the Testudo The Parthians thinking the Romans were thus set down out of weariness giving over their Bow 's came to charge them at Push of Pike but they Rising all at once and giving a great shout with their Piles broke the foremost Ranks and forced the rest to Flight But in the mean time Famine began sorely to oppress the Army for the Soldiers being continually in Fight could not range abroad for Provisions besides there wanted Mills the greatest part being left behind because either Beasts of Carriage were dead or imployed to carry the sick and wounded so that 't is said a Bushel of Wheat Athens Measure was sold for fifty Drams and Barly Bread for its weight in Silver they were forced at last to eat Roots and Herbs and because they found but few that were known they were necessitated to make experiment of all they met with and unhappily fell upon an Herb that caused Madness and in the conclusion proved death for as soon as any had eaten of it they lost their Understanding and Memory and fell to turning upside down and removing all the Stones they met with believing they were at work upon some very serious matter so that all the Camp was filled with People rooting up and removing Stones from one place to another who at last died vomiting of Cholor Wine was the Cure for this Distemper but it was not to be had insomuch that 't is said Anthony seeing so many of his People die and the Parthians still at his heels often cryed out Oh the ten thousand Admiring those ten thousand Men who under the Conduct of Xenophon marched a much longer way making their retreat from the Plains of Babylon to the Sea without loosing so much as one Man though in their way they were often assaulted by far greater Numbers of Enemies The Parthians seeing they could not hinder the Romans March nor engage them to divide one from the other and that they had been often beaten began again to talk civilly to those went abroad for Corn and Forrage showing them their unbent Bows and telling them that now they might freely go and indeed there appeared only some Medes who passed a day or two's march farther without committing any Act of Hostility but only under pretence to secure the Towns distant from the great Road. After these Civilities and Fair words the Romans were somewhat more hearty Anthony himself grew a little pleasant and began to have some inclination for the way of the plain because it was told him that there was greater conveniency of Water then in the Mountains As he had resolved it one of the Enemies called Mithridates Cousin to that Moneses who had fled for refuge to Anthony and to whom he had given three Cities came to the Camp and asked for any one that could talk with him either in the Syrian or Parthian Tongue Alexander of the City of Antioch a trusty Friend of Anthonies presenting himself the Parthian after having told him that what he did was for Moneses sake asked him if he saw far afore those high Mountains that touched one another He making Answer he saw them well The Parthians said the other lie there in Ambush with all their Forces for this Plain extends it self as far as those Mountains and there they wait for you out of hopes that giving credit to their fair words you will leave your Road to Cross the Plain In the other way you have nothing to suffer but Labor and Thirst to which you are already accustomed but if you engage in this Anthony will scarce come better off then Crassus And having said thus much he departed This being reported to Anthony he was afraid and conferred with his Friends and with the Mardian whom he found of the same judgment for he knew that the way of the Plain though there were no Enemy to be feared was hard to find and many difficult passes whilst all the inconvenience of the other was want of water only for one days march Determining therefore to take the way of the Mountains and to depart the same night Orders were given to the Soldiers to furnish themselves with water and because the most part wanted Vessels they filled their Head-pieces and certain skins sewed together The Army was already set forward when the Parthians having intelligence of it contrary to their custom followed them by night About break of day they came up with the Rearguard and fell upon them tired as they were with Travel and want of sleep for that night the Romans had marched two hundred and forty Furlongs and did not believe the Enemy could be so soon upon them which made them almost loose their Courage besides their thirst encreased with their Fight being forced to fight and march together Mean while the Vanguard met with a River clear and cool but whose salt and venemous waters ulcerated the bowels as soon as they were drunk and provoked an intolerable thirst The Mardian had given notice to the Soldiers of it but that could not hinder them though he forbad it never so much from drinking Anthony himself came amongst them and conjured them to have yet a little patience shewing them that they were not far from another River where they might drink and that henceforward