the SaleÌ„ in Apulia The Brundusians wer vanquished The Brundusians the city taken and their City wonne and triumph was had ouer them againe In the. CCCC .lxxviii. yeare after the buildinge of Rome the name and renoume of the Romaynes became now famous and yet had they neuer waged any battaile forthe of Italy To the end therfore that they might vnderstande what power they were able to make there was a muster A mâ—â—â—er again in Rome had and the names of the Romaines were taken who being nombred by the pols amounted to .cc. xc .ii. M. 334. citizens all he it sithe the first foundation of the citye warres had at no tyme ceased TheÌ„ was the The fyrst battayle whyche the romaines waged agaiÌ„st the Carthaginiens was in the 480. yere after the buyl dynge of the citye lasted xxâ—â— yeares wythoute intermissyon first battayle attempted agaynst the people of Affricke Appius Claudius and Quintus Fuluius beinge then Consuls battail was fought against theym in Sicille where as Appius Claudius triumphed ouer them and ouer Hieron king of Sicilie In the yere folowing Martus Valerius Appi. Clau. Quin. Ful. Consulles Mar. Vale. and Octacil Consuls and Octacillus beynge then Consuls the Romains wrought very great enterpryses For whye the Taurominatanes and the Catanenses and besides them fiftye other cityes were receiued vnder obediens In the third yere after preparation for warre was made against Hieron in Sicilie But he together with Wax pretended agaynste Hieron the reside we of hys Nobilitye made peace with the Romaines and gaue vnto them in consideration thereof CC. talentes of siluer The Affricanes were ouercom in Sicilie which The seconde triumph ouer the Affricans was the seconÌ„de time that the Romaines triumphed ouer them In the fifthe yeare after that the Romaines firste waged battayle againste the Afers Caius Duillius and Cneus Cornelius Asina beyng Ca. Duil Cne Cor. Asi Consuls The fyrst battaile whyche the romaynes waged on the see Consuls they fought vpon the sea Against whiche battaile they hadde prepared light shyppes whych they called Foystes The Consul Cornelius was deceiued by a trayne But Duillius fought the battail out and ouercame the captain of the Carthaginiens He toke .xxxi. ships He sonk The Carthaginiens dyscomfyted xviii He toke .vii. M. men prisoners and slewe .iii. M. There was neuer victorye more acceptable to the Romaines then this was For where before they had shewed them selues to be inuincible vpon the lande they had now also experimeÌ„ted that they wer of great force vpon the sea wheÌ„ Caius Aquilius Florus and Lucius Scipio were Consulls Scipio wan Caius Aqui. Flo. Lu. Sci. CoÌ„suls Corsica and Sardinia won Corsica and Sardinia and led wyth him from thence many thousand prisoners and triuÌ„phed Lucius MaÌ„lius Volso Marcus Attilius Regulus being Consuls war was again traÌ„sposed Luci. Man Vol. Mar. Atti. Regu Consuls into Africke against Hamilcar a captain of the CarthaginieÌ„s This battail was also fought vpon the sea The second battail on the sea and Hamilcar was discomfyted For when he had lost .lxiiii. ships he retired backe The Romains lost in that battail .xxii. ships but wheÌ„ they wer A great ouer throwe of the Carthagini Clipea yelded to the Romaynes ariued in Affrick Clipea the chefest Citye in Affricke was yealded vp to them The Consulles then marched forward toward Carthage and wheÌ„ they had despoiled manye Townes MaÌ„lius returned to Rome brought Manlius returned wyth victorye to Rome with him .xxvii. M. prisoners Attilius Regulus remaininge still in Affricke prepared his army to withstand the force of the Affricanes and Regulus remayned in Affricke Regulus worthy actes ioyning battail with iii. captaines of the Carthaginiens at ones he obtained the victorye He slewe .xviii. M. of his enemies He toke prisoners fyue thousand men and eyghte Elephantes He receiued vnder obeysaunce lxxiii Cityes The Carthaginiens when they were thus dyscomâ—ited desired peace of the Romains which Peace desired by the Carthagini when Regulus wold not grauÌ„t but vpon straight conditioÌ„s they desired ayde succoure of the Lacedemonians to The Carthaginiens desyred ayd of the Lacedemonians whom the Lacedemonians sent Xantippus with a band of menne throughe whose meanes Regulus was ouercome so that of all the armye of the Romaines there eskaped but ii M. only xv M. were taken prisonners A great ouer throwe of the Romaynes and theyr captaine Regulus al so xxx M. were slaine Regulus hymselfe was cast into prison TheÌ„ were Regulus taken and caste into pryson Mar. Emili. Pau. Ser. Ful. CoÌ„suls Marcus Emilius Paulus and Seruius Fuluius the nobler created CoÌ„suls bothe whyche passed ouer into Affricke wyth a nauy of .iii. C. sayle Firste they ouercame the Afers in Battail renued by the Romains agaiÌ„st the Cartha The thyrde battayle on the sea A great discoÌ„ fyture of the Carthagini battail vpon the sea Emilius sonke a hundreth and foure shyppes of hys enemyes He toke xxx together with the men that fought in them He slue and toke prisonners besides .xv. M. of his ennemies and enriched his souldioures with aâ— exceadinge greate spoyle And at that time had all Affricke beene subdued had not thers chaunced so great a dearth that the souldioures coulde not anye longer remaine there As the Consulles retourned A great derth in Affricke home with theyr victorious nauy they suffred shypwracke about the coaste of Sicilie Whereas there a rose so great a tempest that of .iiii. The Romaines 〈◊〉 greatly by shipwrack C. lxxriiii shippes vnneth lxxx could be saued Whyche tempest was so terryble that the lyke therof had not at anye time before beene hearde of vpon the sea Neuerthelesse the Romaynes forthwyth renued two hundreth The inuincible and stoute courage of the Romaynes newe shippes whose myndes were not a whit dismaied with those former mishappes Then were created Consuls Cneus Seruilius Cepio and Caius Sempronius Blesus Cne Serui. Ce. and. Ca. Sem. Bie Consuls who with two huÌ„dreth and .lx. ships tooke their byage towardes Affricke where they wan certaine cityes And as they retourned thence homeward The fourthe battail on the sea bringing a great spoyle with them they suffred shipwracke Whervpon they suffred shipwracke wherevpon The romaynes sustained shipwracke agayne the Romaynes finding them selues agreued with theese continuall and often damages which they sustained vpon the sea the Senators thoughte good to geue ouer that kinde of battaile The romaynes purposed to geue ouer battail on the sea Luci. Ceci Me. Caius Furi Pla. Consuls and to kepe no mo but lx ships onlye to defend Italy wythall WheÌ„ Lucius Cecilius Metellus and Caius Furius Placidus wer Consuls Metellus ouercame in Sicilie the captayn of the Carthaginiens whiche came agaynst them with a hundreth and .xxx. Elephantes and a great power of men besides He slew The Cartha dyscomfyted xx M. men and got
.xxvi. Elephants The residue of his ennemies which wer skatred and dispersed amoÌ„g the Numidians whome he had to ayde him he got together brought theÌ„ prisoners with great triuÌ„ph to Rome and as they wente the herd of Elephants whiche were a. C. and .xxx. in nomber ouerlayde all the way The The Carthaginiens after theese so great mischances required Regulus a captayne of the Romaynes whom The Carthasente regulus a romayne to â—ntreate for peace before they hadde taken prysonner that he would goo to Rome and get peace for them of the Romains and also exchauÌ„ge of prisoners But Regulus when he was coe to Rome and was broughte into the Senate did in no poynt behaue himselfe as a Romaine affirming that froÌ„ the day that he first fel into the hands of the Carthaginiens he gaue ouer clene the desire to be any longer a Romayne in so much that he refused the coÌ„pani of his owne wife at Rome and perswaded the Romaynes that peace shoulde by no meanes bee graunted to the Carthaginiens alledgynge that their myndes were so quaylte wyth those so manye mischaunces that they were quyte voyde of hope that they should euer be able to recouer againe their former estate And as for him he was not worthye to be so muche esteamed being now very aged that for his cause and the redeminge of a fewe others whyche A notable example of loue towarde hys countrye were detained prisonners at Carthage so many thousand of their ennemies should be restored Whyche request of his at last the Romaynes assented vnto In so muche that they woulde not geue eare to the petytyon of anye whiche came from Carthage to entreat them for peace Regulus sone after retourned to Carthage whome the Romaynes offered to detaine stil at Rome But hee denied that hee woulde remayne in that city in which he could not now haue the name of an honest Citezen sith that he had so long bene among the Carthaginiens Whome after his retourne to Carthage the Carthaginiens with most cruel tormeÌ„ts Regulus put to death put to death When Publius Claudius Pulcher and Caius Iunius were consuls Claudius in an euyll Pub. Clau. Pulcher and Ca. Iunius Consuls Theromains dyscomfyted tyme wyth no lesse euill successe loughte a vattayle and was ouercome by the Carthaginiens For settynge forthe with two hundreth and twenty sayle he fled with .xxx. shyps only lxxxx wer taken together with the men whiche fought in them and the residue were sonke There were besides xx thousand of the romaines taken prisoners In lyke manner also The romaye nauy perished by shipwrack the other Consull loste his nauye by shipwracke howe be it he saued hys armye for that the shore was neare At what time Caius Luctacius Catulus and Aulius Posthumius Ca. Luctatiê° Catu aul Posthu albi Consuls Albinus were consulles whiche was in the .xxiii. yere after that battaile was fyrste waged with the carthaginiens battail was committed to the guiding and orderinge of Catalus agaynste the Africanes who toke his viage into Sicilie with thre hundreth sayle agaynste whome the Afers had prepared cccc sayle ready furnished This Catulus was some what sickly when he toke shypping For why he was wounded in a battail a litle before The battayle was fought ouer agaynst LylibeuÌ„ a citye of Sicilie with passyng greate valiantnesse of the Romains They toke lxxiii of the Carthaginiens shippes They sanke a .c. and. xxv they tooke The great ouerthrowe of the Carthaginians xxxii M. men prisoners slue .xiii. M an infinite deale of golde and siluer broughte they to Rome and of the Romayne nauye only .xii. ships miscaried whyche wer sonke This battaile was done the .vi. of the Ides of Marche The Carthaginiens forthe with desired peace and it was grauÌ„ted Peace graunted to the Carthaginiens to them Suche prisonners as the Carthaginiens had taken of the romaynes wer restored And they desired that they might raunsome suche prisoners as the romaynes had takeÌ„ of theirs The Senate therfore commaunded that suche of the carthaginiens as were prisonners in the coÌ„mon holdes should be deliuered and sent home without any raunsome such of them as priuate persons had taken prisoners shoulde be dismyste also and that their raunsome should bee answered to those whiche tooke them forth of the common tresorye The greate largesse of the romaynes rather then the carthaginiens shuld be charged therwith After this wer Q. Luctatius Aulus Manlius created consuls They waged battaile against Falisci which had bene some Q. luctatiê° Aulus Man Consuls time a welthye city of Italye Thys city they wan within .vi. dayes after Falisci besieged and won they layde the assaulte therto They flew there .xv. M. men to the residue they graunted peace but they depriued them of the one moitye of theyr landes ¶ The thyrde booke of the breuiary of Eutropius WHen the battayle agaynste the Carthaginiens was thus determined which hadde continued by the space of .xxii. yeres the Romaynes who were nowe become famouse sente Legates to Ptolomeus kynge of Egypt proferynge to ayde hym Ayd profered by the Romaynes to Ptolomeus for that Antiochus kynge of Syria warred agaynste hym hee thanked the Romaines for theyr gentlenesse howe be it hee receyued no ayde of them for that the battayle was all ready finyshed About the same time Hiero the mighty and puissant kyng of Sicilie came to Rome to beholde Corne geuen among the romaynes by Hiero. the Enterludes there and distributed among the people of Rome two hundreth thousand bushels of wheat Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Fuluius Lu. Corne. Len. Ful. Flac. Con. Flaccus being Consuls during whose raigne Hiero came to Rome battayle was waged against the Ligurians wythin Italy and tryumph Battaile agaynst the Ligurians was had ouer them At that time all so the Carthaginiens attempted to renue battail and perswaded in like War renued by the Carthaginiens manner the Sardinians to rebell who should haue bene subiect to the Romaines for as muche as peace was concluded betwene them the Romayns vpon the same condition Neuerthelesse they sente theyr Ambassadoures to Rome and confyrmed Peace graunted to the Carthaginiens Ci. Mau. Tor. and Ca. Atti. Balbus Consuls A triumph ouer the Sar. the peace againe When Titus Manlius Torquatus and Caius Attilius Balbus were Consulles the Romaynes triumphed ouer the Sardinians Then the Romaynes concluded peace wyth all natyons so the now they had no maner batel in haÌ„d which thinge neuer happened vnto them syth the firste buildinge of the citye of come but at one time onlye whiche was duringe the raygne of Numa Pompilius When Lucius Posthumius Albinus and Fuluius Cneus Centumalus were consulles Lu. Posthu Albi. Ful. Cueê° Cen. Consuls they waged battayl agaynste the Illyrians and when they had takeÌ„ manye cityes there the kynges yelded them selues And that was the fyrste tryumphe that the romaynes euer The
.xxxv. M. men of whyche the Romaynes toke prisonners x. M. and slewe .xx. M. But the Carthaginiens to strengthen hym agayn sente him out of hand .xii. M. footemen and. iiii M. horsemen and xx Elephants In the .iiii. yere after that Anniball inuaded Italye Marcus Claudius Marcellus then Consul Mar. Clau. Marcel Consul fought against him with passyng good fortune at Nola a city of CaÌ„pania Annibal had by this time gotten many cities ther froÌ„ the Romains in Apulia Calabria among the Brutians At that time Phillip kynge of Macedonie by his Legates whome he sent to Anniball profered that he Phillyp profered to ayde Anniball against the Romaynes wold aid him against the Romains Vpon condition that after he had ouercome the Romains he mighte in like manner haue assistence of Anniball against the Grecians But the Romaines by chaunce apprehended the Legates of king Phillip and vnderstode by them the whole matter Where vppon they willed Marcus Valerius Leuinus to go into Macedonie and Titus Manlius Torquatus then being Proconsul into Sardinia for that Prouince also through the alluring of Anniball was fallen from the Romains And thus at one Battail waged in four seueral places by the Romaynes time fought the Romaines in foure seuerall places rogether In Italy against Annibal In Spaine agaynste his brother Asdrubal In Macebonie against Phillip In Sardinia against the Sardinians and an other Asdruball a Carthaginien This Asdrubal was taken by Titus Manlius the Proconsull who was sent into Sardinia against him he also slew there xii M. of his ennemyes and tooke a M. and D prysonners Thus was Sardinia subdued by the Romains and Manlius as a conqueror brought Sardinia sub dued by the romaynes Asdruball and those other prisoners with him to Rome In this whyle Philip was also ouercome by Leuinus in Macedonie And Asdrubal the Phyllip ouer come secoÌ„d brother to Annibal and Mago his third brother wer by the ii Scipiocs Asdrubal and mago ouercome ouercome in Spain In the tenth yere after that Anniball inuaded Italy at what time Pub. Sul. Cne Ful. wer consuls Annibal aproched with in 4. miles of the city of Rome his Pub. Sul. Cne Fuluâ—ê° Consuls horsmeÌ„ wer come to the very gates But forthwith for dread of the Consuls whiche came against hym wyth a great hoste he retired back to CaÌ„pania Soone after hys brother Asdruball flewe hothe the Scipioes in Spayne whyche by the space of many The .ii. Scipioâ— slayn by Asdruball in Spayne yeares hadde bene conqueroures there Neuerthelesse their army remayned whole For why they were rather beguiled by traine then vanquished by manhode At this tyme a great parte of Sicilie was recouered by Marcellus the Consull whyche countrey the Afers began as than to possesse and from Siracusa the most famous Citye therof he broughte an exceadinge greate spoyle to Rome Leuinus made league and ioyned frendship wyth Philippus Macedonie Frendshyp ioyned wyth Phillip by Leuinus and with diuers other cityes in Grece besides with Attalus kinge of Asia And by the way as he wente marching toward Sicilie he discomfyted and tooke prisoner Annones a captain of the Carthaginiens at the Annones taken prisoner city Agrigentum together wyth the city it selfe and sent him to Rome amonge those other prisoners There were yelded vp vnto him .xl. cityes He conquered .xxvi. other cytyes Thus when all Sicilie was recouered and Macedonie in such sort shaken and quailde hee retourned to Rome wyth greate renowme Afterwarde Anniball assaultinge Cneus Cneus Fuluius slayn by Annibal Fuluius at vnwares beinge then in Italye slue him and viii M. men besydes In the meane space Publius Pub. Corne. Scipio sente into Spayne Cornelius Scipio sonne of Publius Scipio was sent into Spayn where after that the two Scipioes were slayne no captaine of the Romains was lefte He waged battaile there beinge but of the age of .xxiiii. yeres One who of all the Romaynes that were eyther in his dayes or anye Great commendation of Scipio tyme sith might worthely be adiudged the chiefest He wan Carthage in Spayn where the Affricanes hadde all theyr golde and Siluer and furniture for warre Carthage in Spayn won remayninge Furthermore he sente to Rome the mooste noble hostages which he had receiued of the Spaniardes He toke also prisonner Mago Annibal his brother and sent him to mago sent prisoner to rome Rome with the residew There was great myrth demeaned at Rome after theese newes Scipio restored to theyr parentes theyr sonnes whom he had receiued for pledges before Where vppon in manner all the Spanyardes wyth one assente tooke part with Scipio againste Anniball After these thynges he subdued and put to flight Asdruball Anniball hys brother and got ther a great spoyle Asdrubal discomfited In this meane space Quintus Fabius Maximus the Consull beynge as then in Italye recouered Tarentum in whiche wer then remaining Tarentum recouered greate armies of Annibal and there he slewe also Carthalon captayne to Anniball He sold .xxv. thousand prisoners and deuided the spoyl among CarthaloÌ„ slayne his souldioures and the mony which he receiued for the men whyche hee solde he brought to the common tresor of the Romaines Then many cities of the Romaines whiche earste had yelded them selues to Anniball did againe submitte them selues to Fabius Maximus The yere following Scipio wroughte notable feates Scipio hys good successe in his affairs in Spain there he what through the ayde of his brother Lucius Scipio what throughe hys owne valiauntnesse recouered .lxx. cities Howbeit they had euil successe in that battaile which they fought in Italy For why Claudius Marcellus being then consull Clau. mar consul slayne was slayne there by Anniball In the third yere after that Scipio weÌ„t again into Spain and atcheued worthy things there He vanquished the kynge of Spayne in a great battail The kyng of Spayne dyscomfyted and afterwarde concluded frendshyp wyth him wythoute requyryng any pledges of him after hee was subdued wheras all others vsed after they had vanquysht anye to take pledges of them whome they hadde so ouercome Then Anniball fearynge that he should not be able anye longer to detayne Spain against Scipio or to wythstande hys force sente for hys Asdrubal sent for forthe of Spayne brother Asdruball withall his army from thence And as Asdruball wold haue passed that same way as Anniball did forthe of Spayne into Italy warde he fell into the embushmeÌ„tes whyche of set purpose were layd for hym by Appius Claudius Nero and Asdruball slayne Marcus Liuius Salinator at which place manfully fightinge and defendyng hym selfe hee was slayne and hys great army whyche he had wyth hym was al together taken eyther or slaine and a greate quantitye of treasure was brought to Rome after those thynges Anniball began cleane to despaire of the successe of the battail and courage accrewed grew to the Romains Whervppon they
time he eskaped and fled to BizantiuÌ„ which is now called Constantinople his captaynes Mithridates discomlyted were discomfited in battail vpon the sea Thus in one winter and a sommer space Lucullus slew on the kinges side wel nyghe an C. M. meu In the. Dc .lxxviii. yeare after yâ— buildinge of the citye of Rome Marcus Licinius Lucullus who was cosyn germayne to that Lucullus whyche warred agaynste Mithridates was deputed to haue the gouernment of Macedonie At thys time sodainly in Italye a freshe battayle was begon For why .lxxiiii. of those which were accustomed to play at wepons called Battayle a fresh in Italy Gladiatores brake forthe of the scholes at Capua and made to them selues Spartachus Chrisus Denomannus And as they roued throughe Italy they commenced battayle there no lesse daungerous then was that other whyche before Anniball waged there For when they had discomfited diuers Romain captaines and the two CoÌ„suls also they assembled an army well nigh of lx M men wel appoynted How be it they wer ouercome in Apulia by Marcus Licinius Crassus the Proconsull And so after sondrye calamities sustained in Italye this battayle was fiuyshed in the thirde yeare after that it was first begon In the yere after that the city was built .vi. C .lxxxi. there were but only two great battayles waged within the Romain Empire that is Two battels only waged against the Romains through the world to say the battail against Mithridates and the battaile against the Macedians both which battails the two Lucullies which is to wit Lucius Lucullus Marcus Lucullê° fought For Lucius Lucullus after he had finished the battail at Cizicê° in which he ouercame Mithridates and after the other battaile vppon the Sea in whiche he vanquished the captaines of Mithridates he pursued Mithridates hymselfe And when he hadde recouered Paphlagonia and Bithinia he inuaded Mithridates owne kingdome He wan there Sinopes and Anisus two of the mooste noble cityes of Pontus In the second battaile whych was waged at the citye Cabira Mithridates hadde prouided .xxx. M. menne Thyrty M. vanquyshed by .v. M. Romaynes whome he did chuse and picke forthe throughe all hys kingdome whyche when they were vanquished by v. M. of the Romaynes Mithridates fled Mithridates fled and hys tentes were sackt The lesse Armenia likewise whiche he hadde Armenia recouered gotten was recouered agayne from hym But Mithridates after he was thus fled was receiued by Tigranes kynge of Armenia who raygned at those dayes in great renowne This Tigranes oft times had subdued the Persians He wanne Mesopotamia Mithridates succoured by kyng Tigranes Siria and a piece of Phenicia Sone after Lucullê° required him to deliuer his ennemy whom he had put to slyght Whiche request when he withstode and denyed the deliuerye of Mithridates Lucullus forthewith inuaded kynge Tigranes hys realme and wanne there Tigra nocerta the chiefest citye of Armenia and hauinge but .xviii. M. souldiours to ayde him he gaue king Tigranes a passinge great ouerthrow which Tigranes came againste hym wyth vi M. men on barbed horsses and an huddreth thousande Archers besides other menne of armes He slewe the A great ouerthrow of kiÌ„g Tigranes greater parte of the Armenians and remouynge from thence to Nisibis looke that Citye also and the kinges brother in it But they whome Lucullus had left behinde in Pontus with parte of hys armye to the ende that they shoulde keepe vnder to the behoufe of the Romaynes suche people as he hadde all ready subdued there demeanyng them selues very rechlesly and with great cruelty gaue oportunity to Mithridates Battayle renued by Mithridates to inuade Poneus againe and so battayle was renued there a freshe Ther was one sent to succede Lucullusrwho after that he had won Nisibis made preparatyon for hys viage againste the Persians The other Lucullus who had the gouernmente of Macedonie was the fyrste Romain that waged battail against the Bessians whome he ouercame in a greate battaile vpon the hyll Emus Lucullus the fyrst Romain that waged battel against the Bessians Vscudama won He waÌ„ also Vscudama a town which the Bessians did inhabite the selfe same daye that he gaue the assault to it He toke in like maner the city Cabiles and marched stil forthe til he came to the riuer Danubius After that he inuaded diuers cityes Cabiles take Both the Lucullies triumphed whiche were siiuate vppon the Sea coast of Pontus There he destroyed Appollonia and wan Calatis Partenopolis Tomos Histrus and all Buzia And when those battails wer Battayle in Creete finished he retourned to Rome wher either of them triumphed But yet the Lucullus who had waged battail against Mithridates triumphed wyth greater glorye for that he retourned conqueror of such ample kingdoms After the battayle was finyshed in Macedonie the battayle agaynst Mithridates as yet endured which battail Mithridates renued assembling together all the power and force of men he coulde make after that Lucullus was nowe departed backe About this time began there also battayle in Creete Cecilius Metellus was sente thyther who after that he had fought great battailes ther with in the space of .iii. yeares he wan the whol prouince and for this fact was called Creticus He triumphed ouer Crete won by Metellus and he called Creticus that Ilande At this time also Libia was by the bequest of Appio kynge there of annexed to the Empire of the Libia anexed to the Romain empyre by Appio Romaines In which prouince these were the noblest Cities Beronice Ptoloneais and Cyrene Whyle these thynges were in hand Pirates began to anoy the passengers throughe those parties by sea So that the Romaines who hadde subdued well nyghe all the whole worlde wanted now nothing sauing that they hadde not now safe course and recourse by the seas where vppon that vyage against Battayle against the pirates committed to Cneus Pompeius those pirates was commytted to Cneue Pompeius who wythin a few monethes space finished it with great celerity and no lesse derteritye of fortune Not long after the same Pompeius was also designed to go agaynste Mithridates and Tigranes whyche viage when he had taken in hand he ouercame Mithridates in battayl by Mithridates ouercome in battayle by nyghte night in Armenia the lesse sackte his tentes He slewe there .xl. M. of the kinges army and lost of his own hoste but .xx. menne and two of his captaines After this euyll successe Mithridates fled being accompanied Mithridates fled but wyth his wyfe ii other to wait vpon them and eftsones in a tumult whyche fell amonge his souldioures through the procurement of his soÌ„ne Pharnaces he was forsed to deathe whiche he executed on him selfe by Mithridates poysoned himself drinckinge of poyson This ende had Mithridates he died at â—osphorus a manne verye polliticke and wittye wyth all He raaigued .lx. yeres he lyued three score and twelue yeres He Mithridates hysage and tyme
