of dutie and allegiaunce they ought to obey the kings and not to gyue eare to suche as rebelled against them so that through his words and persuasions he in such sorte confirmed them that he both assured his owne estate and likewise still wan their fauours and good willes And where he was before in maruelous daunger he now agayne sodēly became to be aduanced to high authoritie Incontinent after he marched forwarde with his armie towardes Phenice purposing to assemble all the ships of the Cities and to send a mightie Nauie to Sea to the ende that Polispercon shoulde be Lorde of the Seas to passe into Asie to warre vpon Antigone ¶ Nycanor keeping and occupying the Port of Pyre against the Athenians is besieged by Alexander Polispercon his sonne and of the mutenie in the Citie of Athenes The .xxviij. Chapter AT the same time that the things abouesaid were exploited in Phenice Nycanor Captayne of the Citie of Munichie vnderstanding that Cassander was departed Macedone and gone to Antigone and that Polispercon would come with his armie Royall shortly into the countrey of Athenes he persuaded the Athenians to kéepe their friendship and amitie with Cassander And when he sée they stayed not at his wordes but instantly required him to take away his garrisons whiche kept the citie he ment to entertayne and delay them desiring them to pawse a while and after that would take such order that they should haue cause to be well contented and satisfied Now in this meane time that the Athenians were quieted with these wordes he priuely thrust in the night by little and little all the Souldiers of Athens into the Castle of Munychie so that he was then able with those Souldiers to kéepe and maintayne the same place and defend him selfe against the assailauntes whiche crafty dealing the Athenians séeing sent their Ambassadoures towards the kings and Polispercon to demaund ayde according to the edict published for the libertie of the cities of Grece They also called many coūsails to sée by what meane they might expulse Nycanor But whyle they thus cōsulted Nycanor found the meane to wage a certain numbre of Mercenaries with whome in a night he sallied out of Munychie and seized on the entrie or mouth of the Port of Pyre When y e Athenians sée that in stead of recouering Munychie they had lost Pire they were sore agréeued Wherfore they chose certen Ambassadoures of the worshipfullest of the Citie Nycanors very friends and sent to him to say Phocion the sonne of Phoce Thymon the sonne of Thymothe and Clearcke the sonne of Nansicles commaunding them to chalenge and blame him for that fact and to require that they might be restored to their Ciuill gouernement according to the Decrée of the kings before by them published Nycanor aunswered that they must send to Cassander by whom he was deputed Gardein of the same bycause without him he had no authoritie to dispose or take awaye any thing In the meane time letters came to Nycanor from Quéene Olympias commaunding him to render to the Athenians Munichie and Pire Then Nycanor séeing that the kings and Polispercon woulde haue Olympias come into Macedone and restore hir to the gouernement of the infante and gyue hir as great authoritie as she had in the life of Alexander fearing therfore to disobey hir promised the Athenians to make restitution to them according to the forme and tenour of hir letters Notwithstanding he delayed them from daye to daye making many excuses During this season the Athenians considering that in times past they had maruelously endeuoured them selues to honor Olympias the Quéene and that the honor which they had done to hir was well emploied and bestowed and that therefore they might by hir meanes recouer their libertie without daunger they became maruelous glad and fedde them selues with vaine hope But before Nycanor had accomplished his promise Alexander Polispercon his Sonne arriued in their Countrey with a great army Then the Athenians thinking that he was come to restore them the Citties of Munychie and Pyre were in maruelous ioye But it chaunced contrary to their expectation for he came to seize to his owne vse on the saide Fortresses and to furnishe them with garrisons for his owne ayde in the warres At hys comming certain conspiratours Antipater his friendes and Phocion him selfe fearing punishement for their disobedience and rebellion against the ordinaunces of the Kings mette with Alexander and coūsailed him according to the necessity of the case and what was best for his commoditie and profit but chiefly that he shoulde furnishe the fortresse with his owne Souldiers and not render them vnto the Athenians before Cassander were discomfited When Alexander was come before Pyre he forthwith pitched his campe and besieged the Towne and fell to a parle with Nycanor touching the same without calling any of the Athenians to counsaile or once making them priuie so that it manifestly appeared then nothing to be done for the profit and common vtilitie of the Citie By reason whereof the people assembled and deposed the officers then in authoritie and assigned and deputed new and such as they thought more affectioned to the popular faction And certen which had the gouernement of any particular office some they condemned to death and other to perpetuall exile with confiscation of their goods amongs whome was Phocion who in Antipater his time had the greatest rowme and authoritie within the Citie And after he with the rest whiche were deposed repaired all to Alexander Polispercon his sonne trusting by him to be restored whom he right gently receyued gyuing them his letters addressed to Polispercon his father praying him not to permit and suffer Phocion and his adherents to be destroyed who had taken parte with him and had always ben ready to do what pleasure and seruice him liked The people of Athenes also sent their Ambassadoures to the said Polispercon to accuse Phocion and to demaunde that the Citie of Munychie might be rendred to them them selues restored to their libertie and popular gouernaunce When Polispercon vnderstood the whole matter he greatly desired to kéepe the Port of Pyre being a méete and necessarie place for the affaires of warre Neuerthelesse fearing to be reputed a dissembler and double man if he went against that which he before had commaunded by a common and publique Decrée and that he woulde not be accompted and taken deceytfull and disloyall chiefly to doe wrong to that which was the principall Citie of Grece altered his determination curteously aunswered the Ambassadours of the people whereupon Phocion and his adherents were apprehended sent bound to Athens cōprimitting y e whole matter to the wil choyse of y e Athenians whether they woulde condemne and put them to death or remitte and forgiue the effendours Wherefore when the people were assembled to sit in iudgement of Phocion and his complices the most of the banished in the time of Antipater which tooke parte against him
came vpon them and on the waye he tooke vp a great numbre of the Citizens whiche were dispersed abroad in the countrey and after besieged the towne and would néeds enforce the sillie besiegeaunts to receyue and take in his garrisons And although they were vnprouided of men and all other things necessarie to holde out the enimie yet determined they to defend their libertie Notwithstanding they sent first their Ambassadoures to Aride praying him to rayse his siege saying they were all at his commaundement to do whatsoeuer he woulde except the receyuing of men into garrison But in the meane time they secretly armed all their yong and lustie fellowes to man the wall and curten And when they sée Aride still vrge them to receyue his garrisons they aunswered they would comprimit the matter to the deliberation of the cōmunaltie and for dispatch thereof demaunded truce for the next day and night following which was graunted and in the meane while made they greater preparation for their defence When Aride sée he was thus deceyued and mocked he lost both oportunitie hope for winning the Citie bycause it was verie strong both towardes the Sea and lande standing almost like an Island within the Sea and but one way to enter by lande and that parte towardes the Sea very strong bycause Aride had there no ships They sent also by Sea to the Bizancians for men armoure and all other things necessarie to holde out the siege which they incontinent sent whereupon they were greatly assured and tooke meruailous courage to defende their Citie Farther they sent out their gallies alongest the shoare to gather together their people which were dispersed in the countrey and in the end they had assembled so great a numbre of men of warre that they sallied out vpō the enimie slew many and repulsed the rest from the siege Wherefore Aride deceyued by pollicy returned into his Satrapie without any exploite ¶ Antigone commenceth warre against Aride gouernour of Phrigie and against Clyte Lord of Lydie And in the ende openly proclaymeth him selfe enimie to the Kings and enioyeth one parte of Asie The .xxiij. Chapter AS Antigone abode in the Citie of Celene he was aduertised of the siege of Cizice wherefore he thought if he sent towards them spéedy ayde and succoure in their distresse that it woulde be a good occasion for him to winne the said Citie to be his friend and confederat For which cause he chose out of the whole armie .xx. thousand of his most warlike Souldiers and .iij. thousande horse and in his owne person spéedely marched to aide the Cizicians And although the siege was raised before his comming yet euer after they became and remayned his most bounden friends Notwithstanding he sent his Ambassadours towards Aride declaring to him that he had done verie yll to besiege a frée Citie of Grece and friend to the Macedonians considering the people thereof had in nothing abused him and that he had shewed inough to make him selfe of a Deputie and Gouernour a Potentate and commaunder commaunding him therefore to gyue ouer his said Satrapie and for his habitation to betake him to one onely Citie When Aride vnderstoode the charge of the Ambassadours he greatly detesting the arrogancie of Antigone aunswered that he was not as yet determined to leaue his Satrapie but to kéepe and defend it and if Antigone would come to expulse him he should then sée whether of them had the better right After the Ambassadours had receyued this answere and were departed he soone after fortified and furnished his Cities and townes He also sent to Nore a bande of Souldiers to Eumenes vnder the leading of one of his owne Captaynes thinking therby to winne his fauoure and be his confederate When Antigone had receyued aunswere from Aride he sent one half of his army against him and him selfe with the rest trauailed into Lydie to chase out Clyte Gouernour thereof But so soone as Clyte vnderstood the cause he garrisoned his Cities and made as good prouision against him as he could That done he immediatly went to Sea and transfreted into Macedone signifying to the Kings the boldnesse of Antigone saied that he went about to aduaunce him selfe to some high and honorable estate and to rebell against them praying therefore aide for the repressing of him In the meane time Antigone by the intelligence of certain citisens tooke at his first cōming the Citie of Ephese But after he vnderstood that Eschil the Rhodian was there arriued and would for the behoue of the Kings carrie out of Cilice into Macedon in foure shippes sixe hundred Talents he intercepted them and tooke it away saying that he had great néed thereof for the wageing of his mercenaries which déede imported that he ment to establishe him selfe some great Prince and to warre vppon the kings When he had this done he went against the other Cities of Asie and by violence and practise brought many vnder his subiection ¶ Of diuerse aduentures which happened Eumenes and of his deliueraunce from the siege of Nore The .xxiiij. Chapter WE will here leaue a while to speake of Antigone and returne to Eumenes who besides many and diuerse mishaps had also ben in sundrie aduentures both good and bad for after the death of Alexander he still tooke part with Perdicas who gaue him the Satrapie of Cappadoce and the countreys thereto adioyning in which he had assembled and gotte together numbres of men of warre and great summes of money getting thereby great renoume alway liuing in prosperitie and felicitie He in battail vanquished and killed Cratere and Neoptolome two of the most renowmed Captaynes amongst all the Macedonians and all the Souldiers whiche serued vnder them which had ben continuall victors where euer they became But when he thought him selfe most puyssaunt and none able to resist him he was by Antigone in battaill sodenly vanquished and constrained to flie and retier with a fewe of his friends into a litle towne castle where being besieged and enclosed with a double trenche could not in one whole yeare be aided to raise the siege Howbeit about the yeares end when he was almost out of hope in despaire sodenly came vnto him present remedie For Antigone who still helde him besieged hauing altered his determination and purpose sent to him requiring his friendship companie and after he had takē his othe and faith he deliuered him of the siege Who departing thence trauailed into Cappadoce and being there but a short time assembled the Souldiers lately vnder his charge dispersed through the said countrey and by reason of the earnest zeale and loue they had to him he had gotten together in a little whyle a great numbre at his commaūdement For ouer and besides the six hundred whiche were with him during the siege he had gotten aboue two thousand other souldiers and in the ende came to great authoritie for he was made Generall of the armie Royall to warre vppon
