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A60461	Patriæ parricida, or, The history of the horrid conspiracy of Catiline against the commonwealth of Rome translated out of Salust, by C.C.; Bellum Catilinae. English	Sallust, 86-34 B.C.; Calle, Caleb.	1683 (1683)	Wing S409; ESTC R4167	36,887	122

think his Counsel to be vain and frivolous and if in so great a Constersternation he alone stands unfrighted we have all reason to fear him Those things which you decree concerning Lentulus I would have you to resolve against the whole Army of Catiline for by how much the more severely you do this the fainter and the more infirm will their Courage be but if they see you in the least remiss and languid the fiercer Assault must ye expect from them flatter not your selves therefore with the Opinion that your Ancestors rais'd the Republick to what it now is from small and indigent to so great and famous for if it were so we have much the more reason to continue it in its present Splendour because we have greater Forces of Allies and Citizens Armour and Horses than ever they had But there were other things that rendred them renowned which we have not at home Industry abroad a lawfully acquir'd Empire a mind free in Councel not in the least sway'd by Pride or Debauchery Instead of these we abound in Luxury and Avarice in Discredit and Debts abroad at home in Ease and Plenty we commend Riches but embrace Idleness and make no difference between Good and Ill since Ambition ingrosses all the Rewards of Virtue neither is it strange since ye all consult the Good of the Republick only apart and separate while in the mean time you are Slaves to your Pleasures at home and here to Interest and the Favour of others Thence it is that Attempts are made upon the Naked and unarm'd Commonwealth but I pass this by Here the Noblest Citizens have conspir'd to imbroyl their Country in a Civil-War and called to their Aid the Gauls a People warlike and fierce ever envious of and full of Hatred to the Roman Greatness the Commander of our Enemies is just upon us and you yet still delay to suppress them and are yet dubious what Punishments to inflict on Traytors apprehended within our own Walls I suppose you are pitiful since such Young Noblemen have offended only through Ambition and you would fain dismiss them arm'd yet your Clemency and Pity would if they should take Arms turn to your own Misery The matter it self is really dangerous but you neither fear nor apprehend it here through Sloth and a Womanish Softness you look one on another as if you trusted to the Immortal Gods who have often preserved the Commonwealth in its greatest Dangers No faint Wishes nor effeminate Prayers can draw them to your Succour but by * Cicero sic de finibus minime convenit cum ipsi inter nos abjecti neglecti sue famus pestulare Si diis immortalibus Chari sumus ab his diligamur Et Gellius Quid nos à diis immortalibus diuti●s expectemus nisi malis rationibus sinem facimus Vigilance Counsel and Action you may justly expect a prosperous Delivery but when once you give your selves up to Sloth and Idleness which they hate all Prayers and Devotions to the Gods are lost and ineffectual Amongst our Ancestors Aulus Manlius Torquatus commanded his own Son to be slain because contrary to Command he fought for the Republick against their Enemies But that extraordinary young Man suffered Death as a just Punishment for such an immoderate and unseasonable Valour and yet you differ concerning the Punishment of the most unheard of Parricides yet I would have you in some measure to commiserate the Honour and Dignity of Lentulus If he had had any pity for it himself or any regard to the Honour of the Gods and the Lives of us all pardon the Extravagance of Young Cethegus if ye are so far in love with Civil War as to let him make another Attempt and what shall I tell you of Gabinius Statilius and Ceparius who had they any love for the Commonwealth and their own Countrey had never so dangerously conspir'd against them Indeed Fathers should I not offend in saying so I could be easily content the Plot it self should convince you since my words are so lightly regarded but now every where Danger surrounds us Catiline dares us with his Army besides other secret and unknown Enemies within our own Walls in the Bosom of our own City ready for an Insurrection neither can all the Preparations we can make nor all our private Councils imaginable be too soon put in practice to prevent it Wherefore my Sentence is that since the Nefarious Plots and Associations of some wicked and desperate Citizens threaten so imminent a Danger to the Common-wealth and the Conspirators convicted by the Evidence of Vulturtius and the Allobroges and by their own Confessions have design'd both us and Rome for Blood and Fire and other unparallel'd Cruelties 't is necessary by the Examples of our own Fore-fathers they should suffer condign Punishment as men convicted of Capital Offences Soon as Cato had ended all the Consular Order and most of the Senate approved his Sentence and mightily applauded the bravery of his Courage branding others with the name of Coward that seem'd to oppose it and accordingly pass'd a Decree for their Execution As soon as the Senate broke up the Consul thinking it best to take the opportunity of the approaching night gave Orders to the Triumviri to make every thing ready for that purpose accordingly after he had disposed his Guards he conducts Lentulus to the * Sic dict à Coercendo from restraining Men of their Liberty it had two principal Parts one called Tullianum into which Lentulus was cast and the o●her Ro●ur these two Places were assign'd for Execution in the Tullianum they only strangl'd Malefactors it had its name from Serv. Tullius a Roman King who first invented it Carcer the rest of the Conspirators were brought in by the Praetors There is a place in the Carcer called the Tullianum a little on the left hand about twelve Foot deep fortify'd on every side with Walls and over it a Chamber built with stone Arches but exceeding dark stinking and of a very horrid Aspect As soon as Lentulus was let down into this Place he was strangl'd Thus that great Patrician of the most honourable Family of the Cornelii who had been honour'd with the Consular Dignity met a Fate every way just and equal to the blackness of his Treasons Cethegus Statilius Gabinius and Ceparius took their leave of Life in the same manner Whilst these things were thus doing at Rome Catiline out of the Forces he brought with him and those which Manlius led muster'd two * So called à Deligendo An ordinary Legion consisted of ten Cohorts containing three Maniples each Maniple two Centuries So that it consisted of sixty thousand Men. Legions and filled up his Troops according to the number of his Souldiers when at first his whole Army consisted but of two thousand but of all his Forces only one fourth part was well disciplin'd and arm'd the rest only carried small Darts Lances and other sharp

