a reher sall of thactes of him and his successours the exeââ¦rable dede of ãâã sonne of Eucratides and the forââ¦unate assayres of Mythridaââ¦s kyng of the Parthians The contentes of the. xlii Booke THe Scythians make warre vppon the Parthians Phrââ¦haties kyng of Parthia for his crueltie is betrayed and slayne Actabanus succedeth after whose death reygneth Mythridates surnamed the greate who greatly enlarged the Parthian Empyre Thoreââ¦nall and description of Armenie the History of Iason and Medâ⦠and of the Argonantes Thoriginall of the Albanes in the Easte the descryption of the riuer Tygris Mithridatââ¦s is deposed and slayne by his brother Horodes The battelles of the Parthians agaynst the Romaynes the furiâ⦠and madnesse of horoââ¦s for the death of his sonne Pacorus the great wickednesse of Phraharââ¦es who ouercommeth Themperout Antony is deposed and set vp agayn by the Scythians Tyridates who duryng his absence was created kyng hearyng of his returne flyeth to Augustus Themperour Phrahartes sent Ambassadoures for hym Augustus subdued the Parââ¦tians with the Maiestie of hys Name The contentes of the. xliii Booke THe fyrst inhabiters of Italy the commyng thither of Euander and Eneas and of his warrres there the buyldyng of long alba with the succession of the kynges therof the buyldyng of Rome by Remus and Romulus the buildyng of Marsieles in FrauÌce with the prayse and commendacion and with the warres therof the stead fast ââ¦ayth of the Massiliens toward the Romayns the auncestors of thauthor of this worke The contentes of the. xliiii Boke THe situacion fertilitie and description of Spayn a wonderful example of pacience the dedes of Uiriatus Captayne of the Spanyardes of the genettes and of the steele that is in that countrie what thynges were inuented by Gargoris howe Gargoris assayed by all meanes to put his daughters childe to death and coulde not wherevpon moued with compassion for the perilles he had escaped he made him his heire whose name was Habis the inuentions of the sayd Habis the story of Hercules and Gerion the inhabityng of the Gades vppon what occasion the Carthaginenses entered fyrst into spayn and of the doyngs of their Captayns there ââ¦ynallie howe it was subdued by Augustus ââ¦hemperour and made a Prouynce of the Romaynes A PREFACE OF SIMON Grineus to the Reader as concerning the profite of readyng Hystoryes IF it were as Easye for euery man to take out and vse to hys owne be hofe the examples and instructioÌs left in Hystories as the Hystories haue sure aud grounded examples to leane vnto I wold geue all men aduise to runne the strayie and nea rest way into the most plentifull fruiteful fieldes of Histories without tariens For what ãâã be thought more pleasaunt or profitable than sytting as it were in the Theatre or Stage of mans life the whiche an Historye hath most exquisitely furnished in all pointes and to all ententes and purposes to be made ware and wyse at the perilles of other men without any daunger on his owne behalfe to take ensample of all sortes the which a man may apply to his owne behoofe and vtilitie in euery thyng and at suchâ⦠time as he shall chaunce to be present amongâ⦠gret men when with greatest aduisement they do debate most weighty affaires to be able to discusse the ende and sequele of the same which thing we al doe chiefely desire and couet and that which otherwise considering the shortenessâ⦠of mans life were a thing impossible to comprise in memory the times of many hundred yeares past to behold the beginninges the procedinges and the endinges of the gretest Empyres of all euilles eyther priuate or publike manyfest ly to discerne the ground and occasion In euerye hard and difficult matter to haue one to trie out the ieoperdyes and perilles before thee and to haue as it were a lodââ¦sman to go before thee in euerye daunger neuer to be deââ¦itute of tryed experience and to be briefe of thinges paste whyche properlye and peculiarlye apperââ¦ayneth to the dutye of a wise man pollitiââ¦ely to fore see what maye followe in all chaunces and so to iudge of them as if they were present Nowe forasmuche as we oughte to come to the readyng of Histories so muche the better furnyshed as an Historye is more replenished and laden with plenteous fruite and for as muche as it is as difficulte a matter to geue ryght iudge mente of another mannes lyfe as of his owne and that no manne is able be he neuer so sharpe syghted in this case to viewe another mannes lyfe well that can not viewe hys owne both are to be vnderstanded namely that there is in this case very great difficultnesse and also that longe tyme before we enterprise hereunto we ought not onely to haue a little snatche of ciuile pollicy but also that we ought to be fully resolued and established in our selues as concernynge the whole tenour of our lyfe onles we will continually wauer in our mindes and be miserably led about with vayne imaginacions of this lyfe lyke vnto ghostes For in lyke ma ner as at a greate and sumptuous feaste that is furnyshed with al kynde of deynties and delicate viandes it commeth to passe that one thing is set before one man another to another fewe taste of one thing euery man of that he lyketh best the rââ¦eners of all that come before them and as euery mans taste and dyete is so taketh hepleasure of the deinties that stande before him yet notwithstandynge there shoulde be some one kynde of measure whiche nature hath appoynted and some one kynde of meat simple and in anye wise vncorrupted that is most for the health and nourishââ¦ment of the bodye from eyther of the whyche whosoeuer steppeth aside and followeth his owne appeââ¦ite beyond eyther measure or thordinaunce of nature he may take more hurt than pleasure of the delicates Euen so in that gret variety of mannââ¦s lyfe although there be a thousande sundrye sortes of thynges and a thousand purposes and after what sorte so euer a man ãâã led by fancie or stayed by iudgement so doth he deeme of his owne lyfe and of other mennes yet there is but one onelye pathwaye of vertue in the whyche who so walketh aduisedly is only to be counted to liue wel All others like as they did at the sumptuous feast when al thynges prouoke them beynge able neyther in their owne lyfe nor yet in another mannes at any time to fynd what is best to folow or howe to procede But if nature haue geuen any thyng to man the whiche he maye vse or abuse at hys pleasure certesse he ought most circumspectely to vse this But I pray you what man is there almost that applyenge the rule of vertue vnto all sayenges and doynges aswell of his owne as of other mennes doth with more aduisement aduenture vpon them then vpon the daintye dishes set before him on the table or which thynketh not hym selfe sufficiently learned in this behalfe In the whiche
of her empyre but rather broughte her in greater admiration of all menne that she beynge a woman had surmounted in prowesse not only women but also men She buylded Babilon and enclosed it with a wall of brycke enterlayed with sand and Bytamen which is a kynd of slymye mortar yssuyng out of the ground in diuers places of that countrye Many other noble enterprises this Queene atchieued For beyng not content to maynteyne the state of th empyre and boundes of the same as her husbande lefte it vnto her she subdued Aethyop thereunto And besides that she made warre vpon Indie whereunto there was neuer any that durst geue the aduenture sauyng she onely and great Alexander At the last vnnaturallye desyryng to company with her owne sonne she was by him slayne wheÌ she had reygned xlii yeares after the death of her husbande Ninus Her sonne Ninus beyng contented with the countreyes wonne by his parentes layeng asyde all Chiualrye and knighthoode as though he had chaunged nature with his mother was seldome seene of men but spente hys tyme among a sorte of women His posterity also followynge his example gaue aunswere to the people to ambassadours by messengers The Empyre of Thassirians whyche afterward were called Syrians continued 1300. yeres The last kyng that reigned amonge theym was Sardanapalus a man more vicious than any woman Unto whose presence Arbactus whom he had made lyeuetenaunt ouer the Medes beyng by long suyte had much intreataunce hardly at length admitted which thing was neuer graunted to any man be fore found him amonge a sorte of concubines spinning purple on a rocke in womans apparayle passyng all the womeÌ there in softenesse of body and nycenesse of countenaunce and weyeng out to eche of them theyr taske At the whiche light Arbactus disdayning that so manye men shuld be subiect to such a woman and that so many valiaunte knyghtes and men of warre should be slaues to a woman went forth and tolde his peres what he had sene sayeng he coulde not fynde in his hart to serue and obey such a one as had rather be a woman then a man Whereupon the Lordes confedered them selues together and had him battell Who hearing thereof not like a man entendyng to defend his kyngdome but as women are wont to do for feare of death first sought a corner to hyde his head and soone after with a few and out of aray he came into the felde where beynge vanquished he retired into his pallace there makyng a great bonefire cast him selfe and all his ryches thereinto plainge the man in this only poynt After this Arbactus the worker of his confusion which before was lieutenaunte ouer y e Medes was instituted made kyng And he translated the empire froÌ the Assirians to the Medes In processe of tyme after many kynges by order of descent the kyngdom came vnto Astyage This man hauing done issue sauing one onely daughter dreamed that he sawe spryng out of her priuye members a vine whose braunches shadowed all Asia The interpretours of dreames and wonders beyng asked theyr iudgement and aduice in the matter made aunswere that hys daughter shoulde brynge hym fothe a nephewe whose greatnesse was by his vision declared before and that by him be should he deposed from his kingdome The kyng being not a litle abashââ¦d with this interpretacion maryed hys doughter neyther to a Noble man nor to one of his owne countrey least the nobilitie of the pareÌtes should aduaunce encourage his nephewe to take much vpon him but vnto a man of meane estate and liuing of the countrey of Persia which in those ââ¦ayes was reputed as a base countreye and of no regard or estimation Neuerthelesse beyng not by this acte quite dispatched of the feare of this dreame he sent for his doughter beyng great with childe that as soone as she were deliuered he myght see the babe kylled ⪠Assoone as the childe was borne it was deliuered to be ââ¦layne vnto Harpagus one of y e kinges priuye counsaile Harpagus fearing that if after the decease of the kyng because he had no yssue male to succede him the kingdome should descend vnto his doughter she would reuenge the death of her chylde vpon him being a subiecte which she could not do vpon her father ⪠deliuered the childe to the kinges herman commauÌ ding him to cast it away By chaunce the verye same tyme the herdman him selfe had a sonne newlye borne Whose wife hearing of the casting away of the kynges childe earnestly besought her husbande to fetche the childe vnto her that she myght see hym The shepeherd ouercome with the earnest intreataunce of his owne wife returned into the wood where he founde a bytche geuing the childe sucke and defending it froÌ foules and wilde beastes Then beyng moued with pitie to see the bytche so naturall and pitifull he tooke vp the childe bare it home to his cottage the bitche folowing him egerlye all the waye Assoone as the woman tooke the babe in her armes he smiled and played with her as though he had knowen her and there appeared in him such a chearfulnesse as it were a certayne smiling and flattering countenaunce that she desyred the shepeherd herhusbande to cast awaye his owne childe and suffer her to bryng vp that in the sted of it such was the good fortune of the childe or els the hope that she of hym conceyued And so the destinye of the two children beyng chauÌged the kinges nephewe was brought vp for the shepeherdes sonne and the shepeherdes sonne was cast away for the kynges nephewe the nources name was afterward called Sparcon bicause the PersiaÌs do cal a bytche so in theyr language The childe beyng broughte vp amonge the shepeherdes was named Cyrus And in the meane tyme beyng chosen kynge amonge children as they were a playeng when in sporte he whypped suche as wer stubbourne agaynst him the parentes of the children made thereof a great complaynt to the kyng sayeng it stoode not with their honour that their children should be beaten like slaues of the kynges bondman The kyng sendynge for ââ¦he chylde demaunded of hym whye he dyd so He aunswered without any chaungyng of countenaunce at all for the mat ter that he had done as it became a kynge to do The kyng maruayling at his audacitye came in remembraunce of his dreame and the interpretacion thereof and so when bothe the countenaunce of the chylde and also his lykenesse vnto him selfe the time of his castyng away and the examinacioÌ of the shepeherd agreed in one he acknowledged him to be his nephewe And for bycause he thoughte him selfe dispatched of his dreame in as much as the childe had played the kyng among the shepeherdes the cruell hart that he bare toward the child was clerely thereby relented But to his frende Harpagus he became so deadly an enemy for sauing of his nephewe that to reuenge his
died in the preparation therof leauinge many sonnes behinde him wherof some were begotten before he was king and other some in the time of his raigne Of the whyche Artobazanes the eldest claimed the Crowne by prerogatiue of hys age alledginge that by order of lawe by order of birthe by order of nature and by custome of all Countryes he oughte to haue it Xerxes replied and sayde that their controuersye was not as concerninge the order of their birthe but as concernyng the nobilitye and worthinesse of theyr byrthe For hee graunted that Artobazanes was in deede the first that was borne vnto Darius but Darius was then a priuate person and that he him selfe was the firste that was borne to Darius being king Wherfore his brothers that were borne durynge the time his father was a subiect might lawfully claime suche priuate inheritaunce as Darius then had but not the kingdom which apperteined to him being the first whome his father begat in his kingdoÌ This also made for his purpose in that artobazanes was borne a priuate person not only by the fathers side but also by the mothers side and also ãâã his graundfathers side by the mother Wherâ⦠he himself had a Queene to his mother and he ãâã ãâã his father but king and he hadde a kinge ãâã his grauââ¦father by the mother namelye kinge Cyrus who was not an inheritor but the first founder of that greate Empyre And therfore if theyr father had left them ãâã like right to the ãâã yet notwithstande in consideration of his Mother and hys graundfather he oughte to be preferred They putte thys controuersy quietly and gently with a good will to the discretion of their vncle Artapheâ⦠as to a housholde iudge who discussing the matter at home preferred Xerxes And this contention betwene them was so brotherly that neither he that had the vpper hand vaunted him self neyther he that was ouercome was sorye for the matter And euen in the chiefest time of all their strife they sente giftes and presentes one to another aud merely banketted together wythout mistrust of treason or deceit and the matter was ended wythout dayes men or without reprochful wordes betwixt them So muche more modestly could brothers in those daies deuide the greatest kingdomes then they can nowe deuide a small inheritaunce Xerxes therefore by the space of fiue yeares together made preparatyon for the warres whiche his father had begon against the Grekes The which thing when Demeratus kinge of the Lacedemonians who at that time beinge banished his Countrye liued in king Xerxes Courte vnderstode being more frendlye to his countrye after his banishment then to the kyng for all his benefites to the entente they shoulde not be oppressed with sodaine warre wrate all thinges in tables of wode to the Magistrates of Sparta and couered the letters ouer with ware least that ether the wryting without a couer might bewray it self or the newe ware disclose hys deuise WheÌ they wer finished he toke theÌ to a trnsty seruaÌt commaunding him to deliuer to the magistrats of the Spartanes When they were brought to Lacedemon the matter hong long in question what it shoulde meane because they saw no wryting again they thought the tables were not sent for nothing the closer the thinge was so muche they iudged it to be of greater importaunce Whiles the menne with sondrye opââ¦nions slacke in the matter the Syster of Lââ¦oindas the kynge founde out the intent and meanynge of the wryter The ware therfore being skraped of it appeared was wrought against them By this time had Xerxes armed seuen hundred thousand of his owne kingdome and hired thre hundred thousand Mercenaries So that it hath not without good cause bene reported that his army dronke the riuers dry and that al Grece was skarse able to receiue his hooste It is also said that he had ten hundred thousand shippes To this huge host wan ted a mete Captaine For if ye haue respect vnto the king ye may praise his riches but not his good guidans or know ledge requisite in a Captain of which there was so greate aboundaunce in his realme that when riuers were not able to finde his huge multitude drinke yet had he treasure more then could be spent He would be sure to be the laste that shoulde come to encounter and the firste that shoulde run away In danger he was fearful out of daunger proud and ful of bosting Finally before he should come to the triall of battell he gloried so much in his owne strength that as if he had beene euen a Lord ouer nature and had beene able to rule it at his pleasure he broughte mountaynes to plaine ground and filled vp the valleis made bridges ouer the sea and cut through the main land to make nerer way for his shippes to passe Whose comming into Grece as it was terrible so his departure was as shameful and dishonorable For when that Leonides kinge of the Sartanes wyth four thousand men had taken the strengthe of Thermopyle Xerxes in disdaine of his small noumber commaunded that none shoulde assaile them but they whose kinsfolke were slain at the battel of Marathon the which while they soughte to reuenge the deathes of their frends wer the beginning of the slaughter that ensued In their places succeded stil mo and mo to the great encrease of their owne slaughter Three daies the Persians fought there to their greate anguish displesure and sorow The fourth daye when it was tolde Leonides that twentye thousande of his ennemies had taken the toppe of the hill then he began to exhort his partakers to depart and to reserue them selues till some better time might come wherin they might do seruice to their country for he hys Spartanes wold staÌd to thadueÌture of fortune saying that he set not so much by his life as by his country that the resi due ought to be spared for the defice of Grece wheÌ the kin ges plesure was published the rest departed all sauing the Lacedemonians which taried stil with him In the beginning of this war whé counsel was asked of apollo at Delphos answer was geueÌ that either the king of thes partanes must be slain or els the city be destroid And therfore wheÌ the king Leonides shuld go forth to the war he had so encoraged his souldiers that euery man went with a willing hart to dye with their maister He tooke the straites for this purpose that with his small noÌber he might either win with more honor or die with les domage to the coÌmoÌ welth wherfore when he had dismissed his partakers he exhorted the Spar tanes to remeÌber theÌ selues that how so euer they fought they must be slaine warning them to take hede that they gaue no cause to baue it reported of them hereafter that their harts serued them better to tary then to fight saying that it was not for theÌ to stand stil til their enemies should enclose
therfore being set at large prepared not warre as now anye more secreatly but openlye nor by dissimulation but by open deââ¦aunce and raised a great power bothe of his owne and of his frendes and complices as manye as he coulde hire for mony or for fauoure The Lacedemonians remembrynge that by his meanes they were greatly aided in their warres wyth the Atheniens like men ignorant against whom the warââ¦e was raised determined to sende aide vnto Cyrus when occasion shuld require seking bothe for thankâ⦠at Cyrus hand and also for pardon at Artaxerxes hande if he should get the victory in as muche as they had attempted nothing against him openlye But in the battell suche was their chance that the two brothers meting together encountred th one with thother wheras Artaxerxes was wounded by Cyrus but by the swiftnesse of hys horse he was deliuered from daunger and has brother Cyrus was ouerthrowen by the kings band and so slain And so Artax erxes getting the victory obtained the spoil of his brothers warre and his armye also In that battell there were x. M. Grekes that came to the aide of Cyrus the whyche in the winge wher they stede gate the vpper hand and after the death of Cyrus could neither be ouercome of so greate an host perforce nor yet be entrapped or taken by policy ââ¦ut in their retourne homewarde throughe so manye wylde and sauage nations so long a iourny defended them selues by their manhode and prowesse euen vnto the borders of their country The syxthe Booke THe Lacedemonians as the nature of man is the more they haue the more they couet not content that their power by conqueringe the Atheniens and annexinge their power to their owne was now doubled began to deuise how to attain thempire of all Asia the most parte wherof was vnder the dominyon of the Persians Therfore Dercillides being appoynted lieue tenant generall for these Warres when he sawe that he must haue to doo against two of Artaxerxes lieuetenauntes Pharnabazus and Tyssaphernes which had about them in a redinesse the whole power of the mightiest Countries in all the world he thoughte it good to make peace with the one of them The meeter for his purpose seemed Tyssaphernes a man bothe of more experience and actiuity then the other and also better furnished with the souldioures that belonged sometime to kinge Cyrus After communication had agrement was made vpon certain conditions that he shuld not intermeddle him selfe with the warres Pharnabazus being herewith agreued complained therof to the king their master declaring how he withstoode not the Lacedemonians by force when they entred into Asia but nourished theÌ there at the kinges charges and that he bargained wyth them to delaye the warres whiche they tooke in hande as though the domage therof should not equally redounde to the displeasure of the whole Empire He said it was an vnsemely thing that the warre was not gone through wythall but bought of and that the enemy was hired of for mony and not rather driuen away by dint of sword When he had by this complaint brought the king in displesure wyth Tyssaphernes he exhorted him to make his Admirall of the sea in steade of Tyssaphernes Conon of Athens who synce the the time he had in battel lost his countrye liued in exile at Cyprus For though the Atheniens were bereft of power and richesse yet notwithstanding their experience in ordering and guiding a nauy remaineth still vnto them And if one were to be chosen amonge them all there was not a better then Conon Herevpon he hadde deliuered vnto him CCCCC talentes with commission to make Conon admirall of the kings flete The Lacedemonians hauing intelligence hereof sent an ambassade to the king of Egipt requi ring him to send Hercymones to their aid with a noumber of ships Who sent them a C. galeis and DC bushels of corn Other of their confederates also sent them greate succors But vnto this great army and against so great a captaine there wanted a mete gouernor Therfore when as the con federates of the Lacedemonians demauÌded to their grauÌd captain agesilaus at that time kinge of the Lacedemonians The Lacedemonians debated the matter a greate while whether they might make him lieuetenant general or no by reson of the aunswer of the Oracle at Delphos the effect wherof was that their Empire shoulde come to an ende at suche time as the royall estate halted for agesilaus was lame of one foote At the lengthe they determined that it were better for their king to hault in his goinge then the kyngdome to hault for want of a meete gouernoure When Agesilaus was sent into Asia with a great host of men I can not thinke that euer any couple of Captaines were so well matched together as they two wer For both in yeares in prowesse in counsel ⪠in wisdome and in pollicy they wer in maner all one and in honor for their enterprises they wer both a like And althoughe fortune had made them equall in all thinges yet she preserued eche of them vnconquered of other Greate was the furniture of them bothe to the warres and great were both their attempts enterprises But the souldiers of Conon raised a mutiny against him because the kinges lieuetenaunts before time had ben wont to abridge and defraud them of their wages Demaunding their duties so much the earnestlier in that they toke vpon them to serue in so greate warres vnder so noble a chiefetaine Conon therfore hauing long time sued in vayne to the kinge by his letters at the lengthe went vnto him him self Whose presence and speache he mighte not be suffered to come vnto because he would not worshippe him after the manner of the Persians Neuerthelesse he entreated wyth him by messengers lamenting that the warres of so rich a prince as he was shuld be forslowed for want of mony and that hauing as puissaunt an armye as his enemies had ââ¦e shuld be ouercome in richesse wherof he had more aboundans then they that he shuld be found weak in that kind of streÌgth wherin he far exceded theÌ Wherfore he demauÌ ded to haue the disbursing of the mony him selfe because it wold be very pernitius hurtful to put the doing therof in to many mens haÌds When he had obtaind the tresure he returned to his flete immediatly set his matters abroch Many things he adueÌtred valiaÌtlye many thinges he at cheued luckely He wasted his enemies landes won their townes cities as a tempest bare down al things before him With which his doings the Lace being a fraid determined to cal home agesilaus out of Asia to the defence of his own couÌtry In the mean seson LisaÌder whom Agesilaus at his setting forth had substituted his vicegerent to defende the couÌtry at home ⪠collecting a great nauy rigged furnished it withal the power he could purposing to try the fortune
ioyned with ãâã it is an vncredible thing how greatly they encreased The enryching of the Iewes came by the reuenewes of Balme whiche groweth no where but only in their countrie For there is a certayn valey inclosed round about with continuall hylles as it were walles like vnto gardines The place conteyning two huââ¦dred thousand Acres is named Iericho In the same vale there is a wood notable bothe for the frutefulnesse and for the pleasauntnesse thereof For it is beset with date trees and balme trees The Balme trees are lyke in makyng and groweth vnto pytche trees sauyng that they be much lower and are dressed as vines are These at certeyn tymes of the yere doe swete out balme But the place is not so muche to be wondered at for the frutefulnesse as for the colenesse thereof For whereas throughout all the Clymate of that Countrie the sunne is excedyng hote there is in that place as it were a naturall warmenesse and a continuall shadowe In that countrie is a lake which for the greatnesse therof and for the vnmouable standyng of the water is called the dead sea For neyther is it moued with y â wyndes by reason the bytumen resisteth the force of them wher with all the water is made to stand immouable neyther can it be sayled vppon bycause that all thynges wantyng lyfe synke downe to the bottom and it will not beare any substaunce onlesse it be ouerlayed with Alume Xerxes kyng of Persia fyrst subdued the Iewes Afterward they and the Persians also were brought in subiection by great Alexander and continued a longe tyme vnder the gouernaunce of the Empyre of Macedone Lastely rebellyng agaynst Demetrius by sekyng the frendshyppe and Aliance of the Romayns who at that tyme dyd cut large thonges of other mens lether they were the fyrste of all the Nacions of the East that requested lybertie Duryng the same tyme that there was such alteracioÌ of the kyngdome of Syria among the new kynges Attalus kyng of Asia distayned his moste florishyng kyngdome which he had receyued of his vncle Eumenes with the slaughter of his frendes and thexecucion of his kynsfolke false lye surmisyng one whyle that the olde lady his mother another while that his owne spouse Beronice were by their sorcery and enchauntmentes kylled After the committyng of this wicked and outragious crueltie he put on fylthie apparell he let his hed and his beard growe long lyke as offenders are wont to dooe in person he woulde not come abrode he would not shew himself to the people he would not make any myrthe or good chere in his house no nor pretend anie token at all of a manne that is in his right wittes so that it was not to be thought but that he punished himselfe to pacifye the Ghostes of suche as he had wrongfullie put to death There vppon leauyng the gouernement of the kyngdome he gaue himselfe to makyng of gardynes and sowed sedes settyng herbes anâ⦠wedes myngled togyther all the which he woulde stepe in venemous liquors and send as a speciall present to his frendes Furthermore he gaue himselfe to the studie of Smyths craft and to founding of metalles maruelously delightyng in meltyng and casting of brasse Fynallie entendyng to make his mother a Tumbe as he was earnestlie occupied about the same he caught a Surfettâ⦠by the heate of the sunne of the which he dyed within seuen dayes after By his last will he made the people of Rome his hââ¦ire But there was one Aristonicus the sonne of Eumenes not begotten in lawfull wedlocke but borne of a single woman of Ephesus the daughter of a certayn Mynstrell who after the death of Attalus toke vppon ââ¦im the kyngdome of Asia as yf it had ben his by right of inheritaunce When he had fought manie prospââ¦rous battelles agaynst such of the Cities as woulde not yelde themselfes vnto him for feare of the Romayns and thervppon semed now to be righfull kyng in dede Licinius Crassus the Consul was appoynted to haue the charge of Asia who hauyng more mynde of Attalus riches then of the warre by aduenture in the later end of the wynter for wante of good order and gouernaunce in the fyelde was ouercomme and with the losse of his lyfe suffered due punishement for his vnaduised rashenesse and couetousnesse In his roume was sent the Consull Perpenna who in the fyrst encounter vanquished Aristonicus and toke him prisoner and also shipped all the riches of Attalus belongyng to the Romayns by force of Legacie and conueyed them to Rome The which his successor Marcus Aquilius the Consul takyng sore to hart made al the hast and spede he could deuise to take Arystonicus perforce out of Perpennas hand as who shoulde say that he himself ought rather to haue the honor of Tryumph foâ⦠vanquishyng hym But the deathe of Perpenna brake the stryfe of the Consulles and so Asia beyng made the right of the Romayns with her richesse sent also her vices vnto Rome The. xxxvii Boke AFter that Arostonicus was takeÌ prisoner the Massilias sent Ambassadors to Rome humblye requestyng pardon for the Phocenses their fouÌders whose Citie Senate yea and name the Romaynes had geuen sentence should be vtterly rooted out bycause that bothe at that tyme and before tymes when they had warres with Antiochus the same lyke deadlie enemies had euer furthered the warre agaynste theym the which request with much sute the Massilians obteyned This done they rewarded the kynges that had ayded them agaynst Aristonicus vnto Mythridates kyng of Pontus they gaue the lesser Syria vnto the sonnes of Ariarathes kyng of Cappadocia who lost his lyfe in the same battell they gaue Licaonia and Cilicia And the people of Rome delt more faithfully with the sonnes of their confederates then the mother dyd deale with her owne children For by th one the child had his kyngdome enlarged by thother he was bereft of his lyfe For Laodice of syxe sonnes that Ariarathes had begotten by her for feare least by continuall succession in the gouernement of the kyngdome some of them mighte happen to come to mannes estate kylled fyue of them One of the yongest by the helpe of his kynred was saued from his mothers crueltie who after the death of the sayde Laodice for the people had put her to death for her crueltie enioyed the kyngdome alone Mythridates also beyng surprised by sodayne death left a sonne behynd him of his owne name who afterward grewe so great that he surmounted in estate not onely the kynges of his tyme but also all the kynges that had ben before hym and helde warres with the Romaynes syxe and fowerty yeres togither sometyme with conqueste and sometime with losse Whome the moste expert and valiant Captaynes Sylla and Lucullus with diuers others in fine ââ¦us Pem peius ouercame in such sorte that he still rose with greater force and prowesse to renewe the battell and by
