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A05439	The lives of all the Roman emperors being exactly collected, from Iulius Cæsar, unto the now reigning Ferdinand the second. With their births, governments, remarkable actions, & deaths.; Sommario delle vite de gl'imperadori romani. English	Paoli, Gio Antonio de.; Basset, Robert.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1636 (1636)	STC 1558; ESTC S101064	79,050	401

hee used not by the instigation of any man but out of his owne invention and and furious braine this was one That being a Necromancer hee slew Christian women being great with child and tooke the children yet unborne out of their wombes the ashes whereof he used in his execrable art to make himselfe greater in authority and power All which availed him nothing because that fighting with Constantinus the Great upon a Bridge hee was by him throwne and drowned in the river Tyber which happened in the fift yeere of his reigne having no other sepulture then the River This Emperor used to joyne the living bodies of men with other dead carcases and being chain'd mouth to mouth hee caused them to bee tumbled up and downe 65. Licinius Anno Dom. 310. LIcinius a Dacian borne An. Dom. 310. being a man knowne to be singular and rare in feates of Armes was by Galerius made Captaine Generall afterwards Co-emperor For wretched avarice and bestiality of lust hee was knowne to be most dissolute and hee was so ill bred and extravagantly drowned in ignorance that he became an enemy of all litterate and learned men terming them the skum and filth of men endeavouring by all meanes that men should shun and avoid them as a poyson or a contagious plague He grew so insolent and proud for one onely victory which hee obtained in the East that hee slighted and contemned Constantinus and began to increase his cruelty and tyranny against the Christians Whereupon Constantinus opposed himselfe and they both joyning battaile this Tyger was put to flight in the Countrey of Pannonia and intending to reinforce his cause was in his 〈◊〉 campe by his owne souldiers manacred in Thessalonica at the age of 50 yeeres and of his government 〈◊〉 and was carelesly cast into a pit having no other respective funerall 66. Martinianus Anno Domini 312. MArtinianus Anno Domini 312. a Sclavonian by Nation a man meanely borne but well experienced in the Art Military was for that cause made Generall of the Horse He was created Emperor and Caesar in Bizantium but in a short time he lost both dignity and life because being taken in Thessalia with Licinius by the expresse command of Constantine they were both murthered by the Souldiers and therefore not having left any memoriall behinde him but this example that we may see and know that many were raised to the Imperiall dignity more by sedition ambition and interest in their souldiers than by any their just desert claime or title to such a degree But it is no wonder that in a manner all or most of them died immaturely and unfortunately being they had neither a meane order or regular way of governing themselves much lesse others living for the most part dissolutely not reflecting on the Proverb Qualis vita Finis ita Live well dye well 67. Constantinus Magnus Anno Domini 312. COnstantine An. Dom. 312. a Britan by Nation a man most valiant and worthy in a manner of an Empire more than any one of his Antecessors after the death of his * I suppose i● is meant Constantian Clor●● Father he was elected Emperor He overcame all the Tyrants of the Empire and recovered all rebellious Countries wherefore hee entered into the City of Rome in wonderfull pompe He began to persecute the Christians wherefore peradventure by the divine will and pleasure he was so infected with a Leprosie that the Physitians left him as incurable But the heavenly Grace was his assistance for being asleepe in the night hee saw a vision telling him that if he desired to recover his health hee should recall Silvester the Bishop and all the Clergy from exile Which thing he performing and being baptized he was immediately cured And increasing in devotion hee built many Churches to the glory and hon●it of God This Emperor would say in praise of Age that Age appeared to be best in foure things Old wood best to burne old Wine to drinke old friends to trust and old Authors to read of Moreover he said that there was but this difference betweene the death of old men and young men that old men goe to death and death comes to young men This Emperour built a City called by his name Constantinople whither hee after translated the Imperiall seate