tooke part with Cesar he slewe hymselfe Antoniê° and Cleopatra slewe themselues Cleopatra also his wife procured to be striken of an Adder by meane of whose poyson she died Then was Egypt also annexed to the Romaine Empire by Octauian Augustus Egipt adioyned to the Romain empyre and Cneus Cornelius Gallus was appoynted lieuetenaunte there who was the firste of the Romaines whiche decided or determyned matters Cneus Gallus lieuetenaunte ouer Egypt in Egypte Thus when warres were pacified throughe the whole world Octanian Augustus retourned to Rome in the twelfthe yeare after that hee was firste created Consul and from that tyme he gouerned the Romaine Empire him selfe alone by the space of foure and forty yeres For duryng the other twelue yeres before he administred it ioyntlye together wyth Antonius and Lepidus So from the The tyme of Augustê° hys raigne first commencement of his Empire vnto the end there of wer .lvi. yeres He deceased in the foure skore and syxe yeare of hys age by syckenesse Augustê° hys age at Atella a towne of Campania and lyeth buryed at Rome in Campo-Martio Augustus Cesar died in the ii yere of the 198. Dlimâ—â— â–ª whyche was in the. 767. yere after the city was built and in the yeare of our Lord god the .xv. Augustus canonysed Augustus hys worthye demenor A man who in mooste thynges and that righte worthely was deemed as a God For lightlye there was none eyther more fortunate in battayles then hee was or in tyme yf peace whiche ruled more discretâ—lye Ourynge those .xliiii. yeares in whyche he raygned alone hee lyued verye ciuillye behauynge hym selfe very liberally towardes all 〈◊〉 and to his frendes excedinge trustye and assured whome he aduaunced to so greate honoures that almoste he made them equall wyth his owne estate The Romayne Empyre at no syme before his raign did more florishe For besides the suppressing of the ciuill warres in whiche hee alwayes was inuincyble he annexed also to the Romain Empyre Egipt Biskay and Dalmatia which is parcel of Sclauonia whiche countrey was by the Romaynes before hys raygne ofttymes ouer run but by him it was fully conquered Hungary The Romain Empyre gretlye enlarged by Octauian Augustus GuyoÌ„ Illiria Rhetia the VaÌ„dales and the Thalassians whyche inhabited among th Alpes together wyth all those cityes whyche were situate alonge the sea costes of Pontus Amonge whiche these were the chiefest Bosphorus and Ponticapeos He vanquished the Danes in battaile and slewe greate armyes of the Germains and draue them ouer the floude Albis whiche is in Barbarie farre beyonde the riuer of Rheyne He foughte this battaile by Drusus who was his wiues soÌ„ne by heâ— first husbande like as he did that other battaile against the Hungarians by Tiberius an other of hys wyues sonnes After this battel he brought forth of Germany cccc M prisoners and placed them in Fraunce a longe FrauÌ„ce replâ— shed with inhabitantes by Octanian vpon the bankes of the riuer of Rhein He recouered Armenia from that Parthians and the Persians gaue hym hostages whiche they neuer did to anye Pledges taken of the Persians before him They restored more ouer such ensignes to the Romains as they had got from them at what tyme they vanquished Crassus The Scithians and Indians who before had not hearde speakinge of the Romaines The Corinthians Indians sent legates to Augustus Galacia made a prouâ—â—â—â— sent both Legates and presentes to Augustus In his raygne Galacia was also made a prouynce whiche was a kingdome before and Marcus Lollius gouerned it in the stead of the Pretor Besides this he was so well beloued of the Barbarians that suche kinges as had ioyned frendshippe with the Romaines to the end they might augment the honor of Augustus builte diuers cityes which they called after his name Cesaree As king Iuba did in Mauritania Towns built and named after the name of Cesar and in Palestina which is now a famous and faire citye Moreouer many kinges lefte their owne kyngdomes and came to Rome to the end they might attende and do theyr seruice to Cesar and in suche lyke apparell as the Romains vsed to wear that is to say in gownes they folowed his chariot or horse as he rode After his death he was called a God He lefte a mooste fortunate common 3. Claudius Tiberius sonne to Liuia Augustus hys wyfe by her welth to Tiberius his successor who was his wiues sonne by her former husband and became after that to be sonne in lawe to Augustus by adoption and the espousing his daughter fyrst husband began his Empyre in the. 3976. yere after the creatioÌ„ of the worlde in the 768. yeare after the buylding of Rome and in the yere of our Lord God .xvi. Tiberius gouerned the Empyre by greate cowardise greuous crueltye vnmeasurable auarice and filthye luste Hee waged battayle no where hym selfe but warred alwayes by hys Prouostes and substitutes Dyuers kinges whome he hadde procured throughe greate flattery to come to hym he woulde neuer permitte to departe againe Amonge which Archelaus kynge of Cappadocia was one whose kyngdome he did also reduce into the forme of a Prouince and the chiefest citye therof he commaunded shoulde bee called by his name whyche at this daye is called Cesarea where as before it was called Mazaca In the .xxiii. yere of his raigne hee deceased in Campania with the great Tiberlê° hys raigne reioysing of all the Romaines when he had liued .lxxx. and .iii. yeres Tiberius deceased After him succeaded Caius Cesar 4. Caligula the 4. Empâ—ror sonne to Germanicus began his Empire 3999. yere after the begâ—nnyng of the world in the. 701. yere afâ—er Rome was bâ—ilâ—e in the yeare of our Lord. 39. who was surnamed Caligula neuew to Drusus and Tiberius Augustus his wiues sonnes a verye naughty and cruel man whose facts were so hainous that if they had ben conferred with the doinges of Tiberius they mighte make those of Tiherius to seeme tollerable He warred againste the Germaines and inuaded Sweuia But he atcheued ther no manly act He had carnall copulation The dishonoâ—â—blâ— raign of Caligula wyth hys owne systers and hys owne daughter whome he begatte vpon the one of his sisters he had in likewise carnall company wyth all When he had thus vsed greate auarice fleshly lust and horrible cruelty towardes all men he was slaine in his palaice in the .xxxix. yeare of hys Caligula â—layne Caligula hys 〈◊〉 age when he had raigned iii. yeares x. monethes and .viii. daies After him succeded Claudius vncle by the fathers side to Caligula and sonne to Drusus vnto whyche Claudius there was a mooste honorable 5. Claudius â—he v. Emperâ—r of Rome son to Drusus whyche was brother to â—â—berius began his Empire in the. 4003. yere after the creatioÌ„ of the worlde in the 795. yeare after the bâ—ylding of Rome and in the yere of out Lord 41. he raiâ—â—â— 13. yeres
was supposed was the sonne of a birgin Vestale be gotten by Mars borne at one birthe with his brother Remus This Romulus when he had oflong time accustomed amonge the shepherdes to pray and spoyle abrode At last being of the age of .xviii. yeres he layed the syte of a small citye in the hyl Pallatinus the eleuenth day of May in the xxxiii yere after that the plaies called Dlimpici were firste begon And after the destruction of the city of Troy according to the sust computation of al wryters the. CCC lxxxx fourth yeare When he hadde builte this Citye whiche after to hys owne name he called Rome he wroughte Rome named these feates wellnigh as they follow Fyrst he gathered together into his city a great noÌ„ber of such as wer Rome inhabited borderers ther about to furnishe this citi AmoÌ„g whoÌ„ he chose anC. of such as wer moste anctent of yeres after whose aduise he minded to order hys affaires whome he for that thei wer so aged called Senators Then for that bothe he and his people were as yet Senatoures in Rome The cause whye playes wer fyrst inuented in Rome destitute of wiues vppon a tyme he did inuent certaine plais and shewes within the Citye requestinge suche as were inhabitauntes neare aboute Rome to come and see those playes At which time the Romains by force berefte them their daughters maidens Wher vppon warre was proclaimed againste the Romaynes for that rape in which battail Romulus War against the Romains subdued the Ceninenses the Antennates the Crustumyes the Fidenates the Veientines and the Sabines which people enuironed the city of Rome Within a while after ther arose sodenly a great tempest in whiche Romulus vanished in a teÌ„pest forthe of Caprea medow wher he toke the vew of hys souldy oures Romulus being abrode vanished away so that he was not after seene Where vppon when hee coulde not be founde his people supposing that he was raught vp to the skies canonised him in the .xxxvii. yeare of hys raign Romulus canonysed After the the senators bare rule by the space of .v. dais during which time of their raign was accomplished Interregnâ— the time betwene the deth of one kynge and the treate on of another Numa Pompilius the .ii. kynge a Sabine borne one whole yere TheÌ„ was Numa PoÌ„pilius created kinge who during the hole time of his raign waged no batel yet was he no lesse profitable to the city of Rome theÌ„ Romulus was For whye he establishedde Lawes and framed to good order the conditions No warrs in Rome which chaunced vnt two tymes more in Rome one after the first CarthaginiaÌ„ battail ones in Augustus Cesares time The yere deuided into xii monethes Numa hys raigne of the people of Rome which for that they had ben so long accustomed to battailes wer now iudged as robbers and rude people This Numa deuided the yere into .xii. monethes being before but a confused noumber of daies and a thinge not able to be accompted And innumerable rites and ceremonies and temples founded he besides at Rome And deceased by sickenes in the. 43. yere of his raign After him Tullus Hostilius beinge Tullus Hostilius the third king Martiall pollicy renued made kinge did againe put in vre the feates of armes and renued battails which during the raign of Numa had bene laid aside He conquered the Albanes whiche were distant .xii. miles from the city of Rome He also subdued the Veientines and Fidenates of Alba longa destroyed in thys kynges raygne Rome enlarged which th one were .vi. miles thother were .xviii. miles distant from Rome He enlarged the city annexing therto the hil Celius being strycken wyth lightning both he and his house was Tullus hys raigne burned when he hadde raigned .xxxii. yeres After him Ancus Martius gouerned the citye of Rome Who was Ancus Martius the .iiii. kinge he was before the Incarnatyon of Christe 642. yeres he made the brydge ouer the riuer of Tyber whych ran by Rome built a gail or prisoÌ„ in Rome for the runishyng of offenders sonne to Numa PoÌ„pilius his daughter He waged battail against the Latines He enlarged tbe city by taking into it the hils Auentinus and Ianiculus He built a city fast vpon the sea shore at Dstia whiche was .vi. miles distaunt from the citye of Rome And being visited with sicknesse he deceased in the .xxiiii. yeare of his raigne Then Priscus Tarquinius obtained the Empire he doubled the noumber Priscus Tarquinius the v. kynge of the Senatoures He built the place of playee in Rome called Circus and The number of the Senators doubled instituted also diuers games there which as yet to this day do remaine He subdued the Sabines And berefting Circus built them of a great portion of theyr lande annexed it to the territorye of the Romaines He was the first that entred the Citye of Rome with anye Priscus Tarniquinius triuinphed fyrst at Rome triumph He builded the walles of the city and sinkes also to auoid the filthe and ordure of the City He began the Capitoll and when he had raygned xxxviii yeres he was slayne by the The capytoll 〈…〉 slayn sonnes of king Ancus whome he succeaded in the kingdome After hym Seruius Tullius was kinge whose mother was a noble woman borne Seruiê° Tullius the .vi. kyng but yet was she a captiue and a haÌ„dmaide He subdued the Sabines and annexed to the citye these three hils Quirinalis Viminalis and Esquilinus He entrenched rounde the Romewalles entrenched wals of the City He was the first that inuented mustring of men which before his time was not known throughe the whole worlde In his raigne Mustryng 〈◊〉 the names of all the inbabitantes in Rome wer takeÌ„ and ther wer found 〈…〉 in the City of Rome .lxxx. and .iiii. M. citizens able men with those whiche inhabited about the city He was slain in the .xlv. yere of his raign through Seruiê° Tullius slayne the wickednes of his son in law Tarquinius who was son to the last kinge before him whoÌ„ this Seruius Tullius succeded and the naughtines of his own daughter whoÌ„ he had espoused to the saide Tarquinius Lucius Lucius Tarquinius Superbus the vii kyng Tarquinius Superbus was the .vii. the last king that raigned at Rome He ouercam the Volscians in battel whiche are situate not far distant froÌ„ Rome as meÌ„ go froÌ„ thence towards Campania He subdued the Citye of Gabios Suessa Pometia He made peace with the Thuscians and built Iupiter his temple built Iupiter his temple in the capitol Afterward as he was laying siege to the city of Arde whiche was .x. miles distant froÌ„ the city of Rome he was deposed Lucius Tarquinius deposed For wheÌ„ his son Sextus Tarquinius had forst poluted the noble woman therwithal the moste chastest Adultery the cause of the fyrst alteratyon of
the state of the weale publique in Rome Lucretia wife to Collatinus she had of this iniury complained to her husband other her frendes in the presens of them all she slue her self Where vpon they kindled the hartes of the people againste Tarquinius deposed him from his kingdome and The seuerity of the Romaines in punyshing adulterye sone after the whole army whiche at that time laid siege to the city of Arde together with the king forsoke him Where vpon when the king retourned and would haue entred the city Lucius Tarquinius hys raygne the gates wer shut against him Thus when he hadde raigned .xxv. yeres he fled with his wife and children In this wise raigned .vii. kinges ouer the city of Rome by the space of CCxliii The time that kynges gouerned Rome yeres at which time Rome extended not to aboue .xv. miles where it was largest From this time began there to be created in the place of one kyng ii consuls for this consideration that Two consuls created in Rome Consuls ordained in rome the 3450. yere after the creatioÌ„ of the world The raign of the consuls although the one of them were disposed to naughtinesse yet the other hauing the like authority might bridle the affection of his companyon And it was decreed that they shoulde not rule aboue one yere least the continuaunce of theyr bearinge rule shoulde make theÌ„ waxe hauty wheras otherwise The order of the coÌ„suls coÌ„einued after it was fyrst instituted vntil Iulius Cesares raigne which wxas by the space of 464. yeres they wold demene them selues more curteously knowinge that after theyr ycare expired and determined they shoulde become priuate persons againe In the first yere after the expulsing of the kings forth of the city Lucius Iunius Brutus who hadde most of others procured the banishing Lucius Iunius Brutus and Tarquinius Collatinus fyrst consuls of Tarquinius and with him Tarquinius Collatinus who was husbaÌ„d to Lucretia wer chosen coÌ„suls How be it Collatinus was forth wyth depriued of his Consulship For why it was agreed that none should remain in the Citye that bare the name of Tarquinius wherevpon Collatinus Tarquinius Collatinus depryned of hys consulship taking with him all hys substaunce departed forth of the City and in hys roume Valerius Publicola was created consull Neuerthelesse kinge Valerius Publicola coÌ„sull The fyrst battaile that any Romain euer waged agaiÌ„st Rome Tarquinius who a lyttle before was banisheda ssembling togethera great army to aid him to recouer his kingdome waged batail with the CitizeÌ„s of Rome In the very first front of the batail Brutus the consul and Aruus Tarquinius his sonne slue one another Brutus and Aruus slayn How be it the Romains obtayned the victory in that battaile the Romain matrones bewailed the deth of Brutus by the space of one whole Brutê° death bewayled yere as the defender of their chastities After the death of Brutus Valerius Publicola chose Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus who was father Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus consul Lucretius dyed Horatius Puluillus consull Fiue consuls in the i. yere to Lucretia to be consul who died by sicknes Horatius Puluillus was created consull in his roume Thus wer .v. consuls created in the first yere Of whome Tarquinius Collatinus loste the citye for his name Brutus was slain in battail Spurius Lucretius sickned and died Then in the second yere after Tarquinsus agayne War agayne attempted by Tarquinius agaynst the Romaynes made warre vppon the Romaines to the ende he mighte recouer hys kingdome whome Porsenna kynge â—f Thuscia then aided and wel nigh he hadde taken Rome Howe be it at this time was he also ouercome In the iii. yere after the kings wer banished forth of the City when Tarquinius apperceiued that he should neither be receiued again of the Romaines nor yet that Porsenna wold succour him anye longer he departed to Thusculus a city not far distaÌ„t from Rome ther by the space of .xiiii. yeres Tarquinius lyued as a priuate man at Thusculus he liued with his wife as a private man In the. 4. yeare after that the kings wer banished the city the Sabines The Sabins warred on the romaines again warred vpoÌ„ the Romains at which time they wer also ouercoÌ„e the Romaines triumphed ouer theÌ„ In the .v. yere Lucius Valerius who was felow in office with Brutus thother 4. consuls deceased in suche extreme pouerty that mony was fain to A collectyon of monye for the burial of Valerius the consull bee gathered amonge the people to bear the expenses of his funeras Whose death the Romain matrones did by the space of a yere bewaile as they did the deathe of Brutus before In the .ix. yere after the banishyng of the kinges when Tarquinius hys sonne in law had assembled together Preparatyon for warre agaynste the Romaines by tarquinius his son in lawe The offyce of dictatura fyrst instituted Titus Largius dictator a great army to the end he might reuenge the reproche whiche his father in law sustained at the Romains handes There was a newe office created in Rome called Dictatura in authority excelling farre the office of the consuls That same yere was there also ordained in Rome an other Offycer called Magister Equitum who was deputed to be attendant vpon the dictator To this office of Dictator was Spurius Cassius fyrst magister Equitum first deputed at Rome Titus Largius And Spurius Cassius supplyed first the offyce of magister Equitum In the .xvi. yeare did the commons of Rome make a commotion preteÌ„ding A commotioÌ„ at Rome by the commoÌ„s the cause to be for that the senatours and Consuls woulde haue oppressed them At which time they created ii whome they called Tribuni Plebis Tribuni Plebis created whiche were after abrogated by Sylla and restored agayn by PoÌ„peius and assigned them to be peculier decisers and determiners of their causes only by whose meanes they might be in safety and defended against the coÌ„suls In the yere folowing the Volstians renued battaile againste the Romaines The Volstianes renued war agaynste the Romains they were subdued and loste moreouer theyr first city called Corioli In the .xiii. yere after that the kynges were banished Quintus Martius Rome inuaded by Quintius Martius a Romayne a famous capitain of the Romaynes who wan Coriolis a citye of the Volscians vppon displeasure conceyued went to the Volscians and toke part with them who also aided him agaiÌ„st the Romaines By meane wherof he putte the Romaines oft times to the worste He camped wythin .v. miles of the city of Rome And regardinge nothing the Legates which the Romaines sent to hym to entreate for peace he determyned to haue inuaded hys owne country had not hys own mother Veturia and his wife Volumnia come forth of the citye to intreate him throughe whose request myxte with teares he was ouercome and so withdrewe his armye
