ennimie mente or durst to do Thus had the Grecians in all their affaires by lande prosperos successe But after the Athenians vnderstood that the Macedonians were of great power by sea they caused many new ships of warre to be buylt so that they had in all C◠xx saile But Clite Admirall of the Macedonian Nauie hauing alwais about CCxl saile twise chased and vanquished Ethion Admirall to the Athenians slew manie of his people about the Isles Ethimades Perdicas ouercommeth Ariarathe and restoreth to Eumenes the Countrey of Cappadoce The seauenth Chapter IN this meane time Perdicas hauing with him King Phillip and his armie royall purposed to warre vppon Ariarathe of Cappadoce Who neuer during the life of Alexander would at anie time be subiect to the Macedonians And the cause why Alexander suffred him peaceably to enioy the same was that he had suche notable warres with King Darie that he neuer forced of Ariarathe so that he peaceably held and enioyed that countrey of Cappadoce many yeares By reason whereof he became so rich and of such great wealth that he had waged a great numbre aswel Cappadocians as straungers with whome he thought to defend him selfe and his Realme against Perdicas if at any tyme he attempted to pierce and inuade his countrey He had about xxx thousand footemen x. thousand horse Notwithstanding when they came to battaill he and all his armie was quite discomfited and ouerthrowen wherof about iiij thousand slaine and aboue v. thousand prisoners taken of which numbre him selfe was one who with all his kinsfolks and allies were hanged This done Perdicas proclaimed peace to the whole Countrey restored to the Gouernement thereof Eumenes Cardian who was before assigned vnto it at the first particion of the Prouinces ¶ Antipater in fight vanquisheth the Grecian armie◠putteth in subiection the greater numbre of the Cities of Grece and Athenes and in the end restoreth them to libertie The eight Chapter IN this meane season was Cratere come out of Cilice into Macedone accompained with vj. thousand footemen of y e most expert souldiours that serued Alexandre when he first inuaded Asie And vpon the way he tooke vp iiij thousand Persian Archers a thousand Slings or Shot and a thousand horse to aide Antipater and to reuenge the oultrage committed by the Grekes against the Macedonians But so sone as he was come into Thessalie he voluntarily gaue the principall charge and conduct to Antipater praying him to take vpon him the office of L. Generall of the army So they encamped together about the Riuer Pene and one day mustering the army accompting those which came with Leonate they had xl thousand footemen well armed iij. thousand archers and slings and about v. thousand horse Notwithstanding the Grekes feared nothing but encamped right ouer against them albeit they were the weaker and febler companie by reason that a great numbre of them for their many victories before obtained were so hault and proude that without weting or knowledge of their Captaines they were gone home so that the Captaynes being not obeyed nor the Souldiers at commaūdement there remayned not behind aboue xxv thousand footemen and iij. thousand v. hundred horse in which nmubre of horse laye consisted the only hope of victorie both for their valiaunt courages also bycause the countrey was playne and champion Antipater daylie offred battaill but the Grekes remained quiet kept their camp loking still for aide from the cities of Grece But they were by the enimy so long oppressed and gréeued that of force they must in the end abide and put all to the hazard of battaill And bycause they desired that the horsemen shold first charge they placed them as it were for their voward before the Phalange of footemē And when Antipater sée that the Thessalians at the first encountre and charge had gottē the better he commaunded his Phalāge to marche against the maine battaill of the Grekes whome they so fiercely greeued and pressed that in lesse than an houre they had almost slaine the whole Grecian Phalange And at last the Grecians seing them selues no longer able to abyde the brunt nor maintayne the fight retired in good order to battaill to the straight passages towardes a moūtayne where by reason of the aduaūtage of the place they with greater ease defended them selues from the power and force of the Macedonians And albeit the Grecian horse were to harde and bettered the Macedonians yet they seing their footemen so retired yelded them selues to the enimie so by that meane the Macedonians wanne the honour of the battaill in which were slaine about v. hundred Grekes and Cxxx. Macedonians The next day in the mornyng Memnon and Antiphile chiefe leaders of the Grecian armie assembled their Captaynes and called a counsayll wherein was proposed two questions First whether it were good to abide and tarrie for the ayde and help of the cities of Grece aud continue the warre vntill they were of as great powre as the enimie or whether it were better considering the time to sende vnto them to treat a peace so they agreed vpon the last Whervpon they sent Ambassadoures to Antipater who aunswered he woulde not at one instant condescende and agrée to conclude a peace with al the whole cities of Grece but if they woulde euery of them perticulerly sende their Ambassadoures to him that then he was content to heare them and otherwise not whervnto the Greekes in no wise would agrée Whyle the warres still continued Antipater and Cratere besieged the citie of Thessalie to the ende wherof the Greekes were not able to come wherefore the Citizens beyng sore distressed and in great daunger rendred the towne to Antipater whom he receyued into fauoure and shewed him selfe so gently and curteous towardes them y e shortly after al the rest of the cities of Grece euery of them particulerly yelded to Antipater with whom he accorded peace And farther they clerely forsooke both the Athenians and Etholians vtter ennemies to the Macedonians who séeing them selues so reiected tooke counsayll of their captaynes for the mayntenaunce of the warres When Antipater had by such Stratageme separated and dispersed the Greekes he then with all his powre made preparation against the Athenians who séeing them selues vnprouided of aide succoure of their friendes and allies were greatly astonied wherfore they al agréed y e Demades the famous Orator shold be sent to Antipater to treate a peace which he refused to do And although they had called him to counsaile he woulde not come thyther bycause he had ben before thrice condemned of the priuie Counsell or Senate as an insringer of the Lawes forbidden to aske for him selfe the ayde or benefite of the Lawes and to declare his opinion in the Counsaill Neuerthelesse for the cause aforesaid the communaltie incontinent forgaue him and sent him to Antipater accompanied with Phocion and certen other Citizens whome Antipater after their Ambassade
And for that euerie man was gladde to saue him selfe they made such spéede to their shippes to haue repassed that with an ouercharge the greater numbre sonke and the rest which thought to be saued assayed to swimme but few or none escaped drowning by reason of the violence and swiftnesse of the Riuer And they whiche thought better to render to the mercie of the enimie than to be drenched in the water were taken prisoners being aboue foure thousand And although Antigone see before his eyes so great an ouerthrow of his Souldiers yet could he by no meane remedie it by reason of the want of shippes Wherefore considering it was impossible to passe he returned went to the Citie of Bedace standing vpon the Riuer Eule But bycause it was in the middest of Sommer and the Countrey maruellous hoate he lost in traueling many of his Souldiers wherefore the rest of the Souldiers were almost in despaire but after that they had reposed them selues and soiourned in the same Citie a certaine time they were well refreshed and tooke then better harte ¶ Of Antigone his comming with his armie into the countrey of Mede and the daungers and harde passage he hath vpon the way The .ix. Chapter WHen Antigone had certain dayes in the Citie of Bedace well refreshed his armie he determined to marche therewith into the Region of Ecbathane in the countrey of Mede hoping thereby to conquer the hie Countreis And although there were two wayes to passe into Mede yet was it a hard matter for him without interruption and let to get through any of both For the way by the mannured lande was fayre excellent but very hoat and little lesse than .xl. dayes iourney But the other leading through the Countrey of the Eosians was very short and close howbeit colde sharpe straight hilly and barren and the enimies coūtrey so that it had ben very difficult without the good wils of the paysaunts to passe an army being a people which time out of mind had alwayes lyued at libertie dwelling in ca◠es liuing with acornes mushrubbes and the fleshe of sauage and wilde beastes poudered Neuerthelesse Antigone hauing so mightie an armie thought it ouer great a shame to pray and require suche paysauntlie slaues of passage recourse Wherefore determining to take that waye he chose out of the whole army the targe carriers archers all other shot and light armed men which were the lustiest fellowes and most aduenterours and deuided them into two bands whereof the charge of the one he gaue Nearche commaunding him to march before and to winne the most méete and conuenient passages And the other bande he deuided and set al alongs the way in diuerse places as occasion serued Then him selfe marched on with the phalange or battail of footemen and cōmitted the rereward to Python But the first which were sent out after they had won certain trifling passages to no purpose not the passages most necessarie the paysaunts at hande so stoutly charged them that they slew a great number and the rest very hardly escaped And Antigone comming on with his battail of footmen thinking to win the straightes was in great daunger which by no meanes could be remedyed For the paysants knowing the ways and straightes of the passages had preuented them and from the tops of the rocks cast and tumbled downe agaynst the souldiers as they marched huge and mighty stones They had also great strength of bowes wherwith they hurt and galled the enimie bicause they