L. VIVES.
IN (a) his flesh] For hee was afflicted with a sore kinde of vlcere. (b) Most poore] Liuy in his eighteene booke, and Valerius in his examples of pouerty write this: When Attilius knew that his generallship was prolonged another yeare more, hee wrote to the Senate to haue * 1.1 them send one to supply his place: His chiefe reason why hee would resigne his charge was, be∣cause his seauen acres of ground (beeing all the land hee had) was spoyled by the hired souldiers: which if it continued so, his wife and children could not haue whereon to liue. So the Senate (gi∣uing the charge of this vnto the Aediles) looked better euer after vnto Attilius his patrimony. (c) Especialy being that they] He makes fighting as far from Christian piety, as religious hu∣manity is from barbarous inhumanity.