to accuse the great pride and insolencie of the Nobles but especially he inveighed against the Consuls regiment as being too absolute and in a free state intollerable For in name only quoth he lesse odious and hatefull it is than that of the KK but in fact in very deed more grienous and cruell For why In steed of one lord the cittie hath received twaine and those having authoritie beyond all measure unlimited and infinite who being themselves at their owne libertie and vnbrideled turned the edge of all streight and dreadfull lawes year and the rigor of all punishment against the Commons But least this their licentiousnesse should continue for ever he was minded to preferred and publish a law by vertue where of there should be five men created who should set downe certaine conditions to limit and gage the authoritie of the Consuls and looke what authoritie and comission the people graunted out over them the same should the Consull exercise and no more and not rule of themselves and vse their owne will and licencious lust in steede of law This act being once published and the Nobles fearing least whiles the Consuls were away they should be taken downe and yoked Quin. Fabrus President of the Cittie assembled the Senate who so bitterly and sharply inueighed against the law and the law-giuer himselfe that if both the Consuls themselves had stood about the Tribune of purpose to contradict and crosse his proceedings there had been no threats nor terrible menaces left for them to have thundred out For he laid sore vnto his charge that he had lien in waite and now having spied the time to fit his purpose had given the venture to assaile the C. W. and the State And in case the gods in their wrathfull displeasure had sent among them such a Tribune as hee the yeare before togither with warre and pestilence there had ben no remedie then but he must have had his way and then they had beene all undone For when the Consuls both were dead and the cittie lay bedrid as it were in a miserable confusion of all things he would have made lawes then indeede to the utter abolishing of the Consuls authoritie out of the Commonwealth and beene a ringleader to Volscians and Aequians both for to have assaulted the cittie For what might not hee have lawfully done by vertue of his place If the Consuls had either proudly or cruelly proceeded against any one Cittizen hee might have entered an Action against them and convented them forsooth before those verie Iudges of whome peraduenture some one had beene by them hardlie dealt withall This would have beene the course and ende of it And hee that thus did should not cause the Consuls authoritie and rule but the Tribunes power to become odious and intollerable which having beene of late well quieted and reconciled unto the Nobles began now afresh to come unto the old biace and to be troublesome againe Neither intreated hee him not to goe on still as he had begun But ye my masters qd Fabius that are the rest of the Tribunes we would request you to consider well this one point especially That this power you have was brought in for the succour and releefe of everie particular person and not to the generall prejudice and undoing of all Againe that ye are created Tribunes of the Commons not enemies of the Nobles A heavie and lamentable case it is to us odious and hatefull unto you and will breed you much ill will and displeasure in case the C. W. now forlorn should thus be invaded assailed Yee shall leese nothing of your owne right I assure you nay you shall avoid much mislike and hatred of men in case ye be in hand and deale with your brother Tribune to put off this matter and deferre it wholly until the Consuls comming Why the verie Aequians and Volscians themselves the last yeare when both our Consuls were dead of the plague preased not hardlie upon us to prosecute any proud cruell war against us So the Tribunes communed and persuaded with Terentillus and this his commensed suit or action being adjourned in outward shew but in verie truth let fall quite and disanulled the Consuls forthwith were sent for home Lucretius returned enriched with a right great bootie but with far greater honor and renowne Who at his verie first comming wan himselfe more glorie by laying abroad in Mars field all the prises that everie man for three daies space might know his owne and have it away All the rest that had no owners to come forth and make claime was sold in port-sale By all mens consent the Consull was thought worthie of triumph howbeit that matter was put off by reason that the Tribune had not yet done with his law which was the thing that the Consull thought meet should be first regarded The matter was debated and treated for certaine daies both in the Senate and also before the people At last the Tribune yeelded to the majestic of the Consull and gave it over Then was due honor rendred both to the Generall and also to the armie accordingly He triumphed over the Volscians and Aequians and in his triumph his owne legions followed after him To the other Consull granted it was that he should in a kind of triumph called Ovatio ride into the citie but without his soldiors The yeare next ensuing the law Terentilla was by the whole colledge or fellowship of the Tribunes revived and propounded againe which put the new Consuls P. Volumnius and Ser. Sulpitius to some trouble And in the same yeare the skie semed to be on a light fire and there was an exceeding earthquake And that which the yeare afore was no credit given unto was now for truth beleeved to wit That a cow did speake Among other strange wonders it rained flesh during which showre a huge number of foules flew among and were reported to have snatcht it and caried it away as it was in falling But that which fell downe and escaped their tallons lay scattered here and there for certaine daies in such sort as the sent changed not at all nor the flesh one jot taken and corrupted Then the bookes of Sibylla were perused by the Duumvirs deputed over matters of religion who foretold of some dangers to ensue by a companie of strangers and gave warning to look least happily some assault should be made upon the highest places of the citie and thereof a slaughter massacre ensue Amongst the rest warning was given to abstaine from civile discord and mutinies which the Tribunes found fault with as a devised matter to hinder the law Wherupon great debate and contention was like presentlie to grow But behold that the revolution and course of troubles might turne about everie yeare to the same point The Herniks bring newes that the Volscians and Aequians for all their wings were well clipped and their forces greatly decaied began to gather and leavie new armies Item That
afore the Senat about the sedition which Mecilius Metilius had raised by a Largesse of dangerous consequence such speeches were by the principall of the Nobles delivered that each one for himselfe confessed that now they were to seeke for counsell and saw no other helpe nor remedie but in the authoritie of the Tribunes to the protection and safegard of which Magistracie the Commonweale betooke her selfe and fled for succour as being beset with daunger like some poore private person and had no other means to save her selfe saying That it would be both for themselves and also for their authoritie an honorable thing if it might appeare that the puissance of their Tribuneship were not more imploied in molesting the Senate and making discord among the States than in resisting the peevish wilfulnes of their colleagues Wherupon arose a great noise through the whole companie of the Senatours whiles out of all parts of the Court there assembled they called upon the Tribunes for their helping hand Then after silence made they who for the favour of the Lords of the Senat were made aforehand to their cause declared and confessed that they were readie to crosse that act by their fellowes published seeing the Senate judged it to be prejudiciall to the Commonwealth These Tribunes for the offer of their good service were by the Senate highly thanked But the authours and patrones of the Act aforesaid calling together an assemblie of the Commons when they had inveighed against their fellows most sharpely tearming them betraiers of the Commons wealth and slaves to the Nobles and using other bitter speeches gave over their action and suit Two greevous warres had continued all the yeare next following wherein P. Cornelius Cossus C. Valerius