of them was compassed at the backe and being besette rounde aboute sente for more helpe They bringing the footemen among the whiche was Canidius a man in great fauour with Antonie who séemed to committe a greate erroure for he oughte to haue broughte forthe the whole battaile and to haue sent them forth in bands one ready to help another whiche being too weake to haue supplied more they perceyued not that it wanted but little that the whole army was not putte to the worste and to flight if Antonie hadde not by and by brought the legions and set them in the face of them and the third legion had not passed among them that fledde and stayed the enimie from further chase There was slaine no lesse than thrée thousande and there came to their tentes wounded fyue thousande And Gallus among them shotte thorowe with four arrowes coulde not be healed of his woundes The other Antonie went about and comforted and wyth teares bad them be of good cheare but they chearfully taking him by the hande prayed hym to comfort himselfe not to be diseased calling him Chiefe Generall saying they were well if he were whole for generally there was no captain y led a more noble armi â–ª neither in streÌ„gth nor in patience nor in boldnesse in those dayes than he nor more reuerence and obedience with beneuolence of all indifferen lye noble vnnoble Rulers and priuate men was euer giuen to any Captaine than to Antonie preferring hym before their owne liues and health where in he might compare with the auntâ—entâ— Romanes Diuers causes were of this â–ª as we haue saide gentlenesse eioquenâ—e plainenesse â–ª liberalitie and magnificence courtesie in myrth and spéeche and for that he woulde pitie and comforte the sicke and giue what they néeded he made the sicke and the hurte the more assured to him The enimies for this victorie were in suche a pride thoughe they were weary and almost refusing the fight contemning the Romanes as that night they encamped hard by them thinking straight to haue spoiled the voide tents and sacked the money of them being fled When day was come they were many more and they saye they were not lesse than fortie thousande horsemenne the King sending still more vnto them as to a sure and certaine victorie but he was not with them whither they wonne or lost When Antonie shoulde speake to the souldioures he woulde haue a blacke garment that he might the more be pitied but his friends not suffering it he came in a Captaines purple robe and spake vnto theÌ„ praysing theÌ„ that had done well and dispraysing them that fledde of the whiche some prayed him to be of good comforte some conâ—essed their faulte and offered to be punyshed euery tenth man or any other waye to chastice them onely they prayed him to cease his sorrowe and grieâ—e Then holding vppe his hands he prayed the Goddes that if therâ— were any reuenge towarde for hys former felicitie that it mighte lighte on hym and that the reste of the armye mighte haue healthe and victorye The nexte day they marched better guarded and the Parthians that followed were much decâ—iued of their purpose â–ª for where they thought to come to spoile and pray and not to fight beyng resisted with great chéerefulnesse of the souldieures â–ª they were wearie againe And as the Romanes went down certaine hills they came vpon them and they made a sharpe shotte â–ª The Target men turned vpon them and couered their shotte with their shielâ—â—s for the Targets hid them easily they knéeling on their knées They that stoode behind defended them with their armor and so did the other This manner of forme bowing alike euery way made a figure of a Theatre and it is the surest waye to auoyde shotte the arrowes sliding away The Parthians thinking the stouping of the Romanes vpon their knées had bin for heaâ—e and thirst vnbent their â—owes and with their spears came nigâ— â–ª theÌ„ then the Romanes rising â—odaiâ—ly with a crie set vpon them and wringing their weapons out of their handes killed the foremost of them and made all the other to runne away The like was done other dayes They giuing little way and famine falling into the army little meaâ—e being had biâ—ause of their often fights wanting â–ª Milles to grinde their corne being loste wyth the engines for they were lefte behinde and bicause many of the beasts were killed the sicke and wounded men were borne So as they say an Athens bushel of wheate was worth fiftie drams and barley was worth the waighte in siluer Then being driuen to hearbs and rootes some they â—ound of the vsuall sorte â–ª but being compelled to proue them that were vnknowne they first lighted vpon an hearbe that brought death with a maddenesse For he that eate it remembred nothing nor knew nothing Only one thing they did moue and turne a stone as a thing of great waighte to be done The fielde was full of them that stowped to the grounde and digged and remoued stones At length vomiting their choller they dyed when wine whiche was the only remedy was spent many being deade and the Parthians not ceassing They say y Antonie many times cried O the tenne thousande praising them that with Xenophon did go a farre longer way from Babilon and fighting many battells saued themselues The Râ—â—thians could not draw them asunder nor breake their order and being diuers times put to the worse they â—â—ed waxing quiet againe then they gotte among them that went for forage shewyng the strings of their bowes loose they said they would retire and make an ende of their chase A â—ewe Medians folowed â—et a daye or two doing no hurte but onely guarding the towns of Media By these wordes they gaue salutations and went oâ— with gentlenesse in so much as the Romanes were chéerefull agayne whiche when Antonie hearde hée sayde he would go by the playne rather than the hylles where was lacke of water And mindyng thus to doe one named Miâ—hridâ—ies came from the enimies beyng cousine to Moneso that had bene with Antonie and had the three Citties gyuen hym and desired some mighte come to hym that coulde speake the Parâ—hiâ—n or Median tongue And Alexander of Antiochia in credâ—â—â— with Antonie beyng sente to hym hée sayde that he was come to yéelde thankes for Monesus and asked Alexander if â—ee sawe those highe and long hylles before hym and when he sayde he did vnder them sayde hée the Parthians lie in wayte for you with all their army This greate fielde stretcheth to those hilles and they thinke that beyng deceyued by them you will leaue the way by the hilles bycause there is thirst and labour but if Antonie goâ— this way lette him knowe to fall in Crassus calamitie Antonie beyng troubled when he harde this conferred with his friendes and Mardus the guyde of the way who thought no lesse he knewe
