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A03094	The history of Herodian, a Greeke authour treating of the Romayne emperors, after Marcus, translated oute of Greeke into Latin, by Angelus Politianus, and out of Latin into Englyshe, by Nicholas Smyth. Whereunto are annexed, the argumentes of euery booke, at the begynning therof, with annotacions for the better vnderstandynge of the same historye.; History. English	Herodian.; Smyth, Nicholas, fl. 1556.	1556 (1556)	STC 13221; ESTC S104002	157,783	244

of the Goddes and doo greatlye reuerence Liuie in the .ix. booke of hys seconde warre Punique sayth that they founde in the Sybyline bokes whyche were perused and redde ouer because of the often raynynge of stones the same yeare that when so euer anye straunger and forreyne enemye shoulde moue warre agaynste Italye he myghte be vanquysshed and expelled thence yf the Moother Idea were transported to Rome from a fyelde of Phrigia named Pesinus The whyche to do the Romaynes sent fiue Ambassadours wyth fyue greate shyppes called Cynqueremes to Atalus king of Asie Who led them to the place called Pesynus delyuered them the holye stone whych the inhabitauntes there called y e Moother of the Goddes and appoynted theym to carye it vnto Rome It was receyued at the Hauen of Hostia by Publius Scipio beynge iudged at that tyme the worthyest manne in all the Cytye to do the same caryed vnto Rome and sette in the Temple of Victorye wythin the Palayce the .xiij. daye of Apryll whyche was celebrated and solempnyzed wyth feastes and gyftes that the people in greate aboundance offered vnto the Goddesse Whych playes the Romaynes called Megalesia The same Goddesse is called Ops whome they suppose to be y e wyfe of Saturne called Rhea by the whyche they vnderstande the earth that geueth affluence and abundaunce of all thynge She is otherwise named Cybele of the name of a Hyl and cytye of Phrigia where her sacrifyces were fyrst instituted Or she is called Cybele of Cimbals which signifyeth the Instrumentes and Soundes they vsed in the sacryfyces The Poetes sayen that she roade in a Chariot and had a crown of Towers wherby they sygnyfye that the earthe hangeth in the ayre and the world tourneth alwayes rounde aboute and that the earth hathe vpon it Cytyes and Townes wherein be Towers She is called Moother of the Goddes because she engendreth all thyng She is also called Pales for y t she is y e Goddesse of sheperdes her feastes are called Palilia And she is also surnamed Berecinthia of a moūtaygne of Phrigie called Berecynthes Accordyng to the diuersytye of her names she hath dyuers powers dyuers sacryfyces and dyuers ministers Vnder theyse names Cybele Berecynthia Goddesse Pesynuntyne Moother Idea because they came of names of places in Phrigia from whence thys Goddesse was broughte to Rome is no diuersitie of puyssaunce sygnified Thys Goddesse hathe Priestes and Ministers called Galli by the name of a Riuer named Gallus in Phrigia The water wherof causeth theym to be mad that drynke it Those Priestes be gelded who beyng sturred wyth madnesse noddynge theyr heades vp and downe wyth great noyse of small Belles whych they caryed did prophesye and tell of thynges to come in that madnesse They were otherwyse called Corybantes I. ILium is the same Cytye that we call Troye the great Ilus son of Tros in y e coūtrey called Troas dyd buylde thys ritye Iliū so called of his name And of the countrey wherin it stode it was named Troye as wytnesseth Sabellique in the fyfth booke of hys fyrst Enneade The Countrey is ioynyng vnto Phrigia on the East and towardes the west it hath the Sea Hellespontique as Ptolomee hathe described it in hys first Table of Asie Illiria The Royalme of Illiria described by Ptolomee in his .v. Table of Europe hath on y e North Coste y e .ii. Pannonies on y e west y e coūtry called Istria Towards the East it hath y e high Misia And towards y e South a part of Macedonia This Roialme is also named Liburnia y e part which extēdeth towards y e high Misia is called Dalinatia At this presēt the Illiriā Regiō is called Sclauonia Loke Ptolome in y e said .v. cable of Europe India There are .ii. Indes both in Asia ioyning togithers wherof thone maketh an ende of Asie towards thoriēt is called Inde beyonde the Riuer of Ganges On this side the Riuer is Inde called