in great disorder For Antigonus had placed the GAVLES in the rereward of his army to close it in which were a conuenient number and did valliantly defend the first charge and the skirmishe was so hotte that the most of them were slaine After them the leaders of the elephantes perceiuing they were enuironned on euery side yelded them selues and their beastes Pyrrus seeing his power to be now increased with such a supply trusting more to his good fortune then any good reason might moue him thrust further into the battel of the MACEDONIANS who were all afrayed and troubled for the ouerthrowe of their rereward so as they would not once base their pykes not fight against him He for his parte holdinge vp his hande and callinge the Captaines of the bandes by their names straight wayes made all the footemen of Antigonus turne wholly to his side who flying saued him selfe with a few horsemen and kept certaine of the cities in his realme apon the sea coast But Pyrrus in all his prosperity iudging nothing more toâ—edownde to his honor and glory then the ouerthrow of the GAVLES layed aside their goodliest and richest spoyles and offred vp the same in the temple of Minerua Itonida with this inscription VVhen Pyrrus had subdude the puisant Gaules in fields He caused of their spoyles to make these targets armes and shields The vvhich he hanged vp intemple all on high Before Minerua goddesse here in signe of victory VVhen he had ouercome the vvhole and hugie hoast The vvhich Antigonus did bring into his contries coast Ne maruell should it seeme though victory he vvonne Since valliantnes bringes victory and euermore hath done And valliantnes alvvayes hath constantly kept place From age to age and time to time in AEacus his race Immediatly after this battell all the cities of the realme of MACEDON yelded vnto him but when he had the citie of AEGES in his power he vsed the inhabitantes thereof very hardly specially bicause he left a great garrison of the GAVLES there which he had in pay This nation is extreame couetous as then they shewed them selues for they spared not to breake vp the tombes wherein the kinges of MACEDON lay buried there tooke away all the gold and siluer they could finde and afterwards with great insolency cast out their bones into the open winde Pyrrus was tolde of it but he lightly passed it ouer and made no reckening of it either bicause he deferred it till an other time by reason of the warres he had then in hande or else for that he durst not meddle with punishing of these barbarous people at that time But whatsoeuer the matter was the MACEDONIANS were very angry with Pyrrus blamed him greatly for it Furthermore hauing not yet made all thinges sure in MACEDON nor being fully possest of the same new toyes and hope came into his head and mocking Antigonus sayd he was a mad man to goe apparrelled in purple like a king when a poore cloke might become him like a priuate man Now Cleonymus king of SPARTA being come to procure him to bring his army into the contry of LACEDAEMON Pyrrus was very willing to it This Cleonymus was of the blood royall of SPARTA but bicause he was a cruell man and would do all thinges by authority they loued him not at SPARTA nor trusted him at all and therefore did they put him out made Areus king a very quiet man. And this was the oldest quarrell Cleonymus had against the coÌ„mon wealth of SPARTA but besides that he had an other priuate quarrel which grewe vppon this cause In his olde yeares Cleonymus had maried a fayer younge Lady called Chelidonide which was also of the blood royall and the daughter of Leotychides This Lady being fallen extreamely in loue with Acrotatus king Areus sonne a goodly young gentleman and in his lusty youth she greatly vexed and dishonored her husbande Cleonymus who was ouer heade and eares in loue and iealousie with her for there was not one in all SPARTA but plainely knewe that his wife made none accompt of him And thus his home sorowes being ioyned with his outwarde common greues euen for spight desiring a reuenge in choller he went to procure Pyrrus to come vnto SPARTA to restore him againe to his kingdome Hereupon he brought him into LACEDAEMONIA forthwith with fiue and twenty thowsand footemen two thowsand horse and foure and twenty elephantes by which preparacion though by nothing else the worlde might plainely see that Pyrrus came with a minde not to restore Cleonymus againe vnto SPARTA but of intent to conquer for him selfe if he could all the contrie of PELOPONNESVS For in wordes he denied it to the LACEDAEMONIANS them selues who sent Ambassadors vnto him when he was in the city of MEGALIPOLIS where he tolde them that he was come into PELOPONNESVS to sette the townes and cities at libertie which Antigonus kept in bondage that his true intent and meaning was to send his young sonnes into SPARTA so they would be contented to the end they might be trained after the LACONIAN manner and from their youth haue this aduantage aboue all other kinges to haue bene well brought vp But faining these thinges and abusing those that came to meete him on his way they tooke no heede of him till he came within the coast of LACONIA into the which he was no sooner entred but he beganne to spoyle and wast the whole contry And when the Ambassadors of SPARTA reproued and founde fault with him for that he made warres vpon them in such sorte before he had openly proclaimed it he made them aunswer no more haue you your selues vsed to proclaime that which you purposed to do to others Then one of the Ambassadors called Mandricidas replied againe vnto him in the LACONIAN tongue If thou be a god thou wilt doe vs no hurt bicause we haue not offended thee and if thou be a man thou shalt meete with an other that shal be better then thy selfe Then he marched directly to SPARTA where Cleonymus gaue him counsell euen at the first to assault it But he would not so do fearing as they sayd that if he did it by night his souldiers would sacke the city and sayd it should be time enough to assault it the next day at broad day light bicause there were but few men within the towne and beside they were very ill prouided And furthermore king Areus him selfe was not there but gone into CRETA to aide the GORTYNIANS who had warres in their owne contry And doutlesse that only was the sauing of SPARTA from taking that they made no reckening to assault it hotly bicause they thought it was not able to make resistaunce For Pyrrus camped before the towne throughly perswaded with him selfe that he should finde none to fight with him and Cleonymus frends and seruauntes also did prepare his lodging there as if Pyrrus should haue come to supper to him
playe VVherevvith enraged all vvith pepper in the nose the provvde Megarians came to vs as to their mortall foes And tooke by stelthe avvaye of harlots eke a payer attending on Aspasia vvhich vvere both young and fayer But in very deede to tell the originall cause of this warre and to deliuer the trothe thereof it is very harde But all the historiographers together agree that Pericles was the chiefest author of the warre bicause the decree made against the MEGARIANS was not reuoked backe againe Yet some holde opinion that Pericles dyd it of a noble minde and iudgement to be constant in that he thought most expedient For he iudged that this commaundement of the LACEDAEMONIANS was but a triall to proue if the ATHENIANS would graunte them and if they yelded to them in that then they manifestly shewed that they were the weaker Other contrarilie saye that it was done of a selfe will and arrogancie to shewe his authoritie and power and howe he dyd despise the LACEDAEMONIANS But the shrowdest profe of all that bringeth best authoritie with it is reported after this sorte Phidias the image maker as we haue tolde you before had vndertaken to make the image of Pallas and being Pericles friende was in great estimation about him But that procured him many ill willers Then they being desirous to heare by him what the people would iudge of Pericles they intised Menon one of the worke men that wrought vnder Phidias and made him come into the market place to praye assurance of the people that he might openly accuse Phidias for a faulte he had committed about Pallas image The people receyued his obedience and his accusation was heard opeÌ„ly in the market place but no mention was made of any theft at all bicause that Phidias through Pericles counsell deuise had from the beginning so layed on the gold vpon the image that it might be taken of wayed euery whitte WhereupoÌ„ Pericles openly sayed vnto his accusers take of the golde way it The glorie of his works dyd purchase him this enuie For he hauing graueÌ„ vpon the scutchioÌ„ of the goddesse the battel of the AMAZONES had cut out the portraiture of him self maruelous liuely vnder the persone of an olde balde man lifting vp a great stone with both his handes Further he had cut out Pericles image excelleÌ„tly wrought artificially seeming in maÌ„ner to be Pericles self fighting with an AMAZON in this sorte The AMAZONES haÌ„d being lifte vp highe holdeth a darte before Pericles face so passing cunningly wrought as it seemed to shadowe the likenes resemblaunce of Pericles and yet notwithstanding appeareth plainely to be Pericles self on either side of the portraiture So Phidias was clapt vp in prisone there dyed of a sicknes or els of poyson as some saye which his enemies had prepared for him all to bring Pericles into further suspition to geue them the more cause to accuse him But howsoeuer it was the people gaue Menon his freedome set him free for paymeÌ„t of all subsidies following the order Glycon made and gaue the captaines charge they should see him safely kept and that he tooke no hurte And about the same time also Aspasia was accused that she dyd not beleeue in the goddess and her accuser was Hermippus maker of the comedies He burdened her further that she was a hawde to Pericles and receyued citizens wiues into her house which Pericles kept And Diopithes at the same time made a decree that they should make searche and enquirie for heretickes that dyd not beleeue in the goddes and that taught certaine newe doctrine and opinion touching the operations of things aboue in the element turning the suspition vpon Pericles bicause of Anaxagoras The people dyd receyue and confirme this inquisition and it was moued also then by Dracontides that Pericles should deliuer an accompt of the money he had spent vnto the handes of the Prytanes who were treasorers of the common fines and reuenues and that the iudges deputed to geue iudgement should geue sentence within the cittie vpon the altar But Agnon put that worde out of the decree and placed in stead thereof that the cause should be iudged by the fifteene hundred iudges as they thought good if any man brought this action for thefte for batterie or for iniustice As for Aspasia he saued her euen for the verie pittie and compassion the iudges tooke of him for the teares he shed in making his humble sute for her all the time he pleaded her case as AEschines writeth But for Anaxagoras fearing that he could not doe so muche for him he sent him out of the cittie and himselfe dyd accompany him And furthermore seeing he had incurred the ill will of the people for Phidias facte and for this cause fearing the issue of the iudgement he set the warres a fyre againe that allwayes went backeward and dyd but smoke a litle hoping by this meanes to weare out the accusations against him and to roote out the malice some dyd beare him For the people hauing waightie matters in hande and very daungerous also he knewe they would put all into his handes alone he hauing wonne already suche great authoritie and reputation among them And these be the causes why he would not as it is sayed suffer the ATHENIANS to yeld vnto the LACEDAEMONIANS in any thing howbeit the trothe cannot certenly be knowen But the LACEDAEMONIANS knowing well that if they could wede out Pericles and ouerthrowe him they might then deale as they would with the ATHENIANS they commaunded them they should purge their cittie of Cylons rebellion bicause they knew well enough that Pericles kynne by the mothers side were to be touched withall as Thucydides declareth But this practise fell out contrarie to their hope and expectation that were sent to ATHENS for this purpose For wening to haue brought Pericles into further suspition and displeasure the cittizens honoured him the more and had a better affiaunce in him then before bicause they sawe his enemies dyd so much feare and hate him Wherefore before king Archidâ—mus entred with the armie of the PELOPONNESIANS into the countrie of ATTICA he tolde the ATHENIANS that if king Archidamus fortuned to waste and destroye all the countrie about and should spare his landes and goodes for the olde loue and familiaritie that was betweene them or rather to geue his enemies occasion falsely to accuse him that from thenceforth he gaue all the landes and tenements he had in the countrie vnto the common wealthe So it fortuned that the LACEDAEMONIANS with all their friends and confederates brought a maruelous armie into the countrie of ATTICA vnder the leading of king Archidamus who burning spoyling all the countries he came aloÌ„gest they came vnto the towne of ACHARNES were they incamped supposing the ATHENIANS would neuer suffer them to approche so neere but that they would giue them battell for the honour and defence of their
