10 CENTIMETRES — —s = —s = Of the Iluftrious ROMANS: Writ in LATIN by Sexrus Aurextus Victor; And TRANSLATED By feveral Young Gentlenicni EDUCATED by ~ Mr. MAIDWELL. Fingit equum tenera decilem cervice Magifter [ire viam, quar monftret eques, Venaticus ex gia Tempore cervinam pellem latravit in aula, Milicasin Sito catulus: mune adbibe puro [eBtore wverba Pur, nucic #2 meliatibus offer: the Prince's Arms iti SPea!'s@hur. Nard, 1693ea To the Right Honourable, JAMES Earl of Abingdon, Oe, My LORD, C ore I, Ieee hud che Fone nour lucating: of yout Sons, | hope wit : all Affurance of your Sa- © and-one of them is A3Sore e tree renee IESSEES The Epiftle Dedicatory. might be thought a Crime not to-Dedieate our Endeavours.ta your-Lerdthip, that others may, perceive our Duty nourable a Father; and fo No- plea Friend. I muft ever be a'Faithful~Witnefs, how Zéa- Igus and Obliging ‘you ‘are to promote the Advantage of E- ducation; and that in all Points of Generous Breeding you have. endeavour’d to tranfinic thofe Ancient and Hereditary “Virtues of your Illuftrious Fa- mily to your Pofterity. To whom -then fhould Aurelius Viélor-Corifecrate his Illuttrious| * Romidns but to your Lordfhip # vhom are united thef€ great} ‘Nanics -of Bertu “and ' Norris 5 Naines {6 Glorious in.our An The Epiftle Dedicatory. nals, that the Actions of Heroes cannot be remembred without them, for they both ac Home and Abroad have highly Ccke- brated the ‘True Englith Nobi- liry and Virtue. "Tis an‘Injury to name Pasticulars’, where there. arefo many eminent Cha- raéters of both Sexes, who have Tmmortaliz’d the former , and now Adom the prefent. Age, My Lord, your moft Confpi- cuous Houle is like Virgil's Sa cred Tree, where there never will be wanting a Golden Bough : —Primo avulfo, now deficit & fimili frondefcit Virga Metallo, » Ag IThe Epifile Dedicatery.: J obferv’d much of this-In= nate Worth from the Conver; fation. of your Sons, who in the various Scenes of Youth ever difcover’d. ex Traduce, a ftrong’ Byafs go. Sincerity and Honour. My ford, I will ftop my juft’ Excomium , and not incur the Cenfure of a common Dedicator, though Ineed not fear fuch a Criticifim from the vaft Merits of my Caufe ; yet give me leave in Gratitude to. declare, I am in- finitely oblig’d to your Lord fhip for your conftant Encou- yagement in my Scholaftick Way of Life; for your Appre- bation of my general Method pfa Learned Academy, where our Englith. Youth might be he The: Epifile Dedicatory:. softrudted in all Exercifes, and the feveral Parts of Solid Learn- ing, without the Varnith of a Fortign Excurfion ; -whence much Money is export withs, out the -Imporanon of .any, Staple Commediry : And at batt it appeafs,” : , Celum, non animum mutant, qui trans Mare currunt.;.. « I remember your Lordthip once difcourfing withme, men- tioned your Recommendation to the Reverend Dr. Fe, that Excellent Bithop of Oxford,how beneficial:.ic might prove. to Young Gentlemen to have:an Academy ereéted for their Ser- yice in that Univerfiry:: ThatFhe Epiftle Dedicatory. Arts and Sciences ought to be united, and as formerly-at A- thens and Rome, cohabit in one place. I cannot tell what were the Objections or Impediments of fo ufeful a Propofition, whe-, ther that “Wife .Governour thought the Defign.-and Fa- tigue too great , confidering the Lazy Temper of “our De- generate Youth, or-the Phan- taftick Frugality of many Un- happy Parents, who are more Gencrousto a Foppifh Dancing- Matter; than a Worthy Tutor, preferring the Motions of their ns Feet, to the Idea’s of his Brain ;° and think ‘the Bill of an Extravagant Taylor, more fatisfactory than the Salary: of his Induftrious Preceptor. - ee Hos Foe: Epifte Deditaroiy. : inter fumptus,. feflertia: - Quintiliano, we Pa Ut multum-duo. fufficient, rex _ nulla Minoris’ -* i + Conftabit Patri, quam Filins: ~ For my part, ‘after fome ears fpent for the Publick Good, I reft with pleafure, Confcious:to- my .felf; thac I ever did my Duty, ‘and have done confiderable Service, as well prefent, as future to many Noble Families , that I have never been‘a Pedant, but made the Gentleman and Scholema- fter mix together, that I have defign’d’ amongft us a Schela Iaftris, ;Comprehenfive of in- ward and. outward Accom- wey plifhments,* flinétion, fo pan The Epifile Dedicatory. . plithments, and that I thall leave a Scheme for fome more Wor- thy Undertaker, who may de- fervea Publick Sypportand Di ( to our De- triment neglected -in England, and Se pronoted in every emi- nent Europe. 1 confels, the Satyrift cries out, . Declamare doces, 0 ferrea pe- ora Vetti. : : _ The Life of a Schoolmafter is indeed very _(ollicitous,- though ever judged Honoura.- rable by all Good Men, and the Cares of it intolerable, ex-- cept the happy Genius of the Mafter, with’ good Citcum: ftances, fomewhat. alleviates the The Epifile Dedicatory: the trouble, Ba my. Qualifications me more eafie, I will the Name, and not the‘Thing, and go on for fome timein my for- mer Courfe and Method with- out the Reflection. ~ My Lord, Give me leave'to publith oni this Occafion, unm der your Patronage, my future Determination as to my Im- ployment : I prefume your Sentiments may agree’ with other Perfons of Quality, to whom I haye Communicated my ‘Thoughts, with which I have laboured: long ago, who have defired me not yet to be - Gred out, but to contract my Society to- a Tefs‘ Number, to tum my Domefticks into . French,The Epifile Dedscatory. fronch, ‘for: a conftant ee feany tion tos ee theLanguage; fe to chofe my Papils, to admit g Geatlemen to-have fin: fhave found nothing fon x gle Rooms with Servants, that [perience more Charming to we. may: live our Collegiate Youth than the Praétice of Life wit re Profit and Pleas fare, excluding forthwith all thofe ofa violent and ftubbornt Temper. ight Hand in Hand to per- Di Majoran uinbris teinem, form their meafures, and have & fine ponderé terram, lways been the Rule of our Spirantefque crocos, (in ied tudies. Cicero fignalized -his “. perpetuum ver, = ~ judgment: when he faid, That - Qui Praceptorem Sax v0: fe Man without Hiflory is almays ... luere. Parents: 1 Child, and -therefore for its - Effeleco.— *~ on ale ie is (tid by him as Teftis fe. * Glemporum, Lux Veritatis, Vita This Refolution-is:mntich-¥e |Memorie, Magifira Vite’; from fpeéted, and.in-the Opiniofiof with Livy-we are by fon: niafiy mersini ai ale ie: piftle Dedicaroy: ner. Examples encouraged : to’ ‘Virtue, and deterr’d from Vice- ‘Thus the great Polybins pro- nounces it, —— : “aed oh under Empariegs TD cis dvlefaué SibeSoar FAT oes fonulrar resteen A Pasiunes But Hiftory is lovely to eve- ry Eye from its Natural Beau“ ie¥and wants not to be drefs'd} with thefe ends of Gold and} Silver: *Tis no lefs-evident that} ‘Franflation: fixes it, and ent preves-at once two Langi Fhaften to 1 ftif’s Pardon for this’ Fan Epiftle;- asking leave to intrd= BA dai’ theft Young: “Teanflagots Who without any exick: appear ind angilages: beg Your ‘Bords jf The Epifile Dedicatory: i their Primitive Simplicity before you. : My Lord, I conclude with yy moft profound - Refpects, nd moft humble Thanks for Your Favours, for ‘the-ac- efs and eafe.ef Your Conver- ation , for-¥our Kind Withes, which .Great and Good Qua- ities norie: fesand Extends more than Your Lordthip; who, pefides Your*imany Virtues, which in Reverence I fhall not how mention being fo well kgown,. are by Your Conde. ention, fo truly great and loble. I heartily pray that things may fortunately fuc- d according to Your defires @ toLIFE of [Sextus Aurelius Victor. Extus Aurelius Viftor was Y firit publifhed by the ed Andreas Schottus, and ourithed under the Emperors. Eonjfantius-and: Julian 5 for in© The Lifecof, &c. mané. For our Book, ‘thi : it goes under his name, is of a far different flile, and gives you better Latin than that of the Emperors, which is harfh and unequal, yet fententious, and = recommend § o ae lgment , not Phrafe. Therefore fome have rather afcribed thefe Lives to Cornelius Nepos , Pliny Junior, or Suetonius ; Others will have it to he according to the Title, amongit whom is the Learned Voffius - —Si quid novifli rettins | iftis, ' €andidus imperti, fi non, his “'" “gtere mecum. + THEte THE LIVES OF the Iluftrious ROMANS. Wrie in Latin by SEXTUS AURELIUS VICTOR: “TRANSLATED by Mr JOHN AUSTEN, From the Building of Rome; to the ‘Year 244. PROCA King of the Albans. ROCA King of the Albans had ay, two Sons, Amulius and Numiter, pir» f to whom he left his Kingdom #. with the Condi igning yearly *'* by{21 by turns. " Amulins, at the Expiration of his Term, refus’d to furrender tlie Kingdom to his Brother : and intend- ing to deprivehim of lifue, made Rhea Silvia his Daughter chief PrieftefS of Vefta, that the might always live a Maid, But fhe was got with Child by ‘Mars, and brought forth Romulus and ‘Remus Which farprize provok’d Amulius to imprifon her, and throw her Chil- dren into the Titer, but they being pre- ferv’d by the Ebbing of the Water, and O34 his Brother bur fix. And that he might begin to fecure his City by the Obfer- vation of Laws before he builc Walls for its Defence; he gave order that none ihould prefame to go over his Rampire, which Remus leaping in de- nifion, is faid to have been killed with 4 Mattock by Fabius Celer the Cen- turion. ROMULUS Firft King of the Romans: Romulus, vo increate his People, fet: U& an Afjlam, ot Place of Refuge, for baiting Strangers, and of them compofeda #f Rome, Jefe upon the Shoar, their Cries in- vited a She-Wolf to haften to their th Relief, and give them fuck. Some j time ziterchey were found by Fayflalze, great Army, But confidering peomeeel ple the King’s Shepherd, and by him WivCS ee ee eo hich being 2 them of his Neighbours, which being "f este nil 5 Wife Acca : brought home to his Wife Acca Lauren denied, he pretended, in Honour or tis to take care of them. Thefe Neptune, the Celebration of Hoxle- young Princes, when grown up , flew Amalivs, and rettored their Grand- facher Numiter to his Kingdom, and then by the heip of the Shepherds, who in great numbers joyn’d them, they buiita City, which Romulus catled Roms, he having had the better Fortune in Augury totec owelve Vultures, aa hi his} Races, called Confualia; and when a at Concourle of Men and Women came to fee thole Sports he gave a cer tain Signal to the Romans to take away the Maids by force. One of which was fo beautiful, that the mov'd the > Spsttarors to inquire where they car Bx riedEq] ried her ; It was anfwer'd, to Capiain Thalaffus, Which Marriage proving ve- ry fortunate, it was ordain'd, they uld invoke the Name of Zhalaffas in all facure Nuptials. The firft who made War for this Rape were the Ceni= nénfes, againtt whom Romulus miarched in perfon, andovercame them, killing Acro their General, in a fingle Com- bat, and confécrating his rich Sj 0 Jupiter Feretrius in the Capitol. Then the Antemnates, Cruftumini, Fidenates, Vejentes, with the Satines, were Con- federates againft them on the fame Account ; who approaching nigh 1 Rome, feiz'd the Vizgin Tarpeja, as fhe went to the Zii.7 °o draw Water for the Sacrifices. King Titus Tatines prof fer'd her the choice of any Reward, if fhe would let his Army into the Capi- tol; Towhich fhe conienting, demand- ed all they woreon their Left Arms, meaning their Rings and Bracelets, which being promiféd with Equivoca- tion, and the Gare left open, the Se eines gain’d the Caitle, and by Zitus’s Order prefled her to death, with the Shields C5] Shields,carried alfo,on their Left Arms, Romulus drew out his Forces againft Tatius, who had pofle@'d himfelf of the Tupejan Hill, and fought him in the Place, now the Reman Forum where Hioftus Hoftilius, one of his beft Off- cers fighting valiantly was flain. By whofe death the Romans were difcou-- raged, and began to give ground; et after that Diforder , upon Romue hes vowing to erect a Temple to Jar piter Stator, if he would his Ar- my’s Flight, the Soldiers made a ftand, either by Accident, or fome Divine Inftind. In this Juncturethe Women came between both Armies, and me- diating with their Fathers and Husbands, at laft procured a Peace, Romulus then made a Solemn League with the Sabines,and received them into Rom:, as Fellow Citizens ; uniting the People by the common Title of Quiri- tes, from Cares, a Town of the Sabines. He eftablithed an hundred Senators, who for Reverence were ftiled Fa- thers, and infticured three Centuries of Knights ; the firft were called Ram- . “ "> B3 nenfes,[6] nenfes, from his own Name; the fecond, Tabienfes, ftom Titus Tatius ; and the third, Luceres, from Lucumo. He di-| vided the common People into thirty Companies, and diftinguifted themby, the Names of the principal Women j But after the Mufter of his Army at the} Lake Cupra, he wasnever {een more. From which Accident a Diffention ari-| fing between the Senators, and the Peo:| pe Julius Proculus,a Nobleman, came fore them, and affirmed upon Oath, that he faw Romulus on the Hill Qairi- nals, in a more fplendid and augutt Form than heretofore, as a Proof his being Deified, who commanded them to ceafe from Seditions, and to love Virtue; Thus they thould become Lords of the World. The Romany believd him , thority among them ; therefore they built Romulus a Temple upon the Hil Quirinalis, and worlhip'’d himas a Go by the Name of Quirings, NUM. 173 NUMA POMPILIUS, Segond King of the Romans. ‘Afcer the Confecration of Romulus, the People growing mutinous from 2 long Znterregnum, and the want of a Suceefior, Numa Pompilias, the Son of {ent for from Cures, a Town. of the Sabines. Hecameto Rome with the aflurance of good Omens : and that he might foften this fierce People with a Senfe of Religion, he inftitured ma- ny holy Rites; built a Temple to ¥e- ‘fia,and appointed the Vettal Nuns. He ‘ordain’d the thee Flamensfor the par- ticular Sacrifices of Jupiter, Mars, and Romulus, and conftitured the twelve Salii Priefts of Murs, the chief of which was called Prefil. Hee created the Hligh-Prieft, and built a ‘Temple for Janus, ( who was reprefented with _two Faces) the Gates of which were "hue in Peace, and open in War. ea cae aie into twelve mnths, by ing ‘fanwary and February, and made many prostable B4 " "Laws,[3] ‘Laws, pretending he did all tho things by the Direction of his Wife the Nymph Zgeria. None of his Neigh- bours made War upon him, out of the great. refpect they had of his Juftice. He died Peel Death, and was buried in the Mount Faniculus ; where many years after a certain Man, by Name, Zerentius, as he was ploughing, found a Stone-Cheft with foittteen Books in it, which containing many flight and. frivolous Reafons about their Religious Ceremonies, were burnt in prudence by an Order of the Senate. [ol their General, and comitmanded the Inhabitants to remove to Rome. He built that ‘Senate-Houfe, from him called Hoftilia, and added. the Mount Celiusto the City. At laft, as he imi- tated the Example of Numa Pompilias in his Sacrifices, he by miftaking the Ceremonies performed to Fupiter Eli- cias , fo enraged the God , that he was ftruck dead with a Thunder-Bolt, and his Palace burnt with Lightning. The HORATII and the CURIATIL The Romans and the Albans having ¥-©- 86. for a long time carried on a War under peach. TULLUS HOSTILIUS Third | Hoftilins and Fufitins, and finding their 664- U.C. 82. Beferech. 668. King of the Romans. Tullus Hoftilius, fot his good Ser- vice againft the’ Sabines, was made King. "He proclaimed War with the Albans, which was ended by a Com- bat of three Brotherson each fide; the Fforatii on the Romans, and the Curiatii on the Al:ans. He demolithed Alta for the Treachery of Metins ‘Fufttius, , theiy Forces daily to decrea(é, they refolved to determine it with the lof of a few. ‘The Romans chofe out thrce Brotheis, called Floratiis and the Albans the three Curiatii , for this Combat, in which two of the Romans were preféntly flain, and the three Albans wounded. Now Horatiue, who farvived, perceiving this, and judging’ himfelf unable, tho not Wounded, to fight with three, feigned a[10] a Flight, and by this Stratagem kill'd them one by one, purfuing him as! their Wounds would permit them. The Conqueror in his return, laden with the Spoils of his Enemies, met his Sifter, who. wept when fhe fw the Embroider'd Coat of her flain Lover, one of the Cariati. This Indifcretion ovok’d him in his rage to kill her, for which bloody Fact he was con- demned by the Daumviri, two Judges| appointed for that purpofe. Buc ap- appealing to the People, with the af fance of his Fathers Supplications and Tears, he obtain’d his Pardon, yet toexpiate his Crime, he was for’ Zed to go under a Gibbet, which is to be feen’ at this day in the High-way,| and called Sororitm. METIUS FUFETIUS. Metins Fufztins, the Alan General, pecs Sbferving himfelf much haved by his $a2. Citizens for putting an end to the War by the Comat of the Hlratii and the Cariaii , to make amends, fecretly| Stir’ V.C. 88. {x01 ftin’d up the Veentes and the Fidenates againft the Romans. Now Tullus, upon account of the League between them, demanded Faf:tius's Auxiliary Forces; who before the Fight Gains ‘Army upon a Hill, expecting the Bvere of the Battle, with a defigi to fall in with the Conqueror. 