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A50048	Analecta Caesarum Romanorum, or, Select observations of all the Roman emperors illustrated with their several effigies according to their coins / the first eighteen by Edward Leigh ... ; the others added by his son Henry Leigh ... : also certain choice French proverbs ; alphabetically disposed and Englished, added by the same Edward Leigh.	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.; Leigh, Henry, d. 1705.	1664 (1664)	Wing L984; ESTC R34514	209,138	450

others speak of his unnatural uncleannesse and prodigious prodigality He stole out of the Capitol 108000 pounds reduced to our money in gold at once gave to Servilia a Jewel which cost him 46875 pounds owed 1953125 pounds more than he was worth by his own confession His shews and publick Donations in costlinesse are almost in valuable About the trimming of his body he was over curious so as he would not only be shaven very precisely but also have his hair plucked The chiefest cause that made him mortally hated was his excessive desire of honour and his slighting the Senators When his friends complained unto him of Antonius and Dolabella that they intended some mischief towards him he answered them again As for these fat men and smooth-combed-heads quoth he I never reckon of them but those pale-visaged carrion lean people I fear them most meaning Brutus and Cassius He never refused to fight but in his latter daies being then of this opinion that the oftner he had gotten victory the lesse he was to venture and make trial of fortune also that a victory could gain him nothing so much as some disastrous calamity might take from him There conspired against him more than threescore the heads of which conspiracy were Cassius and Brutus He had fair warning of his death before it came by many evident prodigies Fires were seen in the Element spirits running up and down in the night and solitary Birds at noon-day sitting in the great Market-place as the Bird Regaliolus did flye with a little branch of Lawrel into the Court of Pompeius a sort of other Birds of divers kinds from out of the Grove hard by pursued after and there pulled it in pieces Caesar sacrificing to the gods found that one of the Beasts which was sacrificed had no heart and that was a strange thing in Nature how a Beast could live without a heart There was a certain South-sayer that had given Caesar warning long before to take heed of the day of the Ides of March which is the fifteenth of the Month for on that day he should be in a great danger That day being come Caesar going unto the Senate-house and speaking merrily to the South-sayer told him The Ides of March were come So they be softly answered the South-sayer but yet they are not past Christianus Matthias Theat Histor. Theoret Pract. in Iul. Cap. 3. hath an elegant and memorable parallel history Henry the 4. King of France was disswaded from going abroad that day he was slain by some as a day mark't out by Astrologers to portend danger to his person yet he a second Caesar as well in the course of his life as of his death was little sway'd therewith but like a King and a Christian replyed that it was an offence to God to give credit to these Prognostiques that having God to his guard he feared no man The Life and death of Henry the 4. The night before this Discourse had with the South-sayer all the windows and doors of his chamber did flye open and his Wife Calphurnia dreamed that Caesar was slain that she had him in her arms He was stabbed with 23 wounds he onely gave one groan at the first thrust without uttering any words Some say That as M. Brutus came running upon him he said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And thou my Son All men are of opinion that such a death befel unto him as he desired for when he had read in Xenophon how Cyrus being at the point of death gave order for his Funeral he seting light by so slow lingering a kind of death wished to dye quickly and of a sudden The very day before he was killed in a certain discourse moved at super in Marcus Lepidus his house upon that point which was the best end of a mans life He perferred that which was sudden and unlooked for He dyed in the 56. year of his age Et in Deorum numerum relatus est he was made a god after death which could not defend himself from death from cruel murther and that N●n ore modo decernentium sed persuasione vulgi Not only by their voyce which decreed such honour unto him but also by perswasion of the common people A Comet shined then for seven dayes together arising about the eleventh hour of the day and it was believed by those blind Heathen to be Caesars soul who had been a Comet of combustion to the world Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus velutinter ignes Luna minores Also upon his Image there is a Star set to the very crown of his head Of these Murtherers there was not one that either survived him above three years or dyed a natural death All stood condemned and by one mishap