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Macedo qui primus regnavit in Gracia penitus oblcuravit, qui & reg-na delevit, Suæque ditioni Subjiciens inter Milites bene meritos deniqjpartivit, ut eos è meritis honorandi atqj Exaltandi Condignam fibiCuram omnino finde probaret. Poliremo Roma Devictrix hub Regi-bus orta, per Confides & Dictatores fluito progredii magis atquep. 3. magis Elata, lub Cafaribus & Augußis denique Confiimmata, dilci-plinæ Militaris, & Equeltris Ordinis, patricijque decoris, geftorum II-lultrium & InlignilTimorum apparatuum preftantiifima Jadatrix emicuit.Quippe quæ Nihil iftiusmodi quod ante Grads in precio fuit, nonad le transferendum Unique tribuendum apprime Curaret. Pacis acbelli Certiilima dillributrix, dum Officia pacati temporis &z felicita:Munera militiæ Studioliflime digereret, ut nec honorem cuique Suum&c in loco luo defore, lultinere potuit. Primo (quod dixi) lub Regi-bus inclaruit., mox per Confides & Dictatores inferiori gradu cucurrit,Poliremo lub Cafaribus & Augußis exultando, dum inlolelcere coepit, re-pente Corruit. Veruntamen illis interim majoribus, alij quoque mino-res Mâgillratus & Officiales adjecti finit. Militiæ quidem Imperatores,Magiitri Militum, leu Tribuni Equitum celerumque legati, Chiliarchæ,Centuriones, Decuriones : per manipulos, turmas, Cohortes &z legionesdilcreti Milites. Pacis autem, Patres leu Senatus, Patritij, Prætores,PræfeCti, Pontifices, Cenfores, Quæftores, Interreges, Ediles : qui-bus honorifica Societas & tamen honor ex meritis abunde decretus.
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liian the firß King who reigned over all Greece, obfcured and extinguißedthis their Glory, and after that he had conquered and reduced their Dominions ,ßared them amongß the moß deferring of his Soldiers, thinking the reward-ing and promoting them according to their Deferts, a Study entirely worthyof himfelf, Laßly conquering Rome, having her ßrß Beginning under Kings,and more fuccefsfully enlarging her felf under her Con fuis and Delators, andbrought to the higheß Pitch of Honour under her Cælars and Augulli, placedher greateß Glory and Pride in the Excellency of her Military Difcipline,Equeßrian Order, and Senatorian Dignity, in the Greatnefs of her Exploits ,and Noblenefs of her Enterprises. Nor was there any Thing of this Nature,which had been in any Efteem among the Greeks, which ße . did not takeCare to transfer from thence and make it her own. A faithful Dealer out ofWar and Peace, and fo carefully dißinguißing between the Offices and Servi-ces in Tme of Peace, and the hazardous Duties in War, as to fujffier none tobe without the Honour due to his Poß. Firß (as I faid) ße ßourißed underthe Government of Kings, proceeding after that in a lower Degree of Honourunder the Adminißration of Confuls and DiBators, and growing proud and in-folent with her Succefs and Profperity under her Emperours, decayed and fellto Ruin of a Sudden. But yet in the mean Time other leffier Magißrates andOfficers were added to the greater. Officers of the Army were their Generals,Lieutenant Generals of Foot and of Horfe, Colonels, Centurions and Décimo-ns, while the Soldiers were dißinguißed by Bands, Troops, Cohorts and Le-. gions. Civil Offices, and Honours were thofe of the Senators, Noblemen, Pra-ters, Governours, Prießly Dignity, Cenfors, Quaflors, Regents, Ædiles, di-vided