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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64910	Q Valerius Maximus his collections of the memorable acts and sayings of orators, philosophers, statesmen, and other illustrious persons of the ancient Romans, and other foreign nations, upon various subjects together with the life of that famous historian / newly translated into English.; Factorum et dictorum memorabilium. English. 1684	Valerius Maximus.; Speed, Samuel, 1631-1682.	1675 (1675)	Wing V33A; ESTC R24651	255,577	462

Qꝰ VALERIVS MAXIMVS HIS COLLECTIONS Of the Memorable ACTS And SAYINGS OF ORATORS PHILOSOPHERS STATESMEN and Other Illustrious Persons of the Antient Romans and Other Foreign Nations Upon Various Subjects TOGETHER With the Life of that Famous HISTORIAN Newly Translated into English LONDON Printed for Benjamin Crayle at the Lamb in Fleetstreet next White-Fryers-Gate and John Fish nigh the Fountain-Tavern in the Strand 1684. Fab Maximus Lycurgus Caesar Alexander Pyrrhus Xerxes Marius Sylla Scipio Afric● Themistocles Pompey Romulu● London printed for Samuel Speed To the Right Honourable HENEAGE Lord FINCH Baron of Daventry AND Lord High CHANCELLOR of England May it please your Honour HAving lately experienc'd the Influences of your Honours Favours I hold my self in Duty bound to pay my Acknowledgements to the utmost of my power which is in this Address to declare your Piety and your Bounty For which reasons I had been guilty of Injustice had I sought for any other Patron being lately so generously remembred by your Honour Thus I endeavour to shew my Gratitude though the highest Pinacle thereof bears no proportion with the large Pillars of your Honours High Worth and Dignity well observing what is in ancient Story recorded of Lycurgus the Lacedemonian Law-giver that he slighted the making a Decree against Ingratitude imagining no man could be so sordidly wretched as to be guilty of that horrid Crime Wherefore to pay my Debt in the best Coyn I have I humbly offer this to your Honours Patronage it being a Collection of the Acts and Sayings of Oratours and States-men and who can be more fit to receive them than the far-excelling Tully of our Age Of whom I may say as once the ancient Roman Omnium somnos tua vigilantia omnium delicias tua industria omnium vacationem tua occupatio May it please your Honour not to give your Lordship any farther trouble your Acceptance and Pardon is humbly implor'd by Your Honours Obedient Devoted and Obliged Servant Samuel Speed THE LIFE OF VALERIVS MAXIMVS VAlerius Maximus a Roman Citizen of a Patrician Family spent his childhood and youth in the study of Learning Then coming to be of age he betook himself to the VVars where he is said to have serv'd for some time and to have sail'd with Sextus Pompey into Asia VVhence returning home when he found himself able to profit his Country by well speaking as well as doing from which the love of Honour had for some time diverted him he resolv'd to put forth the Acts and Sayings the most remarkable of the Roman City and of forraign Nations which he very luckily finish'd He flourish'd in the Raign of Tiberius Caesar and in his time whose Numen he invokes he wrote this History For the Roman Emperours when by their vertue they had justly and uprightly manag'd the Empire were translated into the number of the Gods and were call'd Divi Imperatores He deriv'd his Pedigree by the Fathers side from the Valerian Family by the Mothers side from the Fabian from both which he obtain'd the name of Valerius Maximus Of his Death there is nothing certain reported AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE Contents of the Chapters A OF Abstinence Page 167 Of Arts Page 408 Of Anger Page 441 B Of Bashfulness Page 181 C Of Constancie Page 143 Of Continence Page 167 Of Conjugal Love Page 185 Of Clemencie Page 203 Of Courage at the death of Children Page 252 Of Chastity Page 256 Of Covetousness Page 446 Of Cruelty Page 434 D Of Dream Page 30 Of Degenerated Births Page 129 Of the Desire of Honour Page 417 Of Deaths not Vulgar Page 466 Of Desire of Life Page 471 E Of the Effects of Arts Page 408 Of Eloquence Page 403 Ease praised Page 402 F Of Frugality Page 66 Of Forraign Institutions Page 69 Of Fortitude Page 104 Of Friendship Page 189 Of the Fidelity of Servants Page 291 Of the change of Fortune Page 295 G Of Gratitude Page 214 H Of Humanity Page 203 Of Happiness Page 304 Of Honour Page 417 Of Hatred Page 441 I Of Innocence Page 66 Of Illustrious men Page 131 Of Ingratitude Page 221 Of Justice Page 281 Of publick Judgments Page 346 Of private Judgments Page 354 Of Industry Page 363 L Of Luckie Signes Page 16 Of Liberality Page 198 Of Love to Children Page 244 Of Luxury and Lust Page 427 Of Lyers Page 476 M Of Miracles Page 39 Of Matrimonial Ceremonies Page 52 Of Magi●●rates Page 56 Of Military Discipline Page 76 Of Majesty Page 95 Of Mean Births advanced Page 125 Of Moderation Page 152 Of Modesty Page 181 Of Moderation to suspected children Page 250 Of the change of Manners Page 295 Of Memorable old Age Page 413 Of Motion of the Body Page 406 Of Magnificent things Page 421 N Of Necessity Page 334 O Of Omens Page 18 Of memorable Old age Page 413 P Of Prodigies Page 22 Of Patience Page 1●0 Poverty praised Page 176 Of Piety toward their Country Page 238 Towards Parents Page 228 Of Publick Faith Page 287 Of Publick Judgments Page 346 Of Private Judgments Page 354 Of Pronunciation Page 406 R Of Religion Page 3 Of Feigned Religion Page 14 Of Forraign Religion Page 15 Of the Right of Triumphing Page 86 Of Reconciliation Page 164 Of Repulses Page 331 Of Rackings Page 358 On Revenge Page 361 S Of Shews Page 62 Of the Severity of the Censors Page 90 Of Self-confidence Page 133 Of Severity to Children Page 247 Of Severity Page 269 Of Stratagems Page 326 Of Study Page 363 Of Similitude of Form Page 474 T Of Towardliness Page 101 Of Things freely done Page 262 Gravely done Page 276 Of the Truth of Wives Page 290 Of Things wisely done Page 306 Craftily done Page 316 Of Testaments confirm'd Page 342 Of Testimonies Page 359 W Of Wills cancell'd Page 338 Of Women-pleaders Page 357 Y Of Yielding to Masters of Art Page 412 Quintus Valerius Maximus OF Memorable things LIB I. The PROLOGUE TO AUGUSTUS TIBERIUS CAESAR I Have resolved with thy self to collect together the Deeds and Sayings of most note and most worthy to be remembred of the most eminent persons both among the Romans and other Nations taken out of the most approved Authors where they lie scattered at such a distance that makes them hard to be known to save them the trouble of a tedious search who are willing to follow their Examples Yet I have not been over-desirous to comprehend all For who in a small Volume is able to set down the Deeds of many Ages Or what wise man can hope to deliver the order of Domestick and Forraign story which our Predecessors have done in such happy stiles either with greater care or more abounding Eloquence Therefore Caesar thy Countries onely safety thee I invoke in the beginning of my Vndertaking whom the consent of Gods and men hath ordain'd the great Commander both of Sea and Land by whose Divine providence those Vertues of which I am to discourse are most favourably cherish'd Vices most