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A13977	Thabridgment of the histories of Trogus Pompeius, collected and wrytten in the Laten tonge, by the famous historiographer Iustine, and translated into English by Arthur Goldyng: a worke conteynyng brieflie great plentie of moste delectable hystories, and notable examples, worthie not onelie to be read but also to be embraced and followed of all menne; Historiae Philippicae. English	Justinus, Marcus Junianus.; Trogus, Pompeius. Historiae Philippicae.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1564 (1564)	STC 24290; ESTC S118539	289,880	382

them a woorke and he himselfe was better acquaynted with Italy now then he had beene in foretimes Moreouer he knewe that Carthage woulde not syt at reast but adi●…yn herself as partaker of his enterprises out of hand The king lyked the counsel wel and there vppon one of Hanniballes retinue was sente vnto Carthage to stirre them to the warre beinge of them selues all readye desirous there of declarynge vnto them that Haniball wold shortlye come thither with an army Neuerthelesse he was charged to saye nothinge to the factions but only that the Carthaginenses wanted hart for asia shoulde fynde them bothe men and mony When newes hereof came to Carthage the messenger was apprehended by the enemies of Hanibal and being brought into the Senate and there examined to whome hee was sent he aunswered like a suttle afre that he was sente to the whole Senate In as muche as this matter was not the peculier case of anye one of them but appertained in generall to them all While they were debating of the matter in coūsel many daies together whether it were best for dischargynge of their own consciences to send him to Rome ther to make his purgation or no he toke ship priuely and returned to Hannibal Whervpon the Carthagi immediatly sent an ambassador to Rome The Romaines also sent ambassadors to antiochus the which vnder the coloure of ambassade should bothe marke and note the kynges furnyture for the warres and also eyther reconcyle Hannibal to the Romaines or elsse through their daily and continuall cōmoning with him bring him in suspitiō and hatred with the king Thambassadors therfore when they were come before y e king antiochus at Ephesus de●…yuered him the●…r commission from the Senate Duringe the time they laye there geuing attendaunce for theyr answer daye by daye they were euer in hand with Hannibal saying that there was no cause why he should haue fled so fearfullye out of his country ▪ seing the Romains withall faithfulnesse obserued the peace concluded not so muche with the body of the common weale of Carthage as with him cōsideryng they knew he had made war againste the Romaines not so much for ill wil he bare towardes them as for the loue he bare towardes theym as for the loue he bare towarde his owne country in the whiche quarell euery good man ought to spend his life For the occasyon of those warres grew vpon the displesure that the one country bare openly against the other and not vpon anye priuate quarell of the captaines amonge them selues Herevpon they too●…e occasyon to commend his noble actes the which communication so greatlye delighted him that hee was desyrous to talke with the ambassadors oftner not foreseinge that for the familiarity he had with the Romaines he shoulde purchase himself the kings displesure For antiochus vpon this ●…is daily communication thinking hym to be reconciled and faln in fauor with the Romaines wold not aske his deuise as he was wont to do nor make him preuy to any part of his doinges but hated him as an ennemy and abhorred him as a traytoure The whiche thing laide a water all that great furniture for the warres after the time that the policy of the graūd captaine was thus dashed out of countenaunce Theffect of the commissyon was to commaund Antiochus in the name of the Senate to be contente with the boundes of Asia onlesse he would driue them to enter into asia whether they would or no. Antiochus making light there of answered howe he was fullye resolued before not to receiue warre at theyr handes but to make warre vppon them When he had oftentimes debated with hys counsell and his captaines as concerning this warre not making Hannibal preuy there to at the last he sent for him not to th entent to doo any thinge after his deuise but to th entent he wold not seme to haue vtterly despysed him and there vpon when euery man had said his minde lastly he asked him ●…is aduise The whiche thing Hanniball vnderstanding wel inough said that he perceiued he was called not because the king thought himself to haue nede of his counsel but onlye to supply the noumber of sentences Neuerthelesse for the hatred he bare to the Romains and for the good will hee bare to the kinge as in whose courte onlye he had had safe refuge in the time of hys banishment he wold discusse what way he were best to enterprise his warres Thervpon he desired pardon in that he should speake so largely for he said he liked no part of their counsels nor opinions in that behalf as that Grece should be appoynted the place of the warre seing that Italye was better for the maintenaunce of the same For the Romains might not be vanquished but by their own weapons nor Italye otherwise bee subdued then by her owne power For those kinde of people were of a cleane contrary nature from all other menne and therefore the warres were to be ordered farre otherwise against them then agaynst all other men In other warres it is wonte to be a great furtheraunce and healpe for a man to haue taken some aduauntage of the place or of the tyme to haue wasted the fieldes or to haue wonne some Cityes But with the Romain whether ye haue gotten anye aduauntage before or whether ye haue ouercome him ye must be faine euen then to wrestle with him when he is vanquished and lyeth at your fote Wher●…ore if a man assaile them in Italy he might ouercome them with theyr owne weapons their owne richesse and theyr owne power like as ●…e himselfe had doone But if anye man shall suffer them to enioye Italye as the well springe of theyr strength he shal be as sore deceiued of his purpose as if a man woulde goo aboute to driue backe a riuer agaynste the streame or to dry it vp not beginninge to stoppe it at the heade but at suche place as the waters were deep●…st and mooste encreased This he saide was his opi●…yon in himself whervpon he was mineded to haue offered hys seruice and aduise vnrequested the which he now hadde vttered in the presence of al his frendes to th entent they mighte all vnderstande howe to make warres with the Romaines who out of theyr own country were inuincible and at home at their owne doores weake and easy to be ouercome In so much that it was an easyer matter to set them beside Rome then beside their Empire and to driue them out of Italy then out of their prouinces For their city had bene sacked by the frenchmen they them selues almost vtterly destroyed by him and yet he neuer vanquished before he departed out of their country But assone as he was retourned to Carthage immediatlye w t the place was also aultered the fortune of the warres ▪ The kings councel held as muche against this aduyse as could be not waying the vtility of the mater but for

