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Show OfW'ar 41Jtl.Plirt ~ jfAgr: , and fo mHch 'the. better, 11s if h· more fertile; wherefore alfo [pare it 111 · • mHchM u po!Jihle, lc{f dofpairmakethem Xen. hia. Gr.4, more har?l. to he conquer d. The lame was &l)luttrrfh.A-che C0urrfil of AgejilM4s, when, again~ gt{ilao. ·the ~pinibn of th:= Achaians, he left the • J • ~· .~ :> 1 • .Acarnans a free ieed'tng time, faying, the • · . :-~. q more they fowed,the more defirous would ... .' , they be of Pe~c~. The Satyrijf to our Spo.l•lllU ar- . purpofe *: m(t [uptrfunt: •.. .t ,· •• , • :> ' : .·.- pb.J~. -After [uch harms, .And loj[es fujfer'd; what remains ~ut ''Arms? Livy fpeaking of the City taken by the qalls ·' It pleafed (faith hr:) the Chrefof th1 Galls, that all the houfcs Jhould not 6e fired: that the rem(linder oft he {itj might be a means to {of!en and how the heart of the enrmJ'. A~d, that this Modcra'ti~, while the ''.rar continues, ma:keth lhew of great confidence ·of the vitl:ory :and that clemency is apt of it felf to move and win the mind. Armihal in Livy makes no fJ ,oil in the fields of Tarentum: It ttpj~il· red(faith ·he) 'twas JJot doneoutofthe modeftr eithtr of the Soldiers ~r of the Captain ' ·but to tairz the ajfeEtionf of the Tarentines. For like caufe Auguftm C~· p.r in · P am1oma ablleind from rapine. Dion tell; us, why ~ He had, hope by th{; means to win them· without violence. 71· moth~HS, by tl;at care of his aforeinen· tion'd dx7 df>n'd, befide other things, a-emea at the good will of hu Enemies ; as Pol)'bim ob- Lib: 3, - lcrveth. Of Qy.intius , and the Romans . . . W.i th hu. n. , P/ut arc h , wh e~ h e ha d re 1a - TFlltazmu in~tiizUn.t ztl4 ted what we have faid of h1m above, ad· deth; They had the fruit ofthu Modera-tion" little after; For1 they were no [oone~ come into Thej[aly, but the Cities yicldea rohim: andthe Greek.! inhahiting/Jetween Thermopil~ wifhedfor him with ardent de-fires : hut the Acha;ans renouncing the friend.Jhip of Philip aj[oci~ted them[elvcs to the Romans againft him. Of the City of the Lingones, which in the war waged againfl: Civilh· the Batavian and his fel-lows , by the condu& of Cerealu , _under the Authority of.Dqmttian , had e!caped a feared fpoil , Frontinus faith : Becau[e ., tib. $. 3• beyond expeflation , it WM inviolate and 14ft nothing , heing reduced to obedrence it gave him Jeventy thoufand armed men. Contrary ~oun.fels h~ve alto comra~y Lib. 1~, ~vents. Ltv.r gtves us an example .. tn .Anniba.l: His mind Precipitous to ava .. rice and cruelty, carryed him to the {poll l[wha't he could not ~ep himfelf, that the tntmy might not enjoy it. That poltcy w.u difhonorable and diJPro.fitable to him, hoth M the heginning and the enJ;For ,not on!J tht minds of them that fujferd unworthy things were alienated from him , hut of others too • for the example reached vf~id. Iltgizu de . h' b l . d'd 5· I aa. fupernat. ~nt~ more t an t e ca amtty r • ure y , difp. 3 x. dub, 1• 1t Js ·moft •true , whiE:h is noted by n. 12 7, tome ., |