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A60230	The second Punick vvar betwwen Hannibal, and the Romanes the whole seventeen books, Englished from the Latine of Silius Italicus : with a continuation from the triumph of Scipio, to the death of Hannibal / by Tho. Ross ...; Punica. English	Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius.; Ross, Thomas, d. 1675.	1661 (1661)	Wing S3783; ESTC R5569	368,610	626

over-spread And Goat-Skins rough their Shoulders covered With Sling-Darts arm'd they came into the Field But th' Adyrmachidae a painted Shield And Swords like Hooks by Art intorted bear And their left-Legs with Armour guarded were But they Rude Tables have and uncouth Fare For in hot Sands their Viands roasted are Massilians then with Ensigns shining bright Who last of all behold the falling Light Of Day which the Hesperian Seas do drown These with long curled Tresses hanging down Fierce Bocchus leads and views upon the Shore Growing on sacred Trees the precious Ore Getulians likewise from their wandring Home Into the Camp to his Assistance come Familiar with wild Beasts they could allay With Words the Lyon's Rage No Houses they Possess but dwell continually in Wains Bearing their restless Lares through the Plains A thousand winged Troops whose Steeds obey The Wand as nimble as the Winde their Way Into the Camp do break As when the Hills And Plains a Pack of Dogs with Eccho fills And with full Crie in view the flying Deer Do follow and precipitate with Fear These his stern Face and Brow with Rage o're-spread Acheras slain Hasbyte's Brother led And near to them the Medicinal Troops in Arms Advance the tann'd Marmarides whose Charms The Poison of fell Serpents can allay And make the horned Cerast to obey Then her unskilfull Youth Bamura sent A Nation poor in Steel for Arms content Their Spears to harden onely in the Fire Yet with this weak Defence did they desire To mix their horrid Murmurs with the rest And furiously unto the Battel prest Then fierce Autololes whose nimble Speed Outstrips the Torrent or the fleetest Steed Birds to their Speed in Flight might seem to yield And when they overran the Champian Field It was as vain a Task to think to finde Their Foot-steps as to trace the lighter Winde Next who by Juice and Fruit of that fam'd Tree The Hospitable (l) See the Continuation of the Second Book Lotus nourish'd be Are listed in the Camp with those that stand Amaz'd to see in Garamantick Sand The Dypsades whose boiling Poyson fills With Flames and with strange thirst the wounded kills When Perseus had cut off the Gorgon's Head As Fame reports her banefull Blood was shed On Sandy Libya and since that the Ground With Medusaean Serpents doth abound These by a Captain most renown'd in War And born in Meninx Isle commanded are Choaspes was his Name who still did bear In 's fatal Hand a missile barbed Spear Then Nasamon who durst invade the Sea For Ship-wrack and deprive her of her Prey Next those who near to Pallas Pools do dwell And where the Warlike Maid as Fame doth tell Among those Waters with her Olive found With it did first enrich the Libyan Ground Then all those Nations that inhabit where The Sun doth fall and Hesperus first appear Before the rest the stout Cantabrians whom Nor Frost nor Summer's Heat could overcome Nor Hunger and were still observ'd to be Above the Reach of all Extremity Who when their Heads are crown'd with hoary Hairs From some high Rock prevent their weaker Years Life without War they hate in Arms they place The cause of Life to live in Peace is base With these unhappy Memnon's Servant from The East a Stranger to his Native Home Th' Astyrian sprinkled with Aurora's Tears Within another World in Arms appears His Horse was little and unknown to War Yet swift and firmly on his Back would bear The skilfull Rider or in easie Reins Hurry the peacefull Chariot o're the Plains Next Herdrus who Pyrene meteth o're In Chase and fights with Arrows like the Moor. To joyn with these the Warlike Celtae came Who with th' Iberi did divide their Name By these 't is Honour held in War to dy And to be Burnt For when their