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

staid such as were shrinking cōfirming them and finally cried and flew through all the squadrons with his eyes and hands in that perturbation it is reported hee debated within himselfe what to doe with himselfe if the worst befell and his countenance was as of a man who meant to make his owne hand his owne executioner had not fiue cohorts of the Pompeian horse crossing the battell as sent by Labienus to guard the campe in danger giuen a semblant of flying which either Caesar did himselfe beleeue or cunningly laying hold vpon the occasion of that seeming charged as vpon flyers and did thereby both put fresh spirit into his owne people and did also daunt his enemies for his people thinking they had the vpper hand followed the more boldly and the Pompeians while they supposed their fellowes ranne away did fall themselues to running How great the slaughter was of the enemies and the wrath and furie of the victorious may bee by this coniectured such as escaped out of the field betaking themselues to Munda and Caesar commanding them to bee forth with besieged a rampire was made by piling vp dead bodies dragg'd thither from all about and fastned together with speares and iauelins An abominable spectacle euen among the barbarous But Pompeis sonnes despairing in truth of victorie Cnaeus Pompeius flying out of the battell and wounded as he was in the legge seeking to saue himselfe in the desarts and vnfrequented places was ouertaken at the towne Lauro and there so little he as yet despaired was slaine by Pesennius who had him in chase Meanewhile fortune hid Sextus Pompeius safe in Celtiberia reserued for other warres after Caesars death Caesar returnes victorious home the pomp of his first triumph was furnished from the Rhene and Rhone and with the image of the captiue Ocean in gold The stuffe of the second was bay-tree of Aegypt and for shewes the images of Nile and Arsinoe and of the watch-towre Pharus as it burnt in the top like a flaming beacon The third was the chariot of Pharnaces and the spoyles of Pontus The fourth represented king Iuba and his Moores Spaine twice conquered Pharsalia Thapsus and Munda those greater arguments matters then ouer which hee triumpht were not mentioned Here for a while were weapons layd aside the following calme without bloud and the cruelties of warre were made amends for with goodnesse not a man put to death by commandement except Afranius for whom once pardoning was enough and Faustus Sylla because Caesar had learnd to feare him for his father in law and Pompeis daughter with her vncles by Sylla's side in this hee tooke care to make posteritie secure His countrey therefore not ingratefull all sorts of honours were heaped vpon this one prime man images about the temples in the theater a crowne deckt with rayes a chaire of state in the Senate-house a pinacle vpon his house top a month in the Zodiac and besides all these himselfe proclaimed Father of his countrey and perpetuall Dictator last of all and it was unknowne whether it were with his good liking Antonius Consull the ornaments of a king were offred all which prooued but as ribbands or trimmings of an host ordained to be slaine in sacrifice For the mildnesse of this prince was lookt vpon with enuious eyes and the power it selfe which conferred benefits was to free mindes cumbersome Nor was the forbearance of him an acquitall any longer for Brutus and Cassius and other Patricians Lords of the highest ranke conspired to assassinate him How great is the force of fate the conspiracy was knowne far abroade a scroll was giuen also to Caesar himselfe vpon the very day of the fact though an hundred beasts were sacrificed yet not one of them had any signe of luckines He came into the Senate-house with a meaning to aduance a warre against the Parthians there the Senators stabd at him as he sat in his court-chair with twenty three wounds he was driuē to the ground So he who had embrewed the whole earth with ciuill bloud did with his owne bloud ouerflow the Senat-house CHAP. III. CAESAR Octauianus CAesar and Pompey slaine the people of Rome seem'd to haue returned to the state of their ancient libertie and had returned indeed if Pompey had left no children nor Caesar an heire or which was more pestilent then both if once his fellow in office and then his riuall in honour that firebrand of Caesars power and whirlewind of the ensuing age Antonius had not ouer-liued For while Sextus Pompeius seekes to recouer his fathers estate no part of the sea was free from feare of him while Octauius reuengeth his fathers bloud Thessalia was againe to be stirred while Antonius variable-witted either disdained that Octauius should succeed to Caesar or for loue to Cleopatra takes vpon him to bee a king for hee had no other way to be safe but by turning vassall In so great preturbation we are to bee glad notwithstanding that the whole power of Rome came to be setled vpon Octauius first Caesar Augustus who by his wisedome and dexteritie reduced into order the body of the empire shaken and distempted on all sides which without all doubt could neuer haue been brought together and made to agree vnlesse it had beene gouernd by the authoritie of some worthie one as with a soule or mind Marcus Antonius Publius Dolobella Consuls fortune now busie in transferring the empire to the house of the Caesars the troubles of the citie were various and manifold that as in the change of yeerely seasons the stirred heauens doe thunder and signifie their turnings by the weather so in the change of the gouernmēt of the Romans that is to say of all mankind the world troubled throughout and the whole body of the empire was turmoiled with all sorts of perils and with ciuill warrs both at land and sea CHAP. IIII. The Mutinensian warre THe first cause of ciuill breach was Caesars last will and testament in which Antonius being named but in the second place he grew starke mad that Octauius was preferred and for that cause opposed the adoption of that most spiritfull yongman with an inexpiable warre For seeing him not fully eighteene yeeres old tender fit to be wrought vpon and open to abuse both defaced the dignitie of Caesar's name with reuiling termes and diminisht his inheritance with priuie thefts disgraced him with foule phrases and gaue not ouer by all the wayes hee could inuēt to impeach his adoption into the Iulian family lastly enterprised a warre for ouer-bearing the yong noble gentleman and with an armie raised in Gall on this side the Alpes besieged Decimus Brutus for resisting his practices Octauius Caesar pitied for his youth and wrongs gracious for the maiestie of that name which hee assumed calling his adoptiue fathers old souldiers to arms hee then a priuate person who would giue credit to it sets vpon the Consull deliuers Brutus from siege and strips Antonius out of