in like maner and so followed Titus charret on the day of his triumphe and entrie made into ROME in the triumphing manner It was a goodly sight also to see the spoyles of the enemies which were caried in the show of this triumphe as store of helmets after the GREECIANS facion heapes of targets shieldes and pykes after the MACEDONIAN manner with a wonderfull summe of gold and siluer For Itanus the historiographer writeth that there was brought a maruelous great masse of treasure in niggots of golde of three thousand seuen hundred and thirteene pounde weight and of siluer of forty three thousande two hundred three score and tenne pound weight and of gold ready coyned in peeces called Philips foureteene thousand fiue hundred and foureteene besides the thousand talents king Philip should pay for a raunsome The which summe the ROMAINES afterwardes forgaue him chiefly at Titus sute and intercession who procured that grace for him and caused him to be called a frend and confederate of the people of ROME and his sonne Demetrius to be sent vnto him againe who remained before as an hostage at ROME Shortely after king Antiochus went out of ASIA into GREECE with a great fleete of shippes and a very puisant army to stirre vp the cities to forsake their league and allyance with the ROMAINES and to make a dissention amongest them To further this his desire and enterprise the AETOLIANS did aide and backe him which of long time had borne great and secrete malice against the ROMAINES and desired much to haue had warres with them So they taught king Antiochus to say that the warre which he tooke in hande was to set the GREECIANS at liberty whereof they had no neede bicause they did already enioy their liberty but for that they had no iust cause to make warre they taught him to cloke it the honestest way he coulde Wherefore the ROMAINES fearinge greatly the rising of the people the rumor of the power of this great king they sent thither Manius Acilius their generall and Titus one of his Lieutenaunts for the GREECIANS sakes Which arriuall did the more assure them that already bare good will to the ROMAINES after they had once seene Manius and Titus and the rest that beganne to flie out and to shrinke from them those Titus kept in obedience from starting remembringe them of the frendship and good will they had borne him euen like a good skilfull phisitian that coulde geue his pacient phisicke to preserue him from a contageous disease In deede there were some but fewe of them that left him which were won and corrupted before by the AETOLIANS and though he had iust cause of offence towardes them yet he saued them after the battell For king Antiochus being ouercome in the contry of THERMOPYLES fled his way and in great hast tooke the sea to returne into ASIA And the Consull Manius following his victory entred into the contry of the AETOLIANS where he tooke certaine townes by force and left the other for a pray vnto kinge Philip. So Philip kinge of MACEDON on the one side spoyled and sacked the DOLOPIANS the MAGNESIANS the ATHAMANIANS and the APERANTINES and the Consull Manius on the other side destroyed the city of HERACLEA and layed siege to the citie of NAVPACTVN which the AETOLIANS kept But Titus takinge compassion of them to see the poore people of GREECE thus spoiled and turned out of all went out of PELOPONNESVS where he was then vnto Manius Acilius campe and there reproued him for suffering king Philip to vsurpe the benefit and reward of his honorable victory still conqueringe many people kings and contries whilest he continued siege before a city and only to wreake his anger vpon them Afterwardes when they that were besieged saw Titus from their walles they called him by his name and helde vp their handes vnto him prayinge him he would take pitie vpon them but he gaue them neuer a word at that time and turning his backe vnto them he fell a weeping Afterwards he spake with Manius and appeasing his anger got him to graunt the AETOLIANS truce for certaine dayes in which time they might sende Ambassadors to ROME to see if they could obtaine grace and pardon of the Senate But the most trouble and difficulty he had was to intreate for the CHALCIDIANS with whome the Consull Manius was more grieuously offended then with all the rest bicause that kinge Antiochus after the warres was begonne had maried his wife in their citie when he was past yeares of mariage and out of all due time For he was now very olde and beinge in his extreame age and in the middest of his warres he fell in dotage with a yoūg gentlewoman the daughter of Cleoptolemus the fayrest woman that was at that time in all GREECE Therefore the CHALCIDIANS were much affected vnto king Antiochus and did put their city into his handes to serue him in this warre for a strong safe retyring place Wherupō whē Antiochus had lost the battel he came thither with all possible speede and takinge from thence with him his passinge fayer younge Queene which he had maried and his golde his siluer and frendes he tooke the seaes incontinently and returned into ASIA For this cause the Consull Manius hauing wonne the battell did marche straight with his army towardes the citie of CHALCID◠in a greate rage and fury But Titus that followed him did alwayes lye vppon him to pacifie his anger and did so much intreate him together with the other ROMAINES of state and authoritie in counsell that in the ende he gotte him to pardone them of CHALCIDE also Who bicause they were preserued from perill by his meanes they to recompence this fact of his did consecrate vnto him all their most stately and sumptuous buildinges and common workes in their citie as appeareth yet by the superscriptions remaininge to be seene at this day As in the show place of exercises The people of CHALCIDE did dedicate this show place of exercises vnto Titus Hercules And in the temple called Delphinium The people of CHALCIDE did consecrate this temple vnto Titus and vnto Apollo And furthermore vnto this present time there is a priest chosen by the voyce of the people purposely to do sacrifice vnto Titus in which sacrifice after that the thing sacrificed is offered vp and wine powred apon it the people standing by do sing a song of triumphe made in praise of him But bicause it were to long to wryte it all out we haue only drawen in briefe the latter end of the same and this it is The cleare vnspotted faith of Romaines vve adore And vovv to be their faithfull frendes both novv and euer more Sing out you Muses nyne to loues eternall fame Sing out the honor due to Rome and Titus vvorthy name Sing out I say the praise of Titus and his faith By vvhom you haue preserued bene from ruine dole and death Now the
make them gouernors and heades of the same Pitheus grandfather to Theseus on the mothers side was one of his sonnes and founded the litle city of TROEZEN and was reputed to be one of the wisest men of his time But the knowledge and wisedom which onely caried estimacion at that time consisted altogether in graue sentences and morall sayinges As those are which wanne the Poet Hesiodus such fame for his booke intituled The workes and dayes in the which is read euen at this present this goodly sentence which they father vpon Pitheus Thou shalt performe thy promise and thy pay to hyred men and that vvithout delay And this doth Aristotle the Philosopher himselfe testifie and the Poet Euripides also calling Hippolytus the scholler of the holy Pitheus doth sufficiently declare of what estimacion he was But AEgeus desiring as they say to know how he might haue children went vnto the city of DELPHES to the oracle of Apollo where by Apolloes Nunne that notable prophecy was geuen him for an aunswer The which did forbid him to touch or know any woman vntill he was returned againe to ATHENS And bicause the words of this prophecy were somewhat darke hard he tooke his way by the city of TROEZEN to tell it vnto Pitheus The wordes of the prophecy were these O thou vvhich art a gemme of perfect grace plucke not the tappe out of thy trusty toonne Before thou do returne vnto thy place in Athens tovvne from vvhence thy race doth roonne Pitheus vnderstanding the meaning perswaded him or rather cunningly by some deuise deceiued him in such sorte that he made him to lye with his daughter called AEthra AEgeus after he had accompanied with her knowing that she was Pitheus daughter with whom he had lyen and douting that he had gotten her with child left her a sword and a payer of shoes the which he hidde vnder a great hollow stone the hollownes wherof serued iust to receiue those things which he layed vnder it and made no liuing creature priuy to it but her alone straightly charging her that if she happened to haue a sonne when he were come to mans state of strength to remoue the stone and to take those things from vnder it which he left there that she should then sende him vnto him by those tokens as secretly as she could that no body els might knowe of it For he did greatly feare the children of one called Pallas the which laye in wayte and spyall by all the meanes they could to kill him only of despight bicause he had no children they being fiftie brethern and all begotten of one father This done he departed from her And AEthra within fewe moneths after was deliuered of a goodly sonne the which from that time was called Theseus and as some say so called bicause of the tokens of knowledge his father had layed vnder the stone Yet some others write that it was afterwardes at ATHENS when his father knewe him and allowed him for his sonne But in the meane time during his infancie childehood he was brought vp in the house of his grādfather Pitheus vnder the gouernmēt teaching of one called Cōnidas his schoolemaster in honour of whom the ATHENIANS to this daye doe sacrifice a weather the daye before the great feaste of Theseus hauing more reason to honour the memorye of this gouernour then of a Silanion and of a Parrhesius to whom they doe honour also bicause they paynted and caste mowldes of the images of Theseus Now there was a custome at that time in GRECE that the yong