declareth unto us Diodorus hath these Tribunes Titus Quintius L. Servilius L. Iulius Aquilus L. Lucretius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Servius Sulpitius 367 L. Papirius L. Aemilius II. L. Menenius C. Sergius C. Cornelius L. Valerius Poplicola III. THese Livie reporteth for Tribunes militarie in Consuls authoritie this yeere But Diodorus hath L. Papirius C. Cornelius L. Menenius C. Servilius A. Valerius and Q. Fabius Howbeit there is wanting in Livie the name of the sixt Tribune whom out of Diodorus Sigonius and Onuphrius have set to the rest by the name of C. Cornelius Diodorus also for Sergius hath Servilius and Aemilius for Fabius 368 M. Furius Camillus Ser. Cornelius Maluginensis Q. Servilius Fidenas VI. L. Horatius Pulvillus L. Quintius Cincinnatus P. Valerius THe common-weale came to be governed againe by Camillus a Tribune militarie in Consuls authoritie and for colleagues were added unto him these 5 here named But Diodorus saith there were 4 created M. Cornelius Q. Servilius M. Furius and L. Quintius In this yeer when the Dictatorship was offered unto Camillus hee said there was no need thereof and he togither with the Tribb. his colleagues vanquished the Volscians Antiotes and Tuscanes which rebelled 369 A. Manlius L. Quintius Capitolinus T. Quintius Capitolinus P. Cornelius L. Papirius Cursor II. C. Sergius II. THese hath Livie but Diodorus saith that foure onely were created namely L. Papirius Q.T. and L. all Quinty But of those six A. Manlius having been Tribune militarie in the yeere 365 and who shall be a third time in the yeere 371 must now verily be the second time 370 Ser. Corn. Maluginensis IV. M. Furius Camillus V. C. Papirius Crassus P. Valerius Potitus II. Ser. Sulpitius Rufus II. T. Quintius Cincinnatus II. THese Tribunes militarie in Consuls authoritie in this manner be delivered unto us by Livie but Diodorus as his maner is putteth down four Serv. Sulpitius L. Papirius Mar. Cornelius and T. Quintius In this yeere M. Manlius attainted and condemned for aspiring to be K. was throwne downe headlong from the rocke Tarpeia Liv. Plutar. and Valer. 371 L. Valerius IV. A. Manlius III. Ser. Sulpitius III. L. Lucretius L. Aemilius M. Tribonius LIvie raungeth these in this yeere Diodorus nameth four L. Valerius Crispus which is the name of Tribonius Au. Manlius and Serv. Sulpitius Crispus some call Flavus 372 Sp. Papirius L. Papirius Ser. Cornelius IV. Q. Servilius C. Sulpitius L Aemilius IV. ACcording to Livie these were created Tribunes military in Consuls authoritie The surname of Cornelius as wee saw before was Maluginensis Diodorus writeth four Q. Servilius Sp. Papirius Cornelius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not truly 373 M. Furius Camillus VI. A. Posthumius Regillensis L. Postbumius Regillensis L. Furius L. Lucretius M. Fabius Ambustus LIvie nameth these as we have placed them but Diodorus in this wise M. and L. both Furij A. Posthumius L. Lucretius M. Fabius and L. Posthumius Plutarch also nameth Camillus Tribune militarie this yeer wherein he vanquished the Prenestines the Volscians and the Tusculans also against whom war was proclaimed because they had served in the field under the Prenestines 374 L. Valerius V. L. Valerius III. C. Sergius III. L. Menenius II. P. Papirius Ser. Cornel. Maluginensis THese sixe are set downe by Livie but Diodorus reckoneth eight namely L. and P. both Valerij C. Terentius L. Menenius C. Sulpitius T. Papirius L. Aimilius M. Fabius 375 P. Manlius C. Manlius L. Iulius C. Sextilius M. Albinus L. Antistius AFter this was the generall assembly holden for the election of militarie Tribunes in Consuls authoritie wherein were as many created of the Commoners as of the Patritij namely P. and C. both Manlij with L. Iulius Patritians and out of the Commons C. Sextilius M. Albinus and L. Antistius But Diodorus exhibiteth eight and to these above rehearsed he addeth C. Herenucius and P. Trebonius Sextilius also he calleth Sextius 376 Sp. Furius Q. Servilius II. C. Licinius P. Cloelius M. Horatius L. Geganius LIvie reporteth these for Tribunes militarie in Consuls authoritie this yeere but in Livie for Lu. Menenius the third time you must read C. Licinius as Sigonius hath shewed in his Scholiae upon Livie which Onuphrius also in his Kalender approoveth But Diodorus speaketh of no more than foure Q. Servilius C. Licinius L. Furius P. Cloelius 377 L. Aemilius P. Valerius IV. C. Veturius Ser. Sulpitius L. Quintius Cincinnatus C. Quintius Cincinnatus THese Tribunes militarie the Consuls
the Consuls should be a Commoner By which meanes L. Sextius was the first Consul created from out of the Commons But when the nobles denied flatly to approve the same by their assent insomuch as the Commons were at the point of insurrection and readie to leave the citie the discord dissention was at length taken up and appeased by the mediation of the Dictatour and as the nobilitie was content to yeeld unto the communaltie a Consull so the Commons graunted unto the nobles one Pretour or lord cheefe justice within the citie him to be created from out of the nobilitie Graunted also unto them now first it was that two Aediles Curule should bee chosen out of the Patritij The Commons conferred the Consulship upon L. Sextius by whose law it was first obtained and for companion in governement hee had L. Aimylius Mamercus Thus much Livie and Plutarch who altogether with Cassiodorus put down for Consuls L. Aemylius a Patritian and L. Sextius a Commoner The same Diodorus nameth L◠Aemylius Mamercus and Lu. Lateranus Now this Lateranus is the surname of Sextius as appeareth in a table of record in the Capitoll wherein the Consuls are thus to bee seene Mamercinus and L. Sextius Sextinus Lateranus as also in the Sicilian registers they are