or other perished some by shipwrack others by battel and some again shortned their own dayes with the very same dagger wherewith they had wounded Caesar Cassius as Plutarch reporteth and Brutus according to Dion Octavius Augustus HE was stiled by the name of Augustus i. e. worshipful or sacred which they thought to be a name of reverence and Majesty because all consecrated and hallowed places were called Loca Augusta That Moneth which was by them called Sextilis because it was their sixth Month is called Augustus in honour of him and things of greatest splendor are called Augustissima Iulius Caesar was his great Uncle but his Father by adoption He was called Octavius from his Father and Augustus from his victory A man most nobly descended for riches honour friends Empire fortunate victories almost adored for bodily good things of comly stature Forma eximia per omnes aetatis gradus venustissima Of most amiable visage and that also majestical by his bright and shining eies Quibus etiam existintari volebat inesse quiddam divini vigoris Wherein also as he would have men believe was seated a kind of Divine vigor and he joyed much if a man looking wishly upon him held down his face as it were against the brightness of the Sun therefore a certain Soldier turning away his eies from beholding his face and he demanding the reason why he did so he answered Quia fulmen oculorum tuorum ferre non possum Knolles in the Turkish Hist. saith of Tamerlane In his eies sate such a rare majestie as a man could hardly endure to behold them without closing his own p. 235. His hair was somewhat yellow and his body freckled with spots which his flatterers would have the world believe were in form like stars He was indeed somewhat low nevertheless of a comely stature five foot and nine inches the just measure saith one of our late famous Queen Elizabeth who as she matched that Roman Emperor in happiness and duration of Reign so did she likewise in the stature of her body Cities were called Caesareae in honour of him

to Christian Princes half so much weaken the Empire by his largess towards Christians as Septimius did wound it by seeking to restore or rather to intend the rigour of ancient discipline amongst modern dissolute Romans Dr. Iackson of the divine Attributes part 2. p. 282 283. He gained his sur-name Britannicus by building or at least repairing the Picts-wal between England and Scotland 132 miles in length against the incursions of the Scots and Picts At every miles end was a tower and pipes of brass in the wall betwixt every tower conveyed the least noise from garison to garison without interruption so news of an approching enemy was quickly spred over the borders and occasional provision made for resistance There were also resting places for the Areans who were appointed by the Ancients saith Amm. Marcellinus to serve for foot-posts to run as occurrents fell between the Officers and carry them word of the least stirring Since the wall is ruined that way of dispatch taken away many inhabitants there-about hold land by a tenure in Cornage as Lawyers speak being bound by blowing a horn to discover the irruption of the enemy Cambden's Britannia It is reported by Spartian that in his passage to York a little before his death a Black-Moor with a Cypresse garland on his head did meet Severus who bid him as unfortunate to be put out of his sight and saluted him thus Totum fuisti totum vicisti jam Deus esto victor At his entrance into the City he was by errour of a rustical Sooth-sayer who guided him brought into the Temple of Bellona and black beasts being appointed for sacrifice did of themselves follow him to his palace Which things however they fell out accidentally yet were interpreted as ominous by others in respect of the event While he lay sick of the gout at York the soldiers saluting his son Bassianus Emperor he arose and caused the principal of them to be brought before him and when they prostrate craved pardon he laying his hand on his head said Sentitisne tandem caput imperare non pedes Spartianus in Severo c. 18. Per quae verba affecti corporis impedimento animi magnitudinem atque prudentiam contulit Quam severe igitur arbitrari possumus in alterius generis seditionem animadversurum fuisse cum filii dignitatem cujus post se cupidissimus erat a militibus privatim procuratam tam acerbo supplicio ulcisci vellet B. Fulgosus lib. 2. c. 2. A little before his death he caused his Porphyry●urn ●urn to be brought before him taking it into his hand said Thou shalt contain him whom the world could not Xiphiline He said to his Sons on his death-bed Agree among your selves enrich the consoldiers contemn all others Id. ibid. In relation to which union he bad them read in Salust Micypsa's dying speech to his sons in which there is this expression Concordia res parvae crescunt discordia magnae dilabuntur Spartian c. 21. By his pernicious advice to his sons to study only the enriching of the soldiery he made a breach in the impenetrable wall of the Roman