succeed him in the same Office and Command of the same Men leading them out of the same Country to the War you ought also to offer such a Sacrifice as he made before he weighed Anchor Agesilaus soon remembred that the Sacrifice which Agamemnon offered was a Virgin he being so directed by the Oracle Yet was he not at all disturbed at it but as soon as he arose he telleth his Dream to his Friends adding withal That he would worship the Goddess with such Sacrifices as would be acceptable to her and not imitate the rude Barbarity of that General He therefore ordered an Hind to be crowned with Chaplets and delivered to his own Southsayer not to him whom the Baeotians did of course delegate to that Office When the Baeotian Governours understood it they were very much moved and sent Officers to Agesilaus to forbid his sacrificing contrary to the Laws of the Countrey These having deliver'd their Message to him immediately went to the Altar and threw down the Quarters of the Hind that lay upon it Agesilaus took this very ill and without further Sacrifice immediately hoised Sail being ever after a great Enemy to the Boeotians and much discouraged in his Mind at the bad Omen boading to himself an unsuccessful Voyage and a bad issue of the whole Expedition When he came to Ephesus he found the Power of Lysander grow very great and invidious all Applications made to him great Crowds of Suitors alway attending at his Door all Men following and worshipping of him at so high a rate as if nothing but the Name of Empire was left to Agesilaus the whole Power of it being devolved upon Lysander None of all the Commanders that were sent this Voyage into Asia was either so powerful or so formidable no one rewarded his Friends better or was more severe against his Enemies Which things made the greater Impression in Mens Minds because they observed the debonnair and popular Behaviour of Agesilaus whereas that of Lysander was high and rigid He took Men up short and by that fierceness of Carriage so subdued the Spirits of Men that they wholly submitted to him giving little Regard to Agesilaus This was first stomached by the other Captains who with Indignation resented it that they should be rather the Followers of Lysander than the Counsellors of Agesilaus At length Agesilaus himself though no envious Man in his Nature nor apt to be troubled at the Honours redounding upon other Men yet being highly jealous of his own Glory began to apprehend that Lysander's Greatness would soon eclipse his and carry away from him the Reputation of whatever great Action should happen He therefore went this way to work He first opposed him in all his Counsels whatever Lysander advised was rejected and other Proposals followed Then whoever made any Address to him if he found him a Retainer to Lysander certainly lost his Suit Whoever was prosecuted by him in Judiciary Matters was sure to get off with Victory and whoever was visibly favoured by him was used with all Severity and Rigor These things being not done by Chance but constantly and on set purpose Lysander was soon sensible of them and stuck not to tell his Friends that they suffered for his sake bidding them apply themselves to the King and such as were more powerful with him than he was Which Sayings of his when they seemed to be designed purposely to procure Envy to Agesilaus he stuck not to affront Lysander at a higher rate imposing upon him the Office of dividing the Flesh among the Souldiers and would in publick Companies speak scornfully of him bidding them go and pay their Observances to the Suttler of the Camp Lysander no longer able to brook these things complained at last to Agesilaus himself telling him That he knew very well how to Oppress his Friends To which Agesilaus answer'd I know who they be that pretend to more Power than myself That replied Lysander is rather said by you than done by me I desire onely this Favour of you that you will assign me some Office and Place in which I may serve you without incurring Envy Upon this Agesilaus sent him to the Hellespont on an Embassy whence he procured Mithridates a Persian of the Province of Pharnabazus to come to the Assistance of the Greeks with 200 Horse and a great Supply of Money Yet did not his Stomach so come down but he fell to forming a Design of wresting the Kingdom out of the Hands of the two Families which then enjoy'd it and make it wholly Elective and it is thought that he would have made a great Commotion in Sparta if he had not died in the Baeotian War Thus ambitious Spirits are apt to grow troublesom in a Common-wealth and when they transgress their Bounds do more harm than good Of this this Quarrel between two such great Men is an Example for though Lysander's Pride was unsufferable and his ambitious Projects very inconvenient to Agesilaus's Affairs yet might the King have found out many ways of taming him less reproachful to a Man of his Quality and ambitious Designs Indeed in my opinion they were both equally Guilty both blinded with the same Passion so as one not to know the Power of his Prince the other not to bear with the Imperfections of his Friend Tisaphernes being at first afraid of Agesilaus soon treated with him about setting the Grecian Cities at Liberty which was agreed on But soon after finding a sufficient Force drawn together he resolved upon War for which Agesilaus was not sorry For the Expectation of this Expedition was great and he did not think it for his Honour that Xenophon with 10000 Men should march through the heart of Asia to the Sea beating the King's Forces when and how he pleased and that Agesilaus in the Head of a Spartan Army so terrible both by Sea and Land should make so great a Voyage and raise no Monument of his Fame by any great Action Therefore to be even with Tisaphernes he revengeth his Perjury by a Stratagem he pretends to go to Caria whither when he had drawn Tisaphernes and his Army he suddenly turneth back and falleth upon Phrygia taking many of their Cities and carrying away great Booty He took this occasion of shewing that for Friends to break their Solemn Leagues and betray their Faith was a downright Contempt of the Gods but the Circumvention of an Enemy in War is not only Just but Honourable and of great Advantage to the Author of it Being weak in Horse and withal terrified by some ill Omen in the Sacrifices viz. a Calf's Liver wanted that little Lobe which the Southsayers call the Head he retired to Ephesus and there raised them He obliged the rich Men that were not minded to serve in Person to find Horse-men armed and mounted which being performed Agesilaus his Army was soon changed from shabby Foot into many gallant Regiments of Horse For