his losses semed euer to be made more terrible to them Finally at the length he was not vanquished as an enemie but in his oldeage leauyng his ãâã to be his heire he dispatched himselfe by wilfull death in his owne kyng dome where his auncesters had raygned of long continuance The very wonders of heauen dyd prognosticate what a great man he shoulde be for bothe the same yet ⪠that he was borne and the same yere he firste began his reygne there appered by the space of threskore and tenne dayes at both tymes suche a blasyng starre that all the skye semed to be on fyre For it was so bygge that it occupied a quarter of the heauen it was so brighte that it blemished the light of the Sunne when it rose or went doune it consumed fower howers at eche tyme. When he was a chylde his owne Gouernours wente about to destroy hym settyng hym vppon a rough horse and compellyng him to lern to ryde and to torney The which attempt followyng not their myndes as they woulde haue had the yong Prince Mythridates rulyng the horse better then was loked for in one of his age they assayed him with poyson The which he standyng in doubt of before dronke tryacle oftentymes by meanes whereof he so stayed his bodie with tryed and exquisite medicines that when he was olde he would haue poysoned himselfe and coulde not After this fearyng least his enemies woulde compasse the thyng by weapon which they could not doe by venim he couÌterfeyted a desyre of huntyng whervppon by the space of fower yeres he came not vnder anie roofe eyther of house in the Cytie or cotage in the countrie but wandered vp and doune the forestes and woods rested the night time in the mountayns sometime one where and sometime another no man knowyng where was his haunt enuryng himself eyther to chase or to pursue the wylde beastes on foote and with some of them to encounter with playne force By meanes whereof he both auoyded all treason and also hardened his bodie to abyde all kynde of trauell and exercyse Afterward when he came to take the kââ¦gdome vppon him immediatlie he set his mynde not so muche of gouernyng as of enlargyng thesame Therefore he maruelous fortunately subdewed and brought in subiection the Sââ¦ythians who before that day were neuer conquered whiche had vtterlie destroyed Zopyron the Capitayne of greate Alexander with thirtie thousand armed men whiche had slayne Cyrus kyng of Persia with two hundred thousand men of warre and which had put to flyght Philyp kyng of Macedones Being thus encreased in strength he conquered Pontus and consequentlie Cappadocia Then with certayn of his frendes he went secretly disguysed out of his owne kyngdome without knowledge of anie man and wanderyng through Asia vewed the situacion of all the Cyties and Prouynces of the same From thence he trauayled ouer Bythinia and as though he had ben alreadie Lorde of Asia he deuised all thynges that might helpe to fââ¦rther him toward his conquest After this when all men beleued he had ben dead he returned home into his own Realme where he found a lytle sonne whome Laodice his syster and wyfe had brought him forth in his absence But in the myddes of the ioye that was made for his returne and for the birth of his chyld he was in daun ger to be poysoned For his syster Laodice beleuyng him to be dead and therevppon abusyng her bodye with his frendes as though the might haue hydden her offence by committyng of a greater cryme prepared a cuppe with poyson to welcome him home withall Wherof Mythridates hauyng intelligence by a Damosell punished the offence vppon the deuisers thereof After when wynter drew nigh he spent not the time in feastyng but in fââ¦ates of armes not in ãâã but in exercise not amoÌg carpet knights but eyther in yoââ¦sting and tournying in runnyng on foote or on horsebacke or els in wrestlyng and tryal of strength among his pââ¦res Also he daylie enured his men of warre by lyââ¦e exercyse to abyde labor and trauell as well as himself by meanââ¦s wherof as he was iââ¦incible himself so made he his host inuincible also Then he entred in league with Nicomedes and inuaded Paphlagonia the which he conquered and parted it with his companyon When woorde was brought to the Senate that these kyngs had subdued the countrie they sent Ambassadours to them both coÌmaun dyng them to set it in the lyke estate as they found it My thridates thinkyng himself nowe able ynough to matche the puissaunce of the Romayns answered proudelie that the kyngdome was his fathers by inheritaunce and that he maruayled they should make alteration with him for it hauyng not done the lyke to his father Moreouer he set so lyght by their Manaces that he inuaded Galatia also Nicomedes for asmuch as he was not able to make his partie good by anie tytle answered he woulde surrender it to the rightfull kyng and so chaungyng the name of his owne sonne he called him Phylomenes by the name of the kyngs of Paphlagonia by which conueyance vnder a counterfect name he helde still the kyngdome as though he had restored it to the right heire The Romayne Ambassadoures beyng thus had in derision returned to Rome with a mocke Morrouer he sent his wyfe Laodice to Rome to testifye that she haââ¦e tââ¦ree sonnes by Ariarathes The which thyng when Mithridates knew of he also with lyke impudent vnshamefastnesse sent Gordius vnto Rome to auouche before the Senate that the chylde to whome he had deluded the kyngdome of Cappadocia was the sonne of the same Ariarathes whiche in the quarell of the Romaynes was slayne in the battell agaynst Aristouicus But the Senate vnderstandyng the meanyng and endeuour of both the kynges wold not gene other mens kingdoms to vsurpers that tooke wrong names vppon them Whereupon they tooke Cappadocia from Mithrydates and to comfort him withall they toke Paphlagonia from Nicomedes And to th entent it should not seme they wold take any thynges from the kynges in despight of them to bestowe it vppon others bothe the Nacions were seââ¦at at free lybertie But the Cappadocians refusyng the gyfte of lyââ¦ertie sayd that their countrie could not liue without a kyng Whervppon Ariobarzanes was appointed by the Senate to be their kyng There was at the same tyme one Tygranes king of Armenia kept in hostage not long before by the Parthââ¦aÌs and now lately remitted by them into his fathers kyngdome Hym dyd Mithridates couet to allure to take his part in the warres that he had of loÌg tyme purposed agaynst the Romaynes Wherfore by the meanes of Gordius he persââ¦ded him as one that knew not what it was to displease the Romaynes to make war vppon Ariobarzanes who was a very cowarde And to th entent it shoulde not seme be dyd it for anye cautele or pollicy he gaue him his daughter Cleopatra in mariage At the fyrst
of the Mares of the great number of the races of the which in Gallice and Portyngale there are such store to be sene those so swift that not without good cause thei may seme to be conceyued by the wynde The Gallictans alledge themselfs to be Grekes by descent For after th end of the battell of Troy ⪠they say that Teucer beyng hated of his father Telamon for the death of his brother Ayax ther vppon not permitted to enter into his Realme departed to Cyprus there buylded a Cytie which he named Sala mine after the name of his natif countrie that he came fro Where hearyng of the decease of his father he returned to his countrie agayn but beyng prohibited from arri uall by Eurysaces the sonne of Ayax he arriued in Spain and toke the ground wher new Carthage standeth now From whence he remoued to Gallice ther placing himself his gaue the countrie that name For a porcion of Gallice are called ãâã a contrie moste plentifull of brasse and lead and of Uermilion which also gaue the name to the ryuer thereby Furthermore it is moste riche of Golde insomuche that diuerse tymes they ere vp cloddes of golde with the ploughe In the borders of this Countrie there is a holy hill the which it is not lawful to cut with anie yron But yf it chaunce that the earth is bro ken with thunder lightning which is a coÌmon thyng in those places they are permitted to gather vp the gold as a gift of God The womeÌ haue all the doyng in houskeping and husbandrie the men geue themselfs to warre robbyng They haue the hardest yroÌ that is but yet their wa ter is of more force then the yron for by temperyng y â metall there with it is made tougher sharper neyther dooe they count any weapon good that is nor dypped eyther ãâã the riuer Bilbo or in the riuer Chalybs Wher vpon the people y â dwell about the sayd riuer are called Chalybes are reported to haue the best yron of all others In the playnes of the Tartesians where it is reported that the Tytanes made warre ãâã the Goddes dwelled some tyme the Curettes an auncient kyng of the which people named Gargoris fyrst inueÌted the maner to gather hony This man perceiuyng that his daughter had played the miswoman for shame of her wicked dede atteÌpted diuers wayes to haue destroyed the chylde But through good for tune he was preserued from al those daungers and at the length for coÌpassion of so many perils was created kyng Fyrst of all wheÌ he had coÌmaunded him to be cast away certayn dayes after hadde sent to seke his bodie he was found nourished with the milke of sundrie wylde beastes Secondlie when he was brought home he commaunded him to be layd in a narrow path where cattell wer wont to go through surelie he was verie cruell that wold haue his nephewe rather troden to death then simply kylled There also perceiuyng he lay vnhurt not vnfed he caâ⦠sed him to be cast fyrst to hungry dogges that he ââ¦adde pyned from meate many dayes before for the nones afterwardes also to Swyne Finally when they not onely dyd him no harme but also some of them gaue him sucke last of all he had throwe him into the sea Then as it were by the open and manifest prouidence of God among the ragyng sourges and the wallowyng waues as though he had ben ââ¦aried in a ship and not in the streame the calme sea bare him vp aloââ¦t brought him softlie to shore By and by came a hynde and gaue him sucke Wherevppoâ⦠by kepyng companie with his nourice the childe became excedyng swift of foote kept in the mountaynes and forestes among the herdes of red dere as swift a fote as the wightest of them At the lengthe beynge ouerthrowen in a toyle taken he was presented to the kyng for a gift Ther by reason of his stature makyng wherin he much resembled the kyng by certayn markes that wer groweÌ in the chylde from his byrth the kyng knew him to be his nephââ¦w And bycause he hadde so wonderfullie escaped so many perillous chaunces he proclaymed him heyre successor of his kingdome His name was called ãâã who after that he had taken the crowne vppon him became a Prince of such Maiesty that men thoght it was not for no thyng that he was so preserued by the prouidence God froÌ so many perilles For he fyrst ordeyned lawes to kepe the sauage people in good order conuersacion one with another He fyrst taught them to breake oxen to the ploughe and to tyll so we the ground he fyrst for ãâã of such thynges as he had suffered himself caused men to for sake their ãâã meates to fede vpon better The chan ces of this man might seme to be but a fable yf the buylders of Rome had not ben nourished by a wolfe and Cyrus kyng of Persia nourished of a bytch This maÌ forbad the people all seruill occupacions diuided the commons into sââ¦uen cities After the death of Habis the kyngdome remayned in his posteritie itie many hundred yeres In another part of Spayn which consisteth of Isles GerioÌ was kyng in the which part there is so great plentie of swete pasture that onles the cattell were kept hungry and not suffered to fede their fyll their bellies wold brust In the same place wer the cattel of Gerion wherin at those daies mens substaunce did chiefly consyst which wer of so great fame that Hercules allured with the richnes of the botie came out of Asia thither Moreouer GerioÌ was not triple as the fables report but three brothers which accorded so frendly one with another y â it semed as though one soule one mynde ruled theÌ all thre Neyther dyd they of they re owne motion make warre vpon Hercules but wheÌ they sawe their cattell driuen away they soughte with him for the recouering of theÌ After that y â kings ceased in Spain the Carthaginenses fyrst toke vpoÌ theÌ the Dominion and rule of the contrie For when the Gaditanes coÌmaunded so to doe in a dreame had brought from Tyrus out of the which Cytie the Carthaginenses hadde also their begynnyng the sacred Ceremonies of Hercules into Spayn there builded a cytie throughâ⦠the malice of the people of Spain their next neybors enuying theÌcreasment of their new city thervpoÌ infestyng the Gaditanes with warre they sent to their kynsmen the Carthaginenses for helpe Who hauyng a prosperous iourney bothe defended the Gaditanes from takyng wrong also subdued the more part of the countrie vnder their dominiââ¦n Afterward also encouraged by the fortunate successe of their fyrst viage they sent Hamilcar as granndcapitayn with a great host to coÌquer the whole Realme Who hauyng atcheued many hault enterprises whiles he followed his good lucke without aduisemeÌt was
is no more abased thereby then should the vertue of a precious stone by settyng it in brasse or yron or by carying it in a closur of Leather If any errours haue escaped me in the doyng herof as I doe not thynke but that some thynges worthie to be corrected may haue escaped my hande I desyre the lerned Reader as well to admonishe me frendly of myne errour as also to put his helpyng hand to thamendmeÌt of the same In doyng wherof as he shal greatly benefyte others so let him assure himself he cannot doe me a greater pleasure nor a higher frendshippe And thus wishyng that my trauell and labour in doyng hereof may turne to thy commoditie and profyte I bid the Fare well The Succession of the kinges of the three Monarchies mencioned in this Booke taken out of ãâã Berosus and Megasthenes ¶ The first Monarchie of ãâã 1. NInus the Son of ãâã Belus the first Emperour of Assiââ¦ia reigned ãâã yeres 2. ãâã wyfe of the sayo Ninus ãâã yeres 3 ãâã Nineas other wise cal led ãâã sonne of the foresaid Ninus and ãâã ãâã yeres 4 Artus xxx yeres 5 Aralius xl yeres 6 Baleus ãâã xxx yeres 7 ãâã xxxvlii yeres 8 Belothus the priest of Baal xxxv yeres 9 Baleus lii yeres 10 ãâã xxxii yeres 11 Mamytus xxx yeres 12 Manealeus xxx yeres 13 Sterus or Pherus xx yeres 14 ãâã xxx yeres 15 ãâã xl yeres 16 Ascatades xl yeres 17 ãâã xlv yeres 18 Belothus xxv yeres 19 Bellopares xxx yeres 20 Lamprydes xxxii yeres 21 Sosares xx yeres 22 Lampares xxx yeres 23 ãâã xiv yeres 24 ãâã xix yeres 25 Mytreus xxvii yeres 26 Tautanes xxxii yeres 27 Tautens xl yeres 28 Tineus xxx yeres 29 Dercilius xl yeres 30 Eupalus xxxviii yeres 31 ãâã xlv yeââ¦es 32 ãâã xxx yeres 33 Ophrateus ⪠xx yeres 34 Ophratanes l. ãâã 35 Ocrasapes xlii yeres 36 Tonos Concoleros at Sarââ¦a napolis xx yeres This Empyre continued M. C C. xxix yeres The second Monarchie of the Medians and Persianâ⦠The Medee 1 ãâã xxviii yeres 2 Mandanes l. yeres 3 Sosarmon xxx yeres 4 ãâã ⪠l. yeres 5 ãâã xxii yeres 6 Arcens xl yeres 7 Artines xxii yeres 8 Astybares xx yeres 9 Astyages xxx yeres The kynges of Mââ¦dia held the Empyre Clxxxxii yeres The Persians 1 ââ¦yrus xxx yeres 2 ãâã vii yââ¦res v. ãâã 3 ãâã ãâã ââ¦pers vii ãâã 4 Darius ãâã ãâã 5 ãâã xx ãâã 6 ãâã ãâã that ãâã ãâã vii monthes 7 ãâã loÌgimanus xl ãâã 8 ãâã ãâã ãâã 9 ãâã viii ãâã 10 Darius the ãâã xix yeres 11 ãâã ãâã ⪠xl ãâã 12 ãâã ãâã ãâã yeres 13 ãâã ãâã yeres 14 ãâã the sonââ¦e of ãâã ãâã ãâã Codoâ⦠vi yeres The kynges of Persia held Thempyrs CC. xxx yeres and. v. monthes The seconde Monarchie of the Medes and Persians endured ãâã yeres v. months The third Monarchie of the Macedones 1. AlexaÌder the great after whose death his kyngdome was ââ¦ded among his noble meÌ xii yâ⦠2. Aridens vii yeres 3. Cassander xviii yeres 4 Antipater AlexaÌd iiii yeres 5 Demetrius vi yeres 6 Pyââ¦rhus vi monthes 7 Lysimachus v. yeres 8 Ptolomeus Ceramicus i. yere 9 ãâã ii months 10 Antipater ãâã yere 11 Sosthenes ii yeres 12 Antigonus ãâã xxxvi ye 13 ãâã x. yeres 14 Antigonus xv yeres 15 Phylip. xlii yeres 16 Perses the last kyng x. yeres Th eÌpyre of Macedone lasteth with Alexander ãâã yeres viii montheâ⦠The kynges of Asia Antigonus xviii yeres Demetrius ãâã xvii ye The kynges of Syria ãâã Nicanor xxxii yer The kynges of Syria and Asia Antiochus Soter xliiii yeres Antiochus Theos xv yeres Sileucus callinicus xx yeres ãâã ãâã iii. yeres Antiochus the greaââ¦e xxxvi ãâã Seleucus ãâã xii yeres ãâã Epiphanes xi yeres ãâã Eupater ii yeres ãâã ãâã xxii yeres Alexander x. yeres ãâã iii. yeres ãâã ãâã ix yeres ãâã ãâã iiii yeres Antiochus ãâã xxi yeres Anciochus ãâã xviii yer Phylyppe ii yeres The kyngdome of Syria endured ãâã lxxxix ãâã The kynges of Egypt Ptolomeus the son of Lagus xl ys Ptolomeus ãâã hus lviii y Ptolomeus Euergetes xxvi yer Ptolomeus Philopater xvii yeres Ptolomeus Epiphanes xxiiii yer Ptolomeus ãâã xx yeres Ptolomeus phiscoÌ al. ãâã xvii y. ãâã Alexander x. yeres Ptolomeus Lathyrus viii ãâã Ptolomeus ãâã xxx ãâã Cleopatra xxii yeres Th empyre of Egypt ãâã after Alexander ãâã lxxxviii yeres The Monarchie of Alexander continued in altogyther ãâã yeres FINIS The Contentes of the. xliiii Bookes of Iustine The contentes of the syrst Booke NInus layeth the ââ¦ondacion of the Monarchie of Assyria ãâã conterfayteth herself to be a man buildeth Babylon conquereth Ethiope ãâã warre against Inde and is slayne by her son Ninus Saâ⦠danapolis is deposed for his ãâã ãâã and with his lyfe endeth th empyre of Assyria Arbactus translateth th empyre to the Medes ãâã causeth Cyrus to be cast away as sone as he is borne he is ãâã by the prouideÌce of God Harpagus loseth his sonne for the same Syrus ouercoÌmâ⦠ãâã ges and translateth th empyre from the Medes to the Persians Babylon rebelleth and is subdued Cresus is taken prisoner hys realââ¦e brought to miserable subieccion Candaules throughe his owne ââ¦oliy is slayne by Gyges who enioyeth the kingdome for his ãâã Cyrus with two huÌdred thouand Persians is slayn by ãâã ãâã ãâã of the Massagettes His ãâã cambyses succedeth he conqueââ¦h Egypt commaundeth his brother Sinerdes to be murdâ⦠and is slayne with his owne sworde Comaris ãâã stes ãâã Orthanes boutteth out their treason Seuen of the noble men consââ¦e their deathes Darius is made king by the neyng of his horse he ãâã kyng Cyrus daughter recouereth Babylon by the helpe of ãâã and prepareth warre agaynst the Scithians The contentes of the second Boke THe Scyââ¦thians and Egyptians contende for thantiquitie of their countries The descriptââ¦on of ãâã with the maners and customes of the people their fortunate enterprises the Empyres founded by them Plynos and Scolopythus are dryuen out of Scythia with a great number of youthe and are slayne by a ãâã their wifes reueng their deathes and set vp th empyre of ââ¦mazone The maners and customes of the Amazones the succession of ãâã Quenes of Amazonie Hercules exchaââ¦geth Menalyppe for the Quenes arââ¦or Penthesilea coydeth the Troyans agaynst the Grekes Thalestris hauyng obtayned the companie of great Alexander returneth and dyeth ⪠with whome the name of Amazons de cayeth The Scythians are receyued wiââ¦h warre by their ââ¦men Darius warreth vppon them and flyeth shametully he coÌquereth Asia and Macedone and vendeth himself agaynst the Atheniens Thoriginall of Thatheââ¦ens their inââ¦utions the succession of their kynges the chaunge of their gouernment the ââ¦wes of Soââ¦on and his pollicie Pysistratus vsurpeth Hyppias is deposed and flyeth to Darius the notable battell of Marathon wherin Hippias is slayn Darius dyeth Xerxes succedeth he reneweth the warres agaynst Greâ⦠and is ouercome the notable prowesse of Leonidas Xerxes retyreth fearfully and dishonorablye
himself and flyeth to Corynthe where he lyueth a fylthie lyfe ãâã surnamed Rhodanus veweth the doynges and counselles of great Alexander ââ¦yeth his countrymen therof and at his returne is put to death for his labor The contentes of the. xxii Booke AGathocles ryseth from abase Degre lyke as yf it were by lowe steppes to the Kyngedome of Sycill he exerciseth great cruelty vââ¦xeth the consederates of the Carthaginenses by the sufferans oâ⦠Hamilcar whose death preuenteth the secrete verdites of the Carthaginenses ãâã is veseged by Hamilcar the sonne of ââ¦ysgo he remoueth the war into ãâã vanquisseth the ââ¦arthagine whervppon the Aphres reuolâ⦠vnto him he kylleth the kyng of Cy rene ouercommeth the ãâã agayn he rayseth the siege before Syracuse is receyued with a mutinie is ouercomme by vnaduisednesse forsaketh his men of warre and his children which are put to death for his sake he maketh peace with the Carthaginenses in Sycill The conteyntes of the. xxiii Boke ⪠A Gathocles maketh warre in Italy the trades and customes of the Lucanes ⪠the Originall of the Brutians the miserable eââ¦de of Agathocles the Carthaginenses inuade Sycill Pyrrhus oryueth them out rââ¦turneth into Italy whervppon Sycill reuolteth he is diseomfyted by the Rââ¦mayns retyreth with great losse and dishonor into his kyngdome the byrthe educacion and commendacion of Hiero. The contentes of the. xxiiii Booke THe Lacedemonians stirre the Grekes to rebellion and are ouercome by the Etolian shepeherdes the wicked and abhomi nable ãâã of Ptolomy toward his syster and her children Rome is sacked by the Frenchemen wherof some place themselfes in Italy and some in Pannokie they of ãâã rayse a power deuidyng themselfes in two hostes of which th one kylleth Ptolomy kyng of Maccdone and are suppressed by Sosthenes thother vnder the conduct of Bremso inuââ¦deth Macedone agayn ouercom meth Sosthenes spoyleth the Realme inuadeth the temple of Delphos the situacion wherof is there deseribed is vanquished with lightnyng and thunder and Bremis sleath himself The conteintes of the. xxv Boke THe Frenchemen of Pannony rayse an other power inuade Ma cedone Antigonus ouercommeth them by a pollicy the Frenchmen are so redouted that all kynges craue their aide they succor the kyng of Bythinia and deuyde his Realme with him callyng themselfes Frenchegrekes Pyrrhus expulseth Antigonus out of Macedone he maketh warre agaynst the Lacedemonians the force and hardines of Ptolomy his sonne who is slayne in the wynnyng of Lacedemon Pyrrhus is slayn at Argos the moderacion and gentlenes of Antigonus with a commendacion of the sayd Pyrrhus The contentes of the. xxvi Boke THe extreme cruelty of ãâã Tyrant of Epyre the wyse inuention of old Helematus in suppressyng of him the cruelnesse of the Frenchegrekes towardes their wyues and children whome Antigonus ouercommeth viterly dââ¦stroyeth ãâã is ãâã bothe of his kyngdome men of warre by Alexander the sonne of Pyrrhus kyng of Epyre Demetrius the sonne of Antigonus not onely recouereth his fathers kingdome but also spoyleth Alexander of his kyngdome of Epyre Alexander by thelpe of the ãâã and the fauour of his owne countrymen is restored to his kyngdom agayn Agas kyng of ââ¦yrene dyeth Demetrius the brother of Antigonus by meanes of Beronice the ââ¦aughter of king Agas is slayâ⦠in her mothers bed The conteyntes of the. xxvii Boke SEleucus kyng of Spria putteth hys step mother Beronice her sonne to death Ptolomy kyng of Egypte in reuengemente of her death inuadeth Syria ãâã suffereth a happy ship wreke for by mââ¦anes therof for pytie and coÌpassion the cyties that Ptolomy had obteyned rââ¦uolted agayn he is vanquished in battell by Ptolomy and ãâã ayd of his brother ãâã Ptolomy maketh peace with Seleuââ¦us Antiochus warreth vppon his brother and ouercommeth him by the helpe of the Frenchgrekes who after the battell bend themselfes agaynst Antiochus and he raunsometh himself from them Eumenes kyng of Bythinia setteth vp pon Antiochus and the Frenchemen taketh the most part of Asia from them the brothers continewÌ still at debaââ¦e by meanes wheroâ⦠they comme bothe to a misââ¦rable ende The contentes of the. xxviii Booke ãâã Quene of Epyre by the mariage of her daughter Pythia setteth variaunce betwene Demetrius kyng of Ma cedone and Antiochus kyng of Syria the proude answer of the Atolians to the Ambassadours of Rome Olympias dyeth for sorrow for the death of her two sonnes Laodomia is ãâã at the Altar of Diana ãâã dyeth Antigonus beyng left protector of the sonnes of Demetrius maketh himself kyng he subdueth the Lacedemonians wherin appereth as wel the stoutnes of the Spar tanes in aduersity as also the modeste and gentle behauiour of Antigonus in prosperitie The conteyntes of the. xxix Boke THe alteracion of the famousest kyngdomes by the succession of yong kynges Demetrius kyng of ãâã seweth to Phylippe kyng of Macedone for help agaynst the Ramaynes Philyp exhorââ¦eth the Grekes to concorde he proclaymeth open warre agaynste the Romaynes the Dââ¦rdanians inuade Macedone he maketh peace ãâã the Romapnes Phylopemenes causeth the Acheans to reuolt from him The ãâã of the. xxx Boke THe ãâã of Ptolomy kyng of Egypt Antiochus in undeth Egypt and is put to the ãâã Ptolomy geueth him self vtterly to slouth and ãâã he dyeth his concubines are hanged vp the Romaynes take the gouernance of the yong kynge the ãâã rebell agaynste Philip kyng of Macedone he desyreth peace of the Romayns a quauyng of the Sea an earthquake in Asia Philip is vanquished in battell by the Romayns and speyled of all his Dominions sauyng onely the rââ¦alme of Macedone the E to lyans prouoke ãâã to warre vppon the Romayns The conteintes of the. xxxi Boke ANtiochus inuadeth the territories of the Dominion of Egypt the Romayns proclayme warre against him Nabis kyng of La cedemon subdueth many cyties in Grece y â Romans send an Ambas sador to note Hannibals doynges in ãâã and to kyll hym he espieth their purpose and flyeth vnto Antiochus Nabis is vanquished by Flaminius after whose departure he followeth the warres agayne Hanniball is highly enterteyned by Antiochus he geueth councell how to procede in his warres agaynst the Romayns sendeth a messenger to Carthage to stirre them to rebellion the Romayns send an Ambassade to Antiochus who through their dayly conuersacion with Hannyball bryng him in the kynges displeasur who neuerthelesse sheweth his opynion of as concernyng the warres with the Romans the which is neglected antiochus is ouercomme of the Romans and taketh Hannibal into fauor agayn Han niball is put to the worse vppon the sea the magnimitie of Scipio affricanus articles of peace are propounded and by Antiochus reiected the romayns come to ââ¦roye Antiochus is vanquished with a great slaughter and peace geuen hym vppon the foresayd articles The conteyntes of the. xxxii Boke THe ãâã are subdued the ãâã Acheans ãâã for the souerainty Phylopemenes ââ¦aptayne of thacheans is is taken prysoner and poysoned by the ãâã the Mesnians are ouercomme and
by reason of their sacriledge yet notwythstaÌding it procured more enuy to the Thebanes by whom they were driuen to this extremitye then to them And therfore bothe the Atheniens and the Lacedemonians set forth men to their aid At the first encounter Philomelus turned the Thebanes out of their campe at the next fighting valiantly amongste the thickest he was the firste that was slain and so with his wicked bloud did worthely abye for committing sacriledge In his sted Ornomarchus was created Captaine against whom the Thebanes and Thes salians chose for their captain not one of their owne country men for fear least if he gate the victory he should bear him self so Lordly that no man were able to abide hââ¦m but Philip king of Macedonie willingly submitting theÌ selues vnder the subiection of a forrener whiche was the thynge they most of all feared in their own country men Phillip therfore as though he had bene the reuenger of sacriledge and not of the Thebanes commaunding all his souldiours to put garlandes of Laurel vpon their heades and in thys wise as hauing God the chiefe Captaine of his enterpryse he marched into the field The Phocenses at the sighte of the cognisaunce of the God striken with inwarde remorse of conscience for their offences ââ¦ast downe their wepons toke them to flight And so with their owne bloud slaughter of them selues suffred worthy punishmeÌt for violating of religion Ye wil not beleue what glory and renown Phi lip won among al nations for executing this dede As who wold say he was the punisher of sacriledge he was the reuenger of religion he only was worthy to compell offenders to make satisfaction to the execution where of all the world ought to haue put theyr helpe Therfore they honored him next vnto the Goddes by whome the maiestye of the Goddes was defended But the Atheniens hearyng of the aduenture of the war to th entent that Philip shoulde not passe into Grece toke the straights of Thermopyle in like maner after the same sort as they had done before against the coÌming of the Persians but nether with like corage nor for like quarel For then it was for the libertye of Grece but now it was for open sacriledge then in the defââ¦nce of the temples against the inuasions of the ennemy now in the maintenaÌce of churchrobbers against the right ãâã reuengers Making them selues bolsterers and bearers out of that hainous offeÌce wherof it was a shame for theÌ that any other theÌ theÌ selues shuld haue ben the punishers Quite forgetting that euen in their moste aduersitye they had vsed that God as their chefest counseller that by hys guidance they had finished so many battels with conquest builded so many cities with fortunate successe attayned so great an Empire both by sea laÌd And finally atcheued no thing either in publike or priuate affairs without the ma iesty of his Godhed Certesse it is great pity that such fine wits so exquisitely polished withal kinde of learning traded in so goodly lawes institutions should be so far ouerseene as to commit so heinous an act that of right they can haue no cause here after to be offended with the barbarus nations for doing of the like But Philip him self kept not euen touch with his felowes For as it wer to th enteÌt hys enemies shuld not go beyond him in committing sacrilege the cities wherof a litle before he was captain whiche had fought vnder his standerd which had reioysed in him and which had holpen him to the victory like an vtter ennemy he inuaded sacked The wiues childreÌ of them al he sold by the drom He spared not the teÌples of the Gods immortal not the houses of religion not the common nor priuate houshold gods vnto whoÌ a litle before hââ¦ââ¦ntred as a guest so that it might euideÌtly appere he sought not so muche to haue punished sacriledge as to procure fre liberty to perpe trate the same From thence as though he had accoÌplished al things to his honor he passed into Cappadocia where making war with like falshod hauing taken and slain by policy the kings that wer the next borderers he brought all the whole prouince vnder thempire of Macedonâ⦠Then to abolyshe the shamefull brute that went of his doynges through the which he was more spoken and talked of then anye other man in those daies he sent into the kingdomes and moost welthy Cities into the Churches and temples certain to raise a rumor and to put it into folkes heds that king Philip would bestow a great masse of monye in building walles about the Cities and in makinge of Churches and temples and that maisters of the worke should be pro cured by proclamation The whiche when they came into Macedone being driuen of with diuers delaies for feare of the kinges displesure were faine to get them away againe and make no mo woordes After this he assailed the Olynthians For when they saw that Philip had put one of hys brothers to deathe for verye pities sake they receiued two other of his brothers borne of his stepmother whome as partners of his kingdome he soughte by all meanes to dispatch out of the way Therfore vppon this occasion he vtterly destroyed that auncient and noble citye and put hys brothers to the deathe that he had before determined appoynted for them enioying therby both a greate pray and also his wicked lust in slaying of his brothers Whervpon as though al things had ben lawful that he purposed in his mind he sesed vpon the gold mines in Thessaly and vpon the siluer mines in Thrace And to the entent no law nor righte should be left vnuiolated he determined to be a rouer on y â seas These things being thus accomplished it fortuned by chance that ii brother 's both kings of Thrace being at variaunce betwixt them selues not in respect of his indiffereÌcy iustice but for fear least he shuld help to support either of the parties chose him to be iudge of their controuersies But Philip according to his accustomed nature proceding to iudgement as if he shuld haue gone to battel came sodeÌly vpon the brothers ere they wist therof with his men in battel ray and not like an vpright iudge but like a craftye thefe wicked kaitife spoiled theÌ both of their kingdomes While these thinges were a doing the ambassadors of Athens came vnto him to require peace whome he heard sent him selfe other ambassadoures to Athens with Articles of peace and there to the commodity of both parties a peace was concluded Oute of other Cities of Grece came ambassaders also not so muche for desire of his frendshyp as for feare of warre For the Thebanes and Beotians of very rancor and malice that boyled in their stomackes requested him to shew him selfe as captaine of Grece against the Phocenses according as he had professed him self to be So sore
