Arms at their very entrance into their Gates and not above one hundred men and disabled too by their age did enter into a fight against fifteen thousand Souldiers so much strength and courage the sight of their City and of their houshold gods did administer who infused into them greater spirits as much by their presence as by the remembrance of them for when they saw for whom and amongst whom they stood they were all of a resolution either to overcome or die a few old men undertook the whole brunt of the battel unto whom before that day appeared not all the youth and Army of their Enemies could be equal In this fight two Captains of the Enemies were slain In the mean time when the coming of Agesilaus was reported the Thebans retreated and some few hours after the battail again began for the youth of the Lacedemonians being inflamed with the courage and glory of their old men could not be kept back but would throw themselves upon their Enemies howsoever the Thebans had the Victory and Epaminondas performing the duty not onely of a General but of a resolute and couragious Souldier was grievously wounded which being understood the Thebans through the excess of grief were possessed with fear and the Lacedemonians through the excess of joy with a kind of amazement and as it were with a consent on both sides they departed from the batâ—el Some few daies afterwards Epaminondas deceased with whom the whole strength of that Common-wealth dyed also for as if you break or blunt the edge of any weapon you take from the residue of the steel the power to hurt so this Captain who was the edge of their courage being taken away the whole strength and vigor of that Theban Commonwealth was immediately rebated insomuch that they did not seem onely to lose him but to have all perished with him for before this Captain they did never mannage any memorable war and were famous afterwards not for their vertues but their overthrows so apparent it was that the glory of his Countrey was born and dyed with him It is hard to say whether he was a better man or a better Captain for he sought the Government not for himself but for his Countrey and was so careless of money that he had not wherewith to defray the charges of his own Funeral moreover he was no more covetous of glory then of money for the Commands were all thrown upon him refusing and drawing back from them and he so deported himself in his places of honour that hee seemed not to receive but to give an ornament to the dignity it self So great was his knowledge in Letters and Philosophy that it may be wonderful how that excellent experience in the affairs of war should arrive unto a man born amongst the Arts neither did the manner of his death differ from the institutions of his life for being brought half dead into his Tent he collecting his voyce and spirits demanded onely if his Enemy had taken his Buckler from him when he fell which when hee understood was preserved he desired to see it and it being brought unto him he kissed it as the companion of his labours and his glory Hee again demanded Who had obtained the Victory when it was answered The Thebans he replyed It was well and so gratulating his Countrey he did give up his last breath In his grave the vertues not onely of the Thebans but of the Athenians also was buried for he being taken away whom they were accustomed to emulate they did degenerate into sloth and laid forth the publick Revenues not as before on Fleets and Armies but on festival dayes and on the setting forth of Playes and visiting the Scene oftner then the Camp they onely celebrated the Theators famous with Poets and Actors praysing their Poets and their Orators more then their Captans by which means it came to pass that in these leisures of the Grecians the name of the Macedons but ignoble and obscure before should rise into glory and that Philip bred up in the vertues and institutions of Epaminondas and Pelopidas being three yeers as an Hostage at Thebes should put the Kingdom of Macedonia on the necks of Greece and of Asia as the yoak of their servitude THE SEVENTH BOOK OF IVSTINE MAcedonia was heretofore called Aemathia after the name of their King Emathion the first experiments of whose vertue were extant in those places Their beginnings were but small and their bâ—unds but narrow the people were called Pelasgi and the Country Boeotia But afterwards by the prowess of their Kings and the industry of their Nation having first subdued their borderers and after them other People and Nations they extended their Empire to the furthest bounds of the Orient Telegonus the father of Astriopaeus whose name we have received amongst the most famous Commanders in the Troâ—on war was said to reign in the Country of Poeonia which now is a part of Macedonia On the other side in Europa there raâ—gned Europus by name But Caranus with a vast multitude of the Grecians being commanded by the Oracle to loâ—k out a seat for hâ—mâ—n Macedonia when he came into Emathia he unexpectedly possessed himself of the City of Edissâ— he Inhabitants not perceiving it by reason of a tempest and a great mist that did attend it In this expedition he followed the conduct of a slock of Gâ—â—ts who â—led towards the Town from the violence of the tempest and calling the Oracle into his memory by which he was commanded to seek out a place to rule in the Goats being his leaders he made that City the â—eat of his Kingdom and whithersoever afterwards â—e advanced he religiously observed to have the same Goats before his Ensigns to be the Leaders on in his enterprize who were the authors of his Kingdom for the memory of