Bodies ly Expos'd abroad they do believe 't to be 'Gainst Heav'n and Gods a great Impiety If on their Limbs devouring Vultures tire Then Rich Gallecia in Divining Fire And panting Entrails skilfull thither brings Her Youth who sometimes in their Language sings Rude Sonnets sometimes with alternate Feet Striking the Ground the barbr'ous Numbers meet Or beat the lofty Tune upon the Shield Their Pastime this and chief Delight is held (m) This Custom not wholly omitted in Spain was not peculiar onely to the old Inhabitants of Gallicia but to the Celtae Thracians and others who imposed those more servile Labours on their Wives The Womens Labours other things fulfill For 't is beneath the Men to sow or till The fertile Ground and whatsoever's done Without a War their Wives perform alone These with the Lusitanians drawn from far Removed Caves and Dens conducted are (n) Viriarthus was at first a cunning Hunter then a Robber after by his Valour attaining to be a ●eneral of a Lusitanian Army and with it overthrew three Romane Captains in three several Conflicts but was in the e●d slain by some of his own Party corrupted by Cepio the Romane Consul See L. Florus By Viriarthus whom the active Fire Of Youth then warm'd who after did acquire By shedding Romane Blood a noble Name With these the neighb'ring Ceretani came Once great Alcides Camp and Vasions who No Helmets us'd to wear (o) Ilerda scituate near the River Sicoris in Spain where Caesar besieged Petreius and Afranius two of Pompey's Generals Ilerda too Which after saw the Romanes Civil Rage Neither did Concavus who doth asswage His Thirst with Horse's Blood whose Fierceness shews He sprang from Massagets this War refuse Now Ebesus Phoenician Arms assumes And Artabus who arm'd with (p) Aclides were a kinde of Pole-Ax which fastned to a Chain they threw at the Fo and drew back again Aclides comes Or slighter Darts and fierce the War attends With these the Balearique who descends From Lindus But Tlepolemus with Slings Is arm'd and winged Lead in Battell flings From Oena and Aetolian Tyde came The Gravians who had chang'd their Graian Name Next (q) New Carthage in Spain founded by Teucer Teucrian Carthage sends a youthfull Band Phocensians and Tarraco whose Land In Vines abounds whose Grapes in Clusters swell'd By Latian Bacchus onely are excell'd 'Mong these the Hedetanian Cohorts went In shining Arms from cooler Sucro sent And Setabis which lofty Towers adorn That Setabis whose Textures seem to scorn The proud Arabian Webs and overcome In rarest Art the best Egyptian Loom Mandonius these Commands and Caeso known For Horse-manship their Camps now joyn'd in one But the Balarian Light Vetonian Wings Tries by the open Sea and when the Springs Approach and Zephyrs breath their warmer Airs Preserving hidden Lust his Herds of Mares Exposeth and by (r) This generative Winde was from the West in the Vernal Equinox And of this not onely the Poets but even Philosophers as Aristotle Varro and Pliny who Lib. 8. c. 4● mentions them to be about Lisbon in Portugal And the like by Saint Augustine

Lib. 21. De Civit cap. 3. in Cappadocia but they allow them not so long lived as our Authour by four years However both the Winds and Mares if ever they had this Virtue have long since lost it generative Winde Makes them conceive and propagate their Kind But they are not long-liv'd their Age doth haste And th' seventh Year is commonly the Last But Susana whose Walls Sarmatians rear'd On Horses not so light in Arms appear'd These Strong and full of Mettle to the Bit Or their fierce Master's Will do scarce submit Them Rindacus commands with crooked Spears They fight and ev'ry Crested Helmet bears The frightfull Jaws of Beasts Themselves they give To Hunting and by Theft and Rapine live But above all Parnassian Cast●lo With noble Ensigns shines and Hispal who Assaulted daily by Alternate Tides Renown'd against the Ocean firm abides Near these familiar with Lyaeus Rites Nebrissa where the Satyrs their Delights Enjoy by Night and cloath'd i' th' Panther's Skin There Maenades their Mysteries begin Carteia too to Heighten hese Alarms The