ennimie mente or durst to do Thus had the Grecians in all their affaires by lande prosperos successe But after the Athenians vnderstood that the Macedonians were of great power by sea they caused many new ships of warre to be buylt so that they had in all C◠xx saile But Clite Admirall of the Macedonian Nauie hauing alwais about CCxl saile twise chased and vanquished Ethion Admirall to the Athenians slew manie of his people about the Isles Ethimades Perdicas ouercommeth Ariarathe and restoreth to Eumenes the Countrey of Cappadoce The seauenth Chapter IN this meane time Perdicas hauing with him King Phillip and his armie royall purposed to warre vppon Ariarathe of Cappadoce Who neuer during the life of Alexander would at anie time be subiect to the Macedonians And the cause why Alexander suffred him peaceably to enioy the same was that he had suche notable warres with King Darie that he neuer forced of Ariarathe so that he peaceably held and enioyed that countrey of Cappadoce many yeares By reason whereof he became so rich and of such great wealth that he had waged a great numbre aswel Cappadocians as straungers with whome he thought to defend him selfe and his Realme against Perdicas if at any tyme he attempted to pierce and inuade his countrey He had about xxx thousand footemen x. thousand horse Notwithstanding when they came to battaill he and all his armie was quite discomfited and ouerthrowen wherof about iiij thousand slaine and aboue v. thousand prisoners taken of which numbre him selfe was one who with all his kinsfolks and allies were hanged This done Perdicas proclaimed peace to the whole Countrey restored to the Gouernement thereof Eumenes Cardian who was before assigned vnto it at the first particion of the Prouinces ¶ Antipater in fight vanquisheth the Grecian armie◠putteth in subiection the greater numbre of the Cities of Grece and Athenes and in the end restoreth them to libertie The eight Chapter IN this meane season was Cratere come out of Cilice into Macedone accompained with vj. thousand footemen of y e most expert souldiours that serued Alexandre when he first inuaded Asie And vpon the way he tooke vp iiij thousand Persian Archers a thousand Slings or Shot and a thousand horse to aide Antipater and to reuenge the oultrage committed by the Grekes against the Macedonians But so sone as he was come into Thessalie he voluntarily gaue the principall charge and conduct to Antipater praying him to take vpon him the office of L. Generall of the army So they encamped together about the Riuer Pene and one day mustering the army accompting those which came with Leonate they had xl thousand footemen well armed iij. thousand archers and slings and about v. thousand horse Notwithstanding the Grekes feared nothing but encamped right ouer against them albeit they were the weaker and febler companie by reason that a great numbre of them for their many victories before obtained were so hault and proude that without weting or knowledge of their Captaines they were gone home so that the Captaynes being not obeyed nor the Souldiers at commaūdement there remayned not behind aboue xxv thousand footemen and iij. thousand v. hundred horse in which nmubre of horse laye consisted the only hope of victorie both for their valiaunt courages also bycause the countrey was playne and champion Antipater daylie offred battaill but the Grekes remained quiet kept their camp loking still for aide from the cities of Grece But they were by the enimy so long oppressed and gréeued that of force they must in the end abide and put all to the hazard of battaill And bycause they desired that the horsemen shold first charge they placed them as it were for their voward before the Phalange of footemē And when Antipater sée that the Thessalians at the first encountre and charge had gottē the better he commaunded his Phalāge to marche against the maine battaill of the Grekes whome they so fiercely greeued and pressed that in lesse than an houre they had almost slaine the whole Grecian Phalange And at last the Grecians seing them selues no longer able to abyde the brunt nor maintayne the fight retired in good order to battaill to the straight passages towardes a moūtayne where by reason of the aduaūtage of the place they with greater ease defended them selues from the power and force of the Macedonians And albeit the Grecian horse were to harde and bettered the Macedonians yet they seing their footemen so retired yelded them selues to the enimie so by that meane the Macedonians wanne the honour of the battaill in which were slaine