Potitus Quintius Cincinnatus and M. Fabius Vibulanus were militarie Tribunes in Coss. authoritie but that the Veientian war was deferred by the superstitious feare of their owne princes whose grounds Tybris overflowing the banks had spoiled overthrown also the villages houses that stood therupon The Aequians likewise by reason of their losse received three yeares before made no great hast to aid and assist the Volanes a people of their own nation For they had made certaine rodes into the Lavicanes countrie confining upon them and warred upon the inhabitants lately there planted Which trespasse by them done they hoped to have ben able to maintaine by the banding and assistance of all the Aequians but being forsaken of their allies they lost both their towne and territorie onely by siege and one light skirmish and never fought for it anymemorable war L. Sextius also Tribune of the Commons assaied to make an Act that there might be sent to Volae as wel as to Lavicos Coloners to people it but by the negative of his confreeres who shewed that they would not suffer any Statute of the Commons to passe without the assent of the Senate it came to nothing In the yeare following the Aequians having recovered and woon againe Volae and brought a Colonie thither fortified the towne with a fresh power at what time were Tribunes Militarie in Consuls authoritie at Rome Cn. Cornelius Cossus L. Valerius Potitus Q Fabius Vibulanus the second time and M. Posthumius Regillensis The warre against the Aequians was committed to this Posthumius a man of a crooked disposition as his victorie shewed more than the whole course of the warre For having levied an armie in hast and brought it before Volae after some small skirmishes he â—amed the Aequians and at length entred the towne And when he had done with the enemies hee began to quarrell with his owne souldiors for whereas during the time of the assault he had given out by proclamation That they should have the saccage after the town was once woon he brake promise with them For I am induced to beleeve that this was the cause rather why the armie mutined and was discontented than for that in a towne lately sacked before and in a new Colonie there was found lesse spoile than the Tribune made boast of But this displeasure and anger once conceived was made the worse after that he returned into the citie for being sent for by his fellowes upon occasion of the Tribunitian seditions there escaped him an indiscreet speech I must needs say yea and without all sence wit and honestie Which he let fall in an assemblie of the Commons wherein it happened that as Sextus a Tribune of the Commons was preferring the law Agraria saying withall That he would propose an Act that Coloners should likewise bee sent to Volae for that they were worthie to have both the towne and lands of Volae who had by sword and speare conquered the same Posthumius caught the word out of his mouth And that shall my souldiors deerely abie quoth hee unlesse they bee more quiet Which word being overheard offended not so the Com. presently there in place assembled as the Lords of the Senat a while after Moreover the Tribune aforesaid an active man and eloquent withall having among his adversaries met with a prowd humourous spirit and an insolent and intemperate tongue which walked so freely and so long by his provocation that hee uttered these speeches which bred not onely ill will and displeasure to himselfe but also wounded the cause and the whole state of the Patritij This Sextus I say was busie and quarrelling with none of all the Militarie Tribunes more than with Posthumius And even at that time taking advantage of the same cruell and unhumane speech of his Here yee not ô yee Commons quoth he how hee threateneth mischeefe unto his souldiours as unto bondslaves And yet his beast yee will thinke more worthie of so great dignitie wherein yee have placed him than those that indue you with house and land that send you abroad to inhabite Colonies that provide habitation for you against old age that tendering your wealth take part and defend you against so cruell and prowd adversaries Begin now henceforth to mervell why so few take in hand to maintain your cause For what may they looke for and hope at your hands for honours which yee bestow rather upon your adversaries than those that are affectionate defenders of the people of Rome Yee sighed even now and groned again at the words uttered out of this foule mouth But what matter makes that If yee were now to goe to an election and to give your voices ye would no doubt for all that preferre this man who threateneth to mischeefe you afore them that are willing and desirous to establish your lands your dwelling places and the whole state of your substance and living But when that leaud language of Posthumius was reported once to the souldiours it bred a farre greater indignation besure within the campe How now say they is hee who hath intercepted our bootie and defrauded us poore souidiours of our due not content therewith but must menace mischeefe besides unto us as his varlets When
as there is no mention made of that matter in any ancient writers I dare not avouch it for a certaine truth This warre was no sooner brought to an end but the domesticall Tribunes warre at home put the Nobles in feare for the Tribunes cried out that this was cautelous and fraudulent dealing thus to keepe the armies abroad for nothing els but to disappoint them for publishing the law Yet neverthelesse since they had begun it they would not give over but go through with it and see an end Howbeit P. Lucretius President of the cittie for the time prevailed thus much with them That al Tribunitian actions should hang and be deferred vntill the comming of the Consuls There was besides a new occasion arose of fresh trouble A. Cornelius and Quintus Servilius Questours gave summons to M. Volscius to make his answere at a day who laide to his charge that he without all doubt had borne false witnesse against Caeso For by many presumptions and evidences it appeared that neither Volscius his brother from the first time that he fell sicke and tooke his bed was at any time seene openly in the streetes or so much as to have sit up and mended any whit but of that disease which held him many monethes he languished and consumed away to death nor about that time wherein the deponent supposed the deede was done was Caeso once seene at Rome it being plainly affirmed and prooved by those who served together with him in the warres that he was ordinarily all the time fighting vnder his colours as well as they without any pasport or licence to depart And to make this good many there were that of themselves privately challenged Volscius and offered to traverse the law and to be tried by any indifferent and competent judges But when as he durst not abide the triall and to be judged all these things put together and so consonant one to the other made men doubt no more of the condemnation of Volscius than of Caeso which was grounded upon the bare testimony of Volscius The Tribunes were only the stay who said plainly they would not suffer the Questors to holde any sessions or judiciall court for the triall of the defendant before they had a solemne assembly about their law So were both these matters put off unto the Consuls comming Who being entred with triumph into the citty with their victorious armie and no wordes made of the law many men thought the Tribunes were cleane daunted and striken dead But they for that the yeare now was at an end aspiring to be Tribunes the fourth time left all their hoat contention for the law and reserved themselves wholy to argue and reason at the assembly for the Election of new Magistrates And albeit the Consuls had bent all their might and maine against the continuity of the Tribuneship as earnestly as if a law had been propounded tending to the impairing and abridging of their majesty yet got the Tribunes the mastrie and had the hand of them in the end In this yeare peace was granted upon request and petition unto the Aequians And the Seffing which the yeare before began was now finished And this was counted the tenth generall Survey and solemne purging of the cittie from the foundation thereof There were numbred in the Cense-booke of cittizens 132419 polles A glorious and honourable yeare it was unto the Consuls both at home and in warre For they not onely procured peace abroad but also the Cittie was if not