Caesars law for deuiding of landes Law Agraria Pompey gaue his consent with Caesar for passing his law Agraria Pompey maried Iulia the daughter of Caesar. Bibulus the Consull driuen out of the market place by Pompey The Law Agraria confirmed by the people Gaule and Illyria appointed vnto Caesar Piso and Gabinius Consulls Cato foresheweth the ruine of the common wealth of Pompey Clodius the Tribune Testeth vppon Pompey Pompey was grieuously scorned of Clodius Commission geueÌ„ to Pompey for bringing of corne into Rome The restoring againe of Ptolomy king of AEgypt to his realme Great repaire vnto Caesar winering at Luca. The violence of Pompey obtayning the second Consulship Pompey and Crassus secoÌ„d Consulships Prouinces deuided vnto Pompey Caesar and Crassus The death of Iulia the daughter of Caesar. The beginning of the dissention betwext Pompey Caesar. Variance among the Senate for Pompeys honor Cato spake in Pompeys fauor Pompey chosen Consull Pompey maried Cornelia the daughter of Scipio The vertues of Cornelia the daughter of Metellus Scipio Pompeys prouinces assigned him foure yeares further Pompey fell sicke at Naples Great reioycing for the recouery of PoÌ„peis helth Pride and foole conceit made Pompey despise Caesar. Appius soothed Pompey and fed his humor PoÌ„peys proud wordes Paule the CoÌ„sul bribed by Caesar. Curio Antonius Tribunes of the people bribed by Caesar. Pompey chosen to goe against Caesar. Cicero moueth reconciliation betwext Caesar and Pompey Rubicon fl Caesar passed ouer the riuer of Rubicon Caesars saying let the dye be cast Phaonius ouerbold words vnto PoÌ„pey Tumult at Rome apon Caesars comming Pompey forsooke Rome Caesar entred Rome when Pompey fled Caesar followeth Pompey Pompeis stratageame at Brundysinians for his flying thence from Caesar. Cicero reproued Pompey Caesar leaueth Pompey and goeth into Spayne PoÌ„peys power in Greece Pompey lying at Berroee traineth his souldiers Labienus forsaketh Caesar and goeth to Pompey Cicero followeth Pompey The clemency of Caesar. Caesar coÌ„ming out of Spayne returned to Brundusium Pompey ouerthrewe Caesar Pompey followeth Caesar into Thessaly Pompey mocked of his owne souldiers Caesar conquests Labienus general of Pompeis horsemeÌ„ Pompeys dreame before the battell of Pharsalia VVonderfull noises herd in Pompeys campe Pompeys army set in battel raye in Pharsalia Caesars order of fight Pompeis ordinance of his battell Caesar misliketh Pompeis ordinance Battel betwene Caesar and Pompey in Pharsalia Caius Crassinius geueth the onset of Caesars side Crassinius slaine PoÌ„peis horsemen put to flight by Caesar Pompeis flying in the fields of Phaâ—salia Asinius Pollio reperteth this battell The miserable state of Pompey Peticius dreame of Pompey Pompey â—â—baâ—keth in Peticius shippe a Romane Pompey arriueth in the Isle of Lesbos at the citie of Mitylene The sorowe of Cornelia for Pompeys ouerthrow The meeting of Pompey and his wife Cornelia The words of Cornelia vnto Pompey Pompeis aunswere vnto Cornelia Pompey reasoneth with Cratippus the Philisopher about diuine prouidence Pompey arriueth at Attalia in the contrie of Pamphylia Pompeys great error and Caesars crafty euise Theophanes Lesbian perswaded Pompey to flie into AEgypt Pompey arriueth AEgypt goeth to Pelusium Pothinus are eunuche and groome of the chamber to king Ptolomy ruleth all AEgypt The deliberacion of the AEgyptians for the receiuing of Pompey Theodotus perswaded them to kill Pompey A dead man byteth not Achillas appointed to kill Pompey How Pompey was received into AEgypt Pompey the great cruelly slaine as he landed The manlines and pacience of Pompey at his death The funeralls of Pompey Lucius Lentulus slaine Caesar arriueth in AEgypt Pompeis ring The murtherers of Pompey put to death How Pompey and Agesilaus came to their greatnes The faultes of Agesilaus and Pompey Thinges done by Agesilaus and Pompey in warres Agesilaus lost the signorie of the Lacedaemonians Pompeis faâ—le to forsake Rome A speciall point of a skilfull Captaine Agesilaus constanter than Pompey Pompeys flying into AEgypt is excused The face sheweth mens maners and condicions The parentage of Alexander Olympias the wife of Philip king of Macedon Olympias dreame King Philips dreame Olympias serpent The birth of Alexander The temple of Diana burnt at Ephesus VVonderfull things seene at the birth of Alexander Alexanders stature and personage Alexanders body had a maruelous sweete sauor Alexander coueted honor The noble minde of Alexander Leonidas the gouernor of Alexander Bucephal Alexanders horse The agility of Alexander in taming the wildnes of Bucephal the horse Philip prophecieth of his sonne Alexander Aristotle was Alexanders schoolemasters Aristotle borne in the city of Stagira An Epistle of Alexander vnto Aristotle Alexander the great practised phisicke Some thinke that this place should be meÌ„s of the riche coffer that was found among king Darius iuelle in the which Alexander would haue all Homers works kept Alexanders first souldierfare The city of Alexandropolis The quarells of Philip with Olympias and Alexander Alexander mocketh Philip his father Aridaeus king Philippes bastard begotten of a common strumpet Philima Philip king of Macedonâ— slaine by Pausanias The beginning of Alexanders reigne Alexander ouercome Syrmus king of the Triballians Thebes â—on and rased by Alexander The noble acte of Timoclea a noble womaÌ„ of Thebes Alexander chosen generall of all Graece Alexanders talke with Diogenes 〈…〉 signes appearing vnto Alexander before his iourney into Asia Alexanders armie into Asia The liberalitie of AlexaÌ„der Alexanders saying of Achilles Battell betwixt AlexaÌ„der and Darius at the riuer of Granicus Clitus saued Alexander Alexanders victory of the Persians at Granicus The memorie of Theodectes honored by Alexander The citie of Gordius in Phrygia where king Midas kept Darius armie and dreame Alexanders sicknesse in Cilicia Cydnus fl The wonderfull trust of Alexander in his phisitian Darius contemneth Amyntas profitable counsell Battell betwixt AlexaÌ„der and Darius in Cilicia Alexanders victory of Darius in Cilicia Darius mother wife and two daughters taken by Alexander The clemency of Alexander vnto the captiue Ladies The chastitie of Alexander Alexanders pleasant spech of womens beautie Alexander temperate in eating How Leonidas brought vp Alexander Alexanders life when he was at leisure Alexander pleasant prince as any could be Alexander beseegeth the citie of Tyre Alexanders dreame at the citie of Tyre Alexanders secoÌ„d dreame againe at Tyre Alexanders iorney against the Arabians Antiliban mens The corage and agilitie of Alexander The citie of Tyre beseged and taken by Alexander Alexander tooke the citie of Gaza The building of the citie of Alexandria Alexanders dreame in Eypt The lie of Pharos A wonder Alexanders iourney vtno the oracle of Hammon Cambyses army slaine by sandehilles Crowes guided AlexaÌ„der in his iorney The saying of Psammon the philosopher of the prouideÌ„ce of God. Alexander ascribeth god-head to himselfe Alexander made playes and feastes Darius sent Ambassadours vnto Alexander Statirae king Darius wife died in trauell of childe Tirius reporte to Darius of Statirae buriall Darius talke with Tireus the Eunuche The commendation of Alexanders chastisty Darius prayer
that he shewed him specially fauor to saue his life But his host aunswered him stowtly againe that he would not be beholding vnto him for his life seeing he had slaine all the reâ—t of his contry men and so thrusting in amongest the citizens was willingly slaine with them They thought the act of Lucius Catiline also very straunge who had slaine his owne brother before the ciuill warre was ended and then prayed Sylla to put him in the number of the outlawes as if his brother had bene aliue Sylla performed his desire Catiline thereuppon to shewe his thankefulnesse for the pleasure Sylla had done him went presently and slue Marem Marius who was of the contrary faction and brought him his head for a present before all the people in the middest of the market place where he was sitting When he had so done be went and washed his handes all bloodied in the hollowed font of the temple of Apollo that was hard by But besides so many murders coÌ„mitted yet were there other things also that grieued the people maruelously For the proclaimed him selfe Dictator which office had not bene of six score yeares before in vse and made the Senate discharge him of all that was past geuing him free liberty afterwardes to kill whom he would and to confiscate their goodes to destroy cities and to build vp new as he listed to take away kingdomes and to geue them where he thought good And furthermore he openly sold the goodes confiscate by the crier sitting so prowdly and stately in his chayer of state that it grieued the people more to see those goodes packt vp by them to whome he gaue and disposed them then to see them taken from those that had forfeited them For somtimes he would geue a whole contry or the whole reuenues of certaine cities vnto women for their beawty or vnto pleasaunt ieasters minstrells or wicked slaues made free and vnto some he would geue other mens wiues by force and make them to be maried against their willes For he desiring howesoeuer it happened to make alliance with Pompey the great coÌ„maunded him to put away his wife he had maried and taking AEmylia the daughter of AEmylius Scaurus of Metella his wife from the great Glabrio caused him to mary her great with childe as she was by Glabrio but she dyed in childbed in Pompeyis house Lucretius Offella also that had brought Marius the younger to that distresse at the city of PRAENESTE suing to be Consull Sylla commaunded him to cease his But he notwithstandinge that expresse commaundement went one day into the market place with great traine of men following him that fauored his cause Whither Sylla sent one of his Centurions that slue Offella before all the people him selfe sitting in a chayer of estate in the temple of Castor and Pollux and seeing from aboue the murder done The people that were about Offella layed hold of the murderer straight brought him before Sylla But Sylla bad them be quiet that brought the Centurion with tumult and that they should let him goe bicause he commaunded him to do it Furthermore as touching his triumphe it was a sumptuous sight to behold for the rarenes of the riches and princely spoyles which were shewed at the same But yet was it so much the better set out and worth the sight to see the banished ROMANES who were the chiefest noble men of all the city of ROME following his charet triumphant wearing garlandes of flowers on their heades calling Sylla their father and sauior bicause that by his meanes they returned to their contry and recouered their goods waiues and children In the end of his triumphe he made an oration in open assembly of the people of ROME in the which he did not only declare vnto theÌ„ according to the custome what thinges he had done but did as carefully tell them also as well of his good fortune and successe as of