of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 
Cuar, Xvitt | | 
2§ Who they were in Rome, and of whom enfranchifed,that of flavesrife tobe 
mightie and of exceeding wealth? 
fome {tate of crediteand honour? Have not the fame forefathers of ours feene in the like 
plight ftanding within-a cage, witha marke of chaulke upon their feet, andalocke about 
their heeles,Chry/ogonus the flaveto Sylla, Amphion to Qu.Catulus, Heroto Lu,Lucullus Deme- 
triusto Pompey, A+ge the bondmaid to Demetrius(though fhe was thought to be the bafe daugh- 
B terof Pompey,) Aipparchws the {lave of Autonius, Menas and Menecrates of Sex.Pompeius,and ati 
infinit fort of others,whom I cannot reckon up2and yet they all beeing by their maifters enfran- 
chifed,became wonderfull rich by the bloudfhead and goods of Romane citizens, in that licenti- 
ous time of profcriptions. Well, this was the marke of {laves fet out by companies in the market 
to be fold: and this is the opprobrious & reprochfull note, to twit thofe by, that in their fortunes 
are growne infolent. And yet wein our daies have knowne the fame perfons toclimbe unto the 
place ot higheft honour and authoritie, infomuch as we have feene with our owne eyes the Se- 
nar(by commandement from Agrippina the Emprefle, wife to Claudius Cefar)to decree unto en- 
franchifed flaves,therobes of Pretours, with the badges and ornaments to that dignitie belone 
ging ; yea, and {uch to bee fentagaine as it were with the axes and knitches of rods decked with 
C Lawzell, into thofe countries to governe, from whence they came at firft poore flaves with their 
feet chalked andmarked for the market. | 
Be. what meane Ito ftand upon thofe who had learning to commend and bring them into 
Cras rx. + 
ey Of thecarth of Gualata,and Clupea : Of the Baleare earth, 
and Ebufitans, 
Ver and abovethofe before rehearfed, there bee other forts of earth, having a propertie 
by themlelves, which I havenamed heretofore, but in this place I am to fet downe their 
D nature and vertues allo, Thereis a kind of earth comming out of the Ifle Galata, and a- 
bout Clupea in Affricke,which killeth {corpions:like as the Balearike and Ebufitane earth, is 
the death of other ferpents. 
3 @y) Pa 
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