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A14722	Anima'dversions of vvarre; or, A militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre Composed, of the most refined discipline, and choice experiments that these late Netherlandish, and Swedish warres have produced. With divers new inventions, both of fortifications and stratagems. As also sundry collections taken out of the most approved authors, ancient and moderne, either in Greeke. Latine. Italian. French. Spanish. Dutch, or English. In two bookes. By Robert Ward, Gentleman and commander.	Ward, Robert, fl. 1639.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 25025; ESTC S118037	599,688	501

desired to punish for the death of their beloved Captaine Eumenes perceiving how that by the Macedonians hee was adjudged an enemy and that their new Captaine Antigonus had decreed to make Warre upon him of his owne accord discovered these things to his Souldiers promising that if any were terrified with these newes hee would give him free leave to depart with which words they were so animated as that they promised him faithfully Rescissurus se ferro decreta Macedonum Antigonus understanding what a Souldier Eumenes was thought it a farre safer way to cut him off by policie then by force wherefore taking the advantage of Eumenes absence from his Army for hee was now visiting Cleopatra the sister of great Alexander at Sardis hee caused letters to bee spread through his Army wherein was promised great rewards to those who could bring Eumenes his head unto him Eumenes at his returne finding out the project called an assembly giving his Souldiers great thankes that amongst them all none was found that preferred the hope of a bloudy reward before the faith they had given to their Generall but withall politickly telling them Confictas a se has epistolas ad experiendos suorum animos esse And by this policie hee did not onely afright those that were wavering but also did provide against future times that if any such thing should afterwards happen the soldiers might suppose Se non ab hoste corrumpi sed a duce tentari Antigonus when he saw that hee could not entrap his Adversary by cunning then prepared to set upon him by force And Eumenes accordingly prepared to entertaine him but through the treachery of Apollonides generall of his Horse who in the heate of the battell fled to the Adverse part hee was overthrowne After which hee betooke himselfe to Nora a very strong Fort which hee manfully defended untill such time as Antigonus heard of the troubles in Macedonia which were raised by the seditions of Cassander and Polyperchon after the death of Antipater which comming to Antigonus his knowledge caused him labour to conclude a Peace with Eumenes knowing him to bee a man fit for his purposes if hee could winne him to his side both for his knowne faithfulnesse and excellent skill in Martiall affaires for of all Alexanders Captaines hee skarce had his fellow A Peace forthwith was concluded betweene them but long it continued not because not governed by the like mindes for Eumenes was most faithfull but the other treacherous to Alexanders kindred wherefore they fell againe to the Warres wherein after Eumenes had beene victorious in many battells at last by the mutinous Argyraspides he was betrayed to Antigonus who put him to death And now let us leave Antigonus a while and see how the affaires of the Empire were managed in other parts Euridice the Queene Wife of King Aridens so soone as shee knew of Polyperchons returne into Macedonia and that hee had sent for Olimpias the Mother of great Alexander grew full of envie and emulation wherefore shee writ letters in the King her husbands name to Polyperchon commanding him to deliver up the Army to Cassander whom shee knew to bee an enemy to Alexanders posterity For which courtesie Cassander was bound unto her and did many things according to her minde and afterwarde hee marcheth with his Forces into Greece making Warre upon divers of the Cities With whose destructions the Spartans terrified walled their City which in times past they had defended with Armes and not with Walls so much now did they degenerate from their Ancestors for in times past the vertue of the Citizens was the Wall of the City but now the Citizens thought not themselves safe unlesse they were enclosed with Walles But the troubles of Macedonia quickly called Cassander out of Greece for Olimpias comming towards Macedon Aeacides King of the Mollosians also following her they were forbidden to enter upon the borders by Arideus and Euridice Yet by meanes of the Macedonians who flocked to her apace shee got entrance and being entred by her Commandement both Euridice and the King were quickly slaine and shee her selfe ruled not long after For the Macedonians seeing