his valliant deedes besides and to conclude his oration told them that by reason of the great â—auor fortune had shewed him he would from thenceforth be called by theÌ„ Felix to say happy or fortunate And he him selfe when he wrote vnto the GREECIANS or that he had any thing to do with them surnamed him selfe Epaphroditus as who would say a pleasaunt man beloued and fauored of Venus His tokens of triumphe which are yet in our contry haue this superscription Lucius Cornelius Sylla Epaphroditus And when his wife Metella had brought him two twinnes a sonne and a daughter he named his sonne Faustus signifying fortunate and his daughter Fausta bicause the ROMANES call Faustum that which falleth out prosperously and happely To be short he trusted so much vnto his good fortune and doinges that notwithstanding he had killed and put so many men to death and had made so great a chauÌ„ge and innouation in the common wealth yet of him selfe he left of his office of Dictator and restored the people to the authority of election of Consulls againe without his presence at the election and frequented the market place as a priuate man among the citizens offering him selfe to euery man that would aske him accompt of his doings past It happened that a stowt and rash enemy of his was Chosen Consull against his will called Marcus Lepidus not for any deuotion the people had to Lepidus but onely to gratifie Pompey who gaue countenaunce and fauor vnto him Sylla seeing Pompey come mery homewardes from the election and ioyfull that he had obtained his frendes sute from all other suters tooke him a side told him In deede thou hast great cause to reioyce young man my frende for thou hast done a goodly acte to choose Marcus Lepidus Consull the veriest asse in all ROME before Catulus the honestest man But I tell thee one thing thou haddest not nede to sleepe for thou hast strengthened an enemy that will be thine owne destruction And Sylla proued a true prophet for Lepides being bent to all cruelty immediatly after flatly fell at defiaunce with Pompey Now Sylla consecratinge the dismes of all his goodes vnto Hercules made exceeding sumptuous feastes vnto the ROMANES the prouision whereof was so vnreasonable great that euery day they threwe a great deale of meate into the riuer and they dranke wine of forty yeares olde and aboue During these feastes which continued many dayes his wife Metella sickened and dyed and in her sickenes the Priestes and Soothsayers willed Sylla he should not come neere her nor suffer his house to be polluted and defiled with mourning for the dead Whereupon Sylla was diuorsed from her in her sickenes and caused her to be caried into an other house whilest she liued And thus did Sylla curiously obserue the supersticion and ordinaunce of the Soothsayers but yet he brake the law which he made him selfe touching the order of funeralls sparinge no cost at Metellaes buriall So did he also breake an other
iesture and behauiour a graue princely maiestie His heare also stoode a litle vpright and the cast and soft mouing of his eyes had a certaine resemblaunce as they sayd of the statues and images of king Alexander And bicause euerie man gaue him that name he did not refuse it him selfe insomuch as there were some which sportingwise did openly call him Alexander Whereupon Lucius Philippus a Consull was not ashamed to say openly in an oration he made in Pompeys fauor that it was no maruell if he being Philip did loue Alexander It is reported also that when Flora the curtisan waxed old she much delighted to talke of the familiaritie which she had with Pompey beinge a younge man telling that after she had layen with him she could not possiblie rise from him but she must needes geue him some sweete quippe or pleasaunt taunte She woulde tell also howe one of Pompeys familiars and companions called Geminius fell in loue with her and was a maruelous earnest suter to obtaine her good will and that she aunswered him statly she would not for the loue she bare to Pompey Geminius thereuppon brake the matter to Pompey him selfe Pompey desirous to pleasure him graunted the request howebeit Geminius after that would not come neere Flora nor speake vnto her albeit it appeared that he yet loued her But Flora tooke this not curtisan like for she was sicke a long time for very griefe of minde and the thought she tooke vppon it All this notwithstanding it is sayd that this Flora had then such same for her passing grace and beautie that Cecilius Metellus seting foorth and beautifying the temple of Castor and Pollux with goodly tables and pictures among the rest he caused her picture to be liuely drawen for her excellent beawtie Furthermore Pompey against his nature delt very hardly and vncurteously with the wife of Demetrius his franchised bondeman who while he liued was in great credit with him and dying left her worth foure thowsand tallentes fearing to be taken with her beautie which was verie singularlie fayer least he should be thought in loue with her Now though herein he seemed to be very circumspect and to cast the worth yet could he not thus scape the detracting tongues of his ill willers for they did accuse him that to please and content his wiues he would let passe and winke at many thinges that was against the profit of the common wealth To proue his sober and temperate dies and howe he was contented with common meates a word they say he spake when he was verie sicke and could tast no meate is specially noted For to bring his stomake to him againe his Phisitian willed him to eate a thrushe So seeking all about to get him one there was no thrushe to be bought for money for they were out of season Notwithstanding one told him that he should not misse of them at Lucullus house for he kept them vp all the yeare through Why what then sayd he If Lucullus ryot were not should not Pompey liue Therewithall letting his Phisitians counsell alone he made them dresse such meate as was euery where common But of that we will speake more hereafter Now Pompey being a young man and in the fielde with his father that was in armes against Cinna there lay with him in his tent a companion of his called Lucius Terentius who being bribed with money had promised Cinna to kill him and other confederators also had promised to set their Captaines tent a fire This conspiracy was reuealed vnto Pompey as he sate at supper which nothing amated him at all but he dranke freely and was merrier with Terentius then of custome So when it was bed time he stale out of his owne tent and went vnto his father to prouide for his safetie Terentius thinkinge the hower come to attempt his enterprise rose with his sword in his hande and went to Pompeys bed where he was wont to lye and gaue many a thrust into the matteresse After he had done that all the campe straight was in an vprore for the malice they bare vnto their Captaine and the souldiers in all hast would needes haue gone and yeelded to their enemie beginning alreadie to ouerthrowe their tentes and to trusse away bagge and baggage The Captaine for feare of this tumult durst not come out of his tent notwithstanding Pompey his sonne ranne amongest the mutinous souldiers and humbly besought them with the teares in his eyes not to doe their Captaine this villanie and in fine threwe him selfe flatling to the grounde ouerthwart the gate of the campe bidding them marche ouer him if they had such a desire to be gone The souldiers being ashamed of their follie returned againe to their lodginge and chaunging minde reconciled them selues with their Captaine eight hundred onely excepted which departed But immediatly after that Strabo Pompeys father was departed out of the worlde Pompey beinge his heire was accused for the father to robbe the common treasure Howebeit he confessed and auowed that it was Alexander one of his fathers infranchised bondemen that had stollen the most parte of it and brought him in before the Iudges Notwithstanding he was accused him selfe for taking away the toyles and arming cordes of hunters nettes and bookes that were taken at Asculum He confessed the hauing of them and that his father gaue him them when the citie was taken howbeit that he had lost them sence when Cinna returned vnto ROME with his souldiers who breaking into his house by force spoyled him of all that he had His matter had many dayes of hearing before definitiue sentence in which time Pompey shewed him selfe of good spirite and vnderstanding more then was looked for in one of his yeares insomuch he wanne such fame and fauor by it that Antistius being Praetor at that time and iudge of his matter fell into such a liking with him that secretly he offered him his daughter in mariage Then that matter being by frends broken to Pompey he liked of the match the parties were secretly assured This was not so closely conueyed but the people perceiued it but the care and paines Antistius tooke to fauor his matter Insomuch when the Iudges gaue iudgement and cleered him all the people together as if they had bene agreed cried out with one voyce Talassio Talassio being the vsuall and common crie they vsed of olde time at mariages in ROME This custome by reporte of auncient folke came vp in this manner At what time the chiefest peeres and Lordes of ROME did rauishe the SABINES daughters which came to ROME to see common sportes played there chaunsed a fewe rascalls as hoggeherdes or neatherdes to carie away a goodly fayen woman They fearing she should be taken from them cried out in the streetes as they went Talassio as if they would haue sayd she is for Talassius This Talassius was a young gentleman well knowen and beloued of most men so that
