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Show Tipea Cuar4.dt "gherenf fome fenfe. Gedgrant that the time comeinot hereafher, mhercin yefall eckmorledge, That ét'was therwery leaf partofyour miferie,for whichyeehianelbed thefeteares. Thus difcourfed Hannibal unto thofé who tafting the bitter fruitsoftheirowne malicious coun- faile, repented whenit was too late ; andin ftead ofcurfingtheirownediforders,which had bred this grieuousdifeafe, accufed the Phyfician, whofe noble.endeauonrs had bin : employed in procuring the remedie. Scipio being to take leaue of Africk, produced ada/aniffa, and magnified himin pre- fence ofthe Atmie, with high commendations not vndeieruedly.: Tohim alfohe'con+ figned oucrtholé towns of King Syphax which the Romanisatthat prefenr held: wher- in,to fay-trath,he gave him buchis due; Sethat which otherwife he: knew not well how 1° to beftow. Buttheloue of the Romans,8friendthip ofScipio,wasfullyan{werable,now and hereafterjto all the deferuings ofthis Numidian KingsA bout Carthage thercrefted no more to be done.' Wherefore the Romans embarquedthem(elues for Sicil : where whenthey arriued at Lilybeum, s¢ipio with fomepartof his Army tookehisway home obnoxious ynto, humane:power ;andfincethey are the fame affeGi fophi willsot fundtie men are ouet-tuled,!in wurasin the affaires ete a ox beobferuedin the change df Empires,before thofe times whereof wee i pn ie the Aflyridns Or Chaldcansinuaded,the\Kingdome ofMedes, with tivo biadied abies {and Foorjand threefcorethoufand Hore: but failing in theirintended con ueft. ‘ . became fubied& withina while themifelsies vnto the Medes and Perfians; In like aah Datiwand after him Xerwes, felllvpon.the Greekes with {uch number ofmen)as tnighe hauefeemedefiftlef{e, Bur after rhat the Perfians were beaten home againe ‘their Fel, -pirewasnetiet-fecure Gf the, Greekes:, whovat all times of leifure from inteftine Warre. 10 deuifed yponithat conqueft shereof, which finally they made vnder the great Alexanders Tinabachadonofor with his roughold fouldiers, ‘had:vndertaken, the Medes. sbtCyrud with bis well-trayried Armic, had madeattempt vpon Greece; the iflue might, ae matie teafonl, have beene farre different. Yet would it then haue beene expedient for them,to<¢m ploy thetrauelland vertue oftheir men, rather than' the greatnefle of their namesagainit tole people; that werenolefle valiant,though leffe renowned,than their to Rome by land; and fentthe reft before himthitherby Sea. His iourney throughItaly was no lefle sloriousthan any triumph:.all the peoplethronging out of. the Townsand Villages,té dochim honourashe paffed along. Hecentred the Citicin'Triumph: neither was therelener before, orafter, any Triumphcelebrated withfo great ioy of the people,as wasthis of Scipio though, in brauery ofthe pompe,there were othersintime thoitly following, that exceeded this. Whether Syphax were carried throughthe Citic 29 inthis Triumphyand died fooneafter in prifon: or whether hee were dead awhile be- ownt: Forthe menacing words-vfed by, Cyr#s, and forne {mall difpleafiures donetd ‘the Gtetkes;¢in which kinde ic' may beej that. Wabuchodoxofor, likewile offetidedithe Medes and Perfians,), were not fo auaileable to victory, as to draw onreuengein the fus sottite, Great Kingdomes, when they decay.in ftrength, fuffer as did the old Lyomy for theoppreffion.done in his youth ; being pinched bythe Wolfe, gored by the Bull, yea andkickt byithe Affes: But Princes.are often carriedaway from reafon, by miffe-vnder- fore; it cannot beaffirmed. ‘Thus much may be auowed,| That it -was‘a barbarous cu- ftome of the Romans, to infulr over the calamities of mighty Princes; by leadingthem ftanding'the language ofFame sand defpifing the vertue that makeslittle hoyfejaduentiteto prouoke it againftthemfeluts ; as ifir were not poffible thattheir owne glorie thouldbee foyled by any-of leffe-notedexcellence.', Againft thefameftone, whereat wasncither the'perfon of ‘syphix; nor any other glory ofthe fpectacle, that fo much daththis foot:. He was nor indeed the King ofall: Greece ;though moft of marke,and a better fonldier than anyiother Greckifti King, when he entred into warreagainft the Ro# contumelionfly ia'Triamph ;yeathoughthey were fuch; as had alwaies madefaire and courteous warte. Buthereofwé fhall hauebetrer example, erethe fame Age pafle. Ic Xerxes, and before himas'(I-take it) Eai/merodach, had fumbled; Pyrrhws the Epirot hath beautified the Triumph of Seipio yas did the contemplation ofthat gricuous warre pat, Exerpt. 