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A50048	Analecta Caesarum Romanorum, or, Select observations of all the Roman emperors illustrated with their several effigies according to their coins / the first eighteen by Edward Leigh ... ; the others added by his son Henry Leigh ... : also certain choice French proverbs ; alphabetically disposed and Englished, added by the same Edward Leigh.	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.; Leigh, Henry, d. 1705.	1664 (1664)	Wing L984; ESTC R34514	209,138	450

too big here will I cast Anchor ever remaining Your dutiful Son to command EDWARD LEIGH Caesar was War Augustus Peace impure Tiberius was Caligula past cure Claudius was Dotard Nero beastly mad Galba stale Otho trim Vitellius Swad Vespatian's shrewd and base Titus more good Than bad Domitian is Pride Lust and Blood Dr. Holiday's Survey of the World Lib. 8. Iulius Caesar. THe Iulii were so called saith Alex. ab Alex. à prima barbae lanugine from the first wooll or down of the beard Others think the name of the Iulii came from Iulus Ascanius the Son of Aeneas At puer Ascanius cui nunc cognomen Iulo. He reformed the Kalendar which was then confused and framed the whole year just unto the course of the Sun that it should contain 365 daies and appointed that every fourth year a whole day should be inserted Therefore we call our year Annum Iulianum and the Kalendar which we use Calendarium Iulianum and that Month which was by them called Quintilis because it was the fifth Month is now called Iuly in honour of him For his other name Caesar there are different opinions of the original of it Some derive it à caesiis oculis from his grey eies But Suetonius refutes that and saith he had black eies Others say he was so called à Caesarie from a bush of hair with which he was born Some say he was cut out of his Mothers womb although Festus Pompeius thinks such are rather to be called Caesones and Casaubon rejecteth that Etymologie Postellus in his introduction in Chaldaic Ling. c. saith the first Caesar could not be denominated à Caeso matris utero cum id nomen ante illum Caesarem qui secta matre in lucem prodiit pro Rege jam diu usurpatum sit Caesonis nomine insignes plures extiterunt é quibus Caeso Fabius Caeso Quintius Dictos autem Caesones à Caeso matris utero qui necatis matribus nati sunt tradunt Plin. Hist. Nat. l. 7. c. 9. Et Valer. Prob. Vnde et Caesaris nomen ortum sumpsisse sunt qui opinentur ut Ael Spartian in Ael Vero et Serv. in Aen. 10. aliis tamen in alia euntibus Gatak Annotat. in Lib. 4. Marci Antonini Imperatoris Others derive it à Caeso Elephanto from his Grand-fathers killing an Elephant which in the Carthaginian tongue is called Caesar. Sigonius speaks much of it but so that it should seem to be ambiguae fidei and therefore I shall leave it undetermined He was tall of stature white and clear of complexion somewhat full-faced his limbs were well trussed in good plight his eies black lively and quick He was also very healthful saving that in his latter daies he was given to faint and swoon suddenly Comitiali quoque morbo bis inter res agendas correptus est saith Suetonius twice in the midst of his Martial affairs he was surprized with the falling sickness which he stileth Morbum comitialem either because it chiefly invadeth and seizeth on men in Comitiis in popular Assemblies or because their Comitia their Parliaments or Assemblies were dissolved and broke up by occasion thereof if any chanced to fall sick of that disease they reputing such an accident to be a sinister presage Est Morbi species subiti cui nomen ab illo est Quod fieri nobis suffragia justa recusant Saepe etenim membris acri languore caducis Concilium populi labes horrenda diremit In Eloquence and warlike feats together he either equalled or excelled the glory of the very best Eloquentia attigit summorum gloriam re militari excessit Lipsius Caesar qui ne scait moins bien faire que bien dire Caesar who knows as well to write as fight He held a Sword in one hand and a Book in the other with this Motto Ex utroque Caesar Emperor by both He was counted the second man for Eloquence in his time and gave place to the first because he would be the first and chiefest man of war and Authority Iulius Caesar Scaliger writeth thus of him Duae sunt aquilae solae in natura rerum altera bellicae laudis altera literariae illa potentiae haec sapientiae Caesar Aristoteles Exercit 94. Sect. 2. Paterculus reckoning up the famous wits of those times saith Et proximum Ciceroni Caesarem Nay Cicero himself in his Catalogue of Orators to Brutus saith He cannot see any to whom Caesar might give place and he highly commends him in his Oration pro Marcello Est ejus viri pura oratio sine fuco ac calamistris ornata vel Romanis vel Atticis Musis dignissima Lipsius Aulus Gellius scribit Caesarem sermonis fuisse praeter alios suae aetatis castissimi He left Commentaries of his own Acts touching the Gaul war and the Civil war between Pompey and him Commentaries saith B. De Vigenere in his annotations