while longer the famine still continuing Afterwards they resolve to make an escape but that was prevented by their wives who committing a heinous offence out of their affection cut their horse-girts Whereupon reduc'd to despair and exasperated into fury and rage they at last resolve upon this kind of death They with the help of weapons and a general conflagration destroy'd their Captains their City and themselves Well! I should * Asserverim affirm it the most valiant and in my judgement the most happy City even in its greatest calamities since it hath with so great constancy towards its Allies by its own strength and for so long time held out against a people back'd by the forces of all the world In fine the City being forc'd by the greatest General that ever was left the enemy nothing to satisfie his vanity for there was not a man of all Numantia to be brought home in chaines spoil none because they were poor their Arms they had burnt themselves and so we had onely the name of a Triumph CHAP. XIX A summary of the Roman wars for the space of two hundred years HItherto the Roman people seem'd to expresse a certain Noblenesse Gallantry Sanctity and Magnificence in their actions * Reliqua saeculi The remainder of that age as it produc'd atchievements equally great so did they exceed in turbulence and infamy vices improving with the dilatation of the Empire So that if any one divide this its third age employ'd in forrein acquests he will acknowledge the former Century thereof wherein Africk Macedonia Sicily and Spain were subdu'd justly to have deserv'd as the Poëts speak the name of Golden and the ensuing Century to have been of Iron and sanguinary or if any thing can be more inhumane as comprehending the Jugurthine the Cimbrian the Mithridatick Gaulish and Germane wars whereby the Roman glory ascended up to the skies together with the Gracchian and Drusian massacres as also the Servile wars and to compleat our infamy our engagements even with the Gladiators At last the Commonwealth arming against it self by the commotions of Marius and Sylla and in fine by the wars between Caesar and Pompey as if possess'd with a spirit of madnesse and fury became * Per rabiem furorem nefas semet c. ô horrour it s own executioner Which transactions though ravell'd and confus'd together yet that they may the better appear and that there may be a difference between their Heynous and Heroick actions they shall be set down a part And in the first place we shall as we have already begun give an account of those pious and just wars with forreign nations that the continual augmentation of the Empire may be made manifest And then we shall return to the horrid actions and the foul and execrable broils of our own people CHAP. XX. Attalus King of Pergamus makes the peoples of Rome his Heir Astronicus takes occasion thence to enter into a war against them Crassus defeated and taken Prisoner Astronicus subdu'd and put into chains the unworthy procedure of Aquilius in poisoning the springs and by that means blasting the reputation of the Romans SPain being subdu'd in the western part of the world the people of Rome were at the East nay they not onely enjoy'd peace but by an unwonted and unknown kind of prosperity wealth left by regal bequeasts and whole Kingdoms came into them Attalus King of Pergamus Son of King Eumenes heretofore our Ally and fellow-soldier left this Will Let the people of Rome be the Heir of my estate Of which these were part Entring upon the inheritance the Romans became possessors of the Province not by war or force of Arms but what was more just in right of the Will But it is not easie to affirm whether they more easily * Occupaverit possess'd themselves of or lost that Province Aristonicus a fierce young man of the blood Royal easily drawes in some of the Cities formerly subject to Kings and take◠some others which stood out by force as Mindus Samos and Colophon He also defeated the Army of the Pro-consul Crassus and took him But he reflecting on his Family and the reputation of the Romans struck out the eye o◠his barbarous Keeper with a wand and so he incensed him as he would have it to his own destruction Not long after Aristonicus was subdu'd and taken by Perpenna and upon surrender of himself kept in chains M. Aquilius put an absolute period to the Asian war poisoning ô wicked act the springs in order to the rendition of certain Cities Which action as it hastned the victory so it rendred it infamous in as much as contrary to all Religion and the customes of our Ancestors the Roman Arms till then continu'd sacred were defiled by detestable compositions THE ROMAN HISTORY BY L. JULIUS FLORUS The Third Book CHAP. I. Jugurth King of Numidia wars against the Romans he endeavours to overcome them by artifices and presents At last after several defeats he is betray'd into the hands of Sylla by the means of Bocchus THus went things in the East But there was not the like quiet in the Southern parts Who would expect any war should break forth in Africk after the destruction of Carthage But there was no small disturbance in Numidia and there was next Hannibal what might be feared in Jugurth For when