he would rise and put of his cappe to him which he did not vnto many other noble men about him All this notwithstanding Pompey gloried nothing the more in him selfe Wherefore when Sylla would straight haue sent him into GAVLE bicause Metellus that was there was thought to haue done no exployte worthie of so great an armie as he had with him Pompey answered him againe that he thought it no reason to displace an auncient Captaine that was of greater same and experience than him selfe Yet if Metellus of him selfe were contented and would intreate him that he would willingly goe and helpe him to ende this warre Metellus was very glad of it and wrote for him to come Then Pompey entring GAVLE did of him selfe wonderfull exploytes and did so reuiue Metellus olde corage and valliantnes to fight which now beganne to faint like boyling copper that being poored vpon the colde and hard copper doth melt and dissolue it as fast or faster then fire it selfe For like as of a wrestler who hath bene counted very strong and the chiefest in all games hauing euer burne the price away where he hath wrestled they neuer recorde among them his childishe victories and wrestlinges as thinges of no account euen so I am affrayed to speake of the wonderfull deedes that Pompey did in his childhoode bicause they are obscured in respect of the infinite great warres and battells which he had wonne afterwardes For I am affrayed that whilest I should go about particularly to acquaint you with his first beginnings I should too lightly passe ouer his chiefest actes and most notable enterprises which do best declare his naturall disposition and singular wit. Now when Sylla had ouercome all ITALIE and was proclaimed Dictator he did reward all his Lieutenaunts and Captaines that had taken his parte and did aduance them to honorable place dignity in the common wealth frankely graunting them all that they requested of him But for Pompey reuerencing him for his valliantnes thinking that he would be a great stay to him in all his warres he sought by some meanes to allie him to him Metella his wife being of his opinion they both perswaded Pompey to put away his first wife Antistia and to marrie AEmylia the daughter of Metella and of her first husband the which also was an other mans wife and with childe by her husbande These mariages were cruell and tyrannicall fitter for Syllaes time rather then agreable to Pompeys nature and condicion to see AEmylia this new maried wife taken from her lawfull husbande to marrie her great with childe and shamefully to forsake Antistia who not long before had lost her father and for respect of her husbande that did put her away For Antistius was murdered within the very Senate house being suspected to take parte with Sylla for his sonne in lawe Pompeys sake and her mother voluntarily put her selfe to death seeinge her daughter receiued such open wrong By these apparant causes these vnfortunate mariages fell out into a miserable tragedie by meanes of the death of AEmylia who shortly after miserably dyed with childe in Pompeys house Then came newes to Sylla that Perpenna was gotten into SICILE and that he had made all that Ilande at his deuotion as a safe place to receiue all Syllaes enemies that Carbo also kept the sea thereaboutes with a certaine number of shippes that Domitius also was gone into AFRICKE and diuers other noble men that were banished that had scaped his proscriptions and outlawryes were all in those partes Against them was Pompey sent with a great armie Howebeit he no sooner arriued in SICILE but Perpenna left him the whole Ilande and went his way There he fauorably delt with all the cities which before had abidden great trouble and miserie and set them againe at libertie the MAMERTINES only excepted which dwelt in the citie of MESSINA They despising his tribunall and iurisdiction alleaged the auncient order priuiledge of the ROMANES set downe in times past amongest them But Pompey aunswered them in choller what doe ye prattle to vs of your law that haue our swords by our sides It seemeth also that Pompey delt too cruellie with Carbo in his miserie For sith he must needes dye as there was no remedie but he should then it had bene better they had killed him when he was taken For then they would haue imputed it to his malice that so had commaunded it But Pompey after he was taken made him to be brought before him that had bene thrise Consull at ROME to be openly examined and he sitting in his chaire of state or tribunall condemned him to dye in presence of them all to the great offence and misliking of euery one that was present So Pompey bad them take him away and carie him to execution When Carbo came to the scaffold where he should be executed and seeing the sword drawen that should strike of his head he prayed thexecutioners to geue him a litle respit and place to vntrusse a poynt for he had a paine in his bellie Caius Oppius also one of Iulius Caesars frends wryteth that he delt verie cruelly in like maner with Quintus Valerius For Pompey sayd he knowing that he was excellently well learned as any man could be and fewe like vnto him when he was brought vnto him he tooke him a side and walked a fewe turnes about then when he had questioned with him and learned of him what he could he commaunded his gard to carie him away and to dispatche him Howbeit we may not geue too light credit to all that Oppius writeth speaking of Iulius Caesars frendes or foes For Pompey in deede was compelled to make away the greatest personages of Syllaes enemies that fell into his handes being notoriously taken but for the rest all those that he could secretly suffer to steale away he was contented to winke at it and would not vnderstand it and moreouer did helpe some besides to saue them selues Nowe Pompey was determined to haue taken sharpe reuenge of the citie of the HIMERIANS which had stowtly taken the enemies parte But Sthenis one of the Gouernours of the citie crauing audience of Pompey tolde him he should doe them wrong and iniustice if he should pardon him that committed all the fault and should destroy them that had not offended Pompey then asking him what he was that durst take vppon him to father the offence of them all Sthenis aunswered straight that it was him selfe that had perswaded his frendes and compelled his enemies to doe that which they did Pompey being pleased to heare the franke speech boldnes of this man first forgaue him the fault he had committed and consequently all the other HIMERIANS Pompey vnderstanding that his souldiers did kill diuers men in the high wayes he sealed vp all their swordes whose seale soeuer was broken he was well fauoredly punished Pompey being busie about these matters in SICILE
But winter hauing stolen apon the ROMANES while they were there they busily occupied about Saturnes feasts the barbarous people hauing leauied aboue forty thowsand fighting meÌ„ in one campe together came passed ouer the riuer of Cyrnus This riuer commeth from the mountaines of the IBERIANS and receiuing the riuer of Araxes into it which passeth through ARMENIA disperseth it selfe into twelue seuerall mouthes and so falleth into Mare Caspium Some notwithstanding holde opinion that Cyrnus receiueth not the riuer of Araxes into it but that it runneth by it selfe falleth into the same sea 〈…〉 vnto the mouthes of the other Pompey might if he had would haue kept them for comming ouer the riuer yet did he suffer them quietly to passe ouer When they were all ouer he went against them ouercame them in battell and slue a great number of them in the field Afterwardes he pardoned their kinge submittinge him selfe vnto Pompey by his Ambassadors and made peace with him Then from thence he went against the IBERIANS who were no lesse in number then the ALBANIANS were at the first and also better souldiers and were resolutely bent to doe good seruice vnto Mithridates and to driue out Pompey These IBERIANS were neuer subiect to the Empire of the PERSIANS nor of the MEDES and scaped also from being subiect to the MACEDONIANS for that Alexander neuer stayed in the contry of HYCANIA whom also Pompey ouercame in a great bloodie battell hauing slaine nine thowsand in the field and taken tenne thowsand prisoners From thence he went into the contry of COLONIDA There Seruilius met him by the riuer of Phasis with the fleete of shippes with the which he kept all Mare Ponticum Now to followe Mithridates further who had hidde him selfe amongest a people that were neighbours vnto the straightes of BOSPHORVS and the maâ—isses Maeotides he found it a hard peece of worke Furthermore also he had newes that the ALBANIANS were rebelled againe which drew him backe to be reuenged of them Thereuppon he passed again ouer the riuer of Cyrnus with great paine and daunger bicause the barbarous people had made a strong defence a great way alongest the riuer side with a maruelous number of great trees feld and layed a crosse one ouer an other Furthermore when he had with great difficulty passed thorow them he fell into an euill fauored contry where he should trauell a great way before he could come to any water Thereuppon he caused ten thowsand goates skinnes to be filled with water and so went forward to meete with his enemies whom he found by the riuer of Abas being sixe score thowsande footemen and twelue thowsande horsemen but all or the most of them ill armed with wilde beastes skinnes Their Chiefetaine was Cosis the kinges owne brother He when the battell was begonne flew upon Pompey and threwe a dart at him and hurt him in the flancke Pompey on thother side ranne him through with his launce on both sides slue starke dead Some say also that there were certaine AMAZONES at this battell which fought of the barbarous peoples side coÌ„ming from the mountaines that runne alongest the riuer of Thermodon For after the ouerthrow geuen the ROMANES spoyling the dead found targets and buskinnes of the AMAZONES but not a body of a woman among them They also doe inhabite on the side of the mountaine Caucasus that looketh towardes Mare Hyrcanium and doe not border vpon the ALBANIANS but the GELE and the LELEGES are betwene them with whom they company two moneths only euery yeare meeting together by the riuer of Thermodon and all the rest of the yeare they liue a parte by them selues After this last battell Pompey going to inuade the contrie of HYRCANIA as farre as Mare Caspium he was compelled to go backe againe for the infinite number of deadly venemous serpents which he met with being come within three dayes iorney of it So he returned backe againe into ARMENIA the lesse and there receiued presentes which were sent vnto him from the kings of the ELYMIANS and the MEDES and wrote very curteously vnto them againe howbeit he sent Afranius with parte of his armie against the king of the PARTHIANS who had inuaded the contry of GORDIENA and harried and spoiled the king of Tigranes subiects Notwithstanding he draue him out and followed him vnto Aâ—BELITIDE Furthermore all the lemmans and concubines of king Mithridates being brought vnto Pompey he would touche none of them but sent them all home againe to their parents and frendes bicause the most of them were either the daughters of Princes of noblemen of Captaines Notwithstanding Stratonice that of all the rest of his lemmans had most credit about Mithridates vnto whom he had left all the charge of his castel where the greatest part of his treasure of gold and siluer lay was a singers daughter who as they sayd was not riche but an old man She hauing song one night before Mithridates being at supper he fell in such fancy with her that he would needes haue her lye with him the same night and the old man her father went home offended bicause the king would not so much as geue him one goode word But the next morning when he rose he marueled to see the tables in his house full of plate of gold and siluer and a great company of seruing men groomes of chamber pages and that they had brought him maruelous riche apparell a horse ready as the gates brauely furnished as the kings familiars did vse when they went abroade into the city he thought it was done in mockery to haue made sporte with him and therefore would haue runne his way had not the seruing men kept him and told him that they were a great rich mans goods that dyed of late which the king had bestowed on him and that all this he saw was but a litle porcion in respect of the other goods and lands he gaue him So the old man beleuing them at the length did put on this purple gowne they brought him and got vp a horse backe riding through the streetes cried all this is mine all this is mine Certaine laughing him to scorne for it he told them masters ye may not wonder to heare me thus crie out but rather that I throw not stones at them I meete I am so madde for ioy Such was Stratonices birth and parentage as we haue told you She did then deliuer this castell into Pompeys hands and offered him many goodly riche presents but he would take none of them other then such as serued to adorne the temples of the goddes and to beawtifie his triumphe and left all the rest with Stratonice her selfe to dispose as she thought good In like manner also the king of the IBERIANS hauing sent him a bedstead a table and a chayer of cleane golde praying him to take it as a remembraunce from him he
