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Show The: joft\BookeofthefirSt pare Cuar.3.§.4, "FAIS intéfrupred his intended voyage into Spaine.Neuertheleffe hee fent away-thither Hisbrother C#icbr#éline Scipio,with the greateft part-of his Fleetand Army,to triewhat mightbe done avaitift! 4/arubul Sethe otherCarthaginian Lieutenants in that Countrie, He himielfeitaking with itt afew choice bands,returned by: Seato Pifa;and fo paffing throtighTufcaiteinto Lombardit,drew together thébroken tioupsof Marlins SeAtilins tia Iately had bin Beaten by the Gaules': with which forces hee made head againgt the eneimie,thinkihg roAAde Hint over laboured; with trauaile of his painefilllidumey, c2F DobMSO IX on: Both of the Romane confils *° Re eA Tie Moheths Aaadibalhad (petitin His tedious tourney from <Carthagena ; whit Bex muifter he Conldinake) wheh'hee-hiada the!Allpes,ivisnoteafily found, Somereckon his foote ar an huhdredthonfandy & his horfearrwentiethonfand , others report them to hane beene oniely twentie thonfand footy andfixe hundred horfe, Hannibal Hitifelfe,inhisMonumehtwhich he raifed,inthe Temple of Zeno Laciniaaveeth with the latterfirme. "Yet the Gaules, Ligurianss (and others. that ioyned with Fr. arelikely to haue mightily inereafed his Armies in fhort fpace. But when hee mar ched EaftwWard from the bankes of Rhodanus; he had with himeight & thirty thoufaad yo foot, aid eight thoufand horfesofwhich,all faue choferemembred by himfelfinthe {nfcription of His Altarini samo's Temple; are liketo haue perifhed, by difeafes, enemies, Rivets, and Mountaines ; which mifchiefes had déuoufed,each,theirfeuerall fhares. Hating newly paffedthe Alpes, and fcatéerefrefhed his wearied Armic inthe Coun2 Thefedwek trie Of Picmont ;' he fought to'win the friendthip'of the Taurini, wholay next inhis about Turine, Way. Butthe Tauriniheld warte at thattite with thé Infubriansywhich were his good sgoodlyCty» Friends{ahdrefufed(perhaps for the faine caufc)‘hisatnitie. «Wherefore heaffaulted vntothe Duke their Towne, and wanneit by forcéin thrée daies.oTHcir {poyle ferued well to hearten ofSauoy: iis Atmie;and their cafainitic,toterrifie the Neighbour places. Sothe Gaules,withott themtookethe Moteadoe, fell vatohis fide: :" many for feare, many alfo for good-will,according to ,, nameofdv. theit formet inclination.' "This difpofition anne throughthe whole Countrie : which ' sila Tamrino- iovtied, or was alin readinelle to ioyfie With the Carthaginians'; when the newesof : ofthe Fliftorieofthe World, prifoners of the Sanoyans,whichhe brought along with himfitted forpurpole,ias toltaly. For thefe,haniing beene no leffe miferably fettered and shethedHafiote fed ;andiwithall fo often {courgedian their nakéd bodies,asinothing wasmore in:theic: defire,than to bee deliuered from their miferies by any: kiade of} prefent. death were broughtinto themiddle of the Armie : where itwas openly demanded,which ofthem wouldfight hand.to hand with fome otherof his Companions,til the one of them were flaine, with condition being the Vidor, to-receiuehis libertie, and fome-fmall teward: This was no fooner propounded,thanall ofthem together accepted the offer.Then did Hannibal caufelots to be caft, which ofthem fhould enter the Lift, with fuch weapons, ‘joasthe Chieftaines ofthe Gaules were wonttto viein fingle combats. Euery one of thefe ¥ GF PEEP 2c Scipio the Romane Conful auercome byHannibal at Ticinum. : beatenby Hannibal, iagreat Dattel' at ore S83 7 THAR.3.5-4. Stipié the Confulhis arrivall,made fome tobe moré aduifed, thanthe reft. Thenameof the Romans wastertiblein thofe quartets: /what was'inthe Carthaginians, experience had ‘notyet laid open. Since therefore the Roman Confull'was already gotten through theimofft defenfible paffages,ere any fpeech had beene heard ofhis approach: many fate ftill for very feare, who elfe would faine haueconeludéd a League ‘with thefe. new- coine friends, and forme, for'greater fear!offéred'their feruiceagainft the Carthaginians, whom neuertheleffe they had withed welltofpeéd. "This wanering affcctiotl ofthe Protince, whereinto they were entred, madethetW040 Generals haften to thetrial ofa battailé: Their meeting wasat Ticinum,now called Pa- uid ; Where each ofthem wondredat the others expedition: Hanaibal thinking itftcange that the Confiil whom Heé had left behinde himoti the other fide of the Alpes, could mecthim inthe face, before he had well warmed himfelfe in the Plaines ; Seipre een ring the ftrange aduentute ofpaffing chofe Mountaines, and the great {pirit of his ae mie. Neither were the Senate at Romelittleamazedat Hannibals fuccefle, and{ud ne arrival. Wherefore they difpatched 4 Mefenger in all hafte vnto Sempronius,the ae Conful,that wasthenin Siciliagining him to vnderftand