men after their infancie and growth to mans state went vnto the cittie of DELPHES to offer parte of their heares in the temple of Apollo Theseus also went thither as other did and some saye that the place where the ceremonie of this offering was made hath euer sence kept the olde name and yet continueth Theseia Howbeit he dyd not shaue his head but before only as Homer sayeth like the facion of the ABANTES in olde time and this manner of shauing of heares was called for his sake Theseida And as concerning the ABANTES in trothe they were the very first that shaued them selues after this facion neuertheles they learned it not of the ARABIANS as it was thought of some neither dyd they it after the imitation of the MISSIANS But bicause they were warlike and valliant men which did ioyne neere vnto their enemie in battell and aboue all men of the worlde were skilfullest in fight hande to hande and woulde keepe their grounde as the Poet Archilochus witnesseth in these verses They vse no slynges in foughten fields to have nor bended bovves but svvords and trenchant blades For vvhen fierce Mars beginneth for to raue in bloody field then euery man inuades His fiercest foe and fighteth hand to hand then doe they deeds right cruell to reconpt For in this vvise the braue and vvarlike bande Doe shevv their force vvhich come from Negrepont The cause why they were thus shauen before was for that their enemies should not haue the vauntage to take them by the heares of the head while they were fighting And for this selfe same consideration Alexander the great commaunded his captaines to cause all the MACEDONIANS to shaue their beards bicause it is the easiest holde and readiest for the hande a man can haue of his enemie in fighting to holde him fast by the same But to returne to Theseus AEthra his mother had euer vnto that time kept it secret from him who was his true father And Pitheus also had geuen it out abroade that he was begotten of Neptune bicause the TROEZENIANS haue this god in great veneration and doe worshippe him as patron and protector of their cittie making offerings to him of their first fruites and they haue for the marke and stampe of their money the three picked mace which is the signe of Neptune called his Trident But after he was comen to the prime and lustines of his youth and that with the strength of his bodie he shewed a great courage ioyned with a naturall wisedome and stayednes of wit then his mother brought him to the place where this great hollowe stone laye and telling him truely the order of his birth and by whom he was begotten made him to take his fathers tokens of knowledge which he had hidden there gaue him counsell to goe by sea to ATHENS vnto him Theseus easilye lyft vp the stone and tooke his fathers tokens from vnder it Howbeit he answered playnely that he would not goe by sea notwithstanding that it was a great deale the safer waye and that his mother and grandfather both had instantly intreated him bicause the waye by lande from TROEZEN to ATHENS was very daungerous all the wayes being besett by robbers and murderers For the worlde at that time brought forth men which for strongnesse in their armes for swyftnes of feete and for
to be louers of children Who placed this lawe among honest matters and commendable as allowing it to the better sorte and forbidding it to the basest They saye also that Pisistratus selfe was in loue with Charmus and that he dyd set vp the litle image of loue which is in Academia where they were wont to light the holy candell But Solons father as Hermippus writeth hauing spent his goodes in liberalitie and deedes of curtesie though he might easely haue bene relieued at diuers mens handes with money he was yet ashamed to take any bicause he came of a house which was wont rather to geue and relieue others then to take them selues so being yet a young man he deuised to trade marchaundise Howbeit other saye that Solon trauelled countries rather to see the worlde and to learne then to trafficke or gayne For sure he was very desirous of knowledge as appeareth manifestly for that being nowe olde he commonly vsed to saye this verse I grovve olde learning still Also he was not couetously bent nor loued riches to much for he sayd in one place VVho so hath goodes and golde enough at call great heards of beastes and flocks in many a folde both horse and mule yea store of corne and all that maye content eche man aboue the movvlde no richer is for all those heapes and hoordes then he vvhich hathe sufficiently to feede and clothe his corpes vvith such as god afoordes But if is ioye and chief delight doe breede for to beholde the fayer and heauenly face of some svvete vvife vvhich is adornde vvith grace or els some childe of beavvty fayre and bright then hath he cause in deede of deepe delight And in another place also he sayeth In deede I doe desire some vvealthe to haue at vvill but not vnles the same be got by faithfull dealing still For suer vvho so desires by vvickednes to thriue shall finde that iustice from such goodes vvill iustly him depriue There is no law forbiddeth an honest man or geÌ„tleman greedily to scrâ—pe goods together more then may suffice likewise to get sufficient to mainteine one withall to defraye all needefull charges In those dayes no state was discommended as sayeth Hesiodus nor any arte or science made any difference betwene men but marchaundise they thought an honorable state as that which deliuered meanes to trafficke into straunge farre couÌ„tries to get acquaintauÌ„ce with states to procure the loue of princes chiefly to gather the experieÌ„ce of the world So that there haue bene marchauÌ„ts which heretofore haue bene fouÌ„ders of great citties as he which first buylt MASSILIA after he had obteined the frieÌ„dshippe of the GAVLES dwelling by the riuer of Rhosne And they saye also that Thales Milesius the wife did traffike marchauÌ„dise that Hippocrates the mathematike did eueÌ„ so likewise that Plato trauelling into Egipt did beare the whole charges of his iorney with the gaines he made of the sale of oile he caried thither They remember also that Solon learned to be lauish in expence to fare delicately to speake wantonly of pleasures in his Poemes somwhat more liceÌ„tâ—ously then became the grauity of a Philosopher only bicause he was brought vp in the trade of marchauÌ„dise wherein for that men are maruelous subiect to great losses dauÌ„gers they seeke otherwiles good chere to driue these cares awaye and libertie to make much of them selues Yet it appeareth by these verses that Solon accompted him selfe rather in the number of the poore than of the riche Riche men oftimes in levvdest liues doe range and often seene that vertuous men be poore Yet vvould the good their goodnes neuer chaunge vvith levvd estate although their vvealthe be more For vertue stands allvvayes both firme and stable VVhen riches roue and seldome are durable This Poetry at the beginning he vsed but for pleasure and when he had leysure writing no matter of importaunce in his verses Afterwards he dyd set out many graue matters of philosophie and the most parte of such things as he had deuised before in the gouernment of a common weale which he dyd not for historie or memories sake but only of a pleasure to discourse for he sheweth the reasons of that he dyd and in some places he exhorteth chideth and reproueth the ATHENIANS And some affirme also he went about to write his lawes and ordinaunces in verse and doe recite his perface which was this Vouche saue ô mighty Ioue of heauen and earth highe King to graunt good fortune to my lavves and beasts in euerie thing And that their glorie grovve in such triumphaunt vvise as maye remaine in fame for aye vvhich liues and neuer dies He chiefly delited in morall philosophie which treated of gouernment common weales as the most parte of the wise men dyd of those times But for naturall philosophie he was very grosse and simple as appeareth by these verses The clattering hayle and softly falling snovve doe breede in ayer and fall from cloudes on hye The dreadfull clappes vvhich thunderbolts doe throvve doe come from heauen and lightninges bright in skye The sea it selfe by boysterous blastes dothe rore vvhich vvere it not prouoked so full sore VVould be both calme and quiet for to passe as any element that euer vvas So in effect there was none but Thales alone of all the seuen wise men of GRECE who searched further the contemplation of things in common vse among men than he For setting him a parte all the others got the name of wisdome only for their vnderstanding in matters of state and gouernment It is reported that they met on a daye all seuen together in the cittie of DELPHES and another time in the cittie of CORINTHE where Periander got them together at a feast that he made to the other sixe But that which most increased their glorie and made their fame most spoken of was the sending backe againe of the three footed stoole when they all had refused it and turned it ouer one to another with great humanitie For the tale is howe certaine fishermen of the I le of Co cast their nettes into the sea and certaine straungers passing by that came from the cittie of MILETVM did buye their draught of fishe at aduenture before the net was drawen And when they drue it vp there came vp in the net a three footed stoole of massy gold which men saye Hellen as she dyd returne from TROYE had throwen in in that place in memory of an auncieÌ„t oracle she called then vnto her minde Thereupon the straungers fisher men first fell at strife about this three footed stoole who should haue it but afterwardes the two citties tooke parte of both sides on their cittizens behalfe In so much as warres had like to haue followed betwene them had not the prophetesse Pythia geuen a like oracle vnto them both That they should geue this three footed stoole vnto the wisest man
and close together in the fire nor dryed vp all the moisture thereof but rather to the contrarie it dyd swell to such a bignes and grewe so harde and strong withall that they were driuen to breake vp the head and walles of the fournes to get it out The soothesayers dyd expounde this that it was a celestiall token from aboue and promised great prosperitie and increase of power vnto those that should enioye this coche Where upon the VEIANE resolued not to deliuer it vnto the ROMAINES that demaunded it but aunswered that it dyd belong vnto king Tarquine and not vnto those that had banished him Not many dayes after there was a solemne feast of games for running of horses in the cittie of VEIES where they dyd also many other notable actes worthy sight according to their custome But after the game was played he that had wonne the bell being crowned in token of victorie as they dyd vse at that time brought his coche and horses fayer and softely out of the showe place and sodainely the horse being affrayed vpon no present cause or occasion seene whether it was by chaunce or by some secret working from aboue ranne as they had bene mad with their coche to the cittie of ROME The coche driuer dyd what he could possible at the first to staye them by holding in the raynes by clapping them on the backs and speaking gently to them but in the ende perceyuing he could doe no good and that they would haue their swynge he gaue place to their furie they neuer linne ronning till they brought him neere to the Capitoll where they ouerthrewe him and his coche not farre from the gate called at this present Ratumena The VEIANS woundering much at this matter and being affrayed withall were contented the workmen should deliuer their coche made of earth vnto the ROMAINES Now concerning Iupiter Capitolins temple king Tarquine the first which was the sonne of Demaratus vowed in the warres that he