Cato stāding vp it was thought straight he would haue spoken against him But silence being made him he plainely tolde them that for his owne parte he would not haue bene the first man to haue propounded that was spoken but sithence it was spoken by another that he thought it reasonable and meete to be followed And therefore said he it is better to haue an office to commaund whatsoeuer he be rather then none that he saw no man fitter to commaund then Pompey in so troublesome a time All the Senate liked his opinion and ordained that Pompey should be chosen sole Consul and that if he sawe in his discretion he should neede the assistance of an other companion he might name any whome he thought good but not till two monethes were past Thus was Pompey made Consul alone by Sulpitius regent for that daie Then Pompey made very frendly countenance vnto Cato and thanked him for the 〈…〉 he had done him praying him priuately to assist him with his counsell in the Consulshippe◠Cato aunswered him that there was no cause why he should thanke him for he had spoken nothing for his sake but for respect of the common wealth only and for his counselle if he would aske it he should priuately haue it if not yet that he would openly saie that which he thought Such a man was Cato in all his doinges Now Pompey retorning into the citie maried Cornelia the daughter of Metellus Scipio not a maiden but late the widow of Publius Crissus the sonne that was slaine in PARTHIA to whom she was maried a maiden This Ladie had excellent giftes to be beloued besides her beautie For she was properly learned could play and on the harpe was skilfull in musicke and geometrie and tooke great pleasure also in philosophie and not vainely without some profit For she was very modest and sober of behauior without brawling foolish curiositie which commonly young women haue that are indeed with such singular giftes Her father also was a noble man both in bloud and life Notwithstanding these vnlike mariages did nothing please some for Cornelia was young enough to haue bene his sonnes wife Now the best citizens thought that therein he regarded not the care of the common wealth being in such a troublesome time which had chosen him onely as her remedie to redresse the same and that he in the meane time gaue him selfe ouer to marying and seasting where rather he should haue bene carefull of his Consulshippe which was disposed apon him against the lawe for common calamities sake that otherwise he had not come by if all had bene quiet Furthermore he sharpely proceeded against them which by briberie and vnlaufull meanes came to office and hauing made lawes and ordinaunces for the administration of Iustice otherwise he delt iustly and vprightly in all thinges geuing safetie order silence and grauitie to matters of Iudgement with force of armes himselfe being present sauing that when his father in lawe was also accused among other he sent for the three hundred three score Iudges home to his house praying them to helpe him Whereupon when the accuser saw Scipio accompanied by the Iudges them selues retorning into the market place he let fall his sute This made Pompey againe be condemned and blamed also more then before for that he hauing made a lawe that no man should praise the offendors whilest their matter was a hearing came him selfe and openly praised Plancus being accused Thereupon Cato being one of the Iudges stopped his eares with both his handes saying that he might not heare an offendor praised seeing it was forbidden by lawe But therefore he was refused for a Iudge before they gaue sentence Notwithstanding Plancus was condemned by all the rest of the Iudges to Pompeys great shame and reproache Shortly after Hypseus one that had bene Consul being likewise accused watching Pompey on a time as he came out of his bathe to goe to supper vpon his knees he besought Pompeys fauor and helpe But he stately passed by him and gaue him no other aunswere but told him he marred his supper and said nothing els to him This inconstancy was much reproued in Pompey Howbeit otherwise he set all thinges in good order and chose his father in lawe Scipio for his colleague and fellow in the Consulshippe for the fiue last monethes After that he caused the gouernment of his prouinces to be appointed him for foure yeares more with commission to take yearely out of the treasure a thowsand talentes to defraye the charges of this warre Caesars friend seeing that stepped vp for him and prayed that there might also be had some consideracion of him that had likewise great warres for the Empire of ROME saying that his good seruice deserued either that they should make him Consul againe or els that they should prolonge his charge and gouernment so as he might yet peacibly enioye the honor to commaund that which he had conquered to th end that no other successor might reape the frute of his labor Much sturre and contention being about this matter at ROME Pompey as though for goodwill he ment to excuse the enuie they might haue borne Caesar said that he had receyued lettres from him by the which he requested a successor and to be discharged of this warre and furthermore that he thought it good they should graunt him priuiledge to demaund the second Consulshippe although he were absent Which Cato stowtely withstoode saying that he must retorne home as a priuate man and leauing his armie should come in person craue recompence of his contrie But by cause Pompey made no replie nor aunswere to the countrie men suspected straight that he had no great good liuing of Caesar and the rather bycause he had sent vnto him for the two legions which he had lon◠him vnderooller of his warre against the PARTHIANS But Caesar though he smelt him wherefore he sent for his souldiers retorned them home with liberall reward About that time Pompey fell sicke at NAPLES of a daungerous disease whereof notwithstanding he recouered againe The NEAPOLITANS thereupon by perswasion of Praxagoras one of the chiefest men of their citie did sacrifice to the goddes for his recouerie The like did also their neighbours round about and in fine it ranne so generally through all ITALY that there was no citie or towne great or small but made open feast and reioycing for many dayes together Besides the infinite nomber of people was such that went to meete him out of all partes that there was not place enough for them all but the high wayes cities townes and ports of the sea were all full of people feasting and sacrificing to the gods reioycing for his recouerie Diuers also went to meete him crowned with garlandes and so did attend on him casting nosegayes and flowers apon him Thus was his Iorney the noblest sight that euer was all the way as he came howbeit men thought
of Pompeys bodie were afterwards brought vnto his wife Cornelia who buried them in a towne of hers by the citie of ALBA THE COMPARISON OF Pompey with Agesilaus NOw that we haue declared vnto you the liues of Agesilaus and Pompey let vs compare their maners and condicions together which are these First Pompey-came to his honor and greatnesse by his integritie and so aduanced him selfe and was a great aide vnto Sylla doing many noble exploits helping him to rid those tyrans out of ITALIE who held it in bondage But Agesilaus vsurped the kingdom of LACEDAEMON against the law of gods and men condemning Leotychides for a bastard whom his brother auowed to be his lawfull sonne and contemned besides the oracle of the gods which gaue warning of a lame king Furthermore Pompey did honor Sylla while he liued and when he was dead gaue his body honorable buriall in despite of Lepidus and maried his daughter vnto Faustus the sonne of Sylla Agesilaus contrarily did dishonor Lysander apon light occasion but Pompey had done no lesse for Sylla than Sylla had done for him Lysander on thother side had made Agesilaus king of LACEDAEMON and Lieutenant generall of all GRAECE Thirdly the iniuries that Pompey did vnto the common weale were done of necessitie to please Caesar and Scipio both of them his fathers in law Agesilaus also to satisfie his sonnes loue saued Sphodriaes life that had deserued death for the mischiefe he had done the ATHENIANS and he willingly also tooke parte with Phoebidas not secretly but openly bicause he had broken the peace made with the THEBANS To conclude what hurt Pompey did vnto the ROMANES either through ignorance or to pleasure his frends the same did Agesilaus vnto the LACEDAEMONIANS through anger selfe wil in renuing warre with the BOEOTIANS apon a full peace concluded If we shall reckon of the fortune of the one and the other in the faultes they committed Pompeis fortune vnto the ROMANES was vnlooked for But Agesilaus would not suffer the LACEDAEMONIANS to auoyd the lame kingdom though they knew it before For though Leotychides had bene proued a bastard ten thowsand times yet had not the race of the Eurytiontides failed but they could haue fouÌ„d an other lawfull king among them that should haue gone vpright had not Lyfaâ—der fauoring Agesilaus kept the true meaning of the oracle from the LACEDAEMONIANS On tother side againe for matters of gouernment there was neuer such an excellent deuise found out as was done by Agesilaus to helpe the feare and daunger the LACEDAEMONIANS were in for those that fled at the battell of LEVCTRES when he counselled them to let the law sleepe for that day Neither can any man matche Pompeis with the like who to shew his frends what power he was of did breake the lawes which him selfe had made For Agesilaus being driuen of necessity to abolish the law to saue the life of his citizens found such a deuise that the law was not hurtfull to the common wealth neither yet was put downe for feare it should doe hurt I must needes commende this for a great vertue and ciuility in Agesilaus who so soone as he receiued the Scytala or scrowle of parchement from the Ephori returned into his contrie and left the warre of ASIA He did not as Pompey who made him selfe great to the benefit of the common wealth and for the common wealthes sake did forsake such honor and so great authoritie as neuer Captaine before him but Alexander the great had the like in those partes But now to other matter Touching their battells and exploytes in warres the multitude of victories and triumphes that