7ullus underftanding his Defign; gave pub- lick Notice that AMstins was potted there by his Order; by which Artifice the Enemies were terrified, and cafily overcome, And when Metius came the next day to congratulate him for his ViGtory, hewasby King Tullw’s Com- mand tyed to four Horfes , and for his Treachery pull’d in pieces. ANCUS MARCIUS Fourth King of the Romans. Ancus Marcius, Nema Pompilins’s vc.ary- Grandfon by his Daughter, was not afer unlike his Grandfather, either in his Jyffice, or Piety. He overcame the Latins ; added the Hills Avcmsinus and Faniculus to Rome; : new. [1324 Gity of the Txfci. In’ his Jourtiey thither: ah habeas his.Cap, and:after-a Ihigh Flight replaced. it on his Head ; Which Zanaquil his Wife obferving, fhe cori her great Skill in Augury, knew y that Omen, he fhould obtain the ingdom. Targuinius by his Riches aad Induftry rais\d himfelf to great fonour, and became a particular Fa- rite to King Ancas, who dying, left him Guardian. of his Children; ut he governed in his own Name, ruled with fiich Juice, as if he ad been lawful Succeffor. He chofe n hundred new Senators , whom he i'd the Inferior Order, and doubled | {22] new wall’d the City, and confifcated ehg timber of fome Woods for publick Ship- ing-He laid a Tax on Salt-Pits;was the Fett chat built a Prifon, and planted a Colony at Offia,fituate atthe Mouth of| the Tiber, very convenient for Trade. He aifo inftitured the Office of He- ralds, to aflift Embafladors in de- manding fatisfaction : which Cuftom was borrowed from the Aquiculi , 2 People of Latiun, and reported to have been found outby Rhefus arthe Siege of Troy, Thushaving fettled thele things J ina very fhort time, he was taken 2+ way by an untimely Death, and-by that Misfortune could not complete the Charaéter-of fo great a King as his Subjeéts expedted fiom him. » and fully convine’d of his Art by the Experiment of the Whetftone cut atwo by a Razor. He overthrewthe ins ; built the Circus Maximus for LUCIUS TARQUINIUS PRISCUS Fifth King of the Romans poosryy. Lucins Tarquinins Prifeus was Son RefireCh. that Damaratus of Corinth, who flyin: 8 from the, Tyrant pe, feccled -i -Etraria, He was firlt called Lucwm and came to Reme~from ere fe triumphed over the Sabines, and Latins who were called Prifc. HeC14] He fortified the City with a Wall of Stone, and rewarded the Valour of his Son, who at the Age of thirteen years wounded his Enemy in a Battel; giving him a Coat edg’d wich Purple, and a Necklace with a Golden Bofs, which were the Ornaments of Gentle mens Sons. Ar laft he was trapan’d out of his Palace by a Plot of Amcas’sChil- dren, and murder’d by their Appoint» ment. SERVIUS TULLIUS Sixth} ‘King of the Romans. ‘ervius Tullius was the Son of Pub- Se UG-75- tins Corniculanus, and the Captive 0+| Bech. crifia, He whiift he was brought up in| ‘S75- Tarquinins Prifeas’s Palace, a tambent Flame was -feen to circle his Head, Queen Tanaguil upon her Oblervation| judg’d it as a certain Prediction of his future Dignity: and thereupon per fwaded her Husband to breed him uy as he did his own Children. Wh he came to Man’s Eitate, Zarquini Prifias made him his Son-in-Law. a afi tho not a mortal Wound, and defired that till he was cured, they would fiabmit to Servius Talins. ‘Thus he fication with Trenches about the City; land -divided the People into four Tribes , call’d Palatina, Efquilina , Suburrana, and Collina, allotting the poorer fort a proportion of Corn out of the publick Granary. He fertled Mea« fares and Weights, with the DiftinGtion of the Citizens into Ciaffes and Hun- dreds, and was the firft that made a Regift. r of Eftates, till then unknown in any Country. He perfwaded the Latins to build a Temple to Diana on. the Mount Aventinus, in imitation of that ar Ephefus. Atcer it was built, a certaia Latin had a Cow-calf of 2 Wonderful Bignels, and ‘twas told him inU6. one of a fierce, and the Berech. mild Difpofition ; 534 £ é} 4n’a Dream, that thatPeople fliould. te Sovereign over the reft, wl fe Citizens fhould facrifice that young Cowto Dis na. The Latin drove the Cow to Mount} “Aventine, and declar’d this Secret 16a) Roman Prick, who cunningly told him he onght firft to purifie his Hands in| a clear running Stream, and whilft the fimple Latin went down to the Tiber;} the Prieft facrificed the Cow ; by this lent Trick procuring Glory tohim felf, and Empire to his People. TULLIA Servias Tullins had two Daughters other ot 4] and from his Re+ mark, that Targninius Prifcus had two Sons of the fame ‘Temper, he married his fierce Daughter to Tarquinias's mild Son, and his mild Daughter to} his fierce, that he might qualifie theit Minds by the Difference of theif Natures. It happened both the g natur'd died, either 2 natural Death} or elf. by Poifon, . Upon which ti C17] ill natur’d married from, the fimilitude of their Humors. Soon after Zarqui- nias Superbas, by the inftigation of his Wife Yulia, having made a party, and |Serviss was informed, bh ithe Senate, where he was flung down iftairs by Zarguinius’s Order, and flain las he fied to his Palace. aillia made to the Forsm, and was the firft thar faluted her Husband King, who lorder'd her to retire from the Crowd. She going home beheld, without any ion, her Father’s dead Body lie ?din the Streets, and command~ her Coach-man, abhorring the Cru- ity, todrive overhim. Whence that was call’d Sceleratus, or Wicked; this bloody Zwllia afterwards ba- i(h'd with her Husband Tarquin. ARQUINIUS SUPERBUS Seventh King of the Romans. Tarquinine Superbus obiain’d his Sit- Cc name ve29. BefrsCh. 53pital City Sueffa Pometia, the Town ft by the Policy of Son Sextus, who pretended to_ revol him for his Cruelty. He Spedtarors in the Circus, and made great Common-Shoar, which, Di Were called Quiritium, becaufe in ‘Work he had employed all the Peopl Hein layi 1g the Foundation of the pitol, Mound the Head of one Tolus whence ‘twas prediéted, thar 2 fhould become the Head of all Ni tions. He was banith’d Rome, vogt ther with his lafcivious Son Sextus, f the Rape he commited,” during Siege of Ardea, upon the chalt erctia, and fied to Porfenna, King Ftraie, by whole Aififtance he deavoured e regain his loft Ki devi; but after feveral Repulfes, he tetired to Cele, a City in Campania, finithing thete the Remiainder of his Life very ignominioufly. ce Mr HENRY EWER: From the Year 244 10 388. 0 i. TARQUINIUS COLLATINUS and LUCRETIA his Wife. 7] Hilt Zarquinias Clltinas, Wd v.cigi. ‘was Tarquinius Superbuihis Si- axed: ftet’s Son, ferved tinder hisUncle, with 506. others of his Relations, at_the Siege of Ardea, an accidental Difcourfé fall- ing out at a merry Entertainment be- tween the young Princes, concerning the “Excellencies of their Wives, they agreed to make Experiment of this Pre- ference, and all take Horfe for- Rome; where the Kings Sons furpri Ex theirvicss BefreC 505. [20] their CarelelS Wives, diverting them- felves at a luxurious uet. Thenee they go to Collaia, where Lucretia fiv'd, and find her fpinning among her ‘Maids,for which, in all their Opinions, fhe was efteem’d the moft virtuous. But Sextus Tarquinius falling in love with her, came back that night with 2 defiga upon her Honour ; and by the privilege of a Kinfman being kind- iy entertain’d at Coltins his Hout, he brake into Lucretia’s Chamber, and ra- vifh’d her. She the next day fends for her Father and Husband the Camp, and after the Difcovery of the Rape, fhe ftabsher felf, with a Dagger fecretly conceal'd under her Garment. This horrid Crime engag’d them in a Confpiracy to ruin Zarquin’s Family, and by their Banihment to revenge her Death. LUCIUS JUNIUS BRUTUS Fin Ronan Conf. L. Junius Brasus, allo Targuini- as Supertus his Sifters Son , fearing the} Car] the fame Misfortune which his Brother had fuffered, who for his great Riches and Wifdom was killed by his jealous” Uncle, pretended himfelf a Fool, and from thence called Brutus. He once, for fports fake, being admitted a Compa- nion to the young Princes Zitas and Aruns going to Delphi to confult the Oracle, he prefented Apollo with 2 hollow Stick fil'd. with Gold, and when “twas anfwer'd by the Prieftefs, that he would be molt pawerfyl at Rome, who fhould firft kifS his Mo- ther, he immediately ki(S’d the Earth, the common Parent of all, things. Afterwards, in revenge of Lncretia’s Rape, he combined with Zricipitinus, and Collatinus, to _extirpate the Zar- quins. Upon whofe Banifhment he was created the firft Conful,and was fo zea- lous for the good of the Common- wealth, that he {par’d not his own Sons and Nephews, who were plotting wich the Vitellii,and the Aquillii,to reftore the Targuins, bat t them into the Forum, where he caus'd them firft to be whip'd, and then beheaded. At laft, 7 mwos. aefrece. trafei endeavourd to reitore the Tar- 505+ { 22] in a Battel againft them, he and Arans ing’s : the King’s Son fighting together with ‘implacable Hatred, kill'd one another. His Body was brought into the Forum, MUTIUS SC.EVOLA, where his Colleague extoll’d him in a . Eancral Oration, and the. Roman Ma- J Whilft Rome was belieg’d by King vic... grons mourn’d for him a whole year as J Porfenna, Mutins Cordus, a Manof true peferech, the Defender of their Chaftiry. Roman Refolution, went to the Senate, sos. ; to kill the King, if they HORATIUS COCLES. When Porfenna, King of the B- ins, and at ‘his figit Arcemy had ta- 4 fen the Ell “Faniculus, Horan Cacles,fa fj brought before the King, as he was fa- firnamed from the lofs of his Eye in a crificing , Mutius thruft his Right foumer Battel, {tood on the Wooden [Hand into the Fire, punithing it on Bridge, and there fingly maintain’d ffthis manner for killing the wrong per- his Poft againft the Enemy, until the fon, When he was commanded to be Brdpe wae broken behind him, with [j'2Sen from che Flames, by the Cle- which he fell into the Zier, and arm’d mency of Porfenms, in return of his as he was, he fam fafe to his own ;, hetold him, that threehun- Party. For this Noble Aétion the,Re- publick conferr'd on him as mi Ih ; Pand as he could plough round in one te fame thing, At whicl day, and hig Statue was fet up in the was fo terrified, that receiving place C4 eesES TEE [241] [25] geshe put an end to the War. ‘The Senare,as a Reward forthis,gave Matius | The three hundred and fix FABII. fome Land beyond the Tiber, from him| call’'d the Mutian Fields, and erected aff In the War between the Romansand U.c.274, Stame in Honour of him. the Veientes , the Fabian Family pro- peysch, pee to the Senate, the carrying it on 476. CLALIA. vy themfélves at their Expence, They marched out three and. UC.245- — Porfenna receiv’d, among the Romasfl fix, under the Command of Fabixs the nfwech. Hoftages, Clelia, a Virgin ofa Noblel™ Conful, and after great SuccefS in {e- 5°5- Family , who by a Deceit pt cea veral Skirmifhes, encamp'd at the Ri- her Keepers, efeap'd out of his Camp[f ver Cremera, But the Veientes who put by night, and fwam the Tiber with aff their greateft Confidence in Strata- Horfe, which fhe accidentally found gems, plac’d Cattle in Veiw on the other fe, which the Fabii going to his Embafladors, and had her reftor’d,§f feize, fell into an Ambush, andwere all yetwas fo great an Admirer of her Cou-§ cut off. Theday therefore whereon this rage, thar he gave her leave to return happened was numbered in the Calen- i 4 dar amongftthe Unfortunate, and the fhould defire, fhe chofe the young Menf Gate at which went our, call- and Maids whom fhe knew were moft{f ed Scelerata, or Unhappy. One only -expos'd to the Violence of the Soldiers. of that Family, by rea{on of his Mino- For which brave A@ion, the Romansffl rity,was left at home; and from himthe fet up her Statue on Horfe-back in theff Name was continued to Fabius Maxi- Foram. mus, who by his avoiding Battel, much weakened Hannibal's Army ; for which, hei by his Detractors he was nam’d Cunéfa- or Delayer. PUB-a eile iia oleae [26] { 27) by the Matrons, as Brutus his Col- PUBLIUS VALERIUS Beaguc had been before him. POPLICOLA, o Publias Vaterias, the Son of Valufas, 6:45: eeinmphed three times; fitt over the | King Tarquin after his Banithment p, BifreCh Poientes, then over the Sstints, and Wed to Mamilins, Lord of Ta (culam his 7257 5°5- faftly over them bath. But becaufe he is ith the Affiftance Bfirech. choke no Conful, in place of Bratns 7 the Romans in? his Colleague, and dwelt in Velia a [Brrear Difficulties. chofe therefore of firength in Rome, he Wcdus Pofthumius DiGzator, who fought a : he Enemy at the Lake Regillus, where vernment, At his knowledge hereof fivhen the Victory was doubefal, Cof- being much difturbed,he complain’d to [Fi, the General of the Horfé, ufed the People for entertaining fuch ill his Soop a tte a he fent prefencly to have his fe be impoflible in their to pull'd down., He alfo orderd the car fRop ter Cariet. By which rough rying of Rods without Axes in the they routed the Latins, and i a a tac Alem their Camp. In this Aétion were of Re fore a. po| » Pbbferv’d among them two yo making a Law for appealing from the fen remarkable for their Valour, ‘Magificates vo, the People; for which fin ounted on white Horfés, whom the ULUS POSTHUMIUS. Popularity he was called Poplicols. ByiGtator,after a fearch for,that he mi cht ‘And afer foue Conflhips died, fo Sea acting cot heir Bes , that he was buried by publick Rit, could not find, therefore fuppo- leétion, and mourn’d for one year fling them to be Caffor and Pollax, he bye” _ confecratedv.c-292. Befre 458. [-28 ] éonfecrated a Temple to them both, LL. QUINCTIUS CINCINNATUS, ‘The Juftice of Lucius Quinttins Cin-| ch. cinmatus was very exemplary in difins heriting his undutiful Son Xéfo, wha| to revenge that, and the Scandal laid upon him by the Cenfors, fled to the Polfer,and the Sabines,chen in War wit the Romans, under the Command off Clelins Gracchus, by whom Q, Minutins the Confal, with his Army , was block’d up in Mount Algidus. But Quir-| éins being made Di@ator, the Meffen- gers that carried his Commiffion | fented by Minucius with a Crow call’d Obfidionalis, particular to thof who had valiantly rais‘d a Siege. He totally routed the Enemy, took their General Prifoner, and made hi walk before his ‘Triumphal “Charior ‘This War was fo foon ended, ae went Servilivs Ahala, General of the Horfe, to execute Spurins Melins, whoambiti- loufly aim’d at the Subverfion of the Government ; is Houfe ; From whence that place was call’ Aiquimolinan. MENENIUS AGRIPPA LANATUS. Menenins Agrippa, fircnamed Lanatws, was chofen General againft the Sa- lines, and triumph’d for his ViGory over them. In his time the People mutined againft the Senators, and march’d out of Rome to the Sacred Hill, not able any longer to en- dure the Burden of their ‘Taxes, and the continual Services of the War, nor would be brought back to their Dwellings. Agrippa therefore told them. this Fable; Once the parts of the Body fuppe- Sg vc259. Befart Ch, 49.ee { 30] fing the Belly tobe idle , and afelfs C260. Bffaech. when his General Pi 490. -d, and denied it their affft But when by this Folly they themfelves gan to grow weak, and wnderftood that tl ‘Meat which the, Belly receiv'd wat difpes by its power through the other they were foon reconcifd. Thus the nate and the People; as one Body, Difcord are ruin'd, but by Concord flowr| By this Moral he teduc'd the ftat Multitude, and created Ttibunes the People to defend their Liberty, gainft the HaughtinefS of the Nobij lity. This Menenias died {o poor, the People made a Collection for hi Funeral, and the. Senate fer up a fument for him at the publi Charge: C. MARCIUS CORIOLANU. Cains Marcins (62a Coriolanus, fe his taking Corioli, a Ci of the Volf g him any Reward he would ask, f the brave A@tions he fd in War, he, aneminent Example of V: t3i] dnd Friendfhep , only took a Horfe, anda Friend of his, who ‘was-amongft is Confalthip , his Order was btought out of Sicily, and fold to the People at 4 dear rate; that he might conftrain them by this Severity to mind their Husbandry, ‘and not promote Sedition. Upon an Ac- cufition by’ Decivs, Tribune of the People, he was banifh’d, and flying to the Volfei, fided with them, under the Command of Astins Tallus, againft the Romans, encamping within four Miles of the Gity: And would not be ap- 2d by any Embafly from Rome; till at Jaft, by the Interceffion of his Mother Vetraria,and his Wife Velumnia, with a great number of Matrons in their Retinue; he put an end to the’ ‘War, and was afterwards put to death asa Traitor, by the Volfei. For this there was a Temple built, Fortene Boo Kebri, To Good Fortune procur’d by Women. CLpiel le nee, one emma (32) ‘@LICINIUS STOLO. 