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
greeuously accused and adiudged them worthy the death the summe of which accusation was this that they after the Lamian warre were the principall and chiefe causers that their Citie and Countrey were brought in thraldome and bondage the gouernement and authoritie of the people wholy extinguished and the lawes and ordinaunces of the same Countrie clerely violated and infringed When the daye assigned was come Phocion very sagely and wysely beganne to plead and defende his cause but so soone as the multitude and great numbre of the people heard him beginne to speake they made suche a noyse and vprore that he could not be heard When the noise was ceased and that he beganne agayne to speake they likewise interrupted and stopped him that he coulde haue no audience for the multitude of the baser sorte which had bene degraded and put from the publique gouernement being sodenly newly authorised were very insolent against those which had depriued them their libertie Howbeit Phocion in daunger to lose his life boldly and stoutely stood to the defence of his iustification so that these about him heard what he sayde But they which were any thing farther of could heare nothing for the noyse and vprore of the people but they might all sée that he spake and made many gestures with his body as a man in great daunger and feare But in the ende when he sée no boote he with a loud voice cried and sayde that he was contented to dye but prayde that they might be forgiuen whome he had inuegled and attracted to his will and pleasure some forcibly and some by gentle admonitions and persuasions When certaine of Phocions friendes sée that the violēce and rage of the people ceassed not they preased in to speake for him whome the multitude incontinent hearkened vnto before any man knewe what they woulde say But after it was perceyued they spake in the fauour of the accused they were in lyke sorte reiected by the clamors of the people so that in the ende by the cōmon voyce and exclamation of the multitude they wer condemned to death and that done carried to prison Then many of their friendes seing their miserie were very pensife and sorowfull For when they sée that such personages being the chief and principal of the Citie as wel for their nobilitie as their authoritie and renoume had done many good and gracious déedes to the Citie were in such sort condēned without order of iustice they greatly feared to come in the like dāger But forasmuch as fortune is common and mutable many of the people dispiteously agreued with the sayd Phocion spake al the oultrages viltanies against him they could reproching hym of many wicked acts déedes as people commonly doe which dissimule their anger against them in authoritie But when they see fortune turne hir saile that it otherwise hapneth then wil they without reason or measure in all despiteful crueltie vtter and shew forth their priuie griefe and pestiferous malice Not long after the condemned acording to the custome of the coūtrey dranke poyson and their carkaises were throwne without the limites and precinctes of Athens vnburied and this was their ende Polyspercon besiegeth Cassandre in Pyrey and perceiuing that he coulde not win it departeth thence and besiegeth the citie of Megalopolis where by the wisedome and policie of Demades he is at an assault repulsed The .xxix. Chapter DUring the time that these matters were done in Asia Antigone had sent Cassander with .xxxv. tall warlike gallies and foure thousand souldiours to saile into Pire whom Nichanor captaine of the Castle receiued and rendred to him the port and castle But as for Munichie Nicanor garded and helde that with his owne garrison When Polispercon who abode and continued in Phocide vnderstoode that Cassander had taken and enioyed Pire he came into the Countrey of Athens and encamped before Pire with twentie thousād Macedonians and foure thousand straungers and confederates and thrée score and fiue Elephantes and besieged the same But séeing the scarcitie and want of victuals and the siege like long to continue he left behind at the siege such number of Soldiours as the Countrey might wel vittell deputing for his lieuetenant Alexander his sonne and him selfe with the rest being the greater number entred Peloponess to the ende to force the Megalopolitanes to come vnder the obeisaunce of the Kings being greatly enclined to Cassander and the continuation of their Oligarchie to say the gouernement of certaine particular offices and dignities which Antipater had appointed them While Polispercon was about this enterprise Cassander with his Nauie hauing alliaunce with the Eginets went and besieged the Citie of Salamine his enimie And euery day with shot whereof he had foyson assaulteth the town bringing them in great hazarde and feare And being almost in despaire aide came from Polispercon bothe by sea and land Wherevpon Cassander was so daunted that he raised his siege and returned to Pire After that Polispercon meaning to set and order and stay about the affaires of Peloponese assembled before him the Deputies of all the Cities whom with gentle and gratious woordes he allured to ioyne with him and afterward sent his Ambassadoures to all the Cities commaunding them that they should sodainely kill all the gouernors appointed by Ptolome and restore the gouernement to the people Which commaundement the people incontinently obeyed so that there were great slaughters and banishmentes throughout the Cities of the friends of Antipater Then the commonaltie being restored to libertie and authoritie ioyned with Polispercon And bicause the Megalopolitames would not obey but still sticke to Cassander Polispercon fully determined to besiege them When they vnderstood his meaning and purpose they incontinently caused all their goodes in the Countrey to be brought into their towne and after mustered and tooke viewe of their people which were of Citizens and forainers about fiftene thousand besides their slaues all able men and deuided them into two bandes whereof some made rampiers and other workes some manned the walles so that at one instant they were all busied and occupied One companie ditched about the Towne an other companie carried woode and earth out of the fieldes to make the Rampiers other repaired and mended the walles where they were any thing at all decayed some forged harnaies and engines of Artillarie and on this sort was all the whole Citie occupied bicause that euery one was minded and disposed thereto for so muche as the power which came against them were men of inuincible courages and the Elephantes of great violence and might Not long after that they had brought all things into a readinesse and perfection Polispercon with his whole armie arriued before the same and on both sides besieged it On the one side encamped Macedonians and on the other side his allyes and straungers He builded also many Towers of woode hygher than the curten and wall and planted them in places conuenient and thrust into them
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
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
muche wheat as should suffise the maintenaunce of hys armie for one whole yeare and him selfe got togyther all the Carpenters Sawyers and shipwrights he could finde and caused them to fell an innumerable numbre of trées in the mount Libane whiche were carried to the Sea side for he had .viij. thousand men to fell sawe and build ships besides a thousand waines for carriage It is to be vnderstoode that the Mountaine is of a great length for it runneth alongest from the Cities of Tripolis and Byblie euen to Sydone full of an innumerable numbre of maruelous high and mightie Cedres and Cypres trées He likewise caused .iij. mightie Docks to be cut oute to build the sayd shippes in one at Trypoly another at Byblie and the third at Sidone all thrée in Phenice There was also an other in Cilice whether was brought all the timbre feld and cut downe in the mount Thaure and another at Rhodes by the consent of the citizens likewise to build shippes in As Antigone was thus occupied in building of shippes encamped about the sea side Seleuke commeth out of the Countrey of Egipt with a Nauie of an hundreth tall shippes of warre vnder all their sailes richelie apparelled passing alongest the Sea coast in the view of the campe as who would saye in despite and maugre Antigone and his people At which sight the Citizens of the next Cities other his allies with him were in great terrour and feare being then apparaunt that the enimie was Lord and King at sea Wherefore they thought they went to forraie and robbe their Cities and territories When Antigone sée them thus daunted he comforted them in the best maner he could saying that him selfe withoute stop would that sommer be vpon the seas with .v. hundred tall and warlike shippes or more And as he was thus occupied about the things aforesaid Ageselay whō he had sent into Cypres came towardes hym and reported vnto him that Nicocrey and diuerse other mightie puissaunt Kings were alreadie allied with Ptolome But that Citicke Lapite Marie and Cerenite hadde allied with him Which newes vnderstood he left Andronicke with .iiij. thousand men behind at the siege of Tyre and himselfe with the rest went against the cities of Hyoppe and Gaze his aduersaries and wonne them togyther al the Souldiours of Ptolome within the townes and retained them in wages thrust into them garrisonnes and into the rest of the Cities in that quarter That done he retired towardes his other campe lying before Tyre making prouision for all things necessarie to take the Citie ¶ Of the wisedome and vertue of Phile Antipater his daughter The .xxv. Chapter AT that same verie time Aristo to whome Eumenes had gyuen Cratere his bones to burie deliuered thē to Phile first married to Cratere and then wife to Demetre Antigone his sonne who was reputed a right sage and vertuous Ladie in so much that hir wisedome and curtesie towardes the Souldiours being suche that she oftētimes appaised the controuersies and mutenies arising in y e camp they loued honoured hir She would also at hir owne costs and dispence marrie the poore men of warres sisters and daughters and besides acquite and discharge diuerse of the souldiours when they had at any time bene accused and wrongfully sclaundred And it was saide that when Antipater hir father whō al men thought to be the wisest and sagest Prince in his tyme that euer bere rule had any great mightie affaires in hand y t he would vse the aduise and counsaill of Phile his daughter And although she was in maners gracious and excellent yet dyd she farre passe in speche and vtteraunce and all hir doings were thereto correspondent agreable And as for hir witte and prudence that well appeared vppon the iudgement which she gaue of Demetre his principalitie as we will hereafter set forth in their places ¶ Antigone winneth to his alliaunce Polispercon and Alexander his sonne and by a decree by the Macedonians made denounceth Cassander an ennimie and after taketh the Citie of Tyre The .xxvj. Chapter BUt now we will returne to the Chieftaynes and Ambassadoures whom Antigone hadde sent into diuerse places to make new alliaunces And first Aristodeme who was sent towards the Spartians hadde by their permission and sufferaunce assembled in the countrey of Peloponnese .viij. thousand footemen with whome he went to seeke out Alexander Polispercon his Sonne and in Antigone his name allied with him his father through which alliaunce he left the gouernement of the countrey of Peloponnese to Polispercon and persuaded Alexander to go into Asie towardes Antigone whiche he performed And the other Chieftaynes to wete Ptolome his Nephew whome he had sent into Cappadoce with a great armie deliuered the citie of Amise frō the siege which Asclepiodore one of Cassander his Captaynes laye before and vpon composition dismissed him with all his Souldiours and so recouered the Satrape From thence he went into Bythanie and finding Zibith King of the said countrey besieging the Cities of Calcedone and Astacone forced him to raise it and after allied with him and the said cities and tooke of them ostages From thence he trauailled into Ionye and Lydie bicause Antigone had written to him to make so great spéed as might be to the Regions lying and bordering vpon the sea bycause he vnderstood y e Seleuke was sayling towardes those quarters And at last Seleuke arriued in the Countreys and besieged the citie of Erythe But after he was aduertised of Ptolome his comming he retired without doing of any thing When Alexander was come to Antigone he confirmed and sware the alliaunce for him and Polispercon his Father Then assembled he all his men of warre and in presence of them charged and greatlie accused Cassander but chieflie for the death of Olympias and the detayning of Roxanne hir sonne in prison alleadging moreouer that he forciblie had espoused Thessalonicke and in déed meant thereby openly to vsurpe the Realme of Macedone And farther obiected that he had suffered the Citie of Olynthe chief enemie to the Macedonians to be reenhabited and also reedified the citie of Thebes whiche Alexander surnamed the great hadde destroied and razed When he sée that by the meanes of those accusations and tales the men of warre and Souldiers there assembled were with Cassander greatlie despited he incontinent caused a decrée to be written proclaimed wherin Cassander was pronounced an enimie except he wold raze the said two cities set at libertie the said King and Roxanne his mother into the hands and gard of the Macedonians and also wholie obey Antigone named and chosen Emperoure of the armie protector and regent of the Kings and of the realme of Macedone He woulde also it should be denounced that all the Grekes were discharged of al garrisonnes and other impositions to liue at libertie according to their auncient and accustomed woonte When
