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A50048	Analecta Caesarum Romanorum, or, Select observations of all the Roman emperors illustrated with their several effigies according to their coins / the first eighteen by Edward Leigh ... ; the others added by his son Henry Leigh ... : also certain choice French proverbs ; alphabetically disposed and Englished, added by the same Edward Leigh.	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.; Leigh, Henry, d. 1705.	1664 (1664)	Wing L984; ESTC R34514	209,138	450

the offence without purpose of pardon Id. ib. c. 23. He made one a Pretorian Prefect who fled to avoid so arduous an employment saying Invitos non ambientes in republica collocandos They were fit to bear offices of state who shunned them not those that sued for them Id. ib. c. 19. He never made a Senator without the counsel and approbation of the whole Senate testimony of him being given by honourable persons but if either the Senators who gave their suffrage or the witnesses were found to have spoke untruly they were put into the lowest places of esteem being also condemned by the people as deceivers and forgers without hope of remission Lampridius c. 19. He loved learned men and feared them also very much lest they should write any thing sharply of him Lamprid. c. 3. He feared less a hundred lances then Th' impetuous charges of a single pen. Allen's History of Henry the 7. p. 85. His Mother Mammaea and his Grandmother Maesa chose out of the Senate 16 grave and honourable Peers for his Counsellors and Assistants without whose consent nothing was to pass as an Act of State Herodian l. 6. c. 1. He transacted no weighty matter of judicature without the advice of no less than 50 most learned and wise men beside 20 Lawyers 18 whereof were Scholars of Papinian of whom Vlpian was chief Every mans opinion was heard and what they said was written a competent time being given each Counsellor to consider what they propounded that they might not speak unadvisedly in matters of importance Lampridius cap. 16. and 68. In Law and business of state intelligent learned and eloquent men were of his Councel in military affairs old Commanders who had behaved themselves valiantly in several battels and were expert in the situation of places pitching of fields and preparation of camps in each matters he advised with the best Historians asking them what the Emperors of Rome or Princes of forreign countries in former times did in like cases as were then in debate Id. ib. c. 16. He said they only should be advanced who could order the Common-wealth by themselves and not by Deputies adding thereto that martial men had their administrations and Scholars theirs and therefore every one should do that whereof he had most knowledge Lampridius in Alexandro Severo c. 46. When he appointed Governors of Provinces he published their names exhorting and encouraging the people to bring in what exception they could against them and manifestly to prove the crime if there was cause of accusation provided if they did not sufficiently prove their charge and that their accusation proceeded from malice the accuser should forthwith be beheaded for said he Since Christians and Iews use this method in ordination of Priests it is most reasonable that the like course should be taken in the choice of Rectors of Provinces to whom are committed the lives and fortunes of those who are under them Id. ib. c. 49. When certain Hucksters and Cooks pretended they had right to a place which was consecrated by the Christians and it was enquired what was his pleasure therein he answered It was better that God should be worshipped there after any sort than that the places should be put to vain uses Id. ib. c. 49. Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History l. 6. saith that there were many Christians in his family He freely sent of his Treasure to many poor men for the purchasing of lands receiving his money from the rents thereof Lampridius in Alex. Sev. c. 21. To many Cities which were defaced by Earthquakes he remitted the tribute for their reparation Id. c. 44. He wrote down so far as he could remember what he had given to any man and if he found any to whom he had either given nothing or that which was not equal to his merit he called them unto him saying What is the cause thou askest nothing of me Wouldst thou have me be in thy debt Ask something that thou mayest not complain of me for want of promotion He gave such things as impaired not his honour viz. goods of men attainted not being in gold silver or jewels for that was put in the common treasury Lampridius in Alex. Sev. c. 46. When any one had exercised his office in the Common-wealth well at the end of his term when there was a Successor appointed he would say to him who departed out of his office Gratias tibi agit Respublica and would so reward him that being a private person he might according to his degree live in good fashion His reward was in land cattel horses grain iron stone and other things necessary for Edifices Id. Ibid. c. 32. He allowed every Judge of a Province 20 pound weight in silver 6 silver pots 2 Mules 2 Mulets 2 Horses a Horse-keeper and a Muletor 2 Robes to sit in judgment one honourable garment to wear in his house one for his bath one Cook and 100 crowns their employment being ended they were bound to restore the Mules Mulets Horses Muletors and Cooks but might retain the residue if they had discharged their office well otherwise they payed 4 times as much as they received Id. Ib. c. 42. He thought the safety of the State depended upon the Soldiers Lampridius in Alex. Severo c. 47. He gave such lands as he won out of the Enemies hands to his Lords Marchers and his Soldiers that they should be theirs and their heirs for ever so they would be Soldiers neither should they at any time come to the hands of private men saying They would more carefully serve if they fought for their own lands Lampridius in Alexandro Severo He did let no day pass without exercising himself in learning and martial affairs Id. Ib. c. 3. After publick affairs whether martial or civil he employed himself most about the reading of Greek Authors as Plato de republica And when he would read any Latine books he chiefly made use of Tully his Offices and his tract De republica not now extant Sometime he read Orators and Poets among whom was Serenus Sammonicus whom he knew and favoured and also Horace Lampridius in Alex. Sev. c. 30. When he dined or supped abroad he had ever with him Vlpian or other learned men that he might benefit himself by their discourse with which he said that he was both recreated and fed Id. ib. c. 34. He delighted not so much in Latine eloquence as in the Greek in which he made elegant verses inclined to Musick was learned in the Mathematicks and appointed the professors of those sciences openly to propose questions at Rome for the information of those who were that way addicted In divination he was so skilful that he excelled the Augurs of Gascony Spain and Hungary He painted excellently sang very pleasantly but never before any except the Pages of his Privy-chamber He wrote the lives of good Princes in verse which he sung unto the Harp and Organs Sir Thomas Eliot his