what cruell massacres shee made amongst their Princes turned their love into hatred So when Cassander approached shee having no confidence in them retyred her selfe to Pydua a strong Citie where Cassander straightly besieged her and forced her by extreame famine to yeeld to his mercy yet hee shewed her but a little when shee came into his power for by the counsell of the Macedonians whose Children shee had slaine shee was without any respect to her former estate condemned to dye When the Executioners came to doe their office shee never shrunke for their swords neither shriked like a Woman for the smart of her wounds Vt Alexandrum posses etiam moriente matre conspicere and when shee was breathing her last gaspes shee covered her bodie decently with her haire and garments Ne quid posset in corpore ejus indecorum videri This was the end of this Royall Queene so famous through the World for being Wife to such a Husband and Mother to such a Sonne Perdiccas Alcetus Eumenes Commanders of the other faction being all slaine one would have thought the Warre should have ceased amongst Alexanders Successors but it fell out otherwise for the Victors fell at ods amongst themselves and this was the occasion of it Ptolomy Cassander and Lysimachus required that the Treasure and Provinces taken by Antigonus should be equally divided amongst them but this Antigonus denied Affirmans se non in ejus belli praedam socios admissurum in cujus periculum solus descenderat Hereupon Warre was decreed on both sides Antigonus feared them not onely hee wanted a faire pretext and colour for his Warre wherefore hee cavsed it to bee divulged that hee would revenge the death of Olimpias upon Cassander the murtherer and deliver Roxana and her Sonne out of the Tower of Amphipolis wherein the sayd Cassander had imprisoned them These things being once knowne abroad Ptolomy Cassander Lysimachus and S●leucus all joyne in League against him and so on all sides make their preparations both by Sea and Land The first battell was fought at Callamos betweene Demetrius Sonne of Antigonus and Ptolomy wherein Ptolomy got the day Afterwards these two Generalls fought at Sea and Demetrius got the victory and that a very great one which filled the heart of Antigonus so with pride as that hee commanded both himselfe and Sonne to bee styled Kings Ptolomy that hee might not seeme to have lesse authority amongst his men is graced also with the same Title and after their examples Cassander and Lysimachus did stile themselves also Kings Sic nona Regna ex Alexandri Monarchia orta sunt sicut Daniel predixerat After these private encounters with Ptolomy followes the generall Warre betweene Antigonus and his Sonne on the one side and Ptolomy Lysimachus Scleucus and Cassander on

Goate is the King of Grecia and the great horne that is betwixt his eyes is the first King which was Alexander the Great Now that being broken whereas foure stood up for it Foure Kingdomes shall stand up out of the Nation but not in his power Now these Kingdomes are the foure I have last spoken of for however by the first composition they were to bee but Provinces and these Princes forenamed to rule in them onely as Lieutenants to Arideus yet afterward that agreement was rejected and every of these made themselves absolute Kings 1. Mac. 1. 9. And this was the first occasion Perdiccas to whom nothing fell in this division but the tuition of the weake King and the conduct of the best Army cast about how hee might make himselfe equall with the rest for this purpose hee set upon Ariarathes King of Capadocia in which Warre hee proved victorious yet gained little more then the bare and naked Kingdome for his enemies being overthrowne they fly to their chiefe City where they burnt themselves their houses and all that ever they had Vt nihil hostis victor suarum rearum preter incendii Spectacula frueretur This Kingdome hee left to the custody of his best betrusted friend Eumenes to bee a place of sure retreate upon any occasion but as for himselfe hee aspired after greater matters Power enough hee had in the Army hee conducted but hee wanted Royall authority to countenance his Power and Capadocia was to little to limit his high thoughts Now that hee had proved his strength to make himselfe equall with the other hee would try one cast more too for the superiority to this end hee secretly treated a match with Cleopatra the sister of great Alexander by whom hee hoped to attaine the Soverainty of all the rest but belike hee was jealous that Antipater in whose power the Lady was would crosse this marriage Wherefore to cover his intents hee fained love to Nicaea one of Antipaters Daughters hoping under that pretext to gaine the Lady before any were aware of it but the old Foxe quickly espied his drift Et dum duas eodem tempore