the armie distaunt frō the place where Antigone laye by the maineured lande xxv iorneys but through the desertes where is neither victuals nor water .ix. or thereabouts In this sorte lodged Eumenes and Antigone their armies to winter exercisyng and refreshyng their Souldiours one farre inough from an other ¶ Cassander vnderstanding of that Queene Olympias had done with his armie commeth into Macedone and besiegeth the said Olimpias within the citie of Pidue where the Queene in short time is cleane voide of hope of all succours she loketh for The .xiij. Chapter IN the meane time that Antigone and Eumenes warred in Asie as aforesaid Cassander who besieged the Citie of Tege in the Countrey of Peloponese in Europe vnderstanding of Olympias comming into Macedone and the death of Euridice and Phillip hir husband and of the defacing the tombe of Iolas his brother concluded with the Tegeans a peace and with his armie marched towardes Macedone whereby he leaft his friendes and allies in great perplexitie For Alexander Polispercon his sonne hauing a great armie alwayes had an eye to the Cities of Peloponese And the Etholians minding to gratify Quéene Olympias and Polispercon toke and furnished the passage of the piles by whiche Cassander should passe wherefore he was forced to leaue that passage and to get together a number of Passengers out of the countrey of Eube and Locres in which he put ouer his armie into Thessalie where he was aduertised that Polispercon besieged the Citie of Perrhebie So he sent Calas one of his Captaynes with parte of his armie to maintaine the warres against Polispercon and Dynias an other of his Captaynes to win the passages of Macedon which he diligently exploited and wanne before the Souldiers of Olympias whome she had for that purpose thether sent were come But after she vnderstood that Cassander with a power royall was approched Macedone she constituted Aristone Generall to fight against him and hir self accompanied with the yong sonne of Alexander Roxanne his mother Thessalonique the daughter of Philip and sister to the saide Alexander Deidamie the daughter of Eacle King of Epire sister to Pyrrhe who after warred on the Romaines the daughters of Attale and many other of the principall Ladies of the countrey w t a great number of their kinsfolkes and friends retired into the Citie of Pidue the more parte of which people were vnméete for the warres and the towne vnprouided of victuals to maintaine the siege long And notwithstanding that she see she was in some daunger yet determined she to tarry there trusting that the greater parte of the Grekes and Macedonians wold come ayde hir She had aboute hir a certain numbre of footemen and horse whiche accustomably were restaūt in the court besides a fewe Elephants which Polispercon had least in the Countrey For Cassander at his first entry into the countrey had taken the greater number and after he had passed the straights of Perrheby he came and besieged the Citie of Pidue and with a trench enclosed it from the one side of the sea to the other For it stood in a gulfe of the Sea on eche side enuironed with water except the entrie wherein he made a crosse trench sent to them whiche would be his friends and allies for ships artillary and all other hablements of warre to besiege the same by sea and land And when he vnderstood that Eacke King of Epyre was with a great army comming to ayde Olympias his sister he sent Attarye with one parte of hys army out against him who made suche spéede that he wan and kept the straight passages betwene the countrey of Epyre and Macedone so that he put Eacle from his enterprise by which meane and also for that the greater parte of his subiects which with euill wil came against the Macedonians made in his camp such a muteny that he was fayne notwithstanding his meaning to succoure his sister to sende backe all those whome he sée euill willing and with the rest which determined the aduenture with him continued his iourney howbeit he was very weakely accompanied and whiche was worse they that forsooke him after their returne home brought all the rest of the people of the countrey into such a mutenie that by a common and publique decrée they bannished their King Eacke and allied with Cassander which thing in the countrey of Epyre was neuer séene since Neoptoleme the sonne of Achilles first gouerned there For that Realme always went by discēt from the father to sonne and the Kings vntill that daye died within the Countrey After that rebellion when Cassander had sent into Epyre Lisiske to be gouernour and ruler of the same they which stoode in doubt whether to take Olympias parte or no seing all things out of hope turned to Cassander whereby remayned no more for Olympias but one expectation and hope of aide to wete of Polispercon who not withstanding soone failed hir For Callas whome Cassander hadde sent to warre vppon Polispercon being verie néere encamped the said Polispercon as he besieged the Citie of Perrheby founde the meane so to suborne his men of warre that the more parte forsoke him and rendred to Callas Thus and by these meanes in short tyme lost Olympias all hir hope of aide ¶ Antigone thinking to surprise and discomfit Eumenes and his armie the said Eumenes throughe his wisedome and diligence frustrateth his enterprise by that meane saueth both his Elephants and baggage The .xiiij. Chapter WHile Antigone aboade in the Countrey of Gamarge in the Region of Mede as we haue before declared had considered y t he was much weaker than the enimie he imagined and enterprised at vnwares to assaile them by skil and policie martiall to conquer them and the rather forasmuche as they were so dispersed in diuerse villages to winter that some of them were six daies iorneis one from another Notwithstanding his enterprise was very difficulte hard to bring to good purpose bycause to passe throughe the maneured countrey was a very long iourney and neuer able to do it without knowledge of the enimie and he coulde not wel passe his armie the shorter way without great trauaill and want of all things in so much as it was through the desertes and the countrey very drie Neuerthelesse bycause it was the nearest waye and méetest to bring his purpose to passe he fully resolued to take it whereby he thought he might beste so surprise the enimie being all dispersed deuided and ydle Wherevpon he commaunded his Souldiours to be in redinesse to departe and to make prouision of victuals readie to eat for .x. dayes causing it to be noysed that he would into Armenie But sodenly beyond all mens expectation he tooke his iourney through the deserts in the winter when the dayes are at the shortest And as he passed he gaue commaundement to his souldiers on the daye to make so great fires as they would but
this Decrée had bene thus by the common assent and consent of the whole armie ratified and approued Antigone by by sent it throughout all quarters to be published trusting that the Grekes in hope to come at libertie would allie and ioyne with hym He likewise thought that when the Satrapes and Gouernours of the Satrapies of the hier countreys of Asie whiche still ymagined that Antigone would clerelie extinquish y e Kings and all the ligne Royal of Alexander apperceyued that he nowe enterprised and publikelie tooke in hande the warres for the defence of the Kings they would alter chaūge their determinatiō purpose gladlie become obedient and subiect to him That done he gaue to Alexander .v. hundred Talents and sent him into Peloponnese laden and fraught with faire promisses and in hope to be preferred to some great authoritie and honour He sent also for his ships to Rhodes the greater numbre of which he made readie and furnished and after embarqued and sailed to Tyre and both by sea land besieged the citie the space of .xv. monethes so that nothing could be brought into it Whereupon in the ende they were enforced to render vppon thys composition and agréement that all Ptolome his Souldiours within the same should with bag and baggage safelie departe and Antigone at his pleasure to thrust in his gerrisones ¶ Of the practizes deuises and prouision by Ptolome Seleuke on the one part Antigone on the other parte made by Sea in the countrey of Asie The .xxvij. Chapter AMongs these entrefaicts when Ptolome vnderstood the edict and decrée which Antigone and the Macedonians had made for the libertie of Grece bycause he would it should to the Grekes be knowen that he had so good an hart and will to restore them to libertie as the said Antigone he caused the like proclamation to be made and before them to be notified and published For eyther of them made great accompte and thought it a verie good way to win the Grekes to stand their friends and therfore they contended howe and by what meane they might best gratifie them He wanne also to his alliaunce Cassander gouernour of Carie a mightie Prince and one who had at his commaundement manie Cities He sent likewise ouer and besides the .iiij. thousand men sent before by him to the Kings of Cypres his confederats a mightie armie to enforce to their obeissaūce their enimies to wete Mirmidon the Athenian with .x. thousand Souldiours Polyclete with a Nauie of an hundreth saile and appointed for generall Menelaus his brother And as they arriued in Cypres they heard of Seleuke hys being there whereupon they held a counsell wherein was concluded that Polyclete should with L. shipe saile into Peloponnese to warre vpon Aristodeme Polispercon and Alexander That Myrmidon with the Mercenaries should into Carie to ayde and comforte Cassander and other their allies whom Ptolome Antigone his brother warred on and that Menelaus and Seleuke shoulde remayne in Cypres with Nycocreon and other their allies to mainteyne the warres there When Seleuke and hys companie had thus deuided their power they tooke the cities of Cerine and Lapythe and there wanne to their al-aliaunce Stasicetus King of the Manians and forced Amathusius an other prince of the countrey to deliuer thē ostages They besieged also with great force the Citie of Cythie bycause they would not at their first cōming allie with them At that same verie season sailed from Hellespont and the Rhodes to Antigone .xl. saile vnder the cōduct of Themyson their Admiral Dioscorides likewise brought from Hellespont and the Rhodes foure score besides the ships first built in Phenice being in all accompting those left at Tyre Cxx. wherof .iiij. score .x. rowed with foure tier of ores in a side ten with fiue tier ten with nine and ten with ten tier and .xxx. barques the rest lesse so that he had in the whole CCxl Gallies appointed for the warres Which Nauie he deuided wherof L. he sent into Peloponnese and appointed Dioscorides his brothers sonne Admiral ouer the rest and gaue him in charge to goe to the ayde of hys Allies and purchase the good willes of the Isles not yet confederate Nowe for this time we wil leaue speaking of the things done in Asie and returne to the matters exploited in Europe ¶ Of certen exploictes of warre by Cassander and his Souldiours in Peloponnese and other partes of Grece done And how Alexander Polispercon his Sonne reuolteth After of a great victorie whiche Ptolome his Nauie hath against Antigone his Nauie in Cilice And after Ptolome and Antigone come to a parle and of certain exploits of warre betwene the Romaines and Samnites The .xxviij. Chapter THe while that Antigone made preparation for the warres in the countrey of Asie as we haue heretofore declared Apollonide whome Cassander had left Captayne of Argos secretlie departed into Arcadie and in the night by stealth tooke the Citie of Stymphale In this meane time the Argiues not content with Cassander sent to Alexander Polispercon his sonne and promised to yelde him the Towne but he so detracted his comming that Cassander was thyther first come whē he had entred the citie the Traitours cōspiratours tooke y e Palaice for their defence which he besieged clerely burnt to the ground And of the reste be put some to death and sent a great number in exile The same time Cassander aduertised of the sailing of Aristodeme into Peloponnese and concourse of the Mercenaries thyther first assaied if he could withdrawe and remoue Polispercon and Alexander his sonne from the amitie of Antigone And séeing it would not frame he passed throughe the coūtrey of Thessalie into Beote and strengthning the Thebanes with ayde for restauracion of their Citie entred Peloponnese and tooke by force the citie of Cencre and made incursions on the territories of Corinthe and there winning two castles by force licenced Alexanders Souldiours to departe without dommage or hurte After that he was by a band which loued not Alexāder receyued into the Citie of Orcomenie and licenced the citizens to plucke out by the eares certen of Alexanders friends gotten into the Temple of Diane and to do with them what they listed whome they incontinent contrarie to the lawe and common custome of Grece put to the sworde After that Cassander came against the Citie of Messenie and séeing it to difficile to winne passed on and entred Arcadie in which countrey he left Damides Gouernour and him selfe returned to Argos where he caused manie tou◠noys to be done and after returned to Macedone Whereof Alexander aduertised tooke with him Aristodeme and warred vpon all the Cities whiche Cassander had wonne and furnished with garrisonnes thinking to bring vnder his subiection the saide Cities promising to restore them to libertie Which Cassander vnderstanding sent towardes him Propelle by whome he offred if
