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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	footman_n	great_a	horseman_n	1,099	5	9.8381	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11204	A view of valyaunce Describing the famous feates, and martiall exploites of two most mightie nations, the Romains and the Carthaginians, for the conquest and possession of Spayne. Translated out of an auncient recorde of antiquitie, written by Rutilius Rufus, a Romaine Gentleman, and a Capitaine of charge vnder Scipio, in the same warres. Very delightfull to reade, and neuer before this time publyshed.	Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1580 (1580)	STC 21469; ESTC S103186	35,382	100

accustomed Angell had appeared vnto him and giuen him courage to fight forasmuch as victory did rather consist in the ayde of God then in the number of men And that they might beléeue him the better he caused the Maisters of the Ceremonies and sacrifices to report what they saw in the same And whiles he was about this matter behold a number of birds came flying ouer him which béeing wont to be taken for a luckie token he did not let it passe but tourned his body and sight toward their flight and as a man in furie cryed to the armie to behold this token of victory At the sight whereoff euerye man tourned himselfe as he did and required that they might go fight When he perceiued his deuise to take place he said he would follow the signes of heauen and ordered his men for the battaile And when the souldiours had taken repast he committed the horsemen to Sillanus and the footemen to Laelius and Martius When the Capitaines of the enimies sawe this sodaine assault they armed themselues with great confusion hauing yet taken no repast The onset was giuen on both partes at once as well by the horsemē as footemen The Numidians that were there with Massimssa vsed to come fearsely vpon their enimies spende their Darts and then retyre when they had a while fled they would returne as fearsly againe Scipio had deuised that the Romaines should follow thē so neare with speare in rest that their launching tooles shold stand them in little stéede And so they had y e worst in that fight but the footemē of the Romaines were so ouerlayd with the multitude of the others that all the day they had the worst although Scipio neuer ceased to encourage refresh them til at the last he left his horse taking a tergate from a souldiour stept into y e middest of them cryed now Romaines helpe your capitaine help your Scipio in this daūger at the which partly for shame partly for feare of their capitain they thrust vpon the enimies w c such vyolence y t they coulde not endure their force for y t they were with long fighting lack of sustenance very faint being now neigh night hauing catē nothing all y e day This was y e battayl at Cerbona Wher y e victory was a great while doubtful of y e Romanes viii C. and of the Carthaginians x. M. fiue C. were slaine After this losse the Carthaginians retyred more more til Scipio droue thē to a place wher they were conueniently strong had reliefe of all things Wherefore Scipio left Sillanus to beseage them he himself went further into Spaine Sillanus did so wel w t his enimies that they recoiled stil till they came to the streict passed ouer to Gades Annibal had sēt for his brother Asdrubal y t was prouiding mē at North Spaine to come to him into Italy And bicause he would deceiue Scipio he tooke his way Northerly by y e moūtaines Hyrenaei In this meane time Liuius was come frō Rome to succéed Scipio told him y t the Senate minded to sēd him into Affrica against Carthage which enterprice he had long desired was glad of it He sent Laelio into Barbaria to Siphax w t many giftes requesting him of aliance if hée came into Affrick for y e former loue y t had bene w t him his auncesters Siphax promised so to be receiuing y e gifts sent likwise to Scipio When the Carthaginians vnderstoode this they also made out Asdrubal to Siphax to require him of confederacie whiche whē Scipio heard he thought to preuent him w c two Gallies sailed to Barbary whē he was cōming y e galies of Carthage y t were before him lay in wait for him but by y t benifite of the wynd he escaped got y e port Siphax gaue gētle entertainmēt to thē both and priuely cōcluded leage with Scipio and sent him away The Carthaginians had laide for him againe but yet by good fortune he againe escaped A number of the inhabitants beyond the ryuer called Celtiberians were in Campe with Hanno whom Martius droue to such a strait that they were forced to send him messēgers to treat of accord he bad them first deliuer their Captaine and the fugitiues then expounde their message they tooke their captaine the fugitiues brought thē to Martius he required also the prisoners they brought thē then he commaunded them to delyuer him their mony and come downe to the plaine for it was not méete that they whiche sewed for pardon shoulde kéepe a place of strength When they were come downe hée saide vnto them Although yee haue deserued to die hauing forsaken your countrey that obeyeth vs and serued our enimies yet I am content to let you all goe safe if you wil leaue your armour At the whiche word they were so agreeued that they cryed out and said they would rather die then so to doe wherevpon began a cruell fight in the which the halfe of the Celtiberians were manfullye slaine Sillanus went to receiue a citie called Castace but whē he came there he was repulsed wherof he sent word to Scipio who made readie to come vnto it and by the way assaulted the Citie of Illiturgo This citie when the Scipiones were aliue was friend to the Romaines but after their death plaied a traiterous part and delyuered the Romaines to the Carthaginians Scipio remembred this iniurie in foure houres destroyed it and although he were wounded in the neck yet he gaue not ouer til he had y e victory wherfore the souldiers without any cōmandement despising al spoile killed men women childrē laid y e city to the ground Being come to Castace he Marshalled his camp in iii. seueral places refrained from fight to sée what they would do The citizēs renouncing y e garisō of the Carthaginians deliuered the citie to the Romaines where Scipio left a man of their owne to gouerne it Ther was a citie called Astapa which had continued in faith with y e Carthaginians was beseiged of Martius They of the citie considering that if they were taken they shoulde be sold as slaues caused al their ritches substance to be brought into the market place layde a stacke of woode about it set their wiues children vpon it Then did they choose fifty of their best men and bound them by othe that if their citie were taken they should first kill their wiues children than themselues hauing first set al on fire when they had called y e Gods into witnesse of their purpose they came out assalted Martius y t looked for nothing lesse at the first brunt put y e light horsemen to flight the battaile of footemē made resistance fought it out The Astapians shewed great prowesse though they were inferiour in nūber yet were they nothing inferiour in

