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A64912	Romæ antiquæ descriptio a view of the religion, laws, customs, manners, and dispositions of the ancient Romans, and others : comprehended in their most illustrious acts and sayings agreeable to history / written in Latine by ... Quintus Valerius Maximus ; and now carefully rendred into English ; together with the life of the author.; Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX. English	Valerius Maximus.; Speed, Samuel, 1631-1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing V34; ESTC R22311	255,720	462

had not these decayed An expression becoming for-fetch'd Wisdome For had he labour'd more in the manuring his Lands than his Minde he had remained Masters of his family at home but had not returned into his Country the great Anaxagoras 7. I might say that the Industry of Archimedes was very prontable but that it g●ve him life and took if from him again For when Syracuse was taken Marcellus was sensible that his Victory was much delayed by his Engines yet infinitely taken with the Prudence of the person he commanded the Souldiers to spare his Life assuming perhaps almost as much glory in saving Archimedes as in destroying Syracuse But while Archimedes was making Figures with his minde and eyes fixed upon the ground a Souldier that was broken into his house to plunder with his drawn Sword asked him who he was The Philosopher was so intent that he return'd him no direct Answer but parting dust with his finger Have a care said he of spoyling this Circle Thereupon as one that slighted the Victor of the Empire the Souldier cut off his Head and blended his blood with the Lineaments of his Art Thus the same Study gave him his Life and deprived him of it again 8. Most certain it is that Socrates when he was stricken in years began to learn Musick believing it better to learn that Art late than never How little an accession of knowledge was that to Socrates Yet the obstinate Industry of the person to so much wealth and treasure of Learning would also adde the profitable Elements of Musick Thus while he thought poor to learn he made himself rich to teach 9. And that we may reduce the Examples of a long and successful Industry to one head Isocrates compos'd that most noble Book entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when he was fourscore and four years of Age yet ● work full of life and spirit By which it appears that the members of learned men growing old yet their Minds by the benefit of Industry retain the full vigour of Youth Nor did he end his days till he had five years enjoyed the fruit of the admiration of his work 10. Lesser bounds terminated the life of Chrysippus yet was not short-liv'd for he left behind him the thirty ninth Book of his Logicks a book of exact nicety begun in the Eightieth Year of his Age. Whose Study in delivering the monuments of his Wit took up so much time and labour that a longer life would be r●quisite to understand the depth of his writings 11. Thee also Cleanthes so industrious in searching after and so laboriously delivering Wisdome the Deity of Industry could not but admire when she beheld thee in thy youth maintaining thy self by carrying water in the Night in the Day a diligent heares of Chrysippus and till the Hundredth year within one with attentive care instructing thy Disciples With a double labour thou hast taken up the space of one Age making it uncertain whether thou wert a better Scholar or a Master 12. Sopholces had also a glorious combat with Nature as liberal of his wonderful Works as she was liberal in giving him long Time to compose them For he lived near an Hundred years his Oedipus Coloneus being written by him just before his death By which one Tragedy he won the honour from all the Poets in that way Which Iophon the Son of Sophocles would not have concealed from Posterity and therefore caused it to be inscribed upon his Fathers Tomb. 13. Simonides the poet at Fourscore years of Age boasts himself that he taught Verses and contended for the prize at those years Nor was it but reason that he should long enjoy the fruit of his own Wit Who was himself to communicate them for the benefit of eternity 14. Now for Solon how industrious he was he has declared in his Verses Wherein he signifies that he grew old always learning something and the last day of his life confirmed it For as his Friends were sitting by him and discoursing among themselves upon some subject or other he lifted up his head then just about to bow to sate and being asked why he did so That when I understand said he what it is you are disputing upon I may dye Certainly Sloath had bin banished from among mankinde if all men should come into the world with the same Spirit that Solon left it 15. How great was the industry of Themistocles ● Who though he had the care of the greatest affairs of his Countrey upon his shoulders yet was able to remember the particular names of all his fellow-Citizens And being through high Injustice driv'n from his Countrey and compell'd to fly to Xerxes whom a little before he had vanquish'd in battle before he come into his presence he