Inde on this side Ganges which hath on the East syde the same Riuer On the west the Royalmes of Paropanisades Arachosia Gedrosia On y e North y e moūtaine Imaus And on the Southe the Indian Sea as sayeth Ptolome in the fyrste Chapiter of the .x. Table of Asye ¶ Iocasta was y e wife of Laius King of Thebes After whose deceasse she maried her own Sone Oedipus vnwares And had by him .ii. childrē Etheocles Polinices who fought togithers after Dedipus death for the Royalme of Thebes And in y e same cōbate both y e Bretherne slew one an other as saieth Sabellique in y e .vij. Booke of his first Emeade For this cause did y e Alexādriens in mocquerie call Antonines Mother Iocasta because Antonyne for to obtayne Thempyre alone had slayne hys Brother Geta as the .ij. Sones of Iocasta slewe one an other for the Royalme of Thebes Ionie Plyne in the .v. Booke the .xxix. Chapi sayeth that the Countrey of Lydia watered ouer wyth the Riuer of Meander very croked and full of tourninges both extende aboue Ionie hauing on y e East syde Phrigia on the North Misia and on the Southe Caria The which Countrey of Lidia was before called Meonie By y e descriptiō y t Ptolomee maketh in y e firste Table of A● Ionie is y e self same Regiō y t is called Lidye or Meonye At the lest wise it is a parte therof bosiding vpon the Sea whiche for that cause is called Ionyan The same Ionian Sea dothe extende frō the Bankes of Ionie vnto the bankes of thysle of Sicile Plinye in the iiii booke the .xi. Chap. sayeth that the Greekes deuyded the Ionian Sea into the Sea of Sicile and the Sea of Crete so called bicause of the nigh Isles Ptolome in the .v. boke the seconde Capiter sayeth that the Regiō proprelie called Asia hath on the North syde Bithinia On the West a part of Propontis the Sea Hellespontique the Sea Ieariā the Sea Myrtoique On y e East the Regiōs of Licia Pamphilia Galatia And on the Southe the Sea of the Rhodes In this Region are cōprised Lidia Caria other small Royalmes In Lidia is Ionia as it is before saied And Ionie is ryght ouer aneanst an Isle called Icarie whereof the Sea there is named Icariā And it is the same which is called Ionian Caria is betwene Lidie the Sea of y e Rhodes On the West it hath the Sea Icarian or Myrtoique And on y e East is Licia ioyned to Pamphilia ¶ Issicus Sinus is a reflexion bendinge of the Sea which hath on the West thyste of Cipres And on the East Siria ioyned vnto the Bankes of Siria And on the Northe syde is the Countrey of Cilicia In y e plaine by the same tourning of the Sea is the Citye of Alexādrie builded by Alexāder y e grete in memorie of y e batail by him wonne against Darius King of Persia In this place also was the battayle betwene Seuerus Niger ¶ Ister is a great and

of Phenicia and Syria On the one side Antonines Souldiours fought more corageously through feare of greuous punishment if thei were vāquished On thother side tharmie of Macrinus fought faintly amonges whō many reuolted vnto Antonine The which when Macrinus perceaued fearinge lest beinge forsakinge of his all men he should be taken prisoner suffer great reproche whiles his souldiors fought he threw away hys Cote armour other imperial ornamēts being accōpanied with a few of his meanest souldiors he fled awai And hauing shauen his beard least he should be knowē clad in a simple garmēt his head face cōtinuallye couered he trauayled both night day preuenting w t celeritie the fame of his fortune For as yet hys men foughte w t great prowes as though Macrinꝭ possessed stil thēpire He so escaped as we before haue declared In the meane whyle the Souldyours on eyther side fought valiauntlye And of Macrinus syde the men at armes of hys garde named Pretorians sustayned alone the whole burnte For they were talle mighty men and chosen and approued warriours The reste of the multytude toke Antonynes parte But when they whiche a great whyle had foughten for Macrinus coulde neyther see Macrinus hym selfe nor the Imperiall Diademe and ornamentes beynge ignoraunte where he was become whether he were slaine or elles fledde they wyste not what counsayle to take And althoughe they purposed no longer to fight for hym whyche appeared or coulde be founde no where yet feared they to yeld them selues vnto theyr enemyes power as recreant and vanquished Subiectes Then Antonyne knowyng by the