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A13977	Thabridgment of the histories of Trogus Pompeius, collected and wrytten in the Laten tonge, by the famous historiographer Iustine, and translated into English by Arthur Goldyng: a worke conteynyng brieflie great plentie of moste delectable hystories, and notable examples, worthie not onelie to be read but also to be embraced and followed of all menne; Historiae Philippicae. English	Justinus, Marcus Junianus.; Trogus, Pompeius. Historiae Philippicae.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1564 (1564)	STC 24290; ESTC S118539	289,880	382

amends with theyr new benefites for the old displeasure done to his father yelded them selues vnto him Moreouer his fathers souldioures being inflamed with fauour toward the younge Prince and preferringe the conscience of theyr othe made to his father before their promise made to the new proud king reuolted withall theyr banners and antesignes to Demetrius And so Alexander being with like rage of for 〈◊〉 ouerthrowne as he was lifted vp was in the fyrste battell vanquished and slayne suffryng due punishment bothe in the behalfe of Demetrius whome he had slayne and in the behalfe of Antiochus whose ●…ock he had moste shamefullie slaundered The xxxvi Boke DEmetrius hauyng recouered his Fathers kyngdome was himself also cor rupted through the prosperous successe in all his affaires through the inclinacion to vice that is commonly wonte to be in youthe he fell to slouth and 〈◊〉 ▪ by meanes whereof he purchased himself as much hatred at all mennes handes for his cowardnesse as his father had gotten for his statelynesse whervppon perceyuyng howe the cyties euerye where began to withdrawe their obedience to th entent he might wype oute the spot of cowardyse he determined to make warre vppon the parthians Whos 's commyng the people of the East were not a litle glad to behold bothe by reason of the crueltie of Arsaces kyng of the Parthians and also bycause the countries beyng enured with the gentle entreatans of the auncient dominion of the Macedones coulde not well away with the pryde of the newe Empyre of the Parth●…ans By meanes whereof beyng ayded with the power of the Per sians Emylians and Bactrians he vanquished the Par ●…sans in many battels Neuerthelesse at the last beyng deceyued vnder a counterfet color of peace he was taken prysoner and ●…rawen through thopen face of the cyties that had reuolted and shewed in meckage to the people that had rebelled as who should say they should see what a one he was whome they had so highly fauoured Afterward he was sente into 〈◊〉 and there courteou●…ly enterteyned accordyng as belongeth to his for mer estate Whyle these thynges were in doyng in the meane tyme 〈◊〉 who through sute to the body of the Realme had obteyned to be admitted Protector ouer Antiochus sonne in lawe to Demetrius kylled the childe and vsurped the kyngdome of Syria the which he enioyed a great whyle but at the length when the ●…our that men bare him beyng newlie made kyng began to weare oute Antiochus the brother of Demetrius who at that tyme was brought vp in Asia being but a very child ouercame him in battell and so the kyngdome of Syria was redu●…ed agayne to the stocke of Demetrius An●…iochus therfore remembryng that both his father was hated for his pryde and his brother despysed for his slouthfulnes because he would not fall into the same vices himselfe after he had taken in mariage Cleopatra his brothers 〈◊〉 he with all diligence pursuwed the Cy●…es that had reuloted from his brother at the beginn●…g of his Reygne and hauyng subdued them brought thē agayn to 〈◊〉 of th empyre Also he subdued the Iewes who in the tyme of his father Demetrius takyng weapon in hande had pulled their neckes from subiection of Th empyre of Macedone and set themselfes at libertie And they grewe to suche strength that after this man was once dead there 〈◊〉 as no kyng of Macedone ●…ble to kepe them in obedience but that they made a Ruler among themselfes and di●…roubled all Syria with their warres The originall of the Iewes was Damasco whiche is the noblest cytie of all Syria from whence the kynges of Syria also fetchyng theire pedegre from Semyramis descended The Cytie had her name of a Kyng called Damascus in honor of whome the Syrians worshipped the Sepulchre of hys wyfe Arates for a Temple reuerenced her with much deuocion and superstitio●…s Ceremonies for a Goddesse After Damascus 〈◊〉 Abraham Israel and 〈◊〉 as kings But Israel was more notable thē his ance●…ors by reson of the 〈◊〉 encrease of his ten sonnes Therfore he deuided