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A64914	The lives of the illustrious Romans writ in Latin by Sextus Aurelius Victor ; and translated by several young gentlemen educated by Mr. Maidwell.; De viris illustribus urbis Romeo. English.	Pliny, the Younger.; Suetonius, ca. 69-ca. 122.; Nepos, Cornelius.; Victor, Sextus Aurelius.; Maidwell, Lewis, 1650-1715.	1693 (1693)	Wing V342; ESTC R13291	41,581	228

of the Soothsayers he was advanced to the Degree of Pretor L. MUMMIUS ACHAICUS L. Mummius was sirnamed Achaicus U.C. 606. from Conquering Achaia Before Ch. 144. in his Consulship he was ordered to prosecute the War against the Corinthians and and had the Honor of a Victory which in merit was rather due to his Predecessor For after Metellus Macedonicus had routed the Enemy at Heraclea a City of Elis in the Peloponnese and killed their General Critolaus he hastened with his Serjeants and a few Horse to Metellus's Camp to share the Good Fortnne of the Battel and with more ease defeated the Enemy at Leutopetra in the Isthmus of Corinth Diaeus their Commander fled in despair set his House on Fire killed his Wife threw her into the Flames and then poisoned himself Mummius plundered Corinth and adorned Italy with their Pictures and Statues yet so modente as to carry none to his own Horse Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS MACEDONICUS U.C. 606. Quinctus Caecilius Metelluss obtain'd the Title of Macedonicus Before Ch. 144. from subduing Macedonia In his Praetorship he overcame the Impostor Andriscus who assumed the Name of King Philip he routed the Achaians twice but Mummius intercepted the Glory of the Triumph The People to shew their Hatred towards him for his Severity with much Difficulty chose him Consul after he had miss'd it at two Elections He vanquished the Arbachi in Spai● and with great Courage before the Town Contrebia made those Cohorts which gave way to rally and regain their Post he was so close and surprizing in his Counsels that he answered one of his Friends inquiring into his Resolutions He would bur his Coat if he thought it knew his nind He was the happy Father of four valiant Sons who carried him to his Grave three of whom he saw honored with a Consulate and the other with a Triumph Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS NUMIDICUS U.C. 643. Q. Caecilius Metellus in his Consulship triumphed over Jugurtha Before Ch. 107. King of Numidia and from thence called Numidicus when he was Censor he signaliz'd his Integrity by refusing to inroll in the publick Register the Name of Quinctius who scandalously pretended to be the Son of Tiberius Gracchus and chose rather to be banish'd than agree to the Law which Apuleius by violence imposed upon them He lived in Exile at Smyrna and at last was recalled by Calidius Tribune of the People He always discovered a Constancy in his Temper as appear'd in the Theatre by not reading the Letter which was brought him till the Show was over and by not making a Funeral Oration in Commendation of Lucullus his Sister Metella's Husband who had been the only person wrought upon to recant his Vote against the Agrarian and Frumentarian Laws Q. METELLUS PIUS He was the Son of Metellus Numidicus U.C. 660. and honor'd with the Cognomen of Pius for his Filial Duty Before Ch. 90. and continual Intercession with Tears to have his Father recall'd from Banistment He shewed his Valour in the Social War in which he commanded as Praetor and kill'd Q. Popedius General of the Marsi He was sent Consul into Spain where he defeated the Herculeii Lieutenants to Sertorius and forc'd him out of that Country In his Youth when he was Candidate for the Praetorship and Pontificat he was preferred to his Competitors of Consular Dignity The HONORABLE Mr. WASHINGTON SHIRLEY From the Year 619 to 670 U. C. TIBERIUS GRACCHVS Tiberius Gracchus U.C. 619. Grandson to Scipio Africanus by his Daughter Cornelia Before Ch. 131. was Quaestor under Mancinus in Spain and consented to the making of that dishonorable League with the Numantini but by his plausible Eloquence escaped being delivered up to them When he was Tribune of the People he made two Laws one that no person whatsoever should possess above Five hundred Acres of Land the other that the Estate which Attalus King of Pergamus bequeathed to the Commonwealth should be divided among the People His Colleague Octavius zealously opposed the former and was therefore turned out of his Office contrary to all Precedents At the following Election in hopes of continuing another year in his Office he came into the Assembly tho the Predictions of Augurs were against him and went directly towards the Capitol putting