made against the SABYNES that he would buyld it And Tarquine the prowde being the sonne of him that made this vowe dyd buyld it howbeit he dyd not consecrate it bicause he was driuen out of his Kingdome before he had finished it When this temple was built and throughly finished setforth with all his ornaments Publicola was maruelously desirous to haue the honour of the dedication thereof But the noble men and Senatours enuying his glorie being very angrie that he could not content him selfe with all those honours that he had receyued in peace for the good lawes he had made and in warres for the victories he had obteined well deserued but further that he would seeke the honour of this dedication which nothing dyd pertaine vnto him they then dyd egge Horatius persuaded him to make sute for the same Occasion sell out at that time that Publicola must haue the leading of the ROMAINES armie into the field in the meane time while Publicola was absent it was procured that the people gaue their voyces to Horatius to consecrate the temple knowing they could not so well haue brought it to passe he being present Other saye the Consuls drewe lotts betweene them and that it lighted vpon Publicola to leade the armie against his will and vpon Horatius to consecrate this temple which maye be coniectured by the thing that fortuned in the dedication thereof For all the people being assembled together in the Capitoll with great silence on the fiftenth daye of the moneth of September which is about the newe moone of the moneth which the GRECIANS call Metagitnion Horatius hauing done all the ceremonies needefull in suche a case and holding then the doores of the temple as the vse was euen to vtter the solemne wordes of dedication Marcus Valerius the brother of Publicola hauing stoode a long time there at the temple doore to take an oportunitie to speake beganne to say alowde in this wise My lorde Consul your sonne is dead of a sicknes in the campe This made all the assembly sorie to heare it but it nothing amased Horatius who spake only this muche Cast his bodie then where you will for me the thought is taken So he continued on to ende his consecration This was but a deuise and nothing true of Marcus Valerius only to make Horatius leaue of his consecration Horatius in this shewed him selfe a maruelous resolute man were it that he streight founde his deuise or that he beleeued it to be true for the sodainenes of the matter nothing altered him The very like matter fell out in consecrating of the second temple For this first which Tarquine had built and Horatius consecrated was consumed by fyer in the ciuill warres and the second was built vp againe by Sylla who made no dedication of it For Catulus set vp the superscription of the dedication bicause Sylla dyed before he could dedicate it The second temple was burnt againe not long after the troubles and tumultes which were at ROME vnder Vitellius the Emperour The third in like manner was reedified and built againe by Vespasian from the ground to the toppe But this good happe he had aboue other to see his worke perfited and finished before his death and not ouerthrowen as it was immediately after his death Wherein he dyd farre passe the happines of Sylla who dyed before he could dedicate that he had built and thother deceased before he sawe his worcke ouerthrowen For all the Capitoll was burnt to the ground incontinently after his death It is reported the only foundations of the first temple cost Tarquinius fortie thousand Pondos of siluer And to gyld only the temple which we see nowe in our time they saye all the goodes and substaunce that the richest cittizen of ROME then had will come nothing neere vnto it for it cost aboue twelue thousand talents The pillers of this temple are cut out of a quarrie of marbell called pentlike marbell and they were squared parpine as thicke as long these I sawe at ATHENS But afterwardes they were cut againe and polished in ROME by which doing they got not so much grace as they lost proportion for they were made to slender and left naked of their first beawtie Nowe he that would wounder at the stately buylding of the Capitoll if he came afterwardes vnto the palace Domitian and dyd but see some galerie potche hall or hotte house or his concubines chambers he would saye in my opinion as the poet Epicharmus sayed of a prodigall man. It is a fault and folly both in thee to lashe out giftes and prodigall revvardes For fonde delights vvithout all rule that be regarding not vvhat happens aftervvardes So might they iustly saye of Domitian Thou art not liberall nor deuoute vnto the goddes but it is a vice thou hast to loue to buyld and desirest as they saye of olde Midas that all about thee were turned to gold and precious stones And thus much for this matter Tarquine after that
their voyces also there in deede are they most bounde and subiect bicause they doe but obaye the rich in all they doe commaund But yet in this acte there is a thinge more wonderfull and worthie to be noted That commonly discharging of dettes was wont to breede great tumultes and seditions in common weales And Solon hauing vsed it is a very good time as the phisitian ventring a daungerous medecine dyd appease the sedition already begonne and did vtterly quenche through his glorie and the common opinion they had of his wisdome and vertue all the infamie and accusation that might haue growen of that acte As for their first entrie into the gouernment Solons beginning was farre more noble For he went before and followed not another and him selfe alone without any others helpe dyd put in execution the best and more parte of all his notable and goodly lawes Yet was Publicolaes ende and death much more glorious and happie For Solon before he dyed sawe all his comon wealthe ouerthrowen but Publicolaes common weale continued whole as he left it vntill the broyle of ciuill warres beganne againe among them Solon after he had made his lawes and written them in wodden tables leauing them without defence of any man went his waye immediatly out of the cittie of ATHENS Publicola abiding continually in ROME gouerning the state dyd throughly stablishe confirme the lawes he made Furthermore Solon hauing wisely forseene Pisistratus practises aspiring to make him selfe King he could neuer let him for all that but was himselfe ouercome and oppressed with they tyrannie he sawe stablished in his owne sight and in dispight of him Where Publicola ouerthrewe and dyd put downe a mightie Kingdome that had continued of long time and was throughly stablished his vertue and desire being equall with Solons hauing had besides fortune fauorable and sufficient power to execute his vertuous and well disposed minde But as for warres and marshall deedes there is no comparison to be made betweene them For Daimachus Plataian doth not attribute the warres of the MEGARIANS vnto Solon as we haue written it where Publicola being generall of an armie and fighting himselfe in persone hath wonne many great battels And as for matters of peace and ciuill gouernment Solon neuer durst present him self openly to persuade the enterprise of SALAMINA but vnder a counterfeat madnes and as a soole to make sporte Where Publicola taking his aduenture from the beginning shewed him selfe without dissimulation an open enemie to Tarquine and afterwardes he reuealed all the whole conspiracie And when he had bene the only cause and autor of punishing the traitours he dyd not only driue out of ROME the tyrannes selues in persone but tooke from them also all hope of returne againe Who hauing allwayes thus nobly valiantly behaued him self without shrinking backe or flying from ought that required force a manly corage or open resistaunce dyd yet shewe him selfe discreete where wisedome was requisite or reason and persuasion needefull As when he conningly wanne king Porsena who was a dredfull enemie vnto him and inuincible by force whom he handled in such good sorte that he made him his friend Peraduenture some might stand in this and saye that Solon recouered the I le of SALAMINA vnto the ATHENIANS which they would haue lost Publicola to the contrarie restored the lands vnto Porsena againe which the ROMAINES had conquered before within the countrie of THVSCAN But the times in which these things were done are allwayes to be considered of For a wise gouernour of a Realme and politicke man doth gouerne diuersely according to the occasions offred taking euery thing in his time wherein he will deale And many times in letting goe one thing he saueth the whole and in losing a litle he gayneth much As Publicola dyd who losing a litle pece of another mans countrie which they had vsurped saued by that meanes all that was assuredly his owne And whereas the ROMAINES thought he should doe very much for them to saue their cittie only he got them moreouer all the goodes that were in their enemies cāpe which dyd besiege them And in making his enemie iudge of his quarrell he wāne the victorie winning that moreouer which he would gladly haue geuen to haue ouercome and haue sentence passe of his side For the King their enemie dyd not only make peace with them but dyd also leaue them all his furniture prouision and munition for the warres euen for the vertue manhood and iustice which the great wisedome of this Consul persuaded Porsena to beleeue to be in all the other ROMAINES The end of Publicolaes life THE LIFE OF Themistocles THEMISTOCLES parentage dyd litle aduaunce his glorie for his father Neocles was of small reputation in ATHENS being of the hundred of Phrear tribe of Leontis of his mother an allien or straunger as these verses doe witnesse Abrotonon I am yborne in Thracia and yet this highe good happe I haue that into Grecia I haue brought forth a sonne Themistocles by name the glorie of the Greekishe bloods and man of greatest fame Howbeit Phanias writeth that his mother was not a THRACIAN but borne in the countrie of CARIA and they doe not call her Abrotonon but Euterpé And Neanthes sayeth furthermore that she was of HALICARNASSVS the chiefest cittie of all the Realme of CARIA For which cause when the straungers dyd assemble at Cynosargos a place of exercise without the gate dedicated to Hercules which was not a right god but noted an alien in that his mother was a mortall woman Themistocles persuaded diuers youthes of the most honourable houses to goe down with him to annointe them selues at Cynosargos conningly thereby taking away the differēce betwene the right alien sorte But setting a parte all these circumstaunces he was no doubt allied vnto the house of the Lycomedians for Themistocles caused the chappell of this familie which is in the village of PHLYES being once burnt by the barbarous people to be buylt vp againe at his owne charges and as Simonides sayeth he dyd set in forth and enriche it with pictures Moreouer euery man doth confesse it that euen from his childhood they dyd perceyue he was geuen to be very whotte headed sturring wise and of good spirite and enterprising of him selfe to doe great things and borne to rule weighty causes For at such dayes and howers as he was taken from his booke and had leaue to playe he neuer played nor would neuer be idle as other children were but they allwayes founde him conning some oration without booke or making it alone by him selfe and the ground of his matter was euer comonly either to defend or accuse some of his companions Whereupon his schoolemaster obseruing him ofte sayed vnto him suer some great matter hangeth ouer thy head my boye for it cannot be chosen but that one daye thou shalt doe some notable good thing or some extreme mischief Therefore when they went about to
