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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68396	The practice of policy written by Lodowike Lloyd ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 16627; ESTC S1335	51,274	90

with Samsons heyfar to their owne ouerthrow and some with Minoes Cowe to breed many monstrous Minotaures to deuoure their country And too many plow against the law of Moses with an Oxe and an Asse and all this to practise policy Sectio 6. IN Greece were two generall factions the Doreans and Ionians the Lacedemonians tooke part with the Doreans and the Athenians with the Ionians From these two Factions Two generall factiōs in Greece grew in Greece such seditions that the Boetians the Argiues Elians Mantineans and others some affecting the Doreans with the Lacedemonians some affecting the Ionians with the Athenians that it brake out into ciuil warres which continued 27. yeres to the destructiō of the Empire of Greece which somtyme gaue so many ouerthrowes to the Persians so many victories at Marathō at Artimesium at Salamina other-where that now by meanes of their factions seditions Philip of Macedon saw such oportunity to subdue the Graecians which hee long thirsted for that he ouercame Greece with Greekes for so it is written Graeci Graecorum manibus mactabantur by meanes chiefly of their ciuil seditions and factions he wan more townes in Greece by Greeks then by the Macedonians The like of the ciuill warres among the Romanes the Danes thought it the fittest time to winne Rome Front lib. 1. cap. 10 Scorylo in such a seditious time as Philip did Greece yet Scorylo their Generall at that time appoynted doubting much of this enterprise caused two great mastiue dogs to fight eagerly before the people that both were wel wearied then Scorylo brought in a Wolfe in the sight of these mastiue dogs straight wayes both the dogs left off fighting both of them ran fiercely fought egerly with the Wolfe The fierce ciuill warres and fighting of the Romanes at home sayd Scorylo will euen so do when they see a Wolfe I meane a forrayne enemy to commence warre against them There was also in Athens two factions Pericles being the authour of one and Cymon the sonne of Milciades Two factions in Athens the other Pericles affected the cōmon people and Cimon preferred the Nobility and fauoured their proceedings in such sort that Athens was neuer quiet but when it was disquieted with it selfe by meanes of factions which do nourish seditions hauing their busie-brayned Oratours to force the Athenians to fight with their tongues consilio calamis linguâ for it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Aristoph the disposition of that City neuer to consult as Demosthenes sayd but too late euery towne in Greece was so factious that the glory of Greece by meanes of factions and seditions continued but 50. yeeres and some odde in any greatnesse And in Sparta for all Lycurgus care and his lawes he could not free Sparta from factions and yet he deuided Two factions in Spartae Obas and Philas them all into 2. factions whom Lycurgus himselfe named Obas Philas which lawes decrees of Lycurgus were so kept for 500. yeres without violating them for none in Greece durst breake Lycurgus lawes but Agesilaus and that but once vpon great necessity to punish seditions In Carthage also they had two factions the one faction followed Hamilcar Hanibals father and after him his son Hanibals the other followed Hanno his friēds so that in kingdoms and coūtries factious men moued such sedition wherby no greater harmes happened to kingdomes and countries then by practising seditions and factions Hamilcar Hannibals father so hated the Romans that hauing 4. young youthes to his sonnes sayd that hee would haue 4. Lion whelps nourished brought vp with his 4. sonnes as mortall enemies to the Romanes and sware Hannibal his eldest son being of 9. yeres old Polib 2. to continue an enemy to the Romanes during his life and further to shew his malice enuy towards the Romanes he raised vp the dust frō the earth with his foot and said that then should be the end of the warres between Rome Carthage when one of both those Cities should be brought to nothing but such dust In Rome before Fab. Max. time they had but foure Foure factions in Rome factions which were deuided by Tullus Hostilius the third king of Rome and by him named Palatina Colina Exquilina and Suburrana after the name of the foure gates of Rome at that time being the Infancy of Rome But after it grew from foure factions to be fiue and thirty Tribes that euery Tribe was full of diuers factions and the Romane Empire waxed so mighty that Fabius Maximus when he was Censor in Rome for that he brought all forraine factions within Rome to be one of these foure which Seruius Tullus named Fab. named Max. Vrbanas factiones was so gratefull to the Citizens of Rome that they named him Fabius Maximus which was the first time that he was called Maximus for abridging the multitude of factions that then would haue growen in Rome vnto infinite numbers if Fabius had not brought them vnder one of these foure But in the time of Sylla and Marius factions began so to multiply in Rome as it did in Greece that likewise The ciuill wartes of the Romās it brake out into ciuill warres which continued from Sillaes time vnto the last ouerthrow of Mar. Antonius welnigh fourty yeeres to the destruction of the whole Empire some following the fury of Marius as Sertorius Cynna Carbo and others followers of Sylla as Metellus Pompey and others that none might dwell in Rome but those that eyther should bee on Marius side or on Syllaes Thus was the Empire deuided by factions from Sylla to Caesar from Caesar to Augustus sometime running from Caesar to Pompey and from Pompey to Caesar vntill they and their factions were slayn by the sword and their countrey welnigh destroyed Of all miseries ciuill warres is most miserable and a very Ocean sea of all miseries in which Nobilitas cum plebe perit wherof Homer exclaimed said Let him be cursed as an vnnatural monster no man that seeketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Iliad 1. Cic. Phil. 12. his countries harme And Cicero in like sort cryed out vpon him Quem caedes ciuium quem bellum ciuile delectat and wished such to be cast out of the society of men and to weed them out of the bounds of nature Factions among great men are more dangerous hard to be quenched for that these potentates draw the people and moue them which are compared to the sea vnmoueable vntill a tempest rise and therfore Plato thought good to ioyne Aristides surnamed the iust for his iustice trueth and constancy with Themistocles being haughty and somewhat ambitious And Lycurgus much commended the policy of Agamemnon Lycurgus to put Vlisses forward to clayme Achilles armour as wel as Aiax who iudged himselfe most worthy in respect of his valor to be next Achilles throughout al Greece This discord was tempred by Agamemnon by