of their harne◠s. In this sorte they came néere Gaze almost at the sunne set But after they were about the citie certē of hys horssemen forsooke him and entred the Towne to carrie oute their baggage by reason whereof the throng prease was so great of mares and other bestiall at the gates for that euery man thrust to be foremost that Ptolome his Souldiours whiche chased thē thyther bycause they could not shut the gates entred the towne and so seized on it to Ptolome his vse When Demetre had thus loste the battaill he fledde all that night without staye vntil he came to the Citie of Azote distaunt from them two hundred .lxx. furlongs The next daye in the morning he sent his Ambassadours towards the enimie of whom he prayed leaue to burie the dead meaning in that case to do them all the honour he could There were in that conflict slaine the greater parte of his friendes Amongs whome Python was principal who with him had equall charge of the armie and Berte whiche was with hym brought vp of a childe and knewe all his mynde and secretes In that battaill also were slaine of noble personages aboue .v. hundred the more parte horssemen and aboue .viij. thousand prisoners taken When Ptolome and Seleuke had gyuen leaue to burie the dead they sent backe to Demetre all hys mouable goodes and treasure which they had taken and so many prisoners as were his housholde meiny without ransome saying that the warres which they arrered against Antigone was not for his goods and treasure but bycause when they were in consort and warred togyther firste against Perdicas after against Eumenes he woulde not make egall distribution with his friends and companions of the realmes and dominions atchieued in those warres and also for that against the tenor of his alliaunce contrarie to all equitie and conscience he had expulsed Seleuke Babilon The reste of the prisoners Ptolome sent into Egipt for Gallie slaues When Ptolome had magnificiallie and honorablie buried all the dead on his parte he with his armie inuaded the cities of Phenice some of which he besieged and vpon composition reconciled others When Demetre sée hys power and armie decrease and insufficient he sent letters towardes his father praying his ayde and spéedy helpe And in the meane tyme while he taried for aunswere he went to the citie of Tripoly in Phenice and frō thence sent into Cilice for Souldiers and to all the Captaynes farder of whiche eyther in citie or castle had any garrison When Ptolome had wonne this victorie and that there was no armie to resist hym he subdued the citie of Sidonne and from thence departed and encamped before the citie of Tyre and practized with Andronicke Antigone his Lieutenaunt to render it vnto hym promising great giftes and hie promotions who not onely aunswered that he would by no meane falsifie his faith to Antigone and Demetre but also vsed chorlish lāguage to Ptolome Notwithstanding he was shortlie after through the mutenie and sedition of the Souldiours expulsed and the towne rendred to Ptolome so that Andronicke then became his prisoner who both for his vile and naughtie language also bycause he would not yeld the town looked to be euil entreted Neuerthelesse Ptolome forgat the iniurie and gaue him great giftes and retayned him as one of his chief friendes and after preferred him to an honorable charge He was a Prince ful of maruelous equitie and iustice curteous pitifull full of lenitie and therewith liberal which greatly profited him and was the chief cause that great and honorable personages desired his amitie and friendshippe And amongs other he right gently reteyned Seleuke who praying his ayde for the recouering of Babylon willingly graunted hys request and farther promised to lende him what thing soeuer was hys vntill such tyme as he had recouered his Satrapie which he first enioyed In this estate were the matters of Asie ¶ Thelesphore reuolteth from Antigone and Alcete by the Epirots chosen King making alliance with Cassander after many battailles is by hys subiects slaine And Cassander loseth a battaill before the Citie of Apollonie in the Countrey of Adrie The .xl. Chapter AS the matters of Asie stood in the estate aforesaid Thelesphore Antigone his Admiral lying about Corinth apperceyuing that Ptolome Antigones Lieutenaunt was better perferred and aduaunced than he and all the estate and affaires of Grece committed to hys charge complained thereof to Antigone and after sold all his shippes and bestowed the money amongs the mē of warre which would follow and go with him And going to the citie of Elyn was there receyued as Antigone his friende But when he had once furnished the Castle he brought the citie in seruitude He robbed also the temple in Olympe and tooke away aboue L. Talents wherewith he waged a great number of hired souldiers straungers In this sorte Thelesphore for the enuie and malice of Ptolome his preferment and auctoritie reuolted from Antigone Whiche things Ptolome Antigone his Lieutenaunt in Grece vnderstanding with his armie entred Peloponnese and marched to the Citie of Elyn tooke the Castle and razed it restored the Citie to libertie and rendred to the God the siluer violentlie taken away from him After vpon treatie and composition he compassed Thelesphore to rēder the citie of Cylene which he enioyed and kept and it restored to the Citizens of Elyn Amongs these exploites the Epyrotes after the death of Eacide their King bestowed the Realme on Alcete whome Aryuille his father and enimie to Cassander had bannished Wherefore Lyciske Cassander his deputie of Acarnanie marched with his armie into Epyre thinking easely to depriue and put downe Alcete from hys princelie seat and realme before he were throughlie confirmed and established in the same And as he encamped before the citie of Casopey Alcete sent his two sonnes Alexander and Theucer commaunding them to assemble so many Souldiours as they could And him selfe with the Souldiers he had drew néere the enimie attending the comming of his sonnes Whereupon Lyciske séeing the Epyrotes approche although the greater number so lustely charged them that they reculed and finally fled but Alcete escaped vnto the citie of Eurymen whome Lyciske there besieged And as he laye before the Towne Alexander Alcete his sonne came with all his power to the ayde of his father and fought with Lyciske In which conflict he had the better and slew a great number of Lyciske his Souldiours and two valiaunt Captaynes to saye Mychite and Lysander of Athens to whom Cassāder had left the gouernement of Leucade After that conflicte and ouerthrow Dyme came in Lyciske his ayde and in few dayes after gaue battaill to Alcete his Sonnes and vanquished them wherevpon the yong men and their father retired into a strong place and forsoke the Citie of Eurimene which citie Lyciske shortlie after tooke sackt and razed When Cassander was aduertized of the
with the blowe great anguishe and payne yet neuer ceased he frō the assault but with much greater courage than before exhorted his Souldiours valiauntlie to stand to it whereuppon they waxed so hardy and bold séeing their King there in person to leade them the waye that through their great vertue and prowesse they by force entred the Citie and so tooke it whereat the Citizens were in maruelous feare looking for none other mercie but that he woulde make great slaughter of thē and after spoyle burn thē and neuer leaue doing of any mischief whiche might be deuised But he contrarie to the iudgement and expectation of all the worlde caused but .xij. to be executed sent a numbre in exile and left the rest entier whole Thus was the citie of Thebes in ten yeares by Demetre twise taken and subdued ¶ Demetre robbing and ouerrunning the Countrey of the Etholians enterpriseth warre against Pyrrhe King of Epyre and after missing of their encountre and meeting eyther of them do all the mischief they can one to anothers Countrey and of the renowme and fame that Pyrrhe getteth in that warre against the Macedonians The .vij. Chapter THe same verie season should the solempne feastes of the God Apollo Pythie haue bene celebrated in the Temple of Delphos but bycause the Etholians stopped the passage where they shoulde passe Demetre against the old auncient custome caused all the sayde pastimes with the pompes and ceremonies to be done within the citie of Athens which was the moste principall and chief place of Grece to honour their Goddes in And after his returne into Macedone considering that the aide of the Macedonians would more preuayle him in warre than in peace following his owne nature and inclination which was neuer to be at rest and in quiet incontinent arrered new warres against the Etholians w t great power went thyther where he robbed burnt and wasted the greater parte of their countrey and that done left Panthauke one of his Captaynes with a braue band of souldiours to gard and kept it and he with the rest in all possible spéede marched against King Pyrrhe with whome he had many quarrels Who being thereof aduertised came with so great will to fight against him as the other to assaile him Howbeit by Fortune it happened that they tooke seuerall wayes so that they meet not Neuerthelesse after Demetre was entred the countrey of Epyre he ouer ranne and spoyled the greater parte But Pyrrhe had a better aduenture for as he had gotten to the place where Panthauke was he fought w t him and throughe his great vertue and prowes wanne the victorie And as the two armies ioyned Panthauke calling oute vrging Pyrrhe to fight w t him body to body he willingly accepted the offer and in viewe sight of both the armies very brauely encountred and after he had receyued one wounde he gaue Panthauke two finally vanquished him and therewith put his armie to flight Whereupon Pyrrhe got him not so muche hatred and euill will of the Macedonians whome he had vanquished as he for this victorie wanne honour and admiration bycause all men wondred and were abashed at his vertue and valiauntnesse Wherefore they sayde it was he amongs al the rest of the Kings which should renue the vertue and courage inuincible of Alexander the great And that the reste all inflamed with honour and prodigalitie and enuironned with Souldiours alwayes went accompanied with whores and minstrels as common daunsers And amongs them was none other controuersie but who shoulde surmounte other in pompe deceipt and vaine glorie And that was spoken by Demetre who as they saide dyd not onely weare a Crowne royall and robes of crymosin tynsell but also shoes of golde It was also said that he caused a robe to be made like vnto heauen with starres in it a verie curious sumptuous worke which fashion he there long tyme ware but the alteration and chaunge thereof remained imperfect And neuer before or since was any King of Macedone were he neuer so proude and pompous that once durste enterprise or take on hande to cause such a garmēt to be made to weare These things abouesayd greatly troubled the Macedonians yet were there other fashiōs that Demetre vsed which more misliked thē both for his straungenesse in gyuing audience as also