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the names of their men places rivers c. do shew Therefore they judge it most probable that Abram speaking the Chaldaean language before which onely differeth in dialect from the Hebrew got both the name and language after his arrival in the Land of Canaan The Heathen (f) Artapanus apud Euseb Charax apud Stephanum Writers thought them to have been called Hebrews from Abraham as corrupted from Abrahaeans out of ignorance of the language Augustine also once inclined to this opinion which he afterwards renounced 7. Abram after his victory over the Kings Retractat l. 2. c. 16. received a more large promise from God who ingaged to become to him a shield and a sufficient reward and for that it troubled him to go childlesse to give him issue Gen. 15. from which should proceed an innumerable posterity that inhabiting a strange Land four hundred years was to return and possesse this of Canaan when the iniquity of the Amorites would be full in the fourth Generation Chap. 16. This League made betwixt God and Abram was confirmed by Sacrifice yet Sarai Ismael born seeing her self barren perswaded her husband to go in unto Hagar her handmaid of which he had a son born to him and named Ismael in the eleventh year after his coming into Canaan Chap. 17. the 86 of his Age and of the World the 2094. In the 13th year after A. M. 2094. God made another Covenant with him concerning the seed of Isaack who was to be born the year following and Circumcision was instituted as a seal thereof Abraham and Sarah Now whereas his name before was Abram or an High-father it was changed into Abraham or Father of a great multitude And Sarai which signifieth My Princesse or Lady as of one family was altered into Sarah or a Princesse absolute as of many Nations Not long after God made known to Abraham his purpose to destroy Sodom and the other Cities for their abominable wickednesse He interceded hard for them Sodom c. destroyed but there being not so many as five righteous persons in Sodom God having taken care for Lot and his family rained fire and brimstone down upon the Cities which together with the Plain were utterly destroyed onely Bela was spared for Lot's sake who fled thither Of the rest the Dead Sea into which the ground was converted reremaineth a lasting Monument to this day Vide John Bistelium Jesuetam de Illustribus ruinis In this Sea or Lake no living Creature is bred having nothing but a Sulphureous matter thence taken in great quantities It is described to be 72 miles in length and 19 in breadth Nigh to it fair and pleasant Apples grow which being touched turn into a Sulphureous vapour and a tradition remained amongst the Heathen of these Cities being destroyed * Lege Tacitum Histor l 5. with Thunder and Lightning from Heaven Lot's wife after she had got out of Sodom looked back and was turned into a Pillar of Salt His two daughters thinking all mankind to have perished made their father drunk and lay with him from which incestuous copulation came Moab and Ammon fathers of the Moabites and Ammonites two great and powerfull Nations Gen. 20. 8. A little after in the same year Abraham having continued in the Plain of Mamre about eighteen years departed unto Gerar the Metropolis of the Philistins where hapned the same thing concerning his wife A. M. 2108. as formerly had done in Aegypt Abimelech the King having taken her into his house Isaak born who therefore was plagued till he restored her with large gifts Chap. 21. The year being precisely finished Sarah bare to him Isaac so called because he laughed when God made mention of it to him he being now an hundred years old and she ninety four hundred before the departure of his posterity out of Aegypt At the weaning of Isaack Sarah seeing Ismael mocking procured him and his mother to be banished the house God bidding Abraham fulfill her desire herein and promising to make of him a great Nation When Isaack was grown up though of what Age is not expressed Chap. 22. some guessing thirty years others unprobably ten or twelve because he must have been of sufficient strength to carry wood God to try his father's faith commanded him to Offer him up for a burnt-offering on Mount Moriah where afterwards the Temple of Solomon stood He out of obedience went about to do it but God accepting his will for a performance renewed his promise to him Sarah dieth Sarah died aged 127 years Chap. 23. and after her death Abraham married another wife called Keturah by which he had other six sons To those he gave gifts and before his death sent them away from Isaack the Heir of the promise Isaac married 9. When Isaack was fourty years old his father Chap. 24. procured him to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bethuel who was son to Nachor A. M. 2148. the brother of Abraham She married at fourteen years of Age according to the tradition of the Jews was barren twenty years Chap. 25. but then her husband beseeching God for her she brought * A.M. 2168. forth twins Esau and Jacob which strugled in her womb the elder being as God foretold to serve the younger Fiveteen years after Abraham died Abraham dyeth being 175 years old having sojourned in the Land of Canaan a hundred years 22 after the death of Sem four before that of Heber in the dayes of Inachus King of the Argives 1821 years before the Aera of