••HAP. XXXIIII.
SHall I tell thee of the amity of the two Luculli that was dissolued by death? Shall I reckon vnto thee the Pompeis whome cruell fortune permitted not to perish vnder one ruine? Sextus Pompèy ouerliued his sister, by whose decease the firme bonds of the Ro∣mane Empire, and the peace thereof were broken. He ouerliued his brother likewise, whom fortune had raised to this end, that his ouerthrow might not bee lesse then the ruine of his father; yet after this fall of his, hee proued both sufficient to disgest this sorrow, and to maintaine a warre. In∣finite are the examples on euery side of brethren that haue died one after ano∣ther, and I say on the contrary part, that scarsely shalt thou finde two brothers that haue liued so long as them both. But I will content my selfe with the ex∣ample of those of our house: supposing that no man will bee so deuoid of rea∣son and judgement, who vnderstanding that fortune hath taken pleasure to make Emperours weepe, will complaine that she hath driuen others to sorrow. Augustus lost his deerest sister Octauia, neither did Nature take from him the necessity of mourning, to whom shee had destinated heauen•• contrariwise, this Prince afflicted with all sorts of death of those that touched him neerest lost besides her his sisters sonne, who should haue beene his heire. And left I should enter into a particular account of his sorrowes, hee lost his sonne in lawes, his children, his Nephewes, and no man amongst all mor••all men, had more fee∣ling that hee was a man then hee did, whilest hee liued amongst men; yet not∣withstanding his heart, the most peaceable that a man might imagine, disgested so many bitter griefes, and so made himselfe victorious not onely ouer forrain nations, but also of his passions. Caius Caesar the Nephew of mine vncle by the mothers side, euen vpon the entrance of his youthly yeeres, lost his brother Lucius most deare vnto him, a Prince as yong as himselfe, during the prepa∣ration of the Parthian warre, and receiued a greater wound in mind then that was which afterwards offenced his body, yet endured he both the one and the other, both piously and stoutely. The Emperour mine vncle by the fathers side, saw his yonger brother, and my father die in his armes, at such time as hee was ready to enter the heart of Almayne, and hee subdued the most sauage na∣tions of the world, and made them subiect to the Romane Empire; yet kept hee a measure in his sorrow, and gaue order that others should containe them∣selues, reducing the Army not onely aggrieued but desolate, and astonished, and who generally demanded the body of their generall Drusus to the Romane