those whiche rebelled against the Kings as hereafter shalbe declared But at this present we meane to leaue speaking of the matter in Asie and make mencion of those which happened in Europe ¶ Cassander sheweth him selfe enimie to Polispercon and getteth to his alliaunce many of the Satrapes Polispercon by an edict royall restoreth the Cities of Grece into their auncient libertie The .xxv. Chapter VVHen Cassander of whome we haue before spoken of him self put frō the Empire gouernemēt of Macedone kept not his desire lōger vndiscouered but purposed by violēce to obtayne recouer y e said gouernement thinking it a great dishonor to suffer any other than him selfe to haue the rule and authoritie which his father held enioyed But apperceyuing y t the Macedonians in generall were prompt and ready at Polispercon his commaundement and tooke his parte he secretly beganne to discouer his intention to his trustie friends and vnder a colour made them go towards Hellespont occupying him selfe many dayes in the countrey in chasing and hunting to the ende his people should beleue and thinke that he forced not of any hie enterprises or princelie gouernement But after he had dispatched put al things in a readinesse he secretly departed went towards Hellespont sending forthwith to Antigone praying his aide aduertising him y t Ptolome had promised the like Whereunto Antigone accorded and promised to send out of hand both Souldiers and shippes This friendship fained he to doe for the great loue he had alwayes borne to Antipater his father but truth is he ment none other thing but to trouble Polispercon in his warres and affaires to the ende that while those matters were in deciding he might seaze on the whole countrey of Asie and after attayne to the Empire of Macedone When Polispercon had séene the sodayne departure of Cassander he knew he meant to worke him great trouble and mischief wherfore he did nothing without great aduise of his friends and the chief of Macedone declaring vnto them that he clerely see y e Antigone would ayde Cassander and by that meane should win the Cities of Grece bycause that diuerse of them were guarded by the seruitours of his father and the rest gouerned by some of the Citizens whome his said father had deputed gouernours and had alwayes supported them He sée also that Ptolome gouernour of Egipt and Antigone who apparauntly had alreadie withdrawne him from the obeysaunce of the Kings would ayde him eyther of them hauing an huge and mightie hoste great stoare of treasure and held vnder their obeysance great countreys and prouinces When they had at large consulted on these matters and that euery man had said his opinion he was finally resolued to restore the Cities of Grece into their popular gouernaunce and libertie thereby to depose the Tyraunts and Gouernours assigned by Antipater For y e Macedonians thought by that meane to diminishe and abate the power of Cassander and that the Kings and Polispercon shoulde winne great honor and renowne together the friendship of al the Cities who greatly might helpe them with their seruice Whereupon they sent out commaundements to all the cities that they shoulde sende their Ambassadoures to the Kings which they did And when they were al assembled it was by the kings declared and signified to them that they should be of good courage and haue an assured hope and confidence that they would restore them to their auncient libertie and popular gouernement deliuering forthwith in writing the decrée of the saide deliberation to be carried and published without delaye vnto the Cities to the ende they should know the liberalitie and franknesse of the said Kings and Macedonians towards them The contents and effect of which decrée was written in Greke as followeth Forasmuch as our noble Progenitours haue in times past greatly pleasured gratified the Grecians We therefore pursuing following their institution and ordinance therein doe declare and pronounce to all people the loue and good will we beare towards the Grekes Wherefore since the death of Alexander ◠and that the realmes came to our possession and gouernaunce thinking that they are all determined to peace and quietnesse and also contented to stand to the institutions and ordinaunces concerning the weale publique established by Phillip our noble parent we haue herein addressed our letters to all the saide Cities But bicause of our absence in farre coūtreys some of the said Grekes not rightly vnderstanding our meaning and intencion making warre vpon the Macedonians certain of them chaunted to be vanquished by our Captaynes and Chieftaynes of warre wherby many inconueniences ensued to some of their Cities which troubles and misfortunes ought to be imputed to the fault and negligence of our said Captaynes Wherefore we for our partes considering the auncient amitie and beneuolence of our Auncestors towardes you and yours are desirous and by vertue of this decrée do graunt you peace and farther doe remit restore you into that libertie and Ciuile gouernement which you heretofore haue had vnder Philip and Alexander and that all you and euery of you do gouerne according to the ordinaunces first by them to you graunted we wil also that all those whiche were banished and expulsed the Cities by our Lieutenaunts and Chieftaynes of war since Alexander passed into Asie be called home and being so called and come agayne will by these presents that they recouer and enioye all their goods and euer hereafter to lyue peaceably without sedition in their countrey forgetting all iniuries and wrongs done and passe and be partakers of the honors and ciuilities of their Cities aswell as any other And that all decrées and sentences made to the contrarie shall be reuoked and made voide except and alwayes reserued all such as are banished for murder or any other like villanous acte except also and reserued all those which were bannished Megapolite for the treason conspired with Polyenote except also the Amphisencians Tricians Pharcondonians and Heraclians And for the rest we well they be called backe and receyued home on this side the thirtie day of Aprill And if Philip our Father and Alexander our brother haue ordeyned and made any ordinaunces or lawes particular contrarie to this let them which find them selues agréeued come to vs and we will take such order as shall be both honest and reasonable for eyther parte And for the Athenians we will that they continue and remayne as they did in the time of Philip and Alexander and to enioye the citie of Orope and countrey thereof as they did at that present together the Citie of Samye as Phillip our progenitour and noble parent deliuered it them In this doing we forbid the Grekes that they enterprise nothing neyther serue or ayde any whom soeuer against vs vpon payne of banishement both they and their posteritie with confiscation of their landes and goods whiche attempt or do the contrarie Of all which things we haue gyuen notice and power to Polispercon
of dutie and allegiaunce they ought to obey the kings and not to gyue eare to suche as rebelled against them so that through his words and persuasions he in such sorte confirmed them that he both assured his owne estate and likewise still wan their fauours and good willes And where he was before in maruelous daunger he now agayne sodēly became to be aduanced to high authoritie Incontinent after he marched forwarde with his armie towardes Phenice purposing to assemble all the ships of the Cities and to send a mightie Nauie to Sea to the ende that Polispercon shoulde be Lorde of the Seas to passe into Asie to warre vpon Antigone ¶ Nycanor keeping and occupying the Port of Pyre against the Athenians is besieged by Alexander Polispercon his sonne and of the mutenie in the Citie of Athenes The .xxviij. Chapter AT the same time that the things abouesaid were exploited in Phenice Nycanor Captayne of the Citie of Munichie vnderstanding that Cassander was departed Macedone and gone to Antigone and that Polispercon would come with his armie Royall shortly into the countrey of Athenes he persuaded the Athenians to kéepe their friendship and amitie with Cassander And when he sée they stayed not at his wordes but instantly required him to take away his garrisons whiche kept the citie he ment to entertayne and delay them desiring them to pawse a while and after that would take such order that they should haue cause to be well contented and satisfied Now in this meane time that the Athenians were quieted with these wordes he priuely thrust in the night by little and little all the Souldiers of Athens into the Castle of Munychie so that he was then able with those Souldiers to kéepe and maintayne the same place and defend him selfe against the assailauntes whiche crafty dealing the Athenians séeing sent their Ambassadoures towards the kings and Polispercon to demaund ayde according to the edict published for the libertie of the cities of Grece They also called many coūsails to sée by what meane they might expulse Nycanor But whyle they thus cōsulted Nycanor found the meane to wage a certain numbre of Mercenaries with whome in a night he sallied out of Munychie and seized on the entrie or mouth of the Port of Pyre When y e Athenians sée that in stead of recouering Munychie they had lost Pire they were sore agréeued Wherfore they chose certen Ambassadoures of the worshipfullest of the Citie Nycanors very friends and sent to him to say Phocion the sonne of Phoce Thymon the sonne of Thymothe and Clearcke the sonne of Nansicles commaunding them to chalenge and blame him for that fact and to require that they might be restored to their Ciuill gouernement according to the Decrée of the kings before by them published Nycanor aunswered that they must send to Cassander by whom he was deputed Gardein of the same bycause without him he had no authoritie to dispose or take awaye any thing In the meane time letters came to Nycanor from Quéene Olympias commaunding him to render to the Athenians Munichie and Pire Then Nycanor séeing that the kings and Polispercon woulde haue Olympias come into Macedone and restore hir to the gouernement of the infante and gyue hir as great authoritie as she had in the life of Alexander fearing therfore to disobey hir promised the Athenians to make restitution to them according to the forme and tenour of hir letters Notwithstanding he delayed them from daye to daye making many excuses During this season the Athenians considering that in times past they had maruelously endeuoured them selues to honor Olympias the Quéene and that the honor which they had done to hir was well emploied and bestowed and that therefore they might by hir meanes recouer their libertie without daunger they became maruelous glad and fedde them selues with vaine hope But before Nycanor had accomplished his promise Alexander Polispercon his Sonne arriued in their Countrey with a great army Then the Athenians thinking that he was come to restore them the Citties of Munychie and Pyre were in maruelous ioye But it chaunced contrary to their expectation for he came to seize to his owne vse on the saide Fortresses and to furnishe them with garrisons for his owne ayde in the warres At hys comming certain conspiratours Antipater his friendes and Phocion him selfe fearing punishement for their disobedience and rebellion against the ordinaunces of the Kings mette with Alexander and coūsailed him according to the necessity of the case and what was best for his commoditie and profit but chiefly that he shoulde furnishe the fortresse with his owne Souldiers and not render them vnto the Athenians before Cassander were discomfited When Alexander was come before Pyre he forthwith pitched his campe and besieged the Towne and fell to a parle with Nycanor touching the same without calling any of the Athenians to counsaile or once making them priuie so that it manifestly appeared then nothing to be done for the profit and common vtilitie of the Citie By reason whereof the people assembled and deposed the officers then in authoritie and assigned and deputed new and such as they thought more affectioned to the popular faction And certen which had the gouernement of any particular office some they condemned to death and other to perpetuall exile with confiscation of their goods amongs whome was Phocion who in Antipater his time had the greatest rowme and authoritie within the Citie And after he with the rest whiche were deposed repaired all to Alexander Polispercon his sonne trusting by him to be restored whom he right gently receyued gyuing them his letters addressed to Polispercon his father praying him not to permit and suffer Phocion and his adherents to be destroyed who had taken parte with him and had always ben ready to do what pleasure and seruice him liked The people of Athenes also sent their Ambassadoures to the said Polispercon to accuse Phocion and to demaunde that the Citie of Munychie might be rendred to them them selues restored to their libertie and popular gouernaunce When Polispercon vnderstood the whole matter he greatly desired to kéepe the Port of Pyre being a méete and necessarie place for the affaires of warre Neuerthelesse fearing to be reputed a dissembler and double man if he went against that which he before had commaunded by a common and publique Decrée and that he woulde not be accompted and taken deceytfull and disloyall chiefly to doe wrong to that which was the principall Citie of Grece altered his determination curteously aunswered the Ambassadours of the people whereupon Phocion and his adherents were apprehended sent bound to Athens cōprimitting y e whole matter to the wil choyse of y e Athenians whether they woulde condemne and put them to death or remitte and forgiue the effendours Wherefore when the people were assembled to sit in iudgement of Phocion and his complices the most of the banished in the time of Antipater which tooke parte against him
greeuously accused and adiudged them worthy the death the summe of which accusation was this that they after the Lamian warre were the principall and chiefe causers that their Citie and Countrey were brought in thraldome and bondage the gouernement and authoritie of the people wholy extinguished and the lawes and ordinaunces of the same Countrie clerely violated and infringed When the daye assigned was come Phocion very sagely and wysely beganne to plead and defende his cause but so soone as the multitude and great numbre of the people heard him beginne to speake they made suche a noyse and vprore that he could not be heard When the noise was ceased and that he beganne agayne to speake they likewise interrupted and stopped him that he coulde haue no audience for the multitude of the baser sorte which had bene degraded and put from the publique gouernement being sodenly newly authorised were very insolent against those which had depriued them their libertie Howbeit Phocion in daunger to lose his life boldly and stoutely stood to the defence of his iustification so that these about him heard what he sayde But they which were any thing farther of could heare nothing for the noyse and vprore of the people but they might all sée that he spake and made many gestures with his body as a man in great daunger and feare But in the ende when he sée no boote he with a loud voice cried and sayde that he was contented to dye but prayde that they might be forgiuen whome he had inuegled and attracted to his will and pleasure some forcibly and some by gentle admonitions and persuasions When certaine of Phocions friendes sée that the violēce and rage of the people ceassed not they preased in to speake for him whome the multitude incontinent hearkened vnto before any man knewe what they woulde say But after it was perceyued they spake in the fauour of the accused they were in lyke sorte reiected by the clamors of the people so that in the ende by the cōmon voyce and exclamation of the multitude they wer condemned to death and that done carried to prison Then many of their friendes seing their miserie were very pensife and sorowfull For when they sée that such personages being the chief and principal of the Citie as wel for their nobilitie as their authoritie and renoume had done many good and gracious déedes to the Citie were in such sort condēned without order of iustice they greatly feared to come in the like dāger But forasmuch as fortune is common and mutable many of the people dispiteously agreued with the sayd Phocion spake al the oultrages viltanies against him they could reproching hym of many wicked acts déedes as people commonly doe which dissimule their anger against them in authoritie But when they see fortune turne hir saile that it otherwise hapneth then wil they without reason or measure in all despiteful crueltie vtter and shew forth their priuie griefe and pestiferous malice Not long after the condemned acording to the custome of the coūtrey dranke poyson and their carkaises were throwne without the limites and precinctes of Athens vnburied and this was their ende Polyspercon besiegeth Cassandre in Pyrey and perceiuing that he coulde not win it departeth thence and besiegeth the citie of Megalopolis where by the wisedome and policie of Demades he is at an assault repulsed The .xxix. Chapter DUring the time that these matters were done in Asia Antigone had sent Cassander with .xxxv. tall warlike gallies and foure thousand souldiours to saile into Pire whom Nichanor captaine of the Castle receiued and rendred to him the port and castle But as for Munichie Nicanor garded and helde that with his owne garrison When Polispercon who abode and continued in Phocide vnderstoode that Cassander had taken and enioyed Pire he came into the Countrey of Athens and encamped before Pire with twentie thousād Macedonians and foure thousand straungers and confederates and thrée score and fiue Elephantes and besieged the same But séeing the scarcitie and want of victuals and the siege like long to continue he left behind at the siege such number of Soldiours as the Countrey might wel vittell deputing for his lieuetenant Alexander his sonne and him selfe with the rest being the greater number entred Peloponess to the ende to force the Megalopolitanes to come vnder the obeisaunce of the Kings being greatly enclined to Cassander and the continuation of their Oligarchie to say the gouernement of certaine particular offices and dignities which Antipater had appointed them While Polispercon was about this enterprise Cassander with his Nauie hauing alliaunce with the Eginets went and besieged the Citie of Salamine his enimie And euery day with shot whereof he had foyson assaulteth the town bringing them in great hazarde and feare And being almost in despaire aide came from Polispercon bothe by sea and land Wherevpon Cassander was so daunted that he raised his siege and returned to Pire After that Polispercon meaning to set and order and stay about the affaires of Peloponese assembled before him the Deputies of all the Cities whom with gentle and gratious woordes he allured to ioyne with him and afterward sent his Ambassadoures to all the Cities commaunding them that they should sodainely kill all the gouernors appointed by Ptolome and restore the gouernement to the people Which commaundement the people incontinently obeyed so that there were great slaughters and banishmentes throughout the Cities of the friends of Antipater Then the commonaltie being restored to libertie and authoritie ioyned with Polispercon And bicause the Megalopolitames would not obey but still sticke to Cassander Polispercon fully determined to besiege them When they vnderstood his meaning and purpose they incontinently caused all their goodes in the Countrey to be brought into their towne and after mustered and tooke viewe of their people which were of Citizens and forainers about fiftene thousand besides their slaues all able men and deuided them into two bandes whereof some made rampiers and other workes some manned the walles so that at one instant they were all busied and occupied One companie ditched about the Towne an other companie carried woode and earth out of the fieldes to make the Rampiers other repaired and mended the walles where they were any thing at all decayed some forged harnaies and engines of Artillarie and on this sort was all the whole Citie occupied bicause that euery one was minded and disposed thereto for so muche as the power which came against them were men of inuincible courages and the Elephantes of great violence and might Not long after that they had brought all things into a readinesse and perfection Polispercon with his whole armie arriued before the same and on both sides besieged it On the one side encamped Macedonians and on the other side his allyes and straungers He builded also many Towers of woode hygher than the curten and wall and planted them in places conuenient and thrust into them
