against the Romanes their old friends and auncient allies and so to bring Italie in subjection to Affricke to do homage and fealtie yea and to become tributarie and to pay pension unto it The Arpines excused and cleered themselves saying that they simple men and ignorant of all things were bought and sold by their great rulers and principall cittizens and lived in manner as captives and slaves under the commaund of some few persons that might do all Vpon this beginning more more of them grew to parling and conference At length the Pretour of Arpi himselfe was by his own people and citizens brought and presented before the Consull where after faithfull promise passed betweene the ensignes the battailes the Arpines immediatly bent their forces on the Romanes side aginst the Carthaginians The Spaniards likewise who were not many under one thousand men after they had capitulate and agreed with the Romane Consull nothing but this one article That the garison of the Carthaginians might be sent forth passe away safe without harme came with their colours to the Consull Then all the gates were set open for the Carthaginians to depart and being sent away upon safe conduct without any harme at all or dammage unto Anniball arrived at Salapia Thus Arpi was restored againe to the Romans without the losse and detriment of any one man but one onely old traitour and new fugitive revolt The Spaniards were appointed to have double allowance of victuals and they performed good faithfull and valiant service many times after to the Commonweale When one of the Consuls was in Apulia and the other in Lucania one hundred and twelve men of armes Gentlemen of the nobilitie of Capua having license graunted by the magistrates to go out of the citie pretending to make a rode into the enemies countrie and to fetch in booties and prises came directly to the Romanes campe lying about Suessula And meeting with the Corps de guard declared who they were that they would parle with the lord Deputie Now Cn. Fulvius was the Generall and commaunder of the armie there who being advertised and certified heereof gave order that ten onely of all that number should bee brought before him unarmed When he had heard their suite and demaund which was nothing else but that when Capua was recovered by the Romanes they might have their goods restored unto them he received them all into his protection The other Pretour also Sempronius Tuditanus woon by force the towne Cliternum where there were taken prisoners above seven thousand men and a good deale of copper and silver coine gained besides At Rome there chanced a fearfull and pittifull fire which continued two nights one whole day All between Salinae the gate Carmentalis togither with the Aequimelium and the street Iugatium were burned downe and made even with the ground Likewise without the gate the fire spred far all about and in the temples of Fortuna and Dame Matuta and Spes consumed much as well hallowed as prophane The same yeare when all things prospered well had good successe in Spain P. and Cn. both Scipions having recovered many associates those of ancient league that came in again to him and yeelded themselves and besides gained some new consederates conceived good hope and tooke heart to proceed farther even into Affricke Syphax king of the Numidians on a suddaine fell out with the Carthaginians and became their prosessed enemie Vnto him the Scipions addressed three Centurians as Embassadours to treat with him about a league and alliance and to promise withall that if he went on still to trouble and molest the Carthaginians by making warre upon them hee should do an high favor to the Senate and people of Rome and that they would endevour and bring about that in good time and place hee should be well requited for that kindnesse and receiue at their hands a double recompence with thankes This embassage pleased the barbarous king right well And after he had conferred reasoned with the Embassadors concerning militarie affairs and the knowledge of warfare and heard those old and experienced soldiers talke of war he soone found his own wants how unskilfull himselfe was in many points feats of armes in comparison of that methodicall and orderly discipline whereof they had discoursed The first thing then that he requested at their hands was this that as they were good friends and faithfull allies two of them only would go back with their embassie unto their generals and that the third might remain with him to read unto him a lecture in the militarie science of warfare Saying that the nation of the Numidians were raw and altogither unskilfull in footmens service onely nimble and practised in fight on horseback So quoth he from the first beginning of our nation have our ancestors used to warre and so have we from our childhood bene enured to fight Mary an enemie I have trusting and presuming much upon on his Infanterie whom I would gladly be able to match every way in all kind of service Footmen I am able to set out as well as another for why my realme is populous yeeldeth aboundance of men but altogither ignorant wee are how to fit them with armour how to marshall them how to order and set them in battaile array insomuch as all my people in battell go to it pell mell and are as a multitude hudled and thrumbled togither at a venture without skil without discretion and advisement The Embassadours aunswered and said that for the present they would do according to his will and pleasure but withall they had his faithfull promise and word of a Prince that hee should immediatly send backe their companion againe in case their Generals approved not their deed in that behalfe Q. Statorius his name was that staied behind with the king So Syphax sent by the two Romans his answere to the foresaid embassage into Spaine and besides with them other Numidians Embassadors of his own to receiue farther assurance and securitie from the Romane Generals unto whom hee gave in charge that foorthwith they should sollicit persuade and entice all the Numidians that were auxiliarie souldiours unto the Carthaginians and served in any campe cittie or garrison town of theirs for to abandon them and come to him And Statorius for his part having mustered a great multitude of serviceable young men chose forth and enrolled a power of footmen to serve in the kings warres and when hee had sorted them into bands and companies and ordred them in battaile array as neere as possibly hee could to the manner of the Romanes he trained them in their running to follow their colors he taught them to keep their places in their rankes and to double their files and likewise he accustomed them to travaile do worke so acquainted them with other militarie orders and exercises that within short time the king reposed as good confidence and was as mightie in his
had before his face for the ambushes lay close hidden both behind his back and over his head Anniball having once gotten the enemie as he would enclosed thus within the lake and the mountaines and environed with his forces gave the signall to them all for to charge who came downe every man the neerest way he could and so much the more were the Romanes affrighted and troubled with this sodaine occurrent by reason that the mist which arose out of the lake was setled thicker in the plaine than upon the hils whereby the companies and squadrons of their enemies comming out of many vallies were seene well enough one of another and therefore more jointly gave the charge all at once together The Romanes hearing the cry and shout which arose from all parts before they could well discerne and see perceived themselves compassed all about and surprised and were assailed both afront and on their flancks ere they could put themselves in battaile ray as they ought make their armour and weapons readie and draw their swords When all the rest were thus amazed and at their wits end the Consull alone for all this imminent danger shewed himselfe nothing daunted or afrayd but set in order the rancks and files which were shuffled and blended together according as time and place would give him leave and marshalleth his soldiers who turned every way as they heard the sundry and divers noyses and in the best manner he could devise he comforted and encouraged them willing them to stand to it and fight like men for that there was now no meanes else to escape All the vowes and invocations upon the gods for their help would not serve but only it was fine