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A06415	Lucans Pharsalia: or The ciuill warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar The whole tenne bookes, Englished by Thomas May, Esquire.; Pharsalia. English	Lucan, 39-65.; May, Thomas, 1595-1650.; Hulsius, Friedrich van, b. 1580, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 16888; ESTC S108868	158,607	432

rugged passages which if the enemy should first enter they might with ease keepe him backe and car●y the warre into Celtiberia and those farre countreyes he commanded his horsemen with speede to prevent them and himselfe marching through devious and rough wayes arrived first at those places and encamped himselfe betweene Afranius and the river Iberus which Afranius was marching to the two campes were here fortified so neare to each other that the Souldiers distinctly knew each others faces and talked with their kindred and ancient acquaintance f In this appeared a strange clemency of Caesar that after hee had heard the cruelty of Petrejus towards his Souldiers how taking them from their friends company that had vpon promise secured them hee caused them to be murdered as the Poet relates plainely Caesar notwithstanding seeking out Petrejus his souldiers in his campe spared their liues all and suffered as many of them as would to depart but many Tribunes Centurions and others would not retune but stayed and served after vnder Caesar g It was a policy had often beene vsed by barbarous enemies against the pursuing armies of the Romans to poison all their river it was done by Ingurtha King of Numidia Mithradates King of Pontus and Iuba King of Mauritansa h These two Generalls Afranius and Petrejus though they were here pardoned by Caesar vpon promise to serue no more against him did notwithstāding afterwards in the Affrican war follow Scipio against Caesar where they were againe overthrowne Afranius was taken prisoner and by Caesar's command and was slaine Petrejus despairing of pardon as is afterwards showne slew himselfe vpon King Iuba's sword i Fortune yet presumed to doe somewhat against Caesar in his absence aboue about Illyrium for Dolabella and Antonius commanded by Caesar to possesse the Strenghts of the Adriaticke sea e●camped one on the Illyrian the other on the Corcyraan share Pompey farre and neere was master of the seas whose Lieutenant Octavius and Libo with great strength of shipping besiedged Antonius and by famine forced him to yeild Basilus from the other shore sent ships to ayde Antonius which were caught by the Pompeyans in a strange snare casting ropes crosse the sea vnder water not to be spi'd Two of the ships escaped and got over the ropes the third which carryed the men of Opitergium was ensnared and held fast The Opit●rgians in that place left an example memorable to all posterity for being scarse a thousand men they endured from morning to night the assaults of a great Army round about them and at last when valour could not possible release them rather then yeild themselues into the enemyes hands by the exhortation of their captaine Vultejus all kill'd themselues k In Affrica also the side of Caesar enduring the like calamity shewed the like valour Curio sent by Caesar to winne Libyae having vanquished and put to flight Varus was enclosed on the suddaine by the vnexpected horsemen and army of Iuba King of Mauritania Curio might haue fled when he saw the day lost but much ashamed and scorning to returne to Caesar after the losse of his legions he dyed with all his men LVCANS Pharsalia The First Booke The Argument Romes flying Senate met at Epire chose Great Pompey generall faint Appius goes To Delphos Oracle to seeke advise Which his owne death obscurely signifies Caesar return'd from Spaine with victory Quiets his Souldiers dangerous mutiny Dictator then and Consull both at Rome He makes himselfe sailes from Brundusium To Greece but vex'd with Anthony's delayes In a small boate himselfe alone assayes By night the stormy sea and crosses ore His legions all met on the Graecian shore Addresse themselues for triall of the day Pompey to Lesbos sends his wife away THus fortune kept mixing her good with ill The two a war-wounded generalls aequall still For Macedonia when with Winter's snow The Pleiades did Oemus top bestrow And when the times new-naming day drew neare Old Ianus feast beginner of the yeare Then both the Consuls at the vtmost date Of their expiring honour convocate To Epire the fled fathers where a plaine And forraine seat Rome's Nobles did containe A borrowed court in forraine land heard all The secrets of the State For who can call That place a campe where all Romes Fasces were And axes borne The reverend order there Taught