coulde neyther defende nor yet eschue the dinte of the shotte by reason of the hardnesse of the way which was stiepe and almost inaccessible so that the Elephants horsemen and the armed footemen coulde no waye succoure them for that that they were in as greate daunger or more than the rest Then acknowleged he his fault and repented him that he had not beléeued and followed the aduise counsel of Python other his friendes for buying of the passage Notwithstanding in the ende he so valiantly and wisely bare hym selfe that he had wythin nyne dayes with great losse maruelous daunger and sore trauaile of his souldiers gotten the countrey habitable of Mede Wherfore they were so mutinous that euery man cōplained cried out and spake very euill words of hym And to saye the truthe for the space of .xliij. dayes they had abidden many maruellous aduentures and suffered intollerable mischeues Howbeit he with swéete words and stoare of victuals appeased their mutinie and well refreshed them and after commaunded Python to trauaile through the whole countrey of Mede there to leuie so many horsmen horses as he coulde get Whiche commaundement he diligently executed and in shorte time bicause the region was well furnished with horse and other bestiall he brought .ij. thousande lusty horsemen and very neere a thousande spare horsse well appointed for the warres And of al other kinde of cattel as Mares and such like bearing beasts so many as suffised the whole armie and bisides broughte .v. hundred talents of the tresure royall on the emptie horses Then remounted Antigone all those which had loste their horses and amongs the reste diuided the other bestiall Which liberall dealing brought him againe in fauoure with his men of warre ¶ Eumenes to please his Satrapes with the whole armie marcheth into the countrey of Perse and by his wisedome and policie putteth Penceste who affected the gouernment and armie in great fear and after reconcileth the sayd Penceste and assureth him selfe of all the other Satrapes and Captaines The .ix. Chapter AFter Eumenes the Satrapes with him vnderstode of Antigone his commyng into Alcide they called many counsells and were of diuers opinions For Eumenes and Antigene captaine of the Argiraspides and all the rest whiche came out of the lowe countrey dyd thinke it méetest and moste for their safetie to go towardes the sea from whence they came But the Satrapes of the hye countreys hauing special regard to their owne particular case sayd that the best were to march into the higher regions When the dissention thus encreased and waxed hoter Eumenes foreséeing that if the armie should be deuided and dispersed either part then should be to weake to encounter the enimie condescended to the Satrapes of the high cuntreys Wherupon they remoued their Campe from the Ryuer of Pasitigre and marched on to Persepolis the honourablest citie of Perse being about .xxviij. dayes iorney a countrey very hilly the one way lying beneath the mountaines very hotte and barrein of all kindes of victuals and the other a hie countrey very holsome and a good aire ful of al kindes of pleasant fruites It was also ful of valeys close and shodowy and gardens aboūding with all sorts of trées and frutes great store of fountaines likewise running with cléere waters makyng the countrey maruellous pleasaunt and delectable whiche caused the passengers to desire to rest and soiorne there Moreouer there wer many faire
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
and come to hym the rather wholie addicted them to his seruice He was a man of wonderfull beautie and faire complexion of body tall mighty and strong therewith and when he was like a king richelie apparelled and armed there appeared in him a goodlie maiestie reputation in whome the multitude greatlie hoped hys modestie curtesie bountie and liberalitie also allured the people to loue honour and obey hym as to a newe and noble King appertayned so that both the ordinarie and extraordinarie Souldiours would runne to heare his proposition and sentence were verie carefull of hys youth and victorie bycause he mynded so valiantlie to aduēture his persone against such a numbre of enimies and especiallie against two such Chieftaynes to saye Ptolome and Seleuke both in pollicies martial renoumed and greatlie experimēted and had had often conduct charge aswell in the companie of Alexander as else where being neuer vanquished nor ouercome When Demetre had with an hartie oration exhorted his men of warre promising them giftes and butinie according to their demerites he arraunged them in order of battaill And firste in the left battaill where he him selfe ment to fight he placed two hundred of the choysest horsse within the camp which alwayes attended about him amongs whome were his chief and principall seruitours and friends and the same Python also who had serued amongs Alexander his men at armes and therefore had Antigone gyuen him the principall charge and conduct of the armie with Demetre In the front of that he placed thrée bandes of horsse like vnto a bulwark and on eche side as many and without from the battaill to the wings he placed thrée other bandes of Tarentines so that about and néere his persone he had .v. hundred launces and an hundred Tarentines After thē he placed about eight hundred horsse called the Companions or Aduenturers And next to them about a thousande horsse of diuerse Nations and before the whole front of that battaill he placed .xxx. Elephantes and the spaces betwixt them he furnished with .xj. hundred shot with this leaft battaill thus ordered as aforesaid he determined to beginne the fight the Phalange or mayne battail of footemen being to the numbre of .xj. thousand or therabouts whereof a thousand were Macedonians and as many Lycians Pamphilians the rest all Mercenarie soldiers In the right side adioyning to the Phalange he placed the rest of the horsse to the numbre of a thousand and .v. hundred vnder the leading of Andronike whom he commaunded that when he shoulde come to fight to slippe by and not to come on y t front but to stay and delaye the battaill attending and diligentlie marking what the other poincte woulde doe He placed moreouer the .xiij. Elephantes which remayned before the Phalange or maine battaill and betwene them an other companie of light armed footemē In this order arrāged Demetre his battailles But before Ptolome Seleuke knew Demetre his order they had stronglie appointed and well furnished their left corner But after they were by their espials aduertised of the order of the enimie they altered and chaunged theirs and ordered their battails as followeth First they placed in their right corner all their principall force to encountre the battaill wherein Demetre was On the other side in the left corner were .iij. thousand horsse and the two Chieftayns Before them went a great numbre of men which carried great store of iron poles tied to iron chaines prepared like an haie against the violence of the enimies Elephantes which was an excellēt deuise easelie to staie repulse the Elephants And by them they placed a great numbre of shot to hurt and galle the saide beastes and their Gouernours The rest of their mē they arraunged as to them best séemed in the middest of the right poinct and at the wings and in this order with great shoutes and cries beganne to marche one against an other And firste the horssemen whiche were in the vttermost places of the poinctes beganne to charge so that on eche side was a stout fight Howbeit from the beginning the Demetrians dyd valiauntest and had the better but shortlie after they which were in the opposite began so lustely to charge and enuironne the old battaill wherein Demetre was that the fight on eche side by reason of the readinesse and valyauntnesse of the Souldiours waxed hoat and terrible in so muche that at the first encountrie they brake well néere all their launces in whiche were many hurte and ouerthrowen Then drew they their swordes fought so cruellie that the slaughter was farre greater than before bycause the Chieftaynes them selues preased forth so valiauntlie aduentured so many perilous and daungerous attemptes that by meane throughe their exhortacions they encouraged the Souldiours violently to fight And all the horssemen who for their vertue and prowes were all choise men manfully stoutly fought togyther in the view and sight of their Chieftaynes bycause they might beare witnesse of their noble harts and inuincible courages But after the horssemen hadde fought long and that no man could iudge whiche parte had the better y e Indians Demetre his Elephanters with great violence marched against the enimie who somewhat at the first feared bycause they thought them nothing able to resist their power But so soone as they came against the yron rampier they stayed and the shot which flanked the rāpier shot so thicke that the greater parte of the beastes were sore wounded and their ryders who féeling their greuous woundes vrged the beastes with great strokes so that some of them fell on the rampier and being sore hurte with the pricking of the poles and shot ranne quite out of order And here is to be noted y t those kinde of beastes so long as the way is playn short are maruelous strong eyther to charge or encountre But when they shal charge in hard places they cā do nothing by reason of y e softnesse of their féete Which thing they with Ptolome right well knew and therfore prepared this maner of stoppe At laste after y e greater part of the Indians Elephanters were eyther slaine or sore hurte the Elepantes were by the enimie all taken Which thing Demetre his horssemē were so a fraide of that the greater number of them ◠ledde And althoughe Demetre by entreatie and persuasions dyd what in hym laye to kéepe still the small number which tarried about him yet was there no remedie but that they would néedes flie to Gaze and when he see he could not staye them yet enforced not he hym selfe to flée with them but so handled the matter that a great numbre of his horssemen ioyned togyther and in suche order retired that the enimie which pursued in heapes and disordered were neuer able to hurte them by reason the waye was so champion and large that they easely retiered in a great troupe togythers Some footemen likewise disorderlie followed and bycause they would runne the lighter they cast