Varro Pompey's Lieutenants and to make himself Master of the Army and Provinces under them that he might more securely advance against Pompey when he had no Enemy left behind him In this Expedition his Person was often in danger from Ambuscades and his Army by want of Provisions yet he did not desist from pursuing the Enemy provoking them to fight and besieging them till by main force he made himself Master of their Camps and their Forces Only the Officers got off and fled to Pompey When Caesar came back to Rome Piso his Father in Law advis'd him to send Men to Pompey to treat of a Peace but Isauricus to ingratiate himself with Caesar spoke against it Caesar after this being chose Dictator by the Senate called home the Exiles advanced to Titles of Honour the Children of such as had suffer'd under Sylla and such as were in debt by retrenching some part of the Interest and touch'd upon some other Regulations like these but not many For within 11 days he resign'd his Dictatorship and having declar'd himself Consul with Servilius Isauricus made haste to the Camp again He march'd so fast that he left all his Army behind him except 600 chosen Horse and 5 Legions with which he put to Sea in the very middle of Winter about the beginning of the Month January which the Athenians call Posideon and having past the Ionian Sea took Oricum and Apollonia and then sent back the Ships to Brundusium to bring over the Soldiers that were left behind in the march These Soldiers as they were upon the Road being very much wasted in their Bodies and tir'd with the fatigue of so many Engagements talkt against Caesar after this manner When at last and where will this Caesar let us be quiet He carries us from place to place and uses us as if we were not to be worn out and had no sense of labour Even our Iron it self is spent by blows and we ought to have some pity on our Bucklers and Breast-plates which have been us'd so long Doth not Caesar gather from our wounds that we are mortal Men whom he commands and that we are subject to the same Calamities and Diseases as other Mortals are 'T is impossible for a God himself to force the Winter-Season or to hinder the Storms when they rage Yet he pushes forward as if he were not pursuing but flying from an Enemy This was their Discourse as they march'd leisurely towards Brundusium But when they came thither and found that Caesar was gone off before them they chang'd their Sentiments and blam'd themselves as Traitors to their General They now rail'd at their Officers for marching so slowly and placing themselves on the Promontories by the Sea-side over-against Epirus lookt out to see if they could espy the Vessels which were to transport them to Caesar He in the mean time was posted in Apollonia but had not an Army with him able to fight the Enemy the Forces from Brundusium being so long a coming which put him into a great suspence and loss what to do At last he entred upon a dangerous project which was to go in a Vessel of 12 Oars without any ones knowledge over to Brundusium though the Sea was at that time cover'd with a vast Fleet of the Enemies He embark'd in the night-time in the habit of a Slave and throwing himself down like some inconsiderable Fellow lay along at the bottom of the Vessel The River Anius was to carry them down to Sea and there us'd to blow a gentle gale every morning from the Land which made it very calm towards the mouth of the River by driving the Waves forward but that night there blew a strong Wind from the Sea which overpower'd that from the Land so that betwixt the violence of the Tide and the resistance of the Waves against it the River was very rough and so uneven and dangerous that the Pilot could not make good his Passage but order'd his Sailors to tack about Caesar upon this discovers himself and taking the Pilot by the Hand who was surprised to see him there said Go on boldly my Friend and fear nothing thou carriest Caesar and his Fortune along with thee The Mariners when they heard that forgot the Storm and laying all their Strength to their Oars did what they could to force their way down the River But when it was to no purpose and the Vessel now took in much Water Caesar finding himself in so great danger in the very mouth of the River permitted the Master though much against his will to turn back When he was come to Land his Soldiers ran to him in whole Troops and exprest how much they were troubled that he should think himself not strong enough to get a Victory by their sole Assistance but must needs disturb himself and expose his Person for those who were absent as if he could not trust those who were with him After this Antony came over with the Forces from Brundusium which encourag'd Caesar to give Pompey Battel though he was encamp'd very advantageously and furnish'd with plenty of Provisions both by Sea and Land whilst he himself who at first had been but ill stock'd was now at last extreamly pinch'd for want of Necessaries so that his Soldiers were forc'd to dig up a kind of Root which grew there and tempering it with Milk to feed on it Sometimes they made Loaves and in their Incursions on the Enemies Out-guards would throw in those Loaves telling them that as long as the Earth produc'd such Roots they would not leave off to besiege Pompey But Pompey took what care he could that neither the Loaves nor the Words should reach his Men for they would have been disheartned at the fierceness and hardiness of their Enemies and look'd upon them as a Kin to the savage Nature of Wild Beasts There were continual Skirmishes about Pompey's Out-works in all which Caesar had the better except one when his Men were forc'd to fly in such a manner that he had like to have lost his Camp For Pompey made such a vigorous Sally on them that not a Man stood his ground the Trenches were fill'd with dead Bodies many fell upon their own Ramparts and Bulwarks being closely pursu'd by the Enemy Caesar met them and would have turn'd them back but could not When he went to lay hold of the Colours those who carried them threw them down so that the Enemies took 32 of them He himself narrowly escap'd for taking hold of a big lusty Fellow that was flying by him he bad him stand and face about but the Fellow full of apprehensions from the danger he was in began to handle his Sword as if he would strike Caesar and had done it had not Caesar's Arm-bearer prevented the blow by chopping off the Man's Arm. Caesar's Affairs were so desperate at that time that when Pompey either through fear or his ill Fortune did not give the finishing stroke to that great Action
in me a Friendship more firm than any Alliance but I will not give Hostages to Pompey's Glory against my Countrey 's safety This Answer was very grating to the Women and to all his Friends it seemed somewhat harsh and haughty Afterwards when Pompey endeavouring to get the Consulship for one of his Friends did give Money to the People for their Voices and the Bribery was notorious for the Money was told out in Pompey's own Gardens Cato then said to the Women They must necessarily have been concerned in these Faults of Pompey if they had been allied to his Family and they acknowledged that he did best in refusing it But if we may judge by the Event Cato seems much to blame for rejecting that Alliance which thereby fell to Caesar And then that Match was made which uniting his and Pompey's Power had well-nigh ruined the Roman Empire and did at last utterly destroy the Commonwealth Nothing of which perhaps had come to pass but that Cato was too apprehensive of Pompey's least Faults and did not consider how he forced him into a condition of committing much greater however these things were yet to come Now Lucullus and Pompey had a great Dispute concerning what had been established in Pontus each endeavouring that his own Ordinances might stand Cato took part with Lucullus who was apparently injured and Pompey finding himself the weaker in the Senate took to the People To gain them he proposed a Law for dividing the Lands among the Souldiers Cato opposing him in this also made the Law be rejected Hereupon Pompey joyned himself with Clodius at that time the most violent of all the popular Men and was likewise united to Caesar upon this occasion of which Cato himself was the Cause For Caesar returning from his Government in Spain at the same time sued to be chosen Consul and yet desired not to lose his Triumph Now the Law requiring That those who stood for any Office should be present and yet that whoever expected a Triumph should continue without the Walls Caesar requested the Senate that his Friends might be permitted to canvass for him in his absence Many of the Senators where willing to consent to it but Cato opposed it and perceiving them inclined to favour Caesar spent the whole day in speaking and so prevented the Senate that they could come to no conclusion Caesar therefore resolving to let fall his Pretensions to the Triumph came into the Town and