called Mamercinus and Lateranus In the booke entituled De viris Illustribus of famous men wee find written that it was not L. Sextius but C. Licinius Stolo who was the first Consull chosen out of the communaltie 389 L. Genutius Q. Servilius DIodorus Livie and Cassiodorus shew unto us for Consuls L. Genutius and Q. Servilius Of whome Orosius also and Eutropius make mention According to the records of the Capitoll the Cos. in this first Consulship is thus written Q. Servilius son of Q. nephew of Quintus Ahala together with L. Genutius but in the second the son of M. nephew of Cn. surnamed Amentinensis In the Sicilian registers they be written Genutius and Curtius but corruptly as Sigonius thinketh 290 C. Sulpitius Peticus C. Licimus Stolo THese bee the Consuls reported by Livie and Cassiodorus Diodorus concealeth their surnames Valerius Max. in his second booke and first chapter maketh mention of them so doth Plutarch in his problemes But hee whom all other writers name Stolo the Capitoline records nominate Calvus as also the Sicilian which deliver their surnames Paticus and Calvus 391 L. Aemylius Mamercus II. Cn. Genutius LIvie Cassiodorus declare these for Consuls whom Diodorus in his sixteenth book nameth Cn. Genutius and L. Aemylius In the Capitoll tables in this manner they bee set downe⸫⸫ Mamercinus II. Cn. Genutius sonne of M. and nephew of M. Amentinensis But in the Sicilian registers Mamercinus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 392 Q. Servilius Ahala II. L. Genutius II. DIodorus nameth the Consuls of this yeere Q. Servilius and Q. Genutius The Sicilian registers Ahala and Genutius Livie and Cassiodorus Q. Servilius Hala and L. Genutius These are they who three yeers before were matched together in the same government 393 C. Sulpitius C. Licinius Calvus THese are by Livie recorded Consuls this yeere Cassiodorus writeth them thus C. Sulpitius II. and C. Licinius Diodorus in this wise C. Sulpitius and C. Licinius Sigonius supposeth they be the same who three yeeres before were colleagues The Sicilian registers give unto Licinius the surname not of Calvus as before but of Stolo and Sulpitius they surname Peticus 394 C. Poetilius Libo M. Fabius Ambustus LIvie and Cassiodorus write the Consuls for this yeere were C. Poetelius Balbus M. Fabius Ambustus But Diodorus M. Fabius and C. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 corruptly for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Capitoline writers give them surnames divers from Livie for they call Libo Visulus but he Balbus And the Sicilian registers goe with those of the Capitoll 395 M. Popilius Laenas Cn. Manlius LIvie and Cassiodorus name this yere Consuls in this sort but Diodorus calleth them M. Popilius Laenatus Cn. Manlius Imperiosus This was the first man of the Popilij surnamed Laenas The reason of which name Cicero rendreth in his booke Brutus saying M. Popilius being Consull and at the same time offering sacrifice in his robe called Laena for that hee was Flamin to Carmenta upon newes brought unto him that the commons were up and risen in a commotion against the Nobles came in that attire habit as he was into the assembly and what with his authoritie of countenance and what with his eloquence of speech appeased the sedition 396 C. Fabius C. Plautius LIvie and Cassiodorus have these above-named for the Consuls this yeere but in Diodorus they are named M. Fabius and C. Plotius In the Capitoline records⸫⸫ Ambustus and C. Plautius Proculus 397 C. Martius Cn. Manlius DIodorus Livie and Cassiodorus name the Consuls of this yeere C. Martius and Cn. Manlius This Cn. Manlius was Consull the first time two yeeres before Cuspinians booke and the Greek records have Rutilius and Capitolinus 398 M. Fabius Ambustus II. M. Popilius Laenas II. THis yeers Consuls are with these names entituled by Livie Cassiodorus Diodorus leaveth out their surnames the numerall notes Cuspinians booke and the Greeke records set them thus downe Ambustus II. and Laenas 399 C. Sulpitius Peticus III. M. Valerius Poplicola IN the foure hundred yeere from the foundation of the cittie and the thirtie five after that it was by the Gaules woon the commons after eleven yeeres did for goe their hold of the Consulship and upon an Interregencie both Coss. of the Patritij entred into government to wit C. Sulpitius Paeticus III. M. Valerius Publicola as Livie saith The same Consuls Diodorus Cassiodorus and the Sicilian registers do report But why the account of time made by Livie disagreeth from this reckoning Sigonus and Onuphrius in his kalender doe give a reason 400 M. Fabius Ambustus III. T. Quintius or M. Popilius IN this yeere also according to Livie both Coss. were Patritij namely M. Fabius Ambustus the third time with T. Quintius although hee writeth that in some Annales in stead of Titus Quintius hee found Marcus Popilius Consull With Livie accordeth Diodorus and Cassiodorus Solinus also who in his fortie one chapter out of Cornelius Nepos writeth that Alexander was borne when M. Fabius Ambustus T. Quintius Capitolinus were Consuls Cuspinians booke setteth forth Ambustus Capitolinus But these Consuls and those that follow are in the Sicilian registers concealed 401 C. Sulpitius Peticus IIII. M. Valerius Poplicola III. BOth Consuls created this yeere were Patritij and namely those who are here set down after Livie and Cassiodorus Diodorus omitteth both their surnames and also the numerall notes and setteth after the former Consuls M. Valerius and C. Sulpitius 402 P. Valerius Poplicola C. Martius Rutilus TO L. Valerius Poplicola was given in fellowship of governement this yeere C. Martius Rutilus of the commons as Livie saith These Cassiodorus calleth P. Valerius and C. Martius Rutilus the second