as harde a matter for th one to haue demaunded it as for the other to haue paid it Thre and twenty thousand talents were bestowed here abouts Furthermore he cashed the old souldiers and supplied their roumes with yong beginners But such as wer reteined stil grudging at the dismissing of the old souldiers required to be cashed thē selues also biddinge him pay thē their wages not to tel them of their yeres for seing they wer chosen into warfare together they thought it but right and duty to be discharged together And nowe they came not to him with entretance and humble sute as by the way of petition but with fasing and bracinge Bidding him finish his warres alone with his father Hammō and then go set lighte by his souldioures On the contrarye part somtime he chastised them sometime he admonyshed them with gentle wordes that they should not obfuscate darken their famous conquests and acts of cheualry with rebellion at the latter end At the length when he saw his words could nothing auail he rose out of his chair vnarmed as he was and stepte into them being all armed to fetch out thauthors of that rebellion And no man durst be so bolde as ons to let him of hys purpose but that he pulled out xiii of them and led thē to execution with his owne handes So greate a pacyence in suffering death did the fear of a king cast vpon them or els the customable enuringe in the feates of warre gaue hym boldnesse to put them to execution Then called he the Per sians aside and spake to them praising their cōtinual faith and obedience bothe to him and to their kynges in tymes past rehersing his benefites towardes them howe he neuer accompted them as vanquished but as partakers of his victory and to be short how he hadde passed into theyr lawes and customes and not they into the customes of his country and that by ioyning affinitye and aliaunce he had made the conquerors and the conquered a like And nowe he said he would betake the custody of his own person not onlye to the Macedones but also vnto them Whervpon he chose a thousande of their lusty yonge men into hys garde another sort of them he gaue armor and wepon vnto and dispersed them into his owne host to th entent they should learn thorder of the warres of Macedone the which thing the Macedones toke sore to hart that the king shuld subrogate in their roumes weping vnto him desiring him to satisfy himself with punishing thē rather then wyth puttyng thē to suche reproche By the which submission they obtained y ● axi M. of thold souldiers were discharged and of hys frends wer dismissed because they wer old men Polyperchō Clytus Gorgias Polydamas Antigonus Craterus had the charge of theese that were sente awaye with Commissyon to take vppon him as regent of Macedone in steade of Antipater And Antipater was commaunded to come with a noumber of yonge souldioures to supplye hys roumē They that retourned home had allowance of wages as well as they that folowed still the warres While these thinges were in doing one of his frendes named Ephestion whome he loued entirely first for his excel lent beuty when he was a boy and secondlye for his humble obedience deceased For whome the kinge mourned a long time more then stode with his honor to doo beinge a king and bestowed xii M. talents vppon a tombe for hym Geuing commaundement to honoure him nowe after hys death as a God As he was in his way returning towards Babilon from the furthest landes that bordered vpon the Ocean tidinges were brought him that the ambassadours of Carthage and other Cities of Affrik and also of Spain Sicil Fra●…nce Sardinia and many of Italy did await for his comming at Babilon So greate a terror had the fame of his name striken into the harts of all the world that all nations as if they had determined to make him acknowledge him for their soueraigne Lord and king wer glad to humble them selues vnto him For this cause therfore as he was making spede to Babilon as it were to hold a parliament of the whole world One of the wisemen told hym that it was not good for him to come there affirming that it was the place where he should die There vppon he lefte Babilon and went to the city Byrse beyond the riuer Euphrates which ere whiles lay desolate There the Philosopher Anaxarchus through his perswasion compelled hym to despise the foresayinges of the wisemen as false and vncertaine forasmuche as if they were determined by desteny men were not priuye to them or if they were ordained by the lawe of nature it was not possible for a manne to breake them or auoid them Returninge therfore to Babilon when he had spent many daies in idlenesse the festing and banketting which he had left of now for a good while he set vp fresh again and being altogether geuen to mirth and pastime spending day and night in reuelling and making chere euen immediatly vpon a banket the Phisition Thassalus made a rere supper and desired the kinge and his Lordes vnto it Alexander toke a cuppe in his hande hande and as he was in the middes of his draughte sodenlye he gaue a greate sighe as thoughe he hadde beene striken to the harte with a dagger and being caryed from the banket halfe deade he was tormented with so intollerable paine that he desired to haue a sworde to ridde hym selfe out of it wythall and when anye man touched him it was as greuous to him as if they had wounded him His frendes caused it to be noised that his excessiue dronkennesse was the cause of his disease But in verye deede it was the treason of them selues the slaunder wherof was by the power of them that succeded suppressed The authoure of this treason was Antipater who seing his moost entier deare frendes murdered his sonne in lawe Alexander of Lyncestes put to death and himself after his noble enterprises atcheued in Grece not so muche accepted for his laboure as had in disdaine and ther vnto tickled with diuers complaints made by his mother Olympias besides all the which considering what straight iustice and cruel execution was lately before doone vpon the lieuetenaunts of sondry countries could gather no lesse by the circumstauns of the premisses but that he himselfe also was sent for out of Macedone not to attende vppon hym in his warres but to be punished as other had bene Therfore to the entent to preuent the kinges purpose he sent his sonne Cassander priuely with poyson the which Cassander wyth Phillip and Iolla his brothers were wonte to serue the kynge at his Table And the force of the poysonne was so greate that there was neyther brasse yron nor earthen vessell that was able to holde it nor it coulde not be caryed any otherwise then in the hofe a horse laying strait charge vpon