Antipater should go against Perdicas through the coūtrey of Cilicie Cratere against Eumenes For they thought if Eumenes could be vanquished that they might a newe ioyne together with Ptolome and his power whome they looked for they then should be well able to encountre the army royall and discomfite and ouerthrowe them When Eumenes vnderstood his enimies to be at hande he mustered his men and arranged them in order of battaill but chiefly his horsemen in whome lay all his hope of victorie bycause he knew right well his footemen were neuer able to abide the Macedonian Phalange When the armies were in view one of an other Cratere like a stout and valiaunt Champion exhorted his soldiers in hartie and couragious maner gyuing them if the victorie lighted on their sides the butin and spoyle of the enimies Camp thinking thereby the more to enbolden encourage them After which exhortation he also arranged his battaile placing him selfe in the right wing or voward and Neoptolome in the left wing or rereward He had in all xx thousand footemen the greater numbre Macedonians in whome he much trusted bycause they were all men renowmed and experimented in many battails and warres and about two thousande horsemen And Eumenes had of sundry Nations xx thousande footemen and about v. thousand horse with which he thought to gyue the first charge whereupon he deuided his horse into two wings and caused them to troup before the Phalang Cratere likewise with his horse first encountred Eumenes and fighting there valiauntly was in the prease ouerthrowen and smothered But after the horsemē which charged with him in the right wing or voward vnderstood of his death and séeing the enimy going about to enclose them notwithstanding their valyaunt fight retired to their battaill of footemen as vanquished But Neoptolome who led y e rereward of Cratere his army Eumenes which had the voward of his owne so violētly charged one an other that the fight on eyther side was cruel Then the two Captaynes which both by their horses and other signes tokens knew one another encountered body to body and with great courage fel angry moode valiauntly fought which fight was cause of victory for after they had a while buskled and fought together with their swordes they forsooke hold of their bridles and wrestled on horseback meaning by playne force to ouerthowe one another But as they were thus wrestling their horses drewe backe they both fell to the ground which fal was such that neyther of them by reason of the heauinesse of their armour coulde well recouer their selues Howbeit Eumenes first recouered his féete and comming with his sworde in his hande towardes Neoptolome gaue him such a blowe that he cut his hamme strings cleane asunder whereby he could not arise But his harte which supported the imbecillity of his body was such that he recouered his knées and defending him selfe manfully wounded his enimy on the hande and on both his thighes notwithstanding him selfe continually bled and bycause the wounds he gaue Eumenes were neither déepe nor deadly Eumenes at the next encoūtre so violētly strake him on the head that he yelded the ghost During this affray the Souldiers valiauntly fought and albeit on eyther side was great slaughter yet woulde they not gyue ouer vntil Neoptolome his death was knowen and then the horsemē gaue ouer and retired towards their Phalange as to their garde and place of suerty When Eumenes had considered that he had wonne honour ynough in obtayning victory and especially that he had gotten the bodies of two his chiefest enimies he caused to sound the retraict And after he had set vp garnished his Trophe and buried the dead he sent certaine messangers towards the Macedonian Phalange to exhorte them to take his parte offring to as many as were disposed leaue to departe Who taking the appointment league confirmed by their othes prayed they might go to the next villages to prouide them of victuals whereunto be agréed But after they had made their prouision falsifying their othe promisse they in y e night stole their wayes meaning to ioyne with Antipater whereof Eumenes aduertised and thinking of the periured traytours to be reuenged incontinent pursued them But séeing what for their manly noble courages and also for the dolor and anguishe whiche he felt of his wounds that he nothing preuayled he immediatly retired And thus through this great victory but chiefly by the killing of two his principall enimies being both noble personages well estemed he acquired great renowme and fame From thence he marched towardes Perdicas through the Countrey of Cilice hoping in good time to come to his succoure and helpe ¶ After Perdicas hath brought his Souldiers into Egypt they slea him And Phiton and Aride are chosen Gouernours ouer the Kings The .xiij. Chapter WHen Perdicas was entred Egypt something néere the Riuer of Nyle he encamped before the Citie of Peluse and there taking vpon him to scoure and make cleane an old ditch through which ranne an arme of the Riuer Nyle he impaired and lost all whiche before he had done for the riuer ranne then with so fierce and vehement a course that it carried awaye and ouerflowed all wherfore many of his Souldiers rendred to Ptolome for Perdicas in the ende became so detestable in pride beastly cruelty y t he put his Captaynes frō all gouernemēt and would by force viole◠ne ouer rule al. But Ptolome did otherwise for he was curteous liberall to his Captaynes would gladly heare them whensoeuer they spake besides he prouided for the méete and necessarie places of Egipt and furnished them with men armoure weapon and all other things néedefull for the defence of the Countrey Wherfore whatsoeuer aduentures he tooke in hande eyther in battaill or else he cōmonly had the better bycause his Souldiers loued him so dearely that they woulde hasard them selues in any daunger to do him pleasure seruice When Perdicas sée this eminent mischief meaning to get agayne the good willes of his Captaynes clerely lost and to put things in better order that were disordered he by the sound of the Trumpet assembled his Captaynes and Souldiers making a long protestation wherin with curteous and gentle wordes he exhorted them when he had by gifts wonne some and other with large promisses thinking that he had then brought them agayne to a good conformitie to serue him and to attempt any danger he would lead them to for his cause he commaunded them that they should by the first watch be in a readinesse to marche forward not declaring to any whether he wold and continuing their iourney all night with great spéede about the day breake they encāped by Nyle néere a towne and Castle called the Wall of the Camels and besieged it But after a dayes continuaunce there he beganne to set ouer his army And first he put ouer his Elephantes next to
reste honourably with large giftes home into their countreys and so many as minded to serue he was contente to retaine euery one according to his astate To whiche offers and gentle wordes the Macedonians gaue no eare but threatened to kill the messangers if they departed not and that quickely Which thing Eumenes vnderstanding came towards them highly allowing and commending their doinges and gyuing them besides hartie thanks beganne to recite this Fable ensuyng which although right olde yet very méete and serued for hys purpose There was sometyme quod he a fierce Lyon amorous of a certayne faire yong Damosel which prayed of hir Father this mayd in mariage Wherunto the Father aunswered that he was wel pleased to bestow hir on him always prouided that he shoulde pull of his clawes and plucke out his téeth fearyng that if vpon any occasion he waxed angry with his daughter hauyng his téethe and clawes he would incontinently teare hir in pieces To which demaūde the Lyon agréed But whē the father of y e mayden sée that the Lyon had neyther clawes nor téeth for his defence he with a leauer easily slewe hym Euen so quod he noble souldiers and Companions in armes woulde Antigone doe with you promising all your desire vntill he haue you vnder his power but after he will punyshe you at his pleasure When he had thus spoken the souldiers beléeued he sayde truthe and therevpon the assemble brake vp When night came certaine which fled from Antigone his campe arriued declaryng that he was trussyng vp his baggage and that at the seconde watche of the nyght he meant to departe When Eumenes vnderstoode therof he imagened that he would into the countrey of Gabene being but thrée dayes iourney off bycause it stoode whole and furnyshed wyth all kindes of victuals to victuall a campe for a long time and besprinkled wyth ryuers and strong valeys very harde to passe For which cause Eumenes determyned to preuente and occupie the same countrey before hym and therevpon marched forth on the way But to kéepe the enimie in the meane whyle occupied he sent certaine of hys mercenarie Souldiours whome he hadde corrupte to Antigone hys campe who shoulde make semblaunt as though they came to yelde affirming that the enimie was in redinesse to come and assaile them that night in their campe and in the meane tyme commaunded hys souldiers soone after they had supped to take their iourney which they did When Antigone vnderstoode that the enimie would come and assaile him in his campe he stayed his armie and put them in order of battaile and while he was so occupied Eumenes with his armie had trauailed a great way beyonde them before it was perceyued and knowne Neuerthelesse after he was by his scoute aduertised of the truthe and vnderstoode the craftie dealyng he altered not his purpose but cōmaunded his men with all spéede to pursue the enimie as though they fledde But after a whiles trauail seing the enimie six houres before him and he by no meane able to ouertake them bethoughte hym of this policie First he left the conduct of his footemen to Python to bryng them on with reasonable iorneys and he vpon the spurre wyth his horses pursued the enimie and by the daye breake had ouertaken the taile as they were descending into a valey So he taried and rested him vpon the top of a mountayne and there mustred his men makyng in the face of the enimie the greatest shew he could Who thinking it to be y e whole armie of Antigone stayed and put themselues in order of battaile determining out of hande to fighte In thys sorte the generals of either armie by subtile and marciall policies deceyued one an other as if they had striued whiche of them had ben wisest and skilfullest and to shew that the victorie greately consisted in their two persons And by this deuise hathe Antigone stayed the enimie hauing good leysure to attende for his footemen and after they were come they aranged their batailes and then discended the side of the hill in suche order as was terrible to beholde He had in the whole with the souldiers of S◠leuke ◠and Python aboue .xxviij. thousande footemen .viij. thousande horse and .lxv. Elephantes The two Chieftaynes vsed their sundrie pollicies in ordering their battails as who would saye that the one had as great knowledge and experience as the other First Eumenes gaue the leading of the vowarde of his armie to Eudame who brought the Elephantes out of Inde besides a bande of .v. hundred horse aboute him Before thē placed he two bādes of launces fiftie horse in eche one at the tayle of an other at the foote of the mountayne in places moste méete After was placed Stasander wyth his thousande horse After hym Antimacke gouerner of Mesopotamie with .vj. hundred horse besides .vj. hundred Arocothes who before had ben vnder the cōduct of Hybirte and after he fled giuen to Cephele After were .vj. hundred horse of the Paropamsades placed and with them .vj. hundred Thracians And before all the bandes aforesayde he placed .xxv. Elephants aranged in manner of a saint Andrewes crosse and the spaces betwene the Elephants and the horse he supplied with shot The vowarde being in thys sort placed the battaile of footemen marched next in the foreparte whereof were appointed the mercenaries being aboue six thousande behinde them fiue thousand of dyuers nations whiche came thither to serue all armed after the maner of the Macedonians After them were placed the Argiraspides to the numbre of thrée thousande or more kéeping their aray whiche bande bycause it was neuer vanquished nor ouerthrowen greatly feared the ennimie and behinde them all the souldiours which Alexander waged beyng aboute the lyke numbre of the Argiraspides and serued vnder their captaines and before the Phalang or battaile of footemen he arranged fortie Elephantes and the voyde spaces betwixte them he likewise supplied with footemen lightly armed On the lefte wyng or rerewarde on the other side of the phalang were firste placed thrée hundred Carmanians vnder the charge of Clepoleme after them nine hundred called the companions or aduenturers with the bands of Penceste and Antigene to the numbre of thrée hundred horse all vnder one guydon and at the end of them ◠e appointed his owne band of horse of the like numbre And for their gard he placed two wings of his houshold seruants fiftie horse in eche aranged on the side and not a front like the rest And without them in the right poynt he likewise placed in an other wing foure bandes wherein were two hundreth choyse and picked horse Besides them he chose out of the lightest and brauest of all nations he had CCC whome he placed in the front of the battaile where he hymselfe was and before them he aranged the rest of his Elephantes The whole armie of Eumenes was about .xxxv. thousand footemen .vj. hundred horsse and Cxl. Elephantes Antigone
being in the top of the mountaine had séene the order which Eumenes kept he arranged his battails as hée thought for the best For seing the right wyng or voward of the ennimie chiefly fortified with Elephantes and his beste horse he placed righte ouer against them the chiefest light horse he had the more parte shot meanyng that they shoulde not choake the enimie◠but whéele aboute to and fro thinkyng therby to kéepe them occupied in that wing or vowarde wheron they most trusted so that they should do nothing And right ouer against the battaile of footmen of the enimie he placed Arbalisters on horsback and launces about a thousand Medians and Palatians all trayned souldiours according to the necessitie of the time place After them placed he .xij. hundred Tarentines all choyse men and very subtil to lye in ambush in whom he greatly trusted wherof a thousande were Phrygians and Lydians After he placed Pythons horse being a thousande and and .iiij. hundred launces whome Lysanias conducted behynde them placed he the vauntcurrers or forrayers and viij hundred other of the hie countreys With this number and in this order was furnyshed and placed the lefte wing or rerewarde vnder the conducte of Python After them marched the phalang or battail of footemen in which were the mercenaries to the numbre of nine thousande behind them were the Lydians and Pamphilians and after thē were .viij. M. of diuers nations armed after y e maner of y e Macedoninas And behind thē were y e Macedonians about y e like numbre whom Antipater whē he was created gouerner of the kings had giuē to Antigone ◠And in the right wing on the other syde of the phalang trouped the mercenarie horsmen of diuers nations being about fyue hundred after them a thousande Thracians and .v. hundred other souldiers which came thither to serue behind them a thousand called the compaignions or aduenturers whome Demetre the son of Antigone had charge of which was the firste time that euer he came into the fielde wyth his father in battayle And in the vttermoste parte of the righte wyng or voward was Antigone with his bande of of foure hundred horse deuided into thrée cohorts or troupes all of his own house and to them adioyned a hundred Tarentines On the front before the sayd right wing or vowarde were placed .xxx. Elephants whiche embraced the whole ryghte wing or vowarde in forme of a crosse and the spaces betwene them and the men of warre he furnished with light armed footemen And for the rest of the Elephantes he placed the greater parte before the phalang and the rest before the left wing or rereward When Antigone had in this order aranged his battails he caused thē to marche down frō the moūtaine in order and not afront For the right wing or vowarde wherein lay all his hope he caused to marche against the ennimie meanyng they should charge all alongest the flanke of the enimie But the left wing or rerewarde which he had appointed to amuse the right wing or voward of the enimie he caused to march straight and close together Howbeit after they approched and the trumphets sounded to battail the horsmen with Python seing no greter power against them and they more in numbre and farre better mounted than the enimie kept not the order of amusing them according as they were appointed but stoutely shewed their corages And bicause that in the fronte of that wing or voward were the elephantes whiche they thought not good to assayle they wheled about And after they had passed the Elephantes they charged them on the flanke in which they slew and hurt with their shotte and launces a great numbre and the enimy no way could hurt them by reason they were so heauyly armed that they were neuer able to pursue them nor yet saue them selues when they were charged When Eumenes sée that he called oute the lightest horsses in Eudame his bande whiche were in the right wing or vowarde and a certain numbre of footemen lightly armed and charged the sayde Python and by little and little brought on the Elephantes in the same wing or vowarde by that meane incontinente he put the enimie to flight and chased them harde to the foote of the mountaine during which fight the two battailes of footemen fought long together where many men were wounded and killed but in the ende Eumenes phalang wanne the victorie through the vertue and prowes of the Argiraspides Macedonians all olde trained Souldiers who had oftentymes bene in many aduentures and daungers and thereby became so valiaunt and hardie that fewe or none were able to abide their force as clearely by them then appeared For being not passyng .iij. thousande men theyr bande was the bulwarke and strength of the whole armie and therfore placed in the fronte of the battaile as theyr chief strength When Antigone sée his lefte wing or rereward put to flight and his whole phalang turne the back and heard his friends counsell him to make to the mountaine to put in order his men which were fled yet would he not but with the bande of horse about him he so profited him selfe and vsed the oportunitie of the mountayne that he both saued his fled men and also wanne the honor of the fielde For after he sée that the Argiraspides and the rest of Eumenes footemen had subsecuted and chased his Souldiers vnto the foote of the hill and had therby broken their aray and were diuided he straightways charged the flanke of Eumenes right wing or vowarde which Eudame ledde and put them al to flight bicause that where as they thought before the victorie had ben theirs and then being so sodenly charged they became so amazed that many of them were slaine Then Antigone forthwith sent out certain of his light horse to staye the fled footemen and retire them to the foote of the Mountaine which was speedely done and there he put them againe in order of battail When Eumenes vnderstoode that his right wing or vowarde vnder the conduct of Eudame was put to flight he caused to sounde the retraict and sent out aide to retire the rest which had the enimie in chase When both the Chieftaynes by this meane had retired their fledde Souldiours they somewhat before night got them together and againe put them in order of battaile both generals Captaynes and Souldiers on either side were so obstinate fierce And althoughe it drew to night immediatly after yet it was so very faire cléere that they might sée by reason the Moone was at the full one another And besides the armies were so néere the one the other that they might on both sides heare the neighing of horses and clattering of armours that euerie man would haue thought they had ben together by the eares But being passed aboue thirtie furlonges beyond the place where the battaill was fought and that the dead laye about midnight the Souldiers on eyther
straungers armed after the manner of the Macedonians and before them al his Elephants and betwene thē the light armed footemen as him thought best In the right wing or vowarde which Phillip led he placed the other horse and arranged before them the least weakest Elephantes whome he commaunded by no meane to charge but to forbeare fighting and to haue an eye and regard to the leaft wing or rerewarde So there where in Eumenes armie .xxx. thousand footemen .vj. thousand and vij hundred horse and Cxl. Elephantes A little before they ioyned battail Antigene gaue commaundement to one of his horsemen to ryde strayght against the Phalange of the enimie and when he was néere ouer against the place where the Macedonians stood so that they might well heare him crie out with a loude voice vnto them saying these wordes folowing Ah cursed and wicked people how dare you presume to come against your fathers who alwayes haue serued with Philip and Alexander and obtayned in their companies many victories Certes anone ye shal sée them exploit as condigne and worthy factes for the kings whome they haue serued do as their noble and honourable déedes heretofore executed and done For there was not one thesame time among the Argiraspides Macedonians vnder thrée score or thrée score and ten yeares of age or more and by reason of their long continuaunce and exercise abidden in the warres all passing valiaunt and hardy After thys horsseman had done his message they on the other syde aunswered aloude and sayd thay they were very sorie it was their chaunce to fight againste their kinsfolkes coosins and so auncient men of warre But the souldiers with Eumenes desirous of battaile exhorted him to march with speede against the enimie Then Eumenes seing their forwardnesse made signe to the trumpets who forthwith founded to battaile wherat both the armies made a great outecrie The first which encountred were the Elephantes and nexte the horsse whervpon bicause the field was large dry and barren there arose through the mouing and stirring of the horse such a dust that although they were hard together yet could they scarsly discerne one an other dyd Whiche thing when Antigone see he commaunded the Median horse and certain Tarentines to ride out and spoyle the campe baggage of the enemie whiche he thought by reson of the dust might without the sight of the Eumenians be easily done and so winning the campe and baggage woulde with little effusion of bloude be the cause of victorie on their side as it after happened For the fayd Medians and Tarentines passyng the corner of the enimies battaile and riding forth on ranne vpon the baggage which was fiue furlōgs from the battaill before they were perceiued frō thence to the campe wherin were few souldiers but many straglers who for a while resisted but soone after they put them to flight and by that meane wanne they the campe and carriages and without any greate resistance tooke all the straglers In the meane while began Antigone to ioyne battaile and so charged the lefte wyng or rerewarde which came agaynst hym through the greate numbre of his horsse gaue so violent a charge that he daunted their courages through which Penceste Satrapa of Perse being in that wyng retired out of the duste with his owne horses and after hym folowed a thousande more and by that meane was Eumenes left disfurnished and weakly accompanied in the vttermoste parte of that wing or rereward Notwithstandyng he thought it a greate shame and dishonoure to flie and therfore determined he rather to tarrie and valiantly defend the quarell of the Kings than to recule Whervpon he with might and maine charged Antigone so y t the fight betwixt the horsemen was sharpe and cruel and many slaine It chaunced the same very tyme as the Elephants were fighting that the formost on Eumenes side was by the chief and principal of Antigone discomfited and ouerthrowne When Eumenes see hys men disordered and in al places haue the worst he retired the rest of his horse yet vnbroken from the battayle and trouped to the wing or voward which Philip had the leading of whome he had commaunded to stay and delay from fight and tooke his souldiers In y e meane time the Argiraspides so lustily couragiously charged the maine battail of the enimie that with very hand strokes they slew many put a numbre more to flight And their force was so intollerable that they repulsed and discomfited the whole phalāge being the farre greater numbre wherof .v. thousand wer slaine and the rest fled When Eumenes vnderstode that the ennimie had woon his campe and that Penceste was at hand yet whole in troupe he forced to ioyne with him and to charge Antigone againe with hys horse For he thought if he could get the victorie he should not onely recouer his owne cariages and his mennes but also the enimies Howbeit Pencest and his horsemen wold not therto agrée but rode further of from the battaile and when night came they retired one from an other into diuers places Antigone likewise deuided his horse into two handes◠the one of which himself kept attending the doings of Eumenes and his souldiers and the charge of the other he gaue to Python commaundyng hym wyth all spéede to charge the Argiraspides who were dissefurnished of their horse which commaundement with great diligence he executed but the Argiraspides seyng their vnabilitie to resist retired together in a square battaile harde to the riuer side withoute hurte greatly blaming Penceste and hys companie as the onely causers of the ouerthrowe of the horssemen And being in such order retired Eumenes with hys horsse came and ioyned with them But at their accustomed houres to make fiers they went to consulte and aduisedly debate of their greate businesse and waighty enterprises The Satrapes were of the opinion that they all should forthwith retire into the high coūtrey which they gouerned And Eumenes contrary affirming that it were best for them to charge afresh saying that the Phalange of the enimie was discomfited and that yet they were as many horsse Notwithstanding the Macedonians Argiraspides sayde they woulde neyther followe the one opinion nor the other bicause al their goodes baggages together with their wiues children and familie were vnder subiection of the enimie so that the counsayle and assemblie without any conclusion brake vp They sent also secret messangers towards Antigone practizing with him to yeld Eumenes at his pleasure condicionally that he shold restore their wiues children and goodes The Satrapes likewise the more part of the other Captains concluded a league amitie and abandoned their chieftaine Through which meane Eumenes was betrayed rendred to Antigone Who seeing that by greater happe and much better good lucke than he loked for he hadde gotten vnder his subiection the Argiraspides and the rest of the souldiers which held against him tooke Antigene coronell of the Argiraspides and buried him quicke
