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Show 703 ----- Lhe fift:Booke oftheyfirfhpare Cuaragiin Cuar.3.§.r, doth anfivers That if Afdrubal were wamgwifbed, 'as Scipio, wouldfay, bj himin Spaine : Wagdibab Sirangeit was,and as little ta his honours asst had beene éxtremely datigerous to Rone; that sheJame vanguifoed man(benld inuadeitalie.) Anditisvindeede anincredible narration, Fhat d/arwbal being enclofed: on all fides,-and not'ktowing how:to-efcape ourof bat. taile,faue onely by thefteepe defcent of Rockessouer a great Riverthat lay at his backe, fanaway withall his mony,Elephants, & broken troupsy ouer Tagws, directly towards the, Pyreaees,, and fo toward: ¥taly,, vpon'which he fell with more than threefcorethous {and.armed fouldiers.| Neither. doeI fee, how it hangs\ well together, ‘That he chofe apiece of ground very defenfible, but moft incommodiotis for his; retrait, if he-fhould happen to bevanquithed;and yet, thathe {ent all: bis money.and Elephants away be- 10 fore him,asnotintending to abide the Enemy : Or iowit could be ore, that thele his Elephants,being:fo fent before,could hinderthe Remans( for fo haut they faid to haue donein the laft battaile between him & Seipio) from breaking into his Campe. ‘Where: fore we canno morethan be forry,that all Certhaginien records ofthis Warre,and Spaz 084%) Gfthere were any ) being viterly loft, we cankhow'nomorethereof, than what it hath pleafedthe. Romans to tellys; vnto whom it! wetend wifedometo giue toomuch credit.othis regard,T will furnmarily run.ouer the doings ofthe Seipis's in Spaine; not greatly infifting on particulars;whereofthere is no great certainty, niCeCorselins landed at. Emporée, an Hauen towne, not farre ‘within the Pyrenees, re- taining ftillthe fame namewith little inflection: That bythe fame of his clemency, he allured'many Nations to becomefubiect ynto Rome;as tlie ftoriebegins of him, f could?® eafily.beleeucsif Lvnderftood by what occafion they-had need to.vfe his clemency, ot Janne vp into the Countrey, where he withdrew the Mergetes: fron the :Roman partie; though they. had giuen'Hoftages to Scipio. Scipio in the meane feafon was gonetovi fit andaide his Fleete » where hauing fet thingsin order; hereturned backe 3and madeto- ward .4/denbal y who durftnotabide his comming,but withdrew himfelfe againeio uer doers. Soshie: iMlergetes were compelled by force; having loft tthanagds their chiefe 39 Citic, to pay a fine to the Romans , and increafe the numberoftheir Hoftages. The wuSepanilikewile, Confederates ofthe Carthaginianswere befieged in their chiefe Towne: whichttheydefended thirty dayes); hoping, invaine, that the fharpe Winter; andgrea t abundance ofSnow thatfell, would haue made the Romans to diflodge, But they were Saineat length to yeeld sand forthis their obftinacy, they wereamerced twentytalents offiluer. During the fiege;the Lacetani cameto helpetheirdiftrefled Neighbours; and wercbeatenhomeby scspia, leaning twelue thoufand oftheir Company dead behinde them, I cannot but wonder, how thefe Lacctani ,thatare {aid to bethe firft whichembraced the friendfhip ofSeipse, fhould without any caufe remembred, become Carthagi- #ian On the fiidden,in the next newes that. we heareofihem. Asalfoitis ftrange ,..that 2°.all the Sea-coaft Northwardofserws , hauing lately become'voluntatily ditions Roma: ' #4,fabiech unto Rome, fhould in continuance of the Story, after a few lines,hold. Warre Lin. libiats againtt Serpio, without any refiftance of the Carthaginians, Neither'can I beléeuc, that Afarubal,as it were by 4 charme,ftirredvp the Iengetes, making them lay afide‘all:caté oftheir Hoftages ,and take Armesin his quarrel! , whileft himfelfe had not the daring he to giue fuch famous examplethereof, being a mecre ftrangery:and hauing noinrifdi- ion in the Country.Yetis it certaine, that he was aman very courtcous, and one that couldWell infinuate himfelfe into the louc ofthe Barbarians; among whom,his dexterityin practice hadithe better fucceffe, forthat he feemed to haue none othererrand, than fetting them at liberty. This pretext atiailéd With fome: gthets were to be hired with mony : and fome he compelled to'yeeld'by force' or feat'; efpecially, when he had wona battailé againft Hanno. Into all: Treaties of:accord, made with thefe'people, likelyitisthat heremembred toinfert this Article, which the Romansin their Alliances 54 ‘Gret.pro Con. Ballo, Liulib, 22. Pollibs. of the Hiftory of the World, it,/Burdfdewbal hauing)patled berms, nd comming) toolate to thereliefe of. Hanno, with eight thoufand foot, aiid athoufand horfe;fell vponthe Reman Sta-forc es,that lay not farre about Tarracon , whom he found ¢areleffe yas.aftera vidory,rouing abroadin thecountrey ;: and withigreat laughter draue them aboord their fhipss, This done,-hee toftand again{t Scipio, but. ranneaway.,, and faued himfelfe beyond, therus: Pbilinus pethaps, or fome Carthaginian Writer, would haue.told