the way was craggy and unaccessible for Horse and therefore the Enemy must of necessity retire at the same time he caused the Retreat to be Sounded that at least the Soldiers might a little refresh themselves in the shade As they pitch'd their Tents and that the Parthâ—ans were retired according to their Custom Mithridates came again and Alexander going out to meet him he advised him to raise the Camp after the Army had never so little refreshed themselves and to march with all the speed they could past the other River for that was the bounds of the Parthians beyond which they woâ—ld not go This advice being brought to Anthony he sent to the Parthians by Alexander Cups and Vessels of Gold of which he took as much as his Coat would cover The rest of this days March was without any Alarm but the night following was troubled by the Romans themselves who made it both hurtful and dangerous for they killed those who had any Gold or Silver to rob them plundered the publick Treasury loaden on the Beasts of Carriage and at last Anthony's owâ— Equipage even to his necessary Vessels and Tables of inestimable price which the Thieves broke in pieces and divided amongst them that occasioned so great a tumult and so strange an affright for they thought the Enemy already master of the Baggages that Anthony having called to him one of his Guards named Ramnus who was his freed Man he forced him to promise him upon Oath to run him through with his Sword as soon as he should command it and to cut off his Head lest he should fall into the power of the Enemy or be known when he was dead This discourse having drawn
Inhabitants having recourse to Sylla he promised to come and sent to Fimbria not to do any injury to those who had yielded to him praising them for being returned into the friendship and alliance of the Roman people Notwithstanding he required to be likewise received into their City being likewise of Rome and telling them I know not what of that ancient Kindred of which the Ilians boast At last he entred by force slew all he met with set on fire the City and particularly put to several sorts of death those who went to Sylla on the behalf of the City He had neither respect to the sacred places nor to those had fled thither for refuge but burnt the Temple of Minerva with a great multitude of people who had retired thither as to a Sanctuary He rased the very Walls which he went round about next day to see if any part were left standing Thus was that City worse treated by a Man who took thence his Original then it had formerly been by Agamemnon for he left not a house nor a Temple nor a Statue standing Some there are that believe that the Image of the Goddess which is called Palladium was now found whole after the removal of the Rubbish wherewith it was covered but there is more reason to believe it was taken away by Diomedes and Ulysses in the time of the Trojan War This Massacre of the Ilians happened about the end of the hundred and third Olympaid and it is thought to be about one thousand and fifty Years between this sack of Troy and that of Agamemnon Now Mithridates receiving advice of the defeat at Orchomene and considering that since his first sending an Army into Greece he had lost such vast Multitudes in so short a time wrote to Archelaus that he should conclude a Peace upon the fairest terms he could get He therefore demanded a conference with Sylla which being granted he told him Sylla the King Mithridates your Fathers friend and yours was forced by the avarice of those who had the Command before you to make the War But having now experienced your Valour he demands a Peace provided what you shall desire of him be just Whereupon Sylla who had neither Fleet nor Money receiving nothing from Rome since his Enemies had declared him Enemy of the State and having already spent all the Silver of the Temples of Pythia Olympia and Epidaurum for which he had engaged half the Lands confiscated from the Thebans beâ—ause of their continual Rebellions and who besides all this was impatient to transport that Army fresh and every way compleat to Rome against his Enemies consented to his Peace by telling him Archelaus Mithridates should have sent Ambassadors to Rome to complain of the injuries he had received but instead of that he himself injured others entring in hostile manner into their Territories plundring their Treasures as well Publick as Sacred seising on the Goods of those he had put to death and showing no more faith nor goodness to his own friends then to us destroying many of them and murdering the Tetrarchs his familiars who had all their throats cut in one night with their Wives and Children though they were not guilty so much as of a design As for what regards us he rather made appear his inveterate hatred then any necessity he had to make War when he let loose his rage against the Italians in Asia by a thousand sorts of Torments sparing neither Age Sex nor Quality So much hate does this man bear to the Latin Name who calls himself my Fathers Friend but