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A25723	The history of Appian of Alexandria in two parts : the first consisting of the Punick, Syrian, Parthian, Mithridatick, Illyrian, Spanish, & Hannibalick wars, the second containing five books of the civil wars of Rome / made English by J.D.; Historia Romana. English	Appianus, of Alexandria.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1679 (1679)	Wing A3579; ESTC R13368	661,822	549

took away his Command and gave it to Agrippa After that Caesar's Fleet was finished he purged it in this manner Altars were erected in the Sea a little off the Shore the Ships with all their Crews aloft in a profound silence ranked in order before them the Priests sacrificed standing in the water then placed the Victimes in a Pinnace with which they rowed thrice round the Fleet accompanied in other Boats by all the principal Commanders all together praying that if the Fleet were threatned with any misfortune it might fall upon the Victimes which after dividing in two they cast one part into the Sea and burnt the other on the Altars whilst all the multitude made their Prayers And this is the form the Romans use in the purgation of their Fleets It had been resolved that Caesar parting from Puteoli Lepidus from Africa and Taurus from Tarentum should invade Sicily with three several Fleets to encompass the Enemy on three sides of the Island East West and South and that to this end Caesar should give notice to the others what day he would embarque which was appointted on the tenth of the Summer Solstice which the Romans call the Calends of the Month formerly called Quintilis and since named Iuly in the Honour of the first Caesar which day he pitched upon judging it would prove fortunate because his Father had thereon been always victorious As for Pompey he opposed to Lepidus Plenius with one Legion and store of other Infantry at the point of Lilybaeum fortified the Sea Coasts of the Island to the East and West and more particularly the Islands of Lipari and Cossyra lest they should prove Ports of Retreat Cossyra to Lepidus and Lipari to Caesar from whence they might at all times assault Sicily All his best Forces he rendezvouzed at Messina that they might be in a readiness to march where-ever there should be occasion The two Chieftains being in this manner provided and the first day of Iuly come Caesar's Party all embarqued about break of day Lepidus set sail out of Africa with a thousand Vessels of Burthen and seventy Galleys twelve Legions five thousand Numidian Horse and all things necessary for their subsistence Taurus from Tarentum with one hundred and two Ships of the hundred and thirty Anthony had left Caesar the Rowers of the rest being dead of the Plague the last Winter And Caesar from Puteoli having first sacrificed in the Admiral and thrown the Entrails into the Sea that the winds might be fair Neptune propitious the Sea calm and all favourable to him against his Father's Murderers Some Ships went before to ●ound the depth of Water and Appius with good Forces brought up the Rear The third day after their embarquing it blew very hard at South and several of Lepidus's Vessels of Burthen foundred yet he reached Sicily where he besieged Plenius in Lilybaeum and took several places some by force and some by surrender Taurus as soon as it began to blow returned back to Tarentum Appius as he doubled the Cape of Minerva lost one part of his Squadron another part were driven upon the Flats and the rest dispersed here and there with great loss Caesar at the beginning of the Storm got to Anchor with all his Ships in the Gulf of Elaea in safety all but only one Galley of six Oars to a Bank which was cast away near the adjoyning Promontory but the Wind on a sudden clapping about to the West to which this Gulf lies open they were sorely battered with the Tempest for the Wind blowing right in they could neither get-out nor ride there In vain they plyed their Oars and in vain let drop their Anchors they were driven upon the Rocks or fell foul of one another besides night coming on made the danger much more dreadful At length the storm being blown over Caesar caused the dead to be buried the wounded dressed and cloathed those who had cast themselves into the Sea to save their lives giving them other Arms and immediately issued orders to refit his Fleet as well as he could for the present he had lost six great Ships two and twenty lesser and a great number of Liburnicks Thirty days it required besides to repair the damage this storm had done and Summet was far advanced wherefore he found it convenient to put off the War till the next year Mean while because the People were put to hard shifts for want of Provisions he presently caused his Ships to be drawn ashore to refit sent those Seamen had escaped the storm to Taurus who wanted them and fearful lest this disaster should work some change in the minds of those who had not yet lost the memory of the great Pompey he sent Maecenas to Rome whilst himself went through all Italy from Colony to Colony assuring the Veterans there was no fear of any thing and then passed to Tarentum to see in what condition Taurus's Fleet was and thence to Vibone where he encouraged his Legions and hastened with such diligence his Naval Preparations that in a short time he was ready to make a second attempt upon Sicily Pompey not yet thinking fit to make any advantage of so many Shipwracks was contented only to sacrifice to Neptune and Salacia whose Son he suffered himself to be called as perswaded the Enemy had not been thus twice battered by Tempest in Summer time without divine assistance 'T is likewise reported that puffed up with this success he changed his Coat of Arms which was of Purple and took Blew as the adopted Son of Neptune He hoped after so many losses Caesar would lie quiet but when he heard he had refitted his Fleet and was ready to come into Sicily that very Summer his heart failed him thinking he had to deal with a Man whose courage was invincible and whose treasure inexhaustible yet he sent Menodorus with the seven Ships that he had brought him to discover in what readiness Caesar's Fleet were and do what else he could But he angry that he was not restored to the Command of the Fleet and perceiving they trusted him with no more than his own seven Ships because they had a jealousie of him resolved once more to change sides To this purpose imagining that whatever happened it would be for his advantage to do some brave and valiant action he distributed all the Money he had among his companions and having in three days come seventy five Furlongs he falls like a Thunderbolt among the Guard-ships of Caesar's Fleet where they were at work then going off and upon a sudden falling on again he carried away sometimes two and sometimes three he engaged likewise either in their Ports or upon the Sea with several Ships loaden with Corn some of which he sunk others burnt and took others and in short filled all the Coast with terrour and tumult both Caesar and Agrippa being absent the last gone into the Forest to provide Timber So bold he grew that he