his people into ten kingdoms and deliuered it to his sonnes calling thē all Iewes after the name of Iuda whiche deceased anone after the deuision the remembraunce of whome he commaunded that all the rest should haue in reuerence and veneration His portiō was the head of all the other The yongest of the brothers was Ioseph of whose excellent wit his brothers being afraid ●…ais wait for him preuely and solde him to marchauntes straungers by whome he was caried into Egipte where throughe the sharpnesse of his wit he so pro●…d in the magicall artes that within a shorte space he became in great fauor with the king For he was both a very witty diuinor of wonders and foretokens and also he was the firste that inuented the interpretation of dreames Yea there was nothing appertaininge either to God or man wherin he semed not to haue had exact knowledge In so muche that he foresaw the barrennesse of the land many yeres before it came and all Egipt had pearished for hun ger if the king through his counsel had not geuen 〈◊〉 commaundement to laye vp in store the corne and frute of many yeres before hand Finally he was so well tried that his answeres seemed not to be geuen by man but by God His sonne was Moises who besydes the inheritans of his fathers knowledge was also commended for hys excellent beuty and personage But the Egiptians being stricken with a great itch and skabbednesse to the entent that the contagion should infect no mo by the warnynge of an Oracle draue hym and all the infected oute of the borders of Egypt Moyses therfore being made captayne of the banished people stale away the sacrifices of the Egiptians the which the Egiptians entending to recouer by force were compelled by Tempestes to retire home againe Moyses e●…ones resortnig to Damasco the natyue country of his ancestors went vp into the mountain Synai in the which for as much as he first rested ther after seuen dayes ●…asting and trauel of hymself and hys people through the desertes of Arabie he hallowed the seuenth day and called it after the manner and vsage of the countrie the Sabboth day commaundyng it to be kept Fastyngday for euer after to the worldes ende because that that day had made an ende of all their trauell and hunger And forasmuch as they remembred howe they were dryuen oute of Aegypt for feare of infection they made a lawe neuer after to communicate with stravngers the which thyng rysing at the first vppon good cause and con syderacion by lytle and lytle grewe into custome and superstition After Moyses his brother Aaron was consecrated first Priest of the Ceremonies of Israel and anon after created kyng And euer after it remayned as a custome among the Iewes that they that wer their priests were also their kynges through whose Iustice and vprightnesse

Locrines beinge striken with feare resorted to the Spartanes desiring them humbly of succour The Spartanes being loth to enter into war so far of bad them ask help of Castor Pollux Neither did the ambassadours of their felow city despise their counsell and therfore departing into the next temple and ther making sacrifice they cried vpon the Gods for help When they had offred their sacrifices and obtained the thinge that they came for as they thought being as mery as if they should haue caried the Gods them selues with them they made them shrines in their ships and with lucky iourney in stead of succour they brought their country mē home comfort This beinge knowen the Crotoniens also sent ambassadors to the Oracle at Delphos praying for victorye prosperous end of the warre It was answered that they muste ouercome their enemies by vowing or euer they coulde ouercome them by battel Whervppon when they had vowed vnto Apollo the tenthe of the pray the Locrines hauynge knowledge both of the vow of theyr en●…mies and of the answer of the Goddes vowed the ninth and kept y ● thing secrete to them selues for fear least they shuld be ouercom by vowing Therfore when they wer come into the field and that there stode in the battel of the Crotoniens an C. and. xx thousand fighting men in harnesse the Locrines beholding their owne slender noumber for they had no mo but xv M. sould●…oures cast away all hope of victorye and bent them selues obstinately to die in the fielde Now by meanes of this despair euery man tooke suche a harte vnto him that they thoughte them selues to haue gotten the victory if they might reuenge their deaths manfully But while they sought to die honestlye they gate the vpper hande more luckelye Neither can it be thoughte that there shoulde be any other cause of their victory then that