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A55986	The history of the warres of the Emperour Justinian in eight books : of the Persian, II, Vandall, II, Gothicke, IV / written in Greek by Procopivs of Caesarea ; and Englished by Henry Holcroft, Knight.; History of the wars. English	Procopius.; Holcroft, Henry, Sir.	1653 (1653)	Wing P3640; ESTC R5579	404,984	308

Theodatus meeting privately with these Ambassadors gave them order to acquaint the Emperour with the plot I mentioned before CHAP. III. IN the mean time Atalarick fell into a Consumption with his excessive gluttony which much distracted Amalasuntha who had no confidence in her Sonne being runne into so much folly nor if he dyed could shee thinke her life safe having offended the principall Goths So shee resolved to deliver the Dominion of the Goths and Italians to Justinian and to save her selfe With Hypatius and Demetrius came one Alexander a Senator whom the Emperour hearing of Amalasuntha's ship in the harbour of Epidamnus and that shee came not much time being spent sent to view and report concerning her in pretence as an Ambassador to treate about Lilyboeum and about ten Hunnes who were run from the Campe in Affrick into Campania and entertained by Vliaris Captaine of Naples without Amalasuntha●s consent And the Goths warring with the Gepaedes about Sirmium had used hostitility upon Gratiana a City in the marches of Illyrium All which the Empeperour charged Amalasuntha with and wrote his Letter to her by Alexander who left the Bishops at Rome to negotiate their affaires and repayring to Ravenna had accesse to Amalasuntha whom privately he acquainted with the Emperours propositions and openly presented the Letter which was thus You detaine from us our Castle of Lilyboeum you have entertayned our fugitive Souldiers and do not yet send them back you have also used our City of Gratiana with extreamity without cause from all which you are to judge what the conclusion is likely to be Amalasuntha to this Letter returned this answer It were more fit for a great Emperour and one who pretends to virtue to assist an Orphan ignorant of these passages then upon no ground to quarrell with him no victory bringing credit when the opposition is not equall You expostulate for Lilyboeum and ten fugitives and an Errour of Souldiers marching against their Enemyes unwittingly committed upon a City in Amity with us Do not thus O Emperour But thinke how in your invasion of the Vandales wee gave you no impediment nay gave you quiet passage and free market freindly of what you needed cheifely of Horses in such abundance as with them principally you vanquisht your Enemyes Not onely he who sends his neighbour aydes is a freind and an Associate but he also who readily furnishes him for the warr with necessaryes Consider how then your Navy had no place to put into but Sicily nor could go into Affrick without what was there bought So that the principall cause of your Victory is from us who releiving you in time of need may lay a clayme to the good successe and what greater contentment O! Emperour could you have then to subdue your Enemyes nay it is a great wrong to us not to receive according to the Law of War our share in the spoyles Whereas you seek to take Lilyboeum from us long appertaining to the Goths and a poor Rock not worth the money in case it did belong to your Empire which in reason you ought to recompence Atalarick with for assisting you in your greatest needs Thus Amalasuntha wrote publickly but in private promised to deliver Italy to the Emperour to whom the Ambassadors at their Return to Constantinople related all Alexander concerning Amalasuntha's Resolution and Demetrius and Hypatius what they had in trust from Theodutus and how having great power in Tuscany and being Lord of a large Countrey he could easily performe his promises The Emperour being over joyed with it sent forthwith into Italy Peter an Illyrian by Race but borne in Thessalonica and an Oratour in Constantinople a wife milde man and of great ability to perswade In the mean time the Tuscans accused Theodatus to Amalasuntha for his oppressions and for intruding not onely into the Lands of common persons but into the Royall domeans called Patrimonium Amalasuntha called him to his answer and upon expresse conviction compelled him to restore his unlawfull Intrusions which infinitely offended Theodatus and made him her Enemy being vexed that hee could not use his sinne of oppression About the same time Atalarick dyed of his consumption having raigned eight years And Amalasuntha ordayned for a mischeife without considering Theodatus nature nor her late proceeding against him imagined by some extraordinary good Turne to oblige him from