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A33321	The life & death of Julius Cæsar, the first founder of the Roman empire as also, The life and death of Augustus Cæsar, in whose raign [sic] Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Chri[s]t was borne / by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4529; ESTC R19882	65,031	99

to oblige Pompey more to him gave him his Daughter Julia in marriage who was made sure before to Servilius Caepio promising him in her stead Pompeys Daughter who also was made sure unto Faustus the Son of Sylla And shortly after Caesar himself married Calphurnia the Daughter of Piso whom he caused to succeed him in the Consulship Cato then cryed out and called the Gods to witnesse that it was a shamefull thing that they should make such havock in the Commonwealth by such horrible Bawdy matches hereby dividing amongst themselves the Government of Provinces and great Armies And Bibulus perceiving that he did but contend in vaine Caesar being too potent for him and that his Life was in danger for opposing these Laws he kept his House all the rest of his Consulship Pompey having married Julia he filled the Market-place with Souldiers and by open force authorised the Lawes which Caesar had made in favour of the People He procured also that Caesar had both the Gauls and all Illyria with four Legions granted him for five years and when Cato stood up to speak against it Caesar bad his Officers to lay hold on him and carry him to Prison thinking that he would have appealed to the Tribunes but Cato said no more but went his way And Caesar seeing that not only the Nobility but the Commons also were offended at it out of respect to Cato's virtues he secretly prayed one of the Tribunes that he would take Cato from his Officers which was done accordingly Many of the Senators refused to be present in the Senate under him but left the City because they could not endure his doings whereupon one Considius an old man told him that the Senators durst not meet because of his Souldiers Why then said Caesar dost not thou also keep home out of the same fear Because said he My age takes away my fear from me for having so short a time to live I care not to prolong it further Caesar preferred Clodius a base fellow to be Tribune who sought the Office for no other end but to destroy Cicero who had discovered his Villanies and Caesar would not go to his Province till he had set them two together by the ears and driven Cicero out of Italy Yet did he deserve the name of as brave a Generall as any that went before him if we consider the hard Countries where he made Wars His gaining of so many Countries which he adjoyned to the Empire of Rome The multitude and power of the enemies whom he overcame The rudenesse and Valour of the men with whom he had to doe whose manners yet he mollified and civilized His courtesy and clemency to those whom he overcame His great bounty and liberallity to those that served under him As also if we consider the number of Battels that he fought and the multitude of enemies that were slaine by him For in lesse then ten years he took by assault above eight hundered Townes He conquered three hundred Nations and having at several times above thirty hundred thousand Souldiers against him he slew a Million of them and took as many more Prisoners He was so intirely beloved of his Souldiers that to doe him service and to advance his honour they were invincible As appeares by the example of Acilius who in a Sea-fight before the City of Marseiles boarding one of the enemies Ships had his right hand cut off and yet he ran upon his enemies thrusting them in their faces with his Target on his left hand and so prevailed that he took their Ship One Cassius Scava also in a fight before the City of Dyrrachium having an eye put out with an Arrow his shoulder striken through with a Dart and his thigh with another having received thirty Arrows upon his Shield called to his enemies as if he would yeild to them but when two of them came running to him he cut off one of their armes by the shoulder and wounded the other in the face and made them give back till he was fetched off by some of his fellowes In Brittan also when some of his Captaines were driven into a bog full of mire and dirt the enemies fiercely assaulting them there Caesar viewing the Battel he saw a private Souldier thrust in amongst the Captaines where he fought so valiantly that at length he forced the Barbarous People to fly and thereby saved the Captaines who otherwise had perished there And then this Souldier being the hindmost of all the Captaines marched through the bog sometimes swiming and sometimes on foot till he gat to the farther side onely he lost his Target Caesar wondring at his valour ran and imbraced him But the poor Souldier hanging down his head with teares in his eyes fell at Caesars feet begging pardon for leaving his Target behind him In Africk also Scipio having taken one of Caesars Ships slew all that were in it save Petronius a Treasurer to whome he profered life But Petronius answered him that Caesars Souldiers used to give others their lives and not to have their lives given them and thereupon slew himself with his own Sword Now Caesar bred this courage in them by rewarding them bountifully and honouring them He also gave them a good example by adventuring himself upon manifest dangers and putting his Body to extreame paines when there was occasion which filled them with admiration As for his costitution he was lean white and soft skin'd and often troubled with the Head-ach and sometimes with the falling sicknesse yet yeilded he not to his sicknesse but rather took paines as a Medicine to cure it travelling continually living soberly and commonly lying abroad in the Fields Most nights he slept in his Coach and in the dayes travelled up and down to see Cities Castles and strong holds He had alwayes a Secretary with him in his Coach who writ as they went by the way and a Souldier behind him that carryed his Sword He made such speed when he had gotten his Office at Rome that in eight dayes he came to the River of Rhone He was an excellent Rider from his youth for holding his hands behind him he would run his Horse upon the spurre In his Wars in Gaul or France he used to exercise himself in inditing Letters by the way wherein he was so nimble that he imployed two Secretaries or more at one time He made very little account of his Diet Supping one night in Millane with his Friend Valerius Leo there was served at Table some Sperage with perfumed oile instead of Sallet oile he eat it and found no fault blaming his Friends who were offended at the mistake saying that if they liked it not they should have let it alone and that it was not good manners hereby to shame their Friend At another time in his journey he was forced by soul weather to shelter himself in a poor Cottage that had but one Cabbin and that so narrow that one could