this Decrée had bene thus by the common assent and consent of the whole armie ratified and approued Antigone by by sent it throughout all quarters to be published trusting that the Grekes in hope to come at libertie would allie and ioyne with hym He likewise thought that when the Satrapes and Gouernours of the Satrapies of the hier countreys of Asie whiche still ymagined that Antigone would clerelie extinquish y e Kings and all the ligne Royal of Alexander apperceyued that he nowe enterprised and publikelie tooke in hande the warres for the defence of the Kings they would alter chaūge their determinatiō purpose gladlie become obedient and subiect to him That done he gaue to Alexander .v. hundred Talents and sent him into Peloponnese laden and fraught with faire promisses and in hope to be preferred to some great authoritie and honour He sent also for his ships to Rhodes the greater numbre of which he made readie and furnished and after embarqued and sailed to Tyre and both by sea land besieged the citie the space of .xv. monethes so that nothing could be brought into it Whereupon in the ende they were enforced to render vppon thys composition and agréement that all Ptolome his Souldiours within the same should with bag and baggage safelie departe and Antigone at his pleasure to thrust in his gerrisones ¶ Of the practizes deuises and prouision by Ptolome Seleuke on the one part Antigone on the other parte made by Sea in the countrey of Asie The .xxvij. Chapter AMongs these entrefaicts when Ptolome vnderstood the edict and decrée which Antigone and the Macedonians had made for the libertie of Grece bycause he would it should to the Grekes be knowen that he had so good an hart and will to restore them to libertie as the said Antigone he caused the like proclamation to be made and before them to be notified and published For eyther of them made great accompte and thought it a verie good way to win the Grekes to stand their friends and therfore they contended howe and by what meane they might best gratifie them He wanne also to his alliaunce Cassander gouernour of Carie a mightie Prince and one who had at his commaundement manie Cities He sent likewise ouer and besides the .iiij. thousand men sent before by him to the Kings of Cypres his confederats a mightie armie to enforce to their obeissaūce their enimies to wete Mirmidon the Athenian with .x. thousand Souldiours Polyclete with a Nauie of an hundreth saile and appointed for generall Menelaus his brother And as they arriued in Cypres they heard of Seleuke hys being there whereupon they held a counsell wherein was concluded that Polyclete should with L. shipe saile into Peloponnese to warre vpon Aristodeme Polispercon and Alexander That Myrmidon with the Mercenaries should into Carie to ayde and comforte Cassander and other their allies whom Ptolome Antigone his brother warred on and that Menelaus and Seleuke shoulde remayne in Cypres with Nycocreon and other their allies to mainteyne the warres there When Seleuke and hys companie had thus deuided their power they tooke the cities of Cerine and Lapythe and there wanne to their al-aliaunce Stasicetus King of the Manians and forced Amathusius an other prince of the countrey to deliuer thē ostages They besieged also with great force the Citie of Cythie bycause they would not at their first cōming allie with them At that same verie season sailed from Hellespont and the Rhodes to Antigone .xl. saile vnder the cōduct of Themyson their Admiral Dioscorides likewise brought from Hellespont and the Rhodes foure score besides the ships first built in Phenice being in all accompting those left at Tyre Cxx. wherof .iiij. score .x. rowed with foure tier of ores in a side ten with fiue tier ten with nine and ten with ten tier and .xxx. barques the rest lesse so that he had in the whole CCxl Gallies appointed for the warres Which Nauie he deuided wherof L. he sent into Peloponnese and appointed Dioscorides his brothers sonne Admiral ouer the rest and gaue him in charge to goe to the ayde of hys Allies and purchase the good willes of the Isles not yet confederate Nowe for this time we wil leaue speaking of the things done in Asie and returne to the matters exploited in Europe ¶ Of certen exploictes of warre by Cassander and his Souldiours in Peloponnese and other partes of Grece done And how Alexander Polispercon his Sonne reuolteth After of a great victorie whiche Ptolome his Nauie hath against Antigone his Nauie in Cilice And after Ptolome and Antigone come to a parle and of certain exploits of warre betwene the Romaines and Samnites The .xxviij. Chapter THe while that Antigone made preparation for the warres in the countrey of Asie as we haue heretofore declared Apollonide whome Cassander had left Captayne of Argos secretlie departed into Arcadie and in the night by stealth tooke the Citie of Stymphale In this meane time the Argiues not content with Cassander sent to Alexander Polispercon his sonne and promised to yelde him the Towne but he so detracted his comming that Cassander was thyther first come whē he had entred the citie the Traitours cōspiratours tooke y e Palaice for their defence which he besieged clerely burnt to the ground And of the reste be put some to death and sent a great number in exile The same time Cassander aduertised of the sailing of Aristodeme into Peloponnese and concourse of the Mercenaries thyther first assaied if he could withdrawe and remoue Polispercon and Alexander his sonne from the amitie of Antigone And séeing it would not frame he passed throughe the coūtrey of Thessalie into Beote and strengthning the Thebanes with ayde for restauracion of their Citie entred Peloponnese and tooke by force the citie of Cencre and made incursions on the territories of Corinthe and there winning two castles by force licenced Alexanders Souldiours to departe without dommage or hurte After that he was by a band which loued not Alexāder receyued into the Citie of Orcomenie and licenced the citizens to plucke out by the eares certen of Alexanders friends gotten into the Temple of Diane and to do with them what they listed whome they incontinent contrarie to the lawe and common custome of Grece put to the sworde After that Cassander came against the Citie of Messenie and séeing it to difficile to winne passed on and entred Arcadie in which countrey he left Damides Gouernour and him selfe returned to Argos where he caused manie tou◠noys to be done and after returned to Macedone Whereof Alexander aduertised tooke with him Aristodeme and warred vpon all the Cities whiche Cassander had wonne and furnished with garrisonnes thinking to bring vnder his subiection the saide Cities promising to restore them to libertie Which Cassander vnderstanding sent towardes him Propelle by whome he offred if
appointed besides Quint Fabie the most renoumed Captayne they then had Generall of their armie Quint Elye Marshall and about Lanscalle ioyned battaill with y e enimie in which on eyther side were many mē slaine But in the ende the Romaines were discomfited and put to flight Which Elye séeing bicause he would auoide the shame to be said he fled tarried alone in the battaill there valiauntlie and manfullie fought against the enimie not for anie hope he had of victorie but to shewe such magnanimitie to be in him as an apparaunt matter of the inuincible courages of the Romaines who much more loued honorably to die in fight than to liue and remayne Captayne of those whiche fled After this discomfiture and ouerthrow the Romaines fearing to lose al Pouille sent one Colonie of their people to Locres the principall citie of that countrey from whence they transferred the warres against the Samnites And that Colonie and Citie serued them not for that warre only but continuallie euer after and at this present doth as an explorator and receptacle to hold and keepe their neighbours in subiection ¶ Lisimache subdueth the cities of Pont Thaure which rebell and after vanquisheth the Scythes supplies by Antigone sent into the same countrey The .xxxiiij. Chapter THe yeare ensuing whiche was the same tyme that Theophraste gouerned Athens and Marcke Publy and Caye Sulpitie were at Rome created Consuls the Caulandians enhabiting the left partes of Pont expulsed Lysimache his garrisone there and set them selues at libertie The lyke also dyd the Histrianois the other cities néere thereabouts Whereuppon they altogyther ioyned to resist Lysimache and made also alliaunce with the Tracians and Scythians néere them so that being altogyther ioyned they were able to encountre resiste a mightie armie Wherof Lysimache aduertised departed with an huge armie and came through the countrey of Thrace and passing the mount Emus sodenlie encamped before the citie of Odesse and after besieged Obseste both which he at his first arriuall surprised and put in suche feare that they rendred vpon composition and going thence he tooke after the same maner the Histrianois From thence he went to besiege the Calandians but whē he vnderstood that the Scythes were come in the coūtrey with a mightie armie to helpe their Allies and friends he marched against them and as soone as he was neere them so fierslie charged the whole camp and put the Thracians which were with thē in such feare that they reuolted and came to him and after ioyned battaill w t the Scythes in which he ouerthrew and kild a great nūber the rest he chased and expulsed the countrey After that he besieged the citie of the Calandians fullie determined to be reuenged for their rebelliō But as he was thus purposed newes came that Antigone had sent two armies for the reliefe of the Calandians to saye Lycon by the sea of Pont and Pausanie by lande who alreadie was encamped at a place called Sacre With whiche newes Lysimache verie sore troubled left so many of his armie as he thought would suffise for the siege and him selfe with the greater parte marched on to encounter the enimie which came by land But when he was come to the foote of the Mount Emus thought to passe he was aduertised that Seuthes the King of Thrace was reuolted from him and ioyned with Antigone and garded and kept the passage with a great numbre of men Wherefore he was enforced to gyue him battaill in which many of his people were lost But in y e end after great slaughter he draue the enimie from the passage And al sodenlie he so lustelie charged Pausanie his bande which was fled to the straights of the mountaine on the other side that he slew the greater part amongs whom was Pausanie ◠and some of the prisoners he ransomed and sent awaye and retained the rest and deuided them amongs his bandes ¶ Thelesphore one of Antigone hys captaynes restoreth the greater number of the cities of Peloponnese to libertie And Phillip a Captayne of Cassanders vanquisheth the Etholians and the King of Epire which came to their ayde The .xxxv. Chapter AS Lysimache his affaires stood in this astate Antigone apperceyuing him selfe frustrate of his purpose sent L. sayle manned with suche numbre of men as he thought good into Peloponnese vnder Thelesphore and gaue him in charge to restore the cities of the same countrey to libertie thinking to get suche credit thereby amongs the Grecians that they woulde firmelie beléeue how he vnfainedlie desired nothing more than the restoring of them to their libertie and popular gouernement He sent also his intelligencers to learne what Cassander did And shortly after that Thelesphore arriued in Peloponnese he deliuered all the citizens from the garrisons of Alexander except Sycione and Corinth which Polispercon with a great armie helde and kept whome he coulde not expulse considering the great strength of the places The same season Phillip whome Alexander hadde sent as Lieutenaunt Generall against the Etholians after his comming into Carnanie beganne to make incursions and robberies in the countrey of Etholie But soone after he was aduertised that Eacide who had ben expulsed the realme of Epyre was thyther returned and had assembled a great armie Wherefore he departed thence and marched forth meaning to encountre him before he ioyned with the armie of the Etholians But he found at his first comming the Epirotes all prest readie to battaile whō he so forcibly assayled y ◠he them discomfited slew many and tooke a great nūbre prisoners and amongst y e rest L. of those which had bene the causers of Eacide his returne into Epire which L. he sent boūd to Cassander But they escaped w t Eacide ioyned agayne with the Etholians to fight a freshe whome Phillip likewise discomfited and slew the greater part togyther w t King Eacide him self Thus Philip by reason of his two great victories in so short time put the Etholians in suche terrour and feare of him that they abandoned the playne countrey and vndefensable places and with their wyues and children got vp to the straights in the moūtaines And so much as touching the affaires of Grece ¶ Antigone apperceyuing that he is by Cassander deceyued taketh certen cities in Carie and after commeth to a parle with Cassander And vppon little or no agreement they beginne the warre in Grece The .xxxvj. Chapter DUring the time that these things were exploited in Grece Cassander Lieutenaunt to Ptolome other his Allies in Asie by Antigone oppressed came to an agréement w t him Wherein these articles were concluded vpon First that he should put away and deliuer hys armie to Antigone Item that he should set the Cities Grecians in Asie at libertie Item that he shoulde retayne and hold the Satrapies he had first gyuen him And lastlie that he should become and remayne Antigones
and sent them abroad into the Countrey to winter In this meane time the Corcirians with the ayde of the Apollonians and Epidaurans expulsed Cassanders garrisons their cities and set at libertie the citie of Apollonie and restored Epydaure to the King of Illirie Ptolome also one of Antigone his Captaynes after Cassander was departed into Macedone tooke the citie of Calcide and after he had expulsed the garrison of the enimie he restored them to their pristinate estate to the end al men might thinke y e Antigone sans faile would restore the cities of Grece to libertie For if he had ment to kéepe retaine y e same citie it had ben a méete defence for such as would continue any warres to haue recourse vnto Ptolome likewise tooke the Citie of Orope and restored it to the Beotians and had Cassander Souldiours in his power After he made alliaunce with the Eretrians and Caristians and remoued his camp to the citie of Athenes Demetre Phalerey being then gouernour thereof But the Citizens vnderstanding of his comming first secretly sent Ambassadours towardes Antigone praying his ayde for the defence of their citie Whē Ptolome was approched the Citie they constrained Demetre to make a truce and after to send to Antigone to treat an alliaunce After the truce made taken he departed and came into Beote and there tooke the citie of Cadmea thrust oute the garrison of the enimie and deliuered the Thebanes Frō thence went he into the countrey of Phocide and there expulsed Cassanders garrisons the cities and after besieged the citie of Locres Cassanders confederate The same season the Cyrenians rebelled against Ptolome and besieged the castle which his Souldiours kept thinking out of hand to haue taken it It chaunced the same time certen Ambassadours to come out of Alexādrie in the name of the citie to praye and exhorte them to surcease and gyue ouer their enterprise and rebellion whiche Ambassadours they killed then made greater preparation to take the castle Wherewith Ptolome sore moued and agreeued sent by lande Agis a Captayne w e a mightie armie and by sea Epinete for his greater succoure Which Agis forcibly tooke the citie and sent the principall aucthours of the rebellion into Alexandrie and from the rest tooke their armour and weapon and taking order about the affaires of the citie returned into Egipt When Ptolome had thus reduced the Citie of Cirene to his minde he departed from Egipt and went into Cypres to subdue the kings which would not obey him Amongs which he slew Pigmalion bycause he had sent an Ambassade towardes Antigone to take Praxippes King of Lapithe and the tyraunt and Prince of Cyrene for that he mistrusted them w t Stasice Malie his sonne Whiche Citie he destroyed and transferred the inhabitaunts thereof into the citie of Paphe These things performed he left Nicocreon his Lieutenaunt in the Isle of Cipres and gaue to him the cities and reuenue of the Kings whome he had deposed and after sailed into the hier Syrie and there tooke the cities of Neptunie and Carie. From thence w e al spéede he departed into Cilice where likewise he tooke and forraged the citie of Male and solde the Citizens he tooke prisoners he wasted and spoyled also the next region And after he had enriched and furnished the whole armie with spoyle returned into Cypres for he so loued his Souldiours that he thought all he could do for them was to little to the ende they shoulde the willinglier serue him in all such high and great affaires as he hadde to do Amongs these entrefacts so soone as Demetre Antigone his sonne lying in Celosirie and nothing mynding the warres exploited in Egipt vnderstood the great spoile and domage whiche Ptolome had done in Cilice and the hier Sirie he left the charge of his armed men hys Elephantes and baggage to Python and him selfe with the horsse and shot departed with all spéede to the ayde of his friends in Cilice But when he came thyther he found the enimie quite dispatched and gone Wherefore by reason of his great haste he returned with the losse of many horsse for he had rydde from Maley thether in two dayes whiche was .xxiiij. reasonable dayes iourneys for men of warre to trauaill in so much that neyther Muleter nor horsse sclaue might follow him ¶ Ptolome and Seleuke come into Syrie against Demetre and in battaill vanquish him And after Ptolome conquereth the countrey of Phenice The .xxxix. Chapter WHen Ptolome had according to his harts desire woonne in shorte time so many victories and performed such notable exploictes he sailed into Egipt Howbeit not long after at the instigation of Seleuke and the rather bycause he maliced Antigone he determined a freshe to inuade Celosyrie and fight with Demetre Wherefore he assembled his armie and losed from Alexander to Peluse with .xviij. thousand footemen and .iiij. thousand horsse the one halfe Macedonians the other Mercenaries He had besides of the Countrey of Egipt a great numbre of men as victuallers and suche like and some armed men méete for the warres From Peluse daylie trauelled he through the desertes vntill he came about the old citie of Gaze in Syrie there encāped néere the enimie When Demetre vnderstood of his comming he likewise assembled and mustered his garrisons and brought them into the said old Gaze attending the violence of the enimie And although his Gouernours and friendes coūsailed him not to hazard battaill against so valiaunt a chieftayne mightie an armie yet would not he by their counsayls be stayed but made him readie to fight hoping notwithstanding hys yong yeares and absence of his father to winne honour and victorie And after he hadde assembled hys armie and by hys oration verie stoutlie exhorted them to warre perseuering and still abyding in the assemble pensiue and in great trouble of mynd the multitude with one voyce showted and cried vnto him to hope well and feare nothing And such was their honor reuerence towardes him y t before he could commaund them to silence they held their peace vppon this onely occasion for that he neyther in factes martial or cyuill hadde offended them in so much as he was but newly made chieftayne the first time that the charge of an armie had ben committed vnto him but it cōmonly chaunceth otherwise to them which long haue hadde such rule and leading bycause they sundrie wayes and by diuerse meanes gréeue their mē of warre and Souldiours And therefore when they once gette occasion to trippe and take their Captaynes in any one faulte they forthwith séeke reuenge of y e rest of the iniuries against them committed for the multitude loue not long to perseuer and continue in one estate but always desire and are glad of chaunge so it excéede not The men of warre besides séeing his father well stryken in yeares and the likelyhood of the succession of the Realme lyneallie to descend
of their harne◠s. In this sorte they came néere Gaze almost at the sunne set But after they were about the citie certē of hys horssemen forsooke him and entred the Towne to carrie oute their baggage by reason whereof the throng prease was so great of mares and other bestiall at the gates for that euery man thrust to be foremost that Ptolome his Souldiours whiche chased thē thyther bycause they could not shut the gates entred the towne and so seized on it to Ptolome his vse When Demetre had thus loste the battaill he fledde all that night without staye vntil he came to the Citie of Azote distaunt from them two hundred .lxx. furlongs The next daye in the morning he sent his Ambassadours towards the enimie of whom he prayed leaue to burie the dead meaning in that case to do them all the honour he could There were in that conflict slaine the greater parte of his friendes Amongs whome Python was principal who with him had equall charge of the armie and Berte whiche was with hym brought vp of a childe and knewe all his mynde and secretes In that battaill also were slaine of noble personages aboue .v. hundred the more parte horssemen and aboue .viij. thousand prisoners taken When Ptolome and Seleuke had gyuen leaue to burie the dead they sent backe to Demetre all hys mouable goodes and treasure which they had taken and so many prisoners as were his housholde meiny without ransome saying that the warres which they arrered against Antigone was not for his goods and treasure but bycause when they were in consort and warred togyther firste against Perdicas after against Eumenes he woulde not make egall distribution with his friends and companions of the realmes and dominions atchieued in those warres and also for that against the tenor of his alliaunce contrarie to all equitie and conscience he had expulsed Seleuke Babilon The reste of the prisoners Ptolome sent into Egipt for Gallie slaues When Ptolome had magnificiallie and honorablie buried all the dead on his parte he with his armie inuaded the cities of Phenice some of which he besieged and vpon composition reconciled others When Demetre sée hys power and armie decrease and insufficient he sent letters towardes his father praying his ayde and spéedy helpe And in the meane tyme while he taried for aunswere he went to the citie of Tripoly in Phenice and frō thence sent into Cilice for Souldiers and to all the Captaynes farder of whiche eyther in citie or castle had any garrison When Ptolome had wonne this victorie and that there was no armie to resist hym he subdued the citie of Sidonne and from thence departed and encamped before the citie of Tyre and practized with Andronicke Antigone his Lieutenaunt to render it vnto hym promising great giftes and hie promotions who not onely aunswered that he would by no meane falsifie his faith to Antigone and Demetre but also vsed chorlish lāguage to Ptolome Notwithstanding he was shortlie after through the mutenie and sedition of the Souldiours expulsed and the towne rendred to Ptolome so that Andronicke then became his prisoner who both for his vile and naughtie language also bycause he would not yeld the town looked to be euil entreted Neuerthelesse Ptolome forgat the iniurie and gaue him great giftes and retayned him as one of his chief friendes and after preferred him to an honorable charge He was a Prince ful of maruelous equitie and iustice curteous pitifull full of lenitie and therewith liberal which greatly