In that yere that Cesus Fabius and Titus Virginius were consuls three hundreth noble men of the house stocke of the Fabianes toke vppon them alone Battayle taken in hand a gaynst the Veientines by the house of the Fabianes alone to wage battail against the Veientines offerynge the senatoures and the people of Rome that they thē selfs wold fight the field Whervpō al these noble mē according they had before decreed went forth to the battel ward of which eche of thē was well worthy to haue ben a captē for theyr singuler prowesse and wer all slayn there so that of that so great a family The stocke of the Fabians neare cleane extynguyshed line there was left none a liue but one who for that he was but a child was not then able to go to warfare After these things ther was another muster taken within the city the citizens amounted to the nombre of a C. The seconde muster at Rome .xix. M. able menne The yere folowing when tharmy of the Romaines was beseged in the hil Algidus which The romain army beseged was wel nigh .xii. miles distant from the city of Rome Lucius Quintus Cin Lucius Quītus Cincinatus being Dictator called straight from the plough handle cinnatus was made dictator who being seised of a close or field which cōteined so much groūd as one yoke of oxen was able to ear in .iiii. dais called in latin Quatuor vgera whiche contained .ix. C .lx. fote in length in In how sinal citimatyon ample possessyons wer in Rome bredth CCCC .viii. score fote tilled that ground with his owne handes And beynge sent for to succor the Romains they found him busily occupied in plowing he then wiping onlye the swet from his browes and as the manner was castinge vppon him the garment whiche was assigned for the Dictator to weare called Toga pretexta tooke his iourney forthewith agaynste hys ennemyes Toga pretexta and putting them to flight deliuered the army of the Romaines besieged In the yeare after the foundatyon of the citye of Rome thre hundreth and one the office of the consulles ceased The offyce of Consuls ceassed for a time And in the place of the .ii. Consulles there were chosen tenne which should beare chefe authoritye in the citye and they were called Decemuiri But when in the first yeare Decemuiri fyrst instituted after their creation they had well demeaned them sclues in the seconde yere of their bearing rule one of thē Durynge the raygne of the Decemuirs certayne of that order wer sent into Grece to see the vsages of the moost famous cityes there who vsyng there in the aduise of the most learned in those partes wrate certain lawes whych were called the .xii. tables and The Decemuirs depriued of their authority they raigned 3. yeares named Appius Claudius wold haue forst defloured a maid which was doughter to one Virginius whyche Virginius at that time soulded for honest wages in the hill Algidus againste the Latines But when Virginius vnderstode the pretens of the Decemuirs he chose rather to slaye daughter as he did then he should be polluted by the Decemuir and returning backe to his souldioures he began a commotion for which fact the Decemuirs were depriued of theyr authority and they them selues condempned In the. CCC and .xv. yere after Rome was builte the Fidenatss rebelled against the Romaines wheme the Veientines assisted Tolumnius The Fidenates rebelled was at that time kynge of the Veientines bothe which Cityes were situate nigh to Rome For Fidene was but .vii. miles and Veientes .xviii. miles distante from Rome The Volscianes in like maner toke Parre with those other people How be it they sustained the ouerthrow by Marcus Emilius Dictator Lucius Q. Cincinatus magister Equitum Tolumnius slayne The Citye of the Fidenats taken and ouerthrowen Furius Camillus Dictator Marcus Aemilius then Dictator Lucius Quintus Cincinatus Magister Equitum In that battayle they lost their king The city of the Fidenaies was won and quite destroyed Twenty yeres after that the Veientines rebelled agayne and ther was sent against them Furius Camillus the Dictator who at the first discomfited them in battayle and eftsones when he hadde besieged the Citye a good space he wanne it whiche was The city of the Veiētins taken the mooste auncient and the rychest through all Italy After that he wan also Falisci a Citye no lesse notable thē that other was But the peoples Falisci won hartes were kindled agaynste hym through the procurement of certain persons whiche surmised that he had Camillus banyshed not well and indifferentlye deuided the spoyle Vppon whiche cause hee was condempned and banished the City Immediatly herevppon the Rome inuaded by the frenchmen in the. 360. yere after the citye was built about 350. yeres before the byrth of christ Frenchmen inuaded Rome and pursued the Romaynes vnto the floude Allia whiche was xi miles dystante from the citye of Rome whan they had thus discomfited and vāquyshed the Romaynes they wan the citye it self of which no part was able to be Rome taken defended against them but the Capitoll only whiche when they had also of longe tyme besieged so that the Romaynes whyche were included began now to fayle of vyttayles Camillus who liued as a banished mā in a city neare adioynyng set vppon the Frenchmen and wyth muche a doo put them to flyght Whervppon Rome reskued by Camillus and the frēchmen put to flyght the Frenchmen whiche layde syege to the capytoll brake vp their siege receyuyng gold of the Romaines for the same intent But Camillus styll pursued and made such slaughter of them that he recouered not only the golde whyche they had receyued but suche anncientes also and ensignes of warre as they hadde gotten And thus returnyng to Rome agayne he entred into the citye with his thyrde Camillus called the second Romulus triumphe and was called the second Romulus as thoughe he allso had ben a founder of that hys countrey ¶ The seconde boke of the breuiary of Eutropius IN the three hundreth thre skore and v. yeare after the buyldynge of the citye of Rome and in the firste yeare after Offyces changed agayne in Rome that it was so taken by the Frenchemen the offices were agayne altered and in steade of the two consuls two were created whych wer called Tribuni Militum of no lesse authoritye Tribuni militum created then the Consuls were From this time began the welth of Rome to increase For that same yere Camillus wan the city of the Volsciās The city of the Volscianes wonne by Camillus which by the space of .lxx. yeares had waged battayle with the Romains he wan also the cities of the Equies and Sutrines and discomfited all theyr armies and got thre triumphs together Tytus Quintius Cincinatus pursuinge at that time allso the Prenestines whych came to the very
first triumphe ouer yâ— Illyrians had ouer the Illyrians Durynge the tyme that Emilius was Consull great armies of the Frenchmen wer Emilius consull Italy inuaded by the Frenchmen come ouer the Alpes Howe be it all Italy stoode together in the defence of the romaynes For as Fabius the Historician dooth report who was hymself present at that battai there were eyght hundreth thousand men in a redinesse for to haue fought that battayle Neuerthelesse the Consull hym selfe ended that battail wyth greate dexteritye of fortune He slew in that battayle forty thousande ennemies and there was a tryumphe decreed vnto Emilius A fewe yeres after a battayl was fought against Emiliê° tryumphed the Frenchmen wythin Italye and it was doone by Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Cneus Cornelius Scipio beynge then consulles At Battayle agaynste the Frenchmen Mar. Clau. Mar. Cne Corne. Sci. Consuls that same tyme Marcellus hauynge wyth hym but a very smal troupe of horsemen slewe the kynge of the Frenchmen called Viridomarus wyth hys own hands After he and Viridomarê° kynge of the Frenchmen slain by Marcellus Millayn conquered his fellowe consull slewe greate armyes of the Frenchmen He conqueâ—rd Millaine He broughte an exceaâ—yng great spoyle with him home to Rome and in his triumph he fastned â—he spoyles whyche he had gotten of Marcellê° tryumphed the Frenche kinge to a longe staues â—nde and so bare it vppon hys owne â—houlders In the time that Marâ—us Minutius and Publius Corneâ—ius Mar. Min. Pub. Corne. Consuls War with yâ— Istrians were Consulles warre was â—aged sore agaynste the Istryans for that they had robbed and despoyled the shyppes of the Romaynes which serued them with grayn And they were quyte subdued The selfe same yeare the Carthaginiens waged The second battayl of the Carthagi against the Romains in the 560. yeare after the citye was buylt whych duted by the space of .xvi. yeres Saguntum assaulted by Annibal theyr second battayl against the Romaynes by Anniball their capytaine who attempted to assault Saguntum a city of Spayn whych was in league and frendship whyche the Romaines This Annibal was then of the age of .xx. yeres and had in his army a hundreth and fifty thousand horsemen and twenty thousand fotemen The Romaines sent ambassadoures to him to wyll him to cease from battayle But hee woulde not speake with the Legates whervpon the Romaynes sent likewise to Carthage Howe lothe the Romains were to vse force desiring that commaundemeÌ„t might be geuen to Anniball that he shoulde no more warre vppon suche people as were frends and in league with the Romaynes But they has shreud answeres geuen them by the Carthaginiens In the mean season the Saguntines were famishedde whome Anniball after he had gotte The Saguntines famishe by Annibal the conquest ouer theym afflyeted wyth extreme punishments Vppon this Publius Cornelius Scipio weÌ„t into Spayne wyth an army and Tiberius Two armies sent forthe by the romains SeÌ„pronius into Sicilie with an other warre was proclaymed agaynst the Carthaginiens Anniball leauinge his brother Asoruball in Spayne hymselfe passed ouer Pyreneus makinge his waye ouer the Alpes at which place as yet no way laye It was reported that he had in Annibal passed the alpes hys army whiche he broughte wyth him into Italy lxxx M. footemenne xx M. horsemenne and xxxvii Elephantes In this space diuers Ligurianes and Frenchmen had assocyated them selues with Annibal Sempronius Gracchus assone as he vnderstode that Annibal was come into Italy he conueyed his army ouer Ariminus forth of Sicilie Pub. Cor. Scipio first encountred with Annibal his Scipio discoÌ„fyted by Anniball men wer put to flight himself returned wounded to his tentes SeÌ„pronius Gracchus in like maner fought with him at the riner Trebia Semproniê° Gracchê° dyscomfyted by Anniball and was discomfited Whervpon diuers in Italy for fear yelded theÌ„ selues to Annibal And as he departed thence to Thuscia he met with Flaminius the Consull whom he slewe Flaminiê° the Consul slayn by Annibal There wer at that time .xxv. M. Romaines slain The residue fled After these things Q. Fab. Max. was sent by the Romaynes agaynst Annibal He by tracting the time and dalying brake the violence and force of Annibal and efcsones finding oportunity set vpon him and gaue him the ouer throw In the ccccc and. xleyere after that the city of Rome was built Lucius Anniball sustayned the ouerthrowe by Q. Fa. max. Emilius and Publius Terentius Varro were sent against Anniball and succeaded Fabius whyche Fabius aduertised bothe the Consulles that they could not otherwise Lu. Emiliê° and Publi TereÌ„ Varro Consuls ouercome Anniball who was a hot and a hastye warryoure but onlye by deferrynge and prolongynge the battayle Howe be it Varro verye rashlye contrary to the mynde of the other Consull ioyned the battayle and foughte at the Towne called Canne in Apulia Wheras both the Consulles were ouercome by Anniball There were slayne in that battayle Bothe the Consuls ouer come by Anniball three hundreth Africanes and a great parte of Anniball hys armye was wounded But no battayle that The greatest discomfyture that euer the Romains endured by the Carthagini the Romaynes euer hadbe wyth the Carthaginiens endamaged them so muche as this For whye there wer slain in that battaile Emilius Paulus then consull and twentye other of the order of Consulles and Pretoures of the Senators ther wer taken and slayne .xxx. noble men to the nomber of three hundreth soldioures to the noumber of .xl. M. and .iii. M. and fiue hundreth gentlemen besides For al whych great mischaunce there was not yet anye one among the Romaines whiche made anye mentyon of The greate stoutnesse of the romayns peace makinge with the Carthaginiens The bondmen in Rome were made free and appoynted for souldioures The bondmeÌ„ in Rome manumist whyche thynge neuer hapned erste there After that battaile many cities in Italye whiche before were vnder the obeysaunce of the Romaines fell from them to Anniball Then Annibal profered the Romaynes that they shoulde redeame suche Annibal profered the Romaynes to redeme theyr prysoners The greate stoutnesse of the romayns souldioures of theyrs as he had taken prysonners To whome the Romaynes and the Senators aunswered that those wer not to be accompted as necessary citizens which wheÌ„ they were armed woulde bee taken prysonners vppon whych aunswer Anniball slew them all wyth sondry punishments and sent home to Carthage three bushels full of rynges which he pluckte of from the handes A passynge great murther of the romaynes of the Gentlemen and Senatoures and souldioures of the Romaynes Asdrubal also hys brother whom he lefte behynde him in Spaine wyth a greate armye to the ende he myghte brynge all that country in subiection to the Africanes sustained an ouerthrowe by the two Scipios whyche were captaines of the Romaines he Asdrubal ouercom by the ii Scipioes lost in that battaile
building of Rome sixe hundreth and one at which time Lucius Manlius Censorinus and Marcus Manlius were Consuls whiche in the .li. yere after that the second battaile against them was finished The Consuls toke then their viage to inuade Carthage Asdruball a captain of the Carthaginiens was sente forthe against them and Famea an other of theyr captaines had the conductynge of the horsmen At that time Scipio who was neue we to Scipio Africanus was by the Romaynes deputed generall of the army Hym did al the army bothe reuerence and feare For why he was a captaine passing redy Notable coÌ„mendation of Scipio in battail and therwithal very cyrcumspect Through whose pollicyes the Consuls atcheued many thinges very fortunately And there was nothing that ether Asdrubal or Famea so much sought to auoid as they did to fight against that wing of the Romaine Misinissa deceased armye where Scipio was Aboute this time died Misinissa who was in league wyth the Romaynes after that he had liued lxxxxvii yeres and lefte behinde him .xliiii. sonnes Amonge whome he appoynted Scipio to distribute his kingdoÌ„e No we when as the name and renowne of Scipio waxed famous he was created Consul being as yet but a yong man and was sent forthe to assaulte Carthage He wan it and pluckte it Carthage assaulted by Scipio downe to the ground Suche spoyles as he founde there whych the Carthaginiens before time had gotteÌ„ at the subuersion of diuers Cities together wyth the monuments of sondry townes of Sicilie he restored again to those cityes from whence the said spoils wer taken AmoÌ„g which euery city knew such things as somtime had ben their owne Thus was Carthage ouerthrown in the .vii. C. yere after that it was first built Scipio Scipio merited to be called Africanus the yonger merited to haue the name which hys graundfather before him wan whych was for his valiantnes and prowesse to be called Affricanus the yonger In this mean space one vsurping falsly vpon him the name of Phillip atteÌ„pted war against ye. Romains in Macedonic gaue Publiê° Iuuencius pretor of Rome the ouerthrow who was sent against hym Iuuencius discomfyted made such slaughter of his men that skaÌ„t he let one eskape a liue of al hys army After him Q. Ceciliê° Metellê° was deputed captain sent forth against this fals named Phillip Who when he had slain .xxv. M. of his meÌ„ recouered Macedonie and toke prysonner the sayde Phillippe At this tyme warre was also proclaymed agaynste Corinthus the worthiest citye of all Grece for thal they had iniuried Corinthus ouer throwne the Legates of the Romains Mummius the Consull wan it and pluckte it downe to the ground And so were ther thre notable triumphes Thre tryumphes at ones at Rome had together at one tyme at Rome The one by Scipio forth of Affrick before whose chariot Asoruball was led An other by Metellus forthe of Macedonie before whose charyotte Andriscus was led whiche was that false named and counterfaited Phillip The third triumph was by MuÌ„mius ouer the Corinthiaus before whome were caried the brasen ensignes and painted tables and other the ornaments of that moste famous city There was yet againe another who falfly named himselfe Perseus in Macedonie affirminge that hee was sonne to that other Perseus of whome we spake before wheÌ„ he had assembled an armye of bondmen to the nomber of .xvii. M. men of armes he was conquered by Tremillus the Perseus conquered by Tremillus Questor At the same time Metellê° atcheued notable enterprises in Biskay awong the Spanyardes Quintus Pompeius succeaded him there And not long after Quintus Cepio was also sent forth againste one Viriatus which waged battail in Portugale againste the Romaines But Battaile in Portugale by one Viriatus Viriatus his men dreadinge the force of the Romaines slewe Viriatus which was he that had stirred vp the Spaniards to warre against the Romaines by the space of xiiii yeares This Viriatus was first a shepherd sone after he became a Captayne amonge robbers and theues And at the laste he stirred vp suche nations to warre againste the Romaines that he became to be called Protector of Spaine againste the Romaines Then they who slewe this Viriatus The Romaines detested treason demaunded of Cepio the CoÌ„sull what reward they shoulde haue for their fact Who answered that it neuer pleased the Romains to haue any captaine slaine by his own souldioures Q. Pompeiê° the Consul ouercome Then was Quintus Pompeius who was also Consul discomfited by the citezens of Numantia whiche was the worthiest Citye of Spain and made with theÌ„ a reprochful peace After him Caius Hostilius I reprochfull league Mancinus the Consull made againe with the Numantines an infamous Caius Hostiliê° Mancinê° the Consull dyscomfyted league But the Senate people of Rome coÌ„maunded forthwith that yâ— peace shuld be infringed that Mancinus should be deliuered to his enemies to th end they might wreke the iniury of the breche of peace on hym who was the autor of making the same After this so great infamye that the people of Rome wer twise discoÌ„fited by the Numantines Publius Scipio P. Scipio Consul who was also named Affricanus was created Consul the second time and was sent to NumaÌ„tia He by exercising and wel trading vp the Romaine Souldioures rather then by punishinge them refourmed theym very wel who through the guidinge of euill captaines were now become slouthfull and cowardly Sone after be gotte manye cityes in Spayne of which some he wan in battayl some were yelded vp to hym At lengthe after that he had of long time besyeged Numantia he famished it and so wan it The residue of that prouince he receiued vnder protection At that time Attalus king of Asia brother to kynge Eumenes died and made the people of Rome his heire And so by Testament was Asia annexed to the Empire of the Romaines Not long after Decimus Iunius Brutus triumphed with greate glorye ouer the Calesianes and the Portugals and Publius Scipio Africanus had hys seconde triumphe whiche was ouer the Numantines in the .xiiii. yere after that he had firste triumphed ouer Affricke In this meane space Aristonicus sonne to Eumenes whome Warre in Asia by Aristonicus he begat vpon his concubine stirred vp warre in Asia That Eumenes was brother to kyng Attalus There was sene against this Aristonicus Publius Lucinius Crassus who was aided of sondrye kinges For whye Nicomedes kinge of Bythinia Mithridates king of Pontus betwene whome and the Romains was waged afterwardes most sharp and cruel warre Ariarathes kynge of Cappadocia and Pilemenes king of Paphlagonia assisted the Romaines Howe be it Crassus was ouercome and slaine in that bataile hys head was stricken of and brought to Crassê° slayn Aristonicus and his body was buried at Smirne Afterward Perpemia Consull of Rome who succeaded Crassus hearinge of the successe of the battaile hasted towardes Asia he vanquished Aristonicus
in battail Aristonicus vanquyshed and enforced him to flee to the citye Stratonice where famishinge hym he caused him to yelde This Aristonicus was thratled in prisone by the commaundement of the Senate for that Perpenna coulde not tryumphe Perpenna the Consul dyed ouer him because he died at Troye by the waye as he retourned homewardes Lucius Cecilius Metellus and Titus Quintius Flaminius being L. Cecilius Metellus T. Quintius Flaminius Consuls Carthage reedefyed Consuls Carthage was by the commaundement of the Senate reedified in Africke which doth yet to this daye remaine in the .xxii. yeare after that it was ouerthrowen by Scipio Thither wente dyuers Citizens of Rome to dwell In the .vi. C. and .xxvii. yere after the buyldinge of the city of Rome Caius Cassius LoÌ„ginus and Sextus Domitius Caluinus were created Consuls They waged battayle agaynst the Frenchmen Battayle agaynste the Frenchmen which inhabited on the farther side of the Alpes and agaynste the mooste noble city of the Auernians and against Bituitus kynge there They slew an infinite multitude of A greate slaughter by the Romaine of frenche men frenchmen fast by the riuer of Roane There was broughte to Rome a great tresor of the very chains only which wer gotteÌ„ at the despoiling of the frenchmen Bituitê° yelded himself to Domitiê° and was by him brought vnto Rome with great glory both the Consuls triuÌ„phed When Marcê° M. Portius Cato and Q. Marâ—ius Consul Portiê° Cato Quintê° Martiê° Rexwer Consuls which was in the .vi. c. and .xxxiii. yere after the building of the city of Rome Narbona in FrauÌ„ce Narbona inhabited was inhabited and stored wyth people Afterwarde when Luciê° Metellus and Quintus Mutius Sceuola L. Metellus and Q. Mutius Sceuola Consuls were Consuls they triumphed ouer a great part of Slauonia which is now called Dalinatia In the vi .c. and .xxxv. yere after the buildynge of the citye of Rome Caius Cato then Caius Cato Consul Consul warred against the Scordiscians wyth great reproche to hym When Caius Cecilius Metellê° and The two Metelli tryumphed Ca. Cecilius Metellus Cne Carbe Censuls Cneus Carbo wer Consuls the two brothers Metelli triumphed both in one day The one ouer Thracia and the other ouer Sardinia About that tyme newes came to Rome that the Danes and people of Norway were The Danes aryued in Italy ariued in Italye When Publiê° Scipio Nasica and Lucius Calphurnius Bestia were Consuls warre was P. Scipio Nasica L. Calphurnius Bestia Consuls waged agaynste Iugurthe kynge of the Numidians for that he had slain Adherbal and Hiempsal Micipsa his sonnes and brothers to Iugurthe whyche were eache of them kynges and frendes to the Romains There Wâ—â— agaynst Iugurth was sent agaynst him Calphurnius Bestia the Consull who beinge corrupted wyth money which the kyng gaue hym concluded a dysworshipfull peace wyth him whiche was by the Senate forthe wyth infrynged agayne In the yeare folowyng Spurius Albinus Posthumius was also sent agaynste Iuxsgurth who foughte likewyse agaynste the Numidians with greate dishonoure committing the battaile to his brothers guiding Then thirdlye there was deputed to goo against him Quintus Cecilius Metellus the Consul who reformed Q. Cecilius Metellus Consuil the armye with greate sobrietye and wisdom vsing no manner of rigour or cruelty to any man but by lenitye reduced them to the valiant courage of the Romayns He discomfited Iugurth in sondrye battailes He slewe and tooke all his Elephantes and when he was now at the very poynt Iugurth discomfyted to haue finished hys battayls Caius Marius succeded him and ouercame bothe Iugurthe and also Bocchus kyng of Mauritania who assisted Iugurth Iugurth and Bocchus vanquyshed He wan sondry towns in Numidia and so finished hee those battayles Then Iugurth was taken by Lucius Sylla lieuetenaunt general of the army a man of greate prowesse and stoute courage to whome Bocchus delyuered Iugurth whose Iugurth taken part before he had taken agaynst the Romaynes At this tyme theese tryumphes were had at Rome One by Marcus Iunius who vanquished the Danes in Fraunce An other by Minutius Rufus who ouercame the Scordiscians and TriballiaÌ„s in Macedonie And an other by Seruilius Fiue tryumphs at Rome together Cepio who subdued the Portugales in Spayn and two other triumphes whyche were gotten ouer Iugurth The one by Metellus and the other by Marius But Iugurthe with hys two sonnes was led prysoner before the charyot of Marius fettred in Iugurth thratled in pryson chains and within a while after he was by the coÌ„maundement of the Consuls thratled in pryson ¶ ⸫ ⋠¶ The fyfthe booke of the Breuiary of Eutropius IN the meane while that battaile was waged in Numidia agaynste Iugurth the Romain Consuls Marcus M. Manliê° and Q. Cepio Consuls Manlius and Quintus Cepio were ouercome by the Danes the Almaines the Swysers and Ambroues whiche were people of Germanye and Fraunce They had thys ouerthrow fast besides the riuer of Roan where was made so greate slaughter of them that there eskaped skant one away a liue And well nigh they had loste at that time theyr tentes A great ouer throw of the Romaynes and the most parte of theyr armye Here vppon so greate feare inuaded the Romaines as vnneathe they sustained the like whilest Anniball liued and the Carthaginian battayle yet endured doubtynge not a lyttle leaste the Frenche men shoulde agayne haue gotten the Citye of Rome Where vppon Marius after that Marius assined to fight battaile with the Danes he hadde gotte the victorye ouer Iugurthe was created Consull the seconde tyme and appoynted to goo forthe to battayl agaynst the Danes and Almaynes And for that this battayle with the dayes contynued still he was made Consul the thirde and fourthe time also But in the fourthe yeare of his Consulshyppe Quintus Luctatius Catulus was deputed to be his collegue Where vppon he ioyned battayle wyth the Danes and in two battayles he slewe two hundreth thousande of The Danes greatiye discomâ—yeed hys ennemyes He tooke foure skore thousande prysonners and their captayne Theutobodus wyth them prisonners For whyche facte he was in hys absence made Consul the fifth time In this while the Danes and Almains of whome there remayned as yet great store in those parties wer passed ouer into Italy with whom Caius Marius and Quintus Catulus encountred agayne but the matter fell forthe more luckely on Catulus his side For in that battayle whyche Marius and Catulus fought ioyntly together there were slayne of theyr aduersaries what in fighte what as they fled to the noumber of a C. and .xl. M. men And there wer taken prisonners lx M. besides And of the Romayne souldioures were slain of eyther army no mo but .ccc. men only There were won in that battayle from the Danes .xxxiii. auncients of The battayle wyth the Dance and Almaynes finyshed Bothe the Consuls tryumphed whiche Marius hys
