being in the top of the mountaine had séene the order which Eumenes kept he arranged his battails as hée thought for the best For seing the right wyng or voward of the ennimie chiefly fortified with Elephantes and his beste horse he placed righte ouer against them the chiefest light horse he had the more parte shot meanyng that they shoulde not choake the enimie◠but whéele aboute to and fro thinkyng therby to kéepe them occupied in that wing or vowarde wheron they most trusted so that they should do nothing And right ouer against the battaile of footmen of the enimie he placed Arbalisters on horsback and launces about a thousand Medians and Palatians all trayned souldiours according to the necessitie of the time place After them placed he .xij. hundred Tarentines all choyse men and very subtil to lye in ambush in whom he greatly trusted wherof a thousande were Phrygians and Lydians After he placed Pythons horse being a thousande and and .iiij. hundred launces whome Lysanias conducted behynde them placed he the vauntcurrers or forrayers and viij hundred other of the hie countreys With this number and in this order was furnyshed and placed the lefte wing or rerewarde vnder the conducte of Python After them marched the phalang or battail of footemen in which were the mercenaries to the numbre of nine thousande behind them were the Lydians and Pamphilians and after thē were .viij. M. of diuers nations armed after y e maner of y e Macedoninas And behind thē were y e Macedonians about y e like numbre whom Antipater whē he was created gouerner of the kings had giuē to Antigone ◠And in the right wing on the other syde of the phalang trouped the mercenarie horsmen of diuers nations being about fyue hundred after them a thousande Thracians and .v. hundred other souldiers which came thither to serue behind them a thousand called the compaignions or aduenturers whome Demetre the son of Antigone had charge of which was the firste time that euer he came into the fielde wyth his father in battayle And in the vttermoste parte of the righte wyng or voward was Antigone with his bande of of foure hundred horse deuided into thrée cohorts or troupes all of his own house and to them adioyned a hundred Tarentines On the front before the sayd right wing or vowarde were placed .xxx. Elephants whiche embraced the whole ryghte wing or vowarde in forme of a crosse and the spaces betwene them and the men of warre he furnished with light armed footemen And for the rest of the Elephantes he placed the greater parte before the phalang and the rest before the left wing or rereward When Antigone had in this order aranged his battails he caused thē to marche down frō the moūtaine in order and not afront For the right wing or vowarde wherein lay all his hope he caused to marche against the ennimie meanyng they should charge all alongest the flanke of the enimie But the left wing or rerewarde which he had appointed to amuse the right wing or voward of the enimie he caused to march straight and close together Howbeit after they approched and the trumphets sounded to battail the horsmen with Python seing no greter power against them and they more in numbre and farre better mounted than the enimie kept not the order of amusing them according as they were appointed but stoutely shewed their corages And bicause that in the fronte of that wing or voward were the elephantes whiche they thought not good to assayle they wheled about And after they had passed the Elephantes they charged them on the flanke in which they slew and hurt with their shotte and launces a great numbre and the enimy no way could hurt them by reason they were so heauyly armed that they were neuer able to pursue them nor yet saue them selues when they were charged When Eumenes sée that he called oute the lightest horsses in Eudame his bande whiche were in the right wing or vowarde and a certain numbre of footemen lightly armed and charged the sayde Python and by little and little brought on the Elephantes in the same wing or vowarde by that meane incontinente he put the enimie to flight and chased them harde to the foote of the mountaine during which fight the two battailes of footemen fought long together where many men were wounded and killed but in the ende Eumenes phalang wanne the victorie through the vertue and prowes of the Argiraspides Macedonians all olde trained Souldiers who had oftentymes bene in many aduentures and daungers and thereby became so valiaunt and hardie that fewe or none were able to abide their force as clearely by them then appeared For being not passyng .iij. thousande men theyr bande was the bulwarke and strength of the whole armie and therfore placed in the fronte of the battaile as theyr chief strength When Antigone sée his lefte wing or rereward put to flight and his whole phalang turne the back and heard his friends counsell him to make to the mountaine to put in order his men which were fled yet would he not but with the bande of horse about him he so profited him selfe and vsed the oportunitie of the mountayne that he both saued his fled men and also wanne the honor of the fielde For after he sée that the Argiraspides and the rest of Eumenes footemen had subsecuted and chased his Souldiers vnto the foote of the hill and had therby broken their aray and were diuided he straightways charged the flanke of Eumenes right wing or vowarde which Eudame ledde and put them al to flight bicause that