Nephews of great (s) Argonthonius was King of that part of Spain where stood Cart●ia and Tartessos upon the River Baetis whose healthful Soil is extolled both by Pliny lib. 7. cap. 4. and Strabo lib. 3. Those neither allow him above half that Age ascribed to him by the Poet. Argonthonius Arms A Warlike King who●e Life the Age surpast Of Men and thrice ten times ten years did lastt Tartessos too was there which still surveys The Steeds of Phoebus diving in the Seas Then fatal (t) Where Caesar besieged the two Sons of Pompey the one whereof was slain there in Fight and the other fled The Slaughter of the Romanes there was so great that Caesar made a Counter-Mure in an Attaque of thirty thousand Carkases Munda that as deep a Stain Of Romane Blood as the Aemathian Plain Did after bear and Corduba the Grace Of the Gold-bearing Land the War embrace These Phorcis with long yellow Tresses crown'd And fierce Aranthicus in Arms renown'd Led from their Native Countrey to engage In Libya's Quarrel both of Equal Age Born upon Bethe's Banks whose horned Brows Were overshadow'd with fat Olive-Boughs These the Sidonian Captain through the Field Clouded with Dust commanded and beheld Muster'd in Arms and in what Place soe're All His bright Ensigns could at once appear He drew them up in Triumph all along Cov'ring the Ground with Shadows of the Throng As when descending through the Liquid Plain To visit farthest Tethys in the Main Where weary Phoebus rests the God of Seas His Chariot drives the blew Nereides Rush from their Caves and each contending swims Displaying in perspicuous Waves their Limbs But Hannibal disturbing the Repose O' th' World to th' Top of high Pyrene goes (u) That vast Ridg of Hills that divides Spain from France Pyrene whose rough Brows the Clouds enfold From far the Rich Iberi doth behold Divided from the Celtae and still stands A firm Divorce between those mighty Lands The Hills their Name from a Bebrician Maid Did first derive and by the Crime 't is said Of Hercules a Guest when by the Fate Of those his Labours rais'd by Iuno's Hate Triple Geryon's Land he did invade And then in Bebrix cruel Palace made Lyaeus Vassal he Pyrene left Her Form bewailing now by him bereft Of her Virginity and if we may Believ 't of her unhappy Death they say That God was Cause that God who in her Womb Began to swell For She her dearest Home Frighted forsook and with an awfull Dread Her Father's Ire as from a Serpent fled Wandring in desart Caves Alcides Night She did Lament and all his Vows recite And Promises unto the Shady Groves Till thus bewailing his ingratefull Loves And lifting up her Hands t' implore his Aid She to the salvage Beasts a Prey was made But when at length the God return'd again With Spoils a Conquerour Gerion slain Her mangled Limbs with Tears he did bewail And when he saw her Face with Rage grew Pale The lofty Hills struck with his God-like Voice Appear to shake when with a mournfull Noise He on Pyrene calls and under Ground The Dens of Beasts and all the Rocks resound Pyrene's Name then sadly he prepares Her Sepulchre Embalming her with Tears Nor can the Teeth of Time destroy her Fame The Hills retaining her lamented Name Now or'e the Airy Mountains and through vast Condensed Woods bold Hannibal had past The Bounds of Bebrix and by 's armed Hand His Way through the inhospitable Land Of Volsians breaks untill His Army stood Upon the Banks of that (*) Rhodanus unruly Flood Which from the Alps and Snowy Rocks descends Upon the Celtae and himself extends Into a swelling Stream that makes his Way O're Land with a large Current to the Sea To its great Force mix'd Arar adds that seems To stand so slow his Pace with silent Streams Which Rhodanus once seising bears away In restless Billows and without Delay Drowns in the Main and forceth it disclaim Near to its Native Shore its Countrie 's Name But now the Hostile River all invade While some upon their Heads and Shoulders lai'd Their Arms and breaking through the Torrent strive Which on the adverse Bank shall first arrive To Skifs that late were Trees their Steeds they binde And Waft them o're nor do