they fell in despaire All the while the Locrines wer fighting there was an Eagle that neuer departed from the●…e battels nor neuer lefte houeringe about them vntill they had gotten the vpper hand Moreouer two young men in straunge armor vnlike th one to thother o●… excellēt personage vpon white horses in skarlet clokes wer sene sigh ting in the winges of the battel the whiche ass●…ne as the battel was ended vanished out ●…f sighte The incredyble swiftnesse of fame encreased the wondermēt of the thing For the same day that the battel was fought in Italy the victorye was ●…eported at Corynthe Athens and Lacedemon After this the Crotoniens did neuer passe to exercise them selues in cheua●… ye nor in feates of armes For they hated them because they had so vnluckelye attempted them And they had chaunged their 〈◊〉 into riot and idlenesse if the Philosopher Pythagoras had not beene This man being the sonne of a ritch merchaunte man of Same 's called Demaratus and being broughte vp in the studies of wisdome wherin he greatly encreased takyng his ●…akyng first into Egipt and afterward to Bab●…ō to learne perfect●…y the mouiug of the planets and to searche out the beginning of the world wherof it was made attained to meruelous exquis●…te knowledge As hee ret●…urned from thence he went to Can●…ye and Lacedemon to study the lawes of Minos and Lycurgus whych were famous and notable at that tyme. In all the which being●… perfectly instructed and furnished he cam to Croton and by his authority reuoked the people to ●…rugalitye latelye before fallen into excesse and riot Dailye he commended vertue and dispraised ●…he vice of riot reciting the miserable ch●…ūces of cities that had decayed through that 〈◊〉 wherby he so stirred the multitude to the sauor of frug●…lity that some of them whiche were vtterlye drowned in riot were contrary to all hope and exp●…ctation broughte again to good thrift Moreouer he gaue the wiues instructions a part from their husbands and the children oftentimes a part from their parentes He taught the women chastitye shamefastnesse womanhoode and obedi●…nce to their husbandes The men children modestye sobr●…sse good nourtour and learning and among these things ●…e enterlaced frugality as the mother of all vertues Finally he did so much with his continual disputations that the noble women laid a side their garments of cloth of gold and other the iewels and ornaments apertaining to their estates as thinstruments of excesse superfluity brought al such things into Iunos temple cōsecrated them to the Gods perswading with thē that the true ornaments of ladies and gentle women was chastity not gorgious raiment or straunge attire How much he was able to way with thother youth of the city the bridling ouercoming of the stobern ●…roward stomakes of the womē dothe wel declare But there were iii. C younge men which gathering them selues on a rout bound thē selues with an oth to liue together like sworn brothers from the residue of the citizēs by which their doing as though they had made an vnlawfull assemble to conspire againste the city they brought all the whole citye in their neckes And as they wer all assembled into one house the City would haue burnt them vp In rhe which hurlyburly almost lx of them were slaine and the residue wer banished Whē Pythagoras had dwelled ful xx yeares at Croton he remoued to Metapont there deceased Whom they had in suche estimation that of his house they made a temple honored him for a God Therfore Dennis the Tiran whō we declared before to haue passed his army into Italye to haue made war againste the Grekes after he had won Locres by force assailed the Crotoniens hauing yet skars ly after so long respit recouered their strength decaied by the slaughter of the foresaid war And yet they now with their few more valiantly resisted his so populous armye then they could with so many thousands make resistens before against the smal nomber of the Locrines So great force hath pouerty againste proude richesse and so muche more certain somtime is the victory vnhoped for then the victory that is made accompt of before hand While Den nis was making this war thambassadors of the frenche men which a few monthes before had burned Rome cam vnto him desiring to enter in league and frendship wyth 〈◊〉 Alledging that their country was situate amōg the mids of his enemies wherfore they might stande him in good stead whether it wer to aide him in the battell o●… to set vpon them behinde whiles they wer fightynge wyth him before Dennis liked this ambassade wel And so entring in league with them and being increased in power by their aid he began his warre as it wer newe agayne The cause why these Frenchmen came into Italy to seke them a new dwelling place was the ciuil discord and cōtinual debate that they had at home among them selues For wearines wherof comming out of Italy they droue the Thuscanes out of house and home and builded the ci ties of

