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A90783	Pliny's panegyricke: a speech in Senate: wherein publike thankes are presented to the Emperour Traian, / by C. Plinius Cæcilius Secundus Consul of Rome. Translated out of the originall Latin, illustrated with annotations, and dedicated to the prince, by Sr Rob. Stapylton Knight, Gent. in Ordinary of the Privy Chamber to His Highnesse.; Panegyricus. English	Pliny, the Younger.; Stapylton, Robert, Sir, d. 1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P2579; Thomason E283_5; ESTC R200055	90,710	86

Charles by the grace of God Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwell etc. G G PLINY'S Panegyricke A Speech in Senate Wherein publike thankes are presented to the EMPEROUR TRAIAN By C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus Consul of ROME Translated out of the Originall Latin illustrated with Annotations and dedicated to the PRINCE By Sr ROB. STAPYLTON Knight Gent. in Ordinary of the Privy Chamber to His Highnesse OXFORD Printed in the yeare 1644. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE CHARLES PRINCE OF GREAT BRITAINE DVKE OF CORNWALL AND ALBANY c. SIR MY duty that moves alwaies to your presence as the flame to heaven is now more imboldned because in the present eruption of Licentious Pamphlets I conceive it seasonable to publish a modest worke and necessary to intitle it to inviolable protection Humbly therefore I consecrate to your Highnesse Pliny's Panegyricke which hath lived many Ages with constant approbation in his Dialect and even in my rude expressions being cherished with your gracious smile may have the honour to out-live all those abortives of the Presse that like their compeeres the vipers are curst into fruitfulnesse Such as his Booke such was the Author universally approved of for what merit appeares by his advancement in those times when merit onely was preferr'd his prudence erudition and integrity of life advancing him to the Consulship of Rome and yet higher to the impartiall estimation of his Prince for whose favours gratefull Pliny to this day payes tribute For now when Trajan's Annals lye in fragments when those imperiall Statues and Triumphall Arches that should have immortalized him have confessed their owne mortality behold in this Panegyricke that best of Caesars from his Ashes reascends his Throne where he still governes the world as an example But Sir you have and long may you have a living example the absolute paterne of all virtues His Sacred Majestie whose Heroicall and Divine Principles we know are written in your heart because we read them in your actions From hence flowes your particular regard to the deserving from hence your generall affability and which in your Spring of yeares we behold with greatest admiration your love to Iustice equalls your love to Men and both these Affections are steered by Iudgement great as your Birth and Spirit What fitter wish can I make to so much goodnesse then that of the Romane Senate to their Emperours May you be * Eutropius Vsque ad nostrā aetatem non aliter in Senatu Principibus acclametur nisi foelicior Augusto melior Trajano happier then Augustus better then Trajan to whom you are now so just a Parallel that I present his Character as a marke of your owne height in honour whereon if your Highnesse please sometimes to cast your eye you may discerne how you out-grow him in those perfections vvhich render you the Modell of your Excellent Parents and the joy of all their Loyall Subjects among the faithfullest whereof as my study so my hope is ever to be number'd SIR Your Highnesse's most obedient and most faithfull servant ROBERT STAPYLTON The Preface to the READER THat the Booke may present lesse distraction from the margent when you carry the subject in your memory give me leave to prepare you with a short view as well of Trajan's private condition and the publique state of the Empire when he was elected as of his Conquest of the King of Dacia justly occasioned by this Panegyricke Vespasian Caesar had now declared the Jewes Rebels and accordingly denounced warre against them when he sent L. Trajan father to Trajan the Emperour then Tribune of the tenth Legion with two thousand Foote and a thousand Horse against Aphaca in Galilee a City naturally strong and fortified with a double wall The Galilaeans draw into the field the Tribune gives them battaile beats them within their first wall and falls in pellmell with them The City fearing he would do the like at the second wall locke out their owne men who were by the Romanes all put to the sword to the number of twelve thousand Trajan hearing no more of the Garrison and presently apprehending that either none remained or such as durst make no resistance reserves the honour of taking Aphaca for the Emperour himselfe Titus is sent who commanding the right wing and Trajan the left the Towne is Stormed and the Tribune afterwards honoured with Triumphall ornaments and made Consul of Rome This was the first eminent Rise of Trajan's Family Nor did the Fathers happy Starre finish its course in him but came to a higher elevation in his sonne whom he trained under his command as the Eagle breeds his Eaglet first to looke up at heaven and then to governe as Vice-Roy to the Deity Spaine was young Trajan's Country warre his cradle when he was yet a youth he commanded in chiefe against the Parthians nor did Vespasian imploy the father with a truer intention to remunerate his service then Domitian imployed the sonne onely to speed his death upon the bed of honour which was made for him in severall and farre distant climates Trajan being still sent away where new danger threatned Domitian who was carefull to pay the last hazard of his Generall 's life with a fresh occasion of a more desperate engagement but in vaine he laboured it for a higher power both preserved and retributed Trajan not like his father with a Consulship but with that very Empire under which he so long and so injuriously had suffered For Nerva succeeding Domitian and M. Trajan now Generall of the German Legions being at Colein there happen'd in the Pretorian Campe near Rome a dangerous mutiny which shaking the Imperiall Crowne on Nerva's head made him settle it upon Trajan The cause of the insurrection was this The Pretorians the Emperours Life-guard which were at first quartered scatteringly in Rome had beene drawne out into a standing Campe when Sejanus was their Prefect who possessed the Emperour Tiberius that living in Towne debauched the Souldiers whereas fixt in a body they would better observe discipline and be readier for any present service What this cunning allegation meant subtiller Tiberius soon found out Sejanus as soon felt in his own destruction Yet still the Pretorians continued in a Campe and howsoever the designe failed in the Individuall yet it tooke in the generall for though they made not Sejanus Emperour yet they made Emperours afterward at their pleasure At this very time they were sensible of the greatnesse of their power and therefore expected answerable Donatives from Princes which Domitian poured into their hands But Nerva was more provident for the publike then to empty the Treasury to fill private purses and the loyalty of the Pretorians more weake then to stand firme without a golden buttresse The ill humour now stirred in them by their aged Emperours frugality was fomented by their Prefect Aelianus Casperius made their Captaine by Domitian and not removed by Nerva who likewise missing his owne covetous hopes quickened their