to be strong by sea was it that dyd mainteine the authoritie of the popular state And that contrariwise they which liue by the labour and toyle of the earthe doe more willingly like the gouernment of Nobilitie Themistocles called to minde another matter also of greater importance to make the cittie of ATHENS of a greater power by sea For after the retire of Xerxes and that all the fleete and nauie of the GRAECIANS wintered in the hauen of PAGASES he sayed one daye in an open assembly of the people that he had thought of a thing which would be very profitable and beneficiall for them but it was not to be tolde openly The people willed him then to imparte it to Aristides and if he thought it good they would execute it speedely Themistocles then tolde Aristides the thing he had considered of was to burne the Arcenal where the GRAECIANS nauy laye and to set on fire all their shippes Aristides hearing his purpose returned to the people and tolde them howe nothing could be more profitable but with all more vniust then that which Themistocles had deuised The ATHENIANS then willed Aristides it should be let alone altogether Furthermore when the LACEDAEMONIANS had exhibited their petition to the counsell of the Amphictyons that is the generall counsaill of all the states of GRAECE assembled howe the townes and citties of GRAECE which had not bene parties with the GRAECIANS to the league against the barbarous people should be put of wholy from this counsaill Themistocles dowting of the ARGIVES the THESSALIANS and the THEBANS also should by this meanes be exempted that the LACEDAEMONIANS would be then the greater number in voyces and by this meanes might doe what they would in this counsell he spake so consideratly for the citties which they would haue thus discharged that he made the petitioners in the assembly vtterly to chaunge their opinion Declaring howe there were but one and thirtie citties comprised only the league and yet that some of them were very weake and small and howe it were no reason that reiecting all the rest of GRECE the greatest authoritie of this counsaill should fall into the handes of two or three of the chiefest citties alone For this cause chiefly the LACEDAEMONIANS dyd euer beare him extreme hatred and dyd set vp Cimon all they could to be allwayes aduersary opposite vnto him and as it were to bearde him in all matters of state and the gouernment of ATHENS They procured him besides the ill will and displeasure of all the friendes and confederates of the ATHENIANS for that he went sayling still to and fro alongest the Iles exacting money of the inhabitants of the same And this is to be knowen by the matter propounded by him to the ANDRIANS of whom he would haue had money and by the aunswer they made him as Herodotus writeth Which was howe he had brought them two mightie goddes Loue and Force And they aunswered him againe that they also had two great goddesses which kept them from geuing of him any money Pouertie and Impossibilitie And to make this good also Timocreon the Rhodian poet galled him to the quicke when he sharpely taunted him for calling many home againe for money that were banished and howe for couetousnes of money he had betrayed and forsaken his hoste and friende The verses wherein this matter is mentioned are to this effecte VVho list commend vvorthy Pausanias Xanthippus or good Leotychides yet shall I seeme but light thereof to passe compared vvith valliant Aristides For yet vvas naye the like in Athens tovvne nor neuer shall come none of like renovvne Themistocles by right and due deserte is hated of Latons for his lyes and for he bare a traitrous vvicked harte vvho like a vvretche nigard did deuise for small revvardes his host Timocreon to holde out of his countrie Ialison He tooke for bribe vniustly yet therevvhile of redy coyne three talents fayre and bright revoking such as pleased him from exile and banishing full many a vvorthy vvight Or putting them to death vvithout cause tolde he gate thereby great heapes of coyne and golde But in the ende ôright revvarde for such this bribing vvretch vvas forced for to holde a tipling bovvthe most like a clovvne or fâ—â—â—he at holy feastes and pastimes manifold vvhich vvere amongest the people in those dayes Istmiciane folke dyd vse the like allvvayes And there he serued his gests vvith cold meat still vvhilest they that tasted of his cookerie gan vvishe that they to ease their vveary vvill had neuer liued to see the treccherie of false Themistocles and that he might no longer liue vvhich vvrought them such despight After this he dyd more openly blase him to the worlde when he was banished and condemned in a songe that had beginning thus O Muse let these my verses be disperst throughout all Grace since they deserue no lesse and since the truthe vvhich is in them rehearst deserueth fame vvhom no man should suppresse They saye the cause was why this Timocreon was banished the friendshippe which he had with the Barbarous people and for geuing them intelligence Whereof Themistocles was one that iudicially condemned him Wherefore when Themistocles him selfe was accused afterwards of the same faulte Timocreon then made these verses following against him Timocreon vvas not vvithout his pheere vvhich did conferre vvith Medes priuely Since others mo the selfe same blame might beare mo foxes lurke in dennes as vvell as I. Besides these verses Themistocles owne citizens for the ill will they bare him were contented to heare him ill spoken of Therefore while he fought wayes to redresse all this he was driuen to vse such meane which more increased their hatred toward him For in his orations to the people he dyd ofte remember them of the good seruice he had done them and perceyuing howe they were offended withall he was driuen to saye Why are ye weary so ofte to receyue good by one man Many of them were very angry with him also when he surnamed Diana in the dedication of her temple he made vnto her Aristobule as much to saye as the good counseller meaning thereby howe he had geuen graue and wise counsell both vnto his cittie and to all the rest of the GRECIANS He built this temple also neere his house in a place called Melita where the hangemen doe cast the dead bodies of those that were executed and throwe the ragges and halters endes of those that were hanged or otherwise put to death by lawe There was also in our dayes in the temple of Diana Aristobule a litle image of Themistocles which shewed plainely that he was not only wise and of a noble minde but also of a great maiestie and countenaunce in face In the ende the ATHENIANS banished him ATHENS for fiue yere bicause they would plucke downe his ouergreat corage and authoritie as they dyd vse to serue those whose greatnes they thought to be more then common equalitie
fortuned in the ende to taste of the wine which was first brought out of ITALIE vnto them Which drinke they found so good and were so delited with it that sodainely they armed themselues and taking their wiues and children with them they went directly towards the ALPES to goe seeke out the country that brought forth such fruite iudging all other countries in respect of that to be but wilde and barren It is sayed that the first man which brought wine vnto them and that dyd procure them to passe into ITALIE was a noble man of THVSCAN called Arron and otherwise of no ill disposed nature howbeit he was subiect to this misfortune following He was tutor vnto an orphan childe the richest that was at that time in all the countrie of THVSCAN and of complexion was wonderfull fayer he was called Lucumo This orphan was brought vp in Arrons house of a childe and though he was growen to mans state yet he would not goe from him fayning he was so well and to his liking But in deede the cause was that he loued his maistres Arrons wife whom secretly he had enioyed a long time and she him that made him like his continuance there Howbeit in the ende loue hauing so possessed them both that neither parte could withdrawe from other much lesse culler that they had long enioyed the young man stole her away from him and kept her still by force Arron put him in sute but he preuayled not for Lucumo ouerweyed him with friends money giftes and charges But he tooke it so greuously that he left his country and hauing heard talke of the GAVLES he went vnto them and was their guide to bring them into ITALIE So they conquered at their first coming all that country which the THVSCANS helde in olde time beginning at the foote of the mountaines and stretched out in length from one sea vnto the other which enuironneth ITALIE as the names them selues doe witnesse For they call yet that sea which looketh vnto the northe the Adriatick sea by reason of a cittie built sometime by the THVSCANS which was called Adria The other which lieth directly ouer against the South is called the THVSCAN sea All that countrie is well planted with trees hath goodly pleasaunt pastures for beastes and cattell to feede in is notably watered with goodly ronning riuers There was also at that time eighteene fayer great citties in that country all of them very strong and well seated aswell for to enriche the inhabitants thereof by traffike as to make them to liue delicately for pleasure All these citties the GAVLES had wonne and had expulsed the THVSCANS but this was done long time before Now the GAVLES being further entred into THVSCAN dyd besiege the cittie of CLVSIVM Thereupon the CLVSIANS seeking ayde of the ROMAINES besought them they would send letters and ambassadours vnto these barbarous people in their fauour They sent vnto them three of the best and most honorable persones of the cittie all three of the house of the Fabians The GAVLES receyued them very curteously bicause of the name of ROME and leauing to assaulte the cittie they gaue them audience The ROMAINE ambassadours dyd aske them what iniurie the CLVSIANS had done vnto them that they came to make warres with them Brennus king of the GAVLES hearing this question smiled and aunswered them thus The CLVSIANS doe vs wrong in this they being but fewe people together not able to occupie much lande doe notwithstanding possesse much and will let vs haue no parte with them that are straungers and out of our country and stande in neede of seate and habitation The like wrong was offered vnto you ROMAINES in old time by those of ALBA by the FIDENATES and the ARDEATES and not long sithence by the VEIANS the CAPENATES and partly by the FALISCES and the VOLSCES against whom ye haue taken doe take armes at all times And as ofte as they will let ye haue no parte of their goods ye imprison their persones robbe and spoyle their goodes and distroye their citties And in doing this ye doe them no wrong at all but followe the oldest lawe that is in the worlde which euer leaueth vnto the stronger that which the weaker can not keepe and enioye Beginning with the goddes ending with beastes the which haue this propertie in nature that the bigger and stronger haue euer the vauntage of the weaker and lesser Therefore leaue your pittie to see the CLVSIANS besieged least you teache vs GAVLES to take compassion also of those you haue oppressed By this aunswer the ROMAINES knewe very wel there was no waye to make peace with king Brennus Wherefore they entred into the cittie of CLVSIVM and incoraged the inhabitants to salye out with them vpon these barbarous people either bicause they had a desire to proue the valliantnes of the GAVLES or els to shewe their owne corage and manhoode So the cittizens went out and skirmished with them harde by the walles in the which one of the Fabians called Quintus Fabius Ambustus being excellently well horsed and putting spurres to him dyd set vpon a goodly bigge personage of the GAVLES that had aduaunced him selfe farre before all the troupe of his companions He was not knowen at the first encounter as well for the sodaine meeting and skirmishing together as for that his glistering armour dimmed the eyes of the enemies But after he had slaine the GAVLE and came to strippe him Brennus then knewe him and protested against him calling the goddes to witnesse howe he had broken the lawe of armes that coming as an ambassadour he had taken vpon him the forme of an enemie Hereupon Brennus forthwith left skirmishing and raising the seige from CLVSIVM marched with his army vnto ROME gates And to the ende the ROMAINES might knowe that the GAVLES were not well pleased for the iniurie they had receyued to haue an honest culler to beginne warres with the ROMAINES he sent an Herauld before to ROME to demaunde liuerie of the man that had offended him that he might punish him accordingly In the meane time he him selfe came marching after by small iourneys to receyue their aunswer The Senate hereupon assembled many of the Senatours blamed the rashnes of the Fabians but most of all the priestes called Faciales For they followed it very earnestly as a matter that concerned religion the honour of the godds declaring how the Senate in discharge of all the residue of the cittie of the offence cōmitted should laye the whole waight and burden of it vpon him alone that only had done the facte Numa Pompilius the iustest and most peaceable of all the kings of ROME that had bene was he that first erected the colledge of these Faciales and dyd ordeine that they should be the keepers of peace and the iudges to heare and allowe all the causes for the which they should iustely beginne any warres Neuertheles the