profited him and was the chief cause that great and honorable personages desired his amitie and friendshippe And amongs other he right gently reteyned Seleuke who praying his ayde for the recouering of Babylon willingly graunted hys request and farther promised to lende him what thing soeuer was hys vntill such tyme as he had recouered his Satrapie which he first enioyed In this estate were the matters of Asie ¶ Thelesphore reuolteth from Antigone and Alcete by the Epirots chosen King making alliance with Cassander after many battailles is by hys subiects slaine And Cassander loseth a battaill before the Citie of Apollonie in the Countrey of Adrie The .xl. Chapter AS the matters of Asie stood in the estate aforesaid Thelesphore Antigone his Admiral lying about Corinth apperceyuing that Ptolome Antigones Lieutenaunt was better perferred and aduaunced than he and all the estate and affaires of Grece committed to hys charge complained thereof to Antigone and after sold all his shippes and bestowed the money amongs the mē of warre which would follow and go with him And going to the citie of Elyn was there receyued as Antigone his friende But when he had once furnished the Castle he brought the citie in seruitude He robbed also the temple in Olympe and tooke away aboue L. Talents wherewith he waged a great number of hired souldiers straungers In this sorte Thelesphore for the enuie and malice of Ptolome his preferment and auctoritie reuolted from Antigone Whiche things Ptolome Antigone his Lieutenaunt in Grece vnderstanding with his armie entred Peloponnese and marched to the Citie of Elyn tooke the Castle and razed it restored the Citie to libertie and rendred to the God the siluer violentlie taken away from him After vpon treatie and composition he compassed Thelesphore to rēder the citie of Cylene which he enioyed and kept and it restored to the Citizens of Elyn Amongs these exploites the Epyrotes after the death of Eacide their King bestowed the Realme on Alcete whome Aryuille his father and enimie to Cassander had bannished Wherefore Lyciske Cassander his deputie of Acarnanie marched with his armie into Epyre thinking easely to depriue and put downe Alcete from hys princelie seat and realme before he were throughlie confirmed and established in the same And as he encamped before the citie of Casopey Alcete sent his two sonnes Alexander and Theucer commaunding them to assemble so many Souldiours as they could And him selfe with the Souldiers he had drew néere the enimie attending the comming of his sonnes Whereupon Lyciske séeing the Epyrotes approche although the greater number so lustely charged them that they reculed and finally fled but Alcete escaped vnto the citie of Eurymen whome Lyciske there besieged And as he laye before the Towne Alexander Alcete his sonne came with all his power to the ayde of his father and fought with Lyciske In which conflict he had the better and slew a great number of Lyciske his Souldiours and two valiaunt Captaynes to saye Mychite and Lysander of Athens to whom Cassāder had left the gouernement of Leucade After that conflicte and ouerthrow Dyme came in Lyciske his ayde and in few dayes after gaue battaill to Alcete his Sonnes and vanquished them wherevpon the yong men and their father retired into a strong place and forsoke the Citie of Eurimene which citie Lyciske shortlie after tooke sackt and razed When Cassander was aduertized of the
Aripharne was put to flight whome Satire a while chased and ouerthrew and killed a great number of hys people But when he vnderstood that his brother Eumele which lead the other wing ouer against the Mercenarie Grekes hadde the better of them he desisted chasing of Aripharne and came to the rescous of his owne men At whose comming the enemie was repulsed and in the end put to flight And in this maner Satyre him selfe was cause of victorie in both the wings By which well appeared y t the realme aswell for his Seignoritie as also for his vertue and prowes to him only apperteyned The victorie thus wonne Aripharne and Eumele retired into a Castle standing on a verie stéepe rocke scituate in the middest of the Riuer of Thatis By reason whereof and also bycause the walles were strong and hie well manned and also furnished with all kyndes of shot and weapon it was not easie to be taken but verie difficile and harde to besiege hauing but two wayes to enter both of them artificially made and wrought the one went directlie to the castle enuironed and defended with flankers and bulwarks the other to certen marshes lying round about the castle fortified with rāpiers of wood in the middest of whiche marshes were faire houses buylt vppon great pillers standing vppon the ryuer When Satyre had considered the strong situation and great daunger in the siege thereof he first made incursions and robberies vppon all the countrey round about and tooke a great numbre of the paysauntes prisoners with great plenty of cattell and burnt and fouraged all the villages And after he had thus done he determined forcibly to assaile the place whiche lead to the Castle but he was repulsed with losse of many men Notwithstanding he desisted not but so lustely and courageously assaulted the other waye that he wanne the rampers and houses standing on the marshes and spoyled them and after passed the ryuer where he began to cut and hew down the piles and houses of wood through which he must néedes passe if he determined to come to the Palaice Which thing when Arypharne sée and fearing the taking of the Palaice his whole trust and chief refuge defended the same by all the possible meanes he could Now had he a great numbre of shot which he deuided on both sides the waye who hurt a great numbre of the wood fellers bycause they coulde not auoyde the shot nor yet endomage them which did the hurte Neuerthelesse they couragiouslie endured the daunger and for thrée dayes togyther neuer ceased cutting downe of wood so that they hadde made a playne beaten waye through the marshes and the fourth daye were gotten hard to the curten For Menisce Captayne of the Mercenaries a valiaunt and wise man came brauely and courageouslie with his Souldiours throughe the same waye to gyue the assault But after he had long susteyned the violēce of the shot within and the greater number of his men hurt he then of force retired And in the retire they of the Castle in such number sallied out vppon him that what through the narrownes of the way and disaduauntage of the place he surely had ben slayn had it not ben that Satyre séeing them so distrest incontinent came to their rescous Who nobly fighting and abyding the force of the enimie was with the blowe of a launce in one of his armes so sore hurte that he was faine to be taken and carried backe into his campe and the night ensuing died on the same stroke when he had raigned but .ix. monethes after the death of his Father When Menisce sée that he raysed the siege and retired the armie to the citie of Galgaze and from thence sent his brothers bodie downe elongest the Ryuer vnto hys brother Prytame in the citie of Panticape who caused it very sumptuously honorably to be enterred amongs the sepulchres and tombes of the Kings And that done he incontinent went into the citie of Galgaze and there seized on the armie and Realme To whom Eumele hys brother sent Messangers to demaund particion of y e said Realme who harkened not to any suche demaund but after he had placed his garrisons in Galgaze forthwith returned to Pāticape to establish and set an order about the affaires and estate of the realme The same time Eumele with the ayde of a numbre Barbarians tooke the citie of Galgaze and many other Townes and Uillages thereabout Whereof Pritame aduertised leuied a great armie and came against him where he in battaill was vanquished and enforced to flie into a place in the straight néere the marshe Meothide and being there by Eumele enclosed was driuē of necessitie to come to a cōposition wherein he gaue ouer restored to him his armie and also forsooke his right and title of the realme But after he was returned to Panticape the Palaice Royall of the King of Bosphore he againe forcibly tooke vppon him the gouernement and estate of the Realme but he was a fresh by Eumele ouerthrowen and fleing through certen orchyardes there slaine After whose death Eumele meaning to assure himselfe of the realme caused all the friends wyues and children of Pritame Satyre his brethren to be put to death except and reserued Parisade Satyre his sonne a verie yong stryppling who on horse backe got out of the towne and fled to Agare King of the Scythes But when Eumele sée the Citizens for the slaughter of their friendes and familiars waxe mutinous he assembled them and declared the causes which moued him to do the same saying farther that he would restore them into their auncient estate immunitie and franchize sometime had vnder his predecessours and that they should be exempte of all trybutes and impostes by which meane he appaised them and wanne againe their good willes and fauoures and after sagely and courteouslie gouerned behaued hym selfe in his raigne to the great admiration of all his neighbours For through his munificencie and curtesie he made all his friendes to loue him as the Byzancians Synopians and the rest of the Grekes inhabiting the countrey of Pont. And when Lysimache besieged the Calantians who for want of victuals were brought into great daunger and necessitie he receyued a thousand of them which came out by reason of the famine and not onely licenced and assured them to remayne in his Countrey but also gaue them one of his owne cities named Yse amongs them deuided the territorie thereof He moreouer warred vppon the Heniques Thaures and Achees Barbarians and Sea rouers to make the Sea Pontique nauigable to them of the countrey By which his doings he both got great prayse and renowne of the countrey men there and also of the whole world bycause of the reporte the people of that countrey made to all whiche sailed and came thyther so that he hadde wonne a great parte of the region of Barbary ioyning vpon his realme and became so puissaunt and renoumed that he
other honors as if he had founded the citie But the varietie of time the mutations and alterations that after happen make all things vncertayne and voyde For the Citizens séeing that the scituation of the Citadell whereunto they were remoued was much more commodious and pleasaunt to enhabite than the auncient citie kept it always euer after euen to these dayes For the place was great and roumie and aboue plaine and smoothe but round about so knaggy hanging that the wayes were inaccessible and subiecte on no side to battery Therein were also great store of springs and fountaines wherewith they watered their gardens In this sorte then throughe the Kings prouidence they were in great suertie and in a very pleasaunt place When Demetre had set in good staye the affaires of of the Sycionians he marched with his whole armie against the Citie of Corinthe whereof Prepelaye a Captayne of Cassanders was deputie And at his firsts comming by meane of the intelligence which he had by certen of the Citizens he entred the Town in the night through a posterne But the Souldiours within saued them selues in two fortes standing at the endes of the Towne the one of which was named Sysiphe and the other Acrocorinthe Notwithstanding he throughe great payne and â— rauell wanne by force Sysiphe and by composition tooke the other bycause the attemptes and assaultes by reason oâ— the great industrie of his Engines of Artillary and his maruelous care and diligence therin vsed where intollerable Whiche done and that he had set the citie at libertie the Citizens were well contented he should put in a garrison into the Bastill of Acrocorinthe for defence of their Citie and there to kéepe them vntill suche tyme as he had descomfited and ouerthrowen Cassander And after Prepelaye had shamefully ben expulsed Corinthe he tooke his waye to Cassander When Demetre had thus wrought against Corinthe he departed thence pursuing his victorie by the other Cities of Peloponnese where by force he tooke Bute and restored the citizens to their auncient libertie and froÌ„ thence went to Scyre and there did the like and expulsed Cassanders Souldiours Then went he against the Citie of Orcomenye in the region of Arcadie and there talked w t Strombicke deputie for Polispercon to rendre it But when he see it would not be and that he vsed stoute and arrogaunt wordes he planted his engines and battred and ouerthrew the walles of the Citie and tooke it by force and caused the said StroÌ„bicke and .viij. hundred of his souldiours to be carried out of the citie as vtter enimies and there to be hanged and waged and deuided amongs his bandes the Mercenarie Souldiours being about two thousand After he had thus done the reste which held the cities and townes néere hand hauing no newes or hope to be succoured by Cassander Prepelaye nor Polispercon and considering that the King was so stoared with engines of artillary and men that they were not able to withstand his so mightie power yelded their cities ¶ The Tarentines desire Cleonyme the Lacedemonian to ayde them against the Lucaines of the villanies and lecheries he committeth and after two mischiefes which in one tyme betyde hym he retireth into Corcyre The .xvj. Chapter WHile the Tarentines warred all this time vppon the Lucaines Romaines in Italy they sent their Ambassadoures to the Lacedemonians into the citie of Sparte praying them that they would send them Cleonime to be their Leader and Generall with a certen numbre of men which thing the Lacedemonians readely graunted them And shortly after Cleonyme leuied in the countrey of Laconie about .v. thousand men with whome he tooke shipping and sailed to Tarent and arryuing there he leuied an other numbre of men in that countrey so that he had well néere about .xx. thousande footemen and two thousand horse amongs which were many Grekes lying then in Italy Of this so great assemble the Lucaines were in such terror that they grewe to an agréement with the Tarentines Howbeit the Metapontines forced not their power for which cause Clonime by the consent of the Tarentines sodenly assailed them Wherewith he put them in such feare that they suffred him vnder the colour of friendship to enter the citie but after he was entred he exacted of them aboue sixe hundred Talents and tooke two hundred of the beautifullest maydes within the Town vnder the Title name of ostages but trueth was it was to saciate his lecherous desire and beastlie luste so as in that and also in diuerse other things he euidently declared hys monstrous and abhominable villanies For besides that he lest wearing of his Grecian apparell and apparelled him after the maner of the most lasciuious and effeminate countrey Ageyne so many as rendred vppon his faith promisse to be assured he made bond And in déed wheÌ„ he had so goodly and mightie an armie he did nothing worthie and beseaming a citizen of Sparte He also tooke on hande to indict warres to Agatocles in Sicâ—â— e to enlarge his tirannyâ— and to restore the Sicilians to their auncient libertie but he to much delayed and deserred hys sayde enterprise and before he went thyther tooke his iorney to Corcyre and brought the citie vnder his obeisaunce of which he leuied a great summe of golde and siluer garrisoned it meaning to kéepe that as a receptacle or refuge whereby he might alwayes be at hand to marke â— spie out the affaires and doings of the Grecians And during the time of his aboad there the Ambassadoures of Demetre and after the Ambassadours of Cassander came to him eche of them praying his alliaunce Howbeit he would not graunt eyther to one or an other but being aduertised that the Tarentines and their neighboures rebelled left sufficient numbre in Corcyre with the reste tooke shipping and sailed with all spéede into Italy to the ende to be reuenged of the rebelles So he arriued at a citie named Tyrice by the Barbarians kepte and by force tooke it sackt it and forraged the territorie therof the lyke dyd he to an other Citie named Tripole where he tooke aboue thrée thousande prisoners After this the Barbarians in that quarter assembled and by night assayled him in his campe and there slew aboue two hundred Souldiours and tooke aboue a thousand prisoners Not long after chaunced hym an other losse at Sea for through a tempest that sodenly arose he lost .xx. sayle of those which rydde néerest his campe at which mishaps he was so greatlie astonied that he retired with the rest of hys armie and Nauie into Corcyre ¶ Cassander and Lysimache attending ayde from Ptolome and Seleuke beginne to warre vppon Antigone the one in Thessalie the other in Asie and do take from him certen Townes Cities and Castels The .xvij. Chapter THe yéere following that Nycocles gouerned Athens and Marke Liuie and Marke Elye were at Rome created Consuls Cassander King of Macedone séeing y e countrey
be deliuered from the gréeuous dominion of Demetre and submitte them to a valiaunt and gentle King who hartely loued and estéemed his Souldiours and men of warre Throughe this and such like talke were the Macedonians Souldiours so moued and affectioned that some first began secretly to mutine and shortly after arose so great mutenie throughout the whole hoste that no mā could make thē kéepe order eyther in the campe or withoute nor yet obey any And the matter at last grew to his ende that some of them were so bolde to come to Demetre and say it was necessarie if he ment to saue him selfe to flie for the Macedonians were so aggréeued to fight any lōger for his pleasure that they would no more abide his Dominion and gouernement whiche wordes to Demetre séemed very louing and honest considering the common voyce and rumour throughout the armie Wherefore he thought it not good to tarrie for any more motions but with that retired at once into his tent and after despoyled him of his hablementes royall ◠nd put on a minstrels garment and with a small companie fledde After it was noysed he was gone the greater numbre of his Souldiours ranne to his tente and there straue for the butine but Pyrrhe vnderstanding therof sodenly came vppon them and made them all retire And incontinent as the Souldiours sée him they al with one voyce receyued and saluted him as their King and he thereby seized of the armie and spoyle of Demetre But shortly after thyther came Lysimache and there deuided they betwene them the realme of Macedone which Demetre had about .vij. yeares held and enioyed ¶ After Demetre his flight out of Macedone he besiegeth the Citie of Athens whiche rebelled from whence he departed without taking it and goeth into Asie to warre on Seleuke After he hath taken many Cities he is so sore pressed on that he sendeth towardes Seleuke to conclude a peace and vppon the refusall he ageyne commenceth the warres and winneth on him certen victories The .ix. Chapter WHen Demetre was fled out of Macedone as hath ben said and gotten with all diligence to the citie of Cassander Phile his wife being there after she had intelligence in what sorte he was come was therewith so displeased and desperate that she could not be persuaded to sée him so fled and in such aduersitie cōsidering that fortune was more constaunt in hir aduersities than permanent in hir prosperities Wherefore euē werie of hir life she tooke poyson so died Notwithstanding Demetre departed thence and with all spéede went into Grece and there assembled as many shippes as he found whole and sounde and the residue of his armie determining once ageyne to put them in a redynesse and so pursue his enterprise lamenting neuerthelesse his Fortune and aduersitie as King Menelaye according to Sophocles in these wordes lamented his Alas my Fortune and chaunce incessauntly tourneth as doth the whéele of a Myl and as the Moone which neuer in one forme and estate continueth two whole nightes togyther but at the beginning altereth hir figure as if she came out of a darke place by little and little shewing hir selfe vntill she come to the full after by the same degrées decreaseth vntill she hath lost hir whole light Euen so may truly be spoken of Demetre his Fortune who after the losse of Macedone going into a priuate habite through the Townes of Grece without any princely tokens and signes one which sée him in the Citie of Thebes in this estate sayd of him the verses of Euripide making much to this purpose and in this effect Who sometime was most like the forme deuine And now to forme humaine conuerte agayne Is come to Cyrces fountaynes cleare and fine And Ismenius Ryuer there to lyue doth daine Neuerthelesse Fortune shortly after somewhat returning in his fauoure restoring his power whiche in hys first estate séemed to be clerely or very néere extinguished purposed by a singular benefite worthie memorie in restoring it to his first and auncient libertie to win the beneuolence and loue of the citie of Thebes In the same season newes were brought him how that Deiphile gouernour of the citie of Athens was dead and another according to their customes and orders placed in hys roome and that they were reuolted and rebelled ageinst Demetre And when they vnderstoode his power to be greater than they supposed they sent into Macedon to King Pyrrhe to desire his ayde wherat Demetre was so angrie to sée that Citie so often times rebell which he so many times had conquered and to be so lightly from him reuolted which he alwayes hadde so gently and curteously entreated that he incontinent with his whole power departed thence to sea and went so besiege it But after he had ben there certeyn dayes Crathe the Philosopher a mā then in great authoritie renoumed in the citie came with the Citizens Ambassadoures towardes him and by diuerse reasons persuaded him to raise his siege and departe and take some other enterprise in hande whiche might be more profitable At whose persuasions Demetre hauing another enterprise in his hed quieted him self and went his way And incontinent assembled his shippes and all his men of warre to the numbre of .xj. thousande able men or more and with them spéedely sayled into Asie to the intent to winne from Lysimache the Countreys of Lydie and Carie. But as he drew neere the citie of Mylette he met Euridice sister to Phile his late wife bringing Ptolomaide whom Ptolome by Seleuke his meane had graūted him for his wife and there forthwith by the consent of Euridice espoused hir After the celebratiō of the marriage he went about his enterprises and at his arriuall tooke by assault many cities the rest without resistance rendred amongs which the citie of Sardes garrisoned by Lysimache his Souldiours was one whiche with the armie and treasure they had of his in kéeping came and yelded to Demetre But after he vnderstood that Agathocles Lysimache his sonne came with a mightie power that waye against him he departed thence into Phrygie thinking that if he could get and enioye the countrey of Armenie he might after easely trouble the Region of Mede and thereby bring the hier Prouinces vnder hys subiectiō And during the time that he marched through the playne countrey Agathocles dayly pursued him so néere that they had many skirmishes togyther wherein Demetre had alwayes the better Neuerthelesse he sée many discommodities whiche hindred him from the attayning the chief and principall matter of his enterprise The one was the great lacke and want of victuals both for men and horsse Wherfore the Souldiours séeing them in that necessitie doubted he would lead thē into Armenie but there chaunced him an other mishap For as he passed ouer the ryuer of Lis a great number of his men which knew not well the depth swamme ouer whereat the rest were so