power as the Greek Epigrammatist calls it For after Severus his reign for 30 lawful Emperors the Roman Empire saw in the space of 150 years more than an 100 Tyrants The discipline of the vertuous Emperors occasioning the wicked ones to mount on the throne As the tragical ends of young G●rdian of Alexander Severus of Posthumus Probus and Aurelian manifested Tristan A Prince of indifferent worth had not his vertue suffered ship-wrack by his affections Erant ei filii multo chariores quam cives which though a private man may confess whose Government is but a houshold it is a shame for a Prince whose office as it resembles the gods in power so it should in being free from partiality Sr. William Cornwallis junior in his Encomium of Iulian the Apostate He ended his life with these words Turbatam Rempublicam ubique accepi pacatam etiam Britannis relinquo senex pedibus aeger firmum Imperium Antoninis meis relinquens si boni erunt imbecillum si mali Spartian c. 23. Before he dyed he was so pained in all his body but especially in his feet that not able to endure the torment he called for poyson which being denyed he greedily glutted himself with gross meats and not able to digest them dyed of a surfet Victor's Epitome The imprecation of Plautius Quintillus that he might not die when he would having the like effect upon Severus as that of Severianus had upon Adrian Xiph. Some say he dyed rather through grief for his son Caracalla's wickednesse than of any other malady He lived 65 years 9 months and 52 days and reigned 17 years 8 months 3 dayes He was buryed in a place near York which to this day is called Severs-hill It was said of him by the Senate that either he should not have been born or not have dyed having done so much mischief in pursuit of greatness and so much good when he was established Spartian c. 18. When he offered to make his Son-in-law Probus Prefect of the City Probus refused saying It seemed less to him to be a Prefect than to be Son-in-law to a Prince Spartian 1 Sam. 18.23 He married Martia and after her death Iulia Domna because he found by her nativity she should be matched with a King though he foresaw not by his art his destiny to marry a whore whom he yet bare with through excess of affection though she was guilty of a conspiracy Spartian c. 3. and 18. He was deifyed after his death by the Senate He was the most warlike of all the Emperors that were before him quick of apprehension persevering in all things which he determined where he enclined to favour admirable and constant diligent in seeking out friends and liberal in rewarding them equally vehement towards friends and foes Sextus Aurelius Victor in his Epitome He was the only Emperor created out of Africk saith Eutropius lib. 8. Severus might amongst the best shine bright But that he was th' eclipse of his own light Dr. Holyday's Survey of the world lib. 8. p. 90. He associated his Sons in the Sovereignty and declared them Emperors Herodian lib. 3. c. 9. editionis Boeclerianae Sed quae putabat Severus futura amoris vincula fiebant irarum incitamenta saith Iacobus Cappellus in his Historiae Ecclesiasticae centuriae In Severus his reign the world was so loose that 3000 were indicted for adultery When Iulia blamed the wife of Argentocoxus a Northern Britain because her country people accompanied promiscuously 10 or 12 men having 2 or 3 Women common among them she not ignorant of the Roman incontinency replyed We accompany openly with the best but vile persons defile you secretly Xiphiline Dio writeth that in Severus his time it rained silver at Rome in Augustus's forum O pluviam salutarem supparem illi qua Iupiter ad Danaen suam penetravit

si non pro se adpetivisset imperium sed aliquem è Senatu delectum qui Romanis praeesset rebus imperatorem designasset Hac nimirum sola ratione culpam paratarum Caracallo insidiarum veluti qui suae tantummodo salutis causa non imperii cupiditate adductus earum fuisset auctor evitasset Nunc autem infamiae notam sibimet ipse inussit seipsum ita perdidit ut illa tam contumelia quam calamitate dignissimus fuerit Nam qui regnum adfectavit id temporis quo ne senatoris quidem nomen adhuc habebat idem celerimè pariter non sine gravissimis aerumnis amisit Id. ibid. p. 917. He lived 54 years reigned one year and 2 months Principis hic custos sumptum pro Caesare ferrum Vertit in auctorem caede Macrinus iners Mox cum prole ruit Gravibus pulsare querelis Cesset perfidiam Quae patitur meruit Ausonius Helagabalus THE outward form is no small circumstance to induce the multitude to reverence since as deformity in a Prince hath oftentime occasioned contempt even to deprivation so on the contrary hath an amiable shape strengthened very weak pretentions and in Antoninus Helagabalus was sufficient title to an Empire even in a military election Habington's Edward the 4th p. 6 7. Quoniam tota stirps Helagabali consobrini ejus Alexandri Severi magnopere confusa est obscura eam hic proponam Igitur Julius Bassianus è Phoenice oriundus filias habuit Juliam