he receyued of the cities he wanne whereof the greater were of vij tier and the rest of .v. tier And first in the left wing or rereward he placed .vij. Phenician Gallies of .vij. tier and of the Athenians .xxx. of foure tier appointing Mede the leading of that battaill behinde them he placed ten of sixe tier and ten of fiue tier meaning to fortifie and strengthen that well wherein him selfe paraduenture would fight In the middle wing or maine battaill he placed the lesser Gallies the charge of which he committed to Themise the Samian and Martian the Historian who writte the déedes and gestes of the Macedonians The right wing or vowarde lead Egesippe the Alicarnasian and Plescias of Coho Admirall of the whole Nauie Now had Ptolome in the night loosed and with all possible speede sailed towardes Salamine thinking to preuent the enimie if he could gette into the Porte of Salamine But when it waxed néere daye he might discry not farre of the Nauie of the enimie in order of battaill Wherefore he got togyther hys Gallies and arranged them as followeth First he commaunded that the barques should come a good way behinde and arranged the rest in good and compotent order placing him self in the left wing or rereward wherin was the greatest power and strength When he had ordered and placed hys battaill the Souldiours on eyther side made the prayers and supplications to the Goddes in loude maner according to their custome And y e Chieftayns considering that y e hazard of their liues whole estate stood thereon were very carefull and sore troubled in mynde aboute the same But so soone as they were approched within thrée furlongs one of an other Demetre first gaue the signe and token of battaill to his Souldiours halsing a terge of golde in the poupe of hys Gallie in the view of the whole Nauie and shortlie after Ptolome did the like Then sounded y e trumpets to battaill and forthwith beganne a fierce and violent fight with shot and dartes being a pretie distaunce asundre wherein on eche side were many sore hurte but after they drew neerer there was flinging of great mightie stones and the Marryners for their liues rowed as harde and forcibly as they could so that at the bording was a terrible affray for they violently rushing one by another brake and carried away one anothers ores to the ende there should be no flight nor yet any great forcible assayling Some encountred one an other afore and there fought hande to hand some borded on the broad side y e easâ— ier to get into the enimie bycause it is difficile and hard to laye abord about the beake or forebough of a Gallie other some thinking to enter fell into the Sea and were slaine w t the shorte pikes of the enimie some entred and slewe many enâ—â— ies and made the rest leape into the Sea so that in the ende happened diuerse aduentures and victories vnlooked for For often tymes the lesser Gallies borded and tooke the greater bycause they were so heauie that they could not so readily remoue and turne to and fro And although in fight on lande the vertue and prowes of the Grekes winneth them victorie whiche by no fortune or chaunce can any way be let or stopped yet in conflictes at Sea diuerse and sundrie wayes it chaunceth that the greater power and most lykely contrary to mannes reason is soonest vanquished and ouerthrowen But in this battaill Demetre amongs the rest most valiauntlie bare him selfe for he getting vp to the poupe of a Gailie of .vij. tier of ores which he had woÌ„ne so stoutely fought against the Souldiours within that what with dartes and Iauelings he slewe of theÌ„ a great number and some with playne hand stroks And althoughe great store of shot came against him yet put he by and eschewed some receyued the rest on his armoure And for the thrée men whiche continually were aboute him the one was with the pushe of a pyke slayne the other two with shot sore hurt But to be short he so cheualrouslie exployted his matters that he put to flight y e right wing or voward of y e enemie as many as were next them And Ptolome with his greatest and most warlike Gallies put to flight the leaft wing or rerewarde of the enimie sinking some and pryzing the rest with so many as were within them And returning as victor to the ayde of his right wing or vowarde whiche was discomfited and put to flight he séeing the Demetrians pursuing and chasing them and after making towardes him was so afraid that he fled into the Citie of Citin When Demetre had at Sea atchieued and gotteÌ„ this victory he deuided hys Nauie and gaue the charge to Neon and Burick two of his Captaynes commaunding them to pursue and chase the enimie and take in as many of his souldiours as they founde swimming and him selfe with the rest of his Nauie and his prizes carried ensignes and tokens of victorie into his campe lying about the Porte of Salamine In the meane while that these two Prouinces were in fight Menelaye deputie of the Citie of Salamine had enbarqued a numbre of men of warre in the .lx. Gallies ryding in the hauen of Salamine to send in Ptolome his ayde appointing for Admirall Menete who with such violence rowed out vpon the .x. Gallies which garded the entry of the hauen that he put them all to flight and made them haste towardes the shoare where Demetre his horssemen were But the Menetians preuented of the enemie came a daye after the faire and were fayne to returne to their citie In this fight were aboue a hundred Barques taken with .viij. thousand Souldiours .xl. Gallies and the Souldiours within them and foure score sore frushed and shaken which Demetre his Souldiours brought awaye laden to the siege lying before the entry of the Porte of Salamine There were not of Demetre his Gallies aboue .xx. lost After this victorie Ptolome despayring in the defence kéeping of the Isle of Cypres returned into Egipt and incontinent after his departure Demetre got in subiection all the Townes and Cities of the countrey togyther al the garrisons within them to the number of .xvj. thousand footemen and .vj. hundred horsse whiche he deuided amongs his armie When he had finished and accomplished all these things he embarqued certen of hys most warlikest Gallies he had and sent them to hys Father signifying to him of his notable and triumphaÌ„t victorie who was so glorious and proude thereof that he tooke vppon him the name of a King and Diademe Royal and after bare hym as a King willing Demetre his Sonne to do the same Ptolome likewise notwithstanding hys great ouerthrow and losse in Cypres to shewe he had lost neyther hart or courage tooke vppon him the name of a King and in all his letters and proclamations to all meÌ„ so entituled and named him self By whose example the other
they had sent him for the maintenaunce of his warres a great numbre of able horse mē wel appointed Howbeit after the Atheniās were come amongs them and that they had with pleasaunt and delicate woordes so wonne their fauour to fight for the cōmon libertie of Grece they wholy yelded to Leosthenes through which practize the Grecians army then was of greater force than the Macedonian By reason whereof happened that when Antipater came to ioyning of battail he was incontinent ouerthrowen and vanquished And after that he neuer durst come in the face of the enimie neyther yet was he able safelie to returne into Macedone wherfore he was forced to retier into the Citie of Lauige with the rest of his army whiche Citie he there fortified and furnished it with men armour weapon and shot to auoide the siege euery day looking attending for ayde out of Asie Wherevpon Leosthenes forthwith remoued his Campe and with his whole power besteged the Towne And after he had encamped and entrenched him selfe about he approched the wals offring battaill But when he sée the Macedonian◠after many daies offers durst not sallie out he assaulted the Towne Notwithstanding the Townes men so valauntlie defended it that they repulsed the ennimy and slewe a great numbre of the rash assailants by reason the towne was well manned throughly prouided wtih all kindes of hablements of warre and the curten of suche heigth and thicknes that the besieḡed with great ease became victors When Leosthenes sée that he could not by force winne the Towne straightwaies cut of their victuals trusting by famine to winne it wherefore he stoppeth all the passages with large and déepe ditches and trenches In this meane while had Leosthenes for a time gyuen leaue to the Etholians to go into their countrie about suche necessary affaires as they had to do and thereupon they all returned into Ethole And as Antipater was thus distressed and in great danger loking for none other but that he must néeds for wan of victuals yelde him selfe and al his power to the enimy sodenly happened them great good lucke For as the assaillaunts were vndermyning the wals Antipater with fierce courage falied out vpon them and Leosthenes comming to the rescue of his souldiers had by hap such a blow on the head with a stone which was throwen frō the curten in time of the skyrmish y t it felled him to the ground and being by his Souldiers taken vp more than halfe dead and caried to his Tente within thrée daies after died therof who for his noble and cheualrous acts in feates of war was honorably buried where at the commaundement of the people of Athens Hiperides then the most excellent Orator in all the Towne made an Oration in his prayse at the funerall For Demosthenes the Orator was in exile by reason of the money which he had gotten of Harpale After the death of Leosthenes the people chose Antiphile for their Captaine in his rowme a right and valiaunt mā and in Martiall Pollicies verie expert ¶ Certen of the Princes vpon whom Perdicas bestowed the gouernement of the Prouinces go about to seigniorize them The fifth Chapter WHile these broiles were in Grece the Princes and Gouernours of Asie among whom the Prouinces were deuided emōgs Ptolome who was one eftsones without resistaunce or contradictiō seised on Egypt ◠behauing him selfe to the whole coūtrey wisely liberally gently And during the time of his gouernement there had gathered together about viij thousand talents by meane whereof he had leuied a great numbre of Mercenaries There also repaired to him many af his kinsfolkes and friends aswell for the bountie of his nature as also for his liberalitie and frāknesse Againe he sent Ambassadours to Antipater to participats w t him al his affaires businesse knowing for certaine y t if Perdicas could he would expulse him the prouince of Egipt But now to returne to Lisimache so soone as he was arriued in y e prouince of Thrace he found King Southe with xx thousand footemē◠and two thousand horse there encamped yet feared he not to ioyne battail with him But bycause on the one side was the greater numbre and on the other side prowesse and vertue the fight endured long and cruell wherin many Grecians were slaine but a farre greater numbre of Barbarians so that eyther of them retiered into his camp not knowing who had the better and there continued a season both minded to assemble greater power ¶ Leonate comming to the rescous of Antipater is by the Athenians ouerthrowne and slayne but after the said Athenians are at Sea by Cly◠e chased and ouerhrowen The sixth Chapter DUring the time that Antipater was besieged in Lamie he had secretlie sent his Ambassadour Ecathe towardes Leonate desiring his ayde who promised to come And thereupon he immediatly put all things in a readinesse passed Europe vntil he came into Macedone where repaired to him many Souldiers Macedonians so that he had assembled twentie thousand footemen and fiue thousand horse with whiche armie he intented to warre vpon the Grekes through the Countrey of Thessaly Who vnderstanding of his comming raised their siege and sent all their baggage and artillarie together the Paysaunts Sclaues which followed the army into the citie of Melite ◠bycause they might more spéedelie marche on with the soldiers aswel◠footemen as horsemen against Leonate meaning to gyue him battaill before he ioyned with Antipater Now had the Grekes not passing xxij thousand footemē for that the Etholians and certen other regiments were licensed to goe into their Countreis and mansion places thrée thousand horse of which two thousand were Thessalians valiaunt and trained Souldiers in whose magnanimite cōsisted y e whole hope of victory At last they ioyned battaill with Leonate which cōtinue long and doubtful but in the ende the Thessalians through their hie and manlie courages obtained victorie and Leonate manfully and stoutelie fighting in the retire fell into a ditche and there miserablie was slaine Neuerthelesse his Souldiers recouered the body and carried it to his Tent. When the Macedonian Phalange sée that Memnon Generall of the Thessalian men at armes had wonne the victorie and fearing they woulde charge them sodenlie retired from the plaine where the battaill was fought vnto the straightest passages they coulde finde néere hand for their garde and strength through whiche pollicy the Thessalian men at armes charging them profited nothing The next day in the morning Antipater comming with the rest of his power to ayde them ioyned all the Macedonians in one campe vnder the gouernement and conduct of Antipater who fearing the Grecian horsemen neuer durst 〈◊〉 battaill and againe doubting his inabilite to passe through them was enforced by the straight wayes passages in those quarters faire and easelie to retire But Antiphile generall of the Grecian armie hauing honorablie ouerthrowen the Macedonians in battaill remayned still in Thessalie alwayes attending and looking what the
ennimie mente or durst to do Thus had the Grecians in all their affaires by lande prosperos successe But after the Athenians vnderstood that the Macedonians were of great power by sea they caused many new ships of warre to be buylt so that they had in all C◠xx saile But Clite Admirall of the Macedonian Nauie hauing alwais about CCxl saile twise chased and vanquished Ethion Admirall to the Athenians slew manie of his people about the Isles Ethimades Perdicas ouercommeth Ariarathe and restoreth to Eumenes the Countrey of Cappadoce The seauenth Chapter IN this meane time Perdicas hauing with him King Phillip and his armie royall purposed to warre vppon Ariarathe of Cappadoce Who neuer during the life of Alexander would at anie time be subiect to the Macedonians And the cause why Alexander suffred him peaceably to enioy the same was that he had suche notable warres with King Darie that he neuer forced of Ariarathe so that he peaceably held and enioyed that countrey of Cappadoce many yeares By reason whereof he became so rich and of such great wealth that he had waged a great numbre aswel Cappadocians as straungers with whome he thought to defend him selfe and his Realme against Perdicas if at any tyme he attempted to pierce and inuade his countrey He had about xxx thousand footemen x. thousand horse Notwithstanding when they came to battaill he and all his armie was quite discomfited and ouerthrowen wherof about iiij thousand slaine and aboue v. thousand prisoners taken of which numbre him selfe was one who with all his kinsfolks and allies were hanged This done Perdicas proclaimed peace to the whole Countrey restored to the Gouernement thereof Eumenes Cardian who was before assigned vnto it at the first particion of the Prouinces ¶ Antipater in fight vanquisheth the Grecian armie◠putteth in subiection the greater numbre of the Cities of Grece and Athenes and in the end restoreth them to libertie The eight Chapter IN this meane season was Cratere come out of Cilice into Macedone accompained with vj. thousand footemen of y e most expert souldiours that serued Alexandre when he first inuaded Asie And vpon the way he tooke vp iiij thousand Persian Archers a thousand Slings or Shot and a thousand horse to aide Antipater and to reuenge the oultrage committed by the Grekes against the Macedonians But so sone as he was come into Thessalie he voluntarily gaue the principall charge and conduct to Antipater praying him to take vpon him the office of L. Generall of the army So they encamped together about the Riuer Pene and one day mustering the army accompting those which came with Leonate they had xl thousand footemen well armed iij. thousand archers and slings and about v. thousand horse Notwithstanding the Grekes feared nothing but encamped right ouer against them albeit they were the weaker and febler companie by reason that a great numbre of them for their many victories before obtained were so hault and proude that without weting or knowledge of their Captaines they were gone home so that the Captaynes being not obeyed nor the Souldiers at commaūdement there remayned not behind aboue xxv thousand footemen and iij. thousand v. hundred horse in which nmubre of horse laye consisted the only hope of victorie both for their valiaunt courages also bycause the countrey was playne and champion Antipater daylie offred battaill but the Grekes remained quiet kept their camp loking still for aide from the cities of Grece But they were by the enimy so long oppressed and gréeued that of force they must in the end abide and put all to the hazard of battaill And bycause they desired that the horsemen shold first charge they placed them as it were for their voward before the Phalange of footemē And when Antipater sée that the Thessalians at the first encountre and charge had gottē the better he commaunded his Phalāge to marche against the maine battaill of the Grekes whome they so fiercely greeued and pressed that in lesse than an houre they had almost slaine the whole Grecian Phalange And at last the Grecians seing them selues no longer able to abyde the brunt nor maintayne the fight retired in good order to battaill to the straight passages towardes a moūtayne where by reason of the aduaūtage of the place they with greater ease defended them selues from the power and force of the Macedonians And albeit the Grecian horse were to harde and bettered the Macedonians yet they seing their footemen so retired yelded them selues to the enimie so by that meane the Macedonians wanne the honour of the battaill in which were slaine about v. hundred Grekes and Cxxx. Macedonians The next day in the mornyng Memnon and Antiphile chiefe leaders of the Grecian armie assembled their Captaynes and called a counsayll wherein was proposed two questions First whether it were good to abide and tarrie for the ayde and help of the cities of Grece aud continue the warre vntill they were of as great powre as the enimie or whether it were better considering the time to sende vnto them to treat a peace so they agreed vpon the last Whervpon they sent Ambassadoures to Antipater who aunswered he woulde not at one instant condescende and agrée to conclude a peace with al the whole cities of Grece but if they woulde euery of them perticulerly sende their Ambassadoures to him that then he was content to heare them and otherwise not whervnto the Greekes in no wise would agrée Whyle the warres still continued Antipater and Cratere besieged the citie of Thessalie to the ende wherof the Greekes were not able to come wherefore the Citizens beyng sore distressed and in great daunger rendred the towne to Antipater whom he receyued into fauoure and shewed him selfe so gently and curteous towardes them y e shortly after al the rest of the cities of Grece euery of them particulerly yelded to Antipater with whom he accorded peace And farther they clerely forsooke both the Athenians and Etholians vtter ennemies to the Macedonians who séeing them selues so reiected tooke counsayll of their captaynes for the mayntenaunce of the warres When Antipater had by such Stratageme separated and dispersed the Greekes he then with all his powre made preparation against the Athenians who séeing them selues vnprouided of aide succoure of their friendes and allies were greatly astonied wherfore they al agréed y e Demades the famous Orator shold be sent to Antipater to treate a peace which he refused to do And although they had called him to counsaile he woulde not come thyther bycause he had ben before thrice condemned of the priuie Counsell or Senate as an insringer of the Lawes forbidden to aske for him selfe the ayde or benefite of the Lawes and to declare his opinion in the Counsaill Neuerthelesse for the cause aforesaid the communaltie incontinent forgaue him and sent him to Antipater accompanied with Phocion and certen other Citizens whome Antipater after their Ambassade
and vnderstoode his determination and practise and beyng he emongs the rest of the Princes who was both wise and martiall to enterprise any hie and notable matters he thought therefore to dispatch him cleane out of the waye Whereupon he began to reproue him of manie false and slaunderous imputacions whereby might easely be perceiued that he went about to bring him to his finall end and destruction But Antigone like a wise stout Champion dissimuled the matter openly pronouncing that he would aunswere and defend all such false and surmised accusations wherewith he should be charged But contrariwise making secret preparation to flye with Demetrie his Sonne his friends and houshold folkes enbarqued in certein shippes of Athens and with prosperous winds sailed into Europe to ioyne with Antipater The same time laye Antipater and Cratere in Camp against the Etholians with xxx thousand footemen and two thousande v. hundred horse For of all the regiments of Souldiers which conspired against the Macedonians in the Lemian warres remayned no more vnsubdued but the sayd Etholians who although they sée so huge a power inuade their countrey would not be daunted but assembled about ten thousand lustie yong men and taking with them their wiues children and all their goodes and cattels vp into the mountaines and strong places abandoned forsooke their townes and villages indefensable and thrust into the rest garrisons who right stoutly defended them against the power of the enimy But after Antipater Cratere were entr◠d the Countrey and found their Cities vnpeopled they turned all their force against those which were runne vp into the mountaynes where the Macedonians thinking at their first arriuall to winne by force and vertue those strong aud inuincible places being well and manfully defended were greatly discomfited and many slaine For the Etholians being ouer them in the straight passages places of aduauntage repulsed hurt so many as came against them Whiche thing Antipater and Cratere séeing besieged the mountaines pitched their camp set vp Tents and Hales of wood and there encamped all Winter By meane whereof the Etholians enclosed in the mountaines full of snowe were through colde and want of victuals brought into so great necessity and extremity that eyther they must descend the mountaines and come to battaill against the enimy which were many and especially against two valyaunt Chieftaynes of warre or else to dye of colde and hunger And being thus distressed and thereby almost desperate sodenly happened them for their deliueraunce straūge ayde and succours as if the Goddes had sent it frō heauen taking pitie of them and respecting their magnanimitie and noble courages For Antigone comming oute of Asie as aforesaid arryued at that present before Antipater and Cratere declaring the enterprise of Perdicas farther asserteyning them that incontinent after the mariage of Cleopatre which should be shortly he would w t his whole army come downe into Macedone as King and there enioy the Empire and dominion of the whole coūtrey With which newes they being both astonied assembled their Captaynes to consulte and deuise what were best to doe and by their aduise they concluded to take the honestest peace with the Etholians they might and then spéedely to passe with all their army into Asie and that Cratere should gouerne and enioy the Empire of Asie and Antipater Europe After to send towardes Ptolome into Egipt desiring his helpe and ayde knowing him to be their chief friende and vtter enimy to Perdicas who with asmuch expedition would practise the discomfiture of him by espiall or other martiall pollicies as they thē selues by any possible meane could or might wherfore incontinent they coucluded a peace with the Etholians thinking nothing lesse but at last to discomfite and transferre them with their wiues and children into some desert in Asie farre ynough of After they had put in writing and sealed the treatie and conclusion they made preparation about their enterprise Agayne Perdicas assembling his friends and Captaynes consulted whether it were best first to goe into Macedone with his army or into Egipt but they all agréed that he should first warre vpon Ptolome and discomfite him alleaging that there was then no let or staye to go into Macedone whereupon he following their counsaill and aduise first sent Eumenes with a great bande into Hellespont to garde the passages there who departed out of Piside and went straight into Egipt Al these matters were exployted the yeare that Philocles was Prouost of Athenes and Caie Sulpete and Gne Eley were created Consulles at Rome ¶ Of the transporting Alexandre his body out of Babylon into Alexandrie The forme and fashion of the Chariot with the Pompe and solemnity thereof The .xj. Chapter IN this meane while Aride to whome the charge for transporting Alexandre his body was committed so soone as he had finished the Chariot whereon it should be carried and made ready all the rest of the furniture there to belonging he immediatly tooke his iourney But bycause the excellencie of the workmanship was sumptuous and singuler agéeing with the state of so honourable a personage as Alexander both for the infinite charge dispence of many Talents as also for the singularitie and excellency thereof me thinke it not much from the purpose to staie a while in describing and setting forth the maner and order of the same First a Coffin was forged and beaten out of fine golde portured and made according to the stature and bignes of the body verie full of swéete spices and many other droogs aromatike aswell for swéetenesse as also for preseruing the body from corruption The couer wherewith it was couered well proporcioned and made fitted to the same was a fingers thicknesse of golde curiously and artificially wrought Ouer that was cast a purple cloth curiously enbroidered and wrought with golde with most excellent deuises standing vpright like a brouche whereon was hanged the armoure of the dead to the ende that all the whole worke standing together shoulde represent the figure of his noble actes and inuincible courage After that was brought out the Chariot whereon the Coffin shoulde be carried couered with a tabernacle of gold rered and set vp in maner of a vault garnished and set within with many precious stones Iewels eight cubits broad twelue cubits long vnder the same rouffe besides the workmanshippe thereof was a place of a state or Throne Imperiall foure square by which stood a certein kind of beastes y e one halfe of them like hartes and the other parte like goates thrusting out their forepartes excellently engrauen and wrought in golde with great collers of golde about their necks whereat hong the scutchins of the armes of Alexander such as customably are borne at hie solemne feasts pictured and couloured with most rich and orient colours In the toppes of euery the corners of the place of a state was a valence finely wrought like a net whereat hong great belles the noyse