in countenance shewing their eâ—â—â—â—tie A seruaunte of Milos ranne to Clodie whither beyng commaunded or to dispatch his maysters enimye and stroke hym with his sworde on the hinder part of the heade Clodie beyng wounded and full of bloude hys horse-kéeper caried hym to the nexte Inne Milo stayed with his seruants and comming vnto hym betwéene breathing and dying dispatched hym pretending that neyther he desired nor deuised thys murder but being sure he shoulde alwayes bee in daunger hee purposed not to leaue the thing vnperfect This chaunce being tolde at Rome the people were displeased and watched all night in the common place Some broughte Clodies body the nexte day and laide it in the Palaice the which certayne Tribunes friendes to Clodie accompanied wyth the multitude tooke away and bare it to the Senate eyther for honor bycause hee was of that order or for reproch to them for suffering such vnlawful factes The rather sort of this route brake down y seates chaires of the Senate house and made a fire with the whiche the Senate house and many other nighe did burne at Clodies funerall Milo was so lustie that he was not so muche afraide for the feate done as hee was angry that suche honor of buriall shoulde be shewed to Clody He gathered a number of seruants cuntrymen he sent mony to the people corrupted Marcus Cecilius one of the Tribunes and with a bold courage came to Rome Cecilius straight receiued him at his coÌ„ming brought him to the coÌ„mon place among theÌ„ that had taken mony as to an assembly He pretended to be sory that any delay should be had in iudgement trusting that if he myght by these that were present be acquitte he should auoid the sharper sentence He shewed he did not minde the matter for he would not haue brought his wife and famylie to such a feate he spent the rest of the râ—â—e against Clodie as an impudent man whose friendes as impudent as he had burnt the Senate house for his sake Whyles he was thus talking y other Tribunes and the multitude slenderly armed rushed into the common place Cecilius and Milo in seruantes clothing fled away much murder was committed vpon the other not asking who were Milos friendes but without respect killed both Citizen and straunger and chiefly them that differed from the rest eyther in gay garments or golde Kings for in such a disordered state tumulte growing by rage of this pretence the moste parte beyng seruauntes and armed against the other not armed they fel to spoyle they left nothing vndone they entred houses they ranne about to sée in déede what they might easily catch and in word to séeke out Milos friendes and Milo was their pretence many dayes to doe all mischiefe with fire and force The Senate for feare assembled and were bent vpon Pompei whom some would haue had Dictator by and by bycause the present time apeared to haue néed of that remedy but by Catos perswasion they chose him Consull without a felowe that he should haue the authoritye of Dictator by ruling alone and yet be answerable bicause he was but Consul He was y first Consul that had two great prouinces with armye and money and the Monarchie of the Citie being Consull alone Cato was appointed by decrée to go into Ciprus that he shoulde not trouble Pompey at home and to put Ptoâ—â—lomie out of his kingdome by a former lawe made by Clodie who being once taken with Pyrates Ptoâ—â—lomie for nigardise sent him two talents for his ransome Ptoâ—â—lomie when he heard of thys decrée threw his money into the sea and kylled hymself Cato set the Country in order Pompey did giue punishments for many offences and specially for bribery corruption for he thought y all common infection of the Citie rose of thys and therefore had néede of present medicine He also decréed that any man that would might cal men to account from his first Consulship to this time and that was about twentie yeares in the which Caesar was Consul Caesars friendes suspecting this to be done in despite or caluiâ—â—tion of him that so long a time was comprehended exhorteâ— him to deale with present matters rather than to looke backward and trouble men that were honorable And among other naming Casar he was offended as one voide of all suspâ—tion and so appoynted the time from his seconde Consulship he saide it was very necessarie so to begin to make a perfite redresse of the common almost wasted with euill men which when he had saide he pronounced the lawe whereof folowed by and by a number of sundry actions and that the iudges shoulde not be afrayde he with an army ouersawe their doyngs Firste being absente Milo was condemned for Clodiâ—â— death and Gabinius of disobedience and mischiefe for going into Egipt with an army without decrée the bookes of Sybill forbiddyng it Memmius Hipseus Sextuis many other were condeÌ„ned eyther of bribery or corrupting the people Scaurus was called by Pompey to make answere notwithstanding y the people did intreate for him And when the second time the people did resist his accusers a violence was made by Pompeis souldiours wherby the people ceassed Scaurus was also banished al their eriles recorded Gabinius was confiscate after his banishment The Senate giuing open prayse to Pompey appoynted two legions more vnto him continuaÌ„ce in his prouinces Memmius being condemned of briberie and Pompeius lawe giuing release to them that accused an other he called L. Scipio father in lawe to Pompey into the like iudgement of corruption Wherefore Pompey putting on the garment of the condemned sort many of the iudges did the like but Memmius in contempt of the state gaue ouer y accusation Then Pompey hauing as it were made that direction that belonged to his Monarchiâ— toke Scipio for his selowe the rest of the yeare and after hym though others were receiued into office neuerthelesse he ouerloked ruled all and then was all in all in Rome For the good wil of the Senate was much enclined to him in despite of Caesar who in his Consulship séeking his priuate pleasure séemed to make none accompt of theÌ„ and for that Pompey had quickly recouered the sicke coÌ„mon wealth without molesting or hâ—â—dring any man furder than his office But the banished men fledde still to Caesar and bad him beware of Pompey and that his law of corruption was most made against him Caesar did comforte them and yet sayde well of Pompey He only laboured â—â—o Tribunes to make a lawe that it might be lawfull for Caesar to aske the seconde Consulship in hys absence the which Pompey beyng yet in office and not resistyng was graunted yet vnderstandyng that the Senate did worke against him fearyng that his enemies would make him a pryuate man he deuised to kéepe his strength still till he should be