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
Chapter THe same yeare that Apollodore gouerned Athenes and Quinte Pompile and Quinte Publie were created Consulles at Rome soone after ◠hat Antigone had vanquished Eumenes he beganne to warre vppon Alcete and Attale whome Perdicas in his life amongs all the Chieftaynes and Captaynes in his army most honoured and estéemed eche of them hauing an armie Ryall able so make warre and fight for the principalitie and gouernement And first he marched with his armie into Piside where Alcete Attale and their Souldiers were res◠a◠nt and contending to come thether with spéede he with his armie in seuen dayes had trauelled two thousand fiue hundred Furlongs and gotten to the Citie of Crete where through his expedition he tooke and furnished certayn straight passages and mountaynes néere adioyning before Alcete knew it But as soone as Alcete and Attale knew and vnderstood thereof they arranged their battaill of footemen and with their horse charged those whiche had wonne the hye passages thinking to repulse them Whervpon the skirmish waxing very boat and cruell with maruellous great slaughter on eyther side Antigone with sixe thousand horse violently and with great force spedde him against the Phalange of the ◠nimy thinking to enterclude Alcete from his footemen Whiche done they in the mountaynes by reason of their great numbre and difficultie of the places clerely repulsed Alcete But in the retier when Alcete sée they were cut of frō their footemen and encompassed with the multitude of enimies he then looked for none other but present death And although the matter stoode vpon this tickle and dangerous point yet at last with the losse of many Souldiers he got and recouered to the battaill of footemen Howbeit Antigone with his mighty Elephauntes and army marching against them in order of battaill greatly amazed them being farre the weaker For Alcete had not in all the world aboue .xvj. thousande footemen and nine hundred horsemē and Antigone ouer and besides his Elephants had aboue fortie thousand footemen and eight thousand horsemen Wherfore whē the Phalange of Alcete sée the Elephants marche towardes them in the front or voward and the horse by reason of the great numbre enuiron them and that the footemen in a maine battaill marched also against them being the greater numbre and valiaunter Souldiers they were therewith greatly astonned and the rather bycause of the place of aduauntage whiche the enimy had wonne and the thing done vpon such a sodaine that their Captaynes and Leaders had no leysure to arrange their battaill Wherefore they fledde in which flight were taken Attale Docine Poley and many other noble and valiaunt Captaynes But Alcete with his Esquiers and familiars together the Pisides which he waged fledde into a Citie of Piside named Thormese When Antigone had won this victorie he pardoned and forgaue all Alcete his men of warre whiche were left and deuided them amongs his bandes But the Pisides whiche escaped with Alcete to the numbre of sixe thousande prayed him not to be discouraged nor dismayed promising him that they woulde liue and dye with him For they all which were with him singularly well loued him bycause that he after Perdicas his death hauing no trustie Companions or allies in all the Countrey of Asie determined by gifts and curtesie to drawe the Pisides to his friendship thinking thereby to get a warlike nation to be at his commaundement and a countrey very strong and hard to be entred being full of many inuincible castles and fortes For this cause in al his warres honored he them more than the rest and of euery spoyle and butin which he got of any enimies the moetie he gaue to them He was very familiar amongs them dayly inuiting of the chief and principall to dynner or supper sometime one other while an other rewarding them also particularly with diuerse and many gifts as those in whose friendship and alliaunce he reposed his finall trust and confidence wherein he was nothing at all deceyued as then appeared For as Antigone with his whole power encamped before the towne and demaunded nothing else but Alcete notwithstanding that the auncient Burgesses of the Citie were of one determinate minde to deliuer him yet the lustie yong gallaunts and Souldiers against the willes and minds of their owne fathers concluded and agréed rather than to render so noble and worthy a man of warre to abide and sustayne all mischiefs and daungers whatsoeuer But when the auncient Burgesses sée that neyther counsaill or reason could persuade to the contrary they practised an other deuise Wherefore they secretly in the night aduertised Antigone by their intelligencers that they would deliuer Alcete alyue or dead For accomplishing wherof they willed him after a while to approch the town and make some skirmishes and false Alarmes and sodenly to retier as though they fled which woulde be a meane to cause all the lusty young Gallaunts and Souldiers to sally out vpon them so y t they being in the skirmishe busied the rest within would assault Alcete being disfurnished of his said companions and with ease take him Whiche thing according to their demaund and request Antigone performed For while the yong and lusty Souldiers were salied out of the towne to skyrmish and chase the enimy the old men with their sclaues and other lustie fellowes no mē of warre assailed Alcete in his lodging but alyue they could not get him For he séeing the present daunger wherin he was kild him selfe rather than he would be rendred aliue to the enimy Notwithstanding they layd him dead on a beare couered ouer with a most vile robe so carried him through the gates of the towne to Antigone before the yong blouds in the skirmish knew of it By this meane y e auncient Citizens saued their Citie from desolation and spoyle But after the Souldiers vnderstood thereof they for the great loue they bare him were so agréeued and angry that they kept one parte of the towne and held a counsaill wherein they first concluded and agréed to set fier on the towne and after to gette them out in armes to pille and destroye Antigone his countreis hard adioyning to the foote of the Moūtaynes Howbeit after they tooke better aduise than to burne the towne but gotte them out in armes wasting and spoyling the greatest parte of the playne countrey of the enimy After Antigone had gotten Alcete his body he dyd him all the opprobries he knewe or could deuise and in the ende of thrée dayes after it began to corrupt he threw it into the fields without buriall and so departed from Piside Howbeit the lustie yong Gallaunts of Thormese tooke him vp and honorably enterred the dead Whereby may be apperceyued that the curtesie and pleasure which men do one to an other engendreth in them whiche receyue it an indissoluble bond of loue and amitie ¶ After the death of Antipater Polispercon is ordeyned gouernour of the Kings and Cassander enterpriseth to expulse him the gouernement
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
straungers armed after the manner of the Macedonians and before them al his Elephants and betwene thē the light armed footemen as him thought best In the right wing or vowarde which Phillip led he placed the other horse and arranged before them the least weakest Elephantes whome he commaunded by no meane to charge but to forbeare fighting and to haue an eye and regard to the leaft wing or rerewarde So there where in Eumenes armie .xxx. thousand footemen .vj. thousand and vij hundred horse and Cxl. Elephantes A little before they ioyned battail Antigene gaue commaundement to one of his horsemen to ryde strayght against the Phalange of the enimie and when he was néere ouer against the place where the Macedonians stood so that they might well heare him crie out with a loude voice vnto them saying these wordes folowing Ah cursed and wicked people how dare you presume to come against your fathers who alwayes haue serued with Philip and Alexander and obtayned in their companies many victories Certes anone ye shal sée them exploit as condigne and worthy factes for the kings whome they haue serued do as their noble and honourable déedes heretofore executed and done For there was not one thesame time among the Argiraspides Macedonians vnder thrée score or thrée score and ten yeares of age or more and by reason of their long continuaunce and exercise abidden in the warres all passing valiaunt and hardy After thys horsseman had done his message they on the other syde aunswered aloude and sayd thay they were very sorie it was their chaunce to fight againste their kinsfolkes coosins and so auncient men of warre But the souldiers with Eumenes desirous of battaile exhorted him to march with speede against the enimie Then Eumenes seing their forwardnesse made signe to the trumpets who forthwith founded to battaile wherat both the armies made a great outecrie The first which encountred were the Elephantes and nexte the horsse whervpon bicause the field was large dry and barren there arose through the mouing and stirring of the horse such a dust that although they were hard together yet could they scarsly discerne one an other dyd Whiche thing when Antigone see he commaunded the Median horse and certain Tarentines to ride out and spoyle the campe baggage of the enemie whiche he thought by reson of the dust might without the sight of the Eumenians be easily done and so winning the campe and baggage woulde with little effusion of bloude be the cause of victorie on their side as it after happened For the fayd Medians and Tarentines passyng the corner of the enimies battaile and riding forth on ranne vpon the baggage which was fiue furlōgs from the battaill before they were perceiued frō thence to the campe wherin were few souldiers but many straglers who for a while resisted but soone after they put them to flight and by that meane wanne they the campe and carriages and without any greate resistance tooke all the straglers In the meane while began Antigone to ioyne battaile and so charged the lefte wyng or rerewarde which came agaynst hym through the greate numbre of his horsse gaue so violent a charge that he daunted their courages through which Penceste Satrapa of Perse being in that wyng retired out of the duste with his