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A09832	The hystories of the most famous and worthy cronographer Polybius discoursing of the warres betwixt the Romanes [and] Carthaginenses, a riche and goodly worke, conteining holsome counsels [and] wonderfull deuises against the incombrances of fickle fortune. Englished by C.W. Wherevnto is annexed an abstract, compendiously coarcted out of the life & worthy acts, perpetuate by our puissaunt prince king Henry the fift.; Historiae. English	Polybius.; Watson, Christopher, d. 1581.	1568 (1568)	STC 20097; ESTC S114792	81,252	276

placing their standerds not in the beginning but in the strength of the battail their order was very slender in the breast and strengthned with many aydes in the backe to withstand the force of the elephants But as it was wel prouided of the Romanes to kéepe backe the beasts so it was very daungerous for being ingired for the Carthaginenses hauing the greater troupe of horsses might easilier enuiron thē disposed so straightly Now both the companions beyng prest to ioyne battaile either of them looked to be assailed of other As sone as Zantippus had commanded the elephantes to be put towarde the enimies the horsemen of both wings braste in egerly The Romanes according to the custome of their countrey sounding their trumpets commanded their souldiers to girde valiantly into the thickest of the armie The syghte was very sharp and terrible amongst them but the Romane souldiers dreading the multitude of the Carthaginenses fled incontinētly from both wings the footemen of the left wing hauyng inclined the force of the elephantes estéemed nothyng the multitude of the hired souldiers but rushed in valiantly on the right wing of the Carthaginenses putting them to flight and pursuyng them sharply to their tents but those whiche were placed next to the Elephants were hurled down ouerthrowne on heapes by the filthy beastes The fortune of victorie depended doubtful the resistants defended them selues so worthily but after the rerewarde of the Romanes was compassed in with the Carthaginean horsemen wer cōpelled to encounter with them those which as I shewed were placed in the midst to resist the elephāts driuen on the strongest companie of their ennimies by whome they were suppressed and quite ouerthrowne the Romanes began to languishe and faynt on euery part some being trodē down with the multitude of that cruell fierce beastes other slaine by the horssemen in the same place where they stode in the beginning so that a small handful remained to the latter end which perceyuing there was no hope of recouerie fled away to saue them selues but they also the place being very plaine were ouerrunne with horsemen and elephants other fiue hundreth flying away with Marcus Attilius were intrapped and taken by their enimies In the Carthaginean armie were slayn eight hundreth hired souldiers which fought in the left wing against the Romanes Of the other parte escaped only two thousande with their ensignes and standerdes which as you heard a litle before chased the Carthaginenses to their tents all the rest sauing Marcus Attilius and a few which were taken with him wer slaine The Carthaginenses hauyng made spoyle of the bodies of their ennimies returned into the Citie wyth greate ioye and gladnesse leadyng with them the Consul and the rest of their Captiues If there be any man that pondreth and wayeth this according to veritie he shall fynde diuers thyngs included herein verye necessarie and passyng profitable to the amendement right gouernement of our lyues Fyrst yf he reuolue and intentiuely consider in hys minde how friuolous vn constant and vaine a thing it is to put any hope or trust in Fortune bicause of prosperitie or other famous facts done according to oure mindes Marcus Attilius may bée a singular example to euerie one whiche of late flouryshyng wyth so many famous triumphes and adorned with so many glorious victories and in hys chiefe pompe and glorie would by no meanes possible nor by any intercessions bée mercifull or fauourable to the Carthaginenses beyng at the last caste and in extreme danger nowe hymselfe was forced humblye to request mercie and peace at their hāds which with tedious exorations low obeisance had required it of him not lōg before so that the worthie saying of Euripides was at thys time verified that the counsell of one wise man counteruaileth the strength of many souldiers for one man by his politike prudence ouercame and vtterly destroyed a multitude before inuincible restoring the citie greuously afflicted and oppressed to the pristinat state relieuing the Citizens myndes which were in vtter despaire I haue voluntarily remembred these things knowing the fruite conteined in them to belong muche to the correction and amendment of mens liues For there are two ways laid before men by exāple of which they may be reformed to a better trade of lyfe the one is by his owne calamities the other by example of other mens harmes of whiche the former without doubte is of more efficacie but it chāceth not without the great detrimēt of him which suffreth it the second though it be not so efficacious yet it is good bicause it is expert and voyde of all daunger or damage Wherfore very fewe choose the fyrste willingly by reason of his collaterals whiche are affliction oppression and trouble but the other is well accepted of all men bicause it is exempte from all detriment griefe and vexation so that