for his hie and stoute annsweres besides the ceremonie and grauitie intollerable But one thing amongs other whiche is talked noted of hym was that he helde and kept the Ambassadoures of Athens two whole yeares being more his friendes than any of the rest of Grece and made them follow him which waye so euer he went without any dispatche and in the end departed from him in as great hatred as they came Another time was an Orator sent to him from the Lacedemonians wherat he maruelously grudged thinking they estéemed him not for sending of so simple an Ambassadoure Wherefore he wonderfully reuiled with minatory words menaced them and after turning his talke to the Orator said And arte thou he whome the Lacedemonians haue sent hyther alone Whome the Orator very gently aunswered yea for so the Sir King to thée alone Another time also when he hadde caused it to be published that he would giue attentiue audience to all suters a numbre of people at the day appointed came with many supplications and deliuered them to him in writing whiche he verie curteously receyued and put them in the skirte of his gowne but at hys departing thence going ouer the bridge of the Riuer Axie in the sight of all those whiche had put vp and giuen him their supplications and followed for aunswer he caste them all in the ryuer whereat the Macedonians were greatly offended and discontent For they thought it not the office and honour of a King of hie and noble courage nor yet a good officer but rather of a iester and deceyuer of the people and of one who made no accompt of iustice And a great deale the more thought the Macedonians it straunge for that they hadde vnderstoode of their auncesters the great curtesie and facilitie that King Phillip father to Alexander the great vsed in gyuing audience to his subiects It happened one daye aboute the same season that a poore woman cōming to Demetre desiring him to heare hir he aunswering that he was not at leysure she ageyne with loude voyce replied and saide Then oughtest thou not to reigne Which wordes well considered and reuolued in his mynde at last constreyned him to giue good and gracious audience to his people And truely there is no one thing in the worlde that so well apperteyneth and is so propre to a King as to be at leisure and attent to iustice For as the Philosopher Timothey sayeth Mars is a Tyraunt and according to the iudgement of the Poet Pyndare The Lawe is king ouer al. Homere also sayeth that Kings and Princes reciued not of God engines
they had sent him for the maintenaunce of his warres a great numbre of able horse mē wel appointed Howbeit after the Atheniās were come amongs them and that they had with pleasaunt and delicate woordes so wonne their fauour to fight for the cōmon libertie of Grece they wholy yelded to Leosthenes through which practize the Grecians army then was of greater force than the Macedonian By reason whereof happened that when Antipater came to ioyning of battail he was incontinent ouerthrowen and vanquished And after that he neuer durst come in the face of the enimie neyther yet was he able safelie to returne into Macedone wherfore he was forced to retier into the Citie of Lauige with the rest of his army whiche Citie he there fortified and furnished it with men armour weapon and shot to auoide the siege euery day looking attending for ayde out of Asie Wherevpon Leosthenes forthwith remoued his Campe and with his whole power besteged the Towne And after he had encamped and entrenched him selfe about he approched the wals offring battaill But when he sée the Macedonian◠after many daies offers durst not sallie out he assaulted the Towne Notwithstanding the Townes men so valauntlie defended it that they repulsed the ennimy and slewe a great numbre of the rash assailants by reason the towne was well manned throughly prouided wtih all kindes of hablements of warre and the curten of suche heigth and thicknes that the besieḡed with great ease became victors When Leosthenes sée that he could not by force winne the Towne straightwaies cut of their victuals trusting by famine to winne it wherefore he stoppeth all the passages with large and déepe ditches and trenches In this meane while had Leosthenes for a time gyuen leaue to the Etholians to go into their countrie about suche necessary affaires as they had to do and thereupon they all returned into Ethole And as Antipater was thus distressed and in great danger loking for none other but that he must néeds for wan of victuals yelde him selfe and al his power to the enimy sodenly happened them great good lucke For as the assaillaunts were vndermyning the wals Antipater with fierce courage falied out vpon them and Leosthenes comming to the rescue of his souldiers had by hap such a blow on the head with a stone which was throwen frō the curten in time of the skyrmish y t it felled him to the ground and being by his Souldiers taken vp more than halfe dead and caried to his Tente within thrée daies after died therof who for his noble and cheualrous acts in feates of war was honorably buried where at the commaundement of the people of Athens Hiperides then the most excellent Orator in all the Towne made an Oration in his prayse at the funerall For Demosthenes the Orator was in exile by reason of the money which he had gotten of Harpale After the death of Leosthenes the people chose Antiphile for their Captaine in his rowme a right and valiaunt mā and in Martiall Pollicies verie expert ¶ Certen of the Princes vpon whom Perdicas bestowed the gouernement of the Prouinces go about to seigniorize them The fifth Chapter WHile these broiles were in Grece the Princes and Gouernours of Asie among whom the Prouinces were deuided emōgs Ptolome who was one eftsones without resistaunce or contradictiō seised on Egypt ◠behauing him selfe to the whole coūtrey wisely liberally gently And during the time of his gouernement there had gathered together about viij thousand talents by meane whereof he had leuied a great numbre of Mercenaries There also repaired to him many af his kinsfolkes and friends aswell for the bountie of his nature as also for his liberalitie and frāknesse Againe he sent Ambassadours to Antipater to participats w t him al his affaires businesse knowing for certaine y t if Perdicas could he would expulse him the prouince of Egipt But now to returne to Lisimache so soone as he was arriued in y e prouince of Thrace he found King Southe with xx thousand footemē◠and two thousand horse there encamped yet feared he not to ioyne battail with him But bycause on the one side was the greater numbre and on the other side prowesse and vertue the fight endured long and cruell wherin many Grecians were slaine but a farre greater numbre of Barbarians so that eyther of them retiered into his camp not knowing who had the better and there continued a season both minded to assemble greater power ¶ Leonate comming to the rescous of Antipater is by the Athenians ouerthrowne and slayne but after the said Athenians are at Sea by Cly◠e chased and ouerhrowen The sixth Chapter DUring the time that Antipater was besieged in Lamie he had secretlie sent his Ambassadour Ecathe towardes Leonate desiring his ayde who promised to come And thereupon he immediatly put all things in a readinesse passed Europe vntil he came into Macedone where repaired to him many Souldiers Macedonians so that he had assembled twentie thousand footemen and fiue thousand horse with whiche armie he intented to warre vpon the Grekes through the Countrey of Thessaly Who vnderstanding of his comming raised their siege and sent all their baggage and artillarie together the Paysaunts Sclaues which followed the army into the citie of Melite ◠bycause they might more spéedelie marche on with the soldiers aswel◠footemen as horsemen against Leonate meaning to gyue him battaill before he ioyned with Antipater Now had the Grekes not passing xxij thousand footemē for that the Etholians and certen other regiments were licensed to goe into their Countreis and mansion places thrée thousand horse of which two thousand were Thessalians valiaunt and trained Souldiers in whose magnanimite cōsisted y e whole hope of victory At last they ioyned battaill with Leonate which cōtinue long and doubtful but in the ende the Thessalians through their hie and manlie courages obtained victorie and Leonate manfully and stoutelie fighting in the retire fell into a ditche and there miserablie was slaine Neuerthelesse his Souldiers recouered the body and carried it to his Tent. When the Macedonian Phalange sée that Memnon Generall of the Thessalian men at armes had wonne the victorie and fearing they woulde charge them sodenlie retired from the plaine where the battaill was fought vnto the straightest passages they coulde finde néere hand for their garde and strength through whiche pollicy the Thessalian men at armes charging them profited nothing The next day in the morning Antipater comming with the rest of his power to ayde them ioyned all the Macedonians in one campe vnder the gouernement and conduct of Antipater who fearing the Grecian horsemen neuer durst 〈◊〉 battaill and againe doubting his inabilite to passe through them was enforced by the straight wayes passages in those quarters faire and easelie to retire But Antiphile generall of the Grecian armie hauing honorablie ouerthrowen the Macedonians in battaill remayned still in Thessalie alwayes attending and looking what the
ennimie mente or durst to do Thus had the Grecians in all their affaires by lande prosperos successe But after the Athenians vnderstood that the Macedonians were of great power by sea they caused many new ships of warre to be buylt so that they had in all C◠xx saile But Clite Admirall of the Macedonian Nauie hauing alwais about CCxl saile twise chased and vanquished Ethion Admirall to the Athenians slew manie of his people about the Isles Ethimades Perdicas ouercommeth Ariarathe and restoreth to Eumenes the Countrey of Cappadoce The seauenth Chapter IN this meane time Perdicas hauing with him King Phillip and his armie royall purposed to warre vppon Ariarathe of Cappadoce Who neuer during the life of Alexander would at anie time be subiect to the Macedonians And the cause why Alexander suffred him peaceably to enioy the same was that he had suche notable warres with King Darie that he neuer forced of Ariarathe so that he peaceably held and enioyed that countrey of Cappadoce many yeares By reason whereof he became so rich and of such great wealth that he had waged a great numbre aswel Cappadocians as straungers with whome he thought to defend him selfe and his Realme against Perdicas if at any tyme he attempted to pierce and inuade his countrey He had about xxx thousand footemen x. thousand horse Notwithstanding when they came to battaill he and all his armie was quite discomfited and ouerthrowen wherof about iiij thousand slaine and aboue v. thousand prisoners taken of which numbre him selfe was one who with all his kinsfolks and allies were hanged This done Perdicas proclaimed peace to the whole Countrey restored to the Gouernement thereof Eumenes Cardian who was before assigned vnto it at the first particion of the Prouinces ¶ Antipater in fight vanquisheth the Grecian armie◠putteth in subiection the greater numbre of the Cities of Grece and Athenes and in the end restoreth them to libertie The eight Chapter IN this meane season was Cratere come out of Cilice into Macedone accompained with vj. thousand footemen of y e most expert souldiours that serued Alexandre when he first inuaded Asie And vpon the way he tooke vp iiij thousand Persian Archers a thousand Slings or Shot and a thousand horse to aide Antipater and to reuenge the oultrage committed by the Grekes against the Macedonians But so sone as he was come into Thessalie he voluntarily gaue the principall charge and conduct to Antipater praying him to take vpon him the office of L. Generall of the army So they encamped together about the Riuer Pene and one day mustering the army accompting those which came with Leonate they had xl thousand footemen well armed iij. thousand archers and slings and about v. thousand horse Notwithstanding the Grekes feared nothing but encamped right ouer against them albeit they were the weaker and febler companie by reason that a great numbre of them for their many victories before obtained were so hault and proude that without weting or knowledge of their Captaines they were gone home so that the Captaynes being not obeyed nor the Souldiers at commaūdement there remayned not behind aboue xxv thousand footemen and iij. thousand v. hundred horse in which nmubre of horse laye consisted the only hope of victorie both for their valiaunt courages also bycause the countrey was playne and champion Antipater daylie offred battaill but the Grekes remained