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A62424	The annals and history of Cornelius Tacitus his account of the antient Germans, and the life of Agricola / made English by several hands ; with the political reflecions and historical notes of Monsieur Amelot De La Houffay and the learned Sir Henry Savile.; Works. 1698	Tacitus, Cornelius.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Bromley, William, 1664-1732.; Potenger, John, 1647-1733.	1698 (1698)	Wing T101; ESTC R17150	606,117	529

the World according to his own Method both as to the Chapters and Paragraphs in his larger Vol. with his Premonition to Princes The Life of Cardinal Richlie● In Two Vol. A new Voyage into Italy In Two Vol. By Maximilian Misson Adorn'd with Sculptures now Reprinting with large Additions A new Voyage into the Levant by the Sieur du Mont with Sculptures The Life of Monsieur Colbert The Compleat English Physitian or The Druggist's Shop opened Explicating all the Particulars of which Medicines are made with their Names Natures Preparations Vertues Uses and Doses and above 600 Chymical Processes By W. Salmon The Compleat Guide for Iustices of the Peace In two Parts The First Containing the Common and Statute-laws relating to that Office The Second Consisting of the most Authentick and useful Presidents By Iohn Bond of Gray's-Inn Esq The Second Edition enlarg'd and continu'd down to this time with a Table referring to all the Statutes relating to a Iustice of the Peace By E. Bohun Esq A View of all the Religions in the World from the Creation till these times To which is added The Lives Actions and Ends of Notorious Hereticks with their Effigies in Copper-plates The Sixth Edition By Alexander Ross. Emblems by Fr. Quarles The Elements of Euclid Explain'd in a New but most Easie Method with the Use of every Proposition through all Parts of the Mathematicks By Fr. de Chales Now made English and a Multitude of Errors Corrected The History of Scotland containing the Lives of Iames the I II III IV V with Memorials of State in the Reigns of Iames the VI. and Charles the I. By W. Drummond The Faithful Register or The Debates in four several Parliaments viz. That at Westminster Octob. 21. 1680 that at Oxford March 21. 1680 and the two last Sessions of King Iames. THE TRANSLATORS Vol. I. Book I. of the Annals Book II. Book III. VOL. II. Book IV. V. VI. Book XI Book XII XIII XIV Book XV. XVI VOL. III. The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba Book I. of the History Book II. Book III. Book IV. Book V. Notes on the 5th Book and Chronological Table The Life of Agricola An Account of the Ancient Germans By Pag. Mr. Dryden 1 Mr. William Higden A. M. 161 William Bromley Esq 289 Dr. Fearn 1 William Hart Esq 223 Sir F. M. 249 Mr. G. C. 377 Sir Henry Savil● I Sir H. S. 27 Dr. ... 97 Sir Roger L'Estrange 201 Mr. I. S. 297 Mr. Dennis 353 Mr. William Higden A. M. 37● Iohn Potenger Esq Mr. R. THE ANNALS OF Cornelius Tacitus Book I. Vol. I. By Mr. DRYDEN ROME was govern'd at the first by a viz. Romulus its Founder who according to Tacitus rul'●● with Absolute Power Romulus ut libitum imperitaverat Ann. 3. Numa who Establish'd a Form of Divine Worship with High-Priests South-Sayers and Priests to perform the Ceremonies of the Sacrifices Numa religio●ibus divin● jure populum d●vinxit Ibid. Tullus Hostilius who taught the Romans the Art of making War and for this purpose Instituted Military Discipline Ancus Martius who adorn'd the City and Peopled it with the Sabines and the Latins whom he had Conquer'd and Built the City of 〈◊〉 to be a Port for the Romans Tarquin I. who built the Cirque and distinguished the Senators and the Knig●ts by exterior marks of Honour such as the Ivory Chair call'd in Latin Cella Curulis the Gold Ring the Purple Robe call'd Trabea the Pretexta or the Robe edg'd with Scarlet Servius Tullius who according to Tacitus was the Chief Law-giver of the Romans Praecipuus Servius Tullius sanctor legum fuit Ann. 3. took into the City the Quirinal the Esquiline and the Viminal Hills and caus'd his Laws to be engraven on Tables of Stone and Tarquin Sirnam'd the Proud who having ascended the Throne by Incest and by the Murder of Servius Tullius whose two Daughters he had Married and endeavouring to maintain himself in it by Violence and Terror was with his whole Family expell'd Rome Kings b Tacitus always opposes Liberty to Regal Power Res dissociabiles principatum libertatem In Agricola Haud facile libertas domini miscentur Hist. 4 a Master and Liberty are incompatible Tarquinius Pris●us says he Lib. 3. of his