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

whether for feare that the yeelding-vp of Mancinus might also reach to him because hee was a surety for our part of the league at Numance becomming popular or carryed as in point of honour for the common good because pittying to see the people of Rome thrust out of their owne lands though conquerours of nations and owners in possession of the world he would prouide that they should not liue like persons banished from their household Gods and houses or what other motiue soeuer else did set him on worke to dare so mightie a matter true it is that when the day of propounding the law was come hee hauing an huge troope to guard him mounted the Rostra nor wanted there in readines all the nobility against him and the Tribunes of the people in sides At which time Gracchus seeing Marcus Octauius crosse his propositions he pusht him downe from the Rostra with his hand contrary to the religious respect of brotherhood in office and the nature of their authority and put him into that feare of present death as he was compeld to giue ouer his Tribuneship and after this sort getting himselfe to be created one of the three for parting the lands when vpon a comitiall day hee labourd to haue his authoritie continued for a longer time thereby to make good his beginnings the nobility and those whom hee had disseised opposing him they fell to killing in the Forum and then through the city and flying from thence to the Capitol when touching his head with his hand to exhort the people as by a signe to stand vpon their guard for their liues it seemd as if hee demanded a diadem thereupon Scipie Nasica inciting the people to runne to their weapons he was beaten to the earth and slaine as it were by course of iustice CHAP. XV. The sedition of Caius Gracchus CAius Gracchus waxt forth with no lesse hot in reuenge of his brothers both death and lawes and with equall vprore and terror as hee putting the common sort into possession of their forefathers lands promising to share among them the late bequeathed kingdome of Attalus for their maintenance And now growne ouer-mighty and powerfull by being made Tribune againe hee was followed with the commons as he flung vp downe so that when Minucius the Tribune aduentured to abrogate his laws he trusting to the strength of his complices inuaded the Capitol a place fatal to his house and family But beaten from that attempt with the slaughter of his nerest friends he withdrew himselfe to mount Auentine But the forces of the Senate meeting him there hee was destroy'd by Opimius Consul There was insulting vpon the dead carcase also and they who muthred him had for reward the weight of his head in gold the head of a Tribune of the people religiously sacred and not to haue beene violated CHAP. XVI The Appulcian sedition ALl this notwithstanding Appuleius Saturninus desisted not from pressing to make good the Gracchan lawes The fauour of Marius gaue so much boldnesse to the man being euer an enemy to the nobility and presuming the more because Marius was Consul that openly killing Aulus Nonius in the generall assembly his competitor in the Tribuneship hee attempted to bring in Caius Gracchus in his stead a fellow of no tribe nor name but foysting in a pedigree adopted himselfe into the family Thus keeping such tragicall reuels in the state without being once call'd to account for them hee bent his wittes so earnestly to establish the Gracchan lawes as hee forced the Senate to sweare to what he would threatning the refusers to forbid them fire and water There was one neuerthelesse found who did rather choose to bee banished Therefore when Metellus was once fled all the lords quailing and Appuleius tyrannizing now the third time Tribune grew so outragious as hee troubled euen the very general assēblies made for election of Consuls with new slaughter For that Glaucias the vpholder and minister of his madnesse might be made Consul he cōmanded his competitor Caius Memmius to be slain when in that embroilement those of his guard call'd him KING he heard them gladly but then by the ioynt opposition of the Senate Marius the Consul himselfe now also making one because hee was not able to beare him out the battel 's ioyn'd in the Forū From whence Appuleius being beaten he seiz'd vpō the Capitol But there they besieged him by cutting off the condit-pipes Whervpon his lieutenants assuring the Senate he was sorry for what was passed hee came down out of the castell was receiued together with the leaders of his faction into the Curia Into which the people breaking forceably ouerwhelm'd him with clubs and stones and tore him also to pieces as he was in dying CHAP. XVII The Drusin sedition LAST of these boute-feus was Liuius Drusus who bearing himselfe strong not onely vpon the force of his Tribuneship but vpon the authority of the Senate also and hauing the consent of all Italy attempted to induce the same lawes and while hee serues turnes of one thing after another hee kindled such a fire that the very first flash therof could not be endured and himselfe taken off by sudden death left a long hereditarie quarrel vpon his posterity Caius Gracchus by enacting that law Which tooke the office of iudges from the Senate and conferr'd it vpon the knights and gentlemen had diuided the people of Rome and made it a double-headed citie which was but single before And the Gentrie bold vpon their so mighty power as hauing thereby the fates and estates of the Senatours and the liues of princes in their hand forestall'd the publike reuenewes and excises and robb'd the common-weale in their owne right The Senate weakned by the banishment of Metellus and the condemnation of Rutilius had lost all the grace of maiestie In this condition of things Seruilius Caepio standing for the Gentrie and Liuius Drusus for the Senate two men of equall riches courage and calling which bred that emulation against Drusus ensignes standards and banners were vpon the point to aduance Thus differ'd they together in one citie as if it had beene in two camps Caepio gaue the first on-set to the Senate and cull'd out Scaurus and Philip the chiefes of the nobility as persons guilty of practising for places Drusus to resist these commotions wanne the people to him by the Gracchan lawes and drew the associats of Rome to the people by giuing hope that they should all bee made free of the citie This speech of his is yet remembred that hee had left nothing in the state to bee giuen to any one vnlesse that partie had a minde to make a partition of mudde and clowds The day of promulgation of the law was come and so great was the concourse from all quarters about that the citie seem'd as if besieged with the approach of enemies Philip Consul durst notwithstanding speake against the lawes But the vsher of the