hoste wan two and Catulus hys armye .xxxi. Thus was that battayle finished and a triumphe graunted too eyther of the Consuls When Sextus Iulius Cesar and Lutius Martius Philippus were Consuls in the .vi. C .l. and lr S. Inlius Cesar and L. Martiê° Philippus Consuls yere after that the citye was built that now all other battayles were almost fully ended the Picentines the Scithians and the Pelignians began a greuous battaile in Italy who A greuous battayl in Italy when of longe time they had beene subiect and vnder the obeysaunce of the Romaynes they began nowe to clayme equall and like libertye with the Romaynes them selues Thys was a very daungerous battayle In it Publius Rutilius the Consull slain Cepio a worthy yong man and P. Rutilius and Portiê° Cato CoÌ„suls and Cepioslayne Portius Cato the other consul were slayne also Captaines agaynste the Romaines on the Picentines and Seythians side wer Titus Vietius Hierus Asinius Titus Herennius and Aulus Cluentius And Caius Marius on the behalf of the Romaines Marius vi times Consul a rowe sought against them with exceding prosperous fortune Mariê° had now bene .vi. times Consull There was sent with him also Cneê° PoÌ„peiê° But especially among other L. Corneliê° Sylla wrought at the time notable feats Among which his famous gests this is one worthy to be had in mory that he discomfited in suche sort the army of Cluentiê° which was very populous that of his own men he lost not one This war continued by the space of 4. yeres not without great damage and losse to either party At last it was finished in the. 5. yeare after it was first coÌ„menced by L. Coruelius L. Coruelius Sylla Consul Sylla then Consul who in the same battail worthelye behaued hymselfe sondrye wayes when as yet he was but pretor In the .vi. C. and .xlii. yere after the buildinge of the city began The fyrst ciuil battayl at Rome the first ciuil battaile in Rome And that same yere also began the battaile against Mithridates Thoccasion of Battayle agaynst Mithridates the ciuil battaile proceded of Caius Mariê° who had ben .vi. times CoÌ„sul Marius causer of the fyrste ciuil warre at Rome vppon indignation takeÌ„ that Silla was preferred to fight that batail against Mithridates For when Silla who was now CoÌ„sul was sent forth to war agaynste Mithridates who had alredy gotten Asia Achaia stayed his army for a while in CaÌ„pania Mariê° to th end the memory of the battel which before Silla and he waged ioyntly in Italy myght be extinguished and decaye made iaboure to the Senate that he might himself alone haue the ordering and disposinge of that battaile so attempted against Mithridates Wher vppon Sylla conceyuing displesure retourned againe backe to the Citye withall his army and foughte there against Marius and Sulpitius Hym selfe firste entred the citye of Rome Sulpitius slayn Marcus put to flyghte and slewe there Sulpitius and forst Marius to fle thence And so wheÌ„ he had appointed Cneus Octauius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna to be Consuls Cne Octauius L. Cornelius Cinna Consuls for the yeare following he toke his iourney towarde Asia For Mithridates kynge of Pontus had gotten nowe bothe Armenia the lesse and al the sea called Ponticum in compasse and Bosphorus also This Mithridates would firste haue driuen Nicomedes forth of Bithinia The prefence of Mithridates battayle who was frende to the Romaines And vpon that gaue the Romayns to vnderstand that he woulde make warre vpon the sayd Nicomedes for that he had sondrye wayes endomaged The assured frendshyp of the Romains him To whoÌ„e the Senate made answer that if it wer so that he warred against Nicomedes he should also feele the force of the Romaynes Whervpon Mithridates beinge moued with anger forthwith inuaded all Cappadocia and expulsed from thense king Ariobarsanes who was friend to the Romaines Sone after be set vppon Bythinia and Paphlagonia and exiled thence Pilemenes and Nicomedes who were kynges there and likewise frends to the Romaines From thence he went to Ephesus and sent letters throughe all Asia that where so euer any citezens of Rome might be found they shuld be all slaine forthe of hande In the mean space Athenes a city of Achaia Athens yelded â—o mithridates was yelded vp to Mithridates by one Ariston an Athenien For Mithridates had all readye sent Archelaus hys captain with a. C. and .xx. M horsmen and foremen to ouer runne and bringe all Greee in subiectyon Sylla be sieged Archelaê° at Pireneê° not far from Athens and wanne the citye Afterwarde he ioyned battayle with Archelaus in whyche he discoÌ„fited him in suche sorte that of hys C. and .xx. M. men skant .x. were lefte Great discomfyture of mythridates a liue with Archelaus and of Sylla his armye were slaine but .xiiii. persons onlye When Mithridates had vnderstaÌ„ding of thys chaunce of battaile forth of hand he sent to Archelaus .lxx. M. well appoynted menne whome he chose as chefest throughe out all Asia Against whoÌ„ Silla fought again And in the first battayl he slewe .xx. M. of his enemies and Diogenes also Archelaus his sonne In Diogenes Archelaus hys sonne slayne the seconde battayle all the whole force and power of Mithridates was quyte discomfited Archelaus himself was constrayned to flye and to hyde hymselfe naked in the fennes and Archelaus narrowly eskaped maryshes by the space of thre dayes when Mithridates hearde theese tydynges he began to treat wyth Sylla for peace In this while also Sylla had partlye subdued in battayle and Mithridates desired peace partlye receiued againe vnder obeysaunce the Dardanians the Scordiscians the Sclauonians and the Moesians But when the Legates were come from Mithridates to him whyche desired peace Sylla answered that he would not graunte peace in anye wyse vnlesse the kyng wold departe thence to hys owne country and yelde vppe suche Prouinces as he nowe deteyned there Neuerthelesse Peace concluded betweene Mithridates and the Romaynes at lengthe bothe the partyes them selues came to talk and peace was concluded betwene theym For Silla feared leaste that if he shoulde retourne to represse the ciuil warres at Rome he shoulde also stande in ieoperdye of inuasion at hys backe by Mithridates For durynge thys whyle that Silla warred vppon Mithridates in Asia and Achaia Marius whome Silla hadde before constrayned to flee the citye and Cinna one of the Consuls renued battaile in Italye and entrynge into the city of Rome they slewe the mooste noble menne Marrius his great crueity of the Senate and Consuls and manye they banished They despoyled Silla hys house and draue hys wyfe and hys sonnes to flye foorthe of the Citye All the residue of the Senate leauing the city of their own acord fled to Sylla into Grece and besoughte him that he woulde without farther delaye succoure his countrye Sylla Sylla retourned to paâ—ifye things in Italy duâ—ynge whyche tyme
marius dyed therfore forthwith transposed his army from thence into Italy minding to wage a ciuil battaile against Norbane and Scipio the Consulles He foughte the first battaile with Norbane Narbane and Scipio Consuls not farre from Capua where he slew vii thousand of Norban hys army and toke vi M. prisonners and lost of his owne men to the nomber of a. C. and .xxiiii. souldyours From thence he turned his armye agaynst Scipio and or euer they cam to handye gripes all Scipio his armye yelded them selues to Sylla without any bloudshed Then were the Consuls chaunged at Rome and Marius Marius and Papiriê° Carbo Consuis sonne to that other Mariê° who was causer of this ciuil warre and Papirius Carbo were made Cousuls Sylla foughte againste Marius the yonger and slewe .xv. M. of his men and lost cccc of his own Sone after he entred the city and pâ—rsuing yoÌ„g Marius vnto Preneste besieged him there and slewe him He had agayne Marius the yonger slayn an other battaile with Lamponius Carinates which were captains on Marius his side at Collina gate There were by reporte assembled in that battaile againste Silla .lxxx. M. of whiche .xii. M. yelded them selues to Silla The residue what in fight what in their tents and as they fled were all slaine through the insacyable hastinesse of the conquerors In like manner Cnous Carbo the other Consul fled from Ariminus into Sicilie Cne Carbo Consul where he was slaine by Pompeius whiche Pompeius beynge as then but of the age of .xx. yeres Sylla for that he apperceiued hys prowesse Cneus Carbo the Consul flayn and fiers courage deputed to be lieuetenaunte ouer his garryson to the ende he should be had in estimatyon next after hymself Thus when Carbo was slayn Pompeius appeased Siliice pacifyed Sicilie and departing froÌ„ thense towardes Affricke he slewe Domitius a captayne of Marius hys syde and Hiarbas kynge of Mauritanie who ayded Domitius After theese thynges Sylla triumphed ouer Mithridates Sylla triumphed ouer Mithridates wyth great glorye Cneus Pompeius also whych was neuererst graunted to anye Romayn beynge but .xxiiii. yeres of age triumphed ouer Affricke Thus were finyshed two moste deadly battayles the Italyan battayl whiche was also called the war betwene confederates and allyes and the ciuyl war Both which endured by the space of x. yeres whiche battayles consumed aboue an C. and .l. M. souldyoures xxiiii Consuls .vii. Pretors xl Ediles and wel nyghe CCC Senators besides ¶ The syxthe booke of the Breuiary of Eutropius WHen Marcus Emilius Lepidus and Quintus Catulus were Consuls and Sylla had now appeased and sette in order the weal publique battayles grew agayn a fresh One in Spaine An other in Pamphilia and Cilicia The third in Macedonie The fourthe in Sclauonia For whye Sertorius who toke part Four battel in sondry places at one tyme agaynst the romayns wyth Marius fearynge what should become of hym for that hee sawe what hadde betyded to others of the same factyon styrred vp the Spaniardes to battayle agaynste the Romaynes Quintus Cecilius Metellus sonne of that Metellus which subdued king Iugurth and Domitius the Pretor were sent forthe captaines agaynste him Domitius was slayne by Hyrtuleius captain of Sertoriê° his host Domitius slayne Metellus fought with Sertoriê° hymself with greate vncertaintye of fortune But at lengthe when the Senate Pompeius sente to ayde Metellus against Sertorius sawe rhat Metellus was ouermatched in battayle by Sertorius they sent Cneus Pompeius also into Spaine and so Sertorius fought againste bothe those captaines of hys aduersaries with greate varietye of fortune But at laste in the eyghte yere after that the battaile was firste begon Sertorius was slayne by hys Sertorius slaine by his owne souldyoures own souldioures and so that battail was finished by Cneus Pompeius who was as yet but a yong maÌ„ and Quintus Metellus Pius And well nigh all Spaine submitted them selues to the Romaines at that tyme. Appius Claudius after that his CoÌ„sulship was expired was sente into Macedonie He fustained but easye battailes againste diuers whiche inhabiied Thracia and there fallynge sicke dyed There was sente to succede Appius Claudius dyed him Cncus Scriboniê° Eurio so soone as he had likewise finyshed his Consulship He subdued the Dar danianc and passed forwarde tyll be came to the riuer Danubius and merited a triumphe and within .iii. yeres he finished his battailes Then was Publius Seruilius sente into Cilicia and Pamphylia This Seruilius taking him for a Consul was a passyng stout and valiant man He subdued Cilicia He assaulted wan the worthiest cities of Licia among which these were some Phalilides Olimpus and CorituÌ„ And wythin a while after he gaue the assaulte to Isauros an other citye and enforced it to yeld and within .iii. yeres space He finyshed those battayle â–ª He was the fyrste Romayne that made anye viage to Taurus When he retourned P. Seruiliê° the fyrste Romain whyche made any viage to Taurê° thence he tryumphed and merited the name to be called Isauricus Aboute the same tyme was Caius Cosconius also sente into Illiria in Seruiliê° tryumphed and was called I sanricus the Consuls steade He broughte in subiectyon a greate part of Sclauonia He wanne Salone and when he hadde finyshed thys battayle he retourned to Rome after that he had beene absent thence by the space of two yeares At the same tyme the Consull Marcus Emilius Lepidus M. Emilius Lepidus Consul who was collegue to Catulus wold haue commenced a ciuyl war Howe Ciuyl warre pretended agayn be it that vproure was appeased agayne wythin one sommers space Thus were .iiii. sondrye tryumphes had at Rome together at one tyme. The one by Metellus ouer Spayne Four triumphes at Rome together the other by Pompeius that was hys seconde triumphe ouer Spayne also The thyrd by Curio ouer Macedonie The fourthe and last by Seruilius ouer the Isaurians In the sixe hundreth three skore and sixtene yere after the building of the city of Rome Lucius Licinius Lucullus L. Licinius Lucullê° and M. Aureliê° Cotta Consuls and Marcus Aurelius Cotta beyng Consuls Nicomedes king of Bithinia died and appoynted by his testament Romaines to be hys heyres About this time Mithridates infringing the league before made wold haue again inuaded Asia Bithinia War renued by Mithridates but the Consuls wer forthwith sent against him of long time they experimeÌ„ted vncertain fortune in battell Mithridates ouercam Cotta in fight Chalcedon forced him the city wher Cotta the CoÌ„sul dyscomfyted he besieged hym But when Mithridates remoued hys power froÌ„ thence towardes Cizicus thinkynge that if he hadde ones gotten Cizicus hee myght easly inuade al Asia Lucullê° thother Consul encouÌ„tred with him And whilest that Mithridates stayed to lay siege to Cizicus Lucullus had enuironed him behinde and so keepynge him from comminge by vyttails vanquished him in sondry skirmishes At that
fell sicke and died at the same Manor place where hys father dyd after that hee hadde Titus died raigned two yeres eight monethes and twentye daies and in the fortye yere of his age There was no lesse Titê° his age and raigne mone and lamentation made for him after his death then if euery manne had bewailed his owne priuate losse and alonenesse The Senate hearing of his decease forthwith in hast weÌ„t that same night in the eueninge tide into the counsaile house and there rendred vnto him being now at this time dead so greate praise thankes as they did neuer the lyke to hym at any time While he yet liued was conuersaunt amonge them He was Titus canonised also canonised After his decease Domitianus 12. Domitianus the .xii. Emperor brother to Titus began his raign in the. 4043. yere after the creatioÌ„ of the worlde in the 835. yeare after the buylding of Rome and in the yere of our Lord 83 he expulsed the Philosophers and studiers of the mathematicall sciences forth of Rome he was the ii emperor that persecuted the christians whoÌ„ he put to deathe like as Nero dyd The crueltye and pryde of Domitianus obtained the Empire beinge yonger brother to Titus but he resembled more Nero or Caligula or Tiberius then he did eyther hys father or his brother In the firste beginnyng of hys Empyre he behaued hymself with great temperance and modesty But soone after being enfected wyth the vices of fleshly lust anger cruelty auarice he so kyndled the hatred of all meÌ„ against him that he dyd in manner quite abolishe and blot out of memory the good desertes of hys father and brother He slew the most worthy of the Senate He was the firste whiche commaunded hym self to be called a God He would not permyt the Romaynes to set vp anye pictures of hym vnlesse they were of golde or siluer He slew his owne cosen Germaine He was moreouer of an horrible pryde Hee made in his time .iiii. viages onlye One agaynst the Sarmatians an other agaynst the Cattianes and two into Dacia whyche is nowe called Denmarke He tryumphed twise ouer the Dacianes and the Cattianes When he had subdued the Sarmatianes he ware but a garlaÌ„d of baies only He sustained sondrye damages in those battailes for in Sarmatia his Legiones and captain wer slain And by the Danes Appius Sabinus one of the Consuls Cornelius Fiscus captayn of the Emperours gard were also slayne and great garysons of men with them besides Hee finyshed sondry pieces of work at Rome among which was the Capitoll the place for Musicians and singing meÌ„ the two gallaries called Isium and Serapium and the Tilt a place for men to run in At length beinge abhorred and detested of all menne for diuers hys wycked doinges hee was slayne in Domitianus slain his palaice by his owne men in the xiv yere of his age and the .xv. yeare Domitianus his age and raigne of hys raigne His corps was caryed forth to buriall by suche onlye as vsually cary the bodies of other mean men in Rome to buryinge and so he was buryed verye dysworshipfullye ¶ The eyghte boke of the Breuiary of Eutropius IN the eyght hundreth fifty yeare after the building Vetus Valens CoÌ„suls of the city of Rome at what time Vetus and Valens were Consulles the weale publique When common welthes florish of Rome aspyred to a meruaylous prosperous estate agayne For that nowe wyth greate good happe the 13. Nerua the 13 Emperours began his Empyre in the. 4058. yere after the creatioÌ„ of the worlde in the 850. yeare after the buylding of Rome and in the yere of our Lord God 98. administrynge there of was committed and betaken to the guidaunce of good rulers For after the deathe of Domitianus that deadlye tiraunt Nerua succeaded a manne whyche in hys priuate life behaued hym selfe verye soberlye and yet was he both stoute and manfull He was descended but of a meane line of nobilitye â—y the procur emeÌ„t of Petronius Secundus who was captayne of the garde and Parthenius whyche was he that slew Domitianus he was chosen Emperor beinge then berye aged He demeaned hym selfe very vprightlye and curtuously He prouided very â—ire unispectlye for the weale publique by adopting Traianus to hys sonne Nerua Nerua deceased Nerua hys age raygn died at Rome after that he had raigned 14 Vlpius Traianus the. iiii Emperor began his raign in the. 4060 yere after the creation of the worlde in the 8â—1 yere after come was built and in the. 100. yere after thincarnatioÌ„ of christ he was then foreyner that was created Emperor he was a Spaniard borne and no Italian adopted to the successyon of the Empyre by Nerua he was the third emperor that persecuted the christians But in his time it was decreed that they should not be called to examinatyon except they had bene fyrst accused Armenia renued one yere iiii moneths and .viii. dayes in the .lxxvi. yeare of hys age After his death he was canonised After him succeded Vlpius Traianus Crinitus who was born at Italica in Spayne whose parentage was more auncient of time then noble of birthe His father was fyrste Consul theÌ„ after he became to haue gouernmeÌ„t of thother Agripina a city in Fraunce He gouerned the weale publique in suche sort that he might worthelye be preferred aboue all other Princes He was one of passyng great ciuility and stoutnesse wythal Hee enlarged bothe in lengthe and bredthe the borders and marches of the Romaine Empire whyche sithe the tyme of Augustus was rather but defended and onlye conserued then worthely augmented He repaired those cities which were ruinous and fallen in decaye on the farther side of Rheine in Germany He subdued Dacia and vanquished Decibalus Hee created a Prouince on the farther side of Danubiê° in those parties where as now the Taiphalianes inhabite That Prouince extended to a thousand miles in cixcuit He recouered Armenia which the ParthiaÌ„s had won and slewe Pharnaces the Sirian who deteined it He appoynted one to be king ouer the Albanes Hee receiued vnder obeysaunce the kynges of the Spaniardes the Moscouites the Bosphoranes the Arabiaues the Dsdroenes and of the inhabitaunts of Cholchos He conquered the Adiabenes and Marchomedes He subdued AntemusiuÌ„ a greate region of Persia He wanne Seleucia Ctesiphontes Babilone and Edissios and broughte that countrey in subiection vnto the borders of India and marched still forwarde vntill he came to the redde sea where he founded three Prouinces Armenia Assiria and Mesopotamia together Thre prouinces made wyth those people whyche border vppon Macedonie After that he reduced Arabia also into the forme of a Prouince He prepared a nauye for the red Sea minding there with A vlage prepared ok the red sea to spoyle the coastes and borders of India But his curtesye and sobriety excelled farre all those hys Martiall The passyng same of Traianus feates
