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Show ee ~ThefifeBooke of thesfirfhPaths \ .Cmargan of the Prescipes, following fomewhatneercafter the Hafati; enconraged.theirfellowes.5 and fhewedrhemfelues teady, ifineed were; co relievethent, Gontratiwife;, the Merce, naries receiued no manner.of helpe of comfort; fromthofe that.fhould-haue feconded theni.Forthe new-leuied Carthaginians & Africans, when they fawitheir hired fouldiers giue back,didalfo themfeluesretire. This.caufed the Ligurians; Gaules,and thereft, tothinke themfelues betrayedé whereupon they-enclined vate flight. The Carthaginian Bartaile was herewith more terrified than before; {0 as it refufed ito -Bitie ways-wnato lobe Mercenaries for their fate retrainsand yet withall forboreto make head againft the Ene mies, that purfuedthem, Ir wasno.time toaske them whatrthey meant bysthisy: -Feart and Indignation cauled thofeshat were atoricechafed by theRomians, and betrayed, as t® they thought, by theirownefg¢Howes,to turherheir Armes \with anheedlefle furie-x- gainft both the onearid the othetsEhins were many efthe Carthaginians beaten downe and flaine, through their owne ihdiferétion,; by their owe Mercenaries. The Roman Hastati in like fott,-fighting with defperatemen ina throng ;-had theihand$.fo full of worke;that the-Prévepes weretaine to come vpvato them, and helpé to ovier-beare this aduriads Garthage: this Fleet,andthat whichhe had before;Hee thought it beftto ale rather, ofpurpofetoterrific the Citic, than-with any hopeto take its, His. Legions\hee ‘commited vnto Ca.04asius, whomhewilledto meet himthete by land. Then fending Lelim away to Rome with newes of the victory, he fer faile from. Vtica towards -Gara thage.He was encountred on the way, by ten Embafladors tromthe City: whe bearing vp withthe Admizall Gallie,begantovfethe pirtifull gefture offuppl ceiued none other.anfwer,than that they fhould meet himat Tunes, where he wou themaudience.So rowing along before the City: and viewing it morein bra yo With meaning to attempt it, He returned back to Vtica,andcalled with whomin perfon He fet forwards to Tunes, Asthey werein theirdourneythither, they heard the newes,that Verminathefon of: Syphax, was.comming withan Armie-of moreHorfe than Foot,to the fuccourof thofe that werealready yanquifhed...This Vers mina leemesto hauc bin both careleffe of getting intelligence, how things. pafled,) and very defectine in allother duties requifitein the sommander of an Avmie.. Part of the Roman foot,withall their power of Horfe, was feat againtt him : which did not onely. beate him, bur fo compaffe himin, that he hardly efcaped himfelfe wish a few: ; leaning fiftéene thoufand of his followers dead behinde him, andtwelue. hundred taken: prifoe hers. If this goad companyhac dat Nadagara,theyfliould hane betne owne fide,that would haue rifhed vpon bim!::whomke thereby compelled toturneafide beyond his Battaile,and faue themfeluesin the openfield; ‘The ground,onetwhich 20 Carthaginian loft,by def ad otherwife determined: Itisnento tacceffe vatotheformer; yet ferued bedonbred,that this vidory,though it he greater feare of Scipio, Whett wellto daunt the Carthaginians,and im} at rom Carthage: hecameto Tunes,there met himthirty Ex though it was more pittifull than it had bin beforesyet procured it leffe commit ; the Romans weréinow to matchyere they. couldmeet with Hannibal, was.concred with heapes of dead bodiesiand weapons, andfo flipperie with-blond : that Scipia began to ftand in great doubt.Jeft the orders of his Battalions thould bee diffoluedin pafing thir way. In fuch cafe, if he fhould fight:with that warlike Armi¢y which -hee faw before him; r maining yet entire, and,without feate expecting him'; He might bewellaflured torccejuea notable ouerthrows Hee. caufed therefore the'Naflatito makea Aand:there where they were, oppofite tothe maine battdileof the Hannibalians: Then drawing vp his Prikeipes and: Txtarg : He placedthem, when they had ouercome the bad way, all in 39 One:Front with the.Ha/lati,and made of them histwo.Cornets; This done, hee aduancedtowards Hannibal who ehtertained himafter atiother Manmnei, than ener hee ‘had beene peceiney in his life before; Allithe dayes wotke till now, feemed:to hauebeenea matter of paftime sin regardofthe th arpe Conflict;that was maintained betweene thefe notable Souldiets; The Romans were encouraged by their-having pieuailedall the day before : Chey werealfo farrethe more innumberd»Butthefe old\Souldiers of Ha t werefrefh ; (and perhaps ) the better men. Theyfought with fiich obftinat jution, that no man gaue backe one foot ; but rather chofe