and eyght hundred of the choiâ— est horses within the armie farther directed his letters vnto the Satrapes in these quarters coÌ„maunding theÌ„ to â—â— euie for him ten thousande footemen and eyght thousand horse When Phiton had taken vpon him this charge and addict to atchieue hie and waightie enterprises he hoped vnder that colour through his curteous gentle entreating to winne the loue of the Grekes and so thereby to encrease his power and get great signories and dominions But Perdicas knowing the haultinesse of his minde courage had already conceyued that whiche he pryuily imagined and therfore willed and commaunded him that so sone as he had vanquished and ouercome the Grekes his enimies he should foorthwith do execution on them al and giue the spoyle to his men of warre After Pithon had receyued of him those souldiers that the Satrapes had deliuered him the rest he merched against the rebelles with his whole powre and by the meane of Eniane a Greke he by corruption wanne Lipodore one of the captaynes of horsemen to the rebelles and therby easely ouerthrewe the enimie For although they were the greater number and of more force yet the victorie beyng vncertayne the traytour Lipodore retired with his troupe of thrée thousande horse towardes an hill hard by whom wheÌ„ the rest of the souldiers perceiued they stoode in suche amaze thinking him to flie that they all fled at ones By reason wherof Pithon obtayned victorie and foorth with caused to sound the trumpet and made proclamation that so many as were escaped shoulde cast of their armoure and peaceably depart home to their owne houses with the one halfe of their goods which incontinent was done But the Macedonians calling to remembraunce the commaundement of Perdicas they without regarde of the peace graunted to them by Phiton which they also had coÌ„firmed with their othes by and by with shot ouerthrew and kildâ— all the Captiues and foorth with butyned their goods When Pithon sée that he was put beside his enterprise he immediatly returned with the Macedonians towardes Perdicas And in this case stoode the state of Asie ¶ Of the warres whiche the Athenians make against Antipater called the Lamian warre The fourth Chapter AFter that the Rhodians expulsed the Macedonians garrison amongs them and the Athenians made preparation to warre against Antipater called the Lamian warre bicause of the siege of Lamie But first before I procéede any further I thinke it very necessarie to make report of the occasions of the sayde warres to the ende that the déedes and factes of warres exployted in the same may with more ease be vnderstood of the Reader whiche were these Not long before Alexander died he purposed to cal home againe al the exiles and bannished men of the Cities of Grece and restore them to their mansion places and dwelling houses thinking that that woulde greatly redound to his honour and fame and therby he might haue a number of men in euery citie to be his Pertisannes or garde if the rest at any time tooke in hande or enterprised any mutany or would reuolt Wherfore he seyng the time of the Olimpiad at hand he sent thether Nicanor the Stagerite with letters conteyning the edict of the sayde restitution straightly charging and commaunding him in the ende of y e assemble to make proclamation by the sounde of the Trumpets victors of the said letters which thing he speedily did The tenor of which letters hereafter ensue Alexander the great king of Macedone to the bannished and exiles of Grece gréetyng We haue not ben the cause of this your exile and bannishement but rather are a meane that ye may retourne home except such as haue offended against the sacred lawe Wherfore we haue addressed our letters to Antipater concerning the same strayghtly charging and commaundyng hym if any the cities refuse to do this our commaundement that he foorth with enforce and compell them When these letters had ben proclaymed and red the people therof were maruelous glad And bicause the thing pleased the multitude they made such a noyse and showte that it was heard vnto y e heaueÌ„s for as much as ther were aboue twentie thousande exiles who all auerred sayde that the same restitution was for the common wealth of the whole state countrey of Grece But the Etholians and Athenians were therwith euill apayd greatly displeased bycause y e Etholians feared to be plagued for the oultrage they had coÌ„mitted against Eniade whoÌ„ they chased expulsed their land knowing for certain y e the king had sworne that not only his neuewes others descending from his line but also the exiles and bannished them selues woulde be reuenged for the iniurie done to him Againe the Athenians in no wyse determined to rendre the Isle of Damie whiche they had deuided amongest them selues to those whom before they had expulsed But bicause it lay not in them to resist the powre of Alexander they endured the case always awayting oportunitie which in the end at vnwares happened them For after they had hearde newes that Alexander was dead without heires they then boldly enterprised not only to set them selues at libertie but also tooke vpon theÌ„ the gouernement of all Grece hauing great affiaunce that they were able to mainteine warres against all the worlde by reason of the maruelous amasse of money which they not long before had gotten by the death of Harpale recited by vs in the booke precedent with whiche they waged the mercenaries whom the Satrapes had left in Asie to the number of eyght thousande or more lying then at Teuare in the countrey of Peloponnese Wherfore they gaue secret commaundement to Leosthenes the Athenian to take vpon him as it were at his owne costes charges to wage them makyng them beléeue he woulde without knowledge of the Citie enterprise some notable exploit to the ende that Antipater who made no great estimate of hym or his doyngs shoulde haue little regarde to make agaynst hym wherby they might haue leysure and time to prepare for all such necessarie hablements and engines of warre as were méete for the purpose which thing in déede was done For Leosthenes at his pleasure assembled the sayde men of warre so that he had gotten a bande of valiaunte and lustie Souldiers and of great experience bycause they had serued in many sundry notable warres in Asia All this was done before there came any sure knowledge of the death of Alexander But after certayn which came from Babilon had giuen it out that they sée him dead the Athenians arrered open warres and sent immediatly to Leosthenes some part of Harpale his money together w t great stoare of Armoure weapon willing him no longer to dissemble the matter but openly to beginne to warre as to hym should séeme for the best When Leosthenes had receyued the money he then according to his promise payde al his souldiers their wages aswell the vnarmed as
ennimie mente or durst to do Thus had the Grecians in all their affaires by lande prosperos successe But after the Athenians vnderstood that the Macedonians were of great power by sea they caused many new ships of warre to be buylt so that they had in all C◠xx saile But Clite Admirall of the Macedonian Nauie hauing alwais about CCxl saile twise chased and vanquished Ethion Admirall to the Athenians slew manie of his people about the Isles Ethimades Perdicas ouercommeth Ariarathe and restoreth to Eumenes the Countrey of Cappadoce The seauenth Chapter IN this meane time Perdicas hauing with him King Phillip and his armie royall purposed to warre vppon Ariarathe of Cappadoce Who neuer during the life of Alexander would at anie time be subiect to the Macedonians And the cause why Alexander suffred him peaceably to enioy the same was that he had suche notable warres with King Darie that he neuer forced of Ariarathe so that he peaceably held and enioyed that countrey of Cappadoce many yeares By reason whereof he became so rich and of such great wealth that he had waged a great numbre aswel Cappadocians as straungers with whome he thought to defend him selfe and his Realme against Perdicas if at any tyme he attempted to pierce and inuade his countrey He had about xxx thousand footemen x. thousand horse Notwithstanding when they came to battaill he and all his armie was quite discomfited and ouerthrowen wherof about iiij thousand slaine and aboue v. thousand prisoners taken of which numbre him selfe was one who with all his kinsfolks and allies were hanged This done Perdicas proclaimed peace to the whole Countrey restored to the Gouernement thereof Eumenes Cardian who was before assigned vnto it at the first particion of the Prouinces ¶ Antipater in fight vanquisheth the Grecian armie◠putteth in subiection the greater numbre of the Cities of Grece and Athenes and in the end restoreth them to libertie The eight Chapter IN this meane season was Cratere come out of Cilice into Macedone accompained with vj. thousand footemen of y e most expert souldiours that serued Alexandre when he first inuaded Asie And vpon the way he tooke vp iiij thousand Persian Archers a thousand Slings or Shot and a thousand horse to aide Antipater and to reuenge the oultrage committed by the Grekes against the Macedonians But so sone as he was come into Thessalie he voluntarily gaue the principall charge and conduct to Antipater praying him to take vpon him the office of L. Generall of the army So they encamped together about the Riuer Pene and one day mustering the army accompting those which came with Leonate they had xl thousand footemen well armed iij. thousand archers and slings and about v. thousand horse Notwithstanding the Grekes feared nothing but encamped right ouer against them albeit they were the weaker and febler companie by reason that a great numbre of them for their many victories before obtained were so hault and proude that without weting or knowledge of their Captaines they were gone home so that the Captaynes being not obeyed nor the Souldiers at commaūdement there remayned not behind aboue xxv thousand footemen and iij. thousand v. hundred horse in which nmubre of horse laye consisted the only hope of victorie both for their valiaunt courages also bycause the countrey was playne and champion Antipater daylie offred battaill but the Grekes remained quiet kept their camp loking still for aide from the cities of Grece But they were by the enimy so long oppressed and gréeued that of force they must in the end abide and put all to the hazard of battaill And bycause they desired that the horsemen shold first charge they placed them as it were for their voward before the Phalange of footemē And when Antipater sée that the Thessalians at the first encountre and charge had gottē the better he commaunded his Phalāge to marche against the maine battaill of the Grekes whome they so fiercely greeued and pressed that in lesse than an houre they had almost slaine the whole Grecian Phalange And at last the Grecians seing them selues no longer able to abyde the brunt nor maintayne the fight retired in good order to battaill to the straight passages towardes a moūtayne where by reason of the aduaūtage of the place they with greater ease defended them selues from the power and force of the Macedonians And albeit the Grecian horse were to harde and bettered the Macedonians yet they seing their footemen so retired yelded them selues to the enimie so by that meane the Macedonians wanne the honour of the battaill in which were slaine about v. hundred Grekes and Cxxx. Macedonians The next day in the mornyng Memnon and Antiphile chiefe leaders of the Grecian armie assembled their Captaynes and called a counsayll wherein was proposed two questions First whether it were good to abide and tarrie for the ayde and help of the cities of Grece aud continue the warre vntill they were of as great powre as the enimie or whether it were better considering the time to sende vnto them to treat a peace so they agreed vpon the last Whervpon they sent Ambassadoures to Antipater who aunswered he woulde not at one instant condescende and agrée to conclude a peace with al the whole cities of Grece but if they woulde euery of them perticulerly sende their Ambassadoures to him that then he was content to heare them and otherwise not whervnto the Greekes in no wise would agrée Whyle the warres still continued Antipater and Cratere besieged the citie of Thessalie to the ende wherof the Greekes were not able to come wherefore the Citizens beyng sore distressed and in great daunger rendred the towne to Antipater whom he receyued into fauoure and shewed him selfe so gently and curteous towardes them y e shortly after al the rest of the cities of Grece euery of them particulerly yelded to Antipater with whom he accorded peace And farther they clerely forsooke both the Athenians and Etholians vtter ennemies to the Macedonians who séeing them selues so reiected tooke counsayll of their captaynes for the mayntenaunce of the warres When Antipater had by such Stratageme separated and dispersed the Greekes he then with all his powre made preparation against the Athenians who séeing them selues vnprouided of aide succoure of their friendes and allies were greatly astonied wherfore they al agréed y e Demades the famous Orator shold be sent to Antipater to treate a peace which he refused to do And although they had called him to counsaile he woulde not come thyther bycause he had ben before thrice condemned of the priuie Counsell or Senate as an insringer of the Lawes forbidden to aske for him selfe the ayde or benefite of the Lawes and to declare his opinion in the Counsaill Neuerthelesse for the cause aforesaid the communaltie incontinent forgaue him and sent him to Antipater accompanied with Phocion and certen other Citizens whome Antipater after their Ambassade
the Libians one daye among the rest finding abrode disordered discomfited ouerthrew of which some were slaine other were taken prisoners the rest recouered thire shippes and went to sea meaning to arriue at some Port where they might finde friendship But sodenly arose so gréeuous and vehement a tempest y t it perished and drowned manie of their shippes and such as escaped were driuen with winde and weather into Cypers and vpon the coast of Egypt Yet for all this ill fortune he neuer desisted his purpose and attempt but without stoppe sent certeyn of his chiefe and assured friēds into Peloponese to mustre and take vp Souldiers willing them also to entertaine the two thousand men of warre straungérs lying and abyding in the Countrey of Tenare and to bring them also into Libie All this time the Cirenians by reason of the late ouerthrowes by them gyuen trusting in their owne courages and hoping well of better successe boldly attempted Thymbron with battaill wherein they vanquished kild a great numbre of his people which conflict made him almost despaire of the conquering and subduing the Cyrenians But sodenly came in his ayde the Souldiers of Tenare wherewith he tooke such harte that he a fresh assembled an other great numbre to commence and beginne his warres But when the Cyrenians sée that they by and by sent to the Libians Chartagians their neighbours requiring ayde so that with them and of their owne Citie they had gotten together about xxx thousand men with whom they arrered an other great army wherein on eyther side cōsisted and depended the whole and totall victorie And although the fight endured long yet in the end Thymbron obtayned victorie whereof he was right ioyous hoping then in short time to conquere and subdue all the Cities thereabout In whiche conflict the Cirenians lost al their Captaynes wherfore they chose for their Chieftayne and Generall Mnasicles and other vnder him to defend the hauen and Citie whiche Thimbron had before besieged and yet still dayly approched But in the ende the siege so long continued that victuals within the Towne were verie scarse which caused great muteny wherfore the Cirenians expulsed the most worshipfull and riche Citisens whereof some tooke part with Thimbron and the rest went for rescous into Egypt and desired ayde of Ptolome for their retourne home whereunto he graunted So they departed thense towards Sirene with a puissaunt army both by sea and lande vnder the conduct of Orphellon When the exiles with Thimbron vnderstood of their cōming they determined by night to steale vpon them and so to rob and spoyle them but their enterprise being reuealed and discouered they were all slayne Then the Cōmoners which kept the Towne perceyuing the exiles at hand truced with Thimbron and ioyned together to fight against Orphellon who encountred them in battaill and ouerthrew them tooke Thimbron prisoner Whē al these conflictes had thus taken end he toke the Citie of Cirene the rest of the Cities neare about whiche before liued at libertie to the behoofe of Ptolome his Lorde and Soueraigne ¶ Perdicas entring Piside taketh the Lauradians prisoners by siege so distresseth the Isaurians that they kil them selues And at the entreatie of Antigone Antipater and Cratere which warred vpon the Etholians conclude a peace with them bycause they would go against Perdicas The x. Chapter BUt now to returne to Perdicas and King Phillip after they had ouerthrowen and discomfited Ariarathe and bestowed the gouernement of Cappadoce on Eumenes they tooke their iourney into Pisided etermining to sacke raze the Cities of Laurade and Isaure bycause that they in the life of King Alexander had slaine Balacre the Sonne of Nicanor whom Alexander had deputed their Patrone and Gouernour And first by force they tooke the Citie of Laurade and killed all the men and made portsale of their infaunts and yong children But bycause the Citie of the Isaurians was strong and throughly manned to hold out the enimy after they had two dayes besieged it wherin many of their Souldiers were lost they seing the Citisens wel furnished of all things for the defence thereof fully determined to maintayne it to death retired howbeit after thrée dayes past they agayne approched the wals and gaue a fresh assault which the Citisens to their great losse manfully defended wherfore being thē disfurnished of able men for the manning of their wals rampiers and Bulwarks they purposed an honorable fact worthy memorie First foreséeing their iminent destruction ineuitable by reason they were no lenger able to resist and knowing for certein that they should shamefully and villaniously be entreated they therefore determined rather than to yelde to the enimy to die an honest and honorable death For first they shut vp in their houses the old men women and children and to the ende there to burie them they set all the houses on fire which being on a light and the flame issuing out on euery side they cast in all their mouable goodes and all other things which any way might be profitable or gaynefull to the enimy whereat Perdicas greatly amased commaunded his Souldiers to enuiron the Towne and gyue the attempt to the wals but the Townesmen so valiaunly defended the curten that they ones agayne repulsed the assaylaunts Then Perdicas much more astonied enquired the cause why they so couragiously stoode to the defence of the Citie considering they had burnt both their houses and goods But after Perdicas had retiered his Souldiers from the assault the Isaurians threwe them selues into the fier and so were buried in their houses with their friends and familiers The next day in the morning Perdicas licenced his soldiers to sacke and spoyle the Citie who after the fier was throughly put out found infinite treasure of gold siluer forasmuch as the said Citie had long continued without warres and through traffique great trade of merchaundise grew to great wealth and became very riche When Perdicas had wonne these two townes he purposed thē to marry being in choyse of two Gentlewomen to saye of Nice the daughter of Antipater whome he had already fianced and of Cleopatre sister to Alexander the great and daughter to king Phillip sonne to Amint. But first he determined to allie himself with Antipater bicause his puissaunce and aucthority was not yet throughly confirmed established and therfore fianced he his daughter But after he had once obtayned an army royal princily estate he altered his purpose meaning for his greater aduaūcement to espouse Cleopatre wherin he affected the kingdom of Macedone to y e ende the Macedonians might accept and take him for their Lorde and Soueraigne Neuerthelesse bycause he would not that this his practise should come to light he in the meane while married Nice fearing that if he did not Antipater woulde be come his vtter enemy But after he perceyued that Antigone friende to Antipater had smelt out