death of her first husbande Ly●…chus of her owne accord and fre wil desired her husbande into her city Gassandria for couetousnesse of whiche city all this craft and deceit was wroughte She went thither before him and proclaimed that the day of his comming shoulde be kept holy day through all the city geuinge commaundement that the houses the temples and all other places shuld be decked and garnished and that altares and sacrifices should be set forth orderly in a read●…esse Moreo●…er she caused her two sonnes Lysimachus of xvi yeares and Philip three yeres yonger then he both children of excellent beuty and fauor to goo meete him with crownes on their heades Whome Ptolomy to cloke his de●… wyth all desirously and beyond all measure of true loue and affection enbrased and kissed a greate while together But assone as he came within the gate hee com●…aunded hys men of warre to take the holde of the towne and to kyll the children Who flying to their mother for helpe were slaine euen in her bosome as they hong kissing about her necke Arsinoe cried out and asked what she had done or wherin she had trespassed eitherin her mariage or a●…er her mariage wherby she should des●…rue to be delt wyth so cruelly Oftentimes she put herself betwene y ● sworde and her children offering to die for them oft●…times she embraced and couered her childre●…es bodyes wyth her own body and would gladly haue receiued the woundes that they should haue At the laste beinge not suffered so muche as to haue the buriall of her children shee was thruste out of the towne with two ●…untes in a torne ●…ne and her hear about her eares and so wente as a 〈◊〉 person to Samothorace so muche the more miserable in that she might not be suffered to die with her children offeringe to dye for them oftentymes she embraced and couered her childrens bodyes wyth her owne bodye and woulde gladlye haue receiued the woundes that they shoulde haue At the 〈◊〉 being not suffered so muche as to haue the buriall of her children she was thru●…e out of the towne with two seruauntes in a torne gowne and her heare abeute her eares and so wente as a banishedde person to Samothorace so muche the more miserable in that she mygh●…e not be suffered to die with her children But Ptolomye eskaped not with his wickednesse vnpunished For within shorte time after throughe the vengeaunce of the Goddes immortall for so manye wilful periuries and so manye cruel murders he was berefte of hys kingdome by the french menne and being taken prysonner as he worthelye deserued his head was striken from his shoulders For the frenche menne aboundinge in multitude in so muche that the countrye where they were bred was not hable to fynde them sent forthe three hundred thousande men as it were on pilgrimage to seke them a new dwellynge place Of the which one part rested in Italy which also tooke the c●…ye of Rome and burnte it Another parte followinge the flighte of byrdes for the frenchmen are aboue all other nations comminge in birdspillinge wyth muche slaughter of the barbarous nations pearsed vnto the coste of Sclauonie and reasted in Pannonie A kynde of people fierce hardy warly which firste after Hercules who by doinge the same before purchased himselfe an immortall fame of his prowesse climbed ouer the hyghe toppes and vnmercifull colde places of the Aipes There hauing 〈◊〉 the Pan●…onians they made warre with their neighbours many yeres together somtime to theyr gaine and somtime to their losse Afterwarde beinge prouoked by their fortunate successe they raised two armies wherof th one went toward Grece the other toward Macedone putting al to the sword that came in theyr dāger By meanes wherof the names of the Frenche men was so terrible and so redouted that euen kinges before they were assailed were gladde and faien to geue them greate 〈◊〉 of mony that they might liue in rest by thē Only Ptolomy king of Macedone made lighte of the matter when he hard of the comming of the frenchmen And euē as if it had bene as easye a matter with him to dispatche warres as to do mischief being pricked forwarde there to with the furious remorse of his conscience obiectinge before his eies the rememberaunce of his wicked murders be met them with a few ▪ and those out of order