the Romans were glorious and unconquerable by the way of Arms this most subtle Prince engages against them by that of wealth and yet it fell out beyond expectation that a King famous for his artifices should be ensnar'd by artifice He being Grand-child to Massinissa and Son by adoption to Micipsa designing the murther of his Brethren incited thereto by a desire of Soveraignty and yet fearing not them so much as the Senate and people of Rome under whose tuition and protection the Kingdom was compass'd his first mischief by treachery and having taken off Hiempsal's head while he would have done the like to Adherbal who had fled to Rome he with the mony sent by his Ambassadors brought even the Senate to side with him And this was his first victory over us Afterwards he in like manner treated those who had been sent to divide the Kingdom between him and Adherbal and having in the person of Scaurus who suffer'd himself to be corrupted overcome the integrity and customes of the Roman Empire he prosecuted the wickednesse he had begun with greater confidence But wicked actions lye not long conceal'd The wickednesse of the corrupted Embassy of Scaurus came to light and a war was resolv'd upon against the Parricide The Consul Calpurnius Bestia was the first sent into Numidia But the King knowing by former experience that gold could do more against the Romans than Iron brought his peace Of which hainous action being guilty and summon'd upon a safe-conduct to appeare before the Senate he with equal confidence both came and got Massina Grand-son to Massinissa
exercised cruelty in stead of valour For what more insupportable than that one Edict of his whereby he commanded all the free Denizens of Rome that were in Asia to be put to death Whereupon Houses Temples Altars nay all divine and humane Rights were violated But this terror of Asia opened the King a way into Europe Having therefore sent Archelaus and Neoptolemus his Lieutenants the Cyclados Delos Euboea nay the very ornament of Greece Athens were taken onely Rhodes remain'd which stuck closer to â—â— than any of the rest Nay the terror of the Kings advance was come into Italy nay even to the very City of Rome Whereupon L. Sylla an excellent Soldier and no less daring gives a check to the Enemies further advance as if he had shov'd him with his hand And immediately thence who would believe it he went and press'd the City of Athens the parent of Corn with a Siege and Famine so far as that they were forced to eat mans flesh and afterwards having destroy'd the Port of Pyraeum and Walls to the extent of six thousand * Sex quoque amplius M pâ—mâ—ris paces and more after he had subdu'd the most ungratesul of men as he said himself yet in honor of their deceas'd Ancestors he restored them to their Temples and Reputation Afterwards having forc'd away the Kings Garrisons from Euboea and Boeotia he defeated all his Forces in two Battels one near Cheronaea the other near Orchomenos and therupon passing over into Asia he worsts him himself and he had been absolutely ruin'd if Sylla had not been more desirous to hasten than compleat his Triumph To this posture Sylla reduc'd Asia He made a League with the Inhabitants of Pontus Of King Nicomedes he receiv'd Bithynia of Arioborzantes Cappadocia and so Asia became ours as before Mithridates was onely forc'd out of his Territories So that the Inhabitants of Pontâ—s were not broken by these transactions but incens'd For the King as it were lur'd by the wealth of Asia and Europe endeavor'd the recovery of it by the Right of War not as belonging to another but because he had before lost it Therefore as fires not fully put out break forth into greater flameâ— so Mithridates having gotten greater Forces together came as it were with the whole strength of his Kingdom again into Asia by Land by Sea and by Rivers Câ—zicum a famous City is the Ornament of the Asian Coast as having a Fortress Walls a Port and Towers of Marble Against this place as if against a second Rome he directed all the stress of the War But the Citizens had the confidence to stand out upon intelligence of Lucullus's advance brought by a messenger who a thing strange to relate supported by a Goat-skin under the arms and guiding himself with his feet seeming to such as saw him at a distance a kinde of Sea-monster had escaped through the midst of the enemies ships Whereupon the posture of affairs changing the besieging King being first press'd with famine and afterwards with the pestilence Lucullus falls upon him as he was departing thence and gave him so great an overthrow that the Rivers Granius and Aesapus were all bloody The subtile King and acquainted with the avarice of the Romanes commanded baggage and money to be scatter'd by those that fled whereby to retard the pursuers Nor was his flight by Sea more fortunate than that by Land For a Fleet of above a hundred Ships well stored with Ammunition and Provision met with a Tempest in the Pontick Sea and was so shatter'd as if it had been in some engagement as if Lucullus having a certain correspondence with the Waves and Storms had recommended the King to be subdu'd by the Winds By this time were