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Show Theft Bookeoftherfpart Guava.gik 32 .- This calamity fo. difcouragedithe Romans) that they refolue d againe-to Forfaketlie Seas,andtruftonely to the ferdice oftheir Legions vponfi rme ground, But lucha telp. lutioncannot long hold. Either they-muft be {trong at Sea, orelfe they rauft tiot make warre in an Iland; againftthofethat hauc a mightierfleet. are they tbe excufed,in regard ofthe miny-greatcalamities which they had fiufferedYet ,through their wantofstit, Here I cannot forbeareto commendthe patient vertue ofthe Spaniards. "Wefeldome orneuerfinde,that any Nation hatlvendured fo many mifaduentures and miferies.as the Spaniards hauedone,in their /sdian Difconertes. Yet perfiftingin theirenterprifes, with an inuincible coniftancie,they hanéannexedto their Kingdome fomany goodlyProuin. . sG€s, as burie the remembrance ofall dangers paft. Tempeftsand thipwracks, famine, 94° uerthrowes,mutinies, heatand cold, peftilence,and all manner ofdifeafe s,both old and hew, together with extreme pouertie, and want of allthings needful, hane-beene the enemies, wherewith euery onedf their moft noble Difcouerers, at one time or other, ~hathencountred.; Manyyeeres hate paffed otier'fome of their heads, ‘inthe fearch of not fomany leagues : yea more than oneortwo,hauefjpent their labour, their wealth, andtheir liues,in fearch ofa golden Kingdome,without getting further notice -whatthey had at their firft {etting forth. All which notwithftanding,the third,ofit,than andfift vadertakers, haue not -beene difheattened. Surely, they are worthily fourth, reivatded with thofe Treafuuries, and Paradifes, which they enioy ; and. wellthey déferue to ped em quietly,ifthey hinder not thelikevertue in others, which ( perhaps) will not? ¢found. myeks The Citie of Eryx itfarprized by the sila and recouered by Amilcar, wparre with themfine yeeres, The Romans haning emptied their commonwho foutly holds treafurie, build anemfiect, at the charges of prinate men. The great vitlorie at Sea of Luttatius she Confull; whereby the Carthaginians areforced tecrane peace, betweene Rome and Carthage, i : The conditions, of the peace HE, Romanswerecarefull, to fupply with allinduftrie, by land, the want of , ftrengthat Sea. Therefore they continue the fiege‘of Lilybaum, and fecketo make fure to themfélues allplaces, whither the enemies fhips could not bring reliefe. The Confisll saw/ns, to curethe wound of difhonour; which hee had receiued, bethought him what eriterprifes to vndertake. In the end hee refolued attempt the Mountaineand Citic of Eryx, withthe Temple of"enus Erycina: whichtowasthefaitel and richeft ofall the Hand 5 and of thefe, by cunning ortreafon, he got poffeffion.Eryx was commodioufly feated betweene Drepanum and Panormus ; fothar it feemeda ft place fora Garrifon,that fhouldreftraine the Carthaginians from making roads intothe Countrey: Wherefore /unins fortified both the top of the and the fir, entrance of the paflage from thebottome, ( both which placesMountaine, were vety defencible)* with.a good ftrengthof men, Bat fhortly after, in the eighteenth yeere of this warte, the Carthaginians fent forth Awmilcar,furnamed Barcas, Father of the great Harn, witha feeteand Armie,who failing tothe coafts of Italie, did throughly oe fpoyles whichtheRomans madein Africas For hee firft of all wafted and repay deftroye the Territories of the Locrinés, and of the Brutians, that were dependants'of eee Then entred he into Sicil 3 and finding there no'walled Citie in the Carthaginians Power, that feruedfitly toinfett the Romans,he occupied a piece ofground ofgreatae uantage,and lodged his Armiethereon to confrontas well the Romans, that were r Panormus,asthole that kept about Eryx,putting himfelfe betweene both Armies Wi; admirable refolution, w bit ‘Theplace that Amilcar hadfeizedy on, was'not onely very ftrong by alithe firuation, hadthe command ofa Port: whereby nome him deca ree coalt :PY CuspSit. ofthe Hiftorieofthe World, ll werevery ftrongly lodged. N euerthelefle milear foun daway; lying towa rds the Seax fide, by which hee confieighed his men into the Citie of Bryx, that was about the middeft ofthe afcent,ere the enemy knew of -it, By this it came to pafle, thatthe Romans which kept the top ofthe mountaine, were ftreightly held (as it were)befieged, And n6 lefle was vmilcar himfelfe reftrained, by both ofthefe Garrifons , and-fuch as came to relieue them,There.he foundthem paftime about two years more ;haping fill to wearicour-thofe that lay onerhis head,.as they onthe contrary did their:beft; to thruft him. out ofthofe