to make up the totall summe collected by Varro And that the said yeere should at this time especially be interposed the tables of the Capitoline records doe shew For whereas in them thus engraven it is M. Valerius Corvus Consull the fourth time in the yeere of the citie 419 and againe L. Armilius and C. Plautius in the yeere 414 to the end that these records might agree one with another of necessitie there must be put a yere betweene For leave out that then both L. Aemilius the Consull should fall upon the yeere 414 and the totall summe of the yeer in Varro and the Capitoline tables be overthrown That this odde yeere was now above all other times to be cast betweene Gregorie Haloander who left in writing a Chronologie of the Consuls saw long before them for he over-passed this yeere wholly noted without Consuls But Sigonius and Onuphrius are of opinion that this yeere there was an Anarchie and the common-weale without Consuls or other magistrates of state by occasion of the pestilence whereof Livie writeth 422 A. Cornelius II. Cn. Domitius AVlus Cornelius the second time Cos. with Cn. Domitius is by Livie and Cassiodorus set downe Diodorus nameth them A. Cornelius and C. Domitius The Sicilian registers Calvinas and Cossus 423 M. Claudius Marcellus C. Valerius AFter this were created Consuls M. Claudius Marcellus and C. Valerius as Livie and Cassiodorus report In Diodorus also they be set downe by the name of C. Valerius and Mar. Clodius Livie saith that he findeth in the Annales the surnames of Valerius diversly put downe namely Flaccus and Potitus Orosius calleth these Consuls Claudius Marcellus and Valerius Flaccus the Sicilian registers Potitus and Marcellus Sigonius and Onuphrius retain the surnames that it may seeme how to the old surname Potitus of the House Valeria this new surname of Flaccus is a later addition 424 L. Papirius Crassus II. L. Plautius Venno THese Consuls are by Livie and Cassiodorus recited this yeere Diodorus concealeth their surnames The Sicilian registers make them knowne by the names of Crassus and Venno 425 L. Aemilius Mamercinus C. Plautius NExt to them according to Livie and Cassiodorus were L. Aemilius Mamercus and C. Plautius created Consuls Diodorus nominateth L. Papirius with L. Plotius The Sicilian registers Mamercinus and Decianus How both these are to be described their triumphs upon record in the Capitoll do evidently shew These Consuls entred upon their governement the first day of Iulie 426 P. Plautius Proculus P. Cornelius Scapula LIvie and Cassiodorus put down for Consuls P. Plautius Proculus and P. Cornelius Scapula Diodorus P. Cornelius and A. Posthumius The Sicilian registers Venno and Scipio Onuphrius thinketh this Plautius ought to be forenamed not Publius but Caius who in his Consulship which he bare afterwards with Appius Caecus was surnamed Venox as Frontinus supposeth for finding certaine springs and vaines of water within the earth 427 C. Plautius Proculus Q. Publilius Philo. II. LIvie and Cassiodorus match together in the Consulship for this yeere L. Cornelius Lentutâ—s Q. Publilius Philo. Diodorus L. Cornelius and Quintus Publilius The Sicilian registers Lentulus and Philo. 428 L. Papirius Mugillanus Cursor C. Poetelius CAius Poetelius and L. Papirius are by Livie nominated Consuls this yeere C. Poetilius the third time and L. Papirius Mugillanus by Cassiodorus Solinus maketh mention of these Consuls in his five and thirtith chapter As for Papirius Livie indeed surnameth him here Mugillanus but hee saith that hee findeth him in other Annales by the name of Cursor In the Greeke records they be Libo and Cursor Now as touching C. Petilius he is to bee written with the numerall note II. and not III. as Sigonius and Onuphrius doe admonish For it is not the same man who was Consull in the 393 yeere but his sonne 429 L. Furius Camillus II. Iunius Brutus Scaeva LIvie and Cassiodorus put downe for Consuls Lu. Furius Camillus the second time and Iunius Brutus Scaeva Diodorus L. Furius and D. Iunius The Sicilian registers Camillus and Brutus 430 LVcius Furius unto whome the charge of Samnium fell by lot fortuned by occasion of sickenesse to forgoe the warre there and was commaunded to nominate for the managing of martiall affaires a Dictatour whereupon he pronounced L. Papyrius Cursor the bravest warriour in those daies by whom Q. Fabius Rullianus was named great maister of the horse Afterwards Cursor turned him out of that maistership of horse because without his warrant hee had fought although it were fortunately against the Samnites when himselfe was out of the way and gone to Rome for to take the Auspices anew and in his roume hee substituted L. Papirius Crassus Thus write Livie Eutropius and Valerius in the second booke 431 C. Sulpitius Longus II. Q. Aemilius L. Aulius Cerretanus LVcius Papirius the Dictatour before he left his magistracie created Consuls C. Sulpitius Longus II. and Quin. Aemilius Cerretanus Some Annales have Aulius Thus much Livie In like maner the Sicilian registers have Longus and Cerretanus But Diodorus coruptly for Aulius hath Aelius 432 Q. Fabius L. Fulvius LIvie and Cassiodorus deliver unto us for Consuls this yeere Q. Fabius and L. Fulvius whome the Capitoll records of the triumphs name Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus and L. Fulvius Corvus Mervell it is therefore that in the Sicilian registers they are put down Cursor and Sylla 433 T. Veturius Calvinus Sp. Posthumius THis yeere Livie and Cassiodorus set foorth for Consuls T. Veturius Calvinus and Sp. Posthumius Cicero in his third booke of Offices writeth that they were twise Consuls Zonaras calleth the one of them T. Calvinus by a familiar fore-name unto that house and kinred of the Veturij The Greeke records exhibite unto us Calvinus and Albinus Of these Consuls as also of