the least if those thinges be to be credited which so many graue and auncient writers haue left in writing to vs touching so great and holy things The THEBANS returning backe from ORCHOMENE and the LACEDAEMONIANS on the other side returning also from LOCRIDE both at one time they fortuned both armies to mete about the citty of TEGYRA Now so sone as the THEBANS had discouered the LACEDAEMONIANS passing the straite one of them ranne sodainely to Pelopidas and tolde him Sir we are fallen into the handes of the LACEDAEMONIANS Nay are not they rather fallen into ours aunswered Pelopidas againe with these wordes he commaunded his horsemen that were in the rereward to come before and sett apon them and him selfe in the meane time put his footemen immediately into a pretie squadron close togeather being in all not aboue three hundred men hoping when he should come to geue charge with his battell he should make a lane through the enemies though they were the greater nomber For the LACEDAEMONIANS deuided them selues in two companies and euery company as Ephoreus writeth had fiue hundred mens and as Callistenes sayed seuen hundred Polybius and diuers other authors saye they were nyne hundred men So Theopompus and Gorgoleon the Captaynes of the LACEDAEMONIANS lustely marched agaynst the THEBANS and it fell out so that the first charge was geuen where the chiefetaynes or generalles were of either side with great furie on eyther parte so as both the generalls of the LACEDAEMONIANS which sett vppon Pelopidas together were slayned They being slayne and all that were about them being either hurt or killed in the fielde the rest of the armie were so amased that they deuided in two and made a lane on either side for the THEBANS to passe through them if they would But when they saw Pelopidas ment not to take the passage they offered him and that he came on still with his men to set apon those that were yet in battel raye and slue all them that stoode before him then they turned tayle and tooke them to their legges Howbeit the THEBANS did not chase them farre fearing the ORCHOMENIANS who were not farre from them and the new garrison besides that were come from LACEDAEMON not long before And this was the cause they were contented that they had ouercomed them by force and had passed through their armie in despite of them and broken and ouerthrowen them So when he had set vp markes of triumphe and spoyled their slayne enemies they returned home againe glad men for their obteyned victorie For in all the warres the LACEDAEMONIANS euer made as well with the GRAECIANS as with the barbarous people also there was neuer chronicle mencioned at any tyme that their enemies being so fewe did ouercome them that were so many nor that they were ouercome also by any number equall in battell Whereuppon they grewe so coragious and terrible that no man durst once abyde them for their onely same did so terrifie their enemies that came to fight agaynst them that they thought with no equall force to be able to performe asmuche as they had done But this battell of TEGYRA was the first that made both them and the other GREECIANS knowe that it was not the ryuer of EVROTAS alone nor the valley that lyeth betweene the tyuers of CNACION and of BABYCE that breedeth the valiant and hardy fighting men but that it is in all places else where they learne young men to be ashamed of dishonest and vyle thinges and to venter their liues for honest causet◠fearing more dishonorable reproche then honorable daunger These are the people most to be feared are most terrible also to their enemies And for the holy bād we mēcioned before it is saide Gorgidas was the first erector of the same They were three hundred chosen men entertained by the state and they alwaies kept within the castell of CADMEA and the bande was called the townes bande for at that time and specially in that part of GREECE they called the castels and great holdes in citties the townes Other say it was a bande of fooremen that were in loue one with another And therefore Pammenes pleasaunt wordes are noted saiying that Nestor coulde no skyll to set an armie in battell raye seeing he gaue the GREECIANS counsell in the ILIADES of HOMER that they should set them in battell raye euery countrie and tribe by them selues That by affections force and lynkes of kyndly loue that one might alvvaise helpe at hande that other to behoue For saide he one frende should rather be set by another that loues togeather bicause in daunger men commonly do litle regarde their contrie men or suche as are of their tribe But men that doo loue one another can neuer be broken nor ouercome for the passion of loue that entertaineth eche others affection for affection sake dothe kepe them from forsaking one another And those that are beloued being ashamed to doo any vyle or dishonest thing before those that loue them for very loue will sticke one by another to the death And sure3 the reason is good if it be true that louers doo in deede more regard them they loue though they be absent then other that be present As appeareth by the example of hym that being striken downe to the ground his enemie lifting vp his swoorde to kyll him he praied him he woulde geue him his deathes wounde before lest his frende that loued him seeing a wounde on his backe shoulde be ashamed of him It is reported also that Iolaus being beloued of Hercules did helpe and accompanie him in all his labors and quarrels Whereupon Aristotle writeth that vnto his time such as loued hartily togeather became sworne brethren one to another apon Iolaus tombe And therefore me thinkes it is likely that this bande was first called the holy bande by the selfe same reason that Plato calleth a louer a diuine frende by goddes appointment It is written also that this bande was neuer broken nor ouerthrowen before the battel of CHAERONEA After that battel Philip taking vewe of the slaine bodies he stayed in that place where the foure hundred men of that bande laye all dead on the grounde one harde by another and all of them slayne and thrust through with pikes on their brestes whereat he wondred muche and being tolde him that it was the louers bande he fel a weeping for pittie saying Wo be to them that thinke these men did or suffered any euyll or dishonest thing And to be short the misfortune of Laius that was slaine by his owne brother Oedipus was not the first originall cause of this custome that the THEBANS beganne to be in loue one with an other as the POETS write but they were their first lawmakers who perceiuing them to be a stout fierce natiō of nature they sought euen frō their youthe to make them gentell and ciuill and therefore in all their actions both of sport and earnest they
maruelous plaine man without pride and of a good nature Then they tolde him what notable wise sayinges and graue sentences they heard him speake Valerius Flaccus hearing this reporte of him willed his men one day to pray him to come to supper to him Who falling in acquaintance with Cato and perceiuing he was of a very good nature and wel giuen that he was a good griffe to be set in a better ground he perswaded him to come to ROME and to practise there in the assembly of the people in the common causes and affayres of the common weale Cato followed his counsail who hauing bene no long practiser among them did grow straight into great estimacion and wanne him many frends by reason of the causes he tooke in hand to defend and was the better preferred and taken also by meanes of the speciall fauour and countenaunce Valerius Flaccus gaue him For first of all by voyce of the people he was chosen Tribune of the souldiers to say colonell of a thousand footemen afterwards was made treasorer and so went forwards and grew to so great credit authority as he became Valerius Flaccus cōpanion in the chiefest offices of state being chosen Consul with him then Censor But to begin withal Cato made choise of Quintus Fabius Maximus aboue all the Senators of ROME gaue him selfe to follow him altogether not so much for the credit estimacion Fabius Maximus was of who therein exceded all the ROMAINES of that time as for the modesty and discrete gouernment he sawe in him whome he determined to followe as a worthy myrror and example At which time Cato passed not for the malice and euil will of Scipio the great who did striue at that present being but a young man with the authoritie and greatnesse of Fabius Maximus as one that seemed to enuy his risinge and greatnesse For Cato being sent treasorer with Scipio when he vndertooke the iorney into AFRIKE and perceiuing Scipioes bountifull nature and disposition to large giftes without meane to the souldiers he tolde him plainly one day that he did not so much hurt the common wealth in wasting their treasure as he did great harme in chaūging the auncient maner of their auncesters who vsed their souldiers to be contented with litle but he taught them to spende their superfluous money all necessaries prouided for in vaine toyes and trifles to serue their pleasure Scipio made him aunswere he woulde haue no treasorer shoulde controll him in that sorte nor that should looke so narrowly to his expences for his intent was to go to the wars with full sayles as it were and that he woulde and did also determine to make the state priuie to all his doinges but not to the money he spent Cato hearing this aunswer returned with spede out of SICILE vnto ROME crying out with Fabius Maximus in open Senate that Scipio spent infinitely and that he tended playes commedies and wrestlinges as if he had not bene sent to make warres inuasions and attemptes apon their enemies Apon this complaint the Senate appointed certeine Tribunes of the people to goe and see if their informations were true and finding them so that they should bring him backe againe to ROME But Scipio shewed farre otherwise to the commissioners that came thither and made them see apparaunt victorie through the necessary preparacion and prouision he had made for the warres and he confessed also that when he had dispatched his great businesse and was at any leasure he would be priuately mery with his frends and though he was