Pompey obtained and the great armies that he led Xenophon him selfe if he were aliue could not compare Agesilaus victories vnto his although for the singular vertues and qualities he had in him for recompence thereof he had libertie graunted him to wryte and speake of Agesilaus what he thought good Me thinkes also there was great difference betwext Pompey and Agesilaus in their equitie and clemencie towardes their enemies For whilest Agesilaus went about to conquer THEBES and vtterly to race and destroy the citie of MESSINA the one being an auncient citie of his contrie and the other the capitall citie of BOEOTIA he had almost lost his owne citie of SPARTA for at the least he lost the commaundement and rule he had ouer the rest of GRAECE The other contrarily gaue cities vnto pirates to dwell in which were willing to chaunge their trade and maner of life and when it was in his choyse to lead Tigranes king of ARMENIA in triumphe at ROME he chose rather to make him a confederat of the ROMANES saying that he preferred perpetuall honor before one dayes glorie But since it is reason we should geue the first place and honor of the discipline of warres vnto a Captaine of the greatest skill and experience in warres the LACEDAEMONIAN then leaueth the ROMANE farre behind For first of all Agesilaus neuer forsooke his citie though it was besieged with three score and ten thowsand men and that there were very fewe within the same to defende it the which also a litle before had been ouerthrowen at the battell of LEVCTRES And Pompey on thother side hearinge that Caesar with fiue thowsand footemen onely had taken a towne in ITALIE fled from ROME in verie feare And therein he can not be excused of one of these two either that he fled cowardly for so few men or else that he had a false imagination of more For he conueyed his wife and children away but he left all the rest without defence and fled where in deede he should either haue ouercome valliantly fighting for defense of his contrie or else haue receiued the condicions of peace which the conquerors should haue offered him For he was a citizen and allied vnto him For he that thought it an vntollerable thing to prolong the tearme of his gouernment or to graunt him a second Consulshippe did now geue him oportunitie suffering him to take the city of ROME to say vnto Metellus the Tribune the rest that they were all his prisoners Sith therefore it is the chiefest point of an excellent Captaine to compell his enemies to fight when he findeth him selfe the stronger and also to keepe him selfe from compulsion of fight when he is the weaker Agesilaus excelling in that did euer keepe him selfe inuincible Caesar also had great skill therein to keepe him selfe from daunger being the weaker and againe could tell howe to compell Pompey to hazard battell to his vtter destruction by lande where he was the weaker and by this meanes he made him selfe Lorde of the treasure vittells and also of the sea which his enemies had in their handes without fighting That which they alleage in his excuse is that which most doth comdemne him specially for so great and skilfull a Captaine For as it is likely enough that a young Generall
of my selfe Therefore when he was come into SPAYNE he was very carefull of his busines and had in few dayes ioyned ten new ensignes more of footemen vnto the other twenty which he had before Then marching forward against the CALLAECIANS and LVSITANIANS he conquered all went as farre as the great sea Oceanum subduing all the people which before knew not the ROMANES for their Lordes There he tooke order for pacifying of the warre and did as wisely take order for the establishing of peace For he did reconcile the cities together and made them frendes one with an other but specially he pacified all sutes of law strife betwext the detters and creditors which grewe by reason of vserie For he ordained that the creditors shoulde take yearely two partes of the reuenue of their detters vntill such time as they had payed them selues and that the detters should haue the third parte to them selues to liue withall He hauing wonne great estimacion by this good order taken returned from his gouernment very riche and his souldiers also full of rich spoyles who called him Imperator to say soueraine Captaine Nowe the ROMANES hauing a custome that such as demaunded honor of triumphe should remaine a while without the city and that they on thother side which sued for the Consulship should of necessitie be there in person Caesar comming vnhappely at that very time when the Consuls were chosen he sent to pray the Senate to do him that fauor that being absent he might by his frendes sue for the Consulshippe Cato at the first did vehemently inuey against it vowching an expresse law forbidding the contrarie But afterwards perceiuing that notwithstanding the reasons he alleaged many of the Senators being wonne by Caesar fauored his request yet he cunningly sought all he could to preuent them prolonging time dilating his oration vntill night Caesar thereupon determined rather to geue ouer the sute of his triumphe and to make sute for the Consulshippe and so came into the citie and had such a deuise with him as went beyond them all but Cato only His deuise was this Pompey and Crassus two of the greatest personages of the city of ROME being at iarre together Caesar made them frends and by that meanes got vnto him selfe the power of them both for by colour of that gentle acte and frendshippe of his he subtilly vnwares to them all did greatly alter and chaunge the state of the common wealth For it was not the priuate discord betwene Pompey and Caesar as many men thought that caused the ciuill warre but rather it was their agreement together who ioyned all their powers first to ouerthrowe the state of the Senate and nobilitie and afterwardes they fell at iarre one with an other But Cato that then foresaw and prophecied many times what woulde followe was taken but for a vaine man but afterwardes they found him a wiser man then happie in his counsell Thus Caesar being brought vnto the assemblie of the election in the middest of these two noble persons whom he had before reconciled together he was there chosen Consull with Calphurnius Bibulus without gaine saying or contradiction of any man Now when he was entred into his office he beganne to put foorth lawes meeter for a seditious Tribune of the people than for a Consull bicause by them he preferred the diuision of landes and distributing of corne to euerie citizen Gratis to please them withall But when the noble men of the Senate were against his deuise he desiring no better occasion beganne to crie out and to protest that by the ouerhardnesse and austeritie of the Senate they draue him against his will to leane vnto the people and thereupon hauing Crassus on th one side of him and Pompey on thother he asked them openly in thassemblie if they did geue their consent vnto the lawes which he had put forth They both aunswered they did Then he prayed them to stande by him against those that threatned him with force of sworde to let him Crassus gaue him his worde he would Pompey also did the like and added thereunto that he would come with his sword and target both against them that would withstand him with their swords These wordes offended much the Senate being farre vnmeete for his grauetie and vndecent for the maiestie and honor he caried and most of all vncomely for the presence of the Senate whome he should haue reuerenced and were speaches fitter for a rash light headed youth than for his person Howbeit the common people on thother side they reioyced Then Caesar bicause he would be more assured of Pompeis power and frendshippe he gaue him his daughter Iulia in mariage which was made sure before vnto Seruilius Caepio and promised him in exchaunge Pompeis wife the which was sure also vnto Faustus the sonne of Sylla And shortly after also Caesar selfe did marie Calphurnia the daughter of Piso whom he caused to be made Consul to succeede him the next yeare following Cato then cried out with open mouth and called the gods to witnes that it was a shamefull matter and not to be suffered that they should in that sorte make hauoke of the Empire of ROME by such horrible bawdie matches distributing among them selues through those wicked mariages the gouernments of the prouinces and of great armies Calphurnius Bibulus fellow Consul with Caesar perceiuing that he did contend in vaine making all the resistaunce he could to withstand this lawe and that oftentimes he was in daunger to be slaine with Cato in the market place and assemblie he kept close in his house all the rest of his Consulshippe When Pompey had maried Iulia he filled all the market place with souldiers by open force authorised the lawes which Caesar made in the behalfe of the people Furthermore he procured that Caesar had GAVLE on this side and beyond the Alpes and all ILLYRIA with foure legions graunted him for fiue yeares Then Cato standing vp to speake against it Caesar bad his officers lay holde of him and carie him to prison thinking he would haue appealed vnto the Tribunes But Cato sayd neuer a worde when he went his way Caesar perceiuing then that not onely the Senators and nobilitie were offended but that the common people also for the reuerence they bare vnto Catoes vertues were ashamed and went away with silence he him selfe secretly did pray one of the Tribunes that he would take Cato from the officers But after he had played this parte there were few Senators that would be President of the Senate vnder him but left the citie bicause they could not away with his doinges And of them there was an old man called Considius that on a time boldly told him the rest durst not come to counsel bicause they were afrayed of his souldiers Caesar aunswered him againe and why then doest not thou kepe thee at home for the same feare Considius replied bicause
