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A57329	An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world in five books ... : wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abrig'd according to his own method in the larger volume : to which is added his Premonition to princes.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. A premonition to princes.	1698 (1698)	Wing R151A; ESTC R32268	273,979	474

by Leosthenes their Captain who called in the Aetolians overthrew the Boeotians which sided with Antipater Lieutenant to Alexander Antipater doubting his own strength sent to Craterus in Asia whose coming into Macedon had so troubled his Thoughts but a Month before So vain are the Hopes and Fears of Men which decree all by mortal Wisdom shunning and persuing their Destiny afar off even when it seems near at hand Craterus and the Captains in Asia nearest to Europe are solicited to make haste for Antipater could raise in Macedon but Thirteen Thousand raw Souldiers and six hundred Horse besides the Thessalian brave Troops Whereas Leosthenes brought into the Field twenty two thousand Foot and two thousand five hundred Horse besides many Auxilaries which came in But before Craterus came Antipater ventred a Battle which he lost and was forced into Lamia a fortifyed and well provided Town to endure a Siege which Leosthenes presented him with § 4. Perdicas Protector of Aridaeus had no peculiar Province but greater Forces than any with which and his Marriage with Cleopatra Alexander's Sister he hoped for greater Matters He first subdued Cappadocia which had never submitted to Alexander and committed it to Eumenes whom he trusted above all Men. § 5. Antipater having in vain expected his Asian Succours offered to yield upon Terms of Reason but Leosthenes will have an absolute yielding which the other having been his Commander refused so the Siege is delayed 'till the Aetolians grew weary and departed so that the Trenches were thinly Mann'd Upon this advantage Antipater sallied out and slew many and Leosthenes himself but yet was not relieved of the Siege Leonatus in the mean time is persuaded to hasten to it with twenty Thousand Foot and Two thousand five hundred Horse out of Phrygia the lesser which he willingly undertook for Cleopatra's sake which sent for him to Pella in Macedon But Antiphilus who succeeded Leosthenes raised his Siege and went to meet him before Antipater and he joined and obtain'd a great Victory and the greater by Leonatus's Death The vanquished Macedonians too proud to fly and weak to renew the Fight betook them to high grounds 'till the day following when Antipater came who also kept the high ground as if he meant not to fight which moved many Greeks to depart This instability incorrigible in Volunteers was the more inexcusable Craterus with a strong Army at length is come and joineth with Antipater making between them Forty thousand heavy Armed Three thousand light and Five thousand Horse of which number the Greeks wanted one thousand five hundred Horse and Eighteen thousand Foot who lost he day with the slaughter only of Five hundred Men. So the Greeks not subject to one General desiring to preserve their own Estates betrayed their Country's liberty by a careless defence while Thessaly seeks her Peace § 6. Antipater's gentle Conditions to such as were forward to seek Peace drew on the rest only Athens and Aetolia are plotting to prosecute the War begun by them more bravely than wisely 'till Antipater is come to their Doors when wanting wherewith to resist they seek Peace absolutely submitting as Leosthenes had proudly required of Antipater who now overthrew the Popular Estate raised a Democracy of Nine thousand of the most considerable Persons transmitted the tumultuous into Thrace and slew Demosthenes § 7. Antipater giveth his Daughter Phila to Craterus and after the Marriage both go against the Aetolians who had conveyed their impotent People and Goods into places of great safety of which that rough Mountainous Country yields many and the rest fortify their strong Cities Here the two great Commanders are kept in play ' ●●ll News out of Asia made them desire very earnestly to be gone giving them what Conditions they pleased This Asiatique Expedition grew from Perdicas's Plot to bring Aridaeus into Macedon designing by his presence to make void the Offices of his Vice-Roys that so himself who Administred all under the Titular Majesty of Aridaeus might obtain Cleopatra and thereby both Greatness and a good Title Antigonus Governour of Phrygia whom he discerned no way proper for his purpose is called in question for Life but escaped with his Son Demetrius and came to Antipater § 8. Perdicas perceiving his intentions were laid open resolves to make them good with the Sword and first he will begin with Ptolomy of Egypt leaving Eumenes upon the Asiatique Coast to withstand Antipater and Craterus Ptolomy having won the Egyptians with his sweet behaviour and added the Dominion of Cyrene hearing of Perdicas's coming to the Camels Wall a little town in Egypt put himself into it and bravely kept it against him Perdicas removeth to a place over against Memphis where in vain attempting to pass over Nilus three thousand of his Men were drowned and devoured by Crocodiles and such as fell into Ptolomy's hands