quiet kept their camp loking still for aide from the cities of Grece But they were by the enimy so long oppressed and gréeued that of force they must in the end abide and put all to the hazard of battaill And bycause they desired that the horsemen shold first charge they placed them as it were for their voward before the Phalange of footemē And when Antipater sée that the Thessalians at the first encountre and charge had gottē the better he commaunded his Phalāge to marche against the maine battaill of the Grekes whome they so fiercely greeued and pressed that in lesse than an houre they had almost slaine the whole Grecian Phalange And at last the Grecians seing them selues no longer able to abyde the brunt nor maintayne the fight retired in good order to battaill to the straight passages towardes a moūtayne where by reason of the aduaūtage of the place they with greater ease defended them selues from the power and force of the Macedonians And albeit the Grecian horse were to harde and bettered the Macedonians yet they seing their footemen so retired yelded them selues to the enimie so by that meane the Macedonians wanne the honour of the battaill in which were slaine about v. hundred Grekes and Cxxx. Macedonians The next day in the mornyng Memnon and Antiphile chiefe leaders of the Grecian armie assembled their Captaynes and called a counsayll wherein was proposed two questions First whether it were good to abide and tarrie for the ayde and help of the cities of Grece aud continue the warre vntill they were of as great powre as the enimie or whether it were better considering the time to sende vnto them to treat a peace so they agreed vpon the last Whervpon they sent Ambassadoures to Antipater who aunswered he woulde not at one instant condescende and agrée to conclude a peace with al the whole cities of Grece but if they woulde euery of them perticulerly sende their Ambassadoures to him that then he was content to heare them and otherwise not whervnto the Greekes in no wise would agrée Whyle the warres still continued Antipater and Cratere besieged the citie of Thessalie to the ende wherof the Greekes were not able to come wherefore the Citizens beyng sore distressed and in great daunger rendred the towne to Antipater whom he receyued into fauoure and shewed him selfe so gently and curteous towardes them y e shortly after al the rest of the cities of Grece euery of them particulerly yelded to Antipater with whom he accorded peace And farther they clerely forsooke both the Athenians and Etholians vtter ennemies to the Macedonians who séeing them selues so reiected tooke counsayll of their captaynes for the mayntenaunce of the warres When Antipater had by such Stratageme separated and dispersed the Greekes he then with all his powre made preparation against the Athenians who séeing them selues vnprouided of aide succoure of their friendes and allies were greatly astonied wherfore they al agréed y e Demades the famous Orator shold be sent to Antipater to treate a peace which he refused to do And although they had called him to counsaile he woulde not come thyther bycause he had ben before thrice condemned of the priuie Counsell or Senate as an insringer of the Lawes forbidden to aske for him selfe the ayde or benefite of the Lawes and to declare his opinion in the Counsaill Neuerthelesse for the cause aforesaid the communaltie incontinent forgaue him and sent him to Antipater accompanied with Phocion and certen other Citizens whome Antipater after their Ambassade
The .xx. Chapter WHat time Antigone departed from Piside he with his armie trauailled into Phrigie And as he laye to repose him in the Citie of Crete there came to him Aristodeme the Milesian aduertising him of the death of Antipater and farther declaring that the Empire and gouernement of the Kings was gyuen to Polispercon the Macedonian Of which newes Antigone was right ioyous determining now to establishe him selfe Lord Seigniour of al Asie But for a while we will omit speaking of him make report of al things which were done in Asie It happened at that season that Antipater fell into a gréeuous disease and in déed waxed so sicke that by reason of his great age all men thought it impossible for him to escape the danger wherefore the Athenians thinking Demades the notable Orator a méete and necessary man for such a charge sent him in an Ambassade to Antipater to require him that he according to his former promisse should call home his garrisons from the towne of Munichie And although Antipater had before tyme very well loued Demades notwithstāding after y e death of Perdicas such letters were found in Demades his chest writen with his owne hand to the Kings in which he exhorted Perdicas to passe into Europe against Antipater that Antipater was maruelously despited therewith Neuerthelesse he dissimuled his grudge and anger But Demades with arrogant language and threatning words so stil pursued and delared his Ambassade that Antipater without aunswere caused him and his sonne ioint Ambassadours in the same Ambassade to be apprehēded and forthwith cōmitted them to the rulers and gouernours who immediatly sent them to prison and after put them to death Not long after whē Antipater perceyued he could not escape death he nominated and appointed Polispercon gouernour of the Kings chief of all the whole power bycause he was y e auncientest Chie ◠ayne that had serued with Alexander and of all the Macedonians had in great honour He ordeyned also Cassander his sonne Chiliarque or Captayn of a thousand men and next in authoritie The same order of Chiliarque was first erected by the Kings of Persie after continued maintayned by Alexander and therfore dyd Antipater long before he dyed giue the said office to Cassander his sonne when he was yet very yong Neuerthelesse after the death of his father he liked not his constitution and ordinaunce but thought he had done him great iniurie and wrong to preferre Polispercon to the Empire before him selfe being his child not of so néere alliaunce as he knowing also that he was both able and sufficient to gouerne the Realme as by experience ynough both of his valiantnesse and wisedome he had before séene and well appeared Wherfore ryding abroad in the countrey with certayn his friends he deuised with them at his leysure touching the Empire and gouernement and seducing euery of them moued them to take his parte and ayde him with their power for the attayning of the principalitie promising them in their so doing large and honorable rewarde He sent also his Ambassadoures to Ptolome to renue and confirme the old amitie and friendship lately had betwéene him and his father Antipater praying his ayde also in the same warre and to send him out of hande his Nauie from Phenice into Hellespont He likewise sent messangers to other nobles Captaynes and cities to be confederate with him in the same matter And during the time of this practise to put him selfe out of suspicion of this conspiracy and treason he made semblaunt as though he cared for none other thing but hunting and such like disports In this meane while Polispercon Gouernour of the Kings by the aduise and cousaill of his friends sent to Olympias Alexander his mother praying hir to repaire into Macedone to take vpon hir the gouernement of yong Alexander hir sons sonne For Olympias by reason of y e discord enmitie betwéene hir Antipater had long before gotten into Epire there continued In this state stood y e affaires of Macedon ¶ Antigone vnderstanding of Antipater his death taketh vpon him the gouernement of the Empire of Asie and sendeth to Eumenes desiering his returne The .xxj. Chapter AFter it was diuulged in Asie that Antipater was dead the people began to studie and muse of straunge and new deuises and chiefly suche as gouerned vnder him were in doubt what to do But amongs others◠when Antigone was nominated and proclamed Emperour of Asie and had greatly encreased the othe deliuered him by Antipater through the subduing of Eumenes Alcete and Attale he became after so many victories so proude and arrogant that he persuaded him selfe with ease to enioy the gouernement ouer all the rest and not to be subiect to the Gouernours He agayne thought considering his power which was at least .lx. thousande footemen ten thousande horse and thirtie Elephaunts he might reare of all the treasure in Asie for that there was none able to resist him and hoped for his mony to leuie in Asie a numbre of hiered soldiers to augment his armie And dwelling in these ymaginations and deuises he sent for Ierome the Historian a friend familiar of Eumenes Cardian who lay besieged in y e towne of Nore aforesaid whom he with large promisses sent towards Eumenes to persuade him to forget the battaill and conflict betwixt them in Cappadoce and to ioyne with him as his allie and companion whiche if he woulde do he promised honorably to reward him and to bestowe on him greater Satrapies and dominions than euer before he had and to hold him as his most deare friend and neuer to enterprise or do any thing but that he shoulde be priuie of After Antigone had thus done he assembled his friends declaring to them his meaning and purpose and entred them in a booke in whiche he made to some a diuision of certain Satrapies and gaue to other the charge and leading of Souldiers so that in déede they all greatly hoped to be both honorable and rich and were thereby in all his attemptes seruices the rather encouraged to serue him For he determined wholly to subdue and conquere Asie and to expulse al the Satrapies and in their steades to place his familier and trustie friends ¶ Aride is repulsed from the siege of the Citie of Cizice The .xxij. Chapter AS Antigone was thus occupied Aride gouernour of Phrigie about Hellespont doubting the enterprise of Antigone determined to fortifie and furnish his principall Cities and townes And bycause the Citie of Cizice was verie strong and méete for the warres he incontinent went thether accompanied with .x. thousand Mercenaries a thousand Macedonians fiue hundred Persian shot and viij hundred horse He was farther well prouided and furnished of all maner of weapon both great small engines also to shoote great stoanes and pieces of wood and all other things méete and necessarie to maintayne a siege So he sodenly
greeuously accused and adiudged them worthy the death the summe of which accusation was this that they after the Lamian warre were the principall and chiefe causers that their Citie and Countrey were brought in thraldome and bondage the gouernement and authoritie of the people wholy extinguished and the lawes and ordinaunces of the same Countrie clerely violated and infringed When the daye assigned was come Phocion very sagely and wysely beganne to plead and defende his cause but so soone as the multitude and great numbre of the people heard him beginne to speake they made suche a noyse and vprore that he could not be heard When the noise was ceased and that he beganne agayne to speake they likewise interrupted and stopped him that he coulde haue no audience for the multitude of the baser sorte which had bene degraded and put from the publique gouernement being sodenly newly authorised were very insolent against those which had depriued them their libertie Howbeit Phocion in daunger to lose his life boldly and stoutely stood to the defence of his iustification so that these about him heard what he sayde But they which were any thing farther of could heare nothing for the noyse and vprore of the people but they might all sée that he spake and made many gestures with his body as a man in great daunger and feare But in the ende when he sée no boote he with a loud voice cried and sayde that he was contented to dye but prayde that they might be forgiuen whome he had inuegled and attracted to his will and pleasure some forcibly and some by gentle admonitions and persuasions When certaine of Phocions friendes sée that the violēce and rage of the people ceassed not they preased in to speake for him whome the multitude incontinent hearkened vnto before any man knewe what they woulde say But after it was perceyued they spake in the fauour of the accused they were in lyke sorte reiected by the clamors of the people so that in the ende by the cōmon voyce and exclamation of the multitude they wer condemned to death and that done carried to prison Then many of their friendes seing their miserie were very pensife and sorowfull For when they sée that such personages being the chief and principal of the Citie as wel for their nobilitie as their authoritie and renoume had done many good and gracious déedes to the Citie were in such sort condēned without order of iustice they greatly feared to come in the like dāger But forasmuch as fortune is common and mutable many of the people dispiteously agreued