6.388. week. whom he married, ohe to Licinins Stele, Af JDlebeian, the other to Aulus Suiits, (33) Right, enjoy’d as much more in the Name of his Son, whe was out of his , Tuition, for which Violation, he was cal’'d-to ‘an Account ; and was the firft that fuffer'd by his own AG. beian SS whofe Hasband was Tribune of the Soldiers, at that time of equal Power with a Conful, difcover'd her ill Breed- ing by her Fright at the fight of the Mr. RICHARD TEMPLE. From the Year 302. ‘to 434. U.C. Rods and Axes plac bythe LiGorsatf the Door, for wi her, fhe complain’d of the Affront to her Husband, who by theaffiftance of his Father-in-law, when he was made Tribune of the People,eftablith’d a Law, that one of the Confuls Should ‘always be chofen out of the Commoners. This, altho much oppos’d by Appius Clandins, took effect; Licinins Stole was firlt created Conful. He alfo made another Law, that n0 Plebeian fhould have above five hun- dred Acres of Land; and yec he ha- ving five hundred Actes in his own Right, UCIUS VIRGLNIUS Centurion. their Factious Tribunes, they fet p the Decemviri, who by their Office jup new Laws upon twelve Tables, lleéted from thofe which Solon gave ‘Athenians: and whilft thefe Ten the 7 Hen the Roman ftrates were defigning by agree- to continue the Government 2- ngit themfelves , one af chem, by D Name le could 2055. no longer_bear the Infolence 6"{351 The Image of RSCULAPIUS bronght to Rome. "The Romans afiiGted with a grievous ¥-452. Peftilence, pis ore the Oracle ert her fof Apollo at Delphi, being order’d **” to fetch the Image of Aiculapius from Fpidauram a City of Epirus, they im gain, mediately difpatch’'d away ten Em? baffadors, of whom Quintus Ogulnins was chief in the Commiflion. As ‘no means debauch, ieee Marcus Claudius to demand. for his Slave, as born in his Fi “bur ftoln away by Vig thought his Peint not Farewel of her; fo going afide, as it were, for private Ditcourte, Laat her, and’ throwing her Body TM sion of all, went into the Roman Gally, and rolled: it {elf up in Ogsilnius his Cabin, They came with the God as far as Aatium, a Port in Italy, where the Sea being very rough, the Snake leapt over Board, and went directly to the Neighbouring Temple of A/c lapis : yer after fome few days return- to theGally, and as they row’d up Di the Mount Aventinus, fore’d the Decem viri to abdicate their Power, and nifh'd them all either by Death or nifhment, only Appiss Clandins W found.dead in Prifon.{ 36.) the Tiber, itleapd into the little Ifland, that was form’d of Zargquin’s Palace, thrown into the River, where a Tem- ple was built to /eulapius, and the Plague fuddenly ftop'd. FURIUS CAMILLUS. When Furius Camillus befieged the "Oa: Falifti the Schoolmatter of the Town, 392 by a pretence of taking a Waik, came cher Ro him with tioft of the chief Citizens Sons; bur inftead of being Kindly received by Camillus, he was orderd for his Perfidioufnels to be bound and whip’d back into the Town by his Scholars : which oblig'd the Falifei, tranfported with fach a remarkable At of Juitice,’ to yield up| themfelves, and their Town’ to hir. He had the Honour of a Triumph fer taking the City Veii after ten years Siege, yet was accufed for having ad his Triumphal Chariot drawo with white Horlés, an Honour only lawful in the proceffion of Jupiter, and the Sum; alfo that ie had unequally divided| (371 divided the Plinder they took-ar thé Sacking of Veii: for which, cited to his Tryal by Apuleius the Tribune of the People, he was found. guilty, and banifh’d to Ard:a. About this time the Gulli Senones forfaking their own Country for its Barrenne(s, came into Tialy, and befieged Clufium, a Town in Etruria, . T! Embafladors were fent from Rome to adyife them to de- f(t from their Enterprife, and one of them, by name Quintus Fabins, ina Bartle,contrary to the Law of Nations, kili’d the General of the Gauls; Thisfo enrag’d them, that upon denial of far- rendring ‘he Embatladors, according to their Command, they march’d diz rectly towards Rome, and beat the Ro- manson the fixteenth of the Kalends lof Auguff, at the River Alia, which, Day was ever after reckon'd in the Ka- lendar amongit the Nefaji, or Un- lucky, and call’d Alienfis. “The con- quering Gawls enter'd the City, and at ficft fight of the Senators, drets’d in their Robes, and fitting in their Ivory Chairs, worfhip’d them as the Tutelar : D3 Gods“yo. ee 393 Breafé Tt, Was he, when the City prs cals, that advisd the Retitain- pal, and tbh By te itol, one ni ic Gabling ofa 5 as eee : my, fealing the Hill ; for which Aétion he, was ftil'd Patron by His Citizens, who in Gratitude brought hima Do- native of Corn out of their particular Allowance, tho they were in great want of it themfelves, and gave hima Houfe, at the publick Charge in the Capitol. ‘Thee Honours fo paid him up, that he created himfelf many Enemies, and was accus’d by the Se- nare; for-not having made a juft Di- flribution of the Plunder, he had ta- ken from the Gauls: alfo for paying out of his own Eftate the Debis of thof¢, who according to Law, had beehturn- ed over as Slaves to their Creditors : he was thrown into Prifon, -u fufpicion of aiming at the Crown, but fet at Liberty by the unanimous Vote of the People : relapfing into the fame Crime, and ecing in it, he was found gfilty: yet upon his looking D4 =. towards {38}, Gods of the Place; bur when they found them to be Men, they Kflld| them with all. imaginable Contempt. ‘The Remainder of the Youth fled with ‘Manlius to the Capitol, and there bey fieg’d by the Ganls, were freed by the Jar Valour of Camillus, who in| his abfence was chofen Dictator, and having gather’d the {carter’d Troops of the Roman Army, furprizing Gauls bya fadden Onfer, gain'd an ab} folure Vidtory over them: by his ad} vice, the: Remans Houtes, and’ were hinder’d from fey tling themfelves at i ftor'd the City to her Citizens to their City. | MARCUS MANLIUS CH PITOLINUS. Munlins, for the Repulfe he gave Befrech Gauls at the Capitol, call’d Capitelis RéreCh eoy'd fogteen years a5 Voluntier ind ‘Army, he had feven and th ‘Rewards given him, . and thirty Honorable Scars on UG 365.[-40] towards the Capitol, and the Remem- brance of his good Service perform’d[P UB LIU S DECIUS the -there, he was repriev'd , but then Father. condemn’d in. another . place, was thrown down the Zarpejan Rock. His Publius Decius Mus was Tribune of Uc4r7. Houle. was demolifh’d , bis Goods the Soldiers in the Sammite War, un- ayrecs, confifcated, and the Maalii ever after der Valerius Maximus, and Cornelius 333- oblig’d to renounce the Prenomes of ff Coffs the Confils. When they were Marcus. block’d up. by an Ambuth of the Ene- my, in the narrow PafS of the Moun- AULUS CORNELIUS COS-ffiain Gaurus in Sete he with a SUS. Detachment granted him upon his re- queft gain‘d an Hill, frighten’d the uic318,, The Fidenates, ancient Enemies offf Enemy, and at Midnight efcap'd fafe the Romens, thar they might fight { through their fleeping Guards. For fe srithout any hope of Pardon, kill'd the] which confiderable Service .the Army ‘8° Roman Embatladors that were in Treaty f prefented him with an Oaken Crown, with them , againft whom Quinéasl called Civica, the honourable Reward Cincinnatus was fent Dictator , with of fach as fav'd the Life of a Citizen Cornelius Ceffus, General of the Horfe, ff in Battel, and with another nam’d Ol- who with his own hand kill'd King lf fdionals, for raifingthe Siege. In the Lartes Tolumnius, and was_ the fecond {§ Latin War he and his Colle ¢ Man- from Romulus, ‘that confecrated chef ins Torquatus encamp’d at the River Spoils of a flain General to Jupiterll Veferis, where both the Confuls Feretrius, dream’d, the fame night, the Conqueft . would be theirs, whofé General fhould WUBLIVUS Fi fall in the Bartel, comparing their ° : ‘cams, t4r][42] Dreams, they agreed, that he, whofe Wing ee be worfted, fhou’d vow himfelf to the Infernal Gods, the Left Wing, which Decius com manded, giving way, he with grea 5 zefolution repeating fome Solem] Prayers after Valerius the High-Prief, devored himfelf with his Enemies to} the Infernal Gods, {6 ruthing into the Bartel, by his death, Vidory| to the Romans, P. DECIUS the Son. VC4s7- Pyblins, the Son of the former Dé PferCh.cius, in his firft Confulthip triumphed Bi and confécrared Fabius Maximus Rallianss, when the Gauls, theSamnites, the Umbri andthe Tufienterd into’ a Confederacy 2 gaint the Romans, their Army being! drawn up in Battel, and in the Fight his Wing giving ground, he, encou- raged tat the great Example of his fent for Marcus Livius the on his Spear, mged by Father , Pontifex, and. leanin; after him bequeathed Victory to his Soldiers. His Body was magnificently interred, and he prais’d in a Funeral Oration by his Colleague. TITUS MANLIUS TOR QUATUS. Titus Manlins Torquatus, for the DulnefS of his Parts, and the Ir diment of his- Speech,’ was fent_by gwech. his Father to live a private Life in °° the Country ; upon Information that his Father was accufed by Pompeius, . the Tribune of the People, he came by night to Rome, and having got an opportunity to difcourfé the Tribune in private, with his drawn Sword, fore’d him ia great fear to lay afide his Ac- gufation, In his Tribunchhip of the . Soldiers, . Uc395-343- [44] (45) : Soldiers, under Sulpicius the Dictator, i with thé additional Name of Cabvinus. he ina Duel kill'd the Gand that chal-fHis: Prudence was of: great Confe- Jeng’d the Romans, and taking off his quence to the Common-Wealth, when’ Chain, pur it on his own Neck,ffa great number of poor Debtors, not whence he was call’d’ Zorquatus. able to pay their Creditors, had ar- his Confulthip againft the Latins, tof rempted to {tize Capua, and forc’d’ maintain his Difcipline, he beheaded fl Quinéfins to head them, in appeafing his own Son, tho victorious , forff that Sedition by taking off the Debt. fighting againit his Order, and’ beat them at the River Vef7u, where his . Colleague Decixs devoted himlf w¥SPURIUS POSTHUMIUS. the Infernal Gods. a Titus Vetwrins and Spurius Pothumius 06.433. jin their Confalfhip warring with ‘thé ngfereck. MARCUS VALERIUS COR-[Sammites, were'drawn into an Ambue 3*7- VINUS. c i is ius, who {ent out {ome pretended ego. . Valerius was Tribune of the Sol-MDelercers to tell the Romans, that Lx- diers under Camillus, in purfing the[fceria, a City in Apulia, was befieg’d BefweCh. difverft Troops of the Gauls out offfby the Sammites. ‘Two Roads lead-to « Haly; and with great Bravery fought {this place, the one longer, but fafer ; the Gaul, who by a Challenge had ter- the other fhorter, yet more dangerous ; rified the whole Reman Army. A Crow [the Romans; in great hafte to raife the from Break of Day fate upon his He- Seige, by raking the ihorter way, fell met, and in the Fight affifted him by ffinto the Ambuili the place, where this flapping his Wing in his Enemics {Misfortune happen'd, was call'd Furcu- Eyes, which Victory ecaed i is is witwea oid Carfor, was fet Diétator againtt BfreCh. the Samnites, perceiving the War to be 316, (46) had taken them, fent for his Fathet Herennias, to confult his Judgment in this matter, who anfwer'd, He would eS eee to weaken ir Forces beyon: of Recavs orelfe fent ey witisat Ranfom, that they might be for ever oblig’d to him fj for fuch a generous Favour; but he rejecting both thefe Propofitions, made them all Slaves, and enterd into 4 upon that Account by them. LUCIUS PAPIRIUS CUR SOR” Lucius Papirius, fcom his Swiftnel undertook with ill Omens, he return‘d to Rome to confult the Soothfayers for better Divination and Jeft the Command] . of C471 the Army to Fabius Rullianus, with (Orders not to fight upon any Occa- ‘yet he inticed by a fair manded the Pretor of Prenefte for his Cowardife, he order’d the Lidtors to make ready their Axes; and when he ifaw him fufficiently terrified with the fear of Death, come them only ro cutup the Roots that hinder’d their March. TheEe vc434- [48] The HONORABLE Mr. ROBERT BERTIE Fiom the Year 434.-t0 511. CG. QUINCTUS FABIUS RULLIANUS. Before Ch. ‘Fabius Rallianns was the’ fick 316. . of his Family, for his Valour call'd Maximus: when he was General of the Horfe, under Papirins Curfor,. he conquer'd the Semaites, but had like to have been beheaded by the Diéta- tor, ‘for fighting without Order, in his abfence., He firft triumph’d over the ‘Apuli, and Lucerini, then over the ‘Samnites; thirdly over the Gauls, the Umbri, the Marfi, and the Tufci. In his Cenforthip he diftinguifh’d the Li bertini, in. relpedt of their Votes, bea ur [49] foun inferior ‘Tribes, and would not be chofé Cenfor a fecond time, declaring it was not for the good of the Com- monwealth to have the fame Men of- ten Cenfors. He firft inflituted the Cavalcade of the Roman Knights on the Ides of July from the Temple of Honor, upon white Horfes to the Ca- pitol. At his death fo much Money was colleéted for him by publick Con- tribution, that his Son made a pub- lick Feaft, and gave a Dole of raw Flefh to the People. MANLIUS CURIUS DEN- TATUS. ~ Manlius Curins Dentatas ficlk tri- 0.c.;04. umph’d over the Samnites, whom he Befor Ce. conquer’d as far as the ddriatick Sea. *” At his.return to Rome, he thus figna- liz'd the GreatnefS_of his Victory in an Affembly of the People: Jbvze taken fo much Land, that it would turn a Defart, had 1 not taken fo many Pri- [foners to inbubit it ; and have taken fo : E manya [50] many Men , that he mult perifh with I Hunger, bt ‘not tal on fe oa for them to on. He triumy a fond time oe the Sabines, and thirdly enterd ‘the City with 2 Jef ‘Triumph , call'd Ovation , for con- quering the Lucenians. He drove ple Pyrrius, King of Epirus, out of Haly Ta the Divifion of the publick Lands, he gave forty Actes a Man amongft in Tiphata. i the People, and referv’d but forty for himfelf, profeffing, that none ought 4 P PIU S CLAUDIUS to be reckon’d a Roman Citizen who ff CZCUS. could not be contented with it. He was fo moderate in his Defires, thar he aoe the Se Oe fering him a great Prefent of ihe wag ar Dioner upon roafled Tur nips; Z had rather eat thefe Turnips ia Mi this Earthen Difh, and govern them that pofffs foch Riches. Whenhe was ac cas'd of converting to his own ufe the pablick Money, he produced. for his Vindication a Wooden Cruet which he. us’d at his Sacrifices, folemnly fwear- ing, he never had any thing more of the Enemics Spoils, in his Houfe. He brought, Appies Clandius Cacus, iais Cenlor- 7646, ip, tho he admitted the Litertini in Bf Rhe Senate, prohibited the Mufici- s from publick Feafting, and play= ‘on Pipes in Jupiter's Teniple. ‘wo Families call’d the Potitit and the inarii had. for many Ages been con- tuted to perform Sacrifices to Her- les, he brib’d. the Potitii to inftruct Common Slaves in thofe Religious nies, for which Offence he was « blind, and the Race of the Po- iti utterly extinguilt’d. He violent» Ea lyUc.472. Before Ch. . 