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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11366	The tvvo most vvorthy and notable histories which remaine vnmained to posterity (viz:) the conspiracie of Cateline, vndertaken against the gouernment of the Senate of Rome, and the vvarre which Iugurth for many yeares maintained against the same state. Both written by C.C. Salustius.; Bellum Catilinae. English	Sallust, 86-34 B.C.; Sallust, 86-34 B.C. Bellum Jugurthinum. English. aut; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1609 (1609)	STC 21625; ESTC S116620	153,941	206

or abandoning your naked bodies to your enemies were a point of madnesse beyond extreame In a set battaile no danger is comparable to feare Resolution is vnconquerable Valiant Companions euen the opinion of your woorthes your former exploits and your yeares fit for warre warrant my conceits of good fortune I will silence necessities true motiues to make Cowardes couragious the streights of the Mountaines forbid our Enemies to inclose vs and therefore if our destinies be to die set your liues at a deare rate die not vnreuenged neither suffer your selues to be taken Prisoners afterwards to be cut in pieces rather like Dogges then men of seruice Leaue nothing to your enemies to boast of saue a Lamentable and bloudie victorie 2. After a little pausing he commandeth to sound to the charge and Marshalling his battallions in very seemely order approcheth the place of encounter Where being arriued hee causeth euery man to dismisse his horse that the daunger being alike their hopes and constancie should be equall yea himselfe on foote rangeth his people as the Nature of the place and his numbers would permit The plaine was fortified on the left hand with Mountaines on the right with a steepe rocke Betweene these he brought the vauntgard consisting of eight Cohortes the Areregard he commaunded to march more close and in it he placed the chiefe and choisest Centurions The Mercinaries and best armed made the first rankes of the battell Caius Manlius marched on the right hand a certaine Fesulan on the left Himselfe with his fellow-Cittizens all free men borne and the aides of the Colonies stood next vnto the standard of the Eagle the same they say that C. Marius displaied in the Cimbrian warre On the other side C. Antonius being sicke of the Gout could not be at the combate and therefore made M. Petreyus his Lieutenant Generall Of old souldiers pressed out for the suddennesse of the businesse he made the voward the residue he placed behind for succor and aduantage Then gallopping through the rankes calling vpon euery Captaine by name he coniureth he commandeth he intreateth that that day they would shewe themselues men and call to remembrance that they were to fight but against a rable of vnarmed fugitiues for their Countrey their children their Religion This Martiall man had bin aboue thirty yeares Tribune and either as Generall Lieutenant or Colonell had borne the Offices in many fortunate battailes wherein he knew the insufficiency of his followers and their valiant exploits by repitition whereof he doubled their courages All places thus ordered hee soundeth the signall hee marcheth somewhat forward and then maketh a stand the like doth Cateline Then the battailes aproching within shot they runne fiercely to the shocke with diuers clamors and deadly hatred The shot being spent they fall to their swords The old Soldiers disdaining to be foiled go resolutely to the charge Laus optimi imperatoris Resolue I cannot whether he A better Chiefe or Souldier be and are as valiantly receiued both dooing their vtmost At last Cateline comming in with his light armed followers into the head of the battalions refresheth the weary planteth fresh soldiers in the places of the wounded hath an eye vppon all chances giueth and taketh many strokes finally performeth the part of a valiant souldier and an excellent Commander Petreyus assoone as hee pereciued the station of Cateline imagining that there his people should bee forcst trauelled without more ado chargeth into the midst of his enemies with the Pretorian Cohort speedily disordereth their rankes and slayeth as many as make resistance Then turneth he head vpon the winges and at the first shocke slayeth Manlius and Fesulanus When Cateline saw this miserable spectacle his armie defeated and few left about him calling to mind the Honour of his house and his auncient dignity thrusteth into the thickest of his enemies and there valiantly fighting was slaine The battaile beeing ended what valour and courage had bin in Catelines people was plainely to be discerned For what parcell of ground any one made choice of to stand on in fight the same being slaine his slaughtered carcasse couered Onely a few violently ouerborn by the fresh charge of the Pretorian cohort lay somewhat farther remoued yet al with their