| LIVES OF THE NOBLE | | |
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MARCUS | their parents, that they had founde Brutus a mercifull, juste, | |
BRUTUS | and curteous man: they perswaded them to yeelde them | |
The Patar- | selves and their citie unto him, the which they did. So | |
eians doe | after they had thus yeelded them selves, divers other cities | |
yeld them | also followed them, and did the like: and founde Brutus | |
selves unto | more mercifull and curteous, then they thought they should | |
Brutus. | have done, but specially farre above Cassius. For Cassius, | |
| about the selfe same tyme, after he had compelled the | |
The extreme | Rhodians every man to deliver all the ready money they | |
covetousnes | had in gold and silver in their houses, the which being | |
and crueltie | brought together, amounted to the summe of eyght thow- | |
of Cassius to | sande talents: yet he condemned the citie besides, to paye | |
the Rhodians. | the summe of five hundred talents more. Where Brutus in | |
| contrary manner, after he had leavyed of all the contrye of | |
Brutus | Lycia but a hundred and fiftye talents onely: he departed | |
clemency | thence into the contrye of Ionia, and did them no more | |
unto the | hurt. Nowe Brutus in all this jorney, did many notable | |
Lycians. | actes and worthy of memorie, bothe for rewarding, as also | |
| in punishing those that had deserved it: wherefore amonge | |
| the rest, I will tell you of one thinge, of the which he him | |
| selfe, and all the noble men of the Romanes were marvelous | |
| glad. When Pompey the great (having lost the battell | |
| against Iulius Caesar, in the fieldes of Pharsalia) came and | |
| fell uppon the coast of Ægypt, hard by the citie of Pelusium: | |
| those that were protectors to the young king Ptolomy, bee- | |
| ing then but a childe, sate in counsell with his servaunts | |
Theodotus | and friendes, what they shoulde determine in that case. | |
borne in Chio | They were not all of one mynde in this consultacion: for | |
a Rethoritian | some thought it good to receyve Pompey, others also, that | |
Scholemaister | they shoulde drive him out of Ægypt. But there was a | |
to Ptolomy | certayne Rethoritian called Theodotus, that was borne | |
the young | in the Ile of Chio, who was the kinges Schoolemaister to teache | |
king of | him Rethoricke. He beeing called to this counsell for lacke | |
Ægypt. | of sufficienter men, sayde, that bothe the one and the other | |
| side went awrye, aswell those that were of opinion to receyve | |
Theodotus | Pompey, as the other that woulde have had him driven | |
saying: A | awaye: and that the best waye was (considering the present | |
dead man | tyme) that they shoulde laye holde on him, and kill him, | |
biteth not. | adding withall, this sentence, that a deade man byteth not. | |
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