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A13576	Archaioplutos. Or the riches of elder ages Proouing by manie good and learned authours, that the auncient emperors & kings, were more rich and magnificent, then such as liue in these daies. Heereto is annexed, the honours of the braue Romaine souldiours; with the seauen wonders of the worlde. Written in French by Guil. Thelin, Lord of Gutmont and Morillonuilliers: and truely translated into English.; Archaioplutos. English	Telin, Guillaume.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1592 (1592)	STC 23867; ESTC S100994	36,841	108

one time to the Temple of the Capitoll sixteene thousand poundes of gold with a great nūber of precious stones and pearles estimated woorth ten hundred and fiftie thousand Sesterriaes which sums amount to three Millions of gold And Budaeus sayth that Augustus imployed in the beautifying of the Cittie of Rome the Empire and things for publique profit beside building of Temples Theaters Pallaces and buildings of magnificent construction four-teene thousand times four-teene hundred thousand Sestertiaes which value thirtie fiue Millions of Crownes In his tyme a Burgesse of Rome named Lentulus Augurius was so high in his grace and fauour as Seneca sayth that he cōmaunded to be giuen him at one time four thousand times Sestertiaes which value ten Millions who seeing himselfe so forwarde in authority would often-times say to the Emperor in reproche as it were that in respect of his seruice he had left the pleasure delight of studying good Letters which hee prized esteemed more then al the pompe of inordinate riches This ingratitude was well punished afterward by Tyberius as writeth Suetonius Tarius Ruffus a man of base condition by good fortune and great industrie got in the seruice of Augustus a thousand times Sestertiaes which amount to two Millions and fiue hundred thousand Crownes Plinie sayth that Augustus to increase the good and honor of such as hee knewe to be well minded people sent them as Gouernours into hys Prouinces giuing them verie honest meanes whereby to make them great Eusebius in his Chronicles saith that after the tryumph at Actium Augustus made the goodly number before the Censors there were found foure Millions an hundred and sixtie thousand Cittizens of Rome And after the natiuitie of our Sauiour Iesus Christ hauing adopted Tyberius and they two beeing Censors the number vvas made when was sound nine Millions three hundred and seauentie thousand Cittizens within the Cittie and Subbarbes In thys time as Iuuenall witnesseth in his ninth Satyre this order was helde in Rome that when the children of the Cittizens were borne within three daies after one shoulde goe to the Temple of Saturne where the Treasure of the Consines was kept there in the Register Court before the Maisters and Keepers of the riches the infants name was enrolled Heereby they knew the age of euery one and what number of infants the Cittizens had nor was he to be reputed or thought a man vntill he came to the age of 17. yeeres The tryumph of Pompey PLutarch speaking of Pompeyes triumphe which was decreed for hym by reason of the victory he had against the two kings Tygranes and Mithridates the one king of Armenia the other of Pontus saith that by the goodly Wagons and Chariots wherein was drawne along thorowe the Cittie the treasure of his spoyles as also the semblances and portratures of the Kings Countries conquered appeared publiquely to euery one of what Nations subiected thys tryumph was ordained In euery Chariot were titles written of great faire Letters whereby they were signified and manifested The Nations ouer whom he tryumphed were these that folow the kingdomes of Pontus and Armenia the Coūtry of Paphlagonia of Cholchos Spayne Albania Syria Cilicia Mesopotamia Phaenicia Palestine Iudea Arabia yet not cōprising his victories on the Sea where he preuailed often and very farre of Hee adioyned to the Romaine Empire a thousand strong places about nine hundred Citties and tooke eyght hundred ships from Pyrats Plinie in the thirty-seauenth booke of hys naturall hystorie reciteth the order magnificence of thys Tryumph which hee saith is reported in the Registers of the Capitall To wit on the day of his natiuitie was hys tryumph when ryding thorowe the Citty hee brought to the publique Treasurie a Checker or table-boorde to play on made of two precious stones beeing foure soote long and three soote broad was neuer found like stones of such greatnesse He had in the order of his tryumphe in one Chariot a goodly booke of mighty and huge volume he had three beddes of golde seruing to make banquets on each one lying after the auncient fashion vessel of gold and precious stones to serue nine cupboordes three statues of Gold of Mars Pallas and Iuno After followed a Mountaine of