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A00446	A briefe chronicle, where in are described shortlye the originall, and the successiue estate of the Romaine weale publique the alteratyon and chaunge of sondrye offices in the same: the order and successyon of the kinges, consuls and emperoures therof, together wyth sondry gestes & actes of many famous princes and valiaunt captaines, from the first foundatyon of the city of Rome, vnto the. M.C. and. xix. yeare there of consequently: ryght plesant and profitable to be red, marked and folowed of all men. Collected and gathered first by Eutropius, and Englished by Nicolas Havvard, studiente of Thauies In. Anno. 1564.; Breviarium ab urbe condita. English	Eutropius, 4th cent.; Haward, Nicholas.	1564 (1564)	STC 10579; ESTC S101794	96,813	274

the state of the weale publique in Rome Lucretia wife to Collatinus she had of this iniury complained to her husband other her frendes in the presens of them all she slue her self Where vpon they kindled the hartes of the people againste Tarquinius deposed him from his kingdome and The seuerity of the Romaines in punyshing adulterye sone after the whole army whiche at that time laid siege to the city of Arde together with the king forsoke him Where vpon when the king retourned and would haue entred the city Lucius Tarquinius hys raygne the gates wer shut against him Thus when he hadde raigned .xxv. yeres he fled with his wife and children In this wise raigned .vii. kinges ouer the city of Rome by the space of CCxliii The time that kynges gouerned Rome yeres at which time Rome extended not to aboue .xv. miles where it was largest From this time began there to be created in the place of one kyng ii consuls for this consideration that Two consuls created in Rome Consuls ordained in rome the 3450. yere after the creatiō of the world The raign of the consuls although the one of them were disposed to naughtinesse yet the other hauing the like authority might bridle the affection of his companyon And it was decreed that they shoulde not rule aboue one yere least the continuaunce of theyr bearinge rule shoulde make thē waxe hauty wheras otherwise The order of the cōsuls cōeinued after it was fyrst instituted vntil Iulius Cesares raigne which wxas by the space of 464. yeres they wold demene them selues more curteously knowinge that after theyr ycare expired and determined they shoulde become priuate persons againe In the first yere after the expulsing of the kings forth of the city Lucius Iunius Brutus who hadde most of others procured the banishing Lucius Iunius Brutus and Tarquinius Collatinus fyrst consuls of Tarquinius and with him Tarquinius Collatinus who was husbād to Lucretia wer chosen cōsuls How be it Collatinus was forth wyth depriued of his Consulship For why it was agreed that none should remain in the Citye that bare the name of Tarquinius wherevpon Collatinus Tarquinius Collatinus depryned of hys consulship taking with him all hys substaunce departed forth of the City and in hys roume Valerius Publicola was created consull Neuerthelesse kinge Valerius Publicola cōsull The fyrst battaile that any Romain euer waged agaīst Rome Tarquinius who a lyttle before was banisheda ssembling togethera great army to aid him to recouer his kingdome waged batail with the Citizēs of Rome In the very first front of the batail Brutus the consul and Aruus Tarquinius his sonne slue one another Brutus and Aruus slayn How be it the Romains obtayned the victory in that battaile the Romain matrones bewailed the deth of Brutus by the space of one whole Brutꝰ death bewayled yere as the defender of their chastities After the death of Brutus Valerius Publicola chose Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus who was father Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus consul Lucretius dyed Horatius Puluillus consull Fiue consuls in the i. yere to Lucretia to be consul who died by sicknes Horatius Puluillus was created consull in his roume Thus wer .v. consuls created in the first yere Of whome Tarquinius Collatinus loste the citye for his name Brutus was slain in battail Spurius Lucretius sickned and died Then in the second yere after Tarquinsus agayne War agayne attempted by Tarquinius agaynst the Romaynes made warre vppon the Romaines to the ende he mighte recouer hys kingdome whome Porsenna kynge ●f Thuscia then aided and wel nigh he hadde taken Rome Howe be it at this time was he also ouercome In the iii. yere after the kings wer banished forth of the City when Tarquinius apperceiued that he should neither be receiued again of the Romaines nor yet that Porsenna wold succour him anye longer he departed to Thusculus