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.

§. 5. Flaccus Avilius in banishment and his end.

The last year we brought Flaccus to the Isle of Andros, and now let us land him there. When he came within ken of Land, he burst out into tears and lamentation, comparing that place in his pensive thoughts with Italy and Egypt, and his deplorable condition of life upon which he was now to enter, with the pomp and prosperity in which he had lived in those two places of his education and Authority. Being landed, his pensiveness increased the more, by how much he was now nearer to that misery which his thoughts presaged. His demeanor in this his banishment; if Philo have not set it forth with more Rhetorick than truth, was full of horror and amazedness: avoiding the society of men,

running up and down the woods, tearing his hair, tormenting himself, and sometimes rising out of his sleep at midnight, and running abroad, and he would look up towards Heaven and cry out in a lamentable note. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. O King of Gods and men, thou art not therefore careless of the Nati∣on of the Jews.

Thus did he spin out a miserable life for certain months, till Caesar cut his woful thred in two. For the Tyrant lying awake one night and could not sleep, among other thoughts that came into his mischievous mind, he considered how happily retired those men lived that were banished: they wanting nothing, and enjoying all things in enjoy∣ing themselves. The cruel caitif from these thoughts of their estate, began to envy it, and accounting their banishment rather a pleasure than a punishment, he gave charge the next morning that they should all be slain. Under this doom fell Flaccus, one of the first in the Tyrants thoughts, because one of the first in his displeasure. Executio∣ners are sent for his dispatch, whose errand he knew as soon as he saw them, and from them he flies as soon as he knew them. But it is in vain to flee, and it is too late, for they and vengeance have soon over taken him, and with many wounds have put him to death.