Domnam Augustam conjugem Severi Maesam Juliae filius fuit Caracalla qui Bassianus ex nomine avi materni dictus Maesa Julium maritum habuit virum Consularem ex quo duas filias peperit Sohaemiadem Mamaeam Quarum Sohaemias quidem Vario Marcello Senatorii loci viro nupta filium habuit Avitum qui Bassianus dictus est ex avi ac proavi materni nomine ex paterno autem nomine Varius Itaque fallitur Lampridius qui Helagabalum Varium dictum esse scribit ex aviae Variae nomine Nec minus falli eundem puto cum Alexandrum Severum Varii filium Variae nepotem fuisse dicit Neque enim credibile est patrem Helagabali Alexandri uno eodemque appellatos nomine Potius crediderim erravisse Lampridium qui Alexandri patrem facit qui erat Helagabali Et enim si Varium Helagabali patrem esse scisset certè id in ojus vita retulisset quo loco causas quaerit cur Helagabalus dictus est Varius Ac duas quidem ejus appellationis ibi causas retulit hanc quam dixi praetermisit Proinde non dubito errorem illum in stirpe Alexandri Severi ex ignoratione Lampridii fluxisse Nisi forte Varii filium interpretari placet adoptatum ab Helagabalo qui Varius est dictus Caeterum naturalis Alexandri Severi pater ignoratur Ab auctoribus autem Mamaeae filius ferè dici solet Quod in gratiam Mamaeae a Senatu decretum fuisse credibile est quemadmodum patres olim censuerant ut Tiberius Augustus Liviae filius diceretur teste Dione Avus quidem ejus dictus est Alexianus si credimus Herodiano l. 5. idque initio nomen fuit Alexandro Severo Valesius in Excerpta Peiresci p. 111 112. This Monster had more names and surnames saith Tristan than Hydra had heads for whilest he was a private man he was called Varius Avitus Lupus Varius from his reputed Father Varius Marcellus a Syrian Avitus Lupus from Iulius Avitus Lupus his Grand-father by the mothers side after being presented to the Soldiers to obtain their favour he was named Bassianus by whom when he was received and proclaimed Emperor they gave him the name of Antoninus He was the last Emperor upon whom that name was conferred which because he dishonoured he was called Pseud-Antoninus He was named Assyrius saith Dion because he was often seen in publick clothed with a barbarous habit such as his Countrymen the Priests of Syria anciently called Assyria used to wear His debauchednesse made him to be sur-named the Roman Sardanapalus He had the surname of Helagabalus given to him because he was Priest of Helagabalus the peculiar god of the Emesenes so strange a Deity that Authors agree not about the writing or meaning of his name though it be most probable that it signifieth the Sun He was the spurious issue of Caracalla and Symia Syra which Scaliger rendreth Lunula Onychine Appellationes imponere a rebus quae in amoribus deliciis sunt omnium nationum commune est a floribus ab arboribus herbis gemmis mundo muliebri Sed hoc Iudaeis Aethiopibus Syris Arabibus tam frequens tam vulgo usitatum ut earum nationum proprium videri possit Scaliger in Eusebium He had 6 Wives in the short time of his reign the first of which was Annia Faustina of Commodus his linage for the enjoyment of whom he caused Pomponius Bassus her husband to be put to death not permitting her to weep for him Divorcing her he married Cornelia Paula a most Illustrious Roman Lady That he might the sooner be a Father said he who was not able to be a man yet soon after only because she had a spot in her body as he said he put her away and stripping her of all honours sequestred her to a private life After pretending he was in love he violently took out of Vesta her sacred Nunnery at Rome Iulia Aquilia Severa a Vestal Virgin and married her which by the Heathens was held such a crime that the Nun which had carnal knowledge of a man was buried alive writing to the Senate who were grieved at his sacrilegious act That she was a fit match for a Priest and impudently affirmed he did it That from himself a Priest and his Wife the chief Priestess of Vesta there might be born issue worthy of the Gods Yet he quickly turned away this Wife for to espouse another with 2 more whose names are unknown it being difficult to determine whether he be to be blamed more for his frequent and illegal marriages or his sudden and causeless divorces And at last being possessed with a continual inconstancy having changed 5 times in 4 years he returned to Aquiliae Severa compare Dion l. 79. with Herodian l. 5. c. 6. He so favoured Aurelius Zoticus that himself commanded him to be taken of all the chief Officers for the Emperors husband Zoticus was supplanted by Hierocles admitted to the same familiarity by Helagabalus and styled his husband also Nor did he thus play at fast and loose with humane Matrimonies only but now his God also wanted a Wife Him he married first to Pallas after saying His God liked not so martial a Wife to Vrania concluding it was fitter to match the Sun and Moon together making his God almost as fickle as himself Herodian l. 5. c. 6. He gave all the treasure in the Temple of Vrania to his God for