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A60230	The second Punick vvar betwwen Hannibal, and the Romanes the whole seventeen books, Englished from the Latine of Silius Italicus : with a continuation from the triumph of Scipio, to the death of Hannibal / by Tho. Ross ...; Punica. English	Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius.; Ross, Thomas, d. 1675.	1661 (1661)	Wing S3783; ESTC R5569	368,610	626

trembled Pannick Dread Through Africk by the routed Troops is spread And without Fighting as they Head-long fly To their extreamest Bounds they frighted hie Some to Tartessiack Coasts dispersed are Others to Battus Lands and Nile repair So when by secret Force o'recome at last Vesuvius to the Stars his Flames doth cast Through many Ages fed o're Sea and Land The Fire 's diffus'd th' Eöan Seres stand Amaz'd beholding a Prodigious Sight (u) Vesuvius the Famous Mountain near Naples hath had sever●● Eruptions of Fire to the great Terrour and Detriment of the Inhabitants of Campania and other Parts the Ashes flying almost incredibly as Dio affirms from thence into Africk and Asia as far as Syria and at one time covering two Towns Herculaneum and Pompeios with the Inhabitants as they were in the Theater See Ambrosius Leo De Agro Nolano and of its last Conflagration in our Memory see Salvat●r Varo Vesuviani Incendii Neap. 1634. Their silken Groves with Latian Ashes White But now at length the weary General To th' neighb'ring Hill Saturnia brought where all The Face and Signs o' th bloody Fight more near He saw Such as Garganus did appear Such as the Tyrrhen Lake and Trebia's Flood And swift Eridanus with Humane Blood O'reflowing he beheld Such a dire Face Was shown of Myriads slaughter'd on the Place Then troubled Iuno re-ascends the Skie And climbing up the Hill the Fo drew nigh When Hannibal thus with himself Though all The Fabrick of the Heav'ns dissolv'd should fall On this my Head and Earth should open wide Yet shall the Fame of Cannae Iove abide And sooner from thy Empire shalt Thou fall Then in the Deeds and Name of Hannibal The World be silent Nor from this my Hand Secure O Rome shalt thou for ever stand I against Thee my Country's Hope will live For a new War For that Thou now dost thrive In Fight is 'cause thy Foes sit still To Me More then enough it is that Italy And Dardan Mothers while I live will there Expect Me and ne're lay aside their Fear Then with a few that fled away he gets Back to the Hills and more secure Retreats Here the (x) After this overthrow all parts gave Way to Scipio and Carthage it self submitted to the Power of the Romanes who deprived them of all things but their own Laws after which they permitted them to live their Impious Rites of Sacrificing Humane Blood excepted For this I take to be the meaning of Improba jura adempta though Dausqueius otherwise since through the whole Carthaginian Story we do not finde them in Use after the Romanes were their Masters though they were Superstitious in them not long before as appears by our Poet'● Declamation against them in the Fourth Book War's Period was To Scipio Strait of their own Accord they open throw Their Gates Their Impious Rites abolish'd are Their Arms he takes away and Laws that were Engrav'd Their Strength in Riches and their Pride Is overthrown and Elephants aside Their Castles lay At length to Libya A dismal Sight their Fleet is fir'd the Sea Burns with the sudden Tempest and the Flame Nereus affrights The Gen'ral with a Name That equal shall with Time for ever stand With the first Title of that conquer'd Land Sure of that Empire goes by Sea to Rome And in great (y) Dausqueius needed not to have mentioned his slight Mutation of Arma into Arva for it is Obvious that the Carthaginians did not carry all their Arms into the Field but that a sufficient quantity was left to defend them had all other things been equal to resist the Romanes who after took from them all things that could contribute to a War See more in the Continuation Book the First Triumph to his Native Home Is born Before him Syphax Captivate Upon a Bier his Eyes dejected sate His Neck in golden Chains preserv'd And here Hanno and Young Phoenician Nobles were Then Macedonian Princes next to these The Moors with parched Skins then Nomades And Garamantians known to (z) Iupiter Hammon Horned Iove Where they the Sands survay and Syrts that prove Destructive still to Ships (a) Of this Triumph the most acceptable of all that Rome yet had seen as that which confirmed her in her Imperial Power see at large Appian in Libycis Next lifting to The Stars her conquer'd Hands did Carthage go Then the Effigies of th' Iberian Land Now Peaceable with Gades that doth stand The Period of the Earth and Calpè that Of old Alcides Praise did terminate With Baetis which the Horses of the Sun Is wont to bath in Streams that gently run And high Pyrenè that gives Birth to Wars And lifts her leavy Head unto the Stars With rude Iberus that with Fury flings Against the Sea the Rivers that he brings Yet nothing more delights their Mindes and Eyes Then Hannibal as in the Field he flies But standing in his Chariot to the View Of Rome his Martial Face doth Scipio shew In Gold and Tyrian Purple richly drest As when descending from the spicy East With Bridled Tygers Bacchus drove along His Vine-bound Chariot Or when among The slaughter'd Gyants in Phlegraean Wars Alcides walk'd and touch'd the very Stars Hail thou Un-conquerable Parent who In Praise art equal to Quirînus to Camillus in Deservings nor when She Among the rest commemorateth Thee The Offspring of the Gods doth Rome bely TARPEIAN JOVE'S IMMORTAL PROGENY FINIS A CONTINUATION OF SILIUS ITALICUS TO The DEATH of HANNIBAL In Three BOOKS By THOMAS ROSS Esq LONDON Printed by THO. ROYCROFT 1661. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM EARL of STRAFFORD c. My LORD MY Obligations to your LORDSHIP have long since called for such Acknowledgement as ought to appear under the Title of the Noblest Subject Had any within the Prospect of my Fancy been more Eminent then this of HANNIBAL I had made choice of it as Adequate to your Merits but none appearing I have selected what SILIUS left untouched to raise out of it this little Monument of my Gratitude having no other Means to express it I confess I at first intended to adventure on the THIRD PUNICK VVAR which though of less Continuance then this SECOND had in it as gallant Actions especially in that famous SIEGE of CARTHAGE as any HISTORY doth mention but Conscious of the VVeakness of what I have already built I feared that by raising too many Stories It might fall under its own Bulk and my self under the Censure of Ambition in aspiring to so great a VVork I have therefore rather chosen to desist and fix this little Piece under your LORDSHIP'S Name as a VOTIVE Table to testifie to the VVorld how much I am My LORD Your LORDSHIP' 's Most humble and Faithful Servant THOMAS ROSS Nunc Han̄ibal oscula Na●o● Libat● in Amplexu charae nunc Conjugis haere● At tandem Ingrat●e Fugiens Carthaginis Art●s Abripitur dubios et quos in Littore-Nautas Invenit eludit Samno Vinoque