deaths-wounds vpon the fore-parts of their bodies The bodie of Cateline was at length found dead amongst the slaughter of his slaine enemies not yet altogether breathlesse but in countenance shewing some tokens of his liuing fiercenesse At a word not one free Cittizen was taken aliue either in fight or flight neither partie made spare of their owne bloods So farre forth that the victory prooued neyther ioyfull nor vnbloody to the Roman people For the brauest men were either slaine in fight or dangerously wounded Of many that went out of their Tents whether to gaze vpon the place of the battaile or to rifle the dead bodies of their Adversaries some found their friends some their Hosts some their Kinsmen and amongst them many of their knowne enemies Insomuch that the whole Campe was replenished with diuersitie of humors of ioy of heauinesse of Triumph of Mourning FINIS C. C. SALVSTIVS his History of the Warre of IVGVRTH Printed at London Anno MDCIX A Breuiat of the Historie Now the Realm of Tuâ—is in Barbary NVMIDIA contayneth that part of Affrick wherein Massinissa the faithfull friend and confederate of the Roman people sometime raigned This Massinissa had three Sonnes Micipsa Manastaball and Gulussa Manastaball and Gulussa died by whose death the Kingdome entirely descended to Micipsa Micipsa had issue Adherbal and Hiempsal Iugurth he fostered as the Sonne of his Brother Manastabal for that his Grand-father Massinissa had left him vnaduanced as his base Grand-Childe begotten on the body of a Concubine The man was ambitious well qualified of a ready wit and great spirit elder then Adherbal or Hiempsal In iealousie whereof Micipsa fearing that if he should die during the minority of his children that their Cousin Iugurth might happen ambiciously to vsurpe the Kingdome resolued to oppose him to daungerous aduentures in hope by these meanes to see him miscarry About the same time it happened that the Romans vnder the conduct of Scipio besieged Numantia in Spaine wherevnto Micipsa sent certaine Regiments of Horse and foote vnder the commaund of his Kinsman Iugurth their Generall making full accouÌ„t in this iourney to heare newes answerable to his plotted desseignements but Fortune had otherwise decreed for in this war the reputation of Iugurth more and more increased yea he made so many faire proofes of his valour in this Action that Scipio not only commended him in a publicke Oration but the warre ended and Numantia razed he inuested him with many military honors by his Letters commending his seruice to Micipsa in very worthy and honourable tearmes which bred so sodaine an alteration in the King that whereas before he fully minded his destruction hee now wisheth and intendeth nothing so much as his

THE Two most worthy and Notable HISTORIES which remaine vnmained to Posterity viz The Conspiracie of CATELINE vndertaken against the gouernment of the Senate of ROME AND The VVarre which Iugurth for many yeares maintained against the same State Both written by C.C. Salustius Historia est testis Temporum Lux veritatis Magistra vitae Nuncia vetustatis Printed at London for Iohn Iaggard dwelling in Fleetstreet betweene the two Temple gates at the Signe of the Hand and Starre 1608. TO THE RIGHT WORTHY and valorous Sir Thomas Summerset Maister of the Horsse to the Queenes most excellent Maiesty SIR hauing no fitter occasion to manifest my duty to your Worthinesse though I haue often wisht matter more expressiue both of my loue zeale I haue aduentured rather to tempt your acceptance in this small presentment worthy no man will denie in its proper Ornament of an Honourable Patronage Then by perpetuall neglect to incur the imputation of Ingratitude a vice amongest the Heathen punishable amongest Christians contemptible Herein therefore right Generous let me in lieu of all my friends make confession of your many and extraordinary fauours from time to time vouchsafed vs. In acknowledgment wherof sithence we want power to deserue yet giue vs leaue with thankfull overtures to remember Protesting that if you daigne to accept of this vnpolisht Translation partly divulged vnder the shadow of your protection for the pleasure of your vacant howers but especially for the generall good of all English Gentlemen when eyther Time or better iudgment shall furnish me with a more desertfull proiect to prostitute it soly to the approbation of your most iudicious censure Thus far presuming that if it passe your allowance I will aduenture neither to feare the discourtesy of the Cinicke nor the sole-conceit of the Curious In assurance whereof being constantly warranted by the generous carryage of your Heroycall disposition I esteeme it as rich in value as I account it happy in acceptance hauing in it nothing so worthy as your fauour wherevnto I wholie refer it Yours faithfully deuoted Tho. Heywood Of the choise of History by way of Preface dedicated to the