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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

the lake Iuturna These broght the tidings and were generally thought to be Castor and Pollux because they were a paire to haue been at the battell because they were gorie and to haue come fresh out of Macedonia because they were panting hot as yet CHAP. XIII The Illyrian warre THe as it were infection of the Macedonian war drew in the Illyrians They were entertain'd in pay by king Perses to trouble all they could the Romans at their backes Anicius lieutenant Praetor subdued them in an instant It was enough that he razed Scodra their principall citie The whole nation did forthwith yeeld it selfe To bee briefe this warre was made an end of before they at Rome did heare it was begun CHAP. XIIII The third Macedonian warre with Andriscus THE Carthaginians and Macedonians as if it were agreed vpon betweene them each to bee thrice ouercome tooke armes againe by a kinde of fate both of them about a time But the first who threw the yoake off were the Macedonians by so much harder to be reduced then before while it was held a matter of nothing to reduce thē The cause of the war is in a manner to be blusht at For Andriscus a very base fellow vnknown whether a free man or a bond certainely one who tooke pay did enter vpon the quarrel and kingdome at once And for that hee being but a meere counterfeit was notwithstanding called Philip by the people by reason of resemblance it filled his kingly shape and kingly name with a kingly spirit also Therefore while the people of Rome contemning these matters employed no greater a person against him then Iuuentius a Praetor they rashly venter on a man strong at that time not onely in Macedonians but in huge ayds out of Thrace Wherby they otherwise inuincible were ouercome in battell not by true and very kings but this phantastike and playerly one But Metellus another Praetor tooke a most sound reuenge for the losse of Iuuentius and of the legion which hee commanded for hee both cōdemn'd Macedonia to the state of bondage brought Andriscus in chaynes to Rome deliuerd vp into our hands by that Vaiuod or pety king of Thrace to whom hee had fled for succour fortune neuerthelesse shewing him thus much fauour in his miseries that the Romans carryed him aswell in triumph as if hee had beene a king indeede CHAP. XV. The third Carthaginian or Punicke warre THe third war against Africa was short in respect of the time for it was but foure yeeres worke and in comparison of the other two the least in labour For the fight was not so much with the men as with the citie it selfe the euen whereof was certainely the greatest that could bee for it made an end of Carthage To comprehend in minde the summe of those three times it was thus in the first the warre was begun in the second it was driuen away out of our coasts in the third it was ended The cause of this last warre was for that contrary to the articles of league the Carthaginians had once prepared an army at land and sea against the Numidians and often terrifide the borders of Masinassas kingdome Wee bare fauour to this good and friendly king When the war was settled the Senate debated what should become of Carthage Cato whose hatred admitted no satisfaction would haue it vtterly rased but when the Consull demanded anothers opinion Scipio Nasica stood to haue it preserued lest the feare of a riuall citie remoued the felicitie of Rome might growe ouer-ranke and riotous The Senate made choise of a middle way which was to remoue the citie out of her old seate For nothing seemed to them more honorable then to haue such a Carthage as should not bee feared Manilius therefore and Censorinus Consuls the people of Rome inuading Carthage the nauie thereof which vpon ouerture of peace they willingly yeelded was in sight of the citie fired Then calling foorth the princes they commanded them vppon perill of their heads to depart the countrey Which blacke decree kindled so great choler in them as they resolued to endure the worst that could be rather then obey it Lamentations hereupon did forthwith fill the citie and the crie went round To ARMES the finall resolution beeing whatsoeuer came of it to rebell Not for that they had now any hope left to free themselues but because they held it better that Carthage should bee ruind by their owne hands then their enemies The furie of the rebels may be coniectured by this that they pluckt downe house-tops and houses with that timber to build a new nauie for want of yron brasse their smiths wrought gold and siluer into armour and the matrons clipt the haire of their heads to make cordage for engins Mancinus Consull the siege waxt hot both at land and sea The hauen of the fortifications and the first and second wal were dismantled when the castle notwithstanding called The Byrs made such a resistance as if it had been another citie Though there was no doubt of ouerthrowing it yet the Scipio's seemd ordaind by destinie for that purpose The people therefore of Rome require to haue a Scipio for accomplishing that