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Show Therfift Bookeof thefirfk pare CHargi G6 of husbandrie he wasinotableandthereby mottincreafed his fabRaiice; being of meane birth, andthefirt of his Houles Strotig of bodiehewas, and exceeding temperate: fo as helined in perfe@health to vety old age. But thamwhichomoft commended him vn- tothe betterfortofthe Romans; washisgreat{yncetitic of lifejabRinence frombribes, andfafhioning him{clfetoshe aneienvlaudable Cuftomes of the'Citie.' Hertinthechad merited fingular commendations, ifthe vehemencie'of his nature had not caufed hima malignetheVvertuc of that Noble SeipiethenA fricanyand fothe other worthy men' that were noleflehoneftthat himfel feythough farre leferigedjandimote gallanvin behauiour: Otherwifey Hee Wasa very good Citizen,and one of fichtemper, that he-could fafhion himfelfe to all occafions; as if he were neuer ‘out ofthis Element. Helouedbufi- ao nefleiforvellyorrather hated vice fo eatneftly yphat encn votothe¢nd of hislife,He was exercifed indefending' himfelfe; oraccufing othersiForartheageoffourcleore & fixe yeers, Hopleaded it his owne defence: and foure yeeres after, heiacculed Sengims Gelba yntdthe People. So beganthe Nobility ofcaohis familie ;whicin endedsin ‘his:great igrand-childe a#iCatathe Veican eone,that being of likevertueandfetuencieshadall his goodpuipofesdaflic, andiwasfinally wearied out ofhis life; bymemof fuch Nobilitie -and Greatneffe'asthishis/Anceftor had continually vexed: TheSpanifh wavves, after Cate his departure our ofthe Countrie, though they were nonvery dangerousyyetwerethey many and theCountric feldomefree from inlureGidn; in-one part or other. The Roman Prerors therefore, ofiwhich two enery yeere 20 were fentouct-Commandtrs into Spaine (‘that was. dinided:into* Gouernments) did ravely faileof fuchlworke) asmight affoord the honour of Triumph. ‘One flewthitteenc thoufand Spaniards ina battell's andthertookefiftie Townes; and athird enforcedinany States ofthe Countrierofie for Peace: 'oPhus every one! of them, ‘or molt ofjthent, ‘didfome laudable feritice s dhd yer fo; ithar ‘commonly there were of mien, townes, and people) inewthat rebelled, in ftead of theold tharwere flaineytakery orreclaimed, Atthe caufes hettof, Uhaiealready pointed, and therefore:thinkeitenough CicnrsSi6. vofbeHifoncsfele Wer ighatwhereon their Citic ftood 3: otcfedrctly tofo much: Forthey ? ftrangersin Africk; tharhadgotctn deavé a tobuild-vponfo sichieeuctioe "tay -coulckencompaffe with an. Oxe-Hide cuinto finalthongs:Whatfecuer they held without {uch a dompafle,was:puichafedby fraud;and wrongful enoroachnventsvThis confi- dered,Ma/anif/a requefted ofthe SenateyDhatthey would nat adindgelvate ich Vitiepers,the Countrie fometimes appertaining volte Alnceftorsof him their aired fiend The Romatis hauing héard theftallegationsonboth fides, fourndtha matted 1¥: adie full,that they couldnénon the fuddentell wharto determines Wherefore beeanethe Would doe nothing raflily:, they-feht Guerthree Embafladours of -whomipsirpjg el | African! was.oite and théchiefe, to decide the cdntrouerfie!: yet fecretly- siting thént iat fructionssto leaue alls they found it; without making any-end oné wayoF other. The Embafladours followed theirdirections,and left all doubtful. $6 was it likelpiehiae We fanifawithaftrong Armic fhouldquickly prendile,; againft thofe that'conld tie HGH thantalke oftheir rightjandexclaimeagainftthe Wrong. Byfuch' Arts were theegy thaginians:held,nor onely from {tiring in fanonriof King Antiochianif they had hereed any difpofition ; but were preparédby little and litele vnto theifinall deniuaions that camevpon them, whenthe Romanshad leifureto expreffe the vtmoft oftheit hatred 20"). ; wi TD, : f The -Ltolians labourtopranoke fetetier Bier and Nabis}itowarrevpon'sht Ronit bysehomehey hold themfelacs wronged auddifaraceds:Nabisbé/ieperd cystbowie anak igs Sethfome part ofAches. The exadhshill cof Philopeemen; ‘in ‘admankaie Sarbanes whereby hee viterly vangquifveth Nabiss Antiochusteian ented Peace by the Romany, soynes with thes@tolians: Thee£tolians [urprize Demetrios andby killing Niabishay Confederate,[cine apin Sparta: Baetheyare driucn oid by theqivixens's whow PhilspatL Meas per/wefions annexe thémfeldes tothe Achedhs. ay stofay, That the bufinefit in Spaine required not the imployment of a: Roman Conful, frdin fuclitinie as‘Caro thunce departed, vntill the Numamtian Warre broke ‘out, which wasvery long after, 3° Inall other Counttiestd the Welt of the Ionian Seas,the Romans had peaces but fo -hadnot the Carthaginians: For when Hanaibel was