ic thus: "That Scipio dduentii#iNg toofarreinto the Countrey, wasbeaten by 4/arubal backeto his fhips, whence he dur not ftirre; vntill Winter came on > at whattime the Carthagivian returned intothe heartofhis Prouince,leauing fome few Garrifons to defend thofeplaces, thavafter Seis neuer forgate,vnleffe in long times paftjand when they dealt-with the Carthazinians; ot 3°pio wonne, by returning vpon them, vnlooked for througha deepe fnow.'As forthe Laetani,Mergetes,and the reft,wee may.reafonably thinke,that they fought their owne be- it, Zhat theyfhouldgently: or kindly) epholdthe Maiepie ofthe PeopleofRome. This vvas in appearance nothing troublefome: yet implyedit indeed an ob{cure covenantof fibkection. And in this refpect it may be true, That the Spaniards became ditioni? Rom- comfortable promifes.of thofe,that had.ruled them before.Forthat it was their intent to their. Superiours 3 Maiekatem Pop-Rom.comiter couferucnt, which is} 4s Tails interprets nefit : helping themfelues one while by the Romens againft the Carthaginians ;and.conttatiwifevponfenfe ofiniuries receiued,or apprehension ofmore gricuous tyranny,vnder which they feared to be brought by thefe new Mafters, harkening againe vnto the ue ynder their owne Countrey Lawes, and not vader Gouernoursfent from Rome or meyofthe Romane. turifdiction , though hereafter they willfay;they'had nofuel mea- fing, That partiofthe Country wherein Scipio landed; was newly fubdued by Handibal imjhis. paflage toward italy sand therefore the: mote afi ly fhakenoout of obedtence. Particularly iitth¢ Bargutians 3 Hanaibalhad found, achis' commitiv-among them, fiich an apprehentfion ofthe Romaz greatnefle, as made him fafpec, that any light oécafion 46 would makethem ftart: from othe Carthaginians, Wherefore he net only appointed Havao Goucrnourouer thens,as ouerthereft oftheoPronince: between mberw arid the Carthage , their demeanour in all Ages following may teftifie: euen from hencefoorth ~ the.dayes of duga/lns Cefar; till when they. were neuer thtoughly conque= td. # Theyeere following this, C#. Scipia hada viGorie. againft the Cartheginians in fight #Sea,or rather came vpon them vnlooked for,while ana rode atAnchor,moft of their Men being on fhore. All their fhips , that ranne not twofarre on ground, he tooke::and thereby'grew Mafter ofthe whole. coaft ; landing at pleafure, and doing great hurt. inalk Pyreneesbutmadehim alfo their Lord schavis, (as T conéeiue it 3 for doe nor thinkt he gauethePrincipality oftheir Country wate: Harnoand'hisHei res,') "He madehim not Places that were not well defenced. After this vi@ory, aboue one hundred andtwenty dingthemin obedience to Carthage ; buvtooke from them allinferiour ‘Officers OF ations, or petty Eftates,in Spaine, are faid to haue {ubmitted themfelues vntothe RoMans, Or giuen ies : whereby. A/drubal was compelled to flicinto the vtmoft cor- onlyLieutenant :generall ouerthem,:in matters of Warre, andvhings-conicefning the théinown, léeauing them: tov-be goucrned by Hanawdt his diferetions Thefe therefore tad: o caufetoireioyce atthe comming ofScipieowith whotiodhers alfocné doubt) found reafons toioyne;itbéing the'cutomeofall con quéered Nations,inhatred ofthe preferit Lords,tothrowthemfelues indifcrectlinto the protectionof ovhers,that many og tumcs prove worfethanthe fotmer!'Solwere the!Wedpelizanizand asilanoi, inthe 28° ofour Gtand-fathers;weaty by:turnes?of the Spaniards, and Frenth;-as more fenlible fill ofthe prefenteuill which they'felr,than'repardfill ofthie predter mifchicte, whete> intothey ran by-feckingtolauoide ic. Phisbbad affeGlionof his Prouince, vvould on uffer Henge totemporize. Penthoufind foot) and athoufand horfe; ‘Hannibalbad le vatohith + befideswhich ivigtike,thatformeforces he Was'ableto raife out of his' Pro: Wnce. ‘Therfore ‘he: aduemwweda battille with ‘seipros whetciiike was ouieithrowne and taken. Following this victoryScipio befieged svignmaTowtiehatd byand = Bers ofthe land, and hide himfelfe in Lucitamia. Yetit followes ; that'the /Mergetes did "Bainerebell.; that 4/drabel hereapon came ouer Iberus; and that Scipio (hough hauing ly vanquifhed the /Mergetes) went not forth tomeete him, but ftirred vp againft him CCeltiberians,that lately were becomehis fubieéts,and had given him Hoftages. Thefe Jot0oke from the Carthaginian threeTownes, and vanquithed himintwo battailes; wher lathey flew fifteenethoufand of his men,andtooke foure thoufand Prifoners. ‘Then are Uhed P.Scipio,with the fupply before mentioned :, and heneeforward, the two brethren Moyntly adminiftred the bufineffe in Spaine. ‘dugbn Carthaginians bcing occupiedin the Celtiberian Warre sthe two Scipis's didband tmlanser, without bothfeare or wht, paffe ouer sberes,and befieged Segumtwm. Little Saule ofdoubt had they,ifC».had already fubdued many Nations beyondit,and,among Many others, the fame Celtiberians, thas with their, proper forces were abl¢ toee ; oe é |