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Show The fife Bookeofthefirit park,Guara.§an of hisAmnic; orrolfrechis coaft from the Romarratid Aroliah! Pyracies, Onely-once they canie to his helpe, whichwas, at his laftiourneyiinto Achaia. Butithey were gone agaide before his ariitiall: having done nothing,anid pretending feare of being taken by theRomans,cuen at fuchtime as Philip,with his owneNautic, dort boldly pafie by'Sea, and found none that dirft oppofehim: ‘This wretchleffe dealing of the Carthaginians may therefore feemetohaucbiti oneof|HaraAohistricks; whereof Hanxibal {o bitterly complained. Forit could not but grieuethismaliciousman exceedingly, tohearethat fogreataKing madeofftrto ferucinperfon vader Hanmibadand required the affiftance of ithe fame Hénmibal;as.of id man likely to make Monarchsyand.alter the affaires of the eworld at pleaftire Therefore hehad reafon,fuchasEnuie could fiiggeft,to perfwadethe Cuarz-$.Be ofthe Eiftorie oftheWorld: andAthenians. "The! Atolians were omitted, belike, as hauing agreed for, themfelues before: Butthe Eleats and Meffenians,followers ofthe Atolians, (and by. them,‘asi is mottlikely;comprifed in their League with Philip ) werealfo inferred by the Romans; tharwere neviet flow in offering their fiiendthip to {mall and feeble Nations. As forthe Athénians:they ftood mtchvpontheiroldhonour; and Joucd to bearea part, though theydid nothing;in all greav actions. Yet the fetting dowse oftheit names inthis Treas ty,ferued the Romans togood purpofe: forafmuchas they were a bufie people,and mis niftred occafion to'renew the warre, when meanes did better feruetofollowit, lo~ Carthaginiansvnto a fafeand thrifty. courfe whith was, nor to admit iato the fellow: fhip of their italian warres fo mighty-a Prince: whontchangé ofaffection might make §. XIII. How the Romans bezan toreconer their firength by degrees. The noble affettion ofthe Romans; their liberty. Ratherthey {houldidoc wellt faite charges®s:and feed the Macedonian I: Was'aogreat fault iu the Carthaginians, that. embracing fo: many. Eriterpri» fes at once', they followediall by the halues : and.wafted more men and money tono purpofe, than would haueferued (if good order had beehe taken) to fit dangerous to theit Empires or his much affection-vnto Hawaibal, more dangerous to with hopes ; by making many promifes offending.a fleet andfome otherfuccotrs. This would coft nothing, yet wouldit ferueto terrifiethe Romans), & compel] themitofend partofrheir forces from home.thatmightfindethis Enemie worke abroadn So thould she Roman Armitsbe leffenedin Italy sand Phitip, when once hee was ingaged in the Warre; bewrged vnto:theprofecution, by his owne neceflities. putting the Carthaginians to littleor no‘charges; yea, {carcetothe labourof giving him thankes.;/Nowifit might cometo pafle,as Hannibal eucty day did promife, thae-R ome,andall Italy-thould yo withinia while beatthe denotion of Carthage +, better itweré that the Citic fiould:be ree,fo as the tronblefome Greckes might addreffe their com plaintsvnto the Carthagi- -Rians,4s competent Indges betwéene them and ithe Macedonian,:'than: that Hanaibal; (With the powerofAfricke,fhould wait vpon Philip,as his Executioner, to fulfill his will and pleafure,. in doing fuchininriesjas wouldbothmakethe name of a Carthaginian hatefullin Greece;and oblige Philip to be noleffe impudent, infilfillingall requefts of Hannibal,, Whether thecounfaile ofHanzoand his fellows,were fuchas this; or whe- ther she Carthaginians, ofthtinowne difpofition; without hisaduice, were toofparing, and careleffe, the matter (as farré 4s concertied Philip ) cametoone reckoning. Forthey did-him no mannet of good : but rather dodged with him 3 euen:in their little courtelie 30 which they moft pretended,,'Aind this perhaps was part. of the reafon, why hee began the building ofanjhundred:Gallics,as if hee iyouldlet themand:others know,whereto his properftrength would haué reached, had heenotvainely: giuen: credit:to faithlefle promifes.: When thérefore the.Atolians had fubmitted themfelues already sand when the Romans defired hisfriendthip,as might bethought,for veryfeare of him,with reputation enough, and:notas.a forfaken Client ofthe Carthaginians, buta Prince able to haue firccoured them in their neceffitie, he might giue ouer the warre, and, without 1¢* preheafion,leauéthem to thiemfélies. For hehad wilfully entred ifto trouble for theit fakes : but they:defpifed him, 4s ifthe quatrell weremeerely his;owne, and hevnableto manag¢it, 49 in reliewing thepublike nece/sities of their Common-vweale, nifhthe whole warre, in farre fhorter {pace', and make themfelues Lordsiof all chat:the Romansheld. ‘This