todieon the ground, whereon he« bras. ofthe Hiftorieof the World. great nedley ofichemies, thatiwere-together:by:the earesamong themfelues., If this placewas made:a great flaughter, both ofthe Mercenaricsand ofthe Catthiginians: which hindering oneanother, could neither fight, nor eafily-flye). Such ofthemas efea ped, ranne towards Hasnzbal; who keprhis groundand:would hor ftitre one foote, to belpe or fanethefe Run-awaiess Hee cauled his men'to bend their Pikesat thofeof his 20 Excerpt. Gaara§.2t. ftood. So that; aftera long time; itwas vncertaine which parthiadthe wortle: valefcit Ss0cee eeeepia: ing to :tin ke 5 fotasimuch.as che retu @ Pol, ie sate marmn oe ae ae a is{aidto haue beene mop b ouer-bearing them by. meere oie Cesc : elied ifn she Hannibaliansin Rere; Inthis Battailethere died habe Ri : insff cae ee a thaginianfide, aboue twenty thoufa nd, befid aemeer buihdred ang mpwards :00 pes Captaineofthe Macedonians was one: Thefogdlarcldllthaenog palfecesin pater thishis la(t fight,is highly commended byl ‘phi stoglatakilt that Hannibal {hev OS ARIE AB ESTE t y Polybivs s andwas acknowledged, as Livit Barties, faire himfelte. Bucthe Enemies were too ftrong for himin Horle: and ree meet th¢ Beate at Carthage totake battaile with fuch difaduanta Sahay Af omaruels, Hee faued himfelfewith afew Horfe ; and ftayed-not i peinmagusAden, ThcaeefortoGung Giaislsrc aiken te -_ Sbeskitliy into the Senate H a could - ne saosinohaas not Carthaginians the Wherefore ilies nc g what other courferotake, refolued to ens ; au ours againe; refit. andtrie the fanour of Seipo; whole Armes they could<not 20W ¥ : Scipia hauing fpoyled the En emies Campe,retiirned fou + hehe found W Vtica:: where backeto Vitica ed backeto > Bes ii ewlyarri P.Len, bulies new ly/arriued, withfiftie Gallies atid.antiundred Shippes of burden. With <- Ss ehic farbetter, conduted, ar btw dthe Fortuneof theday ; whith the byteafon of theirlate falfe dealing, afterthey had in like fort humbled-themfelue: tettheleffe it was confidered,whatalong and laborious workix would prouc,to be: ége themightie Citic of Carthage., And partic ularlySeipioftoodin great doubt,left the hofhonld betaken outot ais hands; and giuenta Nowrofthis warre,if it were protracted, Oe ofthe Confuls. Cz.Serwilius Cepio, that Conful who had chargeof£ the warreagainfts Hanaibal, at {uch time as he departed out of Italy,s, was bold to pails ouer into the llc of ) witha purpole Sicil (as it were in chafe of Hanaibal by him t« rrified and driven of the Arinic the command E thenceto haue proceededinto Africk,and taken fromSepia AN OF : .Conful n of f ththisFacet aml reftrainee thy the> ambitio purpofe, to reftrain there, But a Dictato 16 r was chofen ofF purpofe, iguinee rroumce janie Jame t for the Struilins, After him followed Tiber ins Clayaix W ho made duite 4 Of Aftick and was therein fo earneft,thatthor hneithes the Senate, nor People; Slant himhis defire , yct heneeds would begoing, procuring onely that he being Conful might ioyne with Scspia,wercit wit more Ray no more YHOO cquah! ah [things in arcadinelle forthe iout ney a tie. But ere He could hauchis Fleetz at Ste swith Mio man cared to fartherhim: Winter came on, and hee was of ey oft, ie 40foule weather,Artt vpon the Coaftof Het ia,andafterwards by. sardinia 5 rae . naa hea f a private man | homea retturngd hee Confilihip expired, andfo NOW C yatre Was victory obtained againlt Han Aewesto Rome,of the Uenatan end. Yet was Leatulus the bew Confulfo pal Ages eps dhewould fu ons, both inthe Sen reas ace were granted, it: fhould Ratanbeforethe people,at laft it was ¢ eegtanted by Scipio; if the warre co nand therein. by atd.and the Conful at Sea. The ambition to ‘cofifider abourable anfwer vnto the Carthag withall in wellidealt Lawes; withous owne ir ues JoWhatthey had deferucd:and in reg libertie a andti chem int fubiection leaning thathe was contented to leauc vnto them theirit ronerthe m, or Garriion ei ning5 ofthisiwar irpegin to holdthem éppointing any Gouernon was 7 tthe ' ne they }} Pf Sa ~ 3 fo vatothemtheir pofleffions inAfricl wereat chasthey . > 3 thémPegce or truce, reranted 2 late Treatle whiletthe tine. Stouching the reft he was ata point, I hat,beforeh : which they had done, " i ve. That imunediatly they thould make fatisfactionfor wr y Kiet," Was independance, Hereunto ifthey would yeeld; then requitce va of ! Renegades lo's that that they they bad "yod : ne;f - : oink oa they [Bould deliney up vate the Romans all. PrienSFue iMehes + JO0MLAY ne tLDEY 4nd allart their 1761 Elepoamts fg tem :- ana ies Galliesexcepting i alliheiy irs li likewife theirs: |