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A64912	Romæ antiquæ descriptio a view of the religion, laws, customs, manners, and dispositions of the ancient Romans, and others : comprehended in their most illustrious acts and sayings agreeable to history / written in Latine by ... Quintus Valerius Maximus ; and now carefully rendred into English ; together with the life of the author.; Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX. English	Valerius Maximus.; Speed, Samuel, 1631-1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing V34; ESTC R22311	255,720	462

had not these decayed An expression becoming for-fetch'd Wisdome For had he labour'd more in the manuring his Lands than his Minde he had remained Masters of his family at home but had not returned into his Country the great Anaxagoras 7. I might say that the Industry of Archimedes was very prontable but that it g●ve him life and took if from him again For when Syracuse was taken Marcellus was sensible that his Victory was much delayed by his Engines yet infinitely taken with the Prudence of the person he commanded the Souldiers to spare his Life assuming perhaps almost as much glory in saving Archimedes as in destroying Syracuse But while Archimedes was making Figures with his minde and eyes fixed upon the ground a Souldier that was broken into his house to plunder with his drawn Sword asked him who he was The Philosopher was so intent that he return'd him no direct Answer but parting dust with his finger Have a care said he of spoyling this Circle Thereupon as one that slighted the Victor of the Empire the Souldier cut off his Head and blended his blood with the Lineaments of his Art Thus the same Study gave him his Life and deprived him of it again 8. Most certain it is that Socrates when he was stricken in years began to learn Musick believing it better to learn that Art late than never How little an accession of knowledge was that to Socrates Yet the obstinate Industry of the person to so much wealth and treasure of Learning would also adde the profitable Elements of Musick Thus while he thought poor to learn he made himself rich to teach 9. And that we may reduce the Examples of a long and successful Industry to one head Isocrates compos'd that most noble Book entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when he was fourscore and four years of Age yet ● work full of life and spirit By which it appears that the members of learned men growing old yet their Minds by the benefit of Industry retain the full vigour of Youth Nor did he end his days till he had five years enjoyed the fruit of the admiration of his work 10. Lesser bounds terminated the life of Chrysippus yet was not short-liv'd for he left behind him the thirty ninth Book of his Logicks a book of exact nicety begun in the Eightieth Year of his Age. Whose Study in delivering the monuments of his Wit took up so much time and labour that a longer life would be r●quisite to understand the depth of his writings 11. Thee also Cleanthes so industrious in searching after and so laboriously delivering Wisdome the Deity of Industry could not but admire when she beheld thee in thy youth maintaining thy self by carrying water in the Night in the Day a diligent heares of Chrysippus and till the Hundredth year within one with attentive care instructing thy Disciples With a double labour thou hast taken up the space of one Age making it uncertain whether thou wert a better Scholar or a Master 12. Sopholces had also a glorious combat with Nature as liberal of his wonderful Works as she was liberal in giving him long Time to compose them For he lived near an Hundred years his Oedipus Coloneus being written by him just before his death By which one Tragedy he won the honour from all the Poets in that way Which Iophon the Son of Sophocles would not have concealed from Posterity and therefore caused it to be inscribed upon his Fathers Tomb. 13. Simonides the poet at Fourscore years of Age boasts himself that he taught Verses and contended for the prize at those years Nor was it but reason that he should long enjoy the fruit of his own Wit Who was himself to communicate them for the benefit of eternity 14. Now for Solon how industrious he was he has declared in his Verses Wherein he signifies that he grew old always learning something and the last day of his life confirmed it For as his Friends were sitting by him and discoursing among themselves upon some subject or other he lifted up his head then just about to bow to sate and being asked why he did so That when I understand said he what it is you are disputing upon I may dye Certainly Sloath had bin banished from among mankinde if all men should come into the world with the same Spirit that Solon left it 15. How great was the industry of Themistocles ● Who though he had the care of the greatest affairs of his Countrey upon his shoulders yet was able to remember the particular names of all his fellow-Citizens And being through high Injustice driv'n from his Countrey and compell'd to fly to Xerxes whom a little before he had vanquish'd in battle before he come into his presence he accustom'd himself to the Persian language that