in perfect concord and unitie yet in lesse trouble than at other times L. Minutius and L. Ngutius that were created Consuls entred upon the reliques of the two matters begun the former yeare And much after one sort as the Consuls crossed the going forward of the law so the Tribunes hindred the judiciall proceeding against Volscius But the new Questours were men of more power and greater authoritie For together with M. Valerius the sonne of Valerius and nephew of Volesus was T. Quintius Capitolinus created Questour a man that had ben thrice Consull Forasmuch therefore as Caeso the worthiest gentleman of all other and the very ornament of the youth of Rome could not be restored again neither to the house of the Quintij nor to the Commonweale he pursued of meere pietie with just and lawfull warre that false witnesse who would not suffer on any hand the innocent person to have the libertie to plead in his owne defence And when Virginius most of all the other Tribunes was earnest to publish the law the Consuls had two months respite given them to consider thereof and looke into it throughly to the end that when they had advertised the people what secret fraud and inconvenience was hidden and lurked therein they might afterwards suffer them to proceed to a scrutinie and gather voices accordingly This space between granted brought the citie into a good and quiet state But the Aequians would not abide that long it should continue so Who having broken the league which the yeare before was made with the Romanes chose Gracchus Clutlius for their governour and Generall who was in those daies the greatest man amongst the Aequians Vnder the conduct of this Gracchus they enter first in warlike manner the countrey of Lanuvium and from thence into the territorie of Tusculum spoiling and ransacking as they went and being loaden with preyes and booties they pitch their tents in Algidum Thither repaired from Rome into their campe Q. Fabius P. Valerius A. Posthumius as embassadors to complain of wrongs received and to demand amends and satisfaction according to covenant The Generall of the Aequians seemed to graunt them audience and willed them to declare what message and commission they had from the Senate of Rome unto the oke for that himselfe had some other matters to dispatch the while Now there grew a mightie great Oke hard by the Generall his pavilion spreading his boughes even over it and the shadow thereof served for a coole fitting place Then one of the Embassadors as he went this way Let both this sacred Oke quoth he what divine power soever is seated in this place hear and know that by you first the league is broken who now regard our present complaints and shortly assist our valiant armies when we shall prosecute and revenge at once the disloiall breach both of Gods lawes and mans So soone as the Embassadours were returned to Rome the Senate gave direction that one of the Consuls should lead forth an armie against Gracchus into Algidum and the other to have in commission to wast the borders of the Aequians The Tribunes as their manner was hindered the muster and peradventure had staied it altogether but for a new fearefull occurrent that suddainely came in the necke of the other For a mightie power of Sabines were approched welneere to the wals of the cittie robbing spoiling and destroying all afore them with sword and fire The territorie was piteously
of the magistrates that yeare at the first made meanes and besought them not to disgrace and discredite them so and afterward assaid to crosse the decree denying that they would give over their place before the Ides of December which was the set and usuall day of entring yearelie into newe offices Amid this businesse the Tribunes of the Commons who had kept silence even against their wils so long as men were at unitie and the affaires of the cittie prospered upon a suddaine brake out and threatened sharpelie the two Tribunes Militarie that unlesse they would submit themselves and rest in the authoritie of the Senate they would commit them to warde Then C. Servilius Hala a Militarie Tribune stood up and said As for you and your threats ô ye Tribunes of the Commons in good faith I would gladlie see once that there were no more power and authoritie in these here than will and stomack in you But who seeth not that there is no striving against the authoritie of the Senat And therfore hold ye content and forbeare you to seeke oportunitie and occasion upon our variance to offer wrong And my brethren for their parts shall either do that which the Senat thinketh good or els if they shall continue stubborne still in their contumacie I will presentlie nominate a Dictator to force them to leave their office This speech was approved with a generall accord And the Senatours being glad that without the terrours and scarbugs of the Tribunes authoritie there was found out another greater power to bridle magistrats the two militarie Tribunes aforesaid were overweighed with the consent of all parties and held a new election of militarie Tribunes to begin their government on the Kalends of October and before that day they resigned up their places Thus were L. Valerius Potitus the fourth time M. Furius Camillus the second time M. Aemilius Mamercus the third time Cn. Cornelius Cossus the second time C. Fabius Ambustus and L. Iulius Tullus Tribunes militarie in Consuls authoritie In whose time many worthie Acts were performed both at home and abroad For not onelie they had war in sundrie places at one time namely at Veij at Capena against Falerij with the Volsci to the end that Anxur might be won again and recovered from the enemies but at Rome also what about musters and paying the tribute for soldiours pay there was much trouble Besides there was some variance about taking in certaine Tribunes of the Commons to the rest and the two arraignments of those who a little before had governed in Consuls authoritie caused no small stirre But the principall care of the Tribunes militarie was that the muster should go forward Neither were the yonger sort and serviceable men only prest forth but the elder also compelled to give their names and to keepe watch and ward in the cittie But looke how much greater was the number of soldiors so much more mony they needed for their paiment And the same was levied by a contribution but unwillinglie of as manie as taried at home For that besides the levie they were enjoyned to become soldiours also in defence of the citie to serve in person for the Commonwealth These things grievous as they were of themselves so by the seditious Orations of the Tribunes in their assemblies they seemed more grievous and heavie Who argued and discoursed thus That wages was appointed for soldiours to this end only that what by warfare and what with exactions and impositions they might undoe the Commons and make an end of them at once for ever One warre say they hath now continued three years and the same for the nonce ill managed that it might be drawen out the longer Againe in one muster there were armies enrolled for no fewer than foure wars wherunto beardlesse boyes and old crasiemen were taken up and haled forth Now there was no difference of winter or sommer so as the poore Commons at no time can have any rest Who now at last are taxed also and racked to the uttermost so that after they have brought home with them their bodies overtoyled with travaile weakned with wounds and last of all wasted and spent with age and finding all things at home unhusbanded by reason of the long absence of the masters and owners they must be faine to pay Tribute even out of their poore decaied quickestocke and repaie againe with great usurie to the Commonwealth their wages received in warre as it were upon interest Betweene the musters of one side and the leavie of soldiours pay on the other side and their mindes occupied about greater affaires at the Election of Tribunes of Commons the number could not fullie be made up Wherupon there was great labour made that into the rowmes that were void there should be some of the Nobilitie taken in and admitted VVhen that could not be obtained yet to impeach and overthrow the Tribunes law it was effected or brought to passe that they should assume unto them for Tribunes of the Commons C. Lacerius and Marcus Atilius by the might and practise no doubt of the Patrilij It hapned so that the same yeare C. Trebenius was a Tribune of the Commons who would seeme to undertake