immediately made a Friendship with Pompey and stood for the Consulship so soon as he was declared Consul elect he married his Daughter Julia to Pompey Having thus combined themselves together against the Commonwealth the one proposed the Agrarian Laws for dividing the Lands among the poor People and the other was present to second the Proposal Against them Lucullus Cicero and their Friends joyned with Bibulus the other Consul and did all they could to hinder the passing those Laws Among these none was more remarkable than Cato who look'd upon the Friendship and Alliance of Pompey and Caesar as very dangerous and declared he did not so much dislike the Advantage the People should get by this division of the Lands as he fear'd the Reward these men would gain by thus cheating the People And in this the Senate was of his opinion as likewise many honest men without who were very much offended at Caesar's ill Conduct That he now bearing the Authority of Consul should thus basely and dishonourably flatter the People practising to win them by the same means that were wont to be used only by the most rash and heady Tribunes Caesar therefore and his Party fearing they should not carry it by fair dealing fell to open force First a Basket of Dung was thrown upon Bibulus as he was going to the Forum then they set upon his Lictors and broke their Rods at length several Darts were thrown and many men wounded so that all that were against those Laws fled out of the Forum the rest making what hast they could but Cato last of all walking out very slowly often turned back and cursed those Citizens Now the other Party did not only carry this Point of dividing the Lands but also ordained that all the Senate should swear to confirm this Law and to defend it against whoever should attempt to alter it inflicting great Penalties on those that should refuse the Oath All the Senators seeing the necessity they were in took the Oath remembring the Example of old Metellus who refusing to swear upon the like occasion was forc'd to fly out of Italy As for Cato his Wife and Children with Tears besought him his Friends and Familiars perswaded and entreated him to yield and take the Oath but he that principally prevailed with him was Cicero the Orator who urged and remonstrated How unreasonable it was that a private man alone should oppose what the Publick had decreed That the thing being already past remedy it would look like folly and madness to run himself into danger where 't is impossible to do his Countrey any good Besides it would be the greatest of all Evils to abandon the Commonwealth for whose sake he did every thing and to let it fall into the hands of those who designed nothing but its ruine This would look as if he were glad of an opportunity to retire from the trouble of defending his Countrey For said he tho' Cato have no need of Rome yet Rome has need of Cato and so likewise have all his Friends Of whom Cicero profess'd himself the chief being at that time aimed at by Clodius who openly threatned to fall upon him as soon as ever he should get to be Tribune Thus Cato they say moved by the Entreaties of his Family and the Persuasions of his Friends went unwillingly to take the Oath which he did the last of all except only Favonius one of his intimate Acquaintance Coesar exalted with this Success proposed another Law for dividing almost all the Countrey of Campania among the poor and needy Citizens No body durst speak against it but Cato whom therefore Coesar pull'd from the Rostra and dragg'd to Prison yet Cato did not at all remit his freedom of Speech but as he went along continued to speak against the Law and advised the People to put a stop to these Proceedings The Senate and the best of the Citizens followed him with sad and dejected Looks showing their Grief and Indignation by their Silence so that Coesar could not be ignorant how much they were offended but being one of a fierce contentious Spirit he still persisted expecting Cato should either supplicate him or appeal to the People Afterwards when he saw that Cato would do neither Coesar himself asham'd of what he had done privately sent one of the Tribunes to take him out of Prison Thus having won the Multitude by these Laws and Gratifications they decreed That Coesar should have the Government of Illyricum and all Gaule with an Army of four
only but as gloriously set out too so that they were more to be envyed in their Pride than feared in their Force having the Poops and Decks of their Galliots all guilded and the Oars plated with Silver together with their Purple Sails as if their delight were to glory in their Iniquity There was nothing but Musick and Dancing Banquetting and Revels all along the Shore together with the Prizes of Kings in Captivity and Ransoms of sackt Cities to the Reproach and Dishonour of the Roman Empire There were of these Corsairs above 1000 Sail and they had taken no less than 400 Cities committing Sacriledge upon the Temples of the Gods and enriching themselves with the Spoils of divers undefiled before such as were those of Claros Didyme and Samothrace and the Temple of Tellus or the Earth in Hermione and that of Aeseulapius in Epidaurium Those of Neptune in Isthmus Taenarus and Calauria Those of Apollo in Actium and the Isle of Leucades and those of Juno in Samos Argos and Leucania They offered likewise strange Sacrifices upon Mount Olympus and performed certain secret Rites or Religious Mysteries whereof that to the Sun which they called by the Name of Mithres was preserved down to our Age having its Original and first Institution from them But besides these Piracies and Insolencies by Sea they were yet more injurious to the Romans by Land for they would often go ashore and Rob upon the High-ways plundring and destroying their Villages and Country-Houses near the Sea And once they seized upon two Roman Praetors Sextilius and Bellinus in their Purple Robes and carried them off together with their Serjeants and Vergers The Daughter also of Antonius a Man that had the Honour of Triumph taking a Journey into the Country was seized upon and Redeemed afterwards with an excessive Ransom But this was the most spiteful and abusive of all That when any of the Captives declared himself to be a Roman and told his Name they seemed to be surprized and straightway feigning a Fear smote their Thighs and fell down at his Feet humbly beseeching him to be gracious and forgive them The credulous Captive seeing them so humble and supplicant believed them to be in earnest for some were so officious as to put on his Shooes others helpt him on with his Gown lest his Quality should be mistaken again After all this Pageantry when they had thus deluded and mockt him long enough at last casting out a Ships Ladder when they were even in the midst of the Sea they bid him march off and farewel if he refused they threw him over-board and drowned him This Piratick Power having got the Dominion and Soveraignty of all the Mâ—diterranean and perpetually roving up and down there was left no place for Navigation or Commerce insomuch that no Merchant durst venture out to Traffick The Romans therefore finding themselves to be extreamly straitned in their Markets and considering that if this scarcity of Corn should continue there would be a Dearth and Famine in the Land determined to send out Pompey to recover their Seigniory of the Seas from the Pirates Wherefore Gabinius a great Creature of Pompey's preferred a Law whereby there was granted to him not only the Government of the Seas as Admiral but even the Monarchy of Rome as Soveraign having an Arbitrary and Unlimited Power over all Men The sum of that Decree gave him the absolute Power and Authority of all the Seas even from the Streights-Mouth or Hercules-Pillars together with the Continent or Mainland all along for