and eloquence; for when the people were generally bent to quit the desolated and ruined City, and to transplant them∣selves to Veii, their late conquest, he disswaded them from their intent, and advised them to rebuild their native City; where∣in he at last prevailing, Rome (being in one year reedified) Phaenix-like sprung up more beautifull out of its own ashes. And now Camillus having in his third Dictatorship overthrown the Latines and the Volsces combined together; in his fourth done his utmost endeavour to suppress the sedition of the Commons, who urged to have one of the Consuls to be a ple∣beian; in his fift once more vanquished the Gauls, who came with a powerfull army to revenge that total rout they had re∣ceived some years past; having (I say) to his last been with constant good success imployed in the service of his Country, he (to the great grief of all good men) died of the plague: Vir vere unicus in omni fortuna, princeps pace bello{que} &c. as Livie saies of him; A man truly the same in all fortune, and who in peace and warre had still the preeminence. It was now about 700. years since Romes foundation,Caesar & Pom∣pey. wherein partly under Kings, partly under Consuls, Dictators, military Tribunes, and Praetors, it had made the best part of the habitable world stoop to its victorious Eagles; so that it was now above all fear or danger of a foreign force; nor could any thing hurt Rome but it self. To be short, the Roman Em∣pire was now arrived to that fatal greatness, which is alwayes antecedent either to a declension, or a change: —laetis hunc numina rebusCrescendi posuere modum.—Lucan.Thus to luxuriant fortune we doe seeThat heav'n hath set a fatal boundarie. Such (I say) was the face of things in the Roman State, when these two Grandees, viz. Caesar and Pompey (the souls now appearing before Anchises) push'd on by ambition and emu∣lation, involved their native soil in most bloody warres. Caesar0