never remembred that friendship till I had slain him a hundred and sixty thousand men Wherefore we have no reason to trust you any more However for your sake I promise he shall obtain favour from the Senate and People of Rome if it be in good earnest that he ask it but if he still feign I advise you Archelaus to consider the present estate of his affairs and your own how he treats his Friends and how we have dealt with Eumenes and Massanissa At these words Archelaus interrupted him angry that he should tempt him and telling him he was not a man to betray Forces intrusted to his charge but that he really hoped for peace if Sylla demanded only just things Whereupon Sylla after some moments Silence Provided said he Archelaus that Mithridates put into our hands all the Fleet he has restore the Generals Deputies and other Prisoners deliver up the Runaway's and fugitive Slaves send back to their Cities those of Chios and others transported to the Euxine Sea withdraw his Garrisons from all places where he has planted them save only those he had before the Peace was broke pay the Expence of this War which he has been the cause of and content himself with the Kingdom of his Ancestors I hope to prevail so far that the Roman people shall forget the Offences they have received Archelaus hearing these conditions began presently to withdraw his Garrisons and about the rest wrote to the King Sylla that he might not in the mean while loose any time went and spoiled the Countries of the Henetians Dardanians and other Neighbouring Nations who made delay incursions into Macedon by that means exercising his Soldiers Mithridates Deputies returning some time after agreed to all save only about Paphlagonia but added that they could have had better terms from the other General Fimbria Whereupon Sylla offended at that comparison made answer that that word should cost Fimbria dear and that as soon as he came into Asia he would see whether Mithridates stood in need of Peace or War Whereupon he caused his Army to take their March through Thrace that he might bring them to Cypsela having sent Lucullus before to Abydos for he was now returned having often very narrowly escaped falling into the hands of Pyrates However he had brought with him a kind of Fleet of Ships which he had been furnished with at Cyprus Phoenicia Rhodes and in Pamphilia with which he had pillaged all the Coast as he came along and skirmished with Mithridates his Fleet Sylla therefore parting from Cypsela and Mithridates from Pergamus met together and began a new conference being drawn out into the Field with few followers in the sight of both Armies Mithridates began his discourse with the alliance which he and his Father had with the people of Rome complained of the injuries he had received from the Roman Generals and Commissaries who had established Ariobarzanes in Cappadocia taken from him Phrigia and favored by their dissimulation the Violences of Nicomedes And all this said he for Money which they received sometimes from me and sometimes from my Enemies for there is nothing you Gentlemen of Rome may so justly be reproached with as love of Money In short your Generals being come to make War against me whatever I have done in my own defence ought rather to be attributed to necessity then to any deliberate purpose
multitude of other Persons with Governments and likewise with great Sums of Money He built also Cities Nicopolis in Armenia the less as a Monument of his Victory Eupatoria in the Kingdom of Pontus which Mithridates Eupator had called by his name when he founded it and afterwards had rased it for opening its Gates to the Romans which Pompey afterwards rebuilding from the ground called Magnopolis He reedifyed likewise Mazaca a Citie of Cappadocia which had been demolished during the War and repaired divers others which were ruined or decaying in divers places of Pontus Palestine the lower Syria and Cilicia in which last is scituated that City formerly called Soly and at present Pompeiopolis which he peopled for the most part with Pyrates He found in the City of Talauris where Mithridates Magazines were two thousand Vessels of Onichit is bound about with Gold quantity of Flagons Cups Tables and Seats all perfectly beautiful There were likewise such vast numbers of Bridles and Saddles enriched with Gold and precious Stons that the Questor was thirty daies in receiving and counting them One part of these precious moveables came to Mithridates by succession from Darius the Son of Histaspes having passed from hand to hand to the several Successors of the Kings of Persia unto him Cleopatra had taken another part out of the Treasures of the Ptolemies and given them in keeping to the Inhabitants of the Isle of Coos from whence Mithridates had brought them and the rest that King had bought and stored together himself being very curious of rich moveables Towards the end of Winter Pompey distributed rewards to his Victorious Soldiers fifteen hundred Attick Drams to every Soldier And to the Tribunes and Centurions