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A00997	The Roman histories of Lucius Iulius Florus from the foundation of Rome, till Cæsar Augustus, for aboue DCC. yeares, & from thence to Traian near CC. yeares, divided by Flor[us] into IV. ages. Translated into English.; Epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri II. English	Florus, Lucius Annaeus.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.; Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?	1619 (1619)	STC 11103; ESTC S102361	97,168	532

with his owne hand in the face of the Court and the companies of his fellow-souldiers displaying about him their banners they layd siege in armes to that whole vsurped soueraignetie and from mount Auentine where their first campe was dragd it downe into the gaole and fetters CHAP. XXV The cities third discord THe dignitie of marriages kindled the third sedition in which the commons stood for freedome of ioyning in marriage with the nobles And this tumult brake forth in mount Ianiculum by the instinct of Canuleius Tribune of the people CHAP. XXVI The cities fourth discord THe desire of honour in the commoners who aspired to be also created magistrates mooued the fourth great stirre Fabius Ambustus had two daughters one of which hee bestowed in marriage vpon Sulpitius a gentleman of Patritian bloud the other vpon Stolo a Plebcian He because his wife was frighted at the sound of the serieants rod on his doore which was neuer heard there till then and for that respect was proudly enough scoffed-at by her other sister brooked not the indignitie Therefore hauing gotten to bee Tribune he wrested from the Senate whether they would or no the participation of honors and high offices Neuerthelesse in the very hottest of these distempers a man shall see cause to admire the generous spirit of this princely people For so much as one while they busied themselues in the rescue of freedome another while of chastitie then stood for dignitie of birth and for the ensignes ornaments of honour But of all these worthie things there was not any one ouer which they held so wakefull an eye as ouer libertie nor could they bee corrupted by any gifts or good turnes as a value for betraying it For when in a mightie people and growing mightier daily there were in the meane space many pernicious members of them they punished Spurius Cassius suspected of affecting souereigntie because hee had published the Agrarian law Maelius for that hee gaue lauishly both of them with present death Indeed his owne father tooke reuenge vpon Spurius but Seruilius Ahala master of the Roman horsemen or cauallerie by comandement of Quinctius the Dictator ranne his sword through Maelius in the middle of the Forum But Manlius the preseruer of the Capitol carrying himselfe because hee had freed most men of their debts ouer loftily and aboue the garbe of a fellow-citizen they pitcht him headlong from the top of the castell which himselfe had defended Such were the people of Rome at home and abroad in peace and in warre during this working current of their youth the secund age of their empire in which they conquered all Italie betweene the Alpes and Sea by force of armes The end of the first Booke of Lveivs FLORVS THE HISTORIE OF THE ROMANS The second Booke CHAP. I. WHEN Italie was now brought vnder made mannageable the people of Rome hauing continued almost fiue hundred yeeres was in good earnest growne a man and if there be any such thing as strength and lustie youth then certainely they were strong and young and began to be hard enough for all the world They therefore which is a wonder and incredible to be spoken who had kept a struggling at home for well-neere fiue hundred yeeres so difficult it was to set vp an Head ouer Italy in onely the two hundred yeeres which ensued marcht thorow Afrike Europe Asia and in briefe thorow the whole world with their victorious armies CHAP. II. The first Carthaginian or Punike warre THe people therefore conquerours of Italie after they had runne thorow all the length thereof to the sea it selfe like a fire which hauing consumed all the woods in it's way is broken off at the bank of some riuer passing betweene in like sort stop a while But when they saw within kenn a wondrous rich bootie lopt off as it were and torne away from their Italie they burnt with so extreme a desire of atchieuing it that whereas they could not come at it by bridges nor shut out the sea they were resolute to vnite it to their dominion by force of armes and so to make it againe a parcell of their continent But lo the destinies willing to open them a way there wanted not a wished occasion Messana a confederate citie of Sicilia