owne horses and after hym folowed a thousande more and by that meane was Eumenes left disfurnished and weakly accompanied in the vttermoste parte of that wing or rereward Notwithstandyng he thought it a greate shame and dishonoure to flie and therfore determined he rather to tarrie and valiantly defend the quarell of the Kings than to recule Whervpon he with might and maine charged Antigone so y t the fight betwixt the horsemen was sharpe and cruel and many slaine It chaunced the same very tyme as the Elephants were fighting that the formost on Eumenes side was by the chief and principal of Antigone discomfited and ouerthrowne When Eumenes see hys men disordered and in al places haue the worst he retired the rest of his horse yet vnbroken from the battayle and trouped to the wing or voward which Philip had the leading of whome he had commaunded to stay and delay from fight and tooke his souldiers In y e meane time the Argiraspides so lustily couragiously charged the maine battail of the enimie that with very hand strokes they slew many put a numbre more to flight And their force was so intollerable that they repulsed and discomfited the whole phalāge being the farre greater numbre wherof .v. thousand wer slaine and the rest fled When Eumenes vnderstode that the ennimie had woon his campe and that Penceste was at hand yet whole in troupe he forced to ioyne with him and to charge Antigone againe with hys horse For he thought if he could get the victorie he should not onely recouer his owne cariages and his mennes but also the enimies Howbeit Pencest and his horsemen wold not therto agrée but rode further of from the battaile and when night came they retired one from an other into diuers places Antigone likewise deuided his horse into two handes◠the one of which himself kept attending the doings of Eumenes and his souldiers and the charge of the other he gaue to Python commaundyng hym wyth all spéede to charge the Argiraspides who were dissefurnished of their horse which commaundement with great diligence he executed but the Argiraspides seyng their vnabilitie to resist retired together in a square battaile harde to the riuer side withoute hurte greatly blaming Penceste and hys companie as the onely causers of the ouerthrowe of the horssemen And being in such order retired Eumenes with hys horsse came and ioyned with them But at their accustomed houres to make fiers they went to consulte and aduisedly debate of their greate businesse and waighty enterprises The Satrapes were of the opinion that they all should forthwith retire into the high coūtrey which they gouerned And Eumenes contrary affirming that it were best for them to charge afresh saying that the Phalange of the enimie was discomfited and that yet they were as many horsse Notwithstanding the Macedonians Argiraspides sayde they woulde neyther followe the one opinion nor the other bicause al their goodes baggages together with their wiues children and familie were vnder subiection of the enimie so that the counsayle and assemblie without any conclusion brake vp They sent also secret messangers towards Antigone practizing with him to yeld Eumenes at his pleasure condicionally that he shold restore their wiues children and goodes The Satrapes likewise the more part of the other Captains concluded a league amitie and abandoned their chieftaine Through which meane Eumenes was betrayed rendred to Antigone Who seeing that by greater happe and much better good lucke than he loked for he hadde gotten vnder his subiection the Argiraspides and the rest of the souldiers which held against him tooke Antigene coronell of the Argiraspides and buried him quicke
discomfiture of his people before he had heard of the victorie before by them atchieued he leuied a great numbre of men and hasted into Epyre to the aide of Lyciske But after he vnderstood that his Souldiours had had the better he concluded a peace and contracted amitie with Alcete From thence departed he with a great number of men into the quarters of Adrie to besiege the Apollonians bicause they had expulsed his garrisons and ioyned with the Illirians Howbeit the Citizens nothing afeard of hys comming hauing a great armie with the ayde of their Allies marched out of the Towne to fight against the enimie And after a long and cruell battaill the Apollonians being the greater number at last discomfited Cassander Whereuppon he with great losse and slaughter of his men then to weake and séeing winter approche returned into Macedon After whose departure the Leucadians with the helpe of the Corcyrians expulsed Cassanders garrisons there lefte The Epyrotes also a while perseuered vnder the subiectiō of Alcete their King But after he beganne to waxe ouer rigorous and cruell against them they slew him and Esione and Nise two of his yongest sonnes ¶ Seleuke through his wisedome and prowes with a small numbre of men which Ptolome had giuen him conquereth the countrey of Babylon togyther Susiane and the rest nere adioyning which hold with Antigone The .xlj. Chapter BUt to returne to the doings in Asie After Ptolome and Seleuke wonne vpon Demetre the victorie about the citie of Gaze in the countrey of Sirie Seleuke with viij hundred footemen and aboute two hundred horsse which Ptolome deliuered him trauailled into Babylon For so great was his hope that although he had no men of warre yet doubted he not but with his seruauntes familiar friends only to go thyther bycause he surely trusted that the Babylonians for hys gentle entreatie towardes them heretofore shewed so hartelie loued him that they woulde with right good will receyue him and especiallie for that Antigon◠was far off that countrey And as he in this hope and confidence went his friendes which sée his small number and the great force power of the enimie both of men money friendship victuals and all other things necessarie were not a little astonied When Seleuke sée them in this terrour and feare he with these persuasions comforted them Had it bene requisite quod he thinke you that they which serued Alexander the king in his warres to whome for their prowes he had preferred and giuen charge to enterprise and take on hand matters of great waight shoulde haue trusted in the force strength of men and money more than in their owne prudence experience and industrie No for throughe that chieflie atchieued Alexander so many honorable and notable victories which at this day are in admiration of all the world It is also méete and conuenient to gyue faith and credit to the oracles and mouthes of the goddes who haue presaged that the beginning and sequele of this voyage shall haue good and prosperous successe For as I went to the oracle of Branchide to knowe my fortune the God saluted and gréeted me as a King moreouer I hadde a vision in my sléepe which seemed that Alexander was with me in my iourney for myne ayde and succoure letting me clerely vnderstand that in tyme I should attayne to great Empire and dominion Agayn no great and waightie matter cā be brought to passe without some labour and trauaill besides great hazard and daunger And after all these persuasions he vsed him selfe as a companion amongs the Souldiours which encreased suche loue and reuerence in their hartes towards him that they were emboldened to do him double seruice In this sorte came he with his small companie into the countrey of M◠sopotamie and there what with faire and fowle meanes he drew to him many of the Macedonians enhabiting Caris and with them marched into the countrey of Babilon And after he was entred al the whole Countrey mette him and offred their entier seruice and obedience bycause that during the space of .iij. or .iiij. yeares while he gouerned that Prouince he shewed him self a iust man and good Officer by meane wherof he wonderfully got the loue of all the people He likewise grew in the amitie of diuerse and sundry persons which woulde do hym seruice at a pinche and Poliarche besides Antigone his Lieutenaunt of a certen countrey reuolted and ioyned with him with aboue a thousand men of warre When they in League with Antigone sée the vnbrideled affection of the multitude they retired into a strong castle where of the Captayne was one Deiphile whiche Seleuke shortly after besieged and wanne and therein found many of his friends and familiars whome Antigone after his departure out of Babylon had committed to warde That done Seleuke gotte togyther so many men as he could and bought a numbre of horses whiche he bestowed on such as came in his ayde He likewise shewed him selfe to al men so curteous and gentle that they determined to endure al aduentures and daungers in his seruice whatsoeuer But after he was aduertised that Nycanor gouernour of Mede had assembled of the same countrey and Perse and of other countreys thereabouts an armie of .x. thousande footemen and .vij. thousand horsse he with great diligence departed with those Souldiours he had to the numbre of .iij. thousande footemen and .v. hundred horsse to méete him And when he had passed the ryuer Tygre and was aduertised that the enimie was not aboue two or thrée dayes iourneys of he retired hid his men in certen mershes thereabouts amongs the réedes and bulrushes to the intente by ambush to surprise Nycanor who being come to the bank of the said riuer and hearing no newes of y e enimie lodged in a Manor roial hard by thinking y e enemie vnderstood of his comming had gone into some place farther of And for that selfe same cause was he not verie carefull to set his watch neyther yet put him selfe in any readinesse whatsoeuer might chaunce By reason whereof Seleuke that night with great noise and affraie assaulted his lodging Neuerthelesse the enimie in that disorder stoode to the defence aswell as they could and as it happened the Persians first encountred and fought wherevpon their Satrapa Euager and diuerse other of their captaynes were slaine Wherefore the more parte of the rest of the Souldiours what for feare of daunger and for that they liked not Antigone hys dealing rendred to Seleuke Whiche thing Nycanor séeing and fearing to be by the Souldiours betrayed and deliuered prisoner to Seleuke fled through y e desertes with a few of his friends When Seleuke had strenghtned him selfe with these mē at armes and vsing his acustomed curtesie and humanitie towardes all men he easely wanne agayne to hys obeissaunce the countreys of Susiane and Mede and diuerse other regions néere about Of whiche doings Ptolome and his other friends were aduertised