with the motion aunswered him presently Munatius goe thy way vnto Pompey againe and tell him that Cato is not to be wonne by women though otherwise I mislike not of his friendship and withall that so long as he shall deale vprightly in all causes none otherwise that he shall find him more assuredly his friend then by any alliance of mariage yet that so satisfie Pompeys pleasure and will against his contry he wil neuer giue him such pledges The women and his friends at that time were angry with his aunswer refusall saying it was too stately and vncurteous But afterwardes in chaunced that Pompey suing to haue one of his friendes made Consul he sent a great summe of money to brybe the voyces of the people which liberalitie was noted spoken of bicause the money was told in Pompeys owne garden Then did Cato tell the women of his house that if he had now bene bound by allyance of mariage vnto Pompey he should then haue bene driuen to haue bene partaker of Pompeys shamefull acts When they heard what he had told them they all confessed then that he was wiser to refuse such alliance then they were that wished and desired it And yet if men should iudge of wisedom by the successe and euent of things I must needes say that Cato was in great fault for refusing of this allyance For thereby he was the cause of Pompeys matching with Caesar who ioyning both their powers together was the whole destruction of the Empire of ROME Whereas peraduenture it had not fallen out so if Cato fearing Pompeys light faultes had not caused him by increasing his power with another to commit farre greater faultes Howbeit those thinges were yet to come Furthermore Pompey being at iarre with Lucullus touching certain ordinances which he had made in the Realme of PONTVS bicause both the one and the other would haue their ordinances to take place Cato fauoured Lucullus who had open wronge Pompey therefore seeing that he was the weaker in the Senate tooke parte with the people and put forthe the lawe for diuiding of the landes amongest the souldiers But Cato stowtly resisting that lawe agayne he put it by and made Pompey thereby in a rage to acquaynte him selfe with Publius Clodius the moste seditious and boldest person of all the Tribunes and besides that made allyance euen at that tyme with Caesar whereof Cato him selfe was the onely Author Caesar returning out of SPAYNE from his Praetorshippe requyred the honour of tryumphe and withall made sute to bee Consull But beeing a lawe to the contrary that they that sued to bee Consulls shoulde bee present them selues in the citie and suche also as desired honour of triumphe shoulde bee without the citie he earnestly required the Senate that he myght sue for the Consulshippe by his friendes The moste parte of the Senate were willing vnto it but Cato was flatly agaynst it He perceyuing that the other Senatours were willing to gratifie Caesar when it came to him to deliuer his opinion he spent all the whole daye in his oration and by this pollicie preuented the Senate that they coulde not conclude any thinge Then Caesar letting fall his tryumphe made sute to be Consull and entring the citie ioyned friendshippe with Pompey Hereuppon he was chosen Consull and immediatly after maryed his Daughter Iulia vnto Pompey and so hauing made in manner a conspyracie agaynst the common wealth betweene them selues Caesar preferred the lawe Agraria for distributing the landes vnto the Citizens and Pompey was present to mainteyne the publicacion thereof Lucullus and Cicero on thother side taking parte with Bibulus the other Consull did what they coulde agaynst it but specially Cato who fearing muche this allyance of Caesar and Pompey that it was a pacte and conspirancie to ouerthrowe the common wealth sayde that he cared not so muche for this lawe Agraria as he feared the rewarde they looked for who by suche meanes dyd intise and please the common people Therewithall the Senate were wholly of his opinion and so were many other honest men of the people besides that were none of the Senate and tooke his parte maruailing muche and also beeing offended with Caesars greate vnreasonablenes and importunitie who by the authoritie of his Consulshippe did preferre suche thinges as the moste seditiousest Tribunes of the people were wont commonly to doe to currye fauour with the people and by suche vile meanes sought to make them at his commaundement Wherefore Caesar and his friends fearing so greate enemies fell to open force For to beginne withall as the Consul Bibulus was going to the market place there was a basket of donge powred vppon his heade and furthermore the Officers roddes were broken in their handes which they caryed before him In fine dartes were throwen at them out of euery corner and many of them beeing hurt they all at length were driuen to flye and leaue the market place But Cato he came laste of all keeping his wonted pace and often cast backe his heade and cursed such Citizens So they did not onely passe this lawe Agraria by voyces of the people but furthermore they added to it that all the Senate shoulde bee sworne to stablishe that lawe and bee bounde to defende the same if any attempted the alteracion thereof vppon greate penalties and fines to bee sette on his heade that shoulde refuse the othe All the other Senators sware agaynst their wills remembring the example of the mischiefe that chaunced vnto the olde Metellus who was banished out of ITALY bicause he would not sweare to suche a like lawe Whereuppon the women that were in Catoes house besought him with the teares in their eyes that he woulde yeelde and take the othe and so did also diuers of his friendes besides Howebeit he that moste inforced and brought Cato to sweare was Cicero the Orator who perswaded him that peraduenture he woulde bee thought vnreasonable that beeing but one man he shoulde seeme to mislike that which all other had thought meete and reasonable and that it were a fonde parte of him wilfully to put him selfe in so greate daunger thinking to hynder a matter already paste remedie But yet that besides all this a greater inconuenience would happen if he forsooke his contrye for whose sake he did all these thinges and left it a praye vnto them which sought the vtter subuersion of the same as if he were glad to bee ridde from the trouble of desending the common wealth For sayde he though Cato haue no neede of ROME yet ROME hath neede of Cato and so haue all his friendes of the which Cicero sayde he was the chiefe and was moste maliced of P. Clodius the Tribune who sought to driue him out of the contrye It is sayde that Cato beeing wonne by these like wordes and perswasions at home and openly in the market place they so sofetned him that he came to take his othe laste of all men but one
men but they loue and trust them better As for the two first the one they are affrayed of and the other they distrust beside they suppose that valliancy and wisdom commeth rather by the benefite of nature then of our intent and choyce esteeming wisedome as a readines of conceit and fortitude a presence and courage of the minde For euery man may be iust that will and therefore iniustice is of all otherwices most shamefull for it is a wilfull and malicious defaut and therefore can not be excused Loe this was the cause why all the noble men in manner were against Cato as though he only had ouercome them Pompey he thought that the estimacion of Cato was altogether the discountenaunce of his power and greatnesse and therefore did dayly raise vp many railers against him Of them Publius Clodius that seditious Tribune who was againe fallen in frendship with Pompey he accused Cato and cried out vpon him how he had robbed the common wealth of a wonderfull treasure by his commission in CYPRVS and that be was enemy vnto Pompey bicause he did refuse to marry his daughter Cato thereto made aunswer◠that he had brought more golde and siluer out of CYPRVS into the treasure of ROME without the allowance of either horse or souldier then Pompey had done with all his triumphes and warres with the which he had troubled all the world And moreouer that he did neuer seeke alliance with Pompey not that he thought him vnworthie of it but bicause he saw he delt not as vprightly in the common wealth as he him selfe did I sayd he haue refused a prouince offred me when I came out of my Praetorshippe but Pompey hath taken some by force and geuen away vnto others And to conclude he lent Caesar not long since an armie of six thowsand men to serue him in the warres in GAVLE the which he neuer required of vs nor Pompey graunted them him by our consent But we see that so many armies armors and weapon so many men and horses by common pleasures of our priuate citizens geuen and lent at our charge And Pompey him selfe reseruing onely the name of Emperour and Lieutenaunt generall assigneth ouer his armies and prouinces to the gouernment of others whilest he him selfe besiegeth here the walls of the citie with seditious tumultuous election of officers craftily vnderminding therby the state of the common wealth to bring all to confusion that he him selfe might be absolute Prince and rule alone Thus was he reuenged of Pompey Among Catoes frends he had one called Marcus Faonius such a one as Apollodorus PHALERIAN was sayd to be in old time vnto Socrates who did counterfeate to be an other him selfe in doing all thinges as he did This man would be farre out of reason and passionate in his talke storming like a dronkard He one yere made sute to be AEdilis but he was reiected Howbeit Cato that furthered his sute marked that the tables wherein the voyces were wrytten were all one hande So he finding out the falsehoode appealed thereuppon vnto the Tribunes and made the election voyde for that time After that Faonius was created AEdilis Cato did helpe him forth in all the other charges of his office and specially in setting foorth playes in the Theater◠which are customably done at the comming in of euery such new officer to geue the people pastime and gaue vnto the common players and dauncers in those playes no golden crownes as other AEdiles did but crownes of wilde oliue twigges as they commonly vse in GRAECE at the Olympian games And where others gaue vnto the poore rich gifts he gaue the GRAECIANS leekes lettises radishes and peares and vnto the ROMANES they had earthen pottes full of wine porke figges cowcombres and fagots of wodde of small value Insomuch as some thought scorne of thē they were so meane others were verie glad of them seeing that Cato which was seuere and hard of nature had a doing in them and by litle and litle they turned this austeritie of his into pleasure In fine Faonius him selfe sitting downe amongest the people which looked apon the players clapped his hands for ioy at Cato and cried out to him that he should geue them good rewardes that played well alluring them also about him to doe the like and told them that he had made Cato the whole ruler of thoses sportes At the selfe same time Curio Faonius colleague and companion in the office of AEdilis had likewise goodly playes in an other Theater but all the people forsooke his and went to see Faonius playes who sate among them like a priuate man and Cato as the maister of the playes Cato did this in scorne and mockerie of vaine charge and expences which men are wont to bestow in such trifles shewing thereby that whosoeuer will make any playes he should make the charge but a sport also furnishing it only with a conuenient grace but with no vaine expence or charge about such a trifle Shortly after when Scipio Hypseus and Milo sued all three together to be Consuls not only by briberie of money a common fault then in suing for any of the offices in the common wealth but by plaine force of armes slaying and killing as in a ciuill warre they were so desperat and insolent some preferred a lawe that they should make Pompey President in these elections bicause men should moue their sute after a lawfull sorte But Cato straight was against it saying that the law could haue no safety by Pompey but Pompey might haue safety by the lawe Notwithstanding when he sawe this trouble continewe of a long time without any Consuls in ROME and that dayly there were three campes in the market place that it was almost impossible to preuent the mischiefe at hand and to stay that it should goe no further then he thought it better that the Senate of their owne good willes rather then by compulsion should put the gouernment of the state into Pompeis hands alone choosing the lesser euill to withstand the greater and so to yeeld to the absolute gouernment without constraint which the sedition would bring it vnto Therefore Bibulus Catoes frend kinseman made a motion to the Senate that they would choose Pompey sole Consul For sayd he either the common wealth shall be well gouerned by him or else ROME shall serue an ill lord Cato then rising vp beyonde all mens expectacion confirmed Bibulus opinion and sayd that the citie were better to haue one soueraine Magistrate then none and that he hoped Pompey could geue present order for the pacifying of this confusion and that he would be carefull to preserue the citie when he sawe that they trusted him with the gouernment thereof Thus was Pompey by Catoes meanes chosen sole Consull Then he sent for Cato to come to his gardens to him which were in the suburbes of the citie Cato went thither and was receiued with as great honor
