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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33324	The life and death of Pompey the Great with all his glorious victories and triumphs : as also the Life and death of Artaxerxes Mnemon, one of the great Persian emperours / by Sa. Clarke, sometime pastor in St. Bennet Finck London.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4531; ESTC R43101	46,759	67

to resist him he bethought himself to what place he might retire for his better safety and resolved that there was never a Province of the Romans that was able to secure him and for other strange Nations he thought none safer for him to retire into than Parthia which was able to aid and help him Some advised him to go into Africk unto King Juba But Theophanes the Lesbian said that it was great ●olly to decline Egypt that was but three days sail from thence and where Ptolemey was who was lately come to mans estate and was infinitely bound to Pompey for the late favours which he shewed to his Father and not put himself into the hands of the Parthians the most unfaithfull Nation in the world He thought it also an ill part for him to carry his young Wife of the Noble Family of Scipio amongst such barbarous People who care not how basely they abuse any strangers This Speech altered Pompey's mind and made him resolve to flie into Egypt and so with his wife Cornelia he departed from Cyprus in a Galley of Seleucia The rest of his Train imbarked also some in Galleys others in Merchants Ships and so passed the Sea without danger When Pompey heard that King Ptol●my was in the City of Pelusium with his Army warring against his Sister he steared that way and sent a messenger before to the King to certifie him of his arrivall and to entreat him to give him entertainment King Ptolomey was at this time but a young man and under him the whole Realm was governed by one Photinus He therefore assembled a Councell of the chiefest and wisest of his Court and when they were met Photinus in the Kings name commanded every man to declare his Judgment about the reception of Pompey whether they should intertain him or not and truly it was a sad thing that Photinus an Eunuch and Theodotus of Chio who was the Kings Schoolmaster for Rhetorick and Achillas an Egyptian should consult amongst themselves what they should do with Pompey the Great All this while Pompey rode at Anchour near to the shore expecting the resolution of this Councell amongst whom their opinions were various some were for others against his reception But Theodotus the Rhetorician to shew his eloquence perswaded them that neither the one nor the other was to be done For said he if we receive him we shall make Cesar our 〈◊〉 and Pompey our Lord If we receive him no● Pompey will blame us and Cesar also for not keeping him Our safest way therefore is to kill him for thereby we shall win the good will of the one and not fear the displeasure of the other Adding that Mortui non mordent A dead man bites not This they all resolved upon and accordingly gave Achillas Commission to do it This being concluded Achillas took with him Septimius who had sometimes served under Pompey and Salvius a Centurion and two or three other Souldiers and so made towards Pompey's Galley about whom there were at this time the chiefest of his Traine to see what would be the issue of this matter But when they saw what intertainment he was like to have and that they came not in that Princely manner answerable to the hopes that Theophanes had put them in seeing so few men comming towards him in a Fisher-boat they began to mistrust the sequell and advised Pompey to turne back and to launch again into the sea whilst he was yet out of the reach of their Darts In the meane time the Fisher boat drew near and Sep●inius rose up and saluted Pompey in the Roman Tongue by the name of Imperator or Emperour Achillas also spake to him in Greek wishing him to come into his Boat the shore being full of mudde and sand banks so that his Galley could no carry him to the shore At this time they saw afarre off diverse of the Kings Gallies which were arming with all speed possible and all the shore was full of Souldiers so that though Pompey and his Friends would have altered their minds yet they could not tell how to escape and if they had discovered their mistrust of them they had given the mutherers a cloak for their cruelty Pompey therefore taking his leave of his Wife Cornelia who lamented his Death before his end he commanded two of his Centurions to go down before him into the Boat and took with him onely Philip one of his Slaves enfranchised with another Slave called Scynes When Achilles reaching out his hand to receive Pompey into his boat he turned him to his Wife and Son and repeated these verses of Sophcoles The man that into Court comes free Must there in state of bondage bee These were the last words which he spake to them The Land being far off when he saw never a man in the boat speak friendly to him he said unto Septimius Me thinks my Friend I should know thee for thou hast served under me heretofore the other nodded with his head but gave him no answer Pompey observing these things took a little Book into his hand wherein he had written an Oration that he ment to make to King Ptolomy and began to read it As they approached to the shore Cornelia with her Friends about her stood up in great fear to see what would become of Pompey and she hoped well when she saw many of the Kings People on the shore comming towards Pompey as it were to receive and honour him at his landing But even as Pompey took Philip by the hand to rise more easily Septimius came behind him and thrust him through with his Sword Salvius and Achillas also made at him with their Swords Pompey did no more but took up his gown with which he covered his face and took the wounds in a manly manner only sighing a little Thus ended he his Life the very next day after his Birth being fifty nine years old They which rode at Anchor in their Ships when they saw him thus murthered gave such a fearfull cry that it was heard to the shore And weighing their Anchors with speed they hoised Sail and departed having a lusty gale of Wind to help them The Aegyptians had thought to pursue them but when they saw they were past their reach they let them go Then striking off Pompeys Head they threw his Body overboard where it was a miserable spectacle to all that desired to behold it Philip his infranchesed Bondman stirred not from it till the Aegyptians had glutted themselves with looking upon it Then having washed it with Salt water and wrapped it up in an old shirt of his own he sought about the sands and at last found a piece of an old Fisher-boat scarse enough to burne all the Body and as he was gathering the pieces of this Boat together there came to him an old Roman who in his youth had served under Pompey saying O Friend what art thou that preparest the Funerals of