complayning of the Carthaginians out-rages who aymed at the conquest of Sicilia as well as the Romans both of them at the same time and with equall affections and forces hauing in proiect the lordship of the world Therefore for assisting their associates that was the colour but in very deed spurred on with loue of the prey though the newnesse of the attempt troubled them yet valour is so full of confidence this rude this shepheardish people and meere land-men did well shew that manhood made no difference whether it fought on horse-back or on shipboord vpon the earth or waters Appius Claudius Consul they first aduentured into those streights which had beene made hideous with poëticall monsters and where the current was violent but they were so farre from being deterred thereby that they made vse of the furie of the hurrying tide as of a fauour for falling in therewith they forthwith set vpon Hiero king of Syracuse with such celeritie that himselfe confest hee found himselfe ouercome before hee saw the enemy Duilius and Cornelius Consuls they durst also fight at sea And the speed then vsed to build and rigge a nauie was certainely a signe of speeding For within threescore dayes after the timber was fell'd an armada of one hundred and threescore saile ridde at anchor out of it so that they seemed not the worke of shipwrights but as if by a kind of metamorphosis the gods had turned them such and changed trees to vessels But the report which goes of the fight is maruelous where these slugges and heauie bottomes seized vpon the quick and nimble nauie of the aduersaries who were much more cunning at sea so farre as skill to shift aside oares and to dally out the strokes of beake-heads by yare and readie turning For the hands of yron and other the grappling engines of the Romans the enemie made much sport at before the battel 's ioyned but were then compelled to trie it out in good earnest as if they had fought on firme land Thus giuing the ouerthrow at the Iles of Liparae their enemies armada either sunke or fled this was their first sea-triumph The ioy whereof how great was it when Duilius Captaine generall in that seruice not thinking one daies triumph enough did neuer come home from any supper so long as hee liued but hee would haue torches borne lighted and flutes play before him as if hee triumphed euery day The losse in regard of so great a victorie was but light The other of the Consuls Cnaeus Cornelius Asina entrapt by the enemie vnder colour of parley so surprised became a lesson against giuing credit to the faithlesse Carthaginians Calatinus Dictator

then a ciuill because they would triumph CHAP. XXIII The ciuill warre vnder Lepidus MArcus Lepidꝰ Quintus Catulus Consuls the ciuill warre was almost sooner determined then taken in hand But how much and how far soeuer in compasse the firebrand of that commotion blazed it rose all out of Sylla's ashes for Lepidus in his insolencie desirous to innouate prepared to annull the acts of that mighty man nor without good cause if at least wise it could haue beene done without great calamitie to the common-weale For when Sulla the Dictator had by the aduantage of the vpper hand proscribed his enemies such of them as ouerliued being recalled from banishment by Lepidus to what else were they called but to warre and when the goods of attainted citizens were adiudged and giuen away by Sulla vnto others though they were but badly taken yet being they were taken by law the repleuin of them did doubtlesly endanger the greene raw peace of the State For which respect it was expedient that the common-weale sore sicke and hurt should rest it selfe howsoeuer lest the wounds thereof should breake out and bleede afresh in the curing When therefore he had frighted the citie with his turbulent orations as with an alarme he went into Etruria and from thence presented an armie against Rome But before this time Lentulus Catulus and Cnaeus Pompeius the captaines and as it were ensigne-bearers of Sulla's tyranny had planted an army at Miluius bridge mount Ianiculus and by them repulsed at the very first brunt and proclaimed traitor by the Senate hee fled backe without bloudshed into Etruria from thence retired to Sardinia and there in sicknesse and repentance ended his dayes The victors a thing rarely seene in ciuill warres moderated their affections and contented themselues to hold all quiet Deo gratias THE HISTORIE OF THE ROMANS The fourth Booke CHAP. I. CATALINES warre CATALINE mooued to it first with riot and then with want the effect of that excesse together with the opportunitie our armies beeing then in warfare at the vtmost bounds of the earth was thrust into a treason for