Captyues that Macrinus was fledde sent incontinently to aduertise them that they in vayne foughte for a timorous and fugitiue Coward promysynge them on his othe that he woulde forgyue and forget all that was by them done and vse theym from thenceforthe for the garde of hys personne The which they all creditynge ceassed furthwith from further fyghtynge Then Antonyne without delaye sent certayne after Macrinus who was longe before escaped And beynge founde in Chalcedon a Cytye of Bythinia verye sore sycke and worne throughe hys contynuall trauayll and hydden in a house of the Suburbes had hys head there smytten of It is thoughte that he mynded to go to Rome affyenge hym selfe in the beneuolence of the people But in saylynge towardes Europe in the narowe Sea of Propontis nygh vnto Bizantium a contrarious wynde draue hym backe as it were of purpose towardes the place where he should fynyshe hys lyfe Thus happened it that Macrinus escaped not by fleynge awaye the handes of his enemies receauing a vylanouse death and entending to late to goo to Rome when he shold in the beginning haue done the same and hauing at this his ende bothe his counsell and fortune cleane against him After this sorte was Macrinus slayne wyth hys Sonne Dyadumenus whome a lytle before he had assocyated vnto him in thēpyre Now after thole army had pronoūced Anthonine for Emperour when him selfe had taken vppon hym the chiefe gouernaunce of thempyre and all the oriental affayres were sette in order as euery one most neaded by the discretion of his Graundmoother and other his frendes for that hym selfe was verye yonge of age and vnskilfull in matters of greate importaunce soiourning there but a shorte space he caused hys remouing to be proclaymed accordynge to the wyll of Moesa which chiefly coueted and made hast towardes Thimperyall Pallaice of Rome wherewith she so longe before hadde bene acquaynted When the Senate and people of Rome harde of thiese thinges euery man began to be sorowfull with the tidinges But thei muste of force and necessytye then alow it seynge he was chosen by the men of war And accusynge within them selues the necligent mynde and sensuall maners of Macrinus thei imputed thole defaulte of his ouerthrowe vnto hys owne slouthe and to none other man as causer thereof Anthonine beinge departed out of Siria wintred his army at Nicomedia the season of the yeare so constraining him Then he began to waxe insolent aboue measure celebratynge dailye the honour of his Countrey God with superfluouse and vndecent pompe daunses Hym selfe was cladde in wanton and luxuriouse apparel wouen wyth Purple and Golde decked with Ouches and Braceletes Chaynes and Kynges of Golde ware a Crowne like vnto a Chaplet adorned with Golde and preciouse stones The forme of hys habyte was as it were a meane betwene the Phenicien and Median Apparayle He despysed the Romaine garmētes bicause thei were made of wolle the which was as he said vile of no estimaciō Neither wold he any webbe but suche as were of Sirian silke accustomīg to cō abrode w t y e sown of fleutes Tabors as though he shuld celebrate y e feast of Bacchus Whē Mocsa beheld these his dossolute maners she begā w t hūblepeticiō to persuade him to were y e Romayne apparaile least y t yf he entred into the Citie Senate house in y t straūge Barbarouse vesture he should offēde the eyes of the beholders Which being vnaccustomed vnto suche wātonnes ceputed it more seamely for womē then mē But he cōtempning the olde womans wordes entending to trust no mā for he retained none about his person but suche as were agreable vnto his owne sensualitye and fullye mynding to vse the same apparayle continually determined being absent to make a profe with what countenaunce after what sorte the Senate and people of Rome would accepte his vsage Wherefore he sente to Rome his owne picture painted lyuely in a table with the linyamentes facyon of apparell wherein he was wōt to sacrifice vnto his God And therw t the figure of his God also vnto whō he was sacred commaūding them y t caried it to set it in y e middes of the Senate house in some high place ouer y e head of victory y t when y e Senatours were assembled thei shuld offre encense wyne He cōmaūded also y t all y e Romayne Magistrates whiche vsed to execute publique Sacrifices shuld before all their Goddes whō