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A00997	The Roman histories of Lucius Iulius Florus from the foundation of Rome, till Cæsar Augustus, for aboue DCC. yeares, & from thence to Traian near CC. yeares, divided by Flor[us] into IV. ages. Translated into English.; Epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri II. English	Florus, Lucius Annaeus.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.; Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?	1619 (1619)	STC 11103; ESTC S102361	97,168	532

the citie were blotted out with the inundations of the bloud of the Galls We may well giue thanks to the immortall gods in the behalfe it selfe of so great a calamitie That fire and flame which destroyed Rome buried the pouertie of Romulus For what other thing else did that burning but prouide that the citie which the Fates ordained to be the mansion seat of men gods might not seeme to haue beene consumed or ouer-whelmed but hallowed and expiated rather Therefore after Rome was thus defended by Manlius and deliuered by Camillus it rose vp against bordering nations more eagerly and vehemently then before And to begin at those very Galls themselues shee not satisfied with hauing driuen them out beyond her walls but drawing after her the ruines of countries wider ouer Italy did so bunt and pursue them vnder Camillus as that at this day there remains no footstep of such a people as the Senones Shee made one slaughter of them at the riuer Anien where Manlius in a single combat tooke from the aduersarie champion a Torques or chayne of gold Thence were the Manlij by-named Torquati Another time shee had the execution of them in the Pontin fields where Marcus Valerius in a like duëll seconded by a sacred bird reft his pursuing enemie of his armes of that bird Coruus a crow the Valerij were entituled Coruini Nor as yet giuing ouer Dolabella after some yeeres did vtterly extinguish the remaines of those generations at the lake of Vadimon in Tuscanie that none of them might be aliue to glorie they had burned Rome CHAP. XIIII Warre with the Latins MAnlius Torquatus and Decius Mus Consuls the Romans turned their weapons points from the Galls vpon the Latins men alwayes troublesome through emulation of being like in power and in bearing office but then specially out of contempt because the citie had beene fired and therefore they demaunded to bee absolutely free of Rome and to haue equall authoritie in state and comming to Magistracie as the Romans so that now they durst doe more then encounter At which time notwithstanding who will wonder if the Latins gaue way When one of the Consuls put his own sonne to death for hauing fought against the discipline of warre without leaue though hee got the vpper hand as thinking Obedience a more important matter then victorie and the other Consull as if counselled thereunto from heauen couering his head deuoued and gaue himselfe to the infernall gods before the first rankes of the armie and shooting himselfe forward into the thickest troupes of the enemies battell opened a new path to victorie by the track of his bloud CHAP. XV. Warre with the Sabins AFter warre with the Latins the people of Rome set vpon the Sabins who growne vnmindfull of that old alliance of theirs vnder Titus Tatius had ioyned themselues to the Latins as infected with a kind of martiall neighbourhood But Curius Dentatus Consull they wasted with fire and sword all the space of ground from the riuer Nar and the springs of Velinus vp as farre as to the Adrian sea By which conquest there was so much land and so much people subdued that whether of them were most not hee who had ouercome them could imagine CHAP. XVI Warre with the Samnits THen moued vpon the petition of the countrey of Campania they inuaded the Samnits not on behalfe of themselues but which was more honourable on behalfe of their associates Both the nations had strucken a league with the Romans but they of Campania by surrender of their whole estate had made it more sincerely and before the other The Romans therefore vnder-went the warre with the Samnits as in their proper right Campania is the most faire and goodly countrey not only of Italie but of all the world Nothing is more delicate then the aire flowers spring there twice euerie yeere No soyle can be richer and therefore it is named the contention or wager of Bacchus and Ceres Nothing can be more harborous then the sea which lyes before it Here are those famous hauen-townes Caieta Misenus and Baiae warmed with her proper fountaines here are the lakes Lucrinus Auernus bowers of delight for the sea to recreate in Here the vines apparrell the mountaines Gaurus Falernus Massicus and the fayrest of all the rest Vesuuius Aetna's riuall for casting out flames Cities vpon the sea-coast Fermiae Cumae Puteoli Naples Herculaneum Pempeij and Capua Queene of Cities and once accounted after Rome and Carthage the third maine Citie of the world For this Seat and those Regions the people of Rome inuaded the Samnits a nation if you respect wealth glittering in armor of gold and siluer-plate and cloathed in diuerse-coloured garments who should be brauest if deceitfulness of ambuscadoes they are bold for the most part vpon the aduantage of wilde woods and mountaines