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A64914	The lives of the illustrious Romans writ in Latin by Sextus Aurelius Victor ; and translated by several young gentlemen educated by Mr. Maidwell.; De viris illustribus urbis Romeo. English.	Pliny, the Younger.; Suetonius, ca. 69-ca. 122.; Nepos, Cornelius.; Victor, Sextus Aurelius.; Maidwell, Lewis, 1650-1715.	1693 (1693)	Wing V342; ESTC R13291	41,581	228

for demolishing Carthage his natural Vigor lasted so long that he had a Son at fourscore whose Effigies was often brought out to honour a Funeral Solemnity C. CLAUDIUS NERO and ASDRUBAL HANNIBAL's Brother Asdrubal U.C. 545. the Brother of Hannibal passed into Italy with great Recruits Before Ch. 205. for the strengthening his Army and the Roman Empire had then been utterly ruined if he had once joyned his Brother But Claudius Nero whose Camp was in Apulia near Hannibal leaving part of his Forces behind him drew out a large Detachment of his choicest Men and marching directly against Asdrubal joined M. Livius his Colleague at a Town called Sena by the River Metaurus in Calabria where they two together beat Asdrubal After this Victory Nero returned to his Camp with the same speed and threw Asdrubal's Head before his Brother Hannibal's Trenches At which sight Hannibal publickly declared he was overcome by the ill Fortune of Carthage For this good Service Marcus Livius entered Rome with a greater Triumph and Nero with a less because the Action was not performed within his Province P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO Publius Scipio called Africanus U.C. 551. for his Courage and Conduct in the Conquest of Africa Before Ch. 199. was supposed to be the Son of Jupiter for before his Mother was with Child of him a Serpent supposed the Genius of Jupiter was seen in her Bed and in his Childhood a Snake twined about him without doing him any harm The Dogs never bark'd at him altho he went into the Capitol at Midnight nor did he ever undertake any Business till he had sate meditating a good while near the Image of Jupiter as if he received Directions from that God He but eighteen years of Age by his singular Valour saved his Father's Life at Ticinum and so great Influence was the Authority of Scipio that he put a stop to the young Noblemen and hinder'd them from leaving Italy and conducted the Remainder of the Army after the Defeat of Cannae through the Enemies Camp to Canusium At four and twenty he was sent Pretor into Spain and took Carthago Nova now Carthagena the same day he came before it when his Soldiers brought him a young Maid whose Beauty attracted every one to be a Spectator he out of Modesty would not see her but gave order that she should be restored to her Father and betrothed Lover a Prince of Cel●iberia He beat Asdrubal and Mage Hannibal's Brothers out of Spain made a League with Syphax King of Mauritania and received Massanissa into the Number of the Allies Returning home after these Victories he was made Consul before he was old enough according to Law and by the Consent of his Colleague passed over into Africa and forc'd his way through Asdrubal's and Syphax's Camp in one night He vanquished Hannibal after he was recalled out of Italy and imposed new Laws upon the conquered Carthaginians In the War against Antiochus he was his Brother's Lieutenant and his Son that was taken Prisoner was returned without Ransom in honour of the Father Being accused of Extortion by the Petilii and Naevius Tribunes of the People with great assurance he tore his Book of Accounts in pieces before the People and said This day I conquered Carthage 't was a good piece of Service to the Commonwealth let us go to the Capitol and return our publick Thanks to the Gods Then he left the ungrateful City spending the rest of his Life in exile and at his death begged of his Wife that his Body should not be carried back to Rome MARCUS LIVIUS SALINATOR In his first Consulship triumph'd over the Illyrians yet sometime after was maliciously accused by all the Tribes except the Metian for embezelling the publick Stock In his second Consulship he was joined with his Enemy Claudius Nero but rather than the Government should sustain any prejudice from their Variance he was freely reconciled to him and upon their Victory over Asdrubal Hannibal's Brother rode in Triumph into the City He was also chose with the same Nero in his Censorship and set a Poll-Tax upon every Tribe except the Metians taking away their Pension because they had either condemned very unjustly at first or else had done very ill in conferring so great Honours upon him after a former suspicion TITUS QUINCTIUS FLAMINIUS Was the Son of that