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Show Thefifi. Bookeufebejirftpare Cuar rgy, lineredinto the Garthaginians hands, all holeToweies ofthie: Phoeiticians inSieil.b e. dJonging vntothem, avhich werei (hispofletion: "Pheytéqaited him hondutably with great {tare ofcorned; and with foute hundiediatents oPgold and filuers! So ( thoites foe withourmuch troublednd hazard yhe proindled apainiirheRebcli s:and fetled his chtite Hauing no furcher-byfineliclefein Sicilshe eradded voyage tftTealie. "Phere hee fbi edthe Brutians, rather by tetrouriof bis name) ttian by aity force, for they yeeldediithis firftcomming. ‘This doncshewen torhe Ie wtLiparay and made the ny bi peackivithonc hundted talentsof gold, Bahn hee id gotten this-Tohabita prear ‘linia hee would ncedSekadka greaterpanel findingplainly thatthey had nd niore left, hee nas boldrodpoyletheReniplesofaheirgods: iHerdin €me thitikes ) hee'did wellendig h, ie Forhow:couldheebeloeue'thofe td be gudsivehiiehad COntintially Sivenedeafe aest his horribleperiariest'Phenhererurneldpietly ‘honvep with clench hips loaden gold: y-all whichpand albthe refvofhisflebrywere cat away by: ‘foule aveather with one Gallicexcepyedjin which hehimfelfeefcaped) to futa inore milerable at Seq) end; gricuous'fickneffefeitv pon bith, that rotted his whole bodie| fpreadin 9(ic'felfe throughA all bisweities abdbfinewes. Whilett he lay inthis cafe, all defirine his end,fane only ‘thee. gents X awifethavhebadtaken durofEgypey and her {malt children : his Nephew, the fonne of 4rchayathas,beforementioned, anddyonger nnieofhis owne, beoan to tendaboutthe Kingdome. Neither did they! {ecke to-end the controuerfieby thécon: old Tyrantsdecifiongthey regarded him not ioimuch.° But each "of themlaicd wait forthe orlicrsilife> whereinthe Nephew {ped (orwell thar hefluehis Vacle, an dpot' his Grind: ; fathets'Kingdome|, withourasking any leaués Thee tydings wounded the heat thocles with feate-and forrow. Hee faw himfelfe without helpe, like'to ‘become of Aja ‘a to his yngracious Nephew,ftom whom heknewthat rio' Fiddour was to be expetted)prey el therbyhimfelfe, or by thoft;:whomm onely hee now held ‘deare, whichwere ‘Theaenle and-her children. ‘Therefore he aduifed herand theme fiebefore they! were fuupriled ; for that otherwifetlicy could byno meanes auoide} either dearh;‘or' fomewhit'that would be worfel "He gauethem allhis treaftires and goods; wherewith he eueit coitipel- Iedthem ( weepingto eauc himidefolatein fo wretched 'a‘cafe )'to imbarke! rhemilelues haftily,and makefpeed into' Egypt. Aftertheir depatture,whether hee chrew Himitlfe into the fire;or whether-his difeafe confumed him, there'was noneleft that cared't0 at 30 a him y but heeendedhis lifeas bafely; as obf{qurely, and in' as much want, asheefirlt anit. hia: ig : , After the death of w4gathotdesi¢ was, that the Mamertines his Souldiers traiteroully occupied Meflana, andintefted'agteat part of rhe Hand: Thenalfodid'the Carthaginians begin to renew vheir attemprs of conqueriag all Sicileé: What the' Nephew of 4s shocles did, Tcannotfinde. Likelyit is that hée quickly perithed:* Forthe Siciliaas ‘were driuen vo fend for Ryrrhusto helpe'them,who had married witha daughter ofAgarhicles But 2yrrhas was foone wearie of ‘the Countrie (as hath beene thewed before ) and thereforetefflir j prophefying tharit would becomea goodly chatnpionfield,' wherein Rome go and Carthage fhould fight For fuperioritie' In which bufinefle, how thefétwo' gtéat'Ct ties.did fpeed, che order of our Rorie will declare, 3 hogy i ; §. V. A necantinuation of the Romanwarre in Sitil, How Hieron ; King of syracu fe, feifote he Carthagini i ofvhe\fyftorie ofthe World, sv yfe oftheir prefentaduantage, andifold:hiny:peaceforan hundited-Gfome hytwohuna dred) Talents. Sb ota isds bos itt. Thefe Confuls had brought a great Arimie into Sicil ; yet did they nothing-elfein ef fett,chan bring ouerHero to theitifide. Ifthe Syracufian held them bufied(whicli find not, otherwife than by: circumftances) as, ‘by the furame of monie inipofed vpomhim; and by their performing none other peece offernice)all the wholecime of their abode inthedland then was his departure fromthe friendfhip of Carthage,nodefleitahishonour,than it wasto his commoditie. For by no reafon could they require,that he thould {uffer hisowne Kingdometo run into'manifeft perill of fubuerfion, for their fakes; that 40 fhouldhaue receiued all the profit ofthevictori¢ » fecing they did expole him to'the whole danger, without {training thémfelues to gine him-reliefe.