force and meere manhood must do the deede and they were to make way by dint of sword through the midst of their enemies battaillons and the lesse men feared the lesse danger commonly betided them Howbeit by reason of the noyse and hurliburly neither counsell nor commaund could be heard and so farre off were the souldiers from knowing their owne ensignes their rancks and places that scarcely their heart would serve them to take armes and to buckle them as they should fitly for fight in such sort as some of them were surprised and borne downe laden rather with their harnesse then covered and defended therewith And in so great a mist and darkenesse more use they had of eares than eyes for at the grones of their wounded fellowes at the blowes and strokes upon the bodies and armour resounding againe at the confused shoutes and shrikes of hardie and fearefull men one with another they turned their faces cast their eyes every way Some as they would have fled light into the prease of those that were fighting there were set fast some againe as they returned for to fight were borne backward by companies that ran away Afterwards when they had assayed in vaine every way to get forth and saw well that on both sides and flanks the mountaines and the lake that afront and behind the enemies battailons hemmed them in then they knew evidently there was no hope of life but in their right hand and force of armes Then every man became a captaine and encouraged himselfe to fight manfully so as the battaile began afresh not in order by the Principes Hastati and Triarij nor according to the accustomed manner whereby the avantgard should fight before the maine battaile and the standerds and behind them the arreregard and that the souldiour should keepe his owne legion his owne cohort band and companie but at a venture even as it happened so they went to it and buckled pell mell and as everie mans heart served him so hee marshalled himselfe to fight either before or behind Their courage and animositie was so ardent their spirits and minds so intentive to the medley that being as there was a terrible earthquake at that verie instant which overthrew and turned upside down a great part of many cities in Italie turned aside the courses of great rivers out of their channels drave their streams against the current forced the sea into fresh rivers yea and overturned mountains with mightie fals and laid them flat yet there was not a man who fought in that battaile that once heard or perceived it The conflict lasted almost three houres Sharpe it was in every place but about the Consull most cruell and looke in what part soever hee saw his men distressed and in hazard there courageously hee aided them By reason that the flower and bravest gallants followed him and was himselfe for his owne person goodly beseene in his rich armour he both assailed the enemie most furiously and also defended his owne cittizens as valiantly so long untill a certaine Insubrian a man of armes Ducarius was his name one that knew his visage well ynough This is quoth he to his countrymen the Consul that defeated our armie put to the sword our Legions wasted our territories and hee that destroied and sacked our citie Now will I offer him as a sacrifice out of hand to the ghosts and spirits of those our fellow citizens who by his meanes have been piteously slaine and therewith setting spurs to his horse hee rode through the thickest troupe and prease of his enemies and when hee had first slaine his Esquier outright who opposed his bodie betweene and set himselfe against him seeing him comming so furiously hee ran the Consull quite through the bodie with his launce And when he would rather than his life have disarmed and rifted him the Triarij stept with their targuets over his corpes and so kept him off Hereupon from hence first many began to flie but anone neither deepe lake nor high mountaine could impeach and stop their fearefull flight like blind men they ran and sought meanes to make escapes were the lane never so narrow were the hils never so steepe and craggie horse and man man and armour fell headlong one upon another A number of them seeing no way els to escape entred into the Lake by the first edges and shallow brimmes thereof waded so farre and went up so high that they left their heades and shoulders onely above the water Some there were who unadvisedly such was their feare sought to save themselves by swimming Which being an endlesse peece of worke and beyond all hope their wind and breath failing them they were either slifted and swallowed up of the goulfes or after that with too much hast they had over-laboured and toiled out themselves they did what they could to swimme backe againe and with much adoe to recover the land and there by the enemies horsemen who had taken the water were they killed every where and cut in peeces Sixe thousand or there about of the vaward who lustily brake through the mids maugre the heads of their enemies unwitting of all that was done behind escaped safe out of the gullet and having seized the top of a little hill there they
the Romanes went first in hand withall to reduce into the nature of a province yet it was the last of all others that was subdued and but lately in our daies even under the conduct and happie fortune of Augustus Caesar. There at that time Asdruball the sonne of Gisgo the greatest and noblest Captaine in all these warres next after the Barchine house returned from Gades and hoping by the help of Mago the sonne of Amilcar to wage warre afresh tooke musters throughout the farther part of Spaine and armed to the number of fiftie thousand foote 4500 horse And as for the Cavallerie all writers in manner do agree but for the Infanterie some write there were 70000 brought unto the citie Silpia There upon the open plaines fate these two Carthaginian captaines downe because they would not seeme to fall off and refuse battaile Sciâ—io when newes came unto him of so puissant an armie levied supposed that neither with the Romane legions he was sufficient to march such a multitude unlesse he opposed the aids of the Barbarous nations if it were no more but for shew and outward apparance nor yet was to repose such assured confidence in them as in the fundamentall strength of his armie that in case they should give him the slip when the time came the onely occasion of the overthrow of his father and unckle they might doe much hurt to the maine chaunce and totall summe of all And therefore he sent Sylianus before unto Colcas a lord over the signorie of eight twentie towns for to receive of him those horse foot which he had promised to levie in the winter time Himselfe departed from Taracon gathered some small aids of his allies that inhabit along the way as he marched and so came to Castulo Thither Syllanus brought also certaine auxiliaries to the number of three thousand foot and five hundred horse From thence he went forward to the citie Baetula being in all of cittizens and allies with footmen and horsemen togither one with another 45000 strong As they were pitching their tents and encamping Mago and Masanissa with all their Cavallerie set upon them and no doubt had troubled them mightily as they were making their defences but that certaine troupes of horsemen hidden behind an hill whom Scipio fitly for the purpose had there bestowed suddainly at unawares ran upon them and recharged them as they were losely ridden forward without order and array These had not well begun skirmish with them but they discomfited the forwardest of them and such especially as engaged themselves neere to the trench to impeach and annoy the pioners and laborours at worke but with the rest that kept to their colours and went orderly in their rankes the fight was longer and for a good while continued doubtfull But when the squadrons which stood readie appointed in their guards and stations were first brought forth and after them the soldiors also from their worke and fortifications were willed to take armes and still more and more continually came fresh and in hart in place of those that were wearied so as now from all parts of the campe there was gathered togither a full power and ran to the battaile then the Carthaginians Numidians turned their backs plaine and fled And at the first they went away by troupes and companies keeping their order and array still and not disbanded for hast or feare But afterwards when the Romanes began once more eagerly to play upon the