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

so many more heads as I haue slain spring out of their owne bloud as it were out of Lernas serpent And what a Senate was that when vpon the oration of Appius the Blinde the kings ambassadours who were sent backe out of the citie with their gifts and presents confest to Pyrrhus vpon his demand of what they thought concerning the enemies seat that the citie seemed a temple the Senate a parliament of kings Againe what manner of men were the Generals themselues in camp when Curius sent the kings physician back who made offer in secret for a certain summe to poyson him and Fabricius hauing the choise giuen by Pyrrhus refused to share a kingdome with him Or what were they in time of peace when Curius preferred his earthen dishes before the Samnits gold and Fabricius vsing Censorian seueritie condemn'd it for riotous in Rufinus a Consularie nobleman because hee had siluer plate in all to a tenne pound weight Who wonders now if the people of Rome with such qualities courages and martiall discipline obtained victory or that by this one Tarentine warre they should in foure yeeres space bring into subiection as they did the greatest part of all Italy most puissant nations most rich common-weals most fertill countreys Or what doth so much surpasse beliefe as when you compare the beginnings of the warre with the conclusion Pyrrhus conquerour in the first field harrased trembling Italy Campania Liris and Fregellae came within ken of Rome then almost taken as he beheld it from the castell of Praeneste and within twentie miles off filled the eyes of the quaking citie with smoak and dust The same prince enforced twice after that to quit his campe twice wounded and beaten ouer land and sea into his Greece againe peace and quiet and the spoiles which were gotten from so many the richest nations so infinite as Rome was not wide enough to containe her owne victorie For there neuer entred a more glittering or more goodly triumph because before this time shee had beheld nothing but the cattell of the Volscians the heards of the Sabins the chariots of the Galls the manufactures of the Samnits armes But had you beene now a spectator the captiues were Molossians Thessalians Macedonians the Brutian Apulian and Lucaner the pompe consisted of gold purple statua's tables the delicacies of Tarent But Rome saw nothing which contented her more then those beasts with towrs on their backes of which shee had stood in such feare and they againe sensible of their captiuitie followed drouping with down-hanging neckes after the horse their Masters CHAP. XIX The Picenian Warre ALI Italie forthwith enioyed peace for after Tarent who should dare to do oughts sauing onely as the Romans thought it good of their own meere motion to prosecute the enemies friends Hereupon they conquer'd the Picentines and their chiefe citie Asculum by Generall Sempronius and the field in the time of battel suffring an earth-quake hee appeased the goddesse Tellus by promising to build her a Temple CHAP. XX. The Sallentine Warre THe Sallentines were added by Marcus Atilius cōmander in chiefe for that seruice to the Picentines together with the head-towne of that prouince Brundusium renowned for a port And in this conflict Pales the shepheards deitie of her owne accord demanded a Temple for her selfe in lieu of victorie CHAP. XXI The Vulsinian Warre THe last of the Italian nations who remained constant in their truth to vs were the Vulsinians the richest people of all Etruria and now humble suitours for assistance against their late slaues who had set vp the libertie giuen them by their lords ouer the giuers themselues and getting the power of the State among them did accordingly tyrannize But Fabius Gurges the Roman captaine made the villains smart for their villanie CHAP. XXII Of Seditions THis is the second age of the Roman people and as it were their youth a time in which they were most fresh and budding out in certaine fierie shoots boild ouer as it were in iollitie of spirit On the other side that wildenes which they retained of their shepheardish originall breathed foorth some-what still which was vntamed in thē Thence it came that the armie making a mutinie in the campe stoned Postumius their Generall to death for refusing to giue them the shares he promised That vnder Appius Claudius they would not ouercome the enemie whē they might That vnder Generall Volero most withdrawing their seruice they crusht the Consuls fasces Thence it was that they punisht the most honourable commanders they had with banishment for resisting their pleasure as Coriolanus whome they condemnd to the plough Which iniurie he would as harshly haue chastised with his sword if his mother Veturia when he was now readie to charge had not disweapond him with weeping Yea as Camillus himselfe because in their conceits hee had not made the shares of the Veientine spoiles indifferent between the Commonaltie and the souldier But he a much better man did rescue the besieged in Rome taken and reuenged their quarel vpon the Galls their enemies to whom but euen now they were humble suitours In such sort they contended also with the Se nate it selfe about settling the rules of right that abandoning their houses they threatned emptinesse and vtter decay to their natiue countrey CHAP. XXIII The cities first discord THe first intestine dissention hapned throgh the vnrulinesse of Vsurers who exercising villanous crueltie the whole people departed in armes to the Sacred Hill and very hardly not but vntill they had obtained Tribunes and were perswaded also by the authoritie of Menenius Agrippa a wise and eloquent man could be drawne to return The fable of that old oration effectuall enough to induce concord is extant In which is fained that The parts of mans bodie were once vpon a time at odds together for that all the rest doing their seuerall offices the bellie only was idle but in the end when they found themselues almost pined to death by the separation they became good friends againe for that by the meate which by the stomachs ministerie was conuerted into bloud the veines were filled with nourishment CHAP. XXIIII The cities second discord THE tyrannie of the Decemuirs embroiled the citie the second time in the very heart thereof Ten princes elected for that purpose had bookt the lawes cull'd out of such as were brought from Greece at the peoples commandement and the whole rule of Roman iustice was described by them in Tenne Tables after which though their commission determined they neuerthelesse retained the soueraigne power vpon a tyrannicall humor Appius Claudius was puft vp more then all his partners with so great pride as hee secretly resolued to deflowre a free-borne virgin forgetting Lucretia forgetting the expulsion of kings and the lawes which himselfe had enacted Virginius her father therefore when hee saw his childe by false practice iudged a bond-woman he made no bones to kill her