Martialls Souldioures and fyue other bandes they wente vppon the made way being cleare of ennimyes and beholde the Fenne on euerye syde and when they sawe the stirring of the réedes and some glittering of tergâ—ts and headpéeces they began to suspect when as the chiefe band of Antony sodainelye appeared afore them The Martiall legion being on both sides beset and hauing no roomth to shifte abroad forbad the newe souldiours to take anye paines wyth them leaste for lacke of experience they shoulde trouble them they placed Caesars thiefe bande againste Antonies and they diuiding themselues to twoo encountred with bothe legions Pansa was Capitaine of the one parte and Carsâ—leius of the other And bycause there was two Fens there was two fights and bycause of the straight place the one could not sée the other and vppon the verye waye the two chiefe bandes beganne another fight betweene themselues Antonies men entended to be reuenged of the Martialls bycause they were fugitiues and to vse them as traytoures The Martialls woulde bée reuenged of them as suspected of theyr fellowes deathes at â—â—unduse Béeyng thus priuie one to anothers doings and that they were the strength of eyther armye they hoped by thys onely feate that the warre woulde be determined The one was ashamed that two legions shoulde be ouercome of one the other sought glorye that one legion shoulde defeate two and so they ioyned battel for anger and emulation â–ª rather of themselues than of their Capitaynes trying now their owne matter And for their experience they neyther made crie as though they had not stroken one another nor in the fight any of them vttered anye voyce neither when he had the better nor when he had the worse They fetched no compasse nor course but stoode firme as in Fennes and ditches where they could not one put another backe but with their shorte swords they clasped togither as in a wrestling place No blowe was giuen in vaine â–ª but either woundes or slaughter followed and only sighes in steede of voice He that fell had straight another putte in hys place There was no néede of exhortation or calling on euerye man by his owne experience was a Captayne to hymselfe And when they had ouerlaboured they woulde staye to take breath as men do in places of exercise and straighte close agayne The young souldiours stoode in a maze to sée thys feate doone with so good order and silence all these continuing beyond mans nature the chiefe band of Caesar was all slaine The Martialls vnder Carsuleius hadde rather the vpper hande of their enimies who not disorderedly but in ray withdrew theÌ„ selues They vnder Pansa dyd abide it out and equally stoode to it on bothe sides till Pansa was wounded with a darte in the belly and was caried to bononia Then they at the firste retyred in order but after they turned more swiftely as flying which when the yong Souldiours sawe they fled with confusion and crie to the campe which Torquatus the Pretor had prouided whyles they were fightyng foreséeing the néede of it to the whiche the new Souldiours ran with great violence beyng Italians as well as the Martials but exercise maketh them of one nation so much to differ in vertue The Martials dyd not enter the trench for dishonour but stoode before it and weary though they were remayned ready to resist any assaulte and to abide the ende of the matter Antony dyd not touche the Martialles bycause he knewe them valiant but the young Souldiours he chased and made greate slaughter among them Hirtius at Mutina hearyng of the fight beyng aboute eyght myles distant came in baste with the other legion that was fled from Antony The sunne was now goyng downe and Antonies Souldiours hauing the victory went singing to their camp Hirtius appeared to them he beyng in good order with one legion sounde and valiante and they out of order Wherefore of necessitie they placed themselues in due sort and shewed many valiant and noble feates but although they were coragious yet beyng weary they were ouercome of the other that were freshe and the most parte slayne of Hirtius in this feate albeit he did not folow them for feare of the Fennes and the night comming on did seuer them The Fenne in most places was filled with harnesse and dead men and with half dead and wounded They that were safe dispaired of themselues for wearinesse But the horsemen of Antony rode about al night and gathered them togither some they caried themselues some they brought home on horsebacke some they badde take holde by the horse tayle to goe the faster and séeke to saue themselues Thus Antony hauyng fought very nobly loste his force by the commyng of Hirtius wherefore he abode in a village in the fielde without a campe The Village is called French Market The halfe of eyther syde was slayne and Câ—sâ—rs bande of his person vtterly destroyed Of Hirtiâ—s Souldioures few were left all the which the nexte morning remoued their Camps to Mutina After this losse Antony determined no more to giue battell to hys enimies nor to admitte any attempt to the same but with his Horsemen only to molest them daye by day till he had gotten Decimus to yéelde being driuen by hunger For this cause Hirtius and Caesar the rather prouoked hym to fight and whereas they did perceyue that Antony woulde not come forth keeÌ„pyng his men in order they went to the other side of the Citie whych bicause it was the harder to approch was the lesse kept y with their whole army they myght enter by force Antony made resistance only with his horsemen but they being put backe by other horse and the army passing as it would Antony was afraid â–ª of the Citie and brought forth two legious They glad of thys retired and foughte with them and whilest Antony from other campes sent for mâ—â— legions as in a troubled time of so greate and suddayne attempt the whiche being long a comming Caesars men ouerthrew Antonies in the fight and Hirtius droue Antony to his Campe where fighting manfully before Antonies Tente he was slayn whose body Caesar louing â–ª in great spéed recouered and gote the Campe till shortlye hée was repulsed by Antony Both of them watched all night in armoure Antony being fallen with this seconde losse streighte after the battell called hys friends to counsell They thought according to his former meaning to kéepe still the sâ—â—ge at Mâ—dena and not to come to anye fight for both the losses were like Hirtius slayne and Pansa hurte In Horsemen he the better and Mutina broughte to extreame want must needes shortly giue ouer Thus his friends thoughte good and it was best indede but Antoniâ— God now striking him was afraide least Caesar shoulde procéede to the obteyning of the Citie as he did the day before or by making walles entrenche hym hauing many pioners for the purpose and then his Horse should do him no good he
