L. VIVES.
NO other (a) place.] Some texts want the second negatiue, but erroneously, I•…•… must bee read as wee haue placed it. (a) M. Puluillus.] Liu. lib. 2. Ualer. lib. 5. Plut. in Poplicol. Dionys, and others. This temple to Ioue, Iuno and Minerua, Tarquin. Priscus vowed, Tarquin the proud built, and the dedication falling to the Consulls, Puluillus had it, and was informed (as Augustine saith) that his sonne &c. (c) by those that] by M. Ualerius, brother to P. Valerius Consul, who greeued that that magnifi•…•…nt temple should not be dedicated by one of his family and so brought that news of Puluillus his sonnes death that the greefe of his family, might make him giue ouer the dedication. (d) Hee bad them cast him.] Plutarch, Liuy sayth hee bad them bury him then. (e) Let the dead] Liuing to the world, but dead i•…•… deed, since dead to God, let them bury such as they thinke are dead. (f) the meanes.] In ones life, as in ones trauell, the lesse Burthen he hath about or vpon him, the lighter he goeth on his iourny. (g) L. Ualerius Liu, Plutarch and Ualerius write yt this Ualerius Poplicola was so poore that they were faine to bury him at the charge of the citty. So doth Eutropius and others. It is said each one gaue somewhat to his buriall: Plut, farthings a peece saith Apuleius, Apolog. de. Magia. Augustine doth but touch at the story, respecting neither his surname not the yeare of his death, for he was called Publius not Lucius and died a yeare after his 4. consul∣ship, Uerginius and Cassius being Conss. the sixt yeare after the expulsion of the Kings Liu. D•…•…. * 1.1 (h) Q. Cincinatus. Liu. lib. 3. Ualer. lib. 4. (i) More honorable.] The dictatorshippe was a regall office, from it was no apeale, to it were consulls and all obedient, it continued by the law but sixe monethes; and was in vse onely in dangerous times, the election was made alwaies in Italy, and in the night: Hee was called the maister of the People, and had the Maister of the horsemen ioyned with him. This office had originall in the CCLII. yeare of the Citty after Caesars death, by the law of Antony the consul; and for enuy of Caesar perpetuall dictatoriship was abolished for euer (k) conquered.] The Aequi, and triumped ouer thē (l) Fabritius.] One not rich, but a scor∣ner of ritches. Being sent Embassador to Pyrrhus King of Epirus abut the rans•…•…ming of the prisoners, he asked him if he would go to Epirus with him & he would giue him the forth part * 1.2 of his kingdom, he replied it was not fit, for al the people would wish rather to be vnder his cō∣mand then Pirrhus his. Pirrhus, content with this answer admired the plaine magnanimity of the man, offered him mony as a friend, he would none. (m) One that.] Cornelius Ruffinus this was: * 1.3 Fabritius the Censor put him off the Senat for being worth ten pound in coined siluer. Liu. lib•…•… nay he had beene Dictator saith Gellius. lib. 4. this was the first Cornelius that was called Sybi•…•… and then Silla, of all the Cornelian family. Macrob, he was first consull with Manl. Cur. denatus, and thirteen yeares after, with C. Iunius. (n poore men] Rome was neuer more fertile of conti∣nent honest men then in the warre of Pirrhus.