fitted for the purpose if madnesse and rage they were bent to the subuersion of Rome and that intention of theirs solemnly bound vp with cursed lawes and humane sacrifices if their obstinacie after six breaches of league and many notable ouerthrowes they were still more stomachous All these things notwithstanding the Romans in fiftie yeeres space by the conduct of their Fabij and Papirij the fathers and the sonnes did so subdue and tame them and so razed downe the very ruines of their cities that Samnium is at this day sought for in vaine in Samnium nor doth the matter of foure and twenty triumphs easily appeare But the most notable and famous foyle which euer happened to the Romans by this nation was receiued at the Forkes of Caudium Veturius and Posthumius Consuls For our army being drawne by stratagem and shut vp within such a fastnesse as out of which it could not escape Pontius captaine generall of the Samnits amazed at his owne aduantage asked counsell of Herennius his father who as an old souldier wisely bade him either to let all goe free or to kill them all But hee following neither of the courses contented himselfe with only disarming and passing them naked vnder forkes or gallowses and so they neither became friends as in thankefulnesse for a benefit and yet after the foule dis-honour greater enemies then euer The Consuls therefore by voluntarie yeelding themselues back to the Samnits came gloriously off from the infamie of that league and the Roman souldiers crying for reuenge to Papirius their new Generall fell to raging an horrible thing to be spoken with their drawne swords vpon the very way it selfe before they came to fight and in the battell as the Samnits themselues gaue it out the eyes of the Roman were on a bright blaze of fire and neuer gaue ouer killing till they had payd the enemie and their captiue captaine their owne forcks home againe CHAP. XVII Warre with the Etruscans Samnits and Galls HItherto the people of Rome had to deale in battell with one nation after another apart but now in heapes with many at once and yet

some trecherous cōpanions familiar friends of Viriathus and got him murthred being alreadie brought low and ready to yeeld vpon any termes and thereby gaue the enemie so much honor as to make it thought that hee could not otherwise bee conquerd CHAP. XVIII The Numantine warre AS Numantia was inferiour to Carthage Capua and Corinth for riches so for vertue and honour it was equall to them altogether and if wee respect the men thereof it was simply the greatest glorie of Spaine for hauing neither wall nor bulwarke and beeing but onely situated vpon a little rising knoll or hill by the riuer Durius with no more then foure thousand it endured fourteene yeers siege against an armie of fortie thousand And not endured onely but gaue also terrible ouerthrowes and forced vs to accept of shamefull conditions And remayning vnconquer'd after all was done that could bee no other person would serue the turne to subuert it but he who subdued Carthage To speake ingenuously there was no warre of ours the cause whereof was more vniust then was this For the Segidensers their friends and kinsfolke escaping our hands were entertained by them No intercession vsed on their behalfe would be heard And albeit they abstained from intermedling in any broils of warre they were notwithstanding commanded if they would haue a firme and formall peace to purchase it by parting with their armes This proposition was so interpreted by the barbarous as if they must goe hide away their heads in holes Hereupon they forth with fell to armes Megaera a most braue souldier their captaine generall and charging Pompei home in fight they did choose to enter league when they could haue made an end of him After this they set vpon Mancinus whom they so amated with daily slaughters that he had not a souldier in his army durst looke a Numantine in the face or stand his voice yet such was their noblenesse that they were content to make a peace with him also when they might haue had the killing of all his army to a man But the people of Rome no lesse ashamed nor storming lesse at the reproach of these conclusions of peace with the Numantines then they did for those at Caudium discharged themselues from the dishonour of that base treatie by yeelding vp Mancinus to the enemie But Generall Scipio one throughly season'd for the ouerthrow of cities by the burning of Carthage grew hot at length vpon reuenge But hee had more worke within his owne campe then in the open field with his owne men then with the Numantians For his armie hauing vnder other captaines beene formerly tired with dayly and iniust but specially seruile labours such of them as knew not how to vse their weapons were commaunded for their ease who knew the vse to carry more stakes and earth to the rampire and that those should be rayed with durt who would not be smeared with bloud Besides that strumpets scullions and all things else which were not of necessitie to be vsed were cut away It is a saying that Such as the captaine is such is the souldier The armie thus reduced vnder discipline encounters the enemie and then came that to passe which no man did euer hope for the Numantians in sight of all men ranne away They