his Hand to his Head by which Gesture he desired the Protection of the People but the Nobility thought that he then demanded the Crown and Mucius the Consul being tardy in pursuing him Scipio Nasica commanded all those that wished well to the Safety of the Commonwealth to follow him and seizing upon Gracchus in the Capitol slew him Lucretius the Aedile took up his Body and threw it into the River Tiber from whence he was nicknamed Vespillo Nasica that he might be out of the way and secured from popular Odium went under Colour of an Embassdor into Asia CAIUS GRACCHUS U.C. 629. Caius Gracchus was made Quaestor of that unhealthsul Island of Sardinia Before Ch. 131. and at the expiration of his Year left the place contrary to Law before any one came to succeed him He bore the Blame of the Revolt of Asculum and Fregellae When he was Tribune of the People he set up the Laws about the Division of Lands and Distribution of Corn among the People and was for sending Colonies to Capua and Tarentum He made Fulvius Flaccus and C. Craslus Joint-Commissioners with himself for the Division of the Lands Minucius Rufus Tribune of the People opposing his Actions as seditious he went with his party for security into the Capitol yet after he saw Atilius one of Opimius the Consul's Serjeants killed by the Crowd he came down into the Forum and imprudently broke up the Assembly held there by Minucius Rufus Tribune of the People for which Misdemeanour he was summoned to appear before the Senate but in defiance to them he armed all his Servants and possessed himself of Mount Aventine where he was routed by Opimius and leaping from the Temple of Diana for fear of being taken Prisoner sprained his Ancle his Friend Pomponius stopping those that pursued him at the Gate called Trigemina and Publius Laetorius detaining others at the Wooden Bridge he made his Escape into the Goddess Furina's Wood when he was killed either by Euphorus his Servant or by himself 'T is reported that his Head was carried by Septimuleius his Friend to Opimius the Consul and sold for its Weight in Gold And that through Covetousness he filled it with Lead to make it the heavier M. LUCIUS DRUSUS U.C. 640. Marcus Lucius Drusus descended of a Noble Family Before Ch. 110. was very eloquent but ambitious and proud In his Aedileship he gratified the People with a most magnificent Shew at which time Remmius his Colleague advising something for the Good of the Common-wealth he answered him arrogantly What have you to do with my Common-wealth When he was Quaestor in Asia he would not appear in publick

vincere posse O Pyrrhus you the Romans shall o'ercome He interpreting this to his own Fancy made War with the Romans by the help of the Tarentini and disorder'd Laevinus the Consul's Army by the City Heraclea with the strange sight of his Elephants but after the Fight when he beheld the Roman Soldiers slain only by honourable Wounds in their Breasts he cried out With such brave Men as these could I soon conquer the whole World and answer'd his Friends congratulating his Success What do I gain by such a Victory as costs me the Flower of my Army Then he march'd on and encamp'd twenty Miles from Rome generously restoring the Captives to Fabricius without Ransom where seeing the new Army of Laevinus so suddenly recruited he declar'd he underwent the same Difficulty against the Romans as his Ancestor Hercules with the Serpent Hydra He was routed by Fabricius and Curius and fled to Tarentum thence pass'd over into Sicily yet once more to try his Fortune he return'd to Locri in Italy and rob'd Proserpine's Temple but endeavouring to carry off the Treasure his Fleet was driven back by a Storm and wreck'd upon the Shoar Thence returning into Greece as he besieg'd Argos he was slain with a Tile thrown down on his Head His Body was carried to Antigonus King of Macedonia and magnificently enterr'd FABRICIUS U.C. 477. The year after the victorious Romans had driven Pyrrhus to Tarentum Fabricius was sent General against Before Ch. 273. him he had been formerly Embassador to Pyrrhus and tho he was proffer'd a fourth part of his Kingdom would not be brid'd from his Honesty When he and the King encamp'd near one another Pyrrhus's Physician came to him by night promising to poison his Prince if he would reward him accordingly Fabricius detesting the Fact commanded him to be bound and carried back that his Lord might know what this Traitor had design'd against his Life In admiration of which generous Action the King is reported to have said This is that Fabricius whose Integrity 't is harder to corrupt than to turn the Sun from its Course DECIUS MUS Volscinii a noble City of Hetruria