was of great power strength betrayed forsakynge hym betweene the two hils Viminatius and Aureus when Carinus had on this sorte obtained the Romalne Empyre the peisauntes of Fraunce began a commotion and called that their conspiracye Bagande They chose Amandus and one other called Elianus to A commotion of the pesants of Fraunce be theyr captaines Againste theym was sente Maximianus Herculius then Cesar who in easye battailes vanquished the sayde peysaunts and repressed and quieted agayne that parte of Fraunce After this Carausius also who thoughe hee was descended Fraunce pacified of a very base parentage and yet had attained vnto great renoum for that he demeaned hym self manfullye in warres tooke vppon him at Bononia to bring in quiet and to appaise the sea alonge the coaste of Brittaine and that part of Fraunce called Gallia Belgica which as theÌ„ the Frenchmen and Saxones did anoye This Carausius when hee had oft times apprehended sondrye Barbarians of whome he neither reserued the spoyl whole nor yet was accoumptable for it to those whyche had the ouer sighte of the prouinces ne to the Emperoures them selues for that time being it grew to be suspected that of set purpose he permitted the Barbarians to haue recourse that waye to the ende that as they passed by fraighted he mighte borde and rifell them and by that meanes enriche hym selfe For whych cause Maximtanus commaunded that hee shoulde be putte to deathe But hee hauynge vnderstandinge ther of fled Britayne detayned by Carausius into Brittaine and kepte it by foÌ„rce Thus when as through the world al places were in an vprour Carausius The romayn Empyre throughout disturbed rebeld in Britain Achilleê° in Egipt the Quinque gentiaÌ„s molested Africk Narseê° waged battel against thEast parts Dioclesianê° made Maximianê° Hercuculiê° Augustus also who before was but Cesar And CoÌ„stantius and one other Maximinê° he created Cesars Maximianus Herculius made Augustus and associated felow to Dioclesian in th empyre This Constantius was thoughte to be Claudius his daughters sonne And Maximianus Galeriê° was born in Dacia not farre from Sardica To the ende therfore that he might knyt those two in alliaunce he caused CoÌ„stantius to espouse Theodora daughter in law to Herculius vpon whom he begate .vi. children whyche were brothers to Constantinus Galerins tooke to wife Valeria doughter to Dioclesianus They were inforced bothe to deuorse their wiues which they had before Battayle was then attempted against Carausius A maÌ„ Battayle against Carausius of singuler experience in matters of warfare but they tooke no good effecte Where vppon peace was concluded betwene them And theÌ„ in Peace concluded with Carausius the .vii. yeare after Carausius was slaine by Alectus his companion Carausius slayne Who then kepte Brittayne himself Alectus detained Bretain by the space of three yeares and was subdued afterwarde by Asclepiodoiê° captaine of the gard Thus was Britaine recouered within .x. yeres after Britaine recouered that Carausius uÌ„rst tooke it Aboute the same time a battail was fought by Constantius Cesar in Fraunce Warre in Fraunce neare about the Langrecians that time he experimented bothe aduerse and prosperous fortune For when the Barbarians assailed hym verye hastelye hee was enforced to retyre backe againe to the City where hee was so hardly bestead that the gates of the city beinge shut he was fayne to be drawen vp the wal with ropes And within lesse then .v. hours space A great ouer throw of the Almaynes after when he had asseÌ„bled his army together he issued forth against theÌ„ and slue almost .lx. M. Almaines By this time had Maximinus Augustus in lyke manner finished his warres in Affricke where he subdewed the Quinquegentianes and made peacâ— Peace concluded with the Quinquegentians with them About .viii. monethes after Dioclesianus ouercame Achilleê° of Alexandria and slewe him and demeaned the victory which he had goâ— Achilleus siayne very cruelly For why he poluted all Egipt with great slaughter of men and banished a great noÌ„ber besides Neuerthelesse he established dyuers thinges verye circumspectlye there which continue yet to these our dais Valerius Maximianus experimeÌ„ted at the first vnlucky fortune and sone after he had very good successe For when he ioyned battail and foughte rather vnaduisedly then cowardlye at Callinicum and the citye Carre geuinge the onset with a very fewe vppon an exceadyng populous army of his ennemies he was discomfited there and enforced to retire Where vppon he retourned backe forthwyth to Dioclesianus for aide whome hee met by chaunce in the mid waye as he came And Dioclesiane as it was sayd welcomed him after such wanton and effeminate fation that being then clad in his magistrates robes he a lighted and ran on foote by Maximianus his chariot as he rode But so sone as Maximianus had assembled an army forth of Illiria and Moesia he pitched a field and fought again with Narseus grauÌ„dfather to Ormisda and Sapores in Armenia the greater with passynge good fortune and no lesse circumspectnes and valiaunt courage for taking with hym two horsmen forthe of hys garryson he kepte the skoute watche hym self When he hadde vanquished Narseus and putte hym to flyght he sackt hys tentes He tooke his wyues hys systers and his children prisonners And a greate parte of the Nobilitye Thr PersiaÌ„ put to a great foyle of the Persians tooke he prisonners there He get moreouer great plenty of the Persians treasoure and forst the king to flee to the vttermost desert places of his Empire Thus returning with great ioy he was again receiued very honorably by Dioclesiane who taried him in Mesopotamia with ayde there redy if nede hadde bene After that they bothe together and eache of them alone waged sondrye battailes They subdued the Carpianes and the Basternes and conquered the Sarmatians From amonge whiche nations they brought a great noumber of such as they had taken prisonners and placed them in the borders of the Romaine Empire Dioclesianus ordered his doinges verye cyrcumspectly as one that was of a very sharpe wit and suche one as could The close workynge of Dioclesiane make other menne instrumentes to wreke his seueritye and rigoure by He was a very diligentâ—â—nd a wyse Prince He induced into the Romain Empyre some vsages whiche were acustomed and put in practise rather duringe the bondage of the kynges then agreable wyth the libertye of the Romains He commaunded men to worship him where as before hys time the vsage was only to salute the Emperoure He garnished his apparel and shoes with precious stones Dioclesianus geuen somewhat to pride where before his raigne the habite imperiall consisted but in a purple cloke The residue of the Emperors apparaile was better then the other peoples of Rome But Herculiê° dyd outwardly demeane hymselfe wyth great cruelty declaringe the same al so openly by the terror of his countenaunce he applyed hym self wholly to followe the appetite of Dioclesianus
passinge wel knowen of Galerius for that he had of long time bene of familyer acquaintaunce with him He estemed him greatly for the earnest trauaile and payns which he sustained in the battail that he waged against Narceus for other seruiceablenesse good endeuor which he apperceiued to be in him This don shortly after Galeriê° deceassed Then was the Empire administred Galerius deceased by .iiii. at ones By ConstaÌ„tinus and Marentius whose fathers Four Emperours at once in Rome had ben Emperors before and Licinius Maximinê° which were newly created Emperors But Constantinê° in the .v. yere of his raign attempted a ciuil battail against Marentius He discomfited his armies in sondry skirmishes A ciuil battel by Constantinus And at last vanquished hym at Miluius bridge and so got al Italy vnder his obeisaunce Maxentius vanquisht At this time Maxentius exercised great tiranny vpon diuers the peres of his Empire Not longe after that Maximinus attempted warresin the War pretended by Maximinus agaiÌ„st Licinius East partes also against Licinius But when he apperceiued that he was like to be discoÌ„sited he preuented the mischiefs imminent by dying sodeÌ„ly Maximianus deceassed at Tarsus TheÌ„ CoÌ„stantiê° being one of a hauty stomak corage affecting to accoÌ„plish bring to passe such thinges as he had once coÌ„ceiued in his faÌ„tasy coueting to become Emperor ouer the whole world made war vpon This warre was againste Licinius by Constantius for religions sake chefelye Licinius although he was his freÌ„d For this Liciniê° had espoused his sister Constantia He vanquished hym first in Hungary the secoÌ„d time he ouercame him at Cybale wheras Liciniê° In the tyme os ConstaÌ„tius Scotlande receyued the sayth began to renue battel with great preparation wheÌ„ he had thus got all Dardania Mesia Macedonie he waÌ„diuers other prouinces besides After that there were sondry battailes waged betweene them and peace concluded and broken agayne At laste Lycinius was coÌ„quered at Nicomedia Licinius conquered a famous city of Bithinia in battayle bothe by Sea and lande Hée yelded himself and yet contrary to the integritye of the othe and promyse made betwene them he was slayne Licinius slayne At that time which neuer earst hapned was the Romaine Empire subiect One Emperor and .iii. Cesars at Rome to one Emperor and .iii. Cesars At this time Constantinus his children had the gouernment of FrauÌ„ce the East partes and of Italye But this vnkethenesse of passinge greate good fortune successe in his affairs did somewhat chaunge and aultare Constantinus from that his wonted gentle flexible minde In so muche that he persecuted his owne bloude and those whiche were of his allyaunce He slewe his own sisters son a notable yong maÌ„ and very towardly Eftsones he put his wife to death and after that sondry of hys frendes also In the firste beginninge of hys raign he was worthy to haue beene compared with the best and chiefest princes of the Romaines that euer were and at the end therof to be resembled to suche as were of the meaner sort He was endewed with sondry and those excellent vertues Hee was very muche geuen to purchase praise and fame by feates of cheualry He had exceding good chaunce in battaile and yet not so good chaunce but that his industry and endeuoure excelled it farre Hee vanquished and put to flight at sondry times the Gothes After that he had repressed the ciuil warres he vanquished the Gothes in diuers places and graunted them peace at laste and wan greate memory of praise and worship amoÌ„g the Barbarians He was passing desirous to attaine learning and applied him selfe wholly to the studye of the liberall artes He endeuoured to gaine the loue of the people through his well deseruinges seking the same by his great liberality and facillity Who like as he semed to some of his frendes vnstedfaste and suspected so was he to the residue of them passing frendly and assured suffring no way ne mean eskape by which he could imagin how to enrich aduauÌ„ce theÌ„ He enacted established soÌ„dry laws Some grouÌ„ded vpoÌ„ equity iustice diuers superfluous to no purpose many replenished with seuerity rigor The city which he built he ertolled to so great port and estate that he made it able to coÌ„pare iÌ„ maner with the citye of Rome it selfe And as he made preparation for battail against the Parthians he died at Nicomedia Constantius â—eceassed in thopen town ther in the .xxxi. yere of his raign when he had liued .lxvi. yeres His death was prognosticated by a Comet or blasing starre whych was sene by a certain space being of Constantius hys deathe prognosiicate â–ª a greate bignesse whiche starre the Grecians cal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After his deth he was canonised He lefte behinde him .iii. sonnes of his own that is to wit Constantinus Constans CoÌ„stantiê° to succede him in his Empire one other which was hys brothers sonne But Dalmatius Cesar which was his brothers sonne a yong man of a meruelous towardnes was slain Dalmatius Cesar slayne in an vprour whiche fel amonge the souldioures his cosen Constantius 41. Constantinê° the. 41. Emperor began his raigne in the yeare of oure Lorde 340 and with him his father Constantinus Magnus had apointed by his last will that hys two brothers Constans Constantinê° should perticipate and haue theyr portyon of th empyre permittig only rather theÌ„ procuring his deathe Not longe after when Constantinê° attempted war against his brother at Aquileia and demened hym selfe vnaduisedly there in he was slayne Then was the Empyre of the Romaynes reduced vnder the gouernemente of two onlye The raign of ConstaÌ„s endured for a time valiant which he administred wyth great iustice Sone after when he began to fail of his health he associated vnto him in stede of frends euil disposed persoÌ„s to assist him about th Empire through whose euil counsailes Constantinê° slayne he declined into horrible vices By meane wherof waring skante tollerable of thinhabitaÌ„ts of the prouinces nothing regarded of his souldiors hee was slaine at Magnensium in a Constans slayne commotion there in a castell called Helena castel not farre from Spain in the .xvii. yere of his raigne when he had liued .xxx. yeares In his life time he had atchieued diuers things very prosperouslye and duringe hys whole raigne he vsed no greate cruelty towardes his souldioures But Constantius experimented very vncertaine and variable fortune in hys battayles For why he sustained dyuers and those greate damages by the Persians They ofte times wan his townes besieged his Cities and slewe his armies to be briefe he neuer waged any battaile against Sapores in whych he had good successe but only one which he fought at Singara where he lost that victory also whiche vndoubtedly he myght haue gotten had it not bene for the outragious fiercenesse and ouer hasty courage of his souldioures whiche
sent for Publius Coruelius Scipio Scipio sent for forthe of Spayne forthe of Spaine who came to Rome wyth greate glorye When Quintus Cecilius and Lucius Valerius were consuls all those cityes amonge Q. Cecilius and L. Valeriê° Consuls the Brutians whiche before fell from the Romaines to Annibal yelded them selues again to the Romaines In the .xiiii. yeare after that Annibal had inuaded Italye Scipio who had luckely atcheued things in Scipio created Consul Spayne was created consull and seÌ„t into Affricke This Scipio was adiudged to be inspired with some deuine spirite In so much that menne thought he had conference with the celestiall powers He foughte in Africke against Annon a captayne of the Carthaginiens and slew hys army In the second battayl he toke his tentes and .iiii. M. and .v. C. soldiers and slew .xi. M. He tooke Siphar the king of Numidie prisoner who had ioyned himselfe in ayde wyth the Afers and inuaded his tentes sackte Syphar king of Numidie take prysoner them and sent Siphar together with the mooste noble men of Numidie to Rome and an infinite spoyl whiche thynge so sone as it was vnderstode all Italy wel nygh forsoke Annibal whome the Carthaginiens wylled to retourne and succoure Affrycke Annibal willed to retourn home into Afrycke whyche as then Scipio despoyled Thus in the .xvii. yere all Italy was deliuered from the terrour of Anniball The Legates of the Carthaginiens desired peace of Scipio and by him they were sente to Rome to the Peace desired by the Carthaginiens Senate Truce was made with theÌ„ duringe the space of .xl. daies vntyll suche tyme as they might repayre to Rome and retourne from thence agayne In consideratyon where of they gaue the Romains .xxx. thousaÌ„d poundes And when they hadde exponed their cause to the Senate â–ª answer was made to them that accordinge to the aduise of Scipio peace should be graunted them referryng the matter wholly to Scipio by whoÌ„ it was graunted vpon these condityons That they shoulde geue the Romains fiue C. thousand pounds of siluer and that they should moreouer The conditions of peace with the Carthaginiens rastore to the Romaynes suche prysoners as they had taken of theyrs and suche as were fled from the Romaines to them While these things wer in talk Annibal as he retourned into Africk infringed the league for he and hys armye wroughte diuers thynges by The lege broken by Anniball the way as they wente contrarye to the peace concluded vppon and as ennemyes The Legates of the Carthaginyens were apprehended by the Romaynes as they retourned from Rome But they were by the commaundement of Scipio straightway dismiste againe Not long after Annibal himselfe being sore wearyed with those contynuall battailes desired peace Annibal desired peace whiche when it came to bee treated of it was graunted vppon the same conditions as it was before and to the precedent conditions of payment of .v. M. poundes of siluer was annexed the penaltye of paymente of a C. M. poundes besides for that newe breche of league by him committed The conditions displeased the Carthaginiens Wher vpon they willed Annibal to fighte it out Warre was waged againste the Carthaginiens The condityons of the peacemisliked the Carthaginiens by Scipio and Masinissa kynge of the Numidians who hadde ioyned frendship with the Romaines Annibal sent three espies to the tentes of Scipio whiche when they were apprchended by the Romaines Scipio commaunded they should be ledde about through the tentes and that all hys army should be shewed them Then that they shuld be feasted and so dismist to the end they mighte recount to Anniball what they hadde seene amonge the romaynes In the meane time preparaunce of battaile was made by the captaines on cche partye suche as vnneth anye man coulde euer remember the lyke At whyche time bothe those expert men of warre and valiaunte captains led forthe theyr armies into the fielde Scipio retourned conqueror and at that time hadde he well nyghe taken Anniball gretly discoÌ„lyted Anniball him selfe also who at the first eskaped and fled wyth a greate company of horsmen but being pursued they were all slaine sauing .xv. Annibal sustaind a great ouer throw only And at the last he fled but with iiii alone There was founde in the tentes of Anniball xx M. poundes of siluer and of golde eyghte hundreth Peace graueted to the Carthaginiens thousand of other stuffe great store After that skirmishe peace was concluded with the Carthaginiens Scipio retourned to Rome and wyth Scipio triâ—â—phed and was called Affricanus The second battayl wyth the CarthaginieÌ„s finished greate glorye triumphed and from that tyme was he called Africanus Thus was the seconde battail with the Carthagidiens finished in the .xix. yere after the first commencement therof ¶ ⸫ ⋠¶ The fourth booke of the Breuiary of Eutropius WHen the battaile against the Carthaginiens was finyshed there ensued battaile in Macedonie agaynst Phillip who was kig ther. In the ccccc and .li. yere after the buildinge of the Citye Titus Quintius Flaminius was sent againste kyng Titus Quintius Flaminius sent agaiÌ„st Phillip Phillip and hadde good successe He graunted peace to Phillip vpoÌ„ these conditions That he shuld not make war vpon any of those cities whyche were by the Romains receiued vnder Peace graunted to Phillip protection yâ— he should moreouer restore al such Romains as he had takeÌ„ prisoners such as had fled also froÌ„ theÌ„ to him that he should kepe but l. ships only the residue of his fleete he shuld deliuer vp to the Romains Furthermore that he shoulde yerely by the space of .x. yeres pay to the romaynes .iiii. M. pounds of siluer and deliuer him his sonne Demetrius for a pledge for performance of these couenauntes Titus Quintius waged battel also agaynste the Lacedemonians and vanquished their captaine Battayle agaynst the Lacedemonians Nabides who submitted hymselfe to Quintius vpon what condityons he would And as he returned Nabides yelded himselfe thence homeward with great glory there were led before hys charyotte the worthy hostages whyche he had gotten that is to wete Demetrius sonne to king Phillip and Armenes Nabides hys sonne After that the Macedonian battayle was finyshed there ensued warre in Siria against Warre in Syria kynge Antiochus During the tyme that Publius Cornelius Scipio and Marcus Attilius Glabrio wer Consuls Pub. Corne. Scipio and M. Attilius Glabrio Consuls Annibal toke part wyth Antiochus forsakynge hys owne countrye for feare leaste that hys renuynge of battaile mighte seme to haue bene a breche of the league before made betwene hys country men and the Romaynes Marcus Attilius Glabria had good successe in Achaia He inuaded and tooke the tentes of kynge Antiochus by nyght â–ª and put hym to flyght and for that Phillip ayded the romaynes against Antiochus he deliuered vnto him his sonne Demetrius Demetrius restored to his farther kyng Phillyp when
Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Caius Lelius were consuls Scipio who was also surnamed Africanus was sente vnto his brother Lucius Cornelius Scipio then consull to aide him against Antiochus Anniball who was wyth Antiochus on hys syde was dyscomfited in battel vpon the sea Afterwarde Antiochus Annibal discomfyted in battayl on the sea hymselfe was put to flyghte in a very greate battaile by Cornelius Scipio the Consul at Sipilus Magnesia a City of Asia Eumenes king Antiochus put to flyght Attalê° his brother who builded Eumenia in Phrigia aided the Romains in the battail There wer slain in that battaile on king Antiochus his side l. M. footemen and .iiii. M horsmen Then king Antiochus desired peace whych the Senate graunted hym vpon Antiochus desired peace the same conditions as they dyd tofore thoughe he was nowe ouercome which was that he shoulde auoid forth of Europe and Asia medle no farther but wythin the precinet of Taurus Moreouer the he shoulde geue to the Romains .x. M. talentes and .xxx. pledges for thassurans of his promesse And finally that he should deliuer Anniball to them who had bene the only procurer of the battaile Then the Senate gaue to Eumenesal The liberality of the Romaynes those cities of Asia which Antiochê° had lost in battel and diuers other cities wer also grauÌ„ted to the Rhodians for that they had assisted the Romains against Antiochê° Scipio theÌ„ returned to Rome and with great glory triuÌ„phed and obtained also a surname like as his brother had before which Scipio triumphed was called Asiaticus was to be called Asiâ—aâ—â—ê° for the subduiÌ„g of Asia like as his brother was called Africanê° for that he conquered Affrick When S. Posthumiê° Albinê° and Q. Martiê° Philippê° wer CoÌ„suls Marcê° Fuluius triumphed ouer the S. Posthumius Albinê° and Q Martius Philippus Consuls â—â—etolians Assone as Antiochê° was ouercome Annibal fearing least he should be deliuered to the Romains fled to Prusias kinge of Bythinia at Anniball fled to Prusias kyng of Bithinia whose hands he was required again by T Quintus Flaminiê° Whervpon when he saw ther was no remedy but that he shoulde come into the handes of the Romaines he dranke Annibal poysonned hymselfe poysone and so died and lyeth buryed at Lybissa whiche is in the borâ—ers of the Nicomedienses Sone after Phillip died also who had bothe â—varred agaynst the Romaynes and Phillip dyed assysted them also against Antiochê° TheÌ„ his sonne Perseus rebelles in Macedonie where he had assembled a greate army readye appoynted and furnished for warre whome Cotis Warre renued in Macedony by Perseê° kyng there king of Illiria aided against the Romaines But the Romaines had to assyst them Eumenes king of Asia Atlarates kinge of Cappadocia Antiochus kynge of Syria Ptolomeus king of Egipte and Masinisla kynge of Numidia But Prusias kynge of Bithinia although he had espoused the sister of Perseê° yet he demeaned himself indifferently betwene bothe partes helping neither of theÌ„ bothe Publius Licinius who was then Consul was deputed captayn on the P Licinius the Consull vanquyshed Romains side and was vanquished by the kinge in a great battaile Yet would not the Romaines graunt the kinge peace when he desired it all though they them selues had sustained the ouerthrowe at his handes but vppon condition that he woulde submit him selfe and all his to the Senate and the people of Rome Sone after Lucius Emilius Paulê° the Consull was sent againste him L. Emilius Paulus Consull and Caius Anitius the Pretor was sente into Illyria againste Gentius But Gentius was easely ouercome in one battail and shortly after yelded himselfe His mother his wyfe hys two sonnes and his brother wer taken prisonners by the Romaynes And thus wythin the space of .xxx. dayes was that battayle ended For the Romaines knew that they shuld haue the vpper hande ouer Gentius or euer that they had ioyned battayle wyth him Paulus Emilius the CoÌ„sul fought with Perseus the fourthe Perseus ouercome day of SepteÌ„ber and ouercame him There were then slaine on Perseus his side .xx. M. fotemen But the whole troupe of horse men remained safe with the king The Romains lost in that battaile a hundreth souldiours All the cityes of Macedonie whyche the kynge possessed submytted themselues to the Romaines The kynge when he vnderstode the his frends had forsaken him yelded himself to Paulus Perseus yelded hymself to the Romaynes Emilius by whoÌ„ he was entreted honorably not as a vanquished man For when the king wold haue prostrate himself at Paulê° his feete he did not onli refuse that he shuld so Notable clemency of Emilius submit himselfe but placed him in a chaire fast besides him He graunted the Macedonians and the Illyrians that they should from thence forwarde befre And that they should be charged with the payment but of th one moity of those tributes and impositions whyche they were before assessed to paye to theyr kinges To the ende it mighte appeare that the Romaines The Romaines contented myndes wyth smal lucre warred more for equity iustice theÌ„ for auarice and desire of luere which words Paulê° pronounced a great assemble of people and at that time he desired thambassadors of sondry nations which were with him to an exceding sumptuous feast affirming that it appertained to a man to shew himself not only victorious in battayle but that it was also sitting for him to be neat and expert in feastynge and entertaining of strauÌ„gers Sone after he receiued againe vnder obeysaunce .lxx. cityes of Epirus whyche before had rebelled He distributed the spoyle among the souldiours Then returned he again to Rome in a ship of king Perseus whiche was reported to be of a meruelous greatnesse so yâ— as the report went it had .xvi. rowes of ores He triuÌ„phed royally caried in a golden chariote with his .ii. sonnes standyng on eche side of him Ther werled before his chariot the kings .ii. sons Perseê° himself being Emilius triumphed of thage of .xlv. yeres Ther folowed lying in yâ— triuÌ„ph Caiê° Anitius who then also triuÌ„phed ouer yâ— Illirians Gentius and his brother and hys sonnes were led before his charyot There came to Rome kynges for the of sondrye countries to beholde thys sight Amonge whome wer Attalus In what admiratyon the Romaines were had of straungers and Eumenes kinges of Asia and Prusias king of Bithinia who were receiued and entreted by the Romains very honorably and through the permissyon and sufferaunce of the Senate the giftes and presents whiche they brought with them were set vp in the Capitoll And Prusias coÌ„mitted his sonne Nicomedes to the gouernment and ordering of the Senators In the yeare folowing Lucius Manlius fought a battaile in Spain wyth good successe And after hym Marcellus the Consull hadde good chaunce there also Then was the thirde battaile taken in hand against the Carthaginiens in the yere after The thyrde battail agaiÌ„st the Carthaginiens the