would likewise haue yeelded themselues if the conditions would haue beene but tolerable for men to accept But nothing contenting Scipio sauing a real and absolute victorie they in such extremities resolue to make a desperate sallie after they first had feasted well as at their last viands with halfe-raw flesh and a kinde of broth or drinke made of corne and called by the inhabitants keale or Caelia This resolution of theirs discouer'd to Scipio hee would not afford to men so minded the fauour of battell but girts them vp close with foure camps and hemming them round within trench and counterscarph they besought him for fight that so hee might dispatch them like men But when that would not bee granted they agree to rush out howsoeuer and comming so to handy-strokes very many of them were slaine and famine now comming fast vpon the residue they liued yet a little longer Their last helpe was to flie but their wiues brake their horse-bridles and committing an heinous offence through loue bereft them of that remedy Their end therefore being now no longer to bee deferred their sufferance turnes into furie decreeing among themselues to die in this manner They made away their captains themselues and towne with the sword with poyson and with setting all on fire Goe thy wayes O thou most valiant citie of the world and in mine opinion most happy withall in the very worst that happened vpon thee being that for protection of thy friends thou didst defend thy selfe with thine owne hand and for so long a time against that people which had all the earth to backe and beare them out To conclude the citie which was thus taken by the greatest captaine vnder heauen lest nothing of it selfe for the enemie to reioyce in ouer it For there was not a man of all Numantia left aliue to bee trail'd in chaines spoile and bootie as among poore folkes there was not any their armor munition were burnt So all the triumph which could bee had was ouer a name alone CHAP. XIX A briefe repetition ALl this while the people of Rome were in their actions faire noble pious holy and magnificent The ages following as they were as full of great acts so were they also more troublesome and foule vices still growing as the empire grew So that if a man diuide into two parts this third age of their power emploi'd by them in attempts out of Italy he must worthily confesse the first hundred yeeres thereof in which they tamed Africke Macedonia Sicilia and Spaine to bee as the poets sing them the golden age the other hundred to bee plainely the yron and bloudy one and whatsoeuer else is more horribly cruell as that which with the Iugurthine Cimbrian Mithridatick Parthian Gallick and German warres whose acts made our glorie mount to heauen it selfe did mingle those Gracchian and Drusine massacres yea the bondmens warre and that no dishonour might hee wanting the warre against the fensers also And finally turning their weapons each vpon the other they tore themselues into pieces with the hands of Marius and Sylla and lastly of Pompei and Caesar as it were in fits of rage and furie and in contempt of all religion Which actions though they are intricately wrapt one within the other and confounded among themselues neuerthelesse to make them the better to appeare and that their heinous facts may not trouble their heroick they shal be set forth apart Therefore to follow our first method wee will commemorate those iust and solemne warres against forein nations that the degrees of greatnesse by which the empire was day by day augmented may bee manifest Then will wee returne to those blacke deeds of theirs in their monstrous

discontented with Gods and men the hauen-towne Ostia a pupill and foster-child of Rome was at the first assault taken and with horrible destruction pillaged From thence he enters the citie in foure battels Cinna Marius Carbo and Sertorius leading them where after that the whole band of Octauius was beaten from mount Ianiculum presently vpon a signe giuen they fell to killing the princes and chiefe lords much more sauagely then is vsed either in a Paenish or a Cimbrian citie The head of Octauius Consul was pitcht vpon a pole before the Rostra and the head of Antonius a Consularie man was set on the boord before Marius himselfe Casar and Fimbria were murthred in that place of their houses where their household Gods stood and Crassus the father and son each insight of other Bebius and Numitor were drawne with the hangmans hookes through the middle of the Forum Catulus freed himselfe from being made the scorne of his enemies by smothering Merula Iupiters priest bespurtled the eyes of Ioue himself with the bloud which sprung out of his veines in the Capitol Ancharius was runne through Marius himselfe looking on because when Marius saluted him hee reacht not out forsooth that fatall hand of his These Senators he massacred between the Calends and Ides of Ianuary in that seuenth Consulship of his What would haue become of things if after that proportion of killing hee had beene Consul but a yeere Scipio and Norbanus Consuls that third worst whirlwinde of ciuill surie thundred forth with all the violence it had at which time seuen legions of the one side on another fiue hundred cohorts stood in armes and Sulla hastned out of