Attale and Alcete with their Abettors and friends enimies and rebelles Of Attale his retire into the Citie of Tyre ◠and consequently how he afresh assembleth all Perdicas escaped friends The .xiiij. Chapter INcontinent after the death of Perdicas newes were brought that Eumenes had ouerthrowen and slayne Cratere and Neoptolome in Cappodoce which newes if they had come and ben knowē before Perdicas death there was not one amongs them vnderstanding the prosperous successe of victory done in his fauoure and behalfe that once durst haue laid hands on him But after he was dead the Macedonians for the déedes aforesaid adiudged Eumenes an enimy and condempned man and L. great personages with him amongs whome was Alcete Perdicas his brother They slewe also all Perdicas chiefe and principall friendes and his owne sister Athalante Attale his wife then Admirall and abyding at Peluse But after he vnderstood of Perdicas death and his wife he immediatly loused thence and with all the furniture of his Nauie sayled vnto the Citie of Tyre whome Archelay the Macedonian Captayne of the Castle there gently receyued and entreated and rendred to him the towne and all the treasure which Perdicas had deliuered him to kéepe amounting to the summe of viij C. Talents Then Attale abyding still at Tyre assembled brought together all Perdicas friends which diuerse wayes had escaped from the discomfiture ouerthrow gyuen before the Citie of Memphis ¶ The Etholians to put Antipater from his enterprise entre Thessalie who are constrayned by the Acarnanians to returne into their countrey and in what sorte Polispercō conquereth the coūtrey of Thessalie The .xv. Chapter WHat time Antipater was come into Asie the Etholians who had leagued with Perdicas warred on Thessaly to the ende to put Antipater from his enterprise and thereupon they mustered and gotte together .xij. thousand footemen and .iiij. thousand horse and appoynted Alexander the Etholian their Generall But as they marched on the waye they besieged the Locrians and spoyled and fouraged their territories and tooke certen of their smallest townes They discomfited also in battaill Policles one of Antipaters Captaynes and slew a numbre of their soldiers of those prisoners which they tooke they ransomed some sold the rest But after they were entred Thessaly they persuaded many of the people of the coūtrey to ioyne with thē against Antipater in y e warre so that in short time they had leuied about .xxv. thousand footmen and viij thousand horse When the Acarnanians enimies to the Etholians apperceyued that the other Cities ioyned and tooke parte with them they entred their Countrey wasted and spoiled their fields besieged certain of their townes whereof the Etholians aduertised appointed and ordeyned Memnon of Pharsale their Captayne and generall in Thessaly they them selues spéedily returned home at whose comming the Acarnanians trembled feared by that meane their coūtrey was deliuered from daunger spoyle While these matters were in deciding Polyspercon Gouernour of the realme of Macedone entred Thessaly with an army royal wel appointed ouerthrew his enimies in battaill and slewe Memnon their chieftayne with many other and thereby recouered the whole Countrey of Thessaly ¶ Antipater being constituted Gouernour of the Kings a new deuideth the Satrapies The .xvj. Chapter THen departed Python and Aride protectours of the Kings with their army from the Riuer of Nile and went to Triparadice in the hier Siry And after they were thether come and apperceyued that Quéene Euridice had taken vpon hir greater care and charge about the affaires of the realme than was méete or requisite that she should and that she was clerely against all things that the Gouernours meant to do and that they had no obedience of the army they assembled all the Macedonians And after they had declared vnto them their minds and purposes they discharged them selues of their gouernement and aucthority Then the Macedonians fully and wholy those Antipater gouernour of the kings Howbeit Antipater was no sooner come to Triparadice but y t he found Quéene Euridice practizing and suborning the mē of warre against him Neuerthelesse although they were as then very mutinous yet assembled he them and with fair and gracious woords so wanne their good willes that be appaysed that mutinie put Euridice in such feare that she desisted from all mutinies and practizes and became most quiet This done he a new deuided the Satrapies and gouernements of the Prouinces And first he leaft to Ptolome the regiō of Egipt which he already possessed the reason was bycause he knew not well how to put him besides it forsomuche as Ptolome thought that that which he had he had gottē and held it by his owne strength To Laomedon of Mythilene he gaue the countrey of Syrie To Philoxene Cilice And for the other Sapatries in the hie countreys he bestowed on Amphimacke Mesopotamie and Arbelite To Seleucke he gaue Babylon To Antigone Fusiane bycause he was the first that assailed Perdicas To Pencete Perside To Neoptolome Carnanie To Phillip Parthe To Scasandre Cyprian Arie Draucine To Stasanor Soliene Bactriane Sogdiane To Oxiarte the father of Roxāne wife to Alexander he gaue the Paropanisades And that parte of Inde which ioyned on the Paropanisades he gaue to Python the sonne of Agenor And the realmes thereto adioyning he gaue to the Kings which before enioyed them to say those next the riuer Inde to Pore and those about the riuer Hidaspe to Taxille bycause he was not able to expulse them without sending an army royall and the most of his chiefe and noble Captaynes But touching the Prouinces towardes the North To Nicanor he gaue Capadoce To Antigone Licie which he before occupied To Cassander Carie To Clyte Helie To Aride the part of Phryge ioyning vpon Hellespont He farther constituted Antigone Marshall or chief ruler of the army commaunding him to warre vpon Eumenes and Alcete Neuerthelesse he ioyned with him as a compaignion in the said charge Cassander his owne sonne Captayne of a cohort of a thousand men to the end Antigone should enterprise nothing to his own particularity but that Antipater would be aduertised therof These things finished he departed with the army royal to conduct the Kings into Macedone their chiefe seat and habitation ¶ Antigone vanquisheth Eumenes and besiegeth the Citie of Nore The .xvij. Chapter WHen Antigone as aforesaid was nominated and appointed generall to go into Asie against Eumenes and had gotten together his men of warre which lay in garrison to winter and made ready al things necessarie for warre he tooke his iourney against Eumenes abiding in Cappadoce It fortuned that season that Perdicas one of Eumenes Captaynes rebelled led away .iij. thousand footemen and .v. hundred horse with whom he had encamped and enpalled in a strong place thrée dayes iourneis from him Wherfore Eumenes sent against him an other of his Captaynes named Tenede a Phenician to whome he deliuered foure thousande
Souldioures with verie great plentie of shotte or slings who stoutly fought with them which manned the walles toures bulwarkes He vndermined likewise thrée of their toures and one parte of the curte◠and after gaue fire to the mynes and ouerthrew them When the Macedonians see the ouerthrowe of them they made a great outcrie wherat the townesmen were maruellously dismayed to see their curten layde on grounde Neuerthelesse when they see the Macedonian◠force to enter the breache of the toures and walles they deuided themselues into two bands wherof one band stode to the defence and through the aduaunting and difficultie of the passages where the enimie wold haue entred they valiātly repulsed them The other band made new rampiers and bulwarks more within the towne so that bisides the wall or curten which was ouerthrown they did make an other curten and trenche a good distaunce from the first workyng day and night vntill they had ended and finished it furnishing the same wyth shotte and engines of artillerie wherwith they sore hurt and galled the enimie vpon the toures of woode so that on eche side were many hurte and slayne vntill nyght approched and then Polyspercon cau◠ed to sounde the retraite and retired into his campe The next day in the morning he gaue a freshe assault and wanne the breache◠commaundyng hys Pyoners to cast abroade the rubbishe and greate stones whyche lay on heapes into the dytches and trenches for smoothing and playnyng the grounde that hys Elephauntes myght come neere bycause then they woulde greately helpe to winne and take the towne But the Megalopolitains through the wisedome and conducte of Damides who had long serued with Alexander in Asie knewe the nature of Elephantes founde an excellent remedie against them and through his policie and trauail made those monstrous and terrible beasts vnprofitable and able to do nothing in maner as foloweth First he caused many doores and gates to be made thrust them full of great pinnes and layde them within the little shallowe ditches wyth the poyntes of the pynnes vpwarde and couered them with mouldes of earth and suche lyght stuffe that they mighte not bée seene and when the enimie came to assaile to place on euery syde a strong companie of shot of all sortes and none before so y e Polyspercon séeing none to resist at the front of the entrie brought on hys Elephantes through the breache into the towne But as soone as they came to the place where the ditches were they by reason of their heauinesse so hurt their féete that they could neither go forwarde nor backwarde chiefly bicause of the violence of the shotte whiche came so thicke agaynste them on the side that the greater parte of the Ind◠ans their leaders were sore hurt or slaine not able to gouerne them and the beastes f◠lyng them selues hurte returned in great disorder against theyr owne people and maruellously hurt them and in the end the mightiest and fiercest fell downe deade and the rest able to doe no good ouerthrewe theyr owne companie When the Megalopolitanes sée that they hadde thus repulsed the enimie they were delyuered from al feare and waxed very proude After Clyte hath ouerthrowne at sea Cassander he is through the wisedome of Antigone soone after discomfited and finally slaine in his flight The .xxx. Chapter AFter this repulse Polyspercon repented hym that he had besieged the Citie before it was néedefull And bicause he would lose no time he left one part of his armie at the siege and with the rest he intended some greater and more necessarie exploites Wherfore he sente Clyte Admirall wyth hys whole Armie into Hellespont to stoppe his enimies for passing oute of Asie into Europe commaunding him to call vppon Aride to accompanie him abyding with hys armie in the Citie of Cyane for feare of Antigone his enimie When Clyte had sayled and was come to the passage of Hellespont and had taken in Aride and hys menne of warre and wonne to be his confederates the Cities of Proponetie Nicanor capitaine of Munychie was sent by Cassander with all the shippes there with a certaine companie of other Souldiers whych Antigone had also sente to the numbre of one hundreth and encountred Clyte about Bizance So he gaue him battaile but Clyte wonne the victorie in which he soonke .xvij. sayle of Nicanors and prized fortie and the men within them The rest packt on sayles and fledde into the porte of Calcedone After whyche ouerthrowe Clyte thought that hys ennimies durst no more encounter him at sea by reason of theyr greate losse Notwithstandyng Antigone aduertized of the sayde conflict shortly after thorough his wisedome and diligence amended and requited the same For be founde a meane to gette from the Bizances a certaine numbre of small ships which he furnyshed and charged with stoare of shotte and nimble and quicke footemen and sent them into Enrope who being landed before the daunyng of the day gaue the alarme to Clyte and hys Souldiers encamped on the lande whome they so disordered that they retired to theyr shyppes out of aray leauyng the greater parte of theyr baggage behynde them and many that did tarrie for the sauyng thereof were slaine or taken prisoners In the meane while Antigone furnished hys greatest shyppes wyth his best and most trained Souldiers and also a greate numbre of Maryners declaryng vnto them that if they would lustyly assayle and boorde the ennimie he would warrante them bothe great honoure and also victorie In pursuing which commaundement Nicanor departed that night and sped him with such diligence that about the day breake he wyth suche deuoire assayled and boorded the enimie that findyng them at his arriuall oute of order he put them to flight In whiche flight some of the ennimies shippes were sore shaken and broosed and the reste wholly rendred and became subiecte to Nicanor excepte the Admirall in whyche Clyte escaped Neuerthelesse after he was sette on lande and hoped safely to passe thorough the countrey of Thrace into Macedone he was by certayne of Lysimache his Souldiers encountred on the way and slaine ¶ Eumenes vnderstanding that Antigone is commyng against him departeth out of the countrey of Cilice And when he hath by his wysedome and industrie escaped in the way the handes and ambushes of Seleuke he commeth into Perse. The .xxxj. Chapter FOr this noble and honorable victorie Antigone was greatly esteemed wan thereby much glory reputation therfore fully minded to be lord of the seas and emperor of Asie wherfore he chose out of his whole armie .2000 footmen .4000 horse with whō he spéedily marched into Cilice against Eumenes thinking to ouerthrow him before such time as he might assemble a greter army But Eumenes being aduertised of his commyng albeit he was willing to recouer in the name of the Kings the Countrey of Phenicie whiche Ptolome vniustly enioyed séeing that the time then serued not and especially bicause he
still looked for the comming of Antigone went from Phenicie with his whole armie and with great spéede came through the countrey of Celosirie for that he ment to get vpon the hie Countrey of Syrie And when he was néere the riuer Tygris the people of the Countrey by night assailed him and slue some of his souldiers From thence marched he into the countrey of Babilon where Seleucke also assailed him about the riuer Eufrates being in danger of loosing al his whole armie bicause an arme of the Riuer which woonted to run through an olde ditche was broken vp by Seleucke his souldioures so that all Eumenes campe was ouerflowed But through his wisdom and industrie he retired vnto an hill and caused the entrie and mouth of the said ditch to be stopped vp and turned the entercourse of the water so by that meanes he readily saued bothe his person and armie from the hands of Seleucke with the losse of fiftene thousand foote men thrée thousand horsse marched on into the Countrey of Perse. And after he had there a while soiourned his soldiers yet through their long trauaile sore wearied he sent towardes the Satrapes and gouernours of the higher Prouinces commaunding them to send him men and money And these were the things done that yeare in Asie ¶ The Athenians make a perfect amitie and inuiolable peace with Cassander and allie with him After he killeth Nicanor and bringeth the greater number of the Cities of Greece to his alliaunce The .xxxij. Chapter AFter Polispercon had shamefully bene repulsed frō the siege of Megalopolis in Europe his credite began maruellously to empaire and abate so that manye of the cities of Grece reuolted from the kings to Cassander And when the Athenians saw that neither through the helpe of Polispercon or Olympias they could expulse the garrison from Pire some of the worshipfullest of the Citie presumed and tooke vpon them to propose before the assemble of the people that it should be very méete and expedient to make alliance with Cassander But bicause many were of the contrary opinion there arose great contention amongs them Neuerthelesse after they had considered their commoditie and profite they all thought it the surest way to send their Ambassadors to Cassander to agrée with him in the best manner they might Who after many dayes of parle and treatie compounded with him as foloweth First that the Athenians taking part with Cassander should holde occupie and enioy in quiet and peaceable possession their citie and territorie with the reuenues together their ships and all other their appurtenances Item that the town of Munychie should continue and remaine in the possession of Cassander vntill he had finished the warres against the Kings Also that the gouernaunce therof should be in the richest and welthiest men and such as might at least dispend .x. Minas of reuenue by yeare Moreouer that the gouernor thereof should be a Citizen such one as Cassandre wold nominate appoint These articles agreed vpō Cassander deputed Demetre Phalare ruler of y e Citie who peaceably gently gouerned it After Nicanor was arriued at Pirey with his victorious army Cassāder receyued him honorably But whē he sée him shortly after to be ouer glorious insolēt that Munychie was garrisoned by his souldiers he therfore fearing some secrete mischief traiterously put him to death This done he made a voyage into Macedone w t whom he ioyned a nūber of the borderers there Many Cities of Grece likewise as it were with a violēt desire drew to his alliaunce bicause they thought y e Polispercon vnwisely and cowardly ruled gouerned the affairs of y e kings and his allies and that Cassander was towards all men curteous gentle and painful in all his affaires businesse many there were y t tooke his part The ende of the first Booke ¶ The second Booke ¶ Of certaine matters bothe by the Romaines and the Crotonians exploited in Italie The .j. Chapiter THe same yeare that Demogene was Prince of Athens and Luce Phoce and Manius Faluy were Consuls at Rome the ninth yeare of the warres betwéene the Romaines and the Samnites the Romaines warred not so opēly as they had vpon them the yeares before vsed but by farrages and pillages wasted and spoyled the Countrey of y e Samnites without any other déede worthie the talke And after the same maner they spoyled and wasted the countrey of Damie in the Region of Pouylle and there by composition tooke the Citie of Canouse enforcing the Cities to rēder them hostages and pledges bringing likewise vnder their obeisance the Cities of Phalerne and Ophartine At that tyme had the Crotonians made an appointment with the Brutians that they might the better continue and maintayne the warres against the exiles of their citie who were recōciled to Heraclides Sosistrate as we haue declared in the booke precedent And bycause the same warres had alreadie continued two yeares they chose for their Captayns and Chieftaynes of warre that yeare Paron and Menedeme men greatly renowmed for their experiēce in martiall factes and warlike pollicies Notwithstanding the exiles of Thury by night came w t thrée hundred marcenaries and thought by stealth to take the Citie of Crotone Howbeit they were repulsed Wherefore they retired into the territorie of the Brutians shortly after were discomfited and ouerthrowen there by the said Crotonians who charged them with mightie power And for this time we will leaue speaking of the things done in Italie and make mention of those exploited in the other partes of Europe ¶ Olympias Alexander his mother by meane of Polispercon obtayneth the gouernement of the Realme of Macedone causeth King Philip and Euridice his wife to be executed and besides vseth many other cruelties The .ij. Chapter IN that season Quéene Euridice who had the ordering and disposing of the affaires of Macedone vnderstanding that Olympias made preparatiō to come into the said Realme sent a messanger of hirs to Cassander in Peloponese praying him that he would out of hand come to helpe and ayde hir And through great giftes and large promises she wan the Princes Barons of Macedone Notwithstanding Polispercon assembled a mightie armie and with the King of Epyre accompanied and conducted the sayde Olympias together the sonne of Alexander into the realme of Macedone And when Olympias had intelligence that Euridice was with hir armie encamped in a countrey of the Realme called Ema she with an armie made all possible spéede against hir determining to hazarde all in one battaile But so soone as the two armies were aranged in order to fight the Macedonians with Euridice seing the person of Olympias so reuerenced hir for the remembraunce of hir sonne Alexander the good turnes that he had done them that they rendred to the sayde Olympias And by that meane was king Philip with his familie and gard taken and Euridice wyth Policles one of hir counsaylours retired into the