Flaminius who who was killed at Trasimenus He was sent Consul into Macedonia and guided by King Carops's Shepherds into the Province He routed King Philip and took his Camp receiving from him his Son Demetrius for an Hostage tho afterwards he made him pay a great Ransom before he restored him to his Kingdom He took also the Son of Nabis King of Lacedemon as a Pledge for his Fidelity and at last made Proclamation by the common Cryer at the Nemaean Games with general Applause that all the Graecians should enjoy their ancient Liberties This was he that was sent to Prusias to demand Hannibal MARCUS FULVIUS NOBILIOR In his Pretorship conquered Spain for which good Service he enter'd the City with a less Triumph called Ovation The Aetolians and Ambracians were routed by him in several Battels who in the Macedonian War had first sided with the Romans but afterwards revolted to Antiochus King of Syria He drave them into their City Ambracia and by a Blockade forced them to surrender yet he plunder'd them of nothing but their Statues and Pictures which were carried before him in Triumph His Friend Quintus Ennius wrote a noble Poem in commendation of this Victory tho it was sufficiently famous of it self and needed not the Art of a Poet to set it off Mr. HEARY MOLINS D'AVENANT From the Year 563 to 660. U. C. L. SCIPIO ASIATICUS SCipio Asiaticus U.C. 563. Brother to Scipio Africanus Before Ch. 187. was a Man of a weak Constitution yet upon the Account of his Valour in Africa was recommended by his Brother for Consul and having him for his Lieutenant-General beat Antiochus King of Syria at Mount Sipylus in Caria where the Enemies Bows by reason of the excessive Rain were made useless He took from him part of his Hereditary Kingdom and from his Success gained the Name of Asiaticus Some time after he was accused for embezelling the Publick Treasure but Gracchus Tribune of the People satisfied of his Integrity tho his Adversary stop'd any farther Proceeding yet Marcus Cato the Censor afterwards took from him his Horse as a particular Mark of Disgrace ANTIOCHUS King of Syria Antiochus U.C. 560. King of Syria trusting too much to his own Power Before Ch. 190. waged War with the Romans under pretence of recovering the City of Lysimachia built by his Ancestors in Thrace and then in the possession of the Romans In a short time he seized on all Greece with the adjacent Islands but ruined himself by Luxury in the Island Euboea Upon the Approach of Acilius Glabrio he drew up his Forces in the Straits of the

instituted the great Roman Games for manly Exercises He triumphed over the Sabines and ● hose Latins who were called Prisci He fortified the City with a Wall of Stone and rewarded the Valour of his Son who at the Age of thirteen years wounded his Enemy in a Battel giving him a Coat edg'd with Purple and a Necklace with a Golden Boss which were the Ornaments of Gentlemens Sons At last he was trapan'd out of his Palace by a Plot of Ancus's Children and murder'd by their Appointment SERVIUS TULLIUS Sixth King of the Romans Servius Tullius was the Son of Publius Corniculanus U.C. 175. and the Captive Ocrisia Before Ch. 575 He whilst he was brought up in Tarquinius Priscus's Palace a lambent Flame was seen to circle his Head Queen Tanaquil upon her Observation judg'd it as a certain Prediction of his future Dignity and thereupon perswaded her Husband to breed him up as he did his own Children When he came to Man's Estate Tarquinius Priscus made him his Son-in-Law And after the King was murder'd Tanaquil told the People from a Window that her Husband had receiv'd a dangerous tho not a mortal Wound and desired that till he was cured they would submit to Servius Tullius Thus he got the Kingdom precariously yet govern'd it with great Justice He often conquer'd the Etrusci and added the Hills Quirinalis Viminalis and Esquilinus to Rome He raised a Fortification with Trenches about the City and divided the People into four Tribes call'd Palatina Esquilina Suburrana and Collina allotting the poorer sort a proportion of Corn out of the publick Granary He settled Measures and Weights with the Distinction of the Citizens into Classes and Hundreds and was the first that made a Register of Estates till then unknown in any Country He perswaded the Latins to build a Temple to Diana on the Mount Aventinus in imitation of that at Ephesus After it was built a certain Latin had a Cow-calf of a wonderful Bigness and 't was told him in a Dream that that People should be Sovereign over the rest whose Citizens should sacrifice that young Cow to Diana The Latin drove the Cow to Mount Aventine and declar'd this Secret to a Roman Priest who cunningly