proportionably so that it is said the whole Sum of this distribution amounted to sixteen thousand Talents After this he went from Ephesus to Italy by Sea and dismissing his Army at Brundusium returned to Rome And by this popular action astonished the Romans as if they had seen a Miracle The whole City went forth to meet him the youngest a great way and others according to their Age and after all came the Senate themselves admiring the prodigious greatness of the actions he had done For never before him had any person defeated so powerful an Enemy nor added so many Provinces to the Roman Empire or extended their Dominion to the Euphrates And in like manner he entred in Triumph in in a more Magnificent manner then ever any had done before in the five and thirtieth year of his age The Pomp lasted two days for it required a great deal of time for the passing by of so many different People Ponticks Armenians Cappadocians Cilicians the several Nations of all Syria Albanians Heniochians Acheans Scythians and Iberians He brought likewise into the Ports seven hundred Ships compleatly fitted and sent into the City Chariots laden with Gold and Rarities of inestimable price among which was the Table of Darius the Son of Histaspes the Chair and Scepter of Eupator with his Figure of Massie Gold eight foot high and yet was only the Breast and Head and seven hundred thousand five hundred and ten Talents of Silver Money There were likewise a great number of Waggons laden with Arms and some with Ship Beaks After followed a multitude of Captives and Pyrates chained and habited every one according to the fashion of his Country before the Triumphal Chariot marched the Satrapes Captains and Sons of Kings some Captives others Hostages to the number of four hundred twenty four Among whom was Tigranes the Son of Tigranes five Sons of Mithridates Artaphernes Cyrus Oxathres Darius and Xerxes and two Daughters Orsabaris and Eupatra and among the rest Olthalces and Aristobulus King of Colchis and the Jews the Tyrants of Cilicia and the Queens of Scythia Three Iberian Generals two of the Albanians with Menander of Laodicea who commanded Mithridates Horse Those absent were carried in Picture Tigranes and Mithridates fighting giving ground and flying Mithridates besieged his secret flight by night his death and with him his two Daughters companions of his misfortune there were shown likewise the Pictures of his Children of both Sexes that dyed before him and the Figures of the Gods adored by the Barbarians adorned after the manner of their Country and neer to them a fair Table with this Inscription Ships of War taken eight hundred Cities built in Cappadocia eight in Cilicia and Caelosyria twenty in Palestine Seleucia Kings overcome Tigranes of Armenia Artoces of Iberia Oreses of Abania Darius of the Medes Areta of the Nabathaeans and Antiochus Commagenes Then appeared Pompey on a Chariot all glittering with precious Stones clad as some say in the Coat of Alexander of Macedon but if that may be believed 't is likely it was found among Cleopatra's Movables which the Inhabitants of the Isle of Coos delivered to Mithridates At last after the Chariot marched the Officers of the Army who had served him in this expedition some on Horseback others on foot who all together conducted their General to the Capitol When he was arrived there he put not to death any of the Captives as all who triumphed before him had done but sent them back into their own Countries at the publique charge except only the Kings and Kings Children of whom he not long after put to death Aristobulus and after him Tigranes As for Pharnaces he in the mean time kept the Inhabitants of Phanagoria blockt up till such time as Famine made them resolve to give him Battel however the King granted their pardon and without injuring any of them was content to take Hostages Sometime after he took Sinope and desirous to make himself Master of Amisa he made War upon Calvisius who then Commanded the Roman Forces in the Country in the time that Caesar and Pompey were engaged against each other and at last the Romans being elsewhere busied he was driven out of Asia by Asander upon a particular Quarrel He had likewise to do with Iulius Caesar as he returned from Aegypt after the Rout of Pompey which happened about that Mount where his Father had beaten Triarius and being beaten escaped to Sinope with a thousand Horse whither Caesar wanting leasure to follow him sent Domitius to whom he yielded the City who after he was come out with his Cavalry according to the Articles of Peace agreed between them caused all the Horses to be killed which did not well please the Horsmen with whom Shipping himself he retired by Sea to the Kingdom of Pontus As soon as he came there he assembled a great number of Sâ—ythians and Sarmatians and made himself Master of Theodotia and Panticapea but Asander renewing the War with him his Horsemen being dismounted and not used to fight on foot were beaten and Pharnaces showing himself the only man of Valour was slain after having received many wounds the fiftieth year of his Age and fifteenth of his Reign in Bosphorus C. Caesar gave his Kingdom