thei vsed to sacrifice vnto name honor his God Heleogabalus Whereby it happened that when he entred in to the Citie y e Romaynes beheld no newe or straūge syghte for that thei daily before had seen his picture Thē after he had distributed amōges y e people boūtifull giftes as al new Emperours are accustomed he set furth many sūptuouse shewes plaies And builded a large and gorgeouse Tēple for his God w tin the same many aulters vpon the whiche euery morning he sacrificed a C. Bulles a greate number of sheepe And heaping vpon the aulters all kindes of odoriferouse spices he vsed to powre down many Cuppes ful of y e best olde wines y t could be gotē So y t they ran down sūdry streames of wine mīgled w t bloud About y e aulters he caused many to daūse w t y e sowne

inuasions of y e Barbarouse people myghte more easylye be restrayned All whiche thynges beynge thus sette in ordre and as greate an armye leuyed as he thoughte would be equall of power vnto hys enemyes Hoste he deuyded them by hys friendes counsayle into three sundrye armyes Of the whiche one he commaunded to marche towardes the Northe throughe Armenia whyche was reputed frendely vnto the Romaynes and to inuade the borders of the Medians An other army he sent towardes the North also commaūding them to passe by those fyeldes of the Barbariens where Tigris and Euphrates are receyued into greate Maryshes Pooles and thereby it is vncertayne where they ende The thyrde parte hym selfe promysed to lede betwene bothe the other Armyes agaynste the Barbaryens Thynkynge by that meanes to oppresse them sodeynly wyth dyuerse inuasyons when they were vnready and loked for no suche chaunce He supposed also that the Persian power shoulde throughe those dyuerse encoūtres wyth the Romaynes on euerye syde be dyspersed abroade were more faynte and entre into battayle wythoute order For the Barbariens vse not anye mercenarye Souldyours as the Romaynes are accustomed neyther haue they anye armye in pytthed Campe where they myghte exercyse theym selues in feates of warres But the hole multytude of men yea often tymes of women also doe assemble togethers at the Kynges commaundemente The whyche multitude after the warre fynyshed are dysmyssed home agayne to theyr pryuate habytacions caryenge wyth theym suche bootye of the battayle as euerye one of theim for hys parte canne gette by thefte Thei occupye Bowes and Horses not onely in battayle as the Romaynes are wonte but they are euen from theyr chyldehoode brought vp togythers traded wyth hunting and bearynge alwayes theyr quyuers of arowes wyth them Thei neuer lyghte from theyr Horses whether thei fyghte in Battayle or hunte wylde beastes But thys Polycye of Alexander albeit at the fyrste it seamed wythoute controuersye to be the beste yet was it fourthewyth by fortune made destytude of good successe For the armye that was commaunded to marche by Armenia hauynge wyth greate payne and diffycultye althoughe the sommer season caused theyr iorney to be meatelye tollerable passed the sharpe mountaynes and craggye rockes entred into Media and there burnte the vilages and draue away great bootyes of one thing and other When relacion hereof was made to the Persyan Kynge he came to rescue the Countrey wyth as greate a power as he coulde leuye But he coulde not dryue away the Romaynes from thence for that the same craggye Countrey ministred sure footing and easye passage vnto the Romayne footemen And the Barborouse horsemen throughe the stepenes of the sharpe rockye Mountaynes hadde a more vneasy trauayle and laboriouse iorneye There was it declared vnto the Persian Kynge that an other armye of the Romayns was entred into suche borders of the Parthians as extended towardes the orient Wherefore fearynge leaste the Romaynes after they hadde Conquered the Parthians woulde inuade Persia also he lefte as greate a Garyson behynde hym as seamed sufficiente for the defence of Media and hym selfe wyth thole Armye made speedye haste into thorientall coastes The Romayne Armye marched forwarde verye slowelye for that no manne resysted theim Thynkynge that Alexander wyth the thyrde parte of theim wherein were the chyefest menne of warre was alreadye entred into the myddes of the Barbaryens And therefore they rested them selues iudgynge that it was not beste to make any greate haste seynge