none returning he was afraid lest they would deliver him up to the Romans Wherefore having given orders to his Friends and those of his Guards who had not yet forsaken him to go and submit themselves to the new King after having extolled their fidelity he took out some Poison which he alwaies carried hid in the Belt of his Sword and began to dissolve it but two of his Daughters lately brought to him Mithridatis and Nissa promised in marriage to the Kings of Aegypt and Cyprus earnestly besought him to permit them to drink before him and hindred him from taking it till they had first swallowed it The violence of the Poison soon gave them their death but on Mithridates though he walked up and down a great place on purpose to heat himself the Poyson had no effect because of the Preservative he had used dayly to take for fear of being poisoned which to this day is called Mithridate seeing therefore near him a certain Captain of the Gauls called Bituitus Your hand said he has done me many excellent Services in War but the most excellent of all would be to kill me now lest I should be led in Triumph after having so long reigned in so great a Kingdom I cannot die by Poyson because I have been too cautious against it insensible that I was to have taken so much care of what I eat and not to foresee that cruel and domestick Venome to all Kings the Treason of my Children my Friends and my Armies Bituitus moved with this discourse performed for the King this last Office he desired of him Thus dyed the sixteenth Descendant from Darius the last King of the Persians and the eighth Successor to that Mithridates who shaking of the Macedonian Yoak made himself King of Pontus the sixty eighth or sixty ninth Year of his Age and the fifty seventh of his Reign for he was but an Infant when he took Possession of the Kingdom He subdued all the neighbouring Barbarians and a great part of Scythia he maintained War against the Romans forty Years space during which he several times made himself Master of Bithynia and Cappadocia made several Inroads into Asia Phrygia Paphlagonis Galatia Macedon besides many memorable Actions in Greece He had likewise the Empire of the Sea from Cilicia as far as Ionia but he quitted it when Sylla forced him to confine himself with the Bounds of the Kingdom of his Father after the loss of one hundred and sixty thousand men Yet after that mighty loss he forbore not to renew the War and did it without much difficulty having besides always had to do with great Captains 'T is true that Sylla Lucullus and Pompey overcame him but he had likewise the advantage ore them in many Encounters and withal he took Prisoners L. Cassius Q. Oppius and Manius Aquilius carrying them about Captives with him till he put one of them to death as the Principal Author of the War and delivered up the others to Sylla He defeated likewise Fimbria Murena Cotta Proconful Fabius and Triarius He appeared always great always constant even in the midst of Calamities and vanquished though he were omitted nothing that might be attempted against the Romans even to the allying himself with the Maeotiques and Gauls sending Ambassadors to Sertorius into Spain Notwithstanding all the wounds he received from Enemies or from Traytors he never gave himself any rest no not in his Age nor ever was there any conspiracy against him but was discovered save only the last and possibly he now perished for suffering himself willingly to be deceived so ungrateful is the malice of those to whom we grant pardon He was yet so cruel and bloody that he slew his Mother his Brother three of his Sons and as many Daughters he was of great Stature as his Arms sent to Delphos and Nemaea make appear and so strong that even to his last end he was one of the lustiest Horsemen and most vigorous thrower of a Javelin in his whole Kingdom he had travelled in one day a thousand Furlongs drawn by a Chariot with eight Horses and having fresh ones led He had learned the Greek Tongue and was well instructed in the Ceremonies of Religion of the Greeks He was likewise a lover of Musick was patient in labour sober in diet but intemperate in the love of Women Such was the end of Mithridates surnamed Eupator Dyonsiuis whose death delivered the Romans from a troublesome War which they testifyed by their joy when they heard the News Pharnaces sent to Pompey to Sinope Mithridates body in a Galley and with it those who had arrested Manius with a great number of Hostages as well Greeks as Barbarians supplicating him to continue him in the Kingdoms of his Father or at least in that of Bosphorus which Mithridates had given to his Brother Machares Pompey delivered the Kings body to those that brought it to be Royally interred and would himself be at the expence giving orders it should be laid in the usual Sepulcre of the Kings at Sinope praysing him as the greatest King of his time and who had done the noblest actions As for Pharnaces in acknowledgement of his having freed Italy from many difficulties he gave him the Kingdom of Bosphorus except only Phanagoria whose Citizens he would have remain free because they first forsaking Mithridates who again levied Forces and had already a Fleet and Army and strong places of retreat had put a stop to him and by the Example they had given others been the cause of his death As for Pompey himself having in this War alone cleared the Sea of Pyrates overcome the greatest of Kings waged War succesfully besides the Pontick Nations with the Colches Albanians Iberians Armenians Medes Arabs Jews and all other Oriental People he extended the Roman Empire from the East as far as Aegypt whither he would not go though Ptolemy called him to his assistance against his seditious people and to that end sent him Presents of Silver and Cloths for all his Army whether he feared to give occasion of envy to his Enemies by attempting what the Oracle had forbid or for other reasons we shall specify when we come to treat of the affairs of Aegypt As for what concerns the Nations which he had subdued he gave some their liberty because they had sent him Succors others he reduced into the form of a Province and to others gave Kings To Tigranes Armenia to Pharnaces Bosphorus to Ariobarzanes Cappa●ocia and its dependances as we said to Antiochus Commagenes what he Conquered in Mesopotamia dividing Gallogrecia inhabited by the Galatians Neighbours of the Cappadocians among four Tetrarchs of whom Deiotarus was one He gave Attalus the Soveraignty of Paphlagonia and Aristarchus that of Colchis He made Archelaus High-pri●st to the Goddess adored by the Commaniens a dignity comparable to any Principality whatsoever He honoured Castor of Phanagoria with the Title of Friend of the people of Rome and in short gratifyed a