about v. hundred Grekes and Cxxx. Macedonians The next day in the mornyng Memnon and Antiphile chiefe leaders of the Grecian armie assembled their Captaynes and called a counsayll wherein was proposed two questions First whether it were good to abide and tarrie for the ayde and help of the cities of Grece aud continue the warre vntill they were of as great powre as the enimie or whether it were better considering the time to sende vnto them to treat a peace so they agreed vpon the last Whervpon they sent Ambassadoures to Antipater who aunswered he woulde not at one instant condescende and agrée to conclude a peace with al the whole cities of Grece but if they woulde euery of them perticulerly sende their Ambassadoures to him that then he was content to heare them and otherwise not whervnto the Greekes in no wise would agrée Whyle the warres still continued Antipater and Cratere besieged the citie of Thessalie to the ende wherof the Greekes were not able to come wherefore the Citizens beyng sore distressed and in great daunger rendred the towne to Antipater whom he receyued into fauoure and shewed him selfe so gently and curteous towardes them y e shortly after al the rest of the cities of Grece euery of them particulerly yelded to Antipater with whom he accorded peace And farther they clerely forsooke both the Athenians and Etholians vtter ennemies to the Macedonians who séeing them selues so reiected tooke counsayll of their captaynes for the mayntenaunce of the warres When Antipater had by such Stratageme separated and dispersed the Greekes he then with all his powre made preparation against the Athenians who séeing them selues vnprouided of aide succoure of their friendes and allies were greatly astonied wherfore they al agréed y e Demades the famous Orator shold be sent to Antipater to treate a peace which he refused to do And although they had called him to counsaile he woulde not come thyther bycause he had ben before thrice condemned of the priuie Counsell or Senate as an insringer of the Lawes forbidden to aske for him selfe the ayde or benefite of the Lawes and to declare his opinion in the Counsaill Neuerthelesse for the cause aforesaid the communaltie incontinent forgaue him and sent him to Antipater accompanied with Phocion and certen other Citizens whome Antipater after their Ambassade
came vpon them and on the waye he tooke vp a great numbre of the Citizens whiche were dispersed abroad in the countrey and after besieged the towne and would néeds enforce the sillie besiegeaunts to receyue and take in his garrisons And although they were vnprouided of men and all other things necessarie to holde out the enimie yet determined they to defend their libertie Notwithstanding they sent first their Ambassadoures to Aride praying him to rayse his siege saying they were all at his commaundement to do whatsoeuer he woulde except the receyuing of men into garrison But in the meane time they secretly armed all their yong and lustie fellowes to man the wall and curten And when they sée Aride still vrge them to receyue his garrisons they aunswered they would comprimit the matter to the deliberation of the cōmunaltie and for dispatch thereof demaunded truce for the next day and night following which was graunted and in the meane while made they greater preparation for their defence When Aride sée he was thus deceyued and mocked he lost both oportunitie hope for winning the Citie bycause it was verie strong both towardes the Sea and lande standing almost like an Island within the Sea and but one way to enter by lande and that parte towardes the Sea very strong bycause Aride had there no ships They sent also by Sea to the Bizancians for men armoure and all other things necessarie to holde out the siege which they incontinent sent whereupon they were greatly assured and tooke meruailous courage to defende their Citie Farther they sent out their gallies alongest the shoare to gather together their people which were dispersed in the countrey and in the end they had assembled so great a numbre of men of warre that they sallied out vpō the enimie slew many and repulsed the rest from the siege Wherefore Aride deceyued by pollicy returned into his Satrapie without any exploite ¶ Antigone commenceth warre against Aride gouernour of Phrigie and against Clyte Lord of Lydie And in the ende openly proclaymeth him selfe enimie to the Kings and enioyeth one parte of Asie The .xxiij. Chapter AS Antigone abode in the Citie of Celene he was aduertised of the siege of Cizice wherefore he thought if he sent towards