where as they thought before the victorie had ben theirs and then being so sodenly charged they became so amazed that many of them were slaine Then Antigone forthwith sent out certain of his light horse to staye the fled footemen and retire them to the foote of the Mountaine which was speedely done and there he put them againe in order of battail When Eumenes vnderstoode that his right wing or vowarde vnder the conduct of Eudame was put to flight he caused to sounde the retraict and sent out aide to retire the rest which had the enimie in chase When both the Chieftaynes by this meane had retired their fledde Souldiours they somewhat before night got them together and againe put them in order of battaile both generals Captaynes and Souldiers on either side were so obstinate fierce And althoughe it drew to night immediatly after yet it was so very faire cléere that they might sée by reason the Moone was at the full one another And besides the armies were so néere the one the other that they might on both sides heare the neighing of horses and clattering of armours that euerie man would haue thought they had ben together by the eares But being passed aboue thirtie furlonges beyond the place where the battaill was fought and that the dead laye about midnight the Souldiers on eyther
Antipater should go against Perdicas through the coūtrey of Cilicie Cratere against Eumenes For they thought if Eumenes could be vanquished that they might a newe ioyne together with Ptolome and his power whome they looked for they then should be well able to encountre the army royall and discomfite and ouerthrowe them When Eumenes vnderstood his enimies to be at hande he mustered his men and arranged them in order of battaill but chiefly his horsemen in whome lay all his hope of victorie bycause he knew right well his footemen were neuer able to abide the Macedonian Phalange When the armies were in view one of an other Cratere like a stout and valiaunt Champion exhorted his soldiers in hartie and couragious maner gyuing them if the victorie lighted on their sides the butin and spoyle of the enimies Camp thinking thereby the more to enbolden encourage them After which exhortation he also arranged his battaile placing him selfe in the right wing or voward and Neoptolome in the left wing or rereward He had in all xx thousand footemen the greater numbre Macedonians in whome he much trusted bycause they were all men renowmed and experimented in many battails and warres and about two thousande horsemen And Eumenes had of sundry Nations xx thousande footemen and about v. thousand horse with which he thought to gyue the first charge whereupon he deuided his horse into two wings and caused them to troup before the Phalang Cratere likewise with his horse first encountred Eumenes and fighting there valiauntly was in the prease ouerthrowen and smothered But after the horsemē which charged with him in the right wing or voward vnderstood of his death and séeing the enimy going about to enclose them notwithstanding their valyaunt fight retired to their battaill of footemen as vanquished But Neoptolome who led y e rereward of Cratere his army Eumenes which had the voward of his owne so violētly charged one an other that the fight on eyther side was cruel Then the two Captaynes which both by their horses and other signes tokens knew one another encountered body to body and with great courage fel angry moode valiauntly fought which fight was cause of victory for after they had a while buskled and fought together with their swordes they forsooke hold of their bridles and wrestled on horseback meaning by playne force to ouerthowe one another But as they were thus wrestling their horses drewe backe they both fell to the ground which fal was such that neyther of them by reason of the heauinesse of their armour coulde well recouer their selues Howbeit Eumenes first recouered his féete and comming with his sworde in his hande towardes Neoptolome gaue him such a blowe that he cut his hamme strings cleane asunder whereby he could not arise But his harte which supported the imbecillity of his body was such that he recouered his knées and defending him selfe manfully wounded his enimy on the hande and on both his thighes notwithstanding him selfe continually bled and bycause the wounds he gaue Eumenes were neither déepe nor deadly Eumenes at the next encoūtre so violētly strake him on the head that he yelded the ghost During this affray the Souldiers valiauntly fought and albeit on eyther side was great slaughter yet woulde they not gyue ouer vntil Neoptolome his death was knowen and then the horsemē gaue ouer and retired towards their Phalange as to their garde and place of suerty When Eumenes had considered that he had wonne honour ynough in obtayning victory and especially that he had gotten the bodies of two his chiefest enimies he caused to sound the retraict And after he had set vp garnished his Trophe and buried the dead he sent certaine messangers towards the Macedonian Phalange to exhorte them to take his parte offring to as many as were disposed leaue to departe Who taking the appointment league confirmed by their othes prayed they might go to the next villages to prouide them of victuals whereunto be agréed But after they had made their prouision falsifying their othe promisse they in y e night stole their wayes meaning to ioyne with Antipater whereof Eumenes aduertised and thinking of the periured