entier and deare friend For suertie and performaunce of which things he gaue him in ostage his brother Agathon Notwithstanding before many dayes past he repented him of that alliaunce and founde the meanes by stealth to get awaye his brother And incontinent after he sent towardes Ptolome Seleuke and Cassander to send aide for his defence and suertie Whereof Antigone aduertised in great despite sent both by sea and lande a mightie armie to set the Grecians Cities at libertie to saie Mede his Admirall by sea and Decime by land And when they arriued before the citie of Mylese they denounced to the Citizens that they were come to restore them to their auncient libertie and to expulse the garrison in the Castle In this meane while Antigone tooke be force the citie of Tralles From thence he marched by land and came before the citie of Caune whether he made his shippes also to come by Sea and it besieged wonne except the castle he could not presentlie take Howbeit he entrenched it on that side it was siegeable and gaue many assauts And as he laye thus before the castle he sent in the meane time Ptolome with one part of his armie to the citie of Iase and draue them to a composition whome he enforced to take parte with Antigone and so the cities of the countrey of Carie became subiect to Antigone Few dayes after the Etholians and Beotians sent an Ambassade towardes him to treat an alliaunce which was concluded vppon That done he came to a communication with Cassander about Hellespont thinking to haue agréed vpon some conclusion of peace but they departed doing nothing By reason wherof Cassander voyde of all hope of peace determined againe to winne the Grecian cities Wherefore he departed with .xxx. saile to besiege the Citie of Orey and so stoutlie charged it with siege and assauts that it was in great daunger of taking or rendring But all at one instaunt Thelesphore came out of Peloponnese with .xx. saile and Medie out of Asie with an hundred who séeing Cassanders shippes kéepe the Port threw in amongs thē wilde fire and burnt foure and failed verie little that the rest had not ben so serued And as Cassander was thē the weaker behold so sodeyn ayde came to him frō the Rhodes where with his Souldiours tooke such courage that they assailed the enimie nothing fearing or doubting anie suche thing eyther yet accompting of their force vntil they had sonke one of their shippes and tooke other thrée and the men within them These matters were done in Grece and Pont. ¶ The Romaines winne a victorie on the Samnites And the rebellious Champanois by an agreemēt put them selues to their obeisaunce The .xxxvij. Chapter IN Italy the Samnites pursued their victorie winning destroying the townes and cities which hadde taken parte with the Romaines in Pouille Again the Romaine Cōsuls marched on with their armie to the ayde of their friends and allies and perceyuing that the Samnites laye before the citie of Cynue they came and encamped hard at their noses and forced them to raise the siege But few dayes after they ioyned battaill wherein manie on both sides were slaine but in the ende the Romaines wanne the victorie and in fight so lustelie pursued the enimie that they slew aboue .x. thousand During which time and before the victorie knowē abroad the Champanois contrarie to their alliaunce with the Romaines came towards the ayde of the Samnites which thing the Romaines vnderstanding fully aucthorized Caie Manlie and sodenlie sent him against them and according to their custome ioyned with him Manlie Fuluie And as they were encamped about Capue the Champanoys put them selues in armes to gyue battaill but so soone as they vnderstoode of the ouerthrow of y e Samnites and fearing that the Romaines had sent against them all their puissaunce they made an appointment by whiche were rendred the aucthours of the reuolte Who by reason of iudgement prolonged and sentence not pronounced they in the meane time slewe them selues And the cities of Champanois being pardoned continued with the Romaines their pristinate alliaunce and amitie ¶ Ptolome and Antigone to despite one the other restore diuerse cities of Grece to libertie And the same Antigone faileth of his entrie into Macedone After are entreated the matters by Ptolome done in Cypres and Cilice in the hier Syrie The .xxxviij. Chapter THe yere following that Ptolome gouerned Athens and that at Rome Lucie Papirie the .v. time and Caye Iunie were created Cōsuls And the Cxvij yeare of the Olympiade when Parmenon of Mythilene wonne the prise at the running Antigone sent his Captayne Ptolome into Grece to restore the Grekes to libertie gyuing him Cl. Gallies vnder Mede the Admirall .v. thousande footemen and .v. hundred horsse And besides allied with the Rhodians to fight for the libertie of Grece who sent him .xx. saile armed and furnished Ptolome likewise with his power at Sea arriued at a Porte of the Beotians called the déepe Porte and there mustered and tooke vp .ij. thousande two hundred Beotian footemen and three hundred horsse He called backe also his Nauie frō Orey ◠and after he had with a wall entrenched Salmone he brought thyther his whole power For he verilie trusted to take the Calcedonians being onelie defended from the enimie but by a garrison of Eubeans But Cassander myndfull of Calcide and fearing the loste thereof raised his siege from before Crea and came to the laid Calcide and commaunded his armie to marche thyther When Antigone vnderstoode that the two armies were assembled there togyther watching one another and euerie of them attending the oportunitie and aduauntge he commaunded Mede with al spéede to returne into Asie And at his comming backe he agayn enbarqued hys armie and hastily sailed into Hellespont thinking through Cas◠ander his absence to finde the countrey of Macedone vnprouided of men and so win the same before he could returne from Calcide or if he came backe for the defence of the realme of Macedone he should lose that he held in Grece When Cassander vnderstood thereof he left for the defence of Calcide his Lieutenaūt Plistarche with a numbre of his men and him selfe with the remnaunte went to the citie of Orope in B◠ote and by force tooke it and trucyng with the other Cities of the Countrey of Beoce left for his Lieutenaunt in Grece Eupoleme and returned into Macedone chieflie to stoppe the enimie for passing into Europe When Antigone was come to the passage of Propontide he sent his Ambassadoures towardes the Bizancians requiring their ayde in those warres who there found for the same matter the Ambassadoures of Lysimache requiring that they would not go against him nor Cassander By reason whereof the Bizancians fully determined to take neyther part When Antigone sée he failed of his purpose and that y e winter drew néere he deuided hys Souldiours into garrisons
and sent them abroad into the Countrey to winter In this meane time the Corcirians with the ayde of the Apollonians and Epidaurans expulsed Cassanders garrisons their cities and set at libertie the citie of Apollonie and restored Epydaure to the King of Illirie Ptolome also one of Antigone his Captaynes after Cassander was departed into Macedone tooke the citie of Calcide and after he had expulsed the garrison of the enimie he restored them to their pristinate estate to the end al men might thinke y e Antigone sans faile would restore the cities of Grece to libertie For if he had ment to kéepe retaine y e same citie it had ben a méete defence for such as would continue any warres to haue recourse vnto Ptolome likewise tooke the Citie of Orope and restored it to the Beotians and had Cassander Souldiours in his power After he made alliaunce with the Eretrians and Caristians and remoued his camp to the citie of Athenes Demetre Phalerey being then gouernour thereof But the Citizens vnderstanding of his comming first secretly sent Ambassadours towardes Antigone praying his ayde for the defence of their citie Whē Ptolome was approched the Citie they constrained Demetre to make a truce and after to send to Antigone to treat an alliaunce After the truce made taken he departed and came into Beote and there tooke the citie of Cadmea thrust oute the garrison of the enimie and deliuered the Thebanes Frō thence went he into the countrey of Phocide and there expulsed Cassanders garrisons the cities and after besieged the citie of Locres Cassanders confederate The same season the Cyrenians rebelled against Ptolome and besieged the castle which his Souldiours kept thinking out of hand to haue taken it It chaunced the same time certen Ambassadours to come out of Alexādrie in the name of the citie to praye and exhorte them to surcease and gyue ouer their enterprise and rebellion whiche Ambassadours they killed then made greater preparation to take the castle Wherewith Ptolome sore moued and agreeued sent by lande Agis a Captayne w e a mightie armie and by sea Epinete for his greater succoure Which Agis forcibly tooke the citie and sent the principall aucthours of the rebellion into Alexandrie and from the rest tooke their armour and weapon and taking order about the affaires of the citie returned into Egipt When Ptolome had thus reduced the Citie of Cirene to his minde he departed from Egipt and went into Cypres to subdue the kings which would not obey him Amongs which he slew Pigmalion bycause he had sent an Ambassade towardes Antigone to take Praxippes King of Lapithe and the tyraunt and Prince of Cyrene for that he mistrusted them w t Stasice Malie his sonne Whiche Citie he destroyed and transferred the inhabitaunts thereof into the citie of Paphe These things performed he left Nicocreon his Lieutenaunt in the Isle of Cipres and gaue to him the cities and reuenue of the Kings whome he had deposed and after sailed into the hier Syrie and there tooke the cities of Neptunie and Carie. From thence w e al spéede he departed into Cilice where likewise he tooke and forraged the citie of Male and solde the Citizens he tooke prisoners he wasted and spoyled also the next region And after he had enriched and furnished the whole armie with spoyle returned into Cypres for he so loued his Souldiours that he thought all he could do for them was to little to the ende they shoulde the willinglier serue him in all such high and great affaires as he hadde to do Amongs these entrefacts so soone as Demetre Antigone his sonne lying in Celosirie and nothing mynding the warres exploited in Egipt vnderstood the great spoile and domage whiche Ptolome had done in Cilice and the hier Sirie he left the charge of his armed men hys Elephantes and baggage to Python and him selfe with the horsse and shot departed with all spéede to the ayde of his friends in Cilice But when he came thyther he found the enimie quite dispatched and gone Wherefore by reason of his great haste he returned with the losse of many horsse for he had rydde from Maley thether in two dayes whiche was .xxiiij. reasonable dayes iourneys for men of warre to trauaill in so much that neyther Muleter nor horsse sclaue might follow him ¶ Ptolome and Seleuke come into Syrie against Demetre and in battaill vanquish him And after Ptolome conquereth the countrey of Phenice The .xxxix. Chapter WHen Ptolome had according to his harts desire woonne in shorte time so many victories and performed such notable exploictes he sailed into Egipt Howbeit not long after at the instigation of Seleuke and the rather bycause he maliced Antigone he determined a freshe to inuade Celosyrie and fight with Demetre Wherefore he assembled his armie and losed from Alexander to Peluse with .xviij. thousand footemen and .iiij. thousand horsse the one halfe Macedonians the other Mercenaries He had besides of the Countrey of Egipt a great numbre of men as victuallers and suche like and some armed men méete for the warres From Peluse daylie trauelled he through the desertes vntill he came about the old citie of Gaze in Syrie there encāped néere the enimie When Demetre vnderstood of his comming he likewise assembled and mustered his garrisons and brought them into the said old Gaze attending the violence of the enimie And although his Gouernours and friendes coūsailed him not to hazard battaill against so valiaunt a chieftayne mightie an armie yet would not he by their counsayls be stayed but made him readie to fight hoping notwithstanding hys yong yeares and absence of his father to winne honour and victorie And after he hadde assembled hys armie and by hys oration verie stoutlie exhorted them to warre perseuering and still abyding in the assemble pensiue and in great trouble of mynd the multitude with one voyce showted and cried vnto him to hope well and feare nothing And such was their honor reuerence towardes him y t before he could commaund them to silence they held their peace vppon this onely occasion for that he neyther in factes martial or cyuill hadde offended them in so much as he was but newly made chieftayne the first time that the charge of an armie had ben committed vnto him but it cōmonly chaunceth otherwise to them which long haue hadde such rule and leading bycause they sundrie wayes and by diuerse meanes gréeue their mē of warre and Souldiours And therefore when they once gette occasion to trippe and take their Captaynes in any one faulte they forthwith séeke reuenge of y e rest of the iniuries against them committed for the multitude loue not long to perseuer and continue in one estate but always desire and are glad of chaunge so it excéede not The men of warre besides séeing his father well stryken in yeares and the likelyhood of the succession of the Realme lyneallie to descend
