Selected quad for the lemma: order_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	front_n	hand_n	left_a	2,153	5	10.7378	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11365	The workes of Caius Crispus Salustius contayning the Conspiracie of Cateline The Warre of Iugurth. V. bookes of historicall fragments. II orations to Cæsar for the institution of a co[m]monwealth and one against Cicero.; Works. English	Sallust, 86-34 B.C.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.; Crosse, William, b. 1589 or 90.	1629 (1629)	STC 21624; ESTC S116413	135,399	756

as my selfe in what extremity our affaires are two Armies of our enemies debarre vs one from the Citty the other from Gaule to stay longer here if our resolution could beare it the want of corne and other necessaries prohibites wheresoeuer we meane to goe the way must be opened by the sword Therefore be of a valiant and prepared mind and when you shall begin the battel remember that you carry in your right hands riches renowne and glory with your liberty and Country besides If we ouercome all things will be secured to vs aboundant prouisions the priuiledged Townes and Colonies will discouer but if we shrinke for feare these will all proue our enemies Neither will any place or friend shelter him whom his armes shall not protect Besides my Souldiers the same necessity is not impendent ouer vs and them wee contend for Country liberty and life they are at leisure to fight for tyranny of some few For which cause fall on more couragiously being mindfull of your ancient vertue It had beene lawfull for vs to haue protracted our liues in exile with the most disgrace that could be some of you at Rome hauing lost your owne might haue expected other mens riches Because these courses seemed base and vnsufferable for men you resolued to pursue these other If you will relinquish these there is need of courage No man except the Conquerour hath changed warre for peace For to seeke safety by flight when you shall diuert your armes from your enemies by which the body is defended that is madnesse indeed Alwayes in a battle their danger is greatest who feare most courage is accounted for a wall When I consider you my Souldiers and when I esteeme your braue actes a great hope of victory doth possesse me your resolution age and vertue perswade me besides the necessity which also makes the cowards valiant For that the multitude of our enemies may not inclose vs the fastnesse of the place forbids but if fortune shall enuy your valour beware that you lose not your liues vnreuenged nor that being taken you be slaine like beasts rather then fighting like men to leaue a bloody mournfull victory vnto the enemies As soone as he had spoken thus pausing a little he commaunds the warlike instruments to sound and drawes out his Troupes in order vnto a conuenient place then all the horses being remoued to the intent that the danger being made equall courage might be amplified in his Souldiers hee himselfe on foot arangeth his Army as the place and his numbers required For whereas the plaine was seated between mountaines on the left hand and on the right hand it was rough with rockes he placeth eight Cohorts in front his other Troups he imbattailes for succour in a more close order Out of these hee drawes all the Centurions and the selected men that had serued out their yeeres besides euery one of the common Souldiers that was best armed into the Van of the Vanguard Hee commands C. Manlius to take charge in the right wing and a certaine Fesilan in the left he himselfe with the freed-men and those of the Colonies tooke vp his station before the Standard of the Eagle which Marius was said to haue in his Army in the Cimbrian war But on the other side C. Antonius because being lame of his feet he could not be present at the battle commits the whole charge of his Army to M. Petreius his Lieutenant Hee imbatailes the old Cohortes which were inrolled because of this tumult in the Frount after them he disposeth the rest of his Forces for aydes of reserue He himselfe riding round about on horse-backe naming euery Commander seuerally coniures perswades and intreates that they would remember how that they were to fight against vnarmed Theeues for their Country children Temples and Families This Martiall man because for more then thirty yeeres he had been with great glory either Tribune Prouost Marshall Lieutenant or Pretour in the Army knew most of the Souldiers and their valiant exploits by rehearsing these he inflamed their courages But as soone as Petreius all things being thus ordered had giuen the signall by sound of Trumpet he commands the Cohorts to aduance a little the enemies Army doth the like After they came to that distance from whence the light armed skirmishers might begin the battle they incounter