2 Pol. whereof the Romans had bininamanner without Lope that euer theyfoould fet Healy free. This made them looke chéerefally vpon the Authorof fo greata conuerfion; and filled aibras. them with moreioy,than they Well couldmoderate. Wherefore they gaueto Scipte the 39 Title of the African: ftilingshim by the name of ‘thatProuince which he had fubdued. This'honourable kinde of {urnamie, taken' from aconquered Pronince, grew afterwards morecommon, and wasvfurped by men of leffe defert: efpecially by.many of the Cz- fars;who fometimes arrogated vito them felues thetitle of Countries,whereinthey had performedlittle or nothing ; as iffuch glorious Attributes could haue made them like invettue vnto Scipiothe African. Cuap, ii : His firft Acts and Warre with the Romans ; by whom hee was, fubdued. ; §. I. Philip. on ot matter © Fthegreat fimilieude foundin worldlyenents, the limitati hath beeneaffigned as aprobable caufe: Forfince!Natureis confined vnto ee y . eS UY GB tle; buthoping by the glory, of hisname,and.of the Greckes that ‘fered vnderhim, to os foralily againit the barbarous Romans,thar they fhouldonely ferueas a ftep to isfiirthet intended conquefts,of Siciland Aftick.But when the: Romans,by their vittoTyagainit Pyrrbys,had found theinownvertucto be ofsicher miettall;than was themore thining valour of the!Gieekes + thett didall the braucry of the Epyror(his Elephants and Whatfoener élfe had ferudd to make himtértible)ferue only to make the Romans,in time ollowing; tothinke morehighly of themfelues.'* Foi finee they had ouercome the beft « The King of Watrioubin Greece, euenHim,that peing thus beaten by. themycotld in'a yeere sareek Spaives Pee takehimfelfe Loid.of Greeceand Macedon'i what fhould hinder. them from the con- cibleNauie, ping oflate niethory had wonne? Certainely there was hereunto réquifite no'more,than ff orri tobring to their ownedeuotion by fome good meanes,the whole Countrey of Greece: redvatochole allthe reft;this done; would followofit felfe.: Howto deale withthe Greekes'; Philip e Serre ind Alecander had {iewed a way :whichyor perhaps'a better, they might learnt;by get> jegresct Fleerthat euet Sogmore acquaintance withthe Nation. Whentherefore the firtt Punicke warre was ended, which followed foone after the Oieate Wats ofPyrrbas ahd ofthé Tatentines: then werethe Romansat good leifureto: hearken Ne jones €rnewes in Greece snd to entertaineany goodoccafion, thatfliould beon that fide a ira How the Romans grew acquainted in the Eaft Countries, and defirons of warre there.. The oncr-rKe Pelobeginnise of many Princes, with great Warres, at onetime, The Aitolians ponnefus. Philip.and his _Affociates make Ware avainit theeAtolians, Alteratiat oft he « State in Sparta, The -Etolians inuade Greece and Macedon, and are innaded at heme 7 $f &"3 mans: This warte heevndertooke.as it were for hisminds fake: hauing receiued no inius 30 eft ofall thofe vawarlike Prouinces}which in ‘compaffe of 12.yeeres a Macedonian being beaten Of Patcrr the father of Pexsivs, KingofeMacedon? Plut.invita Sertorij, ofthe Lifloryofthe World. the workes of Naturemuft needes bee that is notr vnbounded'; afubie& pHitc > . : action Ses nite, and many-of them refemble onetheother. Now inthofewee ar k Teme to hauetheir whole dependance vpon the will of man, to wonder, if, wee finde lefle varietie': ince ic is no'gteat portion of things whic" © obnoxious Prelehted. «They iiad.alfothen aftrong Flect ::andwetce become, thoughnot orherwife oropensions weafcer char time, Yoryiskilfall Matiners; yet goodfighters atSea.. So it fell out'as happily ascotld be ed,that the Hyriatv Queene Teutamadeat the fametime erucliwap vponthe Greekes: ji FaetheirCountrey;and facking their Townes,oncly becaiifethey were vaablecore- A,though they had done her none offence, Into this quarrel ifthe Romans were defi- happy accompli Lit.s 45-44 T9us:to enter; the Queenie wastiot {low to give them¢an{e. Andtheit opinion yiamatter not 0g ofthat war whichthey made twith Her, was;in theitowm inorhyto makethelrPatronage tobet -defired:by the Grevkes;:Barnd fiich thing Ppened:s chough theyLent Embafladoursyasit were to offer:themfelaes3 by fignifying; thatfor lou of Gyeece they shad vadertaken:this Illyrian warre Phus:beganne tftacquaintanvebetwixt the Greckes and:Romans: which afterwards enicreafed ¥e- 7 haKily, throughthe indifcretion: of King?er the Macedonian; whofe bufinefle with K |