with the sayd Phocion spake al the oultrages viltanies against him they could reproching hym of many wicked acts déedes as people commonly doe which dissimule their anger against them in authoritie But when they see fortune turne hir saile that it otherwise hapneth then wil they without reason or measure in all despiteful crueltie vtter and shew forth their priuie griefe and pestiferous malice Not long after the condemned acording to the custome of the coūtrey dranke poyson and their carkaises were throwne without the limites and precinctes of Athens vnburied and this was their ende Polyspercon besiegeth Cassandre in Pyrey and perceiuing that he coulde not win it departeth thence and besiegeth the citie of Megalopolis where by the wisedome and policie of Demades he is at an assault repulsed The .xxix. Chapter DUring the time that these matters were done in Asia Antigone had sent Cassander with .xxxv. tall warlike gallies and foure thousand souldiours to saile into Pire whom Nichanor captaine of the Castle receiued and rendred to him the port and castle But as for Munichie Nicanor garded and helde that with his owne garrison When Polispercon who abode and continued in Phocide vnderstoode that Cassander had taken and enioyed Pire he came into the Countrey of Athens and encamped before Pire with twentie thousād Macedonians and foure thousand straungers and confederates and thrée score and fiue Elephantes and besieged the same But séeing the scarcitie and want of victuals and the siege like long to continue he left behind at the siege such number of Soldiours as the Countrey might wel vittell deputing for his lieuetenant Alexander his sonne and him selfe with the rest being the greater number entred Peloponess to the ende to force the Megalopolitanes to come vnder the obeisaunce of the Kings being greatly enclined to Cassander and the continuation of their Oligarchie to say the gouernement of certaine particular offices and dignities which Antipater had appointed them While Polispercon was about this enterprise Cassander with his Nauie hauing alliaunce with the Eginets went and besieged the Citie of Salamine his enimie And euery day with shot whereof he had foyson assaulteth the town bringing them in great hazarde and feare And being almost in despaire aide came from Polispercon bothe by sea and land Wherevpon Cassander was so daunted that he raised his siege and returned to Pire After that Polispercon meaning to set and order and stay about the affaires of Peloponese assembled before him the Deputies of all the Cities whom with gentle and gratious woordes he allured to ioyne with him and afterward sent his Ambassadoures to all the Cities commaunding them that they should sodainely kill all the gouernors appointed by Ptolome and restore the gouernement to the people Which commaundement the people incontinently obeyed so that there were great slaughters and banishmentes throughout the Cities of the friends of Antipater Then the commonaltie being restored to libertie and authoritie ioyned with Polispercon And bicause the Megalopolitames would not obey but still sticke to Cassander Polispercon fully determined to besiege them When they vnderstood his meaning and purpose they incontinently caused all their goodes in the Countrey to be brought into their towne and after mustered and tooke viewe of their people which were of Citizens and forainers about fiftene thousand besides their slaues all able men and deuided them into two bandes whereof some made rampiers and other workes some manned the walles so that at one instant they were all busied and occupied One companie ditched about the Towne an other companie carried woode and earth out of the fieldes to make the Rampiers other repaired and mended the walles where they were any thing at all decayed some forged harnaies and engines of Artillarie and on this sort was all the whole Citie occupied bicause that euery one was minded and disposed thereto for so muche as the power which came against them were men of inuincible courages and the Elephantes of great violence and might Not long after that they had brought all things into a readinesse and perfection Polispercon with his whole armie arriued before the same and on both sides besieged it On the one side encamped Macedonians and on the other side his allyes and straungers He builded also many Towers of woode hygher than the curten and wall and planted them in places conuenient and thrust into them
chases and greate plentie of wilde beastes wherof the peasantes brought to Penceste greate abundance whiche he gaue and bestowed vppon the men of warre to get and win their loue and good wils There are also in that region for archers and other shotte the best Souldiers within the whole countreye of Perse. When they were at last arriued in the Citie royall of Persepolis Penceste gouerner of the same countrey made a solempne sacrifice to Philip and Alexander as to theyr Gods and after the sacrifice a greate and sumptuous banket to the whole campe aboundyng in all sortes of meates brought from all the partes of the countrey And for the assemble of the men of warre he made readie a place abroade in the fieldes with .iiij. round circles like vnto a cloister one with in an other egally distant the seconde bigger than the first all the reste in mete proportiō so y t the vttermoste which inclosed the other thrée was .x. furlongs about in whiche sate the mercenarie souldiers and straungers In the seconde sat the Argiraspides Macedonians and the Souldiers which serued with Alexander in his warrs .viij. furlongs in compasse In the thirde were the extraordinarie captaines horsemen and all other the speciall friends of the Satrapes and other chieftaines being foure furlongs aboute In the last which was two furlongs round sat the Dukes and chief rulers of the armie the captaines of the horsmen and the princes of Perse there In the middest of the last circle stode the altars of the Gods the tabernacle of Alexander and Philip whose seates were made of leaues and trées bearing frute and the residue couered with faire and riche tapistrie wherof the countrey of Perse aboundeth being full of delices and thyngs of pleasure The distances of the circles were in that sort drawen out to the ende that they which sat in the one should be no let or stop to those in the other and euery circle had his officers and ministers kitchins and all other houses of office in such order and so many that the great diligence and prouidence of Penceste might therin be well vnderstoode and knowne By meane wherof he greatly wanne the fauoure and good willes of all the companie Which thyng Eumenes perceyuing and knowing he went about to win the souldiers fauours to bée made generall and to obtaine the principalitie counterfaited forged certaine false and surmised letters by whiche he animated the Souldiers to warre wherewith he soone abated Penceste his audacitie and ambition and brought him self into greater authoritie and reputation in whome also the men of warre had greate hope and confidence The contents of the letters were these How that Olympias had brought the yong sonne of Alexander into Macedone had slayne Caslander and peaceably enioyed the realm And that Polispercon with the greatest parte of the armie royall and all the Elephantes was gone into Asie to war on Antigone was already in Cappadoce Whiche letters were written in the Syrian tongue subscribed in the name of Oronte Satrapa of Armenie Penceste his great friend and therfore bare the more credit Then Eumenes caused them to be caried to all the Satrapes and captaines to be séene and after published them to the whole armie By reason of whiche letters all the host then thought that Eumenes might aduaunce to the kings whome he woulde and punishe those he hated And the more to put and kéepe in terrour and feare suche as were disobedient and desirous of authoritie he called to iudgement Sybirte Satrapa of Aracose and great friend to Pencest whome he accused saying that he had sent some of his horse against the Aracothes without knowledge of the assemble and counsel and therfore required that he might be discharged and all his treasure and goodes confiscate Wherevpon he put him in such perill and danger that if he had not secretly fled he had bene slaine by the multitude of the Souldiers Notwithstandyng after he had by that meane put the other in feare and recouered his authoritie he returned to his accustomed humanitie and curtesie and through faire wordes and large promises he reconciled Penceste and made hym readie and tractable to employ his seruice in the affaires of the Kings And to assure him self of the other Satrapies chieftains captaines and to haue some maner guage of them to serue in steade of hostages he fained the want of money praying euery of them to lend him as much as they coulde spare for the affaires of the kings Whiche they did so that he borowed of those whom he chiefly suspected the iust summe of CCCC talents By which mean he thought him so sure of thē that they would not work him any falshode or treason nor yet once steppe asyde from him whom he after kept reserued for the garde and defence of his person and his fautours in all his affaires whatsoeuer ¶ Of the battaile betwene Antigone Eumenes and of their powers and of their retire to winter without victorie on either side The .x. Chapter WHen Eumenes had thus prouided for all things that might happen as aforesayde newes were brought out of Mede howe Antigone with his whole power was commyng into Perse which Eumenes vnderstanding immediatly toke his iourney wyth hys whole armie determining to be there before him to y e ende to giue battaile Whereupon he sacrificed to the Gods and that done royally banketted the Princes captaines and men of warre bicause he would giue them greater occasion of affection and loue towardes him And for that they should thinke he wold at ful please them he pledged so many as dronke vnto hym by reason wherof he fell into a grieuous maladie and therfore was forced to repose there certaine dayes For whose cause all the whole armie desirous of battaile were very sorie Neuerthelesse after some amendement and recouerie he no longer stayed his iourney but being carried in a horselitter hasted on the aray the conduct wherof he gaue to Pencest and Antigene And after he had gotten within a days iorney of the enimie the vauntcurrers of eche side gaue intelligence of the approch of one an other wherfore they determined on both sides the next day folowing to giue battaile Howbeit by reason of a valley and Riuer betwixte them besides the straightnesse of the grounde they were frustrate of their purposes and determinations Notwithstanding they aranged on either side their battailes and encamped not aboue .iij. furlongs one from an other and for .iiij. dayes together they onely skirmished with shot during which time both the armies had wasted and cōsumed all the victuals in the countrey néere vnto them so that they began to wante The fifte day folowing Antigone sent his ambassadors towards the Satrapes Macedonians to persuade them to abādon forsake Eumenes and ioyne with him promising to leaue the Satrapes theyr Satrapies And the reste whiche would not folowe the campe he promised to some greate landes and possessions and to sende the