having purcha●●d commendation by labour he might render the Tone of his voice familiar and customary to the Kings ear 16. The Applause of both which sorts of Industry two Kings divided between them Cyrus remembring all the names of his Souldiers Mithridates learning two and twenty several Tongues spoken within his Dominions The first that he might address himself to his Army without a Director the other that he might discourse to the people whom he govern'd without an Interpreter CHAP. VIII Of Ease praised ROMANS 1. P. Aemilianus and C. Laelius 2. Mu●ius Scaevola Augur FORRAIGNERS 1. Socrates of Athens 2. Achilles in Homer EAse because it seems to be contrary to Industry but chiefly to Labour ought to be briefly touch'd upon Not that which extinguishes but which recreates Vertue For the sloathful ought to avoid the one and the brave and stout may desire the other They that they may not live like Drones these that by a seasonable intermission from toyl they may be the fitter for Labour 1. The famous pair of Friends Scipio and Laelius united together not only by the bond of Love but by an association of all other Vertues as they perform'd the journey of a painful life with equal steps so they generally relax'd from business by consent For it is certain that at Caieta and Lourenium they used to gather up Shells and little Stones upon the Shoar And this L. Crassus often reported from the mouth of Q. Scaevola who was Son-in-Law to Laelius 2. As for Scaevola as he was the most certain witness of their Relaxation so he himself was wont to play at Ball having us'd to delight himself in that sort of exercise when the weight of his business was over Sometimes he was wont to spend his time at Chess and Tables after he had bin long ordering the Rights of his Citizens and the Ceremonies of his Gods For as he acted Scaevola in serious things so he shewed himself but only Man in his Sports and Recreations as whom Nature will not suffer to abide continual Labour FORRAIGNERS 1. This Socra●es saw to whom no part of Wisdom was obscure which made him that he did not blush when

by the hands of men they resolv'd to testifie their good Will Wherein I am not ignorant how opinion hesitates in the asserting the truth of the motion and voice of the Immortal Gods However because we do not make a relation of things new but only repeat what has been deliver'd let the first Authors vindicate the truth It is our part not to refuse as vain what the sacred Monuments of Story have consecrated for certain 8. Having made mention of that City from whence our own had its first original heavenly Iulius the glorious offspring thereof comes into our mind whom C. Cassius never to be named without remembring his publick Parricide while he was labouring couragiously at the Battle of Philippi saw above mortal Stature clad in a Purple Robe and an angry Count●nance making toward him with full speed at which sight affrighted he fled having first heard these words utter'd What wouldst thou do more if it be too little to have kill'd Didst thou not murther Caesar O Cassius But no Deity can be prevail'd against therefore by injuring him whose mortal body still burns thou hast deserved to have a god so much thy enemy 9. Lentulus passing by the shore where the B●dy of Pompey the Great murdered by the treachery of King Ptolemy was then at the same time burning altogether ignorant of his fall cryed out to his Souldiers How do we know but that Pompey may be now burning in yonder flame The Miracle was that he should ignorantly speak so great a truth as it were by inspiration 10. This was only the saying of a man but that which came from the mouth of Apollo himself was more miraculous a clear evidence of the Delphick Pres●ge which ●oretold the Death of Appius He in the Civil War wherein Pompey had separated himself from his friendship with Caesar through advice no less baneful to himself than disadvantageous to the Common-wealth being willing to know the event of so great a Commotion by his power in command for he was Governour of Achaia caus'd the chief President of the Delphick Oracle to descend into the innermost part of the holy Den whence as more certain Answers are demanded so the over-abundance of the divine exhalation becomes more noxious to those that give the Answer The Virgin therefore through the impulse of the inspiring Spirit with a most dreadful tone among other obscure terms and aenigma's thus return'd to Appius The War concerns thee nothing O Roman Thou shalt have for thy lot that part of Euboea call'd Coela He believing that Apollo had forewarned him to avoid the danger of the War retired into that Countrey which lies between Rham●uns a noble part of the Countrey of A●tica and C●ristus adjoining to the Chalcidic Bay where consum'd with sickness before the battle of Pharsalia he possessed the place assign'd for his burial 11. These things may also be accompted as Miracles that when the Chappel of the Salii was burnt there was nothing escap'd the fire but the Kings staff of Romulus That the Statue of Servius Tullius r●main'd untouch'd when the Temple of Fortune was consum'd by fire That the Statue of Claudia plac'd near the entry into the Temple of the