much the more the good Grace of the Citizens he gave them often the Divertisements of Shows and Chases by which he ran in debt every where much beyond what he was worth every day surpassing himself in the Magnificence of his Gifts and the Profuseness of his Largesses At last he brought Matters so about that they gave him the Government of the Gauls as well on this side as beyond the Mountains for five Years with fonr Legions After having obtained it knowing that he must be a long time absent from the City and that Envy has more power than Favour he gave his Daughter in Marriage to Pompey not but that they were already very good Friends but he was fearful left the too great Success of his Arms might stir up Envy even in a Friend Moreover he designed for Consuls the Year following the stoutest of his Faction A. Gabinius one of his greatest Confidents and L. Piso his Father in Law with whom he had lately Allyed himself Cato perpetually crying out that these Marriages tended to a Tyranny and for Tribunes of the People he nominated Vatinius and Clodius Pulcher. This Clodius was infamous for having slipped into the Sacrifices of the good Goddess where none but Women ought to enter in which place he had layed a Blemish upon the Chastity of Caesar's own Wife who yet never expressed any Resentment because this Man was beloved by the People but however he repudiated his Wife there were some who afterwards made him come to a Tryal as a Prophaner of Sacred Things Cicero pleaded his Accusation and Caesar himself was called in as a Witness but he deposed nothing against him On the contrary he advanced him to this Office of Tribune in hate to Cicero who frequently used to blame the Union of these three Men as tending to the Ruin of the Publick Liberty Nor thought he much to pardon one of his Enemies the Affront he had received so he might be revenged of another who had only offended him in suspecting he had an ill Design so much was his Ambition more violent than his Love And yet there is some appearance that Caesar received the first Obligation from Clodius who served him with all his Credit and Interest when he demanded the Government of the Gauls However it were this is what passed in Caesar's Consulate which being expired he went into the Province in Quality of Pro-Consul After his departure from the City Clodius caused Cicero to be called to Judgment for having contrary to Law put to death Cethegus and Lentulus before they were condemned But he bore this Accusation with as much Cowardice as he had shewed Courage in the Noble Action he did for he went through the Streets with his Beard grown his Hair unkembed clad in a sad Colour and begging of every one he met to assist him he was not ashamed to be importunate with People that were utterly unknown to him in so much that having no regard to Decency whilst he would have moved Compassion he made himself ridiculous and that Man who all his life had managed others Affairs with so much Courage suffered himself to fall into the Excess of Fear in his own Cause It is reported the like happened to Demosthenes in Athens and that Orator who had so bravely defended so many accused being accused himself chose rather to fly than to defend himself before the Judges In like manner Cicero seeing that Clodius whom he followed through the Streets in the posture of a Suppliant derided his Prayers and Submissions and reviled him with words lost all hope and resolved to go into a Voluntary Exile whither many of his Friends followed him the Senate having given him Letters of Recommendation to all Kings and Sovereigns where he designed to make his Retreat Whereupon Clodius demolished his Houses as well in the City as the Country and became so fierce and arrogant that he esteemed himself equal to Pompey the most powerful Man of that time in the City Wherefore Pompey made an Agreement with Milo his Colleague a Man of Enterprize to whom he promised the Consulate to serve him against Clodius and obliged him to propose to the People the Return of Cicero believing that being returned he could talk no more of the present Estate of the Commonwealth that he would have in mind the benefit newly received and be always ready to oppose the designs of Clodius Thus Cicero banished by Pompey's means was by the favour of the same Pompey again recalled to his Country about sixteen Months after his departure and his Houses both in City and Country were rebuilt at the Publick Charge When he returned there went such a Concourse to meet him at the Gates that the whole Day was scarce enough for their Complements which happened also to Demosthenes when after his Exile he was received into Athens Mean while Caesar glorious for the great things he had done in Gaul and Brittany as we have said speaking of the Affairs of Gaul and loaden with vast Riches repassed into Cisalpine Gaul that he might a little refresh his Army wearied with continual