a man of vnderstanding may wel perceyue experience to be the beste guide and conducter to the right institution and amendement of life which chiefly consisteth in the commemoration of other mens facts for they with out trouble hurt or damage giue best instructions to wise men but for thys matter let these suffise The Carthaginenses hauing all things chaunced prosperously and according to their desire pretermitted no kynde of braueries pompe and gladnesse whether it were in praysing their Gods or in offeryng sacrifice to them other rights neither in makyng and settyng forth of playes ne yet in giuing and receuing giftes according to the custome of the countrey Zantippus hauyng restored the Carthaginenses to their pristinate estate soone after returned to his own countrey hauing vigilantly foreséens all daungers For it oft tymes chaunceth that he which doeth worthily is mortally hated and enuied therefore but being defended with his Citizens allies and friendes he may easily flée and eschue the same where strangers and forayners are quickly dispatched There is also an other cause alleaged for his departure as I shal shew more at large in his place When relation was made at Rome of the ouerthrowe of their host and the Consuls taking also howe the rest of their armie were besieged in Clipia they prepared to ayde them leuying a populous armie whiche they sent into Africa In thys meane tyme the Carthaginenses besieged Clipia labouryng earnestly to ouer com it hoping to take those which escaped the battaile But the Romane souldiers defended them selues so couragiously that the Carthaginenses laboured in vaine who perceiuing their trauayle to bée of none effecte raysed their campe Nowe they heard worde howe the Romanes had prepared a nauie whyche shoulde come into Africa with which rumours the Carthaginenses being moued beganne to repaire their olde Nauie also to prepare a newe so that hauing two hundreth well appointed shippes they determined to staye their passage into Africa The Romanes hauyng also furnyshed thrée hundreth and fiftie sayle sente Marcus Aemilius and Seruilius Fuluius Consules wyth an armie into Africa the which didde determine their

soueraintie and rule of the seas with all diligence employed them selues for to inuade Sardinia The nexte yeare following there was no valiaunt acts done by the Romane armie in Scicilie worthie of remembraunce Caius Sulpitius and Aulus Rutelius afterwarde created Consules were sent to Pauorinus bicause at that presente the power of the Carthaginenses lay there At their arriual immediatly they embatailed their men before the citie but the Carthaginenses being within the walles offered not once to come forth which thing the Romanes perceyuing departed frō thence to Hippana which they immediatly toke They likewise toke Missistratus which by reason of impregnablenesse had resisted a certaine time Thē they brought their army against the Camerenenses which a little before had rebelled against them which with terrible continuance warlike weapons and tearing torments they vanquished Atna diuers other townes were taken by them Also Lippara was besieged by them About this time Aulus Tutelius the Consull and captaine of the Nauie lay in the coastes of the Tinderitans where he espied the Carthaginean Nauie sayling by the coaste wherfore he commaunded his men incontinently to make them ready in al hast and follow him Then he accompanied with ten shippes marched forwarde before the rest The Carthaginenses espying this tricke how part of their enimies were but entring into their shippes another sort launching into the déepe and the first company farre distant from all the rest they returned sodainly with an incredible celeritie drowning many of the Romanes shippes and the Pretors shippe with those that were in hir scantly escaped with great rowing and much labour Whilst this broyle was in hand the rest of the Romane nauy marching forward mette with their enimies toke tenne fraughted prises sinking eight the rest fleeing away retyred to Lippara Both the captains departed frō this conflict eyther of them attributing the victory to himselfe for which cause they more ardently prepared for the Naual war during which time nothing was done amongst the footemen worthy of noting but troubled themselus with trifles In the beginning of the next sommer hauyng furnished them selues of all necessaries they repaired to the warre againe The Romanes met togither at Messana with thrée hundreth and thirtie quinqueremes frō whence they sailed by the south syde of Scicilie hauing ouercome the countrey of Pachinus to E●nomon where the footemen abode for them The Carthaginenses passed the sea with thrée hundreth and fiftie shippes remaining at Lilybeum The Romanes consulted concernyng a voyage into Africa iudging it requisite to sayle thither with their whole puissance to the ende that the Carthaginenses shoulde not only be disquieted in Scicily but also molested at home in their natiue countreye On the other part the Carthaginenses perceuing how easie a thyng it was to descende into Lybia also howe faynte hearted the people were the ennimie beyng once entred into the Prouince therefore they intended incontinentely to encounter with the Romanes hopyng by that meanes to stoppe their exploite into Africa In this manner the one parte preparing to inuade and the other to resiste foreshewed the greate warres to ensue The Romans hauing prepared all things necessarie