hurting her She sent for him and to appease him told him That she had long foreseene her Sonnes end by the dayly wasting of his Body and the opinion of the Physitians that she found the Goths and Italians inclined to him being of Theodoricks blood That shee endeavored therefore to purge him of aspersions which might hinder his calling to the Kingdome that shee was also troubled in the point of Justice if men wrong'd should complayne to have none to make their cases knowne to but to have their Adversary their Lord. But now being clear shee invited him to the Kingdom But they must binde themselves by solemne oathes for him to continue the name of King and her selfe to continue her former power Theodatus swore what shee pleased with a false Intent remembring how shee had used him formerly Thus Amalasuntha deceaved by her owne Counsells † placed Theodatus in the government Anno Demini 534. Justiniani 8. and sent some Goths to Constantinople to acquaint Justinian with her proceedings CHAP. IV. THeodatus being in possession of the Kingdome did quite contrary to her hopes and his own Ingagements He drew to him many principall Goths kinsmen to such as shee had put to death some of Amalasuntha's party he suddenly killed and put her selfe in safe custody in a strong castle in an Island upon the Lake of Vulsinus in Tuscany But fearing that the Emperour might be offended at it as indeed he was he sent Liberius and Opilio two Senators of Rome and others to make his Excuses and to assure the Emperour that Amalasuntha had no harme though shee had done him extreame Injury formerly This he wrote to the Emperour and made Amalasuntha write as much The Emperour in the meane time had instructed Peter to get private speech with Theodatus and to give his Oath to conceal the negotiation and so to make Tuscany sure to deale likewise with Amalasuntha and to conclude for all Italy but publickly to pretend his Ambassage for Lilyboeum and the rest before mentioned For of the death of Atalarick or succession of Theodatus or of the Fortune of Amalasuntha the Emperour had not yet heard Peter upon the way met Amalasuntha's Ambassadors and heard of the Succession of Theodatus Shortly after at Appollonia upon the Jonian gulfe he met with Liberius and Opilìo and was informed of all the passages He advertised the Emperour and stayed there Who thereupon intending to imbroyle Theodatus and the Goths wrote Letters to Amalasuntha of his Resolution to take her part and sent instructions to Peter to professe the same openly to Theodatus and

which blowes from thence Tanaites These Goths whether they were Arrians as the other Gothish Nations or otherwise instructed in Christianity I cannot say nor do themselves know but they professe the same with much simplicity and without disputes Lately they sent foure Ambassadours to Justinian for a Bishop to be given them as to the Abasgians And the Emperour dismist them with satisfaction in what they desired The said Ambassadours in their publick audience exprest no other cause them that for feare of the Hunnes But being admitted privately they acquainted the Emperour with what might advantage the Romans all ' Barbarians having ever some piques with their Neighbours The planting of these Tetraxites in that Country was thus Anciently multitudes of Hunnes then called Cimmerians kept their Heards in the same and were governed by a King One of their Kings had two Sons named Vturgur and Caturgur who after their Fathers decease divided the Kingdome and gave their names to their severall Subjects and they are yet called Vturgurians and Caturgurians They have all the same addictions and converse not with the Nations dwelling on the other side of the Lake of Maeotis and the Cimmerian straits fearing the passage though very easie because they never had tryed it On the said other side neer unto the shore of the said Lake and straits were formerly seated the Tetraxite Goths and not far from them the Goths and Visigoths and Vandales and all the other Gothick Nations anciently named Scythians as all the other Nations of those parts with some difference in some of Sarmatians Melanclaenians and other names These People have a tradition if it be true that some Cimmerian young men hunting a Stag it took the water and that they either eager upon their sport or driven by some Spirit followed the Stage to the opposite shore where the same whatsoever it were suddainly vanisht as having appeared to no other end but to bring a mischiefe upon the Inhabitants there The young men they say though they mist their game found matter for warre and booty And returning home told the Cimmerians how the passage was fordable who instantly took armes and in multitudes past over to the other