Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arm_n	king_n	see_v	975	5	3.2257	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38761	A breviary of Roman history from the building of Rome, to the year 1119 ... / writ in Latin by Eutropius ; translated into English by several young gentlemen privately educated in Hatton-Garden.; Breviarium ab urbe condita. English	Eutropius, 4th cent.; Maidwell, Lewis, 1650-1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing E3434; ESTC R15840	65,465	239

when he marched out armed a Crow sat upon his right Arm and a little while after when they were fighting the same Crow struck at the eyes of the Gaul with his Wings and Claws that he could not see before him wherefore the Gaul being slain Valerius the Tribune gained not onely the Victory but also a Name For afterwards he was called Corvinus for this Deed and made Consul in the three and twentieth year of his Age. The Latins who would not send the Romans Soldiers began to exact this of them that one of the Consuls should be chosen out of their People and the other from the Romans which being denied they took up Arms against them but being overcome with a great slaughter the Romans triumphed and for this brave Action the Statues of the Consuls were placed upon the Pulpit from whence they spoke their Orations Now the Romans begun to grow powerful for they made War with the Samnites living about a hundred and thirty miles from the City who were situate between Picenum Campania and Apulia L. Papirius Cursor commanded in this War with the honour of Dictator Who going to Rome charged Q. Fabius Maximus General of the Horse to whom he committed the care of the Army not to fight in his absence But he having found an opportunity fought very successfully and routed the Samnites For which thing the Dictator commanded him to be beheaded because he had fought against his Command yet he was freed by the great favour of the Soldiers and the People and there arose so great a mutiny against Papirius that he had like to have been killed amongst them Afterwards in the Consulship of Titus Veturius and Spurius Posthumius the Romans very dishonourably were overcome by the Samnites and made Slaves by them But the Senate and the People broke the Peace which had been made through meer necessity Afterwards L. Papirius the Consul overcame the Samnites and making seven thousand of them Slaves triumphed for the Victory obtained against them At the same time Appius Claudius Censor brought into the City Rome the Water called from his name Claudia and paved the Appian way The Samnites having renewed the War overcame Q. Fabius Maximus and slew three thousand of his Men. Afterwards having his Father Fabius Maximus for his Lieutenant he subdued the Samnites and took most of their Towns Then P. Cornelius Rufinus and Manius Curius Dentatus being Consuls were both sent against the Samnites and overcame them in several great Battels Then they finished the War which the Romans had waged with the Samnites for nine and forty years Neither was there now any Enemy in Italy who would make trial of Roman Valour A few years after some Forces of the Gauls joined themselves with the Tusci and the Samnites but as they marched to Rome Cn. Cornelius Dolabella defeated them At the same time the Romans proclaimed War against the Tarentini who lived in the farthermost part of Italy because they had affronted their Embassadors they desired Pyrrhus the King of Epirus who was descended from Achilles to help them against the Romans who came soon after into Italy This was the first time the Romans fought with a forein Enemy P. Valerius Laevinus the Consul was sent to fight them who having taken Pyrrhus's Spies commands them to be led about his Camp to view his Army and then be sent back to tell Pyrrhus how the Romans managed their Actions Upon the joyning of the Battel Pyrrhus fled yet he overcame the Romans by the help of his Elephants which they feared having never seen them before But the Night putting an end to the fight Laevinus fled Pyrrhus took eighteen hundred Romans whom he used very honourably and also buried their dead whom when he saw lying upon the ground with their wounds in their Breast and Face and with a stern countenance he is reported to have held up his hands to Heaven uttering these words That he might have conquered the whole World if it had been his fortune to have had such valiant Soldiers Afterwards Pyrrhus having joyned the Samnites the Lucani and the Brutii to his Army marched to Rome wasting all places with fire and sword he destroyed Campania and came to the City Praeneste eighteen miles from Rome A little while after he retreated into Campania being affraid of the Army which followed him under the