made lieuetenaunte of the Armenians In processe of time after y â death of king Ochus in remeÌbrans of hys former prowesse the people created him kyng And to th entent nothing shuld want in him that appertained to thestate of a king they called him by the renowmed name oâ⦠Darius Who afterward with great prowesse held warre a long time with greate Alexander somtime to his gaine and sometime to his losse At laste beinge vanquished of Alexander and slain of his own kinsmen he ended his life to gether with the Empire of the Persians The eleuenth Booke IN tharmy of Philip as there were sondry sorts of people Euen so after y â time that he was slain their mindes wer diuersly moued For some that were oppressed with wrongfull seruitude comforted them selues with hoope of libertye Others wearye of the warfares so far froÌ their natiue country reioysed to thinke y â the viage shuld be broken vp and they dismissed Manye were sory to see the Tapers y â were made to set before the daughter at her mariage stand vpon the herse of the father His freÌds also wer not a litle amased at so sodain mutation of things considering how Asia was lately chalenged Europe scarsly yet coÌquered and howe the Illyrians Thracians Dardanians other barbarous nations wer of minde vnconstaÌt and vnwauerig of promise vnfaithful not to be trusted to All the which people if they should forsake their obediens rebel all at ones it were not possible by any meanes to resist them Unto all these mischeues the comming of Alexander was as it wer a preseÌt salue Who in an oration so cââ¦forted forted encoraged al the people for the time y â he bothe exempted al fear out of their harts and made them to conceiue good hope expectation of him self He was then xx yeres old in the which he promised many things of him self wyth suche modesty y â it appered he wold do more when it came to the profe then he spake of He gaue the Macedones a quite discharge of al things sauing he wold not exempt them from the warres by the which dede he purchased him selfe such at al mens hands y â they said they had changed the body of their king but not his vertues the first chiefest regard y â he had was to enter his father accordinge to his estate In executing wherof before al other things he caused all such persons to be put to death vpon his fathers tombe as wer accessary to the same Only he pardoned Alexander of Lyncests his brother reseruing in him the good fore token of his own estate for as much as he was y â firste that saluted him by the name of a king Moreouer he caused Caranus his mother in lawes sonne his brother in law to be put to death as one that loked to be a partner with him in the kingdom In the beginning of his raigne he subdued many countries that rebelled and suppressed manye insurrections euen in the very rising Whereby beinge greatlye encouraged he went leiserly into Grece wher after the example of his father sommoning the Cities to appeare before him at Corinthe he was substituted captaine general in his stead And thervpon he went immediatly in hand wyth y â wars against the Persians which his father had begone While he was busy in the furniture therof tidinges was brought him that the Atheniens the Lacedemonians and the Thebanes were reuolted from him to the Persians that the author of this reuolting was the orator Demosthenââ¦s corrup ted by ââ¦he Persians for a great sum of golde who auowed before the people that the king of Macedone wyth all hys hoste was slaine of the Tribales bringinge the tales man in open audience who to make good the matter sayde he was wounded hym selfe in the same battel that the kynge was slayne Uppon the whyche reporte the minds almost of all the Cities were chaunged and the Garrisons of the Macedones besieged The whyche motions intendynge to preuent he entred into Grece with an host well aparelled and in good order with suche celerity that they skarse beleued their owne eââ¦es when they sawe him because they hearde not of his commynge In hys waye thither warde he exhorted the Thessalians to keepe their allegiaunce putting them in minde of the benefites of his father Phillip toward them and of the kinred that was betwixte hym and them by his mothers side which came of the stocke of Aââ¦acus The Thessalians were glad to heare those wordes of him and thervpon made him lieuetenaunte generall of al their country as his father had bene before and rendred vnto hym all the tributes and reuenues that he was wont to haue But the Atheniens as they were the firste that reuolted so were they the first that repented turnyng the disdaine of their ennemy into admiration and wondremeÌt and extollinge the childehode of Alexander whyche before they had in despite aboue the prowesse of the auncient captaines Therfore they sent ambassadors desiringe pardon and that they mighte haue peace Whom Alexander hard and with greuous rebuke graunted them their request From thence he turned his power toward Thebes intending to haue shewed like mercy if he had found like repen taunce But the Thebanes went to it with force of armes and not with intretaunce and submission Beinge therfore vanquished they suffred most greuous punishment of miserable captiuity When the matter came to debatinge in counsel as concerning the dââ¦truction of the citye the Phocenses the Platecenses the Thespienses and the Orchomeââ¦ians Alexanders companions in armes and partakers of his victory rehersed the crueltye of the Thebanes in destroyinge their Cities and the good wil that they alwayes bare to y â Persians not only at that time but also of old time to the open preiudice and domage of the liberty of Grece whiche thing was not to be borne withall In consideration wher of they were worthelye hated of all people ⪠for the proofe wherof there neaded none other triall nor witnesse then this that they all bounde them selues with an othe to rase Thebes assone as euer they hadde ouercome and made an end with the Persians Furthermore they tolde what enterludes had bene made of their former noughtinesse in so muche that there was wel nie no stage wheron they made not open showes therof to the entent they should be hated and abhorred not only for their preseÌt vnfaithfulnesse but also for their olde follye and madnesse Then Eleadas one of the prisoners hauing liberty geuen him to speake said that the Thebanes had not reuolted from thâ⦠king in as much as they hard say he was slain but from the kings heirs In which doing if there were anye trespasse it was rather to be imputed as an ouââ¦rsight for being so light of credit then as a promise brââ¦aking or vnfaithfulnesse and yet if it were so they had all redy suffred great
punishment therfore For the youth of the City being put to the sword ther remained none but a sorte of women and children and olde folke which as they were feble so were they able to doo no harme the which notwithstanding had bene so vexed with rauishmeÌts and other displesures and reproches that they neuer felt thing so bitter to them in all their liues Wherfore he made intercession not for his Citezens wherof ther were so few left but for the innocent soyle of his countrye and for the towne it self which had brought vp and engendred not only men but also Goddes Moreouer he alledged a priuate superstition to entreat the king withal how that Hercules was borne among them from whome the house of the Aââ¦acides do fetch their petigry and howe that hys father Philip passed his childhode at Thebes beseching him to spare that City whiche honoured some of his auncestors that were borne among them as Gods and had sene some other of them that were brought vp among them ryse to the royall estate of kinges But the wrathe was greater then that any entretaunce could preuaile The Citye therfore was rased the landes dââ¦uided among the conquerors the prisoners sold vnder a garland whose price was set not to the aduauntage of the biers but according to the hatred of thenemies The Atheniens thought it a miserable sight and therfore they opened their gates for the refuge of such as eskaped by flying contrary to the kinges prohibition The which doing Alexander toke so greuously that at the seconde time when their ambassadors came to entreate for peace again he remitted their offence vpon condition they shuld yeld into his hands their captains and orators vpon trust of whom they did so often rebell The Atheniens being redy to fulfil his commaundement because they wold not be constrained to haue warre with him the matter was brought to this issue that they should kepe still theyr orators and banishe their captaines who incontinently taking their way to Darius did not a litle encrease y â strength of the Persians When ââ¦e shuld setforth toward y â warres in Persia he put to death all his mother in lawes kinsmeÌ whom Philip had aduaunced to great promotions made rulers of couÌtries neither spared he such of his own kinred as semed mete to bear rule least any occasion of rebellyon shuld remain in Macedone while he was making warre a far of Such kings also as wer tributaries y â wer of any wis dom and pollicy he toke with him to the warres leauing y â old men to gouern his kingdoÌ at home Then when he had gotten his men of war together he fraighted his ships and embarked his host Out of y â which beholding Asia a far of he was wonderfully enflamed in his corage made xii altares to the Gods as a vowe for prosperous successe in hys warres All thinheritans y â he had in Macedone Europe he parted among his frends saying y â Asia was inough for himself Before y â any sail departed fro the shore he slue sacrifices making his prayer for victorye by battell as by the which he was left to be the reuenger of Grece so ofteÌtimes before assailed of the Persians whose monarch had coÌtinued now long inough was come to his perfect ripenesse therfore it was high time for other to take the roum that could serue the turne better Neither was his army of lesse courage then the king him self For they al forgetting their wiues children and y â they shuld make war far froÌ home made as sure accoÌpt of the gold of the Persians and of the richesse of the whole East as if it had ben their owne al redy thinking nothinge of the daungers of the warre but of the great richesse Assone as they were come to land Alexander first of all threw a dart as it wer into his ennemyes land and in his armor lept out of his ship in maner of dansing and so killed his sacrifices praying the goddes y â those countrics might willinglye receiue him as their kynge In the same place also he did obsequies at the tombes of them that were slain at the battel of Troy Then soughte he for his enemy straightly charging his Souldioures that they made no wast in the country of Asia saying it was but reson to spare that that was their own and y â they ought not to make hauock of those things that they came to possesse In his army wer two and xxx thousand foote men iiii â⦠and v. C. horsemen and a C. foure skore and two ships It is to be doubted whether it were more to be wondred at that with so small a handfull of men he conquered y â who le world or that he durste ones geue thenterprise to attempt it considering that to so dangerous a warfare he chose not lusty yong men and such as wer in the flour of youthe but old worn souldiers and such wherof many by reson of their yeres wer priueledged exempted from the wars whiche had serued vnder his father and vnder his vncles so that a man would haue thought he had not picked out souldiers but rather masters of cheualry ââ¦oreouer none hadde the leading of any band that was not lx yeares old So that if ye had beheld the chief officers of his campe ye wold haue said ââ¦e had sene the senate of some auncient coÌmon welth Therfore there was no man that thought of ruÌning away but of getting the victory nor there was not anye that put his trust in his legges but in his armes On the other side Darius king of Persia trusting in hys own strength wold do nothing by pollicy affirming that it was not beseminge for him and his to deuise with them selues to steal the victory nor yet to keepe his ennemy out of the borders of hys kingdom but rather to receiue him into the bowels of hys realme thincking it should be more to his honor to expulse ââ¦im perforce then not to suffer him to enter The firste encounter therfore was in the plaines of adrast In the hoste of the Persians were DC M. fightinge men the which being vanquished as muche by the pollicye of Alexander as by the puissaunce of the Macedones tourned their backes and fled Great therfore was the slaughter of the Persians Of Alexanders hoste wer slain ix footemen and a C. and xx horsmen Whome the king the more to encourage the residue of his souldioures sumptuously buried and set vp their Images on horsback on their tombes and gaue great fraunchises and priuiledges to their kinsfolke After this victory the more parte of Asia fel vnto hym He fought many battels also with the lieutenants of Darius whome ââ¦e now vanquished not so muche by force as with the terror of his name While these thinges were a doing in the meane time Alexander was informed by the confessyon of a prisoner that Alexander of Lyncestes the
sonne in law of antipater whome he had left his vicegerent in Macedone went about to worke treson against him For which cause fearing that if he should put him to death there wold rise summe commotion in Macedone he put hym in safekeping This doone he marched towarde the citye Gordis the which is situate betwene the greater and the lesser Phrygia The desire that Alexander had to get this city into his possession was not so muche for the spoyle of it as for because he hard say that in that City in the temple of Jupiter was the yoke of Gordius waine the knot wherof whosoeuer could vndoo should be king of all Asia as the auncient Oracles had prophesyed The occasion and originall hereof was this As one Gordius was going to plough in the country with Oxen that he had hired birdes of all sorts began to flie about him Whervppon as he went to aske counsell of the Southsayers of the city therby in the gate he mette with a maid of excellent beautye and demaundynge of her what Southsayer he were best to goo to When she heard thoccasion wherfore he woulde aske counsell beinge seene her selfe in the science by thenstruction of her Father and mother she answered that it meaned he should be a kinge and there vpon offred her selfe to be his partaker bothe of wedlock and of the kingdom y â was behighted He thought himself happy to haue suche a faire offer at the first entrye of his kingdome After the marriage the Phrygians fell at discord among them selues And when they asked counsell of the Oracle how they mighte bringe it to an end answer was made that they could not end their controuersies with out the healpe of a king Demaunding again as touchinge the person of their king what manner of man he should be commaundement was geuen them to marke whom they saw first after their returne ridinge into the temple of Iupiter in a cart and to take him for their king The first man that they met was this gordius where vppon immediatlye they saluted him by the name of king The cart whââ¦rin he rode when the kingdome was laid vppon him he set in the temple of Iupiter and consecrated it for an offeringe as kinges are wont to doo at their coronation After this man raigned his sonne Midas who being traded vp by Orpheus in manye superstitious Ceremonies filled all the realme full of sectes of religion by the whyche he liued more in safegarde all his life then by his chiualry Alexander therfore hauinge taken the Towne when he came into the temple of Iupiter immediatlye enquired for the yoke of the Waine the whiche being broughte before him when he sawe he coulde not finde the end of the thonges that wer bidden within the wrethes constraining the Oracle to the vttermooste he cutte the wrethes a sonder with a sworde and so when he had losed the wreathes he found the endes of the knottes wythin the braides As he was a doing this tidinges was broughte him that Darius approched with a great hoast of men Whervpon fearyng to be enclosed within the straightes he passed the mountaine Taurus with all spede possible in the whiche haste he ran CCCCC furlonges When he came to Tarsus beinge muche delighted wyth the plesantnes of the riuer Cydnus which runneth through the mids of the city he cast of his harnesse and full of duste and ââ¦wet as he was threw him self naked into the cold wa ter wherwithall suche a nomnesse and stifnesse by and by strake through all his finewes that he lost his speche in so much that men thought he should not only neuer recouer it but also loked he shuld haue died presently Onlye there was one of his Phisitians named Philip which wold take vpon him to warrant to make him whole again And yet the same Phisition was had in great mistrust by reason of the letters sent the daye before oute of Cappadocia from Parmenio Who knowing nothing of Alexanders mischaunce wrote vnto him to beware of Philip the Phisition for he was corrupted by Darius for a great summe of mony Yet notwithstanding he thought it more for his safegard to coÌmit himself to the phisition though he more then halfe suspected him of treason then to abide the daunger of his disease wherof ther was no way but death Therfore be toke the drinke that the Phisition had made him and deliuered him the letter and as he drank he beheld his face stedfastly to se what countenance he wold make at the reding of it When he sawe him vnabashed he was glad of it and the iiii day after recouered his healthe Darius therfore wyth CCC M. fotemen and a C. M. horsmen proceded into battel This huge nomber of his enemies somwhat moued Alexander when he beheld howe fewe in respect he had hym self But then again he called to minde what great enterprises he had atcheued how mighty countries he had sub dued with that smal nomber Wherfore when hope had ex pulsed fear he thought it daungerous to delay the battell And to th entent his men shuld not be discoraged he rode a bout from band to band with sondry orations spake vnto eche kinde of people He encoraged the Illirians ãâã with promesse of richesse and substance The Grecians he set on fire with putting theÌ in mind of their batels in time past of the continual hatred that they had with the Persi sians The Macedones he admonished of Europe by theÌ all redy coÌquered of Asia now chalenged bosting of theÌ that there wer not y â like men of power strength as they wer in al y â world Of al which their trauels this battell should be y â final end to their high renown estimatioÌ As he had said these words he coÌmauÌded his battels to staÌd stil again to th entent y e by this pausing they might enure theÌ selues to behold y â huge noÌber of their enemies with opeÌ eies Da rius also was not behinde the haÌd in ordring of his battels For wheras it beloÌged to the duty of his captains to haue don it he weÌt himself in proper person froÌ rank to raÌk exhorting theÌ al to play the men putting the in remeÌbraÌce of thanciet renown of the PersiaÌs of the perpetual possession of thempire geuen theÌ by the gods immortal This don both tharmies with great corage buckled together In the which battell both kings wer wouÌded the victory huÌg in doutful balaÌce so loÌg vntil Darius forsoke the field Then ensued the slaughter of y â Persians ther were slain of fotemeÌ lx one M. of horsmen x. M. and xl M. wer taken prysoners Of the Macedones wer killed a C. xxx fotemen a C. l. horsmen In the teÌts of the Persians was fouÌd much gold other riches AmoÌg others wer takeÌ prisoners Dari us mother his wife which also was his sister and ii of hys daughters WhoÌ when
of his prisoners 3000. talents Here vnto Alexander made answer that thank at his enemies haÌd was more then neded and y â he had not done any thing to flatter him withall nor for y â he sought a defens against thuncertain end of war or for articles of peace but of his own noble hart whiche taught him to contend with the power of his enemies and not with their calamities promising to perform all Darius request if he wold take himselfe as next vnto him and not as his coequal for like as the world could not be ruled if there wsr ii sonnes so the world cannot without preiudice be go uerned by ii souerain kings therfore either yeld hym selfe the same day or els prepare him self to battel the next day and flater not himself with hope of any other victory theÌ he had tried alredy The next day they brought their men into the field Sodenly before the battel Alexander being he ââ¦y with cares fel a slepe Al his men being in a redinesse to geue the charge vpon their enemies the king was missing Who being with much a do waked by Parmenio beyng asked how it chanced y â he slept so soundly in so dangerus a time seing he was woÌt to sleepe but litle euen wheÌ he was most at his harts ease said he was deliuered of a great fear and y â he slept vpon a sodain quietnes that came vpon him because he should encouÌter withal the whole power of Da rius together for he was afraid leasts the war should haue ben prolonged if the Persians had deuided their hoste Before the battel eche armye stode in the sighte of other The Macedones woÌdred to so the great noÌber of their enemies their goodly personages their rich costli armor On the other side the Persians wer amased to thinke how so fewe shuld ouercome so many thousandes as they had The captaines went busely about to viewe their bandes and see euery man kepe good order Darius told his souldiers that if they were deuided they wer mo then ten to one of theyr ennemies Alexander willed the Macedones not to be abashed at the multitude of their ennemies at the hugenesse of their bodies nor at the straungenesse of theyr couloure onlye he wolde haue them to remember that this was the iii time they foughte with them and that they shoulde not think them to be become better men by reson of runnyng away coÌsidering they shuld bring into the battel with the ââ¦o sorowful a remembrans of their own discomfitures and of so muche bloudshed as they had gon away with in the ii former conflicts And as Darius had the greater nomber of men so had he himself the greater strength Wherfore he exhorted them to despise that host y â glistered so with golde and siluer in the which there was more gaine to be gotten then danger seing that victory is not gotten by y â glistering of habilments but by the sharpnesse of wepons After thys coÌmunication the onset was geuen The Macedones layd about them with their wepons as in disdain of their ennemy whom they had vanquished so often before On the coÌtrarye parte the Persians chose rather to die then to be ouercome Which caused so much bludshed as hath not light ly bene sene in any battel Darius when he saw his meÌ put to the worse would gladly haue died in the fielde but that suche as were about him compelled him to flie whether he would or no. Afterwarde when some gaue him counsell to breake the brydge ouer the riuer Cydnus to the entent to stop his enemies from pursuing him any further he sayde he set not so much by him self that for the sauegard of him self alone he wold cast so many of his companye into theyr enemies hands and therfore it shuld be away for other to eskape as wel as it had beene for him selfe Alexander enterprised such thinges as were most daungerous where he saw his enemies thickest and fighting sharpest thither would he euer thrust himself in among them to break the prease desirous alwaies to take such things as were most dangerous to himself and not to leaue theÌ to his souldiers By this battel he toke away thempire of all Asia the fifth yere after he began to raign Whose felicity was so great that no man hereafter durst rebel and the Persians them selues after so many yeres continuance of their monarchie paciently receiued the yoke of bondage When he had rewarded and refreshed his souldiers he did nothing xl dais after but take a vew of the spoil of his ennemy He founde xl M. talents locked vp in the city Also he wan Persepolis the hed city of the kingdome of Persia a city that had continued famous and notable many yeres together and stuffed with the spoiles of y â who le world which was not sene before the taking therof While these thinges were a doing about viii C. Grekes came to Alexander whiche in the time of their captiuitye besides other greuous punishments had had certain of their limbes and members of their bodies cut of requestring him that as he had reuenged Grece so he would also reuenge them of the cruelty of their enemies and set them at liberty When he would haue geuen them licence to return home into their countries they chose rather to tary still and take certayne landes least they shuld not so much reioyce their frends as make them abhorre to loke vpon them In the meane season to win the conquerors fauor withall Darius own kinsmen bound him in fetters and chains of gold in a village of the Parthians called Tane I think it was euen the ordinaunce and disposition of God that the Monarche of the Persians should take his end in the lande of them that should succede in the Empire Alexander also the next morow folowing after vpon the spurre had intelligence that Darius was conueied out by night in a lyter whervpon commaunding the residue of his hoste to folow after with as much spede as they coulde conuenientlye he tooke vii M. of his horsmen and pursued him In his iourney he fought many daungerous battels and when he had ridden many a mile and could hear no inklinge of Darius as his horses were a baiting one of his souldioures goyng down to a watering therby founde Darius in a litter striken through with many woundes but as yet a liue Who callinge to him the Souldioure when he perceyued by hys speche that he was one of his owne countrye men he sayde it was a comfort to him being in the case that he was that he should speake to one that could vnderstand him and not vtter his last wordes in vaine He had him say vnto AlexaÌder in his name that he died a great dettor of his without any desert of his owne parte for as much as he had fouÌd him like a king and not like an enemy towards his wife and children
and that it was hys chaunce to be better entreated of his ennemy then of hys owne kin For wheras his enemy had geuen his wyfe and children life his kinsfolk to whome he had geuen both lyfe and kingdoms had vnnaturally bereft him of his life For the which his doinges he rendred him suche thankes as he himself hauing the victory listeth to accept This onlye one thing which lay in his power to do for him nowe lyinge at the poynt of death would he do for Alexander as inrecom pence of his good turnes that is to pray to the powers celestiall and the powers infernall and the Gods of kinges to geue him victory and dominion of the whole worlde As for himself he desired nothing but that it might be his plesure to graunte him buriall as of righte he oughte to haue without grudge And as touching the reuengement of hys death it was now no parte of his care but for exaÌples sake the common case of all kinges the whiche to neglecte as it should be dishonorable to him so might it turne to hys vtter perill For on the one part this case concerneth his Iustice and on the other it toucheth his owne vtility and profit In token wherof as an only pledge of the faith and honor of a king he gaue his right hand to cary vnto Alexander At those words he stretched out his hand and gaue vp the goste The which when Alexander hard of he came to see his body as he lay dead and he wept to beholde so worthye an estate come vnto so vnworthye a death Wherfore he caused his body to be entred with all solempnitye like a kinge and his reliques to be conueyed into the Sepulthres of his auncestoures The twelfthe Booke ALexander bestowed great cost in buryinge of his souldiours that were slaine in pursuing Darius to the residue of his companye he departed wyth xv M. taleÌts The greater part of his horses was foundred with heat and such as remained were able to do no seruice The whole summe of the mony gotten alate by this victory was a hundred and thre and fifty thousand talents wherof Parmcnio was made treasurer Whyle theese things wer a doinges letters were brought from Antipater out of Macedone the tenor wherof contained y â wartes of Agis king of the Spartans in Grece of Alexander king of Epire in Italy and of his lieuetenaunt Sopyron in Scithia The which made him somewhat to muse Neuerthelesse when he had wel disgested the natures of the ii kings his enuiers he was more glad of the losse of them then sorye for the losse of his armye and his captaine Sopiryon For after that Alexander had taken his iourney almoosââ¦e all Grece fell to rebellion in hope to recouer their liberty ensuinge the ensample of the Lacedemonians whyche alonelye forsooke the peace and despised the orders taken bothe by Phillip and Alexander Captaine and ringleader of thys Commotion was Agis kinge of the Lacedemonians The whiche tumulte Antipater suppressed with suche power as he had raised euen in the very risinge therof Yet notwithstandinge there was great slaughter on both partes King Agis when he saw his meÌ put to flight to the entent that all be it he coulde not haue as good fortune as Alexander he mighte not seeme inferioure to him in courage sent awaye his garde and him selfe alone made suche slaughter of his ennemies that sometime he put to flyghte whole bandes at ones At the laste althoughe he were oppressed by the multitude yet he wan the glory and renoun from them all Furthermore AlexaÌder king of Epyre being set into Italy for to aid the Tarentines against the Brutianes toke y â viage vppon him with so good a will as thoughe the whole worlde should haue beene deuided and that Alexander the sonne of his sister Olympias shoulde haue had the East for his part and himself the West entendinge to haue no lesse a doo in Italy Affrike and Sicil then the other shuld haue to do in Asia amonge the Persians And besides thys lyke as the Oracle at Delphos had prophesied vnto great Alexander that his destruction shuld be wrought in Macedone euen so the Oracle of Iupiter of Dodone had told this Alexander that the city Pandose and the riuer acheruse shoulde be his fatall end Nowe for as much as bothe of them were in Epyre not knowing that they were in Italy also to th entent to auoyd the daunger of his desteny he gladly enterprysed warre in a straunge land Therfore when he came into Italye the firste warre that he had was with the Appulians but when he vnderstode the destenies of their City he entred a leage and amity with their king For at that time the head City of Appulia was Brunduse the which was founded by the Aetolians vnder the conducte of Dyomedes that famous captaine for hys renowmed actes at the battell of Troye But being expulsed by thappulians they asked counsell of the Oracles Where answer was made that they shoulde possesse the place that they required for euer Here vppon they required thappulians by their ambassadors to render their Citye againe or elsse they threatned to make sharpe warre vpon them The Appulians hauynge knowledge of the answer of the Oracle slew the ambassadoures and bucied them in the Citye there to haue their dwellinge for euer and so hauing dispatched the meaninge of the Oracle they enioyed the City a great time The which dede when Alexander of Epyre knew of for reuereÌce to the destinies of so long continuaunce he made no more warre to the Appulians Then made he warre with the Brutians and Lucanes won many cities of theirs Also he concluded a peace and frendship with the Metapontines Rutilians and Romains But the Brutians and Lucanes hauing gotten hope of their neighbors fiersly renewed the warres againe There the king neare vnto the citye Pandose and the riuer Acheruse was wounded to deathe not knowing the name of his fatall place besore he was slaine and when he should die he perceiued that in his own country was no nead for him to fear death for the whiche cause he had forsaken his countrye The Tyrians raunsomed his body at the charges of their city and buried it honorably While these things wer in doing in Italy Zopyrion also whome Alexander the great had lefte president of Pontus thinking himself dishonored if he laye still and attempted nothinge raised an army of xxx M. souldiers and made war to the Scythians Where being ââ¦aine wythal his hoste he suffred due punishment for making war so rashly againste an vnhurtfull kinde of people When tidinges of these thinges were brought vnto Alexander into Parthia he made himself very sory for the death of his cosen AlexaÌder and commaunded al his host to morne for him by the space of iii. daies After this as though the warre had ben ended in the death of Darius when all men loked to returne into their
