The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

PART I. The ROMAN Story.

§. 1. Macro, all base.

THIS man had been mischievous ever since he had power to be so, but now was he so most of all, that he might keep that power of his afoot, or might raise it more and more. He was used by Tiberius as an instrument to bring down Sejanus, the one bad, and the other worse; and after he had done that, none must stand by his good will, that was likely to stand in his way: He was made Ma∣ster of the Praetorian Souldiers in Sejanus his stead, and as he possessed his place, so did he his favour with the Emperor, and the crookedness of his conditions: as if all the honours, fortune, and wickedness of Sejanus had been intailed upon Macro. An agent as fit for Tiberius as could be required, and a successor as fit for Sejanus. A man as bloody as the Tyrant could desire him, and sometimes more than he set him on work. He was the continual Alguazil and Inquisitor for the friends and complices of the late ruined Fa∣vorite, and under colour of that pursuit, he took out of the way, whosoever would not friend and comply with him. Of that number were Cn. Domitius, and Vibius Mar∣sus, accused with Albucilla the wife of Satrius secundus, for Adultery, but all three toge∣ther for conspiracy against the Emperor, yet was there no hand of the Emperors shewed for the prosecution of the matter, which shewed the only spleen and machination of the

Blood-hound Macro. Albucilla, whether guilty indeed or knowing that his malice and power would make her so, stabbed her self, thinking to have died by her own hand, but the wound not being deadly, she was taken away to prison. Grasidius and Fregellanus the pretended Pandars of her adulteries were punished the one with banishment, and the other with degradation, and the same penalty was inflicted upon Laelius Balbus: A man, but justly▪ paid in his own coin, to the rejoycing and content of divers, for he had been a strong and violent accuser of many innocents. Domitius and Marsus (it may be) as guilty as the woman, but more discreet, traversed the indictment, and saved their own lives, partly by the shortness of the Emperors life, and partly by the feigned prediction of Thrasyllus, that promised that it should be long. But too sullen was the indignation of L. Arruntius against Macro, and too desperate his ill conceit of Caius who was to succeed in the Empire, for when he was inwrapt in the same accusation with the two last named, and might have escaped the same escape that they did, yet despised he so to outlive the cruelty of Tiberius and Macro, as to come under the greater cruelty of Macro and Caius. No, saith he, I have lived long enough, and (to my sorrow) too long. Nor doth any thing repent me more, than that thus I have endured an old age under the scorns, dangers and hate, first of Sejanus, now of Macro, and always of one great one or another, and that for no other fault than for detesting their flagitiousness. It is true indeed that I may survive the old age and weakness of Tiberius, but what hopes to do so by the youth of Caius, and wickedness of Ma∣cro? Can Caius a youth do well being led by Macro, who so corrupted Tiberius in his age? No, I see more tyranny like to come than hath been yet: And therefore will I deliver my self from the present misery, and that to come: And with these words and resolution, he cut his own veins, and so bled to death: and spent a blood and a spirit, what pity it was that they should have been so lost? As Macro thus divided his pains in cruelty, betwixt the satisfying of Tiberius his mind and his own malice, so also did he, his affections shall I say? or flattery rather, and own-end observances betwixt Tiberius and Caius. For as he sought to please the one that now ruled, for his own present security, so did he, to indear the other that was to succeed, for his future safety: Hereupon he omitted not any opportu∣nity nor occasion, that he might skrew Caius further and further into Tiberius his favour, and to keep him there, that he might do as much for himself into the favour of Caius. One rarity and non-parallel of obsequiousness he shewed to the young Prince, worth recording to his shame, for he caused his own wife Ennia Thrasylla to intangle the youth∣fulness of Caius into her love and adultery, and then parted he with her and gave her to him in marriage. The old Emperor could not but observe this monster of pretended friendship, nor were his old eyes so blind, but he perceived his flattery plain in other car∣riages, in so much that he brake out to him in these plain words: Well, thou forsakest the setting Sun, and only lookest upon the rising.

§. 2. A wicked woman.

With the wife of Macro, that made her own prostitution to become her husbands pro∣motion, may not unfitly be yoaked, the mother of Sex. Papinius that made her own lust her sons overthrow: Whether this were the Papinius that was the last years Consul, or his son, or some other of the same name and family, it is no great matter worth in∣quiring, but whosoever he was, infortunate he was in his mother: for she caused his end, as she had given him his beginning. She being lately divorced from her husband, betook herself unto her son, whom with flattery and loosness she brought to perpetrate such a thing, that he could find no remedy for it, when it was done but his own death. The consequent argueth that the fault was incest, for when he had cast himself from an high place, and so ended his life, his mother being accused for the occasion, was banished the City for ten years, till the danger of the slipperiness of her other sons youth was past and over.