this event he called the City Edissa Aegaea and the people Aegaeâ—des After this Midas being forced away for he also possessed a part of Macedonia and some other Kings with him he alone succeeded into the place of them all and having united the Nations into one he brought the several people of Macedonia into one body and the Kingdom increasing he made the foundaâ—ion strong with an intent to raise it higher After him Perdicas reigned whose life was famous and his last words at his death were as memorable as the precepts of the Delphian Oracle for full of age and dying he shewed to his Son Argaeus the place where he would be buryed and commanded that not onely his own but the bodies of all who succeded him in his Kingdom should be interred the same place presaging that if the Relicks of his Successors should be buryed there the Kingdom should perpetually continue in that Family And it is superstitiously believed that the issue failed in Alexander because he changed that place of Sepulchre Argaeus having governed the Kingdom moderately and with the love of the people did leave Philip his
people did cut her off by reason of her cruelty did enjoy the Kingdom alone Mithridates also being taken away by a sudden death did leave his Kingdom to his son who was also called Mithridates whose Greatness afterwards was such that he excelled in Majesty not only all the Kings of his time but of the former age and with various victory held war with the Romans for the space of six and forty years whom the most famous Generals Sylla Lucullus and others at the first and Cneius Pompeius at the last did so overcome that he arose alwaies more great and famous in renewing of the war and became more terrible by his losses and at last being overcome by no hostile force he died a voluntarie death in his own Kingdom being a very old man and leaving a Son to succeed him many signs from Heaven did presage his greatness to come for both on that day in which he was born and on that in which he began his Reign at both times there did appear a Comet which for seventie nights did shine so brightly as all Heaven did seem to be in a flame for by the greatness of it it took up the fourth part of Heaven and by its splendor it overcame the light of the Sun and when it did either rise or set it took up the space of four hours Being in his minoritie he laie open to and did endure the treacherie of his tutors for they did put him upon a wild and an unmanaged horse and did command him not onely to ride him but to exercise his horsmanship and to throw darts from him but Mithridates deluding their design by governing the horse beyond the expectation of his age they conspired against him by poyson which he suspecting did oftentimes drink Antidotes and with such exquisite remedies did so prepare his bodie against it that being an old man he could not die by poyson though attempting it Fearing afterwards that his enemies would perform with the sword what they could not dispatch with poyson he pretended he would solace himself with the recreation of hunting wherefore for the space of four years he neither entred into Citie nor came in the Countrie within the roof of any house but wandred in the woods and took up his lodging on the tops of severall hills no man knowing in what place he was being accustomed by his swiftness of foot either to pursue wild beasts or to flie from them and sometimes by main force to grapple with them By which means he both eschewed all treason that was designed against him and hardned his bodie to all indurance of virtue When afterwards he came to the management of the Kingdom he immediately contrived not so much how to rule it as how to enlarge it and by an incomparable felicitie overcame the Scythians who were before invincible for they had overthrown Zopyro the Lieutenant of Alexander the great with thirtie thousand armed men and killed Cyrus King of the Persians with two hundred thousand Souldiers and routed Philip King of the Macedons Being increased in his power he possessed himself of Pontus and not long afterwards of Cappadocia and going privately out of his Kingdom he sojourned over all Asia with a few friends and thereby gained a perfect knowledge of all the Countrie and of the situation of every Citie After that he travailed higher over all Bithynia and being already as it were Lord of Asia he contrived where to laie his best opportunities for his following victories After this he returned into his Kingdom where it being generally noysed abroad that he was dead he found a young childe which in his absence Laodice who was both his sister and his wife had brought forth But after his long travels amidst the gratulations both of his safe arrival and of the birth of his son he was in danger of being poysoned for his sister Laod ce believing he had been dead did fall into an incontinent life and attempting to conceal one sin by committing a greater did resolve to welcome him with poyson which when Mithridates understood by her maid he revenged the treason which was plotted on the author of it And winter drawing on he spent his time not at the banquet but in the field not in sloth but in exercise not amongst his companions but with Kings equal to him either in the horse-race or the foot-race or by trying the strength of bodie He also by daily exercise hardned his Armie to the same patience of labour and being unconquered himself he by these acts made his Armie invincible Having afterwards made a league with Nicomedes he invaded Paphlagonia and having overcome it he did share it with his companion Nicomedes The Senate being informed that Paphlagonia