booty falling into their mouthes vnhoped for th one thinking to succede him in his Empire the other to possesse his richesse and moueables Ther wer in the tresory an hundred thousande talentes besides the yerely custom and tribute which amounted to CCC thousand But it was not for nothinge that the noble men of Alexander loked for the kingdome For they were euery one of them of that prowesse representing suche a maiesty therwithall that ye would haue thought them to haue beene kinges euerychone For they were all men of suche beauty and fauour so tall and goodly personages and of so great strength and wisdome that he that had not knowen them would not haue thought they hadde bene all of one country but rather chosen out of all the whole world And surely neither Macedone nor any other couÌtry before that time did florish with suche a nomber of noble mââ¦n whom first of all Philip and afterward Alexander with suche aduisement selected and picked oute that they seemed not so muche to haue bene chosen to attend vppon him and serue him in the warres as to succede in him in his kingdome Who can then meruel that the world was subdued by such men of seruice seing the army of Macedone was gouerned by so many not Captaines but kinges who neuer shoulde haue found their matches if they had not fallen at contention betwene them selues And Macedone should haue had many Alexanders for one if fortune vpon enuy of their owne puissaunce had not armed them one to destroy another But after the time that Alexander was deade they assembled together into one place neither alltogether mery nor out of fear one of another No lesse mistrustinge the men of warre whose liberty was now more large and fauor vncertaine And amonge them selues the equalitye encreased theyr discord no man so farre exceding the rest of his peres that any of them would vouchsafe to submit himself vnto hym Therfore they assembled in the palace all in harnesse to set an order and staye in matters for the tyme. Perdicas thoughte it good to abide the deliueraunce of Roxanes the which had now gone viii monethes with child by Alexander and wold be redy shortly to lie downe and if she brought forth a sonne to substitute him in his fathers stead Meleager replying thervnto said it was not meete to delaye their determination vpon her doubtfull deliueraunce nor to tary for a king that was vnborne sith they mighte take suche as were borne all ready For if they desired to haue a childe to their kinge there was at Pergamus Alexanders sonne by Arsine called Hercules or if they had rather haue a younge man there was in the campe arideus the brother and companion of Alexander one that was welbeloued of all men not onlye for hys owne sake but also for his father king Philippes sake But as for Roââ¦nes for as much as she was a Persian it was not lawfull for the Macedones to take them kinges of theyr bloud whose Empire they had subuerted the which thing he said was no part of Alexanders thoughte for he made no mention at all thereof at his deathe Ptolomy refused to haue arideus made king not only for his mothers basenesse for he was begotten of a concubine named Laryssa but also for his continuall sicknesse whiche was greater then could well be abiden in that case least he shoulde beare the name and another all the sway Wherfore it wer better for them to chuse certayn of those whiche for their prowesse and vertues were next vnto the king to rule the prouinces and to take charge of y â warres rather then vnder the coloure of a kinge to be at the commaundement of vnworthy persons At length by the consent of them all the sentence of Perdicas tooke place It was thought good to tary for the deliueraunce of Roxanes and if she had a manchilde it was determined that Leonatus Perdicas Craterus ââ¦tipater shuld be protectours and forth with the rest toke their othe to be obedient to those protectors When the horsmen had done the like the fotemen disdaining that they wer made preuy to no part of their doings proclaimed Arideus the brother of Alexander kynge and chose him a garde of his own kinred geuing him the name of his father king Phillip The which thinges when they were told to the horsmen they sent to appease their wrath two ambassadoures of the noble men Attalus and Melenger who seking preheminence by flatteringe of the comminalty condescended to the souldioures by and by the tumulte increased when it ones had gotten a heade and counsell Then of purpose to destroy the men of armes they armed them selues and rushed into the palace The meÌ of armes vnderstanding what peril they stode in fearfully conueied them selues out of the city and pitched theyr campe in the fieldes wherat the fotemen also began to be dismaid Neyther did the hatred of the noble men cease Attalus sente to kil Perdicas captain of the aduerse parte Unto whom being armed when they that were sent to strike him durste not approche althoughe of his owne courage he prouoked them thervnto Perdicas was of such boldnesse that of his owne free wil he went to the fotemen and assembling theÌ together laide to their charge what a heinous matter they attempted willing them to haue respecte againste whome they toke wepon in hande alledginge that they were not Persians but Macedones nor enemies but their own couÌtrymen yea many of them their kinsmen or at least wyse for the most part their coÌpanions in armes and partakers of their perils Wherfore they should make a goodly show to their ennemies that they might reioyce to see them kill one another by whose puissaunce they lamented them selues to be ouercome and to see them do sacrifice with their own blud to the ghostes of them that they had slain When Perdicas had with his singuler eloquence debated theese matters to the full he moued the footemen in suche wise that by a common consent he was chosen captaine general of them all Then the horsmen also beinge broughte to attonement consented to take Arideus for king reseruing a part of the kingdoÌe for the sonne of Alexander if any shuld be borne This did they layinge the bodye of Alerander amongst them to th entent that his maiesty mighte be as a witnesse of their decrees and ordinaunces These thynges being thus set at a stay Antipater was made regent of Ma cedone and Grece Craterus was appoynted to be hyghe tresurer The charge of the campe the hoste and matters of warfare wer committed to Meleager and Perdicas and Arideus himself was assigned to conuey Alexanders corse to the temple of Hammon Then Perdicas beinge sore displeased with the authors of the sedition sodenlye withoute knowledge of his fellow coÌmaunded the next day a serche should be made in the campe for the death of the kinge When he had set all the hoste
newes of it might cause them to take the matter worse then it was in deede or the straungenesse therof discourage their harts And also to the entent to try whether their mindes were bent any thing against him or no enteÌding to take councel by thaduise of them all Neuerthelesse boldly protesting amonge them that if anye mannes harte failed him he shuld haue licence to depart with the which word he allured them all to fauor his procedings that they all bad him be of good comforte promisinge to repeale the decrees of the Macedones by force of armes Then remoued he with his hoste into Actolia where he raised a taxe of the cities and suche as refused to bestow it vpon hym he sacked like an ennemy From thence he went to Sardis to Cleopatra the sister of great Alexander to the entent that by her wordes the captaines and chiefe officers mighte be the more strengthened to stande in his quarel For he was of that opinion that the maiestye and fortune of the kyngdome should turne vnto that side that the sister of Alexander held with So muche reuerence was attributed to the greatnesse of Alexander that men soughte for the fauor of his sacred and renowned name euen by the fotesteppes of women When he was returned into his tente ther wer letters found strawed throughe all the campe wherin were promised greate rewardes to him that would bring Emnenes ââ¦ed vnto Antigonus Emnenes hauing knowledge hereof sommoned his souldiers before him first of all gaue them thankes that there were none of them founde that preferred the hope of a bloudy reward before his faithful oth and fidelity Afterward he ãâã ãâã vp the matter saying that those letters wer ãâã by himself to try his soldiers mindes withall and ââ¦at it lay in all their handes to saue him or cast him a way neuer thelesse y â nether antigouus nor any other of the captains coueted to get the vpperhaÌd in suche sort as therby to geue wicked ensample to others to doo the like by him By this dede he bothe strengthened the wauering mindes of hââ¦s souldiers for the present time and prouided before hande that if the like chaunce shoulde happen hereafter his souldioures should not thincke them selues to be corrupted by their ennemye but rather tried what they would doo by their captaine Euery man theresore stroue who might be most for his security safegarde In the meane season came antigonus against them with hys boste and reastinge himselfe in his campe for that nyghte brought forthe his men in battell raye the next morninge Neither did Emââ¦eties detract the encounter who being put to the worfe fled into a certaine strong holde Where perceiuing that he was driuen to abide thee aduenture of the siege he dismissed the greater parte of his army for doubt leaste by the consent of suche a multitude he mighte be betrayed to his ennemye or elsse be pestered with the noumber of men and so not be able to holde out the siege Then sent he ambassadoures humbly to Antipater who only semed of power able to matche Antigonus Antigonus hearinge that Antipater had sent to reskue Emnenes brake vp his siege and went his waye Thus was Emnenes deliuered from feare of deathe for a while but it was not for him to hope to continue longe in safetye seing he had sent awaye his men of warre Therefore when he had loked wel aboute him he thought it best for him to resorte to the Argiraspides that inuincible host of great Alexander glistering with the renowme of so many victories But the argiraspides after that Alexander was ones gone disdained all captaines thinckinge them selues dishonoured to serue vnder any other considerynge vnder what a prince they had serued so late before Emnenes therfore entreated them with faire wordes and spake gently to euery of them calling them somtimes his fellowes and companions in armes sometimes his patrones and defendoures other whiles his partakers of all daungerous attemptes and enterprises in the Easte and other whiles the only refuge and staye of his life and safegard boastinge that they onlye were those by whose puissaunce the East was subdued which alonely had surmââ¦un ted the warfare of liber pater and the monumentes of Hercules that by them Alexander was made greate by them he obtained to deuine honoures and immortall glory beseching them to receiue him amongst them not so muche for a captain as for oââ¦e of their felowes and that they would geue him leaue to be as it were one of their bodye Beyng vpon this condition enterteined by litle and litle first with admonishing euery man apart and afterward with gentle correcting suche thinges as were doone amisse he vsurped authority ouer them Nothing could be done in the campe without him nothing could be attempted withoute his aduice At the lengthe when it was tolde him that antigonus came against him with an army he compelled them to put them selues in order of battell there whiles they disdained to be ruled by their captaine by force of their ennemies they were ouercome In that battell they lost not onlye all their glory and renowne won in so manye battels before but also their wiues and children and all the goodes they had gotten in so long continued warre so far from home Emnenes thauthor of this their losse and discomfiture hauing none other comfort or refuge to flie vnto began to en courage them when they were vanquished affirming that they wer superior as touching their prowesse puissance For they had slaine fiue thousand of their enuemies and iâ⦠they were minded to sticke to it to the vttermooste they should see their ennemies be faine to sue to them for peace As for the losses and domage wherby they thoughte them selues so much vndone were but two thousand women a few children and bondmen the which they might better recouer by getting the victory then by forsaking the victorye for wante of courage The Argyraspides made aunswer they would neither attempt to run away with the losse of their wiues and bedfellowes ⪠nor yet make warre agaynst their own children And with that they beganne to reuile him in that after so many yeres when they wer returned home with their wages whiche they had well and dearlye earned and with the rewardes of so many battels being at rest and hauing geuen ouer the warrs he had egged them forth to a newe warfare and endlesse encounters and leadinge them in manner from their houses and natiue country had deluded them with his vaine promises yea now also after they had lost the gaines of their prosperous warfare could not be content to suffer them beinge thus vanquished to lead the rest of their wretched olde age in quietuesse Here vppon without knowledge of their captaynes they sent messengers to antigonus forthwith desiringe restitution of their goodes He sent them word again he would restore euery whit so that they would yeld Emnenes
into his handes Emnenes hearing of this practise attempted wyth a few to eskape by flight But being set backe againe seynge no hope of recouery as the multitude flocked aboute him he made request that he might yet ones ere he dyed speke vnto his army Being willed to say his minde when ââ¦lence was made and his bondes losed ⪠he stretched forthe his hande fettered as he was and shewed it them saying Beholde my souldiours the apparel and ornaments of your captaine whyche none of his enemies hath put vppon him For that were a comfort to him But euen you your selues you haue made me of a conqueror a vaÌquished persoÌ you haue made me of a captain a captiue four times within this twelue month you haue sworn to be true to me but I will let that passe For it is not mete for ââ¦en in aduersity to vpbraid others This only one thing I require at your hands that if Antigenus be so fullye bent to take my heade from me as in whose death al his affaires and purposes shuld be finished you wil let me die among you For I am sure he cares not after what sort or where I die so I be dead neyther doo I passe greatly for my life so I might be deliuered froÌ thys slaunderous death If you will graunt me this request I discharge you of your othe wherby you haue bound your selues so often vnto me Or if ye be ashamed to slea me your selues then reach me a weapon and geue me leaue to do that thing for you without conscience of breaking of your othe which you haue sworne so oftentimes to do for your captain When he saw he coulde not obtaine his request he left intreatance and fel to anger Now the Gods quod he the iust reuenger of periury looke vpon you you false forsworne kaitiues and geue such endes vnto you as you haue geuen vnto your captaines For it is not longe a go since you polluted your selues with the bloude of Perdicas practising to haue done the like with Antipater yea and that that is worst of all you oftentimes troubled euen Alexander himself with your seditions and mutinies doing your best to haue slain him if it had beene possyble for him to haue died of mannes hand And nowe I laste of all whiche shal be offered as a sacrifice by you false forsworne wretches do pray God that these curses maye lighte vpon you that being beggers and outlawes you may spend all your life time in this warfare like banished people neuer to retourne to your country againe and your owne weapons deuour you with the which you haue consumed mo captaines of your owne then of your ennemies This spoken in a greate rage and anger he commaunded hys keners to go before him to Antigonus campe The army fââ¦lowed after to betray their own captain and he being prisoner led as it were a triumphe of him self vnto the camp of his conquerour Deliuering vp into the conqueroures handes both them selues and all the antesignes of kynge Alexander together with the honour and renowne of so many conquestes And for because there shoulde want no pompe the Elephantes also and the suc cââ¦urs of the East folowed after So much more glorious wer these thinges to Antigonus then vnto Alex ander all the conquests he atcheued in that where as Alexander conquered the East Antigonus ouercame them by whom the East was conque red Antigonus therfore dispersed those conquerours of the world into his host making restitution vnto them of such things as he had takeÌââ¦m them at the time of their ouer throw And for because he had in times past had familyer acquaintaunce frendship with Emnenes he would not for shame suffer him to come in his sight but assigned him ii kepers In the mean season Eurydice the wife of king aride us vnderstanding that Polyperchon was retourninge out of Grece into Macedone and that he had set for Olympias being thervpon striken with womanly malice abusyng y â weaknes of her husband whose office authority she toke vpon her wrate to Polypercbon in the kings name that he should deliuer vp the host to Cassander as into whose hand the king had put the whole order and gouernment of the Empire The like coÌmaundement she sent also to antigonus into asia By which benefite Cassander being bound vnto her did euery thing after her rash vnaâ⦠uised coÌmaââ¦nde ment Then went he into Grece made war against ma ny cities at the ⪠destruction of whiche as of a fire neare at hand the spartanââ¦s being afraid both contrary to the aunswers of the oracles contrary to ãâã renown of their ancestors distrusting their owne chiualry enclosed their city with a strong wall the whiche euer before that time they had ben wont to defend by force of armes and not by strength of wals So much wer they degenerated froÌ their aââ¦cestors y â wheras many C. yeres before the prowesse of the citezens was the wal of the city now they thought they might not liue in safety onlesse they myght hide their heds within walles While these things wer a doing the estate of Macedone was so troubled y â Gassander was fain to return thither out of Grece For when Olym pias the mother of king Alexander the great came out oâ⦠Epyre into Macedone accompanied with acacida kynge oâ⦠the Molosses and that Eurydice and arideus the king went about to prohibit her from entring into the realm the Macedones whether it wer for remembrance of her husbaÌd king Phillip or in respecte of the greatnesse of her sonne Alexander or that they were moued at the vnworthy demeanor gathered them selues vnto Olympias at whose commaundement Eurydice and the king were both slaine wheÌ he had raigned vi yeres after Alexander ⪠But Olympias her self raigned not long For when she prââ¦ceaded to make slaughter of her noble men peres more like a tirant then like a Quene she turned her fauor into hatred Therfore when she hard of Cassanders coÌming putting distrust in the Macedones with Roxane her daughter in law Hercules her nephew she conueyed her self into the citye Pictua She had also in her traine deidaââ¦ia the daughter of king aeacidâ⦠and her daughter in law Thessalonice a Ladye much set by for her father Philips sake with many other noble mennes wiues a company more gorgious the profitable When these things wer reported to Cassander immediatly he cam in al hast to Pictua enuironed the town with a strong siege Olympias being constrained w t sword famin wery of the long continuance of the siege yelded her selfe the liues of her hers onlye saued But Cassander assembling the people together to aske theyr aduise what they woââ¦d haue don with Olympias priuely suborned y â pareÌts of such as she had put to death who putting on moâ⦠ning apparel shuld come complain of her great cruelty by whom
the Macedones wer so incensed that wythââ¦ute respect of her former estate they gaue sentence she shoulde be put to death quite forgetting that vnder her sonne and her hushand they had not only liued in safety and oute of daunger of their neighbours but also had gotten so great richesse and the dominion of the whole world But Olimpias when she saw the armed men comminge fiercely toward her to kil her of her owne accorde apparelled lyke a Quene and leaninge vpon two of her gentlewomen she went to mete them At the which sight they that shoulde haue killed her being astonied for the maiesty whiche she before time had represented and then openly shewed and remembring so manye of their kinges who euen then after a sort appeared in her person paused and stode still vntil such time as Cassander sent others to thrust her throughe Who neither fled backe when she sawe the sworde neither refused her deathes wounde nor yet shriked oute like a woman but after the manner of the most valiaunt men auaunced her self forward to the death for the glory of her auncient stocke and progeny so that a man myghte haue behelde euen Alexander himselfe in his mothers dyinge Furthermore when she was euen geuyng vp her ghoste it is reported that she couered her feete wyth her garments and wyth the hear of her heade leaste they that stode about her might haue sene any vncomely sight in her bodye After this Cassander toke to wife Thessalonice the daughter of king Arideââ¦s and put Alexanders sonne with his mother in prison in the toure of Amphipoles The. xv Booke PEââ¦dicas and hââ¦s brother Alceta ââ¦mnenes and Polypercbon with the residue of the captaines of the aduerse part being slaine it was to be thought that the contention amonge the successors of greate Alexander hadde beene clearlye extinguished when sodenlye the conqueroures fell at variaunce among them selues For when that Ptolomy Cassander and Lysimachus required to hauâ⦠the monye that was gotten and made of the voties and the prouinces deuided among them Antigonus denied to admit any partners of the gain and boties of that war the daunger and brunt wherof he sustained himself alone And to th entent he might seeme to haue an honest quarell to make warre vpon his felowes he caused it to be noysed that he would reuenge the deathe of Oââ¦ympias whome Cassander had slaine and deliuer his master king Alexanders sonne and his mother out of amphipolis where they were kepte as prysoners When this was knowen Ptolomy and Cassander entringe in league with Lysimachus and Seleuchus made great preparation for the warres bothe by sea and by land Ptolomy held Egipt with the moââ¦e part of affricke and Cyprus and Phenice Cassander ruled Macedone and Grece antigonus had gotten asia and part of the East Whose sonne Demetrius in the fyrst conflict of these warres was vaÌquished by Ptolomy at Calama In the which battel the renowne of Ptolomies modesty was much greater then his victory For he both let go Demetrius frends not only with their owne priuate substans but also honorablye rewarded and moreouer restored all Demetrius priuate substaunce and houshold stuffe seÌding him woorde like a royall prince that he made warre not for desyre of the gain but for to attain honor and renoun and that it greued him that Antigonus when he had ouercome the Captaines of the aduerse part shoulde take to himself alone the reward of the victory that apertained to theÌ all while these things wer in doing Cassander retur ning from Apollonia chaunced to light vpon the abderites which for the excessiue swarmes of Frogges and myse were fain to forsake their owne natiue country and seke them a new dwelling place Fearing therfore least they should inuade Macedone he made a couenaunt with them and receiued them into league to be his frends assigning them lands to inhabit in thvttermost borders of Macedone Afterward for fear least Hercules the sonne of Alexander who as then was going out of the. xiiii yeare of hys age for good wil and fauoure that menne bare to hys father shoulde be called to the kingdome of Macedone hee caused both him and hys mother Barsine to be putte secreatlye to death and their bodies to be buryed in the grounde least if they should be buryed openly or accordinge to theyr estate their death might come to light And yet not so content as though he had but smally trespassed first in kyng Alerander himself secondly in Olympias his mother and thirdlye in his sonne he also killed his other sonne wyth his mother Roxane by like treason as though it hadde not bene possible to attayne to the kingdome of Macedone whi che he so sore longed for otherwise then by fraud and treson In the meane time Ptolomy encountred agayn wyth Demetrius vppon the sea and hauing lost his shyppes and being clearely vanquished retired into Egipt Demetrius being prouoked with the like good turn before set home into Egipt Leuticke Ptolomies sonne and Menelaus his bro ther ãâã all their priuate goodes and houshold stuffe And for because it might appere that they wer enflamed with desire of honor and praise rather then with malyce and hatred they sent presents and giftes one to another euen in the chiefest time of all their warre So much more honestly did men in those dayes make warre then they doo now maintaine frendship antigonus being puffed vp with pride for this victorye proclaimed himselfe kinge and hys sonne Demetrius also Ptolomy likewise because he wold not be had in lesse estimation amonge his subiectes was proclaimed king by his men of warre Cassander and Lysimachus hearing therof toke vpoÌ them the name and tytle of kinges also All they abstained from vsurping the honour of thys name as long as any of the sonnes of their mayster king Alexander were aliue So greate modestye was in them that all be it euery one of them had the richesse and power of a king yet they could wel find in their harts to forbear the names and titles of kings so long as Alexander had any rightful heir a liue But Ptolomy and Cassander and thother captaines of their part perceiuing y â whiles eche of them drue a part by himself to make warre alone and laid not their power together eche refusing to helpe other as though it were but one mannes victory and not the common vse of them all antigonus licked them vp one after another sent letters of encouragement one to another apoynting a time place of meting and enteruew and so laid all their powers together for the war Where at forasmuch as Cassander could not be present himself by reason of the warres that he had wyth hys neighboures he sent Lysimachus with a great host to the ayâ⦠of his confederates Thys Lysimachus was borne of a noble house in Macedone but his prowesse vertue and knighthode passed all noblenesse of birth The which were so planted in
his person that in hautinesse of courage in knowledge of Philosophy and in strength of body he farre excelled all them by whome the Easte was conquered For when Alexander the greate being very fore moued to anger against Callysthenes the Philosopher for speaking agaynste the adoring of him after the manner of the Persians had appeached the said Callysthenes of treason and there vpon cruelly mangled him by cuttinge of his eares hys nose his liââ¦pes that all menne pitied and lamented to behold howe miserablye he was handled and moreouer caried him about with him shutte vp with a dogge in a cage to the terrible ensample of all other Then Lysimachus who was wont euer before to hear Callysthenes and to receiue enstructions of vertue at his hand taking pity and compassion to see so worthye a manne punished not for anye fault but for vsinge his libertye in speakinge gaue hym poyson to ridde him out of his calamities Wherwith Alexander was so sore agreued that he commaunded hym to be cast vnto a fierce Lion But when the Lion at the first sight of him came running with open mouthe vpon him Lysimachus wineding his arme in a Towell thruste his hand into the Lyons mouth and pulling out his tong killed the beast The which thing when it was declared to the kyng he thought it such a wonder that he was appeased towardes him and euer after sette more store by him for his so great stedfastnesse in vertue Lysimachus also with a noble courage toke the despight that the kynge had doone to him as mekely as if it had bene done by his owne father Finally putting quite oute of his minde the rememberaunce of this displeasure Afterwarde in Inde as the kyng pursued certaine of his ennemies that were dispersed when he hadde throughe the swiftnesse of hys horse lost the companye of all his gard This Lysimachus alone ran foote by foote with him and kepte him company by his horse side through vnmeasurable fieldes of dry sande The whiche thinge his brother Philippe attempting before to haue doone died betweene the Kynges handes But as Alexander alyghted from his horse hee wounded Lysimachus so sore in the fooreheade wyth the poynt of his speare that the bloude coulde not otherwise be stopped but that to bynde vp the wound wythall the kyng was fain to take the Drademe from hys own hed and set it vpon his the which was then firste of all a fortunate fortoken that Lysimachus should after aspire to the estate of a kinge And after the death of Alexander when the prouinces were deuided among his successoures the cruellest natyons were assigned to Lysimachus as to the valiantest person of all others for farre did he by the consent of al men excede all the residue in manhoode and prowesse Before the battell shoulde be foughte betwene Ptolomy and hys adherentes against Antââ¦onus Seleuchus departing sodenly out of the greater Asia became a new ennemye vnto antigonus This mannes prowesse also was notable and his begetting wonderfull For his mother Laodice beinge maried to Antiochus a noble manne among the captaynes of king Philip dreamed in her sleepe that she conceyued and was greate with childe by apollo and that in recom pence for lying with him the God gaue her a Kynge in the stone wherof was engraued the lykenesse of an Aââ¦ker commaundinge her to geue it to her sonne whome she should bryng forth This vision was wonderful both for the ringe of the same engrauinge that was feunde in her bedde the next morning and for the figure of the anker which was founde in the thighe of Seleuchus beinge a little Babe when he was newly borne and so continued and grewe with him Wherfore Laodice when Seleucus should go with great Alexander to the warfare agaynste the Persians enforming him of the maner of his begetting gaue him the ringe Wheras after the deathe of Alexander obtaining the Empire of the East he builded a City and there consecrated the memoriall of the original of the stone For he both called the Citye Antioche after the name of hys father and also dedicated the fieldes about the city to Apollo The token of his begettinge remained also with his posterity For his children and childrens children had an Anker in their thigh as a naturall marke of their linage He made many battels in the Eastafter the deuision of the kingdome of Macedone amonge the pieres of the realme First he toke Babilon by force then being encrease din power by reason of that victory he conquered the Bactrians Afterwarde he made an enteraunce into Inde whiche after the deathe of Alexander hauing as it were caste of the yoke of bondage from their neckes had slaine all his lieuetenauntes The author of this libertye was one Sondrocotte but after the victorye he turned this pretence of libertye into seruitude For by vsurping vppon him the kingdome he oppressed wyth hys owne tiranny the people whome he had deliuered from foraine subiection This man was borne of lowââ¦degree but driuen to take the kingdom vpon him by the present aid of God For when he had vpon a time offended Alexander with his malapertnesse and that the king had com maunded him to be put to death he saued his life by swift nesse of his fete After the which being very wearye and lying fast a sleepe A Lyon of maruelous hugenesse came to him as he slept ⪠and with his tounge licked of the swet that issued from him and when he awaked went gentlye away Bââ¦ing by this wonderfull foretoken firste moued to hââ¦pe of the kingdome he gathered together anoââ¦ber of robbers and stirred the Indians ⪠to rebellyon Afterward as he was makinge preparation for the warres against ⪠Alexanders lieuetenaunts a wylde Elephant of maruelous bignesse offred hymselfe to him of hys owne accord and as though he had bene tame mekely receyued hym vppon hys backe ⪠and he became a valiaunt captain and a notable warryoââ¦re Sandrocotte hauynge thus gotten the kyngdome the verye same time that Seleucus layed the foundation of the greatnesse that he after grew vnto held all Inde ⪠with whome Seleucus enteryââ¦ge a league and hauing set his affaires at a stay in the Easte came to the warres set against Antigonus The armyes therfore of the confederates beinge assembled together there was a field fought In the whyche Antigonus was slayne ⪠and hys sonne Demetrius put to flyghte But the confederates after they had by battell dispatched theyr ⪠enemies fell together by the eares againe amonge them selues and for because they could not agree in parting of the pray they sundred them selues into two partes Seleucus ioyned himselfe with Demetrius and Ptolomy with Lisimachus Cassander being deceased his sonne Philippe succeded him And so new warres sprong vp a fresh agayn in Macedone ¶ The. xvi Booke AFter the deathe of Cassander and hys sonne Philip one immediatly ensuinge the other Thessalonice the Quene and wife