liberall to his souldiers yet that made him not negligent of his duety and charge in any matter of importance So Scipio tooke shippinge and sayled towards AFRIKE whether he was sent to make warre Now to returne to Cato He daily increased still in authority and credit by meanes of his eloquence so that diuerse called him the Demosthenes of ROME howbeit the maner of his life was in more estimacion then his eloquence For all the youth of ROME did seeke to attaine to his eloquence and commendacion of wordes and one enuied an other which of them should come nearest but few of them woulde fyle their handes with any labor as their forefathers did and make a light supper and dinner without fire or prouision or woulde be content with a meane gowne and a poore lodging finally woulde thinke it more honorable to defye fansies pleasures then to haue and enioy them Bicause the state was waxen now of such power wealth as it could no more retaine the auncient discipline and former austeritie and straitnes of life it vsed but by reason of the largenes of their dominion and seigniory and the numbers of people and nations that were become their subiects it was euen forced to receiue a medley of sundry contry facions examples and maners This was a cause why in reason men did so greatly wonder at Catoes vertue when they sawe other straight wearyed with paines and labor tenderly brought vp like pulers and Cato on the other side neuer ouercommen either with the one or with the other no not in his youth when he most coueted honor nor in his age also when he was gray headed and balde after his Consullship and triumphe but like a conqueror that had gotten the maistery he would neuer geue ouer labor euen vnto his dying day For he writeth him selfe that there neuer came gowne on his backe that cost him aboue a hundred pence that his hyndes and worke men alwayes dronke no worse wine when he was Consull and generall of the armie then he did him selfe and that his cater neuer bestowed in meate for his supper aboue thirty Asses of ROMAINE money and yet he sayed it was bicause he might be the stronger and apter to do seruice in the warres for his contry and the common wealth He sayd furthermore that being heire to one of his frends that dyed he had a peece of tapestry by him with a deepe border which they called then the babilonian border and he caused it straight to be solde and that of all his houses he had abroade in the contry he had not one wall-plastered nor rough cast Moreouer he would say he neuer bought bondeman or slaue dearer then a thowsande fiue hundred pence as one that sought not for fine made men and goodly personages but strong fellowes that could away with paynes as carters horsekepers neatheardes and such like and againe he woulde sell them when they were olde bicause he would not keepe them when they coulde do no seruice To conclude he was of opinion that a manne bought any thinge deere that was for litle purpose yea though he gaue but a farthing for it he thought it to much to bestow so litle for that which needed not He would haue men purchase houses that hadde more store of errable lande and pasture then of fine orteyardes or gardeins
this young maide went somewhat boldly by the chamber of young Cato to go into his father the young man sayd neuer a word at it yet his father perceiued that he was somewhat ashamed and gaue the maide no good countenaunce Wherefore findinge that his sonne and daughter in lawe were angry with the matter sayinge nothinge to them of it nor shewinge them any ill countenaunce he went one morninge to the market place as his maner was with a traine that followed him amongest whome was one Salonius that had bene his clearke and wayted vpon him as the rest did Cato calling him out alowde by his name asked him if he hadde not yet bestowed his daughter Salonius aunswered him he had not yet bestowed her nor woulde not before he made him priuie to it Then Cato tolde him againe I haue founde out a husbande for her and a sonne in lawe for thee and it will be no ill matche for her vnlesse she mislike the age of the man for in deede he is very olde but otherwise there is no faulte in him Salonius tolde him againe that for that matter he referred all to him and his daughter also prayinge him euen to make what matche he thought good for her for she was his humble seruaunt and relyed wholly vppon him standinge in neede of his fauor and furtheraunce Then Cato beganne to discouer and tolde him plainely he woulde willingely mary her him selfe Salonius therewith was abashed bicause he thought Cato was too olde to mary then and him selfe was no fitte manne to matche in any honorable house speciallie with a Consull and one that hadde triumped howebeit in the ende when he sawe Cato ment good earnest he was very glad of the matche and so with this talke they went on together to the markette place and agreed then vpon the mariage Now while they went about this matter Cato the sonne taking some of his kinne and frendes with him went vnto his father to aske him if he had offended him in any thinge that for spight he shoulde bringe him a steppe mother into his house Then his father cried out sayd O my sonne I pray thee say not so I like well all thou doest and I finde no cause to complaine of thee but I do it bicause I desire to haue many children and to leaue many such like citizens as thou art in the common wealth Some say that Pisistratus the tyran of ATHENS made such a like aunswere vnto the children of his first wife which were men growen when he maried his seconde wife Timonassa of the towne of ARGOS of whom he had as it is reported Iophon and Thessalus But to returne againe to Cato he had a sonne by his second wife whom he named after her name Cato SALONIAN and his eldest sonne died in his office beinge Praetor of whome he often speaketh in diuerse of his bookes commendinge him for a very honest man And they say he tooke the death of him very paciently and like a graue wise man not leauing therefore to do any seruice or businesse for the state otherwise then he did before And therein he did not as Lucius Lucullus Metellus surnamed Pius did afterwards who gaue vp medling any more with matters of gouernment and state after they were waxen olde For he thought it a charge and duety wherevnto euery honest man whilest he liued was bounde in all piety Nor as Scipio AFRICAN hadde done before him who perceiuing that the glory fame of his doings did purchase him the ill will of the citizens he chaunged the rest of his life into quietnes and forsooke the citie and all dealings in common wealth and went dwelt in the contry But as there was one that told Dionysius the tyran of SYRACVSA as it is wrytten that he could not die more honorably then to be buried in the tyranny euen so did Cato thinke that he could not waxe more honestlie olde then in seruing of the common wealth vnto his dying day So at vacant times when Cato was desirous a litle to recreate and refresh him selfe he passed his time away in makinge of bookes and lookinge vppon his husbandry in the contry This is the cause why he wrote so many kindes of bookes and stories But his tillage and husbandry in the contry he did tende and followe all in his youth for his profit For he sayed he had but two sortes of reuenue tillage and sparinge but in age whatsoeuer he did in the contry it was all for pleasure and to learne some thinge euer of nature For he hath wrytten a booke of the contry life and of tillage in the which he sheweth howe to make tartes and cakes and how to keepe frutes He woulde needes shew such singularity and skill in all thinges when he was in his house in the contry he fared a litle better then he did in other places and would oftentimes bid his neighbours and such as had lande lying about him to come and suppe with him and he would be mery with them so that his company was not onely pleasaunt and likinge to olde folkes as him selfe but also to the younger sorte For he had seene much and had experience in many thinges and vsed much pleasaunt talke profitable for the hearers He thought the bord one of the chiefest meanes to breede loue amongest men and at his owne table woulde alwayes praise good men and vertuous citizens but would suffer no talke of euill men neither in their praise nor dispraise Now it is thought the last notable acte and seruice he did in the common wealth was the ouerthrow of CARTHAGE for in deede he that wanne it and rased it vtterly was Scipio the seconde but it was chiefely through Catoes counsell and aduise that the last warre was taken in hand against the CARTHAGINIANS and it chaunced apon this occasion Cato was sent into AFRICKE to vnderstande the cause and controuersie that was betwene the CARTHAGINIANS and Massinissa kinge of NVMIDIA which were at great warres together And he was sent thither bicause king Massinissa had euer bene a frend vnto the ROMAINES and for that the CARTHAGINIANS were become their confederates since the last warres in the which they were ouerthrowen by Scipio the first who tooke for a fyne of them a great parte of their Empire and imposed apon them besides a great yearely tribute Now when he was come into that contrie he founde not the citie of CARTHAGE in miserie beggerie and out of harte as the ROMAINES supposed but full of lusty youthes very riche and wealthie and great store of armour and munition in it for the warres so that by reason of the wealth thereof CARTHAGE caried a high sayle and stowped not for a litle Wherefore he thought that it was more then time for the ROMAINES to leaue to vnderstande the controuersies betwext the CARTHAGINIANS and Massinissa and rather to prouide betimes to destroye CARTHAGE that hadde beene euer an
by this meanes he got him out of the daunger of his office of Tribuneship for that yeare he made fayer weather with him as though he ment to reconcile him selfe vnto him and tolde him that he had cause rather to thinke ill of Terentia for that he had done against him then of him selfe and alwayes spake very curteously of him as occasion fell out and sayde he did thinke nothing in him nether had any malice to him howbeit it did a litle grieue him that being a friend he was offered vnkindnes by his friend These sweete wordes made Cicero no more affraied so that he gaue vp his Lieuetenancie vnto Caesar and beganne againe to pleade as he did before Caesar tooke this in such disdaine that he hardened Clodius the more against him and besides made Pompey his enemie And Caesar him selfe also sayd before all the people that he thought Cicero had put Lentulus Cethegus and the rest vniustly to death and contrary to lawe without lawfull tryall and condemnation And this was the fault for the which Cicero was openly accused Thereuppon Cicero seeing him selfe accused for this facte he chaunged his vsuall gowne he wore and put on a mourning gowne and so suffering his beard and heare of his head to growe without any coeming he went in this humble manner and sued to the people But Clodius was euer about him in euery place and streete he went hauing a sight of raskalls and knaues with him that shamefully mocked him for that he had chaunged his gowne and countenance in that sort and oftentimes they cast durt and stones at him breaking his talke and requests he made vnto the people This notwithstanding all the knights of ROME did in manner chaunge their gownes with him for companie and of them there were commonly twenty thowsand younge gentlemen of noble house which followed him with their heare about their eares were suters to the people for him Furthermore the Senate assembled to decree that the people should mourne in blacks as in a common calamitie But the Consuls were against it And Clodius on thother side was with a band of armed men about the Senate