one another with a mighty noyse and hatefull signes they leaue their Piles and try the matter at swords point The Veteranes mindefull of their ancient vertue presse them hardly at hand fight the others resist without feare on both sides they fought with much fiercenesse In the meane time Catiline with the readiest Souldiers is ingag'd in the point of the Van-garde he succours the distressed sends in fresh supplies for the wounded prouides for all euents he himselfe fights brauely and chargeth the enemy often he performes together all the Offices of a valiant Souldier and worthy Generall Petreius as soone as hee saw Catiline contrary to his expectation to make a forcible impression he brings on the Praetorian Cohort vpon the middest of his enemies and kills them being disordered resisting here and there then he assailes the rest on both sides in flancke Manlius the Fesulan fall with the first After that Catiline saw his Troupes broken and himselfe with some few remaining being minde full of his parentage and former dignity he runnes amongst the thickest of his enemies and fighting there is slaine But the battle being ended then might you discerne how much courage strength of spirit had bin in Catilines Army For almost the same place which each man maintained fighting the same his soule being departed he couered with his body But some few through the middest of whom the Proetorian Cohort broke made a stand differently in diuers places yet all of them fell by faire wounds As for Catiline he was found amongst the carkeises of his foes far from his owne men breathing as yet his last and that fiercenesse of mind which he possessed liuing he retained then in his countenance Lastly of all that number neither in the fight nor flight was any free Cittizen taken prisoner Thus all of them alike spared their owne and their enemies liues Neither yet did the Army of the Roman people obtaine a ioyfull and vnbloody victory For euery man that was most valiant was either slaine or went from the field grieuously wounded But many who issued out of the Campe for view or pillage turning vp the enemies carkeises found some a friend others a guest or a neere kinsman yea there were those who knew their very foes Thus variously gladnesse and griefe mirth mourning were moued throughout all the Army The end of Catilines Conspiracie THE VVARRE OF IVGVRTH Rendred into English by William Crosse Master of Artes of Saint Mary-hall in Oxford LONDON Printed for Tho. Walkley and are to be sold at the Eagle and Childe in Britaines Bursse 1629. To the right Honorable the Lord Harbert of

to try his fortune by Armes being inforced thereunto through the necessity of his affaires Thereupon the enemies passage being discouered he growing hopefull from the opportunity of the place raiseth as great Forces as he could of all sortes and through vnknown bywayes ouermarched Metellus Army CHAP. 15. Iugurth incampeth in a place of aduantage His Army is discouered by Metellus A battell is fought betwixt them wherein Iugurth is defeated THere was in that part of Numidia which Iugurth possessed vpon the diuision a riuer arising from the South named Muthul from which there was distant a mountaine almost twenty thousand paces of equall tract lying wast by nature and for want of human tillage But as it were from the middest of this a hillocke did arise of a spacious extent being couered with Oliue Mirtles and other kinds of Trees which grow in drie and sandy ground But the plaine seated in the middest was barren except the places bordering on the Riuer These being beset with Groues of Trees were frequented with Husbandmen and Cattell Therefore on that hillocke which we haue said to bee thwart-wise extended Iugurth sate downe the Fore-front of his Army being extinuated the command ouer the Elephants and some part of the footmen he gaue to Bomilear and instructeth him what he should doe hee himselfe neerer to the mountaine marshalleth his owne Troupes with all the Cauallery and selected Footemen Then rounding seuerally all the squadrons and Maniples he doth admonish and coniure them that being mindfull of their former valour and victory they would defend himselfe and his Kingdome from the auarice of the Romanes that they should fight with those whom they had formerly dismissed vnder the yoke that their Chieftaine not their courage was changed all things which might be required of a Generall were ●ore●●lled to their aduantage they had the higher groūd that being expert they might fight with the vnskilfull not the fewer with the more nor vntrained with the better Souldiers Wherefore they should be prepared and resolute vpon a signall giuen to inuade the Romanes That either that day should confi●me all their labours victories or be the beginning of their greatest calamities Besides man by