U.C. 487. was almost ruin'd by its Luxury Before Ch. 263. for very indiscreetly they had freed their Slaves and admitted them into the Senate who in return by a Confederacy became their Masters After they had thus suffer'd many Indignities they secretly begg'd Aid of the Romans Decius Mus was presently sent to their Assistance who overcame these insolent Freed Men and either put them to Death in Prison or delivered them again in subjection to their Lords APPIUS CLAUDIUS CAUDEX Appius Claudius U.C. 488. sirnamed Caudex was Brother to Appius Caecus after the Settlement of the Volsinienses Before Ch. 262. he was sent Consul to free the Mamertini in Sicily whose Castle Hiero King of Syracuse with the Carthaginians had besieg'd He first pass'd the Streights of Sicily in a Fisher-Boat to view the Enemy and the forc'd the Carthaginian General to withdraw his Forces out of the Cittadel Returning to Rhegium he with his Infantry took a five Bank'd Galley of the Enemies and with that Vessel transporting a Legion into Sicily drove the Carthaginians from Messana Hiero surrendered himself to him upon Terms at the Battel of Syracuse and was so terrified with the Danger of the War that he desir'd the Friendship of the Romans and prov'd ever after very faithful to them CAIUS DUILIUS U.C. 258. Caius Duilius was Admiral in the first Punick War against the Carthaginians Before Ch. 492. and finding them very powerful at Sea rigg'd out a strong Fleet his Enemies laugh'd at his Invention of Grapling Irons with which he took thirty and sunk thirteen of their Ships Hannibal the Carthaginian Admiral fled to Carthage and pretended to demand Instructions of the Senate as yet ignorant of his Misfortune They unanimously voted he should fight the Enemy I have fought says he and lost the Day Thus he escap'd Crucifixion for among the Carthaginians the General that had the Misfortune fortune to be beaten was so punish'd Dailius had this perpetual Honor confen'd on him to return in publick from Supper with Flambeaux and Trumpeters before him ATILIUS CALATINUS Atilius Calatinus was sent General into Sicily against the Carthaginians U.C. 494. he forced the Enemies Garrisons out of Enna Before Ch. 256. Drepanum and Lilybaeum their best and strongest Cities and took Panormus He ravag'd the whole Island and with a few Ships beat the Enemies great Fleet under the Command of Amilcar But making haste to raise the Siege of Camerina he was shut up in a narrow Pass by the Carthaginians where Calpurnius Flamma one of his Tribunes drawing out three hundred Soldiers gain'd a Hill and by his Valour freed the Consul tho his whole Party was cut off and he found half dead by the Consul After this the Romans became a Terror to their Enemies and Atilius obtain'd a Glorious Triumph MARCUS ATILIUS REGULUS M. Atilius Regulus in his Consulship U.C. 497. triumph'd for his Conquest over the Salentini Before Ch. 253. he was the first Roman General that pass'd over with a Navy into Africa his Fleet suffer'd much by a Shipwreck yet he took from Amilcar the Carthaginian Admiral sixty three Gallies besides two hundred Towns with two hundred thousand Captives Whilst he commanded abroad his Wife and Children by reason of their Poverty were kept at the Publick Charge The next year he was taken by the policy of Xanthippus a Lacedaemonian Captain who serv'd the Carthaginians and cast into Prison He was sent Embassador from thence to Rome to treat about the Exchange of Prisoners promising upon his Oath to return if he could not obtain it but he more consulting the Benefit of his Country oppos'd it in the Senate and not regarding the Prayers and Tears of his Wife and Family returned to Carthage where in revenge they put him into a Wooden Chest stuck full of Nails by which horrible Torture and for want of Sleep he died CAIUS LUTATIUS CATULUS C. Lutatius Catulus U.C. 511. in the first Punick War commanded three hundred Sail against the Carthaginians Before Ch. 239. and in a Fight near the Islands Aegates between Sicily and Africa took and and sunk six hundred of their Ships laden with Provisions and other Necessaries under their Admiral Anno by which great Victory he put an end to the War and at their Entreaty made a Peace with them on these Terms that they should march out of Sicily Sardinia and the other Islands between Italy and Africa giving up all Provinces in Spain as far as the River Iberus Mr. BLAKWELL PARKYNS From the Year 511. to 563. U.C. HANNIBAL the Carthaginian General HAnnibal was Son to Hamilcar U.C. 534. General of the Carthaginians Before Ch. 216. in the first Punick War who brought him when but nine years old before the Altar solemnly to swear perpetual