command of a Consul The Romans sent Embassadors to Pyrrhus to desire him to restore them their Captives whom he received very honourably and sent back their Captives without ransom He very much admired one of the Roman Embassadours Fabricius by name and when he knew him to be poor he would have enticed him to leave the Romans and come over to him promising the fourth part of his Kingdom Fabricius despised it Wherefore Pyrrhus esteeming the Romans at a high rate sent an Embassadour a great Man by name Cineas to make Peace with them on equal terms which were that he might reserve that part of Italy which he had Conquer'd The Romans liked not the Propositions Therefore the Senate sent word to Pyrrhus that he could have no peace with the Romans if he stayed in Italy Then the Romans commanded all those Captives which Pyrrhus had restored to be esteemed infamous who should have defended themselves with their Arms neither should they regain their former credit till they had brought back the spoils of their Enemies Pyrrhus his Embassadour returned with this answer whom when Pyrrhus asked what sort of place he found Rome he reply'd That he had seen a Country of Kings that they were all as brave Men there as he was counted in Epirus and Greece P. Sulpicius and Decius Mus the Consuls are sent Generals against him Upon the joining of the Battel Pyrrhus was wounded and his Elephants slain he lost in the Fight twenty thousand the Romans onely five thousand Pyrrhus fled to Tarentum the second year after Fabricius was sent to fight him whom before he could not bribe being one of the Embassadours having promised him the fourth part of his Kingdom Then his Camp and the King 's being nigh one another Pyrrhus his Physician came to him by Night promising to poyson the King if he would reward him for it whom he commanded to be carried bound to Pyrrhus and to be told that he had undertaken to kill him The King admiring at him is reported to have said This is that Fabricius whom 't is harder to disuade from honesty than to alter the Sun's course Then the King went into Sicily Fabricius having defeated the Samnites and the Lucani triumphed Then Manius Curius Dentatus and Cornelius Lentulus were sent against Pyrrhus Curius fought him and cut off his Army and having driven him to Tarentum took his Camp in the same day with the loss of three and twenty thousand of the Enemy Curius Dentatus triumphed in his Consulship he was the first Man that brought Elephants to Rome being four in number A little while after Pyrrhus

return'd to Rome with great pomp in Perseus's Ship reported to have been of an unusual bigness with sixteen ranks of Oars and triumphed most magnificiently in his golden Chariot with his two Sons standing on each side of him and Perseus in the forty fifth year of his age with his two Sons going before him Caius Anicius also triumphed over the Illyrians and Gentius is led before his Chariot with his Brother and Children The Kings of many Nations came to Rome to this great Sight Amongst the rest Attalus and Eumenes Kings in Asia with Prusias King of Bithynia were entertained with much honour and they laid up the Presents which they brought in the Capitol with the consent of the Senate Also Prusias recommended his Son Nicomedes to them The following year Lucius Memmius fought successfully in Spain and afterwards Marcellus the Consul fortunately managed his Affairs there Then the third Carthaginian War begun in the six hundredth year from the building of the City in the Consulship of Lucius Manlius Censorinus and Marcus Manilius fifty one years after the second Punick War These carried the War to Carthage against whom Asdrubal fought as General and Famea commanded the Horse then Scipio the Nephew of Scipio Africanus was a Tribune of the Soldiers him all the Romans feared and respected for he was esteemed very serviceable both in their Battels and at their Councils therefore many things were managed fortunately through him by these Consuls neither did Asdrubal or Famea shun any thing more than to fight against that Squadron of the Romans where Scipio fought About the same time Masinissa the King of Numidia who for sixty years was in League with the Romans in the ninety seventh year of his age died leaving fortry four Sons behind him and ordered Scipio to divide his Empire amongst them Now Scipio being grown famous though but a young Man was made Consul and sent against Carthage he took it and sack'd it and finding there the Spoils which Carthage had gathered together from the destruction of many Cities he restor'd back upon proof to several Cities of Sicily Italy and Africa their Ornaments Thus Carthage was destroyed about seven hundred years after it was built and Scipio by his merit obtained