of hys raygne warred agaynste the Romaynes by the space of forty yeres Then Pompeius adressed hys battaile agaynste Tigranes who yelded hym selfe Tigranes pursued And so sone as he was entred within Pompeius hys tentes whyche were pitched .xvi. myles dystante from Artaxata he fell prostrate at Pompeius hys fete and deliuered vp his crown into the handes of Pompeius but Tigranes submytted hymselfe Pompeius reposed it again vpon his head and entreated hym verye worthely Neuertheles he depriued him of a portion of his kingdome and assessed hym to pay a great summe of The worthinesse of Pompeius mony besides There was taken froÌ„ him Siria Phenices and Sophenes and he was assessed to paye .vi. M. talents of siluer for that he warred agaynst the Romains without cause Not loÌ„g after Pompeius also made warre vpon the Albanes and ouercame War against the Albanes Orodes king of th Albanes ouercome Orodes kinge of the Albanes in three sondry battails But at last beinge requested by letters and presents he bothe pardoned hym and graunted hym peace He ouercame Arthaces kyng of Iberia vaÌ„quished in lyke manner Arthaces kynge of Iberia in fight and at last receyued him vnder allegeaunce He gaue Armenia the lesse to Deiotarus kynge Armenia geuen to Deiotarus of Galacia for that he had aided hym in battaile againste Mithridates He restored Paphlagonia to Attalê° and Attalus and Pilemenes restored to theyr kyngdomes Pilemenes He deputed Aristarchus kyng ouer Colchos Sone after he ouercame the Iturians and ArabiaÌ„s And when he cam into Siria he enfraunchised Seleucia a citye situate Seleucia enfranchysed A peece of neare to Antioche for that they dyd not ayd ne succour king Tigranes He redeliuered to the Antiochians their pledges whyche they gaue to hym He gaue the Daphuenses a per cell of lande for the enlargemente of theyr groues or copyes for that hee was delighted with the pleasaunte site of that place and the greate plentye of waters whych abounded ground geuen to the Daphuenses there From thence he passed forthe takynge his waye towardes Iudea And in the thyrde moneth after hys arriuinge there he wan Ierusalem the chiefe citye of that countrey He slew there .xii. M. Iewes the residue he receyued vnder allegeaunce These things being thus finished he wente into Asia and so ended he the war which had long continued wheÌ„ M. Cullius C i. and Caiê° Antonius Consuls This Cicero was lireally descended froÌ„ the kinges of the Volsciâ—â— whyche were leng before the city of Rome a maÌ„ of singuler wyâ— clemency and of a passing zâ—lâ—te his couÌ„try he was called of the Father of his couÌ„try for that he hadso studie â—sly preserued it He flouryshed about xi yeres before the Incarnatyon of Christ Marcus Tullius the Orator Caiê° Antonius wer Consuls in the .vi. C. lxxxix yere after the city was builte Lucius Sergius Catiline a maÌ„ descended of a noble stock but yet of an euill disposityon conspired wyth dyuers other noble menne of like rashnesse and naughtinesse as he was Catiline was expulsed forthe of the city by Cicero His confederates wer apprehended and thratled in prison Afterwarde Catiline himselfe was ouercome in battaile and slayne by Antonius the other Consul In the six hundreth and ninetenth yeare after the buildinge of Rome When Decius Iunius Sillanus and Lucius Murena were Cansuls Metellus triumphed ouer Crete and Pompeius tryumphed for the battaile D. Iunius Sillanê° and L. Murena Consuls which he had ouer the Pirates on the sea and for that other battaile whyche he waged wyth Mithridates The pompe and pride of no tryumphe was euer lyke to that of Metellê° and Pompeius trfumphed Pompeius There were led before hys charyot the sonne of Mithridates and the sonne of kynge Tigranes and Aristobulus kynge of the Iewes Ther was caryed moreouer before hym greate store of wine and an infinite deale of golde and siluer besides At thys time the Romaines waged no greate battayles through all the whole worlde In the sixe hund eth nineteth and thirde yeare after the buildynge of Ca. Iulius Cesar and L. Bibulus tryumphed the Citye Caius Iulius â–ª Cesar who afterwarde became Emperour was created Consull and Lucius Bibulus with hym Fraunce was committed to hys gouermeÌ„t and the coast of Illiria now called Sclauonia together wyth .x. legions of souldioures Fyrst he subdued the Heluetians whych are also called the Sequanes or BurgoniaÌ„s Then he passed forth stil conquering and subduing as he went with greuous battayles vntyll he came to the Englyshe Ocean sea And with in the space of .ix. yeres he broughte wel nyghe all Fraunce in subiertyon so muche as is situate betweene the Alpes the riuer of Roan the floud of Rheyn and the Occean sea whiche in circuit extendeth to ccccc miles Sone after he warred vppon the Britaynes whyche before his aryuing Brytain whiche is nowe called England inuaded by Iulius Ccsar The Britaines tributaryes to the Romaynes there had neuer anye cognisaunce nor at anye tyme harde speakynge of the Romaines When he had subdued them he made them tributary to the Romaynes and tooke hostages of them But he did exacte of Fraunce vnder name of Tribute cccc Sestercios Then he assaild the Germaines which inhabited on the farther side of the riuer of Roan and vanquished them in most sharp battayles But amonge all these so many successes and chaunces of fortune he fought thrise vnluckelye Ones agaynste the Auernians in Fraunce Thre vnlucky vattailes of Iulius Cesar at whyche battaile he was presente hymself and twise in Germany wheÌ„ he was absent For his two Legates Titurius and Aruneulus wer slaine ther by a train About the same time â–ª in the cccccc xcvii yere after the city was builte Marcus Licinius Crassê° fellowe in offyce with Cneus Pompeius the great in the seconde yeare after that he was made Consul was sent on a viage againste the Parthians and ioyning battaile with them in an euill houre at Carras he was M. Licinius Caslus slam ouercome by Surena captayne to kynge Drodes and at laste he was slayne and hys Sonne also a valyaunte and a worthye yonge man towardes The residue of hys armye was preserued by Caius Cassius Aciuii dissention sprong in Rome after which ensued a most sharpe ciuill war betwene Pompeius and Iulius Cesare where vppon grew thalteration of the weale publyque of Rome and an vtter decay in manner of the same the occasyon of the battayl was butlight For Cesar after he was returned forthe of FrauÌ„ce requested to bee made CoÌ„sul for so it stode hym in hand for that certeÌ„ had conspired soone after to haueprocured his bannyshment through whose inueglyng Pompei us chaunged hys former mynd and reuoked hys former promesse made to Cesar and added besides cerâ—en threatnynges to Cesar wardes vpoÌ„ which the grudge grew Thys battail began in the. 3914. yere after the creatyoÌ„ of the world and in the 706. yere after the
citye was builte in the 47. before the byrth of Christe it lasted v. yeres in al then was Rome fyrstea monarche lieuetenaunte of the hooste who throughe hys singuler and passynge greate manhoode reduced to suche good passe those matters so farre endaungered whyche were nowe well nyghe paste cure and hoope of recouerye that conueyinge his armye ouer Euphrates He vanquyshedee the Persians in diuers skyrmyshes When these thynges were thus finished there ensued an horryble and lamentable battaile By meane whereof besides dyuers other calamityes whyche chaunced in the Romain weale publique the condition wonted estate of that famous Empire was aultered For when Cesar returned conqueror forth of FrauÌ„ce he required to be created Consull agayne Whyche thyng when it was by diuers of the Romaines wythout contradictyon graunted vnto hym Marcellus who was then Consul Bibulus Pompeius and Cato dyd openlye wythstande it and sente commaundemente to Cesar that he shoulde dismisse hys army and come home to the citye Vppon whyche aunswere Cesare conceyuinge dyspleasure from Ariminus where he had hys armye assembled towardes Rome to inuade it Where hppon the Consull the Senate and all the Nobilytye of Rome together with Pompeiê° fled forth of the citye and passed ouer into Greece and made preparaunce for warre agaynste Cesar at Epirus Macedonie and Achaia and those Pompeius to be theyr Captayne When Cesar was entred the vacaunte and forsaken Cytye forthwith he made himself Dictator From thence he went into Spayn There he discomfited the most stroÌ„g Iuli. Cesar made himself Dictator and valiaunte armies of Pompeius and thre of hys capitaynes that is to witte Lucius Afranius Marcus Pompeiê° his captaynes discomfyted Petreius and Marcus Varro Returninge from thence he passed ouer into Grece and pitched his field and foughte againste Pompeius In the Pompeius Cesar fought firste battaile he had the ouerthrow was put to flyght How be it he eskaped Iuliê° Cesar discomsyted for that the night approching so nere Pompeius would not pursue him Where vppon Cesar whan he was thus eskaped said that neyther Pompeius wist how to coÌ„quere him and that that was the only day in which he myght haue had the vpper hand ouer hym After that they bothe met again at Paleopharsalus in Thessalye whereas eche of them ledde forthe to fighte theyr passynge great armies Pompeius had in hys band xl â–ª M. fotemen in the forefront vii M. in the left winge and ccccc in the ryght wing He hadde succour besides forthe of all the Casto parties and moreouer innumerable Senators and pretors and others of the Consuls and almost all the nobilitye of Rome on his side and suche as ere that tyme had bene conquerors of verye stoute nations Cesar had in his armye not full oute .xxx. M. footem on and a. M. horsmen The force and strengthe of the Romains was neuer before that day assembled either in greater number or vnder more worthy captains so that nowe they coulde eastye haue subdued all the whole world if they should haue fought against the Barbarians The battaile was handled with greate prowesse and manhode on both parties And at length Pompeius was discomfited and his tents Pompeius discomfited were sackic Himself fled to Alexandria where he thought he shoulde haue gotten ayde of the kynge of Egypte vnto whome he was by the Pompeius 〈◊〉 to AlexaÌ„dria Senate somtyme appoynted to be a tutoure and gouernour duryng the time of his minority But the yonge kinge hauinge more regarde to the An example of great vnkyndnes and ingratytude time presente then respecte or consideratyon to the passed frendshyppe whyche he had founde at Pompeius hys handes slewe Pompeius And when he had cutte of hys heade he pluckte of his ringe from hys hande and sente them together to Cesar whyche whan Cesar sawe he braste forthe on weepinge to beholde the heade of so worthy a manne whyche also was his sonne in lawe Not longe after Cesar came to Alexandria where Ptolomeus also conspyred agaynste him vpon which occasyon Cesar made warre on the kyng who when he was ouercome drowned hym selfe in the ryuer of Ptolomeus drowned himselfe Nilus in whyche place bothe hys bodye was founde afterwarde and hys coate of plate also whych was gilded and verye ryche When Cesar hadde on thys sorte obtayned Alexandria he gaue that kyngdome to Cleopatra syster to Alexandria geuen by Cesar to Cleopatra Ptolomeus whome he after vsed as hys peramoure As Cesar retourned from thence he ouercame Pharnaces sonne of Mithridates the greate Pharnaces discomfited pursued to death who hadde succoured Pompeius at Thessalie and eftsones rebelled himselfe in Pontus and had wonne sondrye prouinces from the Romaines and pursued hym to deathe Retournyng Cesar made hymself Consul the thyrde tyme. from thence to Rome he made hym selfe Consull the thyrde tyme and Marcus Emilius Lepidus with hym who was Magister Equitum in the yere before when Cesar was Dictator From thence he went into Affrick where as a greate noumber of the nobility together wyth Iuba kynge of Mauritania renued battail against Warre in Africk by Iuba kynge of mauritania against Cesar him The Romaine captains in that battaile were Publius Cornelius Scipio who was descended from the moste aunciente stocke of Scipio Africanus whiche Scipio was also father in law to Pompeius the great Marcus Petreius Quintus Varus Marcus Porcius Cato and Lucius Cornelius Faustus sonne to Sylla which was sometime Dictator Cesar disposed his battailes in order againste theese capitaynes and after sondrye skirmishes he obtained the victory Cato Petreius Scipio and Iuba slewe theym selues Faustus who was sonne to Silla who sometime was Dictator and sonne in law to Pompeius was slaine by Cesar The yeare after Cesar retourned to Cesar created hymself Consul the 4. tyme. Rome and created hymself Consull the fourth time and went forthwith into Spaine where as Cneus and Sextus sonnes to Pompeius renued battayle wyth great force There Warre in Spayne agaynst Cesar wer many skirmishes betwene theÌ„ The last battaile was fought at the city Munda in whiche Cesar was so nygh ouercome that his men fledde Cesar driuen to a neare strayte from him for whyche cause he determyned to slea hym selfe rather then after that he hadde gotten suche renowne and fame in Martial feates he would now fal into the handes of yong men and be vanquished by theÌ„ when he had liued .lvi. yeares wyth great honor Neuerthelesse when he had recouered his men again he obtained the victori against them The elder sonne of Pompeius was there slaine The yonger sonne fled and so eskaped Afterwards wheÌ„ as now ciuil wars The cyuyll warre agaist Pompeius hys adhereÌ„ts finyshed by Iuliê° Cesar wer clean appeased Cesar returned to Rome where he began to demean himself very disorderly and againste the vsage of the Romaine libertye Where vppon when he bestowed the digniries and Offices in Rome vpon suche
persones as pleased hymselfe whyche offyces were accustomed to haue beene graunted by the aduyse and consent of the commons of Rome and moreouer woulde not vse any familiaritye or salutatyon to the Senate when they came to him Cefar his disorderly demenor in Rome and did sondrye other actes besydes whyche were vsed in the tyme of tyranny by the kynges at what tyme they bare rule and authoritye as yet in the citye of Rome by meanes of whiche factes he began very muche to growe in hatred of the commons A greate conspiracy agaynste hym and Senate there conspired agaynst him .xl. or moe Senators and gentlemen of Rome Among whome these were the chiefest the two Bruti whyche were descended from the stocke of that Brutus who was the firste Consull that was created at Rome and hadde procured then the banishing of the kings from thence Caius Cassius and Seruilius Casca And when Cesar on a daye wyth the rest of the Senate were at theyr Sessyon in the councell house the Cesar slayne by the senate Senate rose againste him there and slewe him and smote him in with thre and twenty deadly woundes ¶ ⸫ ⋠¶ The seuenth boke of the Breuiary of Eutropius WHeÌ„ Cesar was slayne whyche was in the .vii. C. and .ix. yeare after the building of Rome Tiuyl warâ—s renewed in Rome by Antonius ciuil wars wer againe renewed For whye the Senate toke part wyth them which had slayne Cesar But Antonius the Consull who fauoured Cesar endenored what in him lay to oppresse them by ciuil battail Where vppon when the weale publique was thus greatly disquieted Antoniê° wrought at that time diuers hainous actes for the whyche he was by the whole Senate counted as an open ennemy Battayle agaynst Antonius of the common welth Where vpon there were sent to pursue him Pansa and Hircius the two CoÌ„suls and Octauianus a yonge man of the age Pansa and Hircius Consuls of .xviii. yeres neuew to Cesar whoÌ„ Cesar had adopted and by hys laste will designed to be his heire and to beare hys name This was that Cesar who was afterwarde called Augustus and became ruler ouer al the whole world when these three capytaines were gone forthe against Antonius they gaue him thouerthrow Antonius dyscomfyted How be it it chaunced so that both the Consuls died assone as they had obtained this victory so that all the .iii. armies were then attendaunte vpon The two CoÌ„suls dyed Cesar alone when Antonius was thus discomfited and had loste hys army he fled to Lepidus who hadde bene Magister Equitum before vnder Cesar and at that presente had Antonius sue coured by Lepidus great bandes of men redy assembled if whome he was receiued Sone after throughe the procuremente and earnest sute of Lepidus Cesar made Legue made with Antonius league with Antonius Then Cesar retourned to Rome wyth al his host makinge semblaunce as though he woulde haue reuenged the deathe of hys father whyche adopted him and Cesar compelled the Romains to create hym CoÌ„sull when he was but .xx. yeres of age aboute the 710. yere after the citye was built of fine force caused the Romaynes to create hym Consull beinge as yet but of the age of .xx. yeares Then by the aduise and counsailes of Antonius and Lepidus he banyshed diuers of the Senate and beganne to detayne the weale publique by force of armes By theyr means was Cicero The ontcagiousnesse of Cesar throughe euil counsell the Orator slayne and dyuers other noble men In this meane while Brutus and Cassius whyche were two of them that slewe Cesar prepared a greate battaile hauynge assembled manye armies through Macedonie and the Easte partes There went forth agaynste them Cesar Octanianus Augustus and Marcus Antonius Battail preteÌ„ded against Cesar by Brutus and Cassius But Lepidus was lefte behynde to defende Italye They ioyned battail wyth Brutus and Cassius at Philippos a city of Macedonie In the firste battayle Cesar and Antonius were discomfited How be Cesar and Antonius discomfyted Cassiê° slayn it Cassius captaine of the nobilitye was then slaine In the seconde battayle Brutus was slayne also and an infynyte noumber of the Nobylytye whyche Brutê° slain toke parte with him against Cesar Then did Cesar and Antonius departe the Romayn Empire betwene The Romain Empire deuided betwene Cesar and Antonius them on thys sorte That Augustus shoulde possesse Spayne Fraunce and Italye Antonius shoulde haue Asia Pontus and the Easte partes At this tyme Lucius Antonius A ciuyl war by Lucius Antonius who was brother to that Antonius whyche tooke parte with Cesar against Brutus and Cassius began a ciuill warre wythin Italy He was ouercom at Perowse a city of Thuscia and was taken but was not slaine In the mean space by Sextus Pompeius who was sonne to Cneus Pompeius the greate there was another greate battaile attempted in Another battayle by Sextus Pompeiê° Peace concluded Sicilie at whiche battaile all those were assembled whiche as yet were left a liue of them that aided Brutus and Cassius The battel was fought by Cesar Augustus Octauiê° against Sextus Pompeiê° And at last peace The Persians vanquyshed was concluded betwene them At yâ— same time Marcê° Agrippa had good successe in his affairs in Guyon whiche is that parte of Fraunce that is now called Aquitain Lucius Ventidius Bassus ouercame the Persians whiche inuaded Siria in three sondry battailes He slewe Pacorê° kyng The fyrst tryumphe ouer the Persians Orodes his sonne the very same dai that Surena captain to Orodes slew Crassus He was the first which merited a moste condigne tryumphe at Rome ouer the Parthians In thys meane space Pompeius infrynged the peace and was discomfited in batel Pompeiê° infrynged the peace was slayne on the sea and as he woulde haue fled from thence to Asia warde he was slaine Antonius to whom Asia and the East partes wer allotted beinge deuorced from the fister of Augustus Cesar espoused Cleopatra M. Antoniê° espoused Cleopatra Quene of Egipt He warred on the Persians and ouercame them in the firste battailes And as he retourned homewardes there fell great skarsity and penury of victuals among his The Persians oyscomfyced by Antonius souldioures But when the PersiaÌ„s pursued hym harde as he retourned he got the victory ouer them at that tyme also This Antonius began a greate ciuill warre through the procurement A cyuyl war by M. Antonius and egging for ward of his wife Cleopatra affectyng to attayne the gouernment of the city of Rome that ther by he might satisfy the incessant requests of his wife He was vanquished by Augustus in battaile vpon the sea at Actiu in which town is situate in Epirus From thence Antonius vaÌ„quyshed by Augustus he fledde into Egypte and there beinge exempte from all hope of good chaunce and despairing that hys affaires should euer take good successe agayne so that all men nowe