accustom'd himself to the Persian language that having purcha●●d commendation by labour he might render the Tone of his voice familiar and customary to the Kings ear 16. The Applause of both which sorts of Industry two Kings divided between them Cyrus remembring all the names of his Souldiers Mithridates learning two and twenty several Tongues spoken within his Dominions The first that he might address himself to his Army without a Director the other that he might discourse to the people whom he govern'd without an Interpreter CHAP. VIII Of Ease praised ROMANS 1. P. Aemilianus and C. Laelius 2. Mu●ius Scaevola Augur FORRAIGNERS 1. Socrates of Athens 2. Achilles in Homer EAse because it seems to be contrary to Industry but chiefly to Labour ought to be briefly touch'd upon Not that which extinguishes but which recreates Vertue For the sloathful ought to avoid the one and the brave and stout may desire the other They that they may not live like Drones these that by a seasonable intermission from toyl they may be the fitter for Labour 1. The famous pair of Friends Scipio and Laelius united together not only by the bond of Love but by an association of all other Vertues as they perform'd the journey of a painful life with equal steps so they generally relax'd from business by consent For it is certain that at Caieta and Lourenium they used to gather up Shells and little Stones upon the Shoar And this L. Crassus often reported from the mouth of Q. Scaevola who was Son-in-Law to Laelius 2. As for Scaevola as he was the most certain witness of their Relaxation so he himself was wont to play at Ball having us'd to delight himself in that sort of exercise when the weight of his business was over Sometimes he was wont to spend his time at Chess and Tables after he had bin long ordering the Rights of his Citizens and the Ceremonies of his Gods For as he acted Scaevola in serious things so he shewed himself but only Man in his Sports and Recreations as whom Nature will not suffer to abide continual Labour FORRAIGNERS 1. This Socra●es saw to whom no part of Wisdom was obscure which made him that he did not blush when

his counterfeit Consulship a kind of Government like a Mist a fading Triumph and his Off-spring a Sojourner in a strange City 6. But the beginnings of Porcius Cato were searched for out by publick Vote Who render'd his name most famous at Rome which was scarcely known in Tusculum The lasting Monuments of the Latin Tongue were by him adorn'd Military Discipline reform'd the Majesty of the Senate increased his Family establish'd to which the last Cato was no small honour FORRAIGN 1. But to joyn Forraign Examples to the Romans Socrates not onely by common consent of all persons but by the Oracle of Apollo judg'd to be the wisest among men was born of Phanarete a Midwife and Sophroniscus a Stone-cutter yet he came to be one of the most resplendent Lights of Glory and not undeservedly For when the Wits of most learned men were busied in blinde Disputations and endeavoured to set down the prove the measures of the Sun Moon and the rest of the Stars rather by multiplicity of words than certain Arguments for they undertook to tell the compass of the whole World he diverted men from these unlearned and unnecessary questions and taught them to dive into the nature of Man and the secret Aff●ctions that lay hidden in his breast So that if Vertue be esteem'd for its self much more such a Master as teacheth the best Rules of life 2. What Mother Euripides had or what Father Domesthenes had was unknown to the Age they lived in Yet the most certain opinion of the Learned is That the Mother of the one sold Pot-herbs and the Father of the other dealt in Knives However what can be more famous than the Tragedies of the one and the Orations of the other CHAP. V. Of those who have degenerated being born of Noble Ancestors 1. The Son of Scipio Africanus 2. Q. Fabius the Son of him sirnamed Allobrogicus 3. The Son of Clodius and Fulvia 4. Marcus Hortensius Corbio HEre follows the second part of a double promise to be made good by relating the blemishes in the Coats of Illustrious men Because we are not to relate the stories of those that have degenerated from the glory of their Ancestors 1. For what could be more like a Monster than the Son of the Elder Scipio Africanus who receiving his beginning from so Illustrious a Family could endure to suffer himself to be taken by a small party of King Antiochus when it had been better for him to have died a voluntary death than between two the most famous Sirnames the one obtained by the destruction of Africk and the other got by the Conquest of Asia to suffer his hands to be bound by the Enemy and to be beholding to his mercy for a pitiful life over whom Scipio was to obtain in a small time a Triumph most glorious in the sight of Gods and men Coming to claim the Pretorship he appeared in the field with such a spotted and bedaub'd white Gown that had it not been for the courtesie of Cicereus who was his Father's Secretary he would not have obtain'd the honour Though it had been no great matter whether he had a Repulse or a Pretorship so obtain'd for