traytours to be reuenged incontinent pursued them But séeing what for their manly noble courages and also for the dolor and anguishe whiche he felt of his wounds that he nothing preuayled he immediatly retired And thus through this great victory but chiefly by the killing of two his principall enimies being both noble personages well estemed he acquired great renowme and fame From thence he marched towardes Perdicas through the Countrey of Cilice hoping in good time to come to his succoure and helpe ¶ After Perdicas hath brought his Souldiers into Egypt they slea him And Phiton and Aride are chosen Gouernours ouer the Kings The .xiij. Chapter WHen Perdicas was entred Egypt something néere the Riuer of Nyle he encamped before the Citie of Peluse and there taking vpon him to scoure and make cleane an old ditch through which ranne an arme of the Riuer Nyle he impaired and lost all whiche before he had done for the riuer ranne then with so fierce and vehement a course that it carried awaye and ouerflowed all wherfore many of his Souldiers rendred to Ptolome for Perdicas in the ende became so detestable in pride beastly cruelty y t he put his Captaynes frō all gouernemēt and would by force viole◠ne ouer rule al. But Ptolome did otherwise for he was curteous liberall to his Captaynes would gladly heare them whensoeuer they spake besides he prouided for the méete and necessarie places of Egipt and furnished them with men armoure weapon and all other things néedefull for the defence of the Countrey Wherfore whatsoeuer aduentures he tooke in hande eyther in battaill or else he cōmonly had the better bycause his Souldiers loued him so dearely that they woulde hasard them selues in any daunger to do him pleasure seruice When Perdicas sée this eminent mischief meaning to get agayne the good willes of his Captaynes clerely lost and to put things in better order that were disordered he by the sound of the Trumpet assembled his Captaynes and Souldiers making a long protestation wherin with curteous and gentle wordes he exhorted them when he had by gifts wonne some and other with large promisses thinking that he had then brought them agayne to a good conformitie to serue him and to attempt any danger he would lead them to for his cause he commaunded them that they should by the first watch be in a readinesse to marche forward not declaring to any whether he wold and continuing their iourney all night with great spéede about the day breake they encāped by Nyle néere a towne and Castle called the Wall of the Camels and besieged it But after a dayes continuaunce there he beganne to set ouer his army And first he put ouer his Elephantes next to
reste honourably with large giftes home into their countreys and so many as minded to serue he was contente to retaine euery one according to his astate To whiche offers and gentle wordes the Macedonians gaue no eare but threatened to kill the messangers if they departed not and that quickely Which thing Eumenes vnderstanding came towards them highly allowing and commending their doinges and gyuing them besides hartie thanks beganne to recite this Fable ensuyng which although right olde yet very méete and serued for hys purpose There was sometyme quod he a fierce Lyon amorous of a certayne faire yong Damosel which prayed of hir Father this mayd in mariage Wherunto the Father aunswered that he was wel pleased to bestow hir on him always prouided that he shoulde pull of his clawes and plucke out his téeth fearyng that if vpon any occasion he waxed angry with his daughter hauyng his téethe and clawes he would incontinently teare hir in pieces To which demaūde the Lyon agréed But whē the father of y e mayden sée that the Lyon had neyther clawes nor téeth for his defence he with a leauer easily slewe hym Euen so quod he noble souldiers and Companions in armes woulde Antigone doe with you promising all your desire vntill he haue you vnder his power but after he will punyshe you at his pleasure When he had thus spoken the souldiers beléeued he sayde truthe and therevpon the assemble brake vp When night came certaine which fled from Antigone his campe arriued declaryng that he was trussyng vp his baggage and that at the seconde watche of the nyght he meant to departe When Eumenes vnderstoode therof he imagened that he would into the countrey of Gabene being but thrée dayes iourney off bycause it stoode whole and furnyshed wyth all kindes of victuals to victuall a campe for a long time and besprinkled wyth ryuers and strong valeys very harde to passe For which cause Eumenes determyned to preuente and occupie the same countrey before hym and therevpon marched forth on the way But to kéepe the enimie in the meane whyle occupied he sent certaine of hys mercenarie Souldiours whome he hadde corrupte to Antigone hys campe who shoulde make semblaunt as though they came to yelde affirming that the enimie was in redinesse to come and assaile them that night in their campe and in the meane tyme commaunded hys souldiers soone after they had supped to take their iourney which they did When Antigone vnderstoode that the enimie would come and assaile him in his campe he stayed his armie and put them in order of battaile and while he was so occupied Eumenes with his armie had trauailed a great way beyonde them before it was perceyued and knowne Neuerthelesse after he was by his scoute aduertised of the truthe and vnderstoode the craftie dealyng he altered