they were nowe in safetye and knewe the place wherein they shoulde altogether meete wyth theyr bootye and Prysoners But Alexander deceaued theim For he neyther came hym selfe nor broughte anye Armye forward Doubtfull it is whither he so slacked through feare of puttynge hys lyfe in hasarde in defence of Thempyre or whether hys Moother deteyned hym at home throughe womanly fearefulnesse and ouer muche loue of her Sonne For in deade she blemysshed and blunted all hys noble and valyaunte courage in perswadynge hym rather to sende other furth to the warres then stande hym selfe in battayle The whyche thynge dyde vtterlye betraye the Romayne Armye that was entered into the Barbarous Regyons For the Persyan Kynge dyd meete and sette vppon theim vnreadye and lookynge for no suche chaunce wyth hys hole power and enclosynge theim as it were in a nette dyd vtterlye dyscomfyte and ouerthrowe euerye personne of theim beinge fewe in number not able to resyste so great an Hoste of theyr enemyes Neuerthelesse at the fyrste thei defended stoutly with their Targettes and weapons the naked places of theyr bodyes from the violent shot of arrowes Accomptynge them selues happely dealte wyth all yf wythoute anye playne battayle they myghte safely escape from domage But when thei had for a lytle space enclosed theim selues wyth theyr Targettes and were assaulted lyke vnto a walled Citye and slayne on euery parte hauynge vnto the ende valyauntly resysted they were murdered downe ryghte This was a meruelous calamitie vnto the Romayns the lyke whereof can be in no age remembred for thei had nowe loste a greate armye worthy eyther for Loyalte or strengthe to be compared vnto anye auncient Hoste before passed But the wyshed successe of thiese affayres enhaunsed the mynde of the Persyan Kynge wyth hope of greater enterpryses Whereof when Alexander heard beynge at that tyme verye sore sycke eyther throughe pesyuenes of mynde or els thintemperatnes of the ayre he toke it verye greuouslye and thole armye waxed wonderfull wrothe agaynste Themperoure For thei sayde that theyr Companyons were betrayde by hym throughe hys lyenge not performenge of promyse Then Alexander beynge impaciente of hys dysease and the heate of the ayre thole armye also vexed wyth syckenes and especiallye the Illyrians who before accustomed vnto moyste coulde ayre then feading more largelye fell throughe syckenes into danger of deathe determyned to retourne vnto Antyoche whyther he caused hys Souldiours also to come verye fewe in numbre remaynynge for that the mooste parte of theim were peryshed throughe the sharpenes of the Wynter and Mountaynes The handes whiche were attendaunt vpon hys personne hym selfe ledde backe vnto Antioche hauynge loste manye of them also Wherfore thys matter broughte muche sorowe vnto the armye and greate dishonour vnto Alexander Fortune hauynge deceaued hym in all places and tourned hys entent to none effecte For a meruaylous numbre of those .iii. armies so perdye had he deuided them were destroyed by diuers calamities as syckenes battayle and colde When Alexander was come vnto Antioche he recouered health refreshed wyth the temperat ayre there and aboundaunce of water after the burnynge heate of Mesopotamia refreshed also hys Souldyours cōfortynge theyr sorowe wyth geuynge theym money whiche he rekened to be the pryncipall meane to winne theyr heartes renewed hys armye and repayred the same wyth freshe Souldyours throughout as though he woulde ones more leade them agaynste the Persyans yf they proceaded to be troublesome and desisted not from their iniuries But then

which the aucthour in the former boke called Balbinus Maximus after they had a litle space raigned in great trāquilitie were slayne by the men at armes After whome Gordianus beynge .xiiii. yeares of age enioyed the Empyre alone ¶ The eyghte booke of the Historye of Herodian WE haue in the laste booke recyted what Maximinus did after the death of Gordiā his iornay into Italie wyth the sedicion and reuolte of the people and Souldiours within the Cytye selfe of Rome When Maximinus was arryued in the confynes of Italye he sente certayne Scowrers before to espye wether there were any stale or enbushmentes lying in the bottom of the Alpes and the thicke woodes there And led the Armye into the playne commaundynge the men of