the patronage and defence of the law Trebonia and discharge it as a duetie to that name and house belonging He spake alowd and said that whereas the Tribunes Militarie had wonne that wherof some of the Nobles had borne the repulse in their first suit and that the law Trebonia was disanulled in that certaine Tribunes of the Comminaltie were taken into their fellowes not by suffrages and free voices of the people but by the rule and commaundement of the Nobles and that the matter was come to that passe that either Noblemen or their favourites and followers were to become Tribunes of the Commons that their sacred lawes were taken from them perforce and the Tribunes authoritie wrested from out of their hands by violence All these inconveniences he complained to have hapned through the fraudulent practise of the Nobles and the mischievous leawdnesse and treacherie of his owne companions in office Thus whiles there grew great hartburning among them and that not the Nobles onely but also the Tribunes of the Commons as well they which were elected asthey that were electors were hardly thought of by the people Then three of the companie P. Curiatius M. Metilius and Minutius fearing some shrewd turne like to fall upon Sergius and Virginius the Tribunes militarie of the former yeare and by serving processe giving them a day to answere turned from themselves the anger and displeasure of the commons upon those two persons publishing openly That whosoever were grieved for the musters and the Tribute whosoever thought the warre long and the continuall soulderie tedious whosoever sorrowed for the dammage and discomsiture received at Veij whosoever for the losse of their children brethren kinsfolke or any of their alliance had heavie and mournefull
the prohibition was the stronger so much it was overweighed in favour and affection both of the lawes and lawgivers and when the first Tribes had given their voice Viirogatis affirmatively then Camillus for as much as quoth hee ô Qutrites yee are ruled now by the will and pleasure and not by the authoritie of the Tribunes as in times past ye obtained the priviledge of a negative voice and Intercession by your departure Sesession so now ye make it void nothing worth even by the same force that ye got it by I chosen Dictatour as well for your sake as for the whole Commonwealth will assist your priviledge of Intercession and by mine absolute authoritie maintaine this your helpe and succour now renversed and overthrowne If therfore C. Licinius and L. Sextius give place unto the negative voice and intereeding of their fellowes in office I will not in a meeting and assemblie of the Commons once intermedle nor bring in the authoritie of a magistrate of the Nobles but if they shall go forward still notwithstanding all Prohibition to impose and give lawes unto the cittie as if it were woon by conquest of the enemie I will not suffer the Tribunes power by their owne selves to be defaced and come to nothing But all these big words notwithstanding when the Tribunes of the Commons made but a tush therat and went never the latter forward with their enterprise the n Camillus throughly angred in deed sent his Lictours and sergeants to commaund the Commons to avoid the place and depart Threatning with all that if they proceeded thus he would take a Militarie oth of all the yoonger people and lead an armie presently forth of the cittie This put the Commons in a verie great fright but it set their captaines and ringleaders rather in a greater heat of contention than abated their courages one jot And when he saw no relenting on either side he gave up his office Whether it were that there was some errour in his creation as some have written or because the Tribunes of the Commons had put up a bill to the Commons and they graunted it that if M. Furius as Dictatour had proceeded to any action he should have a round fine set on his head of 500000 Asses I know not certainly But I beleeve that he was terrified upon some unluckie signes of the birds rather than with any such strange Act never heard of before and without precedent And hereunto am I induced both in regard of the disposition of the man so well given and of so good conscience and also for that M. Manlius was immediatly named Dictatour in his steed For to what end should Manlius have beene created Dictatour for that broile and sturre wherin M. Furius had taken the foile before Againe seeing the same M. Furius was Dictatour the next yeare following doubtlesse he would never for shame have resumed that office wherin the yeare before he had received the foile and disgrace to be so over ruled Over and besides at the same time when as this bill was supposed to have beene preferred concerning his fine either he might have withstood it too wherby he saw himselfe to be bridled or else he had not beene able to have hindred so much as those for which this also was proposed Finally it was never seene to this day wherin we live so long as the Tribunes and Consuls with their fact ions and parts taking have beeneat variance and debate with all their might and maine but evermore the authoritie of the Dictatour controlled them all and put them downe Betweene the former Dictatorship of Camillus now resigned up and the new by Manlius accepted and begun there was an assembly of the Commons summoned by the Tribunes in time as it were of a vacancie or Interreigne wherin the overture was made and evidently it was seen which of the lawes proposed the Commons liked better and which the lawgivers For those that concerned usurie and land they granted to passe but that other of a Commoner to be Consull they denied and dashed quite And surely both matters had beene dispatched fully and established at once but that the Tribunes said directly that they required the Commons to give their voices and speake to all three directly together After this P. Manlius the Dictatour favored somewhat and helped the cause of the Commons by nominating out of the Commons for his Generall of horsemen C. Licinius who had beene a Tribune Militarie before time The Senatours stormed hereat as I find in records And the Dictatour was wont to excuse the matter unto them alledging for himselfe the neere affinitie and kindred that was betweene him and Licinius saying also that the dignitie of the Generall of horsemen was no greater than of a Tribune Consular Now when the Election day was published for the Tribunes of the Commons Licinius and Sextius so demeaned themselves that by pretending that they would not any longer now continue in the office they set the Commons on to be most earnest and hotely bent for that which they under colour of refusall desired and sought for They seemed forsooth to alleadge and say That for these nine yeares they had stood as it were in battaile array and affronted the States and Nobles of the cittie to the right great perill of themselves in privat and to no good effect at all in publicke and now together with them both the lawes proposed and the whole strength of the Tribunes authoritie were waxed old and decaied At the first their laws were crossed by the interceding of their brethren Tribunes afterwards by packing away the youth of the citie to the Veliterne warre and last of all the Dictators lightening flashed in their faces and their thunderbolts shot against them Now say they neither their fellow Tribunes withstood them nor foraine warres hindered them ne yet the Dictatour himselfe as who for his part hath given a good foretokening and presage of a Consull Commoner in electing his Generall of horsemen from out of the Commons The very Commons and none els are they that hurt themselves and delay their owne goods Who might presently if they would have their citie their common hall place of assemblies freed from these creditors yea and their grounds recovered againe from the unjust Landlords Which benefites and liberties when are they like to weigh and esteeme with thankefull minds accordingly if in the very time that they are to accept the lawes devised for their owne wealth and good they cut off all hope of promotion and honour from the publishers and proposers thereof For it standeth not with the modestie of the people of Rome to require to be eased themselves of Vsurie and to be set in posiession again of the land wrongfully withheld from them by the mightie men and then to leave those old Trib. by whose meanes they have come by those good commodities to shift for themselves not only without honor but
