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for their perfidy? Lucullus, enriched with the spoils of the town, felt no remorfe for leaving 20,000 perfons dead upon the fpot. Shortly after, having laid fiege to Intercatia, he folicited a treaty of peace. The citizens, reproaching him with the flaughter of the Cauceans, asked, whether, in making peace, he was not to employ the fame right hand, and the fame faith, he had already pledged to their countrymen. Seroclius Galba, another Roman general, perfuaded the Lufitanians to lay down their arms, promifing them a fruitful territory instead of their own mountains; and having thus got them into his power, he ordered all of them to be murdered. Of the few that escaped, Viriatus was one, who, in a long and bloody war against the Romans, amply avenged the maffacre of his countrymen. Our author Appian reports, that Galba, furpaffing even Lucullus in covetousness, distributed but a small fhare of the plunder among the foldiers, converting the bulk of it to his own ufe. He adds, that tho' Galba was one of the richest men in Rome, yet he never scrupled at lies nor perjury to procure money. But the corruption was general: Galba

being accufed of many mifdemeanors, was acquitted by the fenate through the force of bribes. A tribe of the Celtiberians, who had long ferved the Romans against the Lufitanians, had an offer made them by Titus Didius of a territory in their neighbourhood, lately conquered by him. He appointed them a day to receive poffeffion; and having inclosed them in his camp under fhew of friendship, he put them all to the sword; for which mighty deed he obtained the honour of a triumph. The double-dealing and treachery of the Romans, in their laft war against Carthage, is beyond example. The Carthaginians, fufpecting that a ftorm was gathering against them, fent deputies to Rome for fecuring peace at any rate. The fenate, in appearance, were difpofed to amicable measures, demanding only hoftages; and yet, tho' three hundred hoftages were delivered without lofs of time, the Roman army landed at Utica. The Carthaginian deputies attended the confuls there, defiring to know what more was to be done on their part. They were required to deliver up their arms; which they chearfully did, imagining