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A44772	An institution of general history from the beginning of the vvorld to the monarchy of Constantine the Great : composed in such method and manner as never yet was extant / by William Howel ...	Howell, William, 1631 or 2-1683.	1661 (1661)	Wing H3136; ESTC R14308	1,415,991	898

Captain Amilcar Barcas and sent him into the field with 70 Elephants and 10000 men There he was encompassed by the Africans on his Front the Numidians on his Rear and Spendius on his Flanck where Naravasus a Numidian with 2000 of his followers revolted to him Amilcar Barcas defeateth the Mercenaries Encouraged by this addition he engaged with his Enemies causing his men so to face about as the Front became the Rear whereby seeming to be in confusion the Mercenaries thought they ran and breaking their Ranks to pursue them he took this opportunity and setting on them out of order obtained the victory having slain 10000 and taken 4000 prisoners 12. He gave Arms to all such prisoners as would serve under him and having exhorted the rest to fight no more against the Carthaginians dismissed them freely Spendius and Matho together with Autaritus Captain of the Galls hearing this doubted how far his clemency especially the offer of indemnity might prevail with the Africans and others and consulted how to obviate this his design by setting the multitude at irreconcilable enmity with the Carthaginians To this purpose they feigned Letters to be sent out of Sardinia from their friends giving them to understand that certain amongst them held intelligence with the Enemy and advising them to keep close Gesco and the other with him Spendius taking hereat occasion earnestly advised them not to trust to the pretended clemency of Amilcar Who are further provoked by their Captains and by no meants to permit Gesco to escape for thereby they should incur the contempt of their Enemies and by strengthning them through the assistance of so great a Captain not a little damnifie their own affairs Whilest he yet spake another Carrier brought Letters as from Tunis of the same Contents with the former and then Autaritus openly protested that whosoever had any regard to the kindnesse of the Carthaginians could not be faithfull and therefore such were to be heard as perswaded the most bitter things against Carthage all others being Traitors and Enemies Then did he perswade them to Torture Gesco to death with such as were now with him and all that hereafter should be taken There were many which spoke against this cruelty especially as Gesco was concerned in it but for some time they were not understood speaking in their own languages and when what they aimed at was fully known some one cried out strike them which so provoked the multitude that they fortwith stoned them After this bringing forth Gesco and the other Carthaginians to the number of 700 they cruelly tormented them to death and made a decree that whomsoever of them for the time to come they should take he should be used in the same manner and if any of their Allies were taken his hands being cut off he should be sent back to Carthage This they very carefully afterwards observed having also refused to deliver the dead bodies to the Messengers that came for them and threatned if any more came to deal with them as they had used Gesco 13. Amilcar seeing into what straights he was cast by this boldnesse of the Mercenaries sent for Hanno judging that an end might sooner be put to the War if the forces of the State were all United Amilcar Uniteth the Carthaginian forces Such of the Enemies as he took in the heat of the fight he killed as he might by the Law of War or taking them alive cast them to wild beasts When he thought that he had brought matters into a fair way of recovery they presently relapsed into a far worse condition than ever For the ships that brought Provisions miscarried by force of Tempest Sardinia at the same time revolted from them which was wont to supply them with large Provisions and Hippacrita and Utica which hitherto had remained faithfull now revolted without any manifest cause Mathos and Spendius herewith elevated resolved to lay siege to Carthage it self Mathos and Spendius elevated by their successe besiege Carthage and shortly after performed it The Carthaginians in this their distresse betook themselves to their neighbours whereof the Romans and Hiero King of Syracuse in Sicily being sensible of the sawcinesse of their Enemies were ready to do them all good Offices Herewith better enabled they held out and Amilcar lying abroad so cut off all Provisions from the Mercenaries that being no other than besieged themselves they were forced at length to rise up and depart resolving to observe Amilcar's motions Amilcar forceth them to break up and ly in wait for him on the sides of the Mountains for they would not venture to take the plain being afraid of his Elephants and the horse of Naravascus and otherwise they were much inferiour to the Carthaginians who far surpassed them in Military skill though but equal to them in valour 14. But Amilcar singling them out by parties killed many of them and when they ingaged with their whole force cut them off by stratagems sometimes by day otherwhiles by night he would fall upon them on a sudden with great terrour and such of them as he took he cast them to the beasts At length he compassed them about in such a place as though they were afraid to fight they could not escape and being shut up within a Ditch and Rampire they were forced to devour one another Though they now could expect no mercy yet they sent to desire a Parley and having obtained leave Autarolus Zarxas Spendius and other Captains were ordered to manage it It was agreed that the Carthaginians should pick out ten men whom they pleased and the other be dismissed in their Coats The Covenants being finished Amilcar declared that he made choice of those who were present and so got the most eminent Leaders into his power The Africans understanding that their Officers were seized took Arms in great haste but Amilcar with his Elephants and his Army compassing them in on every side put them to the sword For the improvement of this successe he and Annibal went and besieged Mathos in Tunis before the Walls whereof he nailed Spendius to a Crosse with the rest of the Captives Annibal pitching his Camp on that side of the Town towards Carthage carelesly demeaned himself which Mathos considering made a Sally and killing many took much plunder and amongst other prisoners Annibal himself whom bringing to Spendius his Cross after he had taken down his Collegue's body he nailed him to it and killed 30 more of the most noble Carthaginians 15. It was long ere Amilcar knew of this disaster and when he did for the distance of place and difficulty of passage he could give no relief Marching therefore from Tunis he sate down by the mouth of the River Macaris and his Superiours at Carthage making new Levies joyned Hanno in Commission with him These two after several passages at length agreed to fight one set battel with the Enemy who consenting a bloody contest ensued wherein at length the