Clubs Armour only of Fortune and Necessity But as soon as Antonius began to approach with his Army Catiline took his march over the Mountains and designed to remove his Camp either towards the City or Gallia and so to give no opportunity of Battel at all to the adverse Armies for he hop'd in a short time to have the Number of his Forces much augmented if his Confederates at Rome had but begun the attempt therefore he refused the Services of those of whom at first he might have had a considerable Force and depending on the Strength and Aids of the Conspirators at home he thought it then beneath the Honour of the Cause to communicate it to every Slave and Fugitive But when News was brought him at the Camp that the whole Plot was discovered at Rome and condign Punishment inflicted on Lentulus Cethegus and the rest and that most of them whom the hopes of Plunder and the desire of Reformation had inclin'd to War were now fall'n off he immediately remov'd by great Marches over the rough Mountains into the Pistorian Territories designing by by-ways secretly to fly into Gallia But Q Metellus Celer commanded three Legions at Picaenum and imagin'd by reason of the Straits Catiline was in that he designed some such thing therefore when the Scouts had given him notice of his March he seasonably remov'd his Tents and encamped at the foot of the Mountains on purpose to stop his Passage into Gallia Neither was Antonius with his Army far off in the smooth and level Ground that he might the better pursue the flight of Cataline who when he saw himself environ'd with the Mountains and the number of his Enemies that in the City all his Undertakings went cross and retrograde and that there were no hopes of Flight or Safety he thought best in such an Extremity to try the fortune of a War and therefore resolved to engage Antonius as soon as possible Calling a Counsel of War he thus bespoke them * Sic Salustius in Jugurtha Plura dicerem si timidis virtutem verba adderent nam strenais abande dictum puto Et demosth in Oratione 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. I know by Experience Souldiers that the greatest force of Words cannot have the least Influence to provoke Valour nor can any Army of weak become strong or of Cowards valiant by the insinuating Eloquence of a Generals Oration for every Breast whom Nature hath endued with manly Boldness and a warlike Propensity should endeavour to render it the more splendid and illustrious in the dangerous Hazards of a just War but him whom neither Glory nor Adversity can incite to Valour 't is in vain to perswade since the force of natural Cowardise hinders its Operation But I only call'd you together to advise you a few things and make you acquainted with my Design for you all know Souldiers what miserable Calamities the Sloth and Folly of Lentulus have brought both upon himself and us insomuch that whilst I expected Auxiliaries from the City my Passage into Gallia is block'd up Now indeed with what an Aspect our Affairs look you all know as well as I two Armies of our Enemies attend us one stops our Progress for the City the other for Gallia and for us to remain longer here tho we had designed it yet the want of Provision and other Necessaries constrains us to the contrary therefore wherever we go nothing but the Sword must force the Passage wherefore I advise you to be resolute and couragious and since we must commence the Battel remember that you carry Riches Glory and Honour nay Liberty and Rome it self in your right hands If we conquer they are all secure we shall have Provisions enough and all the Colonies and free Towns will lye open to us but if Fear and Cowardise should prevail we must expect the contrary for no Place nor Friend will protect him whom Arms will not besides there is a great Difference in the Cause of War between us and our Enemies we fight for our own Country Lives and Liberties they only for the superfluous Power of a few great Men wherefore that ye may the more couragiously encounter them remember that you are Romans and set before you the old Roman Valour No one unless a Conquerour will ever exchange War for Peace and 't is the greatest Madness imaginable to hope for Safety by Flight and turn your Backs upon your Enemies when they are sufficiently defended by the Armour you carry Always in fight they that fear most are in the greatest Danger but Courage is like Walls and Bulwarks When I consider Souldiers who you are and reflect on all your former Actions I have sufficient hopes that Victory will attend us your Spirits Age and innate Valour and which is more the prevalent force of Necessity which makes Cowards valiant plainly confirms it But if Fortune is grown envious of our Valour fall not unreveng'd nor be taken and kill'd like tame Beasts but like true Romans dye fighting and leave a dear bloody and a lamentable Victory for your Enemies to boast of When he spoke this after a short pause he commanded them to sound an Alarm and leads his Forces into a Plain and then to inspire them with the greater Courage he himself muster'd them on foot for according to the scituation of the Plain which was between two Mountains on the left hand and an huge craggy Rock on the right he plac'd Eight Cohorts in the Front and the rest in a more narrow compass for a Recruit In the Rear of these he chose out the most experienc'd Centurions and every the best disciplind and best arm'd of the Common Souldiers for the Forlorn Hope and appointed C. Manlius to command the Right and a certain Faesulanian the left wing of the Army and he himself with his Freemen and Tenants betook themselves near the * The Eagle was the common Ensign of the Romans but this was a particular Eagle which C. Marius had in his Army in the Cymbrian War Eagle which C. Marius was said to have in the Cymbrian War Of the adverse Army C. Antoninus General being sick of the Gout was render'd incapable of accompanying it so committed the Charge of it to M. Petreius who plac'd the Veteran Cohorts which he rais'd in haste in the Front and the rest of the Army for a Supply in the Rear and riding round the Body calling them severally by their Names encourag'd and intreated them to remember they were about to fight against unarmed Thieves and Robbers for no less cause than their own Country Children and Religion This Petreius was a man altogether trayn'd up to War and had discharg'd with great honour and credit the Offices of Tribune Praefect Praetor and Legat. When they were all prepar'd and in a fit Posture Petreius gave the signal and commanded the Cohorts to move forwards Catiline's Army did the same till they approached one another so near that the