Of the Roman Souldiers.
1. The Sedition of Citizens is to be detested; but if we look into the Camp, an equal indignation will arise. When the Province of Asia was, by the Sul∣pician
Romæ antiquæ descriptio a view of the religion, laws, customs, manners, and dispositions of the ancient Romans, and others : comprehended in their most illustrious acts and sayings agreeable to history / written in Latine by ... Quintus Valerius Maximus ; and now carefully rendred into English ; together with the life of the author.
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Law, decreed to C. Marius a private person, to prosecute the War against Mithridates, the Souldiers slew Gratidius, sent by him to L. Sulla the Consul, to receive the Legions from him. Offended, without doubt, that they were to be commanded by a person of no Honour, that had served under a person of the highest Dignity. But who may endure a Souldier cor∣recting the Decrees of the Commonalty with the Death of Legate?
2. That in the behalf of a Consul so violently acted; this against a Consul. For when Q. Pompey Collegue of Sylla ventured to contend with Cn. Pompey, being sent to the Army by the command of the Senate, the Souldiers corrupted by the delusions of an ambitious Captain, fell upon him, as he was beginning to sacri∣fice, and slew him, as if he himself had been the Victime. And the Court, forced to give way to the Camp, durst not revenge so great a Crime.
3. That Army also was wickedly violent who kill'd C. Carbo, the Brother of Carbo thrice Consul, endea∣vouring to amend the loose Discipline of the Souldi∣ers, crept in through the liberty of the Civil Wars; and rather chose to be contaminated with the greatest of Crimes, than to alter their loose and depraved Manners.