Mother of the Gods ●hat Temple being twice consum'd by fire once wh●n Nasica Scipio and L. Bestia another time when Servilius and Lamia were Consuls stood firm upon its Ba●is and untouch'd 12. The Funeral Pile of Acilius Aviola brought no small astonishment to our City who being taken ●or dead both by the Physicians and by his Friends when he had been laid out for some time upon the Ground the Flame no soone● coming near his Body b●t he rose up and affirmed himself to be alive calling for the assi●tance of his Schoolmaster who only remain'd with him But being encompass'd with the flames he could no● be drawn thence 13. Lucius Lamia also a person of the Pretorian Order is said to ●ave spoken upon his funeral Pile FORRAIGN Examples 1. But the fat● of Erus Pamphilus has render'd the for●going relations le●s miraculous whom Plato affirm'd tha● alter he was thought to have been slain in Bat●l● and ●ad lain in the field ten days when he came to be taken away and laid upon the funeral Pile he reviv'd and related strange things which he saw while he lay dead 2. And since we are come of Forraign Examples there was a certain learned Man at Athens who having received an unlucky hurt with a Stone upon his Head though he retain'd his Memory as to all other things very perfect yet forgot his Learning which he had follow'd all his life time A dire and fatal Wound in the Soul of him that was wounded as if having of purpose sought out every sense it had pitch'd upon that particularly wherein the Patient most delighted burying the singular Doctrine and Learning of the person in the perpetual grave of Envy To whom if it were not lawful to enjoy those Studies it had been better that he had never obtain'd a taste of them than to want the sweetness of what he once had in poss●ssion 3. But more lamentable is the narration of the following mischance For the Wife of Nausimenes an Athenian hapning to take her Son and Daughter in the act of Incest struck with horrour of so monstrous a sight became suddenly dumb so that she neither could express her present Indignation nor ever after speak a word They punish'd themselves for their own wicked act with voluntary Death Thus Fortune that in a rage took from her her Speech from them their Lives was therein favourable to the Mother 4. Aegles a Samian Wrastler born mute when he saw the Rewards of a Victory which he had won taken from him out of indignation for the injury done him recover'd his Speech 5. Famous also was the Birth of Gorgias an Epirote a very strong man who coming forth of his Mothers Womb as she was going to be buried with his crying caus'd them that carried the Beer to stand affording a strange Miracle to his Countrey as one that receiv'd his Birth and being from the Funeral-Pile of his Mother For at the same moment she in her Death yields to fate the other is taken into arms alive before he was born 6. A fortunate Wound was that which a certain person gave to Phaerean Iason ende●vouring to have slain him For striking at him with his Sword he brake an Impostume in that manner which could neither be broken nor cured by any skill'd in Physick delivering him from an incurable Disease 7. Equally belov'd of the immortal Gods w●s Simonides who being sav'd from imminent dang●r was also preserv'd from after-ruine For while he was at Supper with Scopas at Cranon a City of Thessaly news was brought him that two young men were at the door earnestly desiring to sp●ak with him When he came to the ga●e he found no body ●here But at the same moment the Roof of the Dining-room fell down and kill'd both

of Hannibal though he had many times a fair opportunity of well succeeding offer'd yet he would never recede from his own wholesome deliberations not so much as to the hazard of a Skirmish and which is most difficult he every where appear'd to be Superiour both to Anger and Hope And therefore as Scipio by fighting so he by not fighting reliev'd his Country For the one ruin'd Carthage by his Celerity the other by his delay took care that Rome should not be destroyed 3. By the following Narration it will also appear that Gaius Piso being Consul at a time of much turbulency and combustion in the Commonwealth did behave himself with a wonderful Constancy The fury of the people being highly moved by the delusions of M. Palicanus a seditious person endeavour'd to commit a most foul act at the great Assembly for choosing Consuls intending to have given into his hands a most large Power whose vile actions requir'd rather the utmost severity of punishment than any the least mark of Honour Nor was the furious flame of the Tribunes Authority wanting to incense the amazed Multitude In this miserable and shameful condition of the City Piso being plac'd before the Pulpit for Orations though not by the hands of the Tribunes and all flocking about him and demanding of him whether he would declare Palicanus Consul now chosen by the Suffrages of the People answered First that he did not believe the Commonwealth had been overwhelm'd with so much darkness as to act a thing so unworthy And when the People still press'd him to declare the Election crying out If it were unworthily done let it be so he replied I will