were saved alive whom he used courteously and buried the dead cast up by the River The Captains hearing of this his Humanity fell to mutiny thinking it unreasonable to make War on so Virtuous and Honourable a Person to fulfil the pleasure of a Lordly Ambitious Man using them like Slaves Pithon formerly made Governour of Medea being present and hating Perdicas for a disgrace offered him by the other which caused many Greeks to be slain who had yielded to him upon his Promise drew a hundred Captains and a good part of the Horse entred upon Perdicas's Tent and slew him who could endure no Greatness but his own Ptolomy the next day came to the Camp and was joyfully received and offered the Protectorship which he modestly refused and procured it for Pithon § 9. Eumenes being left by Perdicas to withstand Antipater Alcetas Brother of Perdicas refused to assist him as his Brother Commanded Neoptolemus pretended to be willing but being Summon'd came in a Hostile manner as he promised Antipater and was shamefully disappointed and put to flight leaving his Foot-men which upon Eumenes's Charge submitted and took Oath to serve him Neoptolemus being come to Antipater persuades Craterus to march against Eumenes assuring him that upon his appearance all the Macedonians with Eumenes would revolt Eumenes fearing Craterus's presence might be of ill consequence to him peremptorily for bad the admitting either Messenger or Trumpeter and placed in his Battle against Craterus such as knew him not charging the Leaders to run on without giving leisure to speak Craterus to incourage his Men promiseth the Spoil like him who sells the Bears Skin before he 's caught Eumenes had the day in which both Craterus and Neoptolemus lost their Lives but his own Macedonian Souldiers were incensed against him hearing of Craterus's death which he also much resented § 10. Pithon Protector of King Aridaeus was so interrupted by Euridice the King's Wife Daughter of Amyntas Philip's Elder Brother and of Cyna Alexander's Sister a Lady of a Masculine Spirit well understanding her place that he gave over his Office which she thought to supply

Condition should run the Fortune of the Common-wealth which if once ruin'd in vain could any particulur Man hope to injoy the benefit of his proper substance Upon this Marcellus was sent against Hannibal and Livinus into Sicily where he finished what Marcellus left Hannibal by long hard Service and wanting Supplies from Carthage grew unable to keep the Field and sufficiently to Garrison his Towns this made him Demolish the places he could not Defend which aleniated many so that Salapia yielded to Marcellus and betrayed a Regiment of Hannibal's best Numidian Horse Hannibal in this strait hears of Masanissa with five Thousand Numidians sent to Spain and Asdrubal's coming to Italy which News made Hannibal then keep what he could and the Romans to recover ●hat they can Hannibal by great Marches came unlook'd for to Fulvius a Roman Praetor at Hardonia slew him Twelve Tribunes or Colonels and seven Thousand more others say thirteen Thousand burnt the Town and removed the Inhabitants Afterwards Marcellus who thought himself the only Roman fit to Incounter Hannibal met with him and lost six Ensigns and three Thousand Men but the next day Marcellus slew eight Thousand Carthaginians lost three Thousand and had so many wounded that he could follow Hannibal no further Quintus Fabius Maximus now Consul besieged Tarentum Garrisoned with Brutians whose Captain in Love with a Woman in the Town was drawn by a Brother of the Woman 's to betray it so all were put to the Sword even the Brutians contrary to his word that it might be thought he won the Town by Assault not by Treason But it saved not his Reputation Claudius Marcellus and C. Crispinus Consuls the next Year whom Hannibal entertained with many Skirmishes declined a set Battle till he might join with his Brother Asdrubal but watching all advantage he took them in his Ambuscade as they came to view a place with small Forces where they intended to Incamp Here Hannibal had placed in Covert some Companies of Numidians who incompassed them slew Marcellus wounded Crispine to Death and giving honourable Funerals to Marcellus sent his Ashes in a Silver Pot to young Marcellus Crispine considering that Hannibal had Marcellus's Ring with which he might deceive some Cities sent warning all about thereof even as a Letter in Marcellus's Name came to Salapia to prepare for his coming thither which Hannibal followed with Romen Fugitives which spake Latin to the Watch and bad them open to the Consul The Gate was opened and when six Hundred Men were entred the Port-Cullis were let down and Hannibal out-witted in his own Stratagem After Crispinus death Claudius Nero and M. Livius succeeded Consuls Of which two Livius had been many Years before condemned and expelled by the People for which indignity he refused the place till with much imporunity he was overcome Thus as Men in fair Weather break the Branches of the Palm Tree under which they shelter themselves in Storms so do the ungrateful with Men of Merit as Themistocles reprov'd the Athenians The two Consuls take their way Livius to meet Asdrubal Nero to follow Hannibal to hinder their Marches knowing the mischievous effects of a Conjunction of two Malevolent Planets