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A64914	The lives of the illustrious Romans writ in Latin by Sextus Aurelius Victor ; and translated by several young gentlemen educated by Mr. Maidwell.; De viris illustribus urbis Romeo. English.	Pliny, the Younger.; Suetonius, ca. 69-ca. 122.; Nepos, Cornelius.; Victor, Sextus Aurelius.; Maidwell, Lewis, 1650-1715.	1693 (1693)	Wing V342; ESTC R13291	41,581	228

extirpate the Tarquins Upon whose Banishment he was created the first Consul and was so zealous for the good of the Common-wealth that he spar'd not his own Sons and Nephews who were plotting with the Vitellii and the Aquillii to restore the Tarquins but brought them into the Forum where he caus'd them first to be whip'd and then beheaded At last in a Battel against them he and Aruns the King's Son fighting together with implacable Hatred kill'd one another His Body was brought into the Forum where his Colleague extoll'd him in a Funeral Oration and the Roman Matrons mourn'd for his a whole year as the Defender of their Chastity HORATIUS COCLES When Porsenna U.C. 245. King of the Etrusci endeavour'd to restore the Tarquins Before Ch. 505. and at his first Attempt had taken the Hill Janiculus Horatius Cocles so sirnamed from the loss of his Eye in a former Battel stood on the Wooden Bridge and there singly maintain'd his Post against the Enemy until the Bridge was broken behind him with which he fell into the Tiber and arm'd as he was he swam safe to his own Party For this Noble Action the Republick conferr'd on him as much Land as he could plough round in one day and his Statue was set up in the place where they celebrated the Feasts of Vulcan MUTIUS SCAEVOLA Whilst Rome was besieg'd by King Porsenna U.C. 245. Mutius Cordus Before Ch. 505. a Man of true Roman Resolution went to the Senate promising to kill the King if they would suffer him to go over to the Enemy as a Deserter With their permission he went into Porsenna's Camp and by Mistake kill'd a Nobleman in a Purple Habit in the stead of him For which being seiz'd and brought before the King as he was sacrificing Mutius thrust his Right Hand into the Fire punishing it on this manner for killing the wrong person When he was commanded to be taken from the Flames by the Clemency of Porsenna in return of his Kindness he told him that three hundred Men as resolute as he had oblig'd themselves by Oath to attempt the same thing At which Porsenna was so terrified that receiving Hostages he put an end to the War The Senate as a Reward for this gave Mutius some Land beyond the Tiber from him call'd the Mutian Fields and erected a Statue in Honour of him CLAELIA Porsenna receiv'd U.C. 245. among the Roman Hostages Before Ch. 505. Claelia a Virgin of a Noble Family who by a Deceit put upon her Keeprs escap'd out of his Camp by night and swam the Tiber with a Horse which she accidenlly found But the King demanded her back by his Embassadors and had her restor'd yet was so great an Admirer of her Courage that he gave her leave to return to Rome with any other Hostages she should desire she chose the young Men and Maids whom she knew were most expos'd to the Violence of the Soldiers For which brave Action the Romans set up her Statue on Horse-back in the Forum The three hundred and six FABII U.C. 274. In the War between the Romans and the Veientes Before Ch. 476. the Fabian Family propos'd to the Senate the carrying it on by themselves at their proper Expence They marched out three hundred and six under the Command of Fabius the Consul and after great Success in several Skirmishes encamp'd at the River Cremera But the Veientes who put their greatest Confidence in Stratagems plac'd Cattle in Veiw on the other side which the Fabii going to seize fell into an Ambush and were all cut off The day therefore whereon this happened was numbered in the Calendar amongst the Unfortunate and the Gate at which they went out called Scelerata or Unhappy One only of that Family by reason of his Minority was left at home and from him the Name was continued to Fabius Maximus who by his avoiding Battel much weakened Hannibal's Army for which by his Detractors he was nam'd Cuncta or Delayer PUBLIUS VALERIUS POPLICOLA Publius Valerius the Son of Volusus triumphed three times U.C. 245. first over the Veientes Before Ch. 505. then over the Sabines and lastly over them both But because he chose no Consul in place of Brutus his Colleague and dwelt in Velia a place of great strength in Rome he was suspected to have aim'd at the Government At his knowledge hereof being much disturbed he complain'd to the People for entertaining such ill thoughts of him and to justifie himself he sent presently to have his House pull'd down He also order'd the carrying of Rods without Axes in the City and laid them down as a Mark of Respect before a popular Assembly making a Law for appealing from the Magistrates to the People for which Popularity he was called Poplicola And after four Consulships died so poor that he was buried by publick Collection and mourn'd for one year by the Matrons as Brutus his Colleague had been before him AULUS POSTHUMIUS King Tarquin after his Banishment fled to Mamilius U.C. 257. Lord of Tusculum his Son-in-Law Before Ch. 493. who with the Assistance of the Latins ingaged the Romans in great Difficulties They chose therefore Aulus Posthumius Dictator who fought the Enemy at the Lake Regillus where when the Victory was doubtful Cossus the General of the Horse used this Stratagem he order'd them to unbridle their Horses that it might be impossible in their Charge to stop their Carrier By which rough shock they routed the Latins and took their Camp In this Action were observ'd among them two young Men very remarkable for their Valour mounted on white Horses whom the Dictator after a search for that he might reward them according to their Merit could not find therefore supposing them to be Castor and Pollux he consecrated a Temple to them both L. QUINCTIUS CINCINNATUS U.C. 292. The Justice of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was very exemplary in disinheriting his undutiful Son Kaeso Before Ch. 458. who to revenge that and the Scandal laid upon him by the Censors fled to the Volsci and the Sabines then in War with the Romans under the Command of Claelius Gracchus by whom Q. Minutius the Consul with his Army was block'd up in Mount Algidus But Quinctius being made Dictator the Messengers that carried his Commission found him ploughing without his Cloaths beyond the Tiber where putting on his Robe he march'd directly thither and freed the Consul for which he was presented by Minucius with a Crown call'd Obsidionalis particular to those who had valiantly rais'd a Siege He totally routed the Enemy took their General Prisoner and made him walk before his Triumphal Chariot This War was so soon ended that he laid down his Dictatorship the sixteenth day after he had receiv'd it and return'd again to his Affairs in the Country In a second Dictatorship twenty years after he commanded Servilius Ahala General of the Horse to execute Spurius Maelius