the Caudine peace Cicero in his booke of old age Plinie also in his booke of famous men Gellius in his 17 booke and 21 chapter Florus in his first booke and 16 chap. and Orosius in his third booke and 15 chapter doe make mention 434 L. Papyrius Cursor II. C. Publilius Philo. LIvie and Cassiodorus shew for this yeeres Consuls Q. Publilius Philo and L. Papyrius Cursor the second time The Sicilian registers Cursor Philo. But that this Philo should now bee third time Consull his Consulships doe plainly shew 435 L. Papyrius Cursor or Mugillanus Q. Aulius Cerretanus II. LIvie saieth there is some doubt whether L. Papyrius Cursor were this yeere created Consull the third time with Q. Aemylius Cerretanus the second time and for his good service in warre at Luceria continued still in governement or rather L. Papyrius Mugillanus and so the surname was mistaken Cassiodorus delivereth unto us L. Papirius and Q. Aulius Cerretanus The Sicilian registers Papirius Cerretanus The monument of his triumph in the Capitol alloweth of Cursor and not Mugillanus The author of that book which Cuspinian hath set forth following other Annals setteth downe Mugillanus 436 M. Foslius Flaccinator L. Plantius Venno
before the Comedie Adelphi in Terence avouch for Coss. L. Anicuss and M. Cornelius The Sicilian and capitoll records put surnames unto them Callus and Cethegus Of Anicius the Consull Cicero speaketh in Brutus and of Cethegus the sixe and fortieth Epitome or breviarie of Florus In their yeere it is for certaine held that L. Paulus who conquered Perseus died 595 Cn. Cornelius Dolabella M. Fulvius THe yeere next following had Consuls as witnesseth Cassiodorus Cn. Cornelius Dolabella and M. Fulvius The Sicilian registers shew Dolobella and Fulvius The capitoll monuments Cn. Cornelius Dolobella and Mar. Fulvius Nobilior The same is to be seene in the life of Terence the poet for there it is written that in their yeere he died 596 M. Aemylius C. Popilius THe Consuls next succeeding were Marcus Aemylius and C. Popilius as Cassiodorus faith The Sicilian catalogue sheweth Lepidus and Lenas The capitoll records have M. Aemylius Lepidus and C. Popilius Laenas the second time Of the same Censorinus maketh mention on his chapter of distinction of ages 597 Sex Iulius L. Aurelius CAssiodorus reporteth that the next Consuls were Sex Iulius and L. Aurelius The Sicilian and capitoll tables yeeld surnames unto them Caesar to Iulius and Orestes to Aurelius Plinie writeth of them in his 33 booke 598 L. Lentulus C. Martius OBsequens and Cassiodorus record for this yeeres Consuls L. Lentulus and C. Martius The Sicilian catalogue Lentulus and Fugulus The capitoll monuments L. Cornelius Lentulus Lupus and C. Martius Figulus the second time Cicero in Brutus speaketh of them both And as touching Figulus twise Consull Valerius writeth in his chapter of Wrath. 599 P. Scipio Nasica M. Claudius PVblius Scipio and M. Claudius are by Cassiodorus set down for Coss. The Sicilian registers have Nasica and Marcelius The capitoll records P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica the second time and M. Claudius Marcillus likewise the second time Paedianus writeth that this Marcellus was thrice Consull And that Pub. Scipio Nasica surnamed also Corculum was twise Consull and Censor besides Cicero writeth in his Brutus 600 L. Postumius Q. Opimius THis yeere had Consuls Lu. Postumius and Qu. Opimius as Cassiodorus Obsequens doe witnesse The Sicilian tables shew Opimius and Albinus But the capitoll records Q. Opimius and Lu. Postumius Albinus Mention there is made of this Qu. Opimius Consull by Cicero in his Brutus also in the Epitome of the seven and fortieth booke Moreover that Postumius died in his magistracie besides Verrius Flaccus Obsequens also sheweth in whose steed Manius Acilius Glabrio was chosen 601 Q. Fulvius T. Annius THe Consuls next following as Cassiodorus writeth were Qu. Fulvius and T. Annius In the capitoll fragments they are named Nobilior and T. Annius In the Sicilian registers Nobilior and Luscus Cicero in his Brutus saith that Q. Nobilior sonne of Marcus and T. Annius Luscus were Consuls The Greeke records and Cuspinians booke shew Nobilior Luscus 602 M. Marcellus L. Valerius THis yeere had for Consuls M. Marcellus L. Valerius as Cassiodorus witnesseth The Sicilian catalogue representeth Marcellus and Flaccus Obsequens exhibiteth unto us M. Claudius Marcellus and L. Valerius Flaccus This Marcellus was thrice Consull as Paedian saith upon the Oration for Scaurus Cicero in his booke of divination and destinio 603 L. Licinius Lucullus A. Postumius Albinus CAssiodorus putteth downe for Consuls L. Lucullus and Au. Postumius The Sicilian tables Lucullus Albinus The broken marbles of the capitoll Lucullus and Au. Postumius sonne of Aulus Orosius and the Epitome 48. shew L. Licinius Lucullus and A. Postumius Albinus Cicero in his Brutus and Lucullus both maketh mention of the same 604 T. Quintius M' Acilius THis yeere had for Consuls L. Quintius and M' Acilius as Cassiodorus testifieth whom Plinie in his 7. booke and 36 chap. calleth Caius Quintius and M. Acilius Cicero in his book Cato and the 12 booke of his epistles to Atticus nameth T. Flaminius and M' Acilius saith that they were created Consuls in the 19 yeere after the death of Ennius The Sicilian tables have Flaminius and Balbus The capitoll fragments Flamminius and M. Acilius Balbus 605 L. Martius M' Manilius CAssiodorus avoucheth for the Consuls of this yeere L. Martius and M' Manilius likewise wise the 49 Epitome Cicero in Lucullus maketh mention of Censorinus and M' Manilius of Censorinus and Manilius in his twelfth booke of epistles to Articus The same Consuls Appianus in Libyea nameth L. Maritus Censorinus M' Manilius In like sort Censorinus in his treatise