Golde foure square whereon was Harts Lyons and fruites of all sorts garnished and enuironed round with a Vine of Gold a Chappell in the midst dedicated to the Muses which was made all of Peavles and on the toppe thereof was a very sumptuous Horologe In another Chariot was an Image of Pompey which likewise was made of pearls Plutarch sayth that thys tryumph was deuided into two dayes and yet the tyme would not suffise to make declaration of euerie part thereof Pompey brought to the Treasure in gold siluer and vessell all which came by hys spoyles twentie thousande Talents which value twelue Millions beside that which he gaue to his men of warre of whom he that had least had a thousande and fiue hundred Drachmes Attique which value an hundred and fiftie Crownes The Romaine subsidies after the tryumph of Pompey valued four-score and fiue Millions of Drachmes which make eyght Millions fiue hundred thousand crownes Pompey in the Playes which he made for the people after his seconde Consulship amongst other strange thinges brought into the place called the great circle by the Latines Circus maximus sixe hundred Lyons whereof he had three hundred and fifteene all the Iubilie Therefore not without cause said Cicero in hys Officiis that these were the most magnificent playes that euer were before him And when hee brought these beastes to be seene it was to make them kil one another or to make them fight against men that were condemned to thys punishment Sylla was the first that shewed thys manner of fight to the people beeing of an hundred together yet Pompey brought into the Theater beside these Lyons foure hundred and ten Panthers at one tyme. Augustus shewed four hundred twentie and Caesar foure hundred Lyons Afterwarde by the Emperours and Princes thys kinde of pastime was very much vsed and was called the chasing of wilde beasts for the peoples pleasure The charges that Ptolome was at for the ayde of Pompey BUdaeus writeth that one named Ptolome succoured Pompey in the conquest of Iudea who at his owne proper cost gaue pay to eyght thousande Horsemen and made a feast whereat was present a thousand men sette at the Table euery one hauing his Cuppe of gold and each one changed at euery messe that was serued a Cup of gold of a new and contrary fashion This riches commeth some-what neere to that of Pytheus of Bithinia who gaue to King Darius of Persia a Plane tree of gold with the Vine of golde whereof is stil reserued such fame and memory Afterward he receiued Xerxes sonne to Darius into hys houses with his Armie of Souldiours consisting of eyght hundred thousand men whē he discended into Greece Herodotus in his seauenth booke saith

hundred Talents which are seauen Millions and fiue hundred thousand Crownes Hee was chased out of Egipt for his dissolute life afterwarde re-established by Pompey and not long after slaine by hys Sonne Of Cato IT is affirmed that Cato brought with him from the Country of Egipt to the Treasurie of Rome foure Millions and two thousande Crownes by way of a confiscation because Ptolome of Cyprus had conspired against Claudius the Romaine Tribune Of Lucrius THE afore-named Greek Authour Strabo saith that Lucrius of the Countrey of Auuergue was so rich as to make estimation and shewe of hys wealth diuers tymes he would mount into a Chariot and cause himselfe to be drawne along the fieldes where he would spread or scatter money both gold siluer by means whereof he was continually followed with a great multitude of people Hys Father named Bytius with his Armie of two hundred thousand men of warre fought in a maine battaile against two Romaine Consulles Of the Emperour Vespasian VEspasian the Emperour as Budaeus sayth leueyed such Subsidies and Taxes on the Empire as the sum amounted to fortie thousand tymes Sestertiaes which come to an hundred Millions of Crownes Hee sayth that this was to reforme the publique estate which his predecessours Calligula and Vitellius two dissolute Princes had ruined and waste-fully destroyed the goods of the Empyre treading vnder foote the dignity thereof Of the Hierd of Syria EXceeding great saith Strabo was the Hierde of Beastes which they had in Syria wherin were thirty thousand Mares and three hundred light Stallions these were the first people that tamed Horsses and therefore had wages of the Kinges Of Seuerus ONE Spartianus an auncient Hystorian saith that Seuerus at hys decesse left to the state publique a Canon of Corne for seauen yeeres the manner therof was to furnish for each day three-score and fifteene thousand Vesselles called Tunnes with Corne. The Romaine and Attique Tun resembleth very neere the measure or bushell of Paris where-with a man may maintain himselfe eyght daies whereby wee may easilie gather that three-score sisteene thousand such Tunn●s of Corne will 〈◊〉 day by day to