278. (52) ly oppos’d the Communication of the Contulthip to any Plebeian, and would not gratifie the Ambition of Fabins Rallianus to have abfolure Command without Decius Mus in the War againft the Samnites. He conquer'd the Se bines, Samnites, and Hetrsrians : and pav'd the way as far as Brundufium, whence it was call’d the Appian Road. He finifh’d the Aqueduét which was Brought into Rome fom the River A- aio, and was the only Man that Kept the Cenforfhip five years ‘toge- ther. When a Peace was concludin; with King Pybus, and his Embaff- dor Cineas had corrupted many of the Senators, Appius, old and blind, was’ brought in his Litter into the Se-| nate, and with a noble Speech broke off thofé bafe Propofitions. PYRRHUS King of Epirus. Pyrrbus, King of Epirus,was by his Father de{cended from Achilles; by his Mother from Hercules ; he ambi- tioufly| [53] tioufly aimed at the Empire. of the World, and perceiving the Romans very powerful, confuited the Del- phick Oracle about the Fortune of the War, whom Apollo thus ambiguoufly anfwer'd: Ain te Hacida Romanos vincere poffe 0, Pyrrhus, you the Romans fhall o'er- come. He interpreting this to his own Fan- , made War with the Romans, by help of the Zarentini: and difor- der’'d Levinus the Conful’s Army by the City Afraclea, with the ftrange fight of his Elephants ; but after the Fight when he beheld the Rowan Sol- diers, flain only by honourable Wounds in their Breafts ; he cried out, With fuch brave Men as thefe could I foon conquer the whole World : and anfwer'd his Friends , congratulating his Suc- cols, , What do I gain by fuch a Vittory as tofts me the Flower of my Army. Then he march’d on, and encamp'd E3 twenty{ 54] twenty Miles. from Rome, generoully reftoring the ‘Captives to Fabriciu, without Ranfom,where feeing the Dificulty againft the Romans, as his ‘Anceftor Hercules with the Serpe Fhdra, He was routed by Fabricial and Curius, and fled to Zarentum thence pafSd over into Sicily had once more to try his Fortune, ¢ return’d to Locri in Italy , rob'd Proferpine’s Temple ; but deavouring to carry off the Treali . his Fleet-was driven back by a e477. and wreck’d upon the Shoar. The returning into Greece, as _he beficg’ “Argos, he was flain with a. Tile thro down on his Head: His Body carried to Antigonus, King of Ma nia, and magnificently enterr’d. FABRICIUS. ‘The year after: the victorious BefercCh. mans had driven Pyrrhus to Tare Fabricivs was {ent General [55] him; he had been formerly Embaffa- dor to’ Pyrrhus,. and tho he was prof fer'd a fourth part of his Kin; would not be brib’d from his Ho- nefty. When he and the King en- camp’d near one another, 2 i's Phyfician came to him by night, prq mifing t0 poifon hisPrince, if He would reward him accordingly ; ’Fa- Iricius, detefting the Fac, command- ed him to be bound, ‘and carried back, that his Lord might know wliar this ‘Traitor had defign’d againft his Life. Jn admiration of which generous AGion the King is reported to have faid; This i that Fabricius, whofe In- segrity "tis harder to corrupt, than to ture the Sun from its Courfe. DECIUS MUS. Velfiinii, a noble City of Hetruria, was almoft ruin’d by its Luxury ; for: racy, biis's- U.6.487. Befere Ch. very indiféreetly they had freed their’ Slaves, and admitted them into the Senate, who in return, by a Confede- : E 4[56] racy, became their Mafters. After they had thus faffer’d many Indignities they fecretly begg’d Aid of the Re mans; Decius Mus was prefently fent to their Affiftance, who overcame thefé infolent Freed Men, and either put them to Death in Prifon, or delivered them again in fubjection to their Lords. APPIUS CLAUDIUS CAU. DEX. Appius Claudius, fienamed Candex, was Brother to Appius Cacus, after the Bferech. Sertlement of the Volfinienfis, he was fent Conful to free the Mamertini in Si- cily, whofe Caltle Hiero, King of Syracufe, with the Carthaginians, had befieg’d. He fit pat’d the Streights of Sicily in a Fifher-Boat to view the Enemy, and then forc’d the Carthaginian Ge- neral to withdraw his Forces-out of the Citradel. U.C.488. Returning to Rhegium, he with his Infantry took a five Bankd Galley of the Enemies, and with that Veflel tran{porting a Legion into Si- ‘ily, C57) Ee the Carthaginians from Meffana, Ip drote the ered fionflf to him upon Terms, at the Bartel of Syracufe, and was (© terrified with the Danger. of the War, that he defir'd the Friendthip of the Romans, and prov’d ever after very faithful tothem. CAIUS DUILIUVS. Caius Duilins was Admiral in the V:¢-258. firft Punick War againft the Carthagini- peferech. ans, and finding them very powerful 49>- at Sea, rigg’d out a ftrong Fleet = his Enemies laugh’d at his Invention of Grapling Irons, with which he took thirty, and funk thirteen of their Ships. Hannibal, the Carthaginian Ad- miral, fled to Carthage, and ied to demand Inftruétions of the Senate, as yet ignorant of his Misfortune. They unanimoufly voted he ihould fight the Enemy: I heve fought, fays he, and loff the Day. ‘Thus he elcap'd Crucifixion; for among the Carthagi- nians, the General, that had the Mis- . ‘ fortune- [58] fortune to be beaten, was fo punifh’d, Dwilins had this Honor con- ferrd on him, to return in publick from Supper with Flambeaux and ‘Trumpeters before him. ATILIUS CALATINUS. {s9) is the Re became a Terror a - ies and Atilius obtain’d a Gk Triumph. MARCUS ATILIUS RE- GULUS, IM, Atilins Regulus in. his Confalthip v.c497. riumph’d for his Conguett over the prec Acilias Calatinus was {ent General Salentini: he was the firit Roman Ge- 253- VG494- into Sicily againit the Carthaginians, he BfeCh. forced the Enemies Garrifons our of| Enna, Drepanam, and Lilybenm, theit beft and ftrongeft Cities, and took Panormus, We ravag’d the whole Wand, and with a few Ships, beacthe Enemies great Fleet, under the Com- mand of Amilcar. But making hafte to raife the Siege of Camerina, he was fhut up in a narrow PafS by the Car thaginians, where Calpurnias Flamme, one of his Tribunes, drawing’ out three hundred Soldiers, gain’d a Hill, and by his Valour freed the Conful, tho his whole Party was cut off, and “he found half dead by ‘the Confisl : After neral'that pas’d over with a Navy in- to Africa: his Fleet fafferd much by a Shipwreck: yet he took from A- milcar, the Carthaginian Admiral, fixty three Gallies, befides two hundred Towns, with two hundred thoufand Captives. Whilft he commanded a- broad, his Wife and Children, by rea~ fon of their Poverty, were kept at the Publick Charge. The next year he was taken by the policy of Xanthippus, a Licedemonian Captain, who fervd the Carthaginians, and caft into Prifon. He was fent Embaffador from thence to Rome, to treat about the Exchange of Prifoners , promifing , upon, his 2[én 7 : Sicily, Sardinia, Ey ee other Mlands becween Ttaly, and Africa; giving tp all Provingce in Spain, as far as the River Dberas. [ 60°] Oath, to return, if he could not ob- tain it; but he more confulting the GC Benefit of his Country, oppos’d it in| the Senate, and not regarding the Prayers and Tearsof his Wife and Fe mily, returned to Carthage, where, in revenge, they put him into a Wooden Cheft, ftuck full of Nails, by which horrible Torture,and for want of Sleep he died. Mr. BLAKWELL -PARKINS.. From the Year 513. t0 563.U.C. CAIUS LUTATIVS CATU. LUS. west. C, Latatius Catulus, in the firtt Pu- Beferech. nick War commanded ‘three bun- 339. dred Sail againft the Carthaginians, and in a Fightnear the lands gars between Sicily and Africa, took and HANNIBAL she Carthaginian General. “Annibal, was Son to Hamilear,v.c.534. and fink. fix hundred of their Ships, General of the Cutheginis» afoect Jaden with Provifions and other Ne it the fir’ Panick War, who brought 216. ceflaries, under their Admiral Aan, fem, whi Hae nine Years old, before by which great Victory he put an end ff" Alt, fl a ar perpet 7 to the War; and ac their Entreaty Hatred to” Rome. From that ti made a Peace with them on. thelef &rved in thofe Wars under his Father, Terms, that they fhould march out off #*t whofe Death he foughe all ae a Sicily, fons[ 63 J to retire to Prufias, King of Bythinia, ito whom Titus Flaminivs was lan Embafly to demand him; but he nted his being deliver'd up by ing a Poifon, carried for fuch an [Occafion, in the hollow of his Ring, and fo died. At Lybiffa, a Town of Bythinia he was put into a Stone (Coffin, with this Infcription on it, Hire lies HANNIBAL, [62] fions of Breaking with the Romani. ae hic tod he, within fix Montlis 5 déftroy: e City Saguntums in ‘Spain, then in Confederacy with theni, From ee making his Wa ea the ss, he into Jtaly, bear Poi Bee Ticinum 5 ‘Sempre ius Longus ac Trebia ; Flaminius at the Lake Zrafimenus; alfo Panlus and Varre at Casmz, And might further have carried his Victories, by taking Rome it felf, had he march’d directly thither, and not turn’d afide into Campania, to enjoy the Pleafures of that rich Coun- try. But after this, when he had en« camp’d his Army within three Miles of the City, he was beat back by great Storms of ,Wind and Rain. — His ‘Troops were firft weakened by Fabius Maxims; then repulfed by Valerins Placcus ; next put to flight by Gracchas and Marcellus; and being recalled into Africa, he was there totally routed by ‘Scipio. From thence he fled to Antio- chus, King of Syria, and incited him to make War againft the Romans; after whofe Overthrow, he was Q FABIUS MAXIMUS. Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunétator g ¢ as called Verracofus, from a Warthe >> on his Lip; and Ovicula, from his 77" ild Narure. In his Confulthip he iumph’d over the Ligures, and Requeft, to have equa! Power in Army with himfelf; yer after that . gance, refufed not to relieve him, t when he had brought his Troops by ill: Conduct w(J puBiIVS SCIPIO NASICA. [64 duct into Danger. He fhut rami intthe Plains of Farm and kept Manlius Statilins fom revolt- ing to the Enemy, by his generous ift to him of a Horfe and Arms ; allo Obliged a brave Soldier of the Lucani an Squadron, who often left the Camp and neglected his Duty, being tan- Shorted with a violent Paffion for a beautifal Woman, by buying and pre- fenting Ther to him. He retook 7+ rentums from the Carthaginians, and the Statuc-of Hercules, which he broughi| from thence, he placed in thé Capitol ‘And'when the Senate would not ap prove of his Ratifying the Articles, made between him and the Enemy; about the Redemption of Prifoners, he fold his flare for two hundred} thoufand Sefterces, with which he preferved his Honour, and performed! his Contract. Publius Scipio Nefica was a Man fo eminent for his Virtue, that he had the Image of Gjbele, Mother of the Gods, by order of the Senate, com- initted to his Care, to be kept in his Houf, till her Temple fhould be built. He was fo fuperftitious, that when he underftood himfélf to be chofén Con- fal by Gracchus with ill Omens, he ab- dicated his Office. In_his Cenforthip he pulled down the Statues, which many, out of Ambition, had erected for themfélves in the Foram. And in his Confalfhip took Delminiam, chief Gity of the Dalmatians. , Qut of Mo= defty he refufed the Title of General, offered hitn by the Soldiers, as he did the Honour of a Triumph conferred on him by theSenate. He was fo ve PUBLIUSSe eT eg [ 66} [67 M.CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS MW tyta GLAUDIA the’ Ved Virgin. w.c.s3¢. Marcus Marcellus flew Virdumarus, Ge- ayjvece, Neral of the Gauls, in a {ingle Combat, z20, and was the Third from Roreulus that dedicated the rich Spoils of a flain Ge- neral to Jupiter Feretrivs. He firlt taught Soldiers toretreat without tumn- ing their Backs, and by taking Advan- tage of a narrow Pa{s at Nola, made Heazmital know, he was not invincible. Syracufe, a City in oe was taken by him after three years Siege, and when the Senate, upon fome falle Accufation denied him the Honour of a Triumph, he confcious of his juft meric triumph’d from his own Authority on Mount Altan, _n his fifth Confulfhip he was unluckily drawn’ into an Ambufcade, by Hannibal, and flain. His Funeral was folemnized with great Pomp; but his Bones, as they were fent to Reme, were intercepted by Numidian Pyrats, and loft. . - Whilft ZZannibal watted. Italy,. the vc 54g, Romans confalting the Books’ of the syecp, sybils, fene for the Image of the God- aor. Cybele from Peffinuns, a Town of om whence it could by no Means be moved, till by Direction in the fame underftood that it might be drawn up the River by the Hand of la very chafte Woman. Whereupon F low her, then tying her Girdle to the Ship, fhe drew’ it up the Tiber. The image of the Goddefs, whilft her ane was building, was placed in Ey oe of Scipio Nafica, fo ier the general Opinion of bei the beft Man in eae ne Fa mM. LIVIA{68} ‘M. PORCIUS CATO CEN. SORIUS. [ 69] Enemy.. In his Cenforthip he turned Lucius Flammius, who formerly had been Conful, out of the Senate, be- caufe in his Government of Gasl, to pleafé his MifS, he ordered a Captive to be brought out of Prifon, and Killed beforeher. He was thefirft that builta flately Piazza, calling it Porcia, after his own Name, and oppofed the Luxu- of the Roman Matrons, when they ded -the Privilege of wearing their rich Ornaments, taken from from them by the Oppian Law. He was fo indefatigable a Profecutor of ill’ Men, that in “the fourfcorth year of his Age, he accufed Galba for rob- bing the Lufitasians in his Pretorthip, and was himfelf impeached four and forty times, but always honourably acquitted. In the Debates of the Se- nate, in the third Punick War, he was for demolithing Carthage; his natural Vigor lafted fo long, ‘that ‘he had a Son-at fourfcore, whofe Effigies was often brought out to honour a Funeral Solemnity. vcss7. 4. Porcius Cato was born at Tufew- aéerech. lem, but invited to fix at Rome, by 193- Valerius Flaccus. He was Tribune of the Soldiers in Sicily; and behaved himfelf with great Valour whileft he was Queftor under Scipio, as he did with great Juftice, when Pretor. - In that year of his Pretorthip he com eed and was there in- \Gted in the Greek Tongue by Ex his Conlaltip he uius the Poet. In conquered the Celtiberi, a People of| Eiifpania Tarraconenfis; and to fecure them from rebelling, he fent his Or Glabrio, he gained the Pal of Thermo pyle, atthe Streights of Mount Ota, and by that prevention routed the Enemy. F3 c.U.G.545- BefereCh, 205. ~ Men, ans [7°] c. CLAUDIUS NERO, aad ASDRUBAL HANNIBAL’s Brother. Afarubal, the Brother of Hasnibal, into Jtaly with great Recruits, for the ftrengthening his Army, and the Roman ee had then been utterly ruined, if he had once joyned his Bro- ther: But Claudine Nero, whofe Camp was in Apulia near Hannibal, leaving part of his Forces behind him, drew ‘out a large Detachment of his choiceft ,and marching diredtly agai Afdrabal, joined MM. Livias his Col- league, at 3 Town called Sena, by the River Metaurus in Calabria, where they two together beat Afdrubal. After this Vitory Nero returned to -his Camy with the fame fpeed, and threw 4f- drubal’s Head before his Brother Han- nital’s Trenches. At which fight Har ibal publickly declared, he was over- come by the ill Fortune of Gathage For this good Service Marcus Livius entered it entered Rome with ater ‘Triump't, and Nro with a'le(s, becaufe the AGi- on was not performed within his Province. . P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO. Publius Scipio, called Africanas, for UCs5t- his Courage and Condust in the Con- fire ch. eft ‘of Africa, was fuppofed to be ® the Son of Jupiter, for before his Mo- ther was with Child of him, a Serpent, fuppofed the Genius of Jupiter, was feen in her Bed, and in his Childhood a Snake twined about him without do- ing him any harm. ‘The Dogs never bark’d at him, altho he went into the Capitol at Midnight, nor did he ever undertake any BufinefS, till he had fate meditating a good while, near the Image of Jupiter, as if he received Directions from that oo ie ba eighteen years of Age, is fin- ae Valour, faved his Father's Life atTicinum ; and fo great Influence was the Authority of Scipio, that he put a flop to the young Noblemen, and 7 Fq4 hinder’da { 72] hinder’d them fromi leaving Ztaly, and conduéted the Remainder of the Army, after the Defeat of Cane, the Enemies Camp to Canufiuns. At four and twenty he was fent Pretor in- 1 Spain, and took Carthage Neva, now Carthagena, the fame day he came be- fore it, when his Soldiers brought him a young Maid, whofe Beauty attrac every one to be a Spectator, he out of Modefty would not fec her, but gave order, thar fhe fhould bereftored to herFather, and betrothed Lover, a Prince of Celviberia, He beat Afdrubal and Mego, | Flannibal’s Brothers, ‘out of Spain, made a League with Syphax, King of Mauritania, and recived Maffaniffa into the Number’of the Al- lies. “Returning home ?after thele Victories,” he was made Conful before he-was old enough, according to Law, and_by the Content of his Colleague pafled over into Africa, and fore’d his way through Afdrubal’s and Syphax's pin one night. He vanquithed Hannibal after he was recalled’ out of Zialy, and impofed new Laws upon : E e was taken Prifoner was returned with- out Ranfom, in honour of the Father. Being accufed of Extortion by the Pe- tilii, and Nevias ‘Tribunes fe the People, with great aflurance, tore his "Book of Accounts in pieces, be- fore the People, and faid, This day I conquered Carthage ; "sas a good piece of Service to the Commonwealth, let A ged of his Wife, that his Body fhould not be carried back to Rome. MARCUS LIVIUS SALINA- TOR. In his frit Confulfhip triumph'd over the arian» yet fometime after_was. mali ioufly accufed by alt the Tribes, 16 Metian, for em- 7 acre bezellingC741 L751] bezelling the publick Stock. In his] and took his Camp, receiving from fecond Confalthip he was joined with {| him his Son Demetrius for an Hoftage, his Enemy Claudius Nero, but