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of Pliniés Naturall Hittorie. , 
lihood and probabilitie, Aind yee Pife faith, thattheiother damolels and young geritléwomen 
herfellow hoftages, aiterthey were fet free and fent home fafe againe by king Per fewa (for the 
honourtharhe meantuntecéela in confideration onely of heririte and fingular vertue)caufed 
the {aid ftatue or imageof hersto beecalt in brafle, and erected. But Annias F ectiel’s (another! 
antiquasiéor herale at arms. of Rome) reporteth this ftoric otherwife; forheewrjteth, Tharthke, 
ftatue of awoman fitting on horfebacke «which ftandeth over-againft:the temple of Jupter,. Stam: 
tor,and.hardat thegate onentrie of king Tarqunius the Proud his pallace)was dffladie Valeria, 
daughterunto /alertvs the Confull; furnamed Pxbiscofa : who Saich moreover, that, fbeeit was, 
alone who'efcaped fromherfellows, andiwam overtheniver Tiberis, whereas the reft-of the vires! 
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gins which bad beenfengaspledgesuntoking Porfemaswere mucdeed all, by the fecrentrams and. 
indirectmeans of Tarquinithe Proud.) >: ge nol eda carly oaitels 
L. P:fomoreover hath left in writing, that in the yeere when CY; Aimilivs and C.Pop:lius the 
fecond time were Confuls, the Cenfors for the time being (2 Cornelias Scipioand M, Popilius), 
caufed all, rhe images and ftatues of thofewho had been head magiftrats, that {tood-about the: 
Forum of Reme,to bee taken downe} permitting thofe onely ro ftandwhich had been erected: 
and fer up either by graunt fromthe people or watrantand decree of, the Senat. As for that fta-: 
tue which: Sp. Cafiz (himI meanewho: ambitiouilly foughtto be a king) caufed to be ereAted | 
for his ownefelfe before the church ofthe goddefle 7 ell the Cenfors not only pulled it down5: 
butalio tooke order tharit fhould be melied. And this (00 doubt) did thofe wife and provident: 
fathers, to cut off all means even in fuch things as thefe, that might feed the ambitions {pirit of, 
men. There be yet extant certaine declamations of Cato, who being Cenfour, cried outagain{t: 
the vaineglorieand pride of certaine Romane ladies who {uffered their owne images to be fer up: 
in the provinces abroad.:yet with all his exclamations,he could not reprefle theirambition,but, 
that their ftatues muft be erected evenin Rome alfo;asfor example, Corneliasthe daughter of, 
the former Scipio A/ritanws, and. mother tothe two Gyacchi, whole ftatue was made fitting :.and; 
this fingularitie ithad befides from all others, Tharher fhoes were pourtraied open and loofe, 
without any ftrings or la:chets at all, Thisimage of hexswas {et up in the great gallerie or publick 
walking-place of Jvere//ws,but now itisto.bec {eene among the ftately workes and buildings of 
O4via. : eis Ayana nj 
Moreover, (by allowance and permiffion of the ftate) there have been ftatues fet up in Rome, 
in publickeplace,by ftraungers:as namely, forC, is a Tribune or Provoft ofthe commons, 
for. that he publifhedand enaéted alaw, That Srennrws Statil:as a Lucan, whotwice had invaded: 
and oyer-ran in hoftile manner, the terr:torie of Thurium, fhould be reputed as. an enemie un- 
to the Romans: ln regard of which demerit, the Thurines honoured the faid Avs with a ftatue 
of braffe, and prefentedunto him acoronet of gold. The fame Thurins alfo caufed another fta- 
tue to bee made inthe honour of Fabricius, for raifing the fiege that invefledand beleaguerd 
their citie. By occafion of which fuccour and reliefe given unto ftrangers and aliens, itcame to 
pefic in proceffe of time, that forrein ftates and cities {hrowded themfelves ordinarily under the 
prorection of fome great menat Roie;and in devotion unto them,honoured fuch as their lords 
and matters, by ftatues and all other means, even as their bounden vaffals. Atlength, there grew 
fach diforder and contufion of thefe ftatues, that wee had them pel] mei] at Rome without any 
choife or regard at all : infomuch, asat this day, there are no fewer than three {tatues of Anniball 
tobe fecne atRome,in three feverall places of that citie within the wails whereof he was the only 
eneinic ever knowne to have launced hisjavelin. | 
Cuar. vit, 
O& Of the Brafse-founders in old time. The ineftimable prices of moltenImages Of the 
mofl renowmed coloffes and gyantlike Images in Rome, 
Hat the Art of Founderie or cafting mettals for Images hath been verie antique, practifed 
alfoand profefled in Italie as well as in other countries time out of mind, may be evident. 
ly prooved by the ftatue of Hercules, which K, Evander confecrated to the honour of him, 
in that verie place (by folks faying) which nowis the beaft-market in Rome, This image iscalled 
at this day, Herciles triumphale,and ateverie tiveph is richly cladin triumphanthabit. The - 
image likewife of Janis with two faces,dedicatedby K. Numa, teftifieth no lefle ; and honoured 
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