Hist. had laid the Foundation of the Capitol and afterwards Servius Tullius and Tarquin the Proud built it one with the Gi●●s of the Allies and the other with the Spoils of the Enemies but the Glory of finishing this great Work was reserved for Liberty As for Iu●●us Brutus he was not only Author of the Consulship but also the first who Exercis'd it and with so great Zeal for his Country that not being content with having banished Collatine his Collegue only because he was of the Royal Family of the Tarquins he caus'd his own Sons to be beheaded who endeavoured to restore them to the Throne The two Magistrates on whom was transferr'd the Authority which the Kings had were call'd Consuls to signifie that they ought to assist the new Common-Wealth with their Counsels and not to Govern it according to their humour as the Kings had done Liberty 1 When once the Regal Power begins to degenerate into Tyranny the People aspire to Liberty and when once a Brutus appears that is a Head who is capable to give it they seldom fail to shake off the Yoke not only of the King who Tyrannizes but also of the Regal Power for fear there come another King who might Tyrannize also Occultior non Melior and the Consulship were introduc'd by Lucius Brutus the c The Dictator was a Sovereign Magistrate but whose Power lasted no longer than the Danger lasted which threatned the Common-Wealth so that he was no more than the Trustee of the Sovereign Authority The first whom the Romans created was in the War against the Latins who had given the Tarquins Protection his Name was Titus Lartius or L●rgius He was call'd Dictator ab edicendo or ab edictando i. e. because he had authority to make Ed●●ts or because he was not chosen by the Suffrages of the People nor by the Scrutiny of the Senate as other Magistrates were but only Dictus named by the Consul and afterwards proclaimed by the People He was therefore named by the Consul saith Machiavel 〈◊〉 34. Lib. ● of his Discourses because as the Creation of a Dictator was a sort of a Dishonour to the Consul who from being chief Governor of the City became thereby subject as the rest to a Superior Power the ●●●ans would have him chosen by the Consuls themselves to the end that 〈…〉 as the City should stand in need of one they might be the more 〈◊〉 to chuse him and to have the less reluctance to obey him the Wounds which we voluntarily give our selves being far less sensible than those which others give us He had power to depose the Consuls witness Cincinnatus who deposed the Consul Minutius he suspended the Functions

why he had omitted to punish his Wife according to Law u The Law Iulia. seeing she was notoriously criminal and he pretending that the Sixty days allowed by the Law to consult were not yet expired they thought it sufficient to proceed against Vistilia and banish'd her into the Island Seriphos x One of the Ciclades The Senate took into consideration the Extirpation of the Egyptian and Iewish Religion out of Rome and a Decree pass'd that 4000 Persons infected with that Superstition who were of the Race of Freedmen and of an Age fit for Service should be sent into the Island of Sardinia to suppress the Robberies there as being People whose loss would be inconsiderable if they should perish by the Unwholsomeness of the Air and that the rest should leave Italy if they did not by such a Day renounce their Prophane Rites 2 New or Foreign Sects and Ceremonies do by degrees ruine the Religion of the Country and consequently it nearly concerns Princes not to Tolerate them in their Dominions They who introduce a New Worship said Mecaenas to Augustus open a Gap to New Laws whence at last arise Cabals Factions and Conspiracies Dio. Lib. 52. LXXXVII After which Tiberius propos'd the Election of a Virgin to succeed Occia who for the space of fifty seven Years had presided over the Vestals with great Integrity He thank'd Fonteius Agrippa and Domitius Pollio because that by offering their Daughters they ●ied with one another in their Zeal for the Common-Wealth Pollio's Daughter was preferr'd for no other reason but because her Mother had always lived with her first Husband whereas Agrippa had lessen'd the Reputation of his Family by a Divorce 1 If a Heathen Prince so strictly examined not only the Personal Qualifications of those who possessed Offices of Religion but also the Conduct and Morals of their Parents with much more reason ought Christian Princes carefully to inform themselves of the Birth of those who sue to them for Bishopricks and Abbeys I say of the Birth for it is a shame to see Bastards and