Attale and Alcete with their Abettors and friends enimies and rebelles Of Attale his retire into the Citie of Tyre ◠and consequently how he afresh assembleth all Perdicas escaped friends The .xiiij. Chapter INcontinent after the death of Perdicas newes were brought that Eumenes had ouerthrowen and slayne Cratere and Neoptolome in Cappodoce which newes if they had come and ben knowē before Perdicas death there was not one amongs them vnderstanding the prosperous successe of victory done in his fauoure and behalfe that once durst haue laid hands on him But after he was dead the Macedonians for the déedes aforesaid adiudged Eumenes an enimy and condempned man and L. great personages with him amongs whome was Alcete Perdicas his brother They slewe also all Perdicas chiefe and principall friendes and his owne sister Athalante Attale his wife then Admirall and abyding at Peluse But after he vnderstood of Perdicas death and his wife he immediatly loused thence and with all the furniture of his Nauie sayled vnto the Citie of Tyre whome Archelay the Macedonian Captayne of the Castle there gently receyued and entreated and rendred to him the towne and all the treasure which Perdicas had deliuered him to kéepe amounting to the summe of viij C. Talents Then Attale abyding still at Tyre assembled brought together all Perdicas friends which diuerse wayes had escaped from the discomfiture ouerthrow gyuen before the Citie of Memphis ¶ The Etholians to put Antipater from his enterprise entre Thessalie who are constrayned by the Acarnanians to returne into their countrey and in what sorte Polispercō conquereth the coūtrey of Thessalie The .xv. Chapter WHat time Antipater was come into Asie the Etholians who had leagued with Perdicas warred on Thessaly to the ende to put Antipater from his enterprise and thereupon they mustered and gotte together .xij. thousand footemen and .iiij. thousand horse and appoynted Alexander the Etholian their Generall But as they marched on the waye they besieged the Locrians and spoyled and fouraged their territories and tooke certen of their smallest townes They discomfited also in battaill Policles one of Antipaters Captaynes and slew a numbre of their soldiers of those prisoners which they tooke they ransomed some sold the rest But after they were entred Thessaly they persuaded many of the people of the coūtrey to ioyne with thē against Antipater in y e warre so that in short time they had leuied about .xxv. thousand footmen and viij thousand horse When the Acarnanians enimies to the Etholians apperceyued that the other Cities ioyned and tooke parte with them they entred their Countrey wasted and spoiled their fields besieged certain of their townes whereof the Etholians aduertised appointed and ordeyned Memnon of Pharsale their Captayne and generall in Thessaly they them selues spéedily returned home at whose comming the Acarnanians trembled feared by that meane their coūtrey was deliuered from daunger spoyle While these matters were in deciding Polyspercon Gouernour of the realme of Macedone entred Thessaly with an army royal wel appointed ouerthrew his enimies in battaill and slewe Memnon their chieftayne with many other and thereby recouered the whole Countrey of Thessaly ¶ Antipater being constituted Gouernour of the Kings a new deuideth the Satrapies The .xvj. Chapter THen departed Python and Aride protectours of the Kings with their army from the Riuer of Nile and went to Triparadice in the hier Siry And after they were thether come and apperceyued that Quéene Euridice had taken vpon hir greater care and charge about the affaires of the realme than was méete or requisite that she should and that she was clerely against all things that the Gouernours meant to do and that they had no obedience of the army they assembled all the Macedonians And after they had declared vnto them their minds and purposes they discharged them selues of their gouernement and aucthority Then the Macedonians fully and wholy those Antipater gouernour of the kings Howbeit Antipater was no sooner come to Triparadice but y t he found Quéene Euridice practizing and suborning the mē of warre against him Neuerthelesse although they were as then very mutinous yet assembled he them and with fair and gracious woords so wanne their good willes that be appaysed that mutinie put Euridice in such feare that she desisted from all mutinies and practizes and became most quiet This done he a new deuided the Satrapies and gouernements of the Prouinces And first he leaft to Ptolome the regiō of Egipt which he already possessed the reason was bycause he knew not well how to put him besides it forsomuche as Ptolome thought that that which he had he had gottē and held it by his owne strength To Laomedon of Mythilene he gaue the countrey of Syrie To Philoxene Cilice And for the other Sapatries in the hie countreys he bestowed on Amphimacke Mesopotamie and Arbelite To Seleucke he gaue Babylon To Antigone Fusiane bycause he was the first that assailed Perdicas To Pencete Perside To Neoptolome Carnanie To Phillip Parthe To Scasandre Cyprian Arie Draucine To Stasanor Soliene Bactriane Sogdiane To Oxiarte the father of Roxāne wife to Alexander he gaue the Paropanisades And that parte of Inde which ioyned on the Paropanisades he gaue to Python the sonne of Agenor And the realmes thereto adioyning he gaue to the Kings which before enioyed them to say those next the riuer Inde to Pore and those about the riuer Hidaspe to Taxille bycause he was not able to expulse them without sending an army royall and the most of his chiefe and noble Captaynes But touching the Prouinces towardes the North To Nicanor he gaue Capadoce To Antigone Licie which he before occupied To Cassander Carie To Clyte Helie To Aride the part of Phryge ioyning vpon Hellespont He farther constituted Antigone Marshall or chief ruler of the army commaunding him to warre vpon Eumenes and Alcete Neuerthelesse he ioyned with him as a compaignion in the said charge Cassander his owne sonne Captayne of a cohort of a thousand men to the end Antigone should enterprise nothing to his own particularity but that Antipater would be aduertised therof These things finished he departed with the army royal to conduct the Kings into Macedone their chiefe seat and habitation ¶ Antigone vanquisheth Eumenes and besiegeth the Citie of Nore The .xvij. Chapter WHen Antigone as aforesaid was nominated and appointed generall to go into Asie against Eumenes and had gotten together his men of warre which lay in garrison to winter and made ready al things necessarie for warre he tooke his iourney against Eumenes abiding in Cappadoce It fortuned that season that Perdicas one of Eumenes Captaynes rebelled led away .iij. thousand footemen and .v. hundred horse with whom he had encamped and enpalled in a strong place thrée dayes iourneis from him Wherfore Eumenes sent against him an other of his Captaynes named Tenede a Phenician to whome he deliuered foure thousande
Souldioures with verie great plentie of shotte or slings who stoutly fought with them which manned the walles toures bulwarkes He vndermined likewise thrée of their toures and one parte of the curte◠and after gaue fire to the mynes and ouerthrew them When the Macedonians see the ouerthrowe of them they made a great outcrie wherat the townesmen were maruellously dismayed to see their curten layde on grounde Neuerthelesse when they see the Macedonian◠force to enter the breache of the toures and walles they deuided themselues into two bands wherof one band stode to the defence and through the aduaunting and difficultie of the passages where the enimie wold haue entred they valiātly repulsed them The other band made new rampiers and bulwarks more within the towne so that bisides the wall or curten which was ouerthrown they did make an other curten and trenche a good distaunce from the first workyng day and night vntill they had ended and finished it furnishing the same wyth shotte and engines of artillerie wherwith they sore hurt and galled the enimie vpon the toures of woode so that on eche side were many hurte and slayne vntill nyght approched and then Polyspercon cau◠ed to sounde the retraite and retired into his campe The next day in the morning he gaue a freshe assault and wanne the breache◠commaundyng hys Pyoners to cast abroade the rubbishe and greate stones whyche lay on heapes into the dytches and trenches for smoothing and playnyng the grounde that hys Elephauntes myght come neere bycause then they woulde greately helpe to winne and take the towne But the Megalopolitains through the wisedome and conducte of Damides who had long serued with Alexander in Asie knewe the nature of Elephantes founde an excellent remedie against them and through his policie and trauail made those monstrous and terrible beasts vnprofitable and able to do nothing in maner as foloweth First he caused many doores and gates to be made thrust them full of great pinnes and layde them within the little shallowe ditches wyth the poyntes of the pynnes vpwarde and couered them with mouldes of earth and suche lyght stuffe that they mighte not bée seene and when the enimie came to assaile to place on euery syde a strong companie of shot of all sortes and none before so y e Polyspercon séeing none to resist at the front of the entrie brought on hys Elephantes through the breache into the towne But as soone as they came to the place where the ditches were they by reason of their heauinesse so hurt their féete that they could neither go forwarde nor backwarde chiefly bicause of the violence of the shotte whiche came so thicke agaynste them on the side that the greater parte of the Ind◠ans their leaders were sore hurt or slaine not able to gouerne them and the beastes f◠lyng them selues hurte returned in great disorder against theyr owne people and maruellously hurt them and in the end the mightiest and fiercest fell downe deade and the rest able to doe no good ouerthrewe theyr owne companie When the Megalopolitanes sée that they hadde thus repulsed the enimie they were delyuered from al feare and waxed very proude After Clyte hath ouerthrowne at sea Cassander he is through the wisedome of Antigone soone after discomfited and finally slaine in his flight The .xxx. Chapter AFter this repulse Polyspercon repented hym that he had besieged the Citie before it was néedefull And bicause he would lose no time he left one part of his armie at the siege and with the rest he intended some greater and more necessarie exploites Wherfore he sente Clyte Admirall wyth hys whole Armie into Hellespont to stoppe his enimies for passing oute of Asie into Europe commaunding him to call vppon Aride to accompanie him abyding with hys armie in the Citie of Cyane for feare of Antigone his enimie When Clyte had sayled and was come to the passage of Hellespont and had taken in Aride and hys menne of warre and wonne to be his confederates the Cities of Proponetie Nicanor capitaine of Munychie was sent by Cassander with all the shippes there with a certaine companie of other Souldiers whych Antigone had also sente to the numbre of one hundreth and encountred Clyte about Bizance So he gaue him battaile but Clyte wonne the victorie in which he soonke .xvij. sayle of Nicanors and prized fortie and the men within them The rest packt on sayles and fledde into the porte of Calcedone After whyche ouerthrowe Clyte thought that hys ennimies durst no more encounter him at sea by reason of theyr greate losse Notwithstandyng Antigone aduertized of the sayde conflict shortly after thorough his wisedome and diligence amended and requited the same For be founde a meane to gette from the Bizances a certaine numbre of small ships which he furnyshed and charged with stoare of shotte and nimble and quicke footemen and sent them into Enrope who being landed before the daunyng of the day gaue the alarme to Clyte and hys Souldiers encamped on the lande whome they so disordered that they retired to theyr shyppes out of aray leauyng the greater parte of theyr baggage behynde them and many that did tarrie for the sauyng thereof were slaine or taken prisoners In the meane while Antigone furnished hys greatest shyppes wyth his best and most trained Souldiers and also a greate numbre of Maryners declaryng vnto them that if they would lustyly assayle and boorde the ennimie he would warrante them bothe great honoure and also victorie In pursuing which commaundement Nicanor departed that night and sped him with such diligence that about the day breake he wyth suche deuoire assayled and boorded the enimie that findyng them at his arriuall oute of order he put them to flight In whiche flight some of the ennimies shippes were sore shaken and broosed and the reste wholly rendred and became subiecte to Nicanor excepte the Admirall in whyche Clyte escaped Neuerthelesse after he was sette on lande and hoped safely to passe thorough the countrey of Thrace into Macedone he was by certayne of Lysimache his Souldiers encountred on the way and slaine ¶ Eumenes vnderstanding that Antigone is commyng against him departeth out of the countrey of Cilice And when he hath by his wysedome and industrie escaped in the way the handes and ambushes of Seleuke he commeth into Perse. The .xxxj. Chapter FOr this noble and honorable victorie Antigone was greatly esteemed wan thereby much glory reputation therfore fully minded to be lord of the seas and emperor of Asie wherfore he chose out of his whole armie .2000 footmen .4000 horse with whō he spéedily marched into Cilice against Eumenes thinking to ouerthrow him before such time as he might assemble a greter army But Eumenes being aduertised of his commyng albeit he was willing to recouer in the name of the Kings the Countrey of Phenicie whiche Ptolome vniustly enioyed séeing that the time then serued not and especially bicause he
strongly placed well victualed or whether to aduenture through the countrey whatsoeuer betid them Docine was of the opinion to go out and Attale cōtrary saying that through their long detention in prison which hadde much féebled their persons they wer not able to endure any warlike labours And while they thus contended certen souldiers of the next villages to the number of .v. thousand footmē and four thousand horse assembled with aboue four thousand paysantes whiche they had gotten together sodainly vnder suche a Captayne as they had chosen preuented and besieged them When Docine sée and apperceyued that they were agayn enclosed he had espied a certaine secrete way of the Towne vngarded by whiche he let downe a messanger of his and sent him towardes Stratonice Antigone his wife abiding thereby praying hir to take pitie and compassion on him And not tarrying for aunswere but t◠inking to escape tumbled him selfe twofold downe the wal where he was without suertie taken and cast in prison But the other whiche came out before him the enimie racked to make him confesse and shew the passage whiche he and the said Docine came out at which he did so that by his meane and conduct they wanne and tooke one of the rocks the castle stoode on although almost impregnable inaccessible Neuerthelesse the Captaynes within albeit few in number through their great vertue and prowes so valianntly them defended that they resisted and kept them out a yeare and foure moneths before they could be vanquished fighting almost euerie daye and in the ende were takē by force And now for whi◠e we will leaue of this matter and re◠orne to Antigone making mention of that he did ¶ Antigone being come into Babylon and ioyning with Seleuk◠and Pithon is by Eumenes repulsed the passage of Tygre to the great losse slaughter of his people The .vij. Chapter THe same yeare that Democlade was Pretor of Athens and Caye Iune and Quinte Emilye were Consulles at Rome and that Denomene of Laoco◠ia won the prise at the running in the Olympiade the Cxvj. Antigone departed out of Mesopotamie and w t his power came into Babylon where he founde Seleuke and Python who there ioyned with him Shortly after they made a bridge with their ships ouer the Riuer of Tygre vpon which they set ouer their armies and after marched against the enimie Which thing when Eumenes and the other Satrapes and Captaynes with him vnderstood gaue first in commaundement to Xenophile Captayne of the Castle of Suse not to deliuer to Antigone any of the money in his custodie nor yet once to communicate talke with him That done they departed the Citie and came all together to the Riuer of Tygre from the said Citie about a dayes iourney adioyning the mountaine in that Region wherein inhabit and dwell certayne people called the Vsians liuing at libertie The breadth of whiche in many places thereabout is commonly thrée and foure furlongs ouer and the midst of the streame as déepe as the height of an Elephant running through the countrey from the mountaines aboue .vij. hundred furlongs and falleth into the red Sea It is also full of Sea fishe and monsters whiche shew them selues after the first entring of the Canicular dayes When Eumenes and his companions were there arriued they encamped about the banks of the riuer next to the Sea side attending the enimie And bycause they wanted men for the garding of the said riuer Eumenes Antigene required Penceste to send for out of Perse ten thousand Archers and other shot who sligthly gaue them the hearing bycause he was not chosen generall of the army But after he had considered that if Antigone wonne the victorie he should lose his Satrapes and stand in daunger of his life and that hauing a greater number he might the easlier obtayne victorie accorded their requestes and sent for ten thousand Persians shot more And although some of the said Persians were thirtie dayes iourney from the place where the campe laye yet in one day they hadde newes and were by a maruelous industrie aduertised of the message And bycause it is a thing at the first sight hard to be beléeued I therefore meane to tell in what order and maner it was done And first thou must presupose that the Countrey of Perse is all hilly and full of little mountaynes wherefore they had appointed certaine people of the Countrey and especially suche as hadde the loudest and shrillest voices to stād in the hiest places of the mountaines to kéepe watch so néere one another that they which made a loude noise might both be hard vnderstood and by that meane they declared from one to another that which was commaunded by the sound of the first watch euen to the ende and farthest partes of the Countrey Then Eumenes and Penceste hauing regarde with their host to that before sayd Antigone with his whole armie entred the Citie of Suse and there proclaymed Seleuke gouernour of that Prouince And bycause Xenophile Captayne of the Castle and kéeper of the treasure refused to obey him he appointed a number of his men of warre to tarrie and besiege him and him selfe with the rest sette forth against the enimie throughe a hoate countrey very daungerous and painfull to a people of another Nation wherefore he was forced to trauell by night and at the Sunne rysing to soiorne about the Riuer so that he could no way escape without losse of many men by reason of the feruent heat and chiefly being about the canicular dayes And incontinent after he was come to the place he would be at he made readie all things méete and necessarie for his passage Now was he in the same corner or boought that the Riuer of Tygre descending from the Mountaynes entreth Pasitigre distaunt from the Camp of Eumenes foure score furlongs and commonly aboue foure oxgangs broade and besides that the Riuer was so violent and swift that it was impossible to passe ouer without a bridge or ships Wherefore taking some cockes and long boates he put ouer a certain numbre of his men commaunding them that as soone as they were on the other side to entrenche and strengthen them with ditches and trenches kéeping good watch vntill the rest were come ouer Whereupon Eumenes by hys intelligencers aduertised passed and came ouer the bridge which he had made ouer the riuer Tygre with foure thousand footemen and a thousande and thrée hundred horse to charge Antigone his Souldiers already passed being néere about thrée thousande footemen and foure hundred horse and of forragers victuallers and such like whiche went before to make prouision of victuals aboue six thousand And first he charged the disordered and straglers so that at his first arriuall he put some to flight and in the ende caused all the Macedonians whiche stood to their defence he runne into the Riuer bycause he had the greater number and therefore he charged them lustely
And for that euerie man was gladde to saue him selfe they made such spéede to their shippes to haue repassed that with an ouercharge the greater numbre sonke and the rest which thought to be saued assayed to swimme but few or none escaped drowning by reason of the violence and swiftnesse of the Riuer And they whiche thought better to render to the mercie of the enimie than to be drenched in the water were taken prisoners being aboue foure thousand And although Antigone see before his eyes so great an ouerthrow of his Souldiers yet could he by no meane remedie it by reason of the want of shippes Wherefore considering it was impossible to passe he returned went to the Citie of Bedace standing vpon the Riuer Eule But bycause it was in the middest of Sommer and the Countrey maruellous hoate he lost in traueling many of his Souldiers wherefore the rest of the Souldiers were almost in despaire but after that they had reposed them selues and soiourned in the same Citie a certaine time they were well refreshed and tooke then better harte ¶ Of Antigone his comming with his armie into the countrey of Mede and the daungers and harde passage he hath vpon the way The .ix. Chapter WHen Antigone had certain dayes in the Citie of Bedace well refreshed his armie he determined to marche therewith into the Region of Ecbathane in the countrey of Mede hoping thereby to conquer the hie Countreis And although there were two wayes to passe into Mede yet was it a hard matter for him without interruption and let to get through any of both For the way by the mannured lande was fayre excellent but very hoat and little lesse than .xl. dayes iourney But the other leading through the Countrey of the Eosians was very short and close howbeit colde sharpe straight hilly and barren and the enimies coūtrey so that it had ben very difficult without the good wils of the paysaunts to passe an army being a people which time out of mind had alwayes lyued at libertie dwelling in ca◠es liuing with acornes mushrubbes and the fleshe of sauage and wilde beastes poudered Neuerthelesse Antigone hauing so mightie an armie thought it ouer great a shame to pray and require suche paysauntlie slaues of passage recourse Wherefore determining to take that waye he chose out of the whole army the targe carriers archers all other shot and light armed men which were the lustiest fellowes and most aduenterours and deuided them into two bands whereof the charge of the one he gaue Nearche commaunding him to march before and to winne the most méete and conuenient passages And the other bande he deuided and set al alongs the way in diuerse places as occasion serued Then him selfe marched on with the phalange or battail of footemen and cōmitted the rereward to Python But the first which were sent out after they had won certain trifling passages to no purpose not the passages most necessarie the paysaunts at hande so stoutly charged them that they slew a great number and the rest very hardly escaped And Antigone comming on with his battail of footmen thinking to win the straightes was in great daunger which by no meanes could be remedyed For the paysants knowing the ways and straightes of the passages had preuented them and from the tops of the rocks cast and tumbled downe agaynst the souldiers as they marched huge and mighty stones They had also great strength of bowes wherwith they hurt and galled the enimie bicause they coulde neyther defende nor yet eschue the dinte of the shotte by reason of the hardnesse of the way which was stiepe and almost inaccessible so that the Elephants horsemen and the armed footemen coulde no waye succoure them for that that they were in as greate daunger or more than the rest Then acknowleged he his fault and repented him that he had not beléeued and followed the aduise counsel of Python other his friendes for buying of the passage Notwithstanding in the ende he so valiantly and wisely bare hym selfe that he had wythin nyne dayes with great losse maruelous daunger and sore trauaile of his souldiers gotten the countrey habitable of Mede Wherfore they were so mutinous that euery man cōplained cried out and spake very euill words of hym And to saye the truthe for the space of .xliij. dayes they had abidden many maruellous aduentures and suffered intollerable mischeues Howbeit he with swéete words and stoare of victuals appeased their mutinie and well refreshed them and after commaunded Python to trauaile through the whole countrey of Mede there to leuie so many horsmen horses as he coulde get Whiche commaundement he diligently executed and in shorte time bicause the region was well furnished with horse and other bestiall he brought .ij. thousande lusty horsemen and very neere a thousande spare horsse well appointed for the warres And of al other kinde of cattel as Mares and such like bearing beasts so many as suffised the whole armie and bisides broughte .v. hundred talents of the tresure royall on the emptie horses Then remounted Antigone all those which had loste their horses and amongs the reste diuided the other bestiall Which liberall dealing brought him againe in fauoure with his men of warre ¶ Eumenes to please his Satrapes with the whole armie marcheth into the countrey of Perse and by his wisedome and policie putteth Penceste who affected the gouernment and armie in great fear and after reconcileth the sayd Penceste and assureth him selfe of all the other Satrapes and Captaines The .ix. Chapter AFter Eumenes the Satrapes with him vnderstode of Antigone his commyng into Alcide they called many counsells and were of diuers opinions For Eumenes and Antigene captaine of the Argiraspides and all the rest whiche came out of the lowe countrey dyd thinke it méetest and moste for their safetie to go towardes the sea from whence they came But the Satrapes of the hye countreys hauing special regard to their owne particular case sayd that the best were to march into the higher regions When the dissention thus encreased and waxed hoter Eumenes foreséeing that if the armie should be deuided and dispersed either part then should be to weake to encounter the enimie condescended to the Satrapes of the high cuntreys Wherupon they remoued their Campe from the Ryuer of Pasitigre and marched on to Persepolis the honourablest citie of Perse being about .xxviij. dayes iorney a countrey very hilly the one way lying beneath the mountaines very hotte and barrein of all kindes of victuals and the other a hie countrey very holsome and a good aire ful of al kindes of pleasant fruites It was also ful of valeys close and shodowy and gardens aboūding with all sorts of trées and frutes great store of fountaines likewise running with cléere waters makyng the countrey maruellous pleasaunt and delectable whiche caused the passengers to desire to rest and soiorne there Moreouer there wer many faire
