doubtfull and no rewarde though he wanne the victory but apparant losse if he were ouercome Wherfore let him not thinke that the ScythiaÌ„s will wayte for his comming hyther seyng there is in their enemye so much worthe the fetchinge and goynge for but they will with all their hartes go and mete him As they had sayde so did they in dede When the king vnderstoode that they made towardes him with suche spede he fled for feare and leauing behynde him his hoste and all hys furniture for the warres he fearefullye retyred into his kyngedome The Scithians coulde not pursue him into Egipt because of the fennes As they retourned from thence they conquered al Asia and put them to a litle tribute rather in token of their conquest than in reward of their victorye Fyftene yeares they taryed in pacifieng and setting a staye in the countreye From whence they were called home by the importunat requestes of their wiues whiche sent them worde that if they hyed theym â—…ot home the sooner they would lye with their 〈◊〉 to haue fruite by them and not suffer the 〈◊〉 of the Scithâ—…s to decay throughe their default Thus was Asia tributary to them by y â— space of 1500 yeres Ninus kyng of Thassirians made an end of paying thys trybute But in the meane tyme amonge the Scithians tâ—…o yong gentlemen of the bloud royall named Plinos and Scolopythus being through debate among the noble meâ—… driuen out of their couÌ„trey led with theÌ„ a great noumber of youth and setled them selues in the borders of Cappadocia about the riuer Thermodoon and kept al the fieldes about the citie Themiscira There many yeares together being wont to robbe their neyghboures at the last the people prfuily conspired together and sette vpon theym vnwares and by a trayne slewe them eueryechone The wiues of these men perceyuing that besides their banyshement they were also made widowes armed theym selues and defended theyr borders first by standing in their owne defence and afterward by making warre vnto others Moreouer they had no mind to marry any more with their neyghbours calling it a bondage and not maryage A singular example for all ages to looke vpon They encreased theyr common wealth withoute men and defended theym selues euen in despyght of men And to thentente some of them should not thinke them selues in better case then the rest they killed their husbands that were left aliue at home Furthermore in reuengement of the deathes of their husbandes they destroyed theyr neyghbours also Thâ—…n hauing by warre gotten peace and tranquilitie they sente for theyr neyghbours and companied with them If any male children werâ—… borne they were killed The women chyldren were brought vp not in ydlenesse â–ª nor to spinning and carding but in feates of armes ridinge of horses and huntinge as the custome is to bringe vp men And forbycausâ—… theyr shooting and throwing of dartes should not be hindered theyr righte pappes were seared of while they were children whereupon they were named Bamazons They had two queenes the one called Marthâ—… the other Lampedo the which deuiding their hoste in two partes and growinge to great welth and richesse made warre by turnes the one cir cumspectely defending the countrey at home while the other made warre abrode as theyr turnes came about And oâ—… th entent to be the more renowmed in all their enterprises affaires they proclaymed theym selues the doughters of Mars Wherfore hauing conquered the greater parte oâ—… Europe they subdewed also manye cities of Asia Where hauing builded Ephesus and diuers other cities parte of theyr armie being sent home with a great bootye the rest whych taried styll to defend thempyreof Asia were by a sodaynâ—… â—…ssault of the barbarous people with their queene Marthesia all slayne In whose roome secceded in th empyre her daughter Orithia Who besydes her singular actiuitie in feates of warre was as a myrrour to all women for preseruyng of her maydenhed â–ª and virginitye while she lyued Through the prowesse of her the honour and renowne of the Amazones was so greatly auaunced that the kyng for whose pleasure Hercules atchieued xii daungerous aduentures commaunded him as a thing impossible to fetch him the armour of the Queene of Amazonie Hercules therfore accompanyed with many of the yong lordes and noble meÌ„ of Greece arriuing with nyne galleyes assayled them vnwares At the same tyme the kyngdome of Thamazones was gouerned by two of the foure systers atiope and Orithia Of the whiche Orithia was makyng warre in forreyne countreyes by reason whereof there was but a slender company about the queene Antyope when Hercules arryued at the shore of Amazonye bycause there was no suche thyng mistrusted nor any enemye thought vpon Wherefore it came to passe that those fewe beyng raysed with the sodayne