the armie distaunt frō the place where Antigone laye by the maineured lande xxv iorneys but through the desertes where is neither victuals nor water .ix. or thereabouts In this sorte lodged Eumenes and Antigone their armies to winter exercisyng and refreshyng their Souldiours one farre inough from an other ¶ Cassander vnderstanding of that Queene Olympias had done with his armie commeth into Macedone and besiegeth the said Olimpias within the citie of Pidue where the Queene in short time is cleane voide of hope of all succours she loketh for The .xiij. Chapter IN the meane time that Antigone and Eumenes warred in Asie as aforesaid Cassander who besieged the Citie of Tege in the Countrey of Peloponese in Europe vnderstanding of Olympias comming into Macedone and the death of Euridice and Phillip hir husband and of the defacing the tombe of Iolas his brother concluded with the Tegeans a peace and with his armie marched towardes Macedone whereby he leaft his friendes and allies in great perplexitie For Alexander Polispercon his sonne hauing a great armie alwayes had an eye to the Cities of Peloponese And the Etholians minding to gratify Quéene Olympias and Polispercon toke and furnished the passage of the piles by whiche Cassander should passe wherefore he was forced to leaue that passage and to get together a number of Passengers out of the countrey of Eube and Locres in which he put ouer his armie into Thessalie where he was aduertised that Polispercon besieged the Citie of Perrhebie So he sent Calas one of his Captaynes with parte of his armie to maintaine the warres against Polispercon and Dynias an other of his Captaynes to win the passages of Macedon which he diligently exploited and wanne before the Souldiers of Olympias whome she had for that purpose thether sent were come But after she vnderstood that Cassander with a power royall was approched Macedone she constituted Aristone Generall to fight against him and hir self accompanied with the yong sonne of Alexander Roxanne his mother Thessalonique the daughter of Philip and sister to the saide Alexander Deidamie the daughter of Eacle King of Epire sister to Pyrrhe who after warred on the Romaines the daughters of Attale and many other of the principall Ladies of the countrey w t a great number of their kinsfolkes and friends retired into the Citie of Pidue the more parte of which people were vnméete for the warres and the towne vnprouided of victuals to maintaine the siege long And notwithstanding that she see she was in some daunger yet determined she to tarry there trusting that the greater parte of the Grekes and Macedonians wold come ayde hir She had aboute hir a certain numbre of footemen and horse whiche accustomably were restaūt in the court besides a fewe Elephants which Polispercon had least in the Countrey For Cassander at his first entry into the countrey had taken the greater number and after he had passed the straights of Perrheby he came and besieged the Citie of Pidue and with a trench enclosed it from the one side of the sea to the other For it stood in a gulfe of the Sea on eche side enuironed with water except the entrie wherein he made a crosse trench sent to them whiche would be his friends and allies for ships artillary and all other hablements of warre to besiege the same by sea and land And when he vnderstood that Eacke King of Epyre was with a great army comming to ayde Olympias his sister he sent Attarye with one parte of hys army out against him who made suche spéede that he wan and kept the straight passages betwene the countrey of Epyre and Macedone so that he put Eacle from his enterprise by which meane and also for that the greater parte of his subiects which with euill wil came against the Macedonians made in his camp such a muteny that he was fayne notwithstanding his meaning to succoure his sister to sende backe all those whome he sée euill willing and with the rest which determined the aduenture with him continued his iourney howbeit he was very weakely accompanied and whiche was worse they that forsooke him after their returne home brought all the rest of the people of the countrey into such a mutenie that by a common and publique decrée they bannished their King Eacke and allied with Cassander which thing in the countrey of Epyre was neuer séene since Neoptoleme the sonne of Achilles first gouerned there For that Realme always went by discēt from the father to sonne and the Kings vntill that daye died within the Countrey After that rebellion when Cassander had sent into Epyre Lisiske to be gouernour and ruler of the same they which stoode in doubt whether to take Olympias parte or no seing all things out of hope turned to Cassander whereby remayned no more for Olympias but one expectation and hope of aide to wete of Polispercon who not withstanding soone failed hir For Callas whome Cassander hadde sent to warre vppon Polispercon being verie néere encamped the said Polispercon as he besieged the Citie of Perrheby founde the meane so to suborne his men of warre that the more parte forsoke him and rendred to Callas Thus and by these meanes in short tyme lost Olympias all hir hope of aide ¶ Antigone thinking to surprise and discomfit Eumenes and his armie the said Eumenes throughe his wisedome and diligence frustrateth his enterprise by that meane saueth both his Elephants and baggage The .xiiij. Chapter WHile Antigone aboade in the Countrey of Gamarge in the Region of Mede as we haue before declared had considered y t he was much weaker than the enimie he imagined and enterprised at vnwares to assaile them by skil and policie martiall to conquer them and the rather forasmuche as they were so dispersed in diuerse villages to winter that some of them were six daies iorneis one from another Notwithstanding his enterprise was very difficulte hard to bring to good purpose bycause to passe throughe the maneured countrey was a very long iourney and neuer able to do it without knowledge of the enimie and he coulde not wel passe his armie the shorter way without great trauaill and want of all things in so much as it was through the desertes and the countrey very drie Neuerthelesse bycause it was the nearest waye and méetest to bring his purpose to passe he fully resolued to take it whereby he thought he might beste so surprise the enimie being all dispersed deuided and ydle Wherevpon he commaunded his Souldiours to be in redinesse to departe and to make prouision of victuals readie to eat for .x. dayes causing it to be noysed that he would into Armenie But sodenly beyond all mens expectation he tooke his iourney through the deserts in the winter when the dayes are at the shortest And as he passed he gaue commaundement to his souldiers on the daye to make so great fires as they would but
Momme except which Aristone kept the Citie of Amphipolis and Monime the Citie of Polle When Olympias see that one parte of the Macedonians had quite forsaken hir that y e rest were vnable to mainteyn help hir she went about to saue hir self hir friends in a Gally by sea which she caused to be sent for and brought to the Port. But Cassander being therof aduertised by one that fled out of the town tooke the sayd Gallie Whereupō the Queene despayring in hir affaires businesse sent Ambassadours to Cassāder to treat a peace But he séeing the necessitie wherein she stood and therfore meaning that she should yeld hir self to his curtesie he hardly graūted hir safe cōduct for hir owne person When Cassander had the citie rendred to him he incontinent sent certen of his men of warre to take Amphipolis and Polle Whereupon Monime Captayne of Polle vnderstanding the state of Olympias yelded without resistaunce But Aristone who was extréeme proude both of his great hande of men of warre as also for that he had a little before vanquished and ouercome Cratebas one of Cassanders Captaynes in battaill slayne a great parte of his armie subsecuted chased him through the countrey of Busalcie hard to the Citie of Bedine it besieged tooke by cōposition whom he after with .ij. thousand of his men besides sent away w t white roddes in their hands supposing that Eumenes had not ben yet dead and hoping that Polispercō and Alexander his sonne would come to ayde hym vtterly refused the yelding vp of the Citie of Amphipolis But after Olympias had written to him to render the Towne summoning him of his faith and allegiaunce he thought it best so to do and taking suertie for his persone gaue vp the same Notwithstanding Cassander cōsidering the great aucthoritie of Aristone by reason of Alexanders aduauncing him in his life and meaning to make quicke dispatch of so many as would or might any way let or hinder his affaires and doings caused Cratebas owne kinsfolkes to kill him He persuaded likewise all their friends which Olympias had put to death to accuse hir in the place of iudgement before the assemblie of the Macedonians which thing they did where the Macedonians in hir absence without patrone or Aduocate there to defend hir cause condemned hir to death wherupon after sentence and iudgement gyuen Cassander sent to hir certen of his friends persuading hir to flie promising to enbarque hir in a Gallie which should bring hir to the citie of Athens And this did he not for anie good will to saue hir but to the end she might by that meane voluntarily runne in exile and be drenched in the Sea so y t it might after haue ben said how by fortune of the sea and iudgemēt of the Goddes she was for hir cruell mischeuous and wicked déedes iustly punished Neuerthelesse she aunswered y t messangers that flie she would not nor yet refuse the iudgement of the Macedonians Which thing Cassander perceyuing he for feare that the people and assemblie of the men of warre would alter their determinations and minds when they vnderstood she was well able to purge hir of euery offence wherewith they would charge hir and should likewise reduce and call to memory the great good turnes and honour◠by them long before at the hands of Phillip and Alexander receiued sent CC. of his trustiest soldiers about him to kill hir Who with great violence entring the Palaice where she was were at the first sight so abashed with the Maiestie of hir face that they returned without doing hir any hurte But their kinsfolkes whom she caused to be slayne thinking to reuenge their deaths also to gratifie Cassander out of hande slew hir who neuer made woords or shewed any countenaunce of a woman dismayed or yet fainte harted In this sorte Olympias whiche in hir time hadde bene the most honorable Dame of the world Neoptoleme his daughter King of Epire Alexander his sister King of Epire who warred in Italy King Phillip his wyfe of Macedone the most puissaunt of all other which before him in Europe raigned Alexander his mother surnamed the great which hadde exployted the most notable and honorable warres that euer were worthie the writing and talke miserablie ended hir life ¶ After the death of Olympias Cassander espouseth Thessalonice Alexander the great his sister foundeth the Citie of Cassander And after he hath put in safe keeping Roxanne and Alexāder his sonne he goeth into the countrey of Beote and reedifieth the Citie of Thebes The .xx. Chapter WHen Cassander thus gloriously prosperously raigned he affected the realme of Macedon and the better to bring his purpose to passe espoused Thessalonice Phillip his daughter and Alexander his sister both by father and mother being always desirous to insinuate him selfe with the ligne royall He likewise in the countrey of Palene within the Region of Macedone found and built a citie named Cassandria and peopled it with inhabitaunts of the Cities of Cheronese and Potede and diuerse other villages about the same Citie and the remnaunt of the Olinthians By whiche meane also bycause of the great fertile territorie he laid and gaue thereto and by other ways he tooke wherewith on hand to enlarge and make it great The Citie in short time became so mightie and riche that it was named to be the greatest and worshipfullest amongs all the Cities of Macedone Nowe had Cassander purposed to put to death Alexander his sonne and Roxanne his mother to the end there shoulde no more of Alexanders ligne remayne on liue But before he would execute this execrable murder he stayed first to vnderstand what the Macedonians thought of the death of Olympias what talke was emongs them togither what Antigone did in Asie Wherefore he all that while caused Roxanne and hir sonne to be brought into the Castle of Amphipolis and charged Glaucias Captayne thereof and one whome he greatly trusted with the kéeping of them commaunding him to vse and treat them no other wayes but as common persones laying al princilie honours and dignities towardes them aparte and to put away all the children which had ben brought vp with the said Sonne of Alexander as his playe fellowes After that he tooke vppon him the aucthoritie and gouernement as King and caused solemne exequies for Euridice and Phillip whome Olympias had made be murdred to be celebrated with great pompe and solemnitie entombed them in a tombe royall with y e Kings their predecessours making sports and pastimes at those dayes accustomed That done he leuied a great numbre of men of warre in the countrey of Macedone to go into Peloponese While Cassander was thus occupied and that Polispercon who laye besieged in the Citie of Naxe in the Region of Perrheby vnderstood of Olympias death apperceyuing no lōger hope for him to take in hand to rule the affaires of Macedone priuilie
ioyed and gladded Antigone bycause he thought y e would be such a colour for him that no man shoulde be able to reproche him and saye he had layde hands on Seleuke his great friend who had with his power always ayded him but that of his owne mynde he voluntarily fled and by that meane left him withoute questiō or difficultie the said Satrapie But after he was by the Chaldees aduertized and admonished that if Seleuke escaped his hands he should be Lorde and King of the whole Empire of Asie and s◠ea hym in battaill he thē maruellous sorie repented him of his escape Wherfore he sent out in all possible post certen horsse after him who in long pursuite and doing lesse good returned And although Antigone gaue no great faith or credit to such diuinations yet by reason of the aucthoritie of the said Chaldees and their great and long knowledge and experience in the course and influēce of the starres he was meruellouslie troubled For the people of that countrey and sect had alone a thousande yeares wholie applied them selues to that kind of studie and knowledge Which thing by their great experiences well appeared and chieflie by Alexander his death of whome they presaged that if he entred Babylon he shoulde there lose his life And as that prediction proued true in Alexander euen so according to their diuination of Antigone happened him as hereafter when we come to the time wherein it chaunced shall at large be declared But for this time let vs out of hand treat of the armie of Seleuke in Egipt ¶ Of Seleuke his practize and deuise touching the alliaunce and confederacie betwixt Ptolome Cassander Lysimache against Antigone◠of their defiaūce they send him and of his preparation against them Also of his siege aginst the Citie of Tyre in Phenice The .xxiiij. Chapter WHen Seleuke was come into Egipt Ptolome right honorablie and curteouslie receyued him To whom he recompted the vngentle and disloyall dealing of Antigone against him declaring farther that Antigone his meaning was to expulse and vanquish all the Satrapes which had any rule or dominion and especiallie all those which had ben in houshold with Alexander And the more to asserten him of the trueth that it was so he recompted how he had put to death Python expulsed Penceste Perse and all he had done to him selfe where neyther he nor they had once offended him but had employed and bestowed all their trauaill and seruice as his deare friends and complices He farther shewed him the mightie power he had of men and hys innumerable treasure togyther the great victories and prosperitie he had in short time atchieued whereby he beganne to waxe so proude and arrogaunt that he affected the whole Empire of Macedone By these tales reports had he persuaded Ptolome to prepare and resist him And agayne sent certen of his friends into Europe towards Cassander and Lysimache to perusade them to do the like who diligentlie performed their charge By reason whereof they forged manie practizes whiche were the originall and beginning of great dissention warres For Antigone who doubted not without good cause the euill will of Seleuke against him and the practizes he would deuise sent his Ambassadours towardes Ptolome Cassander and Lysimache to exhorte and desire them to continue and remayne his olde and auncient friends Neuerthelesse after he had created Python who descended from the Indians Gouernour of Babylon and left him there he tooke his iourney with the whole armie and marched towardes Cilicie And after he was come to Maley he diuided his armie into diuerse places to winter He tooke also all the money he could gette in the Citie of Quint amounting to .x. thousand Talents with the rest he brought w t him he was maruelouslie prouided of gold and siluer besides his cleare yerely reuenue of .xj. thousand Talents By reason whereof as also for his mightie puissaunce of Souldiours and men of warre he was much to be feared When winter was past as Antigone with his whole power had taken hys iourney to come into the hier Syrie the Ambassadours of Ptolome Cassander and Lysimache came vnto him who hauing open audience to tell their Ambassade demaunded of him to restore to Cassander the countreys of Cappadoce and Lycie to rendre Lysimache Phrygie and Hellespont to yeld vp to Ptolome all Sirie and to deliuer to Seleuke Babilon And that he would also make an egall deuision with them of all the treasure he had gotten and taken since the warres commenced against Eumenes bycause they had ben pertakers with him and companions in the said warres And in case he refused this to do they denounced to him in the names of them all that they would allie and ioyne togyther to arrere mortall hostilitie against him When Antigone had heard this their Ambassade he with arrogaunt insolent wordes aunswered and amongs other things willed and charged them to tell Ptolome that he made good and strong preparation to stand to his defence When the Ambassadoures were returned and had made reporte of their aunswer the saide Ptolome Cassander and Lysimache reallied togyther and made the greatest preparation of men armoure and all other things necessarie for the warres they possiblie could When Antigone vnderstood thereof and considered the noblenesse puissaunce and aucthoritie of those against whome he tooke on hande warres he drew to his amitie and alliaunce all the Princes Nations and Cities he could get For accomplishing wherof he sent Ageselaye towardes the Kings of Cypres and to the Rhodians Idonome and Moschion He sent also into Cappadoce an armie with his Nephew Ptolome to raise the siege before the citie of Amisse and to expulse all Cassanders Souldiours that countrey gyuing him farther in charge to haue a vigilaunt eye and take good heede y e Cassander passed not into Asie through Hellespont Moreouer he sent Aristodeme the Milesian w t a thousand Talents to Pelopōnese to make alliaunce w t Polispercon Alexander his sonne and to get togyther there so many men as they could and forthwith warre vpon Cassander That done he sent to make readie hys posts Beacons throughout al the countrey of Asie vnder his obeissance by which he might in all his affaires haue spéedie aduertisement These things set in order he sped him towards the countrey of Phenice meaning there to prepare and make readie a Nauie to send to Sea bycause the enimie was yet strongest at Sea by reason of their great Nauie and himselfe altogyther disfurnished And when he was come into Phenice he encamped before the Citie of Tyre meaning to besiege it Neuerthelesse he sent towards the Kings of the Countrey and Gouernours of Syrie exhorting and requiring their ayde and helpe for the addressing his Nauie to sea bycause all the ships which had ben before in the countrey Ptolome had sent into Egipt He commaunded also the Lieutenaunts of Syrie to furnish him with so
muche wheat as should suffise the maintenaunce of hys armie for one whole yeare and him selfe got togyther all the Carpenters Sawyers and shipwrights he could finde and caused them to fell an innumerable numbre of trées in the mount Libane whiche were carried to the Sea side for he had .viij. thousand men to fell sawe and build ships besides a thousand waines for carriage It is to be vnderstoode that the Mountaine is of a great length for it runneth alongest from the Cities of Tripolis and Byblie euen to Sydone full of an innumerable numbre of maruelous high and mightie Cedres and Cypres trées He likewise caused .iij. mightie Docks to be cut oute to build the sayd shippes in one at Trypoly another at Byblie and the third at Sidone all thrée in Phenice There was also an other in Cilice whether was brought all the timbre feld and cut downe in the mount Thaure and another at Rhodes by the consent of the citizens likewise to build shippes in As Antigone was thus occupied in building of shippes encamped about the sea side Seleuke commeth out of the Countrey of Egipt with a Nauie of an hundreth tall shippes of warre vnder all their sailes richelie apparelled passing alongest the Sea coast in the view of the campe as who would saye in despite and maugre Antigone and his people At which sight the Citizens of the next Cities other his allies with him were in great terrour and feare being then apparaunt that the enimie was Lord and King at sea Wherefore they thought they went to forraie and robbe their Cities and territories When Antigone sée them thus daunted he comforted them in the best maner he could saying that him selfe withoute stop would that sommer be vpon the seas with .v. hundred tall and warlike shippes or more And as he was thus occupied about the things aforesaid Ageselay whō he had sent into Cypres came towardes hym and reported vnto him that Nicocrey and diuerse other mightie puissaunt Kings were alreadie allied with Ptolome But that Citicke Lapite Marie and Cerenite hadde allied with him Which newes vnderstood he left Andronicke with .iiij. thousand men behind at the siege of Tyre and himselfe with the rest went against the cities of Hyoppe and Gaze his aduersaries and wonne them togyther al the Souldiours of Ptolome within the townes and retained them in wages thrust into them garrisonnes and into the rest of the Cities in that quarter That done he retired towardes his other campe lying before Tyre making prouision for all things necessarie to take the Citie ¶ Of the wisedome and vertue of Phile Antipater his daughter The .xxv. Chapter AT that same verie time Aristo to whome Eumenes had gyuen Cratere his bones to burie deliuered thē to Phile first married to Cratere and then wife to Demetre Antigone his sonne who was reputed a right sage and vertuous Ladie in so much that hir wisedome and curtesie towardes the Souldiours being suche that she oftētimes appaised the controuersies and mutenies arising in y e camp they loued honoured hir She would also at hir owne costs and dispence marrie the poore men of warres sisters and daughters and besides acquite and discharge diuerse of the souldiours when they had at any time bene accused and wrongfully sclaundred And it was saide that when Antipater hir father whō al men thought to be the wisest and sagest Prince in his tyme that euer bere rule had any great mightie affaires in hand y t he would vse the aduise and counsaill of Phile his daughter And although she was in maners gracious and excellent yet dyd she farre passe in speche and vtteraunce and all hir doings were thereto correspondent agreable And as for hir witte and prudence that well appeared vppon the iudgement which she gaue of Demetre his principalitie as we will hereafter set forth in their places ¶ Antigone winneth to his alliaunce Polispercon and Alexander his sonne and by a decree by the Macedonians made denounceth Cassander an ennimie and after taketh the Citie of Tyre The .xxvj. Chapter BUt now we will returne to the Chieftaynes and Ambassadoures whom Antigone hadde sent into diuerse places to make new alliaunces And first Aristodeme who was sent towards the Spartians hadde by their permission and sufferaunce assembled in the countrey of Peloponnese .viij. thousand footemen with whome he went to seeke out Alexander Polispercon his Sonne and in Antigone his name allied with him his father through which alliaunce he left the gouernement of the countrey of Peloponnese to Polispercon and persuaded Alexander to go into Asie towardes Antigone whiche he performed And the other Chieftaynes to wete Ptolome his Nephew whome he had sent into Cappadoce with a great armie deliuered the citie of Amise frō the siege which Asclepiodore one of Cassander his Captaynes laye before and vpon composition dismissed him with all his Souldiours and so recouered the Satrape From thence he went into Bythanie and finding Zibith King of the said countrey besieging the Cities of Calcedone and Astacone forced him to raise it and after allied with him and the said cities and tooke of them ostages From thence he trauailled into Ionye and Lydie bicause Antigone had written to him to make so great spéed as might be to the Regions lying and bordering vpon the sea bycause he vnderstood y e Seleuke was sayling towardes those quarters And at last Seleuke arriued in the Countreys and besieged the citie of Erythe But after he was aduertised of Ptolome his comming he retired without doing of any thing When Alexander was come to Antigone he confirmed and sware the alliaunce for him and Polispercon his Father Then assembled he all his men of warre and in presence of them charged and greatlie accused Cassander but chieflie for the death of Olympias and the detayning of Roxanne hir sonne in prison alleadging moreouer that he forciblie had espoused Thessalonicke and in déed meant thereby openly to vsurpe the Realme of Macedone And farther obiected that he had suffered the Citie of Olynthe chief enemie to the Macedonians to be reenhabited and also reedified the citie of Thebes whiche Alexander surnamed the great hadde destroied and razed When he sée that by the meanes of those accusations and tales the men of warre and Souldiers there assembled were with Cassander greatlie despited he incontinent caused a decrée to be written proclaimed wherin Cassander was pronounced an enimie except he wold raze the said two cities set at libertie the said King and Roxanne his mother into the hands and gard of the Macedonians and also wholie obey Antigone named and chosen Emperoure of the armie protector and regent of the Kings and of the realme of Macedone He woulde also it should be denounced that all the Grekes were discharged of al garrisonnes and other impositions to liue at libertie according to their auncient and accustomed woonte When
