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Show Thefift Bookeof thefrf part Wihlretoretlclearnett defire of Hannibal to geritswas.alwaiésfruftrave, Vpon thetwa @PCume they of:Capua had their plot,& werein hopetoitake:it by chifning. They fent rotheclilefMagiftrates of the Cumans,defiring them(as being alfo Gampans)to be Pres fenvat afolemne {acrifice ofthc Nation, wherethey would confulr about theirgenerall good promifingto bring thithera fufficient guard, to aflure,the whole Affembly fon any dangerthacmight come by the Romans. This motion the Cumans made thew:ra entertaine ; but priuily fent word ofallto 7.Sempronius Gracchus the Roman Confil, - GracchuswaSavery good man ofwarre,and happily chofen Confull; info dangerous atime, His Colleague fhould haue beene Pofthumius Albinus, that waslately flaine by the Gaules: after whofe death A¢arcellus was chofen, as being iudgedthe fitteft man to 14 encounter with Maspibal, Butthe Roman Augures either found fome religious impedi- imentthat nullified the election of AtarceHus yor at leaft they fained fo to haue done,bé- caufe this was the firft time,that euer two Plebeian Confuls were chofen together, Mar. cellasthereforegaue ouer the place: and .Q.Fabins Maxintws the late famous Dictator; was fabftituredin hisroome.:But.Fabias was detained inthe City,abour matters of re. ligion,or Superftitiom: wherewith Rome was commonly,efpecially intimesof.danger, verymuchtroubled. So Gracchas alone; witha Confulat Armie, waited vpon Harinis $a/among the'Campans:notableto meetthe Enemiciti field; yet intentivetoalloccds fions; that fhould be prefented.: The VolonessorSlaues, that-lately had, beene armed; were no finall-parvof his followers. Thefe,and the reft of his men,He Continually trai-20 ned rand had not a greater care,to make his Armyskilfulin the exercifes ofwarre,than tokeepeit fromi quarrels, that mightdrife by: vpbraiding one another with. their. bafe conditions. Whileftthe Conful was thusbufied at Linternum ; thé Senators of Cumz fent him word ofall that had paffed:betweene themand the Capuans. It was a good. occaftonta flé(lvhismen, and make them confident againft the Enemie, of whoim hitherto they Cua P.3<9.13, ofthe Fiiftorie of the World, The Carthaginian Amie was too fmall, to fill with garrifonsall places that hadiyeelded and withall to abide (as ic muft doe) {trong in. the field. Wherefore Hanbsbal attending the {apply from home; that-fhould enablehim to iirike atRomeit felfe, was driuen in the:meanetimeto alterhis courfeofwar ;,and;inftcad of making (as formerly hehad done)a generalLiniiafionvponthe whole Countric,to pafle from placeso place + and wait vpon occafions,that grew daily more commodious to the enemy; thantohim. The Countrie of the: Hinpines:and Samnites was grieuoufly wafted by. Atarcellus; ini the abfence of Hanmibel:as alfo,wasi Gampania,by.Fatius the Conful,when Hanaibal ha uing followed atarce//s to Nola, andreceived: therethe loffe before mentioned; .was gone to winter in Apulias: Tihefelpeoplethewed nog the like {pirit in defending: their v lands, and fighting for the Carthaginian Empire; as in former times they. had done when they. contended withthe Romans, in,theirowne behalfe, to getthe Soueraigntie. They held itreafon,that they fhould be protected, by.fuchas thought to haue domini= onouer them: whereby at oncethey.ouerburdened their new Lords ;,.and gauc vnto their old, the more eafie meanes, to take reuenge oftheir.defedtion, {The people ofRome were.very intentiue,as neceffitie conftrained them,to the worke that they-had in hand, T-hey.continued Fabias in-his Confulfhip.: and ioyned with hing Marcus Claudins Marcellys:; whom they had appointed, vnto. that. honour the yeere before. Oftheferwo, Fabsus,wascalled the Shield: and Marcellus the, Rowan Sword, Ty ao Fabinsic was, highly, and vpon.iuft reafon, commended, Thatbeing himfelfe Conful; and holding the Eledionshe did notftand vyponnice points.of formality,orregard what men mightthinke of his ambition, byt caufed himfelfe to, bee chofen with Marcellas 3 Knowing in.what need the Gityftoodof able Commanders... The great name ofthefe Confuls,& the.great preparations which the Romans made,ferued to putthe Campans infeare,thar. Capuait felfe hould be befieged. To preuentthis, Haansbalat their carne had bad experience. Graccbus therefore puthithfelfe into Cumz : whenceheciffiedat chtreaty,came from Arpi : (where he layshearkening after newes from Tarentum).and; haning with his prefence comforted thefe his friends,fell on the fadden vpon Puteoli, a lay Marius Alfias the chiefe Magiftrate of Capua, with foureteene thoufand-men; not ©. Wonneit. {The garrifon in Puteoli was fixe thoufand ftrong:and did their dutie fo well; fuch time,as the Magiftrates ofthat Citie were expected by the Campans.The Sacrifice wasto be performed byaight,at a place called Hamz, thtee miles