of Nativitie of Birthday The Sicilian tables have Censorinus and Manilius The Capitoll fragments shew Censorinus and M' Manilius sonne of Publius nephew of Pub. Whiles these were Consuls there arose a third war betweene the State of Rome and the Carthaginians as Florus in the 49 Epitome besides Verrius Flaccus doe testifie likewise Solinus but that hee saith with Verrius Flaccus that it was the yeere 64. Cicero also in his eleventh Philippicke and lastly Eutropius with Orosius 606 Sp. Postumius L. Piso. THen were Consuls created Sp. Postumius and L. Piso according to Cassiodorus and Obsequens In the Capitoll fragments they are named Albinus Magnus and Lu. Calpurnius sonne of Caius nephew of Caius surnamed Piso Casonius In Cuspinians kalender Mágnius and Caesonius in the Sicilian catalogue Albius and Piso. As for Magnus and Albinus they be the surnames of Postumius like as Caesonius and Piso of Calpurinius In this yeere the people of Rome entred into armes against Andriscus otherwise tearmed Pseudo-philippus which they call the third Macedonian warre after Florus and Eutropius 607 P. Africanus C. Livius OBsequens and Cassiodorus set soorth for Consuls this yeere P. Africanus and Caius Livius In the Sicilian catalogue they are registred Scipio and Drusus in the capitoll fragments Africanus AEmylianus and C. Livius the one sonne of M. Aemylianus nephew of Marcus the other surnamed Drusus This Pub. Cornelius was the naturall sonne of that Paulus that vanquished Perseus king of the Macedonians and adopted by P. Cornelius the sonne of Scipio Africanus Whereupon he was called Pub. Cornelius sonne of Publius nephew of P. Scipio Africanus the younger AEmylianus as Velleius and others doe witnesse His two last surnames are in the capitoll records out of which the complete name of M. Livius Drusus with his addition was framed Of these Consuls Cicero speaketh after likewise Valerius Paterculus Appian Plutarch Florus both Plinies Eutropius and Orosius 608 C. Cornelius L. Mummius NExt Consuls following were Cn. Cornelius and L. Mummius as witnesseth Cassiodorus and according to Orosius Velieius Censorinus and Cicero in the thirteenth booke of epistles to Atricus Cn. Cornelius Lentulus and L. Mummius they are named In the Sicilian registers Lentulus and Mummius In the fragments of the capitoll Lentulus and L. Mummius nephew of Lucius Lu. Mummius in this magistracie acquired the surname of Achaicus upon a victorie atchieved by him in Achaea as Plutarch in Marius and Velleius doe testifie 609 Q.
the brothers sonne of C. Marius seven times Consull according to Appian but Velleius Paterculus Plutarch Eutropius and others say that hee was the sonne of that C. Marius and haply indeed hee was adopted by C. Marius Certes in the capitoll tables hee is called C. Marius sonne of C. and nephew of Caius Cicero speaketh of these Coss. against Rullus Plinie also in his seventh booke and they who have set downe in writing the civill warres of Sylla 673 M' Tullius Cn. Dolabella NExt to those Cassiodorus bringeth in for Consuls M' Tullâ—us and Cn. Dolabella The Sicilian records have Decula and Dolabella Appian also reporteth that Sylia Dictatour to the end that the state and common-weale might seeme to reteine some shew yet of her auncient dignitie permitted M' Tullius and Cornelius Dolabella to be created Consuls whiles himselfe after the manner of K. sate aloft in a throne above them Cicero in his oration against Rullus and Gellius in his 15 booke and 33 chap. maketh mention of M' Tullius and Cn. Cornelius Consuls In a capitoll fragment this M' Tullius sonne of M. nephew of A. is surnamed Decula 674 L. Sulla II. Q. Metellus CAssiodorus and the Sicilian registers set downe for Consuls Lu. Sylla the second time and Q. Metellus Appius saith moreover that Sylla Dictatour though hee was yet stood content and willing to be declared Consull with Q. Metellus Pius to the end that the common-weale might seeme to have some likenes yet of a free state Of these Consuls Cic. maketh mention in his Orations against Verres and elsewhere Gellius likewise in his 15 book 28 chapter togither with Cassiodorus This Merellas was surnamed Pius Hee it is who was by lot appointed to manage the warres in Spaine and against Sertorius and sonne hee was to Numidicus 675 P. Servilius App. Claudius THe next Consuls were P. Servilius and Ap. Claudius as witnesseth Cassiodorus In the Sicilian tables it appeareth that their surnames were Vatia and Pulcher of whome Appianus writeth thus The people of Rome in obsequious manner to court Sylla the Dictator requested of him that hee would continue Consull still another yeere But Sylla would none of that and tooke order that Servilius Isauricus and Claudius Pulcher should be declared Coss. In a fragment of the capitoll he is thus written Pub. Servilius Vatia called afterwards Isauricus which surname he tooke of the Isaurians a nation in Cilicia whome he subdued My authors are Paedianus upon the Orations of Cicero against Verres Strabo in his 14 booke Marcellinus likewise in his 14 booke with others 676 M. Lepidus Q. Catulus MAr Lepidus and Q. Catulus are by Cassiodorus named Consuls for this yeere Plutarch reporteth that when L. Sylla had given up his Dictatorship and restored againe to the people of Rome the free libertie to dispose of consular dignities in their solemne assemblies for elections M. Lepidus an enemie to Sylla and an audacious person was declared Consull before Catulus and had the preheminence above him by the earnest endeavour of Cn. Pompeius Of these Consuls Plinie maketh mention in his 36 booke wherein he saith that they governed in the yeere 676. Likewise Cic. in his Oration for Cornelius Florus out of Livie Valerius 2 booke 3 chap. and Eutropius 677 M. Aemilius D. Brutus THis yeer