warre And that was the sonne of Paulus conquerour of Macedonia whom the sonne of that great Scipio Africanus had adopted to vphold the glory of his house with this intention of the fates that the citie which the grandfather had humbled the grand child should subuert The enemies being shut vp within the castle the Romans sought also to cut off the sea But the Carthaginians digge out a new hauen vpon another side of the towne not to flie out at for no man did beleeue they could escape but from the which a new armada issued as if it had growne vp suddainely of it selfe Meane-while no day nor night went ouer their heads in which some new worke some new engine some new band of forlorne fellowes appeared not like so many sodaine flashes of flame rising out of cinders after the fire hath been buried in ouerwhelming rubbish But things at last growing absolutely desperate fortie thousand men yeelded themselues and that which you would scarce thinke Asdruball was the first man of them How much more boldly did a woman the wife of the captaine who taking her two children threwe herselfe with them from the top of the house into the middle of the fires following that Queenes example which had founded Carthage How mightie a citie was destroid may by the long continuance of the burning to let other arguments goe be conuinced For the fire which the enemies themselues had kindled of their owne accord in their dwellings and temples with intent that so much of the citie as they were not able to deliuer from the Roman triumphs might be consumed could not be extinguished in seuenteene whole dayes together CHAP. XVI The Achaian warre COrinth the Metropolis of Achaia presently followed the fortune of Carthage as if that were an age

of the aduersarie The Scipio's had gotten indeede great dayes when they gaue ouerthrowes but the one of them was circumuented and slaine by their dangerous deuices as hee was busie to entrench and the other of them hauing fled into a tower was ouerwhelmed frō round about with fire-brands That Scipio therefore who dispatcht with an armie into Spaine to reuenge his father and his vncles death was the man to whom the fates decreed so great a surname out of the conquest of Africa recouered all Spaine that braue martiall countrey ennobled for cheualrie and men of the sword that seed-plot of the enemies armies that schoole-mistresse of Annibal himselfe he conquered all of it I say though incredible to say it from the pillars of Hercules to the Ocean and I know not whether more speedily or more easily the speed foure yeeres speake the easinesse one onely citie manifesteth being taken vpon the same day in which it was besieged and it was a fortunate signe of Africa's conquest to ensue that Carthage in Spaine was so easily taken Certaine it is notwithstanding that the admirable continencie of the Generall was of greatest force to subdue the prouince for he restored their yong sonnes and daughters were they neuer so pleasing or faire back to the barbarous without permitting them to come in his sight that hee might not seeme to haue once sipt or skimd the honour of their chastitie so much as with beholding them This was then the carriage of the Romans in diuers countreys abroad who yet for all that could not be rid of Annibal who stuck close to them in the bowels of Italie for most nations had reuolted vnto him and himselfe a most smart and excellent captaine vsed Italian forces against Italy We neuerthelesse had triced him out of most of her townes and countries Tarentus came in againe of it selfe Capua the seat dwelling house and the other as it were Carthage of Annibal was now also gayned backe the losse whereof so greatly grieued the man that thereupon hee turned all his strengths vpon Rome O people worthie to bee lords of the earth worthie of all fauour and to haue the gouernment of the affaires of men and gods Driuen to the worst of feares yet gaue they not ouer their enterprise and doubtfull how to keepe their owne citie they for all that quitted not Capua but entrusting a part of their armie to Appius Consull and the residue following Flaccus into Rome they fought where they were not as well as where they were Why wonder we therefore For Annibal encamping within three miles of Rome was resisted by the Gods nor will I shame to confesse it I say by the Gods themselues because such store of raine fell at euery remoue of his that he seemed put backe by diuine prouision not as in defence of heauen but to keepe him off from the citie-walls and Capitol Hee therefore departed fled and retired into the farthest nooke of Italy hauing done all he could against Rome sauing only giuen it assault It is but a trifle to speake of but yet of much efficacie to shew the magnanimitie of the Romans in that the very field it selfe where Annibal encamped being during the siege set to sale found a chapman On the other side Annibal to imitate their confidence cryed the goldsmiths row in the citie but no man would buy of him And thus we may see there were presages enow But so great vertue of men and so much fauour of the Gods came