Christ in the 2183 year of the World Of Abraham besides Artapanus and Charan before mentioned * Apud Joseph Antiq. lib. 1. cap. 7. Berosus the Caldaean had some knowledge though he named him not Hecataeus not onely made mention of him by the way but wrote an History of him Nicolaus Damascenus in the fourth book of his Histories related that Abraham a certain stranger reigned at Damascus having come from a Countrey about Babylon said to be that of the Chaldaeans That he departed thence with his people into the Land of Canaan afterwards called Judaea where his posterity grew very numerous concerning which he should speak in another place In Josephus his time the name of Abraham was famous at Damascenus where was shewn a certain Village called Abrahams dwelling 10. After the death of Abraham God blessed Isaack Gen. 26. and made the same Covenant with him In a time of Famine he also sojourned in Gerar where dissembling concerning Rebecca his wife the same thing happened to them as formerly to Abraham and Sarah from another Abimelech which name was common to all the Kings of the Philistins Ismael dieth Some years after Ishmael died aged 137 years 48 after his father in the year of the World 2231. From his eldest son Nebaioth His posterity descended the Nabathaeans who (g) Strabo l.
of the Graecian Forces They return home made War with them against Tissaphernes 50. The Governours of the King's Provinces through which they journyed were Artymas of Lydia Artacamas of Phrygia Mithridates of Lycaonia and Cappadocia of Cilicia Syenesis of Phoenicia and Arabia Dernes of Syria and Assyria Belesis of Babylonia Roparas of Media Arbacas of the Phasiens and Hesperites Teribazus The Governours of the King's Provinces at their return The Carduchans Chalybes Chaldaeans Macrons Cholcans Mosynaecans Coitans and Tibarens were free people and under no man's subjection Paphlagonia was ruled by Corylas the Bithynians by Pharnabazus the Europaean Thracians by Seuthes The total number of the Ascent and Descent was 212 encampings 1150 parasangs 34255 furlongs 4281 miles and more The time of the Ascent and Descent one year and three moneths Thus these Strangers wanting all things ignorant of the Countries through which they passed over precipitous Mountains straight and almost impassable wayes notwithstanding the malice of Enemies sharpnesse of air and difficulty of the Soil by the wonderful Providence of God and singular prudence of Xenophon returned home into Greece as we have it described by Xenophon himself though the seven Books of this Expedition notwithstanding the constant opinion of Antiquity are adjudged by a late Learned Man by reason of the disagreement of their manner of writing from his other works from him and are ascribed to Themistogenes the Syracusian whom * Hellen. 3o. elsewhere he mentioneth to have related these matters However this service performed to Cyrus cost him the losse of his Country being for that banished by the Athenians his Countrymen but the Lacedaemonians taking pitty of him gave him some Lands in the Country of Elis and the Territories of Triphyllis whence we may very well fetch an account of his writing that elegant Treatise of the form of their Commonwealth Plutarch in Artaxerxe 51. In this mean time whilst the Graecians were on their way homewards Parysatis the Queen-mother of Persia greatly lamented the death of her son Cyrus and meditated nothing but revenge upon such as had been instruments in his death whom one way or other getting into her hands she killed with most exquisite torments Parysatis rageth against such as had any hand in the death of her son Cyrus The Carian who vaunted he and no other had killed him being designed by Artaxerxes to be beheaded because he robbed him of the glory of so valiant an action she begged of the King that she might have the punishing him and so delivered him to those who for ten dayes tormented him then digged out his eyes and lastly made an end of him by powring melted brasse into his ears Mithridates guilty of the same Crime of boasting and thereby greatly incensing the King who would have had all men to believe that he alone in a single Duel had slain his brother was condemned to be put to death after an odd kind of punishment full of cruelty then in use in Persia The Malefactor was laid on his back between two hollow things in form like to Boats so fitted together that his head hands and feet mightâ—ly out and the rest of the body be contained within Being thus made fast meat was given to him and if he would not receive it he was forced to eat by pricking of his eyes and when he did eat instead of drink honey and milk mixed together were powred into him being so placed as ever to have his eyes against the Sun Hereby it came to passe that his face would be wholely covered with flies and doing that within the Engine which a man needs must who keepeth constantly eating and drinking from the putrefaction of the Excrements were Maggots and Worms bred which creeping up into the entrails fed upon the body so that the miserable man being dead and the upper part of the Engine removed they might see the flesh devoured and swarms of filth sticking on the Carcasse After this manner was Mithridates by degrees extinct after seventeen dayes 52. Parysatis after this having won from Artaxerxes her son at Dice Idem ibid. the Eunuch