Armes to march forward in a square ordre to thende that a great parte of the fyeldes myght be couered with them And hauing brought all impedimentes and Cariage into the myddes him selfe folowed with the Yeomē of his Garde to rescue them yf they were distressed On eyther syde the wynges were of mē of Armes on Barbed Horses with Mauritanian Slyngers Archers of the oriental Regiōs and horsemen of Germanye whome he had waged for thencrease of his ayde And he was accustomed to set them in the fore fronte of the battayle against his enemyes because their shoulde sustayne and receaue the fyrste brunte beyng boulde and stronge mē And yf nede so required he had rather those Barbarous rude people were loste than any other of his owne Souldiours After thei had passed the plaines obseruing theyr due order in marchinge they came to a cytie of Italye named of the enhabitauntes Eumona The same is sytuate in a lowe playne at the foote of the Alpes There the Scourers reported vnto Maximinus that the Towne was voide and forsaken of thenhabitauntes who were all sledde the gates of the Tēples and the houses consumed wyth fyre and all thynge whiche was in the Towne or fielde caryed awaye or burnte no foode remayninge eyther for man or beaste Wherwith Maximinꝰ was veri glad for he thought that other people wold doo semblably through feare of him But contrarywyse the Souldiours murmured and grudged that they should in the very begynning be vexed w t famine And when thei had passed ouer the nyghte some of them in the open and cōmen houses other some in the playne fyelde immediately after the Sonne rysing they came vnto the Alpes Thiese be wonderfull longe Hylles compassynge Italie in maner of a wal and so high that thei seame to pearce the cloudes so long also that thei enuirō all Italye touching on the lefte hande the Tirrhenian and on the right syde the Ionian Seas beyng full of brode and thicke forestes with very narowe pathes and vnneth passable by reason of the height of the broken Rockes and stepenes of the highe banckes hauīg notwithstanding many narowe passages made with laboure of hande by the auncience Italions Wherefore a meruelous feare entred into the Souldyours hartes to passe that waye dreading y t the hyll toppe was already taken by their enemies and all the straites stopped to forbid them passage Neither did theyr feare seame fonde to them that behelde the nature of the place After thei had passed the Alpes and were descended into their Campe thei began to reioyce and bāquet together And Maximinus then cōceiued a sure trust that all hys affayres shall haue prosperous successe seyng that the Italians trusted not vnto the difficultie of the places wherein them selues were wonte to lurke and prouide for their safety and where they might lye in wayte for their enemies and fightynge frō aboue easely distresse thē When thei were entred into y e playne y e Scourers brought word y e Aquileia the greatest Citye of Italye had shut their gates and that the Pannoniā bādes which went before had very fiersely assayled the walles yet not withstandyng theyr often attempes were all in vayne Wherefore beynge weried they were constrayned to departe a great number of Stones Speares and Arowes hauing hurte them from the toppe of the walles Then Maximinus being very angry with the Pannonians as thoughe thei had not foughte valeantlye ynoughe made haste thitherwardes trustinge with out any more labour to wyn the Citie But Aquileya as it is a myghty Towne was abūdātely enhabited of people And as it were the Marte Towne of Italy the territorie of Illiria it did frō the mayne lande ministre to those that sayled in the Seas plenty of all suche necessaries as was brought thither by the Ryuers and the lande And from the Sea vnto the mayne lande thinges very necessarye for the hygher Countreys whych throughe the bytternes of wynter were nothynge fertyll But chyefely it mynistred wynes wherewyth that Regyon abounded vnto the nighe Countreyes that hadde no vyne trees at all The whyche caused that besydes the greate number of Cytezins there repayred vnto that Cytye very many Straungers and Marchauntes also And Certes the multitude was at this tyme muche more augmented by the assembly of Countrey people who hauynge forsaken theyr owne small Droupes and Vylages dyd truste them selues vnto the