them spéedy ayde and succoure in their distresse that it woulde be a good occasion for him to winne the said Citie to be his friend and confederat For which cause he chose out of the whole armie .xx. thousand of his most warlike Souldiers and .iij. thousande horse and in his owne person spéedely marched to aide the Cizicians And although the siege was raised before his comming yet euer after they became and remayned his most bounden friends Notwithstanding he sent his Ambassadours towards Aride declaring to him that he had done verie yll to besiege a frée Citie of Grece and friend to the Macedonians considering the people thereof had in nothing abused him and that he had shewed inough to make him selfe of a Deputie and Gouernour a Potentate and commaunder commaunding him therefore to gyue ouer his said Satrapie and for his habitation to betake him to one onely Citie When Aride vnderstoode the charge of the Ambassadours he greatly detesting the arrogancie of Antigone aunswered that he was not as yet determined to leaue his Satrapie but to kéepe and defend it and if Antigone would come to expulse him he should then sée whether of them had the better right After the Ambassadours had receyued this answere and were departed he soone after fortified and furnished his Cities and townes He also sent to Nore a bande of Souldiers to Eumenes vnder the leading of one of his owne Captaynes thinking therby to winne his fauoure and be his confederate When Antigone had receyued aunswere from Aride he sent one half of his army against him and him selfe with the rest trauailed into Lydie to chase out Clyte Gouernour thereof But so soone as Clyte vnderstood the cause he garrisoned his Cities and made as good prouision against him as he could That done he immediatly went to Sea and transfreted into Macedone signifying to the Kings the boldnesse of Antigone saied that he went about to aduaunce him selfe to some high and honorable estate and to rebell against them praying therefore aide for the repressing of him In the meane time Antigone by the intelligence of certain citisens tooke at his first cōming the Citie of Ephese But after he vnderstood that Eschil the Rhodian was there arriued and would for the behoue of the Kings carrie out of Cilice into Macedon in foure shippes sixe hundred Talents he intercepted them and tooke it away saying that he had great néed thereof for the wageing of his mercenaries which déede imported that he ment to establishe him selfe some great Prince and to warre vppon the kings When he had this done he went against the other Cities of Asie and by violence and practise brought many vnder his subiection ¶ Of diuerse aduentures which happened Eumenes and of his deliueraunce from the siege of Nore The .xxiiij. Chapter WE will here leaue a while to speake of Antigone and returne to Eumenes who besides many and diuerse mishaps had also ben in sundrie aduentures both good and bad for after the death of Alexander he still tooke part with Perdicas who gaue him the Satrapie of Cappadoce and the countreys thereto adioyning in which he had assembled and gotte together numbres of men of warre and great summes of money getting thereby great renoume alway liuing in prosperitie and felicitie He in battail vanquished and killed Cratere and Neoptolome two of the most renowmed Captaynes amongst all the Macedonians and all the Souldiers whiche serued vnder them which had ben continuall victors where euer they became But when he thought him selfe most puyssaunt and none able to resist him he was by Antigone in battaill sodenly vanquished and constrained to flie and retier with a fewe of his friends into a litle towne castle where being besieged and enclosed with a double trenche could not in one whole yeare be aided to raise the siege Howbeit about the yeares end when he was almost out of hope in despaire sodenly came vnto him present remedie For Antigone who still helde him besieged hauing altered his determination and purpose sent to him requiring his friendship companie and after he had takē his othe and faith he deliuered him of the siege Who departing thence trauailed into Cappadoce and being there but a short time assembled the Souldiers lately vnder his charge dispersed through the said countrey and by reason of the earnest zeale and loue they had to him he had gotten together in a little whyle a great numbre at his commaūdement For ouer and besides the six hundred whiche were with him during the siege he had gotten aboue two thousand other souldiers and in the ende came to great authoritie for he was made Generall of the armie Royall to warre vppon