all the Forces of a most powerful Kingdom spent but the Kings courage was heightned by his misfortunes So that addressing himself to the adjacent Nations he involv'd in his ruine in a manner all the eastern and northern parts The Iberians the Caâ—pians the Albanians and both the Armenia's were courted and â—hrough all places Pompey's fortune sought him matter of glory reputation and titles He seeing Asia enflam'd by new Commotions and that Kings sprung out of Kings thinking it not fit to delay things till the strengths of several Nations were united a Bridge of Ships being of a sudden put together he first of any cross'd the Euphrates and having overtaken the retreating King in the midst of Armenia so extraordinary was the mans success he utterly ruined him at one battel The engagement happened in the night and the Moon seem'd to take our part in as much as she stood behinde the Enemies and appear'd in her full lustre to the Romanes whereby the Ponticks deluded by their longer shadowes made at them as at the bodies of their enemies So that Mithridates was subdu'd in that one night For afterwards he could do nothing though he essay'd all things like serpents which having lost their heads move their tails to the last For having escaped the enemy he would by his sudden advance have frightned Colchos as also the Cicilian Coasts and our Campania then having destroy'd the Port of Pyraeum he would have had the Bosphorus reach to Colchos and marching thence through Thrace Macedonia and Greece he thought to have made an unexpected invasion into Italy But prevented by the revolt of his subjects and the impiety of his son Pharnaces he with his sword thrust out that soul which poison could not force out of his body In the mean time the great Cneus prosecuting the rebellious remainders of Asia travers'd divers Nations and Provinces For following the Armenians eastward having taken the Metropolis of the Countrey Artaxata he ordered Tigranes upon his submission to reign over them But towards the North a Scythian Expedition wherein he had as if at Sea no guide but the stars he destroyed Colchos pardoned Iberia spar'd the Albanians having pitch'd his Camp at the descent of Caucasus he commanded Orodes King of Colchos to come down into the plains Artoces who rul'd over the Iberians to send in even his own children as Hostages nay he also requited the liberality of Orodes who had of his own accord sent him a Golden Couch and other presents from Albania And turning his Forces towards the South having past Mount Libanus in Syria and Damascus he led the Romane Ensigns thorow those odoriferous Forrests and Woods of Balm and Frankincense The Arabians were ready to obey his commands The Jews assay'd to defend Jerusalem against him but he forc'd his way into that also that great Mystery of an impious Nation lying open as it were under a golden roof Being Arbitrator between two Brothers in competition for the Kingdom he appointed Hyrcanus to reign Aristobulus not complying he put into chains Thus under the conduct of Pompey the Romanes over-ran all Asia where it is of greatest extent and made that a middle-Middle-province of the Empire which had been the extremity of
any of Pompey's party engag'd in it For Ptolemey King of Alexandria having committed the most heynous act of any during the civil war and assur'd his Allyance with Caesar by the means of Pompey's head fortune desiring the manes of so great a person should be revenged there wanted not an occasion Cleopatra the King's sister falling at Caesar's feet demanded a restitution of one part of the Kingdom The young Virgin was beautiful and what heightned her beauty was that being such she had suffered an injury besides he could not but have a horrour for the King himself who had murther'd Pompey not so much out of love to Caesar as out of complyance with the present conjuncture and would have treated him after the same manner if it had been expedient Caesar therefore having commanded that Cleopatra should be restor'd to her own was immediately besieg'd in the Palace by the same persons who had murther'd Pompey and yet with a small force stood out against the attempts of a vast Army And first firing the next Houses and Ships that were in the Port he avoided the darts of his importunate enemies then he got off of a sudden into the Peninsula of Pharos and thence being forced into the Sea by a strange good fortune he swam to the Navy that lay hard by leaving behind him his Soldiers coat in the water either by chance or out of design that that might receive the darts and stones cast by the enemies Being thus received by his own Fleet and Soldiers assaulting the enemies of all sides he performed the last obsequies to the manes of his Son-in-law by being reveng'd on that cowardly and perfidious Nation For not only Theodorus the Kings Tutor occasioner of the whole war but also those men-monsters the Eunuchs Photinus and Ganimedes making their escape differently by Sea and Land were consum'd by exile and death The King's body was found cover'd with slime known onely by the gaudinesse of a golden breast-plate In Asia also there broke forth now Commotions in Pontus as