greatenes of this Cytye The olde wall whereof was a greate parte fallen downe For whyles the Romaynes floryshed in Dominion the Cytyes of Italye neaded neyther wall nor weapon lyuynge in quyet tranquilytie and beynge assocyated in the Rule of Thempyre with them But nowe necessitye compellynge them they buylded vp theyr walles agayne wyth Towres Bulwerckes and Rāpiers and hauynge fortyfyed their Cytye wythin furth and shutte theyr Gates stode all togyther bothe daye and nyghte vppon the walles valeauntely dryuynge backe theyr enemyes Their Capitaynes of chiefest power were two me● which had bene Consulles chosen by the Senate named Crispinus and Menephilus Thiese procured w t muche diligence all thynges necessary to be brought before hande into the Citye to thende their mighte the longer time sustaine the siege Ther was in y e Towne great abundaunce of water throughe the great number of welles the Riuer whyche ran a longe by the walles and the dyches betwene them and their enemyes Thiese thinges beyng thus ordred within the Citie when Maximinus hearde that thei defended their walles stoutly and had shut their gates against hym he resolued to sende vnder color of Ambassade some which should speake vnto them and yf it were possyble perswade them to open the gates of the Cytie vnto hym He had then in hys Armye a certayne Magistrate of Aquileia whose wyfe childrē and household were enclosed within the Citie This man therfore with a certaine Capitaines he sente as orators vnto theym trusting that the Citezyns wold easely obey his aucthoritie When thei approched nighe the walles they spake vnto the people on this wyse and sayed That their Commune Emperour commaunded them layenge al armes a part to obserue peace to receaue him as their frende and not as theyr enemye and to occupye them selues in prayers

and sacrificeng to theyr Goddes rather then in desyre to murder To take cōpassion of their natiue Countrey shortly yf thei persisted in their obstinacie lyke to come to vtter ruine decay That thei might yf thei would with on deede saue them selues their Country For thei said that their good Emperour would forget and forgiue all offences there before commytted seynge that it was not their transgression but the peruerse fault of other men Suche wordes did the Ambassadors speke vnder the wall wyth so loude voyce that thei mighte easely be harde although not of all the people yet of as many as stode vpon the walles and Towres For they dyd wyth sylence 〈◊〉 attētiuelye geue eare vnto that the Ambassadours spake But Crispinus fearyng lest through those allurementes they would be persuaded to take peace for warre and open theyr gates vnto theyr enemyes as the common people are euer wauerynge and vnconstaunte ranne from one wall to another earnestly desyrynge and instauntlye besechynge them to perseuer valyauntlye and resiste manfully and not to violate theyr faythe and allegyaunce towardes the Senate and the people of Rome nor yet neglecte the Title and Fame of Italy so long tyme preserued from the inuasions of forreyne enemyes nor geue credit vnto a false periured and trayterous Tyraunte nor beynge allured wyth gentle fayned talke runne headlonge vnto theyr owne manifest destructiō But trust to the fortune of y e warre whyche most commonly is so vncertayne that sometymes a greate huge hoste are of a small number discomfited and those whych seame the mightier are by theym whiche are compted the weaker diuers tymes vanquished Neyther that they should feare the greatnesse of hys armye For quod he they that fyghte in another mannes quarell when they see that the good happe of the victorye shall departe to another doo but fayntlye endure the Battayle perceauynge them selues onely to be pertakers of the peryll and the verye profyt of the victorye to remayne vnto another man But they whyche fyghte for their countrey besydes that they ought to be of better hope for they contende to take nothyng of others but to defende theyr owne are also of a greater stomacke as those whome no desyre of dominion but euerye mans owne necessitie compelleth to fyghte because the commodytye of the Victorye is chyefelye due vnto them Crispinus speakyng those wordes nowe vnto euerye man perticulerlye and then to all generallye beynge a man of hys owne disposition honourable and floryshynge in