chases and greate plentie of wilde beastes wherof the peasantes brought to Penceste greate abundance whiche he gaue and bestowed vppon the men of warre to get and win their loue and good wils There are also in that region for archers and other shotte the best Souldiers within the whole countreye of Perse. When they were at last arriued in the Citie royall of Persepolis Penceste gouerner of the same countrey made a solempne sacrifice to Philip and Alexander as to theyr Gods and after the sacrifice a greate and sumptuous banket to the whole campe aboundyng in all sortes of meates brought from all the partes of the countrey And for the assemble of the men of warre he made readie a place abroade in the fieldes with .iiij. round circles like vnto a cloister one with in an other egally distant the seconde bigger than the first all the reste in mete proportiō so y t the vttermoste which inclosed the other thrée was .x. furlongs about in whiche sate the mercenarie souldiers and straungers In the seconde sat the Argiraspides Macedonians and the Souldiers which serued with Alexander in his warrs .viij. furlongs in compasse In the thirde were the extraordinarie captaines horsemen and all other the speciall friends of the Satrapes and other chieftaines being foure furlongs aboute In the last which was two furlongs round sat the Dukes and chief rulers of the armie the captaines of the horsmen and the princes of Perse there In the middest of the last circle stode the altars of the Gods the tabernacle of Alexander and Philip whose seates were made of leaues and trées bearing frute and the residue couered with faire and riche tapistrie wherof the countrey of Perse aboundeth being full of delices and thyngs of pleasure The distances of the circles were in that sort drawen out to the ende that they which sat in the one should be no let or stop to those in the other and euery circle had his officers and ministers kitchins and all other houses of office in such order and so many that the great diligence and prouidence of Penceste might therin be well vnderstoode and knowne By meane wherof he greatly wanne the fauoure and good willes of all the companie Which thyng Eumenes perceyuing and knowing he went about to win the souldiers fauours to bée made generall and to obtaine the principalitie counterfaited forged certaine false and surmised letters by whiche he animated the Souldiers to warre wherewith he soone abated Penceste his audacitie and ambition and brought him self into greater authoritie and reputation in whome also the men of warre had greate hope and confidence The contents of the letters were these How that Olympias had brought the yong sonne of Alexander into Macedone had slayne Caslander and peaceably enioyed the realm And that Polispercon with the greatest parte of the armie royall and all the Elephantes was gone into Asie to war on Antigone was already in Cappadoce Whiche letters were written in the Syrian tongue subscribed in the name of Oronte Satrapa of Armenie Penceste his great friend and therfore bare the more credit Then Eumenes caused them to be caried to all the Satrapes and captaines to be séene and after published them to the whole armie By reason of whiche letters all the host then thought that Eumenes might aduaunce to the kings whome he woulde and punishe those he hated And the more to put and kéepe in terrour and feare suche as were disobedient and desirous of authoritie he called to iudgement Sybirte Satrapa of Aracose and great friend to Pencest whome he accused saying that he had sent some of his horse against the Aracothes without knowledge of the assemble and counsel and therfore required that he might be discharged and all his treasure and goodes confiscate Wherevpon he put him in such perill and danger that if he had not secretly fled he had bene slaine by the multitude of the Souldiers Notwithstandyng after he had by that meane put the other in feare and recouered his authoritie he returned to his accustomed humanitie and curtesie and through faire wordes and large promises he reconciled Penceste and made hym readie and tractable to employ his seruice in the affaires of the Kings And to assure him self of the other Satrapies chieftains captaines and to haue some maner guage of them to serue in steade of hostages he fained the want of money praying euery of them to lend him as much as they coulde spare for the affaires of the kings Whiche they did so that he borowed of those whom he chiefly suspected the iust summe of CCCC talents By which mean he thought him so sure of thē that they would not work him any falshode or treason nor yet once steppe asyde from him whom he after kept reserued for the garde and defence of his person and his fautours in all his affaires whatsoeuer ¶ Of the battaile betwene Antigone Eumenes and of their powers and of their retire to winter without victorie on either side The .x. Chapter WHen Eumenes had thus prouided for all things that might happen as aforesayde newes were brought out of Mede howe Antigone with his whole power was commyng into Perse which Eumenes vnderstanding immediatly toke his iourney wyth hys whole armie determining to be there before him to y e ende to giue battaile Whereupon he sacrificed to the Gods and that done royally banketted the Princes captaines and men of warre bicause he would giue them greater occasion of affection and loue towardes him And for that they should thinke he wold at ful please them he pledged so many as dronke vnto hym by reason wherof he fell into a grieuous maladie and therfore was forced to repose there certaine dayes For whose cause all the whole armie desirous of battaile were very sorie Neuerthelesse after some amendement and recouerie he no longer stayed his iourney but being carried in a horselitter hasted on the aray the conduct wherof he gaue to Pencest and Antigene And after he had gotten within a days iorney of the enimie the vauntcurrers of eche side gaue intelligence of the approch of one an other wherfore they determined on both sides the next day folowing to giue battaile Howbeit by reason of a valley and Riuer betwixte them besides the straightnesse of the grounde they were frustrate of their purposes and determinations Notwithstanding they aranged on either side their battailes and encamped not aboue .iij. furlongs one from an other and for .iiij. dayes together they onely skirmished with shot during which time both the armies had wasted and cōsumed all the victuals in the countrey néere vnto them so that they began to wante The fifte day folowing Antigone sent his ambassadors towards the Satrapes Macedonians to persuade them to abādon forsake Eumenes and ioyne with him promising to leaue the Satrapes theyr Satrapies And the reste whiche would not folowe the campe he promised to some greate landes and possessions and to sende the
side all weried and tyered what with their trauaill sustained in the battaill as also oppressed with hunger and thirst desired they might pitch their camp without any moe blowes And althoughe Eumenes did all that in him was to persuade them to returne to the place where the dead laye to the ende to bury them which was the whole honour of the field yet could he not bring them vnto it but all with one voyce cried to returne to their Campe and cariages Wherefore he was forced to agrée thereto bycause he was not of that power and authoritie there to chastise and rebuke them for that many of the Chieftaynes there thought them his egal and therfore was no time conuenient to vse correction and punishment But Antigone being chief of his armie after the retire of the enimie into their camp enforced his Souldiours to remoue their camp and pitch it where the battaill was fought And by that meane being Lorde of the fielde to bury the dead he wan the honour of the fielde although in the rest he had no whit the better for there were on his part slaine aboue .iij. thousand .vj. hundred footemen liiij horse and aboue .iiij. thousand hurte And of Eumenes side .v. hundred .xl. footemen fewe or no horse and about .ix. hundred hurte After Antigone was returned from the battaill and perceyued his Souldiours greatly discouraged he determined to retire from the enimie and to the ende he might the spéedylier marche with them he sent all his hurt men and baggage into a Citie néere hand And after he had about the dawning of the daye buried the dead on his part he detayned the Herault whiche was come to enterre the bodies of the enimie and commaunded his Souldiours presently to suppe When the day was past and night come he deliuered the Herault gyuyng leaue the next daye in the morning to bury the dead That night remoued he hys camp and with his armie so hasted that by morning he had gotten farre inough of the enimie and lodged hym in Gamarge in the region of Mede by Pyton gouerned a countrey well victualed and very singular for an armie ¶ Eumenes burieth the dead and of a maruelous case which happened betwene two women of Inde The .xij. Chapter AS soone as Eumenes was by his scoulte aduertised of the enimies departure he by reason of his mens wearinesse sustained in that battail minded in no wise to pursue them but to bury the dead Which was very honorably done In doing whereof happened a maruellous sodaine thing and to the Grekes very straunge For after that Cete Captayne of the Indians had in that battaile ben slaine two of his wyues which he brought out with him in the same warres being there the one newly married the other many yeares before shewed the great and excessiue loue they bare him But first you must vnderstand that the lawe sometime amongs the Indians was that all or at the least the most contracts mariages were by the willes and agreements of the maried made without asking the consents either of fathers or mothers whereby oftentimes happened that many yōg people being neyther like nor matches for a little light fantasticall loue married togethers so soone after repented Through whiche sufferaunce many incontinent and light Dames made loue and became familiar with others and bicause that with their honesties they could not forsake their first husbandes they would poyson them for in the same Countrey are great stoare of all kindes of poyson which spéedely will do it and especially there are such vehement poysons that if they but come néere the meat whiche is to be eaten or the dishes wherein it lieth the meat straight becommeth mortall And bycause this was a common practise and chaunced ofte and that many husbands by this meane died to the ende that the wyues being in such cases attainted might be punished they made a generall lawe that when the husbande died if the wyfe were not with childe or had borne him one she shoulde be burned with him And they that refused to be burnt were reputed and taken for whoores and vile women and neuer after to be married nor yet receyued with the honest and vertuous Dames and Matrones to thi administratiō of their sacrifices or other publique matters By reason of which lawe the wicked déede before so common amongs the naughtie wyues in poysoning their husbands was now conuerted all to the contrary For they considering the necessitie and straightnesse of the lawe and the shame and dishonour to such as refused the accomplishing thereof were not onlye carefull for the lyues of their husbands whereon theirs depended but also when it happened any their husbandes to die the wyues would be at cōtrouersy if he had many which of them shoulde haue that glorie and honour as then chaunced for the lawe woulde that one should be burnte and bycause there were two eyther of them pleaded hir cause before the Chieftaynes and Captaynes of the armie to haue the glorie The yonger womā saide that the other was with childe wherefore by the lawe it was not laufull she should be burnt the elder said that since she was the auncienter she most deserued the honour In the end the Commissioners appointed for the hearing and determining of y e controuersie enformed by the report of the Matrones that the elder was with childe iudged the yonger to be perferred Wherewith the other sore agréeued with great lamētation and teares despoiled hir of hir clothes and tare hir haire as if she had had maruellous euill tydinges brought hir On the other side the yonger who had the honour accompanied with hir wayting maids casting chappellets of floures vppon hir head as if she had ben newlie married ioyfullie went to the fire Her kinsfolkes also went with hir singing hympnes and songs agreable to hir vertue And as she came néere y e stake she beganne to put of hir garments whereof she hadde stoare besides rings bagges of golde and all kindes of precious stones and iewels both on hir fingers head necke and armes which she gaue and bestowed vppon hir friends and seruaunts as tokens of remembrance And after she was vnrayed hir owne brother ledde hir to the fire where in the view and sight of al the whole armie there assembled in greate admiration to sée the sight she honorably ended hir life But before the fire was put to hir all the armie thrice marched about the stake in armes whiche done she embraced the body of hir husband hard by hir and so without either sighe or grone was burnt Whereupon some of the lookers on moued with pitie condemned the lawe of the Indians as strict and cruell and other some highly commended the same After Eumenes had celebrated the exequies of the dead he departed from Paretace and trauailled into the countrey and Prouince of Gabene wherein his men of warre had neuer ben very ful of victuals and all other things necessarie for
in the night none to the ende the pâ— isaunts might not by the sight therof haue any notice to aduertise the enimie considering that the deserte being playne and champion and with hye mountains enuironed y e light of the fire might easelie be séene very farre of In this sorte trauailled they without fire in the night .v. dayes together The .v. daye at night the Souldiours almost frosen to death and farre spente for wante of victuals and other things necessarie made fires to warme and refresh them Which the inhabitaunts of the desertes seeing and suspecting what that was with all possible post sent certain of their men vppon Dromadaries a very swift beast in iourneying towards Eumenes and Penceste which beastes in one daye without baite had posted a thousande fiue hundred furlongs to aduertiâ— e them of the comming of Antigone When Penceste hys Souldiours vnderstoode that the enimie was already halfe waye they determined to goe into the farthest partes where the rest of the Souldiours laye and so ioyne with them rather than there still to tarry and be surprised of the enimie before any aide coulde come vnto them When Eumenes sée them thus feared and dismayed he to gyue them courage to persuade them that they néeded not to remoue from the places they were in whiche was the entrie of the desert declared that he had found out an excellent deuise and remedie to staye the comming of the enimie for .iij or iiij dayes during which time the rest of the armie might easely be gotten thyther and so by that meane withoute any great difficultie they should winne of the enimie victorie who with hunger and thirst were al benoumed and weried and likewise vnprouided of all other thinges necessarie At whose wordes all the Souldiours maruelled and would needes know what deuise that was or might be whiche was able to kéepe back the enimie iij. or .iiij. dayes Then commaunded he and enioyned al his Captaynes there to followe him with those men they had and to carry all the vessels they coulde get wherin any fire might be made Which done he hasted to get the hiest mouÌ„taynes about the vttermost limits of the desert in the sight of the enimie and on theÌ„ placed men dispersed in diuerse places being about .lxx. furlongs in length commaunding euery of them during that time to make great fires in the places wher they stood all alongest about .xx. cubits one from an other and at the first watche of the night to make notable great fires as thoughe they watched and were at supper at the secoÌ„d watch lesse and at the third watch least of all to the ende that they which sée them farre of might thinke it a great campe Which commaundement by the Souldiers diligentlie executed many paysaunts dwelling on the mouÌ„taynes in the oppisite and Pithons friendes Satrapa of Mede with great spéede descended into the playne signifying to Antigone and Python all they had seene who were greatly abashed at those newes which they neuer doubted of Wherefore they sobdainlie stayed where they were asked counsail of the said Paysants what was best to do For they thought it very daungerous for their men being trauailled weried and vnprouided of all things to ioyne battaill with the enimie well prouided of all thinges together assembled thinking also that some of their owne men had betrayed them and had aduertised the enimie of their comming Wherefore at last they leaft the playne waye and tooke that on the right hande by the mountaynes a whyle to repose and refreshe their people In this sorte abused Eumenes the enimie hauing time ynough to assemble al his power which was dispersed in diuerse places and lodgings to entrenche and fortifie his camp and to prouide furnishe it with all things necessarie After Antigone had passed all the desertes worde was brought him that all Eumenes his Captaynes and men of warre were gone to the camp and that their Elephaunts were coÌ„ming behind on the waye almost at hande without companie or conduct of any men of warre Wherefore he chose out .ij. thousandâ— lauâ—â— es .ij. hundred Tarentines and all the light armed footemen to go and assaile the enimies Elephants thinking that if he could ouerthrowe them the enimy thereby should greatlie be weakened But Eumenes doubting thereof sent to conduct the said Elephaunts a thousande of the best horse he had and about .iij. thousande light armed footemen When Antigone his Souldiers had shewed them selues to the conductours of the Elephaunts they arranged their beastes in a square battaill And after they set in order the. CCCC horse that they hadde for their ayde and in the middest put all their baggage Howbeit Antigone his bande of horse bycause of their great numbre so violentlie charged the horse of the enimie that they were forthwith ouerthrowen and put to flight That done the Antigonians charged the Elephaunts and their conductours who a pretie whyle defended them albeit they were by the enimie very sore hurte and they harmed them no whit at all Wherfore in the ende they beganne to recule and had out of hand fled if present ayde whiche was vnlooked for hadde not come and deliuered them of that peril and daunger ¶ Antigone in battaill ouerthroweth Eumenes putteth him to death and after seizeth on all his armie The .xv. Chapter SHortlie after as they laye in campe about .xl. furlongs one from an other they embattailled them selues to assaye and proue fortune and to hazarde their estates in hope of victorie And first Antigone beganne to place his horse and deuided them into two wings or battailles of whiche the charge of the left he gaue to Python and him selfe with his sonne Demetre ledde the right and aranged the armed footemen in the middest and appointed the Elephaunts in the fronte of the battaill in good order And in the voyde space betwixt both he placed the light armed footemen so accompting those he brought out of Mede he had in the whole .xxij. thousand footemen .viij. thousand horse and lxv ElephaÌ„ts When Eumenes vnderstood that Antigone led the right wing or voward of his battail with his best horse he placed him selfe right ouer against in hys left wing or rerewarde with his best and choise horse bycause he had in that battaill appointed the greater numbre of the most experte and best trayned horse of the Satrapes and in the same Mithridate Ariobarzane his sonne whiche Ariaobarzane was descended from the princes of Perse whom the Tyraunts sometime flew a valiaunt and hardy Champion and had all his youth ben brought vp and trained in the warres and before y e wing or rerewarde he arranged in forme of a crosse lx of the most puissaunt and best Elephaunts and in the voide places appointed the light armed footemen Next after he placed his armed footemen in a maine battaile in the foreparte whereof he firste placed the â— erge bearers behind them the Argiraspides and after them the Mercenaries and other
by night stoale out of the Citie with a fewe of his people and passing through Thessaly tooke the Souldiours with Eucide and trauelled into Ethole where he was verie well beloued to see what retinue or traine would there gouerne the affaires of Macedone hoping to find some mutacion or chaunge After Cassander had assembled a mightie armie he sped him into Peleponnese to chase Alexander the Sonne of Polispercon bycause there was not one of his enimies which hadde an whole armie but he who also had fortified and furnished all the Townes and Castles of the same Countrey by hym thought most meete and defensible Thus without empechement or stoppe passed Cassander through the countrey of Thessaly But after he was come to the entrie of the Piles the Etholian kept him such play and so stoutly resisted him that with great and difficult payne he perforce wanne the passage but after he was passed had entred the countrey of Beote he sped him to bring backe and agayne to assemble all the Thebanes and to restore and reedifie the Citie of Thebes thinking be should therby get both great praise and immortall fame aswell for the high and incomparable facts of the same Citie as also for the maruellous reports which came thereon And bycause it had ben greatly altered and chaunged oftentimes made desolate I thinke good to make some notable declaration of the fortunes and chaunces that thereto happened ¶ Of the foundation and fortunes of the Citie of Thebes in Beota The .xxj. Chapter AFter the deluge and flood of Deucation the Citie of Thebes in Beote was by Cadme first foūded built and by his name called Cadme by the Spartes inhabited to saye a people dispersed bycause the recourse there was of al sortes It was by some also named Thebicene to wete dwelling at Thebes for that by reason of the deluge the people departed thence and scattered abroad in diuerse countreys and after returned thyther It fortuned after that the Eucheleians by force chased and expulsed the said inhabitants aboute the same season that Cadme with his people was put to flight and fled into the countrey of Illyrie After that Amphion and Zethe who had the gouernement thereof enlarged the same as witnesseth Homere saying Who first with walles enuirond Thebane Towne And with seauen gates to winne fame and renowne Yet after that the inhabitaunts whome Amphion Zethe had thyther brought were by Polidore the sonne of Cadme the second time expulsed by reason of a sodaine mortalitie whiche happened Amphion his children And in processe of time the same being by the successours of the saide Polydor gouerned all the countrey bare the name of Beote so called of Beote the sonne of Neptune and Menelippe which somtime ruled there The Argiues likewise y e third time expulsed the Thebanes and tooke the Citie But after the Argiues were gone agayn into their countrey the Thebanes which retired into Alcomene in the mountaine of Thilphosine returned home Yet after that certen of the said Thebanes were gone to the siege of Troye the Pelasgians draue so many as remayned at home both oute of the Citie Countrey who continued in exile in diuerse miseries vntill the fourth generation as by an Augurie of certen Crowes was presaged But in the end the succession of the exiles in the fourth generation returned and there enhabited the space of eyght hundred yeares Who were the first that gouerned that Region and after contended and fought for the Empire of Grece vntil the tyme that Alexander the sonne of Phillip by force tooke the citie and after razed it But about .xx. yeares after Cassander desirous of glorie as aforesaid through his earnest request and maruellous persuasions by the assent and consent of the whole countrey reedified it and repeopled it with those which liued and of the ligne of the exiles which were dead aswel for the pitie he had of the miserable people as also for the glorie renoume of the citie The Athenians also at their owne costes and charges built and set vp one parte of the wall Manie other cities likewise and seuerall people of Grece Sicill Italy h◠lp them with money After this maner recouered the Thebanes their Citie and Countrey ¶ After Cassander hath taken and subdued certen Cities of Peloponnese and vnderstandeth of the comming of Alexander Polispercon his sonne against him he returneth into M◠c◠done The .xxij. Chapter WHen Cassāder was with his whole armie come to the entrie of Peloponnese called Isthmus and found the same by Alexander the sonne of Polispercon taken and guarded he passed beyond him and went to Megare and there got togyther a numbre of shippes barges and fery boats wherin he put ouer into Epidaure his armie and Elephants and so came against the citie of Argos which he constrained to reuolte from Alexander and to take his parte He reduced likewise after all the townes and cities of the Messenians to him except I◠home and by composition tooke the Citie of Hermonide And apperceyuing that Alexander came against him to fight left in the Citie of Gerannie about I◠thmus Moliecke one of his Captayns with .ij. thousand trayned souldiers and him self returned into Macedone ¶ Vpon Antigone his arriuall in Babylon Seleuke perceyuing that he seeketh occasions to expulse or kil him flieth into Egypt The .xxiij. Chapter THe yeare ensuing wherein Praxibule was created Gouernour of Athens and Nance Spure Marcke Popill were chosen Consulles at Rome after Antigone had gyuen to Aspise one of the Satrapes of the countrey the Satrapie of Susiane he got togyther a numbre of charriotes and Camelles to carrie all his golde and siluer to sea and with them and his armie tooke his iourney to Babylon And when he had in .xx. dayes iourneis reached Babylon Seleuke Gouernour of that Prouince honorablie receyued him on whome he bestowed great giftes and roially banquetted his souldiours Notwithstanding Antigone called him to an accompt for the reuenue of the said Prouince And bicause he held mainteyned that he was not accomptable for it considering that the said Prouince was by the Macedonians in the life of Alexander for his merites and good seruice bestowed on him they were at some controuersie Neuerthelesse after Seleuke had remembred his dealing towards Python he much doubted that Antigone vnder like colour would make quicke dispatch of him for so much as it was well knowen that he endeuoured hym to discomfite all the noble personages and men in aucthoritie which were appointed for the ruling and gouernement of any good and honest businesse Wherfore bycause of the notable fame and renoume whiche was blowen abroad of Ptolome his great honour and honestie and also his gentlie and friendlie entreaty of al such as came vnto him for helpe he with L. horse departed thence and fled into Egipt vnto him Whiche newes wonderfully