when the standers by saw what a soul Ga●ment he had on they were the occasion that he neith●r durst place his Chair not hear Causes Moreover they took a Ring off his finger upon which the head of Alexander was engrav'd Good Gods from what Thunder die ye suffer so much Darkness to proceed 2. Again Q. Fabius Maximus the Son of Q. Fabius Maximus sirnamed Allobrogicus what a luxurious and dissolute life did he lead whose other Vices to obliterate yet might his Manners be seen by one act of disgrace that Q. Pompey the City-Pretor would not let him meddle with his Father's goods Neither was there any person in so great a City that would speak against the Decree For men grived to see that that money which was to maintain the splendour of the Fabian Family should be spent in Riot and Excess Thus he whom his Father's indulgence left his Heir the publick severity dis-inherited 3. Clodius the fair was in great favour with the people yet his Wife Fulvia wearing a Dagger shew'd that he suffered his warlike Spirit to be subject to the commands of a Woman Their Son called also by the name of Clodius the Fair beside that he had led a slothful and effeminate life in his Youth was also infamous for his egregious dotage upon the most common Whores and died a most s●ameful death For his belly being eaten up he surrender'd his life to the greedy appetite of his own soul in●emperance 4. Hortensius Corbio also the Nephew of Quintus Hortensius who in the greatest plenty of ingenious and illustrious Citizens attain'd the highest degree of Eloquence and Authority led a life more obscure and fordid than all the Strumpets put together At length his Tongue was as common at the pleasure and lust of every one in the Bawdy-houses as his Fathers Oratory was diligently employ'd for the good of his Fellow-Citizens CHAP. VI. Of Illustrious men that delighted more than ordinary in rich Apparel and sumptuous adorning themselves 1. Scipio the Greater 2. Asiatic Scipio 3. Cornelius Sylla 4. C. Duilius 5. C. Papirius Maso 6. C. Marius 7. M. Cato of Utica I Am not ignorant what a dangerous Journey I have undertaken Therefore I will recall my self lest while I continue to pursue the remaining Shipwracks and Miscarriages of the same nature I should intrigue my self in useless Relations I will therefore retreat and suffer those deformed shadows to lie hid in the deep Abyss of their own shame thinking it more to the purpose to declare what illustrious Personages have given themselves an unusual liberty in their Habits and Dresses the Authors of new Customs 1. P. Sci●io being in Sic●ly there intent upon the reinforcing and transporting his Army into Africa as he that minded nothing more than the ruine of Carthage was at the same time accustomed to the Gymnasium and wore a Pallium or long Mantle and those finer sort of shoes called Crepidae Yet did he handle the Carthaginians never a whit the more softly for that For his Divertisement made him more eager seeing that strong and active Wits the more they use Retirement the more vehement they are in Command Thereby perhaps he also thought to win the favour of the young Gentry while he followed their Customes of Habit and Diet. For to those Exercises he applied himself when he had much and long tired himself and had constrained his other Limbs to prove their Strength by Military Labours wearied with the one recreated with the other 2. We likewise behold the Statue of Lucius Scipio with a Chlamys or a short Cloak about his Shoulders and embroidered Slippers In which Habit as he was wont to wear it alive they cloa●hed his Essigies 3. Lucius Cornelius Sylla also when he was Emperour thought it no disgrace to walk the

Pompeius of Rhegium 5. Q. Caecilus 6. T. Marius 7. Valerius Heptachordus 8. T. Barrulus 9. M. Popilius HAving contended our selves with these Examples of cancell'd Wills let us give a hint upon those that have remain'd confirm'd when there was cause enough for them to have bin cancell'd 1. How publickly and scandalously was Tuditanus noted for a madman being one that threw his Money among the People and trayl'd his Cloak after him in the Forum as if it had bin the garment of a Tragedian so that he was the laughter of all that beheld him besides many other pranks of the same nature which they beheld He made his Son Heir by his Will which T. Longus by the Judgment of the Centumviri in vain endeavour'd to have disannull'd as being next of kin For the Centumviri thought it more proper to consider what was written in the Will than who had wrote it 2. The conversation of Tuditanus was Frantick but Aebucia who was the wife of L. Menenius Agrippa made a Will that as Madness it self For having two Daughters of equal vertue Plaetoria and Afrania through the inclination of her own minde rather than for any offence or miscarriage she only made Plaetoria her Heir and to the Children of Afrania out of her vast Patrimony she left only twenty thousand pieces of Money However Afrania would not contend by Oath with her Sister rather choosing patiently to honour her Mothers Will than to violate it in Court shewing her self thereby so much the more unworthy the Injury done her