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.

§ 2 An end of Macro.

It cannot be expected that he should come to a good end himself, that had brought so many to a bad. His course is now come to tast of the same sauce that he had provided for so many others, and it would half move the spectator to some kind of pity to see him slaughtered for such a cause as he was slaughtered for. How he had been a means to curry Caius favour with Tiberius, and to skrew him into the Empire and himself into his good opinion, even by the prostitution of his own wife, we have heard before, and this his extraordinary officiousness, he did not forelet or slacken, when he had brought him where he desired to have him, to the Empire. But now he turned his observance a better way, and what he had done before by baseness, flattery, and senseless obsequiousness to bring him to the rule, he changeth into good counsel to keep him well in it. For when he saw him fall asleep at Banquets amongst his cups, he would freely check him for it, as be∣ing neither for his credit, nor for his safety. The like would he do when he saw him misbehave himself by lightness, profuse laughter, and ridiculous gestures in the Theater, and in beholding of plaies: In brief, so round and plain was he with him when he saw just cause, that in fine the uncounselable humorist became his enemy, and at last his death. His end is reported to have been the same with young Tiberius, forced to slay himself, and Ennia his wife, or the wife of Caius, whether you will, to have been constrained to the same extremity and end with him. An end well befitting and well deserved of them both, but from all men living least deserved from Caius. Philo after the death of Macro placeth the death of M. Silanus, which upon the warrant of Dion we have set before, and in things so indifferent will not spend labour to examine.