the space of 400 Furlongs or 50 Miles from the Sea Now there were but few Regions in the World under the Roman Empire of a larger Extent and in that compass too there were comprehended great Nations and mighty Kings Moreover by this Decree he had a Power of electing fifteen Lieutenants out of the Senate and of assigning to each his Province in Charge Then he might take likewise out of the Treasury and of the Publicans what Monies he pleas'd as also 200 Sail of Ships with a Power to Press and Levy what Soldiers and Seamen he thought fit together with Galliots of Oars and Mariners When this Law was Read the common People approved of it exceedingly but the chiefest and most powerful of the Senate looked upon it as an exorbitant Power even beyond the reach of Envy and was now become worthy of their Fears therefore concluding with themselves that such an infinite and boundless Authority was dangerous they agreed unanimously to oppose the Bill and all were against it except Caesar who gave his Vote for the Law not so much to gratifie Pompey as the People whose Favour he had courted under-hand from the beginning and hoped thereby to compass such a Power for himself The rest inveighed bitterly against Pompey insomuch as one of the Consuls told him sharply That if he followed the Footsteps of Romulus he would scarce avoid his End but he was in danger of being torn in pieces by the Multitude for his Speech Yet when Catulus stood up to speak against the Law the People in Reverence to him were very silent and attentive He therefore after he had without the least shew of Envy made large Harangues in Honour of Pompey began to advise the People in kindness to spare him and not to expose a Man of his Value to such a Chain of Dangers and Wars For said he Where could you find out another Pompey or whom would you have in case you should chance to lose him They all cry'd out with one Voice Your self wherefore Catulus finding all his Rhetorick ineffectual desisted Then Roscius attempted to speak but could have no Audience wherefore he made Signs with his Fingers intimating Not him alone but that there might be a second Pompey or Colleague in Authority with him Upon this 't is said the Multitude being extreamly incens'd made such an horrid Exclamation that a Crow flying over the Market-Place at that instant was struck blind and dropt down among the Rabble whereby it appears That the Cause of Birds falling down to the Ground is not by any rupture or division of the Air when it has received any such Impression or Force but purely by the very stroak of the Voice which being shot up by a Multitude with great Violence raises a sort of Tempest and Billows in the Air. The Assembly therefore broke up for that day And when the day was come wherein the Bill was to pass by Suffrage into a Decree Pompey went privately into the Country but hearing that it was passed and confirmed he returned again into the City by Night to avoid the Envy that might arise from that Concourse of People that would meet and congratulate him The next Morning he came abroad and sacrificed to the Gods and having Audience at an open Assembly he handled the Matter so as that they enlarged his Power giving him many Things besides what was already granted and almost doubling the Preparation
one of his Father's Friends wept Good Old Man and deplor'd the misfortune of the Grecians that by Death were depriv'd of the satisfaction to see Alexander Seated on Darius his Throne From hence designing to march against Darius before he set out he diverted himself with his Officers at an Entertainment of Drinking and other Pastimes and indulg'd so far as to have every one his Mistress sit by and drink with them The most celebrated of them was Thais an Athenian Ptolomy's Mistriss who was afterwards King of Aegypt She sometimes cunningly prais'd Alexander sometimes play'd upon him and rally'd him and all the while drank so freely that at last she fell to talk extravagantly as those of her Country us'd to do much above her Character or Condition She said it was indeed some recompence for the pains she had taken in following the Camp all over Asia that she was that day Treated in and could insult over the stately Palace of the Persian Monarchs But she added it would please her much better if while the King look'd on she might in sport with her own hands set fire to Xerxes his Court who reduc'd the City of Athens to Ashes that it might be recorded to Posterity that the Women who follow'd Alexander had taken a sharper Revenge on the Persians for the Sufferings and Affronts of Greece than all his Commanders could do by Sea or Land What she said was receiv'd with such universal liking and murmurs of Applause and so seconded by the incouragement and eagerness of the Company that the King himself perswaded to be of the Party if arted from his Seat and with a Chaplet of Flowers on his Head and a lighted Torch in his Hand led them the way who went after him in a Riotous manner Dancing and making loud noises about the place Which when the rest of the Macedonians perceiv'd they also with all the Joy imaginable ran thither with Torches for they hop'd the burning and destruction of the Royal Palace was an Argument that he look'd homeward and had no design to reside among the Barbarians Thus some Writers give an account of this Action and others say it was done deliberately however all agree that he soon repented of it and gave order to put out the fire Alexander was naturally very munificent and grew more so as his Fortune increas'd accompanying what he gave with that courtesie and freedom which to speak truth is absolutely necessary to make a Benefit really obliging I will give you a few Instances of this kind Ariston the Captain of the Paeonians having kill'd an Enemy brought his Head to shew him and told him That among them such a Present was recompens'd with a Cup of Gold With an empty one said Alexander smiling but I drink to you in this full of Wine which I give you Another time as one of the common Soldiers was driving a Mule laden with some of the King's Treasure the Beast tir'd and the Soldier took it upon his own Back and began to March with it till Alexander seeing the Fellow so overcharg'd ask'd what was the matter and when he was inform'd just as he was ready to lay down his Burthen for weariness Do not faint now said he to him but keep on the rest of your way and carry what you have there to your own Tent for your self He was always more displeas'd with those who would not accept of what he gave than with those who continually begg'd of him And therefore he wrote to Phocion That he should not take him for his Friend any longer if he refus'd his Presents Nor would he ever give any thing to Serapion one of the Youths that play'd at Ball with him because he did not ask of him till one day it coming to Serapion's Turn to play he still threw the Ball to others and when the King ask'd him Why he did not direct it to him Because you did not desire it said he which Answer pleas'd him so that he was very liberal to him afterwards One Proteas a pleasant drolling drinking Fellow having incurr'd his Displeasure got his Friends to intercede for him and begg'd his Pardon himself with Tears which at last prevail'd and Alexander declar'd he was Friends with him I cannot believe it Sir said Proteas unless you give me some pledge of your Reconciliation The King understood his meaning and presently order'd him to receive five Talents How generous he was in enriching his Friends and those who attended on his Person appears by a Letter which Olympias wrote to him where she tells him He should reward and honour those about him in a more moderate way for now said she you make them all equal to Kings you give them power and opportunity to improve their own Interest by obliging of many to them and in