of Cassander ere it was long time after entreatynge for her life eââ¦en by she wynge her brestes to moue him to pitye was crueââ¦ly slain by her sonne antipater The cause of the murther was this by reason that after the death of her husband when the kyngdome should be deuided she semed to be more fa uourable to Alexander The whych act apeared so much the more heynous in all mennes eyes by reason the mother ment no deceipte in the matter And yet to saye the trouthe there canne be no cause alledged iustly to excuse one for killing their father or theyr mother Alexander therfore vpon this occasyon entendynge to make warre vpon hys brother to reuenge hys mothers death desired healpe of Demetrius And Demetrius was easye to entreat in hope to inuade the kingdome of Macedone Of whose coÌming Lysimachus being afraid perswaded hys son in law Antââ¦pater to fal to agremeÌt with his brother rather then to suffer his fathers enemy to enter into Macedone Demetrius perceiuing that a reconcilement was entreted vpon betwene the. ii brethren slew Alexander through great treson inuading the kingdome of Macedone to the entent to excuse himself of the murder before his men of war he called them together There he aledged y â Alexander had lien in wait for him before and that he hadde not committed but only preuented the treason Saying it was more reson he himself shuld be kyng then the other bothe for because of his yeares he was of more discretion experiens and also for other consyderations For his father had accompanied both king Phillip grââ¦at Alexander in all their warres and afterwarde had serued Alexander as a captain in pursuing the rebels Where as on the contrary parte Antipater the graundfather of these yongmen was alwaies a more roughe gouernoure of the kingdome then the kinges them selues And Cassander the father of them the roter vp of the kings house spared neither women nor children nor neuer ceased vntill he had vtterly destroyed all the ofspring of the kings posteritye The reuengement of these milcheues for because he could not execute it vpon Cassander him self he said was transferred vnto his children Wherefore both Phillip and Alexander if the dead haue anye perseueraunce woulde not that the roters out of them and their issue but rather the punishers of those traitors should enioy the kingdome of Macedone The people being by this meanes mitigated proclaimed him king of Macedone Lysimachus also beinge entangled with the warres of Dromychet king of ââ¦hrace to y â entent he would not be constrained to haue battel the self same time with Demetrius also yelded to him thother part of Macedone that fell to the lot of his sonne in law Antipater and made peace with him Demetrius therfore being furnished with the whole power of all Macedone when as he was mineded to conquere Asia Ptolomy Seleuchus and Lysimachus hauing tried by the former conflict what a strength concord was of entred in league againe and ioyning their hastes together remoued the warres into Europe against Demetrius Pyrrhus kinge of Epyre hoopinge that Demetrius might as easly and lightly forgoo Macedone as he cam by it ioyned him self with them as a fellowe and companion in their war And his hope deceiued him not For he fouÌd the meanes to corrupt his army with rewardes whereby he put him to flight and seised the kingdome of Macedone into his owne handes While these thinges were a doing Lysimachus put his sonne in law Antipater to deathe because he repined and ãâã that the kingdome of Macedone hys ⪠rightfull inheritaunce was taken from him throughe the falshod of his father in law And because his daughter eurydice toke her husbands part in making like exclamatioÌ he put her in pryson And so al the house of CassaÌder part ly by murder and partly by execution suffred due punishment in the behalfe of great Alexander whether it were for working of his death or for destroying of his issue and posterity Demetrius also being ouercharged with so many hostes wheras he might haue died honorablye chose rather to yeld himself to Seleuchus shamefully When theese warres were ended Ptolomy with great renowme of hys actes and enterprises died He contrary to the coÌmon law of all nations somewhat before he fell sycke had resigned the kingdome to the yongest of his sonnes and of hys so doing he rendred a reason to the people who fauored the sonne no lesse for receiuing the kingdome then the father for deliuering of it Amonge other examples of naturall loue and affection shewed on both partes betwene the father and the sonne ⪠this thing wan the hartes of the comminalty to the yoÌg man that the father after the time he had openly surrendred the kingdome vnto him executed the office of one of the garde and serued the kinge as an other priuate person sayinge it was far more honorable for a man to be father to a kinge then to be a kynge hym selfe But discorde the continuall mischief among pieres stirred vp strife betwene Lysimachus and Pyrrhus a litle be fore fellowes and confederates agaynste Demetrius Lysimachus getting the vpper hand droue Pyrrhus oute of Macedone and toke it into his owne haÌd After this he made war against Thrace and then against the city Heraclea y â original end of which city wer wonderful both of theÌ For vpon a time wheÌ the Beoââ¦ans wer afflicted wyth a sore plage answer was geuen them at thoracle of delphos y â they shuld build a city in the country of Pontus dedicate it vnto Hercules Now when as for fear of the long perillous sayling desiring al to die in their own country rather then to enterprise so loÌg a iourny the matter was omitted y â Phocenses made war against theÌ By whoÌ being diuers times put to Y e worse they ran to the oracle again for couÌsel Answsr was made them y â the same thing y â shuld remedy ââ¦he pestilens shuld remedy y â war Wher vpon gathering a litle noÌber of men they sailed into Metapont builded the city Heraclea And forasmuch as thes had ben brought thither by thordinance of god w tin short space after they grew to great welth In proces of tyme this city had many battels with their neighbors much mischefe among theÌ selues through ciuil dissetioÌ Among other honorable dedes this in especially is worthye to be remeÌbred At suche time as the Atheniens bare the souerainty and hauing vanquished the Persians had raised a taxe bothe in Grece Asia for the maintenaunce of theyr flete wheras all other to saue theÌ selues harmlesse gladly gaue theÌ their asking onlye the Heracliens for the fauor they bare to the kings of Persia refused to be coÌtributary to y â taxe Malachus therfore being sent froÌ Athens wyth an army to take perforce the thing y â was denied whyles he weÌt abrode to wast
ãâã y â fields of Heraclea lost hys ships y â he left at rhode w t the greater part of his armye by force of a sodain teÌpest y â put them al to wracke Therfore wheÌ he could not return by sea hauing lost his ships nor durst return by laÌd with so slender a coÌpany through so many sauage nations the Heracliens thinking it more honor to vse this occasion to shewing geÌtlenes then to re uengemeÌt furnished theÌ with victels safe condited theÌ home making accompt y â the wasting oftheir couÌtry was wel bestowed if they might therby win their enemies to be their frends AmoÌg many other euils they suffred also tirannye For when the common people vppon â⦠wilfulnesse outragiously and importunately exacted to haue all dettes clerely released and the landes of the richmen par ted among them the matter hanging longe tyme in question in the ãâã ãâã and commââ¦n iudgemente place and after that of Epaminondas captain of Thebes againste the comminalty that were growen to such a welthines throughe ouer much ease and idlenesse But hauinge denyall at both their handes they wer faine to flie for succor to Clearche whome they them selues hadde banished before So great an ertremity did their calamities driue them vnto that whome they had erewhile forbidden his country eueÌ him were they faine to call againe to the defence of the same But Glearche beinge by his banishmente made more wicked then he was before and takinge the dissention of his country men as a mete accasion for him to vsurpe and make himself king firste of all commoned priuelye wyth Mythridates the ennemye of his Citezens and entringe in league with him compounded that when he were called againe into his country he should betray the citye to him and he to be made chiefe ruler of it for his laboure Yet afterward the treason that he hadde purposed agaynste hys country he turned vppon Mythridates him selfe For when he was retourned out of erile to be as an indiffereÌt iudge for the determination of ciuil controuersies the same time that he had appoynted to betray the town vnto Mythridates he toke him and his ââ¦rendes and for a great summe of mony let him go again And like as towards him he made him self of a frend a sodain enemy euen so of a defendour of thestate of the senate he sodainly became a protector of the comminalty and against the authors of his power preheminence by whome he had beene reuoked into hys country by whome he had bene placed in the toure of hys royalty he not onlye incensââ¦d the commons but also exercised all kind of most vnspeakeable tiranny and crueltye For he sommoned the people together and told them that he woulde not anye more assist the senators vsynge them selues so rigorously againste the comminaltye but that he would rather be a meane betwixt them if they continued in their accustomed tiranny and if they thought them selues able to make their party good against the crueltye of the senatoures he would depart with his men of warre and not entermedle himself in their ciuil discordes But if they distrusted their owne strength they should not wââ¦t his helpe for that that he was able to doo for them And therfore aduise them selues whether they were better to bid him goo his way or to tary as a partaker and supporter of the quarell of the commons The comminaltye being stirred with this talke made him their chiefe gouernour and so while they were offended at the authority of the senate they yelded them selues with their wiues and children in bondage vnder the subiââ¦ction of a Lordlye tiraunt Clearche therfore apprehended lx of the senatours for all the ââ¦est were fledde and cast them in prison The people reioysed to see the Senate destroyed and that in espetially by the captain of the Senatours and that contrary to all likelihode their help was turned to their vtter confusion Upon whom by threatning death to them all in generall he set the hier price For Clearche receiuing a great summe of mony of them as who should say he entended priuely to deliuer them from the peoples displeasure when he hadde robbed them of all theyr goodes he spoyled them also of their liues Afterward vnderstaÌding that those that were fled hauing moued the cities of pity and compassion to helpe them prepared warre agaynste him he set their bondmen at libertye And to the entent there should want no kind of misery in those honourable houses and that he might make the slaues more faythfull to himself and more enemies to their masters he compel led the wiues and daughters of those noble men to marry with their slaues vppon paine of death if they refused so to do But those sorowfull weddinges were greuouser then sodain death to the honorable Ladies And therfore many of them before their mariage and many in the very time of their mariage killing first their new husbands slew them selues and by the vertue of their natural womanhode and shamefastnesse was a fielde soughte in the which the Tiranne gettinge the vpper hande drewe the senatoures as prisoners in manner of triumphe through the face of the city After his retourne into the citye some he cast in bonds some he racked and som he put to death and no place of the city was fre ââ¦rom the cruelnesse of the tiran With this outragiousnesse he became proude and with his crueltye ââ¦e became arrogante for throughe hys continuall good successe in prosperity he would somtime forget himself to be a man and sometime be wââ¦ulde call himself Iubiters sonne When he went abrode he wold haue an Eagle of gold borne before him as a token of his begetting He vsed to wear robes of purple and to goâ⦠in buskens after the manner of kings in tragedies wyth a crown of gold vpon his headâ⦠Moreouer to the entent to scorne the gods aswel in ââ¦ames as in counterfait gesture abhominable leasings he named his sonne Ceraunos Two noble yongmen called ChioÌ Leonides disdaining to se him do these things entending to set their country at liberty conspired to kil the Tiran These men wer the disciples of the Philosopher Plato who couetinge to bestow vpon their country the vertue vnto the whiche they were furthered by the moost perfect instructions of theyr master laid in an ambush fifty of their kinsmen whome they had gotââ¦en to be of their retinew They them selues counterfetting to be at defiaunce againste another made toward the Castie to the Tiran as to their king y e shuld decide theââ¦r controââ¦ersies and being ther admitted to his presence as they that were well knowen ââ¦hyles the tirant gaue autentiue eare to the fiââ¦st mannes tale the other stept within him and kild him But by reason theyr company was not quick inough in comming to their rescue they were slaine by the garde By meanes wherof it came to passe that the Tiran was slain but yet
then and moste readye and forwarde to doo all kinde of mischiefe For he was counted strong of hand and in talking to the people verye eloquent Therfore within shorte space he was made captaine of a hundred men and anone after marshall of the hoste In the firste battell whiche was against the AetneaÌs he gaue the Syracusanes great profe of his towardnesse In the nexte followinge agaynste the Campaines he made all men concââ¦iue so good opinion of him that he was substituted in the roume of the graunde captaine Damasco deceased whose wife with whome he had committed aduoutry in the life of her husband afteâ⦠his decease he toke in mariage And beinge not content that of a begger he was sodainly made riche he exercysed rouing on the sea againste his owne country But it was his chaunce to be saued because when his mates wer taken and putte to the torture they confessed nothynge of him Twise he went abouâ⦠to vsurpe the Empire of Syââ¦acuse and twise he was banished for hys laboure The Murgantines amonge whome he liued in the time of his exile for hatred they bare to the Syracusanes created him first their Pretor and afterwarde their captayne In that warre he bothe tooke the city of the Leontines and besieged the city of Syracuse To the rââ¦ue wherof Hamilcar captaine of the Carthaginenses beinge requested to come laying a side all emnity and hatred sent thither a crew of souldioures And so at one time and instant the City Syracuse was defended louingly and frendly by the enemy and ââ¦ye assailed by her owne Citizen But Agathocles when he sawe that the towne was more manfullye defended then assaulted he sent a pursiuant to Hamilcar desiringe hym to doo so much for him as to take vp the mater betwene him and the Syracusanes and to bee as an indifferente iudge for the determination of some peace betwixt them promisyng to doo the best that laye in him to recompence hys gentlenesse Where vppon Hamilcar beinge fulfilled with hoope and partly fearinge his power entred a league of frendshippe with him vppon condition that looke howe much he furthered Agathocles in strength agaynste the Syracusanes so muche shoulde Agathocles recompence hym withal againe to the furtheraunce of his aduauncement at home in his owne natiue country By meanes of this composition Agathocles was not only reconciled and brought to attonement with the Syracusanes but also hee was made Pretor of the Citye Then the holy fyre and the tapers were brought forthe whervpon agathocles laying his hand sware before Hamilcar to become true subiectes to the Carthaginenses Herevpon receiuing of him fiue thousand afres he put to death al the noble men that were of greatest power and authority and so as it were to th entent to refourme the state of the common welth he commaunded the people to assemble before him in the Theatre gathering the Senatours into the counsell house as thoughe he mineded to make some ordinaunce or decree before When he had brought his matters to this poynt he sent his souldiers to besiege the people and he him selfe slue the senators the whyche slaughter being finished he put to deathe also all suche of the commons as were the welthiest and forwardest persons These thinges beinge thus compassed he mustered souldiours and raised an army with the whyche beynge strengthened he sodainly inuaded the next cities lokyng for no hostility Furthermore by the sufferance of Hamilcar he wrongfully entreated and shamefully handled the confederates of the Carthaginenses For the whiche cause they made complainte to the Senate Carthage not so muche of agathocles as of hamilcar accusinge the one as a Lordly Tirant and the other as a traytoure by whome they were sold by composition and bargain betwene theÌ two to the vttermost enemy of their estate to whome at the beginning in coÌfirmation of the said composition and agrement was deliuered Syracuse the city that had euer bene most enemy to the Afres and an enuier of the Carthaginenses alwayes contending with them for the Empire of Sicil and now moreouer were betrayed to y e same person the cities of their confederates vnder a counterââ¦aite pretence of peace Wherfore they gaue them warning that if they loked not to these matters in time with in a while they would light vpon their owne heades and soone after they shoulde feele what damage they shoulde bring as wel vpon their owne country of Affricke as vp ãâã the pore Iland of Sicil. By meanes of these coÌplaints the Senate was sore moued to displesure against Hamilcar But forasmuch as he was in Office they gaue theyr iudgement secretely vpon him commaundinge their verdits before they shuld be red to be cast into a pot together and there ââ¦o be sealed vppe vntill the other Hamilcar the sonne of Gysgo wer returned out of Sicil. But the death of Hamilcar preuented the suttle deuises and vnknowen verdites of the Carthaginenses and he was deliuered by the benefite of death whome his owne countrymen had wrongfully condempned without hearing of his answer The which thing gaue Agathocles occasion to moue war against the Carthaginenses The first encounter that he had was against Hamilcar the sonne of Gisgo Of whoÌe being vanquished he retired to Syracuse to raise a great power and to renue the battel again But he had like for tune in the second encounter as he had in the first Therfore when the Carthaginââ¦nses hauing the vpper hande had besieged Syracuse and that Agathocles perceiued he was neither of power to encounter them nor sufficiently furnished to endure out the ââ¦iege and ââ¦hat moreouer hys owne confederates being offended with his crueltye had forsaken him he determined to transfer the warres into Affricke I assure you it was a wonderful audacitye that he should enterprise to make warre agaynste the Citye of them whome he was not able to match in the soile of his owne city and that being not able to defend his owne he should geue the aduenture vppon other mennes and that being vanquished he should proudly vaunt him selfe ouer the conqueroures The keping secrete of this enterprise was as wonderfull as was the deuise therof for the people could learne nothinge at his hande but that he hadde found away to get the victorye Willing them to doo no more but take good harts to them to abide the siege whiche shoulde not be long or elsse if there were any that had ââ¦ot the harte to abide the aduenture of the present estate he gaue him fre liberty to go his way whether he would Whervpon when he had discharged a thousand and syâ⦠hundred he furnished the reast that remained with vietuall artillerye and wages accordinge as the estate of the siege required He tooke with him no more but fifty Talents toward his charges to spend at that time thinking it better to get the reast if neade shoulde require more of his ennemies then of his subiects Then he set at
to liue vppon the spoyle made the country so hot that no man almost durste stirre abroade Dennis therfore king of Sicil being in manner wearyed with the continuall complaintes of his confederates sent ouer syre hundred Afres to suppresse them whose castle by the treason of a woman called Brutia they won and there builded a city which was soone peopled by the confluens of the shepheardes resorting thither vpon hope of the new city and they called them selues Brutians after the name of the woman The firste warre that they had was with the Lucanes the authors of their begynninge With the which victory being encouraged and hauynge concluded an equall and indiââ¦erent peace with theÌ they conquered their other neighbours by the sword and they gat so great richesse and power within a while that they seemed pernitious and able to doo displeasure euen vnto kinges Finally A lerander king of Epire comminge into Italy with a great hoste to the aid of the Greke Cityes was wythall his army by them vtterly destroyed Wher vppon their cruelnesse being enflamed wyth contynuall successe of prosperity became terrible to their neighbors a long time after At the last Agathocles beinge called to help in hope to enlarge his kingdome passed out of Sicilie into Italy As he was comming toward them for fear of his puissaunce they sent their ambassadoures to hym requesting him of peace and frendship Whome Agathocles biddinge to supper to the entent they shoulde not see the shippinge of his armye appoynted to common wyth them the next day and so in the meane while toke shippe priuely and stale ouer from them But the ende of thys fraude was not to be reioââ¦sed at For within a few daies after he was constrained to retourne into Sicill by the force of a disease wherwith he was taken ouer all his body ⪠the pestilent humor spreding it self throughe euery sinew and ioynt as thaugh that euery member had ben at ciuil war one against another Of the whiche no hope of recouery appering there arose war betwene his sone and his nephew eche of them chalenging the kingdome as if he had bene dead all redy in the which his son was slain and his nephew vsurped the kingdom Agathocles therfore when he saw the grief of his disease the thought of his minde stil greuouser and greuouser eche encreasyng by the furtherance of the other being vtterly in despair caused his wife Theogen to take his two litle soÌnes that he hadde begotten of her withal his treasure housholde houshold stuffe and princelye furniture appertaining vnto him of which no king was better stored then he was and to saile into Egipte from whence he tooke her to hys wife for feare least his nephewe who had robbed hym of his kingdom shuld also play the enemy with them How be it his wife entreted him earnestly a great while that she mighte not be drawen from him in his sicknesse least her departure might be worthely likened to the murther done by his nephew and men might reporte that she had as cruelly abandoned her husbande as he had supplanted his graundfather saying that when she was marryed to him he toke her not to be his companion and partaker of prosperitye onlye but of all other fortune what so euer should happen Wherfore it should not greue her to loose her life so she mighte tarye with her husband to the laste gaspe and according to her duty as she was bouÌd of loue and womanhode to do see him honorably entred whyche thing were she ones gone no man would take vpon hym to do When the litle ones should goo away they embraced their father and held him aboute the necke wepynge and crying oute on the other side the wife as she that neuer loked to se her husband more had neuer done kissyng him And it was a lamentable thing to se how pitââ¦ouslye thold man wept the children bewailing the father ready to die and the father moning his banished children The one sorowing to leaue their sicke and diseased olde father all alone as desolate the other lamentinge to leaue hys sonnes in penury whom he had begotten to inherite his kingdome Moreouer all the palace range with the noyse of such as stode about weping and sorowing to se ââ¦o cruel a deuorce and departure At the lengthe the necessitye of their forced departing was the end of their wepyng and the death of the king ensued immediatly vpon the departure of the children While these thinges were a doinge the Carthaginenses hauing intelligence howe the world went in Sicil thincking good occasion to be geuen theÌ of recouering the whole Iland sailed thither with a greate power subdued manye cities The same time Pyrrhus made warre against the Romains who as is said before beinge desired to come to the ayde of the Sicilians when he came to Syracuse and hadde subdued many Cityes he was proclaimed king of Sicil like as he was of Epyre. In the prosperous successe of which things greatly reioysing he appoynted that his sonne Heleu should be king of Sicil as in the righte of his graundfather for he was begotten of king Agathocles daughter and his sonne Alexander should be king of Italy After this he foughte many prosperous battels with the Carthaginenses Wythin a while after there came ambassadors from his conââ¦ederates in Italy bringing him word that it was not possible to make resistens againste the Romaines but that they must nedes yeld onlesse he reseued them Being troubled with so doutful a daunger and not knowing what to do or which of them he might rescue fyrst he toke spedy aduice as concerning both For the one side the Carthaginises assailed him and on the other side the Romaines so that it semed a daungerous matter not to passe his army into Italy and yet more daungerous to lead his hoste ãâã of Sicil least the one should be lost for want of succoure or the other by withdrawing his helpe from them In this rage of daungers the sureâ⦠hauen of all other counsels and aduises semed to be fyrst with al his power to try the matter in Sicil and then hauing vanquished y â Carthaginenses to transport his victorious army into Italy Therfore all be it he gate the vpper hande in that battel yet notwithstanding for as muche as he went hys way out of Sicil he was accompted to run away as a vaÌquished person and therefore his alies and confederates reuolted from him By meanes wherof he lost the kyngdome as lightly as he came by it easly Furthermore finding no better successe in Italye then he had in Sicill be retired into Epire. The wonderfull chaunce of bothe is to be noted for ensample For euen as before throughe prosperous fortune all things flowing beyond his desire and expectation he had gotten the Empire of Italye and Sicill with so manye victories againste the Romaines so now when fortune had chaunged her copy as it were
in Asia in the meane season beinge vanquished in Sicill by the Carthaginenses in a battel on the sea sente his ambassadoures to Antigonus kinge of Macedone for a freshe crewe of souldioures sending him worde that if he sent them not hee should be constrained to retire into his kingdome and to seeke to make that conquest vpon him whiche he was about to make vppon the Romaines Whan hys ambassadoures brought him word he shuld none haue he fained an excuse and sodenly departed from thence Wylling his confederates to lay for the warres in the meane season he betoke the keping of the castle of Tarent to his sonne Heleâ⦠and his frend Milo Assone as he was returned into Epyre forth with he ãâã the borders of Macedone with whome Antigonus met with an hoaste of men and being put to the worse was faine to ãâã And so all Macedone yelded vnto Pyrrhus Whervpon as if he had recoÌpensed the los of Sicil Italy with the gain of Macedon he sent for his sonne Heleu his freÌd Milo that he had left at Tarent Antigonus whâ⦠was fled with a few of his horsmen being sodenly bereft of al thornaments of fortune to th entent to marke what wold become of his kingdom y â he had lost conueyed himselfe into the city Thessalonica that if occasion serued he might hire the french souldiers and renue the war from thence But being vtterly vanquished again by Ptolomy the son of king Pyrrhus eskaping with no mo but only vii of his retinue he neuer hoped to recouer his kyngdoÌ but sought caues and wildernesses where to saue his life Pyrrhus therfore being enstalled in the siege royall of so great a kingdome not content to haue attained to that that he could scarsly haue wished for begaÌ to practise how to win thempire of Grece and Asia Neither toke he any more plesure of his Empire then of his warres neyther was ther any manable to withstand the force of Pyrrhus whoÌ he once assailed But as he had no pier in coÌquering of kingdoms so did he as lightly for go them when he had ones won them gotten them So much did he more study endeuor to win kingdoms then to kepe them Ther fore when he had transported his army ouer from Chersonesus ther receiued him thambassadors of th Athenies the Acheans and the Messenians Yea and al the Grekes for the renoun of his name for that they wer astonied at his noble dedes against the Romains CarthagineÌses awaited his comming there The first war y â he had was with the Lacedemonians where he was receiued wyth greater valiantnesse of the women then of the meÌ Ther he lost his son Ptolomy the strongest part ââ¦f all his army For when he assaulted the town such a sort of womeÌ came running to the defence of the citye that he was not more valiantly vaÌquished theÌ shamefully driueÌ to retire Furthermore his son Ptolomy is reported to haue bene so couragious and so stout a man of his hands that wyth lx men he toke the city Corcyra by force And also in a batel vpon the sea out of a cock bote he lepte with vii of hys men into a gally and won it And last of all in thassault of Sparta he brake with his horse into the mids of the city ther was ouerpressed with the number of his enemies and slain Whose body when it was brought to his father Pyrrhus it is reported he should saye that he was slayne somwhat later then he loked for or then his owne folishe hardinesse deserued Pyrrhus when he had taken the repulse at Sparta went to Argos Ther whiles he endeuâ⦠red to get Antigonus into his hands whom he had besieged in the city as he fought moost valiantlye among the thickest he was slain with a stone throwen from the wal His hed was cut of and brought to Antigonus who vsing the victory gentilly sent home his sonne Helen with hys Epyrotes which wer yelded vnt ohim into his kingdom without raunsome and deliuered him his fathers body y â lay vnburied to cary home with him into his country It is a constant report amongste all authors that there was not any kinge either in those daies or in the latter tymes before worthy to be compared vnto Pyrrhus and that it was a hard matter to finde any not only among kynges but also among other famous men either of more holy liuing or of more tried approued iustice and as for know ledge in cheualry and feates of armes there was so much in him that wheras he had continuall warres with Lystmachus Demetrius and Antigonus kinges of so greats power and puissaunce yet was he neuer ouercome by any of theÌ neither was he euer brought to so low an ebbe but that he was able to matche the Illyrians Sicilians Romaines and Carthaginenses at all times yea and som times to get the vpper hand of them By meanes whereof throughe the fame of his noble actes and the renownâ⦠of his name he made his country famous and renoumed ouer all the worlde beinge of it self before his time bothe small and of no reputation ⪠The. xxvi Booke AFter the death of Pyrrhus there arose very great and troublesome warres not onlye in Macedone but also in Asia and Grece For the Peloponnesians being betraied vnto Antigonus and according as men wer either striken in fear or els prouoked to gladnesse lyke as euery city hoped for succour at Pyrrhus hande or stode in dreade of him euen in like case either they entered in leage with Antigonus or els vppon malice and hatred fell together by the eares amonge them selues In the time that the prouinces were in this turmoyle Arystotimus a noble man of the realme toke perforce the chiefe citye of the Epyrotes and made himself king who after that he hadde put many of the head menne to deathe and driuen ãâã of them into exile when as the Aetolians required by their ambassadors that he should restore vnto the banished meÌ their wiues and children at the fyrst he denied to doo it Afterward as thoughe he had repented him he gaue all the Ladies and gentlewomen leaue to goo to theyr husbandes and appoynted a day when they shuld take theyr iourny The Ladies as they that thought to liue all their liues in exile with theyr husbands toke al the preciousest iewels and best thinges that they had with theym But assone as they were all come to the gate of purpose to go in one company together he spoyled them of all that euer they had slue the litle children in their mothers bosomes threw the mothers them selues into prison and rauyshed the maidens All menne beinge amased at this hys cruell ãâã a noble manne of the realme named Helemate being an old man and without childre as one that in respect of his yeres in that he was childlesse was voyde of al fear called home to his house