speciall daye appoynted for voyces to be vsed Out of hande the lawe tooke place and that nyghte condemnations of thirtis besyde the seauentéene and of one hundred more were sette vp in many places of the Citie and shortlye after another hundred and fiftie and euer some were added more in the booke to them that were firste condemned or kylled as by ignorance that it myghte bée thoughte they were worthy to dye It was ordered that all theyr heads shoulde be brought to the thrée men and a rewarde appoynted A frée mans rewarde was syluer a Seruantes libertie and syluer and who receyued a condemned man or concealed or hindred the search should bée punished with lyke payne and euery man myghte declare agaynste whome hée woulde for the same rewarde The Proclamation was after thys sorte And that all men should suffer their priuate places to be searched Marcus Lepidus Marcus Antonius and Octauius Caesar chosen reformers and directoures of the Common wealthe saye thus If the vnfaythfull euill disposed menne hadde not bene pitied when they néeded and being so had not become enimies of their benefactours and after coÌ„spired against them they had not slayne Caesar whome he tooke by warre and saued by mercy accompted them friends and plentifully aduaunced them with offices honours and giftes nor we should haue ben compelled thus violently to vse them that haue with suche despite made proclamations of treason against vs but now by their euill meanings towarde vs their worse working toward Caesar perceyuing that by humanitie their malice is made obstinate we haue chosen rather to preuent them than to be taken tardy of them Let no man thinke our act vniust cruell or to sore considering what Caesar what we haue suffered at their handes Caesar being chief ruler and prince of holy things Conquerour and ouerthrower of nations most terrible to the Romaines and the first man that beyond Hercules pillers did proue the sea not sayled before and founde lande vnknowen to the Romanes in the middest of the sacred place called the Senate house in the sight of the goodes they haue enâ—ioâ—sly killed with xxiâ—â— woundes whom he tooke prisoners in warre and not onely saued their liues but made some of them heyres of his liuing The reste of them through the same wicked purpose haue sente these detestable offendours in stéede of punishment to the rule of Prouinces and armies whiche they abuse in spoyling of common treasure in gatheryng one army against vs of them and requiring an other of the Barbarians alwayes enimies to this state Certaine Citties belongyng to the Romanes refusing to obey them â–ª they haue burned spoyled or rased others oppressed with their terrible threatnings they force agaynst their countrey and vs Wée haue already punished some of them and by the helpe of God ye shall soone sée the rest haue their iâ—ste deserte The greatest matters touchyng Spayne Fraunce and here at home we haue at our commaundement well dispatched Neuerthelesse wée haue an harde and sharpe worke in hande to make warre agaynst the murderers of Caesar that â—e beyonde the seas and bicause wée shall make this warre abrode we do not thinke it sure neyther for vs nor for you to leaue enimies at home that mighte disturbe vs in our absence and wayfe theyr times as the warre shoulde haue successe neyther to make any delay in this hasty expedition but rather to ridde them at ones they hauyng begonne the warre agaynst vs and iudged vs and our armies traytours to our Countrie not regardyng neyther the enuy of manne nor the reuengment of God in destroying so many millions of their Citizens Wée are not offended agaynst the multitude nor will take them all as enimies that haue bene so to vs nor altogither weigh riches substaunce or dignities nor kill so many as an other chiefe ruler haue done before vs who redressed the Citie in lyke Ciuill dissentions whome for his lucky doings you did call Happie although there muste néedes be more enimies to thrée than one but onely the worste and moste wicked sorte as well for you as for our selfes wée entende to correct otherwise by our contentions you all betwéene vs muste néedes be vtterly destroyed and of necessitie our armie that hath bene so iniuried and despighted as they haue bene proclaimed publique enimies must néedes some way be comforted at our hande And where as wée mighte lay handes vppon the condemned where wée woulde yet we thought it better to pronounce them than at all aduentures to oppresse them and that for your sake least the rage of the Souldiours mighte exceede vppon them that are not touched and that their names beyng comprehended in a certayne number they might leaue the rest by the decrée Then that good Fortune may come by them that be conteyned in this wryting Lette no manne receyue any manne nor hyde nor sende away nor be wonne for money For if any doe saue helpe or be founde pryuye him will we without all excuse and parâ—â—â—ie put among the condemned sorte Of them that shall dryng the heades of suche as they shall kyll before vs a frée manne shall haue xxv thousand drammes of Athens for euery heade a seruaunt shall haue hys lybertie and tenne thousande and hys Maysters place in the Cittie and the same shall they haue that shall enforme and none of theyr names that receyue these rewardes shall bée noted in our bookes that they may not be knowen This was the proclamation of the thrée men as I coulde translate it out of Latine into Gréeke Lepidus was the firste that dyd condemne and the firste of the condemned was Paulus his brother The second that did condemne was Antony and the second that was condemned was his vncle Lucius for they firste condemned these as enimies The thirde and the fourth was of them whiche in an other booke were appoynted to be Consuls in tyme to come Plotius brother to Plancus and Quintus Father in lawe to Asinius and these were not the rather putte before other bycause of theyr dignitie onely but as muche for terrour and desperation that none shoulde hope to be saued Thoranius was among the coÌ„demned men who as some say was Tutor to Caesar By and by after these coÌ„demnations the gates were kept and all other passages and portes of the Cittie Fennes also and Moores and any other place suspected to bée fitte to flée vnto or for them that fledde to be hydden in The Capitaynes of the bandes were commaunded to raunge the fieldes abroade and to searche diligently and all this was done at once Forthwith bothe in the countrie and the Cittie as mennâ— were taken there was greate suddayne slaughter and diuerse kyndes of murders cuttings off of heads to be shewed for rewardes sake Then was there hasty fleyng and vnséemely sight of them that before were goodly to be séene some leapte into puddles some into ditches and sinckes most vncleane some got vppe to the smoky
