Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	caesar_n	civil_a	pompey_n	2,660	5	10.9879	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48625	VVar and peace reconciled, or, A discourse of constancy in inconstant times containing matter of direction and consolation against publick calamities / written originally in a foreign language and translated for the benefit of the gentrie of this nation.; De constantia. English	Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.; Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing L2365; ESTC R610	89,515	324

a Town at this day of any name in this our vvasted Belgia but is able to raise such a number of Men fit to bear Armes Let us take now a view of Italy and the Romans Augustine and Orosius have already eased me of this trouble Consult them and there you vvill meet vvith Seas of evils The second Punick vvarr it self in less than seventeen years for I have exactly computed it consumed in Italy Spain and Sicily only above fifteen hundred thousand men The civill vvar betwixt Pompey and Caesar three hundred thousand And the Arms of Brutus Cassius and Sextus Pompeius a greater number But why should I insist upon such Warrs as were managed by the conduct of several Commanders That one Caius Caesar the plague and poyson of mankind confesses and that in a vvay of triumph that there fell by him in several batails eleven hundred ninety and two thousand men not reckoning into this number the slaughters of the civil Warrs But only those of forraign Nations which he had made in those few years wherein he had the Government of Spain and Gaul In which notwithstanding greater in this too the Great Pompey out-went him who wrote in the Temple of Minerva that there were by him vanquished put to flight slain and taken One and twenty hundred and eighty three thousand men To these if you will you may adde Quintus Fabius vvho slew one hundred and ten thousand Gauls Caius Marius two hundred thousand Cimbrians And in the latter ages Aetius vvho in that memorable Catalaunican Field slevv one hundred sixty two thousand Hunnes And lest you should think that in these Warrs there vvere only Carcases of Men there vvere those of Cities too That Cato the Censour boasts that he took more Towns in Spain than he continued dayes there Sempronius Gracchus if vve may believe Polybius raised Three hundred in the same Spain nor hath any age as I think any thing to add to these Examples unless it be our own though acted in another World A few Spaniards about Eighty years ago passing over into those vast and nevv found Lands Good God! vvhat funeralls vvhat slaughters did they make I do not discourse the causes and justness of that Warr but only the events I see that huge space of Earth vvhich eertainly vvas a great enterprize to discover not to say to overcome overrun by twenty or thirty Souldiers and those unarmed multitudes every vvhere mow'd down as corn is by the sythe Where art thou Cuba the greatest of Islands Haytus or you Iucayans Which heretofore were each of you guarded vvith six or ten hundred thousand men but have now some of you scarce preserved fifteen of them for seed Shew thy self avvhile thou Peru and thou Mexico O vvonderful and miserable face that immense tract and such as may vvell be called another World appears vast and desolate in such a manner as if it had been blasted vvith a fire from Heaven My Tongue and Heart fail me Lipsius as oft as I remember these things and I look upon all that hath befallen us in comparison of these to be but pieces of strawes as the Comaedian vvords it or little mites Nor do I here represent to you the condition of captivity than vvhich nothing vvas more bitter in the Warrs of the Ancients Free noble Men Women and Children all sorts vvere hurried away by the Victour and vvho knowes but it vvas into eternal slavery Into slavery it vvas The footsteps of vvhich I justly rejoyce have not been nor yet are in the Christian World 'T is true the Turks practise it nor is there any thing that ought to render that Scythian Tyranny more detestable or dreadfull to us CHAP. XXIII Wonderful examples of Plagues and Famines in Former times Also of excessive Taxes and Rapines heretofore BUt you goe forward in your complaints and speak of the plague and Famine of Taxes and Rapines Will you then that we proceed vvith each of these in our comparison though briefly Tell me in these five or six years how many thousands hath this plague snatched away in all Belgia As I guess fifty or at the most one hundred thousand But in Iudaea a single plague in the reign of King David swept away seventy thousand in less than a day When Gallus and Volusianus vvere Emperours a plague beginning in Aethiopia passed through all the Roman Provinces and for fifteen years together did incredibly exhaust them Nor did I ever read of a mortality that lasted so long or that spread it self so vvide But that vvhich seised upon Constantinople and the neighbouring places in the reign of Iustinian the Emperour is more remarkable for the fury and fierceness of it vvhich vvas such that it made every day five thousand funerals and sometimes ten I should not be forward to speak this but should my self remain doubtful of the credit of this report vvere it not confirmed by unquestionable vvitnesses that lived in the same age Nor vvas that African plague less vvonderful vvhich began upon the ruine of Carthage and destroyed in Numidia alone eighty thousand men in the Sea costs of Africa two hundred thousand about Vtica thirty thousand Souldiers left there as the guard of those parts Again in Greece in the reign of Michael Ducas there was so raging a plague that they are Zonaras his vvords the living did not suffice to bury the dead To conclude in Petrarchs time as himself reports it so direful a one sate brooding upon Italy that of every thousand men scarce ten survived I come now to speak of Famine Certainly vve of this Age have seen nothing if vve consider the times past When Honorius vvas Emperour there vvas such a dearth and scarcity of all sorts of provisions that men vvere ready to eat one another For it vvas openly cried at the Cirque set the price of mans flesh In the reign of Iustinian throughout Italy after the Goths had vvasted it there vvas one so great that in Picenum alone there vvere fifty thousand men famished to death and all about they eat not only the flesh of men but their own excrements Two vvomen I tremble to speak it had at several times by night treacherously killed seventeen men and eaten them and vvere themselves slain by the eighteenth who had discovered their practise I forbear to relate the famine in Ierusalem and the vvell known examples of it there If I must say something of Taxes also I deny not but they are heavy ones with which we are pressed But they are such only vvhen you look upon them by themselves not when you compare them vvith those of old All most all the Provinces of the Roman Empire payed yearly the fifth part of the profits of their pasture and the tenth of their arable Nor did Anthony and Caesar forbear to exact the tributes of nine or ten years to be payed in one When Iulius Caesar vvas slain and armes were taken up for their liberty every Citizen was commanded to