it had beene x Not taken given him as it was to you without praemeditation Was y The Style of Sylla Happy a stile comparable to it which was bestowed upon the fortune not the virtue Or z The Surname of Pompey Great which had in it more of envy then of glory An excellent Prince adopted you into his owne name the Senate into the name of Best and 't is as proper to you as your paternall Sirname nor doth he more distinguish you that calls you Trajan then he that calls you Best So antiently frugalitie denominated the a Piso was Surnamed the frugall not because he was a good husband only for himselfe but because he was frugall that he might be beneficiall to others Piso's wisedome the b C. Lalius Serpio's friend who intending to reforme the Lex Agraria the Law for division of Lands proportionable to the qualities and conditions of men finding himselfe opposed by a strong faction of the richer sort he desisted and was therfore surnamed the Wise Plutarch Laelij pietie the c Metellus was surnamed the Pious for rescuing the Palladium or wooden Image of Pallas when her Temple was on fire in which service the well-meaning man lost his eyes Metelli all which Names are comprehended in this one Nor can he be Best that excells not every person in a peculiar way of merit Deservedlie therefore after all your other apellations this was added as most great For 't is lesse to be Emperour Caesar and Augustus then of all Emperours Caesar's and Augustuse's the Best Therefore that parent both of Gods and men is first adored by the name of Best and then of Greatest The more glorious still your praise that are known to be no lesse Best then Greatest you have obtained a name that never can descend or be transferred to another for in a good Prince it will appeare borrowed in a bad Prince usurped which should all your successours assume it must ever be acknowledged yours For as the title of Augustus mindes us of him to whom it was first consecrated so this of Best man's memorie never shall reflect upon without remembring you As often as posterity shall be compelled to stile another best so oft they shall remember him that merited that title Divine Nerva how much is now thy joy in heaven to see that he is Best and so intituled whom thou didst elect as Best how it rejoyceth thee that compared with thy sonne thou art transcended for in nothing more didst thou declare the greatnesse of thy soule then that being excellent thy selfe thou didst not feare to choose a better And thou likewise d L. Trajan of whom in the Praeface Trajan the father for though not among the starres yet thou hast attained the next place to them what pleasure takest thou to behold this thy Tribune this thy Souldier so great a Generall so great a Prince nay thou hast a friendly contention with the spirit of his adoptive father whether be more noble to have begot or elected such a sonne Both of you have infinitely merited of the Common-wealth on which you have conferred so great a good who though his filiall pietie can but give triumphall ornaments to the one yet to the other he gives heaven Nor is your praise the lesse that you deserve them by your sonne then if the merit were your owne My Lords I know all Romanes but especially the Consuls ought to be so affected as to esteeme themselves rather publiquely then privatelie oblieged For as it is better and more noble to distaste ill Princes for common then particular injuries so the good are more generously beloved for their favours done to mankinde then to men But forasmuch as 't is growne into a custome that the Consuls having presented the publique thanks should likewise acknowledge in their owne names the greatnesse of their private obligations give me leave to discharge this part of my dutie not with more respect to my selfe then to Cornutus Tertullus my Collegue and formerly a Consular person For why should I not likewise give thanks for him that am equally obliged on his behalfe especially since our most gracious Soveraigne hath done that for both which if one of us only had received yet both had beene obliged that pillager e Domitian murtherer of every virtuous man had blasted both of us by the slaughter of friends so neere us fell the thunderbolt for we gloried in the same friends and for the same lost men we mourned as now our joy and hope so then our griefe feare was common This honour to our sufferings divine Nerva did that he would f Nerva making Pliny Cornutus Tertullus Praefects of the Treasury advance us though peradventure lesse worthie to let the World see them flourish that before his reigne only wish't they might slide out of the Princes memory We had not beene two yeares compleate in that most painefull and great Office when you best of Princes valiantest of Generals offered us the Consulship that to the highest honour the glory of celeritie might be added So much you differ from those Princes who conceived that difficulty set a value on their favours and that honours would be more welcome to men if first despaire and dancing of attendance and a delay resembling a deniall had affronted and set a marke of disgrace upon them Modestie forbids me to repeate the testimonie wherewith you honoured us both making us both in our love of truth and love of the Republique equall to those antient Consuls whether deservedly or no I dare not determine for it would be unseemly to contradict what you affirme and insolent to owne the character you gave us being so magnifique But you are worthy to create such Consuls of whom you may report such Miracles Pardon it Sir that among your favours we acknowledg this the highest that you have pleased to make us once againe Colleagues 't was the ambition of our mutuall love of the agreeable method of our life of one and the same end of our endeavours the power whereof is so great that our similitude of disposition takes from us the glory of our friendshippe and it were no lesse a wonder should one of us dissent from his Collegue then from himselfe Therefore 't is no new or temporary thing that each of us as much rejoyces in the Consulshippe of his Collegue as if his owne were againe to be renewed only they who are twice made Consuls have a obligations but at severall times we have each of us received two Consulships together we discharge them together joyntly in the union of our soules yet severally and by Collegueshippe But how rare it was that while we were Praefects of the Treasury you gave us the Consulshippe before you named our Successours One dignity grew into another nor was the honour continued but doubled and as if it had beene a meane favour to give us another office when this was ended you