hinmost of them so as now their furious violence could no longer be resisted then without all regard of rankes or files they forgat their array and ran on all hands by heapes seeking every man the next way he could to escape And albeit by this skirmish the Romanes were more encouraged a good deale the enemies hearts much daunted yet for certaine daies ensuing there never ceased excursions and bickerings mainteined by the horsemen and those that were lightly armed Now when by these small skuflings they had made sufficient triall on both sides of their strength Asdruball first lead forth his forces into the field then the Romans likewise came forward readie to receive them But when both armies stood without their campe arranged in battaile array neither of them gave the charge when the day drew toward sun-setting Asdruball first retired with his men into the campe and after him the Romane Generall likewise Thus continued they for certain daies togither Astruball was evermore the first that came abroad and the first againe that sounded the retreat to his souldiours wearied with long standing But of neither side they made out to skirmish or discharged any shot or gave alarmes set up a crie Of the one part the Romans on the other the Carthaginians togither with the Africanes stood in the maine battaile the allies of either side kept the wings those were Spaniards as well in the one armie as the other But in the front of the Carthaginian battel were the Elephants placed who afar off made a shew as if they had bene castles And throughout both armies this word went for currant that when the time came they would so fight as they stood day by day arranged namely that the maine battailes of the Romans and Carthaginians between whom was the quarell and occasion of the war with like courage of heart and force of armes would encounter and cope togither Scipio perceiving this once to go for good to be stifly setled in their opinions altered all for the nonce against the day that he minded indeed to give battaile And overnight hee gave a watch-word and token throughout all the campe that both horse and man should take their dinner before day and that the horsemen in armes readie appointed should hold their horses sadled and bridled Now before it was broad day light he sent out all the Cavallerie togither with the light armour to charge upon the Corps de guard and standing watch of the enemies And himselfe straight after advanced forward with the whole strength of the legions armed at all peeces And clean contrarie to the conceived opinion persuasion both of his own men and also of his enemies he strengthened the wings with Romanes and marshalled the maine battaile with the allies Asdruball raised with the clamour and shout of the horsemen leapt forth of his pavilion and perceiving a tumultuous alarme fearfull stirre of his owne men before the rampiar and trench and seeing afarre off the glittering ensignes of the legions and all the plaines over-spread with enemies presently made forth all his Cavallerie against their foresaid horsemen Himselfe with the battaile of footmen issueth out of the campe and made no chaunge nor alteration at all in the marshalling of the battailons otherwise than he had used the daies past The horsemen continued the fight along time doubtfully neither could it bee determined by it selfe because evermore as any of them were put backe which hapned on both
thence with his armie lightly appointed and marching apace beyond Lacedaemon seized upon a place called The Camp of Pyrrhus which hee made no doubt but that the enemies intended to be possessed of And then from thence he went to meere them Now by reason of the narrow way they tooke up in their march almost five miles of ground in length At the taile of the armie were the horsemen and especially where the aid-soldiers marched because Philopaemenes thought that the tyrant would charge his men behind with his mercenarie souldiours in whome hee reposed his greatest trust Two things fell out contrarie to his expectation at once which troubled him much the one was that the place was gotten by the enemies before which hee intended to have seized upon for his owne advantage the other was for that hee saw the enemie affront his vaward in a place so rough and rugged that without the gard of his light-armed souldiors he could not possibly march forward and advaunce his ensignes Now Philopaemenes had a singular dexteritie and skill yea and great experience in leading an armie and in making choice of his ground either to pitch or fight and not onely in time of warre but also in peace he busied his head and emploied himselfe principally therein His manner was when he rode forth any whither and was come to a streight passage hard to passe through to looke every way and diligently to vieu and consider the situation and positure of the place on all sides and if he were alone to cast about and devise with himselfe but if there were any in his companie to aske their advise in this wife What if the enemie appeared and shewed himselfe in that place How if he came affront or aflanke on this or that side nay How if he should charge upon our backe what were best to be done It may be the enemies will encounter vs directly raunged in battaile array it may be they march disorderly and loosely minding nothing els but their way and to travaile on Thus I say would he either devise with himselfe or seeke advise of other what place he were best to seaze for his owne purpose and commoditie also what number of armed men hee should need to employ or what kind of armour and weapons were needfull to use for therein also lay no small importance Moreover where hee should bestow his carriages where he should lay his baggage and where hee should place and dispose of the multitude that were not meet to beare arms what strength and what maner of guard was needfull for their defence and whether it were more expedient to goe forward still the way that hee was entred into or better to goe backe againe as he came likewise what ground was meet to be chosen for to pitch his campe upon what compasse and space were necessarie to be taken up for the fortification of the place from whence he might have convenient watering from what quarter he might be best provided of fodder and fewell Finally against the morrow which way were safest to remoove the campe and what forme and manner of march were best In these courses and discourses he had from his childhood so inured and exercised his spirits that hee was never to seeke what to doe upon any such sodaine occasion or occurrent presented unto him And now at this present seeing his enemies so neere first and foremost he made a stand with his vauntgard then he sent out toward the formost ensigns his auxiliar Candiotes that came to aid him and those horsemen which they call Tarentine whose manner is to have with them two horses a peece and then commanding his own men of arms to follow after he possessed himselfe of a rock standing over a brook or running rill from whence they might water commodiously into that place he gathered togither all his bag and baggage there hee bestowed all the pages and horse-boies and followers of the campe whome he environed also with armed men and as the nature of the place would give him leave he fortified his campe But to pitch pavilions in a craggie rugged and uneven ground he found much adoe Now were the enemies about halfe a mile off and at one and the same riveret they watered both with the guard of their light armed souldiors but before that they could scuffle and skirmish togither as commonly they doe when the camps stand so neere one to another the night overtooke them It appeared plainely there would be some fighting the next day about the brooke for water and therefore in the night season he bestowed close in a valley farthest out of sight from the enemies as many of his targuettiers as possibly the place would containe and hide When daylight was come the light armed Candiotes and those Tarentine horsemen of both sides entred into skirmish upon the verie bankes of the brooke Letemnastus the Candiot had the leading of his countrymen Lycortas the Megapolitane commaunded the light horse The Candiots who likewise were auxiaries and aid-souldiors to the enemies and the same sort also of the Tarentine horsemen guarded those that came to water for them Doubtfull was the skirmish for a good while as beeing managed and maintained of the one side and