and turned their backes Antony thinking to make an ende of the warre that daye gaue them the chase and yet tooke but xxx and kylâ—ed lxxx Whiche agayne did much discourage the Romanes since they lost so many at their cariage and wanne so little at this victory The next day Antony returned to his Camp and by the way at the first mette with few of his enimies afterwards more and more and at the last all so as being much molested with them with much adoe he got to the Tentes where the enimie aâ—saulted the trench the which diuers for feare did forsake Wherefore Antony punished euery tenth man and fedde the rest wyth barley The warre was gréeuous to them both for Antony could no more goe a foraging without great losse And the Kyng feared that if his men shoulde lye in the fielde all Winter they would forsake him Wherefore he deuised this policie The noble men of the Parthians suffered the Romanes to carrie awaye their prayes with great commendation of their worthinesse and that the king woulde be glad of peace and so riding néerer the army would rebuke Antony for kéeping them there in so strange a countrey out of the whiche though the Parthians were theyr friends it shoulde be harde for them to escape When Antony hearde of this he caused to be enquired whether these men dyd speake by the Kings consent which they aunswered to be Then he sente to the King that if he woulde restore the Captiues and ensignes he would depart The King sayd he would sende them to him if he would depart quickly Therefore Antony made vp and retired At his going away he did not speake to the Souldyoures as he was wont to doe being very elaquente that way whereat many were offended committing the matter to be done to Domitius Aenobarbus Being in his way one Mardus well acquainted with the Parthian maners whose faith the Romanes had proued before tolde Antony it was best for him to goe so as hée might haue the hilles on his right hande and not to hazarde hys army laden with armour to the Parthian archers and horsemen in the playne way Antony consulted with his counsell pretending yet not to be afrayde of the breache of peace and accepting the counsell as compendious Antony required suretie of Mardw he had him bind him till he came into Armenia So béeyng bound he brought him two dayes quietly The third day when Antony loked for nothing lesse than the Parthians Mardus espyed the banke of a riuer to bée broken downe and the water flowing abroade which he coniectured to be done by the enimie to hynder the passage of Antony Therefore he wished Antony to loke to it for they were not faire off Antony sette his men in order and by and by the Parthians came vppon him whome he receyued with his shotte So there was muche hurte done on both sides till the French horsemen brake vpon them and put them by for that day Antony being taughte hereby went on with a square battel fencing the same thoroughly with the shotte The Horsemen were commaunded to gyue repulse to the enimie and that done not to chaâ—e them farre So when the Parthians these foure dayes had receyued as much hurt as they had done they minded to retire bycause the winter was at hand The fifth daye Fuluius Gallus a valiant man desired Antony to haue a greater bande of shotte and more Horsemen and he would do some notable feate which when he had receyued he put backe the enimie not returning to the armie againe as they did before but pursuing them along without feare whiche when the leader of the rerewarde did sée he called him backe but hée would not obey And whereas Titius tooke the banner to turne backe he put it forward againe and badde hym meddle with hys owne matters and wente so farre as he was compassed of hys enimies and compelled to sende for helpe wherein Canidius that was in greate credite wyth Antony dyd not well for hée sente but a fewe at once which were soone put backe and vtterly hadde bin lost hadde not Antony come wyth hys legions in time and abated the courage of the enimie Notwithstandyng thrée thousande Romanes were slayne and fyue thousande hurte and Gallus wounded with foure dartes of the which he dyed Antony went about wéeping and comforting them they desired him to be content for all was well if he were well Great lone bare the souldyoures vnto him for he was compted one of the best Captaynes of that time The enimies were so encouraged by this victory as they wayted at the Camp all night thinking the Romanes would haue bin gone And in the morning the number was much encreased for the king had sent the horsemens gard of his person but came at no fight himselfe so as there was nowe fortie thousand horsemen Antony woulde haue gone among the Souldyoures with a blacke gowne but his friends woulde not suffer him so he went generall like and praysed them that hadde done well and rebuked them that had done otherwise They prayed him to pardon them and to punish euery tenth man Only they desired him to leaue his sorrow Then he held his hands vp to heauen saying If anye disdeyne of God remained of hys former fortune he desired it might fall vpon him so the Romanes army might be saued and haue the victory The next day he went more warily when contrary to theyr looking the Parthians came â—rolling downe the hill thinking to haue gotten pray and not to haue founde warre The Romanes tooke in their archers and such other into the middest of the battell causing theÌ„ to knéele and they stouping couered them with their shields vppon the which the Parthians arrowes slided off And the Parthians thinking that the Romanes had stouped for wéerinesse made a shoute and came vpon them with their staues at the whiche time the Romanes rose and so encountred with them as they droue them away Thus were they troubled dyuers dayes and made but little way Nowe was there wante in the Campe for they coulde gette no corne and their Cattell was spente partly by losse and partlye by carrying the wounded and sicke men A barly lofe was solde for the waighte of siluer They eate strange hearbes and rootes and some that brought present death with a kinde of madnesse for they coulde do nothing else but roll stones so as all the Campe was almost occupyed in picking and turning of stones The remedye of thys was wyne whyche wanted in the host therefore when they hadde vomited the melancolie they dyed Manye thus dying and the Parthians styll commyng vpon them Antony oftentimes cryed Oh the tenne thousande meaning the tenne thousand Greekes which vnder the leading of Xenophon passed safe a farre longer way in despight of their enimies Nowe when the Parthians perceyued they could not preuayle againste the
