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Show "G8S__-«.-«=«CTffBookeofabefinfpad >sCuar3.6.19. Cnar.3$20. "ofthe Hiftorieofthe World, After az unnfwall manner of hatnilitie, confefsing your feluds to haneperfidioufly broken the Leagne that was betweene vs, ard thereby to bane deferuedd[uchpunifbrhenras ts dae onto againe intorheifame Rebels 3 {bonlafo [ooneforget what ye thenottered, and riipne headlony crimes,for whichye acknowledgedyourfelues worthy tobe doftroyed, haning onely recountfe ato our mercy.Weare not ignorant, thar ii the confidence whithye vepofeim Hannibal bee: bath that thie emboldens you. Vet were it not amiffe, thatyeeflould comfiders how' lowe binpent vpin a corner ofItaly, among the Brubians where he'is tna) manner befevedjund. woabletoflirre \forbaryearelike tofind bis helpe wanting in your ‘greatoppreed. OF ler-debe fuppofed, that hewerenowin Africke, and ready togine Us battaile: yet (howla-st well: kere withyour wifedome, to doubt what might befall; Pemembribe that he ia nian; and ‘dot into uincible.Now ifitfoould happen thét he were duercome, what refaze buweye left once your feluies az ainft hereafter? whatgods willyeecitherfreare by t0 be: belecwed; or calbstpon in ‘your mifery 2 What words, and lamentablegeftare willye henceforth vfey to niouedornpafsion? Surelyyee baue already wafted allyonrforceofperfwafion, and {ball BoP axdiné deceive vs, ifyerefase thegrace, whereofat thisprefentye are capable, Ttis no maivell though the Car~ thabihians were angry, whentheyheard themfelues vpbraidedwiththébafe demeanor 6X Xv tewbatfort Hannibal /pewt the time after the battaile ofMetaurws, The doings ofMazo in I dinerfly affedled by Mago called' out of Italy: ' How the Romans were taly. Hannibal 4ad ture. Hannibals depar Ee: fince the l6ffe of that battaile at Metaurus, Hawnibal remainéd in the Coun tryof che Brutians ; waiting for another fupply from Carthage. The Roman Gonfuls that fiieceeded vnto Claudius and Linins, by: whom‘C4fdrubal was over comeand flaine, were contented tobe quict all their yeeres Neither did ‘Zicisivs' thé Golleague of Scip/s ought worthy of remembrance againit Hannibal ‘being hitidred by thepeltilence that was in his Armie. Sémpronias the Confulwhofollowed Zicinias,and Ca Seriiilins C2pi0, who followed Sempronias,. were eatneftly bent to have done fomewhat? but their diligence was in'amiainer fiuitleffe. In fome skirmifheswith Hannibal, they hadthe better ; in fomie the worle + anda few poore ‘Townes they'got from him; asitwere by ftealth; his care being more to preferue his Armie,thantto keepe thofe plaa: c@that wereweake. TheRomans hid.atthis timefo many gredt'pieces ofworkin hand; that their chiefe bent eemy was become,not the'chiefe part of their care: Their thoughts were mainly oftheir Embafladouts. For it wasnotthe generall opinion ofthe Citic; that the'Tiuce was broken by themfelues: thonghit had pleafed Hamma, or fuch as'Were'of his faction, togratifie the ROmans withall manneroffubmiffion ; ahd to rendiimeé nof onely thei? hope ofthe future, but all iuftification ofmatters paft: "And indeédit feemies, thatthe 26 Roman Embaffadours were very muchdelighted, in the rehearfall'ofthat point which was yecided vato them ; as knowing that thereon dépendédtheiiftice'of the. qtiarrell: Burthe Carthaginians took this in foill part, that hardly ‘they could' réfraine fiom doiftg violence vito the men, who had vfed vntothem fuck infolent fpécches. Yer the vpon Africk,wherein they weteatno {niall charges to maintaine the Arnie, which(as 10 Was hoped) fhould brite the warreto a fhort and happy conclufion. ‘They ftood nener= theleffin much feare of 2zagesthe brother of Hawaibal: whotooke exceeding paincs a mong the Ligurians and Gaulestoraife an Afric,wherewith to kindle anewthe war in Italyythat begannéto waxe cold. Atego folicitedalfo the Hetruriansy and found them ftrong, it foreadieto ftirre in his behalfe;that if hecould have éentréd their Country furyofthe multittide was in fomefort appeafed ; cither by Hane, whom cppian, (I know not why). calles Hazzo the Great: ot by the very ruerentedue viitothe place of thofethar had vttered firch liberall words: So they werédifmifled in friendly fort; "al- though it were without anfwer totheir Propofition. There were'alf6 two gallies' ap- poitited for their fafe conuoy home thoughwith little intent of go0d -vnto theiper fons. 4/drdbal Was then in the mid-way, as metffailed fromCarthage towards Vtica. He, whether onely defirous to pleafethe multiftide, ofwhofedifpofitien he wasinfor- 3 A frick,than fhortmighthaue proued no leffe needfull for Scipiototeturne homeout ofThéfe dangets cauly it was for Hanribal, to make {peed vito thedefence ofiCaithage. among fedtlieRomans to imploy one oftheir Confuls ot Proconfidls, with an Armic, "the Hétraxians.another among the Gaulesand a third among the Liguitiats:'foraftauch iit was vaicertaitie; vpon which fide Mago would breake'out. Being thus‘ bufied,‘it'is any great power. 