man as he had aduanced any for some military exploit in meanes or honour he puts them in mind of his bounty and in a brauery shews them to others finally according to euery mans disposition by promising menacing and protesting he doth encourage them seuerally after a seuerall manner when in the meane time Metellus ignorant of the enemies as he descended from the mountaine viewed them with his Army At first he was doubtfull what this vncouth shew did meane for amongst the vnderwoods the Numidians and their horses had seated themselues neither fully hid through the lownesse of the trees and yet vncertaine what they might bee since out of cunning and the situation of the place themselues and their military Ensignes were shadowed then the Stratagem being forthwith discouered the Army in marching made a stand for a while There the orders being altred in the right flanke which was neerest the enemy he arangeth the Army with three Aydes of reserue betweene the Maniples hee distributeth the Slingers and Archers all the Horse-men he placeth in the wings and hauing incouraged his Souldiers briefly for the season hee drawes downe his Army as hee had imbattailed it into the plaine the frount of the middle-ward being crosse-wise changed But when he perceiued the Numidians not to stir nor to descend from the mountaine fearing from the season of the yeere scarcity of water that his Army would bee consumed with thirst hee sent before vnto the riuer Rutilius one of his Lieutenants with the light-armed Cohorts and a part of the Cauallery to anticipat● a place for incamping thinking that the enemies with frequent charging and crossefights would retard his passage and because they reposed no trust in their Armes would take aduantage of the Souldiers thirst and wearinesse Then he himselfe as the occasion and place required in that order as hee descēded from the mountaine marcheth forwards by little and little Marius was behind the middle-ward the Consull himselfe was with the Horse-men of the left wing who vpon the march made the maine battell But Iugurth as soone as he saw that those who had the Van of his Vanguard had ouer-reached the bringers vp of Metellus Reare with a Guarde of about 2000. Footmen hee possesseth the mountaine where Metellus made his descent lest perchance the enemies falling backe it might serue them for a retreat and after for a defence Then suddēly vpon a signall giuen he chargeth the enemies Some of the Numidians kill the hinder-most others assa●le the right and left flanke in furious manner they present themselues and presse forward in all places they disordered the Rankes of the Romanes Of whom those who with most resolution had incountred the enemies being deluded by this doubtfull kind of fight were thēselues somtimes wounded from a far neither had they meanes to strike againe nor to ioyne in hand-fight Before this the Horse-men being instructed by Iugurth wheresoeuer a Troupe of Romanes began to chace retired not closely nor in one grosse but in as much distance as they could one from another Thus being superiour in nūber if they could not deterre the enemies from pursuing they incōpassed them being dispersed either from behind or from the flankes But if the hillocke were more opportune for flight then the fields thither the horses of the Numidians vsed vnto it easily passed through the vnder-woods Our men the roughnesse and the ignorance of the place detained But the face of all this conflict was various vncertaine foule and lamentable some being scattered from their fellowes retire others pursue neither rankes nor ensignes they obserue wheresoeuer the danger attached any man there he resisteth and putteth it off armes weapons horses men enemies and Cittizens were blended together nothing was done by counsell nor command fortune swayed all Therefore most of the day was spent when then yea euen then the euent was doubtfull At length all men fainting with toyle and heate Metellus when he saw the Numidians come on more coldly he rallieth by degrees his Souldiers into one body he restoreth the Rankes and opposeth foure legionary Cohorts vnto the enemies Footebands O them a great part being weary rested themselues on the higher grounds Hee intreateth and exhorteth his Souldiers together that they would not faint nor suffer these flying enemies to ouercome that they had neither Camp nor any fortification whither retiring they might betake themselues all the hopes they had lay in their Armes But neither was Iugurth in the meane time out of action he circu●teth confirmeth reneweth the battell and himselfe with some chosen men tryeth all things to the vttermost he succoureth his owne side chargeth the wauering enemies by fighting a farre off he ingageth their stay whom he knew to stand firme After this manner two Generals men most