It seemed that Livius was too weak to oppose Asdrubal and therefore Nero took six Hundred Foot and one Thousand Horse and in six Days long Marches came to him But Asdrubal perceiving the increase thought to decline a Battle by removing over the River Metaneus had not Nero followed and forced him to it in which Asdrubal was slain and fifty six Thousand with him saith Livy but Polybius numbers but ten Thousand After this Victory Nero hasted to his Camp with Asdrubal's Head which he threw before the Carthaginians and freed some Prisoners which might make Report of the Victory in Hannibal's Camp so to strike a terrour into it Here the Tide began to turn on the Romans side and so increased that no Bounds could contain it and Hannibal's hopes decayed daily From this thirteenth Year of the second Punick War unto the eighteenth in which it ended little is delivered worthy of Memory § 17. Publius Cornelius Scipio after Asdrubal's departure into Italy had to do with Hanno lately sent to succeed Asdrubal whom M. Syllanus shortly after took Prisoner Asdrubal Son of Gesco and Mago left by Asdrubal Son of Amilcar remained to make head who prepared seventy Thousand Foot four Thousand Horse and thirty two Elephants to keep the Field Scipio makes up his Legions with some Auxiliary Spaniards and seeks out the Enemy with forty five Thousand Foot and three Thousand Horse whom he fed well the day before and early next Morn provoked the empty Carthaginians to Battle as Hannibal had served his Father at Trebia Asdrubal wholly depended upon this Battle in which he was worsted whereupon Artanes with his Turdetans fell to the Romans and the other Spaniards being confirmed in the Report of the Carthaginians ill success at Metaurus in Italy never did them good service after Asdrubal perceiving this hasteth toward the Sea but is overtaken by Scipio and charged so furiously that he with seven Thousand took themselves to a strong piece of Ground from whence himself stole by Night to the Gades whither Mago and Masanissa followed and their Army dispersed So all the Towns except three submitted to Scipio who the Year after took them only Astapa was burnt with all the Riches therein by the Inhabitants who slew themselves except such as desperately broke out upon the Romans Camp and so were slain Asdrubal leaves Mago at Gades and Saileth to Syphax King of the Masaesili a People of the Numidians hoping to perswade him to be a Friend to Carthage but Scipio meeting him there drew him to the Roman side which he soon forsook Scipio returns to Spain and having taken Revenge of the three Cities which held out he celebrated Funeral Games at New Carthage for his Father and Unkle which was performed by Duels of Slaves as also such as had Quarrels for Title of Land which Friends could not compose Scipio being dangerously sick is reported Dead whereupon Mandonius and Indibilis two Spanish petty Kings rebel hoping to make themselves great and part of the Roman Army discontented with the little benefit they had got by the Roman Conquest fell to spoil drive away their Colonels choosing two base Leaders Scipio sent new Colonels which with fair words and promise of Pay brought them to Carthagenia where exemplary Justice is done upon the two Leaders and their Accomplices the rest having sworn Obedient receive Pay Mandonius and Indibilis pursued by Scipio submit and are pardoned but their former Power lessened Masanissa promiseth to serve the Romans and Mago by direction from Carthage leaveth Gades when he had Robbed it to go to Hannibal in Italy having Treasure sent to raise an Army So Gades presently yielded to the Romans and Scipio gives up the Province to a Successour and is chosen Consul § 18. Publius Cornelius Scipio

having been trained up in the Art of War by Cyna a Warlike Woman The Souldiers disappoint her and Pithon who hoped to have been intreated by them to hold and chose Antipater who in a few days arrived at the Camp with his Army and took it upon him as the only powerful Man then living of all Alexander's Captains whom all acknowledge their Superior Antipater taketh the King Queen and Princess into Macedon leaving Antigonus General of the Royal Army against Eumenes and Ruler of Asia during the War and besides his former Provinces gave him the Rule of Susiana § 11. Antigonus Lieutenant of Asia being to subdue Eumenes Alcetus and Attalus began with Eumenes seeking to Corrupt his Army by Letters but failed therein by Eumenes's cunning who made shew as if he writ them to try their faith to him Then Antigonus dealt with the Captains of which one brake out untimely and another called Apollonides held close 'till the Battle and then turned to Antigonus with such of the Horse-men as he could persuade being their General but Eumenes overtook him and cut him off though he lost the Battle Eumenes not able to keep the Field wished his Men to shift for themselves and retained only five hundred Horse and two hundred Foot with which he tired Antigonus in following At last he entred Nora a strong and well provided Fort bordering on Cappadocia where they parted without agreeing so Antigonus leaveth Nora besieged and with his other Forces entred Pisidia and overthrew Alcetus § 12. Ptolomy while other Princes were quiet in their Government sent an Army and won Syria and Phaenicia and took