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THe first Carthagini∣an warre thus si∣nisht, a short re∣pose, such as might serue as it were to take breath in, followed: and for a sure signe of peace, and that armes were laide aside in∣deed, then first after the dayes of king Numa, the temple-gate of Ianus was shut in: but it was forth∣with set open againe. For the Ligurians, the Galls of Insubria, and the Illyrians prouoked them, as in like sort did the nations from vnder the Alps, that is,
from vnder the very en∣trances into Italy, some one or other of the Gods daily egging them on, that the armes of the Romans might not take dust, or cancker-fret: to be briefe, quotidian, and as it were domestike enemies were as a schoole of warre to the young frie of souldiers; nor did the people of Rome vse this, or that nation of them otherwise, then as a whetstone to sharpen the edge-toole of their vertue vpon. The Ligurians dwelling close vpon the lowest ridges of the Alpes, betweene Varus, and the riuer Macra, sheltred a∣mong wilde thickets, were
more difficult to come at then to conquer. This tough, and swift generati∣on of men, trusting to their fastnesses, and feet, rather made inroades by flealth, like high-way theeues then an orderly warre. Therefore, after that the Deceates, Oxibians, Eubu∣riades, and Ingaunians, na∣tions of Liguria, had thus for a long time shifted for themselues, by aduantage of their woods, wayes, and starting holes, Fuluius at the last shuts vp their lur∣king places with smoake, and fire, Baebius drawes them downe into the champaine, and Posthu∣mius so disarmed them,
as hee scarcely leaues them yron enough to shooe a plough.
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