two or thrée of the chief principall For while they were so seperated and deuided they could neyther easelie nor yet readilie assemble when occasion of businesse serued and thereby might lightlie be surprised discomfited In following which counsaill the greater parte retired into the Citie of Strate very great and strong The Cynades and their neighbours into the Citie of Saurie The Dorians certen other into the citie of Arginie That done Cassander for their guarde and defence left a bande of Souldiours vnder the charge of Lyascke and him selfe with the remnaunt went against the citie of Leucade and by an Ambassade gotte the fauoure of the citie From thence he went into Adrye and by assault wanne the Citie of Apollonie After that he entred the countrey of Illyrie and passing the ryuer Hebre vanquished in battaill King Glaucye of Illyrie and after made amitie and alliaunce with him which Glaucie amongs other things promised neuer to warre against Alexander or anie his Allies After that he subdued the citie of Epidaure and there left a garrisonne and so returned into Macedone But during the time of this voiage when the Etholians perceyued that he was a great waye of them they assembled and gotte togyther the number of .iij. thousande came to besiege the citie of Arginie which they round about entrenched and made other fortifications to assaut it When the townes men sée that they came to a parle and treatie wherein was accorded and agréed that the besieged should render the Towne and safelie departe with bag and baggage who trusting vpon the conclusion daparted But the Etholians cōtrarie to their othes pursued the citizens which went out and flew them almost euerie one And now we think it méete a little to touche the matters of Asie ¶ Two bandes of Cassanders which he sendeth to Lemne and Carie are by the Souldiours af Antigone ouerthrowen The .xxxj. Chapter WHen Cassander had returned into Macedone he was aduertised that the cities of Lemne and Cary Seleuke Ptolome their confederates were by Antigone his Souldiours sore warred on and oppressed Wherefore he sent parte of his armie for their succoures to deteyn◠Antigone in Asie to the end he should haue no leisure to passe into Europe He writte also to Demetre Phalerey and to Dionise Captayne of Munichie to send .xx. saile into the Isle of Lemne whiche with all spéed was done And for transfreting of them Captayn Aristotre had charge who after his arriuall in the Isle sent worde to Seleuke to repaire thyther with all his shippes And after he was come they assaied and forced to winne to them the Lemnians but apperceyuing they would not thereto consent they fouraged all their land and after besieged the citie and entrenched it rounde which done Seleuke departed to Coo. Then Dioscoride Antigone his Admirall aduertised of his departure came to the aide of the Lemnians and chased Aristotre tooke the greater numbre of his shippes and the Souldiours within them But when Cassander and Propelaus deputed chief rulers of the armie whiche Cassander had sent into Carye vnderstood that Ptolome Antigone hys Lieutenaunt had deuided his Souldiours in garrisone to winter and was also occupied about the funeralles of his father deseased they sent Eupoleme w t .viij. thousand two hundred footemen to watch and surprise the enimie lying about the Region of Caprine in the Countrey of Carye Whereof Ptolome by some whiche came to render to him aduertised assembled of his garrisons néere there abouts .viij. thousand CC. hundred footemē and .vj. hundred horsse and by night went and assailed the camp of the enimie them lightly who doubted nothing lesse ouerthrew by reason they were at rest and a sléepe and without scoult or watch so that they tooke Eupoleme prisoner and made the men of warre render and yeld Suche was the aduenture of Cassander his Captaynes by him sent into Asie ¶ Antigone gyuing order about the affaires in Syrie goeth into Phrygie and of a notable victorie which one of his Captayns winneth at sea on the enimie The .xxxij. Chapter WHen Antigone perceyued Cassander his doings and considered that he affected the Empire of Asie he left his sonne Demetre with .x. thousand Mercenarie footemen .v. hundred Lycians and Pamphilians CCC hundred Archers and other shot .iij. thousande horse and .xiiij. Elephants to garde and defend y e Countrey bicause he feared that Ptolome would with his armie come thyther And bycause hys sonne Demetre was yong not aboue .xxij. yeares olde he left behind for hys Gouernours Counsailours foure noble personages to wete Nearche of Crete Pithon the Sonne of Agenor who a litle before came out of Babylon Andronicke of Olynthe and Phillip all foure auncient and not able soldiours and had serued with Alexander the great in all his warres And him selfe with the remnaunt of the armie prepared to passe the Mount Thaure But by reason of the great aboundaunce of snowe he was forced with no small losse of his men to retire into Cilice vntil the time and season were more faire and pleasaunt and the passage much easier and then passed he with all his armie And being come to Cilene in the Region of Phrygie he sent his armie by garrisons to winter After that he commaunded that his shippes should be brought oute of the countrey of Mede Captayne of whiche was one Mede a Median And as the said Mede came sailing alongest he encountred .xxxvj. saile of the Pidues and them prized togyther the souldiers within them These matters were exploited in Grece and Asie ¶ The Romaynes losing a great battaill against the Samnites people the Citie of Locres with their men The .xxxiij. Chapter ABoute this season in Italy the Samnites who with the Romaynes had many yeares continued warre to get the Empire and dominion one of an other tooke by force the towne of Plastick by the Romaines garrisoned and in such sorte practised with them of Sore that they slew all the Romaines in the citie guarding y e same and after the Soreans tooke parte with the Samnites And not long after as the Romaines laye before Straticole the Samnites with all their force came thyther to raise the siege where both the armies ioyned fought together In which battaill were many slaine but the Romaines had still the better tooke the Citie and after subdued al the whole countrey When the Samnites sée that their only strife was for the countrey and cities of Pouil they prepared an oste and sent out their generall letters and commaundements by which all the Citizens and subiects able to beare armoure were commanded to come and then encamped hard by the Romaines being all determined to fight for the totall of their estate The Romaines likewise knowing the importaunce of that battaill sent great strength and supplices of men and
diligent héede she departed not incontinent stayed hir going And after by the commaundement of Antigone throughe certen women whome he had for that purpose corrupted put hir to death And bycause Antigone woulde not séeme to be the Author of so execrable a murder he by iustice put to death certen of the said women as if they had perpetrated and committed some hainous facte and verie honorably buried the body of the Ladie as apperteyned to so noble a Dame In this sorte Cleopatre for marriage of whome all the noble and renowmed Princes were at debate and controuersie before the time of marriage ended hir life ¶ After the taking and razing of Munichie Demetre Antigone his sonne by his Fathers commaundement restoreth Athens Megare and many other Cities of Grece to libertie and of their liberalitie towardes him and the honours they iudged him worthie for that his benefite good turne The .vj. Chapter THe same yéere in which Anaxicrate held y e gouernement of Athens and that Appie Claudie and Lucie Volamine were at Rome created Consuls when Demetre Antigone his sonne to execute his Fathers cōmaundement for restauration of the Cities of Grece to libertie had gotten togyther a great number of footemen shippes plentie of armoure and all other munition méete necessarie for a siege he loused from Ephesus and sayled directly to the Citie of Athens by Cassander garrisoned And after he had before the Porte of Pyrea pitched his campe he caused by an edict his fathers commaundement to be published for the restauration of the cities of Grece to libertie But Dionise Captayne of Munychie and Demetre Phalerey deputie of Athens for Cassander right ouer against him had with Souldiours māned their walles and curtens Neuerthelesse some of Antigone his Souldiours had gotten one quarter of the curten of Pire standing vppon the Sea side named Acten and there slew and repulsed the enimie whiche was the cause of the taking of Pyre Howbeit Dionise retired into Munichie and Demetre Phalerey into the Citie of Athens who the next day in the morning was by the commoners sent in an Ambassade towardes Demetre before whom he propounded aswell the deliueraunce of the citie and Citizens as also his owne But when he see he could no whit impetrate or get graunt for the said Citie but for him selfe only he fled into Egipt to Ptolome and so abandoned hys Countrey after he had gouerned the citie .x. yeares And after the people had gotten libertie they adiudged the authors thereof worthie perpetuall honours In this meane tyme Demetre hauing great prouision of shot and engines for to assault both by Sea and land besieged Munychie Howbeit Dionise and his souldiours had great aduantage of the enimie by reason the towne was of great heigth and the scituation of the walles agréeing thereto so that they right valiauntlie defended it although Demetre hadde maruelous great prouision of all things And lastly after he had two dayes togyther without staye assaulted the castle he shreudlie daunted the courages of y e defendants bycause the greater number were sore hurte and gald with shot not able to releue the curten with fresh men and the assailaunts by reason of their mightie numbre continuallie refreshed and releued their Souldiers and thereby at last wanne the castle and tooke Dionise Captayne thereof prisoner After he hadde in short tyme atchieued this victorie he razed Munychie restored the Athenians to their pristinate libertie and with them allied and made an inuiolable peace By reason of which benefite they by the commaundement of Stratocle ordeyned that the statues or Images of Antigone and Demetre should be set vp in golde hard by Armodie and Aristogiton and farther sent to eche of them a crowne of golde worth two hundred Talents They likewise rered an Altare called the Altare of their deliuerers and added and annexed to their .x. Tribes two more wherof the one called Antigonide and the other Demetriade They farther ordeyned euery yeare in their honoure games and sacrifices to be made as vnto Goddes and that their Statues and Images shoulde be wound and couered ouer with a couerchief of the Goddes Pallas And thus the Gouernement and libertie populer which the Athenians had in the Lamian warre lost vnder Antipater was restored to them vnlooked for .xv. yeares after The like did Demetre to the citie of Megare by Cassander garrisoned whom they also honoured as they did the first After all these matters when the Ambassadors of Athens came to Antigone to present the Decrée made by the citie in the honour of him and hys Sonne and to desire him of timber and other stuffe for the buylding of certen shippes and corne to victuall them he gaue Cl. thousand Medymnes of wheat and so much timber and other stuffe as would build a hundred tall shippes and rendred to thē the citie of Imbre which he kept farther writte to Demetre his sonne to depute and appointe all the Conseruators of y e frée cities of Grece to haue charge and authoritie to consulte and puruey for all things apperteyning to the conseruation of their libertie and y e done incontinent to take shipping and saile into Cypres to fight with the Lieutenaunts of Ptolome ¶ Demetre Antigone his sonne vanquisheth in a battaill at Sea Ptolome before the Citie of Salamine in Cypres and by that meane winneth the whole Isle from him And after the said Antigone Demetre and Ptolome take vppon them the Tytles and Dyademes of Kings The .viij. Chapter WHen Demetre had executed and performed hys Fathers commaundement concerning the restauration of the Cities of Grece he sailed into Carie from thence sent his Ambassadoures to the Rhodians to persuade them to allie and ioyne with him in the warre against Ptolome whereunto they would not agrée but concluded to be in amitie and friendship with them both and not to make or medle with any of their doings which was the first occasion and chief cause that plucked away the harts of the Rhodians from Antigone From thence loused Demetre and passing elongest the Isle of Sicile leuied shippes and Souldiours and sayled into Cypres hauing with him .xv. thousand footemen .iiij. hundred horsse and of Pumasses and excellent fine Gallies Cx. besides Liij other of greater burden méete for the warres and a number of Barques laden with victuals and other necessarie hablements for the armie And first he landed on the coast of Carpasie and there encamped hard by the shoare which he entrenched with déepe ditches and trenches From thence he went to the siege of Vranie making incursions on the Countrey in the waye and tooke them That done leauing a sufficient number for the garde of his shippes he marched on to Salamine whereof Menelaye was deputie for Ptolome who had leuied a number of mē in the Isle and retired into Salamine hauing intelligēce that Demetre was approched within .xl. furlongs of the citie he marched oute against him with
the causes aboue said begā to murmur and grudge Antigone assembled hys armie and tooke counsaill and aduise of his Captaynes whether it were more expedient to tarry and continue hys enterprise or presentlie to returne into Syrie and come agayne at some other more conuenient tyme when he were better appointed and the ryuer Nile fallen lower But when he see them all of mynde and accord he brake vp y e camp and spéedily returned into Syrie by land hauing his Nauie sayling by him all alongest the coast As soone as Ptolome hadde intelligence of their departure he was right glad making to the Goddes great sacrifices and to his friends honorable feastes and banquettes signifying also Seleuke Lysimache and Cassander by his letters of his aduenture and good lucke and the reuolte of Antigone his Souldiours to him This done thinking that he had nowe the second time by armes recouered and gotten the Countrey of Egipt and last of all that he might by iust title and conquest of warre hold and keepe it returned to Alexandrie ¶ Of certen exploites of warre betwene the Romaines and Samnites The .x. Chapter THe same season after Dionise Tyraunt of the citie of Heracle in the countrey of Pont hadde raigned xxxij yeares he died and his two children Zatras Clearche succéeded who raigned after him .xvij. yeares And the selfe same yeare the Samnites wonne of the Romaines the cities of Sore and Acye and them sacked and spoyled Ageine the Romaine Consuls entred the Citie of Lapige and after besieged the citie of Silue whiche the Samnites had long kepte and garrisoned but in the ende the Romaines tooke it by assault butined all their goods ransomed aboue .v. thousand prisoners Which done they spoyled the Region of the Samnites cut downe the wood and burnt the Townes and Uillages For the Romaines thought bycause the same Nation hadde alreadie many yeares contended with them for the Empire and rule that if they destroyed their lande they shoulde of force gyue place and yelde vnto them For which cause they for .v. whole monethes togyther burnt and spoyled in their Countrey all that they could not carrie awaye in so muche that they left not standing in all the Countrey eyther house cottage trée or bushe that might be destroyed but made the lande vtterlie voide and desolate And this yeare also they warred on the Egmettes and by composition tooke the citie of Erusin and sold the whole territorie ¶ Demetre by the commaundement of hys Eather both by Sea and land besieged the Citie of Rhodes Of the great and lustie assaultes they gaue and the maruelous and honorable defence that the Townesmen made The .xj. Chapter THe yéere following that Xenippe gouerned Athens and Lucie Posthume and Tyberie Mynute were at Rome created Consuls warres for these occasions were betwene Antigone the Rhodians cōmenced For the citie of Rhodes was then by sea verie puissaunt and strong and was most wysely gouerned and in greater reputation than all the other Cities of Grece By reason wherof al the Kings and Princes in those dayes hadde an eye thereunto and endeuoured them to obtayne and get their fauoure and alliaunce on their side But the Rhodians who foresaw and considered their cōmon emolument and commoditie gently enterteyned al the said Princes and had with euery of thē a particular league and amitie withoute entremedling at any hande with any of them in their warres Whereuppon happened that all the said Princes honoured and cherished them diuersly with great giftes remunerated and gratified them by which meane they long liued in tranquillitie and wealth Throughe whiche occasion their power so greatly encreased that they at their owne costes and charges enterprised warre for the whole state of Grece against all Pyrats and clearely purged the Seas of all theeues and rouers But their chiefest and greatest estimation was that Alexander surnamed the great moste renowmed of all Princes of the worlde of whome remaineth any mention made so muche more accompte thereof than of all the other Cities of Grece so that he gaue them the Testament of his whole estate and Empire to kéepe and in all things he might honoured and greatlie aduaunced the same And although the Rhodians had in such sorte with all the most puissaunt Princes Potentates liued that none of them could reasonablie complayne on them or be agreeued yet had they neuerthelesse farre greater amitie and familiaritie with Ptolome than with all the rest bycause their Marchauntes had greater traffique and commoditie from the coūtrey of Egipt than else where and the greater parte of the citie lyued and was mainteyned by the marchaundise of the said countrey Whiche thing Antigone vnderstanding dyd all that in him laye to turne the trade and entercourse of Marchandise thence Wherfore after his sonne had warred vpon Ptolome in Cypres he sent his Ambassadors towards them praying their ayde and to send their shippes to Demetre hys sonne But when he sée they woulde not heare him he sent one of his Sea Captaynes with certen number of shippes in that quarter commaunding him to staye and take so many saile of Rhodians as he founde sayling into Egipt and to spoyle and robbe them of their marchandise But the Rhodians thereof aduertized draue hym quickly backe and chased him quite from those Seas Whereuppon Antigone tooke his occasion to saye that they were the authors of the warre So he with many minatorie termes menaced them and vaūted and bragged that he would with his so mightie a power come against them that he would besiege their citie Wherof the Rhodians aduertised decréed to do hym great honours in their citie sent great Ambassades to him praying him not to enforce them to make warre against Ptolome nor yet to breake their promisse and alliaunce which they had with him Antigone gaue a fierce and sterne aunswer and therewith sent Demetre his Sonne with a great armie store of engines and artillery to besiege and beat downe the citie Whereupon they were astonied so fearing the great power of the King y t they sent to Demetre declaring that they were readie and cōtent to go with Antigone to warre vpon Ptolome Who neuerthelesse was scarcely content therewith but demaunded an hundred ostages of the chief and principall of the citie to be deliuered him and also to haue his Nauie receyued into their Portes Which demaunde made them greatlie suspect that he went about to make hymself Lord of the Town therfore made all y e preparation they could for their defence When Demetre had assembled his armie at the Porte of Elorym he trymmed his Nauie to saile to the siege of Rhodes in whiche were two hundred Gallies of sundrie mouldes and of other shippes to carry men and victualles Clxx. and in them aboue .xl. M. souldiers besides an innumerable number of armoures shot of all sortes and all other engines of battery There were besides aboue a thousand Foistes and Barques of Marchaunts and