War As soon as he was arrived there and that he had sent store of Silver to a great many Persons in the City the Officers of the Common-wealth for that Year together with all the other Governors of Provinces and Generals of other Armies came to salute him so that there was sometimes sixscore Rods about his Person There came likewise more than two hundred Senators some to thank him for Favours received some to get Money of him or something else of that kind For now he alone could do all things having so many Forces at his Service and so much Money in his Coffers and besides he was always ready to oblige all the World Pompey and Crassus the Companions of his Power being come as well as others to see him they consulted together about their Affairs and agreed that Pompey and Crassus should take the Consulate and should prolong to Caesar the Government of Gaul for other five Years after which they parted At the time for Election of Consuls Domitius Aenobarbus standing up Competitor with Pompey and the day of Nomination being come they came both before Day to the place where the Assembly is held and after some sharp words fell to blows In the Tumult he that carried the Light before Domitius received a Wound with a Sword upon which all his People fled and he with much hazard escaped to his House Pompey's Robe was also brought home bloody so much danger did they both run in this sudden Broil Crassus and Pompey having obtained the Consulate gave Caesar according to their promise the Government of Gaul for five Years longer and between themselves they divided the Provinces and the Armies Pompey had the Governments of Spain and Africa whither he sent Friends to command in his place and he stayed in the City And Syria with all the Neighbouring Countries remained to Crassus for his
the Opportunity And because he was obliged by the Duty of his Office to make his Funeral Oration as he was a Consul being Consul himself and is Friend and Kins-man for there was an Alliance between them with his usual Artifices he spoke in this manner The Oration of Anthony IT is not just Gentlemen that I alone should undertake the Funeral-Praises of this Great Man it were fitter his Country did declare them Therefore I will only with the Voice of the Republick and not my own make Recital of those Honours which whilst he was living the Senate and People of Rome conferred upon him for his Virtue Having said these words he began with a sad and sorrowful Countenance the Recital of Caesar's Glorious Titles pronouncing every thing distinctly and stopping more particularly at those whereby they had made him more than Man by the Qualities of Sacred and Inviolable Father of his Country Benefactor Prince and many others which till that time had never been given to any Person At every word turning himself towards the Body and animating his Speech by his Gesture and when he pronounced any one of those Titles adding some intermingled Terms of Grief and Indignation as when he recited the Decree of the Senate calling him Father of his Country See there said he the Testimony of your Acknowledgments And in pronouncing these words Holy Sacred Inviolable and the Refuge of the Miserable he added Never any that fled to him for Refuge perished but he himself is murdered though made Holy and Sacred by our Decrees without having exacted those Qualities from us or even desired them and surely we are in a shameful Slavery if we give those Titles to unworthy Persons that never ask them from us But Oh faithful Citizens you purge your selves well from this Reproach by the Honours you now pay his Memory After this reciting the Act of the Oath by which they were all obliged to guard the Person of Caesar and to employ all their Forces so that if any attempted his Person whoever exposed not his Life for his Defence should be execrable he raised his Voice and extending his Hands towards the Capitol Oh Jupiter Protector of my Country said he behold me here ready to revenge as I have sworn and since it is a thing resolved by the Iudgment of all good Men I beseech thee with all other Gods to be favourable to me A Tumult hereupon arising among the Senators who believed these words to be manifestly addressed to them Anthony to appease them changed his Discourse and said But Gentlemen this Accident must rather be attributed to some God than to Men and we ought rather to provide against the present Necessities than speak of things past since we are threatned with extreme Misery for the future and are upon the Point of falling again into our Antient Seditions and the seeing all the Nobility of the City perish Let us them conduct this Sacred Person among the Gods solemnly in mournful Elegies singing his Praises After having said these words he tucked up his Robe as if he had been possessed with some Spirit and girding it about him that he might have his Hands more at liberty he went and placed himself near the Bed where the Corps lay upon an Eminent Place and opening the Curtain and looking in he began to sing his Praises as of