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. The manner of his death.

Chereas afraid to lose any time, thought several times to have thrown the Tyrant headlong from an high place which he used to stand in in the Capitol, to throw and s••atter money to the people, but he was withheld partly by his own judgment, which doubted whether the fall would kill him or no, and partly by the advise of his friends, which perswaded him to hold till a solemn festival which was now coming on, in which they might have better access in a mixed crowd and multitude.

This time was come, and three days of the festival, and of the shews were past be∣fore opportunity would serve their turn: On the fourth and last of the solemnity which must be the day or none, and this was the ninth of the Calends of February or January the three and twenty, Chereas provideth his confederates for the expedition both for mettle and weapons. In the morning betime, people of all conditions flock to the place of the shews and solemnity to get them places, disposing of themselves where they could, so that men and women, bond and free, noble and base sat mixedly together, and happy was he that could get a place no matter where. At last comes Cains, way

forced for him through the crowd, all eyes upon him, but theirs especially that meant him mischief. His first beginning of that days solemnity was with sacrifice, with the blood whereof when the cloaths of Asprenas a Senator were accidentally bedawbed, it afforded matter of laughter to the Emperor, but it proved a fatal omen to himself. Af∣ter his sacrifice he took his place with the Nobles about him, and the plays began: one of them was a Mimick acting that part which Neoptolemus did at the slaughter of King Priamus: Another, of one or more actors that seemed to vomit blood, so that the stage was even bloody over; and his sports read his destiny, himself being presently to sub∣stantiate in his own person, what these did but personate and represent of others. Having sitten a spectator of these his own Omens till towards one a clock, and indif∣ferent whether to go to dinner or no, his stomack being undisposed through his yester∣days gluttony; Asprenas a partner in the plot, sitting near him, perswaded him for his refreshment to go to the Bath, and so to Dinner, and then to the Plays and shows again. Caius giving notice of his rising, the company bussles to make him room, the conspirators pretending officiousness, helpt to keep off the crowde and people; when he was come from among the multitude, he took not the open and ordinary way to the Palace, but a back and by way toward the Bath: There was he met and ac∣coasted by Chereas, who came to him as the custom was to demand the word: which when he gave him with his accustomed scorn, and disgracefulness, Chereas drew and flew upon him, with these words, Hoc age, and smote him sore into the coller bone: upon the wound Caesar neither cried out nor resisted, but sought to have slipt away. Then was he intertained by Sabinus with the like curtesie of a blow or stab, so that by this time the great Lion is gotten down, and then the rest of the confederacy flie all in upon him, every one with his slash, that there he lieth mangled with few or no less than thirty wounds.