foure and twentie yeares past ye have endured both by land and sea Neither was this beardlesse boy our captaine their but his father Amilcar himselfe even a second Mars as these his supposts would have him But what of that We could not then according to our league hold our hands and let Tarentum in Italie alone like as now we are doing with Saguntum Therefore both God and man tooke the matter in hand and vanquished us in the end and when wee were at arguing and debating the case with discourse of words about this point Whether Nation of the twaine had broken the league the event of warre as an indifferent and equall judge awarded victorie where the right was And Carthage it is against which Anniball even now hath reared mantelets towers and other engines of assault even now battereth shaketh he Carthage walls with the Ram. The ruins of Saguntum God graunt I be a false Prophet will fal upon our heads and the warre begun with the Saguntines we must maintaine against the Romanes How then will some man say shall wee yeeld Anniball unto them I know well how small my authoritie is in this point by reason of the old grudge and enmitie betweene me his father deceased Howbeit as I reioiced that Amilcar was dead for that if hee had lived still wee should ere now have warred with the Romans so this very youth an impe of his I hate detest as the very furie and firebrand of this war whom I would have by my good wil not only to be rendred unto them for to purge expiare the breach of league but if no man would chalenge him for to be punished I would award that he should be caried and transported as far as there is sea or land to be sent away thither from whence we might not once hear of him againe where he might never trouble the quiet peaceable state of this citie any more Over and besides my opinion resolution is that some Embassadors be sent presently to Rome to satisfie the Senat and others also with a message to Anniball that he withdraw his forces from Saguntum with commission to render up Annibal himselfe into the Romans hands according to the tenor of the league a third Embassage likewise to the Saguntines for to make restitution and amends for their harms losses alreadie sustained When Hanno had made an end of his speech it was altogether needlesse that any one man there should make replie and debate the matter with him by way of Oration the whole Senat was so possessed alreadie wrought for Anniball and with one voice they blamed Hanno and sounded it out That he had made a bitterer speech and more favoring of an enemie than Flaccus Valerius himselfe the Romane Embassadour After this the Romane Embassadors had this answere returned That the warre began by the Saguntines and not by Anniball Also that the people of Rome offered them injurie in preferring the Saguntines before the most ancient alliance of the Carthaginians Whiles the Romanes thus spent time in sending Embassages Anniball having wearied his men what with skirmishes and what with trenching and raising mounts and fabrickes he gave them rest some few daies and bestowed certaine good guards toward and keepe the mantelets and other engines of batterie In the meane season he encouraged his souldiours and set their hearts on fire partly by pricking and provoking them to anger against their enemies and partly by tilling them on and alluring them with hope of great rewards But after he had once in a generall assemblie made proclamation That the spoile and pillage should be the souldiours share they were all so enkindled and enflamed that if presently he had sounded the signall of battaile it seemed that no force in the world had been able to resist them The Saguntines as they had some rest from skirmish and continued certainued daies neither assailing nor assailed so they gave not over labouring night and day for to make up a newe wall and countermure on that side of the towne which lay open by reason of breaches But after this grew the assault more hote and furious than before neither wist they well the shouts and al'armes were so divers dissonant on every side whether to come first or where was most need of helpe and succour Anniball himselfe was present in person to encourage and exhort his soldiours where as the rouling tower was driven which was so high that it overlooked all the mures and countrefabrickes of the cittie and being once approched neere the wals furnished as it was in every loft and storie with ordinance of quarell shot brakes and other artillerie beat the defendants from off the wals so as none durst abide upon them Then Anniball taking the time supposing that he had now a good oportunitie presented unto him sent about 500 Affricanes that were pioners with picke-axes mattocks and such like tooles to undermine the wal yea and to dig into it from the very foundation And that was no hard matter to do for that the cement or morter was not hardened and bound with lime but tempered with earth and clay after the old maner of building and therefore the wall came tumbling downe before it was hewen and wrought into and through the wide breaches whole troupes of armed souldiours entered the towne and withall they seized one high place above the rest whereon they planted their artillerie and ordinance of slings and brakes and cast a wall about it that they might have within the very cittie a fort and bastillon of their owne like a castle to overlooke all The Saguntines likewise raised another mure withinforth along that side where the towne as yet was not taken So that on both sides they made fortifications and also fought with all their might and main But the Saguntines defending the inner parts by little and little brought their towne daily into a smaller compasse And by that meanes as also by reason of the long siege as scarsitie and want of all things grewe more and more so the expectation of forraine aide and succour was everie day lesse than other the Romans their onely hope being so farre off and their enemies so neere on every hand Howbeit the suddaine rode and journey of Anniball against the Oretanes and Carpetanes refreshed for a while their troubled and afflicted spirits These two nations being risen upon a discontentment of a streight muster and rigorous levie of souldiours had staied and detained those Muster-maisters that had in commission to take up all sufficient and able men for the warres and so made some shew feare of rebellion but being prevented in the beginning by the speedie comming of Anniball were soone quiet and laid downe their armes But the assault of Saguntum continued neverthelesse For Maharball Himilco his sonne whom Anniball had left behind as Lieutenant so bestirred himselfe that neither the townesmen nor the enemie
still continued lingting in slouth and idlenes condemned in the judgment both of God man Wherupon the very first day that he Fabius were met together he said that they were above all things to determine set down in what sort they might order this their equall authority of government He for his part thought it best that each other day or if longer time between were supposed better they should one after the other alternatively have the full and whole command of all for the time to their severall turns that if any occasion of fighting a battaile were presented they might bee able to countervaile the enemie not only in counsell but also in power and strength Q. Fabius liked not of this supposing that whatsoever lay in the hands and disposition of his rash colleague must needs be subject unto the arbitrement of Fortune Saying moreover unto him that he was indeed to impart unto him government and rule but not wholy to depart the rafro and shut himself out And therfore he would never willingly faile but to his power manage by counsell and discretion one part or other neither would hee devide with him either times or daies but the forces and armies that Minutius might have one moietie himselfe another since he might not preserved all by his own counsell pollicie yet he would endevour so far as he could to save somewhat And so much he prevailed that they parted the legions between them as the matter of the Consuls was The first and fourth fell to Minutius the second and third to Fabius In like manner they devided the horsemen number for number and the auxiliar soldiors of Allies and Latines The Generall of the horsemen would needs likewise that they should be encamped a funder Anniball conceived hereupon