make no declaration With which short Answer he bare away the Consulship from Palicanus before he had obtain'd it Thus Piso contemn'd many terrible hazards disdainining to renounce the well-grounded rigour of his mind 4. Met●llus sirnam'd Numidian for a perseverance of the same nature endured a storm much unworthy his Majesty and generous Manners For when he perceived what Saturninus in his designes of mischief aim'd at and what ruin they would bring to the Commonwealth if not timely prevented he rather chose Banishment than to submit to his Laws Could there be any person thought more constant than this man Who rather than he would act contrary to his judgment suffer'd the want o● his own Countrey where he had attain'd to the highest degrees to Dignity 5. However though I prefer no one before him yet may I not undeservedly compare with him Scaevola the Soothsayer Sylla having now quite de●eated his Opposers and got the upper hand of his Enemies and got possession of the City armed as he was compell'd the Senate to accomplish his most eager desire that Marius might be by them declar'd an open Enemy Whose Will when no one durst withstand Scae●ola alone being requir'd refus'd to give his opinion in the Case And when Sylla began with a frowning look to threaten him Though said he thou shouldst shew me the bands of Souldiers with which thou hast surrounded the Senate though thou threaten death never so often thou shalt never make me yield in hopes to keep warm my little and aged blood to declare Marius an Enemy by whom this City and all Italy has been preserv'd 6. What has a Woman to do with publick Orations If the Custome of our Countrey be observed Nothing But where Domestick Peace and Quiet is toss'd upon the waves of Sedit●on the Authority of Antient Custome gives way And that which Violence compels more avails than that which Modesty perswades and directs And therefore O Semproni● Sister of Titus and Caius Graccbus Wife of Scipio Aemilianus I will not comprehend thee in a Narrative envious of thy worth as absurdly inserting thee among the most weighty Examples of Vertue but be●●use that being brought to answer before the People by a Tribune of the Vulgar thou hast not degenerated from the greatness of thy Ancestors in s● vast a confusion I will eternize thy Memory Tho● wert forced to stand in that place where the greatest Personages of the City were wont to be affronted The highest in Authority powr'd out their Threats against thee with a severe and cruel Brow backt with the Cri●s of the rude Multitude The whole Forum eagerly endeavour'd that thou shouldst acknowledge with a Kiss Equi●ius whom they unjustly labour to impose upon the Sempronian Stock as the Son of Tib●rius thy Brother yet didst thou thrust him from thee a Monster brought out of I know not what pro●undity of darkness approaching with an execrable boldness to usurp a relation of Consanguinity where he had nothing of Alliance 7. The great Luminaries of our City will not take it amiss if in the number of their flaming Lights the virtue of the C●●turions also make bold to shew it self For as humble Degree ought to reverence Greatness so antient Nobility ought rather to cherish than despise those who are but newly advanc'd by acts of Vertue Wherefore then ought Pontius to be driven out of the Company of these Examples who being upon an Out-guard in Caesar's Army and surprized by a Party of Scipio's when there was but one way left for him to save himself if he would serve under Pompey his Son in-law fearless made this answer Scipio I thank thee for thy kindness but I have no occasion for my Life upon any such condition 8. C. Mevius a Centurion of divine Augustus a person of mean Extraction yet of a heroic Minde and observing the same Constancy of Resolution having signaliz'd himself by many Personal acts of Valour in the War with Mark Antonie being at length taken by an Ambuscado of the Enemy and brought before Antonie to Alexandria and being demanded what punishmment he deserv'd Command me said he to be killed for neither the benefit of Pardon nor present Death shall compel me to cease to be a Souldier of Caesars nor now to begin to take thy part But the more constantly he contemn'd his Life the more easily he obtain'd it For Antonie immediately set him at Liberty for his Vertue FORRAIGN 1. Many other Roman Examples remain of this nature but I must avoid tediousness and therefore suffer my Pen to slip to Forraign presidents In the first front whereof let Blassius appear than whose Constancy there was nothing more stedfast He designing to restore Salapia where he was born to the Roman Empire being then garrison'd by the Carthaginians to this purpose with more desire to compass his Plot than hope of obtaining his end he boldly adventures to draw in Dafius one that most fiercely disagreed with him in the administration of Affairs being wholly devoted to Hannibal but one without whose assistance he could not bring his designe about This man presently reports to Hannibal all that had pass'd between him and Blassius adding of his own what he thought would increase his own commendation and render his enemy more odious Hannibal calls them both before him the one