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Evmentsaaue counfaileto diflodgebynight, arid remooue roafuperplace beyond the RiuemPencus, The Conful; thoughathamed to profele, by fo doings iiwhat feare he ftood'y yet thought ic better 'to acknowledgetheloffe pat; than byRatiding omproud tearines, rodraw vpon himfelfe @ greater-calamitie/ So hee paffedthé Riuerin the: dead of the night, and encamped: more'ftronglyvon:the further fides Thie Arolians were forely blamed for thislofle:as ifratheractrayterousmeaning: thanany true feare, had occafioned their flightherein thereft oftle Greeks! followed they, Bige of theni that were men of efpeciall marke,had been obferued to bee the firt which turned theirbackes /an obferuation likely to coft them deare,at a time: of ‘better leifure2As for the Theflalians,their vettue was honoured with reward: {asthe Grecks ro might fearne, by examplesof either kinde,thatifthey would {lunne indignation,oriné curre faiouir, then muft they aduentuteno lefle fortheir Lords the Romans,thaa gladly they would doefot theitowneliberty Thus fared it withthe Conful and his Armie, Perfeat came the next day to-corredtthe former dayes'errour'; which how. grearit was, henovvatill then ‘found?' The Romanes weregotten intoa place offafery, whither they cotild neuer Hate-attained, if the King ‘hadeicherpretfed his victory, or given betterheed to them that night this 'light armature alone being fufficient-to haue rowted them ‘whileft they were conucying themfelues tothe otherfideof Pencus. But it way vaine to' tell what‘mighthauebecne done; fince there was no remedy, The Romanswere beaten,seuen the: flower oftheir! Citic, the Gentlemen: of Roine; out 29 ofwhom were chofen their Senatorssand confequently the Generals themftlues; Prators;Confuls, andall that bore offite'or command among" them. yea, they were beaten {o fhamefully; thatthey toleaway by ‘night,and fuffered him to gather wpithe fpoyles ‘of them without ‘refiftances as yeelding:themf{claesouercome.: With fuch btaiie'words did tlie king fet outthe glory of hisaction y dividing the fpoylesamong his followers. But there was much wanting within lini, to hae madehis: honor found. He'catheneeiér tothe Romans, and encamped-at Mopfelus, aplacein themid-way betweene Tettipe and Lariffa : asifir were his meaning to' preflethem fomewharharder. Neuerthelefie he was éafily perfwaded to vfethe odcafion; which he feemed tohaue, of obtaining peace. Therefore he fent'vato the Confuljand offeredtoyeeld vntothe fame 30 Conditions, wheréin his Father hadibeeneboundtorhe Rotans; if the warre mightfo takeend: It wereneedlefic here‘againeto fhew the follyofithis his courfe: Towards the accomplifhinentofthis defired peace,there was in theConfulno greater powerthan to'gratit'a truce,while Embaffadors might goeto! Roiner it refting in: the Senate and Peopléto approuethe conditions and tatific theleague. And offucha tiuct granted by Martins kehad lately found no {mall difeommoditit redoundihg.-Bur \Licinius dealt plainly,and teturned anfiver, That other hope ofperce there wasnone;fauethat Per/eus would yeeld bothhis kingdome and perfon,fimiply and abfolurely;to ‘difctetion of the Senate.Amanly partic was of Liciniasto bed {orefolutein'aduerfitie.' Om the other fideyitargued a faintheartin Perfeus; that having recéinedian anfwerfoperemptory, he 4° fill perfifted; making vaine offers of great tribute. Finding that the peace;iwhich he fo much defited; conld norbepurchafed with money; the king withdrewhimfelfebacke to Sycotiuin' There he lay hearkeding what the Enemy dids:whofe ‘forces! were well repaited by the comining ofAtifagenesthe fonof aifaniffa; witly the|aide before mentioned. This diftance betwéene the king & them caufed the Romans to waxe the more boldinthaking theirharneft:about which bufineffethey ranged all overthe fieldsiThetr carcleffedemeanor gauchiin hopeto doe fomenotableexploit: whichhe attempted, both vpon their Campe,and vpon thoferhat were abroad. The' Campe hee thonghtto have firedontheifidden? but the alarmie being taken im good feafon,; he failed inthe enterprize! AS for che Forragerswhe had -agood hand vponthemy if hee couldhave with- 50 drawne it, and given ouérititime. But whileft heftroueto forcea guard, be was vificed by thé Confol; by whomtitherinaskitmih of horfe, orcforthe report is diners) 10 4 great battell she was oletcéine, This mifadienture, whether preator {mall,ca sfeas, after afew dayes,to fall backe into: Macedon;asbeing naturally, given to feat F Cwar.6.