to nothing For Asdrubal brother of Annibal came out of Spaine with a new armie new strengths new weight of warre Rome had beene vndoubtedly quite ruined had that man ioyned with his brother but Claudius Nero and Liuius Salinator vtterly distrest him as he was encamping Nero kept Annibal off in the farthest corner of Italy Liuius marcht with ensigns spred into the quite opposite quarter that is vp to the very iawes of the first descence from the Alpes into Italie the distance as great from our other camp as all the length of Italie It is not easie to say with what high wit and speed the two Consuls vnited their campes and giuing battell to Asdrubal not aware of that vnion destroid him vtterly Annibal al this while not once dreaming what was done Sure it is that when the newes came to Aniball and hee saw his brothers head tost out before his trenches I acknowledge quoth hee the vnluckines of Carthage This was the mans first confession not without a sure presage of the fate which hung ouer his head And now it was certaine out of Anibals own mouth that Aniball might be vanquished But the people of Rome full of confidence after so many fortunate successes held it a gallant attempt to make an end of the quarrell with the sorest enemie they had and that at his owne home in Africa Scipio therefore captain general they transported thither the whole weight of warre beginning to imitate Aniball and to pay him backe in his Africa for the mischiefes hee did in their Italy O yee Gods what forces of Asdruball what armies of king Syphax did hee ouerthrow what and how great were those two camps which hee in one night consumed with fire To conclude hee was not now within three miles of Carthage as Aniball had beene of Rome but battred besieged gates themselues therof and thereby wrung Aniball out of Italie vpon which hee lay hard and heauie Since Rome stood there was neuer a grater day then that in which two the most famous captaines that euer were before or since the one of them conquerour of Italy the other of Spain confronted each the other in battle-ray But yet they came first to a parley about articles of peace at which both of them stood a good while without speaking a word as if mutuall admiration had fixt them to the ground But when they could not agree vpon a peace the trumpets sound a charge It is cleare by confession of both parties that no armies could bee better marshall'd nor any battell be sorer fought as Scipio reported of Anibal's armie and Anibal of Scipio's But Aniball notwithstanding gaue place and Africa became the conquerours reward and after Africa the whole earths empire also CHAP. VII The first Macedonian or Philippian Warre NOne thought it now a shame to be ouercome when Carthage was Macedonia Greece Syria and all other nations as if carried with a certaine current and torrent of fortune by and by followed Africa But the first who followed were the Macedonians a people which had once affected the worlds Monarchie Though therefore a Philip was king then the Romans notwithstanding seemed to thēselues to haue to deal in him with great Alexander The Macedonian warre was greater in the name therof then was answerd in the performances of the nation The cause of the war grew by reason of the league which Philip had made with Anibal hauing then a long while tyrannized Italie which cause increased when

the Athenians implored aide against Philips iniuries in which exceeding the rights of victorie hee shewed his rage vpon temples altars and moniments of the dead The Senate thought good to minister succour to so noble suitors For the kings of countreys Captaines generall common-weales and nations had sought to this citie for protection Laeuinus therefore Consul the people of Rome then first entred the Ionian sea and trended along the whole coast of Greece with as it were a triumphant nauie for they aduanced in open view the spoyles of Sycilie Sardinia and Africa and a laurell growing vnplanted out of the sterne of the Admirall promised manifest victory Attalus king of Pergamus came in with aids to vs of his owne accord There came also the Rhodians expert men at Sea and with them on the water and with horse and foote on land the Consul made all to shake The king twice ouercome twice put to flight twice stript out of his campe yet nothing was so terrible to the Macedonians as the sight itselfe of their wounds which being not made with darts or arrowes nor with any Greekish weapons but with huge iauelins and swords as huge were wider then death had neede of Verily Flaminius Generall wee pierced through the Chaonian mountaynes till then impassable wee passed the riuer Pindarus running through broken places and brake through the very barres themselues of Macedonia into which to haue entred was it selfe a victorie For from that day forward the king neuer daring to trie his fortune in battell againe was vanquisht at the dogges-heads or the hillocks called Cynocephalae and that in only one encounter or petie skirmish rather then a foughten field the Consull granting him to bee in peace and leaue to enioy his kingdome