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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62350	A School for princes, or, Political reflections upon three conspiracies preceding the death of Alexander the Great translated out of French by A.O.	A. O.	1680 (1680)	Wing S883; ESTC R14690	43,281	190

provide for your Safety There 's no Eloquence more perswasive than that of a Courtier He 's a vehement and pathetick Orator who knows his Prince's Genius his Weakness his Inclination the Intriegues of the Court and all its Policies Craterus his Speech though artificial appeared full of Zeal and prevail'd in Council You see how cunningly he could conceal under a profound dissimulation the jealousy he had a long time had of Philotas his Grandeur Of the whole Company there was not one that undertook this miserable Man's defence all concluded upon his Death The resolution they had taken requir'd secrecy which Alexander recommended to them and to avoid giving suspicion he order'd all his Captains to get ready to march on the morrow In the mean while Caenus and Erigyus Leonatus and Perdiccas received order to send out a detachment of Cavalry to seize all the Passages that led into Media that Parmenio might have no intelligence given him And about midnight Attarras commanding three-hundred Men went out to secure Philotas his House Fifty of the boldest of them forc'd the Dore and whether it were that he rely'd on his reconciliation with the King or that his Disquiets had over-tired his Spirits Attarras loaded him with Irons whilst he lay fast a-sleep The rustling of Arms and the weight of his Chains wakening him at the same time he cry'd out starting Ah! Sir the malice of my Enemies has prevail'd with your bounty They carried him afterwards to the Palace neither his Fetters nor the consideration of his Misery being able to extract from him so much as one word or one groan The Authority of the Kings of Macedonia was limited during Peace by the common People and in time of War by the Souldery both the one and the other were Judges of Capital Crimes so that Alexander Emperor as he was and Master of all the East was forced by the Laws to plead his own Cause and be the Accuser of Philotas Alexander having caus'd the Macedonians to be assembled in the Palace and expos'd the Body of Dymnus to their view spake to them in manner following Souldiers a handful of Conspirators had almost rob'd you of Alexander I owe my safety to the Gods I have liv'd to see you and your presence animates me the more against my Parricides I cannot bear it that these wicked Vilains would have frustrated me of my Intentions and the Fruit of my Labours which can be no other than to honour your Valour and to recompence your Services Here his Speech was interrupted by the sighing of his Souldiers who all wept bitterly from whence he took occasion to prosecute in these terms How will you behave your selves then when I shew you who these Traitors are I scarce dare yet name them I expel them as far as I am able from my memory as if this could save them from their Punishment But I must stifle the remembrance of former friendship and discover this abominable Plot. And how indeed can I well conceal it Parmenio our Friend of a longer standing than any on whom both my Father and I have liberally heap'd up Favours has in his old Age made himself the Head of this Attempt Philotas his Son the chief Instrument of his Treachery has suborn'd Peucolaus Demetrius this wretched Dymnus whose Body lies before you and as many others as he could find capable of so great a madness At these words arose a great noise and confus'd murmur such as is common to great Assemblies especially of Souldiers seized with anger and amazement Nicomachus Metron and Ceballinus are introduced Each of them gives in what he had already declar'd but none charges Philotas So that the whole Army hearing no Evidence against him immediately laid aside their Anger and there was a general silence The King pursu'd thus What can you imagine the Design of a Man who inform'd of this Conspiracy kept it secret Dymnus by killing himself declar'd the Information true Ceballinus chose rather to expose himself to Tortures than to conceal a thing of such Importance though he was not certain of it Metron was so disquieted that to discharge himself soon enough he rush'd into the Chamber where I was bathing Only Philotas believes nothing fears nothing A most excellent Courage when his King 's in greatest danger he changes not his Countenance he slights the Information Ah! doubtless this silence was not without Design The desire of reigning animated Philotas to the perpetration of the highest Crime His Father commands all Media and he relying on the credit he has in my Army and imagining himself Master of my Forces aspires to more than he is capable of to more than he deserves It may be he despises me because I have no Children but he 's mistaken you are my Family as long as you live I am not without Children Then he rehears'd the Letter that had bin intercepted written from Parmenio to his two Sons Nicanor and Philotas There was nothing charg'd them more home of so capital an Enterprise The substance of it was this In the first place take care of your selves then of those that are under you and we need not fear accomplishing our Designs The King added That 't was conceived in these terms for fear of being intercepted that none but the Confederates might understand it But you 'l say Dymnus when he told Nicomachus the Names of the Conspirators said nothing of Philotas That 's nothing at all Souldiers to his Innocency but rather an effect of his Power He is so dreaded by those that can accuse him that when they confess their own Crime they conceal his We may judg of Philotas by the Actions of his Life He was a Confederate in the Conspiracy of my Cousin Amyntas in Macedonia He gave his Sister in Marriage to Attalus the greatest of my Enemies And when I wrote to him in a familiar Letter what the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon had spoken in my favour he had the confidence to answer me That he was glad to hear I was received into the number of the Gods but that he pity'd those that were to live under the Government of a Man that could not contain himself within the bounds of Humane Nature Are not these sufficient Marks of the alienation of his Spirit and of the envy he had for my Glory All this I kept to my self as long as possibly I could For I look'd on it as a ripping up of my own Bowels to disgrace those to whom I had bin so favourable But now they are not Words that are to be chastised From liberty of Speech he has proceeded to that of Action from wounds of Words to those of Swords Philotas you may believe it has design'd to assassinate me and if he be capable to perform it Souldiers Where shall I seek for safety Whom shall I trust my Life with I have made him the only General of the Cavalry which composes the greatest part of the Army and the Flower of the