began to follow them 〈◊〉 and to chace them to the tâ—ppe of the hilles where the ambush was whiche discouering themselues Ruffus commanded his meÌ„ neyther to followe nor to encounter the enimie but holde them at the speares poylite Scipio séeyng Ruffus going further to the hilles than was appointed him began to follow him wich his army fearing the worst and when he was come to the place of the traynes he diuided his horsemeÌ„ and commanded to giue onset vpon the enimie both wayes and when they had cast their dartes to returne not righte on but a soft pacâ— that they that were behinde mighte ioyne with them and by this meane he brought his horse safe into the playne After this when Scipio would remoue there was a water hard to â—â— passed and myrie at the which the enimie lay hidden which when it was knowen he lefte that way and ledde hys army by another longer way but sure from deceyts and went by night and commanded many welles to be made for thirst in the most part of y which salt water was found Neuerthelesse Neuerthelesse the army weÌ„t on safe though with great payne but some horses Mules were killed for drought Then he entred the lands of the Cauceans whome Lucullus had inuaded contrary to the league all the which he coÌ„manded by his crier to goe quietly euery one to hys owne From thence he wente to the Numantines grounde to winter where he remained till Iugâ—rtha the nephewe of Massinissa came to him with .xij. Elephants and archers and slingers well armed And being occupyed in wasting and spoyling the countreys that were nigh he was almost entrapped at a Uillage the which was enuirened with a great fenne of one side of y other with an hilly place in y which y traynes were layde And where Scipios host was diuided into two partes entring the towne and leauing their ensignes without they went to spoyle Other a few horsemeÌ„ rode about the towne who were beset of the ambush defended theÌ„selues Scipio being about y ensignes called y souldioures out by trumpet before y which could come he with a M. horsemen ranne to help theÌ„ that were in distresse And when the most part of the souldiours were come out of the towne he made the enimie to flée yet did he not follow theÌ„ but a fewe being killed of both sides retired to his camp Then laying two Camps before NumaÌ„tiâ— he made his brother Maximus ruler of the one and the other he gouerned himselfe Whiles he was in this sort the Numantines came forth and offered to fight but Scipio contemned them thinking not better to fight with theÌ„ that were in desperation than to came them by famine and driue them to yéelde And when he had made seauen trenches about the Citie to presse them the rather he sente letters to the confederates in the whiche it was conteyned what and howe many souldioures they shoulde sende whyche when they were come he diuided them into many partes as he did his owne and commaunded their Captaynes and leaders to make ditches and enclosures about the Citie The compasse of Numantia was four and twenty furlongs The enclosure was as muche or more and all that was distributed to the Tribunes whiche if they were let of the enimie they should signifie it by day with a redde cloth vpon a speare and in the night by a fire that he and his brother might aide theÌ„ that were circumuented whiche béeing done and they that were set for gard were sufficient to resist the enimie He commaunded another beside that to be made and to plant stakes about it or next them to build a newe wall the breadth of the which was fiue foote and the height tenne beside the pinnacles and towers distant by equall space The fenne that was nexte the wall bycause he coulde not compasse it with a wall he made a trench as high as a wall and that might serue for a wall about it And this Scipio was y first as I thinke that compassed a Citie beséeged with a wall the whiche did not refuse to fight The floud Dunas that ranne by the Campe was very commodious to the Numantines to bring in victuall and to receiue men out and in or to swimme vnder water or to send boates out full sayle when the winde was bigge or to rowe when the time serued And bycause a bridge coulde not be made vpon it for the breadth and vehemence Scipio caused two Castels to be made on either side the banke and betwéene both he haÌ„ged certaine long beames with ropes and let them goe into y water In the beames were laide plates of swords on euery side and other weapons pricking whiche with the continuall course of the water being turned did not suffer the enimies Shippes nor swimmers to passe This was the thing that Scipio most desired that none should go to the beséeged to tell what was done abroade whereby they shoulde be destitute both of councell and comfort These being thus disposed engines were placed in the towers and instruments y cast arrowes dartes stones The walles were ful of stones shot The Castels were kept of shooters and sâ—ingers He placed also many men in the trenches that shuld both day night signifie what new thing hapned in raÌ„kes one froÌ„ another holding vp an enâ—â—gne at y tower y was in néed and that the other towers should do the like wheÌ„ the token was séen that y first made This was done that in a momeÌ„t of time he might know what happened and for those things that must be declared in déede he would haue brought to him by certayne messengers He deuided his army which with the confederates was .lx. M. into two partes of the which he set one to garde the sea and vsed the other to goe for things requisite as occasioÌ„ required Twenty thousand were appointed to fight when néede was to the ayde of the which other xx M. of confederates were assigned Euery maÌ„ had his place from the whiche he might not go without leaue So euery maÌ„ repaired to his place and to the token that was made when the enimie made any thing adoe so orderly wisely had Scipio considered euery thing The Numantines made many salies vpon the ordinary wardes nowe héere now there but they were soone made afraid of the dreadful sight of them that came so soone to helpe and also with the ensignes that were set vpoÌ„ the wall to shew y matter and with y kéepers of the towers trenchies and with the sound of the trumpets in so much as all the coÌ„passe of y treÌ„ches which was 50. furlongs was in a moment a terror to them all This place Scipio rode about euery day to sée it and by that meane hauing shut in his enimies he thought they could not loÌ„g continue seing they could be holpen by no man neither of victuall meÌ„ nor armour Ritâ—genes