And to take away all prints or tokens of hostilitie hee repressed Thebes and Eubaea and the immoderate enterprises of the Lacedaemonians vnder Nabis and restored the Greekes to their ancient state that they might liue after their owne Lawes and bee as free as their fore-fathers O what reioycements were then O what comfortable cryes when this proclamation was made by the publike officer in the theater of Nemea at the Quinquennal or fiue-yeerly playes O what were the showts and clamours what abundance of flowrs sprinkled vpon the Consul yea they made the Herald speake out that sweet word againe and againe which pronounced Achaia free nor did they otherwise relish that proclamation or edict of the Consull then as they would haue done some excellently pleasing lesson plaide vpon soft wind-instruments or violins CHAP. VIII The warre in Syria with king Antiochus PResently after the Macedonians and king Philip Antiochus tooke his turne to bee conquerd by a kinde of chance fortune as it were of purpose so marshalling matters that as the Roman empire went forward by degrees from Africke into Europe it might also roll from Europe into Asia causes of warre offering themselues without seeking that the course of victorie might saile onward in order as the world stood sited There was no warre of which there went so terrible a fame as of this For those Persians who were of old the eastern world Xerxes and Darius came then to minde in whose dayes mountaines were cut thorow and the sea was couerd with failes Besides this certaine prodigious signes which seemed to threaten somewhat from heauen bred terrour for Apollo at Cumae was in a continuall sweate But this was nothing else saue the God-heads agonie in fauour of his beloued Asia Nor to say truth did any countrey so abound with mony riches and munition as Syria but they were all in the hands of so cowardly a king as could glorie in nothing more then that hee was ouercome by the Romans Antiochus was thrust into this warre vpon the one side by Thoas chiefe of the Aetolians seeking in vaine to draw the Romans into an honourlesse league with him against the Macedonians and vpon the other side Annibal who being foil'd in Africa a fugitiue also and impatient of peace sought ouer the world where to finde out an enemy of the Roman people And what manner of danger might that haue proued had that king giuen himselfe ouer to his directions if Annibal now quite downe had beene trusted with the power of Asia But Antiochus relying vpon his owne abilities and the title of a king held it enough that hee moued warre by himselfe Europe did now without controuersie belong to the Romans Antiochus demanded backe the citie of Lysimachia vpon the coast of Thrace built in Europe by his ancestors as a parcell of his inheritance With this as it were starre or constellation the tempest of the Asian warre being stirred kings assembling in extraordinarie number and defiance brauely giuen when Antiochus had thus wakened all the humours of Asia with wonderfull noise and tumult hee betooke himselfe to sports wanton pleasures as if hee had already gotten the garland The Iland Eubaea was diuided from the maine land with Eurypus a narrow sea hauing many ebbes and flowes here Antiochus pitching his pauilions of silke and gold hard vpon the brinke of the murmuring sea at the sound of flutes and other musick and though it were winter yet had hee roses brought fresh from all parts and lest hee should in nothing seeme to play the captaine he tooke musters of fine young boyes and girls Such a king therefore as this whom his owne riotous humours had already conquer'd the people of Rome assailing that Iland by Marcus Atilius Glabrio Consul at the very first bruit of approach was glad to flie the place And albeit he had gotten to so notable a steepe passage as that of Thermopylae euer to bee glorious in the death of those three hundred Lacedaemonians yet not dating to trust that strength the Romans made him giue way aswell at land as sea Without delay he returns into Asia The charge of his nauie roial hee committed to Polyxenes and Annibal For himselfe could not endure so much as to looke vpon a fight So his whole force at sea was torne in pieces by the gallies of Rhodes our Aemilius Regillus their Admiral That Athens may not flatter it selfe we ouercame Xerxes in Antiochus in Aemilius wee matcht Themistocles and did as great an exploit in taking Ephesus as the Greekes did in taking Salamina At that time Scipio Consul his brother that Scipio Africanus who had so lately conquer'd Carthage seruing voluntary vnder him there as lieutenant generall it seemed good to make an end of that warre The king was already beaten out of the sea but wee goe farther Our campe is pitcht at the riuer Meander and the mountaine Sipylus It is incredible to be spoken what powers of his owne and of his friends the king had there Three hundred thousand foot and not a lesse number of horse and of seithed chariots besides these elephants of an huge size glittering in gold purple siluer and their owne iuorie stood as bulwarks on both hands of the