if fortune had design'd the period of Mithridates's Kingdom that as the Father was overcome by Pompey the Son should be by Caesar King Pharnaces presuming more upon our distractions then his own valour with an offensive Army invaded Cappadocia But Caesar engaging him defeated him at one and as I may say that not a compleat Battel taking him like a thunderbolt which in the same moment comes strikes and is gone So that it was no vain assertion of Caesar's That the enemy was overcome ere he was seen Thus went affairs with forreign enemies But he had a harder task with our Country-men in Africk then at Pharsalia Into these parts had some fluxe of fury forc'd the remainders of the wrack'd party not remainders but an entire war The Forces were rather scatter'd than defeated Nay the misfortune of their General engag'd them to a stricter prosecution of the war nor did the succeeding Commanders degenerate from those who had gone before them For Cato and Scipio sounded full enough in stead of Pompey's name There were brought in additional Forces by Juba King of Mauritania to the end Caesar's conquests might spread the farther There is therefore no difference between Pharsalia and Thapsus save that in the latter the efforts of the Caesarians were greater and more violent as being incensed that the war should have increased after Pompey's death Lastly what never happened before the trumpets sounded a charge before the General gave order for it The overthrow began with Juba his Elephants not accustomed to war and not long before brought out of the woods were startled at the sudden noise of the trumpets Whereupon the Army was put to flight and the chief Commanders could do no otherwise then endeavour an escape when all were cut off nobly before them Scipio was got away in a Ship but the enemies having overtaken him he fell upon his own sword and one asking where he was he himself return'd this answer The General is well Juba being got into his Palace and having magnificently treated his companion in flight Petreius proffered himself to be killed by him in the midst of the entertainment Petreius dispatch'd both the King and himself and so the half-eaten meats and the funeral messes were mixt with the blood of a King and a Roman Cato was not in the fight but having encamped at Bagrada kept Vtica as another main Fort of Africk But hearing of the defeat of his party without any further delay as became a Wiseman he cheerfully hasten'd his own death For having dismissed his Son and Companions with embraces he went to bed and after he had by a light read a while in Plato's Treatise concerning the Immortality of the Soul he took a little rest then about the first watch having drawn his sword he thrust it twice into his uncover'd breast After which the Physicians would needs by violence trouble the man with plaisters He bore with them till they were gone but then opened the wounds afresh and there came forth such abundance of blood that his dying hands were congeal'd to the place New Armies and parties arose as if there yet had been no fighting and Spain exceeded Africk as much as Africk had done â—hâ—ssâ—ly and whaâ— gave a great advantage to the parties was that there were two Brothers Generals and instead of one Pompey there were two Never was there a more cruel and withal a more doubtful encounter The first engagement happened between Varus and Didius the Lieutenants of the several parties at the very entrance into the Ocean But the opposition they both met with from the Sea was sorer than that of the several Fleets For as if the Ocean would chastise the fury of enrag'd Country men both Fleets were wrack'd What horrour must there be when at the same time there was a confused conflict between the * Fluctus â—raecellae viri naves armamenâ—a waves the storm Men Ships Arms Adde to this the dreadful scituation of the place it self the shores on the one side of Spain on the other of Mauritania as it were closing the Mediterranean Sea and the Ocean joyning together and Hercules Pillars hanging over and with this all the extremities of a fight and tempest Afterwards both sides fell to the besieging of Cities which between both miserably smarted for their friendship with the Romans The last of all the engagements was at Munda Here not answerably to former prosperity there was so doubtful and lamentable a fight as if Fortune seem'd to be in suspence what to do Nay Caesar himself seem'd dejected before the Army not as he was wont to be either out of a regard of humane frailty or a mistrust of a too long continu'd prosperity or fearing Pompey's fate since he began to be what Pompey was But in the midst of the fight there happen'd an accident which no man could remember he had heard before when the two Armies were upon equal terms and
