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Show The\fift Bookeofthefirftpart . Cuar6.6.2 Sree iRith,antibeholdche fpeciacle feemitefincredible. They caufed him to bebrought fate theTheaterjrhatethere ay mightLatisfie themfelues with beholding him.Thegrea: teft part of them had compafiow on his misfortune 2 anditt commemoration' both of this vertue} and of the fagular benehtby hit'done'vnto them, éefpecially in delivering them froin Webs the Tyrants besan to manifeft their goodwill for his delinerie Con. trariwife;Dinecrates and his Faction weve defitous hattily to takeawayhis life ¥bccaiife they helehim a matvimplacableand one that would neuer léaue'any‘difgrace, or iniu: frie) doneto!him; varevenged. "They durft not! one truft another with the keeping of hin ¢ but'committed bin inro aftiong vault vnder ground,that had beene madefor the cuftody oftheir Treaflire. So thither they let hitn downe faft- bound, and with'an ‘en: 10 ginelard an heauie fone vpon the moath ofthevault. There hee had not ‘ftayed long, éve his enemies had concluded his prefent death! The Hangman' of the Citie Was. ‘let downe vito hith,witha cup of poy fon; which PAMopemes tooke in his hand‘: and af king no more than whetherthe Horfinen were efcaped, and particularly whether Lycor- tus was fate whence heard-an anfwerto his minde, hee faid it was well : and fo witha cheerefull countenance, dranke his laft draught. He'was {etientie yeeres old, ‘atid weakned with long ficknefle, whereby the poyfon wrought the fooner, and eafily tooke.awayhis life. The Achzans, when they miffed himin their flight, were maruelloufly of- fended with themfelues,for that they had beene more mindefull to preferue their owne lines, than to looke vato'thefafetie of foexcellent a Commanders Whileft ‘they were deuifing what to doein fuch a cafes they got aduertiferient of his being taken. All Achaia was by this report vehemently afflicted : foas Embaffadours were forthwith ‘di- Caarid.§.2. Of the Ligftory of the World. fm, wheres th ef ofa Later race hawt employed Flaminius, a man'who hath heretofore beewe ane of their Com/als, roprach/e with Pruliascontrary to the henour of a King, contrary to bis Faithgiven, and contrary tothe Lawes of Hofpitalitie; to laughter or deliuer op bis) owne Guei#.He then curfing the perfonof Prafias, and all bis, and defiring the insenortalloods torenenge bes ihfidelitic, dranke off the poyfon,and died. ji ~ Inthis yeere alfo (as good Authors‘ haureported) to accompanie Philepemen and Haazibal, died Scipio the African: thefe being,all ofthem, as great Captaingsas ener the world had;but not more famous,thanivnfortunate. Certainlyfor Hannibal, whole Trae gedie we have now finifhed, had hébeene Prince of the Carthaginians, and one who by ttor o his authority might haue commanded fich fup plies,as the Warre whichhe vndertooke> required;it is probable,that he had torne vp the Roman Empire by the roots But he was fo ftrongly croft by a cowardly and enuious Faction at home;as his propervertue, wans ting publike forceto fuftaineit, did laftly diffolue it felfein his owne, and inthe com= mon mifcric of his Countrey and Common-weale. Henceit comes,to wit, from the ehuic of our equals,and iealoufie ofour Mafters, be they Kings, or Commonweales, Thatthere is-no Proteflion more vnprofperous than thatof Men of Warre,and great Captaines, being no Kings. For befidesthe enuieand iealoufie ofmen,the{poyles,tapes,famine,flaughterof the innocent, vaftation, and buts _ tings,with a world ofmiferieslaid onthelabouring man,are foliarefull to God, as with 40 good reafon did Mesluc the Marfhall of France confefle, That, were nor the mercies af God iwfivite, and without refri@ion,it were in vaine for thofe ofbis profi/sion re hope for a- {patched ynto Meflene, crauing his enlargement : and yet preparation made withall, to 1p portion of them :fecing the cruelties, by them permitted and committed, were alfo infinite, Howfoetier, this is true, That the victories, whichare obtained by many of ithe greateft Commanders,aré conimonlyeitheraferibed to thofethat ferue vaderthem,to'Fortuné, Towne, enforceditin fhort{paceto yeeld. Then Dinocrates, knowing what he. was to expectlaid hands vponhimfeleand madean end of his ownelife. The reft ofthofe Vertues, hate raifed theat abouethe Ieuell oftheir inferiouts,and have furmounted their énuie': yet hane they beene rewardedinthe end, eitherwith difgrice, banifhment, or obtaitteiby forceiti'cafe that faire meanes wonld not ferie. Zycortas was chofen:Generallof the Armic againtt'Meffene's who comming thither, and laying ficge to the that tidd Beene partakers in the murdet,were compelled to wait in bonds vpon the afhes of Philopemen that Wete carried Home in'folemae pompeto Megalopolis ; where they wereall oftheai Maine athis fimerallas facrifices ro his Ghoft whom they had offended, 30 LiMartie;s Roman