to their Nauie elected out of their number of footmen suche as were of most hautie and valyant corage imbarkyng them then they made a quadripartite diuision of their Nauie gyuyng to euery parte a double name sauyng to the last which still reteyned the name of the rearewarde as is accustomed in other battailes There was aboue a hundreth and fortie thousande men in the Romane nauie euery ship had thrée hundreth rowers and sixe score fightyng men The Carthaginenses hauyng prepared theyr Nauie of shyppes béeyng fraughted onely with men amounted at the least to the numbre of a hundreth and fiftie thousand so that not onely the beholders but also they which heard tell of the huge number great abilitie and worthy acts of these two armies may wonder The Romanes perceyuing that this their nauigatiō of necessitie must be ouertwhart and crooked also calling to minde the expertnes of their enimies in rowing purposed to make their course inuincible placing the two Sepremes in which Marcus Attilius Lucius Manlius were in the forefront with an equal distance after these the first seconde warde followed kéeping like compasse which betwixt euery two was enlarged with their stemmes sticking outwarde The Nauy being protract on a length fronting on the former ships had a triangle on each syde vnto the which was ioyned the thirde Nauy in the maner of a proppe or piller so that the three frontes being disposed thus they resembled a perfect triangle After the third Nauy came the carts and foists in which their horses were trāsported there was cordes which reached out of them into the third nauie after these came the reareward in their order which were disposed that they surmounted and exceded the wing of them which marched before The Romane fléete being sette in order after this maner the first partes which were the two triangles of the sides were voyd in the midst the other that folowed that is to say they which came after the piller or strēgth were more solide so that the whole nauie was sure and indissoluble By this time the Carthaginean Captaines had gathered their strength and exhorted their souldiers that they should be of bolde and stoute corage informing them if they conquered the Romans in this combat afterward they should fight for the regiment and soueraigntie of Scicilye but if the Romans shold suppresse them they should not warre for Scicilie but for their countrey for theyr fréedome and for their childrē Hauing thus incensed their souldiers they commaunded them to goe a boorde They incontinently obeyed the commaundement of theyr generall shewing them selues very forwarde perceiuing the eminent danger Now when the gouernours of the Carthaginean army had perceiued the order of the Roman fléete they likewise diuided their Army into foure partes of the which thrée be launched into the déepe lay with their right wing extended out in length with the foure partes of their shippes bent towardes their enimies as though they would haue inuironed them The fourth parte which was the left wing remayned as vnder a munition by the shore Hanno and Amilcar were generalls of the Carthaginean nauie Hanno ruled ouer the right wing hauing with him the swifter shippes and Amilcar the left with the slugs This was he which as is before declared escaped so hardly at Tindarides Now Amilcar vsed this pollicie The Consuls at their firste méeting espying the forefront of the Africans to be very thinne brust in through the middest of them with great violence which according as Amilcar had commaunded fained a recoyle to the ende that they might seuer and disioyne the Roman nauie which pursued them now earnestle so that the firste and second warde marching after theyr enimies and the thyrd and fourth comming slowly after caused that the two first wards were seperated from the last Which

ship The Souldiers were very iocund and glad of this iourney not only bicause it was nyghe hande but also for the greate booties which they hoped for Thus all things being prepared they disankred and sayled towarde Drepanum about midnight vnware to their enimies so that in the dawning they drew nigh the Citie Adherball though at their first apperance he was somewhat daunted with sodaine feare yet being recouered and receiuyng by● pristinate boldenesse he purposed to trie the brittle destiny and fickle state of Fortune by gyuyng them battaile rather than to bée inclosed in an Angle and shamefully besieged of hys ennimies And therefore immediately hée gathered together a greate companie of rowers called the mercinarie or hired Souldiers oute of the Citie and gaue vnto them dyuers admonitions shewyng them also that yf ▪ they dydde fyght couragiousely they shoulde be sure of victorie but if they fled like dastardly cowardes and would not venter them selues he vnbuckled to them the budget of mischeues that they shoulde suffer being besieged After he had ended his oration they all promised to shewe their valiantnesse exhorting him with a clamorous noyse to deferre the time no longer but immediately to set towardes his ennimies Adherball praysing the valiant courage of his souldiers warned them to imbarke incontinentely commaunding them diligentely and with vigilant eyes to marke his shyp and folow him merily then withoute lingring he marched forward leading the ring him self according as he promised to encountre with the Romanes The Consul espying his enimies not according as he hoped readie to runne awaye and saue them selues