they leave behinde The Elephants whose Fears awhile withstood For covering with mighty Beams the Flood So much by them abhorr'd and ev'ry Plank With solid Earth o're-spreading from the Bank The Beasts descend whom to the other side Swimming as on the Ground they gently guid The River frighted with so vast a Weight Of the fierce Herd the threatning Billows strait From 's Sandy Bottom turns and all his Springs Le ts loose and to his Aid with Murmurs brings Now the Tricassian Coast the Army gains And fertile Fields now through Vocuntian Plains They move where swift Druentia troubled rolls Huge Stones and Trunks of Trees and so controlls Their pleasant March for from the Alps it springs And thence with roaring Waves devolving brings Eradicated Trees and Quarries torn From hollow Rocks at the Creation born Then deviating his fallacious Streams Turns from their Course and is not what he seems The Fords deceitfull are to Foot unstable The Chanel to small Barks innavigable But then encreas'd by fall of sudden Storms O'rewhelms a Multitude of Men with Arms Surcharg'd who sinking in the foaming Waves Dismembred in the Bottom finde their Graves But now all Memory of Labours pass'd And Fears the A●ps so near in View displac'd All Parts with Frost and undissolving Hail Are cov'red and Eternally prevail To keep their aged Ice the lofty Brow O' th' airy Hills is bound about with Snow Which opposite to Phoebus rising Beams Will know no Dissolution by his Flames As far as the Tartarean Abyss Of that pale Kingdom where the Dwelling is Of mournfull Ghosts and Stygian Waters are Removed

Ghosts appear Here the three-headed Dog when he hath broke His Chains and off a thousand Fetters shook And up and down through Hell doth Wandring go Neither Alecto nor Megaera though With Fury swell'd come near while 'bout his Loins His Vip'rous Tail he fiercely Barking twines On the Right Hand a Yew that like a Wood Its Branches spreads and by Cocytus Flood Water'd more Leavy grown there stands here dire And fatal Birds Vultures that rav'ning tire On Carcases and num'rous Owls reside Schreech-Owls with Specks of Blood their Pinions dy'd And greedy Harpyes build their Nests and thick Among the Leaves on all the Branches stick And make the Tree with dolefull Cries to nod Among these dreadfull Shapes th' Infernal God Sits on a Throne examining the Crimes Of Kings and what they did in former Times Enchain'd they stand and 'fore the Judge repent Too late while all the Forms of Punishment And Furies round about them fly and now How glad would they their Scepters disavow Those Souls which when on Earth unworthy and Unequal things endur'd with harsh Command Insult and what they living did not dare To utter now Complain of freely there Then (y) Prometheus One in cruel Chains is bound upon A Rock (z) Sisyphus another rowls a restless Stone While with her Snaky Whip Megaera still Pursues him lab'ring up the lofty Hill Such bloody Tyrant's Punishments shall be But now the Time 's arriv'd that We to Thee Must shew thy Mother's Face whose Shade in Place The first appears and hither comes apace (a) This Opinion saith Valerius Maximus arose from his Custom of going to the Capitol and spending some hours in the Chapel of Iupiter before he enterprized any thing publique or private Whence a Report went current that before his Mother was with Childe a Serpent frequented her Chamber and as soon as any man appeared vanished This they fancied to be the God who in that shape begat Scipio whom some Authours affirm to have been the first Caesar that is cut out of his Mother's Womb though Polybius writes the contrary Pomponia pregnant by Iove's Stealth drew nigh For when the Libyan War in Italy Fair Venus knew endeav'ring to prevent All Iuno's Plots a silent Flame She sent Into her Father's Breast which had not She Foreknown the conquer'd Romane Altars We By Tyrian Virgins kindled now had seen But when the off'red Blood had tasted been As the old Prophetess advis'd and both Each other's Faces knew thus first the Youth Began My dearest Mother who to Me Like some great Deity appear'st that Thee I might have seen