and ix monethes he was poysoned in the. 11. yere of his raigne tomb created at Mense in Germany whose neuewe also Caligula was He raigned ouer Media and did many things there very quietly And yet some thinges did hee verye cruelly and withoute discretyon He made warre vppon the Britaynes whyche countrey sith the time of Iulius Cesar none of the Romaynes had euer had any thing to do withal And when they were ouercome by Cneus Sentius and Aulus Plantiê° two famous and worthy men he had a great triumph ouer them at Rome Furthermore he annexed also to the Empire of the Romaines certain Ilandes situate in the Occean sea beyond Britaine called Orcades and Warre vpon the Britainâ— now called Englande surnamed his sonne â—ritannicus He behaued himself very curteously towardes diuers of his frendes in so muche that when Plautius a notable man who in his viage which he made into â—ritain atchieued diuers notable actes should triumphe for the same the Emperor himselfe accompanied him and the vse beynge such that with his triumph he should goo vp into the Capitoll Claudius gaue him the preheininence went The term of Claudiê° hys â—aâ—gne on his lefte hande This Claudius liued lxuii yeres and after his death was canonised Claudius canonysed After him succeaded Nero who 6. Nero who was sonne in law to Claudius who adopted him to be his successor in the Empyre began his raign in the. 40â—7 yere after the creatioÌ„ of the worlde the 809. yere after Rome was builte the 5. yere after Christ he had carnal copuiaâ—ton with his own mother and eftsones â—â—ewe her and hys wife and dyuers other wor thy mer. He was a great persecutor of christian religien put diuers Sainctes to deth did verye muche resemble his vncle Caligula He did greatlye dysgrace and diminishe the Romaine welthe and substaunce A man geuen to vnwonted ryot straunge lust and great expenses and charges so that after the manner of Caius Caligula hee bayned hym selfe wyth hot and cold Oyntmentes He fyshed wyth golden neâ—tes the ropes of which wher with they were drawen foorth of the water were of Pnrple silke He slew a greate noumber of the Senate He became ennemy to all good menne and at laste did habondone hymselfe whollye ouer to so great disworship that hee woulde daunce and singe oâ—penly in the apparaile of common mynstrelles and suche as are accustomed to play in enterludes He coÌ„mitted diuers muâ—thers vppon hys owne kinsfolkes And when he had slaine hys owne brother his wife and his mother he set the citye of Rome on fire that he Rome set on fyre by Nero and burned 6. dais space mighte thereby as by demonstratyon see after what fashion Troy burued when it was taken and sette on fire by the Gretians In feates of armes he durste doo nothinge at all The cowardise of Nero. He hadde almoste loste Britain For duringe hys raigne there were taken Brittaine nighe loste there and destroyed quite two notable townes The Parthians did berefte hym of Armenia and broughte the Romain armies vnder subiectyon How be it there were two Prouinces created during his raigne Pontus Polemoniacus Two prouinces created by the assent of kinge Polemon and Alpes Cotie king Cotius being now deceassed For those hys actes waxed he to be abhorred of the citizens of Rome and cleane forsaken of all menne and of the Senate was adiudged as an ennemy of that weale publique Where vppon they sought him to haue beene reuenged on him whose punishment was appoynted on this manner That hee Punishment deuised by the Romaines for Nero. should firste be drawen naked throughe the citye then hauynge a forke thruste into his heade he shoulde so hange and be whipped tyll he were deade after that he shuld be thrown down hedlong from the rock which whiche when he vnderstode he fled forthe of his palaice and in a farme er graunge of one who had beene sometime his bondman and was by him lately enfranceised he slew himselfe Thys farme was situate betwene Nero slewâ— hym selfe the two wayes Salaria and Numentana whiche wer .iiii. miles distant from Rome He founded the bathes at Rome which duryng hys Bathes in Rome raigne were called Neroniane and nowe are called Alexandrine He deceased in the .xxxi. yeare of hys age Nero his age and raygne when he had raigned .xiiii. yeres and with him almost all the progeny of Augustus was put out of memory Afterward Sergius Galba succeded 7. Sergius Galba the. 7. Emperour in the Empire A Senator of ancient noblenesse who was chosen Emperoure by the Spanyardes and Frenchmen when he was .lxxiii. yeâ—es of age and eftsones was gladlye â—eceiued of the whole armye For whilest he was yet but a priuate maÌ„ â—e demeaned his life worthely both â—n Martiall actes and also in ciuyll pollicy He had beene ofte Proconsul exercising the offyce of Consul for others At sondry times had he beene a captayne in mooste perillous battayles Hys Empire was but of very shorte continuaunce proceding of meruailous good beginninges sauing that he seemed somewhat ouermuche geuen to seueritye He was slayne thoroughe the treason of Otho in the Galba slayn seuenthe monthe of his raigne Hys throate was cut in the market place at Rome and lieth buried in his gardainâ—s whyche are situate along the waye called Aurelia not farre dystante from the citye of Rome When Otho had thus slayne Galba he inuaded the Empyre and detained â— Otho the. 8. Emperour it hym selfe Hys stocke was more noble by his mothers side then by his fathers and yet was it by neither of them bothe very base When he was yet a priuate manne hee behaued hym selfe verye gentlye and tractablye In his Empire he could not shew anye greate experimente of hys doynges for that at the same time that he slew Galba Vitellius was made Emperoure by tharmyes of the Germaynes who attempted battayle agaynst hym And Otho was discomfited in a very lighte skirmish at Bebriacus notwythstandinge that hee had with hym a great band of men where hee slewe hym selfe whome when hys Souldyoures requested that hee woulde not so lyghtlye despayre Otho slewe hym selfe of the successe of the battayle he aunswered that he was not woÌ„rthye ne so muche to bee esteamed that for hys cause anye ciuyl battayl should be waged and there wyth al smote himself in with his dagger in the .xxxviii. yere of his age when hee The raigne of Ottho had raigned foure skore and fiftene dayes Then Vitellius obtained the Empire 9. Vitellius the ix Emperor descended of a familye whyche was become worshipful through aduauncementes and promotions rather then by noblenesse of birth For his father whiche came neither of any notable line was created Cousul thrise a rowe This Viteliius raigned with greate disworship beynge merueileusly noted for his great cruelty The disordâ—rly raâ—gne of Vitellius but especiallye for his excessyue glotony
and vnmeasurable eatyng In whiche he did so exceede that as report wente he feasted .iiii. or v times in one day But amonge all the Vitellius his excessiue glotony residue of his baÌ„kets this one is had in memory whiche hys brother Vitellius prepared for him in whyche besides other charges and expenses as it was sayde there were set before An example of vnineasurable gluttony him at one time two thousande fishes and vii thousand birds Thys Vitellius affecting very much to resemble Nero his doinges dyd so expreslye shewe this his sayde purpose and intente that he laboured what in him laye to honour the exequies and funeralles of Nero who at that time lay but very meanely buryed He was slayne by the captaynes of Vitellius slayne Vespasian But firste he slewe Sabinus Vespasian hys brother whom he burned in the Capitoll whyche he seâ—te on fire When Vitellius was thus slaine he was wyth greate reproche and ignominie drawen naked openly along the city of Rome The reproche ful death of Vitellius with his bearde and hear of his head staring and a naked sword set vnder his chin And as he passed throughe the streates on this sorte euerye one whiche met him threwe dong in his face and bosome Thys doone hys throte was cut and he throwne into the ryuer of Tiber that he myghte want the worship of burial whyche In what estimation burial was amonge the Romains is graunted to euerye man yea euen to the simplest He was slayne in the lvii yeare of his age when he haddâ— raigned .viii. monethes and one day Vitelliê° hys age raygne After him succeaded Vespasiane who was created Emperour at Palestina 10. Vespasianus the tenthe Emperor began his raign in the. 4032. yere after the creation of the worlde in the 824. yere after come was built and in the. 71. yeare after thâ—ncarnatioÌ„ of christ A Princeendued wyth moste excelleÌ„t vertues a maintainer of ciuill order and learnynge in Rome so that he assignd certain standyng stipends to Phisitions professors of other scieÌ„ces at Rome one in verye dede base born howe be it worthye to be compared with the best and chefest Emperors A man who for hys priuate lyfe was worthye to be hadde in memorye For in that tyme hee was sente by Claudius into Germanye and from thence into Brytaine hee pytched fielde and foughte fyue tymes wyth hys ennemyes Hee annexed to the Romaine Empyre two mightye nations twentye townes and the I le of Wighte nighe adioyning to Britayne Hee behaued hymselfe in the Romaine Empire very moderately but he was somewhat to muche desirous of monye Neuerthclesse he got the same in suche sorte that he wron ged no man for it And lyke as hee dyd wyth earnest meanes and diligence studye to gather it together so dyd he verye cyrcumspectlye distribute the same abrode espetiallye to suche as hadde great nede there of So that vnnethe any man canne fynde eyther greater liberalitye or more iustly employed of anye Prince that euer was before his tyme. He was verye pacyent and gentle In so muche that he woulde not lightlye punyshe anye suche as The great lenity of Vespasiane were accused and openlye conuycted to haue conspired treason agaynste him with anye greuouser penaltye then by banishment only In the tyme of hys Empyre Iudea and Ierusalem the mooste famouse and notable Cities of Palestina were annexed to the Romaine Empire Moreouer he reduced Achasa Licia Rhodus Bizantium whiche is nowe called Constantinople and Samos whiche before wer free cities and likewise Trachea Cilicia Thracia and Comagenes which were vnder the dominion of sondrye kinges suche as were frendes to the Romaines into the fourme of Prouinces He would quickly forget displeasures and grudges of minde He woulde pacientlye suffer and heare the rebukes and tauntes of Philosophers and of those whyche pleaded mennes causes tofore him But hee was an earnest reformer of Martiall pollicy He and hys sonne Titus triumphed Vespafian triumphed ouer Ierusalem with hys son Titus ouer Ierusalem Thus wheÌ„ he was by these means beloued and well lyked of the Senate and other the commons of Rome and in fine of all men he was stricken wyth a flixe and so died at a Manor of hys owne whiche was amonge the Sabines Vespasian died of a flyxe in the .lxix. yeare of his age when he had raigned .ix. yeares and vii daies and was canonised Vespasian his age and tyme of 〈◊〉 He had with suche obseruation diâ—gentlye marked the naituityes and byrthes of his sonnes that when son drye conspiratyes were pretended againste him and were deseried hee Credit to the casting of natiuities woulde alwayes dissimule and neglect them affirminge to the Senate that either hys sonnes shuld succede him in hys Empire or elsse no man After his decease Titus his sonne succeaded him who was also called 11. Titus Vespasâ—anâ—â—e .xi. Emperour began his raign in the. 4041. yere after the creatioÌ„ of the worlde the 833. yere after Rome was ballte â— the â—o â–ª yereafter Christ his incarnation Titus Vespasian a good archer Vespasianes a man worthy of greatâ— admiration for all kynde of vertues In so muche that hee was called she loue and delices of mankynde He was very eloquent and an â—â—tedyng stout warriour and one of passyngeâ— greate sobrietye He pleabed causes himselfe in Latine He made diuers Poeticall inuentions and tragedies in Greke At the assaulting of Ierusalem where he soâ—loed vnder hys father he shot of .xii. arowes whych he bestowed in suche sorte that with eche of them hee slewe a manne of them whyche stoode on the walles in the defence of the Citye Hee vsed such lenity in hys Empire at Rome The great lenity of Titus that he neuer punyshed any one man at all Such as were conuict to haue conspired againste him bee dismyste and pardoned in suche sort that forth wyth he woulde agayne vse and accept them in like familiaritye as he did before He was so easye to ve entreated and there wyth also liberal The liberality of Titus that he neuer denied request to anye manne For whiche cause when hys frends rebuked him for that his largesse and liberality he made theym this goodly answer From an Emperour An example of a ryghte princely hart quod he none oughte to departe sorowful for not obtaining theyr requestes And for thys cause ones as hee sate at Supper and bethoughte him that hee hadde that daye geuen nothynge to anye manne hee sayde O my frendes I haue lost this daye accounting that for no day in whiche The Theatre built a place made halfe round where the people assembled to be hold playes he gaue not some thinge away He builded the Theatre at Rome a place made round very good to beholde playes and enterludes And at the fyrste erectinge thereof he slewe siue thousande wilde beastes When he was throughe thys demeaninge hym selfe passyngly well beloued of all men he
He behaued himself at Rome and elsse where through all his Prouinces fellow like to all men He went oftentimes to hys frendes houses to salute theâ— and visit them if they were sicke and diseased If they feasted one an other he woulde also banket amonge them without putting anye difference betwene them and hym selfe Often woulde he ride wyth them in theyr chariottes He would Meuer harme anye Senator nor commit anye thinge contrarye to iustice for the augmenting of his treasoure He vsed greate liberalitye towardes all menne Bothe openlye and secreatlye enryched hee all personnes and aduaunced to honoures diuers suche as he hadde but very small acquayntaunce and familiaritye wythall He buylte in manner a whole worlde hym selfe He enfraunchised manye cities In fine he did nothinge but it was very quietly done and voyde of all trouble For during all hys whole raigne there was but onlye one Senatour condempned whome the residue 〈◊〉 the Senate adiudged to deathe vnwittynge to Traianus For whyche cause he was throughe al the whole worlde reputed of all men most lyke to a God So that both whilest he yeâ— Traianus reputed for a God liued and after his death also he demerited immortall honour Amonge the residue of al his worthy sayings thys one of hys deserueth eternall memory When his frendes hapned once to reprehend him for that he behaued hym selfe so gently towardes all men he made this aunswer that when he was nowe Emperoure he shewed hym selfe to be suche towardes A worthy saying of an Emperoure hys subiects and populer people as he when he was as yet a subiect wished the Emperoure to haue bene to him wardes When he had thus purchased great glory and renowne bothe for ciuil and also Martiall pollicy as he retourned from Persides he sickned and died by the way at Seleucia Traianus deceased a town of Isauria of the flixe when he had liued .lxii. yeres ix monethes and .iiii. daies in the .xix. yere Traianê° his age raygne vi moneth and .xv. day of his raigne He was canonised and of all other Traiane the fyrste Emperour whyche was buryed wythin the city he alone was buried within the city His bones were put in a golden cup and sette vnder a piller in a streate whyche hee builte himselfe whiche piller amounted in heighte to an C. and .xliiii. fote The factes of Traianus are so rife in memory that euen in these oure daies in the Senate or Councell house the fortunate acclamations and well wishynges to the Prince by his commons at his elections are vsed to be these That hes myght proue in his affairs more fortunate then Angustus and in behauioure and demeanor of hymselfe to excel Traianus So much preuailed in him the fame of perfect goodnesse that whether men flatter him or doo in deede commend him he gaue vndoutedly iust occasion to be accompted a most worthy exaÌ„ple to others When Traianus was deceassed Elius Adrianus was created Emperoure 15. Elius Adrianus the .xv. Emperoure begenne his raigne in the. 4079. yere after the creatioÌ„ of the worlde the 871. yeare after Rome was builte the 119. yeare atfer Christe he gaue hymself wholly to purchase peace quietnes there was no one Emperor sence Augustê° time whyche aduantaged the common we le so much as he did he was verye experte in Astrenomy he made prog nosticatyons yerely for his owne self He persecuted the christians at the fyrste but after he had red diuers bâ—kes which certain Christians that wer learned men wrate to him he wild that none shuld be apprehended for religyons sake not for that Traianus willed it shoulde be so but throughe the onlye procuremente of Plotina wife to Traianus For so longe as Traianus was yet liuinge hee woulde neuer adopte hym nor make him his heire althoughe hee was his owne sisters daughters sonne and cosen to hym He was also borne at Italica in Spaine This Adrianus enuyinge at the glorye of Traianus yelded vppe the keepinge of those three Prouynces whyche Traianvs hadde annexed to the city of Rome and remouing hys armyeâ— from Assiria Mesopotamia and Armenia hee mineded that hys Empire shuld not haue extended any further that way theÌ„ to the riuer Euphrates But when hee purposed to geue ouer Dacia also which then the Romaines kept his frendes disswaded him from that fearinge leaste by that meanes many Romain citizens shuld haue ben endangered to fal in to the handes of the Barbarians For Traianus after that he had subdued Dacia remoued thither great plenty of people whome he asseÌ„bled together throughe all the Romayne Empire and dominion to inhabyte there and manure that lande For that Dacia was through the continuall warres of Decibalê° become now voide of inhabitauntes and cleane wythout strength He had peace during the whole time of his Empyre Only one battail waged he and that One bettayle only durynge the raigne of Adriands by his Prouost He went ouer all the Romain Empire hymself and built manye places there He was verye eloquent in the Latine tong and exceding well sene in the Greke tong He was not greatly commended for any clemeÌ„cy which he vsed He was exceding circumspect about the treasory and Martiall policye He deceased in Campania beinge aboue the Adrianus deceased hieage and raygne age of .lx. yeares when he had raigned .xxi. yeares .x. monethes and .xix. dayes The Senate would not canonise him Neuerthelesse his successor Ditus Aurelius Fuluius requyred very earnestly that he mighte be canonised whiche thing al the Senate did openly withstand Howe be it at length he obtained it Than after Adrianus there succeded Antonius Fuluius Boionius who was called 16. Antoniê° Fulnius Boioniê° the. 16. Emperor whom Adrianus adopted began his raygne in the. 140. yere after the Incarnatyon of Christ also Pias he was descended of a noble familye but yet of no longe antiquity He was a notable man and suche one as might worthelye be coÌ„pared with Numa Pompilius like as â—â—aianus mighte bee conferred wyth Romulus WheÌ„ he was as yet a priuate man he behaued hymselfe very well and in his Empyre farre better He shewed cruelty to no maÌ„ He exhibited greate curtesye to all men In Martiall feates he obtained meane glory endeuoringe euermore rather to defend then to amplify and enlarge his prouinces assigning the iustest men that hee coulde finde to heare office in the common wealth He aduaunced alwaies to promotyons suche as were good men and detested such as were leud and naughty personnes without vsinge for all that any rigor or cruelty to anye of them Amonge suche kynges as had ioyned frendshippe and amitye with the Romaynes he was not onlye reuerenced but feared also In so much that diuers nations of the Barbarianes A notable argument of instice and indifferency setting warres and force aside would bring their controuersies and matters in debate to bee decided before him yelding them selues wholly to abide his determinate sentence there in
raigne the 225. yere after Christes incarnatyon Magister Scriuii came Emperoure whome the sonldiors named Cesar and the Senate created Augustus beinge as yet but a very yonge manne In the battaile which he attempted against the Persians he vaÌ„quished with great glory their king Xerxes with great diligeÌ„s he gaue himself to martiall pollicy Certain legions of souldiours which made vproures and were vnquiet he dismiste and put forthe of wages He associated with him to assiste hym in iudgement and geuing of sentence Vlpianê° who made the lawes who also supplyed an O ffyce in Rome which was called magister Scriuii an office much like that whithe we call here the master of the Rolles This Emperour demeaned himself very gently at Rome He was slaine Aurelius Alexander slain in Fraunce in a tumult that grew among the souldiours iv the .xiii. yere and .viii. day of his raigne Who shewed during his whole life time very greate godlinesse towardes all men especiallye toward his mother Mamea ¶ The ninthe booke of the Breuiary of Eutropius AFter that Aureliê° 26. Maximinê° the 26. emperour beganne hys raigne in the yeare of oure Lord. 237. he was fyrste a shepherd in Thracia and became after to be a souldioures was dead Maximinê° obtained the Empire being descended of a mene parentage for why his father was a souldioure Hee was the firste that aspired to the Empyre by meane of the souldiors only not being authorised by the Senate one who had bene neuer him self Senator before when hee had with good successe fought against the Germaines and was by the souldioures nominated Emperour he was slain by Pupienus at Aquileia and his soÌ„ne Maximinus slayne with him who was as then but a very childe when hee had raigned by the space of three yeares and a fewe Maximinus his raigne dede daies at which time his owne souldiors forsoke him and fled from him then were there three whyche at one time in Rome bare the name of Augustus whych were Pupienus Thre Emperors together at Rome Balbinus and Gordianus of which the .ii. first were descended of a verye base line but Gordianus was come of a noble progeny for whye his father should haue bene chosen Prince by the souldioures at what time hee supplyed the offyce of Consull in Africke duringe the raign of Maximinus So soone as they were come to Rome Balbinus and Pupienê° wer Balbinus Pupienus slayne slaine in the palaice and the Empire was reserued for Gordianus alone Who being as yet but verye yonge 27. Gordianê° the 27 Emperour beganne his raign the 241 yeare of oure Lord. espowsed Tranquilliua at Rome and warred in two places together at ones And toke his viage from theÌ„ce into these parts he waged battel agaiÌ„st the He raygued vi yeres Parthians who were nowe readye to issue forthe of their citye againste him This battail in short space toke very good successe And he in sondry great skirmyshes dyd sore afflyct the PersiaÌ„s But as he returned he was Gordianus slayne slaine not farre from the borders of the Romaynes through the treason of Philip who succeaded hym in the Empyre After hys death one of hys souldioures erected a monum ent for a memoriall of him about .xx. myles distant from Circesshus whyche is now a castel of the Romaines near adioyninge to Euphrates His funerals Gordianus canonised were solempnized at Rome and hee was canonised Then the two Philips the father and the soÌ„ne toke 28. Philip the 28 Emperoure beganne his raigne with his sonne the yeare of oure lord 247. the yeare of theyr raign was the 1000. yere after Rome was built on them the gouernment of the Empire after that Gordianus was thus slaine and returned into Italye leading backe with them the army forth of Siria It was accompted the M. yere after the building of the citye of Rome at what time they began first their raign which yere was celebrated with great solempnity and preparation of games and shews Not loÌ„g after they were bothe slaine by tharmy The ii Phillips slayne The elder Philip at Verona the yonger was slaiue at Rome They raigned by the space of v. yeres and were canonized both After their decease 29. Decius the 29. Emperer begaÌ„his raign in the yeare of our Lord. 252 he was the. 8. Emperoure whiche persecuted the chry stiaÌ„s he made an act that all that worshipped Christe shuld be slain Some iudged he was swalowed vp in an earthouake Decius who was born at Bubalia in Hungarie obtained thempire Hee repressed a eiuill battayle which was commenced in Fraunce He creaied his sonne Cesar He fouÌ„ded a bathe in Rome But bothe hee and his sonue were slaine in Barbarie after that they hadde raigned by the space of two yeres and were canonised There were then created Emperoures Gallus Hostiliauus and Volusianus his sonne During the time of their Empire 10. Gallus Hosti Itanus the. 30 Empiror began his raign in the yeare of our lord 254. together with his sonne Volusianus He was also a persecutor of the christians they raygned skant ii yeres Emilianus attempted new conspiracies in Moesia and when they bothe wente to subdewe hym they were slayne at Iteramna and so raygned not full oute two yeares They committed no fact worthye of memorye Their Empire was for thys cause only remembred for that during the time there of there fel great plagues and sondrye other diseases and mala dies with in the Romaine Empyre Emilianus like as hee was of base Great plages in the romain Empyre stocke descended righte so was the time of his Empire verye obscure and wythout fame when bee hadde Emilianus emperours raigned .iii. monthes he was slayne After him Lucinius Valerianus who had the gouernment of Rhoetia and Norseus and was lieuetenaunt 31. Lucius Valerius the 31. Emperor begaÌ„ his Empire in the 256 yereafter Christes Incarnation he was a persecutor of the christians vsed them so extremely that many of theÌ„ forsoke the faith for feare of death there was by the army created Emperoure and eftsones made Augustus At that time was Galienus also made Cesar at Rome by the assent of the Senate The raygne of these two was very pernityous and hurtful and in maÌ„ner an vtter decoy to the fame and renowne of the Romaines what for the misfortune and euill luck which they had in their affairs and what for the cowardnesse of the said princes The Germaynes were entred within Italy and aproched vnto the city Rauenna Valerianus waginge battall in Mesopotamia Valerianus discomsyted takeÌ„ prisoner by Saporâ—s and vsed very vily for when Sapores woulde take his horse hee made Valerianus to lie on the ground that he might tread on hym while hee got vppon hys horsebacke in stead of a blok or sotestole was discomslted there by Sapores king of the Persians and sone after was taken prisonner and ended his life among the Persians in