Embaffadout, wasthen it' Greece ; whence, vpon one occafion Orother, the Romat' Einbafladouts wére feldeme abfent. Hee would haue entermed- edinthis bufincfleofMelfene,tad not Lycorr4s made fhort worke, and left him nothing toidoe.' , Aboutthe fame time was 7,Qaiatins E/aminiws fent' Embafladour to Prafias King of Bithynia: ‘hot fo muchto withdraw him from profecuting the war againft Ewmenes, as to entreathim,that he would deliner Hanzibal,the moft fpightfil enemyin all the world vnto the Senate and People of Rome,into hishands. Prafias (therein vaworthyofthe Crowne he wore)did readily condefcend: or rather(as Zzwie thinkes) to gratifie the Romans,hie' determined either to kill Aavnibel, or to deliver him aliue to Flaminias. For 4° vponthe firft cofiference betweenethe King and Flaminins, a troupe of Souldiers were direétedto guard and enuiron the lodging where Hanniballay. That fameus Captaine hauing found caufe before this tofu}pectthe faith ofPrafias,had dcuifed fomefecret fallies Vader-gronndto fane himfelfe from anytreafonableand-fiddenaffault. Butfinding now thatall parts about him were fore-clofed,he hadrecourfeto his laft remedy: which he then was conftrainedto practife, as wellto fruftrate his enemies oftheir triumphing oucthim,'as to favre himfelfe from their torture and mercilefft hands ; who, as hee well knew,would neither rétpect his famousenterprifes,his honour,norhis age. When ther- forehe faw no way ofefcape,notcoun{ell to refort vnto, heetooke the poyfoninto his 50 hand;which healivaies preferued fora fure Antidote againft the tharpett difeafes of aduerfe fortune; which being ready to fwallowdowne, he vitered thefe words : Z willnow (aid tieydeliner the Romans ofthat feare,which hathfo manyyeeres poe them 3 that fare, " whith makes thémirnnpatient to attendthe death ofan old man. This viltory of Flaminius, ouer me, which ams difarmed, endbetrayed into his hands fhall newer bee nambred among 4he rePophiPheroicall decdes No' ttballmake it manife(t toall the Nations of the world, bow Sarre the ancient Roman vertueis dtyenerate and corrapted. For fach was the noblene(fe 4 theirearner 345; when Pytihias inwaded theon in Italie. and was ready togine thew battaile a thicir ome deres,theygane him knowledge ofthe treafow intended agatn/t his byty: Or tothe Cowardife of theNation againft whom they ferue. Forthe moft ofothers,whofe death: "Among the Romans wefinde many examples hereof ;:as Coviolanns, M.Liniue, LAmilivs, and this out Scipio, whom wee haue lately buried. "Among the Greekes it $Weerédde ofnor many;that efcapedthefe rewards: Yea, long -before thefe times; was aLegacie that Dawid ‘bequeathed vnto his ‘vidtorious Captaine; Joab: With: this fare Alexander fealted Permenio, Philotas,and others and prepareditfor Amsiparer and Caffableyereto Valentinian the Empcrourinniced «£siuss who, after:many other well :fighHeats sierhcon ile of the Hunnés, in the preareft bateaile, for the l tingand'réfolution of both Armies; ‘that cuer was ftrucken in theworld ; fortheretel ofthofethat fought, befide runne-awayes,an hundredand ae by Proximus, Phat in = ing, 0 upon itwas well and boldly told vnto the Emperout a oe Atias Hee had cut offhis owne right hand with bisleft: forit - -_ long sewhies Maxinaus(by whole perfwafion Valentinian flue vétinsmurdered _ ee bos c ‘ a ‘arose hee neuer dirft accempt, «£tés lining. And, befides thie rather : te zi fo itistrue,Thar with £rzas,the glory ofthe Wetterse Empire ve ae : ° Obfeured: THe fame vaworthy deftinie, or farre worleshad Bellsfarsus 5 . - a_ ; nue eee fais ages oussasafterandglori difficult fo Kings and victories were eyes torne out ofhis head by sflinian : and a ar ae lous. For he hadhis was: os ne nor gat. Nax/es alfo, to the greatpreidice ofChriftiaa'R cligion; age incethen's to-wit, ineucry obferaed well been hath Scipio, That rule of@zto agaltift of any one in aweearn Eh Ee Soe ftandeth free, which ed free, That the Common-we n. ale cannot be accounted j :indecd f man. And hence haththe Turkes drawne another' Principlejand 7 € teft aha of of Warre. a thea aes =gica " ce fhonld rather de ftro yt ery warlike Prin 2 That euer ured by them. yoluffer his owhe glory to be obfe fapha sand mot of thofe Princes bring difpatch Balla Acomat; Selim ftrangle Ba/fa Mu 4c Pras : she fi dsauc whoe Gonfalue, great r thee OFthe Spanilh Nation, mretO mine the moft of their 7#fers. e ,ne were. crow e ewh Mexico fet do Cor ered inau nd Ferd es:a the French out of Napl e on dolek ee and ond Egm of es Earl ell. The hed with nettles. not with Lawr Es See _ i oe them to weare gar! dson. And that the per Coine re are many» examples more than too Kings, and Emperours, ow "ated sheState of Princesy nuit i be had: withall ees sitmay be‘faid, hatie e many erThat e D Yer : LORS "eethda tis ofee warre. This confeffes by their great abilirit‘in matter Tritt 3 in id with thi |