the Name which his Grandfather had being stil'd for his Valour AFRICANVS the YOVNGER In the mean time one called Pseudophilippus took up Arms in Macedonia and utterly defeated Publius Juvencius the Roman Praetor sent against him After him Quintus Caecilius Metellus was sent thither by the Romans and twenty thousand of the Enemy being slain he recovered Macedonia and reduced Pseudophilippus under his Power War was also proclaimed against the Corinthians the Inhabitants of a most famous City in Greece for an affront done to the Roman Embassadours This City Mummius the Consul took and destroy'd then there were three noble Triumphs at Rome at the same time of Africanus out of Africa before whose Chariot Asdrubal was led of Metellus from Macedonia before whom Andriscus went otherwise called Pseudophilippus of Mummius from Corinth before him were carry'd brazen Statues Pictures and other Ornaments of that famous City One Pseudoperseus also rebelled in Macedonia having gathered together several Slaves pretending himself to be Perseus's Son but was overcome with seventeen thousand of his Men by Tremellius the Quaestor At this time an Hermaphrodite being seen at Rome was drowned in the Sea by the appointment of the Southsayers At the same time Metellus perform'd noble Acts in Celtiberia amongst the Spaniards Quintus Pompeius succeeded him a little after Quintus Caepio was sent Commander to the same War which indeed Viriatus waged against the Romans in Lusitania upon which through fear Viriatus was slain by his Soldiers after having made the Spaniards rebel against the Romans for fourteen years He was a Shepherd at first afterwards chief amongst the Thieves at last he stir'd up so many people to this War that he was thought the assertor of the Spaniards liberty against the Romans and when his Murtherers sought their rewards from Caepio the Consul he answered 't was never acceptable to the Romans to have a General murther'd by his own Men. Then Quintius Pompeius the Consul being overcome by the people of Numantia a rich City of Spain made a dishonourable Peace After him Caius Hostilius Mancinus made another League with the Numantians which the Senate and People commanded to be broken and Mancinus the Author of it to be given up to his Enemies that they might revenge the injury of this Rupture upon the cause of it wherefore after so great an ignominy the Roman Army being twice overcome by the Numantians Publius Scipio Africanus was made Consul the second time and sent to Numantia he first corrected the vicious Soldiers without any cruelty more by labour than punishment Then he took many Cities in Spain partly by force and partly by surrendry after a long Siege he took the City Numantia by Famine and ras'd it taking the rest of the Province into his protection About that time Attalus a King in Asia the less the Brother of Eumenes died and by making the Roman people his Heir added Asia to their Empire by his Will A little after Decimus Junius Brutus triumphed with great glory for his Victory over the Callaeci and the Lusitan and Publius Scipio Africanus triumphed the second time over the Numantians the fourteenth year after his first Triumph in Africa In the mean time War was rais'd in Asia by Aristonicus the Son of Eumenes whom he had by an Harlot this Eumenes was the Brother of King Attalus Publius Licinius Crassus was sent against him with the assistance of many Kings For Nicomedes King of Bithynia help'd the Romans and Mithridates King of Pontus with whom afterwards the Romans had a severe War and Ariarathes King of Cappadocia Pylaemenes King of Paphlagonia yet Crassus was overcome and slain in Battel his head brought to Aristonicus and his body buried at Smyrna Afterwards Perpenna the Roman Consul who succeeded Crassus hearing of the event of the War hastened into Asia and having overcome Aristonicus in Battel compelled him through want of Provision to a surrendry at the City Stratonice whither he had fled Aristonicus was strangled in Prison at Rome by the command of the Senate but Perpenna could not enjoy his triumph dying in his return home at Pergamum In the Consulship of Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Titus Quintius Flaminius Carthage in Africa by the command of the Senate was rebuilt as it is in my time two and twenty years after Scipio destroy'd it the Romans planting a Colony there In the six hundred twenty seventh year from the building of the City Caius Cassius Longinus and Sextus Domitius Calvinus being Consuls waged War with the Gauls on the other side of the Alps and the Arverni with Bituitus their King killing a great multitude of them at the River Rhodanus the spoil was great from the very Chains taken from them Bituitus surrender'd himself