certen victories which the Romaines haue vppon the Tyrrhenians and Samnites And of certen Innouations by Appie Claudie the Romaine Censor made in contempt and defacing of the Senate and nobles in fauoure of the communaltie The .v. Chapter ABout the same time the Tyrrhenians besieging the Citie of Souttre a colonie of the Romaines were in vattaill by the Romaine Consuls vanquished chased home into their campe whiche Romaines came thyther with great power of purpose to rayse their siege On the other side the Samnites séeing the Romaine armies farre from their countrey burnt wasted and pilled the landes and countrey of the Iapides confederats with the Romaines By reason whereof the Consuls were enforced to deuide their armie leauing Fabie in Toscane and sent Martie against the Samnites who tooke by force the citie of Aliphe and deliuered the Allies of the Romaine people from the necessitie and daunger they were in Agayne Fabie séeing that a great number of the Tyrrhenians were assembled to besiege the Citie of Souttre secretly departed from that quarter and passing throughe the territorie of their neighbours before they were espied entred the hie countrey whiche of long had bene vnpilled and vnrobbed of any enemie and spoyled and fouraged it all ouer and slew numbres of the paysaunts that resisted hym and tooke many prisoners Whiche done he went against Perouse and finding the Tyrrhenians there assembled in battaill discomfited them and slew a great numbre wherwith they were maruelously amazed for the Romaines had neuer ben so beforehand as Fabie was thē Who after that victorie trused with the Aretians Crotonians and Perousians and shortly after tooke by force the citie of the Tyrrhenians named Castolle by meane whereof they were enforced to raise their siege from before the citie of Souttre In this season Appie Claudie and Lucie Claudie were by the Romaines elect and named Censores And the said Appie being throughe flatterie of his companion in all doings followed chaunged and altered many of the ancient customes of the citie for he to please the communaltie had no regard to content the Senate And firste he caused a pipe of lead to be brought into the Citie by conductes foure score furlongs long to the great coste and charge of the common treasure withoute making the Senate any thing priuie thereto and called it after his owne name Appie He likewise caused the wayes and straights from Rome to Capue being a thousand furlongs distaunt betwene to be paued and called them Appie he playned and leuelled also all the rockes and mountaynes and filled vp all the ditches and vallies w t earth and rubushe so that he had about those works employed bestowed almost the whole reuenue of y e Citie to haue his name ymmortall for his liberalitie and munificence towardes the weale publicke besides great nouelties and chaunges in the Senate by him made For where in times past were none but of the noblest houses and greatest wealth admitted to the dignitie of a Senator he put in many sclaues borne wherewith the nobles and gentlemen were greatly offended He likewise graunted to euery of the Citizens to enrolle writte him selfe in what tribe he would and in the same paye his rente Moreouer when he perceyued the nobles wholie moued and bent against him he woulde do nothing that in any wise should seeme to please or content them nor do any thing according to their intention and desire that by any meane might displease the meane sorte of the communaltie making in this sorte hys parte good against the nobles through the good willes of the commons So that when it came to the musters of the horssemen he woulde not once reiect any horsse of theirs and in vewing the Senate would not put backe one of the infamed according to the auncient custome therein always before obserued and kepte By reason whereof the Senates to despite him when they assembled the Senate would not once cal to counsail the Senators by him appointed but onely those whiche before had ben by the others Censors nominated and chosen Howbeit the communaltie thinking to please Appie to vpholde and mainteyne that whiche he had done and also desiring that the promotion of their kinsfolkes and friends by him pronounced Senators might take effect chose to the chief and principall office of Edilite Gne Flauie sonne to a bondman whiche thing in Rome was neuer before seene When all these things were finished and done and that the ende and terme of Appie was cōsumed and determined to auoyde the malice and displeasure of the nobles cōceyued against him he feigned and countrefaited blindnesse and neuer after remoued out of his owne house ¶ After Ptolome Prince of Egipt hath restored one parte of the Cities of Grece to libertie he for despite and in recompence of their breach of promisse with him concludeth a peace with Cassander And Cleopatre sister to Alexander the great comming on hir waye towardes hym is by the commaundement of Antigone miserablie slayne The .vj. Chapter THe yeare that Carine helde the principalitie of Athens and at Rome were created Cōsuls Publie Decie and Quite Fabie◠and in the Olympiade the Cxxvij Ptolome Prince of Egipt went to Sea with a great armie from Mynde and sayling alongest the Isles of Grece deliuered first Andrie from the subiection of Antigone◠and expulsed his garrisons From thence he sayled to the straight of Peloponnese called Isthmus and there tooke the cities of Sycione Corynth and Cratesipole and restored them to libertie fully de◠ermined to do the lyke to the rest of the cities in Grece thinking thereby to get great good will and fauoure and so to fortifie and make strong his estate But after he sée that the Peloponnesians would not with victuals and money ayde him according to their promisse he for despite and anger allied and cōcluded a peace with Cassander wherein was declared agreed on that euery of them should gouerne the Cities and Prouinces alreadie in their possessions And vppon that conclusion after he had garrisonned Sycione and Corinth he returned into Egipt In the meane while Cleopatre séeing the enimitie dayly betwene hir and Antigone encrease determined to ioyne with Ptolome and so departed from the Citie of Sardis meaning to séeke hym out It is to be vnderstood that Cleopatre was sister to Alexander the great and sometime wife to Alexander late King of Epyre deceased whiche warred in Italie whome for the noblenesse of hir ligne and stemme Cassander Lysimache Antigone Ptolome and in effect all the puissaunt and renowmed Princes Chieftaynes which remained after Alexander the great greatly desired to wife thinking that the Macedonians would soone obey and follow him who shoulde marry hir by reason of the affinitie he should haue in the bloud Royall and be held for chief and soueraigne ouer the rest But the deputie of the Citie of Sardes for Antigone hauing from hym expresse charge and cōmaundement to take
diligent héede she departed not incontinent stayed hir going And after by the commaundement of Antigone throughe certen women whome he had for that purpose corrupted put hir to death And bycause Antigone woulde not séeme to be the Author of so execrable a murder he by iustice put to death certen of the said women as if they had perpetrated and committed some hainous facte and verie honorably buried the body of the Ladie as apperteyned to so noble a Dame In this sorte Cleopatre for marriage of whome all the noble and renowmed Princes were at debate and controuersie before the time of marriage ended hir life ¶ After the taking and razing of Munichie Demetre Antigone his sonne by his Fathers commaundement restoreth Athens Megare and many other Cities of Grece to libertie and of their liberalitie towardes him and the honours they iudged him worthie for that his benefite good turne The .vj. Chapter THe same yéere in which Anaxicrate held y e gouernement of Athens and that Appie Claudie and Lucie Volamine were at Rome created Consuls when Demetre Antigone his sonne to execute his Fathers cōmaundement for restauration of the Cities of Grece to libertie had gotten togyther a great number of footemen shippes plentie of armoure and all other munition méete necessarie for a siege he loused from Ephesus and sayled directly to the Citie of Athens by Cassander garrisoned And after he had before the Porte of Pyrea pitched his campe he caused by an edict his fathers commaundement to be published for the restauration of the cities of Grece to libertie But Dionise Captayne of Munychie and Demetre Phalerey deputie of Athens for Cassander right ouer against him had with Souldiours māned their walles and curtens Neuerthelesse some of Antigone his Souldiours had gotten one quarter of the curten of Pire standing vppon the Sea side named Acten and there slew and repulsed the enimie whiche was the cause of the taking of Pyre Howbeit Dionise retired into Munichie and Demetre Phalerey into the Citie of Athens who the next day in the morning was by the commoners sent in an Ambassade towardes Demetre before whom he propounded aswell the deliueraunce of the citie and Citizens as also his owne But when he see he could no whit impetrate or get graunt for the said Citie but for him selfe only he fled into Egipt to Ptolome and so abandoned hys Countrey after he had gouerned the citie .x. yeares And after the people had gotten libertie they adiudged the authors thereof worthie perpetuall honours In this meane tyme Demetre hauing great prouision of shot and engines for to assault both by Sea and land besieged Munychie Howbeit Dionise and his souldiours had great aduantage of the enimie by reason the towne was of great heigth and the scituation of the walles agréeing thereto so that they right valiauntlie defended it although Demetre hadde maruelous great prouision of all things And lastly after he had two dayes togyther without staye assaulted the castle he shreudlie daunted the courages of y e defendants bycause the greater number were sore hurte and gald with shot not able to releue the curten with fresh men and the assailaunts by reason of their mightie numbre continuallie refreshed and releued their Souldiers and thereby at last wanne the castle and tooke Dionise Captayne thereof prisoner After he hadde in short tyme atchieued this victorie he razed Munychie restored the Athenians to their pristinate libertie and with them allied and made an inuiolable peace By reason of which benefite they by the commaundement of Stratocle ordeyned that the statues or Images of Antigone and Demetre should be set vp in golde hard by Armodie and Aristogiton and farther sent to eche of them a crowne of golde worth two hundred Talents They likewise rered an Altare called the Altare of their deliuerers and added and annexed to their .x. Tribes two more wherof the one called Antigonide and the other Demetriade They farther ordeyned euery yeare in their honoure games and sacrifices to be made as vnto Goddes and that their Statues and Images shoulde be wound and couered ouer with a couerchief