not his purpose but cōmaunded his men with all spéede to pursue the enimie as though they fledde But after a whiles trauail seing the enimie six houres before him and he by no meane able to ouertake them bethoughte hym of this policie First he left the conduct of his footemen to Python to bryng them on with reasonable iorneys and he vpon the spurre wyth his horses pursued the enimie and by the daye breake had ouertaken the taile as they were descending into a valey So he taried and rested him vpon the top of a mountayne and there mustred his men makyng in the face of the enimie the greatest shew he could Who thinking it to be y e whole armie of Antigone stayed and put themselues in order of battaile determining out of hande to fighte In thys sorte the generals of either armie by subtile and marciall policies deceyued one an other as if they had striued whiche of them had ben wisest and skilfullest and to shew that the victorie greately consisted in their two persons And by this deuise hathe Antigone stayed the enimie hauing good leysure to attende for his footemen and after they were come they aranged their batailes and then discended the side of the hill in suche order as was terrible to beholde He had in the whole with the souldiers of S◠leuke ◠and Python aboue .xxviij. thousande footemen .viij. thousande horse and .lxv. Elephantes The two Chieftaynes vsed their sundrie pollicies in ordering their battails as who would saye that the one had as great knowledge and experience as the other First Eumenes gaue the leading of the vowarde of his armie to Eudame who brought the Elephantes out of Inde besides a bande of .v. hundred horse aboute him Before thē placed he two bādes of launces fiftie horse in eche one at the tayle of an other at the foote of the mountayne in places moste méete After was placed Stasander wyth his thousande horse After hym Antimacke gouerner of Mesopotamie with .vj. hundred horse besides .vj. hundred Arocothes who before had ben vnder the cōduct of Hybirte and after he fled giuen to Cephele After were .vj. hundred horse of the Paropamsades placed and with them .vj. hundred Thracians And before all the bandes aforesayde he placed .xxv. Elephants aranged in manner of a saint Andrewes crosse and the spaces betwene the Elephants and the horse he supplied with shot The vowarde being in thys sort placed the battaile of footemen marched next in the foreparte whereof were appointed the mercenaries being aboue six thousande behinde them fiue thousand of dyuers nations whiche came thither to serue all armed after the maner of the Macedonians After them were placed the Argiraspides to the numbre of thrée thousande or more kéeping their aray whiche bande bycause it was neuer vanquished nor ouerthrowen greatly feared the ennimie and behinde them all the souldiours which Alexander waged beyng aboute the lyke numbre of the Argiraspides and serued vnder their captaines and before the Phalang or battaile of footemen he arranged fortie Elephantes and the voyde spaces betwixte them he likewise supplied with footemen lightly armed On the lefte wyng or rerewarde on the other side of the phalang were firste placed thrée hundred Carmanians vnder the charge of Clepoleme after them nine hundred called the companions or aduenturers with the bands of Penceste and Antigene to the numbre of thrée hundred horse all vnder one guydon and at the end of them ◠e appointed his owne band of horse of the like numbre And for their gard he placed two wings of his houshold seruants fiftie horse in eche aranged on the side and not a front like the rest And without them in the right poynt he likewise placed in an other wing foure bandes wherein were two hundreth choyse and picked horse Besides them he chose out of the lightest and brauest of all nations he had CCC whome he placed in the front of the battaile where he hymselfe was and before them he aranged the rest of his Elephantes The whole armie of Eumenes was about .xxxv. thousand footemen .vj. hundred horsse and Cxl. Elephantes Antigone
Aripharne was put to flight whome Satire a while chased and ouerthrew and killed a great number of hys people But when he vnderstood that his brother Eumele which lead the other wing ouer against the Mercenarie Grekes hadde the better of them he desisted chasing of Aripharne and came to the rescous of his owne men At whose comming the enemie was repulsed and in the end put to flight And in this maner Satyre him selfe was cause of victorie in both the wings By which well appeared y t the realme aswell for his Seignoritie as also for his vertue and prowes to him only apperteyned The victorie thus wonne Aripharne and Eumele retired into a Castle standing on a verie stéepe rocke scituate in the middest of the Riuer of Thatis By reason whereof and also bycause the walles were strong and hie well manned and also furnished with all kyndes of shot and weapon it was not easie to be taken but verie difficile and harde to besiege hauing but two wayes to enter both of them artificially made and wrought the one went directlie to the castle enuironed and defended with flankers and bulwarks the other to certen marshes lying round about the castle fortified with rāpiers of wood in the middest of whiche marshes were faire houses buylt vppon great pillers standing vppon the ryuer When Satyre had considered the strong situation and great daunger in the siege thereof he first made incursions and robberies