so that many of the Senators ranne out of the Senat crying tearing their clothes for sorow Howbeit these men seeing all that were nothing the more moned with pity and shame but either Cicero must needes absent him selfe or els determine to fight with Clodius Then went Cicero to intreat Pompey to ayde him But he absented him selfe of purpose out of the citie bicause he would not be intreated and laye at one of his houses in the contry neare vnto the citie of ALBA So he first of all sent Piso his sonne in lawe vnto 〈…〉 to intreate him and afterwardes went him selfe in person to him But Pompey beeing tolde that he was come had not the harte to suffer him to come to him to looke him in the face for he had bene past all shame to haue refused the request of so worthy a man who had before shewed him suche pleasure and also done and sayde so many thinges in his fauor Howbeit Pompey beeing the sonne in lawe of Caesar did vnfortunately at his request forsake him at his neede vnto whome he was bownde for so many infinite pleasures as he had receyued of him afore and therefore when he hearde saye he came to him he went out at his backe gate and woulde not speake with him So Cicero seeing him selfe betrayed of him and nowe hauing no other refuge to whome he might repayre vnto he put him selfe into the handes of the two Consuls Of them two Gabinius was euer cruell and churlishe vnto him But Piso on thother side spake alwayes very curteously vnto him and prayed him to absent him selfe for a tyme and to giue place a litle to Clodius furie and paciently to beare the chaunge of the tyme For in so doing he might come agayne another tyme to be the preseruer of his contry which was nowe for his sake in tumult and sedition Cicero vpon this aunswer of the Consul consulted with his friendes amonge the which Lucullus gaue him aduise to tary and sayd that he should be the stronger But all the rest were of contrary opinion and would haue him to get him away with speede for the people would shortly wishe for him agayne when they had once bene beaten with Clodius furie and folly Cicero liked best to followe this counsell Whereuppon hauing had a statue of Minerua a long tyme in his house the which he greatly reuerenced he caried her him selfe and gaue her to the Capitoll with this inscription Vnto Minerua Protector of ROME So his friends hauing giuen him safe conduct he went out of ROME about midnight and tooke his way through the contry of LVKE by lande meaning to goe into SICILE When it was knowen in ROME that he was fledde Clodius did presently banishe him by decree of the people and caused billes of inhibition to be sette vppe that no man should secretly receiue him within fiue hundred myles compasse of ITALY Howbeit diuers men reuerencing Cicero made no reckoning of that inhibition but when they had vsed him with all manner of curtesie possible they did conduct him besides at his departure sauing one citie onely in LVKE called at that tyme HIPPONIVM and nowe VIBONE where a SICILIAN called Vibius vnto whome Cicero before had done many pleasures and specially amonge others had made him Maister of the workes in the yeare that he was Consul would not once receyue him into his house but promised him he woulde appoynt him a place in the contry that he might goe vnto And Caius Virgilius also at that tyme Praetor and gouernor of SICILE who before had shewed him selfe his very greate friende wrote then vnto him that he shoulde not come neare vnto SICILE This grieued him to the harte Thereuppon he went directly vnto the citie of BRVNDVSIVM and there imbarked to passe ouer the sea vnto DYRRACHIVM and at the first had winde at will but when he was in the mayne sea the winde turned and brought him backe agayne to the place from whence he came But after that he hoysed sayle agayne and the reporte went that at his arryuall at DYRRACHIVM when he tooke lande the earth shooke vnder him and the sea gaue backe together Whereby the Soothesayers enterpreted that his exile shoulde not be longe bicause both the one and the other was a token of chaunge Yet Cicero notwithstanding that many men came to see him for the goodwill they bare him and that the cities of GRAECE contended who shoulde most honor him he was alwayes sadde and could not be merie but cast his eyes still towardes ITALY as passioned louers doe towardes the women they loue shewing him selfe faynte harted and tooke this aduersitie more basely then was looked for of one so well studied and learned as he And yet he oftentimes praied his friends not to call him Orator
Annibal was but would by voluntary banishment dye out of the citie The ende of the whole volume of Plutarkes liues Three things necessary for a Magistrate or Captaine Prouerbe Sossius Senecio a Senator of Rome Theseus and Romulus very like The linage of Theseus Pelops king of Peloponnesus Pitheus the grandfather of Theseus The wisedom of Pitheus AEgeus the father of Theseus AEthra the daughter of king Pitheus the mother of Theseus The Palla 〈…〉 tides Pallas had fiftie sonnes VVhy Theseus vvas so called Connidas Theseus schoolemaster A custome to offer heares at Delphes Theseia Theseus manner of shauing The Abantes The cause of shauing their heares before Alexander Magnus made the Macedonians shaue their beardes Theseus said to be Neptunes sonne The Troezenians coyne stamped vvith Neptunes three picked mace Theseus youthe Great robbing in Theseus time Thucid. lib. 2. Hercules a destroyer of theeues Hercules serueth Omphale Theseus foloweth Hercules â—â—she of saue pricketh men forward to great enterprises Theseus and Hercules nere kynsemen Periphetes Corinetes a famous robber slayne of Theseus Theseus caried the clubbe he wanne of Periphetes at Hercules did the lions skin Sinnis Pityocamtes a cruel murtherer slaine Perigouna Sinnis daughter Theseus begaâ—te Menalippus of Perigouna Ioxus Menalippus sonne Ioxides Phaea the wilde sowe of Crommyon slaine Phaea a woman theefe Sciron a notable robber throweÌ„ downe the rocks by Theseus AEacus Cychreus Cercyon the Arcadian slaine of Theseus by wrestling Damastes Procrustes a cruel murtherer slaine of Theseus Hercules doinge Termerus euill Cephisus aviâ—er of Caâ—â—â— The Phytalides the first men that feasted Theseus in their houses This sacrifice Pâ—â—â—che calleth Milâ—â—â—â—â—hia Medea perswaded AEgeus to poyson Theseus AEgeus acknowledgeth Theseus for his sonne The Pallantides take ernes against AEgeus and Theseus Leos an Herauld bewrayeth their treason to Theseus Theseus killeth the Pallantides The bull of Marathon taken aliue by Theseus Apollo Delphias Iupiter Hecalian The Athenians payed tribute to Minos king of Creta for the death of Androgeus his sonne The manner of the tribute conditioned The Minotaure what it was The Laberinthe a prison in Creta Taurus one of Minoes captaines Of the Bottieians Plin. lib. 4. cap. 2. King Minos defated by the Poets in the theaters as Athens RadamaÌ„thus The thirde time of payment of the tribute The Atheniâ—â—e are grieued to depart with their children Theseus offereth to goe with the children into Creta Lotts dreâ—m for the children that should goe The Athenians sent their children into Creta in a shippe with a blacke sayle AEgeus geueth the master of the shippe a white sayle to signifie the safe returne of Theseus Cybernesia games Hiceteria offering Theseus taketh shippe with the tribute childreÌ„ the sixt of Marche and sayleth into Creta Venus Epitragia Theseus slewe the Minotaure by meanes of Ariadne king Minoes daughter Theseus returne â—â—e of Creta Taurus ouercome of Theseus was a men Taurus suspected with Pasiphäe king Minoes wife How Ariadne fell in loue with Theseus Minos sendeth Theseus home with his prisoners and releaseth the Athenians of their tribute 〈…〉 Daedalus 〈…〉 King Minos dyed in Sicile Deucalion King Minoes sonne sent to Athens to demaunde Daedalus Theseus sayled into Creta and a anne the cittie of Gnosvs and slewe Deucalion Diuers opinions of Ariadne O Enopion Staphylus Theseus sonnes Theseus leaueth Ariadne in Cyprus Ariadne dieth wish childe in Cyprus The ceremonie of the sacrifice done to Ariadne in Cyprus Venus Ariadne Two Minoes and two Ariadnees Corcyna Ariadnes nurce Theseus returneth out of Creta into the I le of Delos Theseus daunce called the Crane Palme a tokeÌ„ of victory Theseus master of his shippe forgate to see out the white sayle AEgeus death Theseus arriueth safe with the tribute children in the hauen of Phalerus The Herauld bare a rodde in his hand The feast Oscophoria October called Pyanepsion in the Aâ—ucan tongue Persd of Iresione in the life of Homer and Suidas Theseus went into Creta with the tribute children in the galliot of 30. owers Disputation about increase The galliot alleaged for a doubt Theseus thanksfullnes to the Phytalides â—hâ— were the first that frosted him in their houses Theseus brought the â—â—cabiâ—ants of the contrie of Arciâ—â— into cue cin Asty the towne house of the Athenians The feastes Panathenea and Metaecia Theseus resigneth his kingdome maketh Athiâ— a common wealth The oracle of Apollo in Delphes Theseus maketh differeÌ„ce of states and degrees in his coÌ„mon weals Theseus the first that gaue ouer regall power framed a populer state An oxe stamped in Theseus coyne Hecatomboeon Decaboeon Olympia Theseus erected the games Isthmia in the honour of Neptune Theseus iornye into mare Maior Antiopa the Amazone rauished by Theseus Solois fell in loue with Antiopa Solois droâ—â—ed him selfe for loue Pythopolis built by Theseus Solois fl The cause of the warres of the Amazones against the Athenâ—â—s Bosphorus Cimmericus an arme of the sea Theseus fighteth a battell with the Amazones The order of the Amazones battell Peace concluded as feâ—â—e moneths ende by meanes of Hyppolita Oreemosion the name of a place Auncient toÌ„bes of losenge facion Thermodon nowe called Haâ—monst Hippolytus Theseus senne by Antiopa Phâ—dra Theseus wife and Minos daughter king of Creta Theseus mariages Theseus battels Prouerbe Nots witheus Theseus Prouerbe This is another Theseus Theseus valliantnes the cause of Pirithous friendshippe with him Pirithous Theseus sworne brethern in the field Pirithous maried Deidamia The Lapithae ouercomen the Centauari Theseus and Hercules met at Trathina Theseus fiftie yere olde wheÌ„ he rauished Hellen. The manner of Hellens rauishement Diana Orâ—hia Theseus lefte Hellen in the cittie of Aphidnes Theseus went with Pirithous into Epirus to steale Proserpina Aidonius daughter Pirithous terne in peces with Cerberus Theseus close prisoner The warre of the Tyndarides against the AtheniaÌ„s Academia why so called Marathon Aphidnes wonne raced by the Tyndarides Alycus Scirons sonne slayne at the battell of Aphidnes The Tyndarides honoured at godds and called Anaces Cicer. de Nasdeâ—r lib 3. King called Anactes Anaces why so called AEthra takeÌ„ prisoner and caried to Lacedaâ—mon Diuers opinions of Homers verses Sperchius â— Theseus deliuered one of prison by Hercules meanes The AstheniaÌ„s disdaine to obey Theseus Theseus fled from Athens into the I le of Sciros Theseus cruelly slayne by Lycomedes Menestheus king of Athens Theseus sonnes Cimon taketh the I le of Sciros and bringeth Theseus bones to Athens Theseus tumbe Neptune why called Asphalius and Gaiochus Diuers opinions about the name of Rome Tybria st The beginning of kissing their kinsefolkes in the mouthe came from the Troian women Fables of Romulus byrthe An oracle of Thetis in 〈…〉 Thuscans See the fragments of Fabius Pictor and of Cato See also Haelitarnasseus T. Linius Romulus kinred Romulus mother Faustulus Cermanum Ruminalis The goddesse Rumilia Acca Laurentia Faustulus wife that nurced the twynnes The Greeke soâ—â—â— Larentia Lâ—reÌ„tia fâ—â—t Laurentia a curtisan Tarrutius Vâ—labrum