Of the LXXIX. booke.
LVcius Cornelius Cinna, at what time as by force and armes hee published daungerous lawes, was thereupon by his Collegue Cn. Octavius, driven out of the cittie with sixe Tribunes of the commons besides: and being thus deprived of his rule and authoritie, he became commaun∣der of Ap. Claudius his armie by corruption: and ioyning with C. Marius & other banished persons, out of Affricke hee marched in warlike manner against the cittie of Rome. In which war, it fortuned that two brethren, the one of Pompeius his armie and the other of Cinnaes, encountred in fight and knew not one another. New when the conquerour was in disarming and spoiling him whom he had slaine, he saw what he had done, and tooke knowledge that it was his brother: whereupon hee fell into an excee∣ding p••teous fit of wailing and lamentation: made a funerall f••••e for his brothers corps, stabbed himselfe through thereupon, and in the same fire was burnt and consumed to ashes. Now whereas these civill warres might have bene suppressed in the beginning; such was the fraudulent dealing of Cn. Pompeius, who seeming to mainteine both partes, gave strength to Cinna, and set not to his helping hand, before that the Nobles side went down; such also was the faintnes and coldnes of the Consull, that Cinna and Marius tooke heart and grew strong: and so with foure armies, whereof two were committed to the conduct of Q. Sertorius and C. Carbo, they invested the cittie of Rome. Marius wan by force the co∣lonie Oslia, and most cruelly ransacked it.