|Butthe Carthaginians hadlatelyimade good 'proofe ofthe ftrength of Syracufe; inthe daies ofAvathocles-and thereforékuew, that itwasableto.beare avery {trong fiece. And heereupon itis like thatthey-weretheimoieflacké; infending helpe: if ( perhaps) it were'not fome patt of theirdefire;that both Rome atid Syracufe fhould weaken onethe other, whereby their owneworkemight bethe eafieragainft them both. Yerindeed, the cafeofthe befieged Citiewasnotthe fame,whenthe Romanslay beforeit;as ithad been when the Gartha Piniansattempted ic. Fortherewas.greatreafon,| totry the vttermoft hazard of war-as gainttthe.Garthaginians,who fought hoatherthing than to bring it into flanery:notfoagainktheiR omans,who:thought iofirficient ifthey could withdvaw-it from thopatty of their enemibs: Belides;icivasinot allio begouertied by Agathocles; or by Hiero, The _ former of thefe cared not what thecitizens endured, fo long as hee might prefetue his 20 oWnetyranny: thelatteryasia inft and good Prince; hadino greater defite thanto winne the loue of hisspcople) by féekirig their eommouities, butincluding his owne felicitie within the pnblique; labouredto vphold bothsby:honeftiandfaichfullidealing. Hereby. itcameto pafie,that-hoenioyedia long arid happy-n¢igne) lining deare to hisiownt Subiets, belouéd.ofthé Romaiis, dnd notigreatly.molefted, by the Carthaginians ».whom, eitherthe confideration; That they byud lift him to bimfelfe, erehe left their focieties made vawilling tofecke his ruine ; or thcirmore earn¢ft byfitefle with the Romans,madevn- abletocompafieit: §.. VI. 30 Howthe Romans befiegeund winue Agrigentum. Their beginning tomaintaine a fleet. Their Jifplofe, and firvidorie by Sea. Of Sea-fight in general, H Teron, hauing fided himfelfe with the Rotians, aided them with vidtualls, and other neceffaries: fo thar they, preftiming vpon his affiftance,recall fome part of their forces. The Carthaginiansfindeit hightimeto beftirre them; they fend tothe Ligutiaas,and to the troopes they had in Spaine, to come to their aide ; who. "ing attiued, they made the.Citic of Agrigentum,the feat of the war, againft the RoMans,filling it with all manter of munition. TheRoman Confuls, far ng made peace with Hieron, returne into Italie ;'and, in 40 their places, Lucius Posthumus, and Qurmtus Mamilias, e. They goe on towards stigentum: and finding no.cnemicif the field, they ge it, thoughit were ftuf-, 4, ed with fiftie thoufand Souldiers. After a whilé, the time ofharueft being come, apartwa of theRoman Armie range the Countrie to gather corne, andthofe at the fiege prow Cin Sint ans.; and made hispeace with Rome, Cuar.t.G:6. yan pHen Appivs Claudius, following the aduantage of his viGorie gotten at Mefla, §¢ broiighit the warre vnto the: Gates: of Syracufe, and befieged' that great Citie; , Heron foundit hightime for him to feeke peace : knowing ‘that the Carthagr nians had :neitherany reafon tobee offended with him; for helping' himnfelfe by what meanesheecould, when they wére not in cafe-to give him affiftancey and forelecing a that when once he had purchafed his quict from the Romaris, it would be ar ua tofic till, without feare of' moleftation, whileft Roine and Carthige' were Cee eamistic. Inthis good mood, thenew Roman Confuls;-a4.Valerins, mer "etieusy foundhim, and readily embraced theoffer of his friend{hips Yet tht - neglivent ; the Carthaginians { uriogfly.and indangerthe Roman Atmiec,butareing tieend repelled into the townewith great loffe; but by the fmmait felt‘on both fides, the / Affailants redoubled their guards, and the beficged kept within theit couert. Yet thes Wastenne iniles about the walls; and ichad n, it eight hundred thoulas Lnbbie sips foyle; atid thencighbour-hood of G t fpacefromin ae thereof was fo great, asinesufed F Tha 2rege 50 thts sya er sucrsand made fuchfeafts asif they meantto die the next day. Bue their greatelt pompe-a ith ee Vy tempfes, and theatres;water=conduits;a thes aes neuer boaftofthelike. i fifh-ponds : the ruines whereo ac chee day are fufiicrent arguments Inxhe Porch ofthe temple ork as fet out onone fide the full proportion of the Gia ae ee moft magnificent and rare, that euc sathiese; with the perfondges ofthe Heroes of Iupareritym pus, (by nt - meld Bokeh imancicictinjes 2 Apsomparifonjof which; the Berea TRAN magnificence of t AE Racin, #&, whetein the Maftee- peeces of thole exquitit ters: and Caruers; Pb hereof ore proctfie inf time icra {éfame forturi¢xtiat all otlier great Cis bane donk; 1s Warce prefent brought vato it nottheleatt, ne but pertie chings est [Juno Lucinin, Cha 5 Myron, ‘and Pi ) 2 w wer as gained bydivers dalamizics of warrs Romans |