vppon all the countrey round about and tooke a great numbre of the paysauntes prisoners with great plenty of cattell and burnt and fouraged all the villages And after he had thus done he determined forcibly to assaile the place whiche lead to the Castle but he was repulsed with losse of many men Notwithstanding he desisted not but so lustely and courageously assaulted the other waye that he wanne the rampers and houses standing on the marshes and spoyled them and after passed the ryuer where he began to cut and hew down the piles and houses of wood through which he must néedes passe if he determined to come to the Palaice Which thing when Arypharne sée and fearing the taking of the Palaice his whole trust and chief refuge defended the same by all the possible meanes he could Now had he a great numbre of shot which he deuided on both sides the waye who hurt a great numbre of the wood fellers bycause they coulde not auoyde the shot nor yet endomage them which did the hurte Neuerthelesse they couragiouslie endured the daunger and for thrée dayes togyther neuer ceased cutting downe of wood so that they hadde made a playne beaten waye through the marshes and the fourth daye were gotten hard to the curten For Menisce Captayne of the Mercenaries a valiaunt and wise man came brauely and courageouslie with his Souldiours throughe the same waye to gyue the assault But after he had long susteyned the violēce of the shot within and the greater number of his men hurt he then of force retired And in the retire they of the Castle in such number sallied out vppon him that what through the narrownes of the way and disaduauntage of the place he surely had ben slayn had it not ben that Satyre séeing them so distrest incontinent came to their rescous Who nobly fighting and abyding the force of the enimie was with the blowe of a launce in one of his armes so sore hurte that he was faine to be taken and carried backe into his campe and the night ensuing died on the same stroke when he had raigned but .ix. monethes after the death of his Father When Menisce sée that he raysed the siege and retired the armie to the citie of Galgaze and from thence sent his brothers bodie downe elongest the Ryuer vnto hys brother Prytame in the citie of Panticape who caused it very sumptuously honorably to be enterred amongs the sepulchres and tombes of the Kings And that done he incontinent went into the citie of Galgaze and there seized on the armie and Realme To whom Eumele hys brother sent Messangers to demaund particion of y e said Realme who harkened not to any suche demaund but after he had placed his garrisons in Galgaze forthwith returned to Pāticape to establish and set an order about the affaires and estate of the realme The same time Eumele with the ayde of a numbre Barbarians tooke the citie of Galgaze and many other Townes and Uillages thereabout Whereof Pritame aduertised leuied a great armie and came against him where he in battaill was vanquished and enforced to flie into a place in the straight néere the marshe Meothide and being there by Eumele enclosed was driuē of necessitie to come to a cōposition wherein he gaue ouer restored to him his armie and also forsooke his right and title of the realme But after he was returned to Panticape the Palaice Royall of the King of Bosphore he againe forcibly tooke vppon him the gouernement and estate of the Realme but he was a fresh by Eumele ouerthrowen and fleing through certen orchyardes there slaine After whose death Eumele meaning to assure himselfe of the realme caused all the friends wyues and children of Pritame Satyre his brethren to be put to death except and reserued Parisade Satyre his sonne a verie yong stryppling who on horse backe got out of the towne and fled to Agare King of the Scythes But when Eumele sée the Citizens for the slaughter of their friendes and familiars waxe mutinous he assembled them and declared the causes which moued him to do the same saying farther that he would restore them into their auncient estate immunitie and franchize sometime had vnder his predecessours and that they should be exempte of all trybutes and impostes by which meane he appaised them and wanne againe their good willes and fauoures and after sagely and courteouslie gouerned behaued hym selfe in his raigne to the great admiration of all his neighbours For through his munificencie and curtesie he made all his friendes to loue him as the Byzancians Synopians and the rest of the Grekes inhabiting the countrey of Pont. And when Lysimache besieged the Calantians who for want of victuals were brought into great daunger and necessitie he receyued a thousand of them which came out by reason of the famine and not onely licenced and assured them to remayne in his Countrey but also gaue them one of his owne cities named Yse amongs them deuided the territorie thereof He moreouer warred vppon the Heniques Thaures and Achees Barbarians and Sea rouers to make the Sea Pontique nauigable to them of the countrey By which his doings he both got great prayse and renowne of the countrey men there and also of the whole world bycause of the reporte the people of that countrey made to all whiche sailed and came thyther so that he hadde wonne a great parte of the region of Barbary ioyning vpon his realme and became so puissaunt and renoumed that he
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
.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