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THE GOVERNOUR. 179


Howe moche profited the feate in swymmynge to the
valiant Julius Cesar, who at the bataile of Alexandri,
on a bridge beinge abandoned of his people for the 2“
multitude of his enemyes, whiche oppressed them,  swym-
whan he moughte no lenger sustaine the shotte ”””*
of dartes and arowes, he boldly lepte in to the see, and,


diuynge under the water, escaped the shotte and swamme the


‘space of CC pasis to one of his shyppes, drawynge his


cote armure with his teethe after hym, that his enemies
shulde nat attayne it. And also that it moughte some what
defende hym from theyr arowes. And that more maruaile was,
holdynge in his hande aboue the water certayne lettres, whiche
a litle before he had receyued from the Senate.*

Before hym Sertorius, who of the spanyardes was named the
second Anniball for his prowesse, in the bataile that
Scipio faughte agayne the Cimbres, whiche inuaded
Fraunce. Sertorius, when, by negligence of his people, his
enemyes preuailed and put his hoste to the warse, he beinge
sore wounded, and his horse beinge lost, armed as he was in
a gesseron, holdyng in his handes a tergate, and his sworde,
he lepte in to the ryuer of Rone, whiche is wonderfull
swyfte, and, swymmyng agayne the streme, came to his
company, nat without greatte wondryng of all his enemies,
whiche stode and behelde hym.”


Sertorius.
* ‘Alexandriz, circa oppugnationem pontis, eruptione hostium subita compulsus
in scapham, pluribus eodem precipitantibus, cum desiluisset in mare, nando per
ducentos passus evasit ad proximam navem, elata lzeva, ne libelli quos tenebat made-
fierent ; paludamentum mordicus trahens, ne spolio potiretur hostis.’—Sueton.
Fulius, 64. Plutarch has rather a different version of the same feat, as follows.