on Caesars Comment of the Gaul war are little particular memories which one makes either for himself or for another containing only the principal heads of the deeds and acts of which he will after write a History at his better leisure Caesars Commentaries Sr. Francis Bacon saith is the best History of the world King Iames exhorting his Son to the study of History above all prophane Writers commendeth this Book of Caesars to his reading both for the sweet flowing of the stile and the worthiness of the matter it self Qui non minor rerum suarum praeco fuerit quàm earundem actor saith Grotius in his Epistle to the Prince of Condee prefixed to Martianus Capella He saith there also that he wrote excellent Tragedies and most large commendations of Hercules of Grammar and his own journies most elegantly and highly commends his Anticatones He was a famous Mathematician and diligent in that study as Lucan writes of him Media inter proelta semper Stellarum coelique plagis superisque vacavi He could at one time read and write hear and indite and if he did nothing else he could dictate to 7 Actuaries or Penmen at once We ought to admire two things in him which he had to perfection and which render a Commander excellent viz. that he forecast and provided for all things which might either further or hinder his design before he undertook it and that in the very execution he failed not to take his advantage when occasion presented it or to remedy upon the instant such unexpected accidents as befel wherein he hath been inimitable The Duke of Rohan's Observ. upon Caesars Comment L. 6. Anthony De Bandole hath parallel'd Caesar and Henry the fourth King of France Both had saith he very high conceptions a solid judgment resolute execution both were valiant provident firm to their designs undertaking with confidence guiding it with dexterity overcoming all with valour See more there In his Enterprizes he was both valiant

the grace unto this pleasant scoff for being a meer Latine word and having the first syllable by nature short it signifieth to stay or to make long abode and taking it thus Nero might be thought to imply thus much that Claudius was now departed out of the company of mortal men but take the same word as Nero spake it derived of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek which signifieth a Fool and hath the first syllable long it importeth that Claudius played the fool no longer here in the world among men In the time of the two first Caesars which had the Art of Government in greatest perfection there lived the best Poet Virgilius Maro the best Historiographer Titus Livius the best Antiquary Marcus Varro and the best or second Orator Marcus Cicero that to the memory of man are known The time that the Roman Monarchy seemed to be at his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was saith Carion from Julius Caesar to the end of Antoninus the Philosopher his reign Afterward many filthy Monsters reigned and many seditions and civil wars followed therefore I have not only enlarged the former Treatise by inserting here and there some other special observations but have made an addition also of six more Emperors since as Sir Francis Bacon also saith in his advancement of Learning the six next Princes were all learned or singular favourers and advancers of Learning which age as he also saith for temporal respects was the most happy and flourishing that ever the Roman Empire which then was a Model of the world enjoyed a matter revealed and prefigured unto Domitian in a dream the night before he was slain for he thought there was grown behind upon his shoulders a neck and a head of Gold which came accordingly to pass in those golden times which succeeded Fulk in his Book of Meteors observeth not long before the contention of Galba Otho and Vitellius for the Empire of Rome there appeared three Suns as it were pointing out the strife which followed soon after between them three for the Imperial Diadem of threescore and thirteen Roman Emperors that perished within the narrow compass of one hundred years only three died a natural death in their Beds the rest were cut off by their lusts It was a heavy time then with Christians when they groned under the Persecuting Emperors three hundred years together yet in that time they had many Lucida intervalla many breathing spaces under Princes not altogether so bloody there were two principal Persecutors of the Church Dioclesian and Julian but the last was the most pestilent Jerome justly styled him Canem rabidum and it is remarkable what is observed of him that going forth to the Persian War he asked in scoffing manner What the Carpenters Son meaning Christ was doing To whom it was answered by a good Christian Loculum fabricatur He is making a Coffin for Julian which Prophetical speech was indeed verified by the event for Julian was strangely wounded and slain in that War and as in his life time he had blasphemed Christ so he died blaspheming Christ and casting up his blood towards Heaven he cried Vicisti