all the people 't was not Pompey's side But Pompey there a member did abide Silence possessing the sad Senate than From an high seat thus Lentulus began If you retaine a strength of minde as good As Roman spirits and your ancient blood Befitts then thinke not in what land you are As banisht from surprised Rome how farre But know the face of your owne company Fathers that governe all this first decree Which yet all kingdomes and all people know We are the Senate For if fortune now Should carry vs vnder the frozen waine Of Vrsa ma●or or where daies remaine Aequall in length with nights the torrid zone Thither the Empire and dominion Would follow vs When Rome by Gaules was fir'd And that to Vey Camillus was retir'd There then was Rome this order never lost Their right by changing place Caesar can boast Only of mourning walls possession And judgement seates by sad vacation Shut vp and silenc'd empty mansions That court those fathers onely sees whom once When full it banisht of that ranke who ere Is not a banisht man is sitting here We that long peacefull free from guilt haue stood At wars first fury were dispers'd abroad Now to his place each part returnes againe And for the losse of Italy and Spaine The gods the strength of all the world bestow Th'Illyrian Sea has overwhelm'd one foe And Libyan fields does slaughtred Curio No little part of Caesars Senate strow Advance your Eagles follow fate and grant The gods your hope doe not that courage want In this good fortune which when first you fled Your cause stirr'd vp The yeere has finished Our power you fathers whose authorityes No time shall end for th'publike good advise Command great Pompey to be generall His name with joyfull cryes the Senate all Receiue imposing vpon Pompey straight His countrey's and his owne most wretched fate Then faithfull Kings and Nations had their praise Phaebus sea-powerfull Rhodes rewarded was And Spartans rough prais'de were th' Athenians b Phocis made free with her Massylians Faithfull c Deiotarus young Sadalis The valiant d Cotys and e Rhasipolis Of Macedon were prais'd Iuba to thee The Senate giues all Libya by decree And oh sad fare ignoble Ptolemy Worthy of treacherous subjects vnto thee The crime of all the gods and fortunes shame Is granted the Pellaean diadem A tirants sword over thy nation Thou tak'st proud boy would 't were ore them alone Ore f Pompey's throate it is thy sisters crowne Thou tak'st and Caesars impious action The Senate now broke vp the troopes all take Their armes the people and the captaines make For warres vncertaine preparation But g

Countrey Houshold gods thy Sonne And Wife art thou a mighty exile gone A place for thy sad death is sought afar Not that the gods enuy thee Sepulcher At home but damn'd is Aegypt to that crime And Latium spar'd that Fates in forreine clime May hide this mischiefe and the Romane land Cleare from the blood of her deare Pompey stand FINIS Libri secundi Annotations on the second Booke a An old man to expresse the present calamity repeats the whole course of the civill war betweene Mariu● and Sylla as it followes in this discourse b Marius had twice triumphed once over Iugurtha King of Numidia and afterward over the Cimbrians and Teutones but afterwards envying the honour of Sylla to whose hands Bocchas King of Mauritania had delivered Iugurtha and endeavouring by the ayde of Sulpitius Tribune of the People to hinder Sylla from his expedition against Mithridates King of Pontus bed incensed Sylla being then warring in Campania so farre that Sylla brought his Army to Rome and entring the Citie subduing his adversaries got them to be iudged enemies by the Senates decree and banished the citty Marius escaping by flight hid himselfe in the Fennes neere Minturna but being there taken he was put in a dungeon at Minturna c Marius suffered before hand at Minturna for those cruelties which he afterwards acted at Rome when he returned and was Consull the seventh time d The executioner of Minturnae being a Cymbrian entering the darke dungeon to kill Marius saw fire sparkling out of Marius his eyes and heard a voyce saying darest then kill Carus Marius at which the Cymbrian affrighted fled away and the men of Minturnae mooved with pitty and reverence of the man that once had saved Italy released C. Marius and let him goe e Marius escaped from Minturnae tooke flight by obscure passages toward the Sea and getting into a ship a tempest arising was cast vpon the ●●anas c●lled Meninges where he receiv●d some companions and heard that his Sonne with Cethegus were ●otten safe into Affrick to Hy●mpsall he then sayed to the coast of Cartha●e but being forbidden by the Lictor of Sextilius the Prator to set foot in Affrick