errour had become the leffe harmful, iftheir care‘of Italy had bit fichas it‘ought. But they fuffered Hannibal, to wearie himfelfe-with:expe@iomof theit promifed fupplies : which being ftill deferred fromyeereto yeerescaufedas great Opportunities tobe loft; as a Conquerour could haue:defired.» "Fhe death of: Poithws mis, and deftiuction of his whole Armie¢ in-Gaules the begun rebellion of the Sars dinians. the death of Héero their friend in Syracufe; with great alterations, muchto their preiudice, in the wholeIfle of Sicil; asalfo that'watre; of ‘which we laft{pake, threatned ftom Macedon'; happeningall at one time; andthat fo neerely after their ter= rible overthrow at Canne,among fo many'renolts oftheir Italian Confederates;would viterly have funke the Roman State, hadthe Carthaginians,if notthe firttycere, yet at leaftthefecond;fent ouer to Hannibalthe forces that were decreed. Itis not to be dottbe ted; thareuen this diuerfitie of greavhopes, appearing from alk patts,adminiftréd mats *tervato Hanno, or fuch as Hanne was; whereupon tomorkei For though it'were.in the power of Carthage,to performe all that wasdecreedfor Italy yet couldnotthat pro- Portion hold when fo many new occurrences brouglit eachralong withthem their new carey and required theitfeuerall Armies.' This had not beeneavery-bad excufe,if any oneofthe many occafions offered had béenethroughly. profequuted : thoughit ftood Withbeftreafon, ‘that the foundation of all'other hopes and comforts, which was the Profperitie of Hunarbalimhis Italian warre, fhould hauecbeene ftrengtliened 3 whatfos cuct had become of the reft. But the flendettroupes;wherewith the Carthaginians fed the warre in'S paine; thelingring aide whichitheyfent,to-vp-hold the Sardinian rebelli> 9%; When it was already-wel-neere beaten downe; their. trifling with Philip; and. (a» monet all thefetheir attempts ):their haftie catching at:Sicil : little deferued to -bee thought good réafons'of neglécting the maine point, whereto all the reft had references o The vanity ofwhich their conceits would appeate vntothem : whenthey {hould fee, ather eueryione of thefeAdions,confidered.a part by. it felfc, was no otherwifé-ro mans, and others, "Thatthe Romansfhiould retainethree-or foure Townes ofIlysiss Pofition, Thatithe care ofitdly; madeshe Carthaginians more negligentyin all things elfen Yerif thefe allegations wouldinorferueto content! Hannibal, then mutt hee) patiently enduye ro know that his owne Citizens were iedlous of his Greatnefle;vand that with his properftrength he had finithedthe warte, and concludedit highly to his honours Sotheyeere following it was agreed, by mediation.of the Epirots, Acarnt which they had recouered inthis war;being part oftheirold Illyrian conqueft: Places fo way belonging to the Macedonian y and therefore perhaps: inferted into the couc nants, that fomewhat might feemeto haue beene gotten. Omthe other fide; the Atin tanes Were appoititedto returne vnder the obedience of Philip: -whoj if they-were ( 4 réelins probably conieQures )the peopleiof the Countrey'about ‘Apollonia, then di s the Romansabaridon part oftheir gcttings; whereby itappeares,that they did ses . peace; as they would feeme to haue done, bitaccepted it,' vpon: conditions fomew"ns* totheirloffe.s Wott oe TheGonfederatesand Dependants ofthe Macedonian,com pithendedin this oa ete RrwfiesKing of Bithynid,the Achwans{Bwotians, Theflalians,Acarnanians,* PE fots.On the Roman fide were nanied,firft,the people ofIdium;as an honourable seme ance ofthe Riomans defcenv-fiiom Troystheriz4¢iedus king of Pergamus ; P/ear'eo Ulysian PrincesWabiisthetyrant ofLecedzemon,together witia tle Elgsins,Mella" allowéd2as difcréetly wndet-taken;or fabftantially followed ; than bymaking fupy urftnot traf him with fornuch power, as' fhould enable him to:wreng)'the 'Staterat ome, $8» Wharfocuer lic heard:otthought, Hannibal was glad to!apply himfelfeto Necoffity:; to feed his Italian friends with hopes; Sctotrifleaway the time about Nila, Naples;Cus tiz, and other places being loth to {pend his Arinie inan hard fiege,that was to-bere+ ttued for aworkeofttiore importance. Many offers he madevpon Nola, butalwayes with bad furcceffe. Once Marcellus foughtabatcell withnhim there: yet vader the very Walls ofthe Towne; havingtheaffittance ofithe Citizens, that: were growne better *ffsGed tothe Roman fide,fince the Héads that inclined them to rebellion, were cut off, About athouftind men-Haswibalin that fight loft:! which was no/great maruailegyhis Orces being then diuided;‘and imployed in fundry parts ofItaly avonce. Naples-was, t: e hauccakerii cn in thofedayes\a ftiong Cityanderaiied t by force i " years workketo ity; a |