of the Goddes Pallas And thus the Gouernement and libertie populer which the Athenians had in the Lamian warre lost vnder Antipater was restored to them vnlooked for .xv. yeares after The like did Demetre to the citie of Megare by Cassander garrisoned whom they also honoured as they did the first After all these matters when the Ambassadors of Athens came to Antigone to present the Decrée made by the citie in the honour of him and hys Sonne and to desire him of timber and other stuffe for the buylding of certen shippes and corne to victuall them he gaue Cl. thousand Medymnes of wheat and so much timber and other stuffe as would build a hundred tall shippes and rendred to thē the citie of Imbre which he kept farther writte to Demetre his sonne to depute and appointe all the Conseruators of y e frée cities of Grece to haue charge and authoritie to consulte and puruey for all things apperteyning to the conseruation of their libertie and y e done incontinent to take shipping and saile into Cypres to fight with the Lieutenaunts of Ptolome ¶ Demetre Antigone his sonne vanquisheth in a battaill at Sea Ptolome before the Citie of Salamine in Cypres and by that meane winneth the whole Isle from him And after the said Antigone Demetre and Ptolome take vppon them the Tytles and Dyademes of Kings The .viij. Chapter WHen Demetre had executed and performed hys Fathers commaundement concerning the restauration of the Cities of Grece he sailed into Carie from thence sent his Ambassadoures to the Rhodians to persuade them to allie and ioyne with him in the warre against Ptolome whereunto they would not agrée but concluded to be in amitie and friendship with them both and not to make or medle with any of their doings which was the first occasion and chief cause that plucked away the harts of the Rhodians from Antigone From thence loused Demetre and passing elongest the Isle of Sicile leuied shippes and Souldiours and sayled into Cypres hauing with him .xv. thousand footemen .iiij. hundred horsse and of Pumasses and excellent fine Gallies Cx. besides Liij other of greater burden méete for the warres and a number of Barques laden with victuals and other necessarie hablements for the armie And first he landed on the coast of Carpasie and there encamped hard by the shoare which he entrenched with déepe ditches and trenches From thence he went to the siege of Vranie making incursions on the Countrey in the waye and tooke them That done leauing a sufficient number for the garde of his shippes he marched on to Salamine whereof Menelaye was deputie for Ptolome who had leuied a number of mē in the Isle and retired into Salamine hauing intelligēce that Demetre was approched within .xl. furlongs of the citie he marched oute against him with
.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
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 with a numbre of pycked men and trayned Souldiours and those newly come out of Egipt went against the enimie that had entred the breache but during the night no great exploite was done Aboute the dawning Demetre gaue a signe as well to those Souldiours which assayled the Porte as to all the rest at one present to make a great showte and noise to encourage thē whiche were entred and hadde wonne the Bulwarkes and Bastils about the Theatre When the shoute and noyse was heard women children and all the weake companie beganne to crie howle and wéepe as if the citie presentlie had ben taken But the lustie and couragious Souldiours valiauntlie assailed the enimie entred who verie long right stoutlie defended so that on eche side were a great number slayn But in the end y e Townesmen still releued aswell with freshe men as also men of valiaunt and lusty courages for that it then stood vpon the hazard of the losse of them and their Citie and contrariwise y e force of the enimie decreasing they so stoutly after charged the Demetrians that they slewe in honorable fight Alcime and Mancie the two Captaynes of those bandes and the greater number of their Souldiours the rest they tooke prisoners except a fewe which fled that waye they entred and returned to Demetre Notwithstanding a great number of the Citizens were slayne amongs whome was Prytame of Demotele a mā greatly renowmed for his valiaunce and martiall pollicies After this assaulte Demetre yet had a greater affiaunce and hope to take it than before Wherefore he agayne furnished him to gyue a fresh assault But in the meane while he receyued letters from his father which willed him to conclude with the Rhodians so honorable a peace as he could Wherefore he attended and espied some occasion to come to an honest composition agreement with them Ageyne Ptolome had addressed his letters to the Citizens letting them to wete y t he woulde send a new supplie of thrée thousand men notwithstanding counsayling them that if they might come to anie gracious and fauourable composition not to refuse it Which letters séene and read they all were enclined to peace It happened the selfe same tyme that the Etholians had sent their Ambassadoures to Demetre to entreat a peace who after many entercourses betwene one an other a finall peace was there concluded as foloweth First that the Rhodians should be at libertie and liue after their old accustomed manner and not to be enforced to take in or keepe any garrison Also that they should continue and remayne friendes and Allies with Antigone with all and against all except Ptolome Item for assuraunce and confirmation thereof they should deliuer an hūdred ostages such as Demetre would chose out except and alwayes reserued the officers In this sorte the Rhodians after they hadde susteyned and abidden one whole yeares siege were deliuered And so many as bare them in that siege valiauntly and manfully were continually euer after highly honoured and largely remunerated with manie great giftes And all the sclaues who hadde well serued were bought of their Lords set at libertie enfranchised and made Citizens They caused also in their Theatre the Images of Cassander and Lysimache to be enstalled and diuerse other of lesse honour and dignitie who had them in that siege ayded And bycause they woulde honour Ptolome more than all the reste they sent into Lybie to the God Hammon to enquire if it were lauful for them to honor the said Ptolome as a God And when they had aunswer from the Oracle that they might not they buylt and set vp a Temple in hys honor within the Citie foure square like a Cloistre a furlong eche waye which they called the Temple of Ptolome They likewise repared their Theatre and all the places of the Walles beaten downe much fairer and stronger than before And after the conclusion of the peace Demetre with his whole armie tooke shipping and following hys Fathers commaundement sayled alongest the Isles and arriued at the Porte of Aulide in the Countrey of Beoce being commaunded to deliuer the Cities of Grece many of which during the siege were by Cassander and Polispercon robbed and spoyled And at his first arriuall he deliuered the Citie of Calcide by the Beotians garrisoned and constrained the saide Beotians to forsake the amitie of Cassander and after alliaunced with the Etholians against Polispercon and Cassander and vppon them arrered warres In this season died Eumele King of Bosphore after he had reigned sixe yeares and after hym succeded Spartace his Sonne who reigned .xx. yeares ¶ The conclusion of a peace betwixt the Romaines and Samnites certen other their neyghbours and of their subduing the Asculaines The .xiiij. Chapter IN the same yeare was treated and concluded a peace betwene the Romaines and Samnites after the warres hadde betwene them continued .xxij. yeares and sixe monethes That done Sempronie one of the Consuls tooke from the Asculains in L. dayes L. Cities and enforced them to submit to the Seigniorie and obeisaūce of the Romayne Empire and after returned to Rome where he was with great triumphe receyued And soone after the Romayne people made peace and alliaunce w t the Marians Palians and Marucians ¶ Demetre by force and treaty taketh many Cities of Grece and diuerse other rendre to him all which he restoreth to their auncient accustomed libertie The .xv. Chapter THe yéere ensuing when Leostrate gouerned Athens and y e Serie Cornele Lucie Genuce at Rome were created Consuls Demetre arrered warres against Cassander to restore the Cities of Grece to libertie and before all other things to set a staye about the affaires of the same Countrey aswell for that it séemed to hym good in doing the same to gette great glory and renowne as also for that he determined to discomfit Cassanders armie in Prepelaye after to go with hys whole power against the saide Cassander And firste he came before the citie of Sicione the deputie wherof was a noble and cheualrous Captayne of Ptolomes named Phillip who being by night sodenly surprised was repulsed and enforced with all his Souldiours to retire into a very great and strong Citadell When Demetre hadde thus taken the towne he encamped betwene the town and Citadell and planted his engines of battery against the same Wherfore the defendaunts séeing them withoute ayde and succoure yelded vppon such composition as they might and so from thence went to sea and sailed into Egipt When Demetre had wonne the Citadell he transferred the Citizens thyther razed the one parte of the citie ioyning to the Port bicause it was to strōg so he holpe the Citizens with his money to build and repaire the Citadell and therewith restored them to libertie By whiche occasion they adiudged hym yearely go◠ly honors to wete sacrifices assembles solempne processions and combats and named the citie Demetriade and did him many
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
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
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
published aunswered that he would cōclude no peace with the Athenians vnelesse they wold wholie submit them to his discretion and gouernement alleaging that what time they besieged him within the Citie of Lamie they woulde make none other answere to his Ambassadoures When y e Athenians sée none other boote that they were no longer able to resist they remitted the whole gouernement of the Citie to his pleasure Who being of such moderation of mind redeliuered to them their Citie and landes with all their goods and cattels Howbeit he altered and chaunged the gouernement of the Citie Declaring that where before the rule and estate of the Citie was common he therefore now decréed and ordayned that none should be admitted to anie office or dignitie within the Citie except suche as were of good reuenue and liuing that might at least dispend two thousand Drachmes by yeare they to haue all the aucthoritie gouernement and ordering of the same And that the rest whose lands did not amount to the clere yerely value aforesaid as persones seditious and desirous of tumultes and warres were clerely excluded from authorite and gouernement Neuerthelesse they that were contented to dwell elsewhere he gaue them the conntrey of Thrace for their habitation and reliefe of whiche sorte were aboue xx thousand which went to dwel al in Thrace And there remained in the Citie of auncient and landed Burgesses about ix thousand or néere thereabout who gouerned the same and territories therof after the Lawes of Solon without taking away frō Perseus any of the goodes which he possessed And for their better quietnesse and refuge Antipater least behinde vnder the the charge of Menille a garrison of men of warre for the repressing of such as would go about to commence or reuiue anie innouatiō or mutation And for as Samy he least it to the willes and discretions of the Kings Thus the Athenians being gently handled and well entreated farre beyond their expectation minded vpon that cōclusion to liue in rest and peace and to vse their trauaill without feare by meane wherof in shorte time they grew to great wealth After Antipater had atchieued and obtained these victories he retourned with Cratere into Macedone whome he perfectly loued and greatly honoured bestowing on him large and honorable gifts giuing him also in mariage hys eldest daughter Phile a yong a Damsel of excellēt fauoure and beautie making farther great preparation for his retourne into Asie Moreouer he used such great humanite and curtesie towards all the Cities of Grèce and reduced them to ciuility and politique gouernement that he acquired great prayse and renowme Perdicas lykewyse rendred to the Samians their Citie and Countrey and called home all the citisens which had ben in exile xl yeares and more ¶ Of the explotys done by Thimbron and Ptolome in the warres of Cyrene The ninth Chapter NOwe since we haue spoken of all the factes of warres done in the Lamian warre it behoueth vs out of hand to make mencion of the