o Galilaee Thou hast overcome O Galilean This may suffice to have spoken of some of the chief Persecutors in general since I purpose not to enlarge this Treatise any more because there is little said of many of the Roman Emperors and the History of them altogether is already written in our Mother tongue but I intended only at the first Analecta some choice and pithy observations of them if these therefore may benefit thee summam votorum attigi I have attained the end of my desires and so I rest Thy Wel-wisher EDWARD LEIGH A FURTHER ADVERTISEMENT REader I had held my former resolution of not enlarging this Treatise but that the Book-seller intending a re-impression of the whole with Cuts and Pictures of the Emperors sent me my part with paper between the leaves and therein intimated a desire that I should insert some memorable things by way of Addition I have to gratifie him and I hope therein the publick both corrected and augmented my Observations having by my interest in a learned Gentleman procured the use of Boeclerus his Political Dissertations upon the twelve first Caesars from that and some other learned men I have collected such things as I hope may be useful and beneficial to others Thine E. L. Coccejus Nerva DOmitian thus made away Coccejus Nerva a prudent honourable and aged person was elected Emperor by the Senate his birth was noble and of Italy in the City Narnia and of the Province Vmbria ruling so well as he may be esteemed too good a Prince long to continue in so bad an age who reformed many enormities and remitted many grievous tributes and exactions also he recalled from banishment the Christians severely dispersed and suffered them to enjoy the freedom of their profession at which time Iohn the Evangelist returned from Patmos wherein he had been confined unto Ephesus a City in Asia the less where after his return he lived four years The excellent temper of his Government is by a glance in Cornelius Tacitus touched to the life Postquam divus Nerva res olim insociabiles miscuisset imperium libertatem Dion writeth of him that he was so good a Prince that he once uttered this speech Nihil se fecisse quo minus possit deposito imperio privatus tuto vivere He remembreth not to have done any thing why he should not live securely and without fear of any body although he gave over the Empire His symbole was Mens bona regnum possidet He discharged the City of the new impositions which Vespasian and Domitian had laid upon them and commanded that goods unjustly taken should be restored to the owners He was very eloquent and a good Poet as Martial testifies of him Quanta quies placidi tanta est facundia Nervae See Martial's Epigram of him lib. 11. epig. 6. Herodes Atticus found a great treasure in his house but fearing calumnies he wrote to Nerva and discovered it He wrote back again Vtere use it But he being not so secure wrote again At enim thesaurus privati hominis conditionem superat But the treasure exceeds the condition of a private man Nerva again nobly replied Ergo abutere Lips in Plin. Paneg. On a reverse of Nerva is found a team of horses let loose with this inscription Vehiculatione per Italiam remissa whereby we learn which no Historian remembers that the Roman Emperors commanded all the carriages of the Country that Nerva remitted that burden and that the grievance was so heavy that coins were stamped in remembrance of this Emperors goodness that eased them of it See the coins in L. Hulsius and Speed's Chronicle Sextus Aurel. Victor writeth thus Quid Nerva prudentius aut moderatius quid Trajano divinius Quid praestantius Hadriano Having reigned only one year four months and nine

so in honour of our Virgin Queen was there a Country called Virginia Augustus Imperii formator ne dominum quidem dici se volebat Augustus the founder of the the Roman Empire for his Father Caesar was but Metator rather than Imperator the chalker of it out than the setter of it up This great man would not be called Lord. Upon the same day that our Saviour was born he forbad them by Edict to call him Lord that all Lordship might be ascribed to him The Princes which followed him though good refused not that title In his time our Saviour was born Imperante Augustꝰ natus est Christus Imperante Tiberio crucifixus He consulting with the Oracle of Delphos about his Successor received this answer Hebraeus puer injungit Divum dominator Hacce domo fugere et rursum me inferna subire Ergo tacens aris posthac discedito nostris Whereupon Augustus coming home in the Capitol erected an Altar and thereon in capital letters caused this inscription to be engraven Haec est Ara Primogeniti Dei He is mentioned in the Scripture Luke 2.1 There came an Edict from Augustus Caesar that all the world should be taxed i. e. all the Provinces subject to the Roman Empire for the Romans called themselves Lords of the whole world He made not war upon any people without just and necessary causes his saying was That neither battel nor war was to be undertaken unless there might be evidently