was again in the possession of Kings they sent Embassadors to them both to command them to restore the Nation to her former condition Mithridates when he believed that he was equall to the Roman Greatness did return a proud answer which was that he received his Kingdom by inheritance and did much wonder that they should trouble themselves with a Controversie which did not belong unto them and being nothing terrified with their threatnings he seized upon Galatia Nicomedes because he could not defend himself by right made answer that he would restore his part to a lawful King and having changed his Name he called his own Son Philomenos after the name of the Kings of Paphlagonia and in a false name and title enjoied the Kingdom as if he had restored it to the true Roial Progenie And thus the Embassadors being deluded did return to Rome THE Eight and thirtyeth BOOK OF IVSTINE MIthridates having begun his parricides by the murder of his own wife determined with himself to put to death the Sons of his other sister Laodice whose husband Ariarathes King of Cappadocia he had treacherously murdered by Gordius thinking he had done nothing in murdering of the father if the young men still enjoyed their fathers Kingdom with a desire whereof he was violently transported Whiles he was busie on his design Nicomedes King of Bithynia did invade Cappadocia destitute of a King which when Mithridates understood in a counterfeit pietie he sent assistance to his sister to drive Nicomedes out of the Kingdom but in the mean time a contract being made Laodice had espoused her self to Nicomedes At which Mithridates being much troubled he drove the Garrison-Souldiers and others of the Armie of Nicomedes out of Bithynia and restored the Kingdom to his sisters son which was an honorable act indeed if it had not been attended by deceit for not long after he pretended that he would call back Gordius from banishment whom he used as his minister in the murder of Ariarathes and restore him to his Countrie hoping if the young man should not give waie to it there would arise from thence a sufficient cause of the war or if he should permit it that the Son might be destroyed by thesame man who
by a voluntary death redeem himself from Captivity But Nicias who would not be admonished by the counsel of Demosthenes to provide for himself did encrease his overthrow with the dishonour of Captivity THE FIFTH BOOK OF IVSTINE WHiles the Athenians for two years together did make war in Sicily more eagerly then happily one of their Generals and a contriver of that War Alcibiades by name being absent was accused at Athens for having divulged the mysteries of Ceres which were solemnized by nothing more then silence and being called back from the war to his tryal either not enduring the consciousness or the indignity of the Charge conveyed himself privately away into banishment at Elis where he perswaded the King of the Lacedemonians the State of the Athenians being sorely shaken by the adverse war in Sicily to invade their Territories at home whereupon all the Cities of Greece did come of their own accord to his assistance as to put out a common fire so general a hatred the Athenians had contracted by their cruelty through the immoderate desire of Soveraignty Darius also King of the Persians being not unmindful of the ancient enmity of this City to them a league being made with the Lacedemonians by Tissafernes Governor of Lydia did promise to assist the Grecians in all the charges of the war This was his pretence to comply with the Grecians but he feared in earnest lest the Athenians being overthrown the Lacedemonians should transfer the war on him Who would therefore wonder that so flourishing an Estate as was this of Athens should fall to the ground when to oppose it alone all the Powers of the East did unite themselves together but they fell not in a sluggish or an unbloody war but fought to the last man and being sometimes Conquerors they were not overcome but rather worn out by the variety of their fortune In the beginning of the war all their Consederates revolted from them as commonly it is seen that where fortune thither also the favour of men does incline Alcibiades also did help on the war made against his Country not with the industry of a common Souldier but with the power of a Commander For having received a squadron of five ships he sailed into Asia and by the authority of his name compelled the Cities which paid tribute there to Athens to rebel against them For they knew that he was famous at home and saw him not made less by banishment and he being a Captain not so much taken from the Athenians as offered to the Lacedemonians they weighed the Government he had goâ—ten with that which he had lost But his vertue contracted amongst the Lacedemonians more envâ—e then favour Therefore when the Rulers had commanded that by treachery he should be slain being one thaâ— did emulate their glory it being made known to Alcibiades by the wife of King Agis with whom he was too familiar he sled to Tissafernes the Lieutenant of King Darius into whom he quickly did insinua e himself by the officiousness of his Courtship and his eloquence For he was in the flower of his youth beauty and famous also amongst the Athenians for his Oratory more happy in procuring friendships then in preserving them for the vices of his manners did lie hid under the shadow of his Eloquence he perswaded Tissafernes that he should not contribute so much in money to the Fleet of the Lacedemonians alledging that the Ionians were to pay part of it for whose liberty being tributary to Athens the war was