the other by men of one nation and those furnished with the same kind of weapons but those that were for the Tyrant were more in number than the other And by reason that Philopaemenes had given charge direction to the captains after they had held skirmish a while to seeme to recule and flie thereby to traine the enemie into the aforesaid place of ambush they followed hard in chase upon them as they fled along within the valley and most of them were either slaine or wounded before they saw the enemies hidden there within Now those targuettiers aforesaid were set in that order so far forth as the breadth of the valley wâ—â—ld permit that they might easily receive their fellowes as they fled within the spaces betweene their rankes and files Then at once they arose fresh in heart and ordered in good array and charged upon the enemies disordered disbanded loose scattered wearie with travell and faint of their wounds Then was it out of doubt and past all peradventure where the victorie went for presently the Tyrants soldiers turned their backs fled a good deale faster than they made pursuit before were beaten into their camp many were either killed or taken prisoners as they fled and they had ben put in affright also within the camp but that Philopaemenes commanded to found the retreat searing more the rugged and broken ground the disadvantage and difficulties thereof in case he had rashly ventured forward any farther than he did the enemie Then he taking his conjecture by the issue of the fight guessing by the nature of Nabis the Generall in what feare and fright he mought be sent unto him one of his auxiliaries that were straungers counterfeiting himselfe to be a
victour might be kept from the mure and trench and yet so as it was verie apparant that the soldiors passed for nothing else but only to save the campe for being won for some of them rejoiced at their own losse and defeature Whereat the stout stomacke of Applius was nothing daunted nor his heartbroken but he minded to deale cruelly with them and thereupon summoned a generall assemblie Then the Lieutenants Marshals and Colonels came running unto him advertising him in no case to trie maistries and to inforce his authoritie The verie ground and strength whereof resteth whollie in the accord of obedient people adding moreover that the soldiors commonlie gave out that they would not go to the assemblie but rather they might be heard everiewhere calling upon them aloud to dislodge and remoove out of the territorie of the Volscians moreover that the enemie now Master of the field was but a while since advaunced to the gates and rampier and well neere possessed of them whereby they were not onelie to suspect but might evidentlie see before their eies some great matter toward of dangerous consequence Wherupon at last he was overruled and for as much as his soldiors therby should gaine nothing but delay of their punishment remitted the assemblie for that time and after proclamation made to set forward in their journey the next day and to depart in the morning verie earlie he caused the trumpet to sound the remoove and to march away The armie being gone out of campe and readie to bee set in order of a march at length the Volscians who wer gotten up by the same sound of the trumpet plaited upon the taile of the rereward the noise whereof passed from thence to the vaward and so disordred the ensignes so troubled the ranks by reason of that fright that neither could the direction and commaundement of the captaines be heard nor the armie be brought into battaile array No man minded any thing at all but to run away and disorderlie in plumpes they fled backe over the dead carcasses and armours that lay on heapes and so escaped And never stay they their flight untill the enemie gave over the chase At the last the Consull having called his soldiors together that were run away so scattering for with all the speed that he made after to call them backe he could not reclaime them encamped without his enemies ground in a place of securitie Then he called them all together to an assemblie and inveighed bitterlie and not without just cause against the whole armie as having betraied the discipline of warre forsaken their colours asking everie one of the them what was become of their banners And what they had done with their weapons And as many soldiors as were unarmed as many ensignebearers as had not their ensignes the Centurions also and those that received double allowance and forsooke their bands and companies he caused to be scourged with rods and to loose their heads The whole number besides were by lot tithed and everie tenth man as it fell out executed But contraâ—iwise in the expedition against the Aequians the Consull and his soldiors strove to exceed one another in courtesie and kindnesses Quintus was by nature mild and debonaire and the crueltie of his brother Consull that never sped well made him take more joy in that his gentle disposition Whiles the Generall and his armie consorted thus together the Aequians durst not confront them but suffered their enemies to range all abroad and forray the country so as in no former wars gat they greater booties from thence and all was bestowed among the soldiors Over and besides these gratuities they had their due praises and solemne commendations wherein soldiors take no lesse delight than in rewards and gifts So that armie returned home better affected to their Generall and also to the Nobles for their Generals sake reporting that the Senate had given to them a loving father but to the other armie a lordly maister This yeare thus spent with variable fortune abroad in war with greevous discord as well at home as abroad was above all most memorable and famous for the Tribe-Lieâ— A matter of more note in respect of their victorie that entered into the action than of consequence in regard of commoditie that grew thereof For the very Liet it selfe lost more credite by voiding the Nobles out of that assemblie than either the Commons gat strength or the Nobles did forgoe thereby But more troublesome was the year following whiles L. Valerius and T. Aemilius were Consuls both for the variance of the three States about the law Agraria and also for the arraignement of Appius Claudius Whom being a most bitter adversarie of that law and a great maintainer and upholder of those that possessed held the common lands as if he had ben ever a third Consul M. Duellius and Câ— Siccius arrested endited Never before that day came to the bar a person to be tried before the people so odious unto the Commons charged with so many wrongs done of his owne so many of his fathers afore him in regard whereof they were highly displeased and offended with him The Nobles likewise had not lightly laboured so earnestly nor strained themselves so much for any one as for him Who being the patrone and protector of the Senate the maintainer and upholder of their port and dignitie a man ever opposed against all the troublesome broiles of Tribunes Commons was now delivered as a prey to the commons in their anger and only for that he had overshot passed himselfe in heat of contention But of all the Senatours that ever were Appius Claudius of himselfe alone was hee that cared not a rush either for Tribune or Commoner nor yet for his owne arraignement No menacing threats of the Commons no earnest praiers of the Senatours could once make him I say not to change his apparrell and in humble manner to seeke and crouch unto men for to bee good unto him no not so much as when he came to answere for himselfe before the people one whit to mollifie and let fall as it were that rough and sharpe kind of speech that he was wont ordinarily to use He kept the same sower countenance still the very same frowardnesse and crabbednes of visage the same spirit of boldnesse in his appologie and defence Insomuch as many of the Commons were no lesse afraid of Appius standing prisoner there arraigned at the barre than they had ben of him sitting as Consull in his yvorie chaire of estate In pleading of his cause he spake breefely at once to the point withthe same accusatorie spirit that he had ever used in all his pleas and actions With his boldnes and resolute constancie he so amased both Tribunes and Commons that they themselves deferred the day of giving sentence and suffered afterward the suite to hang and depend still undetermined But not long after even before the law day
