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A00997	The Roman histories of Lucius Iulius Florus from the foundation of Rome, till Cæsar Augustus, for aboue DCC. yeares, & from thence to Traian near CC. yeares, divided by Flor[us] into IV. ages. Translated into English.; Epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri II. English	Florus, Lucius Annaeus.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.; Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?	1619 (1619)	STC 11103; ESTC S102361	97,168	532

edge-toole of their vertue vpon The Ligurians dwelling close vpon the lowest ridges of the Alpes betweene Varus and the riuer Macra sheltred among wilde thickets were more difficult to come at then to conquer This tough and swift generation of men trusting to their fastnesses and feet rather made inroades by flealth like high-way theeues then an orderly warre Therefore after that the Deceates Oxibians Euburiades and Ingaunians nations of Liguria had thus for a long time shifted for themselues by aduantage of their woods wayes and starting holes Fuluius at the last shuts vp their lurking places with smoake and fire Baebius drawes them downe into the champaine and Posthumius so disarmed them as hee scarcely leaues them yron enough to shooe a plough CHAP. IIII. The Gallick warre THe Galls of Insubria who also dwel vnder the Alps had the mindes of wilde beasts and bodies huger then for men It is neuerthelesse found true by experience that as their first brunt is more forceable then a mans so their second is weaker then a womans Bodies bred about the Alps vnder a moist skie are somewhat answerable in nature to the snow of their seats for so soone as they waxe hot thorow with fighting they forthwith melt into sweat and are as it were dissolued with the sunne in a moment These as at other times often but specially now Britomarus being their captaine solemnly swore neuer to vnbuckle their belts till they had mounted the Capitoll It fell out iust For Aemilius hauing the victorie vngirdled them in the Capitoll Soone after Ariouistus their captaine they vow'd to consecrate a golden chaine to their God of Warre to be composed of such spoils as they tooke from our souldiers Iupiter intercepted their vow for Flaminius erected a golden trophea to Ioue of the chains they wore Verdumarus being their king they promised to offer the armours of the Romans vp to Vulcan but their vowes ranne bias For Verdumarus was slaine and Marcellus hung vp the third magnificent pompous spoiles which since the reigne of Romulus had beene offred to Iupiter Feretrius CHAP. V. The Illyrian warre THe Illyricans or Liburnians inhabit at the farthermost roots of the Alps betweene Arsia and the riuer Titius vpon the whole length of the coast of the Adrian sea for a very mightie way They not contenting themselues vnder the reigne of Queene Teuta with spoiles gotten by incursions added one heinous act to many bold ones For they tooke our ambassadours as they sought for an orderly redresse by law in the points of wrong and slue them not with the sword but like beasts of sacrifice with the butchers axe burnt the masters of the shippes and to make the matter fuller of dishonour all this in a womans reigne Therefore Cnaeus Fuluius Centumalus our Generall they were brought into subiection farre and neere So chopping off the chiefe Lords heads we sacrificed to the ghosts of our ambassadours CHAP. VI. The second Carthaginian warre FOure yeeres were scarcely now ouerpast after the first Carthaginian warre when lo another brake forth lesse in respect of the time for it lasted not aboue eighteene yeeres but so farre beyond the former in respect of terrible ouerthrowes that if a man compare the losse together which both the sides sustained hee would rather thinke the victors part to bee the partie vanquished The noble Carthaginians were ashamed seeing themselues thrust out of the seas possession and their Ilands violently taken from them and they to pay tribute who were wont to impose it Herevpon Annibal then a boy bound himselfe by oath to his father before the altar to take reuenge wherein hee was not slacke Therefore to beget matter for a warre he razed Saguntus to the ground an ancient rich citie of Spaine and a great but grieuous moniment of her truth and faith to the Romans whose freedome being by name prouided for in the generall articles of league Annibal seeking causes of new quarrels ouerthrew to the ground with his owne and others hands that by breach of peace hee might open Italy for himselfe The Romans make not a greater conscience of any thing then of keeping the faith of leagues Vpon aduertisement therefore that their confederate citie was besieged they did not presently runne to their weapons but did rather first choose to assay by way of orderly complaint what amends could bee had as remembring they were also in amity with Carthaginians Meane-while the Saguntines tired with hunger batteries assaults and fire and their constancie turning into madnesse and furie they make a monstrous funerall pile in the most open space of their citie and laying then themselues and their whole substance on the top thereof made an end of all together with sword and fire For this so foule a destruction the Romans demanded the deliuerie vp of Annibal But the Carthaginians paltring in the case quoth Fabius the chiefe ambassadour of the Romans What meanes this delay lo in this lappe I bring you war and peace choose which of them you like best and take it among you And when at these words the voice went round hee should giue them at his pleasure which he would Bee it war then said he and therewithall flinging open the skirts of his robe in the midst of the Counsel-house which hee had gather'd hollow and held vp till then hee did it with such an horrour as if hee had indeed powr'd warre among them out of his lap or bosome The end of this war was sutable to the beginning For as if the last curses of the Saguntines in that their publike self-slaughter finall fire had commanded such obsequies to bee celebrated their ghosts were sacrificed vnto with the deuastation of Italy the captiuitie of Africa and the destruction of kings and Generals of armies by whom that warre was managed When as therefore that sad and dismall storm and tempest of the Carthaginian warre once stirring in Spaine had forged out of the Saguntine fires those lightnings and thunders now long in breeding and aim'd at Rome immediately then as carryed with a whirl-winde it rusht thorow the middle of the Alps and fell vpon Italy from the snowie toppe of those mountaines made higher then they were of themselues by fame and fables as if it had beene from heauen The first rages of the charge burst streightway forth with horrible violence betweene the riuer of Po and Ticinum There Scipio Generall the Roman army was put to flight and the Generall himselfe had falne wounded as hee was into the hands of the enemy if his sonne then wanting of eighteene yeeres old had not rescued his father from certaine death it selfe with bold bestriding him And this shall bee that Scipio who growes vp to the destruction of Africa and shall make a surname to himselfe out of her calamities After this ouerthrow at Ticinum followed that of Trebia This second storme of warre wrought the furious effects thereof Sempronius Consul There the craftie enemies in