and .v. hundred horse And him self with the rest of the armie went to the Citie of Ecbathane where he tooke .v. hundred Talents of vncoined siluer Frō thence trauailled he towards the Citie of Persepolis in the countrey of Perse distaunt thence .xx. dayes iourney of But as he passed on his iourney certen of Python his friends coniuratours of which Meleager and Menete were chief had assembled and got together of Pythons familiars about .viij. hundred horse and made many incursions and roades vppon the people of the Countrey which would not obey them But when they were aduertised of the encamping of Hypostrate and Orondonate they sodenly by night assayled them and hadde almost wonne their camp And although they were through the nūbre of the ennimie repulsed yet suborned they some of their Souldiours who went away with them And bycause they were all horse and had no carriages they feared all the whole countrey and set them in a maruelous vprore But in the end being sore pressed and charged they were forced to retire into a valley enuironed with steepe rockes and almost inaccessible and at laste there taken and slayne But Meleager and Occrane both valiaunt Captaynes and diuerse other of the principall stoutely standing to their defenses were amongest the rest also slaine And this was the end of the rebelles in Mede ¶ Antigone comming into Perse and there receyued as Lord and Seigniour of all Asie deuided the Satrapies thereof and after goeth to the Citie of Suse and taketh all the treasure he there findeth The .xviij. Chapter WHen Antigone was come into the countrey of Perse he was without contradiction by y e people of the countrey as Lord and Seignior of all Asie honorably receyued And after that he assembled his friends and with them consulted and deuised cōcerning the diuision of the Satrapes First he left to Pampolemō Carmanie and to Stasanor Bactriane bicause he could not with his letters easely expulse them who were of the inhabitants in the said prouinces well beloued and had also amongs the men of warre great friends and mightie armies Into Arie he sent Erite and after his death he deputed Euagoras a mā of meruelous great courage and wise He permitted likewise Oxiarthe the father of Roxanne Alexanders wife to kéepe and enioye the Satrapes of Paropanisade as he before held it bycause he could not expulse him without great power and long continuaunce He also called home out of Aracothe Sybirte whome he dearlie loued and on him bestowed that Satrape gyuing him the charge of the mutinous Argiraspides vnder a colour to lead them into the warres but the trueth is it was to destroye them For he tolde him in coūsail that he would send and put them to such vses as they should loose their liues Amongs whiche were those y e betrayed Eumenes and for their treason suffered that waye condigne punishement And as oftentimes it happeneth that treasons to Princes are profitable to winne victorie euen so to suche as commit them they haue always ben the cause efficient of many and great mischiefs After Antigone sée that Penceste in the Countrey of Perse was greatly honoured he expulsed him the Satrapie whereupon many of the countrey being therewith agréeued at last one of the chief and principall of them named Thespius stepped out and frankly tolde him that they would obey none other whome he caused for hys so saying incontinent to be slayne and gaue the Satrapie to Ascleptodore together a sufficient and able numbre of men of warre to garde and defend it Notwithstanding he with gentle wordes and large promysses curteouslie entertained Penceste vntil he had gotten him out of the countrey These things done Antigone tooke his iourney towards Suse and as he approched néere the citie Xenophile Captayne of the the Castle of Suse and Treasurer of all the treasure Royall within the same by Seleuke sent to offer his seruice and to be at his commaundement met him about the riuer Pasitigre whom Antigone gently and curteouslie receyued making him beleeue that he would honorably entreat him least if he otherwise dyd Xenophile might alter his determination and purpose and so shoulde be despoyled and robbed of him By which meane after they were entred the Citie Xenophile rendred him the Castle wherein he founde a trée and many other things all of massife golde amounting to the value of .xv. thousand Talents he found also there great summes of money besides many crowns with other great giftes and spoyles to the value of .v. thousand Talents So by that meane and with that he brought out of the countrey of Mede he had in golde and siluer the summe of .xxv. thousand Talents And for this time we will leaue speaking of Antigone and the things by him done in Asie and returne to that the same time exploited in Europe ¶ Cassander taketh by composition Olympias and after putteth hir to death The .xix. Chapter NOwe saith the historie that Cassander who besieged Olympias within the Citie of Pidue in the countrey of Macedone could not well winne it by reason of the winter season but only with ditches and trenches held it enclosed and garded the Port with ships to the end no ayde or succoure should be thether brought By meane whereof the townes men were so distressed and in such néede that they allowed monethly to euery soldiour but fiue Choenices of corne Neyther did the Elephantes eat any thing else than the poudre of drie wood and the horsemen were forced to eate their horses Notwithstanding the Quéene still hoping of succoure so long aboade the siege that the Elephantes dyed of hunger and almost all the extraordinarie horssemen besides the greater part of the footemen died for want of victuals And certen Barbarians whiche there serued by necessitie constrayned against nature eat the fleshe of the dead carcases And the rest whiche were vneaten one parte by the Cōmissioners deputed by the Quéene was buried and the other throwen ouer the wals into the ditches very horrible to sée so that not the women alone who always had ben fynely delicately brought vp but the Souldiours also which had abyden almost as many miseries as might be endured there a most intollerable stench But at last the famine dayly encreased that many of the Souldiours came to the Quéene and desired leaue to depart who seeing the great want of victuals and other inabilitie to deliuer them of the siege gaue licence whereupon they departed and rendred to Cassander whome he right gentlie receyued and sent them home to their owne houses trusting that the Macedonians thereof aduertised and séeing no hope to be looked for at the Queenes hands would not long trauail in hir ayde wherein they had good reason For all the Macedonians which determined to succoure hir vnderstanding the daunger she was in altered their opinions and tooke parte with Cassander Aristone and
Momme except which Aristone kept the Citie of Amphipolis and Monime the Citie of Polle When Olympias see that one parte of the Macedonians had quite forsaken hir that y e rest were vnable to mainteyn help hir she went about to saue hir self hir friends in a Gally by sea which she caused to be sent for and brought to the Port. But Cassander being therof aduertised by one that fled out of the town tooke the sayd Gallie Whereupō the Queene despayring in hir affaires businesse sent Ambassadours to Cassāder to treat a peace But he séeing the necessitie wherein she stood and therfore meaning that she should yeld hir self to his curtesie he hardly graūted hir safe cōduct for hir owne person When Cassander had the citie rendred to him he incontinent sent certen of his men of warre to take Amphipolis and Polle Whereupon Monime Captayne of Polle vnderstanding the state of Olympias yelded without resistaunce But Aristone who was extréeme proude both of his great hande of men of warre as also for that he had a little before vanquished and ouercome Cratebas one of Cassanders Captaynes in battaill slayne a great parte of his armie subsecuted chased him through the countrey of Busalcie hard to the Citie of Bedine it besieged tooke by cōposition whom he after with .ij. thousand of his men besides sent away w t white roddes in their hands supposing that Eumenes had not ben yet dead and hoping that Polispercō and Alexander his sonne would come to ayde hym vtterly refused the yelding vp of the Citie of Amphipolis But after Olympias had written to him to render the Towne summoning him of his faith and allegiaunce he thought it best so to do and taking suertie for his persone gaue vp the same Notwithstanding Cassander cōsidering the great aucthoritie of Aristone by reason of Alexanders aduauncing him in his life and meaning to make quicke dispatch of so many as would or might any way let or hinder his affaires and doings caused Cratebas owne kinsfolkes to kill him He persuaded likewise all their friends which Olympias had put to death to accuse hir in the place of iudgement before the assemblie of the Macedonians which thing they did where the Macedonians in hir absence without patrone or Aduocate there to defend hir cause condemned hir to death wherupon after sentence and iudgement gyuen Cassander sent to hir certen of his friends persuading hir to flie promising to enbarque hir in a Gallie which should bring hir to the citie of Athens And this did he not for anie good will to saue hir but to the end she might by that meane voluntarily runne in exile and be drenched in the Sea so y t it might after haue ben said how by fortune of the sea and iudgemēt of the Goddes she was for hir cruell mischeuous and wicked déedes iustly punished Neuerthelesse she aunswered y t messangers that flie she would not nor yet refuse the iudgement of the Macedonians Which thing Cassander perceyuing he for feare that the people and assemblie of the men of warre would alter their determinations and minds when they vnderstood she was well able to purge hir of euery offence wherewith they would charge hir and should likewise reduce and call to memory the great good turnes and honour◠by them long before at the hands of Phillip and Alexander receiued sent CC. of his trustiest soldiers about him to kill hir Who with great violence entring the Palaice where she was were at the first sight so abashed with the Maiestie of hir face that they returned without doing hir any hurte But their kinsfolkes whom she caused to be slayne thinking to reuenge their deaths also to gratifie Cassander out of hande slew hir who neuer made woords or shewed any countenaunce of a woman dismayed or yet fainte harted In this sorte Olympias whiche in hir time hadde bene the most honorable Dame of the world Neoptoleme his daughter King of Epire Alexander his sister King of Epire who warred in Italy King Phillip his wyfe of Macedone the most puissaunt of all other which before him in Europe raigned Alexander his mother surnamed the great which hadde exployted the most notable and honorable warres that euer were worthie the writing and talke miserablie ended hir life ¶ After the death of Olympias Cassander espouseth Thessalonice Alexander the great his sister foundeth the Citie of Cassander And after he hath put in safe keeping Roxanne and Alexāder his sonne he goeth into the countrey of Beote and reedifieth the Citie of Thebes The .xx. Chapter WHen Cassander thus gloriously prosperously raigned he affected the realme of Macedon and the better to bring his purpose to passe espoused Thessalonice Phillip his daughter and Alexander his sister both by father and mother being always desirous to insinuate him selfe with the ligne royall He likewise in the countrey of Palene within the Region of Macedone found and built a citie named Cassandria and peopled it with inhabitaunts of the Cities of Cheronese and Potede and diuerse other villages about the same Citie and the remnaunt of the Olinthians By whiche meane also bycause of the great fertile territorie he laid and gaue thereto and by other ways he tooke wherewith on hand to enlarge and make it great The Citie in short time became so mightie and riche that it was named to be the greatest and worshipfullest amongs all the Cities of Macedone Nowe had Cassander purposed to put to death Alexander his sonne and Roxanne his mother to the end there shoulde no more of Alexanders ligne remayne on liue But before he would execute this execrable murder he stayed first to vnderstand what the Macedonians thought of the death of Olympias what talke was emongs them togither what Antigone did in Asie Wherefore he all that while caused Roxanne and hir sonne to be brought into the Castle of Amphipolis and charged Glaucias Captayne thereof and one whome he greatly trusted with the kéeping of them commaunding him to vse and treat them no other wayes but as common persones laying al princilie honours and dignities towardes them aparte and to put away all the children which had ben brought vp with the said Sonne of Alexander as his playe fellowes After that he tooke vppon him the aucthoritie and gouernement as King and caused solemne exequies for Euridice and Phillip whome Olympias had made be murdred to be celebrated with great pompe and solemnitie entombed them in a tombe royall with y e Kings their predecessours making sports and pastimes at those dayes accustomed That done he leuied a great numbre of men of warre in the countrey of Macedone to go into Peloponese While Cassander was thus occupied and that Polispercon who laye besieged in the Citie of Naxe in the Region of Perrheby vnderstood of Olympias death apperceyuing no lōger hope for him to take in hand to rule the affaires of Macedone priuilie
