| LIVES OF THE NOBLE | | |
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IULIUS | sand pound weight of oyle. Then he made three triumphes, | |
CÆSAR | the one for Ægypt, the other for the kingdom of Ponte, | |
| and the third for Africke: not bicause he had overcome | |
Iuba, the | Scipio there, but king Iuba. Whose sonne being likewise | |
sonne of | called Iuba, being then a young boy, was led captive in | |
king Iuba, a | the showe of this triumphe. But this his imprisonment fel | |
famous his- | out happily for him: for where he was but a barbarous | |
toriographer. | Numidian, by the study he fell unto when he was prisoner, | |
| he came afterwards to be reckoned one of the wisest historio- | |
| graphers of the Graecians. After these three triumphes | |
| ended, he very liberally rewarded his souldiers, and to curry | |
| favor with the people, he made great feasts and common | |
Caesars feast- | sportes. For he feasted all the Romanes at one time, at | |
ing of the | two and twenty thowsand tables, and gave them the | |
Romanes. | pleasure to see divers sword players to fight at the sharpe, and battells | |
| also by sea, for the remembraunce of his daughter Iulia, which | |
The muster | was dead long afore. Then after all these sportes, he made | |
taken of the | the people (as the manner was) to be mustered: and | |
Romanes. | where there were at the last musters before, three hundred and | |
| twenty thowsande citizens, at this muster only there were | |
| but a hundred and fifty thowsand. Such misery and de- | |
| struction had this civill warre brought unto the common | |
| wealth of Rome, and had consumed such a number of | |
| Romanes, not speaking at all of the mischieves and calamities | |
| it had brought unto all the rest of Italie, and to the other | |
| provinces pertaining to Rome. After all these thinges were | |
Caesar Consull | ended, he was chosen Consul the fourth time, and went into | |
the fourth | Spayne to make warre with the sonnes of Pompey: who | |
time. | were yet but very young, but had notwithstanding raised a | |
| marvelous great army together, and shewed to have had | |
| manhoode and corage worthie to commaunde such an armie, | |
| insomuch as they put Caesar him selfe in great daunger of | |
| his life. The greatest battell that was fought betwene them | |
Battell | in all this warre, was by the citie of Munda. For then | |
fought be- | Caesar seeing his men sorely distressed, and having their | |
twixt Caesar | hands full of their enemies: he ranne into the prease * | |
and the young | among his men that fought, and cried out unto them: What, are | |
Pompeyes, by | ye not ashamed to be beaten and taken prisoners, yeelding | |
the city of | your selves with your owne handes to these young boyes? | |
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