Megates who had cut off the head and hands of Cyrus caused him to be flead alive Her study then was how to rid herself of Statira her daughter-in-law whom she never cared for now hated mortally and emulated her by reason of her hatred against Cyrus and her power with the King her husband so as she resolved in the procurement of her destraction to hazard her own safety Being now in appearance reconciled and all old things forgotten so as they met and supped together she thence took occasion secretly to work her death The Bird Rhyntaces wherein Parysatis poysoneth Statira There was a bird in Persia called Rhyntaces in which being nothing superfluous or of excrement all the inward parts were filled with fat This as Ctefias wrote she cut it in two with a knife whereof the one side was onely poysoned then taking the clear half to her self she gave the other which the poyson had touched unto Statira who suspecting nothing for that she see her eat herself of the bird before her did eat it up and died after great convulsions and torment She suspected her before her death and possessed the King with the matter who knew sufficiently the cruel and implacable disposition of his mother He presently with Tortures examined her neerest servants but she kept Gygis a woman who had been accessary to the fact and would not give her up to him till at length having notice that she should go out of the house by night he surprized and condemned her to die the death due to poysoners by the Persian Law which was that the head of the Malefactor being laid on a great stone with another it was broken and flatted As for his Mother he hurt her not at all either by word or deed but she desiring to go to Babylon he sent her adding onely this that he would not see that Citie so long as she lived This was the state of the Domestick affairs of Artaxerxes 53. After the overthrow of Cyrus Diodorus ad an 1. Olymp. 95. he sent down Tissaphernes not Pharnabazus as is falsly written in Diodorus to the Sea-Coasts to recover them into his power the Governors of which fearing now to pay dearly for their compliance with Cyrus sent to make their peace with this new General and sought all wayes possible to be received into his favour But Tamos a man of prime note amongst them and Governour of Ionia shipping his goods and all his sons except one named Cyaos who afterwards became Captain of the Kings forces sayled for fear of Tissaphernes into Egypt to Psammitichus the King hoping for former curtesies to be received but he without consideration of former benefits to get his ships and money to himself murdered his friend with his Children In the mean time the Ionians fearing Tissaphernes Idem ibid. Xenoph.
was decreed for a Province and upon the reporting of the matter an order was made Lentulus to stop Pompey's mouth procuring him to have the charge of Provisions in that time of dearth throughout the Empire The Alexandrians in the mean while ignorant of his voyage into Italie and thinking he had some wayes miscarried set over the Kingdom Berenice his legitimate daughter together with Tryphaena her elder sister called also Cleopatra the elder and sent into Syria to Antiochus Asiaticus to come and reign with the women and afterwards he dying to Philip Euergetes the son of Antiochus Grypus by Tryphaena daughter to Lathurus late King of Egypt but he was also hindred by Gabinius then late Roman President in Syria But hearing at length how things went at Rome they sent 100 of their Countrey-men thither to make their defence and recriminate their lawfull King which he understanding procured most of the Messengers to be made away in their journey and the rest coming to the Citie he either took away or deterred or else perswaded them to hold their peace The Senate hearing of this was grievously moved and the rather because that divers publick Ministers of others their Confederates had been made away with the rest as also for that it appeared that there was much corruption amongst themselves They sent therefore for Dion the Chief of the Embassie but Ptolomy his money had such influence upon him that he appeared not and not long after was also dispatched out of the way Pompey harboured the King all this time in his own house being yet desirous to restore him himself as Cicero signifieth to Lentulus then the Pro-consul of Cilicia who still waited also for the employment At length Sibylla's books being consulted were reported to forwarn the people of Rome never to reduce him by force and therefore to that purpose another decree was made in the Senate A great debate then ensued how the thing should be done some proposing one way and some another till at length Auletes perceiving it was neither likely to be effected by Pompey nor Lentulus Where getting no relief he departeth to Ephesus despaired of his return and getting him into Asia expected at Ephesus in the Temple of Diana a better advantage for the recovery of his right out of the hands of the imperious Rebels 26. And he had not been long there Dio lib. 39. when a convenient opportunity presented it self For Gabinius the President of Syria having grievously afflicted his Province by oppression not thinking that sufficient Joseph de bello Judaico lib. 1. cap. 6. Appian in Parthicis but hearing the Parthians to be exceeding rich set his resolution strongly to invade them When he had