there or unto the Consuls wheresoever they were To this purpose were chosen five pinnasses that were most swift under the conduct of L. Valerius Antias who had his direction and charge to part these embassadors in severall ships and keepe them sure asunder and to take good heede that they neither talked nor conferred together About the same time it happened at Rome that Au. Cornelius Mammula upon his departure out of the province Sardinia made report in what state the Iland stoode namely that they all enclined to rebellion and warre that Mutius who succeeded after hym presently upon his first comming by reason of the ill aire and unholsome water was fallen into a sicknesse not so quick and dangerous as chronick and tedious and would not be able long to endure the service of warre that the armie there as it was sufficient to guard and keepe in good order a quiet and peaceable province so it could not hold out with the warre that was like to ensue Whereupon the LL. of the Senate gave order that Q. Fulvius Flaccus should leuie and enroll 3000 foote and 400 horse and provide that this legion should passe over with all speede into Sardinia and send therewith whom it pleased him to conduct and manage the warre untill Mutius were recovered of his disease For this intent was T. Manlius Torquatus sent governour one who had bene twise Consull and Censor and in his Consulship had subdued the Sardinians Neere about the same time there was an Armado set out from Carthage unto Sardinia under the leading of Asdruball surnamed Calvus and being sore tossed and beaten with tempests was cast upon the Baleare Ilands where so farre out of order was not only the ship tackling but also the very keeles and bodies of the ships so shaken they drew up the ships to shore and whiles they stayed there about calking and trimming them againe they spent much time In Italie whiles the warres began to slake and waxe cold by reason that after the battaile of Cannae the strength of the one part was much abated and their force decayed and the courage of the other well allaied and made effeminate the Campaines upon their owne heads began to contrive how to reduce the State of Cumes under their obedience first soliciting them to revolt from the Romanes and seeing that course would not speede and take effect they devised by a fraudulent practise to compasse and entrap them The Campanes use yerely to solemnise a set feast and sacrifice in a certaine place called Hamaeâ— and they gave notice unto the Cumaines that the whole Senat of Capua would resort thither requesting the Senat of Cumes likewise to meete them there for to conferre and consult together in common how both cities the one and the other might have the same friends and the same enemies and no other geving them withall to understand that they minded there to have a good guard aboutthem of armed men for feare of some sodaine and dangerous attempt from the Romanes The Cumanes albeit they suspected some treacherie denied nothing supposing thereby to colour and cover their owne craftie intended designement Now all this while â— Sempronius the Romane Consull having surveied and purged his armie at Sinuessa at which place he had made proclamation that his forces should meete together passed over the river Vulturnus and encamped neere unto Liuternum where because the souldiers in the standing campe had nothing els to do he exercised them to run often the race and skirmish in aray to the end that the raw souldiers for such were the voluntaries for the most part might by use and practice learne how to follow their colourâ— in good order and in the time of battaile know their owne ranks and ensignes In these kinds of training the speciall care that the Generall had and the onely thing that he aimed at was their concord and good agreement And for this purpose he charged the Lieutenants and the Colonels and Captaines that they should not cast in any mans teeth one or other their fortune and condition aforetime thereby to breede any discord hartburning among the companies and that the olde experienced souldiours should suffer themselves to be but equall in estate to the new learners and those that were borne free unto the voluntaries who had bene slaves reputing them all of birth good enough and of gentle bloud descended unto whom the people of Rome had vouchsafed to commit their armour and ensignes saying that the same fortune which had driven them so to do forced them likewise to mainteine the same and make the best of it now it was done The captaines were not more carefull in giving these good lessons and instructions but the souldiers were as diligent to observe the same and within a while their hearts and affections grew to bee so linked and united togither that they forgat generally in what degree and of what condition each soldiour entred into service Whiles Gracchus was busied hereabout the Embassadours of Cumes certified him what kinde of Embassage came unto them from the Campanâ—s a few daies before and what aunswere they had returned advertising him that their festivall daie was to be holden three daies after that not onely the whole Senat would be present but also the campe and armie of the Campanes Gracchus having commaunded the Cumanes to convey all that they had out of the fields territories about into their cittie and themselves to keepe within their walles himselfe the day before the solemnitie aforesaid of the Campanes removed his power to Cumes and there incamped Now Hamae is three myles off from thence The Campanes by this time were assembled there in great number according to appointment and not farre from the place Marius Alfius the chiefe head magistrat of Capua was incamped closely with fourteene thousand souldiours Hee what with preparation of the sacrifice and contriving withall the deceitfull traine of treacherie was more busie carefull thereabout than either in fortifying his campe or in any other militarie action Thus for three daies continued this festivall sacrifice at Hamae And ever in the night season it was performed so as before midnight all was done and finished Gracchus supposing that a good time for his ambush to be emploied having set certaine warders before the gates that no man might go forth to give intelligence caused the souldiours betwixt the sixt and tenth houre of the day from no one untill foure of the clocke to refresh themselves and take their sleepe that in the beginning of the darke night they might assemble togither at the watch-word or signall given them And about the first watch hee commaunded to display their Ensignes and advaunce forward and thus with a still march hee arrived at Hamae by midnight surprised the hold of the Campanes and entred all the gates at once being negligently guarded by reason of their over-watching Some he killed lying along fast asleepe others as they returned unarmed from the
in regard of the publicke state yet the private right and band of hospitalitie remained still in force and was not forgotten and therefore hee went out somewhat apart from the rest of his fellowes Now when they were come in sight and interview one of the other I chalenge thee ô Crispine quoth Badius to combat let us mount on horsebacke and trie it out betweene us two without any other companion whether of us is the better man at armes To this Crispinus made answere againe and said Wee want no enemies neither you nor I upon whom wee may make proofe of our manhood as for mee if I met and encountred you in the very battaile yet I would decline avoid and shift from you least I should defile and staine my hand in the murder and bloudshed of my guest and friend And with this hee turned from him and went his way But the Campane contrariwise upon these words was the more eager with him railing and rating at him for his effeminat cowardise and dastardlinesse letting flie at the harmelesse and innocent man all spightfull tearms and reprochfull language which himselfe ywis if he had his due was well worthie of calling him a friendly foe and a kind enemie indeed and finally charged him that he made his excuse of sparing him for friendship sake whom he knew he was not able to match in manhood and valour But if qd he thou thinkest that by the breach of publicke league and covenant our private bands of amitie and hospitalitie are not yet ynough broken in sunder then here I pronounce openly in the hearing of two armies That I Badius a Campane renounce all hospitalitie with thee T. Quintius Crispinus a Romane and so farewell