alarme armed theym selues and gaue theyr enemies an easie victorie For many wer slayne and many taken amonge whom were two of Antiopes sisters Mâ—…alyppe taken by Hercules Hippolite by Theseus Theseus maried his prisoner of whom he begate Hippolitus But Hercules after the victory restored Menalâ—…ppe to her sister and for her raunsome tooke the queenes armoure And so hauyng accomplyshed his charge retourned to the kyng Orithia hauyng knowledge that warre was made agaynst her systers and that the prynce of Athens had ledde awaye one of them perforce exhorteth her companye to bee reuenged affirmyng that all their conquestes in Poâ—…us and Asia were to no purpose if they should take suche a foyle at the handes of the Greekes as to suffer not so muche the warres as the rauishementes of Thatheniens And thereupon she sent for succour vnto Sagillus kyng oâ—… Scithia Alledging that she her people wer by discent Scithians borne declaringe furthermore the losse of their husbandes whereby they were constrayned to take armoure vpoÌ„ them and what was the cause of the warres whyche they nowe tooke in hande sayeng that through theyr prowesse they had brought to passe that the Scithians myghte seme to haue as valiaunt women as men The kyng beyng moued with the honour of his house sente to her ayde hys sonne Penaxagoras with a greatbande of horsemen But before the battell beyng by meanes of dissention sodaynly fallen betwene them forsaken of their succoures and so lefte destitute of thelpe and ayde of them the Atheniens put them to the worser Neuerthelesse the campe of the Scythians was a refuge vnto theym â—…y whose helpe they retourned into their countrey vntouched of other nacions After Orithia Penthesilea obtayned the soueraynetye Who lefte behynde her a noble remembraunce of her worthie actes in that famous assemble of valiaunt men in the defence of the Troianes against the Greekes Finally Penthesilea beyng slayne and her armye wasted those sewe that remayned with muche a doe scarcely defendyng them selues agaynste theyr neyghbours continued vnto the tyme of great Alexander Whose Queene Minothea otherwyse called Thalestris after she had obteined the
but also to such as behold it a far of Moreouer ther is such a do when the waues mete that a man shall se some as it were ruÌ„ning away drowned in the whorlpoles falling into the bottom of the sea other some in maner of conqueroures proudly bear theÌ„ selues a loft And again hear in one place the roring of the raging tide in another place as it were the sighing of the falling into the gulf And to the encrease therof maketh also the nere and continuall burnyng of the mouÌ„tain Aetna of aeolus iles as though the fire wer norished with the water For it is not possible that so greate a fire shuld other wise continue so long season together in so smal a roum onles it wer norished by moysture HerevpoÌ„ therfore grew the tales of Scylla Charibdis herevpon came it that men hard the barking of dogs hervpon meÌ„ beleued that they saw monsters which sailing that way being feared with the noise of the waues falliÌ„g into the great gulfs imagined the waues to bark which was nothig els but the noise of the waters beting one against another as they wer drawn bi violâ—…ce into the whorlpoles The like cause is also of the coÌ„tinuaÌ„ce of the fire of the mouÌ„tain aetna For this vi oleÌ„t meting of the waters draweth the winde with it perforce into the bowels of therth there holdeth him pent so loÌ„g vntil being spred into the holes of therâ—…h it setteth the â—…iry matter a burnig Now Italy Sicilie ar so near together and the promontories of bothe so like in heigth that looke how much we now wonder at it so much men in olde time wer afraid of it beleuing that the hils met and departed a sonder againe and that whole nauies of shippes were swalowed vp and neuer sene after Nether was this thing deuised in olde time for pleasauntnesse of the tale but for the wonderment of suche as passed that way For suche is the nature of the place that they whiche beholde it a farre of woulde rather take it to be an elbowe of the Sea shotyng into the land then a passage And when a manne comes neare he would thincke that the Mountaines parted and went a sondre Sicill was firste of all named Trinacria afterward it was called Sicania This Ilande from the beginnynge was the countrye of the Giauntes with one eye in their forehead called Cyclopes The whiche beynge roted out acolus tookâ—… vpon him the rule of the 〈◊〉 after whose decease euery City had a Tyran by them selues and there was neuer countrye that had better store of them theÌ„ had Sicilie Of the noumber of theese tirauntes there was one Anaxilaus that striued againste the crueltye of the others with iustice whose modest gouernaunce profited