how willingly would I Have dy'd Oh! what was our sad Destiny When that first Day that gave Me vital Breath Thee without Honour snatch'd away in Death As thus He spoke his Mother thus again Replies O Son my Death was free from Pain For when the Burthen of my Womb was lay'd By Iove's Command Me Mercury convei'd To the Elysian Fields and gave Me there An equal Place where Laeda now and where Alcmena by his Sacred Bounty dwell But since We now have time my Son to tell Whence thou didst spring that thou no Wars maist fear Nor doubt to Heav'n by Deeds thy self to rear Know this when I by Chance in mid'st of Day Retired to repose and Sleeping lay A sudden close Embrace my Members bound Not such as I before my Husband 's found Nor easy unto Me and then I clear Although my heavy Eys in Slumber were Involv'd great Iove beheld You may believe This Truth nor could his borrow'd Shape deceive Me then though turn'd into a scaly Snake He coyling did a thousand Circles make But soon as Thou wert born that I should dy It was Decreed and then how much did I Lament that I to Thee could not declare These things before my Soul resolv'd to Air. At this t' embrace her Neck he thrice Efsai'd In vain and lost as oft the fleeting Shade This done two Ghosts of Men that well agreed His Father's and his Uncle's strait succeed While through the Shadows pressing on he there Vain Kisses sought and strove those Ghosts that were Like flying Smoak and Clouds to apprehend Oh Thou on whom our Empire did depend My dearest Sire what God an Enemy To the Ausonian Land did us of Thee Deprive said he Oh Wo to Me for why Was there the least of Time that Cruel I Should absent be from Thee thy Death I might Have chang'd by this my Brest oppos'd in Fight What Groans th' Italian People ev'ry where Give at your Funerals The Senate rear In Mars's Field to each of you a Tomb. Amidst his Speech the hasty Ghosts assume The Word and first his Father's Manes barr'd His farther Language thus A fair Reward Is Virtue to her self yet it descends Sweet to the Shades below when 'mong our Friends The Glory of our Lives survives nor our Due Praises dark Oblivion can devour But say how great a War doth Thee molest Our dear Renown how oft doth Fear my Brest Invade when I but think how fiercely Thou Go'st on when Dangers meet thee but I now Conjure thee by the Cause of our sad Fate Most valiant Youth thy Rage to moderate And thy Desire to Fight sufficient be Th' Examples of our Family for Thee For the eighth Summer then had reap'd the dry And rusling Sheavs of Corn when conqu'ring I (b) These Scipi●es who commanded in Spain dividing their Forces were there with their Armies both destroyed by Indibilis Massanissa and Hasdrubal Generals for the Carthaginians See Liv. lib. 25. Had all suppress'd and the Tartessiack La●d The Yoak accepted from my Brother's Hand Her then reviving Walls and Houses we To poor Sagunthus gave They Baetis free From Foes then Drunk oft Hasdrubal to Us His Back had turn'd But oh their barbarous And still corrupted Faith When Victour I Advanc'd 'gainst Hasdrubal with Misery Almost Destroy'd a sudden Change Behold The Spanish Troops which with his Libyan Gold A Mercenary People Hasdrubal Had made breaking their Ranks their Ensigns all Forsook then straitway Us deserted by Our Auxiliary Bands the Enemy With a thick Ring more numerous in Men Encompass'd round nor did we Poorly then Or Un-reveng'd the last of all our Days On Earth conclude but ended it with Praise To this his Brother thus began to joyn His own Mishaps and said In the Decline Of our Affairs a lofty Castle I For a Retreat desir'd and thereto try Our last Attempt a thousand Torches they With Lamps and smoaking Fire-brands ev'ry way Into it threw For what concerns my Fall I of the Gods make no Complaint at all For they my Body (c) The Carthaginians after they had destroyed the two Scipioes secure and negligent Lucius Martius collecting the scattered Romans fell upon them in the night slew 37000. of them took 80. thousand prisoners and recovered what was so lately lost See Liv. ibid. burn'd and to a Grave Of large Extent my Arms fix'd on it