certain of his most trusty frends exhorted them to the deliuerance of their country from bondage When he perceiued how they stoke to put them selues in daunger for the sauegard of the whole realme and that they demaunded leisure to take aduysement in the matter he called his seruaunts to him commaunding them to lock in the dores and to bear word to the Tirant that he shuld send immediatly to his house to apprehend traitors that had coÌspired against him threatning vnto each of them that seing he could not be the author of deliueraunce of his country he wold at least wise finde the meanes to be reuenged vppon them for wythdrawing their helpe from it Then they being circumââ¦ted with the doutful danger chuââ¦ing the honeââ¦er way of both sware the death of the Tyrant and so Aristotimus was dispatched the fifth moneth after he had vsurped the kingdome In the meane season Antigonus beinge wrapped in many warres at ones bothe of king Ptolomy and the Spartanes besides the hoste of the Frenche grekes which newly became his enemies left a few souldioures in his campe for a shew against the other two and went himself with his whole power against the Frenche men The French men hearinge therof made them selues redy to the battel and slue sacrifice for thobtaining of good successe in that encounter By the inwardes of the which beastes perceiuing that there was toward them a great slaughter and the vtter destruction of them all they wer there vpon turned not into feare but into madnesse For in hope to pacify the wrath of the Gods by the bloudshed of theyr owne people they killed their wiues and chyldren beginning to perfourme through their own slaughter the euill lucke that was manased them by y e warres So extreme a madnesse was entred into their cruell hartes that they spared not the yonge children whome euen the enemy would haue spared but that they made deadly and mortall warre with their childreÌ and the mothers of them in defence of whome menne are wonte to make warres Therfore as though they had by their vnspeakeable wickednesse purchased them selues bothe lyfe and victory bloudy as they were after the freshe slaughter of theyr wiues and children they proceded into battel with as good successe as foretoken For as they were fighting the remorse of their owne consciences for their vnspeakable slaughter the ghostes of theÌ that they had murdered wauing before theyr ââ¦ies first and formost discouraged them ere they were oppressed by the enemy and so they were ââ¦aine euery mothers chiid There was made so great a slaughter that it shuld seme the Goddes had conspired with menne to the vttââ¦r destruction of those murderers After the good and fortunate chaunce of this battell Ptolomy and the Spartanes eschuing the victorious army of their ennemy Antigonus retired into places of saue garde and defence Antigonus when he saw they were retired while his meÌ wer yet freshe and couragious by reason of their late victory made warre to the Aââ¦heniens Nowe whiles he was occupied in the same in the meane time Alexander kyng of Epire coueting to reuenge the death of hys father kinge Pyrrhus inuaded the borders of Macedone Againste whome when Antigonus was retourned oute of Grece all his souldioures reuolted from him and so he lost both the kingdome of Maââ¦done and his army His sonne Demetrius being a verye childe leuyinge a power in the absence of his father not only recouered Macedone that his father had lost but also berest Alexander of his kingdom of Epire. So great was either the vnstedfastnesse of the souldiours or elsse the ãâã of fortune that kinges by course euen now banished men and anene kinges againe Alexander therfore beinge fled to the arcadians was as wel by the fauor of the Epyrotes as by the healpe of hys confederates restored into his kingdome againe Aboute the same time deceased agas kyng of Cyrene who before his last infirmity to the entent to cease and end all stryfe with his brother Ptolomy betrouthed his only daughter Beronice to his sonne But after the deathe of kinge Argas Arsinoe the mother of the maid to th entent to breke the mariage that was contracted against her wil sent for Demetrius the brother of king Antigonus out of Macedone to take vpon him the mariage of the maide and the kingdome of Cyrene who also was begotten of one of Ptolomies daughters And Demetrius made no taryaunce Therfore when as through prosperous wynde he was spedely arriued at Cyrene vpon trust of his beauty through which he began to like his mother in law to wel by and by after his comming he bare himself very proud ly and outragiously in the courte and against the men of warre and he cast his desyre of pleasing from the daughter to the mother The which thing being espted was ill taken first of the maid and also of the commoÌ people and of the greate noumber of the souldioures Wher vpon all mennes mindes were tourned to the sonne of Ptolomy and the deathe of Demetrius was conspired For as he was in bed with his mother in lawe men were sent in to kil him But Arsinoe when she hard the voyce of her daughter standing at the chamber dore and geuinge theÌ charge to spare her mother couered and defended her peramour a while with her own body Neuerthelesse he was slaine and so Beronice with safetye of her naturall loue and duty did bothe reuenge the dishonourable aduoutry committed with her mother and also followed the determination of her father in taking of her husband ¶ The. xxvii Booke AFter the decese of Antiochus king of Syria his sonne Seleucus succeding in his roume by the inââ¦igation of his mother Laodice whi che ought to haue with helde hym from doing any suche thinge began his raigne with murder For he put to death his mother in law Beronice the sister of Ptolomye king of Egipt with his little brother begotten vpon her By doing of the which wickednesse he both brought him selfe in a foule slaunder and infamye and also entangled himself in the warres of Ptolomye Furthermore when Beronice vnderstode that men were sente to kill her she kept herself close in a pleasaunt manor of her fathers called Daphnâ⦠When the cities of Asia harde that she her litle sonne were there besieged in remembraunce of the dignity of her father and of her ancestors and for pitye to se her so vnworthely intreated they sent aid vnto her Her brother Ptolomy also being stirred with the pearil of his sister left his owne kingdome and came in all haste to her reskue withall the power he was able to make But Beronice before her rescowes came at her where as she could not be taken by force was surprised by pollicye and put to death It semed a cruel and horrible act to all men Wherfore when al the cities that made iniurrectyon had made a great nauy sodainly beinge
put in greate feare at the contemplation of his excessiue cruelty and to reuenge the deathe of her whome they purposed to haue defended they yelded them selues to Ptoloââ¦y Who doutlesse subdued all the kingdome of ãâã if he had not ben driuen to retire home to suppresse an insurrection in Egypt So great hatred did that wicked and abhominable murdering of his owne brother purchase the one party the vnworthy death of his sââ¦ster so cruelly killed purchase fauor to thother party After the departure of Ptolomy Seleucus hauing gathered together a great flete against the cities that had reuolted soââ¦enly as it were by the vengeans of the Gods for his horrible murder by meanes of a grââ¦at tempest loste all his flete by ãâã And of all that great furniture for the warres fortune lefte him not any thing at all more then his naked bodye and his life and a few companions eskapinge with him from shippewracke It was surelye a miserable case but yet suche a one as Seleucus coulde not haue wished the lyke for hys owne behofe For the cities which for hatred y â they bare towards him had reuolted vnto Ptolomy as though they had bene satisfied with the punishmente that the Goddes as indifferent iudges had laid vppon him throughe a sodain mutation of ⪠theyr mindes being moued to pity him by reason of his shipwracke submitted them selues vnder his dominion again Where vpon â⦠eioysinge in his happy aduersity and beinge made richer by his losses as one now able to match him in power and strengthe he made warre against Ptolomy But as if he had beene borne for none other purpose but for fortune to make her laughing stocke of him or as if he had recouered so great welth and power of the kingdome for none other entent then to lose them again he was vanquished in battel and eskapynge from the fielde not muche better accompanied then after his shipwrack fearfully conueyed himself into antioche From theÌce he directed letters to his brother Antiochus wherin he besought him of his help offeringe him in reeompence of his pains all Asia that ãâã wythin the precinct of the mountaine Taurus Antiochus beinge of the age of xiiii yeres but yet couetous of dââ¦minion aboue his yeres toke thoccasion ere it came to the ground not with so frendly hart as it was offered For the boye couetynge like a theefe to berene his brother of all his whole kyngedome was as bolde and hardy in executinge his wââ¦ckednesse as if he hââ¦d bene a man Whââ¦vpon he was ãâã named ãâã because he spente his life in takinge othââ¦r mennes goodes away wrongfully not after the manner of a man but after the manner of a Gosse ââ¦auke In the meane time Ptolomye hearinge that Antiochus came to reskew Seleucus to ãâã he ãâã not hââ¦ue warre with two at once toke a truce ãâã ãâã ãâã r. yeres But the peace that was geuen by his enemy was brokeÌ by his brother ââ¦ho hiring an hoste of the french souldioures in stead of helpe vrought warre and in steade of a brother shewed himself an ennemy ââ¦n thââ¦t battel throughe the puissaunce of the french men ⪠Antiochus gate the vpper hand But the frenchmen supposing thaâ⦠Seleucus haâ⦠beene slaine in the batââ¦ell tourned theyr weapons againste ãâã himselfe thincking to waste the country of Asia the more frely wythout feare or checke if they mighte vtterlye destroye the bloude royall whiche thinge when Antiochus ones perceiued hee was faine to raunsome himselfe for monye as if it had bene from rââ¦bbers and entered in league of society with his hired souldiers In the meane season Emnenes king of Bythiââ¦a perceiuââ¦ng the brothers to be consumed and dispersed throughe intestiue ââ¦cord among them seluââ¦s intending to inuade tââ¦e wanderinge possession ââ¦f ãâã assailed the conqueror antiochus and his frenchmen and by reson that they wer yet sore and wearye of theyr late conflicte and his menne stronge and lusty he easely put them to the worse For at that tyme all the warres thatwere made tended euer to the destruction of asia euerye manne that coulde make him self strongest ãâã vpon asia as his pray The. ii brothers eleurus and antiochus made warre for asia Ptolomye kinge of Egipte vnder pretence of reuengynge his sisters deathe gaped for asia On the one sode Emnenes kynge of Bythinia and on the other syde the french menne the common hire lynges wasted asia but among so many robbers there was none to be found that would once set in his fote to defende Asia After that Antiochus was vanquished and that Emnenes had seysed into his handes the mooste parte of Asia the brothers could not yet agree for all y â the pray was loste for which they striued so sore but leauynge the forain ennemy they renued the warre one to destroye another In the whyche Antiochus being againe vanquished and wearyed wyth flying many dayes together at length came to his father in lawe Artamenes kinge of Cappadocia Of whome at the fyrââ¦e he was gently entertained But within a fewe dayes after vnderstanding that he went about to entrap him for the sauegarde of his life he fledde agayne from thence Therfore when he saw he could not rest in safetye in no place he was fayne to resort for succoure to hys ennemy Ptolomy whose faith he thoughte to be more stedfast then his brothers considering eyther what ââ¦e would ââ¦aue done to his brother or what he had deserued at hys brothers hand But Ptolomye by this his yealdynge and submission made not so much his frend as his ennemye commaunded him to be kept in straighte prisonne From thence also antiochus eskaped by the healpe of a certayne harlot with whome he had had familiare companye but hauing eskaped from his kepers as he fled theues mette him and killed him Seleucus wel nie about the same instant hauing lost his kingdom fell of his horse and brake hys necke So bothe the brothers as it were by lyke miffortune like outlawes after the losse of their kingdomes suffered due punyshements for theyr vngratious doinges The. xxviii Booke OLympias the daughter of Pyrrhê° king of the Epyrotes hauing lost her husband alexaÌder which was also her owen brother when she had taken vpon her the bringyng vp and keepinge of Pyrrhus and Ptolomy the sonnes whom he had begotten by her and the gouernement of the realme she was compelled by the aetolians whiche went aboute to take perforce from her a part of acaruania whiche she being mother and protector of the children had receiued to helpe to maintaine the warres withall to resorte for succoure to Demetrius kinge of Macedone and vnto him hauynge a wife all readye the sister of antie chus kinge of Syria she gaue her daughter Phithia in mariage to the entent she might get the help at his hand by right of affinity which she could not get for pity and compassion The marryage therfore was
was not any man that spared his life in the battel there was not any woman that wept for the losse of her husband The olde men commended the deathe of theyr sonnes and the sonnes reioysed that theyr fathers were slaine in the fielde Euery man lamented hys owne chaunce that they had not died for the libertye of theyr countrye The fathers and mothers receyued into theyr houses all suche as were wounded healed suche as were wounded healed suche as were hurte and recomforted suche as were stricken downe And in all thys busynesse there was not in the city any outcry or any wringyng of handes there was not any trembling for feare euery maÌ bewailed more the common misfortune then hys owne priuate case While these thinges were in doinge Cleomenes theyr king after he had made a great slaughter of his enemies being all on a gore bloude as well with hys owne woundes as with the bloud of his enemyes came among them and ââ¦hen he was entered the citye he sate not downe to rest him he called not for meat nor drinke no nor ones put of his harnesse but leaninge hys backe to a wall when he saw there remained no mo but only iiii thousand of his men from the battel he exhorted them to reserue themselues to some other time when thei might be able to doo theyr countrye better seruice And then with his wife and children He went his way into Egipt to king Ptolomy of whome he was honorably entertained and liued a long time in great fauor and estimatyon with him like a king But at the last after the decease of Ptolomy he and all his houshold were slain by his sonne Antigonus hauing made so greate a slaughter of the Lacedemonians toke pity of the misfortune of so worthye a city and therfore would not suffer his souldiours to sacke it but pardoned all that remained aliue protââ¦stynge that he made the warre against Cleomenes and not agaynst the Lacedemonians whome for as muche as he had dyscomfited and put to flight all his wrathe was at an ende wherfore he thought it should stand more with his honor to saue their city then to destroy it Nowe seing there remained no mento shew his mercy vpon he said he wold shew it vpon the soyle of the Citye and vpon the houses It was not longe after but that Antigonus dyed and left his kingdome to Phillip a childe of xiiii yeres of age The. xxix Booke ABout the very same season there happened an alteration almost in all the kingdomes of the worlde by the successyon of yong kynges For in Macedone Philippe after the decease of his protector Antigonus who also was his father in law toke the kingdome vpon him being but. xiiii yeres olde In Asia Seleucus being slaine Antiochus as yet vnder the age of xiiii yeares was made kynge The kingdome of Cappadocia was surrendred by his father to Ariarathes beinge a verye childe Ptolomy who for the wickednesse of his offence was in derision surnamed Philopater slue his father and mother and vsurped the kingdome of Egipt But the Lacedemonians in stead of Cleomenes subrogated Lycurgus And for because there shoulde be store of alterations in those times Hannibal being as yet skarse manne growen was made captaine of Carthage not because there was skarsity of men of more yeres and experience but for the natural hatred that was knowen to be rooted in him againste the Romaines euen from his verye childhode born to the vtter destruction not so muche of the Romaines as of his own countrye of affricke Nowe allbeit theese children kinges had no auncient and graue protectors appoynted to haue the ãâã of them ââ¦et notwithstanding euery one of them so ententiuely pursued the steps of their auncestors that there was great likelihode of prowesse and actiuity in them Only Brolomy as he was wicked in vsurping the kingdome so was he also ââ¦outhful and negliget in gouerninge of the same The Dardanians other people that were borderers who ââ¦are as it were an immortal hatred to the kinges of ãâã disdaining Phillip by reason he was so yong troubled him continuallye On the contrary part Phillip when he had put his enemyes to flight being not content to haue defeded his own purposed to make war against the aetolians As he was imagining and deuisinge howe to enterprise the matter Demetrius king of Iliyria being lately vanquished by Paul cââ¦nsul of Rome came to him as an humble suter making complaint of the wrong that the Romaines had done vnto him who being not content to kepe them sclues within the boundes of Italy but of a wicked desire coueting thempire of the whole world made war withal kinges Alledging that for the like couetousnesse of the Empyre of Sicil of Sardinia of Spain and consequently of all affricke they had entered into war with Hannibal and the Carthaginenses and that they had made war vpon hym also for none other occasion but only y â he was next neigh bor vnto Italy as though it were not lawful for any king to dwell neare the borders of their Empire Wherfore it was good for antiochus to take ensample how to beware by other men whose kingdome the nobler and nearer it was to the Romaines so muche should he finde them his fiercer enemies Moreouer he professed that he was contented to surrender his right and title to him of the king dome whiche the Romaines hadde by force taken from him Saying it should lesse greue him and that he coulde better finde in his hart to se his neighbour and his frend rather then his enemy enioy the possession of his kingdoÌ With this and suche other like talke he perswaded Phillip to leaue the aetolians and to tourne the brunte of the warre against the Romaines so much the rather because he thought they shoulde be the lesse able to resist him by reason as he hard say they had lately before bene vanqui shed by Hannibal at the lake of Thrasymenus Therfore because he would not be charged with manye warres at ones he made peace with the aetolians not as that they shoulde thincke he did it to the entent to make warre in another place but as thoughe it had bene for some great regard that he had of the quietnesse of all Grece y e which he affirmed was neuer in the like pearill and ieoperdye by meanes of the newe Empires of the Romaynes and Carthaginenses latelye risen vp in the west whyche had none other let or stop to kepe them out of Grece and Asia but only this while they were trying by the sworde which of them should beare the soueraintye For whiche party so euer gate the vpper hand the same would imme diatlye vpon the victorye passe directly into the East Therfore he saw suche a cloude of cruel and bloudye war rising out of Italy he saw suche a roring and thundering storme comming out of the west that into what parte of the world so euer
walles of the court were not able to holde her Whome being of herselfe proud and arrogant inough thvnspekeable lechery that the king vsed daily with her brother Agathocles a strompet of more beauty then was requisite in a man made yet more stately and arrogant And to the encreasemente thereof made also her mother Euanthe whiche with her daliaunce and enticementes had so allured the kinges harte vnto her that he had begotten two children of her By meanes wherof beinge not contente with the kinge now they helde the kingdome also nowe they muste come abrode to be seene in the open face of all the world now they must be saluted now they muste be waited vpon Agathocles sitting cheke by cheke with the kinge ruled the citye at his owne pleasure The women disposed marshalships of the hoste lieuetenanâ⦠shippes of prouinces and captainships as pleased them so that ther was no man in all his realme that could do lesse then the kyng him selfe At the length he died leauing a sonne behinde hym of fiue yeres old by his sister Eurydice But whiles the women went about to spoile the treasure and made confede racy with the wickeddest personens that could be picked out to the entent to depriue the righte heire of his kyngdome his death was kept secrete a greate while after he was dead Neuerthelesse assone as y â matter cam to light the people ran vpon Agathââ¦cles and sââ¦ue him and the women in reuengement of Euryââ¦ice were hanged vp vpon gibets The notorious inââ¦amy of the realme being thus purged and put away by the death of the king and the punishment of the harlots the men of Alexandria sente ambassadors to the Romaines desiring them to take vppon them the protection of their OrphaÌ king and the gouernment of the kingdome of Egipt the which they auouched that Philip and aââ¦d had already bought and solde betwene them selues entending to part it betwixt them The Romaines wer vââ¦ry glad of that ambassade as they that soughte occasion of war against Phillip to be rââ¦uenged for his lying ââ¦n wait to do them displesure in the time of their warres with the Carthagiââ¦enses Besides this after the time they had subdued the Carthaginenses and driuen away Hanniball they feââ¦red no mannes pââ¦ssans more then Phillips rââ¦counting with ãâã selues what a stir ââ¦yrrhus had kept in ââ¦taly with so small a handfull of Macedones and how great aduââ¦ntures and enterprises y e Macedones had atchiââ¦ued in the East Herââ¦vpon ambassadors were sent to Antiochus and Phillip willing them not to medle with the kingdome of Egipt Furthermore M. Lepidus was sent into Egipt to take vppon hym the protection of the childe thadministration of the realme While these thinges were a doing ⪠the ambassââ¦doures of Attalus kingâ⦠of Pergaââ¦us and the ambassadors of the Rhodians came to Rome to complain of the wrongs that king Philip had don vnto them The which thing caused the Senate to goo in hand with the warres of Macedone forthwith For vnder pretence of aiding their coÌfederates war was decreed against Phillip and a consull was sent with an army into Macedone And ere it was long after all Grece vpon truste of the Romaines rose against Phillip in hope to recouer their ââ¦uncient liberty made war vpon him By meanes wherof the king was so assaulted on euery side that he was constrained to desyre peace When the articles of peace should be propounded by the Romains both Attalus the Rhodians the Acheans the Aetolians demauÌded restitution of that that had ben theirs On thother side Philip graunted y â he could finde in his hart to be ruled bi the Romains but he said it was an vnsemely matter that the Grekes being vanquished by his predecessors Philip and Alexander subdued vnder the yoke of the Empire of Macedone should like conquerors prescribe him articles of peace and not rather be driuen to a strait accoÌpt for their disobediens or euer thei ought to chalenge any libertye Neuerthelesse at lengthe by much intretaunce they graunted him truce for ii moneths In the which time the peace y â could not be agreed vpon in Macedone might be requested of the Senate at Rome The same yere betwene the Ilands of Theramene Therasia in the mid way betwene both shores ther was a great earthquake in the sea By means of y â which to the great admiration of such as sailed that way sodeÌly out of the depe floted vp an Iland with hot waters And in Asia the very same day another earthquake shaked the Rhodes and many other cities throwing downe the houses and buildings wherof some wer swalowed vp whole At the which wonder all men wer sore afraid the soutâ⦠sayers prophesied that the Romain Empire then beginning to spring vp shuld deuour thold Empire of the grekes and Macedones In the meane season the peace was reiected by the senate whervpon Phillip sollicited the tyrant Nauis to take his part against the Romains and so wheÌ he had brought his host into the field his ennemyes standing in order of battel against him he began to encorage his men rehersing how the Macedones had conquered and subdued the Persians the Bactrians the IndiaÌs and to be short all Asia euen to the vttermooste border of the East Sayinge that so muche more force and courage ought to be shewed in this battel then in the other as liberty is a thing of greater price then dominion Flaminius also the Romaine Consull in like manner encouraged his men to the encounter by puttinge them in rememberaunce of the thinges atchieued latelye before Shewing them how on the one side Carthage and Sicil wer conquered and on the other side Italy and Spain recouered by the prowesse and puissance of the Romaines and that Hanniball was nothinge inferioure to great Alexander who being ones driuen oute of Italye they had subdued Affricke the third part of the world And yet the Macedones were not to be esteamed by the auncyent renowââ¦e of theyr predecessoures but accordinge to the power and strength that they were of at that present For they shoulde not encounter with greate Alexander who was reported to be inuincible nor with his armye that conquered all the East but with Philip a child yet skarce come to yeres of discretion who had much a do to defend his kingdome againste his nerte neighboures and wyth those Macedones which but euen thother day almooste were spoiled and led away prisoners by the Dardanians who wer able to talk of nothing saue the renoumed acts of their ancestors wheras the Romaines might worthely report the dedes done by them selues and theyr souldiours For it was none other hoste that had subdued Hannibal and the Carthagineââ¦ses and almoste all the West then the very same souldiers whom he had ther standing in battel ray with these encouragements the myndes of bothe armies being enflamed ran fierslye to the encounter the one part
confederates ⪠iudginge it a greater reward to the Romaines to haue honoure and renowue then possessyons gotten by force For he said it was mete for a Romaine to chalenge glorye and fame and to leaue the superflouity of richesse to his partakers The xxxii Boke ⪠THe Aetolians which hadde prouoked Antiochus to warre againste the Romaines after the time that he was onercome remained all only againste the Romaines both ãâã to match them in strength and also destitute of all healpe and comforte By meanes where of within a ãâã after they were vanquished and lost their liberty the which they all only among so manye cities of Grece had reteined vntouched against the dominion of the Atheniens and Lacedemonians The which estate of bondage was so much the bitterer vnto them as it was later or it came ⪠rââ¦oltynge with them selues those times in the which with the only power of theyr owne countrye they had withstoode and burne oute the greate force and power of the Persââ¦ans in the which they hadde repressed the violence of the ãâã men so terrible to Asia and Italye in the batââ¦ell at Delphos the glorââ¦ous remembraunce of which things kindled in them a ãâã desire of liberty While these thinges were a doing in the meane time the Messenians and the Acheans fââ¦ll ââ¦irst at conteââ¦ion anone after to plain sighting for the sââ¦raigntye In that battel Philopenienes the noble graund captain of the Acheans was takââ¦n prisoner not through his own defaulte because he ãâã not fyghte for sauynge of hys life but as he was about to bringe his men in araye that were sââ¦attered in the leapinge of a ditche his ãâã ouerthrew and so his enemies clustered about him and tooke him ere he coulde rââ¦couer vp againe And yââ¦t the Messenians when they foââ¦nd him ouerthrowen whether it were for fââ¦are oâ⦠his prowessâ⦠or for reuerence of hys estate durst not kill him Therfore as though by taking of hym they had finished all the warre they led him like a prisonner about all the citye in manner of a triumphe the people ruuninge out by heapes to meete hun as if their own captaine and not the captaine of their enemies had bene comming And I beleue the Acheans would not haue ben more desirous to haue sene him if he had gotten the vpper hande then were the Messenians his enemies to beholde him being a prisonner For they led him into a Theatre to the entente tââ¦ey mighte all beholde him whome they thought an vncredible and vnpossââ¦ble mââ¦tter to be taken From thence they couueyed him to prysoÌ wher for shame of the villany they had offred to such a worthy estate they gaue him poyson the which he drancke with as mearye a cheare as if he had wonne the victory Demaundyng first of all whether Lycortas the lieuetenante of the Acheane whome he knewe to be the manne of best knowledge in feates of armes nerte vnto hymselfe hadde eskaped in safetye or no. When he vnderstoode that he was eskaped he sayde the world goeth not alltogether against the Acheans wyth that word he gaue vp the ghoste But ere it was longe after the warre was renued in which the Messenians being vanquished suffered worthy punishment for putting Philopemenes to death In the meane season Antiochus kinge of Syria beinge sore ouercharged with the tribute that he should pay to the Romaines and seinge hymselfe vanquished and burdened whether it were that he were compelled for want of mony or that he were allured with couetousnesse because he hoped that vnder pretence of the necessity the whiche he was put to for the payment of the tribute he should be held the better excused if he committed sacriledge he assembled an armye and in the nyghte time assaulted the temple of Iupiter of Dodon the which attempte was bewrayed and he withall his hooste was slayne by the inhabitauntes of the countrye that resorted to the reskue At Rome when many cities of Grece were come thither to complaine of the iniuries that Phillyppe king of Macedone hadde dââ¦one vnto them and that there was great contention in woordes in the senate house betwene Demetrius the sonne of Phillippe sent thither by his father to make satisfaction as the Senate shuld think righte and the ambassadoures of the Cities the yonge man beinge confounded with the noyse and exclamatyon of the appellantes sodenly helde his peace Then the Senate being moued with his modest shamefastnesse for the whiche he had bene well beloued of all men before times when he lay in hostage at Rome gaue iudgement on hys syde And so Demetrius obtained pardone for his father not by defending his righte but by the helpe of his modesty and shamefastnesse The which thinge was signifyed vnto him by the decree of the senate to th entent it should appeare that the kinge was not acquited as giltlesse but rather pardoned for his sonnes sake the whiche thynge purchased vnto Demetrius not thanke for his behauiour in that ambassade but hatred through the maliciousnesse of backebyters For with his brother Perses who sought by al meanes to surprise him it procured him enuy and with his father when he knew the occasion of his acquitall it procured him displeasure disdaininge that ââ¦he person of his sonne shoulde be of more force or strengthe with the Senate then the authority of the father or the estimation of his estate being a king Perses therfore per ceiuing his fathers disease made complaintes daily vnto him of his brother Demetrius and first he broughte him in mistrust with him and shortly in vtter displeasure obiecting against him that he sought the freudshippe of the Romaines to betray his father At the last he surmised that he went about trââ¦ason for the prouse where of he broughte in recorde and suborned false witnesses to vphold ââ¦he crime that he charged hym wythall By meanes whereof he compelled his father to murder his owne sonne and brought all the courte in sorow and heauinesse After Demetrius was thus put to death the party being dispatched out of the way whome he feared as his enemye Perses beganne to be not onlye more slacke in doing his duety but also more stubborn against his father behauing himselfe not like an heire but like a kinge Phillip beinge sore offended with his misdemenor bewailed the deathe of Demetrius verye vnpaciently from day to daye Where vppon mistrustynge hym self to be deceiued by cautele and treason he put the wytnesses and record bearers to torture Throughe whyche hauing boulted out their treason he was vexed as much with the wickednesse of Perses as with the vndeserued death of Demetrius And he hadde punished him for hys laboure had not death preuented him of hys purpese For shortly after throughe very sorow and pensiuenesse of hart he fell sicke and died leauing behinde hym greate furniture for the warres against the Romaines the whiche Perses afterward vsed Moreouer he had allured the Frenchmen called Rascians to