and besides for the space of .xxxvj. yéeres gouerned the countreys of Cappadoce and Paphlagone The same season also Cassander after the departure of Demetre recouered the cities he had lost in Thessalie and sent in Lysimache his aide Plisterche one of his captains into Asie w t the greater parte of his armie being about xxij M. footmen and .v. C. horsse But after Plistarche was come to the straight of Hellespont and sée it garded by Demetre his Souldiours he returned The ende of the third Booke The fourth Booke is taken out the wise Plutarque in the life of Demetre ¶ Antigone comming to battail against the enimie is throughe the default of hys sonne Demetre slayne The first Chapter ABoute the spring the two armies to saye Antigone and Demetre on the one parte and the Kings confederate on y e other with great power came into y e fields one against an other For Antigone had about Lxx. thousand footemē .iiij. thousand horse and Lxxv. Elephantes And on the enimies side were about Lxiiij thousand footmen .xv. thousand horsse foure score Elephantes and Cxx. armed charriots When the two armies were in viewe one of an other Antigone was maruelously troubled and very pensife For there ranne in hys fantasie many things and especially the great daunger and hazard of that battaill whereof he no lesse doubted the losse than he had good hope of victorie And although one waye by reason of his continual victories he well hoped but chiefly for the fame and reputation by him newly gotten for hys laste victorie in Cypres yet he agayne as a wise man and one experimented in martiall pollicies considered the varietie of Fortune who is neuer firme or stable but still delighteth in mutation and chaunge All whiche things throughly wayed he became so sore troubled and gréeued that where he before in other warres and battailles was accustomed to speake lowde and fiercely in reproche and despite of the enimie and set forth hys stoutenesse and magnanimitie he then without words was altogyther heauie pensiue which imported a maruelous thought and care in him as if he had had some present infelicitie in his head which sodaynly happened him He did also at that time as they said many things whiche he neuer woonted to do For he there openly in presence of al declared and named his sonne Demetre successor of hys realme as thoughe he should presently haue died and after tooke him into his Pauilion a great while and conferred with him alone whereat the whole armie was maruellously abashed bycause he neuer before vsed a parte to talke nor yet communicate with him in secret of his affayres but trusting to his owne wyt determined all matters after his owne fantasie and withoute demaunding aduise or counsail of any would cōmaund that to him seemed best In so muche that at one tyme they said when Demetre his sonne being but a yong Souldiour demaunded when he should returne to hym with the armie with a troubled and disdainfull countenaunce aunswered Arte thou so very a boy cowarde that thou canst not without me heare the sounde of the Trumpets Ageyn besides these his fantasies and imaginations many things then happened whiche might be iudged pronostications of euill lucke and misfortune towardes him For Demetre one night sée in his dreame Alexander the great al armed in white who asking him what signe and token he should giue to hys Souldiours in that battaill aunswered that Iupiter gaue victorie and by and by hym thought that Alexander saide and I also will take parte with your enimies It was likewise reported that after Antigone had aranged his Phalang or battaille of footemen and comming oute of hys Tente that he stoond one of his féete and therewith sodenly fel flat to the ground And after he was lift vppe holding vp his handes to heauen made his humble prayers to the Gods that they would eyther gyue hym victorie or at the least that he might be slayne rather than with shame to be enforced to flie and all at once wholy went to the battaill which on eyther side beganne very hoate and cruel It happened soone after y e Demetre with a lustie band of horssemen vnder his charge so violently charged Antioche the Sonne of Seleuke that he put him and all his company to flight and by reason of the excessiue ioye of victorie hadde them so long in chase that with his too great desire he lost altogyther For during the time he had them in chase the Seleukeans séeing the footemen left naked without horse whiche shoulde haue ben their garde and succoure so encompassed them as though they would on euery side haue charged Wherevpon some seeing all their horssmen gone forthewith rendred and the reste whiche stood to the defence after they see their inabilitie to withstand fled so that when Demetre was returned from the chase he could no way bring them ageyne into order And immediatly after this companie was discomfited a great band of the enimie charged the battaill wherein Antigone was euery of them meaning to get his persone Whiche thing one of his Souldiours apperceyuing sayd to him Saue thy selfe Sir King for euery of these men séeke and desire none but thée whome he ageyne thus aunswered In vayne they séeke and desire me for Demetre will soone be here to ayde me Howbeit the charge was so sodaine and impetuous that before his Sonne coulde come to helpe him many times calling for him to his ayde and looking round about if he came was by the enimie enuironed and after he was dead sore wounded And then all his enimies about him fled except Thorax of Larisse who alone tarried with the body ¶ After this discomfiture the Athenians woulde not suffer Demetre to entre their Citie and howe he ageyne gathereth togyther his armie After Demetre his daughter is married to Seleuke who treateth a marriage betwene Demetre Ptolomais daughter to King Ptolome and of the deniall he hath of two little Cities The .ij. Chapter AFter the Kings confederate had wonne this victorie they deuided amongs them as a great praye but in all Antigone and Demetre their landes and Seigniories And after Demetre sée the battaill loste he in all haste with .v. thousande footemen and foure thousand horsse fled to Ephese Whereupon the Citizens considering his losse and the necessitie he was in greatly feared that he woulde robbe and spoyle the riche Temple of Diana Howbeit he tooke not a Talent but doubting that his Souldiours bycause they were not well pleased with him would do some wicked déede he therfore determined to departe the Citie And after he sée the wind beganne to blowe vp he enbarqued all his soldiours and sailed directly into the Countrey of Grece meaning to get into the citie of Athens whiche he hadde kepte for his onely and singular refuge and therefore had there his shippes treasure and Deidamie his wife being fully persuaded that that Citie would neuer faile whatsoeuer
Attale and Alcete with their Abettors and friends enimies and rebelles Of Attale his retire into the Citie of Tyre ◠and consequently how he afresh assembleth all Perdicas escaped friends The .xiiij. Chapter INcontinent after the death of Perdicas newes were brought that Eumenes had ouerthrowen and slayne Cratere and Neoptolome in Cappodoce which newes if they had come and ben knowē before Perdicas death there was not one amongs them vnderstanding the prosperous successe of victory done in his fauoure and behalfe that once durst haue laid hands on him But after he was dead the Macedonians for the déedes aforesaid adiudged Eumenes an enimy and condempned man and L. great personages with him amongs whome was Alcete Perdicas his brother They slewe also all Perdicas chiefe and principall friendes and his owne sister Athalante Attale his wife then Admirall and abyding at Peluse But after he vnderstood of Perdicas death and his wife he immediatly loused thence and with all the furniture of his Nauie sayled vnto the Citie of Tyre whome Archelay the Macedonian Captayne of the Castle there gently receyued and entreated and rendred to him the towne and all the treasure which Perdicas had deliuered him to kéepe amounting to the summe of viij C. Talents Then Attale abyding still at Tyre assembled brought together all Perdicas friends which diuerse wayes had escaped from the discomfiture ouerthrow gyuen before the Citie of Memphis ¶ The Etholians to put Antipater from his enterprise entre Thessalie who are constrayned by the Acarnanians to returne into their countrey and in what sorte Polispercō conquereth the coūtrey of Thessalie The .xv. Chapter WHat time Antipater was come into Asie the Etholians who had leagued with Perdicas warred on Thessaly to the ende to put Antipater from his enterprise and thereupon they mustered and gotte together .xij. thousand footemen and .iiij. thousand horse and appoynted Alexander the Etholian their Generall But as they marched on the waye they besieged the Locrians and spoyled and fouraged their territories and tooke certen of their smallest townes They discomfited also in battaill Policles one of Antipaters Captaynes and slew a numbre of their soldiers of those prisoners which they tooke they ransomed some sold the rest But after they were entred Thessaly they persuaded many of the people of the coūtrey to ioyne with thē against Antipater in y e warre so that in short time they had leuied about .xxv. thousand footmen and viij thousand horse When the Acarnanians enimies to the Etholians apperceyued that the other Cities ioyned and tooke parte with them they entred their Countrey wasted and spoiled their fields besieged certain of their townes whereof the Etholians aduertised appointed and ordeyned Memnon of Pharsale their Captayne and generall in Thessaly they them selues spéedily returned home at whose comming the Acarnanians trembled feared by that meane their coūtrey was deliuered from daunger spoyle While these matters were in deciding Polyspercon Gouernour of the realme of Macedone entred Thessaly with an army royal wel appointed ouerthrew his enimies in battaill and slewe Memnon their chieftayne with many other and thereby recouered the whole Countrey of Thessaly ¶ Antipater being constituted Gouernour of the Kings a new deuideth the Satrapies The .xvj. Chapter THen departed Python and Aride protectours of the Kings with their army from the Riuer of Nile and went to Triparadice in the hier Siry And after they were thether come and apperceyued that Quéene Euridice had taken vpon hir greater care and charge about the affaires of the realme than was méete or requisite that she should and that she was clerely against all things that the Gouernours meant to do and that they had no obedience of the army they assembled all the Macedonians And after they had declared vnto them their minds and purposes they discharged them selues of their gouernement and aucthority Then the Macedonians fully and wholy those Antipater gouernour of the kings Howbeit Antipater was no sooner come to Triparadice but y t he found Quéene Euridice practizing and suborning the mē of warre against him Neuerthelesse although they were as then very mutinous yet assembled he them and with fair and gracious woords so wanne their good willes that be appaysed that mutinie put Euridice in such feare that she desisted from all mutinies and practizes and became most quiet This done he a new deuided the Satrapies and gouernements of the Prouinces And first he leaft to Ptolome the regiō of Egipt which he already possessed the reason was bycause he knew not well how to put him besides it forsomuche as Ptolome thought that that which he had he had gottē and held it by his owne strength To Laomedon of Mythilene he gaue the countrey of Syrie To Philoxene Cilice And for the other Sapatries in the hie countreys he bestowed on Amphimacke Mesopotamie and Arbelite To Seleucke he gaue Babylon To Antigone Fusiane bycause he was the first that assailed Perdicas To Pencete Perside To Neoptolome Carnanie To Phillip Parthe To Scasandre Cyprian Arie Draucine To Stasanor Soliene Bactriane Sogdiane To Oxiarte the father of Roxāne wife to Alexander he gaue the Paropanisades And that parte of Inde which ioyned on the Paropanisades he gaue to Python the sonne of Agenor And the realmes thereto adioyning he gaue to the Kings which before enioyed them to say those next the riuer Inde to Pore and those about the riuer Hidaspe to Taxille bycause he was not able to expulse them without sending an army royall and the most of his chiefe and noble Captaynes But touching the Prouinces towardes the North To Nicanor he gaue Capadoce To Antigone Licie which he before occupied To Cassander Carie To Clyte Helie To Aride the part of Phryge ioyning vpon Hellespont He farther constituted Antigone Marshall or chief ruler of the army commaunding him to warre vpon Eumenes and Alcete Neuerthelesse he ioyned with him as a compaignion in the said charge Cassander his owne sonne Captayne of a cohort of a thousand men to the end Antigone should enterprise nothing to his own particularity but that Antipater would be aduertised therof These things finished he departed with the army royal to conduct the Kings into Macedone their chiefe seat and habitation ¶ Antigone vanquisheth Eumenes and besiegeth the Citie of Nore The .xvij. Chapter WHen Antigone as aforesaid was nominated and appointed generall to go into Asie against Eumenes and had gotten together his men of warre which lay in garrison to winter and made ready al things necessarie for warre he tooke his iourney against Eumenes abiding in Cappadoce It fortuned that season that Perdicas one of Eumenes Captaynes rebelled led away .iij. thousand footemen and .v. hundred horse with whom he had encamped and enpalled in a strong place thrée dayes iourneis from him Wherfore Eumenes sent against him an other of his Captaynes named Tenede a Phenician to whome he deliuered foure thousande
Deicete to execute willing therefore and commaunding you wholly to obey him accordingly as we haue heretofore written vnto you For if any take in hand to doe contrarie to our ordinaunce aforesaid we will by no meanes suffer and abide it When Polispercon had published this edict he cōmaunded the Argiues and other Cities to expulse the Gouernours whome Antipater had authorised and to condemne and put certain of them to death and confiske their goods that Cassander might not be holpen thereby He write also to Olympias to returne into Macedon and take vpon hir the gouernement of Alexander vntill he came to age He write likewise letters in the names of the kings to Eumenes not to reconcile him to Antigone but to take parte w t the kings and returne into Macedone where he should be receyued as a compainon with the said Polispercon to the gouernement of the said kings or else if he would farrie in Asie there should be sent vnto him both men and money to warre vpon Antigone an vtter enimie and rebell against the kings and that he would also render the Satrapies which Antigone had expulsed him together al the rest which he before held and enioyed in Asie Saying farther that it was hée aboue all other which of right ought to be most zelous and vigilant about the affaires and authorite of the ligne Royall by whiche he was altogether preferred and honored following his accustomed care and diligence whiche he before at all times had shewed to the same And if he néeded greater force the saide Polispercon would with the kings and their power come into Asie These matters were done the yeare that Archippe gouerned Athens and Quinte Elye and Lucy Papyre were created Consulles at Rome ¶ Eumenes taking parte with the kings goeth into Cilice and of his practises to gette men of warre The .xxvj. Chapter SOone after that Eumenes was departed the Citie of Nore he receyued letters frō Polispercon wherein were conteyned ouer and besides the things abouesaid how that the kings somewhat to countreuayle his great losse had fréelie gyuē him fiue hundreth Talents and that they had written to the Pretors and receyuers of the countrey of Cilice to deliuer him other fiue hundred Talents and so much money besides as was sufficient to paye his Souldiers wages and for the buying of all other his prouision for the warres and that the Captaines of the Argiraspides who had about sixe thousand men should serue vnder the said Eumenes as Lieutenaunt to the kings and Lord and Gouernour of all A◠ie Anon were brought letters from Olympias to him praying and requiring his aide in the behalfe of the kings and hir For that he alone had bene alwayes iust and faithfull to the kings and was presentlie able to deliuer them from the troubles which grew dayly vpon them And farther she desired his counsail whether it were hir best to remayne in Epyre and not to gyue credit to them which séemed but protectors and gouernours and in déede affected the onely kingdome or to returne into Macedone Whome Eumenes agayne aunswered by letters y t he thought it the surest waye for hir to remaine still in Epire vntill she sée some ende of the warres But Eumenes euermore trustie and faithfull to the kings purposed not to take parte with Antigone affecting the kingdome but rather to serue the Sonne of Alexander yet a boy who through the wickednesse of his Captaynes seruitours wanted ayde and to aduenture him selfe for his cause in al daungers Wherefore he departed incontinent out of Cappadoce with eight hundred horse and two thousand footemen hauing no time to tarrie and abide for all those which promised to ioyne with him bicause Antigone vnderstanding that he was his enimie had in all haste sent Menander w t a mightie armie to expulse him Cappadoce When Menander came thether and found Eumenes gone thrée dayes before he determined to pursue him but seing he could not ouer reach him he retired into Cappadoce Shortlie after Eumenes through his great spéed passing the mount Thaure got to Cilice As soone as Antigene and Teutame Captaynes of the Argiraspides who serued the kings vnderstood of his comming they mette him on the waye with a numbre of their friendes who after they had reioyced together with him in that he had escaped from so manie daungers they fréelie and redilie offered him their seruice In like case also did the Argiraspides Macedonians greatlie wondering at the varietie of his fortune considering that not long before he was adiudged a rebell to the kings he and all his friends condemned to death and now reuersing their iudgement they had not only pardoned him but also had gyuen him the gouernement of their whole Empire Notwithstanding suche as considered Eumenes straunge Fortune little or nothing maruelled thereat For what is he whiche marketh and noteth the instabilitie of our life that knoweth not the chaunge and mutabilitie of fortune Or who is he which ouermuch trusteth to the honor and prosperitie whiche in this world happeneth him that is not subiect to fleshly britlenesse For the common and ordinarie life of men gouerned and ruled by some secret ordinaunce of God is without any stabilitie continually turned to good and euill Wherefore let no man meruaill if any thing chaunce to him sodenlie but rather if whatsoeuer commeth commeth not vnlooked for And therefore by good reason ought all men to cōmend histories For the varietie and instabilite which men in worldly matters find by experience abateth the pride and ambicion of those whiche haue in them any felicitie and enboldeneth and gyueth hope to such as are in aduersitie as to Eumenes chaunced who knowing the slippernesse of worldly Fortune constantly endured his infelicitie hoping and looking for better And then seing him selfe preferred and aduaunced to great authoritie foreséeing the inconstancie of Fortune verie wiselie and circumspectlie ordered his affaires and businesse For first he considered that he being a straunger the gouernement of a realme and so princelie an astate was vnméete not apperteyning vnto him and that those whome he should gouerne were Macedonians and had condempned him to death and that al the Captaynes and Gouernours of the Prouinces were honorable personages and of hie courages and pretended great and waightie enterprises Wherefore he suspected that if he shoulde take vpon him so great a charge they woulde contemne him being a straunger and thereby he shoulde get great enimitie and alwayes stand in daunger of losing his life For he knew well that the Macedonians woulde in no wyse be at his commaundement bicause they reputed him a meane man and much inferior to them and therefore rather thought that he should be subiect to them than they to him Wherfore all these things considered he declared to the Captaynes and Souldiers that first where it had pleased the Kings by their letters to graūt him for his reliefe .v. hundred Talents he highlie