warres which the Macedonians had against Cyrene and to gyue it this meane space to the end we deferre not those gests so long from the time in whiche they were done but to make the matter more clere and manifest we must beginne somewhat farther of What time Harpale fled out of Asie into Crete with a certen numbre of souldiers as in the booke before we haue mencioned Thimbron who by outward apparaunce séemed his friend traiterously slew him and seising on all his money men and shippes sailed with all the said souldiers and riches into the countrey of Cyrene and by the meane of the aide and conduct of the exiles of the same Citie he gaue battaill to the Citisens gouernours and vanquished them wherof he slewe many and tooke a numbre of prisoners and so wanne the Port or hauen whereupon he put the Citisens in such terror and feare that he draue them to come to a composition wherein they agréed that he should haue v. hundred Talents of siluer and the one half of his Charriots and Charrets that he woulde occupie in his warres This agréement concluded on he immediatly sent his Ambassadours to the rest of the cities néere hand demaunding their ayde for the subduing of the Region of Lybye thereto adioyning He farther willed his Souldiers to spoile and but in all the goods which they founde in the shippes within the said Port the rather to enbolden them to enduer the warres And albeit fortune highly fauoured the said Thymbron that he became rich proude yet not long after she brought him agayne into as great miserie by this occasion for one of his Captaines named Mnasicles borne in Crete a man expert in martial factes chalenged him and said he had done yll bycause he made no egall diuision of the but in And being a valiaunt and stout man and of nature mutinous reuolted tooke parte with the Cyrenians greatly blaming and discommending the crueltie and disloyatie of Thymbron dissuading them to breake promisse with him and to set thē selues at their owne choise and libertie But when Thymbron sée that they had not as yet payd but lx Talents and that frō daye to day they delayed the payment of the rest he held the agréement and composition on their parte infringed brokē wherfore he tooke so many Citisens as were within the Port prisoners to the nūbre of foure score That done with al his force he besieged the Citie and preuayling nothing retired into the hauen In this while the Barcians Hesperits toke part with Thymbron wherfore the Cyrenians purposing some facte least one part of the Souldiers within the Towne and with the other parte salied out and ranne vpō the Barcian and Hesperite camp who were forced to send to Thymbron for ayde whether he came with all his power which when Mnassicles sée and perceyuing he had leaft the Hauen vnfurnished persuaded the Cirenians in the Towne to assaye to winne the hauen whereupon they immediatly issued out and with great ease wanne it bycause there were few or none leaft to defend the same all whiche was exploited and done by the meane and conduct of Mnasicles who straightwayes redeliuered to the merchaunts of the towne so muche of their goods as might be found and after furnished the Porte with a garrison of valiaunt men of warre When Thymbron vnderstood that the Port so méete a place for the anoying of y e enimy was lost al the bagage of his mē of warre he was thereat greatly abashed Howbeit he tooke to him a martiall courage went to the siege of an other Citie called Thacire which he wanne wherfore he waxed right glad and bolde Neuerthelesse not long after happened him other great misaduentures For first his Souldiers which were a bord hauing lost the Hauen therby cut of from victuals at land were constrayned to make out certeyn bandes to fourage the fields and Countrey for prouision of victuals whome
the Libians one daye among the rest finding abrode disordered discomfited ouerthrew of which some were slaine other were taken prisoners the rest recouered thire shippes and went to sea meaning to arriue at some Port where they might finde friendship But sodenly arose so gréeuous and vehement a tempest y t it perished and drowned manie of their shippes and such as escaped were driuen with winde and weather into Cypers and vpon the coast of Egypt Yet for all this ill fortune he neuer desisted his purpose and attempt but without stoppe sent certeyn of his chiefe and assured friēds into Peloponese to mustre and take vp Souldiers willing them also to entertaine the two thousand men of warre straungérs lying and abyding in the Countrey of Tenare and to bring them also into Libie All this time the Cirenians by reason of the late ouerthrowes by them gyuen trusting in their owne courages and hoping well of better successe boldly attempted Thymbron with battaill wherein they vanquished kild a great numbre of his people which conflict made him almost despaire of the conquering and subduing the Cyrenians But sodenly came in his ayde the Souldiers of Tenare wherewith he tooke such harte that he a fresh assembled an other great numbre to commence and beginne his warres But when the Cyrenians sée that they by and by sent to the Libians Chartagians their neighbours requiring ayde so that with them and of their owne Citie they had gotten together about xxx thousand men with whom they arrered an other great army wherein on eyther side cōsisted and depended the whole and totall victorie And although the fight endured long yet in the end Thymbron obtayned victorie whereof he was right ioyous hoping then in short time to conquere and subdue all the Cities thereabout In whiche conflict the Cirenians lost al their Captaynes wherfore they chose for their Chieftayne and Generall Mnasicles and other vnder him to defend the hauen and Citie whiche Thimbron had before besieged and yet still dayly approched But in the ende the siege so long continued that victuals within the Towne were verie scarse which caused great muteny wherfore the Cirenians expulsed the most worshipfull and riche Citisens whereof some tooke part with Thimbron and the rest went for rescous into Egypt and desired ayde of Ptolome for their retourne home whereunto he graunted So they departed thense towards Sirene with a puissaunt army both by sea and lande vnder the conduct of Orphellon When the exiles with Thimbron vnderstood of their cōming they determined by night to steale vpon them and so to rob and spoyle them but their enterprise being reuealed and discouered they were all slayne Then the Cōmoners which kept the Towne perceyuing the exiles at hand truced with Thimbron and ioyned together to fight against Orphellon who encountred them in battaill and ouerthrew them tooke Thimbron prisoner Whē al these conflictes had thus taken end he toke the Citie of Cirene the rest of the Cities neare about whiche before liued at libertie to the behoofe of Ptolome his Lorde and Soueraigne ¶ Perdicas entring Piside taketh the Lauradians prisoners by siege so distresseth the Isaurians that they kil them selues And at the entreatie of Antigone Antipater and Cratere which warred vpon the Etholians conclude a peace with them bycause they would go against Perdicas The x. Chapter BUt now to returne to Perdicas and King Phillip after they had ouerthrowen and discomfited Ariarathe and bestowed the gouernement of Cappadoce on Eumenes they tooke their iourney into Pisided etermining to sacke raze the Cities of Laurade and Isaure bycause that they in the life of King Alexander had slaine Balacre the Sonne of Nicanor whom Alexander had deputed their Patrone and Gouernour And first by force they tooke the Citie of Laurade and killed all the men and made portsale of their infaunts and yong children But bycause the Citie of the Isaurians was strong and throughly manned to hold out the enimy after they had two dayes besieged it wherin many of their Souldiers were lost they seing the Citisens wel furnished of all things for the defence thereof fully determined to maintayne it to death retired howbeit after thrée dayes past they agayne approched the wals and gaue a fresh assault which the Citisens to their great losse manfully defended wherfore being thē disfurnished of able men for the manning of their wals rampiers and Bulwarks they purposed an honorable fact worthy memorie First foreséeing their iminent destruction ineuitable by reason they were no lenger able to resist and knowing for certein that they should shamefully and villaniously be entreated they therefore determined rather than to yelde to the enimy to die an honest and honorable death For first they shut vp in their houses the old men women and children and to the ende there to burie them they set all the houses on fire which being on a light and the flame issuing out on euery side they cast in all their mouable goodes and all other things which any way might be profitable or gaynefull to the enimy whereat Perdicas greatly amased commaunded his Souldiers to enuiron the Towne and gyue the attempt to the wals but the Townesmen so valiaunly defended the curten that they ones agayne repulsed the assaylaunts Then Perdicas much more astonied enquired the cause why they so couragiously stoode to the defence of the Citie considering they had burnt both their houses and goods But after Perdicas had retiered his Souldiers from the assault the Isaurians threwe them selues into the fier and so were buried in their houses with their friends and familiers The next day in the morning Perdicas licenced his soldiers to sacke and spoyle the Citie who after the fier was throughly put out found infinite treasure of gold siluer forasmuch as the said Citie had long continued without warres and through traffique great trade of merchaundise grew to great wealth and became very riche When Perdicas had wonne these two townes he purposed thē to marry being in choyse of two Gentlewomen to saye of Nice the daughter of Antipater whome he had already fianced and of Cleopatre sister to Alexander the great and daughter to king Phillip sonne to Amint. But first he determined to allie himself with Antipater bicause his puissaunce and aucthority was not yet throughly confirmed established and therfore fianced he his daughter But after he had once obtayned an army royal princily estate he altered his purpose meaning for his greater aduaūcement to espouse Cleopatre wherin he affected the kingdom of Macedone to y e ende the Macedonians might accept and take him for their Lorde and Soueraigne Neuerthelesse bycause he would not that this his practise should come to light he in the meane while married Nice fearing that if he did not Antipater woulde be come his vtter enemy But after he perceyued that Antigone friende to Antipater had smelt out
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
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
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
of their harne◠s. In this sorte they came néere Gaze almost at the sunne set But after they were about the citie certē of hys horssemen forsooke him and entred the Towne to carrie oute their baggage by reason whereof the throng prease was so great of mares and other bestiall at the gates for that euery man thrust to be foremost that Ptolome his Souldiours whiche chased thē thyther bycause they could not shut the gates entred the towne and so seized on it to Ptolome his vse When Demetre had thus loste the battaill he fledde all that night without staye vntil he came to the Citie of Azote distaunt from them two hundred .lxx. furlongs The next daye in the morning he sent his Ambassadours towards the enimie of whom he prayed leaue to burie the dead meaning in that case to do them all the honour he could There were in that conflict slaine the greater parte of his friendes Amongs whome Python was principal who with him had equall charge of the armie and Berte whiche was with hym brought vp of a childe and knewe all his mynde and secretes In that battaill also were slaine of noble personages aboue .v. hundred the more parte horssemen and aboue .viij. thousand prisoners taken When Ptolome and Seleuke had gyuen leaue to burie the dead they sent backe to Demetre all hys mouable goodes and treasure which they had taken and so many prisoners as were his housholde meiny without ransome saying that the warres which they arrered against Antigone was not for his goods and treasure but bycause when they were in consort and warred togyther firste against Perdicas after against Eumenes he woulde not make egall distribution with his friends and companions of the realmes and dominions atchieued in those warres and also for that against the tenor of his alliaunce contrarie to all equitie and conscience he had expulsed Seleuke Babilon The reste of the prisoners Ptolome sent into Egipt for Gallie slaues When Ptolome had magnificiallie and honorablie buried all the dead on his parte he with his armie inuaded