Maces our Trabeae our Chairs of State our Rings Trappers Robes purple-guarded Coats Chariots of Triumph guilt ouer drawne with foure horses embroydered Gownes Cassocks chambleted with figures of palmes and briefely all the ornaments ensignes by which soueraigne Maiestie is made eminent CHAP. VI. Of SERVIVS TVLLIVS THen Seruius Tullius vsurpeth the royall power nor was his basenesse any barre vnto him therein though his mother was a bond-woman For Tanaquil the wife of Tarquinius had bred him vp in honourable fashion for his excellent dispositions sake and a flame being seene to blaze about his head did assure hee should prooue famous Therefore in the Interregnum after Tarquinius his death hee being set vp by the Queene dowagers meanes to supply the Kings place as it were but for a time so managed that authority by his wit which he had atchieued by practice that hee seemed to haue good right vnto it By him the people of Rome had their estates valued and bookes of value and musters made themselues marshalled into formes or classes and distributed into courts and companies And by this kings incomparable diligence the Common-weale was so ordered that note was taken of all their lands goods honours ages arts and offices and put into publike register as if the state of a most mightie citie were to be kept vp and held together with the same diligence that a pettie familie CHAP. VII Of TARQVINIVS SVPERBVS THe last of all the kings was Tarquinius surnamed the Proud of his conditions He rather made choise to inuade then to expect his grandfathers realme which was with-holden by Seruius whose murther hauing procured hee gouerned the Commonweale as badly as he had obtained it wickedly Nor was his wife Tullia of any better nature then himselfe For hurrying to salute her husband King shee ranne her amazed Coach-horse ouer the bloudie bodie of her father But Tarquinius raging with slaughter against the Senate and against all men with proud behauiour which worthie men brooke worse then crueltie after hee had tired himselfe at home with shedding bloud hee marcheth at length against the enemie So Ardea Ocriculum Gabij Suessa Pometia towns of strength in Latin land were taken Then turned hee cruell towards his owne For hee stucke not to scourge his sonne to the intent that thereupon counterfeiting himselfe a fugitiue he might gayne credit with the enemie and Gabij according to this plot being surprized when the sonne sent messengers to his father to vnderstand his farther royall pleasure he only strucke off the tops of those poppie-heads with his wand which ouer-topt their fellowes meaning thereby that he would haue the chiefe men put to death And this was all the answere which his pride vouchsafed Neuerthelesse he built a temple out of the spoyles of conquered cities Which when it came to be dedicated according to the rites all other the Gods a wonder to be spoken leauing the place Iuuentas and Terminus only remained This contumacie of the powers diuine pleased the soothsayers well for it promised that the Roman affaires should be flourishing and eternall But this was maruelous that in digging to build there appeared the head of a man for a foundation which all men did confidently interprete as a most faire and happie signe prognosticating that there should bee the head seat of the whole worlds empire The people of Rome suffered the pride of their king while their women were forborne but that insolent abuse they could not endure in his sonnes Of whom when one of them had rauished that most beautious Lady Lucretia and shee clearing her selfe from the infamie by killing her selfe then they vtterly abrogated their name and all the authoritie of Kings CHAP. VIII The summe of the whole premisses THis is the first age of the people of Rome and as it were their infancie vnder seuen kings men by as it were a speciall prouision of the fates as differing in disposition as the reason and profit of the Commonweale required For who could bee more hote or fierie then Romulus But there was need of hauing such an one to set vp the kingdome perforce Who was more religious then Numa But their assayres could not want such a person that the fierce people might bee made temperate through the feare of the Gods How necessarie was that Master of their martiall discipline Tullus to a warlike Nation for whetting and perfecting their courages with reason How needfull was Ancus the builder that the citie might spread it selfe by sending out a Colonie that the parts thereof might bee vnited by a bridge and it selfe bee defended with a Wall Againe how great dignitie and grace did the ornaments and ensignes which Tarquinius Priscus brought in giue to the worlds chiefe people by their very fashion What other effect had the musters and suruey which Seruius tooke then that the commonweale might know and vnderstand it selfe Lastly the intolerable lordlinesse of Superbus did some good nay a very great deale of good For thereby it came to passe that the people stung with abuses were inflamed with the desire of freedome CHAP. III. Of the change in State from Kings to a Commonweale THe people therefore of Rome hauing Brutus and Collatinus to whom the noble matron recommended at her death her iniuries reuenge for captaines authors by as it were a diuine instinct being throughly all of them resolued to restore themselues to libertie and secure the honor of their women sodeinly fell away from the king spoile his goods consecrate his ground to Mars and transferre the soueraigne power to the same men who had beene founders of their freedome but yet changeing both the iudge title For it was agreed that whereas the authoritie had before beene single and perpetuall it should bee now but from yeere to yeere and bipartite lest either by singularitie or continuance it should bee corrupted and for kings they styled them Consuls that they might remember the dutie of their place was to consult and prouide for their Countrey Such ioy was conceiued for this new freedome that they could hardly beleeue the change and one of the Consuls because he was of kingly name and race they depriued him of his office and banished him the citie Into whose roome Valerius Poplicola being substituted hee bent his whole studies to augment the free maiessie of the people For hee bowed downe to them the Fasces in their assemblie and made it lawfull to appeale from the Consuls to the people And that the shew of a seeming castle might not offend he pluckt down his house which stood high built it on a flat or leuel But Brutus to come with all his sailes into popularitie did both cast his house to the ground and slue his sonnes For hauing discouer'd that they practised to bring in kings againe he drew them forth into the Forum and in the mid'st of the assemblie scourged them first with rods and then cut off their heads with the axe so