inthralment of his natiue countrey for assassinate of the Senatours for murther of the Consuls for firing the citie in many places at once for robbing the Exchequer and in a word for vtter extirpation of all common-weale and for doing that whatsoeuer else which euen Anniball himselfe would not haue seem'd to haue wished All which purposes with what complices O the sinne were they by him attempted himselfe a Patritian a Senatour of the highest ranke but that is not so much there were in of the Curij Porcij Sullae Cethegi Autronij Vargunteij and Longini and what potentates were they by birth what ornaments of the Senate Lentulus likewise chiefely at that time Praetor had all of these for a blacke guard to his most black designes Mans bloud was added as a pledge of the conspiracie which carried about in cups and goblets they dranke a most horrible thing had not the end for which they dranke it beene more horrible The goodliest empire vnder heauen had seene the last daies of it selfe had not that plot hapned in the Consulship of Cicero and Antonius one of which discouered the same by his diligence the other confounded it by force The intelligence of this so vast a treason was giuen by Fuluia a base cheape trull but not so wicked as to be guiltie of paricide Then Cicero the Consull calling a Senate made an oration against the hainous traytor to his face against the guiltie person there in presence but wrought no greater effect then onely to make the foe shift for himselfe and openly professing to bee such threatned to put out the fire with pulling downe all So he departs to the armie which Manlius had prepared in Etruria with purpose to assaile the citie Lentulus diuining that himself was the man of his family to whom soueraigntie was destinated in Sibylls verses had in fit places against the set day dispersed men fire-workes and weapons ouer the whole citie nor contented with complices at home onely the ambassadours of the Allobroges at that time as it hapned in towne were dealt with to stirre their nation to armes and the frensie had gadded ouer the Alpes if vpon another discouerie made by Vulturius the letters of the Praetor had not beene attached in the going Hands were hereupon forthwith laid at Cicero's commandement vpon the Allobroges and the practice was openly proued against Lentulus in the Senate It being put to the question what should be done with the malefactors Caesar was of opinion their liues should be spared because they were persons of great honor Cato censur'd them to death for their treason which opinion was seconded by all and they were strangled accordingly in prison Though thus a part of the conspiracie was choakt yet Catiline desisted not from his enterprise but with ensignes spred marcheth out of Etruria against his natiue countrey and encountred on the way by the armie of Antonius is beaten downe and slaine How grimly they fought the euent sheweth not a man of the enemies was left and looke what place each one fought in vpon the same he lost his life and couerd it with his body Catiline was found starke dead farre off from his own company among the carkases of his enemies a most braue end had he made it for his countrey CHAP. II. The warre of CAESAR and POMPEY THe whole world almost being now in peace the Roman empire was greater then that it could be extinguisht by any foraine violence Fortune therefore beating enuie to that people which was soueraigne of al other armd their own selues to their owne destruction The madnesse of Marius and Ginna confined it-selfe within the citie as if shee tride how it would doe the tempest of Sulla spred wider yet did it not thunder out of Italy but the furie of Caesar and Pompey did hurrie sucke into it both the citie Italy races nations in a word the vniuersall empire with a kind as it were of deluge and gulph of fire so farre forth that it cannot rightly bee onely called a ciuill neither yet a sociall no nor a foraine but rather a certaine common of all together and more then a war For if wee looke vpon the captaines the whole Senate was in sides if the armies on the one part eleuen legions on the other eighteen the flower strength together of all the Italian bloud if the aides of the confederates on this side the choise of the Galls Germans on that Deiotarus Ariobarzanes Tarcondimotus Cothus the whole powers of Thrace Cappadocia Cilicia Maccdonia Greece Italy and all the Orient if the space of the warre foure yeeres and that considering the destructions it wrought but a short time if the place and flage vpon which it was acted Italy frō whence it turn'd it selfe into Gall and Spaine and fetching a compasse from the west it sat down with the whole