had for Consuls by the testimonie of Cassiodorus and Obsequens M. Aemilius and D. Brutus Macer a Tribune of the commons speaketh of them in Salust complaining that the commons were by the nobles oppressed In like sort Cicero in Brutus and in his second booke of Duties as also Valerius in the 7 booke and 7 chap. This M. Aemilius was surnamed Lepidus and Livianus for out of the familie of Livies he was adopted by Mamercus Lepidus and therefore right well hee is called sonne of Mamercus 678 Cn. Octavius C. Curio VErrius Flaccus setteth downe for Consuls Cn. Octavius sonne of M. nephew of C. and C. Scribonius Curio The same doth Cicero report in Brutus So doe Salust Obsequens Lactantius in his first booke and Plinie in his second book and 35 chapter Cic. in his Brutus and Plinie in his 7 booke and 41 chapter make report of three Caij Curions all Orators to wit the father the sonne and the sonnes sonne or nephew 679 L. Octavius C. Cotta CAssiodorus putteth down for Consuls this yeer L. Octavius and C. Cotta Obsequens C. Aurelius and L. Octavius Plinie in his second book and 35 chapter Cicero likewise in his third and fifth Orations against Verres maketh mention of L. Octavius and C. Aurelius Consuls Vpon the broken marbles of the capitoll they stand to be seene L. Octavius sonne of Cn. nephew of Cn. and C. Aurelius This yeer the Sicilian registers over-skip Paedianus writeth that there were at this time three Cottaes breethren and all of consular degree namely Caius Marcus and Lucius 680 L. Licinius Lucullus M. Cotta FOr this yeeres Consuls Cassiodorus registreth L. Lucullus and M. Cotta The Sicilian records Lucullus and Cotta Eutropius Appianus in Mithridatica and Plutarch in Lucullus nameth them L. Licinius Lucullus and M' Aurelius Cotta Mention there is made of them by Cicero against Verres and by Florus in the 93 and 94 Epitomes This L. Lâ—cullus had for his grandfather that Lucullus who was Consull with A. Albinus as Cicero and Plutarch doe testifie 681 M. Lucullus C. Cassius THis yeere by the testimonie of Cassiodorus had for Consuls Marcus Lucullus and C. Cassius but the Sicilian records nominate Marcellus and Cassius whom Cicero in an oration against Verres nameth M. Terentius and C. Cassius saying that the lawes Terentia and Cassia were by them promulged For so farre forth as we may conjecture by the capitol fragments M. Licinius Lucullus was adopted by M. Terentius Varro and therefore called M. Terentius Varro Lucullus Cicero in Lucullus and Plutarch call Lucius Lucullus and M. Lucullus brethren whom Eutropius nameth cousin germanes by two sisters That the surname of Cassius was Varus appeareth both by a conduit pipe or waterspout of lead found in Rome and also for that Appian in his fourth booke writeth that C. Cassius Varus a man who had beene Consull was condemned and outlawed by the Triumvirs 682 L. Gellius Cn. Lentulus THe Consuls next following by the report of Cassiodorus were L. Gellius Cn. Lentulus In like sort Cicero maketh mention of them in his oration for Balbus and else where Plutarch also in Crassus with Eutropius and Orosius Cuspinians booke sheweth Poplicola and Lentulus Now the surname of Lucius Gellius was Poplicola as witnesseth Onuphrius 683 Cn. Aufidius P. Lentulus CAssiodorus setteth downe for Consuls this yeere Cn. Aufidius and P. Lentulus The Sicilian registers have Lentulus and Orestes Eutropius Cornelius Lentulus and Cn. Ausidius Orestes This Cn. Ausidius Orestes when hee went beside a tribuneship of the commons was chosen Consull as Cicero writeth in his oration for Plancius This is that P. Lentulus surnamed Sura who afterwards beeing a man of Consular calling and who had
in an oration and afterwards when Caesar a second time would have had Dolabella to be declared Consul and still Antonie crossed and withstood it Caesar gave over his enterprise But after Caesar was murdered Antonie as Dio writeth fearing some insurrection and commotion if he should have rejected Dolabella tooke him into the fellowship of government Appian saith that immediately after Caesar was killed Dolabella entred into the magistracie So saieth Velleius also And this verily was the yere in which the conspiracie was contrived against Caesar whereof the chieftaines were M. Decimus both Bruti C. Trebonius and C. Cassius and upon the fifteenth day of March when hee sat in counsell together with the Senate in the court of Pompeie he was stabbed and received in his bodie three twentie wounds which done the murderers who had wrought the feat seized the capitoll And C. Octavius his nephew or sisters sonne whome Caesar had made in his will his halfe-heire and adopted to beare his owne name came out of Epitus whither Caesar had sent him before minding to make warre upon the Parthians and after all luckie and happie proceedings took upon him the name of Caesar according to his last will and testament 711 C. Pansa A. Hirtius DIo Cassiodorus and the rest nominate Consuls for this yeere C. Vibius Pansa Capronianus and A. Hirtius sonne of Aulus Cuspinians booke sheweth Cretonianus and Hirtius Whereby it may be understood that Cretonianus was the surname of Pansa but peradventure written for Capronianus In the Colotian table they are named C. Vibâ—us sonne of Caius and Au. Hirtius sonne of Hirtius This Hirtius was one of their sonnes who were outlawed by Sulla and whome Caesar as Dio reporteth advaunced to honourable dignities Both these and the Consuls of the yeere following were by Caesar elected destined thereto before hee was slaine Dio Appian and others report that of these two Consuls Hirtius in the time of the civile warre in a battell before Modenna against Antonius was slain and Pansa some daies after upon a hurt received in the same fight died at Bononia In the rowme of Pansa C. Octavius