him not a little For when he was departed out of this life leauing his children verye yonge vnder the tuition and gouernement of a trusty seruaunte of his called Mycithus he was so wel beloued of al his subiects that they were conteted to obey his seruant rather then to abandon forsake his children And the princes of the citye forgettinge their estate suffred the kingdoÌ„ to be ruled by a bondman The Carthaginenses assaid to conquer thempire of Sicil fought a loÌ„g season with the kinges there of sometyme to their gaine and sometime to their losse At the last when they had lost their graund captain Hamilcar al his host their harts wer discoraged and so kept them selues in quiet for a good while after In the meane season the inhabitauntes of â—…hegium fallinge at debate among them selues the City being deuided in two factioÌ„s the one part thinking them selues to weak â–ª sent for the old souldioures whiche were then at the citye of â—…mera to come and healpe them who hauynge driuen oute of the Towne those againste whome they wer called and forthwith slaying them whose quarell they supported tooke their Citye with their wiues and children and all that euer they had whiche was suche a cruell acte as neuer tiraunt attempted in so muche that it had bene farre better for the menne of Rhegium to haue beene vanquished then to haue gotten the victory For whether they had bene driuen by the lawe of armes to haue serued the Conqueroures or whether they had bene driuen to forsake their countrye as banished persons yet notwithstanding they should not haue bene miserably murthered betwene the temples and their dwelling houses and haue left their natiue couÌ„try with their wiues and children as a pray to suche cruel tirants The Catenenses also beinge sore oppressed by the Syracusans distrustynge their owne strength demaunded succor of the Atheniens the whiche whether it were for desire to dilate their Empire because they had all redy conquered all Grece Asiâ—… or that they feared least the great nauy of shippes whyche the Syracâ—…sanes had lately builded shuld aid streÌ„gthen the Lacedemonians sent a Captaine called Lampozius wyth a nauy into Sicill to the entent that vnder the coloure of aiding the Catenienses they might attempt to get the kingdoÌ„e of Sicill And because that they had prosperous successe in their affairâ—…s at the beginning and made greate slaughter of their ennemies they went to Sicil again with a greater â—…eete and a stronger power wherof wer captaines Lachetes and Charâ—…ades But the Cateuâ—…nses whether it were for fâ—…are of the Atheniens or that they were wearye of the warres made peace with the Syracusanes and sent home the Atheâ—…ens againe that came to their rescue Wythin a while after when the Syracusanes obserued not iustlye the peace they sent their ambassadours again to Athens who in filthy apparel with longe heades and longe beardes fafashioning their countenaunce gesture as much as might be to prouoke pity came sorowfullye before the people In making their complainte they wept and with their humble submission so moued the sely people to pity that the cap tains wer condemned for withdrawing their succors from them Wherfore a great nauy was sent forth wherof wer appoynted captaines Nicias Albiciades Lamachus and they entred Sicilie with such a power that euen they whoÌ„ they came to defend were a fraid of them Shortlye after alcibiades being sent for home to answer to certain enditements that were put vp against him Nicias and Lamachus foughte two prosperous battels vpon the lande And soone after so enclosed their ennemies and kepte them so straighte that they coulde haue neither rescue nor victailes from the sea â–ª The Syracusanes being so sore distressed desired healp of the Lacedemonians Unto them was sent no mo but only Gylippus but he was suche a one as was worthe all the helpe they had beside For he hearing of the manner of the war and perceiuing his complices to be brought to a low ebbe raised a power partlye in Grece and partlye in Sicill and toke such a pece of ground as he thought meete for the two hostes to