richesse in old tyme the which they should not nede to go to fyght for but to go to take possession of For Asia was so desyrous of their commyng that she called cryed to them a loude to make speade So greate a hatreded toward the Romayns hadde the greadie rauenousnesse of their Proconsultes the pollyng and shauing of their tolle gatherers the wrongfull delyng in sutes and controuer lies of the lawe of their officers rooted in the hartes of them all Wherefore he willed them to doe no more but followe him manfully ponder with themselfes what so great an army might be able to doe hauyng such a Capitayne as he was whome they themselfes had sene without the helpe of any of his souldiers by his own industrie onely slea the kyng of Cappadocia seyze his kyngdome who onely of all the men that euer lyued conquered all the countries borderyng vppoâ⦠the sea of Pontus Scythia also the whiche before his tyme no man could trauel through no nor go vnto in sauftie As for his own Iustice and lyberalitie he woulde not refuse that his souldiers which had had sufficient tryall and experience of them should beare wytnesse to the same as of the whiche these were manifest tokens that he only of all kyngs enioyed not onely the kyngdomes that his father possessed before him but also for his bountie and magnificence was adopted to be heyre of other forreyne Realmes as Colchos Paphlagonia and Bosphorus whiche he nowe peaceablie helde ⪠When he had thus encouraged his souldiers after the. xxiii yere of his reygne he entered into warre agaynâ⦠the Romayns At that tyme in Egypte after the death of Pââ¦olomy kyng of Cyrene both the kyngdome and the Quene Cleââ¦patra his syster to be his wyââ¦e ⪠ââ¦lomy was glad in that he had recoured his brothers king dome without battell the which he knewe his mother Cleopatra and certeyn of the noble men went preuelye about to assure vnto his brothers sonne But assone as bâ⦠came vnto Alexandria to the great displeasure of all the Cytie he caused all such as fauored the chylde to be put to death The chylde himself also he slew in his mothers armes the very same day that he maried her in the myd des of all the feastyng and solemne ceremonies of wedââ¦cke And so he weÌt to bed with his syster all bestayned with the blood of her sonne After the whiche dede he became euen as meke to his other countreymen that had called him to the kyngdome For he gaue his souldiers which were straungers leaue to kill whome they wold so that daylie all places were on a gore blood and he put away his syster and toke to wyfe her daughter a fayre yong mayden hauyng firste rauished her per force with the which thynges the people wer so dysmayed that they shronke away soââ¦e one whether and some another forsakyng theire natife countrie like banished folk for dread of death Ptolomy beyng left alone with his souldioures in so greate a Cytie when he sawe howe he was a Kynge of emptie houses and not of men made proclamacion that straungers shoulde come and inhabite the Cytie after whose resor thyther he went forth to mete the Romayn Ambassadors Scipio Affricanus Spurius Mumius and Lucius Metellus which came to see howe the Realmes of their confederates wer ordered But loke howe cruell he was to all his owne countriemenne so much was he a laughyng stocke to the Romaââ¦ns For he was yll visaged a dwarfe of stature he had such a fat paunche that he semed more lyke a beast then a man the whiche fouldnesse and deformitie his smal shyrle voyce and his thinne garmentes dyd more encrease as thogh of set purpose he had set oute the thynges to be sene which he that had any regarde of shame oughte with all care and studie to haue hydden moste secretlie After the departure of Thambadoures of the whiche Affricanus whiles he behelde the Cytie was himselfe a spectacle to the Alexandrians Ptolomy beyng nowe hated euen of his Alientes also fledde preuely oute of the Realme with his sonne whome he had begotten of hys syster and with his wyfe her owne mothers paramour for feare of treason and hauyng gotten an hoste of hyred souldiours he made warre bothe agaynst his syster and agaynst his owne countrie Afterwarde he sent for his eldest sonne from Cyrene for bycause the Alexandrians shoulde not make him kyng agaynste him he putte hym to deathe Then the people in despyght of him brake doune his ymages and tare doune hys pictures The which thyng thynkyng to be doone by the procuremente of hys syster he slew the sonne whome he hadde begotten uppon her and then cuttyng hys bodie in gobbettes closed it vp in a Casket and sent it for a present to the mother as she was makyng feast and great chere vpon the day of her byrth The whiche was a bitter and sorowfull syght not onelie to the Quene herself but also to all the whole Cytie and it cast such a grief vppon that ioyfull feast that sodaynlie in all the Court was nothyng but mournyng and lamentyng The noble men therfore turnyng themselfes from feastyng to funeralles shewed to the people the mangled bodie declaryng what hope they oughte to haue of theyr kyng who hadde so cruelly murdered his owne chylde Cleopatra after that the sorow for losse of her sonne was ceased perceyuyng herselfe to be sore infested by her brothers warre Demaunded help of Demetrius Kyng of Syria by his Ambassadors whose chances were strange and worthie to be spoken of For Demetrius as it is shewed before makyng warre agaynst the Parthians gettyng the victorie in manie encounters was sodaynlie sur prised by pollicie and besydes the losse of his armie was also himself taken prysoner Whome Arsaces kyng of the Parthians sent into Hyrcanie and of his noble and Royall courage not onely gaue him enterteynement lyke a kyng but also gaue him his daughter in mariage promisyng moreouer to restore him the kyngdome of Syria which Tryfo hadde vsurped in his absence After whose death Demetrius beynge past hope of returnyng into his kyngdome and beyng not able to away with captiuitie beyng wearie of his priuate lyfe though he lyued neuer so welthelie assayed a faithfull frende to steale home into his owne kyngdome His counseler and companyon in this enterprise was a frend of his called Callimander who after his Maisters captiuitie hyryng guydes for mo ny himself disguysed in Parthian apparell came oute of Syria through the deserts of Arabie vnto Babylon But Phrahartes which succeded Arsaces sent oute post horses after him who made such spede by gayner ways that they ouertoke him and brought him back agayn When he came before the kyng Callimander was not only par doned but also highlie rewarded for his faithfulnesse towards his Master But Demetrius with a great rebuke was sent agayn to his wyfe into Hyrcanie and ther
but of loue Whervppon callyng to her the souldiers she sent certayn of them herself to thrust her syster through Who enteryng into the temple when they could not pull her oute they cut of her handes as she had clasped them about the Image of the Goddesse Then Cleopatra cursyng those wicked murderers besechyng the Goddes whose sanctuary they had defyled to reuenge her vppon them dyed It was not long after but Cyricenus encountered again with his brother where gettyng ââ¦hupper hand he tooke Gryphin the wyfe of Grypho prysoner which latelie had put her syster to death with execucion of whome he dyd obsequies to his wyues Ghoste But in Egypt Cleopatra beyng greued that her sonne Ptolomy should be partener with her in the kyngdome incensed the people agaynste him and hauyng taken his wyfe Seleuce awaye from him which was so much to more griefe to him bycause he had begotten two sonnes by her bannished him the Realme sendyng for her yonger sonne Alexander whome she crowned kyng in his brothers stead And yet beyng contented to haue banished her sonne she pursued him with battell where he kept as a bannished man in Cyprus When she had dryuen him from thence also she put the Capitayn of her host to death bycause he had suffered him to escape alyue out of his handes Albeit to say the truthe Ptolomy departed oute of the Ilande rather because he was ashamed to fyghte with his mother then that he was not of power able to encounter her Alexander therefore dreadyng this his mothers crueltie departed his waye and left her alone desyring rather to lyue meanely in quiet saufegarde then to reygne as a kyng alwayes in daunger of his lyfe Cleopatra fearyng least Cyricenus should helpe her elder sonne Ptolomy to recouer the kyngdome of Egypt sent great ayde to Grypho and her daughter Seleuce to be his wyfe to th entent he should persyst enemie to her fyrst husband as he had ben before and also sent Ambassadors to her sonne Alexander to call him to the kyngdome agayne Agaynst whome as she was practisyng of mischief to bryng him to destruccion she was by him preuented and put to death and so she ended her lyfe not by naturall destynie but by deserued murder Surelie she was well worthie of such a slaunderous death which had defyled her owne mothers bed and put her besyde her husband whiche had made two of her daughters so oftentymes wydowes by choppyng and chaungyng of their husbandes which had banished th one of her sonnes pursewyng him with battell when she had done and hauyng wrested the kyngdome from thother had practised also to bryng him to his ende through treason Neuerthelesse Alexander himself escaped not altogyther vnpunished for committyng so abhominable a murder For assone as it was knowen that the mother was slayne by the wickednesse of her sonne the people rose agaynst him and draue him into exyle and callyng home Ptolomy agayne set him in possession of the kyngdome who was of that modestie that he would neyther make warre agaynste his mother nor yet chalenge that of his brother by force which was his before by right of inheritance Whyle these thynges were a doyng a bastard brother of his to whome his father had by his laste will bequeathed the kyngdome of Cyrene deceased and lefte the people of Rome to be his heyre For by this tyme the fortune of Rome was such ⪠that beyng not content with the boundes of Italie it began to stretche itselfe to the kyngdomes of the East By meanes whereof that part of Lybie was at that tyme made a prouynce and shortlie after Candy and Cilicia beyng subdued in the warres agaynst the Pyrates were brought in lykewyse in order of prouynces By the which dede bothe the kyngdomes of Syria and Egypt were streightned by the neyboured of the Romaynes and whereas before tymes they were wonte to encrease their Dominion by warryng vppon their borderers now beyng abridged of their lybertie to roue whââ¦r they lyst they turned their power to their own confusion In so much that beyng coÌsumed through coÌtinuall feightyng they were had in despight of their next neighbours and were as a praye to the Arabians whiche before that tyme were neuer knowen to be menne of warre Whose kyng Herotymus vppon trust that he had in his syx hun dred sonnes whiche he had begotten of his concubynes with sundrie Armies made rodes somtimes into Egypt and sometyme into Syria by meanes whereof within a while through the weaknesse and feblenesse of his neighbours he made the name of the Arabians famous and redoubted The. xl Boke THe kyng kyngdome of Syria being consumed through the natural hatred of the brothers and through the deadlie enmytie of their children succedyng in their fathers steppes one after an other with so mortal warre as neuer could be appeased the people resorted to straungers for refuge and be gan to loke about them for some forreyn kyng Therfore when as some thought it good to sende for Mithridates kyng of Pontus and some for Ptolomy kyng of Egypt and that it came to their remembraunce that Mithridates on th one syde was entangled with the warres of the Romayns and that Ptolomy on thother syde hadde euer ben an enemie to the kyngdome of Syria they consented all vppon Tygranes kyng of Armenia who besydes the power of his owne countrie was also supported by confederacie with the Parthians and by aliance with Mythridates Beyng therfore crowned king of Syria he enioyed the kyngdome excedyng quietlie by the space of eyghtene yeres hauyng no nede at all eyther to assayle others him selfe or to repulse others that assayled him But as Syria was in sauftie from forreyne ãâã ââ¦o was it greatlie wasted with an erthquake in the which ther perisshed an hundred threskore ten thousand men besydes the ruine of manie cities The whiche wonder the soothesayers interpreted to betoken a great alteracion of thynges For when Lucullus had ouercome Tygranes he proclaymed Antiochus the sonne of Cyricenus kyng But that which Lucullus had gyuen Pompeius afterward toke awaye who tolde him that he would not haue made him kyng of Syria no though he had sewed for it and muche lesse put it in his mouthe without chalengyng it Consyderyng that duryng the eyghtene yeres that Tygranes held Syria he had lyen lurkyng in a corner of Sylicia but assone as the Romayns had ouercome the sayde Tygranes he put himselfe forthe to sue for the reward of other mennes trauell Therfore lyke as yf he had had the kyngdome before he would not haue taken it from him euen so seyng he coulde fynde in his hart to suffer Tygranes to enioye it peaceablie so long he would not bestowe the thyng vppon him which he knew not howe to defende for doubte lest he might be an occasion that the Jewes and ArabiaÌs should enterprise to robbe and spoyle the countrie of Syria agayn So
he brought Syrie into the forme of a Prouynce and by lytle and lytle through the discorde of the blood Royall the Easte came in subiection to the Romaynes The. xli Boke THe Parthianes in whose hande the whole worlde beyng as it were denided betwene them and the Romains Th empyre of the East as than was were banished men of Scythia The which thyng the verie name of them bewrayeth for in the Scythian language bannished men are called Parthians These in the tyme of Thassyrian Median Empyres were of all the peoples of the East moste base After warde also when Th empyre was translated from the Medes to the Persians they were as a sorte of Rascalles without name and a continuall pray to the Conquerors Lastely when the Macedones ruled the East lyke triumphant conquerors they were in subieccion vnto them in so much that there is no man but woulde wonder to see howe by their prowesse and actiuitie they shoulde aspyre to so great felicitie as to haue dominion euen ouer those kynges and kyngdomes ⪠vnder whose Empyre they serued sometyme as rascall slaues Furthermore beyng assayled of the Romaynes in three battels by Capytaynes of great experience actiuitie in the chefest tyme of their prosperitie when they florished moste in the renowme of onelie they onelie of all Nacions were able not onely to matche them but also to conquer theÌ Although in dede it may be counted a greater glory that thei could ryse and put vp their head from among those Empyres of Assyria Media and Persia that were so renoumed in tymes past and also from vnder that moste ryche and wealthie Empyre of Bactria that had a thousand cyties vnder it then to haue vanquished the force of traungers so farre from them Furthermore whyle the Scythians were sore vexed with the continuall warres of their neighbours and in maner oppressed with the continuance of daungerous encounters these Parthians beyng through domesticall dissention expulsed oute of Scythia toke by ââ¦telth the desertes betwene Hyrcanie and the Daces the Areans and the Spartanes and the Maianes In continuance of tyme fyrste without let or interrupcion of theire neighbours and afterwarde maugre their headdes dooe the best worst they coulde they dilated the borders of their countrie so farre that they posfessed not onely the wyde fyeldes bottomes of all the champion countrie but also the cragged clyffes and the the toppes of the high mountaynes whereby it commeth to passe that moste places within the coast of Paââ¦a are eyther excessinely whoââ¦e or extremely colde by reason that the ãâã are commonly infested with snow and the open ââ¦yelds with the heate of the sunne After the decay of th eÌpyre of Macedone the countrie was gouerned by kinges Next vnto the Mayestie of the king is the state of the commonaltie for out of it are chosen Capitaynes in tyme of warre and magistrates in time of peace Their language is a meane betwene the Scythian and Median mixed indifferentlie of them bothe They had sometyme a fashion of apparell peculiar by them selfes but after the tyme they grewe ryche it became fyne and full of clothe after the maner of the Medes They kepe the same order in their warres and in feightyng as doe the Scythians their ancestours Their armie is not as other nacions be of free men but for the more part of bondmen Thâ⦠which sorte of people forasmuch as it is not lawfull for anie man to set anie of them at libertie and therevppon all are bondemeÌ borne daylie multiplieth and encreaseth enstructing them with great diligence to ryde horses and to shote Accordyng as euery man is of welthe so fyndeth he the kyng mo horsemen to the warres Finally when Antonie made warre agaynst the Parthians of fyftie thousand horsemen that met him in the fyelde there were but eight hundred of them that were fre borne They cannot skyll of feighting at hand in the battell nor of wynnyng Cyties by siege They feight eyther runnyng right forth with their horses or els retiryng backe oftentymes also they wil make as though they sled to th entent their enemie pursewyng them vnaduisedlie may ly more open to receyue a wonde of theÌ when they shall ioyne battell they vse not to sound a trumpet but a Tympane neyther can they endure to feight any long whyle But if they wer of lyke force and as good in continuance as they are at the fyrst brunt no Nacion in the worlde were able to abyde them For the moââ¦e part euen in the whotest of the skyrmysh they forsake the fyelde and anone after they turne agayne begynne the battell a freshe in so muche that when a man thynkes himself moste sure of the victorie then standes he in moste hasarde of discomfyture Theire armour as well for themselfes as for theire horses are made all of plates of stele ouerlayd with fathers wherwithall both of them are keuered from top to toe Golde and syluer they occupye not but in their Armour Euery man for de light y â they haue in sensualitie hath many wyues a piece and yet thââ¦y chastire no offence so sore as aduoutrie and whoredome Wherevppon they vtterlie forbid women not onely the conuerfacion with men but also coÌmunicacion for once to loke vppon a man They eate no flesh onlesse they catch it in huntyng They are caryed on horseback at al tymes On horseback they feight w t the enemy on hrsebacke they feaste on horsebacke they execute all affayres as well publike as priuate on horsebacke they gooe from place to place on horsebacke they bye and fell and on horsebacke they talke one with an other Fynally this is the difference betwene a gentleman and a slaue that the slaue neuer rydeth nor the genleman neuer goeth on fote Their common buryall is eyther to be deââ¦oured with dogges or to be eaten with byrdes and when the bones are left bare they to burye them in the earthe They are all a lyke maruelous superstitious in doyng honor and reuerence to the Goddes The natur of the people is arrogant seditious deceitful and malapart For they thynke that boysterousnesse is mete for menne and mekenesse mete for women They are euer vnquiet gyuen to quarrell eyther with straungers or els among themselfes of nature close and secret more readie to dooe then to talke and therfore whether they spede wel or yl they make no boaste of They obey their rulers for feare more then for shame to sensualitie they are altogyther prone and enclyned and yet they are but small feders There is no trust to be gyuen to theire wordes for they will kepe promyse no further then is for their owne profyte After the death of great Alexander when the kingdomes of the east were diuided amongest his successouââ¦s There was none of the Macedones that would vouchesafe to take vppon him the kyngdome of Parthia By meanes whereof it
enââ¦rapped by a pollicy and slayn In his roume was sent his sonne in lawe Hasdrubal who also was slayn by a seruaunt of a Spanyard in reuengement of his Maisters death Han niball the sonne of Hamilcar greater theÌ thei both succeded in the Capitainship For he surmountyng the actes of them bothe conquered all Spayne And then makyng war agaynst the RomaÌs vexed Italy with sundry slaughters by the space of syâ⦠yeres togither Whereas in the meane season the Romayns sendyng the Scipios into Spayne fyrst draue the Carthaginenses out of the countrie afterward had sorâ⦠warres with the Spanyardes themselfes Neuerthelesse the countries of Spayn could neuer be brought vnder the ââ¦oke of bondage vntil that Cesar Augustus hauyng conquered the whole worlde came agaynste them with his victorious army brought those Barbarous and cruel people to a more ciuill trade of liuyng by order of lawe and substituted a Lieuetenaunte ouer them lyke as was done in all other Prouynces of Th empyre FINIS Princââ¦s first elected for vertues sake The begynnyng of the Monarchie of Assiria desyre of honour the first cause of warre The inuention of magicke and Aââronomy An example of a pollityke wââan Vertue ouercometh enuy The buylding of Babilon Semiramis slayne of her owne sonne Sardanapalus ãâã ãâã are the ãâã cay of the grââ¦test kyng domes Th empyre of the Medes beginneth ãâã ãâã of his ãâã ⪠Her ãâã was ãâã The ãâã of ãâã That God will haue saued can not ãâã lost ãâã ââ¦ayth it was borne dead Cyrus is cho sen kyng aââ¦ong childreÌ The ãâã of ãâã ââ¦ous cruelty ãâã ãâã Displeasure wisely ãâã bled The letter of Harpagus vnto Cyrus ââ¦unning ãâã ueyaunce of ãâã letter The pollicye of Cyrus to cause the Persians to rebell Cyrus rebelleth The crueltye reuenged Necessitye geueth hart Force and wysdom ãâã to ââ¦tune The ãâã of Cyrus ãâã ãâã the ãâã ãâã Cresus is ta ken prisoner The magnitycence of Cyrus The Lydiâ⦠rebell and are ââ¦bdued The reward of rebellion The foolyshe loue and demeanour of ãâã ãâã ââ¦eth Candaules and maketh hius selââ¦kyng A manly women His name was Spargapises Ignorauncâ⦠pernicious in a Captayns The inuincible courage of Thomiris The grââ¦at ââ¦aughter of the Persians The death of Cyrus Cambyses succedeth ââ¦own wyll haue no pere ãâã ca not continew ââ¦ong The great treason of ãâã ãâã Oropastââ¦reigneth in stead of ãâã The treason is mistrusteâ⦠The treason commeth to lyght Counsell ãâã not be kept long in a multitude Necessitie geâ⦠courage The zeale ââ¦obryas Gobryas to his countrey Th end of vsââ¦pe authori tyâ⦠A singuââ¦ar ex ample of modesty in great estaââ¦es The pollicie of a horseâ⦠Daâ⦠ãâã made kyng bâ⦠the neying ãâã a horse Daââ¦ius ââ¦keth to wyfe the daughteâ⦠of Cyrus named Aââ¦ossa The ãâã ãâã ââ¦opyrus to hys kyng and to hys countrâ⦠ââ¦pirus deââ¦lluereth Babilon to the kyng Contentioâ⦠as concerninâ⦠antiquitie The tempâ⦠tenesse of Egypt and the ââ¦uitfulnesse thââ¦eof ⪠The replication of the ãâã The ãâã of Scithia the customeâ⦠and manerâ⦠of the ãâã ââ¦ns called ãâã The power and force of nature Asia tributatye to the ââ¦cithians Theyr fortunate successe The nature of the Parthians and Bactrians Who fyrst made warre vpon the Scithians The Scithââ¦ans are reuoked out of Asia by ãâã wyuce In this place he greââ¦ly exreth Example of fortitude in women The kingdome of the Amazones The customs of the Amazones The queenes of Amazone The buylding of Ephe ââ¦us â⦠myrâ⦠of virginityâ⦠and prowesse ãâã sedeth Hercules for the Queene of amazonies armour Hercules exchaungeth Menalyppe for y â queââ¦nes armour Orithia sendeth for ayde to the king of Scithia She is ââ¦orsaken of her ãâã cour and ouer come of the Atheniens Penthesileâ⦠The decay of ââ¦hamazones He retorneth to the storyes of the Stithians The stratageme of the Scithians against theyr bondââ¦en Here ended the first bokâ⦠The shameful retire of Darââ¦us out of Scithia He conquereth the lesser Asia and Mâ⦠cedonie A ââ¦igression to the acts of the ââ¦henieÌs The noblenes antiqui ty of Athens Of what things the aââ¦henieÌs wer the first inueÌ ters The first ordainer of mariage among the heathen The ââ¦loud of Dencalion Sowinge of corn ââ¦ueÌted The succession of the kinges of AtheÌs an ex ample of greate loue toward the natiue couÌtry The alteratââ¦on of gouernment in athens The commeÌdat ion and do ings of solon The pollicye of Solon Deceit tourned vpon the workers hed An example of a craftye â⦠suttle decâ⦠uer Diocles slain for rape A constant and inuicible stomacke He returneth to the historye of Darius The noble en terprise of Milciades The courage of the Atheniens and me co wardise of the Persians Fortune helpeth the coura gious The praise of Themistocles The commendation of Cynegirus The slaughter of the ãâã ãâã The vengans of God vppon tyraunts and traââ¦oures The death oâ⦠Darius A brotherly conteÌââ¦n for the kingdom xerxes succe deth Darius in his kingdoÌ The ââ¦oue of Demaratus to his couÌtry The hnge host of xerxes His richesse and want of good gouer naunce The loue of Leonidas towarde hys country The noble prowesse of Lconida and the SpartaÌes A ââ¦olitique prouisy on of themistocles Man ãâã power against God Xerxes burneth Thespâ⦠and ãâã and Athens Thanââ¦wer of the ãâã Themistocles interpre teth the same The deuise of Themistocles to make his confederates abyde ãâã cowardise of Xerxes The valiantnes of arte mysia The Persians are discoÌfyted on the sea The couonseâ⦠of Mardonius ââ¦cles sendeth againe to ãâã erxes ãâã flyeth for fear A worthy ex ample of the ficklenesse of fortune and of the frailnes of mans estate The afflictions of the Persian host Mardonius wââ¦th Oââ¦hus A battel betweene Mar doââ¦s and the grekes Excesse of richesse The swift nes of ââ¦ame The wise ãâã menor of Theââ¦o cles Themistocles cometh vnto Lacedeââ¦n The Spartanes make war againste the Persians Pââ¦ius worketh treson against his country Aristides preuenteth hys trâ⦠Pansaâ⦠ãâã ãâã Cyno is made graund ãâã tain against the Pâ⦠The naturaâ⦠loue of ãâã to his faâ⦠⪠Xerxes ãâã Xerxes is ãâã by hys own subiect The cautele and treson of Artabanus The treason disclosed Treson politiquely reuen ged The discorde of the grââ¦kes amonge them sââ¦lues Rightuousnââ¦s is to be preferred before akingdoÌ The notable lawes of Lââ¦curgus The bringing vp of children The mariage of maidens Reââ¦erence vnto old age The deuise of Licurgus to make hys lawes eternall Licurgus vâ⦠nisheth hym self to do hys couÌtry good The waââ¦a of the Spartanes against the Meââ¦ans The original of the Partheniens Phalanthus The Parthe niens seke theÌ a newe dwelling place They place them selues in Italye The loue of Phalanthus toward his country Phaââ¦anthus is honoured for a God The Messeniens are subdued afterward doo rebell Tirteus bringââ¦th the spartanes in despaire The force of Poetrye The courage of the Messenians Occasyon of war betwene the
Lacedemonians and ââ¦atheniens See the nature of enuy The noble ââ¦o ings of Pericles The Lacedemonians take a truce and breake it The wisdom of Pââ¦icles in reuengyng his countrye His wisdom in aââ¦oidinge hys owne periââ¦s Battel on the ââ¦ea The Lacedemoniââ¦s brake the truce againe The discription of Sicil with the nature therof The narow seas of Sicil Scilla and Charybdis The names of Sicil. An example of iustice and good gouernaunce and the frute theââ¦of ââ¦de more hereof in the xviii xix xx xxii bokes ââ¦iuil warââ¦s in Sicil by meanes wher of the athâ⦠ens werâ⦠broughâ⦠to a sore after ãâã alcibiades ari ueth in Sicil and is sent for home again tanswer to accusanoÌs The prayse of Gylippus Thatheniens are vanquiââ¦ed The third diâ⦠comfiture of them The fourth ouerthrâ⦠oâ⦠them Gylippus ãâã loweââ¦h the victory ⪠Demosthenes ãâã him selfe The pointes wherof Alcibiades was appealed alcibiades stirreth the Lacedemonians against hys owne countrye He was the sonne of artax erxes was the viii kyng of Persia. The prowes of thathenieÌs ââ¦auour ââ¦oloweth fortuâ⦠The doinges of Alcibiades againste his owne couÌtrie He ãâã no lessâ⦠⪠The naturââ¦â⦠maners of ãâã cibiades Marke ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Note his crafty deling alcibiades is called outâ⦠of exite and ãâã ãâã generall of the warres alcââ¦tades ouercome the Lacedemontans His tryumphanâ⦠returu vnto athens The fortune of alcibiades Ouersight pernitious in a captain Alciââ¦des is banished againe A great slaughter of the atheniens The courage of thathenââ¦eÌs Their last ouerthrowe slaughter a Rhetoricall description of the afflicted state of ãâã Athens is be sieged peace is graâ⦠ted to the Atheniens It was the 400. before the comminge of Christ. Eu sebius This was the yonger Dennis of whome reade in the xxi boke Athens is op pressed wyth tiranny The final ãâã of alcibiades The crueltyâ⦠of the tirants The loue of Thrasibuluâ⦠to his tountry The like example of Lysias Uncorrupted faithfulnes The tyrants are ãâã shââ¦d The worthy rewarde of tyranye ThathenieÌs at restored to their countâ⦠agayne cause of ãâã ge betwene the Corinthi ans Lacedemonians The death of Darius Nothus The wicked war betwene Cyrus and ar taxââ¦rxes Cyrus is slayne Ambition is neuer satisfied The warres betwene the Lacedemonians and the Persians Tyssaphernes is accused to y â king Conon is ma de admirall of the Persian ââ¦ete The praise of Conon audof agesilaus â⦠mutinye for nonpaiment of wages The ãâã oâ⦠Conon to ãâã kynge The ãâã of Conon The circumââ¦spectnesse of the two Cap taines LysaÌder Conon The praise of Lysanda The Lacedemonians are vanquished on the sea after misfortune foloweth disdayne Lysander ãâã slayne Agesilans ãâã couereth the victory being loste The coÌmendacion of Iphicrates Conon retur neth to Aââ¦heÌs An vniuersall peace is en ioyned to all Grece It was ãâã yere before the birthe of Christe ãâã ãâã The token oâ⦠the victory geuen The courage of the old ãâã of ãâã ãâã is wounded to death The praise of EpaminoÌdas in whom is ex pressed the Image of a good captaine and of a iust magistrate The ãâã of ãâã das at hys death The fyrst kyng of Macedoâ⦠Of ãâã and of his ãâã phââ¦y Argâ⦠The ãâã ãâã of the Mâ⦠cââ¦dones The frendlye entertainmeÌt of the Persian ambassaââ¦ors Note the modesty of the barbarous people in choââ¦e daies Thambassadors of Persia murdeted for incontineÌcye Aââ¦nce by matiage beââ¦wene the Persians and the macedons Amyntas the second The ãâã ãâã of ãâã Thâ⦠ãâã on of kynge ãâã A ãâã and wicked mother Philiptaketh the kingdome vpon him The troubled state of Macedone The pollitike demcanor of Philip. The ãâã warres oâ⦠king ãâã ãâã ãâã a wyfe A good ãâã ãâã ãâã An ãâã of modesty The discord of the Cityes of grece The Thebanes can not ãâã their good fortune Nede hath no law The Thebanes are ouercome The ãâã folye of the Thebanes The force of supersticion A discourâ⦠a gainst the im piety of the atheniens The falshead and vntrouth of king Philip The ãâã of Philip. Philip ãâã ãâã allawe and right The malyce oâ⦠the Theba ãâã The misââ¦rable state of Grece The ãâã ââ¦sage of Philip Philip ãâã no promise Philip ââ¦emoueth whole couÌtries with their people Philip abuseth alexander and deposeth arimba kings of Eplre Philip ââ¦geth Constaââ¦inople Philip maketh a rode in to Tartaâ⦠⪠The vngratitude of the kyng of Scythia The athââ¦nieÌs are vanquiââ¦hed The ãâã dissiââ¦lation of king Phillip The gentlenes of Phillip towardes the ââ¦theniens His rigor towardes the Thââ¦banes A notable ââ¦xample of constancy ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã The nombâ⦠of kinge Pââ¦lips men of warre Phillip ââ¦deth the Empire of persâ⦠He ãâã him seife ãâã Olympias He maryeth his daughter to alexander king of epyre The death of king Phillip The cause of Phââ¦ps deââ¦h Occasions of great displeaââ¦re betwene Phllip hys son alexandre The doingâ⦠of ãâã at the ãâã of Phââ¦p The ãâã of a ãâã ⪠The description of kynge Philip. A comparison betwene Phi lip alexadre This ââ¦ame is he that is meÌtiond of in the v. and vi bokes before The wickednesse of Darius towarde hys father The iuste reward of treson The ãâã of Ochus The estate of macedone after the death of king philip The wise and discrete behauiour of Alexander The murderers ãâã kyngPhilip are punished Alexander gâ⦠eth forward with the waâ⦠agaynste the Persians thaâ⦠his father phâ⦠lip had begoâ⦠⪠Alexander suâ⦠presseth the commotions in grece The hatred of all grece to ward the Thebanes The ââ¦sion of ââ¦das for the ãâã ãâã of tâ⦠cââ¦y The Citye of Thebes is ãâã stroyed The same is he that in the ââ¦ast boke is called Codoââ¦an alexander setââ¦eth an ordee in his kingdome ââ¦he noble co rage and free hart of alexan der alexanders hoste ãâã ãâã of Da rius The nomber of the Persians Darius is vanquished Of the citye Gordis and of Gordius ãâã Alexander ta keth a greate ãâã The seconde ââ¦ncounter betwene AlexaÌder Darius The ãâã of the ââ¦ans The ãâã oâ⦠ãâã Superfluitie the cause of disorder A kyng of a gardiner Alexander be ãâã Tire alexander goeth to ââ¦mo in ãâã The ãâã of the priests whiche after was the ââ¦struction of manye ãâã men The building of alexandria in Egipt alexanders an swers to Da rius letters The wyfe of darius dyeth The thirde letter of Darius to alexander alexanders answere The ãâã ââ¦counter betwene ââ¦us and alex ander Darius is put to flight The caââ¦e of Darius for the safegarde of his souldioures Here beginneth the Em ââ¦ptre of Mace done Darius is bound in setters of gold and woundâ⦠to death to hys owne ãâã The woordeâ⦠of Darius ãâã hys deathe Letters of Antipatâ⦠regent of Macedone A rebeliyâ⦠in grece The valiantnesse of ãâã agis Of this Alexander is men tion made in the end of the viii boke The foundati on of