Princes which before were but as Uicegerents and Gouernours entituled them selues then by the names of Kings to saie Seleuke of the Satrapies and hier Prouinces by hym newlie conquered Lysimache and Cassander of those whiche at the first were gyuen them and still reteyned ¶ Antigone and Demetre his sonne with a mightie power inuade Egipt both by Sea and lande And after finding the entry and border of the countrey well prouided and furnished they returne without any exploite The .ix. Chapter THe yeare that Corile gouerned Athens and at Rome Quinte Martie and Publie Cornelie were created Consuls after King Antigone had sumptuously celebrated the funeralles of Phenix his yonger Sonne deceased he sent to his Sonne Demetre in Cypres to make haste and come to him and in the meane time him selfe made great preparation to arrere warres against Ptolome in Egipt Which done he tooke hys iourney through the countrey of Celosirie with an armie of foure score thousand footemen about .viij. thousand horsse and foure score and three Elephantes and sent his sonne Demetre by Sea with L. Gallies and aboue an hundred Carraques and Barques whiche carried his people and their baggage commaunding him to saile alōgest that shoare side which the armie marched on by land And although the Marriners counsailed him to staye .xv. dayes longer vntill suche tyme as the daungerous season of winter were passed ouer yet woulde he not be ruled but very angerly gaue them despitefull and reprochefull words calling them cowards and dastards and encamping at the citie of Gaze determining to preuent Ptolome hys armie commaunded his Souldiours to make prouision of victualles for ten dayes and laded the Camels which y e Arabians brought with Cxxx. thousande Medynnes of wheat and haye for their horsses great store and hys shot armour weapon and other necessaries were carried by carte through the desertes a laborsome and painfull iourney bycause the wayes were myery déepe and ful of marshes but especially as he drew néere the countrey of Baratre And Demetre who the same daye about midnight loused from Gaze had for certen dayes a faire and caulme ceason During which time he haled drew with his Gallies the Carraques and Barkes fraught w t Souldiours and sarriages And as he thus for a fewe dayes rowed sodenly arose so great a flaw of wynd out of the North that it put the Gallies in great hazarde in so much that some of them were carried with the surgies and bellow into the daungerous mouth of the port of Raphie bycause it was almost choked vp with a shelf of dyrte and ouze And some of the Barques whiche carried the shot armoure and other carriages perished by tempeste and other were dryuen backe ageyne into Gaze. But the rest of the Nauie wherin were the strongest Gallies and lustiest Souldiours so labored against the wether that they arriued about Cassile a citie scituate vpon the riuer Nile hauing no Port but only a rode which in the tyme of any vnseasonable wether or tempest is very daungerous by reason wherof the Marryners were forced to caste Anker two furlongs from the shoare riding in much daūger for y e Bellow went so hie that it was great maruell the shippes and men had not out of hand ben ouerthrowen and drowned And to land could they not get eyther with boat or man which land also belonged to the enimie and that which was worse their fresh water failed and they driuen to such néede that if the tempest had continued but one daye longer they had all died of thirst While they were in this dispaire looking for present death sodēly the wind calmed anō they descried Antigone his armie encamped not far from the Nauie wherefore they came on lande there refreshed them certē dayes attending some good newes of the rest of their shippes In this tempest perished .iij. Gallies but by good hap many of the Souldiours were saued and came on land From thence departed Antigone and encamped within two furlongs of Nyle But Ptolome alreadie aduertised of the enimies comming had throughly furnished all the fortes and blockhouses which fronted on the enimie with strong and mightie garrisons◠and sent certen in smal pynnaces with commaundement that they should row néere and make proclamation that so many as would come and serue hym he would gyue liberall wages and gentle reteynoure to saye to euery common Souldiour two mynes a day and to euery Captayne or any other which had charge a Talent a day By reason of which proclamation most of Antigone his Mercenarie souldiours minded to serue Ptolome and amongs