side The Vandales were gone before and seated in Affrica and the Visigoths were in Spaine So they fell upon the Goths who dwelt in the Champian killed many and chased away the rest Such as escaped past the river Ister with their wives and children into the Roman territory where they did much mischeif Afterward the Emperour planted them in a country of Thrace and sometimes they aided the Romans in the quality of Confederates receiving yearly pensions whereby it appeares that the Goths came not as men conquer'd but upon the articles of a League The Romans calling Leagues after a war Foedera Sometime also they made causelesse war upon the Romans till under Theoderick they removed into Italy CHAP. III. BUt as I said the Hunnes having slain many of them and driven away more possest their country And the Caturgurians sent for their wives and children and are planted there to this day receiving from the Emperour yearly pensions yet passing continually the River Ister and over-running the Empire being both confederates and Enemies The Vturgurians returned home with their Prince where still they remain They past the Cimmerian straits again against the Goths wasted as aforesaid Who at first stood fenced with their sheilds against the Enemy in battell being confident in their power and the strength of their country And themselves are the valiantest Barbarians in those parts and the straits where about dwell these Goths from the Entrance out of the Lake of Maeotis presently spreads into a Bay imbracing most of those people and hath one only narrow passage over The Hunnes meant not to spend much time there and the Goths could not hope to hold out long against such a multitude so they came to a Capitulation that the Goths should go over and dwell with them in the opposite Continent where now they are and be in perpetuall League with the Vturgurians upon equall tearms Thus the Caturgurians hold the other side of the Lake and the Vturgurians their former country never troubling the Romans but secluded by many nations they observe an unwilling peace Beyond the Lake and the River Tanais the Caturgurian Hunnes have a large country all beyond that way is possest by the Scythians and Taurians part wherof is yet named Taurica where stood the Temple of Diana of which Iphigenia Agamemnons daughter was cheife Preist The Armenians say that that Temple stood in Celesene a country adjoyning to them and that the Inhabitants thereof were then called Scythians grounding themselves upon that which I related formerly concerning Orestes and the city of Comana Thus many things happening other-where or peradventure no where men are fond to attribute to their owne countries and are angry if all men yeild not to their conceits Next to the aforesaid Nations is Bosporus a maritime city lately become subject to the Romans From Bosporus to Chersone a maritime City also and formerly subject to the Romans all between is possest by Hunnish nations Cepi also and Phanaguris two cities were formerly under the Romans almost untill our time but the neighbouring Barbarians took them and utterly ruined them From Cherson to the mouth of the Danuby or Ister is ten dayes journey all inhabited by Barbarians The River Ister springs from the mountaines in Gaule and skirting by Italy and descending through Dacia Illyrium and Thrace it disembogues into the Euxine Sea From the mouth of the River Ister unto Constantinople all belongs to the Roman Emperour This is the whole circuit of the Euxine Sea from Chalcedon to Constantinople How many miles it containes I cannot say so many Barbarians inhabiting the coasts with whom the Romans have no commerce unlesse it be upon Ambassages and they who formerly pretend to have taken the measure of it not speaking exactly Certaine it is that from Chalcedon on the right hand side of the Euxine to the River Phasis is two and fifty daies journey and one may conjecture that the other side differs not much And here I think it not unseasonable to set down the dispute among the Learned concerning the bounds of Asia and Europe Some think the River of Tanais doth sever these two continents and alleadge that division to be naturall For the Sea coming from the western lands to the Eastern the Tanais from the North crosses between Europe and Asia and the Egyptian Nile from the South between Asia and Affrick others reject this reason as weak saying that the straits of Caliz distinguishes at first these two continents and that the Mediterranian still leaves Africk and Asia on the right hand and Europe on the left till it come to the Ends of the Euxine Sea But the Tanais springs in Europe and disembogues into the Lake of Maeotis and the lake falls into the Euxine not into the end of it nor