this Decrée had bene thus by the common assent and consent of the whole armie ratified and approued Antigone by by sent it throughout all quarters to be published trusting that the Grekes in hope to come at libertie would allie and ioyne with hym He likewise thought that when the Satrapes and Gouernours of the Satrapies of the hier countreys of Asie whiche still ymagined that Antigone would clerelie extinquish y e Kings and all the ligne Royal of Alexander apperceyued that he nowe enterprised and publikelie tooke in hande the warres for the defence of the Kings they would alter chaūge their determinatiō purpose gladlie become obedient and subiect to him That done he gaue to Alexander .v. hundred Talents and sent him into Peloponnese laden and fraught with faire promisses and in hope to be preferred to some great authoritie and honour He sent also for his ships to Rhodes the greater numbre of which he made readie and furnished and after embarqued and sailed to Tyre and both by sea land besieged the citie the space of .xv. monethes so that nothing could be brought into it Whereupon in the ende they were enforced to render vppon thys composition and agréement that all Ptolome his Souldiours within the same should with bag and baggage safelie departe and Antigone at his pleasure to thrust in his gerrisones ¶ Of the practizes deuises and prouision by Ptolome Seleuke on the one part Antigone on the other parte made by Sea in the countrey of Asie The .xxvij. Chapter AMongs these entrefaicts when Ptolome vnderstood the edict and decrée which Antigone and the Macedonians had made for the libertie of Grece bycause he would it should to the Grekes be knowen that he had so good an hart and will to restore them to libertie as the said Antigone he caused the like proclamation to be made and before them to be notified and published For eyther of them made great accompte and thought it a verie good way to win the Grekes to stand their friends and therfore they contended howe and by what meane they might best gratifie them He wanne also to his alliaunce Cassander gouernour of Carie a mightie Prince and one who had at his commaundement manie Cities He sent likewise ouer and besides the .iiij. thousand men sent before by him to the Kings of Cypres his confederats a mightie armie to enforce to their obeissaūce their enimies to wete Mirmidon the Athenian with .x. thousand Souldiours Polyclete with a Nauie of an hundreth saile and appointed for generall Menelaus his brother And as they arriued in Cypres they heard of Seleuke hys being there whereupon they held a counsell wherein was concluded that Polyclete should with L. shipe saile into Peloponnese to warre vpon Aristodeme Polispercon and Alexander That Myrmidon with the Mercenaries should into Carie to ayde and comforte Cassander and other their allies whom Ptolome Antigone his brother warred on and that Menelaus and Seleuke shoulde remayne in Cypres with Nycocreon and other their allies to mainteyne the warres there When Seleuke and hys companie had thus deuided their power they tooke the cities of Cerine and Lapythe and there wanne to their al-aliaunce Stasicetus King of the Manians and forced Amathusius an other prince of the countrey to deliuer thē ostages They besieged also with great force the Citie of Cythie bycause they would not at their first cōming allie with them At that same verie season sailed from Hellespont and the Rhodes to Antigone .xl. saile vnder the cōduct of Themyson their Admiral Dioscorides likewise brought from Hellespont and the Rhodes foure score besides the ships first built in Phenice being in all accompting those left at Tyre Cxx. wherof .iiij. score .x. rowed with foure tier of ores in a side ten with fiue tier ten with nine and ten with ten tier and .xxx. barques the rest lesse so that he had in the whole CCxl Gallies appointed for the warres Which Nauie he deuided wherof L. he sent into Peloponnese and appointed Dioscorides his brothers sonne Admiral ouer the rest and gaue him in charge to goe to the ayde of hys Allies and purchase the good willes of the Isles not yet confederate Nowe for this time we wil leaue speaking of the things done in Asie and returne to the matters exploited in Europe ¶ Of certen exploictes of warre by Cassander and his Souldiours in Peloponnese and other partes of Grece done And how Alexander Polispercon his Sonne reuolteth After of a great victorie whiche Ptolome his Nauie hath against Antigone his Nauie in Cilice And after Ptolome and Antigone come to a parle and of certain exploits of warre betwene the Romaines and Samnites The .xxviij. Chapter THe while that Antigone made preparation for the warres in the countrey of Asie as we haue heretofore declared Apollonide whome Cassander had left Captayne of Argos secretlie departed into Arcadie and in the night by stealth tooke the Citie of Stymphale In this meane time the Argiues not content with Cassander sent to Alexander Polispercon his sonne and promised to yelde him the Towne but he so detracted his comming that Cassander was thyther first come whē he had entred the citie the Traitours cōspiratours tooke y e Palaice for their defence which he besieged clerely burnt to the ground And of the reste be put some to death and sent a great number in exile The same time Cassander aduertised of the sailing of Aristodeme into Peloponnese and concourse of the Mercenaries thyther first assaied if he could withdrawe and remoue Polispercon and Alexander his sonne from the amitie of Antigone And séeing it would not frame he passed throughe the coūtrey of Thessalie into Beote and strengthning the Thebanes with ayde for restauracion of their Citie entred Peloponnese and tooke by force the citie of Cencre and made incursions on the territories of Corinthe and there winning two castles by force licenced Alexanders Souldiours to departe without dommage or hurte After that he was by a band which loued not Alexāder receyued into the Citie of Orcomenie and licenced the citizens to plucke out by the eares certen of Alexanders friends gotten into the Temple of Diane and to do with them what they listed whome they incontinent contrarie to the lawe and common custome of Grece put to the sworde After that Cassander came against the Citie of Messenie and séeing it to difficile to winne passed on and entred Arcadie in which countrey he left Damides Gouernour and him selfe returned to Argos where he caused manie tou◠noys to be done and after returned to Macedone Whereof Alexander aduertised tooke with him Aristodeme and warred vpon all the Cities whiche Cassander had wonne and furnished with garrisonnes thinking to bring vnder his subiection the saide Cities promising to restore them to libertie Which Cassander vnderstanding sent towardes him Propelle by whome he offred if
he would yeld and reuolt from Antigone to gyue him the gouernement of Peloponnese and the aucthoritie ouer all the armie farther to vse him as his companion and aduaunce him to great honour and dignitie When Alexander had considered that the same offer whereunto Cassander graunted was the onely occasion of the warres betwene them he allied with hym so became and remayned Gouernour of Peloponnese In this meane while Policlete sent by Seleuke out of Cypres touched at Cencre and vnderstanding of Alexander his reuolte and séeing there no armie of aduersaries sailed into Pamphilie and from thence to the citie of Aphrodise in Cilice where he vnderstood that Theodote Admirall for Antigone was loused from Patare in the region of Lycie in the shippes whiche came from Rhodes maÌ„ned with Marriners of Carie and that Perilaye for the more safetie of the said Nauie went by land with a terrible armie Wherefore he by ambushes deceyued both the said armies for he closelie laid a numbre of men against the enimie which came by land where they must néedes passe and him selfe with the Nauie laye behind a promontorie attending the enimie to battaill It happened that the armie by land first lighted vpon the Ambushe where being surprised and sodenlie come vppon they were almost all slaine and takeÌ„ prisoners amongs whome was Perilaus all in the sight of the Rhodian Nauie who with great spéede making towardes the lande to their ayde were by Policlete which there road in order of battail so lustelie bourded that they discomfited all the whole Nauie and prized their shippes and the greater numbre of their men amongs whome was Theodotus who soone after of the woundes he had receiued in fight died When Polyclete had thus without daunger wonne these victories he sailed into Cypres and from thence to Peluse whome Ptolome honorablie receyued and with great rewardes and giftes rewarded and to him gaue a farre greater charge as to the Aucthor of that notable and honorable victorie He deliuered also Perilaus and manie other prisoners for deliuerie of which Antigone had sent an honorable Ambassade and to treat a peace Which treatie was graunted to be had at the place called the Eruption where they met togyther and commoned of the matter but departed without conclusion bycause Antigone would not agrée to Ptolome his demaundes The same season the Romaynes inuading the Samnites tooke by force from them the Citie of Ferent in Ponille But the Citizens of Nucere called Alphaterne by the persuasion of some reuolted from the Romaynes and confederated with the Samnites ¶ Of diuerse exploites which Aristodeme one of Antigone his Captaynes doth against Alexander Polispercon his sonne in Peloponnese Alexander being slaine his wife through hir prowes taketh vpon hir the gouernement The .xxix. Chapter THe self same yeare that Nicodore gouerned Athens and Luce Papyre the fourth time and Quinte Publie the second time were at Rome created Consuls Aristodeme Antigone his Lieutenaunt vnderstanding the reuolte of Alexander Polispercon his Sonne accused him in the presence of all the assemblie of the Etholians and persuaded them to ioyne with Antigone Whiche done he departed with his Mercenaries out of the countrey and came into Peloponnese where he found Alexander and the Etholians besieging the Citie of Cilene sore distressed and by his comming in good time to the ayde thereof raised the siege And after he had thrust in as he â—â— ought a sufficient numbre to garde and defende it he went to Acaie and there likewise deliuered the Citie of Pataras by Cassanders souldiours besieged He tooke also by violence the citie of Ege and vsed the garrison therof at his pleasure and according to the generall Edict determined to restore the Citie to libertie Howbeit he could not bicause the men of warre who by assaut hadde taken it were wholie bent to the spoile slewe manie of the Citizens and razed and sacked a numbre of their houses After that during the time he was in Etholie the Citizens of Dyme kéeping a garrison of CassaÌ„ders in their Citie sodenly had buylt and set vp a wall betwene the towne and castle to seperate them exhorting one another to reduce their citie to hir pristinate libertie and entrenching the Castle gaue many proude assautes Which doings Alexander vnderstanding w t his whole power returned and after he had entred the towne he put to death the principall mutiners imprisoned some and bannished a numbre By meane whereof the remnaunt neuer durst a long tyme after make or reuiue any commocion or rebellion reducing to memorie the miserie and punishment of the late rebelles But not long after they got in their ayde the souldiours of Aristodeme in Ege by whose helpe they againe attempted the Castle and by great industrie wonne it and flewe the greater parte of the garrisonne togyther all the citizens which tooke parte with Alexander who departing at the same time from Sycione was vnder the coulour of friendship by Alexion and certen his complices shamefully slaine Notwithstanding after his death Cratesipolis his wife tooke vpon hir the domination and rule of the citie and armie whome the Souldiours dearelie loued by reason of the great pleasures she had oftentimes done them and always helping their present miseries She was a wise Ladie and in matters of great importaunce had a meruellous forefight and an hart and courage more valiaunt than to a woman was pertinent which she amongs the Sicionians throughlie shewed For when the Sycionians after the death of hir husband without making any accompt of hir had gotten in armes in hope to haue restored their libertie she in battaill vanquished and ouerthrewe them In whiche conflict were manie slaine and .xxx. of the rest after takeÌ„ and hanged When she had appaised thus this mutenie she peaceably gouerned the towne and had at commaundement a great number of Souldiours which were all determined to abide in hir seruice any aduentures whatsoeuer These things were done in Peloponnese ¶ Cassander making amitie with the Acarnanians and Illyrians and reducing to his alliaunce certen other Cities returneth into Macedone and the Etholians taking the Citie of Arginye in Acarnanye slea and kill the inhabitaunts therof The .xxx. Chapter WHen Cassander had considered that the Etholians which fauoured Antigone warred against the Acarnanians their neighbours he thought he should do very well to allie with the Acarnanians in that warre and so abase and represse the Etholians Whereupon he trauailed with a mightie power oute of Macedone into the countrey of Etholie and encamped about the ryuer Cambile and there called togyther the Acarnanians to speake with them to whome he declared the importaunce of the warres which they so long had had so néere hand and yet stil continued And the better to encounter them said that it was very néedfull that they did forsake the indefensible small townes and villages and get them into
two or thrée of the chief principall For while they were so seperated and deuided they could neyther easelie nor yet readilie assemble when occasion of businesse serued and thereby might lightlie be surprised discomfited In following which counsaill the greater parte retired into the Citie of Strate very great and strong The Cynades and their neighbours into the Citie of Saurie The Dorians certen other into the citie of Arginie That done Cassander for their guarde and defence left a bande of Souldiours vnder the charge of Lyascke and him selfe with the remnaunt went against the citie of Leucade and by an Ambassade gotte the fauoure of the citie From thence he went into Adrye and by assault wanne the Citie of Apollonie After that he entred the countrey of Illyrie and passing the ryuer Hebre vanquished in battaill King Glaucye of Illyrie and after made amitie and alliaunce with him which Glaucie amongs other things promised neuer to warre against Alexander or anie his Allies After that he subdued the citie of Epidaure and there left a garrisonne and so returned into Macedone But during the time of this voiage when the Etholians perceyued that he was a great waye of them they assembled and gotte togyther the number of .iij. thousande came to besiege the citie of Arginie which they round about entrenched and made other fortifications to assaut it When the townes men sée that they came to a parle and treatie wherein was accorded and agréed that the besieged should render the Towne and safelie departe with bag and baggage who trusting vpon the conclusion daparted But the Etholians cōtrarie to their othes pursued the citizens which went out and flew them almost euerie one And now we think it méete a little to touche the matters of Asie ¶ Two bandes of Cassanders which he sendeth to Lemne and Carie are by the Souldiours af Antigone ouerthrowen The .xxxj. Chapter WHen Cassander had returned into Macedone he was aduertised that the cities of Lemne and Cary Seleuke Ptolome their confederates were by Antigone his Souldiours sore warred on and oppressed Wherefore he sent parte of his armie for their succoures to deteyn◠Antigone in Asie to the end he should haue no leisure to passe into Europe He writte also to Demetre Phalerey and to Dionise Captayne of Munichie to send .xx. saile into the Isle of Lemne whiche with all spéed was done And for transfreting of them Captayn Aristotre had charge who after his arriuall in the Isle sent worde to Seleuke to repaire thyther with all his shippes And after he was come they assaied and forced to winne to them the Lemnians but apperceyuing they would not thereto consent they fouraged all their land and after besieged the citie and entrenched it rounde which done Seleuke departed to Coo. Then Dioscoride Antigone his Admirall aduertised of his departure came to the aide of the Lemnians and chased Aristotre tooke the greater numbre of his shippes and the Souldiours within them But when Cassander and Propelaus deputed chief rulers of the armie whiche Cassander had sent into Carye vnderstood that Ptolome Antigone hys Lieutenaunt had deuided his Souldiours in garrisone to winter and was also occupied about the funeralles of his father deseased they sent Eupoleme w t .viij. thousand two hundred footemen to watch and surprise the enimie lying about the Region of Caprine in the Countrey of Carye Whereof Ptolome by some whiche came to render to him aduertised assembled of his garrisons néere there abouts .viij. thousand CC. hundred footemē and .vj. hundred horsse and by night went and assailed the camp of the enimie them lightly who doubted nothing lesse ouerthrew by reason they were at rest and a sléepe and without scoult or watch so that they tooke Eupoleme prisoner and made the men of warre render and yeld Suche was the aduenture of Cassander his Captaynes by him sent into Asie ¶ Antigone gyuing order about the affaires in Syrie goeth into Phrygie and of a notable victorie which one of his Captayns winneth at sea on the enimie The .xxxij. Chapter WHen Antigone perceyued Cassander his doings and considered that he affected the Empire of Asie he left his sonne Demetre with .x. thousand Mercenarie footemen .v. hundred Lycians and Pamphilians CCC hundred Archers and other shot .iij. thousande horse and .xiiij. Elephants to garde and defend y e Countrey bicause he feared that Ptolome would with his armie come thyther And bycause hys sonne Demetre was yong not aboue .xxij. yeares olde he left behind for hys Gouernours Counsailours foure noble personages to wete Nearche of Crete Pithon the Sonne of Agenor who a litle before came out of Babylon Andronicke of Olynthe and Phillip all foure auncient and not able soldiours and had serued with Alexander the great in all his warres And him selfe with the remnaunt of the armie prepared to passe the Mount Thaure But by reason of the great aboundaunce of snowe he was forced with no small losse of his men to retire into Cilice vntil the time and season were more faire and pleasaunt and the passage much easier and then passed he with all his armie And being come to Cilene in the Region of Phrygie he sent his armie by garrisons to winter After that he commaunded that his shippes should be brought oute of the countrey of Mede Captayne of whiche was one Mede a Median And as the said Mede came sailing alongest he encountred .xxxvj. saile of the Pidues and them prized togyther the souldiers within them These matters were exploited in Grece and Asie ¶ The Romaynes losing a great battaill against the Samnites people the Citie of Locres with their men The .xxxiij. Chapter ABoute this season in Italy the Samnites who with the Romaynes had many yeares continued warre to get the Empire and dominion one of an other tooke by force the towne of Plastick by the Romaines garrisoned and in such sorte practised with them of Sore that they slew all the Romaines in the citie guarding y e same and after the Soreans tooke parte with the Samnites And not long after as the Romaines laye before Straticole the Samnites with all their force came thyther to raise the siege where both the armies ioyned fought together In which battaill were many slaine but the Romaines had still the better tooke the Citie and after subdued al the whole countrey When the Samnites sée that their only strife was for the countrey and cities of Pouil they prepared an oste and sent out their generall letters and commaundements by which all the Citizens and subiects able to beare armoure were commanded to come and then encamped hard by the Romaines being all determined to fight for the totall of their estate The Romaines likewise knowing the importaunce of that battaill sent great strength and supplices of men and
appointed besides Quint Fabie the most renoumed Captayne they then had Generall of their armie Quint Elye Marshall and about Lanscalle ioyned battaill with y e enimie in which on eyther side were many mē slaine But in the ende the Romaines were discomfited and put to flight Which Elye séeing bicause he would auoide the shame to be said he fled tarried alone in the battaill there valiauntlie and manfullie fought against the enimie not for anie hope he had of victorie but to shewe such magnanimitie to be in him as an apparaunt matter of the inuincible courages of the Romaines who much more loued honorably to die in fight than to liue and remayne Captayne of those whiche fled After this discomfiture and ouerthrow the Romaines fearing to lose al Pouille sent one Colonie of their people to Locres the principall citie of that countrey from whence they transferred the warres against the Samnites And that Colonie and Citie serued them not for that warre only but continuallie euer after and at this present doth as an explorator and receptacle to hold and keepe their neighbours in subiection ¶ Lisimache subdueth the cities of Pont Thaure which rebell and after vanquisheth the Scythes supplies by Antigone sent into the same countrey The .xxxiiij. Chapter THe yeare ensuing whiche was the same tyme that Theophraste gouerned Athens and Marcke Publy and Caye Sulpitie were at Rome created Consuls the Caulandians enhabiting the left partes of Pont expulsed Lysimache his garrisone there and set them selues at libertie The lyke also dyd the Histrianois the other cities néere thereabouts Whereuppon they altogyther ioyned to resist Lysimache and made also alliaunce with the Tracians and Scythians néere them so that being altogyther ioyned they were able to encountre resiste a mightie armie Wherof Lysimache aduertised departed with an huge armie and came through the countrey of Thrace and passing the mount Emus sodenlie encamped before the citie of Odesse and after besieged Obseste both which he at his first arriuall surprised and put in suche feare that they rendred vpon composition and going thence he tooke after the same maner the Histrianois From thence he went to besiege the Calandians but whē he vnderstood that the Scythes were come in the coūtrey with a mightie armie to helpe their Allies and friends he marched against them and as soone as he was neere them so fierslie charged the whole camp and put the Thracians which were with thē in such feare that they reuolted and came to him and after ioyned battaill w t the Scythes in which he ouerthrew and kild a great nūber the rest he chased and expulsed the countrey After that he besieged the citie of the Calandians fullie determined to be reuenged for their rebelliō But as he was thus purposed newes came that Antigone had sent two armies for the reliefe of the Calandians to saye Lycon by the sea of Pont and Pausanie by lande who alreadie was encamped at a place called Sacre With whiche newes Lysimache verie sore troubled left so many of his armie as he thought would suffise for the siege and him selfe with the greater parte marched on to encounter the enimie which came by land But when he was come to the foote of the Mount Emus thought to passe he was aduertised that Seuthes the King of Thrace was reuolted from him and ioyned with Antigone and garded and kept the passage with a great numbre of men Wherefore he was enforced to gyue him battaill in which many of his people were lost But in y e end after great slaughter he draue the enimie from the passage And al sodenlie he so lustelie charged Pausanie his bande which was fled to the straights of the mountaine on the other side that he slew the greater part amongs whom was Pausanie ◠and some of the prisoners he ransomed and sent awaye and retained the rest and deuided them amongs his bandes ¶ Thelesphore one of Antigone hys captaynes restoreth the greater number of the cities of Peloponnese to libertie And Phillip a Captayne of Cassanders vanquisheth the Etholians and the King of Epire which came to their ayde The .xxxv. Chapter AS Lysimache his affaires stood in this astate Antigone apperceyuing him selfe frustrate of his purpose sent L. sayle manned with suche numbre of men as he thought good into Peloponnese vnder Thelesphore and gaue him in charge to restore the cities of the same countrey to libertie thinking to get suche credit thereby amongs the Grecians that they woulde firmelie beléeue how he vnfainedlie desired nothing more than the restoring of them to their libertie and popular gouernement He sent also his intelligencers to learne what Cassander did And shortly after that Thelesphore arriued in Peloponnese he deliuered all the citizens from the garrisons of Alexander except Sycione and Corinth which Polispercon with a great armie helde and kept whome he coulde not expulse considering the great strength of the places The same season Phillip whome Alexander hadde sent as Lieutenaunt Generall against the Etholians after his comming into Carnanie beganne to make incursions and robberies in the countrey of Etholie But soone after he was aduertised that Eacide who had ben expulsed the realme of Epyre was thyther returned and had assembled a great armie Wherefore he departed thence and marched forth meaning to encountre him before he ioyned with the armie of the Etholians But he found at his first comming the Epirotes all prest readie to battaile whō he so forcibly assayled y ◠he them discomfited slew many and tooke a great nūbre prisoners and amongst y e rest L. of those which had bene the causers of Eacide his returne into Epire which L. he sent boūd to Cassander But they escaped w t Eacide ioyned agayne with the Etholians to fight a freshe whome Phillip likewise discomfited and slew the greater part togyther w t King Eacide him self Thus Philip by reason of his two great victories in so short time put the Etholians in suche terrour and feare of him that they abandoned the playne countrey and vndefensable places and with their wyues and children got vp to the straights in the moūtaines And so much as touching the affaires of Grece ¶ Antigone apperceyuing that he is by Cassander deceyued taketh certen cities in Carie and after commeth to a parle with Cassander And vppon little or no agreement they beginne the warre in Grece The .xxxvj. Chapter DUring the time that these things were exploited in Grece Cassander Lieutenaunt to Ptolome other his Allies in Asie by Antigone oppressed came to an agréement w t him Wherein these articles were concluded vpon First that he should put away and deliuer hys armie to Antigone Item that he should set the Cities Grecians in Asie at libertie Item that he shoulde retayne and hold the Satrapies he had first gyuen him And lastlie that he should become and remayne Antigones
discomfiture of his people before he had heard of the victorie before by them atchieued he leuied a great numbre of men and hasted into Epyre to the aide of Lyciske But after he vnderstood that his Souldiours had had the better he concluded a peace and contracted amitie with Alcete From thence departed he with a great number of men into the quarters of Adrie to besiege the Apollonians bicause they had expulsed his garrisons and ioyned with the Illirians Howbeit the Citizens nothing afeard of hys comming hauing a great armie with the ayde of their Allies marched out of the Towne to fight against the enimie And after a long and cruell battaill the Apollonians being the greater number at last discomfited Cassander Whereuppon he with great losse and slaughter of his men then to weake and séeing winter approche returned into Macedon After whose departure the Leucadians with the helpe of the Corcyrians expulsed Cassanders garrisons there lefte The Epyrotes also a while perseuered vnder the subiectiō of Alcete their King But after he beganne to waxe ouer rigorous and cruell against them they slew him and Esione and Nise two of his yongest sonnes ¶ Seleuke through his wisedome and prowes with a small numbre of men which Ptolome had giuen him conquereth the countrey of Babylon togyther Susiane and the rest nere adioyning which hold with Antigone The .xlj. Chapter BUt to returne to the doings in Asie After Ptolome and Seleuke wonne vpon Demetre the victorie about the citie of Gaze in the countrey of Sirie Seleuke with viij hundred footemen and aboute two hundred horsse which Ptolome deliuered him trauailled into Babylon For so great was his hope that although he had no men of warre yet doubted he not but with his seruauntes familiar friends only to go thyther bycause he surely trusted that the Babylonians for hys gentle entreatie towardes them heretofore shewed so hartelie loued him that they woulde with right good will receyue him and especiallie for that Antigon◠was far off that countrey And as he in this hope and confidence went his friendes which sée his small number and the great force power of the enimie both of men money friendship victuals and all other things necessarie were not a little astonied When Seleuke sée them in this terrour and feare he with these persuasions comforted them Had it bene requisite quod he thinke you that they which serued Alexander the king in his warres to whome for their prowes he had preferred and giuen charge to enterprise and take on hand matters of great waight shoulde haue trusted in the force strength of men and money more than in their owne prudence experience and industrie No for throughe that chieflie atchieued Alexander so many honorable and notable victories which at this day are in admiration of all the world It is also méete and conuenient to gyue faith and credit to the oracles and mouthes of the goddes who haue presaged that the beginning and sequele of this voyage shall haue good and prosperous successe For as I went to the oracle of Branchide to knowe my fortune the God saluted and gréeted me as a King moreouer I hadde a vision in my sléepe which seemed that Alexander was with me in my iourney for myne ayde and succoure letting me clerely vnderstand that in tyme I should attayne to great Empire and dominion Agayn no great and waightie matter cā be brought to passe without some labour and trauaill besides great hazard and daunger And after all these persuasions he vsed him selfe as a companion amongs the Souldiours which encreased suche loue and reuerence in their hartes towards him that they were emboldened to do him double seruice In this sorte came he with his small companie into the countrey of M◠sopotamie and there what with faire and fowle meanes he drew to him many of the Macedonians enhabiting Caris and with them marched into the countrey of Babilon And after he was entred al the whole Countrey mette him and offred their entier seruice and obedience bycause that during the space of .iij. or .iiij. yeares while he gouerned that Prouince he shewed him self a iust man and good Officer by meane wherof he wonderfully got the loue of all the people He likewise grew in the amitie of diuerse and sundry persons which woulde do hym seruice at a pinche and Poliarche besides Antigone his Lieutenaunt of a certen countrey reuolted and ioyned with him with aboue a thousand men of warre When they in League with Antigone sée the vnbrideled affection of the multitude they retired into a strong castle where of the Captayne was one Deiphile whiche Seleuke shortly after besieged and wanne and therein found many of his friends and familiars whome Antigone after his departure out of Babylon had committed to warde That done Seleuke gotte togyther so many men as he could and bought a numbre of horses whiche he bestowed on such as came in his ayde He likewise shewed him selfe to al men so curteous and gentle that they determined to endure al aduentures and daungers in his seruice whatsoeuer But after he was aduertised that Nycanor gouernour of Mede had assembled of the same countrey and Perse and of other countreys thereabouts an armie of .x. thousande footemen and .vij. thousand horsse he with great diligence departed with those Souldiours he had to the numbre of .iij. thousande footemen and .v. hundred horsse to méete him And when he had passed the ryuer Tygre and was aduertised that the enimie was not aboue two or thrée dayes iourneys of he retired hid his men in certen mershes thereabouts amongs the réedes and bulrushes to the intente by ambush to surprise Nycanor who being come to the bank of the said riuer and hearing no newes of y e enimie lodged in a Manor roial hard by thinking y e enemie vnderstood of his comming had gone into some place farther of And for that selfe same cause was he not verie carefull to set his watch neyther yet put him selfe in any readinesse whatsoeuer might chaunce By reason whereof Seleuke that night with great noise and affraie assaulted his lodging Neuerthelesse the enimie in that disorder stoode to the defence aswell as they could and as it happened the Persians first encountred and fought wherevpon their Satrapa Euager and diuerse other of their captaynes were slaine Wherefore the more parte of the rest of the Souldiours what for feare of daunger and for that they liked not Antigone hys dealing rendred to Seleuke Whiche thing Nycanor séeing and fearing to be by the Souldiours betrayed and deliuered prisoner to Seleuke fled through y e desertes with a few of his friends When Seleuke had strenghtned him selfe with these mē at armes and vsing his acustomed curtesie and humanitie towardes all men he easely wanne agayne to hys obeissaunce the countreys of Susiane and Mede and diuerse other regions néere about Of whiche doings Ptolome and his other friends were aduertised