And being at the age of 66 yeeres he passed to a botter life to the great griefe of all and especially of the Christians then living whom he did entirely love and cherish Hee obtained the sole Monarchy of the whole Empire and every where restored peace to the Church He was prolected 〈◊〉 in all his wars he exhorted 〈…〉 to Christianity but compelle 〈◊〉 It was thought that he was poisoned of his brothers at Nicomedia in Greece and had pompous sunorals worthy of so great a Man at the Gity of Constantinople which hee had lately built● 68. Crispus An. Domini 314. ABritan by birth was Crispan An. Dom. ●14 who by his Father Constantiue was elected Emperour and honoured with the title of Casar hee was a man so proper and compleate in the beauty of person that Fausta his Mother in law sought by all meanes possible to allure and intice him to her lust unto whom he by no meanes willing to consent by his vertuous obstinacy converted her vicious love into an extreaunity of hatred insomuch that she accused him to his Father for a forcible violator of her chastity To whose words Constantine giving credit caused the vertuous young man to be miserably put to death at Pola in Histria But not long after this sallacy of the Mother in law comming to light and the innocency of the chaste young man worth an eternall memory being manifestly discovered the wicked Step mother sought to excuse the incestuous malice with the pretence of her plot to wit That Crispus should not be a hinderance to the honour of her sonnes in the Imperiall claime But at length by the perswasion of Helena who was infinitely grieved for the death of her Grand-child the wicked step-mother was put into a hot bath wherein shee breathed her last and suffered a death to●● mild for such an impious and treacherous impurity This Emperor was taught and instructed in Learning by the famous Lactantius It is evident that he was singularly qualified valiant and fortunately victorious Helena his Grand mother much lamented his immature death which was not onely suddaine but mischievous and griev'd the whole Empire who by that meanes were deprived of so hopefull a Governour 69. Constantinus Anno Domini 314. COustantine was the second of that name An. Dom. 314. After the death of his Father Constantine the Great the Empire was divided into many parts but that of France Spaine the Alpes England and Scotland did befall to his charge but not contented with these hee pretended by hereditary right that also of Italy and Affrick which here demanded by way of Embassie but not obtaining his pretended cause he made

governe the Empire any longer but to resigne it his wife Ariadna forbad them strictly to doe it so he miserably perished 90 Anastasius Anno Domini 491. THis Emperour was by Nation of Macedonia in Greece Anno Domini 491. and having taken possession the better to confirme himselfe in that esse combined by a present and speedy course and by donatives of great value with Clodoneus King of France by whose meenes hee wase stablished in the Dignity and State He seemed a great lover of the Christian Religion but afterwards by the perswasion of Acatius Bishop of Constantinople a man tainted with the heresie of Arianisme began to follow and embrace it for which being reprehended by Hormisda Bishop of Rome by the way of Embassadors slighting thē with contempt and dismissing them saying That it belonged to the Emperour to reprehend the Popes and the Popes ought not to reprehend Emperours and this answer he made with great indignity and supremacy Wherupon as * Sūmario delle vite de gl● Imperatore Romani c. an Italian Author saith were it for so great an insolency and pride or other errors in the presence of his Peeres and all the Court by the divine judgement hee was wounded with a Thunderbolt and so dyed suddainly after hee had governed 26 yeeres Appendix A little before his death saith Baronius Baro. there were seene terrible earthquakes and other prodigies and hee was often terrified in his sleepe with fearefull visions amongst which this was one A man of a sterne looke holding a booke in his hand saying Ecce ob perversitatem fidei tuae annos quatuordecim vitae tuae deleo See for thy perversnesse of beleefe I put out fourteene yeeres of thy life And being premonished by the Oracle that he should dye by fire although hee sought all possible precautions and preventions thereof Anno 518. 