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The Business now was to chafe the young Pompey outof Sicily , who having possessed himself os it greatly an-noyed the Italian Coasts. Augustus had no Fleet J, butAgrippa built Ships and went in Quest of the Enemy:He beat his Lieutenant Generals in several Skirmishes,and at last defeated Pompey himself: being however anequally modest and great General, he declin’d the tri-umphal Honours, which he had merited ; well knowing *perhaps the Delicacy and Jealousy os his Master.

Augustus having now obtain’d a compleat Victory overthe Republicans, judg’d it high Time to break with hisColleagues * ; and pretended Reasons for this were easilyhit off by so able a Politician-f-.

Lepidus being the less formidable of the two, was firstattack’d; and indeed his Destruction cost but a little Artand some Money. Not being in Favour with the Soldieryhis Army abandon'd him ; and having but little Ambi-tion he had no very violent Struggle to prevail with him-self to make his Retreat. M. Anthony gave Cæsarmuch more Trouble: Being Master of part of Afiaand Africa , in Alliance with several mighty crown’d

C 2 Heads,

X Crefcente in dies & claste & fama Pompeii, Cæsar molem belli ejus sus-

cipere statuit. Ædificandis navibus -- præfectus est M. Agrippa. Here

follows bis Char at}er of him. Virtutis nobiliffimæ, labore, vigilia, periculo <invictus, parendique, fed uni scientissimus, aliis fane imperandi cupidus, &per omnia extra dilationes positus, confultifque facta conjungens. Veil. L. z .c . 79.

* Post Pompeii fugam, collegarum alterum M. Lepldum quern ex Africa

in auxilium evocarat, superbientem. -- Spoliavit exercitu ; fupplicemque

concefla vita Circeios in perpetuum relegavit. M. Antonii focietatem fern-,per dubiam & incertam, reconciliationibuique variis male focillatam abrupit.tandem. Sueton.

•f Plutarch tells us what they were.