a city not far distāt from Rome ther by the space of .xiiii. yeres Tarquinius lyued as a priuate man at Thusculus he liued with his wife as a private man In the. 4. yeare after that the kings wer banished the city the Sabines The Sabins warred on the romaines again warred vpō the Romains at which time they wer also ouercōe the Romaines triumphed ouer thē In the .v. yere Lucius Valerius who was felow in office with Brutus thother 4. consuls deceased in suche extreme pouerty that mony was fain to A collectyon of monye for the burial of Valerius the consull bee gathered amonge the people to bear the expenses of his funeras Whose death the Romain matrones did by the space of a yere bewaile as they did the deathe of Brutus before In the .ix. yere after the banishyng of the kinges when Tarquinius hys sonne in law had assembled together Preparatyon for warre agaynste the Romaines by tarquinius his son in lawe The offyce of dictatura fyrst instituted Titus Largius dictator a great army to the end he might reuenge the reproche whiche his father in law sustained at the Romains handes There was a newe office created in Rome called Dictatura in authority excelling farre the office of the consuls That same yere was there also ordained in Rome an other Offycer called Magister Equitum who was deputed to be attendant vpon the dictator To this office of Dictator was Spurius Cassius fyrst magister Equitum first deputed at Rome Titus Largius And Spurius Cassius supplyed first the offyce of magister Equitum In the .xvi. yeare did the commons of Rome make a commotion pretēding A commotiō at Rome by the commōs the cause to be for that the senatours and Consuls woulde haue oppressed them At which time they created ii whome they called Tribuni Plebis Tribuni Plebis created whiche were after abrogated by Sylla and restored agayn by Pōpeius and assigned them to be peculier decisers and determiners of their causes only by whose meanes they might be in safety and defended against the cōsuls In the yere folowing the Volstians renued battaile againste the Romaines The Volstianes renued war agaynste the Romains they were subdued and loste moreouer theyr first city called Corioli In the .xiii. yere after that the kynges were banished Quintus Martius Rome inuaded by Quintius Martius a Romayne a famous capitain of the Romaynes who wan Coriolis a citye of the Volscians vppon displeasure conceyued went to the Volscians and toke part with them who also aided him agaīst the Romaines By meane wherof he putte the Romaines oft times to the worste He camped wythin .v. miles of the city of Rome And regardinge nothing the Legates which the Romaines sent to hym to entreate for peace he determyned to haue inuaded hys owne country had not hys own mother Veturia and his wife Volumnia come forth of the citye to intreate him throughe whose request myxte with teares he was ouercome and so withdrewe his armye

citye was builte in the 47. before the byrth of Christe it lasted v. yeres in al then was Rome fyrstea monarche lieuetenaunte of the hooste who throughe hys singuler and passynge greate manhoode reduced to suche good passe those matters so farre endaungered whyche were nowe well nyghe paste cure and hoope of recouerye that conueyinge his armye ouer Euphrates He vanquyshedee the Persians in diuers skyrmyshes When these thynges were thus finished there ensued an horryble and lamentable battaile By meane whereof besides dyuers other calamityes whyche chaunced in the Romain weale publique the condition wonted estate of that famous Empire was aultered For when Cesar returned conqueror forth of Fraūce he required to be created Consull agayne Whyche thyng when it was by diuers of the Romaines wythout contradictyon graunted vnto hym Marcellus who was then Consul Bibulus Pompeius and Cato dyd openlye wythstande it and sente commaundemente to Cesar that he shoulde dismisse hys army and come home to the citye Vppon whyche aunswere Cesare conceyuinge dyspleasure from Ariminus where he had hys armye assembled towardes Rome to inuade it Where hppon the Consull the Senate and all the Nobilytye of Rome together with Pompeiꝰ fled forth of the citye and passed ouer into Greece and made preparaunce for warre agaynste Cesar at Epirus Macedonie and Achaia and those Pompeius to be theyr Captayne When Cesar was entred the vacaunte and forsaken Cytye forthwith he made himself Dictator From thence he went into Spayn There he discomfited the most strōg Iuli. Cesar made himself Dictator and valiaunte armies of Pompeius and thre of hys capitaynes that is to witte Lucius Afranius Marcus Pompeiꝰ his captaynes discomfyted Petreius and Marcus Varro Returninge from thence he passed ouer