§.7.ofthe Eijftorie ofthe World. C41 it, and foto haue gotten entrance into Tempe, But findine the worketoohard. ned backe voto the Perthebians and iheSeid whom he won fome reqicanse thereft, Lariffa. There were fundry townes thereabout, bearing the fame name of La= riffa:fo that this which the Conful togke, may feeme not té haue belonged vito the Theffalians; vnleffe, perhaps,after his victory,Per/ews did greater A@sthan we finde recorded, and got fomepart of Theffalie, Ofmatters happening inGreece at thistime,it is hard togiuea précife account; for that the hiftories ofthem are greatly defectiue. One maythinke it ftrange, chat the Bovotiz ans,whom a Roman Embafladourcould terrifie, and bring alcogetherto his‘owne will, to fhould not be afraid of 2 Roman Armie,then on foot in Greece, and a Nauie ‘oftheir coaft. But moreftrange it is, chat the Thebans, from whom theit dependants wereta- ken by the Art ofMertius, were moretrueto Rome, than other petty townes, which by that famediftraction oftheBceotians,becamewithin themfelues more abfolute,than formerly they had beene. The caufes hereof were to haue beene fought among the changes, happeningin their variable factions: whereof the knowledge is nowloft. Some of them rebelled, and were throughly punifhed by Lucreriasthe Roman Admi- rall: who got fo muchby {poyling them, that hee would haue broughtothers to rebell in like fort, ifby extreame oppreffionhee could haue driuen them fo farre. Neither was Licivius the Conful vndiligent in the famekinde. What his doings were,after fuch 20 time as he wasat leifure from Perfews, I findeno where mentioned. Onely thisis faid in generall; That inthe warre which hee made, thee cruelly and couetoufly demeaned, ali'b.4 36 himfelfe. After the fame fafhion dealt they, that commandedin the yeere following; Ho/ftiwthe Conful, and Hortenfivs the Admirall, or Prator of the Fleet. Ho/tilims thewed moreofhis induftrie,in picking quarrels with the confederates of Rome,that in profes cuting the war again{t the Macedonian. For concerning the Roman war vpon his king- PolybLegat.7@. dome,afrer that rhe Confull had fought paffage in vaine ouer certaine mouhtaines, Pere fews feemed,in a manner,free from it.He was troubled indeede onthat fide which lookedtowards Illyria, by 4p. Clawdiva, whom the Conful fent thither with an Atmie of go foure thoufand, and who,by leuies made vpon the Confederates,doubled this his Armie. But Claudius thinking to have taken Vicana,a border towne ofIllyria, by treafon, came thitherin fuchcareleffe order, that the inhabitants which had made fhew oftrea» fon, with purpofe onely totraine him into danger ; fallied foorth vpon him, overthrew him,and chafedhitn fo farre, that hardly he efcaped withthe fourth part of hiscompait hapny: Yet this towne of Vicana thortly after became Romane : which howfoeuer pened, Perfeus very foone recouered it, and many other places therewithall: Cotys a Thracian King,{ccuring him on the onefide of Macedon;and Cephalusan Epirote,reuolted from the Romans,onthe other. Per/ew: likewife made‘a painefull iourney intoAito- in lia: where he was promifed to beadmittedinto Stratus, that was the ftrongeft Citie of the Romane fatti4othat Region. Of this hope though he were difappointedbythofe good newes, on; yetin his returne home, hetooke in Aperantia; and fhortly heard nts, Such That 4p.Clawdins was againe throughly beaten by Clewas, one of his Lieutena fuccefle had the Macedonian warre vnder Ho/filtws.The fame Conful offended much the affection teGreeks, by the ftrict inquifition whichhis Embafladours made into mens Peloponnefus, of Cities the wall gthoro trauellin urs batlado thefeEm For watds Rome. who fought not gaue out {peeches tending to fhew, That they liked no better of thofe the Mace- than of thofe which were of by might and mainetoaduance their bufineffe, ment of: Ae Polyb.teg.7 4 donian fa@ion. Their mesning was; t o haueaccufed by name, in the Parlia men; Philopa of fteps dthe followe nobly who chaia, Zycortas that worthy Commander, Generall of the Achz5° and together with him,his fonne Polybin. s, who foone after was ne ve : ispieat an horfe, but more‘notable by that excellent hiftorie which -- . : pikea bs nonin The ed. employments,which he well and honoutably difcharg (tee ca on thould have beene; That thefe were not heartie friends vito the en o Wietimanes abftained from raifing troubles,more for lacke ofopportunitic, - all behinde him, faue oriely Tempeywealtly guarded:and confequently an eafie preyf° common quiet. But fincenocolor oftruth could be found,that might Bi anehweeds tofuch atale.it was thoughtbetter, forthe prefent, to lerit ae 2 Tbe demanded Afterthe Kings departure, Licinis went Riraightwhto Connus; hoping to have we asifall were well. In like manner dealt they among oo aoanton k asallo among hoftages, and found fome inthe Councell thatvers ; ‘ the get, eich Where none wasy whereby what loffe he felr, will appeare hereafter. Hee tet the Romanes. ad yin | { ' ss |