seen more hope of gain than fear of damage He likened such who sought after small commodities with great danger unto those that Angle with a golden hook which if it be broken off no draught of Fish whatsoever is able to make amends for the loss That was prudent advice of Henry the fourth K. of France to Henry the third his Brother who would needs with those small forces they had salley out of Tours upon the great Army of Charles Duke of Mayen Sire quoth he N'hazardons pas un double Henry contre un Carolus i. e. Let us not venture a double Ducket for a single penny He was so troubled and astonished at the Relation of a Foil and overthrow of Varus that for certain months together he let the hair of his head and beard grow still and wore it long yea and otherwhiles would run his head against the doors crying out Quintilius Varus deliver up my Legions again Suetonius He deemed nothing less beseeming a perfect and accomplish'd Capt. than temerity or rashness using this speech Satis celeriter fieri quicquid commodè geritur that is done soon enough which is done well enough He was so exceedingly delighted with that proverbial saying Festina lente that he would not onely use it frequently in his daily Colloquies but would insert it often in his Epistles admonishing by these two words that to effect any enterprise both the speedinesse of Industry and the slownesse of diligence should concur The City being not adorned according to the Majesty of such an Empire and subject to the casualties of Deluges and fires he beautified and set out so as justly he made his boast that whereas he found it built of brick he left it all of Marble Augusto profluens quae Principem deceret Eloquentia fuit Tacit. He had a ready fluent and eloquent speech such as well became a Prince Grotius in his Epistle to the Prince of Con●ee prefixed to Martianus Capella saith he eloquently composed Sicilie Epigrams Achilles some Geographical things Seeing upon a time a number of Citizens clad all in black assembled to hear a publick speech he with great indignation cryed out Behold Romanos rerum Doimnos gentemque togatam The Romans Lords of all the world and long rob'd Nation He never recommended his sons unto the people but with this clause added thereto If they shall deserve He gave charge to the Praetors of Rome Ne paterentur nomen suum obsolefieri Not to suffer his name to be worn thread-bare He would never lye awake in the dark without one sitting by his bed side Macrobius writes of him that he carried such an entire and fatherly affection to the Common-wealth that he called it Filiam suam his own Daughter and therefore refused to be called Dominus the Lord or Master of his Countrey and would onely be called Pater Patriae the Father of his Country because he governed it not per timorem sed per amorem not by fear but by love Heraldus on Tertullians Apology speaking of Augustus and Tiberius his refusing the title of Lord saith Profesto existimarim non sine numine id iis in mentem venisse ut vel hac ratione Chricto omnium gentium vero Domino gloria sua servaretur illibata He would not lightly depart forth of the City or any Town nor enter into any place but in the evening or by night for disquieting any person in doing him honour by way of dutiful attendance Suet. The beginning of friendship between him and Cinna was strange Cinna had conspired against his life After Augustus had discovered to him all his conspiracy which he knew he said I have given thee thy life twice first as an enemy then a Rebel and now I give thee the Consulship Let us now be friends and henceforth strive whether I have with a better faith given thee thy life or thou owest it to me Augustus saith Sueton. in vita Aug. had not thenceforward in all Rome a greater friend than Cinna while he lived and when he died Cinna made him sole heir vide Senec. l. 1. de clement c. 9. This was duly observed that how often soever he entred Rome no punishment that day was inflicted upon any person Qui cum triste aliquid statuit fit tristis ipse Cuique fere poenam sumere poena sua est He was grieved himself when he pronounced a grievous sentence and he thought himself punished when he punished others Quique dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox Rarus quidem ad recipiendas amicitias ad retinendas constantissimus He would not suddenly entertain a league of friendship with any but was a constant friend to those he loved amare Nec cito desisto nec temere incipio Late ere I love as long ere I leave Dion reporteth of him that when he gave commandment to take tribute of the Iews he would not suffer it to be taken from them on their Sabbath but caused them to delay it till the next day He slept but upon a low bed and the same but meanly spread and laid with coverlets He seldome wore any apparel but huswives cloath made within the house by his Wife his Sister and Daughter He was a man of very little meat and fed for the most part on cheat bread and small fishes He caused the bones of Thallus who had opened a Letter committed to his