Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Augustinus de ciuitate dei·

Also marius made octauius the consuls heede be smyten of and lette sette the heede in prorostris that is the comune place of Ro∣me / there thynges be sette vp in sight for men to loke and wondre on / there the bourgeys were wonte to stande and loke aboute and telle there myry tales R ¶ Lucanus sayth that in the felde called marcius atte grete feeste he made sette the heedes of ge••til men that were slayne in stede of messes vpon the mete bordee. ¶ Titus Marius was so cruel that many men had leuer slee him self. than come in marius hande Therfore catulus the con¦sul dranke venym and merula Iupiters owne bisshop kytte his veynes and bled to deth ¶ Also Marius bade that noman shold be spared though he axed mercy in his owne presence / But yf he him self put forth the right hande in token of mercy Therfor the Senatours that left and gentelmen of Rome passed in to Grece and prayd Silla the consul to helpe the comynte of Rome that was nygh loste Eutropius ¶ That tyme Silla at athene had ouercome one Archelaus metridas duc and slayn an honderd thousand men / soo that Archelaus hidde him self na∣ked thre dayes in depe wattry mores / whan this was knowen / metridas prayd for pees and Silla assented and graunted for to haue the lesse perylle byhynde hym and for to goo the more sa¦uely and surer to the ciuile bataill ayenst marius Than Silla cam ayene to Rome and slough and exyled so many thousandes of men that Quintus catulus sayde to hym openly. with whome shal we lyue Yf we slee armed men in bataylle and vnarmed men in pees ¶Augustinus libro tercio capitulo visesimo 4· For Silla than gafe l••ue in that stryf to his men to slee whome that they wold / the wey was opened to take wreche of all old wrath Therfor Scillas right was wers to the comonte of Ro¦me than marius wekednesse though they were vnpunysshed For by both were mo men slayne than by that one ¶ Eutropius This ciuile bataylle dured ten yere and destroyed moo than an honderde thousande men and fyfty thousande withoute senatours consuls pretoryes and edylicies men of dygnyte R ¶Therfore here take hede of six batayls that were amonge the Romaynes / & euery batayll was called bellum ciuile· ¶ In the first bataill marius fought ayēst the cyte / In the second batayll silla fought ayenst marius and ayenst his fauctours ¶In the thyrdde bata∣yll. Sertocius fought ayenst pompeus / In the fourth batayll ca¦telina fought aiēst the comente / In the .v / batayl lepidus fought

ayenst catulus ¶ The sixth a batayll was bytwene Iulius and pompeus Eutropius After this Sylla torned ayene & had worshipfully the maystry of metridas Trogus libro 37 / Metridas metridas sonne kynge of pontus was rebell to the Ro¦maynes six and fourty yere So that if it semed somtyme that he was ouercome he wold aryse ayene with more myghte and strengthe ¶ This was delyuerd by his kynnesmen oute of the awaytes of his owne moder that had slayne her owne fyue so¦nes / and this yonglynge was taken to wardens to kepe· that set¦te hym vpon a wylde hors and compellyd hym to play and to ryde / And while he ruled the hors ouer myght to his elde / his wardeyns arayed venym for to yeue him to drynke The wyse childe drad therof and dranke ofte medycynes of treacle / by the whiche remedyes he put of the peryl of venym in his yougth / so that he myght not dye by venym whan he wold haue dyed by venym in his elde ¶ Than after venym he drad Ire and feyned that he wolde goo an huntynge / soo that in seuen yere he cam neuer in cyte ne in smal towne / so that al that tyme he had neuer hows ouer hede / but walked and lay by nyght in hilles & in montaynes and there he trauaylled ofte wylde beestes / and toke hem with swyfte rennynge and fought with hem· somtyme for to make his body stydfast by vse in trauayl for tendure

¶Also whan he come to rulyng of kyngdome. He chastysed the Scites that myght not be ouercome byfore by sleyght of wyt ¶He occupyed pontus and macedonia ¶Also he wente pryue∣ly oute of his kyngdome and toke with him somme of his fren∣des· and passed in to Asia and wente aboute in Asia and espy¦ed the places and countrees of that londe and came agayn than in to his owne kyngdome and founde a lytel sone that Laodyce that was bothe his wyf and his owne sister / had brought forch by a copyner while he was absente in other landes ¶ Therfor the wyf ordeygned venym for metridas whan he come home· but he was warned by a wenche that serued his wyf / and toke wre¦che of the doers of that fals dede ¶ Than whan wynter was comen / he wold not be in festes but in the felde stryuynge on his hors in rennyng or in grete dedes of strengthe and made his hoost to vse suche trauaylle and dedes for to make hem connynge by vse stalworth and stydfaste eftsones whan they shold fyght

¶ Than he werred in Galacia and despysed the manase of the Romaynes ¶ Metridas seconde wyf shaar hir heede

for loue of hir husband & vsed her for to ride for to helpe what she myght / yf hir husband fell in ony peryll / and for to be with him alway / hir husband was ouercome of pompeus & fledde and she sewed him alway among ful cruel nacions ¶ Giraldus As ofte as highest consuls sylla and Pompeus ouercome metri∣das· soo ofte he semed the more myghty and stronge for he occu∣pyed babyloyne and asia and peased the Scites and made subget capadocia and Armenia and made his owne kyngdome stretche streyht vnto Inde / and come to ephesus and slough al the Ro∣mayns in one daye that were in Asia / Than he sente Archelaus that was the duc byfore him in to grece with an honderd thousād fyghtyng men that gate hym al grece / Atte last he was holden of his owne sonne farnaces and dranke venym by his good wylle for he wold haue dyed / but it greued hym not / Therfor a knyght of the galles that he had greued was prayd for to slee hym and slough hym anone / ¶ After his deth Pompeus made Tigranes kynge of Siria and brente with fyre the temple of Ierusalem /