L. VIVES.
SCipio (a) that protector] P. Cornelius Scipio African, who passing ouer into Africke, fet∣ched Hanniball out of Italy, sixteene yeares after his first entrie, ouer-threw him in •…•…frick, * 1.1 chased him thence, and gaue end to this most dangerous warre. (b) Religiousnesse] Liu. lib. •…•…6. Besides from the time that he tooke on his gowne of man-slate, hee would neuer meddle in any matter publike or priuate, before he had beene in the temple, in the Capitoll, and had me∣ditated there awhile alone. This he vsed all his life time. (c) Accusations] Liu. lib. 38. Plut. in his life. (d) Linternum] It is in Campania, called now Torre della Patria. (e) Gaue charge] Liuie reciteth diuerse opinions of the place of his death. For it is vncertaine whether he died at Rome, or no. (f) Afterwards] Liu. lib. 39. The Gallo-grecians were a people of the lesser * 1.2 Asia, called in Greeke Galatae, of the Galles that went thether vnder Brenne, and inhabited there. (g) Luxurie of As•…•…] the lesser: whereof hereafter. (h) Voconian] preferred by Q. Voconius Saxa, tribune. Approoued by Cato the elder, a little before Perseus warre. Liu. lib. 41. * 1.3 where Volumnius is read for Uoconius. (i) Onely daughter] Though he had no other children but her. (k) League of Numance] Hostilius Mancinus Consull with an armie of 30000. was ouer-throwne by the Numantines, being but 4000. and forced to make a shamefull peace with them. (l) Chickins flew] The Romaines in their warres vsed to carry chickens about with them in Cages, and he that kept them was called Pullarius, the chickin-keeper. If they fead greedily it was a good signe, if so greedily that part of their victuales fell to the earth, it was the best of all. For that was called Tripudium Solistimum, and once it was called Terripa∣nium, * 1.4 à pauiendo, of striking the earth in the fall of it. And Solistimum of Solum, the ground. For thus it was written in the Augurs bookes, that if any of the Chickens meate fell from them, it was Tripudium. But an vnluckly signe it was, if they fedde not, as happened to P. Claudius, Caecus his sonne. But a worse if they flew out of their cages. The Sooth-sayers (as Festus saith) obserued the signes of fiue seuerall things: the heauens, birds, these Tripudia, beasts, and curses. (m) Little citty,] Without walles or Fortes, keeping but an armie of 4000. men. The warre began, because they receiued the Sedigenses (people that the Romaines ha∣ted, and had ouer-throwne) into their cittie and houses. (n) Terror] Cicero calles Carthage and Numance, the two terrors of the Romaine Empire. Pro Muraena.