9 of Iuly a most fearefull lightning with a clap of Thunder terrified his very heart so that he went from chamber to chamber from couch to couch and was carried into the heathermost part of his Palace in a cave or cellar where no light did appeare yet for all that was strucke dead with lightning at Constantinople Annot. Misc 11.15 Zonar Annot. part 3 and no substance or moisture found in his body at all but dryed like a pot-sheard or a bone burnt in fire 91 Iustinus Anno Domini 523. IVstinus a Thracian by nation An. Dom. 523. was called out of bondage to the Empire He was really a lover and professor of Christian Religion and as it were a defender thereof he opposed all heresie and banished all Arrians out of Constantinople Whereupon King Theodoricus a fautor of that Sect being much disgusted forced and constrained Pope Iohn with many of the noble men of Rome to goe to the Emperour to perswade him to restore the Arrians and recall them otherwise that hee would doe the like nay worse to all the Clergy and Bishops in his Kingdome which through feare was by the Pope performed And returning backe with the Roman Barons the Kings demand being not performed the Pope was immediately imprisoned and there starved through hunger The good Emperour perceiving this and being now very aged had no desire of revenge but dyed with griefe as all Authors report in his chiefe City of Constantinople to the great discontent of the Christians having chosen his Nephew Iustinianus to be his successor In the eight yeere of his Reigne on a Fryday at Constantinople 5 Calend Iunij at dinner-time there was such a suddaine Earthquake that with it and other strange magicall charmes the Winds blustering every where in the house blowing the Kitching-fires about bred a double destruction to the people both of ruines and fire mixing together Euagr. lib. 4. cap. 5. and Euphrasius Bishop of that City having at that time his head strucken off by the disaster was intombed in the fire 92 Iustinianus Magnus Anno Domini 527. IVstiman An. Domini 527. an Illyrian by Nation was a very zealous man in the Christian Religion and of a singular learning and wit rather Angelicall than Humane Hee reduced all the Imperiall lawes into one volume and to the Codex hee inserted the Digests and Authenticks by the which the whole world is directed for the maintenance and conservation of States He overcame the Vandals tooke the City of Sal● and freed all Italy from the tyranny and cruelties of the Goths He subdued the Moores which wasted and spoyled Affrica with whose spoiles the famous Captaine Bellisarius built two stately Edifices in Rome and founded a worthy Monastery in the City of Oreti and endowed it with sunicient revenues for the maintenance of the religious as also many famous Churches By the example of his Captaine Generall this Emperour also in Constantinople famous all over the world in the honour of the most holy Trinity and St. Sophia And having to his most honorable memory enlarged the Empire hee fell into a strange disease and became a starke foole and so he dyed franticke and was buried at Constantinople in the yeere of his age 83 and of his Empire 38. Anno 560 in this Emperors reigne Clotarius King of France having a sonne Chramnus who had often flowne out and after some reconciliation had having forgotten his former promise and duty to his King and Father fell into an open rebellion against him and after that received remission At length hee raised Armes the third time against his Father in the lesser Brittannia and being taken alive was by the command of Clotarius shut up in a cottage together with his wife and children by whose instigation hee was spurred on to this rebellion wherein they were all burnt to death 93 Iustinus Iunior Anno Dom. 566. QUite contrary to his worthy Antecessor was this most unworthy Iustinus Anno Domi● 566. an Illyrian by nation and a man most bitter cruell avaricious unjust perfidious fraudulent a contemner both of God and man he would often utter these words With whom shall wee live at last wee kill armed men in Warre and the unarmed in peace But by the divine Justice he lived not long in impunity defiling himselfe with sundry sorts of basenesse because dietings and the most exquisite nutriments nor Physicke could afford him any assistance at all but grew continually from bad to worse Whereupon because Sophia his wife although wise enough for a woman governed the Empire untill the time of Tiberius the second but being a woman shee was not much feared because in her time the Longobards over-ranne and possessed all Italy but before this Iustinus recovered he adopted Tiberius as his sonne and pronounced him Augustus And as some say he built a City in Istria now called by his name Iustinopolis Againe falling sicke his disease fell into his feete whereof hee dyed at his Imperiall City of Constantinople not having any great pompe or state at his funerall all being rather glad in