the mean time do not consider that you leave your self bare and destitute She often wrote to him to this purpose and he never communicated her Letters to any body unless it were one which he open'd when Hephestion was by whom he permitted to read it along with him but then as soon as he had done he took off his Ring and clapp'd the Seal upon his Lips Mazeus who was the most considerable Man in Darius his Court had a Son who was already Governour of a very good Province but Alexander would needs bestow another upon him that was better which he modestly refus'd and withal told him Instead of one Darius he went the way to make many Alexanders To Parmenio he gave Bagoas his House in which he found a Wardrobe of Apparel worth more thau 1000 Susian Talents He wrote to Antipater commanding him to keep a Life-guard about him for the security of his Person against Conspitacies And to his Mother he was very grateful sending her many Presents but would never suffer her to meddle with matters of State or War not indulging her busie Temper and when she fell out with him upon this account he bore her ill Humour very patiently Nay more when he read a long Letter from Antipater full of Accusations against her I wonder said he Antipater sâ—ould not know that one Tear of a Mother effaces a thousand such Letters as these But when he perceiv'd his Favorites grow so luxurious and extravagant in their way of Living and Expences that Agnon the Tâ—ian wore silver Nails in his Shoes that Leonatus employ'd several Camels only to bring him Powder out of Aegypt to use when he Wrestl'd and that Philotas had Toyls to take wild Beasts that reach'd 12500 paces in length that more us'd precious Oyntments than plain Oyl when they went to bathe and that they had Servants every where with them to rub them and wait upon them in their Chambers he reprov'd them with great mildness and discretion telling them he wondred that they who had been engaged in so many signal Battels should not know by experience that Labour
the Enemy in a sharp and bloody Fight in which all of them behaved themselves with remarkable Courage and Gallantry Thallus the Son of Cineas and Glaucus of Polymedes that fought near the General signalized themselves so did also Cleophanes merit the Reputation of a brave man having every where laid about him and call'd upon the Horse that were wheeling to succour the General who was in danger he made them face about so as to confirm the Victory already obtained by the Infantry By which means Plutarch was driven out of Eretria and the commodious Castle of it was taken being situate in that part of the Island where it is narrowed into a small neck of Land the rest of the Island being surrounded other-where by the Sea He would not permit them to take any of the Greeks Prisoners for fear the Orators at Athens should inflame the People against them to determine something to their prejudice This Affair thus dispatch'd and settled Phocion set Sail homewards having given most manifest tokens of his Justice and Humanity to the Allies and to the Athenians indisputable proofs of his Courage and Conduct His Successor Molossus had worse fate to fall alive into the Enemies hands which inspired Philip with great thoughts and designs to move with all his force into the Hellespont so to the Chersonesus and Perinthus and on to Byzantium The Athenians raising Recruits to relieve them the Demagogues made it their business to preferr Chares to be General who sailing thither effected nothing worthy of such an Equipage nor would the Confederates harbour his Fleet having jealousie of him so that he did nothing but pirate about pillaging their Friends and despised by their Enemies Upon this occasion the People being chased by the Orators were in great Ferment and highly enraged they had been so fool'd to send any Succour to the Byzantines whereupon Phocion rising up told them My Masters you have not so much reason to be concern'd at the Jealousies of your Friends as the Vnfaithfulness of your own Generals who render you suspected even to those who yet can't possibly subsist without your Succours The Assembly being moved with this Speech of his chang'd their minds on the sudden and commanded him immediately to raise more Force and assist their Confederates in the Hellespont which would be of the greatest moment for the security of Byzantium At this time Phocion's Name was up and an old Acquaintance of his who had been his fellow-Student in the Academy Cleon a man of highest renown for Virtue among the Byzantines having vouch'd for Phocion to the City they opened their Gates to receive him not permitting him though he desired it to incamp without the Walls but entertained him and all the Athenians with entire Respect and they to requite their Considence conversed with their new Hosts not only soberly and inoffensively but behaved themselves on all occasions with great chearfulness and resolution for their detence Thus came King Philip to be driven out of the Hellespont and despised to boot who was till now thought impossible to be match'd and even apprehended invincible Phocion also took some of his Ships and retook some of the Places he had garrison'd making besides several Inrodes into the Countrey which he plunder'd and over-run untill such time as he happen'd to be wounded by some of them that came to his Assistance he made off towards home The Megareans at this time privately praying Aid of the Athenians Phocion fearing lest the Boeotians being aware of it should prevent them call'd an Assembly very early in the morning and backing the Boeotians Petition it was put to the Question and voted in their favour As soon as ever it was done he made Proclamation immediately by sound of Trumpet and led them off straight from the Assembly to arm and put themselves in posture The Megareans received them joyfully they help'd them to fortifie Nisoea and build two new Bulwarks on each side from the City to the Haven and so joyn'd it to the Sea so that being sufficiently defended on the Land side from the Assailants it was secured to the Athenians Now was the time that the Liberty of Greece was openly disputed with King Philip and at Athens such Chiefs chosen in Phocion's absence that at his arrival from the Islands he dealt earnestly with the Athenians being deeply possess'd what danger might ensue that since Philip show'd some peaceable Inclinations towards them they would consent to a Treaty being contradicted in this by a prating pick-thank Fellow of those sort of Vermin that haunt the Places of publick Assembly this was a famous Place of the Athenians meeting open to the Air. This sawcy Companion asking Phocion if he durst presume to perswade the Athenians to Peace now their Swords were in their hands Yes said he I dare though I 'm satisfied I shall be thy Master in time of War and thou perhaps mine in time of Peace Since he could not prevail and Demosthenes's opinion carry'd it advising them to make War as far off home as possible that was to the far side of Attica Phocion argued that in these Matters the Place was not so much to be considered as the probability of Success for by this the distance of War was to be measured to be sure those that were worsted would have it quickly brought home to theirs doors Accordingly Matters succeeding ill the Innovators and Incendiaries haling up Charidemus to the Tribunal to be nominated to the Command the best of the Senators were in a panick fear and call'd a Meeting of the People at Areopagus where with Entreaties and Tears they hardly prevail'd to have Phocion preferr'd and intrusted with the care of the City He was of opinion that the fair Terms Philip proposed were to be accepted yet after demades had propounded that the City should receive the self same conditions that were tender'd to the rest of the States of Greece he opposed it till it were known what the Particulars were King Philip had demanded Being overborn in this Advice at that juncture of time presently after the Athenians sufficiently repented it when they understood that by them Articles they were obliged to furnish Philip both with horse and Shipping This Gentlemen says he I foresaw and therefore opposed but since you have now articled make the best on 't be courageous and bear it as well as you can remembring that your Ancestors using their Fortune indifferently sometimes giving Laws at other times truckling perform'd each part with decorum and perserved not only their own City but the rest of Greece Upon the news of Philip's Death he would not suffer the People to make Bonfires or other publick demonstrations of Joy and Jubilee minding them how ungenerous it was to insult upon such an occasion and that the Army that had fought them at Cheronoea was lessened by one man only When Demosthenes made Invectives against Alexander who was now set down before Thebes he repeated those