from Cuma. There wholly intent'‘eitherto the Sactificejor to any danger thar might interruptit; but rather 39 deuifing how to furprife othersthan fearing him {elfe to be ailailed «The-Conful theres fore faffering horletogoe forth ofCumz,that.mightbeareword ofhim tothe Enemies, . ifiedout ofthe towne whenitgrew darke.: his men being wellrefrefhed. wich meate and fleepe, theday before, that they might hold out theberter inthis nights feruices So he'came vpon the Capuansvnasvares:and'flew more than twiothoufand ofthem, toges ther with their Cominander'y lofing not aboue a -hundred\of -his owne,-men:.. Theis cainpehetooke:: but tatried notiongtorificit,forfeareofHanajbal, who Jay not farte off,By this his prottidence,he efcaped 2greaterloffe,than he had brought vponthe Ene mies: Forwhen Hannibal was informed how things went.atHam=, forthwith mar4 ched thither: hoping ‘to findethofe young fouldiets,and flaues,bufied in makinghe{poile; and.loading themfelues with thebootie. But they were all gotten fafe within Gunes which partly foranger, partly fordefire of gainingit, and partly at the yrgent,entres tic ofthe Capuans, Hannibal affailed thenext day, Muchilabour,and with ill faccetlty ehe Carthaginians and their fellowesfjpent, abourthistowne.:.They-raifed a woodden Tower againt it, which they brought clofe vatothewalls;thinking thereby to force an Barrie But the Defendants,on theinfide ofthe wall,raifed againft thisan high Towels whencethey maderefiftance ; and found meanesat length, to confume with fire the worke of: their Enemies. (Wihiléthe Carthaginians were bufielin. quenching the fie 3 the Romans, fallying out ofthetowneattwo gates, chargedthemvaliantly, and déaue thenrtotheir trenches; with the flaightér-ofabout fouireteene hundred. The Cont wifelyfounded thé Ketreatere- hismemweré too farreengaged,and Hangibal in areas nofie to requitetheir fernice.Neitherwould hejintheprideof his goadifuccel' adyene ture forth againft the Enemies) :who ptefenteshbim -battell, the day. followings a" vntothe walls.kannibaltherefore secingnd likelitood to preuaile in chat which he a4 takenih hand; brakevpthefiege, and réturnedtorhis old campe.at-Tifata),Abou mae times;and fhortly after,when, Febins thie otherGontul hiad.takenither field ; fone line . fowaswere secouered by theRomans,and the peoplefexerely-prnithed for sheinie« Sea-towne.of Campania , about, which hefpent three dayes in vaine, hoping to have z0that the Carthaginian, finding no hopeof good fuccefle,could onely thew his angerivp; onthefields there, and about Naples; which hauing done, and once more ( withasill Ahecefleas before )affayed. Nola,he bent hiscourfeto Tarentum ; wherein hee had very Bieatintelligence. Whileft hee was in his.progrefle thither ; Hazzemade a iourney, againft Beneventum:and.F-.Gracthus the laft yeeres Conful,-hafting:from, Nuceria,-met himthere and fought with him a battell.-azeo had with himabout feuenteéne thouandfoor,Brutians & Lucans for the molt part:befides twelue hundred, horfes very few ofwhich were Italians,all,the reft,Numidians and Moores. Hec held the Roman. worke foure houres,ere it could pe perceived.to whichfide the viGory would incline.But, Grae hus his fouldiers,which,wereall(in amannerythe late-armed flaues, had receiued from 4otheir Generall.a peremptory,denunciation ,, Thatthis day, or neuer,they mutt putchafe their liberty, bringing euery man, for price thereof,an Enemies head. The {weet reward afliberty wasfo greatly defired,thatnone ofthem feared any dangerin carningit:howeit that vainedabour,impofed by their, Generall,ofcutting off the {laine enemics heads, troubled themexceedingly;and hindredthe {eruice,by imploymentof {o many hands, a worke fodittle concerning the victorie. Gracchus therefore finding his owne errour, wilely correctedit: proclayming) aloud, ‘[hat they.{hould caft away the heads, and Patethe trouble.ofcuttingoffany, more); forthatall fhould haue libertic immediately afterthe batrell,if they wonne the daya:-Fhisencoyragement made them runne,headong vpon the Enemies whomtheir defperare furie hadfoone oucrthrowne, if the Ror JomlanHorfe could hauemadecheir part good againft the Numidian, But,though. Hanae *tdid-what he,conld.andprefledfo hard.vpon the Romansbattell, that foure thoufand of theflanes, (for feare either. of him,orofithe puni{hment which Gracchas had threatned stote the battel,vnto thofethatfhouldnot valiantly behaue themfelyes retired ynto a Stound of eength,yet wasihe glad arlengthto {auc himfelfe by fight, when the Grofle St-his Armiowas broken ;being ynable ro remedy the lofle.. Leaning the field, hee was aeeompanied- by, nomoxe than.twothoufand : moftof which were horles all the reft Nene citherJaing or takeasThe,Roman General gaue vateall his fouldiers that reward of liberty which-hehad promifed's bur yatethofe foure thoufand, which had recoiled 7, cece g va |