undertaken neither were the Lacedemonians he said too prodigally to be seconded with Auxiliaries for he ought to consider that he provided a Victory for another not for himselfe and so far onely the war was to be relieved that it might not for want be abandoned For in this discord of the Greeks the King of Persia might stand as an Arbitrator bâ—th of Peace and War and overcome them by their mutual Arms whom he could not by his own And the war being ended it may come to his turn afterwards to fight with the Conquerors Greece therefore he said was to be over-run with Domestick wars that they might not have the leisure to look abroad and the powers of the Parties were to kept equal and the weaker to be relieved with ayd for he may be sure that the Lacedemonians who profess themselves to be the Defenders of the liberty of Greece will not be quiet after this Victory This Speech was agreeable to Tissafernes therefore the promâ—sed provisions for the war were 〈◊〉 but slowly in he sent also but part of the Râ—yal Navy lest he should compleat the Victory and lay a necessity on the other side to lay down their Arms. Alcibiades in the mean time did make this known to the Citizens of Athens unto whom when their Ambassadors did arrive he promised them the friendship of the King if the command of the Common-wealth were translated from the people to the Senate hoping that either by the agreement of the City he should be chosen General by all or a difference being made betwixt the people and Senate he should be called by one of the parties to their assistance But by reason of the imminent danger of the war the Athenians had a greater care of their safety then their dignity Therefore the people giving way unto it the Government was transla ed to the Senate whom when they mannaged themselves with great cruelty to the people according to the pride inherent to that Nation every one by himselfe exercising the power of a Tyrant Alcibiades was called from his banishment by the Army and cho en Admiral of the Navie He immediately sent to Athens that he would make haste unto them with an Army and if they would not restore it he would by force take from the f ur hundred the privâ—ledges of the people The Peers affrightâ—d with this Remâ—nstrance did attempt in the first place to betray the City to the Laâ—edâ—monians which when by the vigilance of the Army it could not be effected they undertook a wilful banishment In the mean time Alcibiades his Country beâ—ng delivered from the intestine trouble with great care and industry equipped his Fleet and lanched forth against the Lacedemonians and being expected by Mindarus and Pharnabasus the two Admirals of the Lacedemonians the battel being begun the Athenians had the Victory In this battel the greatest part of the Army and almost all the Commanders and Officers of the Lacedemonians were slain Not long after when they brought the War from Sea to Land they were overcome again being discouraged with those losses they desired a peace which that it might not be obtained was procured by their policy who knew which way to make a mercenary advantage of it In the mean time the Carthaginians having made war in Sicily the Auxiliaries sent to the Lacedemonians from the Syracusians were called back and the Lacedemonians being left destitute Alcibiades with his conquering Navie
back into Sicily by the Carthaginians who having recovered themselves by the aggregation of new Forces did begin the war again which they had abandoned by reason of the Pestilence Hanno was chosen General of the war whose Enemy Suniator the most powerful at that time of all the Carthaginians when in hatred to him he had frequently in the Greek Tongue acquainted Dionysius of the approch of the Army and of the temper and sloath of the General the letters being intercepted he was accused of Treason and condemned for it and an Act was passed by the Senate that no Carthaginian should afterwards either speak or write in the Greek Tongue that they might hold no discourse nor write unto the Enemy without an Interpreter Not long after Dionysius whom neither Sicily nor Italy could contain being overcome and wearyed out with the daily encounters in the war was slain by the treachery of his own Souldiers THE One and twentieth BOOK OF IVSTINE DIonysius the Tyrant being slain in Sicily the Souldiers did substitute in his place his eldest Son who was called after his Fathers Name both for the maturity of his Age and that the Kingdom might be more firmly united if it continued in the power of one man then if it should be by parts divided amongst many of his children But Dionysius in the beginning of his raign had a desire to take away his Uncles as those who would be partakers with him in his Kingdom and be the perswaders of his brothers to have it divided amongst them And the better to dissemble his design he thought it requisite in the first place to assure himself of the good opinion of the people being more excusedly to perform what he had determined if he stood fast in the approbation of them all He delivered therefore out of prison three thousand that lay there in chains together and for three years dismissed the payment of all tributes and by all Artifices sollicited the affections of all men to him Then resolving to put in practice his contrived villany he put to the sword not onely the kinsmen of his brothers but even his brothers themselves beginning his tyranny first in his own Family before he exercised it in others and left not so much as the spirit of fraternal consortment to those to whom he owed a consortment in his Kingdom His emulators being thus