So the shippe returning vnto Ostia with the Image of the goddesse, Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was by the Senators (which were sworne to giue their opinions of the best man of the Cittie) adiudged as the best man, he being then but a youth and not out of his questor∣ship, which was his first steppe vnto dignity; and so hee by the decree of the Senate, receiued the Phrigian goddesse: Liuie in his 29. booke and many others. (b) But Scipio] In the 600. yeare after the building of Rome, when the Romaine Ambassadors that had bin at Carthage, reported that there they had found a huge deale of furniture for shipping, and all thinges fitt for a Nauall warre, the Senate held a consultation about the beginning of a warre with the Carthaginians. Now Marcus Portius Cato beeing Censor, to assure the Romains their estate at length, gaue counsell not onely to beginne this warre, but vtterly to extirpate and demo∣lish (this terror of theirs) Carthage. But Nasica Scipio (of whom we spoke but now) would not see the people of Rome exposed to the inconueniences of too much Idlenesse, nor that they should swimme in too much security: and therefore would haue something to remaine as a bridle to curb the head-strong appetite of a powerful multitude: Where-vppon he gaue them the counsell not onely not to destroy Carthage, but euen not to beginne a warre with the Carthaginians without a lawfull and sufficient cause. Liuie and others. (c) As if they were young punies [Ualerius writeth that Appius Claudius vsed often to say that imployment did far more ext•…•…l the people of Rome then quiet: that excesse of leisure and rest melted them in∣to slothfulnesse, but the rough name of businesse, kept the manners of the cittie in their pristine state, vndeformed: when the sweet sound of quiet euer ledde in great store of corruption. (d) When Carthage was raized] Salust in his war of Iugurth saith thus: for before Carthage was rai∣zed, the Senate and People of Rome gouerned the weale-publike wel, quietly and modestly betwixt th•…•…-selues: nor was there any contention for glory or domination amongst them: the feare of the foes kept all the Citty in good arts & orders: but that feare being once remoued and abolished, then the attendants of prosperous estates, pride and luxury, thrust in vnrestrained. (e) And bloudy se∣di•…•…. As first yt of Tiberius Gracchus, then that of Caius his brother, in which two was the first ciuill effusion of Cittizens bloud beheld: the first of these happened tenne yeares after Carthage was destroyed. (f) By continual giuing of worse and worse causes]. For through the sedition of Caius Gracchus was the office of the Tribuneship inuented, and bestowed on Li∣•…•… Drusus, whom the Senators opposed against the Gentlemen, who stood for the law that Gracchus had made. Hence arose the war called Sociale Bellum, because Drusus reformed not the citty as hee promised: and hence arose the warre of Mithridates, who taking aduantage of this discord of Italie, made many thousands of the Italians that traffick'd in his dominions to bee slaine: and hence arose the ciuill warre of Marius who sought to gette the vnder∣taking of this Prouince and warre of Mithridates from Sylla. And from the seedes of this warre, sprung the warres of Sertorius, Lepidus, the conspiracy of Catiline, and lastly the warre of Pompey. And from that sprung the Empire of Caesar, and after his death the ciuil warres of Anthony, of Brutus and Cassius at the Philippi: of Sextus Pompeius in Sicilia, and that of Acti∣•…•…. And lastly the common-weales freedome turned into a tiriannical monarchy.