most seruil boudage Galienus who was made Augustus beinge as yet but a very yong man At the first he did with great derterity gouern the weale publique Sone after indifferently wel and at the last meruailous naughtily For when he was but yong he at cheued and brought to passe sondrye things in Frasice Illiria â—ery stoutly He slew Iugenuê° at Mursia one of the peres of yâ— country Treballinnê° Long time after that he behaued himself meruailous stil and quiet Afterward geuing himself wholy ouer to wantonnesse and ryot from theÌ„ce forth he gouerned yâ— weal publique with exceadinge great cowardise so that things fell into passynge greate desperation The Almaines when they had despoiled Fraunce The Romaynes annoyed the Romaine empyre they inuaded Italy And Dacia whiche was situate on the farther side of the riuer Danubius and by Traianê° was annexed to the Romaine Empire was then loste Grees Macedonie Pontns and Asia were ouer run by the Gothes Hungary was despoiled by the Sarmatians and the Bohemians A great parte of the Romain empyre won by foreyners The Germaines proceded stil forward vntil they cam to Spain where they conquered the worthye city Tarracon When the ParthiaÌ„s had no we gotten Mesopotomia they began also to pretende atytle and of claime to Syria Thus when things were welnigh past all hope of reconerye and the Romaine Empyre almoste wholly extinguished Posthumius a Frenche man borne beynge Posthumius vsurped the estate imperial come of a verye base stocke intruded into thempire and gouerned the same by the space of .x. yeres in suche sort that through his great pâ—owesse and manhode he recouered those prouinces whiche were then almoste quite loste But wythin a while after hee was slaine in a tumult in which the Posthumius slayne souldiours rose against him for that he would not licence and permit theÌ„ to rifle and sacke the city Moguncia which rebelled against him at which place Lollianus also begaÌ„ new conspiracies After him Mariê° a handicraftes Marius vsurped the imperiall estate man of a very vile and reiect occupation got the Empire and the next daye after he was slayne Then Victorinus gouerned Fraunce Victorinus toke on him the gouernment of Fraunce he was a meruaylous stout man of courage but ouermuche geuen to carnall concupisceÌ„s And when he fel to deflour and forse other mens wiues he was slayne at Victorinus slayne the city Agrippina in the second yere of his raigne through the treason of one Acturiê° After him succeded Tetricus the Senator who being lieuetenaunt Tetricus chosen emperour ouer yâ— part of FrauÌ„ce which is called Aquitany or Guion was in his absence by the whole consent of his soldiors chosen Emperor and at Burdeux he toke estate vppon hym He ouerstode sondry tumultes of the souldioures But whilest that those thinges toke this successe in FrauÌ„ce the Persians were vanquishte in the East partes by Odenatê° Syria was The Persians vaÌ„quisht defended againste suche as inuaded it and Mesopotamia was againe recouered Odenatê° proceded forward vntil he came to CtesiphoÌ„tes a town in Parthia Then when Galienus had resigned and geuen vp the gouernemente of the weale publique the Romaine Empire was adminystred by two at ones The East partes by Odenatus and the West partes The romayn Empyre gouerned by .ii. at ones by Posthumius In this meane space Galienus Valerianus were slaine at Millaine in the ninthe yere of their raign and Claudius succeaded after them who was chosen by the souldiors and by 32. Claudius the 23. Emperoure began his raign in the yeare of our Lord. 271 a very worthi man he recouered agayne things which were gone to decay duryng the raygnes of Valeriauê° and Galienus the Senate created Augustus He ouercame in sharpe warres the Gothes he wan Illiria and discomfited put to flight suche as despoiled Macedonie He was a very sparing man and a sober A maintainer of iustice and suche one as was fyt to gouernea weale publique Within .ii. yeres after that he began first his raigne he sickned and died and was canonised The Senate attributed greate honours vnto him For why they caused to be hanged vp a golden Target or shielde in the Councel house and in the Capitoll a golden Image to be created for a perpetuall memory of him Next after Quintiliê° brother to that same Claudius was by the whole consent of the souldiours nominated Quintilius nominated emperour Emperor a man of singuler sobriety gentlenes worthy to be compared with his brother or rather to be preferd before him By the assent of the Senate he was made Augustê° and Quintilius slayne was slain within .xvii. dais after that he began his raign Then Aurelianê° accepted the gouernment of the Empire 33. Aurelianus the. 33. emperour preferred to that dignity by Claudius begaÌ„ his raigne in the yeare of oure Lorde 213 he was the tenth emperor that deltexttemely with Christians He was borne at Dacia Ripensis which is now called Denmark He was a stout man in warre howe be it his minde was enclined to vnmesurable crueltye He subdued also manfully the Gothes He restored the Romain Empire to the wonted and auncient precinctes after longe and vncertain fortune of battail He vanquished Tetricus at Catalaunos in Fraunce where Tetricus betrayed Tetricê° vanquished and deposed .l. hys owne army vnto him for that he could not endure the dayly sedytions and discensions whyche spronge amonge hys souldioures Whervpon he requested Aurelius by letters seacreatly that he woulde rid him from those calamities In hys sayd letters he vsed this vearse of Virgil. eripe me his muicte malis which is Deliuer me forth of these miseries thou victoryous and inuincible conqueroure He toke Zenobia prisnoner in an exceading greate battaile almost faste by Antioche when he had first slain her husbande Odenatus who had nowe got all the East partes vnder his dominion Odenatus slayne And when he cam to Rome he triumphed worthilye as he who had againe recouered both the Easte and West partes of the Empyre Aurelianus triumphed at Rome There went before his charyot in yâ— triumphe Tetricus and Zenobia But Tetricus was afterward deputed to haue the refourminge and redressyng of Lucania and lyued as a priuate person there of longe tyme. And Zenobia atter her decease lefâ— her posteritye at Rome whiche deo as yet to this daye remayne there Duringe the raigne of Aurelianus the coyners of money rebelled wyth Coyners rebelled in Rome in the city of Rome They depraued the coyne and slewe one Foelicissinnus Rationalis But Aurelianus when he had ones subdued them he kept them vnder with great extremitye of punishment Diuers of theyr Principals he put to deathe He demeaned hymselfe wyth great cruelty and as a bloud thyrster Manye reuerenced hym more for the dignitye and roume whyche he supplied then for anye zeale or loue that they bare to hym Hee practised alwayes horrible rigoure In so
whose minde hee accomplyshed in all crueltye But when Dioclesianus apperceiued that hee waxed vnweldye to gouerne the Empyre for that he now grew in age hee began to perswade with Herculiê° that they Dioclesianus persâ— adâ—d with Herculius to resigne the state imperyall both should become priuate persons againe and resigne the gouernment of the weal publique to such as wer both yonger and lustier men to whiche aduise of his with muche a doo Herculius would assent But yet neuerthelesse at length eyther of them bothe vpon one daye chaunged theyr estate imperiall and resumed agayn Herculiê° and Dioclesianus became priuate men agayne the apparel of priuate persons Dioclesiane at Nicomedia and Herculius at Millaine so sone as they had sinished the noble triumphes which they kept at Rome with great pomp and solemnity of pageants In whiche the concubines the sisters the children of Narseus were led before their chariots When this tryumphe was finished the one of them wente to the city of Salona and thother into Lucania Dioclesian passed forthe his life worthelye in quiet as a pryuate man in a towne not far distante from Salona demeaning hym selfe vertuouslye there He was the onlye firste whyche fithe the foundatyon of the Romaine Empire was willyng to reuerte againe from so hyghe degree to a priuate estate and condityon of lyfe For whyche cause there was graunted to him that whyche neuer sithe anye man coulde euer remember did chaunce to anye other which was that though he deceased Dioclesianus canonised after his decese thoughe he was apriuate man a priuate persone yet he was canonised that notwythstanding ¶ The tenthe booke of the Breuiary of Eutropius WHen they hadd 39. Constantius the 39. emperour beganne hys raigne with Galerius in the year of oure Lorde 308. thus finishedde theyr bearynge rule ther were chosen Emperours Constantius and Galeriê° and to them was committed the gouermente of the weale publique and the Romaine Empyre was deuided betwene them So that ConstaÌ„tius should possesse Fraunce Italy Affricke Galerius should haue Illiria Asia and the East parts whiche done they substituted vnder them .ii. Cesars But Constantius holdynge hym selfe content with the dignitye of Augustus refused to sustaine the trouble whyche he shoulde haue endured through the administration of the affaires of Italye and Affricke wherein he declared his worthines passing great modesty He soughte by all meanes howe he might enrich Worthy studies of a Prince the popular people of th empyre and such as inhabited the Prouinces He did not much affect the augmentyng or incresing of the common treasour supposinge it farre better and more profitable that the welth of the whole Empyre shoulde be possessed and remaine among priuate personnes rather then the wealth of priuate men to be included and shutte vp in one place together Hee was hymselfe so sklenderly stored of things necessary for houshold that if it chaunced hym to feast any nomber of his frends he was enforced to borow plate abrode here and there to furnish hys tables wythall He was not onlye beloued but hadde in great reuerence also amonge the frenchmen for that through his said accepting of the empire they had now eshaped the suspected wittines of Dioclesiane and the bloudye hastinesse and cruelty of Maximianê° He deceased at Yorke in Brittain in the .xiii. yere of his raign and was canonised Constantius deceased at York in England Galerius who was endued with very good qualities and was of greate prowesse in martiall pollicye besides when hee vnderstode that through the permission of Constantius Italye was also annered to hys Empire he created two Cesars but when Constantius was deceased his Two Cesers created vnder Galerius sonne Constantius being base born was created Emperor in Brittain 40. Constantinê° the. 40. Emperor began his raign in the yereof our Lord 310. He was the first Emperor that professed the name of christ he established the gospell in his Empire Maxentius Herculiê° hys sonne nominted Augustaê° became gouernour of that country in his fathers roume which thing al the people laboured earnestly to haue it so In this mean space the gard began a commotion at Rome where they nominated Maxentius sonne to Herculius Augustus which Herculiê° dwelt not far from the city of Rome nigh to the high waye as men goo to Rome wardes At whiche tidinges Maximianus Herculius conceyued a good hope that he might again recouer the estate which to fore by perswasion Herculius cam againe to Rome of Dioclesian far againste hys own wil he had forgon and resigned Whervpon with great spede he hasted to Rome wards forthe of Lucania Which place he had before choseÌ„ being a most plesant soyl to remain in where he had also spent a greate Herculius perswaded Dioclesian to resume the state unperial part of his time after that he had resigned first his Empire TheÌ„ Maximianê° so sone as he was come to Rome he begaÌ„ to perswade with Dioclesian bi letters that he shuld likewise resume his former estate which thiÌ„g he neglected to do TheÌ„ was Seuerê° Cesar seÌ„t to Rome with an army to represse Seuerus sent agaynste the garde asswage the commotion which the gard had made But as he laide siege to the city his own souldiors forsoke him by meane wherof strength and power accrued grewe to Maxentiê° Seuerus slayne Seuerus as he wold haue fled theÌ„s was slaine at Rauenna After that Herculius Maximianus in an assemble of the souldiors made semblance as if he would haue deposed his soÌ„ne Maxentius for which his said enterprise hee sustained reproche and rebuke of the souldiours From thence he departed to Fraunce fayning that hee was expulsed by his sonne and A cruell pretens of Herculius forced to flye thinking by this meanes he shoulde get to be receiued of his sonne in law Constantinus whoÌ„ he minded to slaye if he mighte finde time and oportunitye conueniente which Constantinus at that preseÌ„t raigned in Fraunce with greate fauoure and loue bothe of his souldyours and other the inhabitauntes of those prouinces And when hee had slain the French men and Almains and taken their kinges prisonners assembling a great companye to behold A cruell facte of Herculius the sight he set them forth to be deuoured of wilde beastes But hys doughter disclosed to her husbande Constantinus the wicked enterpryces of her father reueled vnto him what treason her father had pretended againste him Whiche thinge so sone as Maximianus vnderstode hee fled to Massilia thinckinge to haue passed ouer from thence to his sonne Maxentius againe and was there Herculius slayne slaine suffring condign punishment for those his demerits one who was euermore prone to all rigor and cruelty A man without faith very pernitious and hurtfull to all men and void of all ciuility and courtesy Aboute the same time Licinius was created Emperoure by Galerius Licinius created Emperor He was borne at Dacia and
vnaduisedly without any regard coÌ„trary to all order of warfare would nedes ioyne the battail when as nowe the day was cleane spente After the death of Constans wheÌ„ as now Magnentius possessed Italy Affricke Fraunce new matters begaÌ„ to grow in Illiria where the souldiors by the whole consent chose Veteranio to gouerne the Empire being now verye Veteranio chosen prynce by the souldioures aged but yet well be loued of all men for the good successe whiche he hadde of long time experimented in martiall affaires There was assygned vnto him the gouernment of Illiria This Veteranio was both witty and a very good man In condityons much refembling toe auncyent Emperours of Rome and one which was greatly enclined to the auncient vsage of the Emperors and passing tractable hym self How be it he was nothing at all learued In so muche that he knewe not the Alphabete or croscow but as he lerned it in his extreme age after the he was created emperor This Veteranio was deposed Veteranio deposed froÌ„ thempire by Constantiê° who to reuenge the deth of his brother begaÌ„ a ciuil battail and Veteranio after an vnkethe straunge sort was by the consent and agrement of the soldiors enforced to relinquishe and resigne his estate imperial At the same time was there a commotion at Rome at Nepotianus got thempire which time Nepotianus Constantinus hys sisters sonne inuaded thempire being aided by a bande of them whiche vse to playe at the weapons called gladiatores But accordyng to hys cruell beginninges so had he an ende correspondente For in the xxviii day after his saide enterpryse he was slain by the captains of Magnensius Nepotianus slayne and so suffred punishmeÌ„t fit for his demerites His hed was smitten of set on theud of a tauelin and so caried about the city There were great banishments and merueylous great slaughters of noble men theÌ„ coÌ„mitted Within a while after Magnensius was also discoÌ„fited in battel at Mursa was well nighe taken A great noÌ„ber of the Romains wer slain Magnensius slayne in yâ— battall which were men able to haue withstode all forain inuasioÌ„s of enemies and such as the Romains through their prowes might haue gayned manye tryumphes and bene in safetye and security agaynst theyr aduersaryes Shortly after Constantius deputed Gallus hys fathers brothers Gallus made Cesar sonne Ceaser ouer the Easte parts Magnensius after that he had bene discomfited in so many battels slewe hym selfe at Louane when he Magnensius siue hymselfe had raygned three yeares and seuen monethes In lyke manner delte hys brother Senonis also whom he had made Cesar and sente to defende Gallus Cesar slayne Fraunce Aboute this time was Gallus Cesar slaine by Constantius after that they had waged diuers ciuil warres together a man of cruell disposition and very prone to tiraÌ„ny if he might haue ruled according as himself hadde listed Siluanus also who attempted other newe matters Siluanus slayne in Fraunce was within .xxx. dais after slain Then Constantius himself alone enioyed the Romain Empire Constantius Emperour alone Soone after he appoynted Iulianus his vncles sonne and brother to Gallus Cesar ouer Fraunce and sente him thither espousing first his owne Iulianus made Cesar sister vnto him Now when the Barbarians had won diuers townes and besieged other some and that euerye where ther was a pitiful spoyl made by them so that the Romain Empire consisted in no small hasard and danger Iulianus slue greate armyes of the Almaines at Argentine a city of An ouerthrowe of the Almaynes Fraunce Theyr mighty and worthy kinge was there taken prisonner Fraunce was againe recouered Iulianus was by the consente of the Iulianus Augustus souldiors made Augustus who with in a yere after made a viage toward Illiria Constantius who was busied in battail against the Parthians when he hard of this returned home wardes to pacify that commotion died by the waye betwene Cilicia Constantius deceassed his age raigne and Cappadocia in the .xxxviii. yere of his raigne when he had liued .xlv. yeres and was adiudged worthye to be canonised He was a very peasible and quiet man but such one as gaue ouer muche creadit and affiaunce to his frendes and those whiche were his familiers And folowed to muche his wyues councell Yet in the fyrste commencemeÌ„t of his Empire he demeaned himself with great sobriety endeuoring by all meanes to enrich suche as were of his acquaintaunce and would not see them vnpreferred to honoures and promotions whose painful diligence and endeuoure be hadde ones experimented How be it wyth greate seueritye and crueltye he punished suche as he ones appertained to affect soueraintye in suche sorte that hee woulde secke to depriue him of his Empire Otherwise he was very quiet and gentle whose fortune and good chaunce was more to be commended in ciuill warres then in those whyche he waged forth of his Empire After that Iulianus was Emperoure who wyth greate preparation 42. Iulianus the 42. Emperor began his raign in the yere of oure Lord 362. one sene passynge well in the liberall sciences but an earnest aduersary of christian religyon made warre vpon the Parthianes at which viage I my self was present diuers townes and holdes were peasibly yelded vp and other some won by hym And when he hadde despoyled Assiria hee pytched his tentes and entrenched them and soiourned there for a season And retournynge from thence a conqueroure hee was slain by his ennemies as hee pressed som what vnaduisedlye into the battailes in the .vi. of the kalends of Iuly in the .vii. yere of his raign wheÌ„ he had liued .xxxi. yeres and was canonised He was a notable man and suche one as would passinglye well haue gouerned the weale publique if desteny wold haue permitted him to haue liued He was exceadinglye wel sene in all the liberal sciences He did excell in the Greke tounge in so muche that his knowledge in the Latin tounge was nothing to be coÌ„pared with that which he had in the Greke tong He was very eloquent and of a very redy prompt memory In manye thynges hee resembled muche a Philosopher He was lyberall to hys frendes but not all together so hedefull aboute hys affayres as it was sittinge and fitte for soo myghtye a Prince whyche fault dyuers obiected to hym whereby hys fame and glorye was somedele stayned in that behalfe He delt very vprightly with thinhabitauntes of the Prouinces whyche were vnder the Romaynes He charged his subiectes to pay as few tares and tributes as mighte be Hee was very ciuil and curtuous to all men He sought litle to augment hys own tresure He was very desirous to attaine glory and renoum In so much that he did affect it sometimes wyth out measure He was an exceadinge Iulianus a persecutor of Christians great persecutor of Christian religion but yet in suche sorte that he abstained from sheding their bloud He was
not muche vnlyke to Marcus Antonius whom he did also earnestly endeuor him selfe to immitate and folowe Next after him Iouinianus who as yet had neuer ben trained vp 43. Iouinianus the. 4â—z Emperor 〈◊〉 hyâ— râ—â—gne in the. 367 yâ—re of our Lorde he was a veri good prince a fauourer of the gospel and coÌ„fessors therof he instytuted that tythes shuld be payd to churches in warfare abrode was by the coÌ„sent of the army chosen to haue the administration and the rule ofth Empire of whome the souldioures had better notyce throughe the commendatyon and good reporte of hys father then for anye triall and knowledge they hadde of him selfe Thus when the weale publyque of the Romaynes was disturbed and the souldioures brought to extreme pouertye so that they were destitute of al thinges necessary Iouinianus was vanquished in a battail or ii by the Persians and Iouinianus sustayned a shameful ouerthrowe forst to make a very reprochful peace for graunting wheref he was forced to them with a great portion of hys Empire which thing sence the fyrst fouÌ„dation of the city of Rome whiche was wel nighe a M. C. and. xviit yere neuer erste happened In lyke manner also the Romayne Regions were discomfited and sustained an ouerthrow by Pontius The lesinus at Eaudium a towne of the Samuites The Romaines put to great foyles and in Spaine at Numantia and at Numidia and sent vnder yoke But at that time they departed wyth no part of the Empire to their aduersaries Nor yet that former concluding of peace on that condition had bene greatly to be misliked wythal if that afterwarde so soone as he had bene able he had infringed that league againe whiche before of necessity and force he was constrayned to make lyke as the Romaynes dyd in all those battailes whiche I haue before recited For after anye suche peace made they renewed battayle againe forthe wyth againste the Samnites the Numantines and the Numidians so soone as the peace was concluded But Iouinianus dreadynge that he shoulde haue beene supplanted in the Empire helde hym selfe styll in the East partes geuing in the mean time small hede or regarde to his râ—nowme After that as he tooke his iourneâ— from thence to warde Illiria he dye sodenlye in the borders of Galacia one who in no other his affairs was eyther slouthfull or neglygente or wanted any wyt Of the hys so sodayn deathe dyuers coniectured diuersly Some thoughte that he tooke it by eatynge rawe meate for in deede he had surfited ouer nyght Other some supposed that it proceaded throughe the vnholsome ayre of the chamber whyche for that that it was newlye pargeted wyth lyme was verye noysome to him lyinge there in And other some adiudged that it â—ame by reason of the vnmeasurable burnynge of charcoles in his chamber of whyche for the it was extreme colde weather hee wylled there shuld be burned great plenty He deâ—eased in the .vii. yere of his raigne â—he .xxiiii. of the Kalends of March in yeâ—xxiii yere of his age throughe the 〈◊〉 neuolens of them which succeded â—im in the Empire was canonised He was geuen very muche to ciuility and was by nature very liberall Suche was the state of the Romaine Empire at what time the sayd Iouinianus and Verouianus gouerned it which was in the M. C. and .xix. yere after the first building of the city of Rome ⸫ ¶ Thus endeth the Breuiary of Eutropius ¶ Imprinted at London in Fletestrete near to Saynt Dunstons Churche by Thomas Marshe