the cities of Phenice some of which he besieged and vpon composition reconciled others When Demetre sée hys power and armie decrease and insufficient he sent letters towardes his father praying his ayde and spéedy helpe And in the meane tyme while he taried for aunswere he went to the citie of Tripoly in Phenice and frō thence sent into Cilice for Souldiers and to all the Captaynes farder of whiche eyther in citie or castle had any garrison When Ptolome had wonne this victorie and that there was no armie to resist hym he subdued the citie of Sidonne and from thence departed and encamped before the citie of Tyre and practized with Andronicke Antigone his Lieutenaunt to render it vnto hym promising great giftes and hie promotions who not onely aunswered that he would by no meane falsifie his faith to Antigone and Demetre but also vsed chorlish lāguage to Ptolome Notwithstanding he was shortlie after through the mutenie and sedition of the Souldiours expulsed and the towne rendred to Ptolome so that Andronicke then became his prisoner who both for his vile and naughtie language also bycause he would not yeld the town looked to be euil entreted Neuerthelesse Ptolome forgat the iniurie and gaue him great giftes and retayned him as one of his chief friendes and after preferred him to an honorable charge He was a Prince ful of maruelous equitie and iustice curteous pitifull full of lenitie and therewith liberal which greatly profited him and was the chief cause that great and honorable personages desired his amitie and friendshippe And amongs other he right gently reteyned Seleuke who praying his ayde for the recouering of Babylon willingly graunted hys request and farther promised to lende him what thing soeuer was hys vntill such tyme as he had recouered his Satrapie which he first enioyed In this estate were the matters of Asie ¶ Thelesphore reuolteth from Antigone and Alcete by the Epirots chosen King making alliance with Cassander after many battailles is by hys subiects slaine And Cassander loseth a battaill before the Citie of Apollonie in the Countrey of Adrie The .xl. Chapter AS the matters of Asie stood in the estate aforesaid Thelesphore Antigone his Admiral lying about Corinth apperceyuing that Ptolome Antigones Lieutenaunt was better perferred and aduaunced than he and all the estate and affaires of Grece committed to hys charge complained thereof to Antigone and after sold all his shippes and bestowed the money amongs the mē of warre which would follow and go with him And going to the citie of Elyn was there receyued as Antigone his friende But when he had once furnished the Castle he brought the citie in seruitude He robbed also the temple in Olympe and tooke away aboue L. Talents wherewith he waged a great number of hired souldiers straungers In this sorte Thelesphore for the enuie and malice of Ptolome his preferment and auctoritie reuolted from Antigone Whiche things Ptolome Antigone his Lieutenaunt in Grece vnderstanding with his armie entred Peloponnese and marched to the Citie of Elyn tooke the Castle and razed it restored the Citie to libertie and rendred to the God the siluer violentlie taken away from him After vpon treatie and composition he compassed Thelesphore to rēder the citie of Cylene which he enioyed and kept and it restored to the Citizens of Elyn Amongs these exploites the Epyrotes after the death of Eacide their King bestowed the Realme on Alcete whome Aryuille his father and enimie to Cassander had bannished Wherefore Lyciske Cassander his deputie of Acarnanie marched with his armie into Epyre thinking easely to depriue and put downe Alcete from hys princelie seat and realme before he were throughlie confirmed and established in the same And as he encamped before the citie of Casopey Alcete sent his two sonnes Alexander and Theucer commaunding them to assemble so many Souldiours as they could And him selfe with the Souldiers he had drew néere the enimie attending the comming of his sonnes Whereupon Lyciske séeing the Epyrotes approche although the greater number so lustely charged them that they reculed and finally fled but Alcete escaped vnto the citie of Eurymen whome Lyciske there besieged And as he laye before the Towne Alexander Alcete his sonne came with all his power to the ayde of his father and fought with Lyciske In which conflict he had the better and slew a great number of Lyciske his Souldiours and two valiaunt Captaynes to saye Mychite and Lysander of Athens to whom Cassāder had left the gouernement of Leucade After that conflicte and ouerthrow Dyme came in Lyciske his ayde and in few dayes after gaue battaill to Alcete his Sonnes and vanquished them wherevpon the yong men and their father retired into a strong place and forsoke the Citie of Eurimene which citie Lyciske shortlie after tooke sackt and razed When Cassander was aduertized of the
this present historie ¶ Of the Lake Asphalte and the meruelous nature thereof also the discomfiture of Antigone his people there by the Arabians The .xliiij. Chapter THis Lake surnamed Asphalte is as it were in the middest of the Satrapie of Arabie about .v. hundred furlongs long and .lx. broode the water thereof is meruelous foule and stinking so that no fish can lyue therein nor any other thing accustomed to lyue in the water And albeit there entreth and runneth into it many great ryuers of fresh and swéete waters neuerthelesse they are through the great and maruelous stenche of the water of the Lake incontinent infected which of it selfe yéerely casteth a great quantitie of plastry all hoale as bigge and great oftentimes as thrée Arpentes and many times not passing as great as one Arpent And when there is great store and abundaunce the inhabitaunts cal it the Bull and when lesse the Bulchin This amasse and heap of plaistry in such sorte riseth and swimmeth aboue the water that they which sée it farre of thinke it to be some Island And when it beginneth to arise as we haue before saide they may perceyue it xx daies before bycause there issueth oute of the Lake such a vapoure smelling like plaistre many furlonges round about and of such efficacie and strength that all the golde siluer and all other metall within the limites and compasse thereof lose their colour But after the plaistre is once risen aboue the water it getteth it agayne Whiche vapoure scaldeth all the Regions thereabouts and drieth them as if they were half burnt and maketh the people verie pale and wanne also sicklie so that they are not long lyued Notwithstanding the land round about is fruitfull for Date trées whereas is any ryuer or fountayne to moyst them And in a place lying in a valley néere thereto groweth the swéete and odoriferous Baulme whiche is of great price bycause there is none in the whole worlde but there whiche the Phisicions vse in their receytes as an excellent and singular thing And as touching the plaistre rising oute of the Lake the people of the Countrey runne thyther to spoile and gather it as it were the butine of the enimie The boats which they row in are made of great réedes and in euery boat but thrée men whereof two rowe the third hath bowe and arrowes to defende them against those which would let them from gathering And when they are come to that amasse or heape with their axes and hatchets they cut thereof as a man shoulde do on a Tuph or softe stone and therewith fraught their boats and then returne And if it happen at any tyme that the boats breake that they fall into the water yet thoughe they cannot swymme they sinke not to the grounde as in other waters but remayne aboue as if they swam For the nature of the water is to beare and hold vp the bodyes of any thing whiche hath humiditie and breath And such things as are whole and massife as golde siluer lead and such other mettals sinke not so soone to the ground as they do in other waters With the same plaistre the Paisaunts gather get great store of siluer for they carry it into Egipt where they sell it very déere bycause it is verie excellent and soueraine to preserue dead bodies from steach and putriture and if the other dredges be not mingled with that they can not long preserue and keepe them When Demetre was returned to his Father in Sirie he recompted all he had done against the Arabians and also the nature of the Lake whereof we haue spoken Howbeit his father was no deale contented with the league and amitie made with the Arabians saying they would hereafter become more cruell and fierce seing they hadde not now bene chastised and brought vnder and farther they woulde thinke that the same conclusion of peace was made not for anie pitie or compassion he tooke of them but bycause he was not able to correct and punishe them Notwithstanding he much commended hym for fynding oute the Lake by which he trusted the better to encrease hys reuenue and possessions Wherefore he charged Ierome the Historian to assemble and get togyther a numbre of shippes and to fraught them all with the plaistre he coulde there finde and to carrie it into some place to be safely kept But the matter happened all other wayes For the Arabians who were therof aduertised had assembled to the numbre of vj. thousand or thereabouts and with their boats with shot of arrowes so charged Antigone his people vppon the saide Lake in their ships that they had almost slain them all Whereof Antigone aduertised losse all hys hope of gayning by the said Lake and chieftie bycause newes were brought him out of Mede of greater and weightier affaires which aunswered him as hereafter shall be declared ¶ Demetre Antigone his sonne at his fathers commaundement goeth to Babylon to make thereof a conquest and after returneth to his Father The .xlv. Chapter AS Antigone laye in Syrie and thought a freshe to commence warres against the Arabians sodenlie came a messanger to him with letters from Nycanor Gouernour of Mede and the other Satrapes néere thereabouts by which he was aduertised of Seleuke hys arriuall in Babylon and of the things he hadde already done togyther of Nycanor his discomfiture with which newes he was greatly astonied Wherefore he incontinent dispatched Demetre his sonne with .v. thousand Macedonian footemen .x. thousande Mercenaries and iiij thousand horsse commaunding him with al celeritie to go and recouer the Satrapie of Babylon and after to returne to Sea towardes him For execution of whiche commaundement Demetre departed from the Citie of Damas in Syrie sped him to Babilon Whē Patrocles Seleuke hys Lieutenaunt there vnderstoode that Demetre was alreadie entred Mesopotamia and séeing his smal number not able to resist kept with him self one parte and commaunded an other companie to depart the citie and passe the ryuer Euphrate to saue thē selues through the desertes and appointed the rest to passe the Ryuer Tigre and to go into Susiane into the citie of Eutele ouer against the red Sea And him selfe with the souldiours he deteyned remayned in the Countrey of Babylon hauing an eye to the passages and fourdes of the Ryuers and other difficile places that he might know when and what waye the enimy came He also gaue notice with all spéede to Seleuke abyding in the countrey of Mede of their comming and from day to day signified vnto hym what was done exhorting hym to bring with all diligence ayde and succoure When Demetre was come to Babilon and founde the Citie left alone he mynded to take the castles The one of which he forcibly tooke and gaue the spoyle to hys men of warre And seing it impossible for him out of hande to take the other and that the terme appointed to méete his Father approched he left behind at