Brundâ⦠se in Italy Alexandâ⦠king of ãâã is ãâã to deathe The death of ãâã president of ââ¦on tus Alexander ãâã courageth his souldiers ãâã the warreâ⦠Thalââ¦tris Quene of the amazones alexander falleth to the vices of the Per ââ¦ians a pollicy of alexander whi ch afterward grewe into a custome alexander ãâã rageth agaiÌst his noble men for reprehââ¦ding his ââ¦ces ãâã is pu nished for his treason Alexandria vpon Tanais Rede this history mark what a vice dronkennes is in a prince The force of eloquence A ⪠good reward of persuadyng hym from dispair rede more hereof in the. ãâã bake Se the ãâã of ãâã sticion The ãâã ãâã Thencoââ¦nter betwene Poââ¦us and ãâã Alexanderâ⦠conquests in Inde Alexaââ¦der ãâã ⪠pââ¦aril goâ⦠fortââ¦e AlexaÌder sendeth his host to Babylon Alexander is repââ¦lsed with ââ¦enymous Daââ¦tes Alexanders retourne vnto Babââ¦on his doynges there Alexanders lyberâ⦠ãâã his souldiers The ââ¦outnes of Alexander The death ãâã ãâã ãâã of ãâã ââ¦des of ãâã and of the west alexander is poisoned The author of alexanders death The ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã of ãâã ãâã of ãâã ãâã ⪠The tolens that ãâã at ãâã death ⪠ââ¦lexanders ãâã and prosperity The great ãâã ãâã e that was for the deathe of ãâã The vngrati tude of the ââ¦dones The commeÌdation of alex anders noble ââ¦en The ãâã tion amongâ⦠alexanders captaines foâ⦠the goueââ¦ment of the Empire ââ¦rideus is proclaymed kynge in a ãâã The fyrst dis sencion amoÌg Alexanders successours The stouines of Pââ¦dicas The ãâã ãâã Thorââ¦r ââ¦ken for the gouernment of ãâã The ãâã of the ãâã cââ¦s The warâ⦠of the ãâã against a lexanders sâ⦠cessours The dutye oâ⦠a true subiect to his natiue country in ãâã Leonatus is ãâã by the ãâã The end of the athenien warres The wilfull destruction of the Cappaddcians He that hunteth ii hares at ones catcheth none of bothe The ââ¦yrstwar ãâã alexandâ⦠successoââ¦s The Commendation of Ptolomy kinge of Egipt The building of Eyrene in ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã of princes ãâã and Neoptolemus are staine by ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã doinge of ãâã ãâã The ãâã of ãâã name Treason wysely ãâã and with standed Emnenes is put to flyght and beseged by Antigonus Emnenes windeth hyâ⦠self into ââ¦auor with the argiraspides Emââ¦s ãâã vanquishâ⦠again Thargiraspi des conspired to betraye ãâã Thâ⦠wordes of Emnenes to his souldiours Tâ⦠Argiâ⦠pââ¦des yeld ââ¦heÌ solues ââ¦nd ãâã ãâã ãâã ââ¦o antigonus ãâã ãâã ãâã ââ¦tye of her husband Arideus ãâã ãâã ãâã Laeââ¦demonions enclose thâ⦠city ãâã a ââ¦ll Arideuâ⦠ãâã his wiâ⦠weâ⦠both slââ¦ine Such ãâã as ye meâ⦠⪠shal be mesâ⦠to you ãâã ⪠A ãâã ãâã An example of wonderfull ââ¦outnes in a ââ¦oman An example of womââ¦anhod Aâ⦠ãâã on betwâ⦠ãâã ãâã of ãâã An exâ⦠of magnââ¦ty ãâã are dryuen out of theyr country with inyce and frogges Thoutragyous cruelty of CassaÌder One good turne requiâ⦠another ãâã captainâ⦠pro claââ¦me them selues kingâ⦠Of ãâã Of the Philosopher ãâã al lystââ¦enes vns woââ¦hy punishment The constancy of Lysimachus In example of an obedieÌt and faythfull subââ¦ct Of ãâã and of his begââ¦inge The ãâã ãâã ãâã The ãâã ââ¦ebel from the mââ¦narchy of mââ¦cedone Gâ⦠a man good fortune and throwhym into the sea ãâã is slayne ãâã ãâã ãâã the ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã murder ãâã beââ¦ene the children of Casââ¦der The childe is punished for the fathers oââ¦ence ãâã ãâã proclaimed kyng of Macedone This same iâ⦠he that made warre ãâã Romaines The posterââ¦y of ãâã is vttââ¦ye ââ¦ted ouâ⦠ãâã ãâã ãâã self prisoner to ãâã ââ¦n example of fatherly loue Lightly ãâã and ãâã for gone The building of Heraclea in Poathus ãâã example of ãâã in alians ãâã ãâã An ãâã of ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã The ââ¦ble ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ⪠A wicked ãâã tor The ãâã of ãâã Deathe is ãâã bee preferred before ââ¦nesty Prosperitye maââ¦eth men forget them selues The valiante prowââ¦ise of Chion and Leonides An ââ¦rryble earthquake The destruction of Lysimachus ââ¦nage There is no measure in ââ¦ition The death of Lysimachââ¦s He was the kynges brother of Egipt The ââ¦eathe of Seleucus Note the trechery and deceit of Ptolââ¦meus Ceraunicus reede more hereof in the. xxiiii booke Pyrââ¦hus ââ¦deth the ãâã agaynste the ãâã ⪠A discoâ⦠to the domâ⦠of Epyâ⦠He was ââ¦so called ãâã An example of a learned Prince Olympias The warres of Pyrââ¦hus in Italy Pyrrhus ouercome the Romaines The magnifi cence of Pyrrhus Pyrrhus vaÌ quishe the Romaines a gayne Example ãâã ãâã is made ãâã Sicill ãâã hereof more in the. ãâã ãâã A ãâã to ãâã oâ⦠the ãâã and ãâã Sydon An example of cruelty of bondmen The differeÌs betwene the wit of a gentleman and the wyt of a ãâã Mâ⦠ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã The ââ¦dlge of ââ¦a in ãâã The wicked nesse of Pygmalion The pollicye of Dido to ââ¦ape from her brother The ãâã custom of ãâã Cyâ⦠The building of Carthage ãâã ãâã ãâã of ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ⪠ãâã ãâã ãâã in ãâã own ãâã ⪠ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ⪠An abhomiâ⦠kind of religion A captaine his army banyshed for ãâã Carthage ãâã besieged ãâã theyr ownâ⦠ãâã ⪠A terrible ãâã ample for ãâã ⪠obediens to the father ⪠Carthââ¦ge is ãâã ãâã of the histories of Carâ⦠The ambassade of Pââ¦rsia ãâã ãâã peâ⦠ââ¦amentable description of the estate of Carthage ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã A discourse of the acts of the ãâã The warres of the elder Dennis in Italy A digressyon to the ââ¦ounda tions of the Cityes of Italy ãâã oâ⦠religion ãâã ãâã in ãâã Marke the superstition of the hethen Despaire geâ⦠courage ãâã ãâã of ãâã Of ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã The true ornamentes of Ladies He returneth to the doings of Dennis Dennis ente reth in leage ãâã the ãâã ãâã that burned Rome ⪠Cities ãâã in Italy by the ãâã men Treson ãâã ãâã The death ãâã Dennis The yonger ãâã The crueltye of Dennis Thâ⦠ãâã ãâã ãâã Dennis Dââ¦nnis ãâã into Italy That which is bred by the bone will not out of the flesh The vnââ¦ayth ââ¦uines of DeÌââ¦is toward the Locrines Dennis is ex ââ¦uised ãâã recouââ¦reth ãâã Hannââ¦s ãâã spiracies agaynst Caâ⦠thage Hanno is take punishâ⦠Dennis depâ⦠seth hym self The vile and lothsome life of Dennis Dennis proââ¦esseth him selfe a schole master ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã to note the do ings of great Alexander The ãâã ãâã of thâ⦠ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã The firste risyng of Agathocles vnto estimation ãâã ãâã ââ¦racuse A ãâã on ãâã Haââ¦â⦠Agathoâ⦠⪠ãâã is sworne to the Carthagiuenses His extreame ãâã agaââ¦t the ãâã He ââ¦eth the confederates of the Cartha ââ¦ses The coÌplaint of the confede ââ¦tes Hamilcar ãâã condemned ãâã treson sâ⦠lye He ãâã Agathâ⦠is ouercome twise and ãâã bââ¦eged The ãâã ãâã ãâã Agathââ¦s ⪠Agathocles saââ¦leth into ââ¦ricke The effecte of Agathocles oration to his sould youres In Eclipse of
the Sun with thynter pretatioÌ ther of Agathocles setteth hys ships on fyre A slaughter of the Caââ¦tha ginenses The cities oâ⦠Aââ¦icke reuolte to Agathocles A slaughter of the Carthâ⦠ginenses in Sicâ⦠The kynge Cyrene Cyrene ãâã teth to Agathocles Another great slaugâ⦠ter of the ãâã thaginienses The punyshment of Bomilcar The wordes of Bomilcar vppon the ãâã Agathoââ¦les returneth into Sicil and raisââ¦th the siege of Syracuse A mutiny Agathoââ¦es taketh a ãâã by ãâã ⪠Agathocles stealââ¦th froâ⦠his ãâã Agathoclââ¦s sonns are ãâã to death Agathoclâ⦠taketh ãâã wyth the Câ⦠thaginenses Agathocles maketh war in Italy The manner of the educati on of the Lucanes The ãâã of the Bruââ¦ans The warâ⦠of ââ¦he Brutââ¦ans Agathocleâ⦠arriued in ãâã ⪠taly Agathocles falleth syckâ⦠A fayââ¦hful and louynge wyfe A descriptyon of a lamentable departure The death ãâã Agathoââ¦s The ãâã ãâã ââ¦uade ãâã He ãâã to the ãâã of Pyrrhus mentioned ãâã the. xviii boke Pyrrhus loââ¦eth the king dome of Sicill A notable example of the variablenesse of fortune Of the educa tion and preferment of Hiero. H ãâã lââ¦ft thâ⦠xvi ãâã Antââ¦chus the sonne of ãâã and Anââ¦gonus the sonne of ãâã The Grekes rebeil agaynst themââ¦yre The Grekes are ââ¦ut to ââ¦ght by the ââ¦lian ââ¦heardes He pursueth the treachery and deceit of Ptolomy ââ¦eÌââ¦oned in the xvi boke ãâã ãâã ryeth hys owneâ⦠ãâã ãâã Iudas ãâã The naturall affectyon of amother The ãâã crucity of Pââ¦o ãâã toward hys syster Murdâ⦠ãâã peth not ãâã punâ⦠Of the ââ¦ges of the ãâã The ãâã hardynesse of Ptolomy The ãâã ãâã of ãâã The ââ¦ful ãâã of ãâã ãâã ãâã the ãâã The ãâã of ãâã The ãâã men inuade ââ¦gayne The malapââ¦r te scoffyng of Brennus The situatioÌ of the temple of Delphos The description of the place where the ãâã are geuen The ââ¦of Euridanus and ãâã salonus The Oracle before the ãâã the ãâã The frenche men assalte the citie of Delphos note the ilusi on of y â ãâã The frenche men are put to the ãâã and oppressed wyth lyghtâ⦠and ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã The ãâã ãâã ãâã of the ãâã â⦠men ãâã of Grece and the vtter destrucryon of them Here foloweth the storye ãâã in the beginning of the laste booke The French men inuade Macedone the thyrdâ⦠tyme. Antigonus po licy to ãâã himselfe and hys A slaughtâ⦠of the french men The greate encreaseof the frenchmen and theyr redouted prow ãâã The original of the French grekes in Asia the lesse Loke the xxiii boke Pyrââ¦hus con quereth Maâ⦠ãâã is ãâã again The doingeâ⦠of Pyrrhus The ãâã raygne of ââ¦he tirant ãâã The prudent deuise of Helemat in suppressyng the Tyrant The poliââ¦yke celerity of An tigonus in suppressyng his enemyes The furious cruelty of the frenthmen towardes theyr owne wiues and children The ãâã slaughter of the ãâã The ãâã ful ãâã of fortune Read more of the stories of Epyre in the. xxviii booke A gas kyng of ââ¦yrene ââ¦uoutry re ââ¦enged ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã is ãâã ãâã by ãâã ãâã aââ¦d put to death The ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã from ãâã ãâã The fortunaââ¦e mischaÌs of Seleucus ãâã is vanquished by ãâã kynge of Egypt The wicked and ambitious ââ¦urde of Antiochus ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã and ãâã brother ãâã ãâã ãâã vanquished by Emneââ¦s kinge of Bythiââ¦a Asia the ãâã mon prayâ⦠ãâã kynges Antiochus is ouercome of Seââ¦cus ãâã is slayne by theues ãâã ãâã hys ãâã ãâã ãâã history of â⦠ãâã the ãâã ⪠ãâã He was the soune of ãâã ãâã ââ¦pussed by ãâã The good an swer of the Aeââ¦yans to the ambassadoures of Rome The Aââ¦ly ⪠ans inuade Acarâ⦠The ãâã ãâã cay of the ââ¦loud royall in Epyre. The ââ¦aunce of God for ãâã murdâ⦠The pollicy of Antigonus in retaynyng the kyngdom of Macedone Warre betwene the Spartanes and the Macedones The couragy ousnesse of ãâã kyng of the Lacedemonians The ãâã of Antigonus hauing gotâ⦠the victory The sonne of Demetrius An alteratioÌ of kingdomes by the successi on of younge kynges The occasââ¦on of the wars betwene the Romââ¦es and the Macedones Philip perswadeth the Grekes to peace and tranquilitye Philip ãâã defiancâ⦠to the Romaines The Romaines and Phil ââ¦ip sollicit the Acââ¦olians th one agaynst the other The Darbanians inuade Macedone Phillip is ââ¦exed wyth the coÌplaints of his confederates Phillip tââ¦keth truse wyth the Ro maines See what the euyll ensample ãâã a prince dotâ⦠⪠God sendeâ⦠fortune to fooles The ãâã and abheminable ãâã of Pââ¦olomy Phâ⦠patââ¦r The death of Prolomy and the banyshment of hys strumpets The Romââ¦nes are ãâã ãâã ãâã Egypt Complaintâ⦠ãâã aââ¦st Philâ⦠aâ⦠ãâã ãâã made agayâ⦠hym by ãâã ãâã An earthquake Phillip encourageth the Macedones a gainst the Romaines ãâã ãâã the ãâã Phillip ãâã â⦠ãâã ⪠Antiochus inuadeth the Empyre of Egypt King of the Lacedemonians An ambassaâ⦠sent into ââ¦fricke to surprise ãâã Hanniball prââ¦uenteth the deuyses of the Romaines Nabis is oââ¦ercome Nabis renuââ¦th the wars ãâã ⪠The ãâã of Philopemenes ãâã ãâã with Antiochus He that ââ¦kens wyth out hys hoste muste ãâã twise Hannibals counsel to An tiochus agaynste the Romaines A messenger is sent to Carthage from ââ¦ball The ãâã ger is apprehended The messanger eskapeth and returneth to Hannibal An ambassad sente from Rome to Antiochus Flatterye Antiochus is displeased ãâã Haniball for kepyng compani with the Romaines The effect of the Romayne ambassade the answer of Antiochus Consultation concernyng the warres of the ãâã nes Hannibals adusye as coÌcernyng the maintenance of the wars with the Romaines The nature of ãâã and ãâã ⪠ãâã is ãâã ãâã flyghâ⦠⪠Hannibal is taken into ãâã uor again ⪠Hannibal being made admiral of ãâã ãâã is ãâã by the Romaines ⪠Antiochus ââ¦esyreth peace The constaÌte and vncorupt minde of Affricanus towarde hys countrye Articles of ãâã ãâã The ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã A battel betwene ãâã and the ãâã The magnamââ¦ty of the Romainââ¦s The Aetolians are subdued by the Romaines The ãâã ou ãâã the ââ¦ans and thâ⦠Achcaââ¦s ⪠The ãâã ble courage of Philopemenes aââ¦hys death The death of Antiochus The modesty of Dââ¦metrius wyth the frute therof ââ¦rtue proââ¦ââ¦nuy Whââ¦e ãâã a man ãâã ãâã worse neyghboure ãâã ãâã bringeth ãâã home The death of Philââ¦yp kyng of ãâã What natyons Perses procured to take his part agaynste the Romaines The punyshmente of Saââ¦ledge The original of the Istrians Cowardise punyshââ¦d with rââ¦proch Warre betwene Prusias as and Eumenes The ãâã of ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Haââ¦ibals ââ¦tageme The deathe of Hanniball The commen dation of HaÌniball The preparatââ¦on of the Ro mains and of Philip one against another The Eclipse of the moone The baliant nesse of M. Cato Perses flyeth and is taken prysonner with his chil dren The ãâã ãâã the monarchy of ãâã The ãâã of the Romaâ⦠nes agaynst the ãâã ãâã ãâã ââ¦o ãâã beforâ⦠ãâã net Corynthe
is beateÌ downe Antiochus maketh war vpon Ptolââ¦my king of Egypt An example of an vncorrupted minde and of greatâ⦠seuerity The death of Anââ¦ochus Demetrius stealeth from Rome ⪠and obtaineth the kyngdome of Syria Prusias diggeth a pit for his sonne and falleth there in hym selfe An example of singuler in gratitude The hatred of dyuers kings against Demetrius The ãâã nes and ãâã of ãâã Dââ¦etrius the sonne of ãâã recouââ¦reth hys fathers kyngdome Demetrius maketh war against the Parthiââ¦ns Demetrius is takââ¦n prisoner kept like a kynge ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã of ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ⪠The ãâã of the ãâã The history of Iosââ¦phe in ãâã An ãâã ãâã of Moses and of the goyng of the ãâã out of Egipt The ââ¦inge of the saâ⦠day ãâã Of ââ¦growing only in ãâã The ââ¦tion of the countrye of Iericho ãâã ãâã ãâã ⪠Who fyrste subdued the Iewes The doyngs of Attalus kyng of Asia the lesse The soroweââ¦ul repentans of Attalus The deaâ⦠of Aââ¦alus ⪠ãâã ãâã ⪠The ãâã of couââ¦ousnesse The Romaynes reward theyr partakers The vnnatural cruelty of a mother Not without deââ¦ert Mythridates the great and of hys byrth educatyon successe pearyls and aduentures A Comâ⦠⪠Mythridates subdueth the soââ¦thsayers The wife of Mythridates put teth hym in daunger of his lyfe ââ¦he ãâã of ãâã tes ãâã the winter ãâã He conquereth Paphââ¦gonia The Romain aââ¦bassae to Mythrodatâ⦠and hys aunswer there vnto Th order taken by the senate Ariobarzanes is made kyng of Cap padocta Mithridatis recouereth Cappadacia ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã nations ãâã vp ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã The oratyon of Mythridates to hys captains and men of warre He returneth to the storyes of Egipt The crueltye of Ptolomy Ptelomy is had in derisâ⦠by the Romain ambassade The vnnatâ⦠ral cruââ¦sse of Ptolomy towarde hys own children He returneth to the story of Demetrius taken pryson net by the Parthiens in the. xxxvi booke A faythfull freââ¦d An example of clemency in in a barbarus prince Demetrius is taken flying the ãâã tyme and brought ãâã agayââ¦e Antiochus ãâã deth an host a gaynste the Parthiens Antiochus ãâã the ãâã ãâã is let go into Syria A ãâã conspiracy against ãâã The death of ãâã ãâã is hated of his subââ¦ects for his pryde An ãâã is ãâã king agaynst ãâã The due reward of sacri ledge and vsurped autho ritye The desire of souerainty The ãâã an kyng is put to flyght The ãâã ââ¦warde oâ⦠sacryledge and vsurpââ¦d authority The desire of Souerainty The death of the Quene The death of Ptolomy king of egipt An vnequall dealinge of a mother War betwene Gryphus and his brother ãâã A cruell syster ââ¦he ââ¦syon of Gryphââ¦s from that cruelty Gryphin sen deth to kyll her syster Cle oââ¦atra The death of Cleopatra Such mesure as she dyd mete is ââ¦ten to her The Quene of Egypt deposeth one of ââ¦er sonnes setteth vp an ãâã Lyfe is dearer then a ââ¦yngdome The death of the Quene of Egypââ¦e Alexander ãâã ãâã Cyrene ãâã ãâã to the Romains The original Herotymus great number ââ¦f sonnes Tygranes is made kyng of Syria An ãâã earthquake ãâã oâ⦠Tygranes maketh ãâã ãâã Syria is ãâã ââ¦e a prouynce of the ãâã of the PartheÌs with their encreasement and battels The situacioÌ of Parââ¦hia Theââ¦e of y â coÌmon weale of Parthia Their language Their Apparell The order of their warres The briging vp of their bondmen ââ¦horder of their warres Their Armoure Their seueritie â⦠keptng their wiues Their dyet Their continuall rydyng The differen ce betwene their gentlemen their slaues Their burial Their ãâã Their naturall disposicion Unââ¦er whoÌ the Parthians serued When the Parthians first rebelled Arsaces the first king of Parthia Arsaces refor meth the coÌmon weale of ãâã ⪠The buââ¦ding and situacion of the cytie Dââ¦a The ãâã of Arsaces The seconde Emperour of Parthia The thyrde Empeour Pampatius The fourth Emperour ⪠An example of loue towardes a mans countrey The fyfthe ãâã Eueraââ¦des king of ââ¦tria The valiant prowââ¦s of Eucratides An vnnaturall and abho minable mur ther. The conqueââ¦tes of Mythridates y â ⪠iiii kynge of Parthia The. i. ââ¦peroure of Parthia of his doinges ⪠It is ãâã trustynge them to whom a maÌ hath dâ⦠displeasure The sixthe Emperonr of Parthia The seuenth Emperour and of his doynges The original of the Armentans The situacioÌ of Armenie The viage for the golden ãâã The ãâã ãâã Iason The original of the Albanââ¦s in Asââ¦a The great ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã of ãâã ãâã Thoriginal of the Armeniâ⦠The head of the riuer Tygris He returneââ¦h to the storie of the ãâã The viii king of ãâã The ãâã of Horodes to wardes his brother The death of ãâã A ãâã of the ãâã Tââ¦e ãâã warres betwene ãâã and Pompââ¦y The ãâã ãâã ãâã A grââ¦at ãâã ter of the Paâ⦠thians ãâã the kynges ãâã Horodes falleth besyde hym selfe for sorow The nynthe Emperor of Parthia ãâã is killed by hys sonne Phrohartes ãâã is deposed restored by y â Scythians The tentâ⦠Emperour of Parthia Phraharââ¦es sendes Embassadours to Rome The ãâã ans submitte them sââ¦lues to Augustus The first inhabiters of Italy The Iustice and equitie in the tyme of Saturne The ãâã of Saturnâ⦠The ãâã The coÌming of Euandââ¦r into Italy The ââ¦tynge of Lââ¦tinus The coÌming of Eneas into Italy The building of ãâã The building of long Alba. The byrth of Romulus Remus w t their educacion Rââ¦mus is ãâã keÌ brought to the kynge ⪠Romulus Remus mak a conspyracie against Numitor The building of Rome The buiding of ãâã A mariage The ãâã of the Ma ãâã A ãâã ãâã applyed Treson against the Mas silians Women can kepe no coun sell. The fortunate successe of the Masâ⦠The ãâã of Caramââ¦us A faythfull frend is tried in aduersytie The auncestours of ââ¦rogus PoÌ pcius Thauncient names of Spayne The situacioÌ of Spayne the fertilitie therof The platte bygnesse of Spayne The nature and disposition of the S paniardes A notable ex ample of constant pacieÌce The doyngs and coÌmenda cions of Uiriatus The swiftenes of the Spanish Ge nettes ãâã of the Gallecians in ãâã The ãâã ãâã of ãâã ãâã The Inuentions of Gargoris That which God wyll haue saued can not be ãâã The doyngs of ãâã The Storyâ⦠of Geryon Howe the Carthaginobteyned the ãâã ââ¦f Spayn The doyngs of the Cartha ginenses in Spayne How the Ro maynes conquered spaine
the temple of Haââ¦o in Egypt ⪠buyldeth the cytie Alexandria receyueth letters twyse from Darius and replyeth to thesame mourneth for the death of Darius wyse ãâã the thyrd letter from ãâã and ãâã thereunto ãâã Darius and ãâã the Monarchie of the ãâã with th empyre of Asia rewardeth his souldiers and fyndeth ââ¦eadyng riches in the cytie ãâã Da rius is bounde by his ââ¦wne ãâã found by a souldier half dead and sore wounded ãâã whome he ãâã his mynde and dyeth and Alexander causeth him to be ãâã accordyng to his estate The conteyntes of the twelueth Boke ALexander buryeth his souldiours sumptuously Agis kyng of ãâã maketh insurreccion in Grece and is ãâã ⪠Alââ¦xander kyng of Epyre warreth in Italy is ãâã to death ââ¦yron with his hoste is slayn by the Scythââ¦s Alexanders souldiours beyng in Parthia desyre to returne home he subdueth Hyrcanie and the mardes Thalestris Quene of ââ¦hamazones companyeth with Alexander he vsurpeth the maners of the Persians frequenteth feastyng licenceth his souldiers to mary their prysoners outrageth agaynst his noble menne conquereth the people that inhabite the foote of Cancasus in the which tyme Bessus that kylled Darius is brought bounde vnto him whome he deliuereth to be punished to Oxatres the brother of Darius he buyldeth Alexandria vppon Tanais kylleth Clytus at the table falleth in great dispayre for the same receyueth countries by composicion putteth Calisthenes and other noble men to death gyueth his souldiers syluer Bucklars entereth into Inde where a Quene called Cleophis yeldyng herself and her kyngdome vnto him recepueth it agayne at his hande ouercommeth kyng Porus. buyldeth two cyties subdueth fowâ⦠Nacions is desyred by his souldieurs agayne to return home vanquisheth the Euââ¦ytes ââ¦ceyueth by coÌposicion the Gessones Asybanes conquereth the Ambres SycaÌbres is sore wounded in the citie of y â Dpydrakes preserueth his host from poysoned woundes by thadmonishment of a dreame buyââ¦deth a Cytie in the mouthe of the ryuer Indus returneth to Babylon putteth the Lieuetenauntes of diuers countries to deathe punisheth a ãâã among his souldiers mourneth for the death of ãâã on enterteyneth thambassadours of Carthage Spayne Fraunce c. is poysoned by Antipater comforteth his souldiers makyng ãâã tumult for his death deliuereth his ryng to Perdiccas and dyeâ⦠The contentes of the thirtenth Boke THe mother of Darius dyeth for sorrowe Aridens is made kyng th empyre is dââ¦utded among the noblemen of Alexander Thatheniens and Aââ¦tolians dryue ââ¦ntypater oute of Grece Perdiccas makeââ¦h warre agaynst ãâã kyng of Cappadocia the noblemen of Macedone fal at varians among themselfs the foundacion of the cytie ãâã in ãâã Perdiccas is hated for his pryâ⦠and Eumenes wynneth two fieldes ⪠The contentes of the fourtenth Boke EUmenes preuenteth the policies of his enemies he is beseged by Aââ¦tigonus rescowed by Antipater resorteth to the Aââ¦gyraspides for succor is ouer come by Antigonus and is betrayed by his owne souldiers Cassander is made Regent of Grece the Lacedemonians enclose their Cytie with a wal Eurydice and Arideus are slayne at the commaundement of Olympias Cassander lykewyse putteth Olympias to death and ââ¦prysoneth the sonne of Alexander The conteyntes of the xv Boke THe Conquerours fall at debate for partyng of the pray the Abderties are dryuen out of their countrey with frogges myce Cassander putââ¦eth the sonnes of Alexander to death Ptolomy is vanquished on the sea by Demetrius Alexanders Lieuetenauntes proclay me theââ¦es kynges Lysymachus taketh part with Cassander agaynst Antigonus a discourse of the doynges of the sayde Lysimachus the wonderfull ãâã of Seleucuâ⦠with his par takyng agaynst Antigonus and his conquestes in the East Sandrocotte deliuââ¦th the Indians from the subiection of Macedone and oppressed them with Tyrannie himself ⪠Antigonus is slayne his son Demetrius put to flight the Conquerors ââ¦al at barââ¦ans agayne among themselues and Cassander dyeth The conteyntes of the. xvi Boke ⪠THabominable murder of Antipater the sonne of ãâã for the which his brother Alexander proclayââ¦th warre agaynste him Demetrius slayeth Alexander and vsurpeth his part of Macedone Lysimachus yeldââ¦h vnto him the porcion of Antipater also Ptolomy Lysimachus Seleucus Pyrrhus yoine themselfes in league agaynst Demetrius Pyrrhus dryueth Demetrius oute of Macedone Lysimachus putteth his son in law Antipater to death in whome the house of Cassander is extincted Demetrius yeld ⪠th himself prisoner to Seleucus Ptolomy dieth debate falleth betweÌ Lysimachus Pyrâ⦠he expulsââ¦th Pyrthus out of Macedone ⪠the buyldyng of the Cytie Heraciea in Ponââ¦us the gââ¦es of the Heracleans their courââ¦e towarde their enemies their miserable oppression by tyrannie the bolde enterpryse of Chion and Leonides and the death of them The conteyntes of the. xvii Boke THe horrible Earthquake in Hellesponte and Chersonesus the crueltie of Lysimachus to his owne children by thinstigacion of their ââ¦tepmother Arsyrice the last warre betwene the succââ¦ssoro of Alexander wherein ãâã is slayn by Seleucus who also within a while after is slayne by Ptolomy the kynges brother of Egypt Pyrrhus aydââ¦th the ââ¦tynes agaynst the Romaynes a discourse of the Realme of Epyre with a declaracion of thactes of the kynges thereof The contentes of the. xviii Booke PYrrhus ãâã the Romayns Mage Duke of Carthagbryngeââ¦h ayd to them and is sent home agayne the Romayues take a truce with Pyrrhus the whiche is ââ¦ynged by Appius Claudius ⪠Pyrââ¦us takââ¦th vppon him the kyngdome of Syââ¦l the foundacion of Sydon and Tyre with a declaracion of thââ¦re Histories Dydo buyldeth Carthage and sleath herself The Carthaginenses ãâã abhominable kynde of sacrifice they suââ¦er losse by warre and pââ¦ens Macheus Duke of Carthage ãâã hys owne ãâã winneth Carthage is accused of treason and ãâã put to death The conteyntes of the. ãâã Boke MAgo Duke of Carthage dyeth his sonnes Hasorââ¦ball Hamilcar succede the Carthaginenses are ouercome by the ãâã ⪠fres and pay the rent for their cytie sââ¦ill they make warre in Sardynia and Sycill themessage of the Ambassadours of Darius to the Earthaginenses the Afres are compelled to releace the rent ⪠the army of Hamilco perisheâ⦠ãâã ãâã pescilent influence of the star res the remnant whereof he bryngeth home and kylleth hymself The contents of the. xx Booke DEnnys the elder dryueth the Carthagineââ¦ses out of Sycill and maketh warre in Italy a declaracion of the fondacion of the cyties in Italy the warres betwene the ãâã and the Locrenses the lyfe doctrine and death of Pythagoras Dennys is ouercomme by the Croteniens and concludeth a league with the Frenchemen the doynges of the Frenchemen in Italy Dennys re turneth into Sycill agaynste the ãâã and is slayn by his owne men The contentes of the. xxi Boke THe yonger Dennys exercyseth all kynde Tyranny is expulsed the realme exercyseth moste vnspeakable tyranny at Locres in Italy ⪠is dryuen from thence and taketh Syracuse Hanno goeth about to oppresse the coÌmon weale of Carthage is ââ¦rayed twyse and put to death Dennys deposeth
the conquerors Then they began the slaughter of the citizens at aicibiades least vnder pretens of restoring their liberty he might inuade the coÌmon wealth again For hauing intelligens that he was goyng towarde Art axeââ¦xes kinge of Persia they sent certaine after hym in post to cut him of by the way by whom he was ouertakeÌ But because they coulde not kill him openlye they set fyre on his chamber where he slept and burnte him vp quicke The tirauntes being deliuered oute of feare of this reuenger of his country with their slaughter extorcion and rauishmentes made euen a spoile of the miserable and wretched outcastes that were left in the City the whiche theyr doinge when they vnderstoode to displease one of their fellowes whose name was Tbemeranes to the terror of all the reast they put him to death Whervpon glad was he that might get himself out of the city insomuche that all Grece was ful of banished men of Athens and yet euen that one only reââ¦uge and comfort was taken from the poore wretches For the Lacedemonians had geuen straight charge commaundemeÌt that no city shuld be so bold as to receiue or harbrough the banished men of Athens Neuerthelesse they withdrew them selues al vnto Argos Thebes wheras they not only liued out of daÌger During the time of their exile but also receiued hope of recouering their Country Ther was among the banished men one Thrasibulus a stout man one that came of a noble house who thinckinge that a man was bound to aduenture for his country sake thoughe it were to his own peril and ieoperdy of his life assem bled a company of his banished country men and toke the castle Phyle in the territory of Athens And he wanted not the fauour and helpe of certaine Cities that had pitye and compassion of their miserable estate and cruell handlynge For Ismenias the prince of the Thebanes although he could not aide them openlye with the power of his countrye yet notwithstanding he helped them with suche goodes as he had of his owne And Lysias an Orator of Syracuse being at the same time also a banished man sent CCCCC Souldioures well furnished at his owne proper ââ¦ostes and charges to the aid of the country of all eloquens therfore anon after was a sharpe encounter But forasmuchas the one part fought earnestly for the recouery of their country and the other parte negligently as they that ãâã for the ãâã of other mennes tiâ⦠the ãâã were put to the worse and retiring into the City which they had in manner wasted and made desolate with their murderinges ãâã extortion and sacked it This done hauing all the Atheniens in a gelouly of treson they ãâã them euery one to remoue out of the city dwel in tharmes of the waâ⦠that wer woken down defending their superiority doââ¦ions with souldiours ââ¦aunts Afterward they went about to corrupt ãâã promising to make him ãâã partaker of their Empire which thing wheÌ they could not bring to effect they sent for aid to the Lacedemonians at whose comming they made a new encounter In the whiche Critios and Hyppomaââ¦us the cruellest ãâã of them all were ãâã The residue also being vanquished when their army wherof the most part wer Atheniens fled toward the city ãâã callinge to them as loud as ââ¦e could cry demaunded why they should flie from him hauing obtained the victorye and not rather helpe him as the defendor and reuenger of the libertye of them all bidding them remember that his souldiours wer their owne neighboures and Citizens and not their ennemies And that he had not taken wepon in hande to thenâ⦠to take anything from them being vanquished but to the entent to restore theÌ such things as haue ben taken froÌ them by others professing that he made war agaynste the ãâã and not against the city Moreouer he put them ãâã ãâã of the ãâã affinitye betwene them of their lawes of their rites ceremonies common amongst them of the felowship and coÌpany that had bene betwixt them in so many battels in times paste beseching them to haue pity vppon their banished countrye men And if they could finde in their hartes to ââ¦eare the yoke of bondage so paciently them selues he besought them to restore him his country and he would set them at liberty again He dyd so much with this perswasion that when tharmy was retur ned into the city they coÌmaunded the xxx tirants to depart vnto Elââ¦sis and in their stead they substituted others to goâ⦠the ãâã welth Who nothing abashed at the ensaÌple of their predecessors fell to the same cruelty that they had exercised While these thinges wer a doing word was brought to Lacedemon that the Atheniens were very destrous of warre the which to represse they sent their kyng Pansanias who hauing compassion vpon the banished peo ple restored the wretched citizens to their country agains ãâã the x. tirants to remoue out of the City vnto Elensis to the reââ¦due of their company Peace being by this meanes established within a few daies after the Tirans disdaining as much the restitution of the banished citizens as their own deposinges banishment as though a nother mannes liberty ââ¦ad ben their bondage made war against the ãâã But as they came forth to commu ãâã as though they wold haue taken vpon them their preheminency souerainty again they wer by a policye taken ãâã a sacrifice for peace The people whiche they had coÌmaunded out of the city wer called in again And so the city which was dispersed into diuers members was at length brought into one body corporation againe And to th entent no dissention might grow vpon things past they wer al sworn to forget and bury vnder fote all old debate grudge In the meane while the Thebanes and the Corinthians sent ambassadors to the Lacedemonians demauÌdyng their portion of the praise and botles taken in the warres wherof they had helped for their part to bear out the charges dangers Hauing denial of their requestes they dyd not immediatly proclaim open war against the Lacedemo nians but they conceiued suche an inwarde displeasure in their harts that it might wel be vnderstand that they mened no lesse to make war wheÌ they saw their time About the same time almost died Darius kyng of Persia leauing behinde him his two sonnes Artaxerxes and Cââ¦rus He bequethed by his last wil vnto Artaxerxes the kingdom and vnto Cyrus the rities wherof he was that time ruler But Cyrus thought his father did him wronge in that bequest and therfore he coÌspired priuely against his brother ãâã hauing knowledge therof set for him and not regarding his counter fait pretence of innocencye nor hys fained excuses as that he was not priuy to the conspiracye bound him in fetters of gold and woulde haue put hym to deathe had not his mother letted him Cyrus