mockes and sleytes which he had gathered together to make the people mery withall But on thother side when he beganne to vnrippe his whole intents and practises from the beginning not as if he had bene his enemie but rather a confederate with him in his conspiracie declaring that they were not the GERMAINES nor the GAVLES which they were to be affrayed of but of him selfe if they were wise he thereupon so offended the Senate and made such sturre among them that Caesars frends repented them they had caused his letters to be red in the Senate giuing Cato thereby occasion iustly to complaine of Caesar to alleage much good matter against him At that time therefore there was nothing decreed in the Senate against Caesar but this was sayed onely that it were good reason to let him haue a successor Then Caesars frendes made sute that Pompey shoulde put away his army and resigne vp the prouinces he kept or else that they should compell Caesar no more then him to doe it Then Cato opened his mouth and sayd the thing was now come to passe which he had euer told them of and that Caesar came to oppresse the common wealth openly turning the armie against it which deceitfully he had obtained of the same All this preuailed not neither could he thereby winne any thing of the Senate bicause the people fauored Caesar and would alwayes haue him for the Senate did beleue all that he sayed but for all that they feared the people When newes was brought that Caesar had wonne the citie of ARIMINVM and was comming on with his armie towardes ROME then euery man looked apon Cato and the people and Pompey confessed that he only from the beginning had found out the marke Caesar shot at and had hit the white of his slie deuise Then sayd Cato vnto them if you would haue beleued me my Lordes and followed my counsell you should not now haue bene affrayd of one man alone neither should you also haue put your only hope in one man Pompey aunswered thereunto that Cato in deede had gessed more truely howbeit that he also had delt more frendly Thereupon Cato gaue counsell that the Senate should referre all vnto Pompeys order for sayd he they that can doe great mischiefe knowe also howe to helpe it Pompey perceiuing that he had no army conuenient about him to tary Caesars comming and that the men also which he had were but faint harted he forsooke the citie Cato being determined to goe with him sent his younger sonne before vnto Munatius which laye in the contrie of the BRVTIANS and tooke his eldest sonne with him Now bicause he was to prouide a stay and gouernor of his house and daughters he tooke Martia againe which was left a widowe and verie riche for that Hortensius dying made her his heire of all that he had Therein Caesar vpbraydeth Cato much reprouing his couetousnes to marry for goodes For sayd he if he had neede of a wife why then did he before graunt her vnto an other If he had no neede of a woman why then did he take her afterwards againe Vnlesse she were before a bayte vnto Hortensius to keepe her whilest she was young that he might haue her againe when she was riche But against that me thinkes it is sufficient to recite these verses of Euripides Vnlikelyhoodes first I vvill disproue For vvhy vvhat man can say That euer feare made Hercules to turne his face avvay For I take it to be all one to reproue Hercules cowardlines and Catoes couetousnes But if his mariage be to be reproued peraduenture it is in an other sorte For so soone as he had maried Martia againe he left his house and his daughters to her gouernment and followed Pompey But after that time men reporte that he neuer polled his head clipped his beard nor ware any garland but to his dying day lamented and bewailed in his hart the miserie and calamitie of his contrie whether they had victorie or were ouercome So hauing the prouince of SICILE allotted to him he went vnto SYRACVSA There vnderstanding that Asinius Pollio was arriued at MESSINA with men of warre from his enemies Cato sent vnto him to knowe wherefore he came thither Pollio againe asked of him who was the causer of all this warre Againe when Cato was aduertised that Pompey had forsaken ITALIE that he lay in campe beyond the sea by the citie of DYRRACHIVM then he sayd he saw a maruelous great chaunge and incerteintie in the prouidence of the goddes that when Pompey did all things beyond reason and out of course he was inuincible and now that he sought to preserue his contrie he saw he lacked his former good happe Nowe he knewe he was strong enough at that time to driue Asinius Pollio out of SICILE if he would but bicause there came a greater aide vnto him he would not plague that Iland with the miserie of warre Then after he had aduised the SYRACVSANS take the stronger part and to looke to their safety he tooke the sea and went towards Pompey When he was come vnto him he did alwaies coūsel him to prolong the warre hoping still of some treaty of peace would in no case they should come to fight any battell where the weaker parte should of necessity be put to the sword by the stronger Therefore he perswaded Pompey and the counsellers about him to establishe certaine lawes to this effect That they should sacke no citie in this warre the which belonged vnto the Empire of ROME and also that they should kill no citizen of ROME but in furie of battell when their swordes were in their hands Therby he wanne him selfe great honor and brought many men to take Pompeys parte by the lenity and clemency he vsed vnto them that were taken Thereupon Cato being sent into ASIA to aide them that had commission to presse shippes men of warre he tooke his sister Seruilia with him and the boy which Lucullus had by her for all the time of her widowhoode she had followed Cato and thereby had worne out her ill name she had before sith they saw she had so willingly geuen her selfe to follow in his flying and contented her selfe with his straight maner of life This notwithstāding Caesar did not let to shame her to Cato Pompeys Captaines had no neede of Cato any where but at the RHODES For he wanne the people there with his curteous vsage perswasion leauing with them Seruilia and her litle sonne and went from thence to Pompeys campe who had leauied a great armie both by sea and land There did Pompey most of all discouer his minde and intent For first he ment to haue geuen Cato the charge of the armie by sea which were aboue fiue hundred shippes of warre besides an infinite number of foystes pinases such small bottomes vncouered but sodainly cōsidering better of it or possibly being informed
Xenophon great about Agesilaus marg The practise of Lysander about alteratioÌ„ of gouernment The wise conÌ„sell of a Senatour at Sparta The policie of Agesilaus to win his enemies Agesilaus Agesipolis kinges of Lacedaemon Teleutias Agesilaus halfe brother made Generall of the army by sea Certaine Apothegmes of Agesilaus * Meaning that he was not well in his wittes to be so presumptuous Agesilaus ouercome the Acarnanians Antalcidas peace Phoebidas possesseth the castel of Cadmea Agesilaus praise of iustice Sphodrias practise to take the hauen of Pirâ—a at Athens Sphodrias accused of treason Home Sphodrias was saued froÌ„ death Agesilaus cockering his children too much Agesilaus iorney into Boeotia Antalcidas saying Rhetra of Lycurgus Agesilaus suâ—till deuise to shewe the weakenes of the allies Agesilaus sell sodainly sicke of a daungerous disease Epaminondas the Theban sent Ambassador vnto Lacedaemon The strife betwext Agesilaus and Epaminondas for the libertie of Boeotia The Lacedaemonians slaine at the battell of Leuctres Cleombrotus king of the Lacedaemonians slaine Cleonymus the sonne of Sphodrias slaine at king Cleombrotus foote Xenophons saying The constancy and fortitude of the Spartans The fortitude of the Spartan women Tresantas be cowardes or faint harted men Punishment at Sparta for cowardly souldiers Epaminondas inuadeth Laconia with three score ten thowsande men Certaine witty aunswers Conspiracies at Lacedaemon vnder Agesilaus Issorium the temple of Diana A fine deuise to apprehende the traitors The departure of the Thebans out of Laconia Agesilaus saued the citie of Sparta The tearelesse battell of Archidamus ouercomming the ArcadiaÌ„s The Lacedaemonians were not wonâ— to reioyes much at any victory Messina restored againsâ— by Epaminondas Epaminondas second iorney vnto Sparta Agesilaus repulsed Epaminondas from Lacedaemon The fortitude of Archidamus The valliantnes of Isadas a Spartan Isadas rewarded amerced The death of Epaminondas Machariones why so called Agesilaus greedy of warres Agesilaus devided of the Egiptians Agesilaus despised al dainty thinges Agesilaus forsaketh Tachos goeth vnto Nectanebos In whom stratageames take most effect The stratageame of Agesilaus against the Egyptians The liberality of king Nectanebos vnto Agesilaus The death of Agesilaus The raigne of Agesilaus Agesilaus body noynted with waxe for lacke of honnie The father of Pompey hated in Rome Strabo the father of Pompey The Loue of the Romanes vnto Pompey The fauour of Pompey Flora the curtisan loued Pompey Flora the curtisan was passing sayer The temperaunce of Pompey in dyes The treason of Lucius TereÌ„tius against Pompey Pompey accused for robbing the common treasure The cause of the crie of Talassio at mariages in Rome Pompey maried Antistia The death of Cinna Pompeyes first Captainshippe vnder Sylla Pompey was Chiefetaine of an army at 23. yeares of age The citie of Auximum Pompey goeth vnto Sylla Pompey victories of the Marians Pompey ioyned with Sylla Pompey called Imperator of Sylla The honor Sylla did vnto Pompey Pompey went to aide Metellus in Gaule VVonderfull victories of Pompey Pompey put away his wife Antistia â— and maried AEmylia the daughter of Metella Syllaes wife The death of Antistius Pompey sent from Syllainto Sicile Lawe must geue place to armie The death of Carbo The death of Q. Valerius The bolde speache of Sthenis