diuerse other sundrie kind of people who followed the Campe to traffique For knowing that the Rhodians had ben long without wars they thought there would be such store of wealth in the Countrey whereby the Marchaunts should be great gayners When Demetre had set all things in readinesse he went to Sea and so ordered his shippes as though he would fight And first he placed his Gallies in the first front in their noses he couched great engines which shot great sharp arowes of wood .iij. spaÌ„nes about next them came the shippes whiche carried the horses whiche were haled out by the Gallies and other small pynnaces rowed with ores In the latter flote came the Pyrats and Marchaunts aforesaide so that all the Sea betwene the citie and the firme land was couered with shippes which sight sore dismayed and troubled the citizens Neuerthelesse they with their Souldiours and so many as were able to beare armes manned their walles and bulwarkes awayting the approche of the enimie and the olde people and children were set in the garrets and hiest places of the houses to beholde them for the citie stoode so vppon the Sea like vnto a Theatre that they might clearely sée the hugenesse of the shippes and the braue glistering armoures and helmes whiche was a terrible thing to sée and that made them carefull of their estate and Citie Shortly after Demetre landed and encamped before the citie without dauÌ„ger of the shot incontinent after he had pitched his camp sent out his Pyrats a nother coÌ„panie thoroughout the Isle to spoyle and robbe it both by sea and land And further himselfe caused to fel the trées pull down the houses in the fieldes to make and buyld vp the lodgings and fortifications in hys Campe which he with a treble of wood earth fortified y t it might be the stroÌ„ger against the force and power of the enimie He likewise filled the voide ground and places betwixt the Citie the Porte and left at the Sea side onely a space for the Nauie to ryde in In the meane while the Rhodians sent many and sundrie tymes Ambassadoures to praye hym not to do them any hurte But when they perceyued he would giue them no reasonable aunswere they sent to Ptolome Caslander and Lysimache requiring them to come to the aide and succour of the citie which for their quarrell was besieged and oppressed During this time it was put to choise of the inhabitaunts within the citie able to beare armoure aswell Citizens as Forainers whether they would tarry and abyde the daunger of the siege or else departe the towne and so many as would not tarry as also those which were vnméete for the defence thereof they excluded the citie fâ— reséeing y t their victualles thereby shoulde last longer and that no man should saye he was there against hys will besieged and so not content therewith might deuise and ymagine some treason or villanie against the Citie This done they mustered the remnaunt whiche were aboute sixe thousand Citizens and aboue a thousande straungers They moreouer made and published a Decree wherein was agreeed that all the sclaues whiche valiauntly serued in the same siege should with the common treasure be bought set at libertie and that their bodies slaine in those warres should be enterred their Fathers mothers wyues and children at the despence and cost of the Citie mainteyned their daughters with the money of the common treasure endowed and the men children when they were out of their minoritie crowned and armed in the theatre with all suche solempnities as sometyme were done to Dionise to the ende their Citizens should with greater courage defend and mainteyne the citie WheÌ„ they had thus by an whole and common consent accorded the riche men disburst money the artisans and workemen labored to make armoures engines and other things necessary for their defence so that in effecte euery man according to hys calling in that he was most skilful and excellent did his best some made Crosbowes and engines other repared and strengthned the walles and the greater sorte carried stones and earth to the curten They sent also out of the Port thrée of the lightest shippes best sailers to gyue an alarme to the enimie and especiallie vnto the victuallers who much more exploited than they thought them able for they soonke many Marchaunts shippes whiche followed the campe to traffique spoyle and buy the pillage and brought a great number into the Porte which they after burnt and tooke many prisoners of whome they according to the appointement conclusion in that behalf betwene Demetre and them accorded and agréed vpon tooke a great summe of money which was this that the prisoners taken on eyther syde shoulde be ransomed as followed First that a frée man should paye a thousande Dragmes and a bond man .v. hundred When Demetre had prepared and gotten abundaunce of al things he buylt two great tortoises made of bords and couered with leather that would not burne the one to defende his Souldiours from the stones the other to defend them from quarrelles and such like shot whiche two engines were set vpon two shippes of burden ioyned and grappeled togyther an egall distaunce the one from the other He caused also to be set vpon two other shippes two towers of wood euery of them hauing .iiij. stages or stories much hier than the towers within the Porte to assaile and batter them with great artillerie other shot He made also a notable raÌ„pier of great tymber hollowed-nayled and pinned togither which swaÌ„me foure féete aboue the water as a defence before the ships which carried the towers and engines and great artillerie bycause the shippes of the Towne whiche were great and mightie shoulde not borde them with their beakes and so quash and breake them or else vtterly repulse them In the meane tyme while these things were brought to an ende he picked oute hys strongest Barques and furnished them with thicke planâ— hers made out with great wyndowes which serued in stead of Port holes to open and shut at which he placed great mightie crosbowes and other artillary which shot great arrowes and farre of and men also cunning in the handling of them besides a great number of other archers and Arbalisters of the countrey of Crete All which preparations thus made as aforesaide after the saide shippes and engines were approched the wall within daunger of the shot he sore hurte and gald the Townes men which manned and defended the towers and Bulwarkes in the Porte When the Rhodians sée that al the force and power of the enimie was bent against the Porte they with all their studie deuised howe to defend it Whereupon they planted two engines of Artillary vppon a Bulwarke adioyning to the Porte and other thrée engines vppon thrée earâ—â— cques néere the entry of the little hauen wherein were men crosbowes shot stones other things necessary of great force to withstand
curtens were w t quarrelles stones sore hurt But to sée how the Rhodians defended was wonder While these matters were at this point and that the assault had long tyme continued the Ambassadours of the Guidians came to entreat Demetre for their Citie to leaue of and raise hys siege promising to persuade the Rhodians to performe hys demaundes which with reason might be graunted whervnto he gladly agreed But after the assault ceased and that the Ambassadours had long gone aboute all partes of the curten debating with them to and fro to yeld and to consider the daunger they were in the King séeing yt impossible to persuade them gaue a freshe assaulte more fierce and terrible than the first and with his Artillary so beate them that he battered and ouerthrewe a great square Tower of stone and the wall it stoode on all to pouder so that the Souldiours of the towne could not that waye passe to go to their other towers and defenses Notwithstanding the Attemptaunts throughe the wonderfull and valiaunt defence of the Citizens could not all that daye enter the Town In this meane while arriued at the Hauen a great number of barques laden with corne and great plenty of other victuals by King Ptolome sent out of Egipt who with a prosperous wind sayled a maine vnder all sayles and entred the Hauen maugre all Demetre his Nauie who did al that in them laye to barre them the Porte And as it were al at one time certen other shippes laden with victualles sent from Cassander and Lysimache arriued Whereupō the Citizens which before were in great feare and necessitie tooke now such courage that they wholie determined to sallie oute on the enimie and set on fire their engines And thereuppon they made great prouision of drie wood and such other stuffe for fire workes when they had appointed all their shot to that side on the wall where the engines were planted they which were put out of the Town began about midnight al at one throw to cast fire in diuerse sorte against the engines and their garders and the Souldiours from the curten so lustely applied them with shotte which came to the rescous that the whole armie was in maruelous terrour as of a thing not precogitated or thought on But the Demetrians fearing the burning and spoyle of all their Engines fiersly ranne to their rescue and by reason of the darknesse of the night the fire carriers being alwayes in sighte were very sore hurte and stryken downe bycause they could not in the darke auoyde the shot which came on them Neuerthelesse after the Rhodians hadde once perceyued that the plates of yron wherewith the great Helepolis was armed were fallen of they then in all they might cast fire aboute the bare naked places But they within diligently quenched the fire with water which they had for the purpose made readie Howebeit when Demetre sée the fire stil encrease fearing y e consummation of all his engines he caused them at the sound of the Trumpette to be drawen awaye by those who had the charge The nexte daye in the morning he commaunded his Souldiours to gather togyther all the shot which came out of the Towne to the end he would haue a gesse what furniture they hadde within whiche thing was spéedely done and by the reporte that was made they coniectured to be within engines of artillary for fire workes aboue .viij. hundred of diuerse bignesse and of other artillary as crosbowes and such like aboue a thousand Wherefore when he hadde séene such plenty of shot in so short tyme in one night he greatly wondred at the maruelous wealth and dispence of the Citie and yet he more wondered at their furniture Neuerthelesse after he had taken order for the burying of the dead and healing of the hurt mē he then repaired and amended his engines of artillary During which time the Citizens being at reaste and without daunger of battery made a crosse wall within the Town enuironning all that part of the wall which was in daunger and besides cast a déepe trenche at the corner of the Wall whiche was beaten downe to staye the King that he should not by any great or impetuous force entre the Citie by assault They sent oute also secretly Amynthe with a number of their fittest saylers who before anie thing was perceyued had gotten y e coast of Asie right ouer against the Isle where Demetre had thrée tall and mightie shippes whiche the Pirates had brought in the ayde of the King whom he there borded and after a whiles fight tooke them and all that were a borde amongs whome he had Thimocles Prince of the Pirates He tooke besides these many other small Barques laden with victualles cōming towardes the camp all which he brought by night into the Rhodes withoute knowledge of the enimie Soone after that Demetre had repared and amended his engines of battery he ageyne brought them as neere the wal as was possible and with great force of shot repul◠ed all that stoode to the defence and towers of the curten and with his rammes other engines of battery so sharpely battered them that he threw downe two Turrets Howbeit the Souldiours of the Tower or Bulwarke that stood betwene the two Turrets defended it so valiauntlie that it was nothing shaken neuerthelesse many of the Souldiours were slayne and Ananie Captayne thereof Amongs these enterfacts Ptolome had ageyne sent another fléete laden w t asmuch corne and other necessarie things as before w t a thousand Souldiours vnder the conducte of Antigone the Macedonian In this meane while arriued before Demetre aboue L. Ambassadours sent by the Athenians and other cities of Grece desiring him to conclude an inuiolable peace with the Rhodians and rayse hys siege whereunto he agréed and for certen dayes the Ambassadours and diuerse other messengers were sent on all handes to treat a peace but in the ende they agreed not so that the Ambassadoures returned withoute conclusion After their departure he by treason determined to wynne the Citie and by night to thrust in his Souldiours at the great breach And thereuppon he chose oute a thousand of his valiauntest and best trayned Souldiours commaunding them about midnight faire and easely without noyse to approche the Wall on that side the rest he arranged in order of battail and at that very instant with so great noyse as might be gaue an assault round about the town both by sea and land And incontinent they whiche were charged to enter the breache violently rushed in and slew the watche whiche garded the trenche so that they entred the towne and ment to winne the Bulwarkes and Bastils standing about the Theatre When the gouernours of the Rhodians vnderstood the case and seeing al the Citie in great terror and maruelous feare they commaunded them whiche manned the Port and Walles not once to remoue frō their charge but valiauntly stand to the defence thereof and
