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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13333	The annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The description of Germanie; Annales. English	Tacitus, Cornelius.; Tacitus, Cornelius. Germania. English.; Greenwey, Richard.	1598 (1598)	STC 23644; ESTC S117604	342,845	278

THE ANNALES OF CORNELIVS TACITVS THE DESCRIPTION OF GERMANIE M. D. XCVIII TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX AND EWE EARLE Marshal of England Viscount Hereford and Bourchier Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourchier and Louaine Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Master of the Queenes Maiesties horse and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Councell THE woorthines of this Author well knowen vnto your honor putteth me in some hope of pardon for my presumption in presenting vnto your Honors view and crauing a fauourable acceptance of my bold vnskilfulnes For if Historie be the treasure of times past and as well a guide as image of mans present estate a true and liuely pattern of things to come and as some terme it the work-mistresse of experience which is the mother of prudence Tacitus may by good right chalenge the first place among the best In iudgement there is none sounder for instruction of life for al times to those which oft read him iudiciously nothing yeelding to the best Philosophers no woord not loaden with matter and as himselfe speaketh of Galba he vseth Imperatoria breuitate which although it breed difficultie yet carrieth great grauitie I present him therfore to your Honors fauourable protection in regard of himselfe but yet no otherwise then as a glasse representing in liuely colours of prowesse magnanimitie and counsell not onely woorthie personages of ages past and gone but also your L. owne honorable vertues wherof the vvorld is both vvithes iudge If your L. vouchsafe to receiue him though greatly darkened of that he first was and verie much dimmed in respect of the Historie alreadie in our toong into any degree of fauour I little doubt but others will both looke on him and the better like and allow him for here belovve we receiue either light or darkenes from aboue Vespasians example wrought more than a lawe for obsequium in principes and aemulandi amor to speake with Tacitus maketh that to be in greatest request which perhaps in it selfe deserueth least VVhatsoeuer my vnskilfull paines hath beene my zeale and deuotion to your Honor I present vvith it vnto whom I wish al good hap and felicitie with the accomplishment of vertues and Honorable desires Your Honors most humbly deuoted RICHARD GRENEWEY TO THE READER THat which most men alleage courteous Reader as a cause of publishing vnto the world their commendable endeuours as commaundement of superiours intreatie of friends or such like causes yeelding some excuse if things well done by them needed any that can I no way pretend though no man hath iuster cause to inuent somewhat to excuse that which well knowing and confessing my owne insufficiencie I should by no inducements haue beene drawen vnto For I wanted not iudgement to know that to performe this I vndertooke as I ought was a matter beyond the compasse of my skill yet neuerthelesse my will ouercomming my owne iudgement and reason in vndertaking I haue ventured my credit to the wide sea of common opinion and dangerous censure and knowing the best haue followed the woorst A fault perhaps pardonlesse in the rigoroust censure and which bred in my selfe a long time distrust and feare yet at last incouraged by hope to find some milder iudges for my boldnes I ventured this labour and performed it thus meanely as thou seest trusting the courteous Reader if in ought I haue pleasured him will affoord me his good woord for my good will and in that I haue done amisse pardon and a fauourable construction for my paines And although in reason it seemeth I should most of all feare the censure of the learned if any such vouchsafe to read this translation in regard they best can and with quickest insight pearce into my want of skill iudgement and vnderstanding yet in those is my greatest hope because they be learned Cause sufficient to feare no captious or carping constructions as a propertie ill beseeming their good qualitie and education I was well assured that he who best might would take no further paines in this kind nor hearing of any other which would I thought some could be contented to haue it rather il done than not at all Friendly Reader I craue pardon for my faults and desire thou wouldest fauourably beare with my ouersights Farewell THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE ANNALES OF CORNELIVS TACITVS The Proeme of Tacitus containing the forme of gouernment vntill Augustus time with the subiect of this worke THE citie of Rome was in the beginning gouerned by Kings Libertie and the Consulship L. Brutus brought in The Dictators were chosen but for a time the Decemuiri passed not two yeeres neither had the Consularie authoritie of the Tribunes of the soldiers any long continuance nor Cinna nor Sillaes dominion Pompey and Crassus quickly yeelded to Caesars forces Lepidus and Antonie to Augustus who entitling himselfe by the name of Prince brought vnder his obedience the whole Romane state wearied and weakened with ciuill disorders But as well the prosperous as vnprosperous successes of the ancient Common-wealth excellent writers haue recorded neither wanted there woorthie singular wits to deliuer Augustus exploits vntill they were by the ouerswarming of flatterers vtterly discouraged Tiberius Caius Claudius and Neroes actions they yet liuing and flourishing were falsly set downe for feare and after their death through fresh hatred as corruptly as before Whereupon I intend to deliuer some few things done in Augustus later times then Neroes raigne and other occurrents as they fell out without passion or partialitie as being free from motiues of both 1. The meanes by which Augustus came to the empire and whom he chose to succeed AFter that Brutus and Cassius were slaine and no armes now publikely borne Pompey defeated in Sicilie Lepidus disarmed Antonie killed and no chiefe leader of Iulius Caesars faction left but onely Augustus he would no longer be called Triumuir but in shew contented with the dignitie of a Tribune to defend the people bearing himselfe as Consul after he had wound into the fauour of the soldier by giftes of the people by prouision of sustenance and of all in generall with the sweetenes of ease and repose by little and little taking vpon him he drew to himselfe the affaires of Senate the dutie of magistrates and lawes without contradiction of any the stowtest by war or proscriptions alreadie spent and the rest of the nobilitie by how much the more seruiceable by so much the more bettered in wealth and aduanced in honors seeing their preferment to growe by new gouernment did rather choose the present estate with securitie than striue to recouer their olde with danger That forme of gouernment the prouinces disliked not as mistrusting the Senates and peoples regiment by reason of noble mens factions couetousnes of magistrates the lawes affoording no securitie being swaied hither and thither by might ambition and corruption Besides this Augustus labouring by some stay to settle the soueraigntie aduanced Claudius Marcellus