Pompey sealed vp his souldiers swordes Pompeis iorney into Msâ—icke vnder Sylla against Domitius Domitius camped by Pompey with his army Pompeis victory of Domitius Domitius slaine Pompey tooke king Iarbas Pompeis conquestes at 24. yeares of age The loue of the souldiers vnto Pompey Pompey called Magnus by Sylla The wisedom of the Romanes commended for rewardinge foreine and home seruice Valerius and Rullus called Maximi in Rome Pompeis slowt aunswere vnto Sylla Pompey not being Senator triuÌ„pheth against the law Marcus Lepidus created Consull Sylla fallow from the loue of Pompey Lepidus moueth ciuill warre Brutus the father slaine by Pompey The death of Lepidus The valliantnes of Sertorius in Spayne Pompeys iorney into Spayne against Sertorius Metellus geuen to royt pleasure Sertorius wan the city of Lauron in the fight of Pompey Pompey slue Herennius Perpenna Battell betwext Pompey and Sertorius Sucron fl The modesty of Pompey Metellus Pompey ouercame Perpenna and slue him Pompey burnt Sertorius letters the like also did Iulius Caesar wheÌ„ he ouercame Pompey Pompey ouercame the rest of the bondemen Pompey and Crassus first Consullshippe The custome of the Knights in Rome Pompey as a Knight of Rome sueth to be discharged from the warres Pompey submitteth to the Censors Pompey and Crassus made frendes Pompeye pride and glory The beginning of the pirates warre The power insolency of the pirates in Cilicia The pirates nauy a thowsand shippes The pirates scorning of the Romanes when they were taken Gabinius law for Pompeys authority against the pirates At the voyce of the people a crow flying fell downe Pompeys preparation against the pirates The courtesie of Pompey vnto Piso. The victory of Pompey vpon the pirate How men are tamed Pompey lewd fact against Metellus Achilles dishonest fact Pompey appointed Lucullus successor The boldnes of Catulus in disswading Manilius law Pompeys great dissimulation Quarrell betwixt Pompey and Lucullus Pompey and Lucullus meeting in Galatia Pompeys iorney against Mithridates Mithridates dreame Pompey ouerthrew Mithridates Hypsicratea Mithridates concubine otherwise called Hypsicrates for his valliantnes like a man. Araxes fl Tigranes yeldeth him selfe vnto Pompey Tigranes laied his diadeame at Pompeys feete Tigranes sonne a prisoner Ambassadors sent from the king of Parthia vnto Pompey Caucasus mont Albani and Iberes what meâ—â—â— of people Cyrnus fl Pompey ouerthrew the Albanians Pompey ouercame the Iberians Phasis fl The AlbaniaÌ„s rebell against Pompey Abas fl Pompey slue Cosis the kinges brother of the Albanians The Amazones Gele and Leleges people that do company with the Amazones Thermodon fl Stratonice Mithridates chiefe harlot Pompeys abstinence from taking of gifts Mithridates remeÌ„brauÌ„ces Rutilius an historiographer Pompeis faâ—e Pompeys iorney into Syria Pompey brought Syria into the forme and gouernment of a prouince Pompeys vertues The power insolency of Demetrius Pompeys infranchised bondman Catoes exclamation against Demetrius Pompeys infranchised bondman Pompeys Theater The king of Arabia Petrea submitted him selfe to Pompey Mithridates death The value of Mithridates scaberd of his sword Pompeys returne out of Asia Mutia the wife of Pompey Pompey forsooke his wife Mutia Pompey at his returne out of Asia discharged his souldiers Pompeis honorable returne to Rome out of Asia A law for triumphe Cato refreseth Pompeis alliance Pompeis third triumphe The canâ—â—ies conquered by Pompey Captiues led in Pompeis third triuÌ„phe Pompey conquered three partes of the world Africke Europe Asia Pompey triumphed thrise before the age of forty yeres The chaunge of Pompeys fortune and honor Lucullus beloued of the Senate at his returne out of Asia Lucullus inueyed against Pompey by Catoes ressistance Pompey ioyned with Clodius Tribune of the people Pompey forsaketh his frend Cicero Caesar reconciled Pompey and Crassus
vnto the gods Darius army of tenne hundred thowsand fighting men against Alexander at the riuer of Euphrates The magnanimity of Alexander Alexanders third battell with Darius The armor of Alexander An Eagle flewouer Alexanders head when he went so fight with Darius The flying of Darius Alexanders third victory of Darius and liberalithe of all men * The strength and power of Nepina in the contry of Ecbatania VVhat Medaes enchantment was * In this place there lacke certaine lynes in the Greeks originall No lâ—â—e in the countrie of Babylon Tresure found by Alexander at the citie of Susa. * Is seemeth that he meaneth of silke dyed in purple whereof the best that was in Europe was made in the citie of Hermiona in Laconia Alexanders iorney into Persia. Alexander found a maruelous measure in Persia The insoleus boldnes of Thais the herles Persopolls set a fire by Alexander Alexanders prodigalitie reproued by his mother Olympias Alexander reproueth the finenes and curiositie of his frendes Alexander enemy to idlenes Alexanders care of his frendes and wonderfull curtesie towards them Alexander keps one eare for the condeÌ„med person Alexander would not pardon ill wordes spoken of him Alexanders painefull iorney in following of Darius The loue of Alexander to his souldiers and abstinence Alexander regarded not the spoyle of gold siluer in respect of pursuing his flying enemy The death of Darius The punishment and execution of Bessus The sea Hyrcanium or Caspium Alexander goeth after the maner of the Persians Some faultes are to be borne with in a man of great vertues Orexartes fl Alexander with one word of his mouth brought the Macedonians to obedience Alexander maried Roxane a Persian Quarrell betwext Hephaestion and Craterus VVhy Philotas was suspected and enuied of Alexander Limnus traizerously seeketh to kill Alexander Philotas and his father Partmenio put to death Antipater was affrayed of Alexander VVVhy Alexander slue Clitus Alexanders dreame of Clitus The malapertnes of Clitus against Alexander Alexander slue Clitus grieuously repented him Callisthenes and Anaxarchus do comfort Alexander The cause why Callisthenes was envyed Aristotle thought Callisthenes eloquent but not wise Callisthenes suspected of treasoÌ„ against Alexander Alexander offended with Aristotle The death of Callisthenes the rethoritian The iourney of Demaratus CorinthiaÌ„ vnto Alexander and his death Alexanders iourney into India Alexander burnt his cariages The crueltie of Alexander towardes his men A monsterous lamme appeared vnto Alexander A spring of oyle found by the riuer of Oxus Oyle refresheth wearynes The citie of Nisa Acuphis wise aunswer vnto Alexander King Taxiles talke with Alexander Alexanders aunswer to Taxiles Alexander dishonorably brake the peace he had made Alexanders actes against king Porus. Hydaspes fl The statute of king Porus. The quick-wit and catâ— of the ElephaÌ„t to saue the king his master Alexanders conquests in the Indiaes The death of Bucephal Alexanders horse Bucephalia a great citie built by Alexander apon the riuer of Hydaspes why so named Peritas Alexanders dogge Ganges fl Gangaridae and Prosij people of India Alexanders returne out of India Alexanders vaine deuises to make him selfe immortall King Androcottus Alexander in daunger at the citie of the Mallians The wise men of India Alexanders questions propounded to the ten Philosophers of India Alexander rewarded the ten wise men and did let them goe Onesicritus a Philosopher Calanus other wise called Sphines Dandamis Calanus a wise man of India The 〈…〉 of a kingdom shewed by a peece of leather Psitulcis an Iland Alexanders nauie in the sea Oceanum Alexanders armie going in to India Sheepe fed with fishe The contry of Gedrosia The contry of Carmania The riot of Alexanders souldiers The citie of Thapsacus The prouinces conquered by Alexanders rebelled against him The death of Polymachus Pelleian Calanus the Indian did sacrifice him selfe aliue Alexander made men drinke to wyn a game and price The Macedonians maried vnto the Persians The wonderfull giftes of Alexander Alexander payed the soldiers dets Antigenes with one eye a valiant Captaine banished the court for making a lye Thirty thowsand boyes of the Persians taught the discipline of wars by Alexanders commauÌ„dement The clemencie and liberalitie of Alexander vnto his soldiers The death of Hephaestion Alexanders sorow for the death of Hephaestion Stasicrates an excellent image maker Diuers signes before Alexanders death Alexander feared Antipater Alexander fell sicke of an agew Arsitobulus report of the sicknes and death of Alexander The death of Alexander the great Aristotle suspected for the poysoning of Alexander Statira slaine by Roxane Aridaeus Alexanders bastard brother Caesar ioyned with Cinna Marius Caesar tooke sea and went vnto Nicomedes king of Bithynia Caesar taken of pirate Iunius Praetor of Asia Caesar eloquence Caesar loued hospitalitie Caesar a follower of the poeple Ciceroes iudgement of Caesar. The loue of the people in Rome was Caesar. Caesar chosen Tribunus militum Caesar made the funerall oration at the death of his aunt Iulia. Caesar the first that praised his wife in funerall oration Caesar made Questor Pompeia Caesars third wife Caesars prodigality Caesar accused to make a rebellion in the state The death of Metellus chiefe Bishop of Rome Caesar made chiefe Bishop of Rome Caesar suspected to be coÌ„federate with Catiline in his conspiracy Caesar went about to deliuer the conspirators Catoes oration against Caesar. The loue of P. Clodius vnto Pompeia Caesars wife The good goddesse what she was and her sacrifices Clodius taken in the sacrifices of the good goddesse Clodius accused for prophaning the sacrifices of the good goddesse Caesar putteth away his wife Pompeia Clodius quit by the Iudges for prophaning the sacrifices of the good goddesse Caesar Praetor of Spaine Crassus surety for Caesar to his creditors Caesars actes in Spayne Caesar order betwext the creditor and detter Caesar souldiers called him Imperator Caesar reconÌ„cileth Pompey and Crassus together Catoes foresight and prophecy Caesars first Consulship with Calphurnius Bibulus Caesars lawes Lex agraria Caesar maried his daughter Iulia vnto Pompey Caesar maried Calphurnia the daughter of Piso. Pompey by force of armes authorised Caesars lawes Caesar sent Cato to prison Caesar by Clodius draue Cicero out of Italy Caesar a valliant souldier and a skillfull Captaine Caesars conquestes in Gaule The loue and respect of Caesars souldiers vnto him The wonderfull valliantnes of Acilius Cassius Scaua diuers others of Caesars souldiers Granius Petronius Caesar had the falling sickenes The temperance of Caesar in his dyet Caesar ciuilitie not to blame his frend The Tigurinians slaine by Labienus Arax fl Caesar refused his horse wheÌ„ he sought a battell The Heluetians slaine by Caesar. Rheynus fl Caesar made warre with king Ariouistus The wise women of Germany how they did foretell thinges to come King Ariouistus ouerthrowen by Caesar. The Belgae ouercome by Caesar. Neruij the slowtest warriers of all the Belgae The Neruij slaine by Caesar The great Lordes of Rome come to Luca to Caesar Ipes