farre asunder Asdrubal is the heade of the warre Syphax shall dare do nothing in the nighte a man barbarous full of daintinesse and feare Then let vs go againste Asdruball with all oure armye We shall appoint Masâ—inissa to â—ye in wayte for Syphax if he hap to come foorth contrarye to oure opinion Let vs goe a foote to Asdrubals campe and assaulte it round about wyth good hope and lusty courage This for the preseÌ„t is most â—it for the horsemen for we cannot vse theÌ„ in the night I wil place them farre off to compasse the Camp of our enimies that if wée be driuen backe they maye receyue vs and we flée to oure friends and if we do ouercome them they may chase and destroy them Hauing thus saide he sent away the Captaines to arme the hoste and he sacrificed to Boldenesse and Feare and that no sodaine feare without cause shoulde happe but his armye continue bolde The rest of the thirde watche was signified wyth the Trumpet and with a maruellous déepe silence so greate an armye went till the horsemen had compassed the ennimies The footemen went to their Trench Then a broken showte being made and manye soundes of trumpes and hornes to make the more terror they droue the watche from their place they tooke the Trench and pulled down the rampire Some of the boldest ranne in and set the Tents afyre The Libyans beyng waked of their sléepe with terror and running out of order to their order and taking their armor and not obeying the commaundements for the confusion neither the Generall himselfe certainly knowing what was done the Romanes tooke them that leapte oute and were arming themselues in great turmoile they set manye Tents on fyre killed some of them as they came and some being made afrayd with the crye of the enimie and with the fight and moste fearefull businesse being in the nyghte and ignorant of the euill indéede thinkyng the Campe hadde béene taken and fearyng the fyre of the burnyng Tentes leapt of themselues from them and wente into the fielde as into a more sure place where as they came by partes they were miserably killed and as they fell into the Romaine horsemen that had compassed al they were dispatched Syphax hearing this crye in the nighte and séeyng the fire came not foorth but sent certaine horsemen to helpe Asdruball Vppon whom Massinissa came sodainely and killed out of hand When daye was come and Syphax hadde learned that Asdrubal was gone and that part of his army was destroyed and part taken of the ennimye and some dispersed and that the Romanes had his campe with all the munition he departed and fledde to the midde land for feare leauing all behinde hym thinking that after this ouerthrowe of the Carthaginians Scipio would followe him so his Campe and all the furniture Massinissa tooke Thus the Romanes in a little part of one night did take two campes and ouerthrew two armies greater than themselues There died of the Romanes aboute an hundred and of the enimies little lesse than thirty thousand and of prisoners two thousande sixe hundred were taken and sixe hundred horsemen yéelded to Scipio as he retourned The Elephants some were wounded and some were killed Scipio of the golde siluer armoure and much yuorie and horses as wel of the Numidians as other whiche hée hadde gote and by one victorie moste noble casting the Carthaginians on their knées gaue gifts to the souldioures and sent the moste precious thinges to Rome and exercised hys souldioures chearefullye thinkyng that Anniball woulde shortelye come oute of Italie and Mago from Liguria And thys dydde Scipio Asdruball the Generall of the Carthaginians in the fighte by night being hurte fled to Anea with fyue hundred horsemen where he gathered some of the hyred souldieures that were escaped from the fight and the Numidians and called bondmen to libertye And when he heard the Carthaginians had determined his deathe as an euill Generall and had chosen Hanno Bomilchares sonne in his place he made an army of hys owne and receyued all malefactours and ledde them where he mighte haue reliefe and trayned them hauing thrée thousande horse and eight thousand footemen as hauing his truste onely in fight In doing this he kepte it long hid from both from the Romanes and Carthaginians Scipio led his army to the walles of Carthage and boldlye called them to fight but none came forth Amilchar Admirall of Carthage with an hundred shippes came vppon the nauy of Scipio thinking to destroye it in his absence hoping easily to take twenty gallies with an hundred When Scipio sawe him vnder sayle he sent to shut the mouth of the Porte and that the greate Shippes shoulde lye at anker with a distaunce one from another that the gallies might come by them as out of a gate when néede shoulde require and that they shoulde fasten and tye the ships togither wyth their sayle yardes that they might be as a wall and he came to them and furthered their worke The Carthaginians were receyued both by sea and lande and from the wall with shot and artillerie their shippes were brused and other being weary went away at night And when they were going the Romane galleis wente out of the spaces as was appointed and sette vpon them and when they were too weake they retired one they tooke voyde of men and broughte hir to Scipio Then they went both to their wintring harbours The Romanes had plenty from the sea the Vticenses and Carthaginians being in want robbed the Merchantes till other Romane shippes were sent to Scipio whiche in set places kepte the ennimie from robbing They were more and more in hunger Toward the end of Winter Syphax being neare Massinissa desired the thirde part of the Romanes armye to be ioyned to hys the which he receiued and by the leading of Lelius pursued Syphax he fléeyng till hée came to a floude and there stayed to fight The Numidians as their manner is made shotte very thick one againste an other The Romanes being couered with theyr shieldes went to the fight Syphax came with fury vppon Massinissa who went cherefully against him and the fight being greate betwéene them Syphax men fléeing he passed the fioude whose horse being hurte ouerthrewe his Maister Then Massinissa ran vpon hym and tooke him and one of his sonnes and sente them straight to Scipio There were slaine ten thousand of Syphax side of the Romanes lxxv of Massinissa thrée hundred of Syphax foure thousand were taken prisoners whereof two thousand fiue hundred were Massulians whiche fled from Massinissa to Syphax Massinissa desired them of Laelio whom when he had receyued hée killed Then they ouerranne the Massulians and the land of Syphax parte wherof they appointed to Massinissa parte they receyued by submission and the disobedient sorte they destroyed There came Ambassadoures to them from Cyrtis to deliuer the Palaice of Syphax to them And some came priuately