Furthermore he toke skorne of the frendly offer made by the ambassadoures of Dardanie which was to send him twenty thousand menne well armed to helpe him geuinge them moreouer this taunt for their labor saying that the good dayes of Macedone wer farre spent if after the time they had of their own puissance alone conquered all the East they should haue nead of the Dardanians to defend theyr owne country For he had in his ●…oste the sonnes of them that hadde serued vnder great Alexāder and had subdi●…ed the whole worlde The whiche thinges when they were reporsed to the kynge of Dardanie he sayde that the famous and renowmed Empire of Macedone woulde shortlye decaye throughe the rashnesse of an vnaduised and hastye yonge man The french men therfore by the aduise of 〈◊〉 captaine Belgius ▪ to the entent to trye howe the Macedones were mineded sent ambassadours to Ptolomye offeryng him peace if so be it he would by it But Ptolomy 〈◊〉 amonge his men that the French men desyred peace for feare of him no lesse vauntinge himselfe before the ambassadoures ▪ then he had doone among his owne frends ▪ Denying to graunt them peace any otherwise thē if they gaue him theyr noble men for hostages and deliuered 〈◊〉 ●…heyr armour and weapons so 〈◊〉 would not truste them onless●… they were disarmed When the ambassadors had reported this answer the frenchmen laughed 〈◊〉 it crying out on euery side that he should shortlye fele 〈◊〉 they offred him peace to his owne behofe or to theirs within a few daies after the matter came to hand strokes and the Macedones being vanquished were slayne rygh●…e down Ptolomy being very sore wounded in diuers 〈◊〉 was taken prisoner his head was striken of and being put vp on a speares poynt was caried vp and downe all the host to the terroure of their ennemies Few of the Macedones eskaped by flyght the rest were either slaine or taken prisoners When newes hereof was spred throughe Macedone they shut in the gates of their citi●…s and all was ful of sorowe and mourninge One while they bewayled the losse of their sonnes another while they feared the besieging of theyr cityes at another time they called vpon the names of Philip and Alexander theyr kynges as if they had bene Goddes for helpe casting in their myndes how that vnder them they had not onlye liued in safety but as conqueroures of the whole worlde Beseechinge them to defende their countrye whiche throughe the 〈◊〉 of their chiualrye they had aduaunced to the 〈◊〉 and to help them nowe in theyr

natife countrie Therfore he toucheth brieflie the beginnyng of the Romayne Empyre so that he neyther excedeth the boundes which he propounded to himselfe in his worke nor yet passeth ouer with silence the fondacion of that Cytie which out of doubt is head of all the world The fyrste inhabiters of Italye were the Aborigines whose kyng Saturne is reported to haue ben of suche Iustice and vprightnesse that duryng his ●…eygne ther was not any slaue or bondman nor any man that had oughte priuate to himself but all thynges were common and vndeuided to all menne a lyke as thoughe it hadde benne one Patrymonie and one Inheritaunce equallie belongyng to all menne In remembraunce of the which example it is enacted that in the feast of S●…turne no man shoulde be more set by then another but that the bondemen should syt doune to their meale fellowelyke with theire Maysters eueryewher Furthermore Italy was called Saturnia after the name of the foresayd kyng The Hyll also where he dwelled was called Saturne on the which at this day Iupiter hauyng as it were remoued Saturne out of his place standeth the Capitoll After him in the thirde place by reporte reygned Faunus in whose tyme Euander with a small companie of his countrymen came from Palantener a cytie of Arcadie into Italie to whome Faunus of gentlenesse and courtesie assigned landes to lyue vppon and the mountayne which afterward he called Palātine In the foote of this hill he builded a Temple to Lycens whome the Grekes call Pan and the Romaynes Lupercus The Image of the God beyng otherwise naked is clade in a goates skynne in the whiche maner o●… attyre menne are yet wonte to runne vp and doun the stretes of Rom●… in the celebracion of the feastes kepte vnto Pan. Faunus had a wyfe named Fatua whiche beyng continuallie rauished with a holy spirite as it were in a furie Prophecied of thynges to comme whervppon such as are wonte to be so inspyred are sayd to playe fatua vnto this day Of the daughter of Faunus and Hercules who the same tyme hauyng kylled Gerion draue his cattel which he had gotten in reward of his victorie throughe