unless they were excluded To this Agis reply'd 'T is no wonder that Leonidas who has married and has Children by a Wife taken out of a Persian Court shou'd know little of Lycurgus or his Laws Lycurgus took away both Debts and Usury by taking away Money and excluded Strangers such as wou'd not conform to the Laws of his Commonwealth not for any Ill-will to them but lest they shou'd infect the City with their Covetousness for otherwise 't is well known that he himself gladly kept Terpander Thales and Phericides tho' they were Strangers because he perceiv'd they were of the same Mind with him And you that use to praise Ecprepes who being Ephore cut off two Strings from the Instrument of Phrynis the Musician and to commend those who did afterwards imitate him with what face can you blame me for designing to cut off Superfluity and Luxury from the Common-wealth Do you think those men were so concern'd only about a Fiddle-string or intended any thing else than by checking the voluptuousness of Musick to keep out a way of living which might destroy the harmony of the City From this time forward as the common People follow'd Agis so the rich Men adhered to Leonidas who joyning his Authority with their Interest things were so manag'd in the Senate whose chief Power consisted in preparing all Laws before they were propos'd to the People that with much ado the designed Rhetra of Agis was rejected tho' but by one only Vote whereupon Lysander who as we said was Ephore and of Agis his Party resolving to be reveng'd on Leonidas drew up an Information against him grounded on two old Laws The one forbids any of the Race of Hercules to marry a Stranger and the other makes it capital for a Lacedoemonian to travel into foreign Countreys Whilest he set others on to manage this Accusation he with his Collegues went to observe the Stars which was a Custom they had and perform'd in this manner Every ninth year the Ephori choosing a Star-light Night when there was neither Cloud nor Moon sate down together in quiet and silence and if they chanc'd to spy the shooting of a Star they presently pronounc'd their King guilty of some great Crime against the Gods and thereupon he was immediately secluded from all Exercise of Regal Power till he cou'd be reliev'd by an Oracle from Delphos or Olympus Lysander therefore assur'd the People he had seen a Star shoot and at the same time Leonidas was cited to answer for himself Witnesses were produc'd to testifie he had married an Asian Woman bestow'd on him by one of King Seleucus his Lieutenants that he had two Children by her but there happening some difference betwixt them she did so mortally hate him that flying from her he was in a manner forc'd to return to Sparta where his Predecessor dying without Issue he took upon him the Government Lysander not content with this perswades also Cleombrotus to lay claim to the Kingdom he was of the Royal Family and Son-in-law to Leonidas who fearing now the event of this Process was fled to the Temple of Juno call'd Calcideos together with his Daughter the Wife of Cleombrotus for she in this occasion resolv'd to leave her Husband and to follow her Father Leonidas being again cited and not appearing they pronounc'd a Sentence of Deposition against him and made Cleombrotus King in his place Soon after this Revolution Lysander his year expiring went out of Office and new Ephori were chosen of the contrary Faction who immediately conspiring to restore Leonidas cited Lysander and Mandroclidas to answer for having contrary to Law cancell'd Debts and design'd a new division of Lands They seeing themselves in danger had recourse to the two Kings and represented to them how necessary it was for their Interest and Safety resolutely to unite thereby to prevent the Designs of the Ephori and put a stop to their Encroachments The Power of the Ephori they said was only grounded on the Dissention of Kings the Law having in that Case made them a kind of Arbitrators but when the two Kings were unanimous none ought or durst resist their Authority Agis and Cleombrotus thus perswaded went together into the Senate-house where raising the Ephori from their Seats they plac'd others in their room of which Agesilaus was one then arming a Company of young Men and releasing many out of Prison their Enemies began to be in great fear of their Lives but there was no Bloud spilt Agis on the contrary having notice that Agesilaus had order'd a Company of Souldiers to lie in wait for Leonidas to kill him as he fled to Tegea immediately sent some of his Followers to defend him and to convoy him safely into that City Thus far all things proceeded prosperously none daring to oppose but by the sordid Avarice of one Man these promising Beginnings were blasted Agesilaus as we said was much in Debt yet had a fair Estate in Land and tho' he gladly joyn'd in this Design to be quit of his Debts he was not at all willing to part with his Land therefore he perswaded Agis that if both these things shou'd be put in execution at the same time so great and so sudden an Alteration might cause some dangerous Commotion but if Debts were in the first place cancell'd the rich Men wou'd afterwards more easily be prevail'd with to part with their Land Lysander also was of the same opinion being deceiv'd in like manner by the Craft of Agesilaus so that all Men were presently commanded to bring in their Bonds or Deeds of Obligation by the Lacedaemonians call'd Claria which being laid together in a Heap they set Fire to it The Usurers and other Creditors come one may easily imagine beheld it with a heavy heart but Agesilaus told them scoffingly His Eyes had never seen so bright and so glorious a Flame And now the People press'd earnestly for a division of Lands the Kings also had order'd it shou'd be done but Agesilaus sometimes pretending one Difficulty and sometimes another delay'd the Execution till an occasion happen'd to call Agis to the Wars The Achaeans in virtue of a League defensive sent to demand Succours for they expected every day when the Aetolians wou'd attempt to enter Peloponnesus by the Confines of Maegara they had made Aratus their General and sent him with an Army to hinder this Incursion Aratus writ to the Ephori who immediately gave order Agis shou'd hasten to their Assistance with the Lacedaemonian Auxiliaries Agis was extreamly well pleas'd to see the forwardness of the young Men to this Expedition for tho' they were very poor yet freed from Debts and in hope of being Masters of Land at their Return they follow'd chearfully and in good Equipage The Cities through which they pass'd were in admiration to see how they march'd from one end of Peloponnesus to the other without the least Disorder and in a manner without making any Noise it gave