rathet ff tho afterwards he made him pay a than the Government fhould futtain t Ranfom before he reftored him to any prejudice from their Variance, he fis Kingdom. He took alfo the Son was freely reconciled to him, andj of Nabs, King of Lacedemon, as a upon their Victory over Afdrubal, | Pledge for his Fidelity, and, at Iaft Htunsibal’s Brother, rode in Triumph | made Proclamation by the common into the City. He was alfo chofeff Cryer at the Nemean Games with ge- with the fame Nero in his Cenforthip, | neral Applaufe, that all the Grecians and fer a Poll-Tax upon every Tribe, | fhould enjoy their ancient Liberties. except the Metians, taking away theit | This was he that was {ent to Prufizs to Penfion, becaufe they had either con- ff demand Hannibal. demned very unjuftly at firft, or elf had done very ill, in conferring fo great Honours upon him, after a for- MARCUS FULVIUS mer fufpicion. NOBILIOR, In his Pretorfhip conquered Spain, -FITVUS QUINCTIUVS for which good Service he enter’d the FLAMINIUS. City, with’ a lefs Triumph , called Ovation, The Atolians and Ambracians Was the Son of that Flaminius who [| were routed by him in feveral Batcels, who.was killed at Zrafimenus. He was | who in the Macedonien War had firft fent Confill into Macedoxia, and-guided ff fided with the Romans, but afterwards hy King Cerops’s Shepherds into. the { revolted to Antiochus, King of Syria. Province. He routed King oe He drave them into their City Ambra- t cia,C 76.) tia, and by a Blockade forced them to farrender, yet he plunder’d them of nothing but their Statues, and Pi@ures, which: were catried before him in Tri- umph. His Friend Quintus Ennius wrote a noble Poem in commendation of this ViGtory, tho it was fufficiently famous’ of it felf, and needed not the Art of a Poet to fet itoff. ta Mr. HENRY MOLINS D?AVENANT. From the Year 563, to 660. U.C. Lscipi0 ASIATICUS. Cipio Aftaticus, Brother to ScipioV-c.s6s. ‘Africanus, was aMan of a weak Beforeck: Conftitution, yet upon the Account '87- of his Valour in Africa, was recom- mended by his Brother for Confil, and. having him for bis Lieutenant-General, beat Antiochus, King of Syria, at Mount Sipylus in Caria, where the Enemies Bows, by reafon of theexceffive Rain, were made ufelef. He oe oe part of his Hereditary Kingdom, an ftom his Succefs gained the Name of Afiasicus, Some time after he was.ac~ cufed for embezelling the Publick Treafure; but Gracchws, Tribune of the’ People’{791 Regillus, he thought to oblige Scipio Africanus, by releafing his Son, taken Prifoier_ at Sea, without any Ranfom, whofe Father, by way of Requital, ‘advifed him to make Peace with the Romans: but Antiochus defpifing his Counfel, ventured to fight L. Scipio at Mount Sipylus, where he was over- come, and chaced beyond Mount Tas ras, He was at laft killed by one of his Nobles, whom he had affronted with a Blow in his Drink. [73] People, fatisfied of his Integrity, tho his Adverfary , ftop’d any farther Proceeding , yet Marcus Cato, the Cenfor, afterwards took from him his Horfe asa particular Mark of Difgrace. ANTIOCHUS Kig of Syria. Ucs60. Antiochus, King of Syria, ceuftin; BefwreCh. too much to his own Power, wage 49° War with the Romans, under pretence of recovering the City of Lyfimachia, built by his Anceftors in Thrace, and then in the poffeffion of the Romans. Ina fhore time he feized on all Greece, with the adjacent Mlands, but ruined. himfelf by Luxury in the Iland Zu- bea, Upon the Approach of Acilius Glatrio, he drew up his Forces in the Straits of the Mount Octa, called Thermpyle, and after their Defeat, by the Conduét of Marcus Cato fled into 4fa. He had as bad Succefs with his Fleet, which under Zyannibal, his Ad- miral, was beaten by Lucius milius Regillus, CNZUS MANLIVS VULSO. Cnaus Manlius Vulfo, as foon as he w.c.s6y. was chofen Conful, was {ent to fuc- Refere Ch lcced Scipio faticus, in his Govern- 187." ment , and being too ambitious of a Triumph, made War upon the Pifde land Gallgreci, Confederates with An- iechs, whom hevery cafily conquer'd. Amongft other Prifoners of War, the Wife of King Orgiegon was committed to the Charge of a certain Centurion, who[81] with the greateft moderation turning himfelf to the People, he made it his . J sequeft to Fortune, that if any Difafter threat'ned tht Commonwealch, it might MACEDONICUS. L. Panlus Emilins was his Son who peas was lain ar the Battel of Cane. -Fiein [Eltate was fold for the Payment of his birch. hisfirft Confulthip, which he got after aff Vis Dowry. Repulfe at three Elections, triumphid over the Ligures, and to magnifie his| ‘AGions, expofed to publick view a Pi’ 72. SEMPRONIUS @ure, wherein all his Exploits wef © R ACC HUS. painted. In his fecond Confulthip he : took Perfés, King of the Macedonians, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was de- Philips Son, at Samothracia, an Mle in pao of eanoe Family, aa er the AZgean Sea, but with great Hu- us a Temper, that | ald Mire ce any ge ‘him whom hehad con" fuer his Enemy Scipio Afeticas'™” quered , and itred him to fir be caft into Prifon. In his Pretor- down by him, tho afterward he ledffitip he fubdued Gaxl, in his frft Con- him in “Triumph. At which joyful fiilthip Spain, and in his fecond he Solemnity he loft ewoor his Sons, yafomaucred Sardinie, from whence he with brought[ 82] brought fo many Prifoners, that the Jong Continuance of their Sale gave coccafion for the Proverb, Sardi vende, 5 77m 5 - Flee are Sardinian Slaves to be Sod) PUBLIUS. SCIPIO When he was Cenfor he divided tho - a. ty Tals, ao fear Gay Tete |p Zz, Sep Amin wis the Sono, Tho he fecured himfelf by his om aie Mucdonitar, but adopted by [or Tnvereft , yet his Colleague Clandiwll Stbie Africanus; he ee ee was accufed for this Innovation, ‘but moe. Mac eae is Father efeaped after two Claffes had found #2 0c Mee "Pos, by burfuing; the him Guilty, by the zealous Protefiz | 2 of King ey Purfuings tion of Tiberius, who vowed, if they jot oo Tie Camp till Midnighes condemned ris Friend, to be baniflid|f SOO tO Oe ae ones with him, He was a rare Example offf in gion Nie “avn SSgereatie be Conjugal Affection, when the two 1” one chat ged aa Pi Snakes crawled out of his Bed, upon Te Combar challeng the fit thar Confiltation the Oracle anfwered GPS “om Wie of dar Gate. He That if the Male was Killed, Tiberius AOS the Walls of that City H foonld die; if the Female, Cornelia. No) Ws gig F the thind Patek Wars verthelels, he moyed with a tendefl S01” ts Gondict and Valour Re: compaion Nie his ie s Safety, oH lieved eight Cohorts, that were block’d ee ed eee eee up by the Enemy; for which good ray was prefented with an Ob* ional Crown. When he ftood puBLiusy Gio cow. Wh tip te oe Unanimoptly —— Conful, tho not, 2 {-83 j[843 of Age,..as the Law requires, and within:{ix Months, as it were, to con- firm the. good Opinion of the Peo demolifh'd Carthage. He was then fent into Spain, where having reftored the Diftipline of the Army, he forced ‘Numantia to Surrender, for want of Provifions, and was from thence call- ed Nemantinus, He did nothing with- cout his Friend Caius Lelius, and in ma-- ny Embaffies to feveral Princes, "took none but him with the finall Retinue of two Servants. His noble Exploits at laft made him fo hanghry; tht’ he difoblig’d the Commonwealth, by fiy- ing Gracchus was defervediy Murdered, 4nd ‘when niany murmuted at this {e- Vere Exprefficir’ againft his own Kinf- mah, he ‘bade’ them be fllent , for ace cording to their Deferts, Maly was but «ahtin Stepmother, and they were all no bet- ter than his Slaves. Yn his-Cenforthip che Affronted his Colleague Mummius, swho ‘was “i a Man of heavy ‘parts,“by this arrogant Expreffion in “the open Senate, I wifh you had given ‘me a Companion fit ifr anf, or none a [85] gall, Soon after his violent oppofi the Party which promotel the Divifion of the Lands, he was found dead at his own Houfe, and carried out to be buried with his Head cover- ed, left there fhould be any fifpicion of a violent Death from the BlacknefS of his Face. His Eftate.was fo finall, thar he left but Thirey two Pounds of Silver, and two and a half of Gold. CAIUS HOSTILIUVS MANCINUS. Cains Hoftilius Mancinus went Con- 6-615. fal againft the Numantines, tho fore-Pfire Cb. wara'd by the Augurs, and called"? upon by, a flrange Voice to ftay at home, upon his Arrival at Numantia he defigned to regulate the Army for- merly commanded by Popiliue, and for more Advantage decamp'd to a pri- vater place. TI 1 day the Namamres, affer an old Cuftom er'd thei Daughters in publick tq be Married ; it happened, thac two young Men G3 Courtedrr a . [ 86} ‘Courted the fame pretty Woman, her Father told the Rivals, He only fhould marry her, who flew an Enemy, and brought him his Right Hand. Both of them going out to execute this Or- der, and obferving the Remans to draw off in as much hafte as if they fled, acquainted their own party with it, who prefently fallying out with Four thoufand, flew ‘Twenty thoufand of the Romans. Mancinus, by the ad- vice of his Queftor, Tiberins Gracchus made a League with the Enemy, upon their own Terms, which being difliked by the Senate, Mancinus was deliver'd up to the Numantines, but not received for {atisfaction by them. This unfor- tunate General was degraded , and durft not return to the Camp, yet af terward by good Omens of the Sooth- fayers he was advanced to the De: gree of Pretor. { 87] L MUMMIUS ACHAF cus. L. Mammius was firnamed Achaicus, U-c.606. nquering Achaia: in his Con- agirech. falhip he was ordered to profecute "t+ from the War againtt the Corinthians, and and had the Honor of a Vidtory, which, in merit, was rather due to his Predeceffor. For after Metsllus Mace- donicus had routed the Enemy at Hera- clea, a City of Elis in the Feleponne(e, and killed their General Critelaxs, he haltened with his Serjeants, and a few Horle to Metells's Camp to fhare the Good Fortnne of the Battel, and with more-eafe defeated the Enemy at Lem topetrain the Ifthmus of Corinth. - Die- xs their Gommander fled, in defpair fet his Houfe on Fire, killed his Wife, threw her into the Flames, and then poifoned himfelf. Mamarius plun- dered Corinth, and adorned Staly with ther Pidtures and Statues, yet fo mo- derite , as to carry none to his own Hoife. : G4° Qwa.s6o. 5. reCh. “Interceffion with Tears to have his [90] Lacullus, his Sifter Metella’s Husband, who had been theonly perfon wrought upon to recant his Vore againtt the | Agrarian and Framentarian Laws. The HONORABLE .WASHINGION SHIRLET. Q METELLUS PIUS. From the Year 619, to 670 U.C. He was the Son of Metellus Numidi- cas, and honor’d with the Cogzomen of Pins for his Filial Duty, and continual Ppp pr rus GRACCHUS Father recall’d from Baniftment. He | thewed his Valour in the Social War, ff “¢rias Gracchus, Grandfon to Scipio v.c619. in which he commanded as Prator, f° “fricams, by his Daughter Cor- sifrect, and kill’ @Q. Popedias, General of the [pHia, was under Mancinus in 131. Marfi. He was feat Confill into spain, in where he defeated the Hercwleii, Licu- tenants to Sertorixs, and forc’d him out of that Country. In his Youth, when he was Candidate for the Pra- ‘and Pontificat, he was pre- PcP!e he made two Laws, one thar torfhip, f i ‘to his C ‘tors of Con- perfon whatfoever fhould poflels {ilar Dignity. sn bove Five hundred Acres of Land, ut neon 1¢ other that the Eftate which Attalas Theee - £92] among the People. His Coll Ottevtas ealoully oppofed the former and was therefore turned out of his Office contrary to all Precedents. At the following’ Eléétion, in hopes of continuing another year in his Offic, he came into the Affembly, tho the Predidtions of Augurs were againit him, and went direétly towards the Capitol, putting his Hand to his Head, by which Gefture he defired the Pro- tection of the People: but the Nobili-| ty thought that he then demanded the! Crown: and Mucins the Confal being} tardy. in purfuing him, Scipio Nafics commanded all thofe that withed well to the Safety of: the Commonwealth to follow him, and {eizing upon Gra chus in-the Capitol flew him Lucretiss the Adile took up his Body, -and threw it into.the River Titer, from whence he was nicknamed V¢| illo, Nofica, that he might be out of the way, and {ecured from popular Odi- um, went under- Colour of an Eor bafladorinto AGe. (931 carus GRACCHUS. Cains Gracchus was made Queftor of wc.629. that unhealthfal Ifland of Sardinia, and péferech. jar the expiratiom of his Year left the 13" » cont to Law, before any fone came .to fucceed him. He bore the Blaine of the Revolt of Afeulum land Fregelle. When he was ‘Tribune of the People he fet up the Laws a- | bout: the Divifion of Lands, and Di- firibution of Corn among the People, and was for fending Colonies to ¢é- and Zarentum. He made Fulvins Flaccus and C. Craflus Joint-Commiffio- Iners with himfelf for the Divifion of oe a ee fus, Tribune the People, op) is AGtions as feditious, te went wide his pany for fecurity into the Capitol, yet he aw 7 122] MARCUS BRUTUS. oa ‘Marcas Brutus was in the Condud of N°. his Life like his Unele Cato, he learned BefereCt. Philofophy at Athens, and Rhetorick +: ar Rhodes. In his youth he was amo- rous; Antony, Gallus and he were in fove with Cytheris the Adtrefs. He . would not go Querftor into Gaul, be- ~ ‘ing oppofed by fome Men, Hee was in Cilicia with Appius Clasdins: and when his Colleague was acct of Excortion by Délabella, he himfelf had nothing laid to his Charge. | In che Civil War between Cefar and Pom- pay he was fent for our of Cilicia by Cato, and fided with Pe , however Cefar pardoned him, and {ent him Pro- confit into Gaal; yet nonwithftanding all Cefar’s kindnefS tobim, he was one of the Confpirators that killed him in the Senate Houfe. Hence being fent in- to Macedonia, becaufe Cefar’s old Sol diers were incenfed againft him, he was overcome by Augaftus at Philippi, and fo in defpair defired his Friend Sire ze to kill him. CAIUS {1231 cArUS CASSIUS LONGINTGS. Cains Caffas Longinas was Quiettor 06-7"% in Syria under Gaal ‘and after he was 5" bune of the People he bane of she Pop od wae orapey , a his ‘Admiral. However Cafer’ ‘pardoned him, thé after all, he- and: Brutus were the chief of the Con- fpirators that affaffined him, and cried ‘PirarOone than was afraid to-kilL him, T would, have you fab hie even shrongh we, ‘Then having raifed— (124) {125 17 Man Pandavas put an end to his un-| my Ships; ot, This is my Honfe : which happy Life. But fone fay that Anton | Antony had. taken poflelion of in-the out, Lhave overcome hins, before [Street at Rome called Carine, But foon he had notice of his Death. Sextus being beat at Sea by 4, PPA, [Augefas’s Admiral, fled ‘nto df, and SEXTUS POMPEIUS Was ki jed by Atoms Soldiers. U.c.7%4 Sextus Pompeias, after his Overthrow Béfwech. at Manda in Spain, and his Brother 36 Cnaus’s Death, got together the Re mainder of the Army, and paffed ovet into Sicily, where be broke open the Work-Houles, and arming the Slaves, block’d up the Sea, and plagued Zaly, with want of Provifion, § ing all MARC ANTONT. Mare Anton was lis Cfe’s Come 21 panion in all hi Expeditions, at the afwrch. Feafts dedicated to Pan, kept on the *9- 3 tine, (tarved out of Persfium, and fled into Gaul, where he joined himfelf with Lepidus, ‘and flew Decimas Bratss, har ving firft corrupted his Army. ‘Thus : having recruited hisForces, he return- ed into Ztaly, and was in favour again with Cefer.” When he was Trinny with gilt Horns, and a Horfe. He was facetious in Converfation, for du- Seboad vgoiat Cee, i Antony 21 bus Cefars Ihe is reported . mae not im ‘Ha fart mee Carine: which taken in two Senfes, Thee are : ™THE ” OF the Vad : ROMANS:. Writ in LATIN by ~~ Sextus Aunetrus Vieror, And TRANSLATED By feveral Young Gentlentert EDUCATED by Mr. MAIDWELL. Fingit equim tenera decilem cervice Magifter reer. quam nfs equa Vena tee fio Tempore cervin.m pellem latravit in aula, ‘ Militar in Site catulus: nue adbibe puro Petre verba Puer, nunc te seliribus offer. Horace.To the Right Honourable, JAMES Earl of Abingdon, Ge. My. L@RD, | (nce I have had the Ho- | nour of Educating Three of your Sons, Lhope with no fmall Affurance of your Sa. ts&étion, and one of’ them is amongft our Tranflators ; it Az mightThe Epifile Dedicatory. might be thought a Crime not to Dedieate our Endeavours to your Lordfhip, that others may perceive our Duty to fo Ho- nourable a Father, and fo No- blé a Friend. I’ nftuft” ever-be a Faithful Witnefs, how Zea- lous-and Obliging you are to promote the Advantage of E- ducation; and that in all Points of Generous Breeding you have endeavour’d to tran{mit thofe Ancient and Hereditary Virtues of your