passed the River Euphrates Ptolomy came to him with Letters from Pompey and offered him 10000 Talents besides a great sum of money to the Soldiers part whereof they should have in hand to restore him Hireth Gabinans to restore him Most of the Officers were against the thing and Gabinius himself something stuck at it but being stirred up to it by Antonius who then Commanded the horse under him and especially bewitched by the money notwithstanding it was not lawfull for a President to stir out of his Province nor undertake Wars at his pleasure and the people at Rome out of respect to the Verses of Sibylla had forbidden Auletes to be restored at least such a way yet he onely made the difficulty of the thing a means to inhance the price of it and omitting the Parthian War undertook that against the Egyptians Berenice had about this time called one Seleucus out of Syria Dio Strabo ut suprà who vaunted himself of the blood royal of that Nation and made him partaker of the Kingdom marrying her self unto him but finding him to be of a sordid and base condition made him away after a little while Then an husband of a royal stock being enquired out for her Archelaus the son of Archelaus General to Mithridates the great King of Pontus and who had been made by Pompey Priest of the Tomani counterfeiting himself the son of the King procured by his friends to be received on the same terms with the other and reigned with her six moneths 27. But Gabinius leaving Syria to the tuition of a Child his son Plutarch in Antonio Dio Strabo ut suprà marched for Egypt through Palestine and coming to the sandy desart sent Antonius before with the horse to secure the Straights at the entry of the Countrey which he not onely bravely performed but took also Pelusium thereby gaining entrance for the whole Army A. M. 3950. Ol. 181. ann 2. V. C. 699. Hyrcani 9. Cn. Pompeio Mag. 2. M. Licinio Crasso 2. Coss which presently put to flight the Egyptians Archelaus himself was now taken but Gabinius considering that perhaps Ptolomy would be unwilling to give him so much money as he expected if with so small ado he should compleat the work being also soundly bribed by Archelaus he dismissed him under pretence of an escape A little after the Egyptians more earnest alwayes in rebellions than Wars were utterly discomfited Archelaus was slain and all Egypt recovered and restored to Auletes who presently put to death his daughter and the richest of the Nobility as they deserved standing then in great need of money Gabinius leaving a Guard behind him for Ptolomy's security which stayed at Alexandria married and begot Children giving up themselves to the luxury of the place went back into Syria and thence to Rome where his great gifts meeting with the corruption of the times onely purchased him his life being fined for his bribery and disobedient carriage A. M. 3954. Ol. 182. ann 2. V. C. 703. As for Auletes we hear no more of him Dieth since that he died 4 years after his restitution In the year of the World 3954. and the 2d of the 182 Olympiad 28. He left two sons and as many daughters behind him Caesar Comment de bello civili lib. 3. Dio lib. 42. Eutropius lib. 6. of which the eldest of either Sex he ordered should succeed him by his last Will and Testament which he conjured the people of Rome under whose tuition he left his Children by all the gods and the Leagues he had made with them should be observed and one of the Tables of which were brought to Rome to be laid up in the Treasury but this being hindred by publick businesse it was left with Pompey who was also appointed Guardian to the young King in this his nonage His eldest son and eldest daughter succeeding him she is driven away After three years the boy or rather Pothinus not Photinus as he is corruptly called in Caesar's Commentaries the Eunuch who managed his affairs expelled Cleopatra his sister and fellow both in marriage and the Kingdom so that she was forced to withdraw into Syria there to make provision for her re-establishment by
worse than did Agamemnon himself This hapned to Ilium in the later end of the 173 Olympiad about 1050 years after the first taking it by the Greeks 10. Mithridates receiving intelligence of the blow he had received at Orchomenus wrote to Archelaus to procure his peace on as good terms as he could To a Peace Sylla was not now averse being in great want of mony and receiving no recruits from the City where he was declared an Enemy and desiring above all things to carry back a good Army into Italy to revenge himself He offered Peace therefore on these conditions That he should deliver up all his Navy Forceth Mithridates to beg Peace all fugitives and Captives A. M. 3921. Ol. 174. an 1. V. C. 670. Seleucid 229. L. Cor. Cinna 4. Cn. Papirio Carbone 2 Coss restore the Inhabitants of Chios and others whom he had caried into Pontus remove his garrisons from all places whither he had brought them since the breach of the Peace pay all the charges of the War and be content with his Father's Kingdom All these conditions were agreed to save parting with Paphlagonia but the Ambassadors saying they could have had better terms of Fimbria drove Sylla into a great displeasure with a comparison so odious to him Shortly after Mithridates himself met him and found him so resolute as he gladly accepted all the terms So ended the first War with