into Grece and pitched his field and foughte againste Pompeius In the Pompeius Cesar fought firste battaile he had the ouerthrow was put to flyght How be it he eskaped Iuliꝰ Cesar discomsyted for that the night approching so nere Pompeius would not pursue him Where vppon Cesar whan he was thus eskaped said that neyther Pompeius wist how to cōquere him and that that was the only day in which he myght haue had the vpper hand ouer hym After that they bothe met again at Paleopharsalus in Thessalye whereas eche of them ledde forthe to fighte theyr passynge great armies Pompeius had in hys band xl ▪ M. fotemen in the forefront vii M. in the left winge and ccccc in the ryght wing He hadde succour besides forthe of all the Casto parties and moreouer innumerable Senators and pretors and others of the Consuls and almost all the nobilitye of Rome on his side and suche as ere that tyme had bene conquerors of verye stoute nations Cesar had in his armye not full oute .xxx. M. footem on and a. M. horsmen The force and strengthe of the Romains was neuer before that day assembled either in greater number or vnder more worthy captains so that nowe they coulde eastye haue subdued all the whole world if they should haue fought against the Barbarians The battaile was handled with greate prowesse and manhode on both parties And at length Pompeius was discomfited and his tents Pompeius discomfited were sackic Himself fled to Alexandria where he thought he shoulde haue gotten ayde of the kynge of Egypte vnto whome he was by the Pompeius 〈◊〉 to Alexādria Senate somtyme appoynted to be a tutoure and gouernour duryng the time of his minority But the yonge kinge hauinge more regarde to the An example of great vnkyndnes and ingratytude time presente then respecte or consideratyon to the passed frendshyppe whyche he had founde at Pompeius hys handes slewe Pompeius And when he had cutte of hys heade he pluckte of his ringe from hys hande and sente them together to Cesar whyche whan Cesar sawe he braste forthe on weepinge to beholde the heade of so worthy a manne whyche also was his sonne in lawe Not longe after Cesar came to Alexandria where Ptolomeus also conspyred agaynste him vpon which occasyon Cesar made warre on the kyng who when he was ouercome drowned hym selfe in the ryuer of Ptolomeus drowned himselfe Nilus in whyche place bothe hys bodye was founde afterwarde and hys coate of plate also whych was gilded and verye ryche When Cesar hadde on thys sorte obtayned Alexandria he gaue that kyngdome to Cleopatra syster to Alexandria geuen by Cesar to Cleopatra Ptolomeus whome he after vsed as hys peramoure As Cesar retourned from thence he ouercame Pharnaces sonne of Mithridates the greate Pharnaces discomfited pursued to death who hadde succoured Pompeius at Thessalie and eftsones rebelled himselfe in Pontus and had wonne sondrye prouinces from the Romaines and pursued hym to deathe Retournyng Cesar made hymself Consul the thyrde tyme. from thence to Rome he made hym selfe Consull the thyrde tyme and Marcus Emilius Lepidus with hym who was Magister Equitum in the yere before when Cesar was Dictator From thence he went into Affrick where as a greate noumber of the nobility together wyth Iuba kynge of Mauritania renued battail against Warre in Africk by Iuba kynge of mauritania against Cesar him The Romaine captains in that battaile were Publius Cornelius Scipio who was descended from the moste aunciente stocke of Scipio Africanus whiche Scipio was also father in law to Pompeius the great Marcus Petreius Quintus Varus Marcus Porcius Cato and Lucius Cornelius Faustus sonne to Sylla which was sometime Dictator Cesar disposed his battailes in order againste theese capitaynes and after sondrye skirmishes he obtained the victory Cato Petreius Scipio and Iuba slewe theym selues Faustus who was sonne to Silla who sometime was Dictator and sonne in law to Pompeius was slaine by Cesar The yeare after Cesar retourned to Cesar created hymself Consul the 4. tyme. Rome and created hymself Consull the fourth time and went forthwith into Spaine where as Cneus and Sextus sonnes to Pompeius renued battayle wyth great force There Warre in Spayne agaynst Cesar wer many skirmishes betwene thē The last battaile was fought at the city Munda in whiche Cesar was so nygh ouercome that his men fledde Cesar driuen to a neare strayte from him for whyche cause he determyned to slea hym selfe rather then after that he hadde gotten suche renowne and fame in Martial feates he would now fal into the handes of yong men and be vanquished by thē when he had liued .lvi. yeares wyth great honor Neuerthelesse when he had recouered his men again he obtained the victori against them The elder sonne of Pompeius was there slaine The yonger sonne fled and so eskaped Afterwards whē as now ciuil wars The cyuyll warre agaist Pompeius hys adherēts finyshed by Iuliꝰ Cesar wer clean appeased Cesar returned to Rome where he began to demean himself very disorderly and againste the vsage of the Romaine libertye Where vppon when he bestowed the digniries and Offices in Rome vpon suche