quarters. f Asthistime,all the care,both ofthe Romansand of theCarthaginians, was bent vnto, the profecuting of this bufineffe at Eryx. Whereinit feemes true (as Hannibal, in, Linie, {pake yinto Scip7o) that the affaires of Carthage neuer{tood in better termes, fince thebe= Lin.Dee.gilrds ginningiof the warre,than now. they did. For whereas the Romans had viterly forfaken the Seas, partly by veafon of their great loffesspartly vpon confidence oftheir land-fon§ ces, which.they held refiftleffe; Amilear; with,a {mall Armie,had fo well acquited-h inats felfc,to the honourof his Country, that by the triall of fue yeaves warre, the Carthas ginian Souldicr. was iudged equall,ifnot fuperior to che Roman. Final ly,when all;that mightbe, had beene deuifed and gone, forthe diflodging of this obftinate Warrionr b noway feemedbetter to the Senate of Rome,than once againe to builda fleet; wherbyj if themaftrie of the Sea could once bee gotten, it was likely that Amilcar,, for lacke-of fupply,thould aot long be ableto hold ont. But in performing this, extreme difficuley was fotind.. The commontreafurie was exhaufted ; andthe coft was not little; that yas requifite vntofach an enterprife, Wherefore there was none other way left;thanto lay 20 the burden vpon priuate purfes.. Diuersof the principal! Citizens vndertooke to build (each at his owne, charges), one. Quinguereme, whichexamplewroughrfo well, that they,whofe abilitie would notferueto doe the like, ioyned with fome others, and lay4 ing their mony together, concurred two or three of them, in building ofanother; with condition to be repaicd,when the war was finifhed, Bythisvoluntary contributi on,they; made and finifhed swo hundred new Quingzeremes : taking fortheir paterne, thatexcellent fwift rowing Gallie whichthey had gotten fromthe R hodian,in the Port of Lic lybzum,as was fhewed before. The charge of this fleet was committed to C. Ladlativs, Cathlusswhorpaft with the fame into Sicil,the Spring following,and entred the Port of Drepanum,indeauouring byallmeanesto. haue forced the Citie.. But being aduer~ 30 tifed that the Carthaginian feete was athand; and being. mindefull of, the lace Jofles Which his Predeceffours had receiued yhe.was carefull to, put himfelfe in order, againtt theirarriuall, ; A + Haanawas Admiral of the Carthaginian fleet; a man(as his actions deelare him)wife in pittare, exceedingly formally and skilfullinthe art of feeming reuerend, Howhig re» Putation was firft bred, I doe notfinde ; butit was vp-heldby a faGious contradiction, orthings yndertaken by men more worthythan himfelfe;, This qualitie procured ynte um (as it hath done to manyothers ) both goodliking among the ancient fort; whole cold temperis auerfe from newenterprifes, and therewithallan opinion of great fore49 fightconfirmed byieucryloflereceiued, More particularly; he was gracious among tlie People, for that he,ywas one ofthe moft grievous oppreflors oftheir fubiect Prouinces - whereby ae procured yntothe Carthaginians much wealth, but therewithall fuch jhas Ged, as turned icalltotheirgreatloffe, He had ere this beene im ployed againft the Nuc Midians.and wildeA fricans,that were moreliketoR oudis,than to Souldiers,in making Warre, Ofthofe fugitiue Nations, he learned. to neglect more manly enemies, ro his pWnegreat difhonour,and to the great hurt of Carthage, which loft not more by, hig adcondud, than byshis.malicious counfaile, when, haying thewedhimfelfe an vnwor-« thy: Captaine, he betookehimfelfeto the long Robe. Yctis be much, commended.in onan Hiftgries,as.atemperate man, and onethat ftndied howto preferue the League $0 Detweene Carthage and Rome: Ja which regard, how well |hee deferued of his. owne Romans to hard worke; lying neere vato Panormus,where in three yeers abode he . many notable acs, though not of much confequence, forthat the enemie could a bedrawne to:hazard Suatries ic will appeare hexeafter : how beneficial he was.to.the Romans, it will ape Peate; bothhereafter, andin his prefent voyage ; wherein hee reducedthe Caythagini*S toa miferable peceffitic ofaccepting; vpon.hard conditions, that.peace which hee "ace-forth commended. ; PIL Fann onthe top; and.at the borcome of the Mount dicrs Eryx: ( for dexteriticin making preparation was the beft ofhis qualities ) burhe 00003 had Italie wichhis Sect,walting all along as farreas to Cuma.In thé IfleofSicil he held . the maine chance. Hauing wearied himfelfe andthe Romans ne CAoughabout Panormus,he vadertookea fttangepeeceof workat Eryx. The ee Gartifons, placed there by Juans, had very. well furnifhed his Nauie, with all needfull prouifions for the Soul4 |