no injury in making that invasion for that he had but recovered his right alleging much the Conquests of those parts by Antigonus Cocies and the possession of them by Seleucus and that Ptolomy the first waged not War with Antigonus for his own particular but to help Seleucus to the Sovereignty of that Province but above all he pressed the common agreement of all the Kings made at that time when Antigonus was overthrown wherein by Lysimachus and Cassander all Syria was decreed to Seleucus His Plea for Caelesyria On the contrary Ptolomy's Commissioners aggravated the height of the injury offered to him by the unworthinesse of closing with the treasonable practices of Theodotus and affirmed that Ptolomy the son of Lagus intended the Dominion of Syria to himself and joyned with Seleucus on no other terms than that indeed all Asia should be his but Syria fall to his own share Such like objections and replies as these were made often to no purpose but that which put the greatest stop to the Treaty was the comprehending of Achaeus in the League The answer of Ptolomy's Commissioners and the Treaty ends without effect which Ptolomy stickled hard for and the other as impatiently heard crying out of the unworthinesse of the thing that he should protect or make any mention of Rebels Winter being thus spun out with these discourses and Spring drawing on Antiochus intending to set upon the Enemy both by Land Sea drew together his Forces to the taking in of what remained unconquered of Syria and Nicolaus on the other part as the Egyptian General with Periger●● the Admiral made all possible provision for resistance 17. Antiochus going to Marathus there entered into Confederacy with the Aradians then entring Syria through Theu-prosopos came to Berytus in his passage taking in Botris Hostility thereupon in Spring is renewed whereby Antiochus getteth much and burning Trieres and Calamus The Mountain Libanus straightning much the passage betwixt it and the Sea and almost making it impassible Nicolaus with a party also placed himself in the straights not doubting but to stop Antiochus there but he dividing his Forces and having his Fleet constantly near him caused it first to ingage with the Egyptian in which fight both sides came off on equal terms but Theodotus beating back the Enemy upon the Mountain got over and then cleared the passage below for the King He after this came near Sidon with his Army but judging it to no purpose to set upon the Town very strong with men and full of Provisions he gave order to Diognetus his Admiral to go with the Fleet to Tyre and marched to Philoteria situate upon the Sea of Tiberias which he took together with * Called by Josephus Bethsan in the Tribe of Manasses through whose grounds Jordan flows Scythopolis Now he conceived great hopes of the perfecting his work being come into a Countrey plentifull of Provisions so that placing Garrisons in these two Cities he took in Atabyrium by a Stratagem making as if he fled before the Inhabitants but having men lying in wait who arose against them and then the whole Army with such violence as put them into a great fear and they yielded up the place After this Karaeus one of Ptolomies Chiefest of Officers revolted to him Hippolochus the Thessalian brought over with him 400 horse and the Arabians moved by his successe joyned themselves to him Shortly after he took in Galatis and Gadara beyond expectation because of the strength thereof but the Inhabitants terrified at his preparations yielded themselves then hearing that a great number of Enemies had met at Rabath-ben Amon or Rabatana a Citie in Arabia and thence made incursions into the Territories of his friends he marched thither and striving by force in vain to be Master of the place at length he effected it by stopping the course of water for want of which it was then surrendred Then leaving a strong Garrison here and sending Hippolochus and Karaeus to Govern the Coasts of Samaria he went to Ptolemais and there took up his Winter quarters Ptolomy in the Spring following taketh the field 18. Ptolomy to give him a stop prepared against the Spring a great Army and then marched from Alexandria with 70000 foot 5000 horse and 73 Elephants and came to Pelusium Antiochus hearing this gathered his Forces together amounting to 72000 foot 6000 horse and 102 Elephants Ptolomy proceeding on his journey came to Gaza and thence near to Ruphia the first Citie of Syria except Rhinocerus as one cometh from Egypt and Antiochus passing by that place shortly after pitched his Tents at first within ten furlongs of the Enemy and the next day partly for the commodiousnesse of the ground and partly to embolden his Soldiers approached within five furlongs of them Being so near several skirmishes fell out amongst those which on both sides issued forth for provisions and Theodotus the Aetolian after a most bold adventure taking but two in his Company for that he had been in Ptolomy's Court and knew his manner of life went out in the dusk of the evening and not being known got into the Kings Tent where he used to give audience and though he missed of him being in a more obscure place yet wounded he two which waited there and killing outright Andreas his principal Physician escaped back in safety to his own Camp having onely failed of his purpose for want of informing himself when the King was wont to take his rest For five dayes continued these two Princes in this posture and then both resolved to try the matter in a set battel A pitch't battel 19. Ptolomy first drew out his men and then presently Antiochus ranged his in battel aray against him Each of the Armies had two wings wherein the two Kings met each other guarded with Elephants betwixt which the fight was begun after Antiochus had caused the charge to be sounded their manner being first with their Trunks to thrust each other and strive for the ground and then after that for the one by force to remove the other's Trunk and to fall upon him like a Bull The manner of the fighting of Elephants and gore his sides Few of Ptolomies beasts would fight at all for that being Africans they could neither endure the smell nor noise of those of India so that the ranks being disordered by them his left Wing was quite broken by the charge of the Enemy and put to flight Echecrates who commanded in the right stayed first for the ingagement of the former then seeing that his Elephants would not fight gave order to Phinidas Commander of the Mercenary Greeks to invade his opposites and he himself also wheeling about to be out of the danger of the beasts fell upon the Flanks and Rear of the Enemie's horse so that both together they made them all being Arabians and Medes to give ground and put all the Wing to flight thus being even with Antiochus