them occasion to discourse with one another how great might be the Temperance and Modesty of the ancient Lacedaemonians under their famous Captains Agesilaus Lysander and Leonidas since they saw such Discipline and exact Obedience under a King who perhaps was the youngest Man in all the Army They saw also how he was content to fare hardly ready to undergo any Labours and not to be distinguish'd by Pomp or Richness of Habit from the meanest of his Souldiers But if by this Moderation and Conduct he gain'd the Love of the Souldiers and the common People it made him still more odious to the Rich and Powerful who were afraid such an Example might work an Impression to their prejudice in all the neighbouring Countreys Agis having joyn'd Aratus near the City of Corinth a Councel of War was call'd to debate whether or no it were expedient to give the Enemy Battel Agis on this occasion shew'd a great Forwardness and Resolution yet without Obstinacy or Presumption he declar'd it was his opinion they ought to fight thereby to hinder the Enemy from entring Peloponnesus but nevertheless he wou'd submit to the Judgment of Aratus not only as the elder and more experienc'd Captain but as he was General of the Achaeans whose Forces he wou'd not pretend to command but was only come thither to assist them I am not ignorant that Baton of Synope relates it in another manner He says Aratus wou'd have fought and that Agis was against it but 't is most certain he was mistaken not having read what Aratus himself writes in his own Justification for he expresly tells us That knowing the People had well-nigh got in their Harvest he thought it much better to let the Enemy pass than to hazard by a Battel the loss of the whole Countrey And therefore giving thanks to the Confederates for their readiness he dismiss'd them Thus Agis not without having gain'd a great deal of Honour return'd to Sparta where he found the People in a Mutiny and all things in Confusion occasion'd by the Avarice and ill-Government of Agesilaus For he being now one of the Ephori and by that Authority freed from the Fear which Formerly kept him in some Restraint forbore no kind of Oppression which might bring in Gain Among other things he exacted a thirteen Months Tax whereas before they had never paid more than twelve For these and other Reasons fearing his Enemies and knowing how he was hated by the People he thought it necessary to maintain a Guard which always accompanied him to the Courts of Justice and presuming now on his Power he was grown so insolent that of the two Kings the one he openly contemn'd and if he shew'd any Respect towards Agis wou'd have it thought rather an effect of his near Relation than any duty or submission to the Royal Authority and being desirous all men shou'd be confirm'd in a belief of his Power he gave it out he was to continue Ephore the ensuing year also His Enemies alarm'd by this Report immediately conspir'd against him and bringing back Leonidas from Tegea restablished him in the Kingdom to which the People highly incens'd for having been defrauded in the promis'd division of Lands easily consented Agesilaus himself wou'd hardly have scap'd their Fury if his Son Hypomedon had not mediated in his behalf and then privately convey'd him out of the City During this Combustion the two Kings fled Agis to the Temple of Juno and Cleombrotus to that of Neptune Leonidas more incens'd against his Son-in-law left Agis to pursue him with a Company of Souldiers and being taken he was brought before Leonidas who with great vehemence reproach'd to him his Ingratitude how being his Son-in-law he had conspir'd with his Enemies usurp'd his Kingdom and banish'd him from his Countrey Cleombrotus having little to say for himself stood silent His Wife Chelonis had been a Partner with Leonidas in his Sufferings for when Cleombrotus usurp'd the Kingdom she forsook him and wholly applied her self to comfort her Father in his Affliction she often mediated in his behalf and openly disown'd and condemn'd the Action as unjust but now upon this Turn of Fortune she was as zealous and as assiduous in expressions of Love and Duty to her Husband whom she embrac'd with one Arm and her two little Children with the other All men were strangely taken with the Piety and tender Affection of the Young Woman who in a loose neglected Mourning with a pale dejected Countenance and in a suppliant Posture spoke thus to Leonidas I am not brought to this Condition you see me in nor have taken upon me this mourning Habit by reason of the present Misfortunes of Cleombrotus 't is long since familiar to me it was put on to condole with you in your Banishment and now you are restor'd to your Countrey and to your Kingdom must I still remain in Grief and Misery or wou'd you have me attir'd in my Festival Ornaments that I may rejoyce with you when you have kill'd within my arms the Man to whom you gave me for a Wife Either Cleombrotus must appease you by my Tears or he must suffer a Punishment greater than his Faults have deserv'd he shall infallibly see me die before him whom he has profess'd tenderly to love to what end shou'd I live or how shall I appear among the Spartan Ladies when it shall so manifestly be seen that I have not been able to move to Compassion neither a Husband nor a Father I am only born to be an unfortunate Wife and a more unfortunate Daughter not having the least Power or Interest where I ought to have been in the greatest Esteem As for Cleombrotus I have sufficiently disown'd his Cause when I forsook him to follow you but now you your self will justifie his Proceedings by shewing to the World how Ambition is a Passion not to be resisted for a Kingdom a Man may kill a Son-in-law nay even destroy his own Children Chelonis having ended this Lamentation turn'd her weeping Eyes towards the Spectators then gently repos'd her Head in her Husband's Bosom Leonidas touch'd with Compassion withdrew a while to advise with his Friends then returning condemn'd Cleombrotus to perpetual Banishment Chelonis he said ought to stay with him it not being just she shou'd forsake a Father who had grantted at her Intercession the Life of her Husband but all he could say wou'd not prevail She rose up immediately and taking one of her Children in her Arms gave the other to her Husband then having perform'd her Devotions at an Altar dedicated to Juno she chearfully follow'd him into Banishment To be short so great was the Virtue and Generosity express'd by Chelouis on this occasion that if Cleombrotus were not strangely blinded by Ambition he wou'd chuse to be banish'd with the enjoyment of so excellent a Woman rather than without her to possess a Kingdom Cleombrotus thus remov'd Leonidas thought fit also to displace the Ephori and to