gone fromthem, andithat the eiemies ofthe Barehine Houfe promifedallfelicitie which Rome could grant,vnto thent- felues & their obedient Citic ? Ma/anifz fell to difputing with thefwerd, about thetitle tothe beft part of their Lands:He begati wich' Emporia, fruirfull Region about we let fer Syrtis:whereinamoneother Cities was that of Leptisjwhichidaily paida Talent vi to Carthage for Tribute. This Countrie the Nuniidian challenged 3 &by winning fome opatt of it; feemed to bertérhis claimevnrothe whole; Heehada'greataduantage + tor thathoCarthaginians might not make any warre; without leaue obtained: from their Mafterstlic Romans... They had noneotherway of redreffe, tham by fending to Rome4? their Complaintofhis doings. And-furely they wanted not good matterto alledge, if the ladges'had beene vapartiall. Por befidesthat'scipis, ‘in firniting "out to them their bounds,hadifeft themthe potfeffion of this Counttey: Mafaniffz himfelfe;ridvwverylate- ly purfainga Rebell chat fed out ofhis Kingdome,defiredteane of the Carthaginians, for. himfelte to paffe rliroughititvhis way to Cyrene thereby acknowledging \( had it otherivife beene-queftionable) that the Countrey was theirs:Thisnotwithftanding, 24 Saniffehad where-witlito iuRifié his proceedings; efpecially vatovthe Roman Senate. Hegauethe Fathersito vnderftand by his Embaffadours, whatfaithleffe people the Car ae thaginians wereyand howiill-affected to the Stare of Rome. There hadlately beenfet nd vato them from Hannibelponethat fhould perfwadéthem torake part with cAntioches 50 This man they hadexamined vpon fome fufpicionof his ¢rtand 3 yer acither arrcfting him norhis thip, had therebyaffoorded him meanes to efcape. Hence the Numata concluded;Tharcertainely it waStheimputpoferorebell,andtherefore good policie to keepethemdowne: i i 2 As forthe Coiintrie ofimporiz: ‘ithad alwayes, he faid, beehetheirs that were eable 20% to holditby ftrong hand sand {6 belonged fometimewntd the Numidian kings;thone" t0E now oflateiit was in pofleffionofithe Carthaginians: But if rruch were knowne, ~ Citizens of Carthage had not any very warrantable title ¥ato‘any more ground; . . LiL, Greece being at peacejandthe RomunArmiesthencedeparred t'it gtitied Mg A muchthe Atoliansto thinke;thar they who had promifedigatothenfelnedthe whole fpoyle of Pbilip,and thehigheft'repucationamong the Greeks) Were Hoe onely:difappointed of their couctous hopes,;buriquiteforfaken bytheirancient' depen. dants, andof all otherthe moft vnreBarded. Yer wastheremadeapreataccefeto thet Eftatg ; by-adding much vntothemsofvrhar which'hadbeencraken ‘from the Maced? tian. "This might well haue fufficed them, »1tjtheir defiresthad nde beene? immodes Tate; and their indignation more vehement than thei: defires Bar'they/ were ase (6 Pleafed with that whichthey had, fincethby thoughe:itno ‘more-chan part GE their due; as they were vexed with thedenialliofthav'whiehithey vlainied?! anid! wit! fila ding themfelucs tobe wholly difeftéemed; whereintthey thoughiettar they: had vata 40ferable wrongs, Wherefore théy-deliifed ina Parliament which they thortly héld;'by What meanés they beft‘mightrighechemfelues,and giicthe Rotivinsa forrowhil kiow2 ledge of the difference; betweenetheir enmity and Fri¢ndthip. Fo! this pitpofethey foone agreed, as:conemringallinoheaffedion;yThatthey Would nor ‘onely perfwade Antiochigs to make war yponthe Romans,as oneto whom teRomans had long refuted Peace.s but tharthey: woilld dealewitlthe King of Macedon theitancientt cnemidjand Withwadis theTyrant ofiLacedemon,co ioy ne'alroger! feb Marewe Jonfederacy: whole loynt forces couuldnotin all likelihopdjbut fatiuriniount tholeof vicRotiads, Achsans great enter. hedians,and King Zumeneswith albthat wereobtheit Faction? This was 2 great they'were for them, atidiwellbefeeming jrand) tookein Ftoliars the Ptifegrhich fo darerg, They.fenvEmbaffadoursto alithefe Kings; with petiwations, as they thought mMoftfercible, But Phiwas irvefolure; and Anriochin willing tothy firlt al ee « Wabis the Lacedzmonian; whoneither (as Philip) had ore niketor yaw Anriochusy other thearioft forward Was infeare of, any2waure jet fhewed him(cdfeofall and ndét Rayine fornuchiasito feekeahy goorbprerences Begatine itimediately' to lay fege vate' AGizans, to ¥ttheium) whar-hadbecne lately daken fromhiaoy the Romans - Fhe Whofe care chiefly-Fatusiat hisdepamure had commended thewtiaites Of Peloponncfis, 10) ; they haue Raiedlone'frym of| duty': neither would Wetenor flow toadmonithwasis ‘ofhis teptefling hisviolentéby open' VVare 5 had socfome of zhiéin' thougheiit wifedome ve Qaq94 3 a |