Laomedon the Governour thereof Prisoner Antipater being Eighty Years Old reposing great Confidence in Polyspercon one of Alexanders most Ancient Captains committed to him the Protectorship and Government of Macedon doubting his Son Cassander's sufficiency he also gave charge that no Woman should be admitted into the Administration of the Empire and so dyed § 13. Polys●ercon's skill was greater in War than in the high Office he now undertook being a man of an Inferior Wit fitter to assist than command in Chief The better to Countenance his Injunctions to the Governours of Provinces he and his Council thought fit to call the Queen of Olympias to Court whom Antipater suffered not in Macedon But Cassander Son of Antipater who thought himself the better Man was not satisfyed with the Captainship of a Thousand his Ambition soared high when he considered the Love of those which commanded the Garrisons and all the Rulers in the Cities so of Greece so placed by his Father Besides he had that Interest in Queen Euridice that was due only to her Husband all which would not serve to bear out an open Rebellion Cassander therefore finding what Ptolomy had done in Syria and what Antigonus aimed at since Antipater's death for whose sake he presumed upon them and seeing their occasions needed a Civil War he went to Antigonus in Asia and writ to Ptolomy § 14. Polyspercon upon Cassander's departure to disappoint him of his hopes from Greece decreed in Council to restore the popular Government in their Cities and discharge the Garrisons and Banish or kill the Governours placed by Antipater Thus he dishonours the Man that raised him overthrew worthy Men placed as Friends to the State of Macedon and gives away Macedon's Command of Greece if he means as he pretends c. § 15. Athens by this Decree in all haste cast out their Governours Phocion and others who fly for their Lives but cannot remove the Garrison commanded by Nicanor a trusty Friend to Cassander He possessing one of the Havens found means to take the other called Paraeus to their great discouragement but by Alexander the Son of Polyspercon coming with an Army are wholly misled as if he came to aid them whereas he came to get what Nicanor held if he could persuade him thereto Phocion and his Fellows fly to Polyspercon for Patronage but he finding he could not get the Key of Athens as he fought without offending the other Towns of Greece to cover his intent as meaning well to Athens he sent Phocion back into Athens who wickedly put him to death being above Eighty Years old who had been chosen forty five times Governour without seeking it whose Integrity was approved whose Counsel the City never repented nor private Man for trusting him Philip and Alexander honoured him but could fasten no Gifts upon him Athens never after bred a worthy Man § 16. Cassander with such Forces as Antigonus lent him entred Pireus which drew Polyspercon headlong into Attica with an Army but for want of Victuals departed leaving Alexander with some Forces to hinde● Nicanor 'till he in Peloponesus attempted Megalopolis which affected Cassander But the Town furnished with Fifteen thousand able Men was so defended and his Elephants so galled in their Feet with Nails driven through Boards laid and lightly covered in the Way that he prevailed not and wanting Provision to stay long he forsook the Siege After this his Admiral Clitus after an Overthrow given to Nicanor in Propontis is in the second Encounter Antigonus having furnished Nicanor utterly defeated which made Athens submit to Cassander as did other Cities § 17. Antigonus lying before the Fort Nora when he heard of Antipater's death knowing Eumenes's sufficiency and fidelity to Perdicas thought no Man fitter to be employed in his designs He sent therefore a Friend to them both to deal with him to take an Oath of Fidelity to Antigonus which he refused except Olympias and the Children of Alexander were put in which was yielded to so he departed Antigonus had before this taken on him as Lieutenant of Asia to remove Governours of Provinces as Aridaeus of Phrygia and Clitus of Lydia which repaired to the Court for Relief but all failed in Clitus's overthrow at Sea § 18. Antigonus now commanding the most of the Lesser Asia was able to enter Macedon and seize the Court but doubted the Reconciliation of Cassander and Polyspercon thereby he also knew Eumenes's fidelity to the Royal Blood Against him therefore he bent with Twenty thousand Foot and Four thousand Horse hoping to surprize him in Cilicia Eumenes a Thracian of all the old Souldiers was only faithful to the Royal Blood the Court therefore gave him Commission to raise an Army against Antigonus requiring the Provincials to assist and the old Silver-shield-bands to follow him § 19. Olympias the Old Queen intending to remove Aridaeus and place Alexander Son of Roxane joining with Polyspercon enters Macedon taketh Euridice and Aridaeus forsaken of all that followed her at the sight of Olympias both are Murdered and a hundred of Cassander's Friends with Nicanor his Brother § 20. Cassander lying at the Siege of Tegea in Peloponesus hearing these ill Tidings compounded with Tegea and shipt his Army into Thessaly the Aetolians keeping the Streights of Thermopylae by Land in favour of the Queen Cassander leaveth Callas with part