other honors as if he had founded the citie But the varietie of time the mutations and alterations that after happen make all things vncertayne and voyde For the Citizens séeing that the scituation of the Citadell whereunto they were remoued was much more commodious and pleasaunt to enhabite than the auncient citie kept it always euer after euen to these dayes For the place was great and roumie and aboue plaine and smoothe but round about so knaggy hanging that the wayes were inaccessible and subiecte on no side to battery Therein were also great store of springs and fountaines wherewith they watered their gardens In this sorte then throughe the Kings prouidence they were in great suertie and in a very pleasaunt place When Demetre had set in good staye the affaires of of the Sycionians he marched with his whole armie against the Citie of Corinthe whereof Prepelaye a Captayne of Cassanders was deputie And at his firsts comming by meane of the intelligence which he had by certen of the Citizens he entred the Town in the night through a posterne But the Souldiours within saued them selues in two fortes standing at the endes of the Towne the one of which was named Sysiphe and the other Acrocorinthe Notwithstanding he throughe great payne and â— rauell wanne by force Sysiphe and by composition tooke the other bycause the attemptes and assaultes by reason oâ— the great industrie of his Engines of Artillary and his maruelous care and diligence therin vsed where intollerable Whiche done and that he had set the citie at libertie the Citizens were well contented he should put in a garrison into the Bastill of Acrocorinthe for defence of their Citie and there to kéepe them vntill suche tyme as he had descomfited and ouerthrowen Cassander And after Prepelaye had shamefully ben expulsed Corinthe he tooke his waye to Cassander When Demetre had thus wrought against Corinthe he departed thence pursuing his victorie by the other Cities of Peloponnese where by force he tooke Bute and restored the citizens to their auncient libertie and froÌ„ thence went to Scyre and there did the like and expulsed Cassanders Souldiours Then went he against the Citie of Orcomenye in the region of Arcadie and there talked w t Strombicke deputie for Polispercon to rendre it But when he see it would not be and that he vsed stoute and arrogaunt wordes he planted his engines and battred and ouerthrew the walles of the Citie and tooke it by force and caused the said StroÌ„bicke and .viij. hundred of his souldiours to be carried out of the citie as vtter enimies and there to be hanged and waged and deuided amongs his bandes the Mercenarie Souldiours being about two thousand After he had thus done the reste which held the cities and townes néere hand hauing no newes or hope to be succoured by Cassander Prepelaye nor Polispercon and considering that the King was so stoared with engines of artillary and men that they were not able to withstand his so mightie power yelded their cities ¶ The Tarentines desire Cleonyme the Lacedemonian to ayde them against the Lucaines of the villanies and lecheries he committeth and after two mischiefes which in one tyme betyde hym he retireth into Corcyre The .xvj. Chapter WHile the Tarentines warred all this time vppon the Lucaines Romaines in Italy they sent their Ambassadoures to the Lacedemonians into the citie of Sparte praying them that they would send them Cleonime to be their Leader and Generall with a certen numbre of men which thing the Lacedemonians readely graunted them And shortly after Cleonyme leuied in the countrey of Laconie about .v. thousand men with whome he tooke shipping and sailed to Tarent and arryuing there he leuied an other numbre of men in that countrey so that he had well néere about .xx. thousande footemen and two thousand horse amongs which were many Grekes lying then in Italy Of this so great assemble the Lucaines were in such terror that they grewe to an agréement with the Tarentines Howbeit the Metapontines forced not their power for which cause Clonime by the consent of the Tarentines sodenly assailed them Wherewith he put them in such feare that they suffred him vnder the colour of friendship to enter the citie but after he was entred he exacted of them aboue sixe hundred Talents and tooke two hundred of the beautifullest maydes within the Town vnder the Title name of ostages but trueth was it was to saciate his lecherous desire and beastlie luste so as in that and also in diuerse other things he euidently declared hys monstrous and abhominable villanies For besides that he lest wearing of his Grecian apparell and apparelled him after the maner of the most lasciuious and effeminate countrey Ageyne so many as rendred vppon his faith promisse to be assured he made bond And in déed wheÌ„ he had so goodly and mightie an armie he did nothing worthie and beseaming a citizen of Sparte He also tooke on hande to indict warres to Agatocles in Sicâ—â— e to enlarge his tirannyâ— and to restore the Sicilians to their auncient libertie but he to much delayed and deserred hys sayde enterprise and before he went thyther tooke his iorney to Corcyre and brought the citie vnder his obeisaunce of which he leuied a great summe of golde and siluer garrisoned it meaning to kéepe that as a receptacle or refuge whereby he might alwayes be at hand to marke â— spie out the affaires and doings of the Grecians And during the time of his aboad there the Ambassadoures of Demetre and after the Ambassadours of Cassander came to him eche of them praying his alliaunce Howbeit he would not graunt eyther to one or an other but being aduertised that the Tarentines and their neighboures rebelled left sufficient numbre in Corcyre with the reste tooke shipping and sailed with all spéede into Italy to the ende to be reuenged of the rebelles So he arriued at a citie named Tyrice by the Barbarians kepte and by force tooke it sackt it and forraged the territorie therof the lyke dyd he to an other Citie named Tripole where he tooke aboue thrée thousande prisoners After this the Barbarians in that quarter assembled and by night assayled him in his campe and there slew aboue two hundred Souldiours and tooke aboue a thousand prisoners Not long after chaunced hym an other losse at Sea for through a tempest that sodenly arose he lost .xx. sayle of those which rydde néerest his campe at which mishaps he was so greatlie astonied that he retired with the rest of hys armie and Nauie into Corcyre ¶ Cassander and Lysimache attending ayde from Ptolome and Seleuke beginne to warre vppon Antigone the one in Thessalie the other in Asie and do take from him certen Townes Cities and Castels The .xvij. Chapter THe yéere following that Nycocles gouerned Athens and Marke Liuie and Marke Elye were at Rome created Consuls Cassander King of Macedone séeing y e countrey
escape and take the Towne wherein they are emprisoned and in the ende ageyne taken Cap. 6. fol. 49 ¶ Antigone being come into Babylon and ioyning w e Seleuke and Python is by Eumenes repulsed the passage of Tygre to the great losse and slaughter of hys people Cap. 7. fol. 50 ¶ Of Antigone his comming with his armie into the Countrey of Mede and the daungers and hard passage he hath vpon the way Cap. 9. fol. 52 ¶ Eumenes to please his Satrapes with the whole armie marcheth into the countrey of Perse by hys wisedome and pollicie putteth Penceste who affected the gouernement and armie in great feare and after reconcileth the sayd Penceste and assureth him selfe of all the other Satrapes and Captaynes Cap. 10. fol. 53 ¶ Of the battaile betwene Antigone and Eumenes of their powers and of their retire to winter without victorie on eyther side Cap. 10. fol. 55 ¶ Eumenes burieth the dead and of a maruelous case whiche happened betwene two women of Inde Cap. 12. fol. 59 ¶ Cassander vnderstanding of that Quéene Olympias had done with his armie commeth into Macedone and besiegeth the sayde Olympias within the Citie of Pidue where the Quéene in short time is cleane voyde of hope of all succours she loketh for Cap. 13. fol. 57 ¶ Antigone thinking to surprise and discomfite Eumenes and his armie the sayde Eumenes throughe hys wisedome and diligence frustrateth his enterprise and by that meane saueth both his Elephants and baggage Cap. 14. fol. 58 ¶ Antigone in battaill ouerthroweth Eumenes putteth him to death and after seizeth on all hys armie Cap. 15. fol. 60 ¶ Antigone retireth to winter in the Countrey of Mede and of the deluge or floud which that time chaunceth in the Citie of Rhodes Cap. 16. fol. 67 ¶ Antigone by craft putteth to death Python who beginneth to rebell and gyueth the Satrapie of Mede to Orondonate and lykewise vanquisheth certen other Median rebelles Cap. 17. fol. 68 ¶ Antigone comming into Perse and there receyued as Lorde and Seigniour of all Asie deuideth the Satrapies thereof and after goeth to the citie of Suse and taketh all the treasure he there findeth Cap. 18. fol. 69 ¶ Cassander taketh by composition Olympias and after putteth hir to death Cap. 19. fol. 70 ¶ After the death of Olympias Cassander espouseth Thessalonice Alexander the great hys sister and foundeth the citie of Cassander And after he hath put in safe kéeping Roxanne and Alexander his sonne he goeth into the countrey of Beote and reedifieth the citie of Thebes Cap. 20. 71 ¶ Of the foundation and fortunes of the citie of Thebes in Beote Cap. 21. 72 ¶ After Cassander hath taken and subdued certen cities of Peloponnese and vnderstandeth of the comming of Alexander Polispercon his sonne against hym he returneth into Macedone Cap. 22. 73 ¶ Upon Antigone his arriuall in Babylon Seleuke perceyuing that he séeketh occasions to expulse or kill him flieth into Egipt Cap. 23. 74 ¶ Of Seleuke his practize and deuise touching the alliance and confederacie betwixt Ptolome Cassander Lysimache against Antigone Of their defiaunce they send him and of his preparatiō against them Also of his siege against the citie of Tyre in Phenice Cap. 24. 74 ¶ Of the wisedome and vertue of Phile Antipater his daughter Cap. 25. 77 ¶ Antigone winneth to his alliaunce Polispercon and Alexander his sonne and by a decrée by the Macedonians made denounceth Cassander an enimie and after taketh the citie of Tyre Cap. 26. 77 ¶ Of the practizes deuises and prouision by Ptolome and Seleuke on the one parte and Antigone on the other parte made by Sea in the countrey of Asie Cap. 27. 78 ¶ Of certen exploites 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 which Ptolome his Nauie hath against Antigone his Nauie in Cilice And after Ptolome and Antigone come to a parle and of certain exploites of warre betwene the Romaines and Samnites Cap. 28. 79 ¶ Of diuerse exploites which Aristodeme one of Antigone his captaynes doth against Alexander Polispercon his sonne in Peloponnese ◠and Alexander being slaine his wife through hir prowes taketh vpon hir the gouernement Cap. 29. 80 ¶ Cassander making amitie with the Acarnanians and Illirians 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 thereof Cap. 30. 81 ¶ Two bandes of Cassanders whiche he sendeth to Lemne and Carie are by the souldiours of Antigone ouerthrowen Cap. 31. 82 ¶ Antigone gyuing order aboute the affaires in Syrie goeth into Phrigie and of a notable victorie which one of his captaynes winneth at Sea on the enimie Ca. 32. 83 ¶ The Romaines losing a great battaill against the Samnites people the Citie of Locres with their men Cap. 33. 83 ¶ Lysimache subdueth the cities of Pont and Thaure whiche rebell and after vanquisheth the Scythes and supplies by Antigone sent into the same Countrey Cap. 34. 84 ¶ Thelesphore one of Antigone his Captaynes restoreth the greater number of the cities of Peloponnese to libertie And Philip a captayn of Cassanders vanquisheth the Etholians and the King of Epyre which came to their ayde Cap. 35. 83 ¶ 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 agréement they beginne the warre in Grece Cap. 36. 83 ¶ The Romaines winne a victorie on the Samnites And the rebellious Champanois by an agréement putte them selues to their obeisaunce Cap. 37. 84 ¶ Ptolome and Antigone to despite one the other restore diuerse Cities of Grece to libertie And the same Antigone faileth of his entrie into Macedone After are entreated the matters by Ptolome ◠done in Cypres and Cilice in the hier Syrie Cap. 38. 85 ¶ Ptolome and Seleuke come into Sirie against Demetre and in battaill vanquishe him And after Ptolome conquereth the countrey of Phenice Cap. 39. 89 ¶ Thelesphore reuolteth from Antigone and Alcete by the Epirots chosen King making alliaunce with Cassander after many battailles is by his subiectes slaine And Cassander loseth a battaill before the citie of Apollonie in the countrey of Adrie Cap. 40. 92 ¶ Seleuke through hys wisedome and prowes with a small numbre of men which Ptolome hadde giuen hym conquereth the countrey of Babylon togyther Susiane and the rest néere ioyning whiche holde with Antigone Cap. 41. 93 ¶ Demetre in battaill vanquisheth Cylles Ptolome his Lieutenaunt and after Antigone hys Father commeth and ioyneth with him and then Ptolome forsaketh the countreys of Syrie and Phenice and leaueth them to the sayd Antigone Cap. 42. 95 ¶ Antigone enterpriseth warres against the Nabathians inhabiting the desertes of Arabia and Athaney his Captayne is by them discomfited Also after Demetre his comming thyther he concludeth a league