a two fold joy for he was not ignorant of all that was done among the enimies partly by intelligence given him from thence by fugitives and partly by meanes of his owne escouts and spies for he made this reckning both that he should deale welenough with the layish rashnesse of Minutius and handle him in his kind and also that the prudent pollicie of Fabius was abridged and diminished by the one halfe Now there was a little hill betweene the camp of Minutius and of the Carthaginians and no doubt there was but that he who could gaine it aforehand should have the vantage of the enemie in regard of the ground That hill Anniball was not so desirous to get without skirmish and yet it had bene a matter of good importance as willing thereby to give some occasion of fighting and skuffling with Minutius whome hee wish very well to be alwayes forward enough to encounter him and make resistance The plaine all betweene seemed at first fight nothing commodious nor good for men that would lay an ambushment because it was neither over growne with any woods nor yet in any part roughly overspread and covered so much as with briers brambles But in very deede the ground was naturally made for to cover and hide an Ambuscador and the rather because in so naked and bare a valley none would have imagined and suspected any deceitfull traines and forelaying of wait And yet there were in diversnonks and corners thereof certaine hollow rocks and caves and some of them of sufficient capacitie to receive â—ob armed mour In these lurking holes there were bestowed 5000 of horsemen and footemen one with another some in one place some in another according as they might commodiously lye there closely hidden And yet least that the sitting of any one that might chance to go forth unadyisedly or the glittering of armour should bewray the traines in so open a valley Anniball by feading out at the breake of day some 〈◊〉 for to 〈◊〉 the aforesaid hill withdrew the eyes of his enemies another way These at the first view were despised of the Romanes for their small number and 〈◊〉 every man was desirous to be doing with them and their fingers itched for to set the enemies back and drive them from thence The Generall himselfe Minutius as foole-hardie and forward as he that was most sounded the alarme and commaunded to go to the winning of the place braving and threatning the enemies full vainely First he sent forth his light armed men to skirmish but afterwards the Cornets of horsemen set close and jointlie together in aray and at the last seeing the enemies seconded with new succours and supplies he advanced forward himselfe with his legions in order of battaile And Anniball wheresoever he perceived his men to be distressed made out continually fresh aides one after another both of horse and foote ever as the fight increased and grew hoter so as now he had his full armie in field and they mainteined battaile on both sides with al their powre maine forces First the light armed Romans notwithstanding the disadvantage of the ground desirous to get up against the hill possessed aforehand by the enemie were put back and beaten down againe in somuch as in their retire they put the horsemen in feare that followed hard upon them and fled for refuge to the ensignes of the Infantery The maine battaile of the legionarie footemen among all the rest that were affrighted only remained without feare undaunted and seemed in a plaine set and downeright field without ambush likely enough to have held their owne and in no respect to have bene overmarched so couragious they were and had taken such hart upon their late victorie some few dayes before But the enemies starting sodainely out of their Emboscadoes so troubled disordred and terrified them flanking them on both sides and charging withal behind that neither their heart served any of them to fight nor their hope remained to flye and escape away Then Fabius hearing their first cry and knowing thereby that they were in great feare and seeing besides a farre off their battaile disordred and in disaray I thought even as much quoth he and no sooner than I feared it is fallen out Fortune I see wel hath overraught foole-hardinesse taken it tardie The man forsooth that must needes be made equall with Fabius in government seeth by this time that Anniball is his good maister his better by ods in prowesse fortune but we shal find out some other time to chide and to be angry Come on now forth with your standerds ensignes let us wrest from our enemies hands the victorie and wring from our citizens mouths confession of their error and trespasse Now when some of them were slaine and other looked about which way to make escape and flye Fabius with his forces shewed himselfe as sent downe from heaven to rescue them And before he came to launce one javelin or began to joyne battaile and fight one stroke he not onely stayed his fellowes from running away but also his enemies from further heate of fight As many of the Romanes as were disbanded scattered asunder all
passe over into Italie and joyne his forces with Anniball that in the effecting of this designement the Carthaginians were assuredly persuaded of the victorie Moreover that there was a mightie navie a rigging and decking for to recover Sicilie againe and as they verily thought it should passe the seas very shortly These newes being red by the Consull so troubled and disquieted the Senate that they thought there was no tarying for the ordinarie election of Magistrates summoned and called by the Consull but that they should nominate a Dictatour of purpose to assemble that solemne Session and the Consull immediatly to returne againe into his province But hereupon grew some debate and question for a time while the Consull said that he would nominate and create Dictator M. Valerius Messala who was then in Sicilie and Admirall of the fleete but the LL. replied againe and said that a Dictator might not be elected or declared without the territories of Rome and those were all within the limits and marches of Italie But after that M. Lucretius a Tribune of the Commons had put this controversie to question before the Senate for to be cast and decided by their opinions then the Senate graunted out a decree That the Consul before he departed from the citie should put up a bill or supplication unto the bodie of the people that it would please them to elect a Dictatour and whom soever they by their suffrages chose him should he pronounce and declare for the Dictatour and in case the Consull refused so to do then the Pretour of the citie should propose the same unto the people and if not he neither then the Tribunes should propound it unto the Commons But when the Consull denied flatly to put it unto the people being a thing merely belonging to his authoritie and place and likewise expressely for bad the Pretour to do it then the Tribunes of the Commons tooke the matter upon them whereupon the commons graunted that Q. Fulvius who then was in Capua should be nominated Dictator But the night before that very day that this assemblie of the commons was to be holden the Consull departed privily and tooke his journey toward Sicilie The Nobles thus being disappointed and destitute thought good to send letters unto Marcellus for to lend his helping hand now unto the Common-weale thus forsaken and abandoned by his colleague and to declare him for Dictatour whom the people had by their voices elected So Q. Fulvius was pronounced Dictator by Marcellus the Consull by vertue of the said act of the commons P. Licinius Crassâ—s the Arch-prelat was by Q. Fulvius nominated Generall of the Cavallerie The Dictatour after he was come to Rome sent Cn. Sempronius Blaesus his Lieutenant whom he had at Capua to the armie into the province of Hetruria in stead of C. Calpurnius the Pretour whom by his letters he moved to take the government of Capua and his armie there And himself sent out precepts for the solemne elections of Consuls against the first Comitial day that hee might by law But by reason of a contention that grew betweene the Tribunes of the Commons the Dictatour it could not passe be performed For the centurie Galeria of the yonger sort which by lot had the prerogative of giving their first voises elected for Consuls Q. Fulvius and Q. Fabius unto whose election no doubt the rest of the Tribes called forth in right course and lawfull order would have inclined but that C. and L. Ariani the Trib. of the Com. came