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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60461	Patriæ parricida, or, The history of the horrid conspiracy of Catiline against the commonwealth of Rome translated out of Salust, by C.C.; Bellum Catilinae. English	Sallust, 86-34 B.C.; Calle, Caleb.	1683 (1683)	Wing S409; ESTC R4167	36,887	122

did by cutting off his Foes and inriching his friends At last he di'd at Puteoli of the Lousie Discase a sit death for all such aspiring Vsurpers after he had slain 10●000 men 90 Senators 15 of the Consular dignity and 2000 Gentlemen Of his Life vid. Plutarch Sylla had its Exit an ex-travagant desire seiz'd him of invading the management of the Commonwealth neither did he ever value by what means he attain'd it so he got the Reins of Soveraignty into his own hands Still the wants of his Family and the guilt of his Villany more and more blow'd up the Coals of Discontent in his turbulent breast besides the corrupt Manners of the City which Luxury Avarice and other complicated Debaucheries never ceased to foment Nor can I omit the matter it self requiring it to repeat and treat of the Acts and Institutions of our Forefathers both in Peace and War by what means they founded the Commonwealth in what a prosperous condition they left it and how Rome from the most flourishing and best of Cities became the most wicked and debaucht The Trojans I have read were the first that built and inhabited the City of Rome who like Vagabonds wander'd from place to place under one * The Son of Venus and Anchises who when Troy was taken came into Italy He began his Reign over the Latins saith Buchole about the year of the World 279. at which time Sampson was Judge of Israel Ante urb Cond 427. Aeneas their Commander to-ge-ther with the † Quasi sine Origine by reason of their antiquity Vel Aberrigines ex aberrando a wandering People whose Off-spring is not known Aborigenes a brutish kind of People without Laws without Government free and absolute 'T is almost incredible to relate how both these of a different Off-spring different Language and different Manners did so easily mix and incorporate as soon as they were settl'd in one place and afterwards when the number of their Citizens the goodness of their Manners and the extent of their Territories had advanc'd their fortunes their Condition seem'd very prosperous and their power formidable But 't is a general Maxime that the abundance of all things begets Envy for we find that the bordering Kings and People began to wage War against them Some few of their Friends came to their assistance others out of fear and cowardize shun d all dangers but the Romans were very active to incourage and exhort one another to incounter their Enemies and with their Arms defend their Liberty their Country and their Fathers But as soon as their Valour had dispell'd the Mist of Danger they immediately sent Aids and Supplies to their Friends and Confederates and became more belov'd by giving than by receiving of Favours insomuch that their lawfully-acquir'd Power obtain'd at length the Royal name of Empire They had * Delicti Delegates A Deligendo No sitter term for it in English than Deligates men chosen out to consult the good of the Commonwealth whose bodies as age had render'd weak and infirm so their Wisdom was the more strong and valid To these either in regard of their years or Office they gave the honourable appellation of Fathers But as soon as the City had assum'd its Liberty so much did the desire of Glory inflame them that 't is incredible to relate in how short a time to how great an height they arriv'd For the Roman Youth as soon as they were capable learn'd in their Tents Military Discipline by labour and practice and took greater delight in shining Armour and warlike Horses than in the sordid pleasures of Banquets and obscenities And by this means it came to pass that nothing they undertook was strange or unusual to them no place though never so difficult impassable no armed Enemy in the least formidable but a true Valour subdued and made every thing easie But the greatest emulation of Glory was among themselves for every one strove to give the first onset to the Enemy who should first scale a Wall or do the most noble action this they accounted their greatest Treasure their greatest Fame and the most honourable Nobility They were ever covetous of Praise and liberal of their Mony and affected a great deal of Glory and a competent Estate I could tell ye in what places the Roman Valour with a small Party has conquer'd vast Armies of their Enemies what Cities arm'd both by Art and Nature they have besieg'd and took if I should not make too great a digression The Atchievements of the Athenians were indeed very great and magnificent but somewhat less and obscure than what Fame has reported them but because Athens abounded with such great and eminent Writers their Actions were so hyperbolically celebrated and their Valour had as great an Encomium as the best Wits of the Age could express in words But the Romans had never that Vacation because every of the most prudent and sage men were ever employ'd in the most weighty Affairs and no one amongst them exercis'd the Gifts of the Mind without those of the Body the * Esse quàm videri bonus malibat sic Aeschilus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 best men knew that Vertue consisted in Action and were more addicted to do than talk and had rather their good deeds should be commended by others than that they themselves should be Trumpets to sound forth their own Praise Every where both at home and abroad good Manners were their onely study Joyn'd with the greatest Friendship and the least Self-interest † Vid. D. August de Civit. Dei lib. 2. cap. 18. Goodness and Honesty more prevailed with them by the Law of Nature than of Nations Their Enemies were the onely Objects of their Wrath Hatred and Discontents and the onely Strife among themselves was how one Citizen should out do another in works of Vertue in their Devotions to the Gods they were liberal parcimonious at home and very true and faithful to their Friends They maintain'd themselves and the Common-wealth by these two Arts in War Courage and in Peace Justice For I have known punishment to be inflicted oftener on those who contrary to command have fought against their Enemies and though call'd home returned but unwillingly than on those who have basely deserted their Colours and given way to the Enemy But in Peace they exercis'd their Authority more by Mildness than Severity and had rather pardon and pass by an Injury than endeavour to revenge it But when by Industry and Justice they had raised the Republick to its Grandeur great yet conquer'd Kings mighty Nations and vast Multitudes were subdued by the Roman Valour and Carthage that was emulously fir'd at the Glory of the Roman Empire lay buried in its own Ruines both Sea and Land lay open to them and Fortune began to play mad freaks and make a mixture of every thing Those who had undergone all Labours and dangerous Adversities left Riches and Idleness to be wisht for by