a Celestial Divinity And the better to make him be believed to be of that Race he lifted his hands to Heaven reciting even to the loss of breath his Wars his Combats his Victories the Nations he had subdued the Spoils he had brought away speaking of every thing as a Miracle and crying out many times Thou alone art he who hast returned Victorious from so many Fights Thou alone art he who hast revenged the Country of the Injuries done her for three hundred Years together and constrained People till then indomitable who alone took and burnt the City to ask Pardon on their Knees Having said these things and many more as of a Divine Person he lored his Voice and in a mournful Tone with Tears in his Eyes lamented the unworthy Death of his Friend begging he might redeem his Life with his own and at length abandoning himself to Grief he was so far transported as to discover the Body of Caesar and to shew at the top of a Pike his Robe pierced with the stabs he had received and all stained with his Blood And now the People joyned their Lamentations with his and Compassion was soon converted into Choler for when the Consul ceasing to speak they began the mournful Airs after the manner of the Countrey singing his great Actions and after that his deplorable death and as if Caesar himself had called by name those on whom he had heaped his Favours after having been his Enemies they heard these words which seemed addressed to the Conspirators Must I then Life unto my Murderers give The People hereupon entred into fury considering that all the Conspirators except Decimus Brutus had been of Pompey's Party and that Caesar instead of revenging himself upon them had given them Dignities Governments of Provinces and Armies to command and that after that they had conspired against him and with them Decimus Brutus whom he had loved so well to make him his Heir The multitude being in this sort moved and already prepared for Violence some one raised up from the Bed the Image of Caesar made in Wax for the Body could not be seen being layed within the Bed but the Image turning upon a Machine was visible to all the World and every Man might observe three and twenty Wounds as well on the Body as the Face At this sad Spectacle the People giving themselves over to tears encompassed the place where Caesar had been slain and set it on fire seeking every where for the Murderers who were retired Anger and Grief so far transporting the Multitude that some meeting Cinna Tribune of the People whom for name sake they took for Cinna the Pretor who had declaimed against Caesar he in vain told them that they were mistaken for they tore him in so many pieces that the least part of him could not be found to give Sepulture to After this they carried Fire to burn the Houses of the Conspirators but the Resistance of the Domesticks and the Prayers of the Neighbours prevented them yet not without threats that they would return again in Arms. On the Morrow the Conspirators privately departed the City and the People returned to the bed where Caesar lay carrying it to the Capitol to bury it in the Temple before the Gods as already consecrated but the Priests opposing it they brought it back to the place and upon the same Ground where formerly stood the Palace of the Kings gathering together all the Wood they could and with the Seats of the place and of all the neighbouring places raising a magnificent Pile they thereon placed the Body and some one having cast
great affection for him but the Veterans or old Soldiers to whom Caesar had lately given Lands ran from the Colonies to offer themselves to this young Captain They deplored the death of their Benefactor declared against Anthony who had let so horrid a crime go unpunished and protested they would be the revengers of it if he would please to head them He praised them exhorted them to preserve this good will of theirs to another Season and so sent them home Being come near to Terracina about four hundred Furlongs from Rome news was brought him that the Consuls had taken from Brutus and Cassius the Governments of Syria and Macedon instead of which and to comfort them they had given them two lesser to wit Cyrene and the Island of Crete that some Exiles were returned to the City that they had sent for Pompey made some Senators according to Caesar's Memoirs with many other matters When he was arrived at Rome he found his Mother and Father-in-law and all those who had any care of his Affairs in great fear and trouble because of the Senates aversion for Caesar the Decree past for discharging the Murderers from crimâ— and the pride of Anthony now grown powerful in the City who had neither gone himself nor sent out any to meet the Son of Caesar. He quieted their trouble by telling them he would go himself to Anthony as the younger to the elder and as a private person to a Consul that he would pay his respects to the Senate as he was obliged in duty that as for the Decree it passed in a time when no Man opposed it but now that one was found to prosecute the people