y â— Alexander came to visit coÌ„fort when they saw the harnessed men they embraced one another made great lamentation as though they shuld haue died by and by Then they fel flat at Alexanders fete beseching him not for pardon of their liues but only respite of their deathes for a time to th entent they might bury Darius body Alexander being moued with pity at the tender affection of the women told theÌ„ that Darius was yet aliue and bad them be of good comfort for they shuld not die coÌ„maunding that they shuld be estemed as Quenes so to be called Furthermore he willed Darius daughters to trust to him that he would see them bestowed in mariage to no persons of baser estate then was for their fathers honor After this when he saw Darius richesse his precious orna ments his iewels and apparel they were so muche that he wondred to behold them Then began he first to make riotous bankets sumptuous feastes then began he for her beauty and fauor to fall in loue with one of his prisonners called Bersine of whom afterward he begat a sonne whom he named Hercules Notwithstandinge remembringe that Darius was yet a liue he sente Parmenio to inuade the Persian flete and other of his frendes to receiue the Cityes of Asia Which hearing of his great victory came with their lieuetenaunts that were appoynted by Darius who with a greate summe of golde yelded them selues vnto the conqueror and submitted them selues vnder his subiection Then set he forward into Syria wher he met with many kings of the East with crownes on their heads Of whom as eche of them had deserued some he toke into fauor and some he deposed setting vp kings in their steads Amongst all other Abdlominus whom Alexander made king of Sydon is worthy to be spokeÌ„ of Him wheras before time he was wont to be hired to cast ponds and water gardens leadyng his life miserably Alexander created king setting aside the noble men least for their birth linage they might rather haue semed to chalenge it of duty and not accept it as a fre gift The citezens of Tyre sent their ambassadoures wyth a crown of gold of great waighte vnto Alexander for ioye of his good successe who thankfully acceptinge their present said he wolde go to Tyre to performe his vowes to Hercules Thambassadors said he might do that better in olde Tyre in the old temple desiring he wold not enter into the new towne Wherat he toke so sore displeasure that he threatned to destroy the citye and there vpon forthwith he brought his army to the Iland whome the couragious Tyrians for the trust they had in the Carthaginenses entertained with battel For thexample of Dydo greatly encoraged the Tyrians who after that she had builded Carthage conquered the thirde parte of the worlde Thinkinge that it were a foule shame for them if their women shuld haue more hartes in conquering then they had in defending of their liberty Wherfore they sent away all such as wer not mete for the warres to Carthage and brought succors in their stâ—…ad Neuerthelesse ere long time after they wer surprised taken by treson Here vpon Alexander receiued the Rhodes Egipt and Cilicia without any stroke striking Then tooke he hys iourny to Iupiter 〈◊〉 of purpose to enquire of the chaÌ„ce of thinges to come and as concerning his own birthe For his mother Olympias confessed to Philip her husbande that she conceiued not Alexander by him but by a Serpente of wonderful bignesse And Philip him selfe a little before he died did openlye report that he was not his sonne Uppon which cause as though he had known her to haue plaid the miswoman he put away Olympias Alexander therfore be ing desirous to fetch his pedegre from God and also to deliuer his mother from slaunder of the world sent messengers priuelv before to the priestes to geue them instructions what answer he would haue them make Assone as he entred into the temple the prelates saluted him by y e name of the sonne of Hammon He being glad of this adoption of the God gaue commaundement that all men shoulde take him for his father Then he demaunded whether he had punished all suche as were gilty of the murderinge of hys father or no. They made him answer that his father could neither be killed nor die but as for the death of king Phillip he had sufficiently punished all the doers therof To his third demaund they answered that he shuld get the vpper hand in all battels and shoulde be owner of all the whole worlde To suche also as attended vppon him they gaue charge to honor Alexander as a God and not as a kyng Herevpon he grew to suche an hautinesse and so wonderful an arrogancy was rooted in his stomacke that the gentlenesse which he had learned by the literature of y â— grekes and the enstructions of the Macedones was quite rased out of his thought As he returned froÌ„ HaÌ„mon he builded AlexaÌ„diâ—…a and peopled it with Macedones ordeining it to be the hed city of Egipt Darius being eskaped to Babilon sent his letters to Alexander desiring him of liberty to ransome the women that wer his prisoners and for their raunsom he profered him a great sum of mony Howbeit Alexander would not take a piece of mony for their ransome but the whole kingdome Within a while after came a nother letter froÌ„ Darius to Alexander wherin he proferred him one of his daughters in mariage a portion of his kingdoÌ„ Alexander wrot vnto him again y â— those things that he offred him wer hys own alredy wherfore he willed him to come submit himself to put thordering of his