uxores quaerit neutram obtinuit This plot of his being overthrowne by the cunning of Antipater hee sets his wits abroach againe upon another designe for the winning of the Lady and that was to transferre the Army into Europe under the pretence of bringing the King into Macedonia the seate of his Ancestors and head of the Empire whose presence hee knew would actually make voyd for the time the office of the Viceroyes and so Antipater with Craterus being once in case of private men and himselfe onely in authority the match with Cleopatra then might easily bee effected and so should his greatnesse meet with a good title and what obstacle then could there bee to debarre him from the Empire There are two men taken into consideration which hee thought might bee some hinderance to him in that accomplishment of this project And they were Antigonus Lieutenant of Phrigia and Ptolomie of Aegypt For the first hee caused to bee accused of certaine crimes which might very well have served to take away his life which Antigonus would not seeme to take notice of but prepared himselfe in shew to come to his Answer but in the meane while hee made an escape and came into Aetolia where Antipater and Craterus were with their Armies about the conquest of the Countrey These tydings which Antipater brought quickly finished the Aetolian Warre and caused both Antipater and Craterus to foresee their owne danger Ptolomy also being advertised of these passages apprehended them deepely and therfore was easily drawn to side with Antipater his Coleagues Craterus and Antigonus Being thus joyned in League they begin to prepare for defence And Perdiccas understanding by the flight of Antigonus and the League that now was betweene him and the aforesayd parties that all his drifts were discovered resolved to carry all before him by fine force having both the strongest Army and the Kings name to countenance all his actions But the thing that troubled him was against which of the Coleagues hee should first attempt This being propounded in Councell some advised hee should transferre the Warre into Macedonia where Olimpias the Mother of great Alexander then was whose presence and the peoples favour would much promote all their enterprises Others advised that they should first attempt on Ptolomy in Aegypt least while they were in Macedonia hee should invade Asia and this advice prevailed whereupon Eumenes is charged to have regard of Asia and to him were joyned Alcetus Brother of Perdiccas and Neoptolemus as assistants in case Antipater or Craterus should invade those parts Sic Macedonia in duas partes discurrentibus ducibus in sua viscera armatur ferrumque ab hostili bello in civilem sanguine vertit When as Perdiccas had wafted his Army into Aegypt like a wilfull man hee tyred his Souldiers in hard enterprizes without successe which brought their hatred upon him which Pithom perceiving called an hundred of the Captaines and some of the Horse unto him and so entred his Tent and slue him Thus qui primus inter duces bellum movit primus interfectus est sayes Caryon Eumenes who was left by Perdiccas for the defence of Asia when hee understood of the great preparation that was made by Antipater and Craterus for the invasion of those Provinces committed to his charge presently sent for Alcetus and Neoptolemus to come to his ayd letting them know that the Adversary had already passed his forces and the Hellesponte Alcetus flatly denied his assistance alledging the backwardnesse of his men to Beare Armes against so great a person as Antipater and a man so honoured as Craterus Neoptolemus was content to make a fayre show of ayding him but had secretly covenanted with Antipater to open for him a way to the conquest of Asia which thing Eumenes carefully espied and prepared in time to prevent his evill designes And this hee did in a fierce battell wherein hee put him to flight and received his Foot-forces from whom hee was fled for his owne safegard into his service Neoptolemus after his overthrow fled to Antipater and Craterus perswading them that if by great journyes they would hasten their march they might certainely take Eumenes napping being now joyfull of his late victory secure by reason of his flight This councell was put in execution but not with such successe as was hoped for because Eumenes was watchfull over their proceedings perceived all their intents wherefore they that thought to intrap him on the suddain were unexpectedly in the trap themselves being set upon while they were secure in their march and much wearied with night-watches In this battell both Craterus and Neoptolemus were slaine and their Army routed and overthrowne After the death of Craterus whom the Souldiers exceedingly loved they chose Antigonus their Generall against Eumenes whom earnestly they