taken away and falling into sloth he became unweildy in his body by too much riot and contracted so great a weakeness in his eyes that he could not endure the Sun or Dust or any splendor of light By reason of which believing that he began to become despicable he committed outragious cruelties and filled not as his Father the prisons with enchained Citizens but filled the City with the murthers of them by which he grew both contemptible and hateful unto all Therefore when the Syracusians had determined war against him he was in a great suspence whether he should lay down his royal Authority or make resistance in war against them but his Souldiers propounding to themselves a great booty and the plundering of the City he was enforced by them to try it out in battel with them Being overcome when not long after he had the same ill fortune in the fight again he sent Ambassadors to Syracusae promising to lay down his tyranny if they would send some to him to agree upon Articles for a peace The Syracusians sending some of the most eminent in their City to him he commanded them to prison and brought his Army to overthrow their City which at that present feared no assault nor the approach of any Enemy at all The fight was a long time doubtful in the City but the Citizens overcoming with their multitudes Dionysius was routed and beaten out of it And fearing to be besieged in the Tower he fled privately into Italy with all his Princely furniture Being there as a banished man he was received by the Locrensians who were in friendship with him and he possessed himself of their Tower where he exercised his accustomed cruelties He commanded the wives of the chiefest of the City to be defloured He took away the Virgins by force and having ravished them he returned them to those who were to espouse them The most wealthy of all the City he commanded to be expelled or to be slain and did confiscate their goods And when there was not the lest occasion for any further rapine he circumvented the whole City by this studied project When the Locrensians were oppressed by the war of Leophron Tyrant of Rhegium they vowed if they were Conquerors they would prostitute their Virgins on a day dedicated to Venus This vow being unperformed when they made unfortunate wars against the Lucanians Dionysius called them to a publick Assembly and did exhort them to send their wives and daughters into the Temple of Venus dressed in the richest cloathes they could put on and that one hundred of them chosen by lot might perform the publick vow and that for Religions sake they might stand one whole Moneth in the open Stews all men having before taken an Oath not to defile any of them And that the Virgins might not be deceived performing the Vows of the City he ordained that not a Maid should be marryed until husbands were first provided for them This counsel being approved in which provision was made both for the superstition and the chastity of the Virgins the women adorned in the most sumptuous manner did come in throngs to the Temple of Venus every one of whom Dionysius despoyled having sent in Souldiers to the Temple and converted the Ornaments of the Matrons into his own Wardrope He killed also some of the Husbands of the richest of them and some women he tormented to betray their Husbands wealth when by these arts he raigned six years being driven from the City by the Confederacy of the Citizens he returned into Sicily and after a long peace all men being secure he became Master of Syracusae by treachery Whiles these things were thus mannaged in Sicily Hanno the General of the Carthaginians in Africa employed his own treasure in which he exceeded the bank of the Common-wealth to become absolute Soveraign of all and attempted having first killed the Senate to usurpe the Kingdom For the acting of this wickedness he set apart a solemn day for the marriage of his Daughter that by the religion of his Vows he might both the better commit and conceal his abominable design He prepared a Feast for the people in the publick places and for the Senate in his own house that with Cups infected with poyson he might more secretly and without any witnesses destroy them and the more easily invade the Commonwealth deprived of her Magistrates This being betrayed to the Senators by his servants the wicked plot was declined but not revenged least in a man so powerful the plot should prove more prejudicial being known then concealed Being therefore contended by a
spread over all Being therefore made Captain of the banished persons he took away by stealth the sacred things of the Egyptians which they attempting to recover by arms were enforced to return back by Tempests Moses therefore on his return to his ancient Country of Damascus did possess himself of Mount Sinai where he and his people being afflicted with seven dayes continued fast in the Desarts of Arabia when he arrived to his journeys end he by a fast consecrated the seventh day to all Posterity and according to the language of his Nation did call it the Sabbath because that day did put a period both to their fasting and their travel And in remembrance that they were driven from Egypt for fear of the contagion least for the same cause they might be hated by the Inhabitants they provided by a Law that they should not communicate with strangers which beginning first from Policy was by degrees turned afterwards into Discipline and Religion After the death of Moses his Son Arvas who was a Priest also in the Egyptians Religion was created King and it was always afterwards a Custom amongst the Jews that they had the same men both for Kings