â—rying as thoughe they would not haue turned againe gaue them the chase and with him Censorinus and Mâ—gabaâ—â—us these passed in valiantnes and strength Censorinus being of the order of a Senatoure and eloquent friend to yong Crassus and of like age The horsemen going on the footmen folowed with courage and fearefulnesse of hope for they thoughte to haue the victorie by the chase They had not gone farre but they perceyued the deceit They that séemed to â—â—ée turned againe many â—â— comming to them Then they stayed thinking they woulde haue come to handes with them bicause they were so fewe but they set the men of armes vpon the Romanes and with their other horse confusedlye rode vppon them troubling the playne raysing heapes of Sande and making all full of duste that the Romanes coulde neither sée nor speake So being driuen and thruste togyther they were ouerthrowen and dyed not easily nor a shorte death but with shriking sorowfull manner laboring to breake the arowes in their woundes prouing by violence to pul out the forked heades that were enited their vaines and stnowes they fore and lamented themselues When many were thus dead they that were aliue were vnprofytable to helpe and when as Publius exhorted them to set vppon the men of armes they shewed their handes nayled to their shieldes and theyr féete fastened to the grounde that they coulde neyther flye nor fight Then he brought his horsemen fiercely vpon them but he was too weake stryking and defendyng both at once with weake and little speares vpon the strong armour of stéele and his Galatians being stryken with long speares vpon their vnarmed bodies in them he trusted muche and by them he did maruellous feates For they toke the speares and bare down the men from their horse which could not be moued for the waight of their harnesse Many left their horses stroke their enimies horses in the bellies the which for payne threwe off theyr ryders and trode vpon them and their enimies tyll they dyed also But the heate and thirst most troubled the Galathians being accustomed to neyther of them and many of them hauing lefte their horses with their staues fought with the contrary Therfore they did what they could to haue gotten to the legions hauing Publius among them being euill bestadde for his wounds and séeing an hyll of sande not farre off they went thyther putting their horse in the middest and defending the outwarde partes with their Targets they thoughte they mighte easilye put backe the Barbarians but it came otherwise to passe for béeing in the playne the former kepte the hindermost from hurte but when they went to a mounting ground and all was in the daunger and they that came behinde moste of all there was none escaped but al were shotte indifferently lamenting their deathes voyde of reuenge and glorie There were about Publius two men both Grecians dwelling in Carria Ieronimus and Nichomacus They moued him to goe with them and flye to Irna a towne that helde of the Romaynes He answered there was no deathe so grieuous for feare of the whiche Publius woulde leaue them that dyed for him Therfore he prayed them to saue themselues and gently sent them away He coulde not vse his hande for it was hurte with an arrowe Therfore he commanded his page to take his sword and runne him therowe the syde Censorinus died after that sort Magabactus killed himselfe and so dyed the most noble of the other The rest the Parthians killed with their speares fighting for themselues and onelye fiue hundred were taken aliue When they hadde cutte off the heades of Publius and his company they tourned toward Crassus He stoode after this sorte When he hadde sente his sonne to encounter the Parthians and one hadde tolde hym that there was a greate fléeing and a sore chase of the ennimies and sawe that they came no more vppon him for they went also from that part he beganne to take comforte leading his army to a rising place thinking his son would haue come straight from the chase They that were firste sent of Publius to tell in what daunger he was were taken of the enimies and slaine The other hardely escaping shewed that Publius was vndone except spéedy and great helpe were sent Nowe was Crassus dynersly troubled he could not sée by reason howe to vse his matters on the one side feare of the whole on the other desire to saue his sonne doubting if he might helpe him or not helpe him yet in the ende went forward with his power Nowe were the enimies come with terrible she wt declaryng Victorie and striking many Armenians and feared the Romanes looking for an other battell They brought the head of Publius vpon a spears point approching nighe and with despight asking who was his parents and kinred For they could not thinke that he was the sonne of Crassus so cowardly and lewd a man being a young man of so noble a renowmed vertue This fight most of al was grieuous to the Romanes directing and breaking their harts not to anger and reuenge as it oughte but vtterly to feare and dreade And then did Crassus shew him selfe most noble as in such a case as they say he went aboute the hoste and cried This O Romanes is my proper losse The greate glorye and fortune of Rome is in you to kéepe vnbroken aud vntouched and if you haue pitie of me that haue loste so good a sonne shewe youre anger vppon your ennimies take away this ioy from them reuenge the crueltie be not dismaide with that is done for they that do great feats must sometime suffer Lucullus ouercame not Tigranes without bloudeshed nor Scipio Antiochus Our Auncestors loste a thousande Shippes in Sicilie In Italy manye Capitames and armies woulde not lette for their losse but to get the victorie againe The Romanes haue not come to so great dominion by fortune but by sufferaunce and manhoode in calamitie When Crassus had saide this to encourage them he didde not sée many willingly heare hym therefore he badde make a noise the whiche bewrayed the faintnesse of the army for they made a séeble and weake crie whiche was answered of the Barbartans wyth chearefull and bolde sounde Comming togither the shotte of the enimies troubled the Romanes on the sides The other comming vppon them with their speares at the face droue them into a litle roomth yet some fléeyng death by the shotte came oute to fight at hande to little purpose being so dispatched with greate and mortall woundes many times the sharpe and long speares passing thorowe horse and man. Thus the night brake the battaile they saying they woulde gratifie Crassus with one night to bury his sonne and to consider with hymselfe whither it were better for him to go to Arsaces or to be led to him They thus going to a place nigh hande were in greate hope But the Romanes