told him he ought first to purifie his Hands in a clear running Stream and whilst the simple Latin went down to the Tiber the Priest sacrificed the Cow by this prudent Trick procuring Glory to himself and Empire to his People TULLIA Servius Tullius had two Daughters one of a fierce U.C. 216. and the other of a mild Disposition Before Ch. 534. and from his Remark that Tarquinius Priscus had two Sons of the fame Temper he married his fierce Daughter to Tarquinius's mild Son and his mild Daughter to his fierce that he might qualifie their Minds by the Difference of their Natures It happened both the good natur'd died either a natural Death or else by Poison Upon which the ill natur'd married from the similitude of their Humors Soon after Tarquinius Superbus by the instigation of his Wife Tullia having made a party assembled the Senate and began boldly to demand as Lawful Heir his Father's Kingdom Of which when Servius was informed he went to the Senate where he was flung down slairs by Tarquinius's Order and slain as he fled to his Palace Tullia made haste to the Forum and was the first that saluted her Husband King who order'd her to retire from the Crowd She going home beheld without any Compassion her Father 's dead Body lie expos'd in the Streets and commanded her Coach-man abhorring the Cruelty to drive over him Whence that Street was call'd Sceleratus or Wicked and this bloody Tullia afterwards banish'd with her Husband Tarquin TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS Seventh King of the Romans U.C. 219. Tarquinius Superbus obtain'd his Sirname Before Ch. 531. name from his Pride He traiterously usurp'd the Kingdom by murdering Servius Tullius yet by his great Valour he conquered the Latins and the Sabines took from the Volsci their Capital City Suessa Pometia and gain'd the Town Gabii by the Policy of his Son Sextus who pretended to revolt from him for his Cruelty He was the first that instituted the Latin Feasts as publick Marts for all the Neighbouring Cities He built Galleries for the Spectators in the Circus and made the great Common-Shoar which Ditches were called Quiritium because in that Work be had employed all the People He in laying the Foundation of the Capitol found the Head of one Tolus whence 't was predicted that Rome should become the Head of all Nations He was banish'd Rome together with his lascivious Son Sextus fo● the Rape he commited during the Siege of Aradea upon the chast Lucretia and fled to Porsenna King o● Etruria by whose Assistance he endeavoured to regain his lost Kingdom but after several Repulfes he retired to Cumae a City in Campania finishing there the Remainder of his Life very ignominiously Mr. HENRY EWER From the Year 244. to 388. U. C. L. TARQUINIUS COLLATINUS and LUCRETIA his Wife WHilst Tarquinius Collatinus U.C. 244. who was Tarquinius Superbus his Sister's Son Before Ch. 506. served under his Uncle with others of his Relations at the Siege of Ardea an accidental Discourse falling out at a merry Entertainment between the young Princes concerning the Excellencies of their Wives they agreed to make Experiment of this Preference and all take Horse for Rome where the Kings Sons surprize their Careless Wives diverting themselves at a luxurious Banquet Thence they go to Collatia where Lucretia liv'd and find her spinning among her Maids for which in all their Opinions she was esteem'd the most virtuous But Sextus Tarquinius falling in love with her came back that night with a design upon her Honour and by the privilege of a Kinsman being kindly entertain'd at Collatins his House he brake into Lucretia's Chamber and ravish'd her She the next day sends for her Father and Husband from the Camp and after the Discovery of the Rape she stabs her self with a Dagger secretly conceal'd under her Garment This horrid Crime engag'd them in a Conspiracy to ruin Tarquin's Family and by their Banishment to revenge her Death LUCIUS JUNIUS BRUTUS First Roman Consul L. Junius Brutus U.C. 245. also Tarquinius Superbus his Sisters Son Before Ch. 505. fearing the same Misfortune which his Brother had suffered who for his great Riches and Wisdom was killed by his jealous Uncle pretended himself a Fool and from thence called Brutus He once for sports sake being admitted a Companion to the young Princes Titus and Aruns going to Delphi to consult the Oracle he presented Apollo with a hollow Stick fill'd with Gold and when 't was answer'd by the Priestess that he would be most powerful at Rome who should first kiss his Mother he immediately kiss'd the Earth the common Parent of all things Afterwards in revenge of Lucretia's Rape he combined with Tricipitinus and Collatinus to