Gee tell thy Praetor quoth he that thou hast seene Ca●us Marius sitting in the ruines of Carthage not vnfitly comparing the ruin'de estate of that great City to his owne now decayed fortunes f When Caius Cinna the Consull appealed to the people for restering those banished men whom the Senate at request of Sylla had iudged enemies a great contention arising Cinna was expelled the City by his colleague Cneius Octavius and flying sollicited the cities of Italy to war he armed slaues and prisoners and ioyning himselfe to Marius returning they entred Rome in a fourefold army Cinna Marius Carbo Sert●rius And tyrannized over their Adversaries g Marius had given this token to his Souldiers that they should kill all whom he did not resolute and offer his hand to kisse h Baebius was torne in pieces by the Souldiers i Marcus Antonius an excellent Orator that by his eloquence made the Murtherers relent at last his head being cut off Anius the Tribune brought it to Marius as he was at supper who handling it a while and scoffing at it commanded it to be nayled to the Rostra k Fimbria a cruell Souldier of Marius killed the two Crassi Father and Sonne in each others sight l That place of the prison from whence offenders vsed to he cast downe headlong was stained with the bloud of Licinius the Tribune whose Office was sacred m Mucius Scaevola the high Priest an old man embracing the Altar of Vesta was there slaine n C. Marius entring his seventh Consulship within thirteene dayes after dyed mad of a disease in his side being 70. yeeres old having tasted the extremities of prosperity and adversity o At Sacriportum not far from Praeneste Sylla overcame Caius Marius the Sonne of old C. Marius who fled to Praneste Sylla sent Lucretius O●●lia to besieage him there but Marius offering to escape through a Min● vnder ground and being discovered there killed himselfe Sylla then not ten furlong● from Porta Collina overthew Lamponius and Telesinus two Captaines of the Samnites who came to raise Ofellas siedge At these two places Sylla flew aboue seventy thousand men p Marius had promised the Samnites who had been of his party that he would translate the seat of the Empire from Rome to them who now conceived a hope of subiecting the Romans mere then once they did ad Furcas Caudinas where the Romans vnder the conduct of Titus Veturius and Spurius Posthumius received a disgracefull overthrow q Quintus Luctatius Catulus which had been Colleague with C. Marius and triumphed with him over the Cimbrians hearing that Marius was determined to put him to death entring his chamber voluntarily choaked himselfe In revenge of which his brother Catulus obtained of Sylla that Marius the brother of C. Marius might he delivered into his hands who sacrificed him at his brothers Tombe and wounding his armes thighes and legs he cut off his nose and eares cut out his tongue and digged out his eyes letting him so liue awhile that he might die in paine of every limme r Lucretius Offella by Sylla's command and having taken Praneste had killed or cast in Prison all the Senators that he found there of Marius faction but Sylla comming thither commaunded fiue thousand and men of Praeneste who in hope of mercy had cast away their armes and prostrated themselues vpon the ground to be all slaine f Sylla commanded foure whole Legions which had beene of his Enemies side among whom were many Samnites to be all killed at one time in the field of Mars t Sylla called himselfe Felix he named his Sonne Faustus and his Daughter Fausta leaving his Dictatorship he lived privately at Puteoli where be dyed eaten with Lice his Funeralls were kept with great honour in the field of Mars v Martia being a virgin was married to Cato by whom she had three children and then his friend Hortensius desiring to haue her and wanting children Cato bestowed her vpon him being the● great with childe after Hortensius his death she returned thus to Cato x Cornelia the daughter of Lucius Scipio and widdow of Publius Crassus was married to Pompey after Iuliaes death y At the fame of Caesars approach the Governors through Italy all fled not daring to withstand him or maintaine any Forts against him many of those are here named First Scribonius Libo leaues his charge at Hetruria and Thermus forsakes Vmbria Faustus Sylla son to Sylla the Dictator wanting his Fathers spirit and fortune in civill war fled at the name of Caesar z Atius Varus when hee perceived that the chiefe Citizens of Auximum favoured Caesar tooke his Garison from thence and fled a Lentulus Spinther with ten cohorts kept the Towne of Asculum who hearing of Caesars comming fled away thinking to carry with him his cohorts but was forsaken by most of his s●uldiers b