2 300 wondet though they forbore to ouercharge Hannibal with forwards, hemet inthe As for Mago,whenthings were in fome readinies for his ferting the Roman Procon~ W.Cornélius with Milza, about is which cobatry of the Infubtians, hefoughta battaile, where mied, or whether dite@ted by publike order to cut off thefe Embaffadours in their way hotneward, lay waiting for thembehindea Cape,that was alittlébeyondthe mouthof With thefe fil, and P.Quéarilies Varrus one ofthe Pretors. of‘his fatherand brethren} ‘yet the riuer Bagtadas. Their Conuoy hauing brought them on the way, 4s farreas'to' the in thotich his vertue fhewedit felfeworthy mouth of Bagradas, wifhed them a good voyage and fo tooke leaue ofthem)' as ifthey tookethis in ill patt, notas fearing any danger towatd ; but ‘thinkiigthemfelues ‘too much neglected, forafmuchastheir attendants did foabruptly leau¢e them. Butno feoner had they doubled the Cape, than 4/arubal fell vpon them,in fuch manner, as they might well difcerne his purpofe ; which was to haue ftemmmed them. ‘They rowed hard 4° therefore:and being in a Qainquereme , that had more bankes of Oares, than had any Gallic of 4/arabai; theyflipt away, and made him ouer-{hoot himfelfe. Yet hee gaue theim'chafe,and had well-necre furprifed them.Butthey difcouered fome Roman Com- et trained themfelues hardsz if : a giotisat the fame time gauie gioud fhout:and E ep as td his oppofed Mago But thei. before theviory fhould hane beenécarried : - die - atirigh a ofFoot.The figure, fent,and braying ofthefeElephants, seeaefotec ofhoebeatbeing trofhe thanapie Saad they farted aGide.and were {eattered oner agtotind: whereby theyfaued their ownelines, though'a great part of their company Wereflaine, or hurt. This practice ofthe Carthaginians was inexcufable? and for the fame daufe perhaps were the Citizens heartnédin {ach a difhonorable attempt,bythote thar were defirousto continue the warre; thattherebythey might bee driuen to ftudie nothing cl{e, than howto getthe victory, as hauing' nofie other hope remayning: Yet | peace, wouldalfo fiance caufed themto be better aduifed, than thus'te abandon allfhope of Treatic? hadthey not been giuen to ynderftand, that Hanwibal was already lanec s, in Aftick,in whomtheyrepofedno fmall Confidence,butverily perfwaded themic!t that he vould changetheir fortune,& tedch the Romansto hold themfelues contentce With'nore eafie conditions, than were thofe that Scipés, in the prideof his fortune, had oflatepiopounded, : 6X X- the field,their Riders being ‘viableto matiage Vpon ther : ae ios then: Hereby the Numidians got dduantage ek panies on theflioare ouer againft them, andtherefore duentured to tune their veflell likelyitis, tharthe fame feare, which had ‘caufed them'to make fuch earnek fuite for his fortune in fuch core thé RoWas Carthaginians Phefight continued 2 long while doubttull; Quéatilivs the! raetor, ants man Commanders beganto diftruft the iffue. Wherefore emies to pieces. i er evate him all the Roman Horfe,thoughtto haue fhaken thet had'beene then in fafery, fince the Roman Camp was even in fight?‘The Embaffadours so the Trotipest Sea Moréauaileable again(t thofe chat were loofé, than againft ad : pa which Legions: and thicke. Then fell the Elephants vponthe killed foure of thetts;cat + ga ee ofdarteyand fhowre a manner;with a€cuftomed = fame Legions wetefo vehement J pre we tO gle backe. Thisnotwithftanding, the (efor "4 greé any by than the Bhemie. that more for fhame of running away:there fore brought vp we faa oat fiftance; they held' their stoutid: "The Proconful Which hehad kept vrtothela(t, to fuccout where'need Houta STacme cneithie Te a fomncof his Gaules, whomhebitdinzeadinc® naroinaployed thefeButthefe s = =i pawn thet Wile Ganlés!difcharged their patts very ill, t On 0 eS nen Towel Soiled fo haftily? that they brought fearevpoa llth t nsceante towatd' the his of thehead in puchinifelfe Hee fhrinké, to Men began that keepingtheir ordet,they miadé a faite Retrait, with | se a eeceot Hey toit, foine- of his owne Memie. But at "Jeneth hee received a gricuous wound it hits Te sei after hee dyed, Hee was taken vp, and oe out of danger by iikd |