nourish sixe hundred thousand men This Canon of Corne was first instituted by the Emperour Tra● and then re-established by Seuerus according to the opinion of Lampridius sette downe in the lise of Heltogabalus This Canon of Corne was such an excellent thing as thereby was furnished euery daie a like quantitie of Corne to serue openlie the Market distribute to the people beside the reuenue of each one what else was brought in by the Country into the publique Market And thus they tooke vp in Alexandria Africa Sicilia and diuers other places great aboundance of Corne which was thus ordained against the lacke of Corne because in Italic the dearth thereof manie tymes happened by reason of the warres and troubles which hindered mens labours in tylling the earth so that the whole Countrey lay long tyme together fallowe and vnmanured Of Spayne abounding in Mynes of Gold and of that which Haniball had BOthe Plinie and Strabo doe record that Spayne hath abounded in rich Mynes of Gold Siluer especiallie Granado and Andalozia which Strabo calleth by the name of Betica Polibius sayth that in his tyme neere to Carthage the ninth coasting the Leuant Sea towards Africa and from thence to the floode of Hyberia there was a Myne of siluer which yeelded daily to the Romaines twenty hundred thousand Drachmes which are fiue and twentie thousand Crownes Plinie saith that Haniball had a Mine of Siluer named Bebetus which yeelded to him day by day three hundred pound weight of siluer which commeth to three Millions of Crownes and that in Asturia Gallicia and Portugall he gathered yeerely twenty thousand pounds of Gold This summe amounteth to thirty thousande Markes of Golde whereby wee may plainly perceiue that golde and siluer was more plentifull aboundant in elder times then they are at this present These two Mettalles are diminished by succession of time for continually it perisheth by vse workmanship shyp-wracks by hyding and burying treasure in the ground and otherwife Also the Mynes are robd spoiled lost and come to nothing as euery day it is witnessed before our owne eyes Of the Crownes recompences and other rewards which the Romaines gaue to their Souldiours and the punishment of the offenders Comprehending therein an excellent good order for warre as also the gouernment of the Common-Wealth YEE may read in diuers Authours that the Romaines euer vsed not onely to gratifie and rewarde theyr Captaines with ordinarie wages but likewise in doing them infinite other graces by gifts and presents They woulde honour them in diuers and sundry manners as with Crownes and Iewels holding them in particuler esteeme and reputation according to the desert of their deedes of Armes so were they wont to respect and regard them VVhen a Captaine had gotten victorie in any notable battaile were it vpon the Sea or on the Land or that by force he had taken any Cittie or doone anie other singuler enterprise they had a custome immediatly after to make dilligent enquirie of the prowesses of the particuler Bands Squadrons Then mounting vp into the Theater where after they had giuen thanks to the Gods for the victorie obtained in generall they wold make commendation of their whole Armie and specially they would praise and extoll those Bandes or Squadrons which in fight had most valiantlie behaued themselues Then naming the particuler men of that Companie by their names publiquely they woulde commende theyr vertue and valour according to their deserts calling thē friends to their Countrey and saying that the Common-wealth was very much bound to them This doone they bestowed gifts on them of Gold siluer of Crownes Girdles Bracelets Iewels Armours and verie excellent Horsses with other thinges of most exquisite workmanship beside with such prohibitions and defences as it was permitted that no person should enioy the like except hee had deserued to haue them in this manner The Histories are plentifullie enriched with these matters and namelie Titus Liuius speaking of the Consull Paperius Censor that gaue Bracelets of golde to fourteene Centurions and to one Squadron hee gaue I knowe not what ornaments the like is said of Scipio when he was in Spayne and other places The Crownes they gaue had diuers significant names according to the degrees of their deserts they had Corona Obsidionalis Corona Tryumphalis Corona Oualis Corona Ci●ica Corona Muralis Corona Naualis and Corona Castrensis Plinis and Aulus Gellius saie that the most esteemed and excellent of all was the Crowne Obsidionall which came from the circle or seate of the Campe and was gyuen onely for hauing deliuered an Hoast of mē besiedged in a close Citty or in a Campe verie strictlie enuironed so that by such deedes of Armes that part or men of warre reputed themselues deliuered from prison or from death for no other cause what-soeuer it were