by frequent engagements he subdu'd the twelve nations of Tuscia and thence came the Fasces the Robes us'd by Kings and Augurs Ivory chairs for Senators Rings Ornaments for the Knights Heralds coats the Robes borderd with purple worn by children of noble families Thence also came triumphing in gilt chariots drawn by four horses painted and triumphal garments in fine all the Ensigns and Ornaments which render imperial dignity the more conspicuous CHAP. VI. Servius Tullius comes to the Government by subtilty He causes an estimate to be taken â—f the Roman wealth and distinguishes the People into several Orders and Degrees NExt Servius Tullius invades the Government of the City nor did the meanness of his extraction hinder him though descended of a Woman-slave For Tanaquil the wife of Tarquinius had brought him up nobly encourag'd by the excellency of his endowments and a flame seen surrounding his head had portended his future greatness Therefore upon the death of Tarquinius haveing by the assistance of the Queen gotten the Lievtenancy of the Government for a time he managed affairs so prudently that he seemed lawfully possess'd of a Kingdom into which he had crept by fraud By this man the Roman People were rejected in order to Taxes distributed into several degrees and disposed into Courts and Companies By this King's prudence the Commonwealth was brought to so good order that all distinctions of Estates Honours Age Professions and Offices were put into Tables as if the government of the greatest City should be as exactly regulated as that of the meanest Family CHAP. VII Tarquin comes to the Crown by the Massacre of Servius the horrid wickedness of his wife Tullia His cruelty and pride render him odious to the People he causes his own Son to be scourged out of a design to abuse the Gabij and builds a Temple at the Capitol Presages of Romes continuance TArquin surnamed from his deportment the Proud was the last of all the Kings He chose rather violently to possess himself of then patiently expect the Kingdom of his Ancestors held from him by Tullius and having sent some to murder him he no better manag'd his usurped power than he had acquir'd it Of the same humour was his wife Tullia who to salute her Husband King being in a Charriot drove the startled Horses over the bloody Corps of her Father But he grown insupportable to the Senate by reason of the slaughters committed among them to all by reason of his pride which to good men is more intollerable than cruelty having glutted his inhumanity at home at length turns against the Enemies Whereupon Ardea Ocriculum Gabij Suessa Pometia strong Cities of Latium were taken in Nay even then his own issue felt his cruelty For he stuck not to beat his own Son with Rods to the end that pretending himself a Renegado among the Enemies he might be credited by them Who being entertain'd by the Gabij as he expected and asking counsel by Messengers of his Father what he would have done the answer was strange pride that he struck off the the tops of the highest Poppies with a Wand intimating thereby that the chiefest Persons among the Gabij were to be put to death Yet out of the spoils of the reduced Cities he built a Temple which coming to be consecrated all the other Gods complying a thing hardly credible onely Juventas and Terminus opposed it The obstinacy of the Deities pleas'd the Augures as promising all things should be firm and eternal But what was dreadful is that at the foundation of the Structure a mans head was found and it was the general perswasion that the most favourable prodigy portended that Rome should be the Seat of the Empire and supream head of the World So long did the Romans endure the King's pride while lust was kept out that insolency they thought intolerable in his Sons one of whom having ravish'd Lucretia a most accomplish'd Lady the Matron to avoid the infamy kill'd her self Whereupon the Kings were deprived of their power CHAP. VIII A short account of the reign of the seven Kings and a rehearsal of what was most remarkably done by them in order to the advancement of the Commonwealth THis is the first age and as it were infancy of the Roman People while they lived under seven Kings persons through a certain design of the Fates so different in their inclinations as was requisite for the convenience and advantage of the Common-wealth For what more daring than Romulus such a person was necâ—ssary for the usurpation of a Kingdom What more religious than Numa such a one affairs requir'd that an unciviliz'd People might be softned by the fear of the Gods What a person was that Author of military discipline Tullus how necessary to men of warlike spirits that valour might be guided by conduct What did the Architect Ancus How fit to dilate the City by a Colony enlarge it by a Bridge fortifie it with a Wall Again what splendor acrew'd to the supream People of the World from the Ornaments and Ensigns of Tarquinius that is from the very habits What did the taxes impos'd by Servius produce but that the Commonwealth might be assured of its own strength in fine the insupportable Tyranny of the proud Tarquin was of some nay very great advantage For so it came to pass that a People eâ—asperated by injuries was inflam'd with a desire of Liberty CHAP. IX The Regal Dignity transferr'd to the Consuls Brutus and Collatinus the latter of whom is depos'd for his being descended from the Royal Family Publicola is put into his place Brutus disscovering his own Sons siding with the Tarquins puts them to death THe Roman People