kingdom to the discretion of his so uerain Then being past al hope of peace Darius adressed himself again to the warres and with 40000 fotemen a 10000. horsmen marched toward Alexander In his iourny newes was brought him that his wife was departed of de liuerance of a childe before her time and that Alexander wept for her death and also followed courteously after her corse to burial the which thing he had done not for that he was in loue with her but only for curtesy and humanities sake For he neuer saw her but ones in all his life wheras he wold ofteÌ„times visit his mother his litle daughters to coÌ„fort them Then Darius thinking himself clerely vaÌ„qui shed seing y â— after so many battels his enemy had ouercom him With kindnesse also thought it did him good sythe he could not get thupper hand y â— it was his chance to be vanquished of so worthy a conqueror Wherfore he wrate the iii. letter vnto him geuing him thankes y â— he had not shewed any extremity against his prisonners Offring hym the greater part of his kingdom euen vnto the riuer Eufrales with a nother of his daughters to wife and for the reast
countries all readye after a sort embrasinge in theyr mindes their wiues and children Alexander sommoned his souldiers together perswading with them that al those battels were to no effect that were paste if the barbarous nations of the East should eskape vntouched for he desired not Darius body but his kingdome and all suche ought to be pursued as forsoke their obedience to the kingdome When he had by this oration quickned the mindes of hys souldioures a new he subdued Hyrcanie and the Mede◅ In y ◠same countrye met him Thalestris otherwise named Mynoshaea the Quene of the Amazones with CCC M. womē whiche had come a xxv daies iourny through the sauage countries and through the middes of her ennemies of purpose so haue issue by Alexander The sight comming of whom was wondered at both for the straūge attire of the womē and also for the request that they made to companye wyth Alexander his men For this occasion wer xxx dais spent in idlenesse whē she thought her self with child she depar ted home again After this Alexander as though he hadde had made himself subiect to their lawes customes whom he had vanquished tok◅ vpon him thattire and diademe of the kings of Persia which thing was neuer known amōg the kings of Macedone before that time And because they shuld not disdain him y ◠more for doing these things alone to th entent he might counterfet the Persians aswell in excesse of apparel as in excesse of fare he also commaūded hys frends to wear lōg robes of cloth of gold of skarlet More ouer he spent the nights in daliance among the kings cōcubines which wer women of most excellent beuty eft with one and eft with another as their turnes came about And for fear least through wāt of delitious fare he shuld not be able to hold with his venerus daliāces pastimes he made sumptuous feasts bankets and thervnto deuised princely showes pageants quite forgetting y ◠by suche meanes riches are wont to be consumed wasted not gottē or preserued Upon this his doing arose a great grudge through al the camp y ◠he held so sore degenerate frō his father Philip y ◠in manner he disdained ones to heare his country named shuld take vpon him the maners customes of the Persians whō for such maners customs he had subdued But for because he would not seme to haue yelded him self to the vices of them whōe he had subdued by battell alone he gaue his souldiers licens if any of thē wer delited with the cōpany of their prisoners to mary them to their wiues thinking that they would haue lesse minde of home if they had in their tents as it were an image or representation of their houshold gods dwelling places also that thei wold make les accōpt of their trauel in y e warres for the delite plesure they had in their wiues Besides this he thought y ◠Macedone should not nede to be spent so muche in sendyng forth soldiers to supply the nomber of them that wer slam If the yong nouices might succede the old and expert souldiers their fathers learning to playe the men of war euen in the same trenche that they were born in And that they should proue the bolder and hardier if they were not onlye trained vp to the Warres but also broughte vp from the shel in the camp The which custome remained also among the successors of Alexander Therfore there was a stipend appoynted to finde the Children with all and when they came to mannes estate they had apparel of house and harnesse geuen them and the fathers had wages alowed thē according to the nomber of their sonnes If any of their fathers died or were slain the Orphanes neuerthelesse toke their fathers wages whose childhode amonge so many viages was euen a very warfare For being from their tender