would reach forth a strong hand the Senate would give life to the authority of the Laws the immortal Gods would sustain the justice of his cause and perhaps Anthony himself would be concerned for it As for his part he could not refuse the Inheritance and Adoption without doing injury to Caesar's memory and injustice to the Roman People in not paying what had been left them by his Will that he had much rather not only hazard himself but suffer death it self than after having been made choice of by Caesar before all other persons in the World shew himself unworthy of that Great Man's Choice Then turning to his Mother he pronounced those words of Achilles to Thetis Oh! let me die or let my Vengeance yield Some Satisfaction for my Friend thus kill'd He added that this Discourse had given Immortality to Achilles especially being pursued to Effects and that for his part Caesar had not only been his Friend but his Father his Comrade but his Captain who had not been slain in fair War but wretchedly massacred in full Senate Hereupon his Mother changing her fear into joy embraced him as alone worthy to be Son to Caesar and with many powerful expressions exhorted him to execute his Resolutions However she advised him rather to employ Policy and Patience than open Violence Caesar having praised her Counsel and promised to follow it towards the Evening dismissed his Friends giving them order to meet him next Morning early upon the place with as much Company as they could bring There he comes up to Caius Anthony's Brother Pretor of the City and declared to him that he accepted the Adoption for it was the Custom among the Romans to have Adoptions authorized by the Pretors After having caused his Declaration to be registred he went off from the place to go seek out Anthony who was then at Pompey's Gardens which Caesar had given to him They let him wait a good while at the Gate which made him suspect that Anthony had no kindness for him but at last being entred there passed nothing but civil and obliging words from one to the other And when Caesar was to discourse of the Business about which he came he spoke in this manner The Oration of Caesar. MY Father for the Affection Caesar had for you and your Acknowledgments oblige me to call you so I applaud what you have done for him and shall ever own the Obligation But pray give my Grief the liberty to tell you that there are some things I cannot approve Whilst Caesar was murdered you was not there for his Murderers had stopped you at the Gate otherwise you had either saved his life or perished with him but if your loss were inevitable I am glad that you were not there After this when some endeavoured to decree Rewards to the Murderers as if they had slain a Tyrant you generously opposed it for which likewise I am infinitely obliged to you Though certain it is they had also resolved to make a Riddance of you not as the future Revenger of Caesar's death which we believe but as they say for fear there should remain after him a Successor in the Tyranny Though after the Action these People who said they had slain a Tyrant being sensible they were guilty of Murder fled to the Capitol either as Criminals to seek for Refuge in a Sacred Place or as Enemies to seize upon the Fortress How then could they obtain an Amnesty and a Decree forbidding any Prosecution of Justice for this Action unless by corrupting with Money some of the Senate and People But being Consul you ought to have taken care on which Part was the Plurality of Voices and presiding in the Senate had you voted against them you had carried it and reduced to your Opinion those who had been deceived On the Contrary you delivered to the Murderers some of your own House in Hostage and sent them to them into the Capitol but I will think you were constrained to it by those that were suborned Then when after that Noble Funeral-Oration you made the Will being read the People who yet had Caesar fresh in memory carrying Fire to burn his Murderers Houses though then forbearing it in favour of their Neighbours when on the Morrow they twice returned to Arms why did not you assist them Why did not you head them with Sword and Torch in your Hand Why did you not do Justice your self Did you expect other Judgment against Publick Criminals You the Friend of Caesar you Consul you Anthony you who could make use of the Power of your Office to put to death Marius have let Murderers escape Nay have suffered some of them to retire into the Provinces whose Governments they must needs unjustly hold having massacred him from whom they held them It is true that being Consuls you and Dolobella you have done well to take from them Syria and Macedon and certainly I had been much obliged to you for it had you not at the same time granted them Cyrene and Crete giving Governments to Fugitives to fortifie themselves against me Is it not likewise by your consent that Decimus one of the Murderers of my Father as well as the rest holds the hither Gaul You may tell me perhaps it is by Decree of the Senate but