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Show = Thefift Bookeofthefirftpart Cuar3§.2- CuariGr, hethouldbe Hannibal wasthenabourhiney c aman,andable. ) $ ph nine yeeres Id: hietal it ; caufed him today his,haad.vpon the Altar,and make this aoe ${dth ee atiiowasine d marvel, yourAl. not then ofyour Allies,and thereforeno partiesito the peacethen inade,torof lies in the furure,orof ours, there was no difpute. As touching the laft agnecment, be. -tweeny.ou and -4farnibalwherein you willfayjthaethe Sagutitines vvcre comprehended ifthe impreffion were trong in:him. ed in this fort,asit wer aThat it isinhumanesto bequeaththatr a er¢by:Legac coin denyed. Yet for mine ownepart,I doenot much dour; but thar ewedaiiiontare with whom we are now,in peace, hauereceiued the like chargefiom their Predeteffors eceliors,, by name;itis youtharhaue taughtvs, how. toan{wer that. particulars Forwyhatfocuer caft youfoundin the Treatie between vs and Luclatin, to. yourowne difaduantage,you itypon your Confuls ptefumptionsas premifing thofe things,for which -hehadno war. dif. rant from the Senate and People of Rome.If thenit be Jawfull for the Romans,to without pun. wow theactions oftheir Gonfuls and Commanders,concluding any thing Guall and precife vvarrant; the famelliberty may Ve alfo.aflume, and. hold, oitrfelues ® "ne way boundin honour,to performethofe bargaines,which Afdrabat hath made for a¥SI withoutiour commandement and confent. ae ag een that as fooneas their cofters cokers fhall fhi be full;-chey q thall declare are themfehies:cheinies i to the 10 ASSET Soma takes\orderfor the defence of Spaine; ‘and Africk." Ets tburndy DED almeere éauill. For Letlatins agvaabiswvasan impertinent an{wer,andittle better than Italy, refered thealshe'Gonfuljin his Treatic of prane with che Garthaginians,had exprefly better;to' haue Jowancéthereof tothe people of Ronies It had been therefore much dealt plainely; andto hanealleadged,T hat after this Ikeaguewas made, and confirmed Sardiniaand wvithall oftweluebundted ralents:vvhichperiurie the Stateof Carthage, wintred at\Garthagenays Where he licerifed his'Spanith Souldiers to! vitit théir friends: and refrefh themfeluesiagainft the Spring. ‘In the meanewhileshe gaue inftiuéions:tD to his brother Afdrabal, for the gouernmentof Spainelimhis abfence: Healfo tobkeard er. tofend agreat many troopes of Spaniards into Africke;to equal the numbéerssof Afri asimbreach of peacé,insaking away Sardinia, vvereno better.than; Romanininries, re- cans formerly. drawne thence into Spairie stothe ends that fo che dae Nation mighe re- without plying this commination;Doe whas/ocuer we require,elfe will eve make warre, maine as pledges and gages for the other:i Of theSpaniards,hé tran{ported invo Atridk thirteene'thoufand, eight hundred andfiftie footy andewelue hundred horfe s alfoeiehe hundred flingers ofthe * Baleares. Befides thefe] he {elected fonre thoufand foory all + Maiorcase young men,and of qualities out of: the-beft Citiesof Spaine swhich he appointed to be "mae, ; ) »,Burthis the Garthaginians:did:notalledge,forgetting,in heat of concentiofi(as.Pa/ybiwstakesarythe beftof their Plea: Yetfince Liaie himfelfe doth remember and-acknowAnil jedge,that the takingof Sardinia'fromthe Carthaginians, did inflarnethe {piritot thisiniurie car yyith defire ofreuenge:vve may-tefonably thinke; that theimentionof Vvas omitted, not fo much vponforgerfulnefic;as for thatit was: not thought:cofueni94 ancient matter of.quarrell;to fhewthat the-vivar; NOW towards, t which he had drawne againftthe Saguntinesywatillhe had therewith o éned his paflage ynto the gates.of Rome. So! began! thei fecond Puskicke Watre; fecondto noné;that euct thé StnareandipdopleofRomesfuttained Hannibal ‘being now.growncable,vvouldtenenge vvith open wars As forthe Saguntines; it little gardofour oathwhichave bane aljcady broken. ron Arre being thus: proclaimed, Hanmibaltefolued.notto put vp his fword :on both parts,it. was broken by the Romans,ii:robbing the Carthaginians ofthe fle of skilled that the Romans had admitted them into,confederacie,, and forthwithinferted their names into the Treatie of peacevvith A/drabal:fecing thatthe Treatie vvith: 4-20 drubalandallother bufinefe between Rome aud. Carthage;fallowing theviolehceand ofthe Hiflore ofthe World. garrifond in Carthage it,felfe,not fomuchim regard/éftheirforces} 2as rhacchey-mieght ferue for hoftages : foramong thofe foure thoufiid::thedett of the Spanith Cirlzens and thofe that fwayedmoft in theirfeucrall StaresDhad chvix Sorines Seikinfnbers§ Ie alt entiby,ripping vp fuch force; inother' hadlong-been thought vpon, aud like to -be made, vvith extraoidinary' moued the Roman raannenthamheretofore.Inconclufion; the Carthaginian Senate ofthofethat fentthem, Embafladors,to deliner vnto them in plain termesthe purpofes 30 foleft with his brother; to guard the coaft.and Ports>fifti¢ anddoucit Galties pWheteof tines,dndthe confining of their Armies within Jbérussthofewete: but their had beene fomewhat Whereuponi.2. Fabius gathering vpthe skirt of hisGowne,as if tets before him, to view the Paffages ofthe Pyrenzean' Mountaines and ofthe Alpes tutty feuen were prefently armed, andappointed forrhelwatre, Of Atricansandothe: Nations ftrangers, he left with himabouetwelucthopfanditoore, and two thoufand horfe,befides one and twenty Elephants, andthe wortt ofthatyvhich they hadlong determined againft chem: as for theSaguapretences. he). 1a my Gownelaid inthehollow théreof,madethisfhort reply »I have here(quoth election of thefe two, skixt both Reaceand Warsmiakeyou(my Maftersiof.the Senate) out at once; Buen ; which ofthem youlike beft,& purpofe to imbtace. Hereat all cryed Fabinsvakethe which ofthem you yourfelfe havea fancy to offerys,Marry then(quoth the affembly wvillinglyiaccepteds Wairre,and thare it amongyou. Whichall aboutpretences, whenidich part had refolue was plaine dealing. To wrangle This of peace, = to make warre,it was meerely friuolobs. Forall thefe: dif{putes:ofbreach The tus by the partie vawilling, or vnableto.fufaine the ware: cuerbinmaintained ftie Sword, and the ¢mprie purfe,doealwaies plead performance off cquenantsy a hauebeen few Kingsor States in the Weorld,thattheit-owneaduantage: hane othersvife wnderitood the ?y and commoe gation ofa Treatie, rhaniwith the cdndition-of (feeing peace between ambitious Princes.and Statessis bur a kindeof breathing the ms aduifeddiaue rather begua yvith the.{ivord than withthe trumpet.So dealt the Ar oe fe nois with the French in Naples;#Henry the fecond ofFranceswiththe Imperials, '.oo hewroteto Bri/ac,tofurprifeas many. placesashe couldjeriethe war brake outsDM", when ah yvithehe Netherlands,and.P4ikp the fecond:of Spainesvvith the Englith, great: Imbarge he rookeall our fhipsand goodsin his Poxts. A Paling, Of fetus a _BuriHawnibal, befidesthe prefent firength of Carthage,and th e.common iniuries tedtiued from thefe enemies;hadl another private.and hereditatie defire tht" Les Amilcar at what tine he di jd facsusee h, to pul olently carried hint.againftthe Romans, His father. posesas ro take his iourney into Spaine,had folermnly bound him by: oat fogne a withimuortall hiattcd,and to. worke themall posible milclich,, he ; i ; Hauing inthis fort taken orderforthe defence of Spaineand Aftick,he fent Difcoue- He alfo fent Embaffadors to the Mountainers of the Pyrenes, and tothe Gauls,to iessi es >that he miighe bring. his Armie entire incoitraly; atid dor beecompatled z iminifithis forces,by any warre in the wayytill heeedineto encounter the Romans, 1s Embafladors anddifcotierers being fetiirned with goodfatisfaction in the begin- #2 Ding ofthe Spring; lic patt over the Riner of Iberus}wictnaniArmie confiting of Famreac oe thoufand foot;and twelne thoufand horfes All thofe parts'ofSpaine,into dius. ae entred before, he now fubdued:and appointed WA#no' ( not thatold ae . bis ea face ftill at Carthageyro goucrn Spiaine on'the Batt fide of Tbe wo. e _ é. eftan Army: oftenthoufand soe andone thonfand horfe.Beéing aiti+ ing ok Seaa his a Souldiers returned hotie,without ar 2 } . ~s : . : id 4 P r t >cO , fi il Many more, chat feuined sellbedickens Shpulles-xhate enue earederiainta g tobegone. He by Hiecameto eiourney> Hed the Ieffe redious vncothoferhat accompanied hin y at beeing norenforced by com : ee es : : §o S°Mpalfioa, With the ref of his Armie; confiftingnowbic df Aftierhouland foot)' & aes horfe,he pat the Pyrenes;&entred into 'Gaule./Hefornd the Gaiils that a = vpon Spaine,rcady in Armes,to forbidhis entranceinto their Counttey bilt oa gentle {peechyandriclnprefents thar hee beftowed vponthei? Leaders, = his xpedition. So without any moleftation/hecame tople bahke ofRhoda sWheredwelt, on cach fide of the River, !apeoplecalled vdleay Thefe whre vitics a with the caufe of his:comming): .and theretorc fought coKeepehiin from pars caeWen But he was greathy alsifted by fomed ofthofe Gales chat inhabréed maar of ide of Rhodanus;to wit, by thofe of Vindretz and Lionnois: Foralthotigh y of themhad cranfported thomifchucsamd their goods; inty thie Conntricof Diiul+ phine, |