building of Rome sixe hundreth and one at which time Lucius Manlius Censorinus and Marcus Manlius were Consuls whiche in the .li. yere after that the second battaile against them was finished The Consuls toke then their viage to inuade Carthage Asdruball a captain of the Carthaginiens was sente forthe against them and Famea an other of theyr captaines had the conductynge of the horsmen At that time Scipio who was neue we to Scipio Africanus was by the Romaynes deputed generall of the army Hym did al the army bothe reuerence and feare For why he was a captaine passing redy Notable cōmendation of Scipio in battail and therwithal very cyrcumspect Through whose pollicyes the Consuls atcheued many thinges very fortunately And there was nothing that ether Asdrubal or Famea so much sought to auoid as they did to fight against that wing of the Romaine Misinissa deceased armye where Scipio was Aboute this time died Misinissa who was in league wyth the Romaynes after that he had liued lxxxxvii yeres and lefte behinde him .xliiii. sonnes Amonge whome he appoynted Scipio to distribute his kingdōe No we when as the name and renowne of Scipio waxed famous he was created Consul being as yet but a yong man and was sent forthe to assaulte Carthage He wan it and pluckte it Carthage assaulted by Scipio downe to the ground Suche spoyles as he founde there whych the Carthaginiens before time had gottē at the subuersion of diuers Cities together wyth the monuments of sondry townes of Sicilie he restored again to those cityes from whence the said spoils wer taken Amōg which euery city knew such things as somtime had ben their owne Thus was Carthage ouerthrown in the .vii. C. yere after that it was first built Scipio Scipio merited to be called Africanus the yonger merited to haue the name which hys graundfather before him wan whych was for his valiantnes and prowesse to be called Affricanus the yonger In this mean space one vsurping falsly vpon him the name of Phillip attēpted war against ye. Romains in Macedonic gaue Publiꝰ Iuuencius pretor of Rome the ouerthrow who was sent against hym Iuuencius discomfyted made such slaughter of his men that skāt he let one eskape a liue of al hys army After him Q. Ceciliꝰ Metellꝰ was deputed captain sent forth against this fals named Phillip Who when he had slain .xxv. M. of his mē recouered Macedonie and toke prysonner the sayde Phillippe At this tyme warre was also proclaymed agaynste Corinthus the worthiest citye of all Grece for thal they had iniuried Corinthus ouer throwne the Legates of the Romains Mummius the Consull wan it and pluckte it downe to the ground And so were ther thre notable triumphes Thre tryumphes at ones at Rome had together at one tyme at Rome The one by Scipio forth of Affrick before whose chariot Asoruball was led An other by Metellus forthe of Macedonie before whose charyotte Andriscus was led whiche was that false named and counterfaited Phillip The third triumph was by Mūmius ouer the Corinthiaus before whome were caried the brasen ensignes and painted tables and other the ornaments of that moste famous city There was yet againe another who falfly named himselfe Perseus in Macedonie affirminge that hee was sonne to that other Perseus of whome we spake before whē he had assembled an armye of bondmen to the nomber of .xvii. M. men of armes he was conquered by Tremillus the Perseus conquered by Tremillus Questor At the same time Metellꝰ atcheued notable enterprises in Biskay awong the Spanyardes Quintus Pompeius succeaded him there And not long after Quintus Cepio was also sent forth againste one Viriatus which waged battail in Portugale againste the Romaines But Battaile in Portugale by one Viriatus Viriatus his men dreadinge the force of the Romaines slewe Viriatus which was he that had stirred vp the Spaniards to warre against the Romaines by the space of xiiii yeares This Viriatus was first a shepherd sone after he became a Captayne amonge robbers and theues And at the laste he stirred vp suche nations to warre againste the Romaines that he became to be called Protector of Spaine againste the Romaines Then they who slewe this Viriatus The Romaines detested treason demaunded of Cepio the Cōsull what reward they shoulde haue for their fact Who answered that it neuer