hauing alreadie such encrease of power and authoritie as might beséeme a right mightie King w t glory fame worthy a great Empire ¶ Demetre in battaill vanquisheth Cylles Ptolome his Lieutenaunt and after Antigone his Father commeth and ioyneth with him and then Ptolome forsaketh the countreys of Syrie and Phenice and leaueth them to the said Antigone The .xlij. Chapter DUring the time that Seleuke was occupied as is aforesayde Ptolome who had in battaile vanquished Demetre in Celosirie as aboue and there still remained vnderstanding that Demetre was againe come into the hier Syrie and there encamped sent one of his captaynes named Cylles a Macedonian with suche numbre of men as he thought good eyther to expulse him the coūtrey of Syrie or else to kéepe hym so occupied that he should do no kind of exploite But as he was vppon the waye Demetre being by his scoulte aduertised of hys comming and their disorder bycause he neyther feared or estéemed the enimie in the night departed from hys camp lying nere Myunte w t hys horsse and light armed footemē leauing in his camp the rest with the baggage and so hasted that about the daye breake he assayled Cilles camp which he found so disordered that they without resistaunce yelded togyther Cylles himselfe Whervpon when Demetre had thus sodenlie done so great an exploite he thought he had well reuenged the shame and domage by him at the battail before lost receiued Notwithstanding doubting that if Ptolome hearde of those newes he would with his power come agaynst him he pitched his campe in a verie strong place hauing at hys backe a great Marris and then so much as in him laye sent to aduertise his father of that he had done praying him with all diligence to sende a strong supplie or else with all his power to come him selfe and enter Syrie to recouer it Of these newes Antigone then lying in Cylene in the countrey of Phrigie was right glad that his sonne a yong man had wonne so great and honorable a victorie whereby he deserued to be a King And incontinent he with hys whole armie departed Phrigie and after he had passed the moūt Thaure he made such spéed that within few days he was come to his sonne When Ptolome vnderstood of his comming he aduised with hys counsaile what should be best to doe whether to attend the enimie in Syrie and there to fight or to returne into Egipt and from thence make warre as he hadde before done against Perdicas Whereuppon they all agréed that he should not hazard his case against the force of the enimie ioyned togyther and chieflie bycause they hadde a great numbre of Elephants and Antigone hym selfe also in persone who neuer yet was vanquished Wherefore it séemed to them that the beste surest way was that Ptolome should returne into Egipt where were victuals great store and might there kéepe hym selfe in strong and aduauntageous places In following which counsaill he delibered to go into Egipt but before hys departure he beat downe and razed certayne faire and beutiful cities to wete Hace in Phenice Yoppe in Samarie and Gaze in Sirie That done he with his armie and al the mouable goods which might be carried went into Egipt By this meane Antigone without difficultie or resistaunce recouered all the countreys of Sirie Phenice ¶ Antigone enterpriseth warres against the Nabathians inhabiting the deserts of Arabia and Athaney his Captayne is by them discomfited Also after Demetre hys comming thyther he concludeth a league and amitie with them The .xliij. Chapter AFter Antigone had thus recouered and wonne the countreys of Syrie and Phenice he indicted warres to the Arabians called Nabathians whō he thought his enimies Wherfore he chose out one of his Captains named Atheney and deliuered to him .iij. thousande shot and .vj. hundred of his lightest horsse cōmaunding them to enter the said countrie and to make so many incursions as they might But bycause the maner of life and order of the said Arabians is farre different and disagréeing from all other I thinke it meete and expedient here to make some mention and declaration thereof First they dwel wildlie abroad without eyther townes or houses wherefore they saie their lande is vnhabitable bicause there are neither ryuers or foūtayns wherwith to maintayne an armie They haue also a lawe which prohibiteth them on paine of death not to sowe any corne neyther to set or graf trées bearing fruit nor to drinke wyne or build houses This they hold mayntayn bycause they thinke that those which haue houses and maneured lands and fruitfull are always subiect to conquerours But there are amongs them many whereof some haue great flockes of shéepe other great heards of Camels going abroad in the desertes neuer tarrying long in one place And althoughe there are diuerse kindes of Arabians whiche inhabit the desertes yet are the Nabathians the richest and wealthiest and are about the numbre of .x. thousand whereof some are accustomed to trade by Sea with incense myrrhe and other drugs aromatique growing in the fertile Countrey of Arabie They are also meruelouslie determined to kéepe and mainteyne their libertie And when any enimie inuadeth they draw to the desert and places solitarie which serue in stead of castles and forts where no straunger can liue Notwithstanding they haue certen receptacles within the Caues whiche they digge in the same earth being of plaister and softe stones whereby they may the better digge the Caues the entry of which are little but within large and déepe so that they are more than an Arpent square and in those they set earthen vessels filled with great store of rayne water and then they in suche sorte couer the entry of the Caue aboue that they which passe by can not perceyue it but them selues knowe it again by a signe which they leaue behinde and euery third daye they water their cattell with that water to the ende if they were put to flight they should not want drinke and their chief foode is flesh mylke and other things which the lande bringeth forth verie good and holsome to eate In this lande also groweth Peper and wild honie which they drinke with water There are besides beyond these other Arabians dwelling in the maneured land and are tributaries as the Syrians and liue in such order as they doe saue that they dwell in no houses And this is y e maner and life of the Arabians Nowe is there a place in the same Countrey verie strong without walles or anie suche like defence distaunt from the land habitable two dayes iourney where at one time of the yeare whiche was euen verie then they repaire and come from all quarters of the countrey to buy and sell. And as the merchaunts were there assembled and had left at home their goodes wyues children and olde men and women in a certen strong rocke Atheney who had wel espied out his time with
the siege thereof one of his friendes hight Archelaye with .v. thousande footemen and a thousande horsse to continue the siege and him selfe with the reste returned to Sea ¶ The Romaines vnder the coÌ„duct of Quinte Fabie their Dictator winne and take two Cities from the Samnites The .xlvj. Chapter DUring the time that these things aforesaide were done in Asie the warres betwene the Romaines and Samnites in Italy waxed and continued more fierce neuer ceasing besieging of Townes making incursions and robberies one into anothers countrey and running all ouer with rolling campes For these two Nations notable Souldiours and warlike people left nothing vnhazarded for the winning of Empire and Dominion one of another It happened also that y e Romaine Consuls with one part of their armie were come and encamped more néere the campe of the enimie to espie the tyme and aduauntages for them to fight and also to staye the enemie that they might thereby hold kéepe the Cities allied and confederate with them in suertie The other parte of the armie ledde Quinte Fabie Generall of the whole armie and soueraigne Dictator who wonne and forcibly toâ— ke the Citie of Ferent and sent two hundred of the principall Citizens to Rome prisoners whom for their common rebellion against the Romaines they according to the Lawe and maner of the Romane custome were whipt about the Citie and after beheaded in the great market place Shortlie after he entred the territorie of the Nolaines tooke the citie and by the sound of the drumme sold the butine thereof and deuided one parte of their lande amongs the men of warre Wherefore the Romanes séeing their affaires prosper and go forward sent a Colonie of Citizens into the Isle of Potide ¶ After the alliaunce made and confirmed betwene Cassander Ptolome Lysimache and Antigone Cassander putteth to death the yong Alexander and Roxanne his mother The .xlvij. Chapter THe yeare ensuing in which Thesimonide hadde the gouernement of Athens and that Maâ— ke Valerie Publy Dece were at Rome created Consuls Cassander Ptolome and Lysimache treated a league and amitiâ— which was put in writing By which Cassander was declared and named Gouernour and Emperour of Europe Lysimache of Thrace Ptolome of Egipt and the Cities neere there about aswell in Lybie as Arabie And Antigone of all Asie vntil that Alexander Roxanne hir sonne came to his full age It was also concluded and agréed vppon that the Grekes should remayne and be at libertie after their accustomed lawes Neuerthelesse the sayde Princes continued nor remained not in that accord and appointement for euery of them by exquisite meanes went about to enlarge and encrease his Dominion and authoritie But Cassander séeing that Alexander y e sonne of Roxanne waxed and grewe in yeares and bignesse that in Macedon the voices went and men talked that it was néedfull and requisite to take Alexander oute of prison and to restore hym to the authoritie and gouernement of his fathers Realmes and fearing if that should so come to passe it would go awry with him commaunded Glaucye who had charge and kéeping of the infant secretlie to put him his mother to death whiche thing was spéedily done Through which facte both Cassander Ptolome Lysimache and Antigone so soone as they had thereof intelligence were clerely deliuered of the feare they had of the yong King Alexander For after him remayned no succeâ—â— our of Alexander the great but euery of the Gouernours of the Countreys and Prouinces aspired the Kingdomes and principalities and after held and kept them as their owne inheritaunce acquired and gotteÌ„ by the right and conquest of warre And the same tyme in Italy the Romaines with a great number of footemen and horse went to besiege the citie of Spolite in the countrey of Maruce and sent into that countrey a Colonie of their Citizens whom they called Interanneis The ende of the .xix. Booke of Diodorus Siculus the second part of this present volume and here beginneth the .xx. of this volume the third parte A little shorte Prologue wherin the Author declareth in what sorte it is commendable and well beseeming a good and perfect HistoriaÌ„ to vse Rhetoricke Orations Declarations and such other like NOt without iuste cause ought they which vnderstand and knowe the arte of Rhetorick to reproue their order which in Histories do admixt eyther too long or many orations bycause they by such impertinent and superfluous wordes doe not onely interrupt and breake the order of their narration but also do hinder the desire of the Readers for vnderstanding of the things passed And if suche Oratours and Rhetoritians wil by such orations shew their skill and learning and the elegancie of their spéeche and language they may particularly by them selues couch the orations and Ambassades apperteyning to Ambassadours the prayses and disprayses able and méete and other suche like and so vsing their arte and elegancie in such tales and busying them in this and that matter particularlie shall be coÌ„mended therin Howbeit at this day some writers w t vsing the art Oratory reduce the greater part of Histories into Orations tales whiche to the Readers are verie tedious and yrkesome not only for that they haue naughtely written and made them but also bycause they no whit regarded the order and nature of the Historie By reason whereof suche as do read them verie ofte passe ouer vnread the saide orations and declarations which by great arte and cunning had bene composed and made or else for the length impertinencie are so weried that they leaue all vnread And not withoute good reason for the nature of an Historie is to be plaine and continued without interruption like as when the bodye of a man is dismembred it loseth hys kindely vertue but when it is whole ioyned togyther it hath then the full grace and perfect strength And so in like case the narration and setting forth of an History gyueth to the Reader thereof a manifest and delectable pleasure if it be playne and continued Notwithstanding I wil not altogyther reiect and forbidde the vse of Rhetoricke in an Historie for that to make it pleasant it ought with some varietie and copie to be garnished is therfore very requisite that in some corner place thereof be orations and declarations Neyther will I my selfe be altogyther voide of that facultie and arte when I shall come to the talke of any Ambassadoure Counsailour or other such graue personage but I will recite what he hath saide And they whiche haue not the knowledge to do that might find manie excuses and say they had forgotten to put it in which had ben expedient and necessarie in the same place to haue ben interlaced Therefore where things be worthie memory and profitable whereby the Historie should be garnished they ought not negligentlie to be passed ouer as it were vnder colour that they nothing serued to y e purpose not properlie couched and
Aripharne was put to flight whome Satire a while chased and ouerthrew and killed a great number of hys people But when he vnderstood that his brother Eumele which lead the other wing ouer against the Mercenarie Grekes hadde the better of them he desisted chasing of Aripharne and came to the rescous of his owne men At whose comming the enemie was repulsed and in the end put to flight And in this maner Satyre him selfe was cause of victorie in both the wings By which well appeared y t the realme aswell for his Seignoritie as also for his vertue and prowes to him only apperteyned The victorie thus wonne Aripharne and Eumele retired into a Castle standing on a verie stéepe rocke scituate in the middest of the Riuer of Thatis By reason whereof and also bycause the walles were strong and hie well manned and also furnished with all kyndes of shot and weapon it was not easie to be taken but verie difficile and harde to besiege hauing but two wayes to enter both of them artificially made and wrought the one went directlie to the castle enuironed and defended with flankers and bulwarks the other to certen marshes lying round about the castle fortified with rāpiers of wood in the middest of whiche marshes were faire houses buylt vppon great pillers standing vppon the ryuer When Satyre had considered the strong situation and great daunger in the siege thereof he first made incursions and robberies vppon all the countrey round about and tooke a great numbre of the paysauntes prisoners with great plenty of cattell and burnt and fouraged all the villages And after he had thus done he determined forcibly to assaile the place whiche lead to the Castle but he was repulsed with losse of many men Notwithstanding he desisted not but so lustely and courageously assaulted the other waye that he wanne the rampers and houses standing on the marshes and spoyled them and after passed the ryuer where he began to cut and hew down the piles and houses of wood through which he must néedes passe if he determined to come to the Palaice Which thing when Arypharne sée and fearing the taking of the Palaice his whole trust and chief refuge defended the same by all the possible meanes he could Now had he a great numbre of shot which he deuided on both sides the waye who hurt a great numbre of the wood fellers bycause they coulde not auoyde the shot nor yet endomage them which did the hurte Neuerthelesse they couragiouslie endured the daunger and for thrée dayes togyther neuer ceased cutting downe of wood so that they hadde made a playne beaten waye through the marshes and the fourth daye were gotten hard to the curten For Menisce Captayne of the Mercenaries a valiaunt and wise man came brauely and courageouslie with his Souldiours throughe the same waye to gyue the assault But after he had long susteyned the violēce of the shot within and the greater number of his men hurt he then of force retired And in the retire they of the Castle in such number sallied out vppon him that what through the narrownes of the way and disaduauntage of the place he surely had ben slayn had it not ben that Satyre séeing them so distrest incontinent came to their rescous Who nobly fighting and abyding the force of the enimie was with the blowe of a launce in one of his armes so sore hurte that he was faine to be taken and carried backe into his campe and the night ensuing died on the same stroke when he had raigned but .ix. monethes after the death of his Father When Menisce sée that he raysed the siege and retired the armie to the citie of Galgaze and from thence sent his brothers bodie downe elongest the Ryuer vnto hys brother Prytame in the citie of Panticape who caused it very sumptuously honorably to be enterred amongs the sepulchres and tombes of the Kings And that done he incontinent went into the citie of Galgaze and there seized on the armie and Realme To whom Eumele hys brother sent Messangers to demaund particion of y e said Realme who harkened not to any suche demaund but after he had placed his garrisons in Galgaze forthwith returned to Pāticape to establish and set an order about the affaires and estate of the realme The same time Eumele with the ayde of a numbre Barbarians tooke the citie of Galgaze and many other Townes and Uillages thereabout Whereof Pritame aduertised leuied a great armie and came against him where he in battaill was vanquished and enforced to flie into a place in the straight néere the marshe Meothide and being there by Eumele enclosed was driuē of necessitie to come to a cōposition wherein he gaue ouer restored to him his armie and also forsooke his right and title of the realme But after he was returned to Panticape the Palaice Royall of the King of Bosphore he againe forcibly tooke vppon him the gouernement and estate of the Realme but he was a fresh by Eumele ouerthrowen and fleing through certen orchyardes there slaine After whose death Eumele meaning to assure himselfe of the realme caused all the friends wyues and children of Pritame Satyre his brethren to be put to death except and reserued Parisade Satyre his sonne a verie yong stryppling who on horse backe got out of the towne and fled to Agare King of the Scythes But when Eumele sée the Citizens for the slaughter of their friendes and familiars waxe mutinous he assembled them and declared the causes which moued him to do the same saying farther that he would restore them into their auncient estate immunitie and franchize sometime had vnder his predecessours and that they should be exempte of all trybutes and impostes by which meane he appaised them and wanne againe their good willes and fauoures and after sagely and courteouslie gouerned behaued hym selfe in his raigne to the great admiration of all his neighbours For through his munificencie and curtesie he made all his friendes to loue him as the Byzancians Synopians and the rest of the Grekes inhabiting the countrey of Pont. And when Lysimache besieged the Calantians who for want of victuals were brought into great daunger and necessitie he receyued a thousand of them which came out by reason of the famine and not onely licenced and assured them to remayne in his Countrey but also gaue them one of his owne cities named Yse amongs them deuided the territorie thereof He moreouer warred vppon the Heniques Thaures and Achees Barbarians and Sea rouers to make the Sea Pontique nauigable to them of the countrey By which his doings he both got great prayse and renowne of the countrey men there and also of the whole world bycause of the reporte the people of that countrey made to all whiche sailed and came thyther so that he hadde wonne a great parte of the region of Barbary ioyning vpon his realme and became so puissaunt and renoumed that he
of Grece waxe strong and doubting that al the warre in the end would be transferred against the countrey of Macedone he was thereof so carefull that he sent his Ambassadours to Antigone in Asie to treat a peace with him who aunswered that there was but one way for him to auoyde the warres which was to submit hys persone and whole estate to him with which aunswere he was sore abashed Wherfore he sent into Thrace to Lysimache praying him to come ouer that they might togyther consult of his estate For in all his affaires and waightie businesse he always accustomed to sēd for him to communicate with him of them and also to desire his ayde aswell for that he was a noble and valiaunt man as also bycause he was néere neighbour to the countrey of Macedon After Cassander and Lysimache had long cōsulted and debated togyther of their businesse they determined to send their Ambassadoures to King Ptolome in Egipt and to Seleuke gouernour and ruler of the hier regions to declare to them of Antigone his proude and arrogant wordes and how that the hazard of that victorie was common to them all For if he were seized on the realme of Macedon such was his desire of Dominion and rule thinking him to haue no pere that he would dryue them euery man oute of their Countreys as they had by experience séene and proued Wherfore it was méete and necessarie to ioyne all togyther and with one common accord warre vppon him To which admonitions Ptolome and Seleuke soone agréed and promised eche of them to sende a mightie power of men to resiste the said Antigone if at any tyme he came to pierce and inuade their countryes Howbeit they determined not to looke for him before he came to séeke them at home in t◠eir owne countrey and then to preuent him and do some exploite of great waight they deuided them into two bandes the one of which Cassander gaue to Lysimache and with the other him selfe went into Thessaly against Demetre and the Grekes As for Lysimache he passed into Asie at his first comming receyued and got to his amitie the Lampsacians and Paryanians whome he set at libertie bycause they yelded to him of their owne accorde But he forcibly tooke the Sigeans who stoode to their defence and thrust a garrison into their citie This done he deliuered to Prepelaye one of hys principall Captaynes .vij. thousand footemen and a thousande horsse to go reduce into his obeisaunce the Cities of Eolide and Ionye and him selfe went and besieged Abide But as he was making preparation with his Engines to assaile the towne vnderstanding that Demetre hadde by Sea sent thyther ayde sufficient to defend it he chāged his determination and purpose and departed thence and came into the countrey of Phryge by Hellespont and there besieged the citie of Synade wherein stood a strong Castle in which Antigone layde vp and kept one part of his treasure and richesse But in the ende he so practised with Docime deputie for Antigone that he deliuered the Towne and Castle and ioyned with him against Antigone and was the cause that certen other forts and Castles rendred within which likewise Antigone hadde an other parte of hys treasure And Prepelaye who was sent into Eolide and Ionye tooke as he passed the Citie of Adramit and after encamped before Ephese where he put the Townesmen in suche terror that they rendred to him vpon composition and found in it a hundred Rhodians which he sent away vnransomed and without endomaging the Townesmen any whit at all Howbeit he burnt all the shippes within the Hauen bycause the enimie was at Sea stronger than he and the successe of that war is yet vncertayne and vndetermined After that he incontinent drewe to his alliaunce the Theians and Colophonians But the Erythreans and Clazomenians he could not winne bycause they were spéedly ayded by Sea notwithstanding be made incursions and robbed all their lande After that he went against the citie of Sarde whiche he by composition tooke on Phonicke and Docime Antigone his deputies and wanne them to hys alliaunce Howbeit he could not get the castle bycause Philip Captayne thereof one of Antigone hys chiefe friends would not by any practize or deuise be wonne but honestly kept it for his said Master who put him in that truste In this estate where the affaires of Lysimache ¶ Antigone commeth against Lysimache and after he hath him twise besieged and can not get him out to battaill they are both fayne to sende their Souldiours in garrisons to winter The .xviij. Chapter THe same season had Antigone made great preparation for the sportes tournais and diuerse other pastimes in the citie of Antigone For performaunce whereof he caused a great numbre of all sortes of people thyther to repaire as sword players wrastlers and all the most excellent artificers But after he vnderstood of Lysimache his passing by and the reuolting of his captaynes he left of all his sportes and pastimes Neuerthelesse to content thē that were come thyther he gaue aboue two hundred Talents to be distributed amongs them and after departed with his armie out of the countrey of Syrie making haste to come before the face of the enimie And after he had gotten to the citie of Tarse in the Region of Cilice he payed all his Souldiours for .iij. Monethes And besides carried in siluer with hym three thousand Talents bycause he would want no money to atchieue his enterprises what so euer should happen From thence passed he the Mount Thaure and entred the countrey of Cappadoce and from thence into the hier Phrygie bringing vnder his subiection the Townes and cities of the said countreys whiche were reuolted Whereof Lysimache aduertised assembled his captayns and consulted what was best to be done And in the end cōsidering the great puissance of the enimie they were all of the opinion not to ioyne battaill vntill such time as the ayde and succours which Seleuke should send out of the hier Satrapies were come but still to kéepe in the strongest places and most of aduantage to fortifie their campe stronglie to keepe good watch And to be shorte whatsoeuer séemed for their most aduantage they right wysely performed For althoughe Antigone approched them presented battaill yet made they no semblaunt once to sallie out of their campe Which thing Antigone apperceyuing tooke and kepte certen passages to cut them from their victualles Whereupon Lysimache fearing famine by that meane to be forced to render to the enimie stoale away by night and without staye trauailled foure hundred furlongs vntill he came to Dorythe and there pitched his campe bycause the place was well purueied of victualles and all other things necessarie hauing a Ryuer running hard by it whiche was a great sauegard and comfort for the armie and entrenched his campe with a broad and déepe ditche and thrée trenches In the meane season Antigone aduertised of