was sub-elected Consull the nineteenth of August in the same yeere and hee in steed of Hirtius tooke unto him for his colleague Q. Pedius 712 M. Lepidus L. Plancus CAssiodorus and the Sicilian records put downe for Consuls M. Lepidus L. Plantus Dio M. Aemylius Lepidus the second time and Lu. Munatius sonne of Lucius surnamed Plancus Of these Consuls Suetonius speaketh in Tiberius saying That Tiberius was borne after the battell of Philippi when Mar. Aemylius Lepidus was the second time Consull with Munatius Plancus Now had there been before appointed Consuls against this yeere by Caesar D. Brutus and Lu. Plancus But by reason that Brutus the yeere before was by the law Pedia condemned and after killed and so the three Triumvirs usurped the rule of the common-weale agreed it was that M. Lepidus one of the Triumvirs who beforetime also had been Consull with Caesar in his third Consulship should together with Plancus who also taking part and siding with Antonie had revolted from the Commonweale administer the Consulate Moreover this Brutus was by Plutarch Appian Dio and Zonaras called also Albinus I suppose for that out of the race of the Bruti he was adopted and incorporat into the house of the Albini In this yeere during the civile war Brutus and Cassius were slaine in battell before Philippi as Dio Plutarch Appian and others write 713 P. Servilius II. L. Antonius THe Colotian tables Dio and Cassiodorus match Consuls together for this yeer Lu. Antonius son of Marcus surnamed Pietas and P. Servilius son of Publius Isauricus the second time Of these Consuls Suetonius writeth in Tiberius This P. Servilius was first Consul with Caesar in his second Consulat whose father Isauricus died a little before as Dio and Eusebius report As for L. Antonius named hee is by Dio Pietas for that being Consull he together with Fulvia the wife of his brother Marcus managed the affaires of state with that mind as if his whole care had ben for his brother the Triumvir in regard of which brotherly and affectionat kindnesse he chalenged the surname of Pietas 714 Cn. Domitius C. Asinius A Colotian table Dio and Cassiodorus join in the Consulate of this yeere Cneus Domitius sonne of Marcus Calvinus the second time and C. Asinius sonne of Cneus Pollio Of these Iosephus speaketh in his foureteenth book of the Iewes antiquities and three and twentie chapter Toward the end of this yeere Dio writeth that these Consuls gave up their place and that other Consuls were substituted for those few daies that were to come and one of them was L. Cornelius Balbus Gaditanius And therfore in the Colotian table these subordained Consuls stand under these names L. Cornelius son of Lucius and P. Canidius sonne of Lucius Of Pub. Cornelius Balbus Consull Plinie writeth in his seventh booke and three and fortieth chapter and Velleius in his second booke 715 L. Censorinus L. Calvisius CAssiodorus inferreth for the next Consuls Lucius Censorinus and Caius Calvisius The Sicilian records have Censorinus and Sabinus Dio L. Martius and C. Sabinus C. Calvisius son of Caius is named by Dio in the catalogue or table Sabinus although it bee red there commonly but amisse Asinius 716 Ap. Claudius C. Norbanus COnsuls that follow were App. Claudius and C. Norbanus as Cassiodorus saith But as the Sicilian registers purport Censorinus and Sabinus as Dio writeth Claudius sonne of Caius Pulcher and C. Norbanus son of Caius Flaccus As touching Taedius Aser the Consull elect and substituted in the rowme of another who before hee entred into government being terrified with the minatorie threats of C. Caesar threw himselfe down headlong and so brake his necke see Tâ—â—nquillus in Augustus 717 M. Agrippa L. Canimus CAssiodorus putteth downe for Consuls M. Agrippa and Lu. Caninius The Sicilian registers Agrippa and Gallus Dio M. Vipsâ—nius sonne of Lucius Agrippa and L. Caninius sonne of Lucius Gallus Iosephus in his fifteenth boke of Antiquities avoucheth Consuls Mar. Agrippâ— and C. Canidius Gallus Nepos also in the lite of Atricus calleth Vipsanius Agrippa In the capitoll marbles and in other old monuments of Rome his gentile name is passed over and namely in the forefront of the temple called Pantheon where is engraven M. Agrippa sonne of Lucius Consull the third time Tacitus also in his first booke mentioneth this Agrippa 718 L. Gellius M. Cocceius CAssiodorus nameth for Consuls this yeere L. Gellius and M. Cocceius The Sicilian records shew Publicola and Nerva Dio hath Lu. Gellius sonne of Lucius Poplicola and M. Cocceius Nerva Out of the capitoll fragments it appeareth that L. Gallius was sonne of Lucius and nephew of Lucius By the report of Dio this Lu. Gellius was brother to M. Valerius Messala For it is the same man who was pardoned before by Mar. Brutus whereby it may bee
it were supposed to have been certaine secret mysteries of Numa And yet there be that thinke verily the ashes of the French Senones were there bestowed CHAP. XIX The Comitium the temple of Venus Genitrix The statues and images that were in the Comitium and Romane Forum Caesars statue and pillar VVHere the Comitium was from what place it began in what part of the citie it ended we have shewed before in the 15 chapter of this book Called it was Comitiū as Plutarch saith for that Romulus and Tatius were woont to meet togither in this place to make covenants between them In which place afterwards the Senate and people of Rome assembled when they would decree any thing for the good of the C.VV. and namely when Consuls Tribunes Consular and such magistrates were created and other affaires concluded where of authors make mention in all their writings That place was neere the Senaculuin at the very foot of the mount Palatine This Comitium was open above-head for many yeeres whereupon oftentimes