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Show of w~r 41sa l.~•ce want, they can ha~e no fuHena~c~ o~ Qther terms. For if the ( ampamam ·o~ old, betng fulxlued by D~'Cdfity' fubje4 tfu:d.themfelves,. to the RC'man people . ,. ~t FL~li'filc~ in this form : 7 he people of Campania; apud 1v. •J' • C 1 d h samnites.l 8 • . and · the ( ~ty a pua , our ,an r, t e Stt l!.pula~mi Temples of our (iods, all divine and hu. & c~rc1r~a ~e- rmene 'things, we iield up into your hands, ftrt• cd~~mt:•~ 0 1e Con;crip't fath"s: and fund~ [e «e '""'r'n , h h .l r. d 1. b. ut prott(trMtlll' . people w en t ey ue11re to u JC Thucyd.J.a. themfdves to the dominioh of the Ro· Popt1!um Cam- mans ~ were not accepted, as ·eAppian 1amtrn,u,bem 4 Jikh: what hinders, btJt that a people que ca~~~~, r . ld . · gM, "elubra after the 1ame manner may yte up tt Dt4•n, dw 1JJa fclf into the hand of one prepotent and buWoA~>aque om- over-mighty man • ? Moreover, it may ,;1, inXtfir•: happen, that iome Father of a ·Fami~ ~;df~~~JO~ · ly, poffeff!ng a la:ge e{l:a~e of. taft~S, • Et P'enttl- may p1eaie to recetve no mhabttant tn· Yurn. Bembus to his potfeffion, but up.on fuch condi· Hb. ' · tion: or that f6me Maller having a ,. Apud V'rgt- ' · liua1 ler.imus, great number of {e~vants may man~~tt Ntc ,um (e f•IJ and fet them at hberty, on· condmon ttgts ~acu ~m-. that they be fubjetl: .to his ~overnment, tu• Trad1de~'e and pay him ·tribute. VVhtch cafcs .are ~tf.'4'• ··' not without their examples. TacztUJ, ' concernin~· the fervants of the Ger: mans,faith', Ever1 one u Maffer 1hu bwn hou(e and tjl:ate: The l,.ord ~mpo· foth anrl rcqu1reth of. them (a! hu fAr· lntrs )a rtnttJ[Corn, or Cattle, or c/otbt; ,111r1. the fervani fo far is [ub~etf. Adde, that as .Ariftotle hath fatd, fome ~en are by nature fefi/ants, L e. fit f~r t \.' " VICU c; vicude ; fo alto fome NatioQs ;tre Qf this difpo~tion, thaqhey know bette~: •poyv to be .ruled, than how to t:ul~ ; Which the C 4pp~do~iam feem to have ~hoJ.~ghc Stra!M. u • of them!elves, who preferred the life un- Jujlih.3a. der ~ King before the Liberty offer"d · them by the Romans, and affirmed, they could not live without a King. So Pht- 'ib. 6• J,ftrat~U, in the life: of Apolloni~l, fa·ith, • ~c:n. tle be. Ic is a folly tQ be flow Liberty ~tpo~ the rlcf. b.c.1o. Tbracians, Myfians, Getes, which ~hey de Br~to 1.0b: wo uld not g1 .a d· l y ~cce·~ t. Al ld l;llOr<;:: ccuums • ..!il1l ,, 111 vir tnag-over, fame m1ght be moyed by the e~am- nuJ fuerit inn~; .. pies of thofe Nations, wh.i<;h for m~ny i1,;,, hac ttvi• aoes lived happily enough under a Go- detur 'l.lthtmm-z, 1 · • · · ur ttraffe n"c yernment p amly ~egal ~ • The ~it~e~ ex in(litutlo,tt. t under Eumenc s, fatth Lt·VJ, would r~ot StDica {egtfi/P :. have changed their fortune with any qutaut Ktgis free City whatfocvcr. 1. 4 ~. Some- ~omm c~ti'!'utihm es alio the State of the *City is fuch ''-''"111 opflmnuJ. ~ ' tl'l.lllatu attJS ' t at tt ca~rtot be fafe, unle~s under the Jr;b R~t iu(lrf free Emp ac oft O~e : w h1c h concei pt fit; aut ibi fiemany prudent men had of the Roman rtrVlt li6trwem as the cafe fiood in· the time of c £[a; {11turam, ubi AHt.*ftw_. For thefe ~aufe~ therefore,and ;~:m':~n;;;t the hke) 1t may not only poffibly, but & imptumdi er ·n· . . . . . /erviendi ; a11t '~~ .••aTJ!l Ctvtt/Utm m pr10rn11 formll"lll pof{t rt'flllCttri, a~nifPs ";.. 11JJUs mtl'lbus ;f.utu;~~mqut ibi 119u ditattm cit~ilis ;uris. & /laturu f~o 14co ltf.t', ~b• ~idtrat IDt. mif/11 bomU,um pu~nantitt, mm ., fn·~ ·;~t,(tdutr~. V~de .& B1111rrum hilt Genuenfi. 1.14. p.32.9. t IC mulros ex J,bem Grzciz Cjvitaribus in Salamma Cypr j quod livagorz rcgnull) erat, veni1Je narrat Ifoc arcs. ,. or' ~omTon;weat!h· .t Dion ar';'d Philo!Jrat. f. II. Mttllf. rst R;. .: •m ~~~ d•m:natzb11s t•mm•nllliAm Jam je~n p1jfitJt lnNitlti,.t111• doth |