therefore mov'd by a certain inspiration of the Gods to rescue its liberty and revenge the honor of outrag'd chastity and putting themselves under the conduct of Brutus and Collatinus to whom the noble Matron had at her death recommended her revenge of a sudden forsake their King spoyl his goods and consecrate the Land he was posses'd of to their God Mars and transfer the supream power to those assertors of their Liberty with an alteration onely of the form Government and the Title For where it had been perpetual they would have it annual in stead of a single person two lest the supremacy being in one or too long continu'd in more might be corrupted and in stead of Kings they call'd them Consuls that they might remember they were oblig'd to consult or procure the good of their Citizens So excessive was the joy conceiv'd aâ— this new assertion of Liberty that they would hardly believe that change of Government but displac'd one of the Consuls and forc'd him to leave the City for no other reason than his name and extraction from the ejected Kings Whereupon Valerius Publicola being put into his place us'd his utmost endeavours to advance the majesty of a free People For he not onely caus'd the Fasces the Ensigns of Consular dignity to be bow'd
General they removing the main stresse of the war into Africk began to imitate Hannibal and to revenge the miseries of Italy upon Africk Good Gods what forces of Asdrubal what Armies of Syphax did he defeat How extraordinary were the two Camps which he destroy'd in one night by fire In fine he was not onely within three miles but shook the very gates of Carthage with a siege By which means he forc'd Hannibal out of Italy where he would have sate brooding and settled himself This was the greatest day since the beginning of the Roman Empire when the two greatest Generals of any that ever went before them or came after them one Conquerour of Italy the other of Spain were disposing their Armies in order to an engagement But there pass'd a Conference between them about some conditions of peace They stood still a while fix'd by mutual admiration but not agreeing upon a peace the signal was given It is apparent from the confession of both that the Armies could not be better marshalled nor a battel more sharply fought This acknowledgement Scipio made of Hannibal's Army Hannibal of Scipio's But Hannibal was worsted and the reward of the victory was Africk whose example the Universe soon after followed CHAP. VII The Romans enter into a war against the Macedonians who had assisted Hannibal The Macedonians defeated King Philip makes a peace the Romans give liberty to the Grecians CArthage being subdu'd none thought it a shame to be so Macedonia Greece Syria and all other Nations as if carried away with the torrent of Fortune follow'd the fate of Africk But the first were the Macedonians a people that sometimes aspir'd to the Empire Therefore though at that time Philip had the Government yet the Romans seem'd to fight against King Alexander The Macedonian war was greater in name * Quam spectatione gentis than for any consideration of the Nation it self It took its rise from the League between King Philip and Hannibal while he lorded it in Italy the occasion of its prosecution was that Athens implored assistance against the injuries done it by the King who exceeding the limits of victory wreaked his rage upon Temples Altars and the very Sepulchres of the dead The Senate thought fit to relieve suppliants of that consideration For now Kings Generals Peoples Nations sought Garrisons from Rome Under the Consulship of Levinus the Romans first took the Ionian Sea and sail'd by the Grecian shore with a kinde of triumphant navy for they had then aboard the spoils of Sicily Sardina and Africk And the Laurel growing at the stern of the Admiral promised no lesse then certain victory Attalus King of Pergameus came in to our assistance There came also the Rhodians a people well versed in Sea affairs and these doing their work by Sea the Consul with his Horse and Men put all to the rout on Land The King was twice overcome twice forc'd to fly twice driven out of his Camp and yet nothing was more dreadfull to the Macedonians than the very sight of the wounds which were not made with darts or arrowes or any light Grecian weapon but with huge Javelins and as weighty swords forcing their way even beyond death Nay Flaminus being General we made our way through the till-then unpassable Chaonian Mountains and cross'd the River Pindus passing through abrupt places and so got into the bowels of Macedonia To have got in was a victorie For afterwards the King durst not meet us but being worsted at one and that no equal engagement neer the Hills called the Cynocephalae the Consul granted him a peace and left him his Kingdom Soon after that there might be left nothing thereabouts to oppose us he subdu'd Thebes and Euboea and the Lacedemonians committing insolences and depredations under their Capitain Nabis To Greece indeed he restor'd its ancient state that it might live according to its own Laws and enjoy its former liberty What rejoicing what exclamations were there when this was publish'd