Lysimache his departure with all diligence pursued hym but before he could ouertake him he might perceyue that he had already fortified his campe Notwithstanding he a fresh presented him battaill but seeing him that waye nothing apte and disposed commaunded his Souldiours to enuiron the campe of the enimie with trenches and planted all his Engines against the same determining there to besiege them And althoughe the enimie sore gald and oftentimes repulsed them with shot yet hadde Antigone his Souldiours euer the better and in short tyme had almost wonne their rampire whiche Lysimache séeing and still fearing enclosing and famine in a foule and raynie night raysed hys Campe and stoale awaye without knowledge of the enimie passing throughe the places of aduauntage alongest the Mountayne by which meane he lost not one mā of his armie but dispersed it and sent them by garrisons to winter When it was daye Antigone vnderstanding the departure of the enimie likewise departed and pursued them certen dayes alongest the playne costing dayly the mountayn but there fell such store of rayne and the ground waxed so miery and déepe that he lost manie of his beastes and mares which drew his carriages and also many men and the reste were verie sore trauelled and weried Wherefore the King meaning to rest his weried Souldiours and séeing winter approche left pursuing the enimy and deuided his armie sending them into places couenable to winter But when he vnderstoode that Seleuke was with great puisaūce come out of y e hier Satrapes against him he sent a friend of his to Demetre hys sonne lying in Grece commaunding him to make spéedy returne with his whole power bycause he greatly feared that all the rest of the Kings and Satrapes would sodenly come vppon him and gyue him battaill before his armie were come out of Grece Lysimache also had deuided his men to winter in a champion Countrey called Salmone and had great plentie of victualles out of the Citie of Heracley bycause of the alliaunce betwene hym the Gouernours of the citie by marriage for he had espoused a Lady named Amistre daughter to Oxiarthe Niece to the King of Aure whom Alexander had before giuen to Cratere for wife ¶ Demetre commeth into Grece against Cassander and after certen small exploites on eyther side done they grow to a composition That ended Demetre goeth into Hellespont to ioyne with his Father and of many and diuerse other things The .xix. Chapter THe same season wherein the matters before spoken of were exploited in Asie Demetre after purposed to celebrate in Eleusine the accustomed annuall pastimes and sacrifices of the countrey to the ende he would there be enstalled and cōsecrated And bicause it was long to the ordinarie daye he sore laye vpon the Athenians and required them that they woulde for hys loue and in parte of recompence of the good turnes he had done them set forward the daye whiche at hys request they did whereupon he all vnarmed presented him selfe to the Priestes and being before the vsuall daye enstalled and consecrated after the maner and custome of the countrey departed from Athens and came to the citie of Calchide in y e Isle of Euboye where he first assembled his shippes and footemen And being there he vnderstood that Cassanders souldiours kept the passages of the countrey thereby wherefore he thought it not good to trauell into Thessaly by land but enbarqued hys armie and sailed thence and arriued at the Port of Larisse where he came on land and first wanne the citie after the castle and committed the garrison men to prison and set the Citizens at libertie After that he wan Pronas and Pteley and stayed the Citizens of Dium and Orcomenie whome Cassander would haue transferred into the citie of Thebes least they should go thyther When Cassander sée that Demetre his doings still prospered he thrust greater garrisons into the cities of Phere and Thebes and with the remnaunt of his men marched towardes him and encamped as néere as was possible He had in his armie .xxix. thousande footemen and two thousand horsse And Demetre hadde aboue .xv. hundred horsse .viij. thousand Macedonian footemen .xv. thousand Mercenaries .xxv. thousand Grekes and aboue eight thousande Pyrates and other light armed men who came more for spoyle than to fight so that in all he had lvj thousand footemen When the two armies were in view one of another although the Souldiours on eche side desired battaill yet came they not to ioyning bycause the Chieftaynes attended and looked for newes of the successe of the warres in Asie For vpon that hoong the losse and victorie to tall In the meane tyme the Phereans had brought secretly into their citie Demetre with a certen numbre of his Souldiours who tooke and helde the Castle and vppon his honour sent away Cassanders Souldiours with bagge and baggage and after restored the Phereans to libertie The affaires of Thessaly being in this estate Demetre receyued letters from his father wherein he commaunded hym forthwith to come to him with his armie into Asie whiche letters receyued and obeing his fathers commaundement he cōcluded a peace with Cassander alwayes reseruing his Fathers pleasure for confirmation thereof bicause he was assured his father would neuer agrée therto but would by armes and dint of sworde determine and finishe the warres and not by composition and agréement Howebeit Demetre concluded the league and peace to the end he would haue an honest occasion to departe Grece to go into Asie so that it should not be saide he fled but y t he honestlie departed chieflie considering that in one of the articles of the conclusion was agréed that all the cities of Grece aswell in Asie as in Europe should be restored to libertie After the same conclusion Demetre made great prouision of Carracques wherein he enbarqued all his whole armie and fraught al his carriages sayling thence alongest the Isles he arriued at the Porte of Ephese and there landing his armie encamped harde before the towne and enforced the garrison to restore to hir pristinate estate and libertie the Citie and licenced them and their Captayn Prepelay one of Cassanders Chieftaynes safely to departe with bag and baggage and garrisoned the Castle with his owne Souldioures and thē entred Hellespont where he wanne to his obeysaunce the Lampsaks Parians and certen other Cities who were subtract from hys amitie After he sayled to the entry of Pont and encamped about the temple of the Calcedonians for gard wherof he left thrée thousand footmen and .xxx. Gallies the rest of his Souldiours he deuided amongs the cities to winter The same time Mytridate Gouernour of the countreys of Mysie and Carie who tooke parte with Antigone being suspected that he had conference with Cassander was put to death when he had gouerned .xxxv. yeares after whom his sonne Mithridate succeded who after enlarged encreased his fathers Empire
and besides for the space of .xxxvj. yéeres gouerned the countreys of Cappadoce and Paphlagone The same season also Cassander after the departure of Demetre recouered the cities he had lost in Thessalie and sent in Lysimache his aide Plisterche one of his captains into Asie w t the greater parte of his armie being about xxij M. footmen and .v. C. horsse But after Plistarche was come to the straight of Hellespont and sée it garded by Demetre his Souldiours he returned The ende of the third Booke The fourth Booke is taken out the wise Plutarque in the life of Demetre ¶ Antigone comming to battail against the enimie is throughe the default of hys sonne Demetre slayne The first Chapter ABoute the spring the two armies to saye Antigone and Demetre on the one parte and the Kings confederate on y e other with great power came into y e fields one against an other For Antigone had about Lxx. thousand footemē .iiij. thousand horse and Lxxv. Elephantes And on the enimies side were about Lxiiij thousand footmen .xv. thousand horsse foure score Elephantes and Cxx. armed charriots When the two armies were in viewe one of an other Antigone was maruelously troubled and very pensife For there ranne in hys fantasie many things and especially the great daunger and hazard of that battaill whereof he no lesse doubted the losse than he had good hope of victorie And although one waye by reason of his continual victories he well hoped but chiefly for the fame and reputation by him newly gotten for hys laste victorie in Cypres yet he agayne as a wise man and one experimented in martiall pollicies considered the varietie of Fortune who is neuer firme or stable but still delighteth in mutation and chaunge All whiche things throughly wayed he became so sore troubled and gréeued that where he before in other warres and battailles was accustomed to speake lowde and fiercely in reproche and despite of the enimie and set forth hys stoutenesse and magnanimitie he then without words was altogyther heauie pensiue which imported a maruelous thought and care in him as if he had had some present infelicitie in his head which sodaynly happened him He did also at that time as they said many things whiche he neuer woonted to do For he there openly in presence of al declared and named his sonne Demetre successor of hys realme as thoughe he should presently haue died and after tooke him into his Pauilion a great while and conferred with him alone whereat the whole armie was maruellously abashed bycause he neuer before vsed a parte to talke nor yet communicate with him in secret of his affayres but trusting to his owne wyt determined all matters after his owne fantasie and withoute demaunding aduise or counsail of any would cōmaund that to him seemed best In so muche that at one tyme they said when Demetre his sonne being but a yong Souldiour demaunded when he should returne to hym with the armie with a troubled and disdainfull countenaunce aunswered Arte thou so very a boy cowarde that thou canst not without me heare the sounde of the Trumpets Ageyn besides these his fantasies and imaginations many things then happened whiche might be iudged pronostications of euill lucke and misfortune towardes him For Demetre one night sée in his dreame Alexander the great al armed in white who asking him what signe and token he should giue to hys Souldiours in that battaill aunswered that Iupiter gaue victorie and by and by hym thought that Alexander saide and I also will take parte with your enimies It was likewise reported that after Antigone had aranged his Phalang or battaille of footemen and comming oute of hys Tente that he stoond one of his féete and therewith sodenly fel flat to the ground And after he was lift vppe holding vp his handes to heauen made his humble prayers to the Gods that they would eyther gyue hym victorie or at the least that he might be slayne rather than with shame to be enforced to flie and all at once wholy went to the battaill which on eyther side beganne very hoate and cruel It happened soone after y e Demetre with a lustie band of horssemen vnder his charge so violently charged Antioche the Sonne of Seleuke that he put him and all his company to flight and by reason of the excessiue ioye of victorie hadde them so long in chase that with his too great desire he lost altogyther For during the time he had them in chase the Seleukeans séeing the footemen left naked without horse whiche shoulde haue ben their garde and succoure so encompassed them as though they would on euery side haue charged Wherevpon some seeing all their horssmen gone forthewith rendred and the reste whiche stood to the defence after they see their inabilitie to withstand fled so that when Demetre was returned from the chase he could no way bring them ageyne into order And immediatly after this companie was discomfited a great band of the enimie charged the battaill wherein Antigone was euery of them meaning to get his persone Whiche thing one of his Souldiours apperceyuing sayd to him Saue thy selfe Sir King for euery of these men séeke and desire none but thée whome he ageyne thus aunswered In vayne they séeke and desire me for Demetre will soone be here to ayde me Howbeit the charge was so sodaine and impetuous that before his Sonne coulde come to helpe him many times calling for him to his ayde and looking round about if he came was by the enimie enuironed and after he was dead sore wounded And then all his enimies about him fled except Thorax of Larisse who alone tarried with the body ¶ After this discomfiture the Athenians woulde not suffer Demetre to entre their Citie and howe he ageyne gathereth togyther his armie After Demetre his daughter is married to Seleuke who treateth a marriage betwene Demetre Ptolomais daughter to King Ptolome and of the deniall he hath of two little Cities The .ij. Chapter AFter the Kings confederate had wonne this victorie they deuided amongs them as a great praye but in all Antigone and Demetre their landes and Seigniories And after Demetre sée the battaill loste he in all haste with .v. thousande footemen and foure thousand horsse fled to Ephese Whereupon the Citizens considering his losse and the necessitie he was in greatly feared that he woulde robbe and spoyle the riche Temple of Diana Howbeit he tooke not a Talent but doubting that his Souldiours bycause they were not well pleased with him would do some wicked déede he therfore determined to departe the Citie And after he sée the wind beganne to blowe vp he enbarqued all his soldiours and sailed directly into the Countrey of Grece meaning to get into the citie of Athens whiche he hadde kepte for his onely and singular refuge and therefore had there his shippes treasure and Deidamie his wife being fully persuaded that that Citie would neuer faile whatsoeuer
angrie that they would neyther obey any within or withoute the campe and that which was worse they with euill and oultragious wordes reproched Demetre And there was founde set vppon his Pauillion written in a table these wordes O thou sonne of good father Antigone into what region wilt thou now carry vs Finally when he sée the famin more and more dayly increase augmente he thought it most expedient and necessarie considering the necessitie of the time to departe that with the losse of eight thousand Souldiours he retired into the citie of Therse And bycause that Countrey was subiect to Seleuke he was carefull to looke about him that his men should not spoyle the Countrey whereby he might prouoke Seleuke his indignatiō against him whose puissaunce was very strong but especially at that tyme bycause he had such great affaires in hande whiche was impossible for him to compasse considering the necessitie and pouertie of his people And Agathocles so garded the passages of the ryuer Tygre that he was euery waye inclosed Whereupon considering the daunger he was in he determined to slie towardes Seleuke but before he would so do he wrote vnto him his pitifull letters conteining all his misfortunes and aduersities gréeuously complaining his miserable estate praying him to haue pitie and compassion of so wretched a man his familiar and neere allie who alreadie had had so many aduersities that his verie mortall enimies thereof ought to haue compassion and pitie These letters receyued Seleuke hauing pitie and compassion of one so noble a personage by fortune come into such calamitie and miserie writte to his Officers and Lieutenaunts in those quarters that they should vse and entreat him as apperteyned vnto so noble a Prince and farther to cal backe the men of warre which pursued him But after that Procley a sage and wise man and one of Seleuke his counsaill had told him that it was not expedient he should nourishe and mainteyne Demetre his men of warre nor yet to guie occasion to a Prince and Chieftayne of warre and so Noble a warriour to tarrie long within his coūtreys he grew maruelous suspicious and by by altered his opinion For men quod he ought not to make light accompte of so quarrelous a man which hath alwayes inuented and deuised straunge and hie enterprises and chiefly of one in so great aduersitie which were inough to moue a man of small courage to enterprise and execute a very great oultrage to his best and dearest friende These persuasions so moued Seleuke that he leuied a sufficient armie and with great diligence entred the countrey of Cilice When Demetre heard therof he was wonderfully abashed and astonied to sée so sodayn a mutation chaunge and so spéedy a returne Wherfore he with his armie retired into the strongest places of the mount Thaure and sent towardes Seleuke his Ambassadoures praying of him ayde and helpe for the obtayning and getting some principalitie and Seigniorie in some of the prouinces néere hand which had no King wherein he might staye him selfe ende his banishement and there leade the rest of his life and mainteyne his armie and further furnishe him and his people with victuals for want wherof sore distressed and in great néede and not to suffer that one of his familiars and poore and miserable allie to liue to his great dishonour vnder the power subiection of his enimies Wherevpon Seleuke greatly suspecting aunswered him That he was content Demetre and his armie should remayne two monethes in the countrey of Laconie alwayes prouided that he send certen his principall friends for hostages When Demetre vnderstood this aunswere he then wholly dispaired séeing him selfe on euery side enclosed and enuironed with Seleuke his garrisons and out of hope by prayers or entreatie to vrge him Wherfore he turned al his despaire into a rage and determined to warre and fight w t hym and thereupon descended into the playnes where he made great incursions robberies wasting the playne and champion Countrey and after came and encamped so neere Seleuke that they dayly escarmoushed togyther in which Demetre had alwayes the better And at last as they were one day arranged in order of battaile redie to fight after Demetre had repulsed and discomfited certen armed charriots he brauely put all the reste of Seleuke hys armie to flight And all at once with all possible spéede marched against Seleuke Souldiours keeping the passages of Syrie whome he likewise withoute great resistaunce incontinent chased and erpulsed ¶ After the victorie by Demetre wonne on Seleuke certen of his Souldiours by reason of a dysease which happened him forsake him but he with the rest still warring vpon Seleuke is at laste vanquished and enforced to render and in the ende kept as a prisoner The .x. Chapter OF this victorie were Demetre and hys Souldiours so proude and cruell that they dayly presented battaill to Seleuke But he who feared Demetre his hazard and fortune then verie miserable yet bycause she ageyne somewhat fauoured him and aduaunced hym to an hier degree of prosperitie turned backe Lysimache his souldiours by him sent in his aide for that he had no great trust or confidence in them And with the reste of his own kept him in the places of most aduauntage not meaning to fight In this sorte began Demetre to gette ageyne courage and strength But as he stood vppon the point to exploite some notable matter he was sodenly with a gréeuous maladie which troubled and hindred al his enterprises taken For his Souldiours who throughe victorie hadde gotten courage and in good hope to worke wounders seeing their chieftayne so sore sicke faynted ageyne so that some fled from the armie some rendred to the enimie and other thinking by straunge and vncouth wayes to retire home villanously died Notwithstanding when Demetre with much a doo had in .xl. dayes recouered his health he with the men which remained forcibly entred the country of Cilice ouerrunning and spoyling euery where and in the ende encamped in so hie a place that the enimie being a great waye of might easely sée them When night came he without noise departed with his armie and passed the mount Aman and after descended to the foote of the mountaine into the playne and there spoyled and wasted all harde to the citie of Cyriste But shortly after Seleuke who faire and easely pursued him encamped néere him Whereuppon Demetre was right gladde thinking that that happened well for his purpose to surprise him in such sorte as he had determined to do and in the night at such tyme as he thought Seleuke and his men were at rest and a sléepe and doubted nothing he putte all hys hoste in armes and came straight vppon the Campe of the enimie to assaile them are they were prouided Neuerthelesse he was not so soone approched the sayd cāpe but that certen of the scoultes were come in extréeme haste to aduertise Seleuke of his comming who at
the long he had by his wife Illiriade and the other he got of Ptolomayde who after reigned Lorde and King of Cyrene There are some also which saye that Barrabe begotten of Euridice was likewise his sonne Thus after hys death the succession and posteritie of the sayde Demetre obtayned and enioyed the realme of Macedone vntil the reigne of King Perse whome the Romaynes after vanquished and expulsed Thus endeth the Historie of the Successors of Alexander extracte out of Diodore the Sicilian some part out of the wise Plutarque which conteyneth their actes iestes from the death of Alexander the great vntil the death of Demetre sonne to the great Antigone And whosoeuer lysteth to read and know the end of the other may read the Historie of Troge Pompey abridged by Iustine FINIS ¶ The Table of the Chapters conteyned in this present volume The first Booke AFter the death of Alexander the great Aride hys brother is established King and Perdicas appointed his Gouernour Chapter .1 fol. 1 ¶ Perdicas taking vpon hym the gouernement of the Realme deuideth the Satrapies amongs the Princes Chapter .2 fol. 2 ¶ Perdicas sendeth Python against y e Grekes rebelling in the hye countreys whome he ouerthroweth And incidentlie the description of the scite and compasse of all Asie Chap. 3. fol. 4 ¶ Of the warres that the Atheniās made against Antipater called the Lamian warre Cap. 4. fol. 6 ¶ Certē of the Princes vpon whome Perdicas had bestowed the gouernement of the Prouinces go about to Seiniorize them Cap. 5. fol. 9 ¶ Leonathe cōming to the rescous of Antipater is by the Athenians ouerthrowen and slayne But after the sayd Athenians are by Clythe chased and ouerthrowen at Sea Cap. 6. fol. 10 ¶ Perdicas ouercōmeth Ariarathes restoreth to Eumenes the countrey of Cappadoce Cap. 7. fol. 11 ¶ Antipater in fight vanquisheth the Grecian armie putteth in subiection the greater numbre of the cities of Grece and Athens and in the ende restoreth them to libertie Cap. 8. fol. 11 ¶ Of the exploits which Thymbron Ptolome did in the warres of Cyrene Cap. 9. fol. 13 ¶ Perdicas entring Piside taketh the Lamadians prisoners and by siege so distresseth the Isaurians that they kill them selues And at the entreatie of Antigone Antipater and Cratere whiche warred vppon the Etholians concludeth a peace with them bycause they woulde go against Perdicas Cap. 10. fol. 15 ¶ Of y e transporting the body of Alexander into Egipt out of Babylon The forme and fashion of the charriot w t the Pompe and solempnitie thereof Cap. 11. fol. 17 ¶ Eumenes is in battaill ouerthrowen and Cratere slayne Cap. 12. fol. 19 ¶ How the souldiors of Perdicas after he had brought them into Egipt slew him And howe Python and Aride were chosen Gouernours of the Kings Cap. 13. fol. 21 ¶ After the death of Perdicas the Macedonians flea all his kynne and friends in the armie and adiudge Attale and Alcete with their abettours and friends enimies rebelles Of the retire of Attale into the citie of Tyre consequently howe he a freshe assembleth all Perdicas friends which are escaped Cap. 14. fol. 23 ¶ The Etholians to put Antipater from his enterprise enter Thessalie who by the Acarnanians are constrayned to returne into their countrey And in what sorte Polispercon conquereth the countrey of Thessaly Cap. 15. fo 24 ¶ Antipater being constituted Gouernour and Protectour of the Kings a newe deuideth the Satrapies Cap. 16. fol. eodem ¶ Antigone vanquisheth Eumenes and besiegeth the Citie of Nore Cap. 17. fol. 25 ¶ Of the cōquests which Ptolome made on the countreys of Phenice and Celosirie Cap. 18. fol. 27 ¶ Antigone enterpriseth warres ageinst Alcete and Attale and discomfiteth them Cap. 19. fol. 27 ¶ After the death of Antipater Polispercon is ordeyned Gouernour of the Kings Cassander enterpriseth to expulse him the Gouernement Cap. 20. fol. 29 ¶ Antigone vnderstanding of Antipater his death taketh vpon him the gouernement of the Empire of Asie and sendeth to Eumenes desiring his returne Ca. 2◠fo 30 ¶ Aride is repulsed from the siege of the Citie of Cizice Cap. 22. fol. 31 ¶ Antigone commenceth warre against Aride gouernour of Phrigie and against Clite Lorde of Lydie And in the ende openly proclaymeth him selfe enimie to the Kings and enioyeth one parte of Asie Cap. 23. fo 31 ¶ Of diuers aduentures whiche happened Eumenes and of his deliueraunce frō the siege of Nore ca. 24. fo 32 ¶ Cassander sheweth him selfe enimie to Polispercon and getteth to his alliaunce many of the Satrapes Polispercon by an edict Royall restoreth the Cities of Grece into their auncient libertie Cap. 25. fol. 33 ¶ Eumenes taking parte with the Kings goeth into Cilice and of hys practises to gette men of warre Cap. 26. fol. 35 ¶ Ptolome goeth about to cause the Argiraspides to kill Eumenes whome he by his wisedome appeased and after sendeth an armie by sea into Phenice Ca. 27. fo 37 ¶ Nycanor kéeping and occupying the Porte of Pyre against the Athenians is besieged by Alexander Polispercon his sonne and of the mutenie in the citie of Athens Cap. 28. fol. 38 ¶ Polispercon besiegeth Cassander in Pyrey and perceyuing that he coulde not winne it departeth thence and besiegeth the citie of Megalopolis where by the wisedome and policie of Demades he is at an assault repulsed Cap. 29. fol. 41 ¶ After Clyte hath ouerthrowen at Sea Cassander he is through the wisedome of Antigone soone after discomfited and finally slaine in his flight Cap. 30. fol. 43 ¶ Eumenes vnderstanding that Antigone is comming against him departeth out of the countrey of Cilice And when he hath by his wisedome and industrie escaped in the waye the handes and ambushes of Seleuke he commeth into Perse. Cap. 31. fol. 44 ¶ The Athenians make a perfecte amitie and inuiolable peace with Cassander and allie with him After he killeth Nycanor and bringeth the greater number of the cities of Grece to his alliance Cap. 32. fol. 44 Of the second booke OF certayne matters both by the Romaines and the Crotonians exploited in Italie Cap. 1. fol. 45 ¶ Olympias Alexander his mother by meane of Polispercon obtayneth the gouernement of the Realme of Macedone causeth King Phillip and Euridice his wife to be executed and besides vseth many other cruelties Cap. 2. fol. 46 ¶ Eumenes passeth the Ryuer of Tygre and maugre Seleuke and Pythō marcheth into Susiane and after commaundeth the Satrapes of the higher Asie w t their whole power to mete him Cap. 3. fol. 47 ¶ The Satrapes of the hier countrey of Asie to resiste Python ioyne togyther and of the power they assembled Capt. 4. fol. 48 ¶ Eumenes through hys wisedome appeaseth the dissention of the Satrapes stryuing for the principalitie and payeth his men of warre And of the preparation which Antigone for his part maketh Cap. 5. fol. 49 ¶ How eight prisoners Alcete his souldiours throughe their great prowes