all friendship for ever I will I say have no more to doe by way of acquaintance with thee no societie no alliance no hospitalitie will the guest have with that host who in hostile manner is come to invade his native countrie and to make assault upon the publicke buildings and private houses thereof And therefore if thou bee a man meet me in the field Crispinus drew backe a long time and was loth to enter into the action but at last his fellow horsemen serving in the same troup and cornet with him forced and persuaded him not to suffer that bragging Campane thus to insult over him without revenge Wherupon he made no more adoe nor any longer delay but whiles he went unto the L. Generals to know their pleasure whither they would permit and license him out of his order and ranke to fight with an enemie that chalenged him and gave him defiance And having obtained leave he buckled his armour about him tooke his weapon mounted on horseback and calling upon Badius by name bad him come forth if he durst to single fight The Campane made no stay and so with speare in rest set spurres to and they ran their horses full cariere one at the other Crispinus with his lance pierced Badius above his shield through the left shoulder and therewith unhorsed him when he was fallen to the earth with the push he alight himselfe from his horse minding on foot to fall upon him as he lay along and so to dispatch him outright But Badius before his enemie seised upon him left his targuet behind and his horse and by good footmanship recovered his owne fellowes Crispinus then all goodly to bee seene with the spoiles of his enemie made shew of the horse and armour that he had woon and bearing up withall the bloudie point of his launce was with much praise and great gratulation of the souldiours brought honourably to the Consuls and presented before them At whose hands hee was both highly commended and also liberally rewarded Anniball having dislodged out of the territorie of Beneventum and removed into Capua within three dayes after he was come thither brought forth his forces into the field making no doubt at all but that considering the Campanes in his absence had but few dayes before fought fortunatly the Romanes now would be so much lesse able to abide his royall armie so often used to victorie And verily when the medley was once begun the Romane battailons of the Infanterie were much troubled and distressed especially with the fierce assault of the horsemen who overcharged and pelted them mightily with their darts and Iavelins untill the signall was given to their owne Cavallerie also to set hard to and charge the enemies with their horse Now whiles the men of armes were busy in fight on bothsides it hapned that the regiment of Sempronius Gracchus lately slaine were descried marching afar off under the conduct of Cn. Cornelius the Treasurer which put both parts in like feare least they were some new and fresh enemies that aduanced against them So they sounded the retreat on either side as if they had bene agreed so to do departed out of the field as a man would say on even hand and retired themselves unto their severall holds howbeit the greater number was slaine of Romanes upon the first violent charge given by the horsemen From thence the Consuls intending to draw Anniball away from Capua departed sundry wayes Fulvius into the territorie of Cumes and Claudius into the Lucanes country The next day when Anniball was advertised that the Romanes had abandoned their camp and that they were gone into divers parts with their severall armies being at first uncertaine whom to pursue resolved at length to make after Appius and so began to do But after he had once trained the enemie about to the place that he desired he returned himselfe another way to Capua And Anniball hapned also upon a new occasion presented to have a good hand of his enemies in those parts There was one M. Centenius surnamed Penula one of the chiefe Centurions of the Pilani a singular good captaine in that kind as well in regard of his mightie and goodly body as also of his brave mind and valiant courage This man having served out his ordinary time required by law was by the meanes of P. Cornelius Sulla the Pretor brought into the Senate house and became a petitioner unto the LL. of the Counsell that he might have the leading of five thousand footemen promising that within short time by reason he was so well acquainted with the nature and qualities of the enemie and withall so much beaten in coasting those quarters he would do some great deede and atcheive a peece of notable service and looke by what cunning devises and strategemes both our leaders and our armies had bene untill that day entrapped and ouerraught the very same would he use and practise against the enemie He was not so vaine and unadvised in making this offer but they were as sottish foolish again in taking him at his word and trusting him as who would say A good leader and commaunder and a stout and hardie souldiour were all one And so where as he demaunded but five thousand he had the
himselfe even from his yong and tender yeares by artificiall meanes to the better setting out of those in-bred parts and qualities of his owne making shew and semblant before the multitude that the most things which he did were either represented unto him by night-visions and apparitions or els suggested as it were by revelation from the gods above were it that he was superstitiously given and his mind wholly possessed therewith or that by his pollicie he might effect his designements and have his commaundements performed with more expedition as if they were directions delivered from the oracles and the very mouth of the gods Over and besides that he made this overture to credit and reputation and prepared mens minds in this sort from his very first beginning From the very time that he once put on his mans gowne ther was no day went over his head but before he began his owne private businesse or enterprised any publick affaires he would go into the Capitoll and so soone as he was entred into the temple there sit him down alone by himselfe bestow a good time in some secret yle and corner thereof This ordinarie manner of his which he continued all his life long were it of purpose consideratly or by chance unadvisedly made divers men beleeve verily that it was a truth in deede which was commonly supposed and reported That the man had a god to his father Which deepe and settled imagination of the people resembled and renewed againe the like same in all the world to that which went before and was bruited abroad of Alexander the great and for the vanitie and fabulous speech of folke was the very same and all one in every respect namely that his mother conceived him by a mightie great serpent for that very often in hir bed-chamber there was seene some such prodigious and wonderfull thing and ever as any bodie came in it would wind away of a sodaine and vanish out of sight These strange and miraculous conceits he would never himselfe elevate and discredit as toyes and vanities but rather cherish and encrease the opinion thereof by a certain cunning cast of his own in that he would neither denie and disavowany such matter nor yet affirme plainely and verifie the same Many other devises he had of like sort partly true indeed partly seigned and counterfet which caused men beyond all measure to have this yong man in wonderfull admiration Vpon the strong and grounded presumption whereof the citie at that time conferred upon him far unmeet ywis in regard of his unripe yeares so great a government and a world withall of weightie and important affaires Besides the forces which remained in Spaine of the old armie and those which were transported over from Putcoli with Claudius Nero he had a supplement also of ten thousand foote and one thousand horsemen and to assist him in the conduct of his warres he had as coadjutor appointed unto him M. Iunius Syllanus the Pro-pretor Thus with a sleete of thirtie ships and Galleys they were all of five banks of ores he tooke theseas and set sayle from the mouth of Tybre and coasting along the Tuskane seas under the Alps and through the gulfe of Gallia he doubled at length the point and cape of Pyrene and disbarked at Emporiae a citie of Greekes for descended they are also from Phocaea and there he set his people a land From thence having taken order that his ships should follow after he marched by land to Taracon which he