pleased the Romains to haue any captaine slaine by his own souldioures Q. Pompeiꝰ the Consul ouercome Then was Quintus Pompeius who was also Consul discomfited by the citezens of Numantia whiche was the worthiest Citye of Spain and made with thē a reprochful peace After him Caius Hostilius I reprochfull league Mancinus the Consull made againe with the Numantines an infamous Caius Hostiliꝰ Mancinꝰ the Consull dyscomfyted league But the Senate people of Rome cōmaunded forthwith that y● peace shuld be infringed that Mancinus should be deliuered to his enemies to th end they might wreke the iniury of the breche of peace on hym who was the autor of making the same After this so great infamye that the people of Rome wer twise discōfited by the Numantines Publius Scipio P. Scipio Consul who was also named Affricanus was created Consul the second time and was sent to Numātia He by exercising and wel trading vp the Romaine Souldioures rather then by punishinge them refourmed theym very wel who through the guidinge of euill captaines were now become slouthfull and cowardly Sone after be gotte manye cityes in Spayne of which some he wan in battayl some were yelded vp to hym At lengthe after that he had of long time besyeged Numantia he famished it and so wan it The residue of that prouince he receiued vnder protection At that time Attalus king of Asia brother to kynge Eumenes died and made the people of Rome his heire And so by Testament was Asia annexed to the Empire of the Romaines Not long after Decimus Iunius Brutus triumphed with greate glorye ouer the Calesianes and the Portugals and Publius Scipio Africanus had hys seconde triumphe whiche was ouer the Numantines in the .xiiii. yere after that he had firste triumphed ouer Affricke In this meane space Aristonicus sonne to Eumenes whome Warre in Asia by Aristonicus he begat vpon his concubine stirred vp warre in Asia That Eumenes was brother to kyng Attalus There was sene against this Aristonicus Publius Lucinius Crassus who was aided of sondrye kinges For whye Nicomedes kinge of Bythinia Mithridates king of Pontus betwene whome and the Romains was waged afterwardes most sharp and cruel warre Ariarathes kynge of Cappadocia and Pilemenes king of Paphlagonia assisted the Romaines Howe be it Crassus was ouercome and slaine in that bataile hys head was stricken of and brought to Crassꝰ slayn Aristonicus and his body was buried at Smirne Afterward Perpemia Consull of Rome who succeaded Crassus hearinge of the successe of the battaile hasted towardes Asia he vanquished Aristonicus

passinge wel knowen of Galerius for that he had of long time bene of familyer acquaintaunce with him He estemed him greatly for the earnest trauaile and payns which he sustained in the battail that he waged against Narceus for other seruiceablenesse good endeuor which he apperceiued to be in him This don shortly after Galeriꝰ deceassed Then was the Empire administred Galerius deceased by .iiii. at ones By Constātinus and Marentius whose fathers Four Emperours at once in Rome had ben Emperors before and Licinius Maximinꝰ which were newly created Emperors But Constantinꝰ in the .v. yere of his raign attempted a ciuil battail against Marentius He discomfited his armies in sondry skirmishes A ciuil battel by Constantinus And at last vanquished hym at Miluius bridge and so got al Italy vnder his obeisaunce Maxentius vanquisht At this time Maxentius exercised great tiranny vpon diuers the peres of his Empire Not longe after that Maximinus attempted warresin the War pretended by Maximinus agaīst Licinius East partes also against Licinius But when he apperceiued that he was like to be discōsited he preuented the mischiefs imminent by dying sodēly Maximianus deceassed at Tarsus Thē Cōstantiꝰ being one of a hauty stomak corage affecting to accōplish bring to passe such thinges as he had once cōceiued in his fātasy coueting to become Emperor ouer the whole world made war vpon This warre was againste Licinius by Constantius for religions sake chefelye Licinius although he was his frēd For this Liciniꝰ had espoused his sister Constantia He vanquished hym first in Hungary the secōd time he ouercame him at Cybale wheras Liciniꝰ In the tyme os Constātius Scotlande receyued the sayth began to renue battel with great preparation whē he had thus got all Dardania Mesia Macedonie he wādiuers other prouinces besides After that there were sondry battailes waged betweene them and peace concluded and broken agayne At laste Lycinius was cōquered at Nicomedia Licinius conquered a famous city of Bithinia in battayle bothe by Sea and lande Hée yelded himself and yet contrary to the integritye of the othe and promyse made