adulterous Slips install'd in Ecclesiastical Dignities Cardinal Charles Borr●meo saith Ammirato had great reason to be astonish'd that Christians left Pagans the glory of Excelling them in Moral Virtues Lib. 11. Disc. 2. However Tiberius to comfort her that lost it gave her five thousand Pounds for her Dowry LXXXVIII The People complaining of the Dearth of Corn he set a Price for the Buyer to pay and promis'd that he would add two Nummi y A Roman Nummus is about Seven Pence half-penny of our Money a Bushel 1 In a Famine a Prince may buy the People's Liberty at a Cheap rate for in such a time the People are best disposed to sell it People accustom themselves to Slavery but never to Hunger The Israelites being in the Wilderness murmur'd against Moses for having brought them out of Aegypt where they had Bread and Meat in abundance to make them die of Hunger in the Wilderness It had been better for us said they to have served the Aegyptians than to die in the Wilderness Exod. 14. Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the Land of Aegypt when we sat by the flesh-pots and when we did eat bread to the full Exod. 16. to the Seller And yet for all this he would not assume the Title of the Father of the Country which was now again offer'd him 2 The Name of Father of the Country is a Title which a Prince who either is so or desires to be so ought never to refuse To accep● the Title is to impose an Obligation upon himself to deserve it Therefore Tiberius would not promise that which he knew he never intended to be So that his refusa● was rather the Effect of his Evil Disposition than of his Modesty The younger Pliny saith that Trajan who was a very Modest Prince wept for Ioy every time that he heard himself call'd Optimus and he gave a sharp Reprimand to those who stil'd him Lord and his Employments Divine 3 Princes are Mortal and although they are God's Vicegerent● here on Earth yet the Functions they Execute are Humane So that there was but little left to be said and that scarce with safety under a Prince who hated Flattery and feared Liberty LXXXIX I find in the ancient Writers of those times That Letters from Adgandestrius a Prince of the Chatti were read in the Senate wherein he engaged to put Arminius to death if they would send him Poison for that purpose 1 Princes who make use of Poison against other Princes teach them to Employ it against themselves The safety of Princes consists in a mutual Good Faith betwixt one another Charles V. answer'd Barbarossa's Baker who offer'd to Poison his Master and thereby to make him enter T●nis without any difficulty That he would not honour a Moor so far as to use so much ceremony with him After which he sent notice to Barbarossa to fortifie himself against Poyson but without naming the Baker to him Epitome of Don Antonio de Vera. who was answer'd That the Romans did revenge themselves on their Enemies not Clandestinely and by Treachery but Openly and in Arms whereby Tiberius equall'd himself to the Glory of the old Roman Generals who prevented the Design of Poysoning King Pyrrus and discover'd it to him At last after the Romans were retir'd and Maroboduus was expell'd Arminius aspiring to Monarchy made his own Countrymen his Enemies who taking up Arms against him in defence of their Liberties 2 There was never any one saith Tacitus design'd to Rule who did not make use of the pretence of Liberty Hist. 4. after variety of Fortune he fell at last by the Treachery of his own Kindred He was the undoubted Deliverer of Germany and which adds to his glory he did not attack the Romans in their Infancy as other Kings and Captains had done but in the most flourishing State of their Empire His Fortune was various in the Battels which he fought but he was not conquer'd in the War He lived 37 years and commanded 12 and his Memory is still famous amongst those barbarous Nations who celebrate his great actions in their Songs z Tacitus saith That the ancient Germans had no other Annals but their Verses and their Songs In hi● Germany although he is not known in the Annals of the Greeks who admire nothing but what is done amongst themselves nor so renown'd as he deserves amongst us who whilst we extoll things done long since are apt to neglect late Examples 3 The Mind of Man is so humoursome that by much admiring past times it comes to have a Disgust and Iealousie of the Present The Past instructs us but the Present shocks us because it seems to Eclipse our Glory Pater● THE ANNALS OF Cornelius Tacitus From the Death of AUGUSTUS Book III. Vol. I. By WILLIAM BROMLEY Esq I. AGRIPPINA