the place of his elder brother Cornelius Valerianus who likewise dyed in his minority Hee was the sonne of Licinius Galienus and Salonia from whom many would have him take his name and others strongly affirme not without good reason because he was borne in Salonia But be it as it will it imports not much it sufficeth that nothing i● written of him worth the while but onely this that by his example the miseries of those times may be reflected on being it was held the greatest infelicity and misery to be an Emperor 48. Posthumius Anno Domini 261. BY birth Posthuinius was a Roman a man really just An. Dom. 261. and adorned with excellent quality and vertue of an irreprehensible behaviour and carriage wherefore hee was by Galienus so highly esteemed that he gave him the charge of his sonne and by the meanes of his valour and counsell in Warre hee overthrew all the Tyrants of the Roman Empire to his glory and terrour of the whole Universe After the death of the aforesaid Galienus he was by the French and the whole Army elected Emperor In which government his workes and actions were so admirable that with goodnesse and dexterity he gave compleat satisfaction to all Lastly when hee thought himselfe most secure in his government hee was by the French murdered together with his sonne By whose death those which are too considing to the goods of For●●●● may make usefull consideration because in the ten yeeres wherein 〈◊〉 reigned Emperor he well experienced the many mutabilities thereof 49. Flavius Claudius Anno Dom. 269. THe 49 Emperor was Claudius being a Goth by birth An. Dom. 269. and the second of that name who was created Emperour in the yeere of the 262 Olympiade who reigned onely one yeere and 9 moneths being crowned to the great joy and content of the whole Senate of Rome And so soone as he was confirmed in the Imperiall dignity with just cause and upon very good grounds he made warre upon the Goths who had now for the space of 15 yeeres wasted robbed pillaged and sacked all the Countrey of Sclavonia and that of Macedon a by their wars and inhumane cruelties and having gloriously overcome them for so remarkeable and famous an act hee deserved to weare a Crowne of massive Gold even in his Palace for his greater Majesty and Magnificence After that falling sicke he dyed suddainly at Smyrua ●●i●●ilius his brother supplying his pla●● a man no way inferiour to 〈…〉 valour wisedome and goodne●● It was not without the Divi●● providence that Claudius should finde the Empire so beset with en●mies that he might not put in practice those cruelties which hee intended against the Christians wh●● he hated above all 50. Quintilius Anno Domini 271. WEE said that Quintilius was the brother of Claudius not onely in blood An. Dom. 271. but in his behaviour valour and goodnesse and therefore upon the death of his brother by the Senate he was deservedly called Caesar Augustus to his infinite praise and perpetuall memory But because Aurelianus was ●t the same time created Emperour by the Army and perceiving himselfe to bee in great inequality of force power to resist the strength and power of so valiant a Commander called to that dignity and degree with the generall consent of so many most potent souldiers fell into so deepe a melancholy and ill conceit that hee coveting solitude bent his whole intention to what meanes or way hee might preserve himselfe Emperor and not finding any he voluntarily after the seventeenth of his Empire opened 〈◊〉 veines in Aquileya and dyed 〈◊〉 infinite griefe of those who 〈◊〉 ●lected him and had his 〈◊〉 Rites performed in a glorious ●●●ner according to the custo●● 〈◊〉 the Romans and was 〈◊〉 Smyrna 51. Aurelianus An. Domini 271. AVrelianus was borne in Dacia An. Dom. 271. and succeeds in the E●●pire after the death of Gla●bus being a young child hee was ●rought to 〈◊〉 where he became ●o learned that had bee not beene stained with blood and cruelty 〈◊〉 had not come short but equalled even the best of his Predecessors in ●audable memory because hee was not onely in learning very knowing but also in Armes most expert 〈◊〉 valiant so that taking the government upon him he made warre upon the Gaths and overthrew the● horse and foote Hee overcame i● Asia and tooke the Queene Ze●●bia Hee conquered the Catelan●● and recovered France and returning to Rome hee pompously tryumphed After that hee repaired th● City-walls adorned it with Temples and Altars and beautified 〈◊〉 with