betweene with their negative voice who said it stood not well with civilitie that one man should continue ever still in magistracie and besides that it was a more shamefull example and foule precedent that himselfe should be created Consull who assembled the election therefore if the Dictatour would admit of his owne name and allow himselfe eligible they would not suffer the assembly to continue any longer but if there might be some other propounded besides him they would not hinder the proceedings thereof untill all was finished The Dictatour alleadged in the behalfe of the election mainteined the cause by the authoritie of the Senate by the graunt and act of the Commons and by sundrie examples of former times For when Cn. Servilius was Consull at what time as Flaminius the other Consull was slaine at Thrasymenus by order graunted out of the Senate there was a bill preferred to the Commons and the same passed by their voises That so long as the warre continued in Italie it might bee lawfull for the people to chuse and create Consuls againe as often as they pleased whom soever they would out of the number of them that had bene Consuls And as for examples quoth he in this case I can alleadge both old and new to wit long ago L. Posthumius Megillus being Interrex was even in that very election which he called and held created Consull himselfe with Cn. Iun. Bubulcus and of later daies Q. Fabius likewise who verily would never have accepted of the Consulship and suffered it to be hung upon him so continually if he had deemed it to be against the good of the common-weale After much debate and long alteration interteined with sundrie like speeches at length the Dictatour and the Tribunes agreed to this point and agreed of this issue That they would stand to the award judgement of the Senat. The LL. of the Senat were all of this mind that the present condition of the common-weale required no lesse but that the state and the affaires therof should be mannaged by old experienced captains and Generals and such as were skilfull in feates of armes And therefore they utterly misliked that the election should be hindered and disturbed Thus the Tribunes relented and the election went forward and was finished So there were declared Consuls Q. Fabius Max. the fift time Q. Fulvius Flaccus the third time Then were created Pretours L. Veturius Philo T. Quintius Crispinus C. Hostilius Tubulus and C. Aurunculeius When the magistrats were once elected for the yeare Q. Fulvius resigned up his Dictatours roume In the very end of this summer a Carthagian fleet of fortie saile under the conduct of Amilcar the Admiral passed over into Sardinia and at first invaded and wasted the territorie of Olbia then after that P. Manlius Volso the Pretour there shewed himselfe with an armie they fet a compasse about and sailed to the other side of the Iland and foraied the lands about Caralita and so returned againe into Affricke enriched with prises and booties of all sorts In that yeare divers priests died at Rome and new substituted in their roumes C. Servilius the Prelate or Pontifex was invested and enstalled in stead of T. Octacilius Crassus In like manner T. Sempronius Longus the son of Caius was chosen Decemvir deputed for holy ceremonies in place of T. Sempronius Longus the sonne of Titus M. Martius the K. of Sacrificers departed this life and M. Aemylias
plain smooth which by nature was uneven and rugged Could I make levell downs of steep mounts open champion fair fields of woodland overgrown tough wylds Lay it in me to prevent those Thracian theeves that they should not hide themselves within their peakish holes ordinarie covert musets Was it in my power to impeach them that they might snatch and carie away nothing of our baggage Was I able to warrant that none of our laboring beast out of so great a number should be driven led away from their companie that no person should bee hurt and finally that Q. Minusius a brave and hardie knight should not die of his wound My adversaries presse hard and stand much upon this misfortune that it was our unluckie hap to loose so worthy a gentleman but they never think that if they would say nothing but suppresse conceale all yet you should know since the whole armie is here present to restifie that which I say That althought the enemie assailed us in a narrow streight in an inconvenient place of great disadvantage yet both of our battallion at once as wel the vantguard as rereward compassed the armie of the Barbarians busie occupied in rifling of our sardage slew many thousands of them that very day within few daies after either killed or took prisoners a greater number of them by far Well if I had not drawne a sword in Asia if I had not seen an enemie there yet I Proconsull had deserved a triumph wel ynough for those two battels in Asia But ynough hath ben said of these matters and I am to request you rather my Lords all to forgive me for my boldnes if I have held you longer than my will and desire was The accusation that day had prevailed more than his owne defense but that they continued arguing and debating in the Counsell-house untill it was late in the evening Then the Senate arose with this mind as if should seeme to denie him a triumph The next morrow the kinsfolke and friends of Cn. Manlius laboured all that ever they could Likewise the authoritie of the auncients stood him in great steed who said plainly that the precedent could not be found in any histories That a generall who had vanquished his enemies accomplished the full time of government in his province and brought his armie back returned into the citie as a privat person without the honor of the triumphant chariot and the laurell girlond The very indignitie and shame of this example surmounted the malice of his adversaries in so much as the Senatours in a frequent assembly graunted this triumph The remembrance and memorie of this debate was afterwards drowned in a greater contention that arose with a farre mightier and more noble personage For as Valerius Antius hath recorded the two QQ Petilij called P. Scipio Africanus into question and set him downe a day petemptorily to make his appearance and answere for himselfe This action divers men construed diversly according to their severall disposition and affection Some blamed not so much the Tribunes of the Commons as the whole citie in generall for suffering such an abuse discoursing in this wise That the two chiefest States and Commonwealths in the world were become come at one time unthankfull but Rome more ungratefull of the twaine For Carthage being subdued had banished Anniball likewise vanquished but Rome a victresse was about to expulse Africanus a conquerour Others againe reasoned thus that in no State there ought to be a citizen so preminent and high above the rest that he might not be under law and brought to answere unto interrogatories accordingly And nothing preserveth isonomie in a citie mainteineth equall libertie more than to have the mightiest man to hold up his hand at the barre For what may be safely committed to any man and surely the soveraigne rule of the state least of all other things if he be not to yeeld an accoumpt of the managing of his affaires And verily he that cannot abide to be equall unto others to proceed against such a one by rigor and force is no injustice at all Thus men commonly talked pro contra untill the judiciall day came of his personall appearance and answere to be made Never was there man knowne before that day no not Scipio himselfe when he was at the highest either Consull or Censor accompanied with a greater traine of men of all degrees and qualities than he that day was conducted unto the common place and court of Pleas as an accused person there to plead his cause Being commaunded to speake in his owne defense he began his oration without any mention at all of the imputations and matters with which he was charged and entered into a discourse of the acts by him atchieved and that with such a majestie and magnificence as it was well knowne and confessed that never man was praised either better or more truly than hee For with what courage and mind he atchieved those his brave exploits in deed with the same spirit he delivered them in words And no man thought him tedious and was weery to heare his speech because all that he related was for his owne defence in this his danger and not upon vaineglorie and oftentation The Tribunes of the Commons his