them his footemen which carried the terges and scaling ladders and all the rest which were appointed for the assaulte of the towne After them he placed his best men at armes which should encountre Ptolome if at any tyme he issued out into the fields And as they were passing about the middest of the riuer they escried on the other side the enimy whome Ptolome with great spéede ◠hrust into the towne for the defence thereof And although they were first entred the towne which they well vnderstood both by their noyse and sound of Trūppets it nothing daunted the courages of Perdicas Souldiers but that they stoutely approched the walles and addressed them to the scaling thereof and they which led the Elephaunts threw downe the trenches and battred and spoyled the batlements of the Curtennes whiche thing Ptolome séeing and minding to encourage his Captaynes and Souldiers whereof were many both famous and valiaunt encountred them euen vpon the vttermost rampare at the push of the Pyke and fighting in a place of aduauntage put out the eyes of the foremost Elephant and sore wounded his ruler an Indian This done he with great despite and mighty blowes charged the scalants tūbled them frō the ladders into y e riuer which ranne alongest the side of the Towne Then his friends compaignions in armes purposing some notable exploit with shot so charged the other Elephant which followed the first that they slew his gouernour whereby he could do nothing Notwithstanding all this Perdicas Soldiers cōtinued the assault forced to enter when Ptolome sée y t he then bare him selfe twice so bold stout to gyue good example of wel doings to all his friēds he in his owne person exploited notable déedes of armes whereby many worthy mē through y e noble courages of their Captaynes w t aduenturing lost both life limme And bycause Ptolome had the place of aduaūtage the enimy the greater nūbre the assault on eyther side cōtinued long daungerous vntill at last Perdicas séeing he could by no meane winne it and that night drew on he retired into his Camp immediatly without noyse priuily remoued and came to a place right ouer against the Citie of Memphis where the Riuer Nyle maketh a particion like vnto an Isle and an excellent good and méete place to encamp a great mighty army Into this put he ouer his army being hard for the Souldiers to passe bycause they waded vp to their chinnes through the violēce and swiftnesse thereof so staggered that with great payne they hardly passed When Perdicas had séene the daungerous and difficult passage he sent his Elephantes on the left side vp into the Riuer to breake the violēce of the streame and beneath on the right hande placed his horsemen to take vp them whome the violence of the water did carry away and so bring them to land In this passage chaunced a singular thing and greatly to be maruelled at For after the first company had safely passed ouer the rest which followed were in wonderfull daunger bycause the Riuer sodenly swelled and became so déepe that none could perceyue by any apparaunt reason whereof it should come for it ranne aboue the Soldiers heads And being enquired and reasoned of what might be the cause aunswere was made that there was some lowe or hollowe place about the arme of the Riuer stopped vp by meane whereof the waters goulfed therevpon procéeded the swelling and waxing some sayd it had rayned about the head or spring of the Riuer and that that might be the cause But after it was found to be neyther the one nor the other for they whiche went ouer first so raysed and remoued the sand and grauell which lay in the bottome of the water that the violēce and swiftenesse therof carryed it away and so by that meane became déeper and chiefly in the chanell When Perdicas sée that his souldiers already ouer were not able to resist Ptolome nor him self able to make any shift to set ouer y e rest he was in such a perplexity that he commaunded them that were ouer to returne So the mighty and strong men and such as could swimme came hardly backe agayne leauing behind them notwithstanding their armour other which had no skill in swimming were with the water swallowed vp and a great many violētly carried downe with the streame were eaten and deuoured of the Crocodiles the rest whiche durst not gyue the aduenture yelded to the enimy who spoyled and robbed them of all they had When Perdicas in this sorte had lost better than two thousand of his men amongs whome were a great many good Captaynes the biggest nūbre of the army found them sore agréeued with◠him Contrariwise when Ptolome had burnt the dead carcases whiche were cast on lande on his side he sent their bones to their kinsfolks and friends When the Macedonians with Perdicas vnderstood that they were then more offended with Perdicas ◠than before and enclined to the good nature and conditions of Ptolome But at night all the whole Camp was filled with sorrowes complaintes lamentations wéepings bycause they had lost through euill conduct and want of good guyding without fight such a numbre of their friends of which the better parte of a thousand were eaten and deuoured with Crocodils whereupō diuerse of the Captaynes for y e causes aboue rehearsed assembled openly blaming Perdicas Againe y e battail of footemē w t threatning wordes shewed their malice grudge against him For that very cause also the principall Captaynes assembled amongs whome Pithon was chief the same Pithon who at the commaundement of Perdicas had in the hier Asie discomfited the Grecian rebels and for his noblenesse and vertue nothing inferior to any of Alexanders friends and familiars Whereupon they all with one accord hauing at their commaundement certain of the men at armes forcibly and violently rushed vpon the pauillon of Perdicas and there incontinent slew him The next day following Ptolome came towardes the Macedonians and after he had saluted them and excused him of all suche matters as Perdicas would haue charged him withall he caused to be brought such abundaunce of bread wine and diuerse other necessarie things as furnished and fillede their Camp whereby he acquired so great fauoure and good will of the whole army that they woulde néedes in Perdicas stede make him gouernour and regent of the Kings whiche charge he clerely refused but made meanes that that gouernement with the whole power aucthority therof by the aduise and deliberation of the whole counsaill might be bestowed vpon Pithon Aride the same Aride who transported the bodye of Alexander in to the Citie of Alexandrie Thus and in this maner dyd Perdicas after he he had ruled and gouerned the principalitie the space of .iij. yeares lose both Empire and li◠e. ¶ After Perdicas his death the Macedonians slea all his kynne and friends in the army and adiudge
came vpon them and on the waye he tooke vp a great numbre of the Citizens whiche were dispersed abroad in the countrey and after besieged the towne and would néeds enforce the sillie besiegeaunts to receyue and take in his garrisons And although they were vnprouided of men and all other things necessarie to holde out the enimie yet determined they to defend their libertie Notwithstanding they sent first their Ambassadoures to Aride praying him to rayse his siege saying they were all at his commaundement to do whatsoeuer he woulde except the receyuing of men into garrison But in the meane time they secretly armed all their yong and lustie fellowes to man the wall and curten And when they sée Aride still vrge them to receyue his garrisons they aunswered they would comprimit the matter to the deliberation of the cōmunaltie and for dispatch thereof demaunded truce for the next day and night following which was graunted and in the meane while made they greater preparation for their defence When Aride sée he was thus deceyued and mocked he lost both oportunitie hope for winning the Citie bycause it was verie strong both towardes the Sea and lande standing almost like an Island within the Sea and but one way to enter by lande and that parte towardes the Sea very strong bycause Aride had there no ships They sent also by Sea to the Bizancians for men armoure and all other things necessarie to holde out the siege which they incontinent sent whereupon they were greatly assured and tooke meruailous courage to defende their Citie Farther they sent out their gallies alongest the shoare to gather together their people which were dispersed in the countrey and in the end they had assembled so great a numbre of men of warre that they sallied out vpō the enimie slew many and repulsed the rest from the siege Wherefore Aride deceyued by pollicy returned into his Satrapie without any exploite ¶ Antigone commenceth warre against Aride gouernour of Phrigie and against Clyte Lord of Lydie And in the ende openly proclaymeth him selfe enimie to the Kings and enioyeth one parte of Asie The .xxiij. Chapter AS Antigone abode in the Citie of Celene he was aduertised of the siege of Cizice wherefore he thought if he sent towards them spéedy ayde and succoure in their distresse that it woulde be a good occasion for him to winne the said Citie to be his friend and confederat For which cause he chose out of the whole armie .xx. thousand of his most warlike Souldiers and .iij. thousande horse and in his owne person spéedely marched to aide the Cizicians And although the siege was raised before his comming yet euer after they became and remayned his most bounden friends Notwithstanding he sent his Ambassadours towards Aride declaring to him that he had done verie yll to besiege a frée Citie of Grece and friend to the Macedonians considering the people thereof had in nothing abused him and that he had shewed inough to make him selfe of a Deputie and Gouernour a Potentate and commaunder commaunding him therefore to gyue ouer his said Satrapie and for his habitation to betake him to one onely Citie When Aride vnderstoode the charge of the Ambassadours he greatly detesting the arrogancie of Antigone aunswered that he was not as yet determined to leaue his Satrapie but to kéepe and defend it and if Antigone would come to expulse him he should then sée whether of them had the better right After the Ambassadours had receyued this answere and were departed he soone after fortified and furnished his Cities and townes He also sent to Nore a bande of Souldiers to Eumenes vnder the leading of one of his owne Captaynes thinking therby to winne his fauoure and be his confederate When Antigone had receyued aunswere from Aride he sent one half of his army against him and him selfe with the rest trauailed into Lydie to chase out Clyte Gouernour thereof But so soone as Clyte vnderstood the cause he garrisoned his Cities and made as good prouision against him as he could That done he immediatly went to Sea and transfreted into Macedone signifying to the Kings the boldnesse of Antigone saied that he went about to aduaunce him selfe to some high and honorable estate and to rebell against them praying therefore aide for the repressing of him In the meane time Antigone by the intelligence of certain citisens tooke at his first cōming the Citie of Ephese But after he vnderstood that Eschil the Rhodian was there arriued and would for the behoue of the Kings carrie out of Cilice into Macedon in foure shippes sixe hundred Talents he intercepted them and tooke it away saying that he had great néed thereof for the wageing of his mercenaries which déede imported that he ment to establishe him selfe some great Prince and to warre vppon the kings When he had this done he went against the other Cities of Asie and by violence and practise brought many vnder his subiection ¶ Of diuerse aduentures which happened Eumenes and of his deliueraunce from the siege of Nore The .xxiiij. Chapter WE will here leaue a while to speake of Antigone and returne to Eumenes who besides many and diuerse mishaps had also ben in sundrie aduentures both good and bad for after the death of Alexander he still tooke part with Perdicas who gaue him the Satrapie of Cappadoce and the countreys thereto adioyning in which he had assembled and gotte together numbres of men of warre and great summes of money getting thereby great renoume alway liuing in prosperitie and felicitie He in battail vanquished and killed Cratere and Neoptolome two of the most renowmed Captaynes amongst all the Macedonians and all the Souldiers whiche serued vnder them which had ben continuall victors where euer they became But when he thought him selfe most puyssaunt and none able to resist him he was by Antigone in battaill sodenly vanquished and constrained to flie and retier with a fewe of his friends into a litle towne castle where being besieged and enclosed with a double trenche could not in one whole yeare be aided to raise the siege Howbeit about the yeares end when he was almost out of hope in despaire sodenly came vnto him present remedie For Antigone who still helde him besieged hauing altered his determination and purpose sent to him requiring his friendship companie and after he had takē his othe and faith he deliuered him of the siege Who departing thence trauailed into Cappadoce and being there but a short time assembled the Souldiers lately vnder his charge dispersed through the said countrey and by reason of the earnest zeale and loue they had to him he had gotten together in a little whyle a great numbre at his commaūdement For ouer and besides the six hundred whiche were with him during the siege he had gotten aboue two thousand other souldiers and in the ende came to great authoritie for he was made Generall of the armie Royall to warre vppon
those whiche rebelled against the Kings as hereafter shalbe declared But at this present we meane to leaue speaking of the matter in Asie and make mencion of those which happened in Europe ¶ Cassander sheweth him selfe enimie to Polispercon and getteth to his alliaunce many of the Satrapes Polispercon by an edict royall restoreth the Cities of Grece into their auncient libertie The .xxv. Chapter VVHen Cassander of whome we haue before spoken of him self put frō the Empire gouernemēt of Macedone kept not his desire lōger vndiscouered but purposed by violēce to obtayne recouer y e said gouernement thinking it a great dishonor to suffer any other than him selfe to haue the rule and authoritie which his father held enioyed But apperceyuing y t the Macedonians in generall were prompt and ready at Polispercon his commaundement and tooke his parte he secretly beganne to discouer his intention to his trustie friends and vnder a colour made them go towards Hellespont occupying him selfe many dayes in the countrey in chasing and hunting to the ende his people should beleue and thinke that he forced not of any hie enterprises or princelie gouernement But after he had dispatched put al things in a readinesse he secretly departed went towards Hellespont sending forthwith to Antigone praying his aide aduertising him y t Ptolome had promised the like Whereunto Antigone accorded and promised to send out of hand both Souldiers and shippes This friendship fained he to doe for the great loue he had alwayes borne to Antipater his father but truth is he ment none other thing but to trouble Polispercon in his warres and affaires to the ende that while those matters were in deciding he might seaze on the whole countrey of Asie and after attayne to the Empire of Macedone When Polispercon had séene the sodayne departure of Cassander he knew he meant to worke him great trouble and mischief wherfore he did nothing without great aduise of his friends and the chief of Macedone declaring vnto them that he clerely see y e Antigone would ayde Cassander and by that meane should win the Cities of Grece bycause that diuerse of them were guarded by the seruitours of his father and the rest gouerned by some of the Citizens whome his said father had deputed gouernours and had alwayes supported them He sée also that Ptolome gouernour of Egipt and Antigone who apparauntly had alreadie withdrawne him from the obeysaunce of the Kings would ayde him eyther of them hauing an huge and mightie hoste great stoare of treasure and held vnder their obeysance great countreys and prouinces When they had at large consulted on these matters and that euery man had said his opinion he was finally resolued to restore the Cities of Grece into their popular gouernaunce and libertie thereby to depose the Tyraunts and Gouernours assigned by Antipater For y e Macedonians thought by that meane to diminishe and abate the power of Cassander and that the Kings and Polispercon shoulde winne great honor and renowne together the friendship of al the Cities who greatly might helpe them with their seruice Whereupon they sent out commaundements to all the cities that they shoulde sende their Ambassadoures to the Kings which they did And when they were al assembled it was by the kings declared and signified to them that they should be of good courage and haue an assured hope and confidence that they would restore them to their auncient libertie and popular gouernement deliuering forthwith in writing the decrée of the saide deliberation to be carried and published without delaye vnto the Cities to the ende they should know the liberalitie and franknesse of the said Kings and Macedonians towards them The contents and effect of which decrée was written in Greke as followeth Forasmuch as our noble Progenitours haue in times past greatly pleasured gratified the Grecians We therefore pursuing following their institution and ordinance therein doe declare and pronounce to all people the loue and good will we beare towards the Grekes Wherefore since the death of Alexander ◠and that the realmes came to our possession and gouernaunce thinking that they are all determined to peace and quietnesse and also contented to stand to the institutions and ordinaunces concerning the weale publique established by Phillip our noble parent we haue herein addressed our letters to all the saide Cities But bicause of our absence in farre coūtreys some of the said Grekes not rightly vnderstanding our meaning and intencion making warre vpon the Macedonians certain of them chaunted to be vanquished by our Captaynes and Chieftaynes of warre wherby many inconueniences ensued to some of their Cities which troubles and misfortunes ought to be imputed to the fault and negligence of our said Captaynes Wherefore we for our partes considering the auncient amitie and beneuolence of our Auncestors towardes you and yours are desirous and by vertue of this decrée do graunt you peace and farther doe remit restore you into that libertie and Ciuile gouernement which you heretofore haue had vnder Philip and Alexander and that all you and euery of you do gouerne according to the ordinaunces first by them to you graunted we wil also that all those whiche were banished and expulsed the Cities by our Lieutenaunts and Chieftaynes of war since Alexander passed into Asie be called home and being so called and come agayne will by these presents that they recouer and enioye all their goods and euer hereafter to lyue peaceably without sedition in their countrey forgetting all iniuries and wrongs done and passe and be partakers of the honors and ciuilities of their Cities aswell as any other And that all decrées and sentences made to the contrarie shall be reuoked and made voide except and alwayes reserued all such as are banished for murder or any other like villanous acte except also and reserued all those which were bannished Megapolite for the treason conspired with Polyenote except also the Amphisencians Tricians Pharcondonians and Heraclians And for the rest we well they be called backe and receyued home on this side the thirtie day of Aprill And if Philip our Father and Alexander our brother haue ordeyned and made any ordinaunces or lawes particular contrarie to this let them which find them selues agréeued come to vs and we will take such order as shall be both honest and reasonable for eyther parte And for the Athenians we will that they continue and remayne as they did in the time of Philip and Alexander and to enioye the citie of Orope and countrey thereof as they did at that present together the Citie of Samye as Phillip our progenitour and noble parent deliuered it them In this doing we forbid the Grekes that they enterprise nothing neyther serue or ayde any whom soeuer against vs vpon payne of banishement both they and their posteritie with confiscation of their landes and goods whiche attempt or do the contrarie Of all which things we haue gyuen notice and power to Polispercon
.xij. thousande footemen and .viij. hundred horsse and encountred him in battaill but after the horssemen had a while lustely charged one another the Menelaians retired and fled and the Demetrians séeing the victorie theirs subsecuted and chased them harde to the walles of the citie so that they slewe aboute a thousand and tooke aboue thrée thousand prisoners Whome Demetre reteyned in wages and deuided amongs hys bandes But when he see they dayly fled from him to Menelaye bycause their goods and baggage were left in Egipt with Ptolome and that he could not reduce thē to his amitie and seruice he enbarqued y e rest and sent them to his father lying in the hier Syrie where he buylt about the ryuer Oronte a verie sumptuous Citie called after his owne name Antigone being foure score furlongs about Now was this a méete and necessarie place to get and hold the imperiall dominion of Babylon and al the hier and lower Satrapies in subiection notwithstanding it stoode not or continued long for Seleuke shortly after destroyed it and transported the inhabitaunts into an other citie of his foūdation and building called after his name Seleuke After Demetre hadde bene victor in the battaill aforesaid Menelaye and the reste of his Souldiours which escaped and had gotten the Citie of Salamine made great preparation of shot and engines for their defence and suretie deuiding the quarters of their walles with the towers and flankers betwene them bycause they sée that Demetre determined with al his power and force to attempt and assault the citie They also sent into Egipt to Ptolome signifying to hym of their estate aud daunger solliciting him to send hys ayde and helpe When Demetre sée that the Citie was mightie and strong and throughlie māned he determined to make huge mightie engines wherewith they commonly vsed to besiege and ouerthrow Townes and Cities which shot stones and other kinde of shot of all sortes against the walles and the residue of his prouision maruelous terrible to batter ouerthrow the same For exploiting wherof he sent for a wonderful number of workemen and artificers plentie of yron and such other stuffe out of Syrie so that in short tyme he had prepared and made readie all things to batter and ouerthrow the walles But amongs other his deuises he caused an engine to be made called Helepolis to saye an ouerthrower of cities .xl. cubits eche waye square and foure score and ten cubits hie in which were .ix. stories or sellers deuided one from another with planchers of wood all running vppon foure great wheles .viij. cubits hie He had also many other engines called Rammes very large great to batter any wall two great and puissaunt Tortoises to helpe them In the lowermost sellers of the Helepolis he planted store of engines and ordinaunce which threw and shot stones the greater sorte waying thrée Talents In the middle stories he planted engines made like boltes shooting long sharpe shot and in the hier stages were other whiche shot lesse and lighter He placed also in the saide roomes or stories two hundred experte Souldiours to shoote off and handle the said ordinaunce and engines After he hadde placed his engines of battery against the wall he in short time beat down the toppes and batlements of the curten and after sore battered and shaked the walles Howbeit the besieged so valiauntly defended their Citie with such weapon and engines as they had prepared against the assaultes that for certen dayes no mā could iudge of the winning of the citie suche were the noble hartes and courages inuincible of the honorable Captaynes and lustie Souldiours on eyther side But to be short the wall was so sore battered and shaken and a long breach made that the citie was disfurnished of defence and no remedy but to yelde or be taken the nexte day following if there were not found some newe maner of defence that night before the assault ceassed Wherfore the Menelayans hauing great store and plenty of drie wood and suche like stuffe whiche soone would take fire about midnight so néere approched y e engines of the enimie that with long poles and other which they had lighted they cast in fire so that in lesse thā an houre the fire grew so quicke and terrible that they had burnt the greater part of the engines and the souldiours within them which thing the Demetrians coulde not helpe and auoide by reason of the sodainenesse therof And althoughe Demetre for that time was frustrate of hys determination purpose yet had he good hope and still vrged to take the citie continuing the siege both by Sea land not doubting but in the ende to winne it In this meane while Ptolome hauing intelligēce of the affaires and slaughter of his people departed oute of Egipt and tooke sea with a great power sayling towardes Salamine and being dryuen into the Porte of Paphe in the Isle of Cypres he there landed and got togyther all the ships of the cities thereabout and from them made his course to Syrie distaunt from Salamine two hundred furlongs He had in his Nauie an Cl. Gallies wherof the greater were of .v. tier of ores on a side and the lesser of foure he had also aboue two hundred Barques wherein were enbarqued aboue ten thousand souldiours and the reste laden with baggage and other prouisiō He sent by land likewise certen Messangers to Menelaye commaunding him if it were possible to send the .lx. Gallies lying in the hauē of Salamine which ioyned with his he thought to be much stronger at sea then Demetre hauing two hundred Gallies or better When Demetre vnderstoode of Ptolome his comming he left the siege furnished before the citie and enbarqued the rest of his Souldiours with great store of shot and engines which shot far off planting them in the noses of his Gallies and when he had arranged them all in order of battaill he enuironed the Towne and in the mouth of the hauen cast ancre and road there all that night withoute the daunger of the shot bothe for stopping of the Gallies which laye in the Port that they should not get out to ioyne with Ptolome and also to sée what course Ptolome kept to the ende that which waye soeuer he came he would be arranged and readie in order of battaill to fight But after the day once appeared he might descry a mightie and terrible Nauie of Ptolomes sayling towards the citie whereat he was astonied wherfore he left his Admirall Anthiston with ten Gallies of fiue tier of ores in the place where he laye to garde and take héede that the Gallies of the Towne made not out commaunded hys horsemen to ryde all alongest the shoare to the end that if any mischief happened him they might saue them which were ouerthrowen into the sea and swamme to lande and him selfe in order of battaill sailed against the enemie with a Nauie of a Cviij saile with those