Italie was vnlefull begotten Latinus Duryng whose raygne Aeneas after that Troye was destroyed by the Grekes ▪ came from thence into Italie Where at his fyrst arriuall he was bydden battell But when he hadde brought his menne into the field before thencounter they fell to communicacion In the whiche he brought Latinus in suche admiracion of him that he was content to make him Compartener of hys kyngdome and also made him his sonne in lawe by geuyng him his daughter Lauinia in mariage After this they made warre 〈◊〉 agaynste Turnus kyng of the Rutilians who chalenged them for defraudyng him of Lauinia that by promis should haue ben his wyfe In the which bothe Turuus Latinus wer slayn Aeneas therfore obteynyng bothe the nacions by the law of armes buylded a cytie gaue it the name of his wyfe Afterward he made warre agaynste Mezentius kyng of the Hetruscians in the which he was slayne and his son Ascanius succeded in his stead Who leauing Lauinium buylded Alba longa the whiche for the space of thre hundred yeres togyther was the head of the kyngdom After manie kynges of this Cytie at length raygned Numitor and Amulius But Amulius hauyng wrongfully deposed his elder brother Numitor to thentente none yssue male should ryse of the stock of Numitor to chaleng the croune thrust his daughter Rhea into a nonrie there to leade all her lyfe in vow●…d virginitie clokyng his iniurie with an honorable color that men might suppose she was not put there as a condemned persone but rather made chief prio resse of the place by election Beyng therefore as a recluse in the Groue consecrated to Mars she was delyuered of two sonnes whether she conceyued them by aduouterye or by Mars no manne is able to say of a truthe Amulius vppon knowledge hereof beyng in more feare then euer he was by reason of the byrth of the two children cōman ded them to be cast away and layd their mother in prison through distresse wherof she dyed But fortune prouiding before hand for thoriginall of the Romaynes sente a she-wolfe to nource the children the whiche hauyng loste her whelpes for desyre to haue her dugges drawen that wer payned with fulnesse of mylke offered herselfe to be nourice to the chyldren As ●…he came and went oftentymes to the children lyke as yf they had ben her whelpes A shepeherde named Faustulus perceyued the matter and stealyng them from the wolfe brought them vp lyke shepeherdes among his Cattel Now whether it were for that they were borne in the Groue of Mars or for that they were nourished by a wolf which is in the tuicion of Mars it was beleued to be as a manifest proofe that they were the sonnes of Mars The one of thē was named Remus thother Romulus When thei were men growen they accustomed to trye Maystries daylie one with an other wherby they encreased as well in strength as in agilitie and swyftnes Therfore when they had oftentymes man fully pollitiquely chased away the thefes from stealyng of the cattell Remus was taken by the sayde thefes as though he had ben th●… same himself whiche he had prohibited thothers to doe was brought before the kyng and there accused for a stealer of Numitors cattell Whervppon the kyng deliuered him to Numitor to punish as he thought good But Numitor hauyng pitie of the yonge man had half a mistrust that he should be one of his nephewes that were cast away by reason he resembled his daughter so much in fauor and makyng by reason that the tyme of her deliueraunce was agr●…able vnto his yeres As he was in this doubtfull perplexitie with himself Faustulus came sodaynlie in with Romulus by whome beyng further instructed of the byrthe bringyng vp of the children they made a conspiracie and toke weapon in hand the yong men to reuenge their mothers death and Numitor to recouer the kyngdome wrongfully witholdē from him Amulius was slayne and Numitor restored to the crowne Anone after the yongmen builded the cytie of Rome The whiche beyng finished there was ordeyned a Senate of an hundred elders which were called fathers Then because the neighbours disdeyned to marry their daughters to shepeherdes they rauished the maydens of the Sabines aud hauyng subdued the people that were next about them fyrst they gate thempore of Italy and anone after th empyre of the whole worlde At those dayes as yet the kynges in stead of Diademes hadde maces which the Grekes call Scepters For euen from the fyrst begynnyng of thynges men in olde tyme dyd worship maces for Goddes In remembraunce of which Religion the ymages of the Goddes are yet styll ●…ade with Maces in their handes In the tyme of kyng Tarquine a companie of the Phocenses