edifices Finally by ill cou●cell hee persecuted the Christi●● with most rigorous execution 〈◊〉 ding out Edicts and Pro●la●●●● to that effect all over the world 〈◊〉 an expresse order to appre he 〈◊〉 put them to death Lastly 〈◊〉 ●laine suddainly in the way betw●● Constantinople and Here●●ia This Emperor would 〈…〉 ●●y Co-partner of the Digni●●y 〈◊〉 ●●periall but was wont to say that Herecules was his Co-emperor as it appeares in an old insculption Herculi Aug. Consorti D. N. Aureliani Invicti Aug. Respub Pis c. 52. Tacitus Anno Domini 276. THE Fifty second Emperour of the Romans was Tacitus An. Dom. 276. and borne in Poland who after the Death of Aurelianus tooke upon him the Helme of ●●vernment and ruled onely 〈◊〉 Moneths Hee was a singular ma● replenished with eminent sinceri●● and had as much as could be wished or desired to be in man and principally in all Heroicall acts that ought to be in all good Princes that governe their subjects peaceably and in a way of gaining a love without flattery and a feare without malice He being knowne to be thus was by the common acclaiming consent both of the Senate and people chosen to this dignity So soone as hee was elected Emperor reflecting upon the deserts of his Antecessor Aurelianus he erected him a Statue of Gold and placed it among their Gods causing all those to be flaine that were any wayes accessary to the death of Aurelianus The ●●nate by the election of 〈◊〉 thought all things restored and to be rectified by the exemplar puoimment of his Predecessors he caused all persecution to cease Hee was murthered by the treason of his Souldiers although some affirme that he died of a Feaver at the yeares of 66. He reigned 6 moneths It is found in Flavius Vopiscus and other Authors that in Terni their Countrey which was a Territory of the Romans famous for Nobility and Gentry there were Tombes erected to him and his brother Florianus and Monuments by the Greekes called Caenotaphia and by the Latines Honoraria Sepulchra whose Monuments were 〈◊〉 the gate of Terni which is 〈◊〉 called Spoletina it having before the name of the gate of the three Monuments heare the suburbane Orchards of the Marquesse Castelli 53. Florianus Anno Domini 277. FLorianus was the brother of Tacitus An. Dom. 277. being also a Polander by birth both sprung from the

and bloody that on both sides there fell more than an hundred and fourscore thousand persons besides an infinite number maimed and wounded and Attila himselfe fled halfe dead with a very small company that attended him He slew Hetuis whose death was boldly revenged by his friends without any respect of persons For Valentinianus being in Campo Martio at Rome was set upon by them wounded and slaine being not able to make any notable resistance In this Emperors time that famous learned Doctor St. Augustine dyed anno 430. St. Patrick the Patron of Ireland began to convert that Country to Christianity In the yeere 446 the Picts invaded England and the same yeere there was such a terrible Earthquake continuing for the space of sixe moneths together insomuch that the people forsooke their houses and Cities for feare of the ruines and infinite disasters which did happen both by Sea and Land Galla Placidia the Mother of this Valentinianus a singular good Christian and a woman of a great and wonderfull solid judgement dyed neere the Campo Martio in Rome having beene daughter sister wife mother and step-mother to Roman Empeours 86. Martianus Anno Domini 450. AFter the death of Theodosius Anno Domini 450. Martianus succeeded in the Empire who was supposed to bee a Spaniard by Nation and governed seaven yeares together with Valentinian Hee was a good Christian and singular fautour of them He married the sister of Theodosius In the time of his government Alemannia was lost and Dacia Spaine and Aquitaine likewise together with Gascoigne which could never be recovered In his time St. Vrsula with eleven thousand Virgins were martyred by Attila's souldiers In the sixt yeare of his Imperiall sway Maximianus a noble Roman married by force Eudosia which was already wife to Valentinianus imperiously began to tyrannize and usurpe the Empire which being understood by the Vandals they immediatly marched with a very powerfull army and came to Rome where they slew him and cast him into Tiber and having sacked the City They returned into Africke carrying E●dosia and her daughter with them who was the cause of the death of his Emperor There happened in the fourth yeare of his reigne so great a famin in Italy that many slaves and poore peasants were inforced to sell their