hereof: & letting him ae . #3 know,that whereas hé had bin direétedto make the wartein Africa, it was now pleafurethathe fhould forbeareto profecute any fuchattempt,butthat he thoua the Armie vider his chatge, with all poffiblefpeed,to faueltaly it felfe. Acco! oa this order,Semproniss {ent offhis Flect frout Lilybeun : with directionto land the wn mie at Ariminum,a Port Towne notfarre from Ravenna: quite another wey inet me thage,whither he was making afte. In the meane while, Scipioand Hannibal rei 4 {0 neere, that fight they muft; eré they, could part afiinder: ~Hereupon, both© uh Prepared the mindes oftheir Souldiérs, by the beftatguments they had : vate" Haunibal added the Rhctoritkeof 2 prefent'example, that hee fhewed ype? a vohappy menwithed, that his owne lot might {peed ; wherebyit fhould at leait bee his goodfortune,to end his miferiesby,death,, if notto get areward by victorie.That couple, whofe good hapit was ta be chofen,fought refoluedly:: as rather defiring,than fea= ting death ; and hauing noneother hope;than in vanquifhing. Thus were fame few cous ples matched,it skilled not how.equally : forall thefe Poore creatures were willing,wp= on whatfoeuer-vneuen termes, to ridde themfelues ourof flauerie, The fame affection that was in thefe Gombatants, and in their fellowes which beheld thei, wroughe alfo ypon the Carthaginians,for whom the {peGacle was ordained.Forthey coedhappy, not only him,thatby winning the victory had gotten his libertytogether with ani horfe 20 and armour ; but euen him alfo, who being flaine in fight, had efcaped that mifetable conditiqn,vnto which his Gompanions were returned, Their Generall perceiuing wha, impreffion this dumbe few had wrought in them, began to.admonifh them of their Owne condition, fpeaking to this effect: That hee had laid bcforethem an example of their owneeftates ; feeing the time was athand, wherein they were all to runne the fame fortune, that thefe flaues had done j all to line yidorionsand rich; orallto dié, or (which thefe prifoners efteemedfarre mare gricuous ) to live in a perpetual flaueries That none. of them all, in whom was common fenfe, could promifero him{e]feany hope of.life by fight; fince the Mountaines, the Rjuers, the great diftance from their owne Countries, and the purfuit of mereilefle Enemies, tiuft needs retrenchall fuch ime 3o Potent imaginations. Hee therefore ptaied them torememberythat they, who had event now praifed the fortune both ofthe Vidor,and of the vanquifhed, tyauld, make it theit owne cafe; {eeing that there was neperiany inthe world,appointed with fucha refoluti- pn,that had cuer had bin broken,orbeaten by their cnemics, On the contfatie, hee told them thar the Romans,whowereto fight vpen their ownefoile,& in viewof their owne Townes, who knew as many waies to fauethemfe]ues by flight, asthey had bodies of mento fight withall,could no way.entettaing fuch a refolution astheirs; fering the fame Receflitie(to which nothing feemes impoflible) did no way preffe them, or-conftraine them. In this fort did Hennibal,with one fubftantiall argumient, That theremas ao mbene ebwecene Victorie and Deathencourage his Companions.For,(faith agreat Captaine of 4° France) /g comodite de larctracte adaance lafaite, The tammoditic of arctrait, doth greatly "hance 4flat ranning away. _ Scipio on the other fide,after that he had ginen order for the laying of a bridge ower the Riter ofTicinus, did not negleé to vic the bet arguments.and reafons he could, ta Snequrage the Army heed: putting shem in,minde ofthe great conquefts and vittories oftheir Anceftors ; again{t how many Nations they had preuailed ; and quer how mae fyPrinces,their Enemies, they had triumphed, As for this Armie commanded by Has: *ival, although it were enough to tell chem,that it was no better than ofCarthaginians, Whom in their Jate warre they had fo often beateti,.by Land and Sea;yet he prayed them so Withall to confides, that at this timeit was not onlyfo diminifhed in numbers, asit tay ther {eemeda trou peof Brigants and Therues,thananArmy likely co encountet the Roe ans, but fo weather-beaten, and farued,2s neither the. men,por horfes,had ftrength or Courage to fultaine the firft charge that fhould be giuen ypon them... Nay faid he) yee Your {clues may make iudgement what daring rhcy hauc nowremaining, after fo matt Wanailes and muferics feeing when they wete in their beft ftrenigth, aftct they had palt Roane,their horfe-men wefegot oncly beaten by outs, and drinen back tothe very. Trenches ofthei Caza pbuc Hasyibal himlelfe, fearing our abproach,ranne head-long towards the Alpes i thinking it a leffe dithonout, ta diethorebyfroft, faupins; and pte "pitation, than by the harpe {words ofthe Remans,which had foofe d i Sas ut yea PSORSs |