them many Captaynes also for diuerse occasions desired to serue him so that Antigone séeing his Souldiours dayly steale from his campe was enforced to set strong garde and watch all alongest the ryuer side with great store of shot and engines to stop the enimie for comming on lande and gréeuouslie punished certen of those which were taken going to the enimie to the ende to put the rest in terrour and feare Demetre also with those fewe shippes he had entred an arme of the riuer Nyle whiche ranne into the Sea called the false Porte thinking there to lande a number of his Souldiours But when he founde it garded with a lustie garrison and that he was with shot and all other kinde of engines repulsed and the night drawing on retired and commaunded all the Captaynes of the ships to followe the Admirall by the light in the mayne toppe sayling directlie to the other entry of Nyle called Phenitique When daye was come bycause manie of his ships had missed their course he was driuen to stay for them sent oute his Brigantines to séeke and haste them forward Wherefore with spending much tyme in getting them togyther Ptolome who was aduertised of the certeyntie thereof made spéede to gard the said passage so that he had a great numbre of able fighting men readie arranged in battail vppon the shoare When Demetre sée them thus furnished and that the Countrey next to the said entry was almost all marish ground he sailed backe into the déepe where immediatlie arose suche a great wind which so violentlie draue them towards the shoare that .vj. Gallies and as many Barques which carried men of warre with the vehemencie of the wether were runne on lande vnder Ptolomees power and the rest with strength of ores rowed against the winde to the place where Antigone encamped When Ptolome had thus furnished all the passages of the Sea w t strong garrisons and the entry of Nile with shippes shot and men Antigone was in great feare For once Demetre his Nauie at Sea serued to no purpose to enter the mouth of Peluse being so well garded and kept ageyne the armie by land could no waye passe by reason of the swelling and rysing of the ryuer and that whiche was worse they hadde so long trauailled that they wanted victuals both for men and horses When the souldiours for
the causes aboue said begā to murmur and grudge Antigone assembled hys armie and tooke counsaill and aduise of his Captaynes whether it were more expedient to tarry and continue hys enterprise or presentlie to returne into Syrie and come agayne at some other more conuenient tyme when he were better appointed and the ryuer Nile fallen lower But when he see them all of mynde and accord he brake vp y e camp and spéedily returned into Syrie by land hauing his Nauie sayling by him all alongest the coast As soone as Ptolome hadde intelligence of their departure he was right glad making to the Goddes great sacrifices and to his friends honorable feastes and banquettes signifying also Seleuke Lysimache and Cassander by his letters of his aduenture and good lucke and the reuolte of Antigone his Souldiours to him This done thinking that he had nowe the second time by armes recouered and gotten the Countrey of Egipt and last of all that he might by iust title and conquest of warre hold and keepe it returned to Alexandrie ¶ Of certen exploites of warre betwene the Romaines and Samnites The .x. Chapter THe same season after Dionise Tyraunt of the citie of Heracle in the countrey of Pont hadde raigned xxxij yeares he died and his two children Zatras Clearche succéeded who raigned after him .xvij. yeares And the selfe same yeare the Samnites wonne of the Romaines the cities of Sore and Acye and them sacked and spoyled Ageine the Romaine Consuls entred the Citie of Lapige and after besieged the citie of Silue whiche the Samnites had long kepte and garrisoned but in the ende the Romaines tooke it by assault butined all their goods ransomed aboue .v. thousand prisoners Which done they spoyled the Region of the Samnites cut downe the wood and burnt the Townes and Uillages For the Romaines thought bycause the same Nation hadde alreadie many yeares contended with them for the Empire and rule that if they destroyed their lande they shoulde of force gyue place and yelde vnto them For which cause they for .v. whole monethes togyther burnt and spoyled in their Countrey all that they could not carrie awaye in so muche that they left not standing in all the Countrey eyther house cottage trée or bushe that might be destroyed but made the lande vtterlie voide and desolate And this yeare also they