albeit assemblies were summoned yet they were empeached holding for them fearing some tempestuous weather toward Long time after when Anniball came into Italie they set a rouse over it and afterwards Caesar repaired it againe In this Comitium the plaies were many times exhibited In the same as Livie-reporteth the bookes of Sibylla were burnt In like manner many leaud and outrageous acts were committed in the assemblies there whereof elsewhere we will speake In the Comitium stood the statue of Cocles which being afterwards strucken with fire from heaven was translated into the court-yard of Vulcan In the cantons angles of the Comitium were the statues likewise of Pythagoras and Alcibiades Also in the ascent and stairs therof on the left hand of the Curia stood the image of 〈◊〉 togither with his wherstone and rasour The image resembling the Mother goddesse was set up in the Forum They that worshipped this goddesse were of this opinion that the stone whereof shee was made could not possibly be consumed with fire which they guessed hereby for that albeit many fires were made in the night especially at her image yet it took no hurt therby and therfore gave they out that there was such vertue herein as I have said And from hence it came that in all streets almost they began to worship her and to crect altars and little chappels unto her The temple of Venus Genetrix as is shewed before was in the Forum Iust before this temple stood the statue of Caesar carrying a blazing star upon the head In like manner a Columne of Caesar made of Numidian marble 20 foot high there remained Before the temple of Castor there was the statue of Q. Martius in horsmans habit of Tremellius clad in a side gowne of M. Atticus covered with a vaile CHAP. XX. The columne called Mania the pillar Horatia the houses of Caesar Constantine and Domitian The temple and court-yard of the said Caesar. IN that part of the Forum was the columne Moenia where stood the pallace of Portius Called Moenia it was of Moenius the Censor for hee when as he sold unto Cato his house and when Flaccus the other Censor gave order that the palace aforesaid should there be built reserved in the sale so much space for himselfe as a pillar or columne would take up upon the which he might put out a loft to juttie forth made of joists and bourds upon them from which place both he and his posteritie might behold the sport of sword-fencers And this priviledge hee obtained whereupon others also as many as might bee allowed were as industrious and built them columnes in the Forum There stood a rock of stone also in the Forum whereupon the spoiles of the three twinnes Curiatij were hanged In like manner the pillar called Horatia The houses of Caesar Constantine and Domitian beautified the Forum Likewise the court and cloister of Minerva and the shops of Bankers as well old as new The dead corps of Caesar was brought out of the Curia into the Forum and enterred in that place where afterwards they built unto him an altar and temple Likewise in the Forum the manner of the Romanes was to lay downe their magistracie CHAP. XXI Caesars Forum the palace of Paulus and his Librarie BEsides the temple of Saturne or the common treasurie wherof we have written before in the 16 chapter of this booke in the Romane Forum toward the Northeast was Caesars Forum even in that very place which seemeth lower than the rest behind the temple of Faustina There was the temple of Venus Genitrix about which Caesar made a cloister and a Forum not of wares and marchandise to be sold but for them that repaired thither for justice in law matters In this Forum among other statues whereof there were many and those most faire and beautifull he suffered his owne to be made all armed The Forum it selfe contained but a small compasse but it was most excellently set out The very level of the plot stood him in an hundred millions of Asses and above Caesar purchased with 1500 talents Paulus Aemilius the colleague of C. Marcellus in his Conshulship to be his friend and to stand with him Paulus having received this summe of mony built in the mids of the Forum neere to the temple of Castor and Pollux a most excellent and wonderfull pallace of Phrygian columnes which afterwards they named Basilici Pauli A Librarie also the same Paulus erected neere unto his owne Basilici CHAP. XXII The Forum of Augustus the galleries of Antonius Faustina and Livia Caesars house THe Romane Forum those also of Iulius Caesar and Augustus were as it is well knowne neere one to another That of Augustus they affirme to have been at the image of Marforius in the most frequented place of the citie it was but little in compasse as the other of Caesars but excellently well adorned with brave statues and other things For it had the statues of Castor and Pollux with the victorie of Alexander the Great the image also of Corvinus and of the raven that upon his helmet fought Also Apollo in yvorie and besides these other ensignes and ornaments of vertue and valour In this Hall or Forum publicke justice was administred and the judges from thence were empanelled herein they debated in councell of wars of triumphes and other weightie affaires From hence they used to goe when they tooke journey into their provinces with soveraigne commaund Hither they that returned victors brought the ensigns and tokens of their victorie This Forum being by time decaied Hadrian reedified This Forum had two porches wherein were the statues set out and decked in triumphant maner Augustus dwelt in the street Sacra in a house not so large and stately but marveilously furnished by his neece Livia And Augustus not able to abide this wastfull superfluitie of riches pulled it downe and laid it even with the ground in the void plot and court-yard whereof was