Iluftrious Fa- mily to your Pofterity. To whom then fhéuld Aurelius Viftor Confecrate his Iluftrious Romans but to your Lordthip? In whom are united thofe great Names of Beriu and Norris ; Names -fo Glorious in oyr An- pals, The Epiftle Dedicatory. nals, that the Actions of Heroes cannot be remembred without them, for-they both at Home and Abroad have highly Cele- brated the Truc Englith Nobi- lity and Virtue. *Tis an Injury to name Particulars, where there are fo many eminent Cha- racters of both Sexes, who have Immettaliz’d the former , and now Adon} che! p¥efent? Ag My Lord, your! moft Céntpi- cuous Houle is like Virgil’$ Sa- cred Tree, where there never will ‘be - wanting a‘, Golden Bough’:° ie ue — Primo avulfo, non deficit alter = Aureus, © fimili, frondefcit Virga’Metallo, ~ ~~ : Ag IThe Epiftle Dedicatory. L obferv’d much of this In- nate Worth from the Conver- fation of your Sons, who in the various: Scenes -of Youth ever difcoverd ex Traduce, a ftrong Byafs to: Sincerity and Honour. My Lord, 1 will ftop my jult Excomium , and not incur the Cenfure of a common Dedicator, though I need-not fear fuch a Criticafm from the vaft Merits of my Caufe ; yet give me leave in Gratitude to declare, I am in finitely oblig’d to your Lord. fhip for your conftant Encou agement in my Scholaftick Way of Life; for your Appro. bation of my general Method of a Learned Academy, where our Englith Youth might be in The Epiftle Dedicatory. inftrudted in all Exercifes, and the feveral Parts of Solid Leam. ing, without the Varnith of a Foreign Excurfion ; whence much Money is exported, with- out the Importation of any Staple Commodity : And at! it appears, Celum, non animum mutant, qui trans Mare currunt. I remember your Lordhip once difcourfing with me, men- tioned your Recommendation to the Reverend Dr. Fei, that Excellent Bifhop of Oxford,how beneficial it might prove to Young Gentlemen to have an Academy erected for their Ser- Vice in that Univerfity : That ArtsThe. Epifile Dedicatory. Arts and’Sciences ought to be urited, and’ as formerly,at A. thens and Rove, cohabit in one place: “I eannot tell what were the®bjections or Impediments Of:fo ufefit-a Propofition;whe- ther? that : Wife Governour thought the Defign and -Fa- tigue too great , confideting the Eazy “Temper: of our: De- generateYouth; or. the: Phan- taftick Frugalicy of many Un- happy Parents, who are more Generous to a Foppifh ‘Dancing- Mafter, than a Worchy Tutor; preferting the Motions of: their Soris Feet, to the Idéa’s of his Brain’; “and think “the Bill:of an Extiavagant ‘Taylor, :moré fatishactory than. the Salary of his Indufttious Preceptor. Hos The Epifle Dedivato. - Bs inter fumptus, fe feta * Quintifiano- - *: Ot multum duo’ fi ficient, res. “ mulla Minoris:. _, Conftabit’ Patri, ‘quam. Filius, For my -part, after :feme Years how for the Publick Good, I'reft with pleafure, Confcigusto. my felf; ‘hac I ever did “my Dutyy.and shave done confiderable Service, as well prefent, as future to nxiny Noble Families, that.‘I- have hever beena Pedant, but. made the Gentleman and Schioléma- fter tnix together, ‘that: I‘ have defign’d amongft us a Schela Ibuftris, -Comprehenfive of: iti- ward and outward Accom- plifhments, a ae e- 9The Bpiftle Dedicatuy. —_| plifhments, and that I fhall leave’ timent neglected in England, anu fo promoted in every emi nent of Eurepe. 1 confels the Satyrift cries out, Declamare doces, O ferrea pe- - Gora Vetti. : _. The Life of a Schoolmatter is indeed - very follicitous; though ever judged Honoura. table by all Good Men, and the a Fed it intolerable, ex. cept the happy Genius of the Mafter, a > Circum- ftances, fomewhat alleviates and goon for fome timein my for- mer Courfe and Method with- ont the Reflection, My Lord, Give me leave to publith on this Occafion, un- der your Patronage, my future Determination as to my Im- ployment : I prefime your Sentiments may agree ‘with whom I have Communic: my Thoughts, have laboured long ago, who have menot yet tobe | tired out , but to contract my Society to a lef Number, to _ tum “my into og French oe sale - with which I -with Servanits® ciat we inay live our Collégiitd Life with more Profit and ‘Plea: fure, ‘excluding - forthwith” all roung vie Rooms thofe ofa violent and ftubborg Teriiper. vo Dii Majorum umbris tenuem, © fine pondeére terri 7 SS spirantefque crocos, Sint urna perpetiiim ver, Qui Praceptorem Santli v0- luere Parentis, “ ' *** Effe:loco.—" This Refolution is-mach re« fpeéted, and in:the Opinion of many | cet The Epiftle Deidicaroiy. mutt produce the’ happy of Eivility-and Leaning: To'the prdsiotior of whith I have found nothing from: ex: petience more Charming’ to Youth than the Praétice .of Tranflation, and Reading of Hiftory with the affiftance of Geography and Chronology, . wi eh like the three ‘Graces ought Hand in. Hand to per- form ‘their meafures, and ‘have always Been the Rule. of. our Studies. . Cicero fignalized: his Judgment when he faid,” That 4 Man without Hiftory is abvays 4 Child, and therefore for its value it-is fti'd by-him.as Teftis Temporum,.Lux Veritatis;' Vita Membrie;" Magifirs Vite; from ence with Lizy we are"by for- mez eeThe Epifile Dedicate: im Examples encouraged to Virtue, detert’d from Vice: ‘Thus the great Polybius pros mounces it, — Aud o3 padusiar imaporiegs TD rite drlefaant Deduar FF weryefentlror sesieon Grasse But Hiftory is lovely to eve+ ty-Eye from its Natural Beau ties,and wants not to be drefs'd with thefe ends of Gold and Silver: "Tis no lef evident chat Tranflation fixes it, and em- ves at once two Pihatten to beg Your Lord. fhip’s Pardon for this Familiar Epiftlc, asking leave to intro- | all duce: thefe Young Tranflators who without any trick appease The Epifile Dédicdtory.. ai their “Primitive - Simplicity: before you. =.’ My Lord, I conclude with my moft pr -Refpedcts, a moft humble Thanks for all Your Favours, for thie ac- ccfs and eafe of Your Conver- fation , for:Your Kind Withes, which Great and Good Qua+ lities none Exprefes and Extends more than Your Lordfhip; who, bélides.: Yourithany Vircues, which in Reverence I thall not now mention being fo well inown, are by Your Conde- feention, - fo :truly . great and Noble. I heartily: pray that things may fortunately fuc- ceed according to Your defires 4 to a *The Bpiftle Dedicasor. to Your Self and Your Nobl¢ Relations, and that You would _ believe me to be, Mr Loxs, Your Lordships. moft Obedient, and. moft L. MAIDWELL THE OF Sextus Aurelius Vidor, Sine Aurelius Viétor was firit publithed by the Learned Azdreas Schottus, and | flourithed under the Emperors | Conftantins-and Fulian; for in. the Life of Marcus Antonius the Philofopher, He fays, Thar :.| Nicomedia in Bithynia was de. | fttoy’d by an Earthquake in a2: fhe Life of his time,in the Confulate of Ce- realis, which was the next yeat after the Ninth Confulfhip of Conftantius. “And that in his Reign when Flauius Philippus was Conful, the Eleventh Cen- tury, coritrary to Ancient Cu- ftom, was celebrated without any Solemnity. Hence with- out doubt. he was the fame Aurelius Vitor, who was Con- ful with Valentinian Junior, A. UC. 1121, and certainly the fame Perfon, whom Ammianus Marcéllinus mentions in his 21 Book, to be an Hiftorian of great Reputation for his Sobri- ey, and of Confular Dignity, whom Conftantius made Gover: nor of Pannonia, and afterwards < honoured with a Brazen Sta tue, Sextis:AMTEH ES PRAT. tuc, and the Prefecture of Rome: In. the Life of Severus he. owns him€elf_ to. be the Son: of a mean illiterate -Country-man; and to have advanced ‘himfelf by his Virtue and Learning, ‘Tis very probable he was a Pagan in his Religion, as ma- ny privately were in the time of Conftantius, and openly, like * good Courtiers, in the Reign of his Succeffor Julian the A- poftate ; this may be gathered from his approving ‘of Adrian’s Sacrifice to his beloved Axti- nous. with the Complement of a Pious and Devout Action, Yet after all *tis much difputed, whether this Viftor, who writ the Lives of the Cefars, be the Author of the Illuftrious Ro. : mans,: ARS Baye Of, OE a . mans. For our Book, ‘though . 4 "it goes under his name,’ is of a far different ftile, and gives you better Latin than thar of the Emperors, which is harfh and unequal, yet fententious, and may recommend the Writers Judgment, though not his Phrafe, Therefore fome have rather afcribed thefe Lives to Cornelius Nepos, Pliny Junior, or Suetonius ; Others will have, it to be according to the Title, amongft whom is the Learned Voffius, ———Si quid novifti reftins Candidus imperti, fi non, bis | iere mecum. ‘THE als . aay a THE | LI ES : ° OF the Iluftzions “ROMANS. : Writ in Latin by SEXTUS AURELIUS VICTOR: TRANSLATED by Mr fFOHN AUSTEN, eee From the Building of Rome, to the Year 244. ae ea PROCA King of the Albans. 3 OCA King of the altars had gy °3 two Sons, Amilius and Numiter, ty » f whom he left his. Kingdom coi With the Condition of Reigning yearly °* -| B —[2] by turns. Amulius, at the Expiration of his Term, refus’d to furrender the Kingdom to his Brother : and intend- ing to deprivehim of fue, made Rhea Silvia his Daughter chief Prieftels of Vefla, that the might always live a id, But the was got with Child bj Mars, and brought forth Romulus and Remus Which farprize provok’d Amalia to imprifon her, and throw her. Chil dten into the Zifer, but they being pre- fecv’d by the Ebbing of the Water, and left upon the Shoar, their Cries in- [3] fis Brother but fix. And that he might gin to fecure his City by the Obier- vation of Laws before he built Walls for its Defence, he gave order thar none ihoiild prefume to go over his Rampire, which Rensus leaping in de- nfion, is {aid to have been killed with 4 Matiock by Fubine Celer the Cont tunion. ROMULUS Firf King of the Roméns: Romulus, to increalt his People, fee VU. 4 pan thom, ox lace of Retge, i Ss time afterthey were found by Fau/fulus, great Aimy: hee ay of ee the King’s Shepherd , and by him! Wives, he{enc¥imbafladoss to demand 7" brought home to his Wife Acca Lawen | them of his Neighbours, which being 24 | tig to take care of them. - Thele| Yeni pretended, in Honour of >} vited a She-Wolf to hafte to their Relief, and give them fuck. Some ee oung Princes, when grown up, Trew daliun, andaeitored their Grand, father Numitor to’ his Kingdom, and then by the help of the SI who in great numbers joyn’d them, they builta City, which Remuluscalled Rome, be having had the better Fortune in Augury tofec ewelve Vultures, al denied, he , in Nowune , the Celebration of Horle- Races, called Confualia; and when a §reat Concourie of Men and Women fame to fee thole Sports, he gavis a cer: tain Signal to the Remans to take away the Maids by force. One of which Was fo beauniful, that the mov'd the Speetators fo inquire Where they car Ba ried{4] tied her ; It was anfwer'd, to Captain Thalafius, Which Marriage proving ve- fortunate, it was ordain’d,’ ‘they id invoke the Name of Thclafias in all furure Nuptials. ‘The firft who made War for this Rape were the Ceni- enfes, againft whom Romulie, marched in perfon, and overcame them, killing Acro their General, in a fingle Com: bat, and confecrating his rich Spoils to Jupiter Ferctrius in the Capitol. Then the Antemnates, Craftumini, Fidenates, Pejemes, with the Satines, were Con- federates: againft them on the fame Account ; who approaching nigh to Rome, {eiz'd the Virgin Tarpzja, as the went to the Ziéer to draw Water for the Sacrifices. King 7flus Tatius pro& fer her the choice of any Reward, if fhe would let his Army into the Capi- tol; Towhich fhe confenting, demand ed all they wore on their Left Arms, meaning their Rings and Bracelets, which being promifed with Equivoca- tion, and the Gate left open, the Se tums pain'd tne Caftle, and by Titus Order preffed her to death, with the ‘Shields Cs] Shields,carried alfo on their Left Arms, Romulus drew out_his Forces againtt Tatins, who had pofle(3'd himfelf of the Terpejen Hill, and fought him in the Place, now the Remax Forum where Hoftus Floftilius, one of his belt Off- cers fighting valiantly was lain. By whofe death the Remans were difcous raged, and began to give ground; E after that Diforder , “upon Roma «#8 vowing to erect a Temple to Jar pier Stator, if he would his Ar- my’s Flight, the Soldiers made aftand, Gither by Accident, or fome Divine Inftiné.” In this Junture the Women came between both Armies, and me- diating with their Fathers. and Husbands, at laft procured’ a Peace. Romulus then made a Solemn with the Sabines,and received them into Roms, as Fellow Citizens ; uniting the People by the common Title of fini. tes, from Cures, a Town of the Sabines, He‘eftablithed an. hundred Senators, who for’ Reverence were ftiled Fa. thers, and inftitured three Centuries of Knights ; the firit were called Ram- B3 nenfes,Lod nenfis,fcom his own Name; the fecond, ede from Titus Tatius ; and the third, Luceres, from Lucumo, Hedi- vided the common People into thirty Companies, and diftinguifted themby the Names of the principal Women; But after the Mufter of his Army at the Lake Capra, he wasnever {Gen more. From which Accident'a Diffention arie fing between the Senators, and the Peo- plc: Jains. Proculus, a Nobleman, came fore thém, and affirmed upon Oath, that he faw Romulus on the Hill Quiris nulis, in a, more fplendid and auguft Form than heretofore, as a Proof of his being Deified, who commanded them to ceaft from Seditions, and to love Virtue; Thus they thould become Lords of the World. ‘The Romans believ’d him, as one of great Au: thority among them ; therefore they built Romslus a Temple upon the Hill Qeirinalis, and worthip'd himas a God, by the Name of Qeirinus, NUMA 17] NUMA POMPILIUS, Second King of the Romans. After the Confecration of Romulus, the People growing mutinous from a long Interregaum, and the want of a Succeflor, Numa Pompilies, the Son of Pongo was {ent for from Ceres, a Town of the Sabines. He cameto Rome with the aflurance of good Omens : and thar he might foften this fierce People with aSenle of Religion, he inftitured ma- ay holy Rites; built a Temple to He fs,and appointed the Veftal Nuns. He ordain’d ‘the three Flamensfor the par- ticular Sacrifices of Fupiter, Mars, and Romulus, and conftitured ‘the twelve Saiii Priefts of Mars, the chief of which was called Prafal, He created the High-Prieft, and built a Temple for Fanus, ( who was reprefented with two Faces ) the Gates of which were fur in Peace , and open in War. He divided the Year into twelve Months, by adding Jamary and February, and made aay profitable Bq Laws,ake a . 4 Plight, and by this Statagem kil then coe by aoe putas ne BS thei Wounds would permit them. The Conqueror in his return, laden with the Spoils of his Enemies, met his Sifter, who wept when fhe faw the Embroider'd Coat of her flain Lover, one of the Cyri This Indiferetion Provol’d him in his rage to kill he, f which bloody Fact he, was con. demned by the Dasmviri, two Judges appointed for thar purpofé. Bur a appealing to the People, with the a iilance “of his ‘Fathers ‘Supplications and Tears, he obtain’d his Pardon, yet toexpiate his Crime, he was for ced to go ynder a Gibber, which is co be feen at this day in the High-way, and called Sororism, METIUS FUFETIUVS. c.88, Metius Fufctius, the Alban General, cs obferving himfelf much hated by his * Citizens for putting an end to the War by the Combat of the Horatii and the Cwiaii, to make amends, fe ftir’ Cyr] the Romans, Now Tullae, upon account of the League. benween the Vejentes and the Fidenate them, demanded Fu fti’s Auxiliary Forces; who before hi Army upon a Hill, expedtin Brent of the Battle, ‘with a delign to {ll in with the Conqueror. 