betwene them he was slayne Licinius slayne At that time which neuer earst hapned was the Romaine Empire subiect One Emperor and .iii. Cesars at Rome to one Emperor and .iii. Cesars At this time Constantinus his children had the gouernment of Fraūce the East partes and of Italye But this vnkethenesse of passinge greate good fortune successe in his affairs did somewhat chaunge and aultare Constantinus from that his wonted gentle flexible minde In so muche that he persecuted his owne bloude and those whiche were of his allyaunce He slewe his own sisters son a notable yong mā and very towardly Eftsones he put his wife to death and after that sondry of hys frendes also In the firste beginninge of hys raign he was worthy to haue beene compared with the best and chiefest princes of the Romaines that euer were and at the end therof to be resembled to suche as were of the meaner sort He was endewed with sondry and those excellent vertues Hee was very muche geuen to purchase praise and fame by feates of cheualry He had exceding good chaunce in battaile and yet not so good chaunce but that his industry and endeuoure excelled it farre Hee vanquished and put to flight at sondry times the Gothes After that he had repressed the ciuil warres he vanquished the Gothes in diuers places and graunted them peace at laste and wan greate memory of praise and worship amōg the Barbarians He was passing desirous to attaine learning and applied him selfe wholly to the studye of the liberall artes He endeuoured to gaine the loue of the people through his well deseruinges seking the same by his great liberality and facillity Who like as he semed to some of his frendes vnstedfaste and suspected so was he to the residue of them passing frendly and assured suffring no way ne mean eskape by which he could imagin how to enrich aduaūce thē He enacted established sōdry laws Some groūded vpō equity iustice diuers superfluous to no purpose many replenished with seuerity rigor The city which he built he ertolled to so great port and estate that he made it able to cōpare ī maner with the citye of Rome it selfe And as he made preparation for battail against the Parthians he died at Nicomedia Constantius ●eceassed in thopen town ther in the .xxxi. yere of his raign when he had liued .lxvi. yeres His death was prognosticated by a Comet or blasing starre whych was sene by a certain space being of Constantius hys deathe prognosiicate ▪ a greate bignesse whiche starre the Grecians cal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After his deth he was canonised He lefte behinde him .iii. sonnes of his own that is to wit Constantinus Constans Cōstantiꝰ to succede him in his Empire one other which was hys brothers sonne But Dalmatius Cesar which was his brothers sonne a yong man of a meruelous towardnes was slain Dalmatius Cesar slayne in an vprour whiche fel amonge the souldioures his cosen Constantius 41. Constantinꝰ the. 41. Emperor began his raigne in the yeare of oure Lorde 340 and with him his father Constantinus Magnus had apointed by his last will that hys two brothers Constans Constantinꝰ should perticipate and haue theyr portyon of th empyre permittig only rather thē procuring his deathe Not longe after when Constantinꝰ attempted war against his brother at Aquileia and demened hym selfe vnaduisedly there in he was slayne Then was the Empyre of the Romaynes reduced vnder the gouernemente of two onlye The raign of Constās endured for a time valiant which he administred wyth great iustice Sone after when he began to fail of his health he associated vnto him in stede of frends euil disposed persōs to assist him about th Empire through whose euil counsailes Constantinꝰ slayne he declined into horrible vices By meane wherof waring skante tollerable of thinhabitāts of the prouinces nothing regarded of his souldiors hee was slaine at Magnensium in a Constans slayne commotion there in a castell called Helena castel not farre from Spain in the .xvii. yere of his raigne when he had liued .xxx. yeares In his life time he had atchieued diuers things very prosperouslye and duringe hys whole raigne he vsed no greate cruelty towardes his souldioures But Constantius experimented very vncertaine and variable fortune in hys battayles For why he sustained dyuers and those greate damages by the Persians They ofte times wan his townes besieged his Cities and slewe his armies to be briefe he neuer waged any battaile against Sapores in whych he had good successe but only one which he fought at Singara where he lost that victory also whiche vndoubtedly he myght haue gotten had it not bene for the outragious fiercenesse and ouer hasty courage of his souldioures whiche