warred on the Egmettes and by composition tooke the citie of Erusin and sold the whole territorie ¶ Demetre by the commaundement of hys Eather both by Sea and land besieged the Citie of Rhodes Of the great and lustie assaultes they gaue and the maruelous and honorable defence that the Townesmen made The .xj. Chapter THe yéere following that Xenippe gouerned Athens and Lucie Posthume and Tyberie Mynute were at Rome created Consuls warres for these occasions were betwene Antigone the Rhodians cōmenced For the citie of Rhodes was then by sea verie puissaunt and strong and was most wysely gouerned and in greater reputation than all the other Cities of Grece By reason wherof al the Kings and Princes in those dayes hadde an eye thereunto and endeuoured them to obtayne and get their fauoure and alliaunce on their side But the Rhodians who foresaw and considered their cōmon emolument and commoditie gently enterteyned al the said Princes and had with euery of thē a particular league and amitie withoute entremedling at any hande with any of them in their warres Whereuppon happened that all the said Princes honoured and cherished them diuersly with great giftes remunerated and gratified them by which meane they long liued in tranquillitie and wealth Throughe whiche occasion their power so greatly encreased that they at their owne costes and charges enterprised warre for the whole state of Grece against all Pyrats and clearely purged the Seas of all theeues and rouers But their chiefest and greatest estimation was that Alexander surnamed the great moste renowmed of all Princes of the worlde of whome remaineth any mention made so muche more accompte thereof than of all the other Cities of Grece so that he gaue them the Testament of his whole estate and Empire to kéepe and in all things he might honoured and greatlie aduaunced the same And although the Rhodians had in such sorte with all the most puissaunt Princes Potentates liued that none of them could reasonablie complayne on them or be agreeued yet had they neuerthelesse farre greater amitie and familiaritie with Ptolome than with all the rest bycause their Marchauntes had greater traffique and commoditie from the coūtrey of Egipt than else where and the greater parte of the citie lyued and was mainteyned by the marchaundise of the said countrey Whiche thing Antigone vnderstanding dyd all that in him laye to turne the trade and entercourse of Marchandise thence Wherfore after his sonne had warred vpon Ptolome in Cypres he sent his Ambassadors towards them praying their ayde and to send their shippes to Demetre hys sonne But when he sée they woulde not heare him he sent one of his Sea Captaynes with certen number of shippes in that quarter commaunding him to staye and take so many saile of Rhodians as he founde sayling into Egipt and to spoyle and robbe them of their marchandise But the Rhodians thereof aduertized draue hym quickly backe and chased him quite from those Seas Whereuppon Antigone tooke his occasion to saye that they were the authors of the warre So he with many minatorie termes menaced them and vaūted and bragged that he would with his so mightie a power come against them that he would besiege their citie Wherof the Rhodians aduertised decréed to do hym great honours in their citie sent great Ambassades to him praying him not to enforce them to make warre against Ptolome nor yet to breake their promisse and alliaunce which they had with him Antigone gaue a fierce and sterne aunswer and therewith sent Demetre his Sonne with a great armie store of engines and artillery to besiege and beat downe the citie Whereupon they were astonied so fearing the great power of the King y t they sent to Demetre declaring that they were readie and cōtent to go with Antigone to warre vpon Ptolome Who neuerthelesse was scarcely content therewith but demaunded an hundred ostages of the chief and principall of the citie to be deliuered him and also to haue his Nauie receyued into their Portes Which demaunde made them greatlie suspect that he went about to make hymself Lord of the Town therfore made all y e preparation they could for their defence When Demetre had assembled his armie at the Porte of Elorym he trymmed his Nauie to saile to the siege of Rhodes in whiche were two hundred Gallies of sundrie mouldes and of other shippes to carry men and victualles Clxx. and in them aboue .xl. M. souldiers besides an innumerable number of armoures shot of all sortes and all other engines of battery There were besides aboue a thousand Foistes and Barques of Marchaunts and