ioyed and gladded Antigone bycause he thought y e would be such a colour for him that no man shoulde be able to reproche him and saye he had layde hands on Seleuke his great friend who had with his power always ayded him but that of his owne mynde he voluntarily fled and by that meane left him withoute questiō or difficultie the said Satrapie But after he was by the Chaldees aduertized and admonished that if Seleuke escaped his hands he should be Lorde and King of the whole Empire of Asie and s◠ea hym in battaill he thē maruellous sorie repented him of his escape Wherfore he sent out in all possible post certen horsse after him who in long pursuite and doing lesse good returned And although Antigone gaue no great faith or credit to such diuinations yet by reason of the aucthoritie of the said Chaldees and their great and long knowledge and experience in the course and influēce of the starres he was meruellouslie troubled For the people of that countrey and sect had alone a thousande yeares wholie applied them selues to that kind of studie and knowledge Which thing by their great experiences well appeared and chieflie by Alexander his death of whome they presaged that if he entred Babylon he shoulde there lose his life And as that prediction proued true in Alexander euen so according to their diuination of Antigone happened him as hereafter when we come to the time wherein it chaunced shall at large be declared But for this time let vs out of hand treat of the armie of Seleuke in Egipt ¶ Of Seleuke his practize and deuise touching the alliaunce and confederacie betwixt Ptolome Cassander Lysimache against Antigone◠of their defiaūce they send him and of his preparation against them Also of his siege aginst the Citie of Tyre in Phenice The .xxiiij. Chapter WHen Seleuke was come into Egipt Ptolome right honorablie and curteouslie receyued him To whom he recompted the vngentle and disloyall dealing of Antigone against him declaring farther that Antigone his meaning was to expulse and vanquish all the Satrapes which had any rule or dominion and especiallie all those which had ben in houshold with Alexander And the more to asserten him of the trueth that it was so he recompted how he had put to death Python expulsed Penceste Perse and all he had done to him selfe where neyther he nor they had once offended him but had employed and bestowed all their trauaill and seruice as his deare friends and complices He farther shewed him the mightie power he had of men and hys innumerable treasure togyther the great victories and prosperitie he had in short time atchieued whereby he beganne to waxe so proude and arrogaunt that he affected the whole Empire of Macedone By these tales reports had he persuaded Ptolome to prepare and resist him And agayne sent certen of his friends into Europe towards Cassander and Lysimache to perusade them to do the like who diligentlie performed their charge By reason whereof they forged manie practizes whiche were the originall and beginning of great dissention warres For Antigone who doubted not without good cause the euill will of Seleuke against him and the practizes he would deuise sent his Ambassadours towardes Ptolome Cassander and Lysimache to exhorte and desire them to continue and remayne his olde and auncient friends Neuerthelesse after he had created Python who descended from the Indians Gouernour of Babylon and left him there he tooke his iourney with the whole armie and marched towardes Cilicie And after he was come to Maley he diuided his armie into diuerse places to winter He tooke also all the money he could gette in the Citie of Quint amounting to .x. thousand Talents with the rest he brought w t him he was maruelouslie prouided of gold and siluer besides his cleare yerely reuenue of .xj. thousand Talents By reason whereof as also for his mightie puissaunce of Souldiours and men of warre he was much to be feared When winter was past as Antigone with his whole power had taken hys iourney to come into the hier Syrie the Ambassadours of Ptolome Cassander and Lysimache came vnto him who hauing open audience to tell their Ambassade demaunded of him to restore to Cassander the countreys of Cappadoce and Lycie to rendre Lysimache Phrygie and Hellespont to yeld vp to Ptolome all Sirie and to deliuer to Seleuke Babilon And that he would also make an egall deuision with them of all the treasure he had gotten and taken since the warres commenced against Eumenes bycause they had ben pertakers with him and companions in the said warres And in case he refused this to do they denounced to him in the names of them all that they would allie and ioyne togyther to arrere mortall hostilitie against him When Antigone had heard this their Ambassade he with arrogaunt insolent wordes aunswered and amongs other things willed and charged them to tell Ptolome that he made good and strong preparation to stand to his defence When the Ambassadoures were returned and had made reporte of their aunswer the saide Ptolome Cassander and Lysimache reallied togyther and made the greatest preparation of men armoure and all other things necessarie for the warres they possiblie could When Antigone vnderstood thereof and considered the noblenesse puissaunce and aucthoritie of those against whome he tooke on hande warres he drew to his amitie and alliaunce all the Princes Nations and Cities he could get For accomplishing wherof he sent Ageselaye towardes the Kings of Cypres and to the Rhodians Idonome and Moschion He sent also into Cappadoce an armie with his Nephew Ptolome to raise the siege before the citie of Amisse and to expulse all Cassanders Souldiours that countrey gyuing him farther in charge to haue a vigilaunt eye and take good heede y e Cassander passed not into Asie through Hellespont Moreouer he sent Aristodeme the Milesian w t a thousand Talents to Pelopōnese to make alliaunce w t Polispercon Alexander his sonne and to get togyther there so many men as they could and forthwith warre vpon Cassander That done he sent to make readie hys posts Beacons throughout al the countrey of Asie vnder his obeissance by which he might in all his affaires haue spéedie aduertisement These things set in order he sped him towards the countrey of Phenice meaning there to prepare and make readie a Nauie to send to Sea bycause the enimie was yet strongest at Sea by reason of their great Nauie and himselfe altogyther disfurnished And when he was come into Phenice he encamped before the Citie of Tyre meaning to besiege it Neuerthelesse he sent towards the Kings of the Countrey and Gouernours of Syrie exhorting and requiring their ayde and helpe for the addressing his Nauie to sea bycause all the ships which had ben before in the countrey Ptolome had sent into Egipt He commaunded also the Lieutenaunts of Syrie to furnish him with so
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
the newes all dismayed sodenly arose and tooke his gowne and slippers and ranne out of his Tent crying alarme alarme making the Trumpettes sounde to armes exhorting and praying the Captaynes lustely to resiste such an enraged beast But when Demetre knew by the noise in the enimies campe that his enterprise was discouered he would not attempt Fortune but retired Soone after Seleuke with ensignes displayed assailed his campe and bycause Demetre woulde shewe that he was no whit abashed or afeard he sent out a band of his Souldiours ageinst the enimie which so lustily charged a corner of Seleuke his battaile that they stood at a stay whyther to tarry or flie Which thing Seleuke séeing knowing the daunger of the case and his estate threwe of his headpece and fiercely on horsbacke galloped hard to the forefronte shewing hym selfe barefaced to them all praying them to returne to the battaile saying he had long absented him from them not for want of good will or feare of Demetre but to obey those who were his good and loyal friendes Then his Souldiours thorow these exhortations were so encouraged and emboldened and chiefly bycause they see and behelde the face and Maiestie of their King that they incontinent returned brauely to the battaile and so impetuously recharged the enimie that Demetre being well mounted and séeing him not able to abide the violence of his power got out of the campe and vppon the spurre fled harde to the Amanipiles and immediatly from thence with a few of his owne folks got into a forest hard by and there tarried till night to the ende to gette to the Porte of Caune where his Nauie rode trusting to find it and hys friends who had charge thereof there and from thence to go hier but considering his want of money to paye for victualles by the waye he was enforced to take another deliberation And being in this imagination and thought one of his houshold seruants named Sosignes came to him and said that he had yet .iij. hundred pieces of golde sowed within his girdle which he trusted wold beare his charge to the sea side And as they were by night cōming out of y e forest they had espied a farre the fires in the enimies campe so that they were constrayned to alter their determination and purpose and returne from whence they came being therby disseuered but not all For certen left him and they which tarried had much a do to follow amongs whome was one who was so bolde to saye vnto him that he must now of necessitie yeld to Seleuke whereat he was so sorowful and troubled that he drew oute his sworde to haue kild himselfe and without stay had done it if his trustie and louing friendes had not letted him and forthwith bereft him his sworde praying him so to aduise and counsaile with them that they might saue them selues togyther and not wilfully to kill and destroy him selfe with which wordes he was well quieted And after they had long debated their matters he in the ende by persuasion of his friends was content to send towardes Seleuke some of them signifying that he was willing frankly to yeld his life and all that Fortune had left him to his pleasure Of whiche Ambassade was Seleuke right ioyous and by reporte sayde these wordes Certes Fortune doth not so much for Demetre in sauing of him as for me For ouer and besides many great good turnes and honours by hir to me done she hath now gyuē power and libertie to shewe my liberalitie and curtesie towardes my familiar and allie who is a man of so great vertue prowesse renowme that I repute and take it for the chiefest felicitie that euer happened me He after caused a Pauilion and Lent and all other furniture apperteyning to a mightie Prince to be prepared and made readie in the moste honorable and pompous wise he could deuise Now had he in his house a seruaunt named Apollonides who long had vsed Demetre his companis whome he sent vnto him charging him to saye that he might withoute feare fréely come to his friende and allie After Seleuke had giuen him this in charge a few of his men at the beginning and after a great nūber made them ready to ryde and meete with Demetre euery man studying and deuising to do him the greatest honour he coulde thinking that he being so great and renoumed a personage and allie to Seleuke shoulde incontinent haue all the whole authoritie about him But it happened quite contrarie for that pitie and compassion turned into enimitie Bicause certen villaines who ruled and had authoritie about Seleuke fearing that Demetre his comming woulde thrust them by with many surmised tales put sundrie suspicions into his head saying that it was not méete to suffer so valiaunt and renowmed a Prince a conductor and leader in warres to come in the view of his armie bicause it was to be feared that his presence might be an occasion to make some commotion and mutenie in his Campe. In the meane while was Apollonides and the rest which accompanied him come to Demetre and had made reporte of Seleuke his curteous and gracious purpose for him who thereof right ioyous gaue them maruellous good and gentle enterteynement and there reioysed and chered togyther And aboue the rest Demetre who before reputed his fortune miserable so shamefully to yelde him selfe vnderstanding by the reporte of his very familiars the good gentle wordes of Seleuke merely and ioyfully went towardes him as to his auncient friend and Allie But in these enterfactes Pausanias sent by Seleuke with a thousand horsse met with him and so soone as he approched encompassed him and put backe all the rest which were with him and after as frō the mouth of Seleuke sayde that as then he might not come to him but that he had charge to bring him to an other place So he brought him into a castle of Syrie named Cheronnese and leauing there with him a great garde returned towardes Seleuke ¶ Antigone for deliuerie of hys Father Demetre maketh great speede but in the ende Demetre dieth in prison and of the honours done to him after his death The .xj. Chapter AS Demetre lay prisoner in the castle of Cheronnese verie straightlie kept and strongly garded yet Seleuke caused him to be verie well entreated gaue him also so much libertie to sporte him as might be For the lodging was honorable and royal and therein great orchyardes and gardens full of maruellous faire and pleasaunt trées and other delices in whiche he might at his pleasure solace him and left with him hys owne seruaunts and familiar friendes whiche serued and accompanied him at his commaundement And they oftentimes repayring to Seleuke and eftsoones returning towardes Demetre reported vnto him all the good and curteous language and communication by Seleuke sayd and talked in his behalfe exhorting and praying him to make good chere and to hope well of his