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
side all weried and tyered what with their trauaill sustained in the battaill as also oppressed with hunger and thirst desired they might pitch their camp without any moe blowes And althoughe Eumenes did all that in him was to persuade them to returne to the place where the dead laye to the ende to bury them which was the whole honour of the field yet could he not bring them vnto it but all with one voyce cried to returne to their Campe and cariages Wherefore he was forced to agrée thereto bycause he was not of that power and authoritie there to chastise and rebuke them for that many of the Chieftaynes there thought them his egal and therfore was no time conuenient to vse correction and punishment But Antigone being chief of his armie after the retire of the enimie into their camp enforced his Souldiours to remoue their camp and pitch it where the battaill was fought And by that meane being Lorde of the fielde to bury the dead he wan the honour of the fielde although in the rest he had no whit the better for there were on his part slaine aboue .iij. thousand .vj. hundred footemen liiij horse and aboue .iiij. thousand hurte And of Eumenes side .v. hundred .xl. footemen fewe or no horse and about .ix. hundred hurte After Antigone was returned from the battaill and perceyued his Souldiours greatly discouraged he determined to retire from the enimie and to the ende he might the spéedylier marche with them he sent all his hurt men and baggage into a Citie néere hand And after he had about the dawning of the daye buried the dead on his part he detayned the Herault whiche was come to enterre the bodies of the enimie and commaunded his Souldiours presently to suppe When the day was past and night come he deliuered the Herault gyuyng leaue the next daye in the morning to bury the dead That night remoued he hys camp and with his armie so hasted that by morning he had gotten farre inough of the enimie and lodged hym in Gamarge in the region of Mede by Pyton gouerned a countrey well victualed and very singular for an armie ¶ Eumenes burieth the dead and of a maruelous case which happened betwene two women of Inde The .xij. Chapter AS soone as Eumenes was by his scoulte aduertised of the enimies departure he by reason of his mens wearinesse sustained in that battail minded in no wise to pursue them but to bury the dead Which was very honorably done In doing whereof happened a maruellous sodaine thing and to the Grekes very straunge For after that Cete Captayne of the Indians had in that battaile ben slaine two of his wyues which he brought out with him in the same warres being there the one newly married the other many yeares before shewed the great and excessiue loue they bare him But first you must vnderstand that the lawe sometime amongs the Indians was that all or at the least the most contracts mariages were by the willes and agreements of the maried made without asking the consents either of fathers or mothers whereby oftentimes happened that many yōg people being neyther like nor matches for a little light fantasticall loue married togethers so soone after repented Through whiche sufferaunce many incontinent and light Dames made loue and became familiar with others and bicause that with their honesties they could not forsake their first husbandes they would poyson them for in the same Countrey are great stoare of all kindes of poyson which spéedely will do it and especially there are such vehement poysons that if they but come néere the meat whiche is to be eaten or the dishes wherein it lieth the meat straight becommeth mortall And bycause this was a common practise and chaunced ofte and that many husbands by this meane died to the ende that the wyues being in such cases attainted might be punished they made a generall lawe that when the husbande died if the wyfe were not with childe or had borne him one she shoulde be burned with him And they that refused to be burnt were reputed and taken for whoores and vile women and neuer after to be married nor yet receyued with the honest and vertuous Dames and Matrones to thi administratiō of their sacrifices or other publique matters By reason of which lawe the wicked déede before so common amongs the naughtie wyues in poysoning their husbands was now conuerted all to the contrary For they considering the necessitie and straightnesse of the lawe and the shame and dishonour to such as refused the accomplishing thereof were not onlye carefull for the lyues of their husbands whereon theirs depended but also when it happened any their husbandes to die the wyues would be at cōtrouersy if he had many which of them shoulde haue that glorie and honour as then chaunced for the lawe woulde that one should be burnte and bycause there were two eyther of them pleaded hir cause before the Chieftaynes and Captaynes of the armie to haue the glorie The yonger womā saide that the other was with childe wherefore by the lawe it was not laufull she should be burnt the elder said that since she was the auncienter she most deserued the honour In the end the Commissioners appointed for the hearing and determining of y e controuersie enformed by the report of the Matrones that the elder was with childe iudged the yonger to be perferred Wherewith the other sore agréeued with great lamētation and teares despoiled hir of hir clothes and tare hir haire as if she had had maruellous euill tydinges brought hir On the other side the yonger who had the honour accompanied with hir wayting maids casting chappellets of floures vppon hir head as if she had ben newlie married ioyfullie went to the fire Her kinsfolkes also went with hir singing hympnes and songs agreable to hir vertue And as she came néere y e stake she beganne to put of hir garments whereof she hadde stoare besides rings bagges of golde and all kindes of precious stones and iewels both on hir fingers head necke and armes which she gaue and bestowed vppon hir friends and seruaunts as tokens of remembrance And after she was vnrayed hir owne brother ledde hir to the fire where in the view and sight of al the whole armie there assembled in greate admiration to sée the sight she honorably ended hir life But before the fire was put to hir all the armie thrice marched about the stake in armes whiche done she embraced the body of hir husband hard by hir and so without either sighe or grone was burnt Whereupon some of the lookers on moued with pitie condemned the lawe of the Indians as strict and cruell and other some highly commended the same After Eumenes had celebrated the exequies of the dead he departed from Paretace and trauailled into the countrey and Prouince of Gabene wherein his men of warre had neuer ben very ful of victuals and all other things necessarie for
in the night none to the ende the pâ— isaunts might not by the sight therof haue any notice to aduertise the enimie considering that the deserte being playne and champion and with hye mountains enuironed y e light of the fire might easelie be séene very farre of In this sorte trauailled they without fire in the night .v. dayes together The .v. daye at night the Souldiours almost frosen to death and farre spente for wante of victuals and other things necessarie made fires to warme and refresh them Which the inhabitaunts of the desertes seeing and suspecting what that was with all possible post sent certain of their men vppon Dromadaries a very swift beast in iourneying towards Eumenes and Penceste which beastes in one daye without baite had posted a thousande fiue hundred furlongs to aduertiâ— e them of the comming of Antigone When Penceste hys Souldiours vnderstoode that the enimie was already halfe waye they determined to goe into the farthest partes where the rest of the Souldiours laye and so ioyne with them rather than there still to tarry and be surprised of the enimie before any aide coulde come vnto them When Eumenes sée them thus feared and dismayed he to gyue them courage to persuade them that they néeded not to remoue from the places they were in whiche was the entrie of the desert declared that he had found out an excellent deuise and remedie to staye the comming of the enimie for .iij or iiij dayes during which time the rest of the armie might easely be gotten thyther and so by that meane withoute any great difficultie they should winne of the enimie victorie who with hunger and thirst were al benoumed and weried and likewise vnprouided of all other thinges necessarie At whose wordes all the Souldiours maruelled and would needes know what deuise that was or might be whiche was able to kéepe back the enimie iij. or .iiij. dayes Then commaunded he and enioyned al his Captaynes there to followe him with those men they had and to carry all the vessels they coulde get wherin any fire might be made Which done he hasted to get the hiest mouÌ„taynes about the vttermost limits of the desert in the sight of the enimie and on theÌ„ placed men dispersed in diuerse places being about .lxx. furlongs in length commaunding euery of them during that time to make great fires in the places wher they stood all alongest about .xx. cubits one from an other and at the first watche of the night to make notable great fires as thoughe they watched and were at supper at the secoÌ„d watch lesse and at the third watch least of all to the ende that they which sée them farre of might thinke it a great campe Which commaundement by the Souldiers diligentlie executed many paysaunts dwelling on the mouÌ„taynes in the oppisite and Pithons friendes Satrapa of Mede with great spéede descended into the playne signifying to Antigone and Python all they had seene who were greatly abashed at those newes which they neuer doubted of Wherefore they sobdainlie stayed where they were asked counsail of the said Paysants what was best to do For they thought it very daungerous for their men being trauailled weried and vnprouided of all things to ioyne battaill with the enimie well prouided of all thinges together assembled thinking also that some of their owne men had betrayed them and had