Courteous Reader vpon occasion of the frequent Translations of these latter times THe chiefest occasion that moued the Scythians so peremptorily to distast Learning and Antiquities was for that they saw the wals painted and the Libraries of the Greekes and Romans stuffed Bodin with the records of their owne Atchieuements but the memorable astions of other Nations either ouer-slipped or satyrically disgraced For all other Nations the Haebrewes excepted committed nothing to writing concerning their Fortunes And surely I know not vpon what grounds It is a generall fault amongst al Martiall men to pen nothing of their owne exploites And those who haue somewhat invâ—ed their minds to learning for their excessiue delight therein can hardly be drawn at any time to alter their studies By which peruersenesse of eithers error those Nations which haue bin famous for their Military valour haue vtterly lost their ancient reputation after their imbracement of Letters and learning The best reasons that I can giue are either to be grounded vpon desire of case or else vpon their proficiency in the precepts of Nature and Diuinity which not only abhorre the effusion of blood but withal depose their former infusion of Barbarisme and cruelty as in experience wee haue seene it come to passe first by the Greekes and Latines and afterwards by succeeding Nations The people of Asia were euer accounted good Orators and pen-men but the Lacedemonians rude and rough fellowes vtterly vnlearned and yet by war and Conquest at home and abroad acquired worthy purchases and had their fortunes eternized to the world not by themselues but by strangers Whereas the memorable Actions wars and Conquests of the Celts the Germans the Arabians and Turks are either buried in obliuion or at least Ballated in one sheet of paper and that for the most part by their enemies Better fortune had the Graecians in setting forth the battell of Salamme or Marathon For by the ample discourses thereof a man would imagine that a more honourable piece of seruice was neuer atchiued in any age But as Alexander sitting in Darius his chaire of Estate pleasantly told the Ambassadors of Greece aggrauating the danger of the present rebellion of all the Greeke Citties that those wars seemed vnto him but as conflicts of Mice and Rats In like sort those easie warres that Alexander managed against the effeminate Asians aâ—d Persians to which Câ—to spared not to giue the epithites of Woomanish and Caesar Contemptible hold no comparisâ—â— with the bloudie in counters of the Celts the Germans the Turkes and Tartars as may easilie be gathered by those who are disposed to call to mind their ouerthrowe giuen and taken and finally written by each others enemies Wherefore to make a iudicious coniecture of the goodnesse of Histories wee ought to remember the wise counsell of Aristotle not onely in our choose but also in our reading That an Author ought not to be accepted with an ouer-weening credulity nor reiected with peremptorie incredulity For if we credit al in all writers we cannot choose but oftentimes swallow things false for true and so commit grosse errors in dispatches of importance So againe if we should presentliâ— condemne an Historie as of no credit we should reape no profit in counteruaile of time therein consumed Yet let euery Author beare his owne blame whereof if they that haue stuffed their mâ—numents of memory with fabulous impostures be guiltie in one sâ—rt in no lesse fault are the Turkes who can say nothing of their discent or Originall neither will suffer any writing thereof to be commended to posterity beleeuing that no Historiographer can write truely vpon report much lesse will they who were either in action or in place ouer the action euery man being bewitched to tell a smooth tale â—o his owne credit Or suppose he be of an vnpartial spirit yet either the feare of great pâ—rsonages or passion or mony will preuaricate his integrity But what should discourage succeeding Ages that they should feare to write freely of their Equals Surely in these times it is not probable that amongst such variety of Authors no one should be found whose workes were not void of affection of corruption of enuy of passion Let the iudicious Reader therefore between these extreames of lightnesse and Critique rashnesse take the middle course so shal he cul out of euerie good Author singuler purity Neither let him censure the worke before he fully vnderstand the depth and sufficiencie of the Author But indeede this should be the care of the state to looke into the argument and method of Books before they come to the Presse least by the vulgar censuring of some deficient labours others of more sufficiency be dishartned from publishing their writings For in this choise of Authors which euery student ought to propose vnto himselfe I would not haue

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