Mithridates being concluded by Sylla three years after his coming into Greece 11. Sylla required of Fimbria the Army to be deliverd up to him as held by no authority but was answered as having as little himself Appian Plutarch in Sylla Yet the Army denied to fight against that of Sylla and forsook Fimbria who thereupon sent a Slave to murder Sylla Fimbria's Army revolteth to him which was discovered He begged pardon and it was granted him so he would take ship and depart out of Asia but he said he had a better way and going to Pergamus there destroyed himself Sylla gave him to be buried saying he would not imitate the barbarism of Marius and Cinna towards his friends at Rome whom they deprived both of life and burial yet he kept in this mind but a while after his arival there whither he now hasted having fined Asia grievously for it's revolt He marcheth for Italy against his Enemies there and setled affaires according to present occasions He took Athens in his way whence he caried with him the Library of Apellicon the Teian in which were most of the Books of Aristotle and Theophrastus then not vulgarly known bought by him of the posterity of Nâ—leus to whom Theophrastus had given it He wrote to the Senate to which he recounted all the great services he had done and then how he had been rewarded by the party of Marius telling them plainly he would come and revenge both himself and the Publick by punishing the authors of the injuries not medling with any other either old or new Citizens The Senate hereat affrighted sent to treat with him offering their indeavour for his satisfaction if he would presently make knovvn his mind Cinna they ordered to stop his leavies but he onely returned them a plausible ansvver and proceeded designing himself and his Collegue Carbo Consuls again for the follovving year that there might be no need of going to Rome to a nevv creation He passed over some of his forces into Dalmatia there to fight Sylla but the hindermost vvere driven back by a tempest and they refused absolutely to fight against their Country-men so that those vvho as yet had not passed the Sea refused to go aboard Hereupon he going to speak vvith them an Officer vvho made vvay before him struck one of them vvho struck him again for vvhich offence he commanding him to be laid hold on a tumult arose vvherein he himself vvas ran through and so perished in his fourth Consulship and the 670 year of the City a man vvorthier to have died by command of the Conquereur than the fury of the Soldiers Carbo then continued Consul alone all the remaining part of the year 12. Cinna and Carbo had by a Lavv abrogated Sylla's command and procured War to be decreed against him before the Senate was affrighted into the offer of a mediation He answered that he would never be reconciled to such wicked persons as they desired he should but if the People of Rome would give them indemnity he should not oppose it yet he thought those that would come to him might be mose safe seeing he had at his devotion such an Army Hereby declaring sufficiently what his intentions were he also demanded restitution of his estate his antient dignity and honours but the messengers coming to Brundusium and there hearing of Cinna's death and the disturbance of the Commonwealth returned back to him Then crossed he the Sea to Brundusium with a Fleet of 1600 ships and 60000 men Being landed Landeth at Brundusium Metellus Pius who had absented himself from Rome for fear of Marius and Cinna came to him as also Pompey afterwards sirnamed the Great who though his father was no friend to Sylla yet coming now to him with some forces became afterwards his greatest favourite Besides these came Cethegus who having joyned with Cinna now begged pardon C. Norbanus and L. Scipio the Consuls with Carbo made all preparation for resistance The first tryal at arms was at Canusium where Norbanus lost 6000 men and fled to Capua Scipio through the treachery of his Army came with his son into the power of Sylla Defeateth Norbanus who dismissed them both After this Sulla sent to Norbanus to treat of Peace but perhaps being not thought serious had no answer returned back 13. He then passed on in Italy making havock of all things as Carbo did A. M. 3922. who getting into Rome procured Metellus and the rest that joyned with Sylla to be declared Enemies to the State Both parties sent up and down the Italian Cities labouring both by fair means and fowl to procure forces and so all this Summer was spent wherein the Capitol was burnt none knoweth how For the following year Papirius Carbo the third time and Marius son but adoptive as most probable to the old one were Consuls the later being but 27 years old A. M. 3923. Olymp. 174. ann 3. V. C. 672. In the Spring was Carinas the Lieutenant of Carbo overthrown by Metellus and Marius himself by Sylla and beaten into Praeneste where being close besieged and despairing of his own safety he wrote to Brutus then Praetor at Rome that he should under some pretext call together the Senate and kill those his Enemies P. Antisthius another Carbo L. Domitius and Mucius Scaevola the High-Priest which was with cruelty enough performed Metellus by his time having overthrown another Army of Carbo's Pompey defeated Marcius another of that party Sulla marched to Rome Entreth Rome which he easily entred many of the opposite