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withftanding they came inembaffade unto her.And here I cannot overpaffe one pointnotedin G 
the Annales, Thatthe meafure of thefe ftatues erected in the common place at Rome, was fer 
downe precifely to be three foot in height: Whereby it may appeare, that this proportion and 
fcantling in thofe daies was thought to be honourable, Neither will |conceale from you & omit 
_ tothers fay the memorableexample of C.*O¢tavivs who for one word {peaking,loft his life: This man being 
Pompilié — fent as Embafladour unto king Amtiochus, and having delivered his meflage unto him accor 
ding to his charge and commiffion,when he faw thatthe king madeno haftto give him his dif- 
patch prefently, but faid he would make him an anfwere another day; made no more adoe, but 
with a wand or rod that he had in his hand,drew a circle about theking, and compelled him per- 
force to give him his aufwere before he ftirred his foot without thatcompafle, But this cofthim 
his life : and for that he was killed thus in his embaflage, the Senat of Rome ordained, hat his 
ftatue fhould be ereted in the moft confpicuous place of the citie, and that was in the publicke 
pulpit for pleas and Orations, the Roftra beforenamed, I read in the Chronicles, thatthe Senat 
made a decree, That Taracia Caia, or, as fome fay, Sufferiz,a Votaric or Veftall Nun,fhould have 
her image made of braffe,with this fpeciall prerogative befides, thatthe might fet it up in whac 
place fhe would her felfe:which addition or braunch of the decree emplieth no leflehonorthan — 
the prauntit felfe of a Scatue to a woman. What her defert might bee,in confideration whereof 
{he was thus honored, I will fet down word for word, as | find it written in the Chronicles,name- 
ly, For that [he bad conferred frankely upow the pzople of Rormeys peece of meddom ground lying under 
the river Tybre, which was her owne free land, 1 find moreover upon record, That the, ftatues of 
Pythagoras and Alcsbiades were fet up in the cornered nouke of the Comitium atRome,& that J 
by dire€tion from the Oracle of Apollo Pythius unto which the Senat fent of purpofe to know 
the ifiue ofthe Samniteswarre, which was then in hand : From whence they had this anfwere, 
Thatif they looked to {peed well in theiraffaires, they fhould take order toere&t two ftatues of 
brafie in the moft frequented place of the citie of Rome,the one in the honour of the moft va- 
liant man, and che other in the honour of the wifeft perfon of all the Greekith nation : which 
images remained there untill fuch time as Syf/a the Dictatour built his ftately hall or paliace 
in the fame place. Burl marvaile verie much, that thofe fage fathers (che Senatovrs of Rome 
at that time beeing) preferred either for wildome Pythagoras before Socrates (confidering that 
the faid Socrares by the verie fame Oracle of Apollo, was judged the wifeft man,notof Greekes 
oncly, but of all others in the world;) or,in regard of valour, /cébiades, beforefomany hardie K 
captaines in Greece : butmott of all I mufe, that in both refpects, as well of wifedome as ver- 
te, they fet anie one before T hemiflecles . Now, if a man beedefirous toknow the reafon of 
thefé columnes and pillars, which fupported thoie ftatues aforefaid, it was to fignifie, That 
fuch perfons were now advaunced and Jifted vp above all other mortall men ; which alfo is 
meant by the triumphant arches, anew invention, and devifed but of late dayes: yet both it, 
and all other fuch honourable teflimonies, began firft with the Greekes. But among mahi¢ 
and fundrie ftatues which they graunted and allowed unto fuch as they affeéted and liked of, 1 
fuppofe, there wasnever man had more than Phalerius Demetrivs at Athens: for the Atheni- 
* Strabo faith, ans honoured him with three hundred and threefcore :and yet foone atter they * brake them all 
thar mey def to peeces, even before one full yeare went over their heads, that isto fay, a fewdaies more than EL ~ 
them, yea,and there were iages. Moreover,all the tribes or wards of Rome fet up a flatue in every freer of the 
ene ee in- citie(as I have faid before)in the honor of Marivs Gratidianus, andthofe they overthrew everie 
end Bee. onejagainft checomming in of Scyllz. 
As touching Statues and Images on foot, Idoubt not but they have been fora long time 
greatly efteemed at Rome. Howbeit, thofe on horfebacke were verie auncient:and thatwhich 
more is, this honour they did communicat alfounte women as well as men ; as may appeare 
: yet at this day bythe ftatne of C/ela fitting on horledacke, asif the could not have beene ho- 
noured fuffictently by making her ftatue in the habit of a damofell or ladie of Romein a fide 
gowne. And yet neither the chaft dame Zucretia, nor the valiant Brutus (whochafedthekings = 
and all theirrace out of Rome, and for whofefake and in whofe quarrell the faidC/elawasde- M 
livered as an hoftage among others) never attained unto that honour. And I doc vetely be- — 
leeve, that this ftatue of hers,and that of Horativs Coclesy were the firft that publicke authori- 
tie ordained : for beforetime king Tarquiniws Prifews caufed both his owne ftatue and alfo Si 
byllaes tobe made, like as the other kings before him and after, as may be prefumed by alt ‘- e 
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