aduertised the enimie of their comming Wherefore at last they leaft the playne waye and tooke that on the right hande by the mountaynes a whyle to repose and refreshe their people In this sorte abused Eumenes the enimie hauing time ynough to assemble al his power which was dispersed in diuerse places and lodgings to entrenche and fortifie his camp and to prouide furnishe it with all things necessarie After Antigone had passed all the desertes worde was brought him that all Eumenes his Captaynes and men of warre were gone to the camp and that their Elephaunts were coÌ„ming behind on the waye almost at hande without companie or conduct of any men of warre Wherefore he chose out .ij. thousandâ— lauâ—â— es .ij. hundred Tarentines and all the light armed footemen to go and assaile the enimies Elephants thinking that if he could ouerthrowe them the enimy thereby should greatlie be weakened But Eumenes doubting thereof sent to conduct the said Elephaunts a thousande of the best horse he had and about .iij. thousande light armed footemen When Antigone his Souldiers had shewed them selues to the conductours of the Elephaunts they arranged their beastes in a square battaill And after they set in order the. CCCC horse that they hadde for their ayde and in the middest put all their baggage Howbeit Antigone his bande of horse bycause of their great numbre so violentlie charged the horse of the enimie that they were forthwith ouerthrowen and put to flight That done the Antigonians charged the Elephaunts and their conductours who a pretie whyle defended them albeit they were by the enimie very sore hurte and they harmed them no whit at all Wherfore in the ende they beganne to recule and had out of hand fled if present ayde whiche was vnlooked for hadde not come and deliuered them of that peril and daunger ¶ Antigone in battaill ouerthroweth Eumenes putteth him to death and after seizeth on all his armie The .xv. Chapter SHortlie after as they laye in campe about .xl. furlongs one from an other they embattailled them selues to assaye and proue fortune and to hazarde their estates in hope of victorie And first Antigone beganne to place his horse and deuided them into two wings or battailles of whiche the charge of the left he gaue to Python and him selfe with his sonne Demetre ledde the right and aranged the armed footemen in the middest and appointed the Elephaunts in the fronte of the battaill in good order And in the voyde space betwixt both he placed the light armed footemen so accompting those he brought out of Mede he had in the whole .xxij. thousand footemen .viij. thousand horse and lxv ElephaÌ„ts When Eumenes vnderstood that Antigone led the right wing or voward of his battail with his best horse he placed him selfe right ouer against in hys left wing or rerewarde with his best and choise horse bycause he had in that battaill appointed the greater numbre of the most experte and best trayned horse of the Satrapes and in the same Mithridate Ariobarzane his sonne whiche Ariaobarzane was descended from the princes of Perse whom the Tyraunts sometime flew a valiaunt and hardy Champion and had all his youth ben brought vp and trained in the warres and before y e wing or rerewarde he arranged in forme of a crosse lx of the most puissaunt and best Elephaunts and in the voide places appointed the light armed footemen Next after he placed his armed footemen in a maine battaile in the foreparte whereof he firste placed the â— erge bearers behind them the Argiraspides and after them the Mercenaries and other
two or thrée of the chief principall For while they were so seperated and deuided they could neyther easelie nor yet readilie assemble when occasion of businesse serued and thereby might lightlie be surprised discomfited In following which counsaill the greater parte retired into the Citie of Strate very great and strong The Cynades and their neighbours into the Citie of Saurie The Dorians certen other into the citie of Arginie That done Cassander for their guarde and defence left a bande of Souldiours vnder the charge of Lyascke and him selfe with the remnaunt went against the citie of Leucade and by an Ambassade gotte the fauoure of the citie From thence he went into Adrye and by assault wanne the Citie of Apollonie After that he entred the countrey of Illyrie and passing the ryuer Hebre vanquished in battaill King Glaucye of Illyrie and after made amitie and alliaunce with him which Glaucie amongs other things promised neuer to warre against Alexander or anie his Allies After that he subdued the citie of Epidaure and there left a garrisonne and so returned into Macedone But during the time of this voiage when the Etholians perceyued that he was a great waye of them they assembled and gotte togyther the number of .iij. thousande came to besiege the citie of Arginie which they round about entrenched and made other fortifications to assaut it When the townes men sée that they came to a parle and treatie wherein was accorded and agréed that the besieged should render the Towne and safelie departe with bag and baggage who trusting vpon the conclusion daparted But the Etholians cōtrarie to their othes pursued the citizens which went out and flew them almost euerie one And now we think it méete a little to touche the matters of Asie ¶ Two bandes of Cassanders which he sendeth to Lemne and Carie are by the Souldiours af Antigone ouerthrowen The .xxxj. Chapter WHen Cassander had returned into Macedone he was aduertised that the cities of Lemne and Cary Seleuke Ptolome their confederates were by Antigone his Souldiours sore warred on and oppressed Wherefore he sent parte of his armie for their succoures to deteyn◠Antigone in Asie to the end he should haue no leisure to passe into Europe He writte also to Demetre Phalerey and to Dionise Captayne of Munichie to send .xx. saile into the Isle of Lemne whiche with all spéed was done And for transfreting of them Captayn Aristotre had charge who after his arriuall in the Isle sent worde to Seleuke to repaire thyther with all his shippes And after he was come they assaied and forced to winne to them the Lemnians but apperceyuing they would not thereto consent they fouraged all their land and after besieged the citie and entrenched it rounde which done Seleuke departed to Coo. Then Dioscoride Antigone his Admirall aduertised of his departure came to the aide of the Lemnians and chased Aristotre tooke the greater numbre of his shippes and the Souldiours within them But when Cassander and Propelaus deputed chief rulers of the armie whiche Cassander had sent into Carye vnderstood that Ptolome Antigone hys Lieutenaunt had deuided his Souldiours in garrisone to winter and was also occupied about the funeralles of his father deseased they sent Eupoleme w t .viij. thousand two hundred footemen to watch and surprise the enimie lying about the Region of Caprine in the Countrey of Carye Whereof Ptolome by some whiche came to render to him aduertised assembled of his garrisons néere there abouts .viij. thousand CC. hundred footemē and .vj. hundred horsse and by night went and assailed the camp of the enimie them lightly who doubted nothing lesse ouerthrew by reason they were at rest and a sléepe and without scoult or watch so that they tooke Eupoleme prisoner and made the men of warre render and yeld Suche was the aduenture of Cassander his Captaynes by him sent into Asie ¶ Antigone gyuing order about the affaires in Syrie goeth into Phrygie and of a notable victorie which one of his Captayns winneth at sea on the enimie The .xxxij. Chapter WHen Antigone perceyued Cassander his doings and considered that he affected the Empire of Asie he left his sonne Demetre with .x. thousand Mercenarie footemen .v. hundred Lycians and Pamphilians CCC hundred Archers and other shot .iij. thousande horse and .xiiij. Elephants to garde and defend y e Countrey bicause he feared that Ptolome would with his armie come thyther And bycause hys sonne Demetre was yong not aboue .xxij. yeares olde he left behind for hys Gouernours Counsailours foure noble personages to wete Nearche of Crete Pithon the Sonne of Agenor who a litle before came out of Babylon Andronicke of Olynthe and Phillip all foure auncient and not able soldiours and had serued with Alexander the great in all his warres And him selfe with the remnaunt of the armie prepared to passe the Mount Thaure But by reason of the great aboundaunce of snowe he was forced with no small losse of his men to retire into Cilice vntil the time and season were more faire and pleasaunt and the passage much easier and then passed he with all his armie And being come to Cilene in the Region of Phrygie he sent his armie by garrisons to winter After that he commaunded that his shippes should be brought oute of the countrey of Mede Captayne of whiche was one Mede a Median And as the said Mede came sailing alongest he encountred .xxxvj. saile of the Pidues and them prized togyther the souldiers within them These matters were exploited in Grece and Asie ¶ The Romaynes losing a great battaill against the Samnites people the Citie of Locres with their men The .xxxiij. Chapter ABoute this season in Italy the Samnites who with the Romaynes had many yeares continued warre to get the Empire and dominion one of an other tooke by force the towne of Plastick by the Romaines garrisoned and in such sorte practised with them of Sore that they slew all the Romaines in the citie guarding y e same and after the Soreans tooke parte with the Samnites And not long after as the Romaines laye before Straticole the Samnites with all their force came thyther to raise the siege where both the armies ioyned fought together In which battaill were many slaine but the Romaines had still the better tooke the Citie and after subdued al the whole countrey When the Samnites sée that their only strife was for the countrey and cities of Pouil they prepared an oste and sent out their generall letters and commaundements by which all the Citizens and subiects able to beare armoure were commanded to come and then encamped hard by the Romaines being all determined to fight for the totall of their estate The Romaines likewise knowing the importaunce of that battaill sent great strength and supplices of men and
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