adversaries when they had laid open certeine supposed crimes committed of old as touching his wastfull excess whiles he wintered in Syracusa as also the riot and outrage of Pleminius which hapned at Locri they proceeded to charge him by presumptions and suspitions rather than by direct evidences and prouses for embezzeling and averting to his proper use certeine treasure gotten from king Antiochus and namely that his sonne being taken prisoner was rendred unto him without ransome and that in all other things Scipio was respected and regarded of Antiochus as if he alone had caried the Romane peace and warre under his girdle Also that he bare a strong hand over the Consull more likeywis a Dictatour and absolute commaunder than a Lieutenant and assistant unto him all the while he was in the province Neither aimed he and shot at any other marke when he went that journey but that the same which long before was notoriously knowne to Spaine Gaule Sicilie and Affrick might as evidently appeere to Greece to Asia and to all the kings and nations of the East parts to wit that hee was the onely man hee was the chiefe the head and piller of the Romane Empire that under the shadow of Scipio his wing that citie which is the ladie of the world was couvert and protected that a beck and nod of his head was as good as all arests of Senat and hests of people Thus when they could not touch him in life nor fasten upon him any note of infamie they charged him all that ever they could with matter to kindle envie Thus with orations they spent the time untill night came and the busines was put over to another day
the campane to Pacuvius his father that he had thrice betraied his country 419. â— Of Magius Decius to the multitude of the Campanes gathered about him untill by the commaundement of Anniball he was bound and led to execution 479. D Of the Samnite embassadors to Anniball that he would aid them against the Romans 502. L Of the Locrensian embassadours in the Senate against Q. Pleminius captaine of the Romane souldiours for the great injuries offered to them by him and his souldiours 721. C Of Philip the Macedonian to the Romane Legates 1040. K Of Philip the Macedonian touching the unfortunate estate of him and his children 1064. I Of Callicrates the Achaean against Perseus king of Macedonie 1110. L Of Lu. Aemylius Paulus as concerning his wonderfull calamitie and of his triumph which was as it were a spectacle and mocking stocke of this worlds mutabilitie 1230. G Rebuke Of the Volscians to the Roman Legats who after the losse ruin of Saguotuam required of them to stand firme in league societie with the Romans a gainst the Carthaginians 40â— Of M. Marcellus to his souldiours in that they abandoned their campe with that fearfulnes whereby they lost the opportunitie of fight which Anniball refused 637. A Of Aristhenus Pretour of the Achaeans against them for that in their Counsell they were silent and answered not to the demaunds of the Romane Legates 820. â— Of L. Aenylius Paulus to king Perseus because he submitted to the Romans with an admonition to his men of the chaunge and alteration of this world 1205. F Humble intreatie Of Lu. Virginius to his souldiours wherby he refused the magistracie of a Decemvirship offered unto him without his seeking 122. H Of T. Manlius the Consull to the Latine embassadours requiring of the Senate That one of the Consuls might bee chosen out of the Latines and that they might have part in the Senate 283. E Commination or threatening Of Icilius against the decree of Appius the Decemvir to the end that Virginia his spouse should not remaine without her fathers house 118. H Of L. Virginius the father against Appius Claudius for his daughter Virginia 119. A Of Cornelius Cossus the Dictator against M. Manlius Capitolinus for that by his excessive gifts he had stirred the people up against the nobilitie 224. L Of C. Fabius the Dictatour touching the rashnesse of Rufus Minutius Generall of the horsemen 449. C Of P. Cornelius Scipìo against Caecilius Metellus and other noble young men of Rome who plotted to abandon Italie for feare of Anniball 495. E Of Tib. Gracchus to his souldiors of penaltie to be inflicted upon those slaves who refused to fight 519. C Interrogative Of Caius Iunius a Tribune of the commons to Tempanius a horseman about Sempronius the Consull who had shamefully abandoned his campe in the war against the Volscians 194. M Of M. Manlius Capitolinus to the gods when he was led to prison for a sedition 231. E Of L. Papyrius the Dictatour to Fabius Maximus Generall of the horsemen for that against his decree he had sought with the Samnites 30â— H Of king Philip and Of Titus Quintius the Consull touching conditions of peace 82â— D The Errata PAge 5 line 10. read with her p. 9 l.40 r. furie and rage ib. 42. considerate 43 subtiâ—te 11.35 unresalute 19.6 long continued not 37.2 made according 37.54 bis conscience 38.20 uppermost 38.27 apparance 39.5 in the magent â— 75000 lib. p. 41.36 ungracious 42.35 one instant 45.46 plaâ—feres 51.13 out of 58.3 sent them home 65 37. sel stomack 70.44 housegoods 71.27 so forward 72.19 in the margent r. 15. p. 75.7 al at once 77.47 guidons 78.10 Carmentalis 81.30 slunke 83.35 the generall 89.24 barrying 91.29 were killed 91.50 the mutuall 92. 26. than in any ib. 46. Curio III. 25 competitiours given 112.44 they not 114.8 upholding 115.24 nor in 112.56 this uncouth 134.38 houses 140.29 the child 154.26 Volâ—â— 155.5 Censors 155.55 was entred 159.55 they encamped 177.10 upon us against us 179.43 Locutius 188.26 have bansell 190.13 hee trained 193.11 might overtoile 194.10 and their new 203.50 fourth time chosen 218.4 thence against ib. 8. For the Tuscanes ib. 19. sell to 219.25 seised on 219.43 that they had ib. 55.25 tribes 221.41 put himselfe 226.44 Senatours 239.13 toward a wall 244.5 negative voices ib. 32. T. Manlius 247.30 small things I confesse 248.34 willingly determined 250. 49. and lost 261.42 Commons born 276.13 in the mâ—gent r. 870 p.287.29 Novensiles 287.43 Antepilani 290.6 Publilius 300.30 purposely spent 310.36 for Sabines read Samnites 311.53 the whole court 316.22 nor the pleasant 323.40 into our enemies ib. 49. our sillie errour 325.48 he knew how 333.20 God Hercules 361.23 for the proportion for pag. 395 r 393. for 396 r 394. p. 408.32 dissonant ib. 50. angred and provoked 409.20 sought the sourds 411.20 entermingled almost 415.45 their wints starke and stiffe 419.4 to them and their 421.41 to man the wals 405.49 here und there 433.1 that was left 439.53 hee stood 450.55 strucke both him 457.1 entertaine them 468.53 to lie close 478.19 father quoth bee 490. 35. that as they 502.54 as it seemeth 505.32 for o okt read out 534.8 revolt from the Romanes 548.38 confined into Sicilie 563.22 the life of Gracchus 584.12 their beeles ib. 28. low degree 593.36 to refricate 600.12 for fit tie read five hundred 602.3 M. Valerius 603.33 the Epirots 619.2 a right 622.30 Sex Digitius 630.47 new were 634.36 desert of theirs 655.16 Q. Fulvius 6 8.37 M. Livius 673.22 them be restoved 697.40 out of Italie 700. 38. rather than 703.11 read thus As me thinks the very suspition it selfe is not so well cleered as it ought to be 709.7 of three hundred 710.11 never looked they 751. 6 in the margent Idolatours 791.15 within our confines 815.19 kings pavilions 817.28 so much 842.11 to Prusias 868.27 and espiall 890.16 the swiscest and hottest horses 895-49 and kindle 921.14 to the armie also three hundred thousand Mody of wheat and two hundred and fiftie thousand of barley to Rome besides That the king would send five hundred c. in the margent read of so great a State 926.51 Phestus 951.3 read for to force the haven due fashion the haven 961.50 his owne vessels 962.36 dispossessed 665.25 a pish at c. 972.14 Damocritus 22. L. Aemylius the Pro-pretor 986.38 to strike another 987.10 Damoteles 988.42 Dolopians 997.55 he recommended them 1007.20 Colophians 21. Clazomenians 1024.3 and one occasion 1027.8 Cn. Manlius 1028.33 Hispala Aecenia 1030.20 from her own mouth had 25. a capitall matter 1034.14 Cleomenes 1097.7 hold and continue II Colonell of the second legion 1098.51 in one of his feet 1099.20 having sent for p. 1998 r. 1098.1.55 was put over and. r113 21 of Orthobulabis wives 1120.46 Lanas and P. Aelius Ligur 1127.34 aske authoritie 1137.21 the amitie and 51. Pantauchus 1155.45 he bestowed 1159.24 Asses 1166.34 mutuall accusations 1167.35 Stubera 1170.8 read thus Yet could not be