the Romayne eloquence besydes that gratefull to euerye man for hys meke gouernaunce did easly stablishe the hartes of y e people to continue in their duty and allegiaunce Wherfore he cōmaunded the Ambassadours to departe to Maximinus againe wythout anye thyng concluded It was reported that Crispinus was hartened to abide the fortune of y e battayle by the answere of the Southsayers whiche reported that the inwards of the beastes betokened luckye successe of his affaires And in deade the Italians vsed to geue much credit to y e superstition There wer spred abrode besydes the Oracles of a certayne Idole in that countrey which promised victorye The enhabitauntes there cal the same Idole Beles and do with great reuerence worshyppe it interpretyng him to be Apollo Whose Image certaine of Maximinus owne Souldiours affyrmed that they sawe in the ayre fightyng for the Citie Which thing whether many beleued it for a trueth or whether the Fable pleased thē to mittigate thereby the infamy of so great an army because thei were vnequal in battayle to so small a number of Cytezyns not exercised in the warres that it might seame they were ouercome rather by y e Goddes then men I am not very certayn But the straūgenes of the matter made it seame more credible After the Amdassadours were retourned w tout any resolute cōclusion Maximinus being styrred w t much more fury made greater hast then he dyd before But when he came vnto the Ryuer whyche runneth xii miles of from the Cytye he found it of a very depe and breade Channell For in that season of the yeare the Snowe which the longe wynter before caused to endure beyng molten vpon the next hylles had made so great a floude that the Armye coulde not passe ouer it by anye meanes For the Aquileians had broken and caryed away the Bridge which was a goodly and sumptuous peace of worke buylded by the auncyent Emperours of square stone with many small pillers standing one by another vpon the same Wwherfore when tharmie coulde passe ouer neyther by Bridge nor vessell for there was none nigh hand he stode styl in a dumpe musyng what to do But certayne Germaynes being ignoraunt wyth what swyftnes and violence the Ryuers of Italye did runne supposing that theyr course was gentle and flow ouer the fields as the Riuers in theyr Countrey which for that they haue no swift streame are easlye congeled ouer wyth Ise aduentured them selues their horses that were perfect in swimming into the middes of the Chānell where throughe vyolence of the Streame they were drowned After Maximinus had lyen styll in Campe ii or .iii. dayes he cast a depe trenche aboute the same that no enemies shoulde sodeynly set vpon them remayned vpon that side of the Riuer consulting howe he myght make a Bridge to passe ouer Whyles he so abode very pensife because there was no tymber nor Boates with the whiche ioyned together he myghte make a Bridge certayne Carpenters declared vnto hym that in the Vyllages rounde aboute forsaken of the Inhabitauntes there were many round Tubbes and Hoggesheades wherin the people were wonte to cary wyne the which beinge rounde like shyppes yf they were bounde togethers in maner of small Boates would easly carye them ouer For being fastened togethers couered with Oziars or Twigges well balessed with earth they would neuer be drowned When y t was finished y e souldiours easlye passed ouer to thother shore And there hauing burned al y e vyllages which they founde abandoned of thin habitaūtes did cut down all y e vines trees wherby they greatly defaced y e beauty of y e region For all the countrey seamed to be cōpassed aboute in maner of a Theater w t trees set in due order vynes ioyned together lyfted vp in height like vnto a Scaffold Al which being plucked by y e rootes tharmie approched nigh vnto y e citie Neuertheles because they were all wery Thēperour would not y t they should furthw t begyn y e assault But hauing encāped more then an arrowes shoote frō the Citie deuided thē into hundreds appoynted the order of their marching like vnto a wedge smal before and broade behinde limitting to euery Company a part of the wall to scale and batter he gaue them lycence to recreate them selues for one daye That passed he began to geue the assault and hauing moued to the wall all sortes of engyns when no kynd of Batterie was omitted there was