children for money to buy Bread and to pay their tribute But Valentinian ordered and commanded that they might be redeemed againe at the same rate likewise it was followed with a vehement pestilence which destroyed in short space many thousands of people in those parts it being not within the compasse of humane power to stoppe or hinder it because sent from a supreame hand which is unresistable 87. Leo. Anno Domini 457. UPon the death of Martianus An. Dom. 457. Leo being by Nation a Grecian of the City of Thebes was chosen to succeede being a man indeede worthy of such a degree About that time the Roman Common-wealth was sorely perplexed by certaine tyrannicall usurpers which endeavoured to encroach and arrogate the Throne and in particular Gensericus King of the Vandals who came into Italy with a puissant army to that intent Which by Leo being perceived caused him to bee affronted with two severall armyes at once neare Pupolonia by whom Gensericus being overthrowne hee privately retyred in a disguise home into Africa After this Aspera man very noble and powerful in Constantinople together with his two sonnes complotted intended the death of Leo to murther him but the treason not taking effect with their owne deserved death they meritoriously suffered that which to another they intended In fine Leo being in peace with the Ostrogothes fell sicke and shortly after dyed at his Imperiall City of Constantinople and there Inurnd leaving his Nephew to succeede Marcellinus reporteth Anno 458 that Vesuvius a burning mountaine of Campania Carcel in ●hron did cast forth its burnt bowels and covered the face of Italy not onely with nocturne darknesse in the day but also with a small kind of dust and ashes which bred by the heate of the Sunne such strange monsters that is almost incredible such as Gesner an Historian justifies and makes mention of both by nature and figure 88. Leo Iunior Anno Domini 474. THis Leo was Nephew to the afore said Emperor An. Dom. 474. of the same Countrey but not of the same City for he was borne in Corinth in Greece Hee was replenished with all the qualities necessary for a wel-disposed and good Prince for which singularity of parts he was so highly prized and esteemed of Leo his uncle whom he could not endure out of his sight in whose goodnes he took such complacency pleasure more then ordinary as he said and by him conceived the sole solaces and contenting recreations in the interims of the weighty affaires belonging to an Imperiall Crowne Whereupon falling sicke he immediately created this Leo Augustus and successor But reflecting this to have been done in his fit and feeling himselfe sicke to death with his owne hands crowned his owne Father Zeno and declared him Emperor intreating that hee would bee pleased to governe the Empire with the greatest integrity and good justice as befitted a just Prince which Zeno promised and Leo retired himselfe to the private life of a Christian and vertuous man and paied nature her debt at Vienna the Metropolis in Austria 89. Zeno. Anno Domini 374. TO the vertuous sonne Leo the discreet father Zeno succeeds Anno Domini 374. a Graecian of the countrey of Cilicia a man well beloued and reverenced of all men This good Prince understanding and having newes of the creation of a new Emperor in Constantinople rather chose to returne to his former privacy than any wayes disturbe the Republicke or Common-good by any forces of his But Almighty God disposed these things otherwise for this dissention For the Constantinopolitan Burghers or Aldermen being not able to endure the insupportable injuries of the new Emperour Basilicus so was he called betook themselves to Zeno and confirmed him their Emperor and Governour who the affaires of the Empire being composed to the generall good and quiet of all confined this Basilicus with his noble family into Cappadocia Hee overthrew Odoacer which much disturbed Italy and afterwards he instituted many most wholesome and commodious Lawes But in the end many turbulent seditions being raised in Constantinople to him irremediable he dyed as some report with griefe Appendix As others write after hee had reigned seventeene yeeres and five moneths hee dyed a death befitting such a man For being surprised with a fit of the falling-sicknesse which long hanted him Euagrius lib. 3. cap. 29. Or as Euagrius saith out of an excesse of eating and drinking or as dead drunke and being ordered as a dead man was buried alive but when hee was heard out of the Vault to implore his servants and guard most dolefully lamentably to let him out thence not to