downe the walls of their Cities and they y t did not obey should looke for all extremitie They hauing no time to consult with their neighbours and supposing it had ben but a seuerall cōmaundement afraid of a further inconuenience wer compelled to obey and so in one day al the cities about the riuer Iberus wer defaced by the policie of the Capitaine continued quiet a long time after In processe of time for lack of competent ground to occupy there was a new tumult among the people for the appeasment whereoff Fuluius Flaccus was sent who droue y e people to their holdes but one great rout kept to-gether at Complega which was wel fortified newly buylded They greatly molested the Romains sent a message in mockerie to Flaccus that he should leaue a Iacke an Horse and a Sword for so many as he had killed and flye out of Spayne before he had any more hurt he sent them worde he would shortly bring amongs them many moe Iackes than they shoulde vouchsafe well to thinke well off and incontinent layd siege to their Citie They nothing aunswerable to their late brauerie and lustinesse ran their way he spoyled all the country Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus succéeded Flaccus when the Celtiberians had besieged the Citie of Carabia friend to the Romaines y e citie was at poynt to be rendred bicause the siege was so streight Gracchus could not send them word of his comming wherfore he deuised with a Capitaine of his called Cominius which could speake y t countrey language very well clad him with a Spanish Iack who got among them that went a forraging so from the Campe fled into the Citie told the selye besieged that the Romaines were at-hande wherefore they endured the siege and in thrée daies by the comming of Gracchus were delyuered of the same Out of the Citie of Complega ther issued xx M. with branches of Olyue in their handes in token of supplycation and being come nigh the Romaines they set fiercely vpon thē put them to great trouble Gracchus of purpose forsooke his campe fayned to fly away whiles they wer about the spoyle he returned vpon thē slew so many of them y t he got y e town wherin after he had staid a certein while he gaue the lands of the country to such as had néede of ground whō vpō certeine conditions and bondes he confedered with the people of Rome which capitulatiō did good seruice in all the warres that followed and by this meane the name of Gracchus was notable in Spayne and also in Rome where he had Tryumph Certeine yeares after there arose a cruell warre in Spayne by this occasion A Cittie of Celtiberia called Segeda being comprised in the articles of Gracchus allured certeine towns to them and reedified their wals whose example induced the Tithians another nation of Celtiberia to doe the lyke The Senate forbad them the buylding of the Walls and required the tribute and their seruice according to the composition of Gracchus They aunswered that they were forbidden y e building of any new cities but not the repairing of their olde and that the tribute which they wer bound to paye was after forgiuen of the Senate and so it was in deede but all such priuiledges were vnderstand for y e time that they continued faithful to the people of Rome wherfore Quintius Fuluius Nobilior was chosen capitaine against them with an armie of xxx M. Whan the Segedanes had knowledge of his comming bicause their wals were not finished they fled to y e Arasthianes desiring them to be receiued with their wiues and children and they were content And chose one Carus a Segedane their generall capitaine a man expert in feats of war He iii. dayes after he was capitaine laid an ambushment of xx M. in a place for the purpose and assalted the Romaines as they passed The fight continued doubtfull but at length Carus had the victory and killed vi thousande of the verye Romaines borne which was a great losse but in following the chase rashly the horsemen of the Romaines that warded the cariage set vpon him and slew him fighting most valyauntly the murther there was great and greater had bene if the darkenesse of the night had not stayed the same This was done the next day after the feast of Vulcan in Rome at which time the Romaines would neuer after take any battaile in hand The Arastianes assembled in Numantia a strong citie and chose Arathane Lencone for their capitaines Nobilior went thither with-in thrée dayes and camped thrée myle off Massinissa sent him iii. C. horses of Numidia and x. Elephants with the which he made order for to fight and placed the Elephants behinde with a deuise that way shoulde bée made for them And when the onset was giuen away was opened for the Elephants which so affraid the enimies and their horse that they fledd The Romaine capitaine followed to the harde walles and did verye well till one of the Elephants had a blow on the heade with a stone that was cast from the wall with the which he became so frowarde and so raging that he turned vpon his frindes and beate downe all that was in his way and the other affraide with his roaring did the like thrusting throwing the Romaines to y e grounde And this is the discommoditie of Elephantes which when they beginne to rage there is no rule with them and therefore be they called common enimies The Romaines by this occasion fledde with such disorder that the Numantines issued out and slewe iiii M. of them and tooke thrée Elephants and many ensinges when Nobilior had recouered himselfe hée went to beate the Citie of Apenio which was a great reliefe to the enimies but he did nothing there but retourned by night with losse to his campe He sent Blesius capitaine of the horsemen so confeder with a coūtrie for succour of horse-men who in his returne fell in an Ambushment where his friendes forsooke him and he very manfully fighting was slaine and all most all the Romaines And vppon these daylye losses the Citie of Ocile where the Romaine munition treasure was rendered to the Celtiberians wherefore Nobiliar was driuē to such shift as he lay all that winter in the fielde and sustained such disease with hunger and colde that many perished pitifully The yeare following Claudius Marcellus came in his place bringing with him viii M. men v. C. horse where his enimies had layd ambushment for him he auoyded it with all his hoast layd seage to Ocile and at the first assalt tooke it And vppon the receipt of certaine pledges xxx Talentes of golde he pardoned the Citie The Nertobriganes sent vnto Marcellus to knowe his pleasure what they might doe to obtaine peace hée bad them send him an hundred horse and they should haue it they were content appointed y e