appointed for the Rendez vouz where all his allies and consederates for at the rumor and same of his landing there slocked embassadors unto him from all parts of the province should meete together at a generall Diet. There he commaunded that the ships should be bestowed in their docks save only three gallies of three ranks which came from Massiles and upon courresie and kindnesse accompanied him from home and those were sent back againe Then he gave audience to the embassadors who hung in doubtfull suspence by reason of the varietie and of sundry changes and chances that lately had hapned and to them he began to returne answere and give them their severall dispatches but with such a spirit and boldnesse upon confidence that he had in his owne rare vertues that he let not fall in all his speech one word that might move quarrell and savored of rigor and yet whatsoever he spake it caried an exceeding majestie with it and a singular credit Being departed from Taracon he visited both the States of the Allies and also the standing wintering camps of the armie where he highly commended the souldiours for that notwithstanding they had received two shrewd blowes upon two so great disfeatures one in the neck of another yet they held the province still and kept the field and not suffering the enemies to reape and tast the fruit of their fortunate victories had kept them out of all the countries lying within Iberus and defended faith fully all their consederates according to the trust reposed in them Martius he had in his train alwaies about him whom he so highly honored that it was very well seene he feared nothing lesse than that any other man should eclipse or shadow his glorie Then Syllanus succeeded in place of Nero and the new souldiers were brought into the standing winter leaguers and Scipio having revewed all the cities and the States that he was to survey and performed all other affaires that were then to be done retired and withdrew himself to Taracon The same of Scipio was no lesse bruited among the enemies than it was rise with his owne citizens and loving allies and a certaine presage went withall of the future event which caried as good hap was the greater feare and dread with it as there was lesse reason that could be rendred and given thereof They had betaken themselves into their wintering harbours far dissire and remote asunder Asdruball the sonne of Gisgo even as far as to the Ocean sea side unto Gades Mago into the midland parts and especially above the forest and chase of Castulo And Asdruball the sonne of Amilcar wintered neerest unto Iberus about Saguntum In the very end of that summer when Capua was woon and Scipio come into Spaine the Carthaginian Armada which was sent for out of Sicilie to Tarentum for to intercept the victuals and empeach the same for comming to the Romane garison that held the castle of Tarentum had verily stopped all the passages from the sea to the said castle but by their long abode in those parts and keeping the seas so straightly they had caused a greater dearth and scarcitie of victuals among their owne friends than their enemies for there could not by the help of those Carthaginian ships so much come bee along the river that was possessed by friends nor from the open ports for to furnish the townesmen of Tarentum as the navie it selfe consumed and spent in maintenance of that table of sea-men
life I shall thinke that I have the fruition of him againe if I may leave you in his place you I say the onely man of all others that wept for the death of the poore innocent young man and lamented for my unhappy error and unfortunate trespasse After this speech with Antigonus he never ceassed to entertaine and grace him in the face of the world with all kind of honour that hee could devise For seeing that Perseus was in Thrace Philip went in progresse to every citie of Macedonie and recommended Antigonus to all the princes and States thereof And without all doubt if God had given him longer life but a little hee would have enstalled him in full possession of the kingdome Well to returne againe unto Demetrias where hee wintered as before is said hee departed from thence and sojourned a long time in Thessalonica From thence after hee was come to Amphipolis he was surprised with a grievous maladie Howbeit certain it was and very apparant that he was more sicke in mind than bodie and that ever and anon the remembrance and object the apparition and ghost of his sonne whome he caused innocent as he was to be done to death followed and haunted him so continually with care and griefe that hee was out of all sleep and could not lay his eyes togither yea it drove him into raving cursing and execration of Perseus his other son and so he ended his daies But although Philip died somewhat with the soonest for Antigonus yet he would have gone very neer to have stept into his throne if either the kings death had immediately beene divulged abroad or that Antigonus had then been about the court that he might have had intelligence therof For Calligenes the kings Phisician who had the cure of him staied not until the breath was fully out of the kings bodie but so soon as he perceived that his state was desperat upon the first deadly signes that he observed sent messengers post to Perseus who were set of purpose in places convenient according as it was complotted between them twain but he concealed the kings death from all them that were not of the houshold untill he was come By which means Perseus surprised them all before they looked for him or knew abroad that the king was departed and thus he took the crowne upon him by policie which he had purchased with mischiefe The death of Philip sell out very wel to give some delay and respite and to gather more forces for the waging of war for the nation of the Bastarnae having ben a long time sollicited thereto departed out of their owne countrie and with a great power as well of foot as horse came on this side the river Ister Now there were arrived before to advertise the king hereof Antigonus and Cotto This Cotto was a noble man among the Bastarnians And Antigonus was full against his will joined in embassage sent with Cotto to raise the Bastarnians Howbeit not far from Amphipolis they met with news but very uncertain of the kings death which occurrence troubled the whole course of their designes For thus it was complotted that Philip should give the Bastarnae sale passage through Thrace and find them victuals to the effecting and performation wherof he had entertained the peeres and principall States of those quarters with presents and assured them upon his fidelitie that the Bastarnians should passe through their countrie peaceably without any harme doing Now his intent and full purpose was to extinguish utterly the nation of the Dardanians and to plant the Bastarnians in their countrie Hereby he aimed at a two fold commoditie the one was this that the Dardanians a people most malicious ever to the Macedonians and who alwaies in time of the troubles adversities of the kings took their vantage to annoy them might bee rooted out the other that the said Bastarnae leaving their wives and children in Dardania might be sent to wast and spoile Italie Now were they to passe to the Adriatick sea so to Italie by the way of the Scordiscians for other way there was none to lead an armie and soon would they thought he grant passage unto the Bastarnians for they differed not at all either in language or manners fashions more than that they were like enough to joyne wit h them in the expedition seeing they went to the conquest pillage of a most rich and wealthie nation These designements were accommodated fitted to what events soever should happen For in case the Bastarnians should happen to be defeated by the Romanes and put all to the sword yet this would bee a canfort againe that the Dardanians were consumed from the face of the earth that he should meet with a bootie of that which the Bastarnians left behind them and finally have the possession free and entire to himselfe of all Dardania But in case their fortune were to have the upper hand then whiles the Romans were averted from him amused upon the war with the Bastarnians he should be able to recover whatsoever he had lost in Greece These had ben the designs projected by K. Philip. So they entred peaceably marched without hostilitie under the word and promise of Cotto and Antigonus But shortly after that newes came of the death of