The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

Of the LXXXVIII. booke.

SYlla after that he had defeated and put to the sword the armie of Carbo at Clusium, Faventia and Fidentia chased him forth of Italie. With the Samnites who alone of all the Italian nations had not yet laid down armes, he fought one finall battaile, & vanquished them neer the cittie of Rome, even be∣fore the gate Collina: & thus having recovered & gotten into his hand the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mannaging of the state, he polluted and staind this most goodly and beautifull victorie, with the faulest 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that ever man committed. He cut the throats of 8000 in the great hostit••ie called Villa Publica; even those that had yeelded thēselves. He set up the table of proscription & out lawrie. The citie of Rome & al Italy throgh∣out filled with masacres. Among the rest, he caused al the Prenestines disarmed as they were, to be slain.

Marius a Senatour by calling, he killed in this manner, by breaking his armes and legs, by cropping his eares, & digging out his eies. C. Marius besieged within Preneste, by Lucretius Asella and that side with Sylla; when hee sought meanes of evasion by a mine under the ground, seeing how hee was envi∣ronned by the armie, slew himselfe within the said mine: for perceiving that he could not escape, hee and Pontius Telesinus that accompanied him in this flight, ran one at the other with their drawn na∣ked swords: and when he had killed him, and was himselfe hurt, he found so much kindnes at his slaves hand, as to make an end of him quite.