enters the City and pursâ—es him Pompey sends his Army from Brundusium to Dyrrachium He is censured for leaving Italy Caesar goes for Spain Pompey's Army in Greece Of thâ—se that resorted to him §. 18. He follows Caesar intâ— Thessaly §. 19. §. 20. Lesbos §. 21. His Death * Sicily The Author's dâ—sign In writing Lives Alexander's Family Philip's Dream * Furious warlike He consults the Oracle The Birth of Alexander His Person described * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His Manners And Exercises * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His Magnanimity His Education and Tutors He cames Eucephalus And backs him Aristotle Alexander's Tuter * A College His Letter to Aristotle His inclination to Learning His Courage and early entrance upon Action His Differences with his Father Reconcil'd by Demaratus the Corinthian Break on t again Philip murther'd by Pausanias The beginning of Alexander's Reign attended with great Difficulties He overthrows the Triballians Takes Thebes and rases it The Family of the Poet Pindar spar'd The Story of Timoclea He pardons the Athenians Is chosen General of the Grecians The Behaviour of Diogenes the Cynick towards him He consults and forces the Oracle Alexander's Army and Preparations His Liberality He passes the Hellespont and visits Achilles his Tomb. The Battel of Granicus Alexander passes the Granicus in despite of the Enemy His dangerous Encounter And Preservation by Clitus Sardis taken Being irresolute is encourag'd by an old Prophesie Pisidia and Phrygia subdued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cuts the Gordian Knot Darius marches towards him A Messenger Darius his Dream interpreted Alexander falls sick His confidence in his Physician Philip. By whom he is Cur'd Darius rejects good Counsel The Battel of Issus Darius escapes Alexander taken with the Persian Luxury and Riches His generous usage of Darius his Wife and Daughters His Continence He is angry with those who would have Corrupted him His Temperance And manner of Life describ'd He is given to bragging And subject to Flattery The Expence of his Table Cyprus and Phoenicia yielded to him He Besieges Tyre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies Tyre is thine His care of his old Master and personal Valour in extremity of danger He takes Tyre and Gaza Where he is wounded by a strâ—nge accident His esteem of Homer He builds Alexandri His Journey to the Temple of Jupiter Hammon In which he is wâ—nderfully guided and preserv'd Is flattered by a Priest Alexander's opinion of the Deity And politick use of being thought a God He is jeer'd by Anaxarchus The expence of Tragedies defrayed by Kings Darius his Proposals rejected Alexander's generous Usage of Darius's Wifâ— Makes him jealous 〈…〉 * The Sun But without Reason of which he is convinc'd by Tyreus the Eunuch Darius his Prayer The Event of a great Battel gather'd from a ridiculous Accident At the Battel of Gausamela * August Some Copies have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Fear Alexander though infinitely inferior in numbers refuses to steal a Victory His Reasons for it His Reasons for it An Instance of his Conduct His Aâ—mour describ'd A good Omen before the Battel Darius flies And Alexander gains an intire Victory He is proclaim'd King of Asia He courts the Grecians Takes Babylon An Account of Naptha With an Experiment of it And some conjectures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Here some of the Original is lost Concerning the Nature of it Vast Treasures found at Susa Alexander enters into Persia His Speech to Xerxes his Statue Xerxes his Palace burnt by Thais an Athenian Whore Several instances of Alexander's Munificence To Ariston To a poor Soldier To Phocion To Serapion To Proteas To Mazeus To Parmenio He reproves the Luxury of his Farites His Encounter with a Lyon exprâ—ss'd in Figures of Brass dedicated to Apollo at Delphos The Ingratitude of his Favourites How tender he was of his Friends Health and Reputation Assists them in their Love and domestick Affairs A long March in pursuit of Darius A memorable instance of Alexander's Prudence and Self denial The Death of Darius And Punishment of Bessut Conjectures about the Caspian Sea Alexander puts on the Persian Habit Which grieves the Macedonians The Story of the Amazonian Queens coming to visit him is a Fiction He persuades his Men to pursue the War His Methods to preserve his new Conquests The politick use he made of his Favourites The Fall of Philotas occasioned by his Arrogance He is betray'd by his Mistress Antigone Dimnus his Conspiracy The Falshood of Court Friends The Death of Philotas and his Father Parmenio The Murther of Clitus Princes cannot bear bold Truths Alexander repents of Clitus his Death Both Priests And Philosophers caâ— flatter basly Callisthenes his true Jest upon Anaxarchus The Character and Fall of Callisthenes Who offends Alexander by his Morosenâ—ss and refusing to adore him Aristotle himself suspected This Passage was mention'd before Alexander burns all his own and his Soldiers Baggage He grows cruel An odd Portent A Spring of Oyl found Sisimethres his Rock taken Alexander's Discourse with Acuphis with Taxiles His Friends râ—pine at his Bounty to Strangers His War with Porus He passes the Hydaspes And defeats Porus. Porus his Stature His Elephant A City built in memory of Bucephalus The Macedonians refuse to pass the Ganges Which grieves Alexander What care he takes to deceive Posterity His Voyage down the Rivers His Danger among the Mallians He is desperately wounded His Questions to the Indian Philosophers with their Answers The Arrogance of Calanus a Gymnosophist His Emblem of Government Alexander's Prayer when he came to the Sea What loss he sustain'd in his march back His rietous Progress through Carmania A Prize of Dancing Won by Bagoas Alexander's great Preparations for a Voyage to Sea How hindred A Custom of the Kings of Persia Cyrus's Sepulcher rifled Alexander mov'd at the Inscription Calanus barus himself A drinking Match Alexander marries Statira Darius his Daughter He pays the Debts of his Army Forgives Antigenes his Fraud His Seminary of Souldiers The Macedonians discontented He takes Guard of Persians The Macedonians submit The old and disabled dismisi'd with 〈…〉 〈…〉 Hephestion's Death A whole Nation sacrific'd to him Stasicrates his extravagant design of a Statue Alexander warâ—'d not to go to Babylon Several Presages of his Death Alexander distrusts the Gods His Usage of Cassander A wonderfull Effect of Fear The nature of Superstition Alexander falls sick after a great Debauck A Diary of his Sickness He hears his Admiral relate his Voyage The Macedonians admitted to see him Hie Death Not without suspicion of Poyson Which is contradicted The Death of Statira 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Forum maximum Athenis sub dio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 caenae frugi apud Lacones 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in adagio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Locus 5. vel 6. miliar Ital distans ubi Templum Dianae Mynich 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 su 〈…〉 pond genus March 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Alluding to the lucky Chance called Venus * He means Julius Caesar An exact Character of Tiberius and Caius A Drachma is seven pence half penny * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tiberius made Augur He marries Claudia the Daughter of App-Claudius He is chosen Quaestor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He makes a Peace with the Numantines The Peace Broken 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch styles him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having no other way to express the Latine word Sapiens He is chosen Tribune The Law concerning the division of Lands Tiberius's Speech M Octavius oppâ—ses this Law Octavius Deposed This Law was again Ratified An Obolus is a Penny Farthing Tiberius disposes of King Attalas's Legacy to the Common People Tiberius's Speech Several ill Omens happen'd to him Tiberius slain Gracchus his Character He is chosen Quaestor His Dream His Laws Other Laws preferr'd by C. Grach Cajus's Power The Italian Mile contains 8 Furlongs Caius chosen Tribune the second time The Death of Scipio Ill Omens happen to Caius Caius miss'd of his third Tribuneship * This saying is occasion'd from a poysonous Herb in that Country which whoever tasts of he presently seems to laugh and in that posture dies Opimius is the same Person who in this Life was before mentioned by the Name of L. Hostilius A Decree of the Senate against Caius Gracchus Licinia's Speech to her Husband Caius Gracchus Fulvius sent his youngest Son tâ— treâ—â— of a Peace Fulvius and his eldest Son slain Caius's Flight Caius's Death The power of Education to conquer Afflictions