by how much the more patiently she bore it 3. Q. Metellus committed a womanish errour less to be admir'd For he though there were several eminent and famous young men of the same name living in our City at the same time and that the Family of the Claudii to whom he was most nearly related were then very numerous left Corinates onely his Heir neither did any one attempt to question his Will 4. Pompeius also Rheginus a Tramontane being by his Brother left out of his Will and that to prove his Injustice he had in a full Assembly of both Orders recited two former Wills made and testified in the publick place of Elections by which this Brother was made Heir of the greatest part only there was premis'd to him the summ of an hundred and fifty Sesterces after he had long complain'd to his Friends that sooth'd his indignation took a resolution not to trouble the ashes of his Brother in a Court of Judicature Yet they whom he had made his Heirs were so far from being so near a kin by ●he Fathers side that they were not the next to him but strangers and poor So that the Silence seem'd to be wicked and the Pride contumelious 5. Happy in their Impunity but whether these Wills were not worse in offending is the Question Quintus Caecilius by the diligent endeavour and great Liberalitie of L. Lucullus having attain'd to a handsome some degree of Dignity and an ample Patrimony when he had fully resolv'd that he alone should be his Heir and on his Death-bed had given him his Rings from off his Fingers yet by his Will adopted Pomponius Atticus and made him Heir to all his Estate But the Roman People tying a Halter about the neck of the Carcass of that deceitful and fallacious person dragg'd him along the High-way Thus the wicked wretch had a Son and Heir such as he desir'd but a Funeral and a Grave such as he deserv'd 6. Neither was T. Marius Vrbinas worthy of any other who by the favour of the divine Augustus the Emperour being rais'd from the lowest condition of a common Souldier to the highest commands in the Camp and being by them enrich'd not onely at other times declar'd that he would leave his fortunes to him that had bestow'd them on him and but the day before he died protested the same thing to Augustus himself when as he had not so much as mention'd his name in his will 7. Lucius Valerius whose sirname was Heptachordus having experienc'd the enmity of Cornelius Balbus in Court as being plagued by his advice and management with several private Suits and at length by a suborned witness being by him accus'd of a Capital Crime leaving out his Advocates and Patrons left him sole Heir cow'd by such a dread as turn'd his resolutions topsie turvie For he lov'd his Ignominie lov'd the dangers and seem'd to wish he had bin condemn'd being so kind to the authour of those mischiefs and hating his defenders 8. T. Barrulus open his Death-bed deliv●r'd his Rings to Lentulus Spinther whose kindness and friendship he had felt as to his only Heir yet left him nothing at all How strangely at that very moment of time if it be of that force which we believe it to be did Conscience punish that abominable creature For between the very thoughts of his Ingratitude and Fallacy he yielded up his last breath as if some Tormenter had crucified his soul within him For he knew that his passage from life to death was hateful to the Gods and would be detested by the Infernal Spirits 9. Marcus Popilius upon his death-bed beheld Oppius Gallus a Senator with whom he had been familiar from his youth as the Laws of antient friendship requir'd and gave him the most loving words imaginable For be thought him only worthy of all that stood by him of his last embrace and kiss moreover he deliver'd him his Rings to ensure him of that Inheritance which he was never likely to enjoy Which Rings laid up in his Purse and assigned to him by those that were present Oppius a diligent man but a mere mock of his dying friend disinherits himself and returns them diligently to his Heirs What could be more dishonest or more unseasonable at this time and place That a Senator of the Roman people just ready to die not only as a man to the world but also as a publick person to the Senate-house should have such a trick put upon him against all the sacred Laws of friendship when his eyes were set in his head and he drawing his last breath LIB VIII CHAP. I. Of Signal Publick Iudgments Absolv'd 1. M. Horatius Tergeminus 2. Ser. Sulpitius Galba 3. A. Gabinius 4. P. Claudius Pulcher. 5. Tuccia the Vestal 6. L. Calpurnius Piso. 7. Q. Flavius the Augur 8. Cosconius Callidianus 9. Atilius Calatinus 10. M. Aemilius Scaurus jun. 11. Aurelius Co●●a 12. Callidius of Bononia 13. The two Cloelii of Tarracinum Condemn'd 1. L. Scipio Asiatick 2. C. Decianus 3. Sex Titius 4. Claudia the daughter of App. the blind 5. M. Mulvius C. Lollius L. Sextilius Triumvirs 6. P. Villius the Triumvir 7. M. Aemilius Porcina 8. A certain Father of a Family Two Burnt 1. A Matricide 2. A Mistress of a Family ABSOLVED NOw that the doubtful motions of Judgments may more easily be endured let us relate for what causes they that laboured under Envy were either acquitted or