Asia with a victorious army And certainely Marius hauing shewed himselfe so mercilesse towards Sulla's friends how great cruelty was there neede of for Sulla to bee euen with Marius Their first encounter was at Capua by the riuer Vulturnus and there the army of Norbanus was quickly ouerthrowne and all Scipio's forces vpon colourable ouerture of peace speedily oppressed Then Marius the yonger and Carbo Consuls as if the hope they had to get the victorie were quite dead yet not to perish vnreuenged they parentated to themselues with the bloud of the Senate And besetting the Senate-house such of the Senate whose throats they meant to cut were drawne out from thence as out of a sheep-penne or prison What slaughters were there in the Forum in the Circus and open Temples For MVTIVS SCAEVOLA the priest embracing the altar of Vesta in his atmes is onely not buried in her fire Lamponius and Telesinus ringleaders of the Samnits waste Campania and Etruria more dreadfully then Pyrrhus and Annibal did and vnder the colour of siding reuenge themselues The whole forces of the enemies were quite distrest at Sacriport and port Collin or Hill-gate There Marius and here Telesinus were destroyed But warre and slaughter ended not together For the sword was vnsheathed euen in peace and they who freely yeelded themselues were also depriued of their liues It is not lesse hainous that Sulla at Sacriport and Hill-gate did cut in pieces aboue threescore and ten thousand But then it was war Hee commanded aboue foure thousand vnarmed citizens who had yeelded themselues to bee put to the sword in the publike village These though so many slaine in cold bloud yet are no more then foure thousand But who can number them who were kill'd euery-where thorowout the citie by any one who lifted till Furfidius admonished that some ought to bee left aliue that there might be ouer whom to commaund Hereupon was that huge table hung out in which two thousand by name cull'd forth of the very flowre of the Senate knights and gentlemen were proclaimed to die A new kinde of edict It were tedious after al these things to historifie the killing in cruel sport of Carbo of Soranus the Praetor and of Venuleius and how Baebius was not slaine with the sword but torne in pieces with hands as with the pawes of sauage beasts How Marius brother of the Generall Marius was thrust with his eyes hands and thighes into the earth before the tombe of Catulus and in that state kept so aliue as hee might sensibly feele himselfe die in euery part To let passe almost all the seuerall formes of death vsed vpon seuerall persons the statelyest free-townes of Italy were sold as at an outrop who would giue most Spoletum Interamnium Praeneste Fluentia For as for Sulmo that ancient confederate and friend-citie not yet conquer'd Sulla O vnworthy fact commanded it to bee vtterly razed condemning it no otherwise then as hostages condemn'd by the law of armes and accordingly sentenced to death are commanded forth to execution CHAP. XXII The warre with Sertorius WHat other thing else was the Sertorian warre then the inheritance of Sulla's proscription Whether I should stile it an hostile or a ciuill warre I know not as that which the Lusitanians and Celtiberians acted hauing a Roman to their Generall Hee was a man of an excellent rare but of a disastrous valour out-law'd for his life and flying that most deadly proclamation hee tossed both sea and land with mixture of his miseries and trying his fortune now in Africa then in the Balearies and sent from thence into the Ocean past thorow to the Fortunateilands and lastly armed Spaine where as a man with men hee easily made head nor did the couragious brauerie of Spanish souldiers appeare in any place more plainely then when a Roman led them though not contented with Spaine alone he minded Mithridates also and the Ponticks ayding him with a nauie What had beene able to resist so potent an enemie The world could not withstand by onely one captains meanes Cnaeus Pompeius was ioyned to Metellus They wasted the puissance of Sertorius in battell though it was long first and neuer but with doubtfull fight nor at last by faire warre for hee was dispatcht through the villanie and treason of his familiar friends and our captaines hauing traced his armies almost ouer all Spaine did neuer encounter his but the battell was alwayes long and hazardous The first proofe wee made of his abilities was by lieutenants generall when Domitius and Thorius vpon the one side and the Herculeij vpon the other made some light skirmishes but these being eftsoones slaine at Segouia and those at the riuer Anas the Generals themselues comming to try it out in person at Lauro and Sucron parted each with equall mischiefe done to either They turning then their power to waste the countrey and these to the subuersion of cities wretched Spaine smarted for the quarrels of the Roman captaines one against the other till such time as Sertorius muthered by practice of his house-hold friends and conquer'd Perperna submitting himselfe the cities Osea Terme Tutia Valentia Auximia and which had endured the worst of hunger Calaguris sware feaulty to the Romans So Spaine receiued into peace the victorious Generals had rather it should seeme a foraine warre