yeares endured and hardened with continuall trauell and pearils they made the host inuincible accompting the campe for noone other then their countrye nor the battell for anye other then their assured victorye The people that were thus begotten were called Epigones Afterwarde when he had conquered the Parthians he made ruler ◅uer them one of the mooste noble men of all Persia named Andragoras from whome the kings of Parthia did afterward descend In the mean seson Alexander began to outrage with his own men not like a king but like an enemy In especially it displeased him that some of them tolde him and rebuked him for breaking the customes of his offences the ancient father Parmenio next vnto the king in estate and dignity with his sonne Ph◅otas after inquisition had vpon them were bothe put to death Whervppon al the campe began to be on a rore bewailinge the mischaunce of the innocent old man and his sonne not letting sometime to saye that it was not for them to loke for any better The whiche thinges when they came to Alexanders eare fearing that if the brute hereof should be blowen into Macedone the glory of his conquests should be distained with the spot of cruelty he made as thoughe he were minded to send certain of his frends into Macedone to beare hōme tidings of his conquests exhorting his souldiers to wryte to their frends for it wold be long or they had the like occasion again because they should make warre further of The whiche being doone he caused the packets of letters to be brought priuely vnto him by the whiche vnderstanding euerye mannes iudgement of him he put all those together into one band that had any ill opinion of him entending either to consume them by battel or els to distribute them in to new townes that he purposed to build in the vttermoste partes of the world Then he subdued the Dracans the Euergets the Parimans the paropamissadanes the Hydaspians and the other kindes of people that inhabite the fote of Caneasus In the meane time was broughte vnto him faste bounde Bassus one of Darius frendes who had not only betraied the king his master but also slain him Whom in reuengement of his traiterous act he deliuered to Darius brother to punish him as he thought good accompting not Darius so much his enemy as the frend of Darius that had slayne his own master And to th entent he might leaue his name behinde him in those countries he builded a City vpon the riuer Tanais and named it Alexandria the wall whereof beinge vi miles in compasse he finished within xvii daies remouinge into it the people of iii. other cities that Cyrus had builded Amonge the Segdians and Bactrians also he builded xii cities destributing into thē all such as he knew to be seditious personnes in his hoste These thynges thus brought to passe vpon a certain solempne holye day he bad hys frendes to a feast wher after the time they had taken in their cuppes mention being made
among them as concerninge the actes of kinge Philip he began to prefer hym self before his father extolling the greatnesse of hys owne dedes aboue the skies where vnto the greater parte of his gestes assented Therfore when Clytus one of the old men vpon trust of the kinges frendship as one that in that respect was the chiefest about him toke vpon him to defende the fame and renowne of Phillip standing in the prayse of his noble actes he offended the kinge so sore that he snatched a weapon out of one of his gardes hand and slue hym at the table At the which murther trimling he cast him in the teth as he laye deade with his defendinge of Phillip and wyth the praise and commendation of his fathers warres But after his minde beinge satisfied with the slaughter began to quiet it selfe in steade of anger entred aduisemente and considering sometime whome he had slaine and sometime vpon what occasion he slue him he began to repent him of that he had doone that he had taken his fathers prayses in suche displesure as he ought not to haue taken reprochfull wordes lamenting that he should be so much ouersene as to kil his frend being an old mā and hauing not trespassed against him as he was making mery Thervppon beynge turned with like rage to repentaunce as he was cuē now vnto anger he wished himself out of the world First he fel a weping then he toke vp the dead body in his armes searched his woundes confessed his madnesse to him as if he coulde haue hearde him pulled out the weapon setting it to his owne harte and had slaine him selfe if his frendes had not wrasted the weapon out of his hande He continued in this wilfuluesse to die certain daies after For the more to augment his sorow and repentans came to his minde the remembraunce of Clytus sister who was his nourse of whom allbeit she was not there yet was he moost ashamed in himself that