7allus underftanding his Defign; gave pubr lick Notice “that Metiws’ was potted there by his Order ; by which Artifice the Enemies were terrified, and cafily pvercome. And when Metixs came the next day tq congratulate him for his Yidory, he wasby King 7ullus’s Com- mand tyed to four Horfés , and for his Treachery pull'd in pieces. ANCUS MAR of the Romans. Ancus Marcius, Numa Pompitive’s Grandfon by his Daughter, was not unlike his Grandfather, either in his Juttice, of Piety, __ te overcame the Latins ; added the Hills Aventines and Faniculus to Rome; new CIUS Fourth King Fight drew his Tosi Befere: orColoiy at Ofia,ficuate atthe Mouth of the Ziler, very convenient for Trade “He alfo inftituted the Office of He {. malds, to affitt Embaffadors a “< manding fatisfaaion : which Cultom Wa tenet from the Aquiceli , People‘of Latium, and reported tohave been foundoutby Riyesnethe Sicgeof Troy, Thushaving fertied thefe things; ina very fhort time, he was taken > way by an untimely Death, and by that Misfortune could not complet the Charaéter of { great a King as his Subjedts ¢xpected from him. LUCIUS TARQUINIUS PRISCUS Fifth King of the Romans Fex37, Lucius Tarquinius Prifeus was Sonot cs, that Damaratas of Corinth, Tio pg “from the Tyrant Cypfélus, (eetled it Eiraria, Be was fe called and came to Rene from Targui C131 ity pf the Tu/ci. In his Journey: igle took off his Cap, and afier.a Flight replaced it on his Head s ich Tanaquilhis Wife oblecving, the. from her great Skillin Augury, knew that Omen, he thould obtain the sngdom. Targuinius by: his. Riches and Indufiry rais'd himfelf to greas. Honour, and became a particular Far, Yourite to King Arcus, who. dying, left. him Guardian of his Childreng, but he governed .in his own Name, and ruled with uch Juttice,, as if she had been lawful Succeflér. He chole an hundred. new Senators, whom he flil'd the Inferior Order, and. doubled the Centuries of the Knights; but durft not alter their Names, bei difeouraged by Accius Nevius the Au- gur, and fally convine’d of his Art by the Experiment of the Whetftone cut intwo bya Razor. He overthrew tlic Latins; built the Circus Maximus‘for publick Shews, and inftitutedthe grear Reman Games for manly Exexcifes. He triumphed over the Sabines, and thofe Latins who were called. orf. leFES. fas Cotniculanas, and Se ui iving him a Coat edg’d with Purple, and a Necklace with a Golden Bol which were the Ornaments of Gentle mens Sons. Ac laft he was trapan’d out of his Palace by a Plotof Ancus’sChil dren, and murder’d by their Appoint: Yoent. t SERVIUS TULLIUS sini King of the Romans. Servius Tallins was the Sort of Pubs the Captive OF Ch. erifia, He whilft he was brought up it Tarquiniis Prifens’s Palace, a lambent Fi as feen to eats Head. Queen Zanaguil upon her Oblervation judg’ ic as certain Prediction of ha fatute Dignity : and thereupon per! fwaded her Husband to bteed him up as he did his own Children. When he came to Man's Etlate, Tarquinil Prifeas made him his Somin-Law. And Cg f after the King was murder'd, Zamaquil told the People from a Window, ‘thar her Husband had receiv'd a dangerous, tho not a mortal Wound, cadet that till he was cured, they would fabmit to Servin. Tullius. Thus he got the Kingdom precarioufly , yet govern'd it with great Juftice. “He of: ten conquerd the Etrufei, and added the Hills Quirinalis, Viminalis, and E- Suilinus to Rome, He raifed'a Fe fication with Trenches about the City, and divided the People into four Tribes , calP'd Palatina, Elguilina , Sebwrana , and Colling, alloccing the poorer fort a proportion of Com out of the publick Granary. He fettled Mea< fares and Weights,with the Diftindtion of the Citizens into Clafles and Hun- dreds, and was the firft thar made a Regittr of Eftates, till then unknown in any Country. "He perfivaded the Latins to build’a Temple to Diana on the Mount Aventinus, in imitation of that ac Ephofis. Atver it was buile, a certain Latin had a Cow-calf of a « Wonderfull BignefS, and “twas told him in£20] [ar] their Carelefs Wives, -diverting then} the fame Misfortune which his Brother t| fad {uffered, who for his great Riches and Wifdom was killed by his j Uncle, pretended himfelf a Fool, and from thence called Brutus. He once, for that he would be mol at ay feud} Rome, whe thould frfk Kits his Mo- for her Father and Husbahd ftom te) ther, ‘he immediately kif’d the Eath, , and after the Difeovery of the} the ‘co i Rape, fhe flabsher felf, with a Daggel Afterwards, in teveny A ge Of Lucretia’s feeretly con Rape, he combined with Zricipitiner, This - ag'd them ina] and “Colatinus, tor excipace the Tor, ‘Confpiracy to ruin Terguin's kamilj} gains.“ Upoa whofe Bani he was and by their Banifhment to reveng ‘treated the firlt Confilland was fo zea- her Death. *) lows for the good of the Common- .| wealth, that he {par'd not hisown Sons LUCIUS JUNIUS BRUTU dae Neghews, oa vee plotting with Firff Roman Conful. the Vitelii,and the Aguilli,co reftorethe: wc.ags. js Te Defer LE. Fanins Brutus, alfo Bors Supertus his Sifters Son , Sava be whip, and he beheaded. Ar laft,05. C22] in a Battelagainft the ‘King’s Son fighting together with itiplacable Hatred, kill'd one anothe, His Body was brought into the Foran, where his Colleague extoll’d him ina Funeral’ Oration, . and the Roman Ma trons. mouin’d for himi a whole year a the Defender of their Chaftity: HORATIUS COCLES. When Porfénna, King of the. ch. trafei_ endeavour'd to reitore the Za,| guins, and at. his firft-Attempe had t the Hill. Faniculus, Horatius Coclesfo firnamed from the lofs of his Eye in former . Battel, food.on the Wootla Bridge,’and there. fingly main his Pott againft the Enemy, until Bridge was broken behind him, which he fell into the ‘Tider, and.armi as he was, he fwam fafe to his - Pap For this Noble Action. the, pb ick .conferr’d. on ‘him as, much Land as, he could lo say, and his Stanie uch round ig ane them, he and. Arm} place e233 — where they celebrated che Feafts of Palean. oF _MUTIUS SCHLOLA Whilft Rome was beficg’d by King yc. .,. Pafeuns, Matins Cordes, Mano me go Roman Refolution, went to the Senate, sos. promifing to kill-the King, if they would fufler him to go over to the Enemy asa Deferter. “With their permiffion he went into Porfennds Camp, and by Miftake kid a Nobleman in aParple Habit inthe ftead efhim For which beirig feiz'd, and brought befare the King, as he was fi ificing , ‘Matius chruft his Righe the Fire, punifting’ ic on ling the wrong. pecs fon. " When bé' was commanded to be faken from the Flames, by. the Cle- inency of Porfinné, in return af his indae(S, hetold him, that threchun- dred Men, a8 refolute as he, had ob- lig themflves by Oath to atcemy the fame thing. “At which Porfénna Wes fo temrified, that receiving Hofta- C4 ees1.245. oo Lea) geshe pur an end to the War. “The Senate as a Reward forthis, gave Matie: fome Land beyond the Tiber, fromhim gall'd the Mutien Fields, and ereéted a Statye in Honour of him. CLALIA. Porftrna veceiv’d, among the Rome cs. Holtages, Clelia, a Virgin of a Noble Family , ‘who by a Deceit put upon her Keepers, efcap'd our of his Camp night, and fwam the Titer with's fe; which the accidentally found But the King demanded her back by his Embaflaors, ane bad het forty was {0 great an Admirer of her Co oe that he ‘gave her leave to retuin Fo'Reme, with any other. Hoftages fhe thould defie, the chofe the young Mea and Maids whom fhe knew were molt “expos’d to the Violence of the Soldiers, For which brave Aétion, the Remess fet up her Statue on Horfe-back in the Foran, : . C25) The three handred and: fix ¥ ABN. In the War between the Remansand 0.0.27 the Veientes , the Fabia: Family’ pésdco the Senate, the canying bon by themfelves at their proper Expence- They marched out three hundred and fix, ‘under the Command of Fabins the Confitl, and: after preat Succef§ in fe veral Skitmifhes, encamp’d at the Rie Yer Cremera, But the Veientes who pur their greateft Confidence in Strata gems, plac'd Catcle in Veiw on the Sher fee, which the Fbi? going ‘to ftize, fell into an Ambith; andwere all cut off. Theday therefore whicreott this happened was numbered in the Calen dat améngttthe Unfortunate, and the Gate at which they went out, call: ed Scelerata, or Unhappy. One only bf thar Family, by realon of liis Mino- rity, was left at home; and from him the Name was continued to Fabias Maxi< mus, who by his avoiding Bacrel, muclt r Hanital’s Army ; for which by hisDetradtors he was nam’d Canta. er Delayer. PUB-£.26 3 PUBLIUS VALERIU#| POPLICOLA. : Pablins Valerius, the Son. of Folsfu, 745+ i three times; fit over the fetGh. Pejentes, then over the Sabines, and * Iaftly over them both. Buc becaufe he chofe no Conful, in place of Brats his ‘Colleague, and dwelt in Pelis a placé of great ftrength. in Rome, by was fiifpedted tohave aim'dat the Gor vernment.. At his knowledge hexcof being much difturbed,he complain’d t the People for entertaining fach ill thoughts of him, and to juftifie himfelf, hae ene prefently to have his Houf Pd down, He alfo order'd the cx tying of Rods without Axess in the Giry, and laid them down.as a_ Mack of Refpett before a popular Affembly, making a Law for appcaling fram Magiltrates to the People ; for wl Popularity: he was called P And..afier four - Confulfhips died. f C27] by.the Matrons, as Brutus his Col Fagus had boon before fs AULUS. POSTHUMIUS. ifhelin ey te ‘fle Peftmine Dito, who fori the Enemy at the Lake Régilas, where then the Vidlory was. doubsfal fs, the General’ of the “Ho this ‘Seratagem , he order’d: them unbridle their Horfés, that ix might be impoffible ‘in their ’ Charge flop: their Cairier.” ‘By. which fhgck they. routed the, Eatins, and took their Camp. In this A@tion were vid améng "them “two young ‘Men very remarkable for their Waloit, moiinted on white Horfés, whom the Digator after a {earch for,thathe might them -accosding to. their : nif, could ‘nor. find; therefore fu fing them to ‘bé Coffer and, Pollux, “he te confecrated[ 28°} cbifecrated 2 Temple to them both; -L. QUINCTIUS CINCINNATOS, +. The Jultice of Lacins Quinttins Cin ch tiinatus was in difig. the Clelins Gracchus, by whom. Q, Minutixs the Confal, ‘with his Army , was block’d up in Mount Algidas, BucQuin ies being made Digator, the Me(le ¥ that cartied his Commiffion Gloaths yi Tae ee vanity is, beyond the Ziter,) i ‘onkisRobehe march'd drt@ly tthes ‘and freed: the Conful ; for which he piefented by ‘Minucius with a Crown aaltd Obfidinala ‘cular who had vali ‘total [29] SiS doy his Dittarorhip the fizceach day after he -had receiv'd it, and re- tum‘d again ‘to his Affairs in the Country.” In a fecond DiGatorhhip, ee te after, he commanded ‘Scrvilius' Ahala,: General of the Horle, toexecute Sparias. Melins,. whoambitir oufly aim‘d at-the-Subvesfion: of the Government; and pulfd down. -his ‘Houfe; From whence thar place was alld Aquimolinns, MENENIUS» AGRIPPA LANATUS. : pees oe ee fines, and triumph’d for his Vis Before over them. In his time the ee ‘mutined againft the Senarors, and march’d out of Rome to the Sacred Hill, not able any longer to en- dure the Burden of their Taxes, and the continual Services of the War, mor. would be back: nae Dwellings. Agrippa’ therefore tok this Fable, nee Be parts of 1 the Bolsfape[30] fing the Bly, ta be idle 5, sat al ds and deed & ther afters when: by this Folly shey shemfetues be gortoarer weds, atl efok ek Meat which the Belly receiu'd was difyesd by its: poner: throigh. the ether shy ware foo reconciPd. Thas the S¢ sate" and-the People, as -one Body, Difeord arc rain'd, fas by Concord ooh By this Moral he reduc'd the habbo the Poplccodefnd sais iter People to their Liberty, 4- init the Haughtinels of he ity. . This Menenias died fo poor thar the People made a Colleétion for his Funeral, and the Senate fer up a Mot fument for -him. at the publick €. MARCIUS CORIOLANUS cade, Cains Mercins Skit. Corals, fom Cor a Cin ofthe Va fetch: sehen. his General. Pg id him any Reward he would ask; fo -the brave Aétions he perform'd in that War; he aneminear Example of Vale [317 and Friendthep »_ only and a Friénd of his; wl the Captives. In his Confulthip , when Provifions were {carce, Corn by his Order was brought out -of Sicih, and fold to the People ar a dear rate; that he might conftrain them by- this Severity to mind their Husbandry, and “not promote Seditidn, - Upon an Ac+ cnfation by Deciss, ‘Tribune of the People, he was banith’d, and flying to the Volfei, fided with them, under the Command of Attins Tallus, againit the Romans, encimping within four Miles of the City: And would not be ap- peasd by any Embally from Rome ; ull at'laft, by the Incerceffion of his Mother Vetraria,and his Wife Volamnia, with a great number of Matrons in their Retinue; he put anend to the War, and was afterwards put to death asa Traitor, by the Vol{ci. Vor this there was a Temple built, Fortune Mu- \ichri, To Good Fortune procer’d by Women: GilC32] ‘GC LICINIUS STOLO.. w.c388. Fabins Ambuftus had two ters, cz. Whom he married, one to Licinins Stele, ‘aPlebeian,the other to Aulus Sulpitis, a Nobleman. The Wife of the Ple beian making a Vific to her Sifter, whofe Hasband was.Tribune* of the} Soldicrs,: at that time of equal Power with a Confal, difcover'd her ill Breed- ing'by her Fright ar the fight of the Rods and Axes plac'd by the Lidtorsat “the Door, for which hee Sifter deciding her, the complain'd of the Affront to her Husband, ‘who by the affiftance of his Father-in-law, when he was made Tribune of the People,eftablifh'd 2 Law, that one of the Confals fhould always be chofen out of the ‘Commoners. This, altho much oppos'd by Appias Clandius, took effect; and Licinis Stolo was firft created Confil- He alfo made another Law, that 20 Plebeian fhould have above five hum dred Acres of Land;-and_yet he hax ving five hundred Acres in his own {331 Right, enjoy’d as much moge in the Name of his Son, who was out of his Tuition, for which Violation, he-was éall'd to an Account ; and was the firft that fufferd by his own AG. Mr. RICHARD TEMPLE, From the Year 302. to 434. U.C. LUCIUS VIRGINIUS te Centurion. NV Hen the Reman People could vc; no longer_bear the Infolence 2S" of their Fattious Tribunes, they fer ** w the Decemviri, who by their Office drew up new Laws upon twelve Tables, aolleGted from thofe which Solon gave the Athenians: and whilft thefe Ten Magiftrares were defigning by agree- ment to continue the Government a: fnongit themfelves , one of ghem, by Dp Name(34) Name Appius Clandius, fell pallionately in Tee with Virginia, eben Daughter of Virginius the Centurion, then in the Service of the State at Algidum. Which Maid, when he could by no means debauch, he fuborn’d his Client Marcus Clandius vo demand her for his Slave, as born in his Family, bur floln away by Virginixs. He thought his Point not hard to gain, ince he himfelf was to be both Judge and Party. Her Father knowing this came to Rome on the very day of het Trial, where finding his Daughter caft, he defired leave to cake his lat Farewel of her; fo going afide, as it were, for private Difcourfe, ftabbd her, and throwing her Body on his Shoulders, fled to the Army ; by that fad Speétacle animating the Soldiers to revenge the Crime. They firft creating ten Military Tribunes, feized on Mount Aventinus, forc’d the Decemi viri to abdicate their Power, and pt nith’d them all either by Death or Bar nifhment, only Appius Claudins was found dead in Prifon. . [35] The mage of ESCULAPIUS brought to Rome. The Romans afflicted with a grievous V¢-46 Peftilence, fent to cénfult the Oracle 2/e of Apollo at Delphi, and being order'd ***- to fetch the Image of Aijeulapius from Epidunrum a City of Epirus, they im- mediately difpatch'd away’ ten Em: baffadors, of whom Quintus Ogulnins was chief in the. Commiffion. As foon as they enter'd the Temple, and Were wondring at the LargenefS of the Statue, a Snake crept from under the Pedeftal, which rather moved Refpect than Fear, and gliding through the middle of the Town, to the admira= tion of all, went into the Roman Gally; and rolled it felf up in Ogwlnins his Cabin. They came with the God as far as Amtinm, 4 Port in Htaly, where the Sea being very rough, the Snake leapt over Board, and went direétly to the Neighbouring Temple of Aftu- bgia ‘yet after fome few days ecurn- to theGally, and as they row’d up D2 the ae[36] the Titer, itleap’d into the little Hand, that was form’d of Zarguin’s Palace, thrown into the River, where a Tem. ple was built to (culapiue, and the Plague fuddenly ftop'd. FURIUS CAMILLUS. When Furius Camilus befieged the Falifci, the Schoolmatter of the Town, =. by a pretence of taking a Walk, came over to him with moft of the chief Citizens Sons; but inftead of being Kindly received by Camillus, he was orderd for his PerfidioufnelS to be bound and whip'd back into the Town by his Scholars : which oblig’d the Falifi, tanfported with fach a remarkable Act of Juftice, to yield up themfélves, and their ‘Town’ to him. He had the Honour of a ‘Triumph fer taking the City Veit after ten years Siege, yet was acculed for having had his Triumphal Chariot drawn with white Horles, an Honour only + lawful in the proceifion of Fupiter, and the Sum; alto that he had unequally divided (37) divided the Plunder they took at the Sacking of Veii: for which, cited to his Tryal by Apuleius the Tribune of the People, he was found guilty, and banith’d to Ardea, About this time the Gali Senones forfaking their own Country for its Barrenne(S, came into Jialy, and belicged Clufium, a Town in Etruria, Three Embafladors were fent from Rome to advife them to de- fit from their