by the Cryer at the Quinquennial Games in the Theatre at Nemea What an emulation of applause was there among them What flowers did they cast upon the Consul And they commanded the Cryer again and again to repeat that expression wherein the liberty of Achia was declared Nor did they take lesse pleasure in that sentence of the Consul than they wnuld have done in a concert of most pleasant musick CHAP. VIII Antiochus King of Syria demands a City of Thrace of the Romans who thereupon take occasion to enter into a war against him He is overcome by Aemilius Regulus A sâ—cond defeat of Antiochus upon which he accepts of a peace NExt the Macedonians and King Philip a certain chance brought in Antiochus things being purposely so disposed by Fortune that the progresse of the Empire as it had been out of Africk into Europe so it should now causes of war coming in unsought march out of Europe into Asia and that the order of victories should keep on its course according to the situation of the world As to the report of it there was no war more formidable than this to wit when the Romans reflected how they had to do with the Persians the Inhabitants of the East Xerxes and Darius when they heard of ways to be cut through inaccessible Mountains and that the Sea was cover'd with Ships Besides they were terrified by celestial menaces when Cumaean Apollo was in a continual sweat But that proceeded from the fear of the deity who had a kindnesse for his dear Asia There is not certainly any place better furnish'd with Wealth Men and Arms then Syria is but it was fallen into thâ— hands of a King so unactive that Antiochus'â— greatest reputation was his being vanquish'â— by the Romans He was forc'd upon this war on the one side by Thoas Prince of Aetolia dissatisfy'd that the Romans had not rewarded hiâ— assistance against the Macedonians on the other side by Hannibal who conquer'd in Africk droven thence and impatient of peace sought up and down the world to raise enemies to the people of Rome And how dangerous might it have been if the King would have been guided by his advice If wretched Hannibal had had the management of thâ— whole strength of Asia But the King relying on his own power and priding it in the Title of King thought it enough to have begun a warre By this time Europe belong'd to the Romans without any dispute But Antiochus demanded the City Lysimachia seated on the Thracian shore as his by right from his Ancestors By the influence of this constellation the tempest of the Asian war was raised and the greatest of Kings * Contentus contenting himself that he had gallantly declared a warre and having march'd out of Asia with a mighty noise and train and possess'd himself of the Islands and shores of Greece minded his divertisementâ— and luxury as if he had been already Victor The Euripus by its intermissive waters divided
against his Country he is assisted by several persons of the Noblest Families in Rome Cicero discovers the design the punishment of the Conspirators Antonius gives Catiline and his Army an absolute overthrow page 168 CHAP. II. A Relation of the War between Caesar and Pompey which was rather an universal one than a civil The league between Pompey Crassus and Caesar the distrust between Caesar and Pompey upon which ensu'd an open war Pompey flies out of Italy Caesar's exploits he besieges Marseils passes over into Spain defeats Pompey's Lieutenants and follows him into Epirus The courage and fortune of Caesar Pompey vanquish'd by him in Thessaly his deplorable death in Aegypt Caesar utterly destroys the Army of Pharnaces Scipio defeated Cata and Juba the bloody fight against Pompey's Sons the valour conduct and incomparable fortune of Caesar his clemency the great honours attributed to him he is envied at Rome and murthered page 172 CHAP. III. Sextus Pompeius demands his Father's estate Octavius resolves to revenge Caesar's death Mark Anthony a slave to Cleopatra 194 CHAP. IV. The quarrel between Octavius Caesar and Marcus Antonius the siege of Mutina raised 194 CHAP. V. The confederaâ—y between Oâ—tavius M. Antonius and Lepidus the proscriptions and great cruelties exercised at Rome 195 CHAP. VI. Brutus and Câ—ssius charged by Octavius and Antonius the memorable fight in Thessaly attended by prodigies the death of Brutus and Cassius 197 CHAP. VII A commotion raised bâ— M. Antonius who shut up in Perusia by Octavius Caesar is forc'd to surrender it 200 CHAP. VIII Young Pompey possesses himself of Sicily and Sardinia his flight and shameful death 201 CHAP. IX The incursions of the Parthians under the Conduct of young Pacorus They are defeated by the prudence of Ventidius Pacorus's death page 203 CHAP. X. The Alliance between the Romans and the Parthians broken through the vanity of Marcus Antonius The inconveniences endur'd by the Roman Army and the generous resolution of the Soldiery the insolence and brutality of Antonius 205 CHAP. XI Antonius besotted with the love of Cleopatra promises her the Roman Empire the preparations for the war a Naval engagement between Octavius and Antonius the death of him and Cleopatra 209 CHAP. 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