but rather ardently desiring battaile commanded all his fléete to retire for part were entred diuers euen in the entrance and many cōming far behind whē the formost indeuored thē selues at the commaundement of the general to returne there was such a hurly burly with beating dashing betwixt them that came backe and the other that were entring that the whole nauie was in greate perill and many of them sore forfrushed At the last being brought in order with great paine and trauaile the generals set them in aray along the banke with their stemmes towardes the enimies Then the Consull which folowed in the rearewarde launching into the déepe kept the lefte wyng Whilest the Romanes were in this trouble Adherball wyth other fiue shippes incompassed aboue their left wyng turning the stemmes of his ships towardes them kéepyng hym selfe at large on the sea makyng signes that the other foure shyppes whych folowed hym shoulde doe likewise so they hauyng prepared them selues hoysed vp their streamers and rushed in among the Romans which kept a long the banke side for to suppresse the Carthaginenses as they should haue issued but afterwarde it was a great hinderance and let to them selues for certaine causes whiche I shall shewe As soone as the two Nauies wer met the Pretor making signes oute of hys shippe to the other the Romanes were impaled on eyther side the skirmishe continued long and terrible withoute any inequalitie for there were the worthiest souldiers of both the armies yet the Carthaginenses preuailed not onely bicause their shippes were swifter and their rowers more skilfull but by kéepyng at large on the seas where they myghte scoure abroade at their pleasure or if it chaunced any of them to be intrapped with their ennimies immediately launching into the déepe they were at libertie where yf the Romanes dyd pursue them incontinentely they were agayne coaped wyth an other companie to their gret daungers and oft times the losing of their shippes If any of their fellowes were in daunger they easily rescued them ploddyng wyth theyr pumpes forward Now the banke was a maruellous hinderaunce to the Romanes being caught vp in such a straicte corner that they coulde neyther retyre when néede did require nor yet ayde those whiche were in daunger whiche are chief impediments in a conflict on the sea For it was impossible that they shoulde passe thorough the chiefe troupe of their ennimies and resiste their force their shyppes beyng suche slugges and theyr rowers so vnexperte The Consull perceyuyng that he was like to take the foyle and also seyng parte of hys shyppes sore beaten by the shore and dyuers drowned broughte to vtter despaire fledde awaye before all the reste and other thirtie shyppes the whiche stoode next vnto him folowed after All the rest of the numbre of foure score thirtene were taken by the Carthaginenses sauing those which were perished Adherbal was greatly praised of the Carthaginenses for this noble and worthy act which through his hautie courage and singular wisedome had ouerthrowen his enimies But Appius Claudius was greately dispraised with many opprobrious words for behauyng him selfe so imprudently and bringing the Romanes in suche daunger Finally being reiected from his Consulship was with greate ignominie reproche and dishonor iudged to death The Romans although they acknowledged this their simple cutte and sore repulse yet nothing obliuious of their pristinate valiantnesse incontinently prepared a newe nauie and freshe souldiers sending them into Scicilie● vnder the gouernaunce of Lucius Iun●us then Consull commaundyng hym to supporte those which besieged Lilybeum with victuals and other necessaries Iunius the new Consul departed to Messana with the thrée score beackte shippes where he gathered all the Galleys which were in Scicilye sauing those that laye at Lilybeum which made a Nauie of an hundreth and twenty sayle beside the hulkes and cartes prepared for cariage amounting nighe to foure score of which he delyuered almost halfe with certaine other beakt vessels to the Questor commaunding him to conuey the victualls to the camp remayning still him selfe to receyue the others which were cōming from Messana and the graine out of the Countrey About this tyme Adherbal sent the Romane captiues the prises which he had taken to Carthage appointed Carthalon ruler ouer thirtie sayle making him set towardes his enimies and warning his to take all such shippes as he could take whole vnbroken and to burne the remnant He him selfe folowed after with thrée score shippes Carthalon departing at night very spedely sodainly entred on the Roman nauie which lay in that hauen of Lilybeum and put them to their pinch for the watch making a sodaine out cry and great vprore Imilcon perceiued the noise and in the dawning espying them present called all his souldiers out of the citie and inuaded his enimies The Romanes being thus circumuented on euery side were in great peril but that Carthagmean captain taking part of their shippes and setting the rest on fire departed from thence and sayled towardes Heraclia to stop the viands which were comming that waye to the Campe. As he was in this exployte his scoutes made relation to him that there was great store of shippes at hande He hearing these newes made no delayes but set forwarde to méete them contemning the Romans for the great ouerthrow which he had lately giuen them The Romans also hauing knowledge of the Carthagienses