Enterprife, and one of them, by name Quintus Fabius, in a Battle,contrary to the Law ofNations, kill'd the General of the Gauls; Thisfo enrag’d them, that upon denial of fur- rendring the Embafladors, according to their Command, they march’d diz rely towards Rome, and beat the Ro- mans on the fixteenth of the Kalends of Auguft, at the. River lia, which Day wasever after reckon’d in the Ka- Iendar amongft the Nefajfi, or Un- lucky, and call'd Alienfis. “The con- quering Gauls enter'd the City, and at firft fight of the Senators, dreis’d in their Robes, and fitting in their Ivory Chairs, worfhip’d them as the Tutelar : D3 Gods ES ee[38] Gods of the Place; but when they found them to be Men, they killd them with all imaginable Contempt. ‘The Remainder of the Youth fled with Manlius to the Capitol, and there be- fieg'd by the Garls, were freed by the fingulac Valour of Cxmillus, who in his abfence was chofén DiGator, and having gather'd the (catter'd Troops of of the Roman Army, furprizing the Gauls by a fadden Onfer, gain’d an ab- folute Vidtory over them: by his ad- vice, the Romans rebuilt theie burnt Houfes, and were hinder'd from fee tling themfelves at Hei, Thus he re- fior'd the City to her Citizens, and the Citizens to their City. MARCUS MANLIUS CA PITOLINUS. Manlins, for the Repul(e he gave the Gauls at the Capitol, call’d Capitol, ferv'd fixteen years as Voluntier in the ‘Army, lhe had feven and thirty Milk tary Rewards given him, and three and thiny Honorable Scars on is . : Br 365, rec. [39] Breafl. Ic was he, when the City was taken, that advisd the Remain- der of the’ Romans to fly to the Ca- pitol, and one night allarmd by the Gabling of a Goole, beat off the Ene- my, (caling the Hill; for which Aion he was fli'd Patron by his Citizens, who in Gratitude brought hima Do- native of Corn out of their particular Allowance, tho they were in great want of it themfélves, and gave him a Houfe, at the publick Charge in the Capitol. Thefé Honours fo puff'd him up, that he created himfelf many Enemies, and was accusd by the Se- nate, for not having made a juft Di- firibution of the Plunder, he had ta- ken from the Gauds: alfo for paying out of his own Eftate the Debts of thole, who according to Law, had beenturn ed over as Slaves to their Creditors: he was thrown into Prifon, upon fifpicion of aiming at the Crown, a fee at Liberty by the unanimous Vote of the People : relapling into the fame Crime, and perfévering in it, he was found guilty: yet upon his looking D4 towards[40] C41] towards the Capitol, and the Remem brance of his good ‘Service pectomid | P UB LI US DECIUS the » he was repriev'd , ‘but then | Father. condemn’d in another place, was throwa down the Zarpsian Rock. Hs | Pablias Decias Mus was Tribune of U4 Houfé was demolith’d , his Goods | the Soldiers in the Semvire War, une sefre confifcated, and the Mualii ever afier | der Valerius “Maximus, and Cornelis oe obligid to renounce the Prenanen of | Ofer the Conf, When were Marius, biock’d up by an Ambuth of the Ene- my, in the narrow Pafs of the Moun- ACLUS CORNELIUS COS-| tain Gearus in Campania, lie with & SUS. Detachment granted him upon his re- queft gain‘d an Hill, frighten’d the cgr8, 5 The Fidenates, ancient Enemies of | Enemy: and at Midnight efeap'd fafe ce, tte, Remons , that they might figh | though their fleeping Guards. For =" without any hope of Pardon, kilf'd she | whiel” confueathe Service the Army Roman Embaliadors that were in Treaty | prefenced him with an Osken Crown, with them, againft whom Quinétas | called Civica, the honourable Reward. Cincinnatus was fent Didiacor , with | of fich as fava she Lite otc Citizen Cornelis Coffs, General of the Hork, | in Battel, and with another nam'd Ob- who with ‘his own hand killa King | finals, for raifingthe Siege. In the Fertes Tolumnins, and was the fecond | Lain War he and tis Colleague Man- fom Romulus, that confecrated the | las Torquatus encamp'd at the River Spoils of a flain General to Jape | vooris whee beh che Confils Feraring, "| dteam’d, chefame night, the Conqueft would be theirs, whole General fhowld PUBLIUS | fill in the Battel, comy i . ee Deans ae eee areasC42] Dreams, they agreed, that he, whole ‘Wing happened to be worfted, thoutd vow himfélf to the Infernal Gods, “the Left Wing, which Decius com. manded, giving’ way, he with grea refolution repeating fome Solemn Prayers after Valerius the High-Prief, devored himfelf with his Enemies to the Infernal Gods, fo rushing into the Bartel, by his death, procured Viétory to the Romans, P. DECIUS the Son, 447. “4” Publins, the Son of the former Der - cis, in his ficlt Confutthip triumphed over the Samaites, and con{ecrated the beft of their Spoils to Ceres: in his fecond and third Confalare he per form’d many noble Adions boti at home and abroad. In his fourth with Fabius Maximus Rallianus, when the Gauls, the Samuites, the Umbri and the Toi enter'd into’ a Confederacy = gaintt the Romans, their Army bei drawnup in Bartel, and in the Fight his Wing giving ground, he, encou- ° raged £43 the great Example of his eden ene Pee Pontifex, and leaning on his Spear, peated after him the ufual Form of Prayer, thus devoting himfelf soge-’ ther with the Enemy to the Infernal Gods, he ruthed into the Battel, and bequeathed Vietary to his Soldiers. His Body was magnificently interred, and he prais’d in aFuneral Oration by his Colleague. TITUS MANLIUS ToOR- QUATUS. Titus Manlins Torquatus , for the DulnefS of his Parts, and the Impe- 7-39 diment of his Speech, was fent by Bre his Father to live a private Life in 355 the Country ; upon Information. that his Father was acculed by Pompeias, the Tribune of the People, he came by night to Rome, and having got an opportunity to difcourfé the Tribune in private, with his drawn Sword, forc’d him in great fear to lay afide his Ac. gufation, In his Tebunchip a of the eeC44] C45] Soldiers, under Sulpicins the Diétator,| with the additional Name of Corvinus, hein a Duel kilfd the Gaul that chal His Prudence was of great Con Teng’d the Romans, and taking off his quence te the Common-Wealth, when’ in, put it on his own Neck, agreat number of poor Debtors, not whence he was calld Zerquatus, Ih able to pay their Creditors, had at- his Confilthip againft the Latins, to tempted to ftize Capua, and forc’d maintain his Difcipline, he beheaded Quinétins to head them, in appeafing his own Son, tho victorious , fer that Sedition by taking off the Debt. fighting againft his Order, and’ be them at the River Veferir, where his Colleague Decius devoted himfelf 10 | sp 77g IUS POSTHUMIUS. the Infernal Gods. Titus Veturius and Spurius Poithumius v.c.ass! in their Confilthip warring with the ne MARCUS VALERIUS Cor Samnites, were deawn into an Ambu- 317- VINUS, fade by their General -Pontius Thele~ jfaus, who fent our fome pretended cor. 5. Valerius was Tribune of the Sok Deferters to tell the Romans, that La- diers under Comills, in purfaing the erie, a City in Apulia, was belieg’d dilpertt. Troops of the Gauls ce of by the Sammites. ‘Two Roads lead“co Sealy; and with great Bravery fought this place, the one longer, but fafer ; the Gaul, who bya Challenge had ter the other thorter, yet more dangerous; Tified the whole Roman Army. A Crow the Romans, in great hafte to raife the from Break of Day fate upon his He!- Seige, by taking the thorter way, fell met, and in the Fight aflited Tas y | imo the Ambullr: the place, a this flapping his Wing in his IeMIES | Misfortune hay nd, was call’'d Furce- Rye, “which Vidlory honoured = le Candine, Coins Pomtins, when be wi iia ere[46] hhad ‘taken chem, fen fot his Féthet Herennias, to confale his Judgment ii this matter, who anfwer'd, He would either have them all killed, to weaken their Forces beyond hopes of Recovery, orelfe {ent away without Ranfom, that they might be for ever oblig’d to him for fich a generous Favour; but he rejecting both thefé Propofitions, made them all Slaves, and enter’d into a League with difhonourable Condi- tions on their part, which the Roman fo difliked, that Pofthimins theic Ge- neral was deliver’d up to them to dit annul the Articles, bur not received upon that Account by them. LUCIUS PAPIRIUS CUR SOR. a {471 lof the Army to Fabius Rullianus, witli Orders not to fight upon any Occa- fon, yet he inticed by a fair Oj mity fought the Enemy, for wl Ppirius, at his return, would have led him. For the fafety of his lie he efeaped to Rome, where it was wc in the Power of the Tribunes to féfend him: neverthelelS by his Fa~ thers Tears, and the Peoples Intreaty, ic was at laft pardoned, and Papirias riumph’d over the Semnites. He was ery pleafant in his Converfation, ind a great Lover of Jefts, as appeard me time, after having feverely repri- manded the Prator of Prenefte for his Cowardife, he order’d the Lidtors to Imake ready their Axes; and when he law him fafficiently terrified with the far of Death, commanded them only to cutup the Roots that hinder’d their Lacius Papirius, fom his fwiftnels |March. call’d Curfor, was fent Dictator againft the Samnites, perceiving the War to be undertook with ill Omens, he recum'd t0 Rome to confale the Soothlayers fot |- better Divination,and left oe Comee TheC493 four inferior Tribes, and would not be chofé Cenfor a fecond time, declaring it was not for the good of the Com- monwealth to have the fame Men of =z ten Cenfors. He firft infticured the Cavalcade of the Roman Knights on the Ides of July ftom the Temple of Honor, upon white Horfes to the Ca- pitol. "At his death fo much Money was colledted for him by publick Con dibution,\that_his Son made a pubs lick Feaft, and gave a Dole of raw Heth to the People. { 48] The HONORABLE Mr. ROBERT BERTIE From the Year 434. to 511. U.C. QUINCTUS FABIUS RULLIANUS. ce. Fabins Rullianas was the fitt « of his Family, for his Valour call'd Maximus: when he was General of the Horle, under Papirins Carfor, he conquer'd the Samnites, but had like to have been beheaded by the Dida- tor, for fighting without Order, in his abfénce. He firit triumph’d over the Api, and Lucerini, then over the Samnites; thitdly over the Gauls, the Umbri, the Marf,, and the Tafei. Ia his Cenforhhip he diftinguith’d the L- beri, in cele of thie Vous, ino four MANLIUS CURIUS DEN- TATUS. Manlius Curivs Dentatas firk wri- UCy jamph’d over the Semaites, whom he ®m Jonquer’d as far as the Adriatick. Sea. Jc his return to Rome, he thus figna- izd the Greatne(S of his Viétory in fa Affembly of the People: J boxe ite Jo mach Land thas i weld rn 4 fart, had 1 not taken [o Priv se hab ad see ae 7 E manyEso] ‘tmany Men , that they. malt perifh with Force, bad I not taken Dae fer them to fubfift om. He wiumph’da fecond time over the Sabines, and thirdly enter'd the City witha le ‘Triumph , call’d Ovation , for con- quering the Lucanians. He drove Pyrrlus, King of Epirus, out of Lah, In the Divifion of the publick Lands, he gave forty Acres.a Man amongft the People, and refervd but forty for himfelf, profeffing, that none to be reckon’d a Roman. Citizen wi could not be contented with it. He was fo moderate in his Defires, that he rhea the Samnite Enbatele fering him a great. It of Eee epee nips; I had rather eat thee Tarnips ix this Earthen Difh, and govern them tha pals fich Riches. When he was .ac- cas'd of converting to his own ufé the publick Money, he produced for his ‘Vindication a Wooden Cruet which he us'd at his Sacrifices, folemnly fwear- ing, he never had any thing ‘more of the Enemies Spoils, in hi a He ght E’sr] , the Aqueduéts of die River Avio into Rome, at the Ex) ime. P 3 and in his Tribune- aw from him, calld Cura, by which iftrates might be elected out of the ; for which many Obligations tte Republick confecr’d upon him ‘an Hout, and five hundred Acres of land in Ziphate. APPIUS CLAUDIU: czcus. ° ius Claudius Ceca, i his, Confer 7°45 hip, tho he admitted the Liberting in- 4" Ip the Senate, prohibited the Mutici- tas from publick Feeling, and plays lag on Pipes in Fapiter’s Te TWO Familie call'd ae Potitit and the Viserii had for many Ages been con- tiated to Sacrifices to Heéer- he brib'd the Potitii to inftruct fie common Slaves in thofe Religious for which Offence he was blind, and the Race of the Po- i utterly extinguith’d. He violem= ~" E2 lyC52] i 'd the Communication of the fulthip to any Plebeian, and would not gratifie the Ambition of Fabiu: Rellianue vo have abfolute Command without Decius Mus in the War againft the Samuites. He conquer'd the Se Bines, ae and Hietrurians: and w'd the way as far as Brundu/ Rihence ie was alld the Appian re He finih'd the Aqueduét which was brought into Rome from the River rio, and was oe only Man that 1¢ Cenforfhip five tee When s Pose was sone with King Pyrrhue, and his Embafl- dor Cineas had corrupted many of the Senators, Appius, old and blind, was Drought in his Litter into the Se- nate, and with a noble Speech broke of thofé bafé Propofitions. PYRRHUS King of Epirus 7. Pyrrbus, King of Epirus, was ci. his Father defcended from Achilles; yy his Mother from Hercales ; he ambi- [53] - tioufly aimed at the Empire of the World, and: perceiving the Romans very powerful, confitited the Del- ick le abour the Fortune of the jar, whom Apollo thus ambiguoufly anfwerd: i Ajo te Hacids Romanos-vincere poffe. 0, Pyrthus, you the Romans fhall der come, He interpreting this to his own Fan- gy, made War with the Romans, by the help of the Zarentini: and difor- decd Levinus' the Conful’s Army by the City Heracla, with the ftrange fight of his Elephants; but after'the Fight when he beheld the Roman Sol- diers, flain only by honourable Wounds in their Breafts ; he cried out, With Juch brave Men as thefe conla Ifoon conquer the whole Werld : and anfwerd his Friends , congratulating his Suc- cel, , What do I gain by. fuch a Vittory cats-me the Flower of my Army, Thea he march'd on, and encamp'd 3 ‘twenty477. Cb. C54] twenty Miles from Rome, J reftoring the Captives to Fabricin, without Ranfom,where fceing the new Army of Levinus fo faddenly recruie- | 5 ed, he declar’d he underwent the fame aefty. When he and the King en- Difficulty againft the Romans, as his ie near one another ,- Pyrrhu’s Hercules with the fician came to him by night, pro- Fijdre. Be was routed by Fabricia | mifing to poifon his Prince , if he and Gwrius, and fled to” Zarenm, | would reward him accordingly; Fa. thence pafs'd over into Sicily ,| iniciwe, detetting the Fat, command- YE cure more to ery his Fortune, | elhim to be bound, and carried back, ie return'd to Locré in taly, and i i is rob'd Proferpine’s Temple bit ex deavouring to carry off the Treafire, his Fleet was driven back by a Storm, | Adti and wreck’d upon the Shoar. Thence | fid: This & that Fabricns, mf dn returning into Greece, as_he belieg'd | ugrity "sis harder to corrupt, than io turn ‘Arges, he was flain with a Tile chrown | te Sun from its Conrfe. down on his Head. His Body was carried to Antigonus, King of Maced nia, and magnificently enterr’d, DECIUS MUS, FABRICIUS. The year after the viGorious Re mans ‘had driven Pyrrhus to Tarentim, Fatricivs was {ent General againft ‘him; Senate, who in return, by a Confede- ad E4 racy,ch, C » became their Mafters.: . they had thus feed Indigntig they fecretly beggd Aid of hows mans; Decius Mus was ly totheir Affiftance, who overcame thee infolent Freed Men, and. cither them to Death in Prifon, or. delivered them again in fubjeGion to. their Lor 56] APPIUS CLAUDIUS CAU. DEX. Appius Claudius, firnamed Caudex, Was Brother to Appius Cecus,-afier the "Settlement of the Volfinienfs, lhe was fentConfil to free the Mamersini in Si- «ily whole Caftle Here, King of Syracyp, with the Carthaginians, had befieg’d He fiche pad the Streights of Siil ina Fither-Boat to view the Enemy, and then forc’d the Carthaginian Ge peral to withdraw his Forces out of the it Returning: to Rhegium, he with his Infantry took a five Bankd Galley of the Enemies, and with that Veflel tantporring a Legion ar ily, Ale | bare ti Co ins C57] som furrendered bi fir to hin oes Terms, at the Battel - of Spracufe, and. fu |vas {0 teteified with the Danger o ‘the War, that he defir'd the Friendthip of the Romans, and prov'd ever after very faithful to them. : CAIUS DUILIUS. ery powerful 452- arSea, rigg’d out a ftrong Fleet : -his Enemies augh’d at. his Invention of Grapling Irons, with: which she took thity, and funk thirteen of their Ships.’ Hannibal, the Carthaginian Ad- miral, fled to Carthage, and pretended 0 demand Infiruétions of the Senate, 3s yet ignorant of -his: Misfortune. They usanimoufly. vored he should fight the Enemy: J heve fought, fa and lof she Day. Thuis he ekap'd we Game i nia i eral,