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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55202	The third volume of Plutarch's lives. Translated from the Greek, by several hands; Lives. English. Vol. III.	Plutarch.; Burghers, M., engraver.	1693 (1693)	Wing P2638BA; ESTC R219473	279,037	652

overjoyed with the Success he called him to him and said Was it not politickly done of you Young man to pass by Catulus the best of Men and chuse Lepidus the worst Take heed and look to thy self or the Adversary thou hast raised will be too hard for thee Sylla spoke this it may seem by Divine Instinct for not long after Lepidus grew insolent and broke into open defiance with Pompey Sylla consecrating the Tenth of his whole Substance unto Hercules entertain'd the People with sumptuous Feastings The Provision was so much above what was necessary as that they were forced daily to throw great quantities of it into the River and drank Wine forty years old and upward In the midst of the Jollity which lasted many days Metella died of a Disease Now because that the Priest forbad him to visit the Sick or suffer his House to be polluted with Mourning he sent her a Bill of Divorce and caused her to be removed into another House whilst alive in this he observed the Law to a Tittle out of Religious Superstition but as for the Retrenching Act which himself made himself break it sparing for no Funeral Cost He trangressed likewise for his own Sumptuary Laws thinking to allay his Grief by excessive Drinking and Revelling Some few Months after at a Prize of Gladiators when Men and Women sat promiscuously in the Theatre no distinct Places being as yet appointed there sat by Sylla a beautiful Lady of high Birth by name Valeria Daughter of Messala and Sister to Hortensius the Orator Now it hapned that she had been lately divorced from her Husband The same came gently behind Sylla and putting out her Hand plucked a lock of his Garment and then passed on to her Seat again Sylla looking on and wondring what it should mean No harm Mighty Sir said she for that I also was desirous to partake a little of your Felicity It appeared straight that Sylla was well pleased and even tickled with the Fancy for the sent to enquire her Name her Quality and Behaviour of Life From this time there passed between them many an amorous Glance both of them at once oftentimes turning one on another and interchanging Smiles In the end Overtures were made and a Match concluded on All which was innocent perhaps on the Ladies sides but though the Lady was never so modest and Vertuous it was no such modest and seemly beginning of Love in Sylla to take fire as became Youth rather at a Face and buxom Humour those common Incentives to the most disorderly and shameless Passions Notwithstanding this Marriage he kept company with Actors Actresses and Minstrels drinking with them night and day His chief Favourites were Roscius the Comedian Sorex the Arch-Mimick and Metrobius the Woman Actor for whom though past his Prime he ever retained a profest Kindness He fell by these Courses into a Disease which grew so leasurely upon him as of a long time he perceived not his Bowels to fester till at length the corrupted Flesh broke all out into Lice Many being employed Day and Night in destroying them the Work so multiplied under their hands as not only his Cloaths Baths Basons but his very Meat was polluted with that Flux and Contagion they came swarming out in such numbers Wherefore he went often by day into the Waters to scowr and cleanse his Body but all in vain the Course returned so quick and with such numerous Supplies as overcame all manner of Riddance There died of the Lowsie Disease amongst those of ancient note Acastus the Son of Pelias of later date Alcman the Poet Pherecides the Theologe Callisthenes the Olyntian in the time of his Imprisonment as also Mutius the Lawyer and if it be fit to bring in Men of infamous Memory Eunus the Fugitive who stirred up the Slaves of Sicily to rebel against their Masters after that he was brought Captive to Rome died of this creeping Sickness Sylla not only foresaw his End but also writ somewhat concerning it for in the two and twentieth Book of his Memoirs which he finished some two days before his death he writes That the Chaldeans foretold him That after he had led a Life of Honour he should conclude the last Act in fulness of Prosperity He declares moreover That in a Vision he had seen his Son who had departed not long before Metella to stand by in mournful Weeds and beseech his Father to cast off further care and come along with him to his Mother Metella there to live at ease and quietness with her However he could not refrain intermedling in Publick Affairs for ten days before his decease he composed the Differences of the Puteolaxians and prescribed Laws for their better Government and the very day before his End it being told him that Cranius a Man in Authority deferred the Payment of a Publick Debt in expectation of his Death he sent for the Man to his House and calling his Servants about him caused him to be strangled but through the straining of his Voice and Body the Imposthume breaking he cast forth a great quantity of Bloud Upon this his strength failing him after a troublesome Night he died leaving behind him two young Children by Metella Valeria was afterwards delivered of a Daughter named Posthuma for so the Romans call those who be born after the Fathers Death Many ran tumultuously together and join'd with Lepidus to deprive the Corps of the accustomed Solemnities but Pompey though offended at Sylla for he alone of all his Friends was left out of his Will having kept off some by his Interest and Intreaty others by Menaees gave it a secure and honourable Burial It 's said that the Roman Ladies threw on such vast heaps of Spices as beside what was brought in one hundred and ten Vessels sufficed to raise a large Statue for Sylla and another for his Lictor out of the precious Frankincense and Cinnamon The day being Cloudy over head they deferred carrying forth the Corps till about three in the Afternoon expecting it should rain but a strong Wind blowing full against the Funeral Pile and setting it all on a bright Flame his Body was consumed in a moment As the Pile shrunk down and the Fire was upon expiring the Clouds showr'd down and continued raining till Night so as his good Fortune was firm even to the last and did as it were officiate at his Funeral His Monument stands on Campus Martius with an Epitaph of his own Writing The Substance this That neither Friend nor Foe had out-done him either in good or bad turns The Comparison of Lysander with Sylla HAving in like manner run through this Life come we now to the Comparison That which was common to them both was that they were Founders of their own Greatness with this difference that Lysander had the Consent of the Citizens in Times of right understanding for the Honours he received nor forc'd he any thing against their good will or sought to