he had so shamefully rewar ded her for noursing of him as now being man grown and a conqueror to present her that had borne him in her armes all the time that he was a childe with the corse of her brother in recompence of her good turnes Moreouer he thought with himselfe what tales and slaunders he had raised of himself in his armye and amonge the nations that he had conquered what a fear and secreat hatred toward himself he had striken into the harts of his other frends how bitter and lothsom he had made his own table being not so terrible armed in the field as sitting naked at his meate Then came to his remembraunce Parmenio and Phylotas then came Amyntas his Sisters sonne then came his mother in lawe and her brothers that were put to death then came attalus Eury◅ochus pansanias and other noble men of Macedone whose liues he had taken away Herevpon he obstinatlye forsoke his meate iiii daies together vntil his whole host came and intreted him beseching that he would not so lament the death of one man as ther by to cast them all away hauing broughte them to the vttermoste of the barbarous nations there to be lefte destitute among the middes of their enemies that moste hated them and whome they had stirred thervnto by battell Greatly herevnto profited the intretaunce and perswasion of the Philosopher Callysthenes who had ben familier with him when they were both scholers vnder Aristotle and as then lately sent for to put his actes in wrytinge Therfore when he had set his minde againe to the warres he receyued the Chorasmians and Dracans by composition Afterward to th entent all thinges should be more spiteful the whiche one poynte of statelinesse taken of the custome of the Persians he had hitherto delayed he gaue commaundemente they should no more salute him but adore him Callysthenes was one of them that stoode sti◅iest againste his purpose The which thing was the confusion of himselfe and of many of the noble men of Macedone For vnder the colour of treson they wer all put to death Neuerthelesse the Macedones held stil their custom of saluting their kings vtterly casting away reiecting the manner of adoring After this he marched toward Inde to th entent he might bound hys Empire at the Ocean sea thuttermost parte of the East To the which renown y ◠thornaments of his army myght be agreable he ouerlaid the trappers of the horses tharmor of his soldiers with siluer after their siluer shieldes he named his whole hoste argyraspides When he cam to the City Nisa for as muche as the men of the towne vppon a certain superstitious confidens that they had in their God Bacchus who was the founder therof made no coūtenans of resistence he cōmaunded his men should do no harme to it greatly reioysing that he had not only folowed y ◠warres but also the verye fotesteppes of the God From ◅ence he led his host to see the holy Mount the which of it owne nature was beset with vines and Iuye in suche order as if it had bene dressed with mannes hande and set by conning of workmen Assone as his host came at the mountain beinge moued through a sodain instinct of the minde to the hollye howlings of the God they skattered here and there without any harm taking to the great admiration of the king Wherby he might perceiue that in sparing the town◅mē he did his own army as great plesure as he did them Thē went he to Daedalus hils and to the kingdom of Quene Cleo phis who yelding her selfe receiued her kingdome againe paying for the raunsome therof certaine nightes lodgynge with Alexander at whose hand she obtained throughe her pleasaunt daliaunce and enticements the thing she coulde neuer haue gotten by force of armes The sonne that she conceiued by him she named Alexander who afterwarde enioyed the kingdom of Inde Cleophis the Quene for defiling of her chastitye was euer after called of the Indians the kinges Concubine When he had trauelled throughe Inde he came to a rocke os meruelous bignesse and rough nesse into the which many people wer fled from winning wherof it was told him that Hercules was prohibited by an earthquake Being therfore inflamed with desire to sur mount the doings of Hercules with great labor and peril he obtained the rock Whervpon al the people roūd about yelded them selues vnto him whome he tooke vnto grace There was one of the kynges of Inde whose name was Porus a man of meruelous strength of body and of wonderfull stoutnesse of stomacke who hearinge of the fame of Alexander prepared for the Warre agaynste hys comminge Therfore when it came to the encounter he willed his men to set vppon the Macedones and to let him alone with their kinge for he woulde fight hande to hande wyth him himself And Alexander made no tariance to the combate But at the firste encounter his horse beinge wounded vnder him he