and Priests whose justice being mixt with Religion it is incredible how greatly they did prosper The weath of the Nation did arise from the profits of the Opobalsamum which doth only grow in those Countries for it is a Valley like a Garden which is invironed with continual Hils and aâ— it were inclosed with a Wall The space of the Valley containeth two hundred thousand Acres and it is called Jericho In that Valley there is a Wood as admirable for its fruitfulness as for its delight for it is intermingled with Palm-Trees and Opobalsamum The Trees of the Opobalsamum have a resemblance like to Firr-Trees but that they are lower and are planted and husbanded after the manner of Vines On a set season of the year they do sweat Balsom The darkness of of the place is besides as wonderful as the fruitfulness of it For although the Sun shines nowhere hotter in the World there is naturally a moderate and a perpetual darkness of the Ayr There is a Lake also in that Country which by reason of its greatness and unmoveableness of the water is calld the dead Sea fot it is neither stirred with the Winds the glutinous substance with which all the water is covered resisting their violence neither is it patient of Navigation for all things wanting life do presently sink into the bottom neither doth it sustain any matter unless it be washed over with Roch-Allum dissolved Xerxes King of the Persians did first overcome the Jews they came afterwards with the Persians themselves into the power of Alexander the great and a long time they continued in subjection to the Macedonian Empire when they revolted from Demetrius and desired the friendship of the Romans they first of all the East did receive their liberty the Romans at that time giving freely out of other mens possessions In the same time in which the change of Government in Syria was alternately managed by the new Kings Attalus King of Asia polluted that most flourishing Kingdom received from his Uncle Eumenes with the slaughters of his friends and the punishments of his neerest kinred feigning sometimes that the old woman his Mother sometimes that his wife Beronice were slain by their treasonable practices After the fury of this most wicked violence he did put on ragged clothes and made short his beard and the hair of his head after the manner of the guilty he would not be seen in publick nor shew himself to the people he would have no feasts of mirth at home or any appearance of a sober man as if he would altogether by taking punishment on himself give satisfaction to the Ghosts of the slain At the last having forborn the administration of his Kingdom he digged in gardens sowed seeds and mingled the good with the hurtful and having steeped them all in the juyce of poyson he sent them as a peculiar gift unto his friends From this study he gave himself to the Art of making of brass and in the invention of tools and things belonging to it and much delighted himself with the melting and the minting of pieces in Brass After this he bent all his endeavours and design to make a Tomb for his Mother at which work being too intent he contracted a disease by the immoderate heat of the Sun and died the seventh day afterwards By his Testament the People of Rome were made Heirs But there was one Aristonicus descended from Eumenes not by lawful marriage but born of an Ephesian Strumpet the Daughter of a Fidler who after the death of Attalus did invade Asia as his Fathers Kingdom And having made many happy encounters against the Cities which for fear of the Romans would not deliver themselves unto him he seemed now to be a King in earnest wherefore Asia was decreed to Licinus Crassus the Consul who being more intent to the Attalick booty then to the war when in the end of the year he entred into Battail with the Enemy with a disordered Army being overcome he with his own blood suffered for his inconsiderate avarice The Consul Perpenna being sent to supply his place at the first encounter did overcome Aristonicus and brought him under subjection and carried with him unto Rome the hereditary treasures of Attalus which his successor the Consul Marcus Aquilius repining at did make all possible haste to snatch away Aristonicus from Perpenna to become the gift and honor of his Triumph But the death of Perpenna did end the difference of the Consuls and thus Asia being made the Romans she sent also with her wealth her vices unto Rome THE Seven and thirtieth BOOK OF IVSTINE ARistonicus being taken the Massilians sent Ambassadors to Rome humbly intreating for the Phocensians their Founders whose City and the memory of whose Name because they were alwayes implacable Enemies to the people of Rome both at that time and before in the war of Antiochus the Senate commanded should be utterly extinguished but a pardon was granted by the importunity of the Ambassadors After this the rewards were given to those Kings who brought in their Auxiliary forces against Aristonicus Syria the less was bestowed on Mithridates of Pontus Lycaonia and Cilicia were given to the sons of Ariarathes who fell himself in that war and the people of Rome were more faithful to the sons of their Confederate Ariarathes then the Mother was to her own children for they encreased the Dominions of his son in his nonage and she took away his life from him For Laodice having in number six sons by King Ariarathes fearing that they growing into years she should no longer enjoy the administration of the Kingdom did destroy five of them by poyson The care of his Kindred did preserve the yongest from the violence of the Mother who after the death of Laodice for the