Philip neither were the Thracians so tractable and easie to be dealth withall in commerce and traffike nor the Bastarnians could be content with that which they bought with their money or be kept in order as they marched but that they would breake their ranks and turne out of the direct way Here upon they began to do wrong injurie on both sides are one unto another which increasing daily more more to outrages kindled the fire of an open war In the end the Thracians not able to endure the violence and multitudes of these enemies leaving their villages in the plaines beneath retired to an exceeding high mountaine called Donuca To which place when the Bastarnians would have gone behold notwithstanding they approched to the tops and ridge of the hils they were surprised with a storme and tempest much like to that where with the Gaules as it is reported perished at what time as they were a spoiling and pilling the temple at Delphi For they were not onely drenched first with shoures of raine pouring upon them pelted afterwards with thicke stormes of haile stones strucken with great cracks of thunder and blasted with leames of lightning that dazzeled their eie-sight but also the lightning flashed so upon them on every side that it seemed they were charged and shot directly against their bodies so as not onely the common souldiers but also the principall leaders and chiefetaines themselves were smitten downe there with and overthrowne Wherupon when they were scattered and would have fled down the hill from the exceeding steep rocks they tumbled downe they knew not how with their heads forward And albeit the Thracians pursued them thus
the mid-way betweene Dium and Tempe upon a rocke that commaundeth this river Popilius before that he caused his men to approch the walls sent certaine persons of purpose to persuade the magistrats and cheese of the citie to make proofe of the faithfull protection and clemencie of the people of Rome rather than to trie their rigor and violence But this motive and advise availed not because they might discerne the fires from out of the kings campe neere to Enipeus whereupon both from the land and sea-side for the fleet also being thither arrived ankered neere the shore as well by force of armes as by fabrickes and engines of batterie they began to assaile the towne Moreover certaine young and lustie Romane souldiours making use now in warre of the exercise which they had practised in the games Circenses gat over the wal where it was lowest The maner was in those daies before this wastfull prodigalitie came up of filling the whole cirque or shew-place with beasts set out of all countries to devise seek sundrie forts of publick sights spectacles to behold and not in running one course with the chariot another on horsebacke and so an end to employ in both races hardly the space of one full houre Among other seats of activitie exhibited the maisters and wardens of those exercises and games brought into the race commonly 60 and otherwhiles more lustie young men in armes well appointed Their training in part represented a shew and apparance of two armies encountering and charging one another in part also the use and practise of a more gentle and elegant exercise than militarie prosession and comming neerer to the handling and managing of weapons after the order of sword-sencers These young gallants after they had performed other ordinarie runnings and courses put themselves in a foure-square squadron with their bucklers or targuets close couched and joined together over their heads in this manner They that were formost in the front stood bolt uptight the second ranke stouped somewhat lower under the other the third course more than they and so the fourth untill the hindmost kneeled on their knees and by this meanes they resembled a pavoisade rising up higher and higher like the pent-house or rouse of aedifices This done two men well armed fetching their run filtie foot or there about backeward from thence and seeming to defie and challenge one another mounted the foresaid pavoisade and ran from the nether end up to the top upon those targuets so jointly united set close and thick together and one while they set their countenance as though they would defend the sides and edges thereof other whiles in the mids they seemed to performe their devoir and maintaine combat one with another as upon firme and steadie ground Like for all the world to this was there a pavoisade framed and brought close to one part of the wall and when armed men were mounted upon it they that stood upon the verie ridge thereof were as high full as the defendants which kept the wall who being once beaten backe and turned downe two ensignes of souldiours gat over into the citie The onely difference betweene this pavoisade and the other above described was this that they onely who stood in the front before and in the flankes bare not their targuets aloft above their own heads because their sides and bodies should not be naked and exposed to hurt but carried them before after the usuall manner of fighting men in a battaile By which meanes neither the arrowes and darts discharged from the wall hurt them affront nor the shot that light upon their targuet-fence tooke any hold but glaunced and glid downeward from the top without doing any harme like to raine water that shooteth from the ridge of an house and runneth downe the caves The Consull likewise now that Heraclea was woon advaunced forward with his armie thither pretending as though hee marched toward Dium and as if after hee had chased and driven the king from thence hee minded to passe forward also into Pieria But preparing now against winter he commaunded to make the waies fit and handsome for the cariage of provision out of Thessalie and to chuse out commodious places for garners also to build certaine houses wherein they that brought the provision might lie in couvert and lodge commodiously Perseus in the end having taken heart againe and gathered his wits together upon that late fright which had amazed his spirits wished then with all his heart that his commaundements had not been obaied at what time as in a fearefull fit hee gave expresse charge to cast the treasure into the sea at Pella and to set on fire the arcenall at Thessalonica Andromicus being sent for the same purpose to Thessalonica made no hast to execute his will but trifled out the time for the nonce leaving the king some respite to repent as it fel out indeed Nicias was not so provident and well advised at Pella in throwing away some part of the money which he there found howbeit hee thought his fault such as might in some sort be remedied and amended for that all the said treasure in maner was recovered by the means of certain dyvers that fished for it under water and fetcht it up from the bottome of the sea But the king himselfe was so ashamed of this foolish feare that in a melancholie hee commaunded those poore dyvers to bee secretly murdered yea and afterwards Andronicus and Nicias also to the end that no person should remaine alive that was privie to that sottish commaundement of his Amids these affaires C. Martius having losed to sea from Heraclea and with his fleet sailed to Thessalonica landed his armed souldiors in divers places of the shore and made wast in the territorie al about and when they made sallies out of the citie charged upon him after some fortunat skirmishes he chased them backe and beat them within the walls So as at length he terrified the towne it selfe but not onely they who raunging up and downe here and there unadvisedly approched the walls were wounded with shot discharged out of instruments of all sorts planted upon the walls but those also who were in the ships were hurt with stones weighed and levelled from engines a farre off Vpon which occasion hee commaunded his souldiours to retire a shipbourd and leaving the siege of Thessalonica they passed from thence to Aenia a cittie fifteene miles off situate in a fertile soile just over against Pydna When they had spoiled the territorie lying to that cittie they coasted along the shore and arrived at Antigonia Where being set a land first they spoiled the countrey in every quarter and brought good store of prizes to their ships but afterwards as they stragled out of order and disbanded the Macedonians as well footmen as horse ran upon them and chased them as they fled apace to the sea-side in which rout they slew upon a five hundred and tooke as many