diuerse other sundrie kind of people who followed the Campe to traffique For knowing that the Rhodians had ben long without wars they thought there would be such store of wealth in the Countrey whereby the Marchaunts should be great gayners When Demetre had set all things in readinesse he went to Sea and so ordered his shippes as though he would fight And first he placed his Gallies in the first front in their noses he couched great engines which shot great sharp arowes of wood .iij. spaÌ„nes about next them came the shippes whiche carried the horses whiche were haled out by the Gallies and other small pynnaces rowed with ores In the latter flote came the Pyrats and Marchaunts aforesaide so that all the Sea betwene the citie and the firme land was couered with shippes which sight sore dismayed and troubled the citizens Neuerthelesse they with their Souldiours and so many as were able to beare armes manned their walles and bulwarkes awayting the approche of the enimie and the olde people and children were set in the garrets and hiest places of the houses to beholde them for the citie stoode so vppon the Sea like vnto a Theatre that they might clearely sée the hugenesse of the shippes and the braue glistering armoures and helmes whiche was a terrible thing to sée and that made them carefull of their estate and Citie Shortly after Demetre landed and encamped before the citie without dauÌ„ger of the shot incontinent after he had pitched his camp sent out his Pyrats a nother coÌ„panie thoroughout the Isle to spoyle and robbe it both by sea and land And further himselfe caused to fel the trées pull down the houses in the fieldes to make and buyld vp the lodgings and fortifications in hys Campe which he with a treble of wood earth fortified y t it might be the stroÌ„ger against the force and power of the enimie He likewise filled the voide ground and places betwixt the Citie the Porte and left at the Sea side onely a space for the Nauie to ryde in In the meane while the Rhodians sent many and sundrie tymes Ambassadoures to praye hym not to do them any hurte But when they perceyued he would giue them no reasonable aunswere they sent to Ptolome Caslander and Lysimache requiring them to come to the aide and succour of the citie which for their quarrell was besieged and oppressed During this time it was put to choise of the inhabitaunts within the citie able to beare armoure aswell Citizens as Forainers whether they would tarry and abyde the daunger of the siege or else departe the towne and so many as would not tarry as also those which were vnméete for the defence thereof they excluded the citie fâ— reséeing y t their victualles thereby shoulde last longer and that no man should saye he was there against hys will besieged and so not content therewith might deuise and ymagine some treason or villanie against the Citie This done they mustered the remnaunt whiche were aboute sixe thousand Citizens and aboue a thousande straungers They moreouer made and published a Decree wherein was agreeed that all the sclaues whiche valiauntly serued in the same siege should with the common treasure be bought set at libertie and that their bodies slaine in those warres should be enterred their Fathers mothers wyues and children at the despence and cost of the Citie mainteyned their daughters with the money of the common treasure endowed and the men children when they were out of their minoritie crowned and armed in the theatre with all suche solempnities as sometyme were done to Dionise to the ende their Citizens should with greater courage defend and mainteyne the citie WheÌ„ they had thus by an whole and common consent accorded the riche men disburst money the artisans and workemen labored to make armoures engines and other things necessary for their defence so that in effecte euery man according to hys calling in that he was most skilful and excellent did his best some made Crosbowes and engines other repared and strengthned the walles and the greater sorte carried stones and earth to the curten They sent also out of the Port thrée of the lightest shippes best sailers to gyue an alarme to the enimie and especiallie vnto the victuallers who much more exploited than they thought them able for they soonke many Marchaunts shippes whiche followed the campe to traffique spoyle and buy the pillage and brought a great number into the Porte which they after burnt and tooke many prisoners of whome they according to the appointement conclusion in that behalf betwene Demetre and them accorded and agréed vpon tooke a great summe of money which was this that the prisoners taken on eyther syde shoulde be ransomed as followed First that a frée man should paye a thousande Dragmes and a bond man .v. hundred When Demetre had prepared and gotten abundaunce of al things he buylt two great tortoises made of bords and couered with leather that would not burne the one to defende his Souldiours from the stones the other to defend them from quarrelles and such like shot whiche two engines were set vpon two shippes of burden ioyned and grappeled togyther an egall distaunce the one from the other He caused also to be set vpon two other shippes two towers of wood euery of them hauing .iiij. stages or stories much hier than the towers within the Porte to assaile and batter them with great artillerie other shot He made also a notable raÌ„pier of great tymber hollowed-nayled and pinned togither which swaÌ„me foure féete aboue the water as a defence before the ships which carried the towers and engines and great artillerie bycause the shippes of the Towne whiche were great and mightie shoulde not borde them with their beakes and so quash and breake them or else vtterly repulse them In the meane tyme while these things were brought to an ende he picked oute hys strongest Barques and furnished them with thicke planâ— hers made out with great wyndowes which serued in stead of Port holes to open and shut at which he placed great mightie crosbowes and other artillary which shot great arrowes and farre of and men also cunning in the handling of them besides a great number of other archers and Arbalisters of the countrey of Crete All which preparations thus made as aforesaide after the saide shippes and engines were approched the wall within daunger of the shot he sore hurte and gald the Townes men which manned and defended the towers and Bulwarkes in the Porte When the Rhodians sée that al the force and power of the enimie was bent against the Porte they with all their studie deuised howe to defend it Whereupon they planted two engines of Artillary vppon a Bulwarke adioyning to the Porte and other thrée engines vppon thrée earâ—â— cques néere the entry of the little hauen wherein were men crosbowes shot stones other things necessary of great force to withstand
curtens were w t quarrelles stones sore hurt But to sée how the Rhodians defended was wonder While these matters were at this point and that the assault had long tyme continued the Ambassadours of the Guidians came to entreat Demetre for their Citie to leaue of and raise hys siege promising to persuade the Rhodians to performe hys demaundes which with reason might be graunted whervnto he gladly agreed But after the assault ceased and that the Ambassadours had long gone aboute all partes of the curten debating with them to and fro to yeld and to consider the daunger they were in the King séeing yt impossible to persuade them gaue a freshe assaulte more fierce and terrible than the first and with his Artillary so beate them that he battered and ouerthrewe a great square Tower of stone and the wall it stoode on all to pouder so that the Souldiours of the towne could not that waye passe to go to their other towers and defenses Notwithstanding the Attemptaunts throughe the wonderfull and valiaunt defence of the Citizens could not all that daye enter the Town In this meane while arriued at the Hauen a great number of barques laden with corne and great plenty of other victuals by King Ptolome sent out of Egipt who with a prosperous wind sayled a maine vnder all sayles and entred the Hauen maugre all Demetre his Nauie who did al that in them laye to barre them the Porte And as it were al at one time certen other shippes laden with victualles sent from Cassander and Lysimache arriued Whereupō the Citizens which before were in great feare and necessitie tooke now such courage that they wholie determined to sallie oute on the enimie and set on fire their engines And thereuppon they made great prouision of drie wood and such other stuffe for fire workes when they had appointed all their shot to that side on the wall where the engines were planted they which were put out of the Town began about midnight al at one throw to cast fire in diuerse sorte against the engines and their garders and the Souldiours from the curten so lustely applied them with shotte which came to the rescous that the whole armie was in maruelous terrour as of a thing not precogitated or thought on But the Demetrians fearing the burning and spoyle of all their Engines fiersly ranne to their rescue and by reason of the darknesse of the night the fire carriers being alwayes in sighte were very sore hurte and stryken downe bycause they could not in the darke auoyde the shot which came on them Neuerthelesse after the Rhodians hadde once perceyued that the plates of yron wherewith the great Helepolis was armed were fallen of they then in all they might cast fire aboute the bare naked places But they within diligently quenched the fire with water which they had for the purpose made readie Howebeit when Demetre sée the fire stil encrease fearing y e consummation of all his engines he caused them at the sound of the Trumpette to be drawen awaye by those who had the charge The nexte daye in the morning he commaunded his Souldiours to gather togyther all the shot which came out of the Towne to the end he would haue a gesse what furniture they hadde within whiche thing was spéedely done and by the reporte that was made they coniectured to be within engines of artillary for fire workes aboue .viij. hundred of diuerse bignesse and of other artillary as crosbowes and such like aboue a thousand Wherefore when he hadde séene such plenty of shot in so short tyme in one night he greatly wondred at the maruelous wealth and dispence of the Citie and yet he more wondered at their furniture Neuerthelesse after he had taken order for the burying of the dead and healing of the hurt mē he then repaired and amended his engines of artillary During which time the Citizens being at reaste and without daunger of battery made a crosse wall within the Town enuironning all that part of the wall which was in daunger and besides cast a déepe trenche at the corner of the Wall whiche was beaten downe to staye the King that he should not by any great or impetuous force entre the Citie by assault They sent oute also secretly Amynthe with a number of their fittest saylers who before anie thing was perceyued had gotten y e coast of Asie right ouer against the Isle where Demetre had thrée tall and mightie shippes whiche the Pirates had brought in the ayde of the King whom he there borded and after a whiles fight tooke them and all that were a borde amongs whome he had Thimocles Prince of the Pirates He tooke besides these many other small Barques laden with victualles cōming towardes the camp all which he brought by night into the Rhodes withoute knowledge of the enimie Soone after that Demetre had repared and amended his engines of battery he ageyne brought them as neere the wal as was possible and with great force of shot repul◠ed all that stoode to the defence and towers of the curten and with his rammes other engines of battery so sharpely battered them that he threw downe two Turrets Howbeit the Souldiours of the Tower or Bulwarke that stood betwene the two Turrets defended it so valiauntlie that it was nothing shaken neuerthelesse many of the Souldiours were slayne and Ananie Captayne thereof Amongs these enterfacts Ptolome had ageyne sent another fléete laden w t asmuch corne and other necessarie things as before w t a thousand Souldiours vnder the conducte of Antigone the Macedonian In this meane while arriued before Demetre aboue L. Ambassadours sent by the Athenians and other cities of Grece desiring him to conclude an inuiolable peace with the Rhodians and rayse hys siege whereunto he agréed and for certen dayes the Ambassadours and diuerse other messengers were sent on all handes to treat a peace but in the ende they agreed not so that the Ambassadoures returned withoute conclusion After their departure he by treason determined to wynne the Citie and by night to thrust in his Souldiours at the great breach And thereuppon he chose oute a thousand of his valiauntest and best trayned Souldiours commaunding them about midnight faire and easely without noyse to approche the Wall on that side the rest he arranged in order of battail and at that very instant with so great noyse as might be gaue an assault round about the town both by sea and land And incontinent they whiche were charged to enter the breache violently rushed in and slew the watche whiche garded the trenche so that they entred the towne and ment to winne the Bulwarkes and Bastils standing about the Theatre When the gouernours of the Rhodians vnderstood the case and seeing al the Citie in great terror and maruelous feare they commaunded them whiche manned the Port and Walles not once to remoue frō their charge but valiauntly stand to the defence thereof and
Lysimache his departure with all diligence pursued hym but before he could ouertake him he might perceyue that he had already fortified his campe Notwithstanding he a fresh presented him battaill but seeing him that waye nothing apte and disposed commaunded his Souldiours to enuiron the campe of the enimie with trenches and planted all his Engines against the same determining there to besiege them And althoughe the enimie sore gald and oftentimes repulsed them with shot yet hadde Antigone his Souldiours euer the better and in short tyme had almost wonne their rampire whiche Lysimache séeing and still fearing enclosing and famine in a foule and raynie night raysed hys Campe and stoale awaye without knowledge of the enimie passing throughe the places of aduauntage alongest the Mountayne by which meane he lost not one mā of his armie but dispersed it and sent them by garrisons to winter When it was daye Antigone vnderstanding the departure of the enimie likewise departed and pursued them certen dayes alongest the playne costing dayly the mountayn but there fell such store of rayne and the ground waxed so miery and déepe that he lost manie of his beastes and mares which drew his carriages and also many men and the reste were verie sore trauelled and weried Wherefore the King meaning to rest his weried Souldiours and séeing winter approche left pursuing the enimy and deuided his armie sending them into places couenable to winter But when he vnderstoode that Seleuke was with great puisaūce come out of y e hier Satrapes against him he sent a friend of his to Demetre hys sonne lying in Grece commaunding him to make spéedy returne with his whole power bycause he greatly feared that all the rest of the Kings and Satrapes would sodenly come vppon him and gyue him battaill before his armie were come out of Grece Lysimache also had deuided his men to winter in a champion Countrey called Salmone and had great plentie of victualles out of the Citie of Heracley bycause of the alliaunce betwene hym the Gouernours of the citie by marriage for he had espoused a Lady named Amistre daughter to Oxiarthe Niece to the King of Aure whom Alexander had before giuen to Cratere for wife ¶ Demetre commeth into Grece against Cassander and after certen small exploites on eyther side done they grow to a composition That ended Demetre goeth into Hellespont to ioyne with his Father and of many and diuerse other things The .xix. Chapter THe same season wherein the matters before spoken of were exploited in Asie Demetre after purposed to celebrate in Eleusine the accustomed annuall pastimes and sacrifices of the countrey to the ende he would there be enstalled and cōsecrated And bicause it was long to the ordinarie daye he sore laye vpon the Athenians and required them that they woulde for hys loue and in parte of recompence of the good turnes he had done them set forward the daye whiche at hys request they did whereupon he all vnarmed presented him selfe to the Priestes and being before the vsuall daye enstalled and consecrated after the maner and custome of the countrey departed from Athens and came to the citie of Calchide in y e Isle of Euboye where he first assembled his shippes and footemen And being there he vnderstood that Cassanders souldiours kept the passages of the countrey thereby wherefore he thought it not good to trauell into Thessaly by land but enbarqued hys armie and sailed thence and arriued at the Port of Larisse where he came on land and first wanne the citie after the castle and committed the garrison men to prison and set the Citizens at libertie After that he wan Pronas and Pteley and stayed the Citizens of Dium and Orcomenie whome Cassander would haue transferred into the citie of Thebes least they should go thyther When Cassander sée that Demetre his doings still prospered he thrust greater garrisons into the cities of Phere and Thebes and with the remnaunt of his men marched towardes him and encamped as néere as was possible He had in his armie .xxix. thousande footemen and two thousand horsse And Demetre hadde aboue .xv. hundred horsse .viij. thousand Macedonian footemen .xv. thousand Mercenaries .xxv. thousand Grekes and aboue eight thousande Pyrates and other light armed men who came more for spoyle than to fight so that in all he had lvj thousand footemen When the two armies were in view one of another although the Souldiours on eche side desired battaill yet came they not to ioyning bycause the Chieftaynes attended and looked for newes of the successe of the warres in Asie For vpon that hoong the losse and victorie to tall In the meane tyme the Phereans had brought secretly into their citie Demetre with a certen numbre of his Souldiours who tooke and helde the Castle and vppon his honour sent away Cassanders Souldiours with bagge and baggage and after restored the Phereans to libertie The affaires of Thessaly being in this estate Demetre receyued letters from his father wherein he commaunded hym forthwith to come to him with his armie into Asie whiche letters receyued and obeing his fathers commaundement he cōcluded a peace with Cassander alwayes reseruing his Fathers pleasure for confirmation thereof bicause he was assured his father would neuer agrée therto but would by armes and dint of sworde determine and finishe the warres and not by composition and agréement Howebeit Demetre concluded the league and peace to the end he would haue an honest occasion to departe Grece to go into Asie so that it should not be saide he fled but y t he honestlie departed chieflie considering that in one of the articles of the conclusion was agréed that all the cities of Grece aswell in Asie as in Europe should be restored to libertie After the same conclusion Demetre made great prouision of Carracques wherein he enbarqued all his whole armie and fraught al his carriages sayling thence alongest the Isles he arriued at the Porte of Ephese and there landing his armie encamped harde before the towne and enforced the garrison to restore to hir pristinate estate and libertie the Citie and licenced them and their Captayn Prepelay one of Cassanders Chieftaynes safely to departe with bag and baggage and garrisoned the Castle with his owne Souldioures and thē entred Hellespont where he wanne to his obeysaunce the Lampsaks Parians and certen other Cities who were subtract from hys amitie After he sayled to the entry of Pont and encamped about the temple of the Calcedonians for gard wherof he left thrée thousand footmen and .xxx. Gallies the rest of his Souldiours he deuided amongs the cities to winter The same time Mytridate Gouernour of the countreys of Mysie and Carie who tooke parte with Antigone being suspected that he had conference with Cassander was put to death when he had gouerned .xxxv. yeares after whom his sonne Mithridate succeded who after enlarged encreased his fathers Empire
citie pale mele which then was riche and opulent and vntill that tyme reputed and taken to be verie strong inexpugnable ¶ Alexander King of Macedone praying Demetre his ayde goeth about to betraye him but in the ende him selfe according to his demerite is by Demetre with suche lyke practize slayne whome the Macedonians after receyue and honour as their King The .iiij. Chapter WHen I haue throughly cōsidered the great mutations and chaunges of fortune which happened Demetre he of all the reste of the Kings in my iudgement was by fortunes inconstancie most vexed and tossed both in peace and warre For oftentimes she aduaunced him to great glorie and prosperitie gyuing him mightie armies notable victories and a large realme and Dominion And at an other time frō great prosperitie and power soon after by the losse of one battail she ageyne brought him almost into extréeme calamitie and miserie Who being in this estate and considering the varietie of instable Fortune recited they say these Uerses of Eschine following Fortune once thou didst me set in hye estate And in short tyme as lowe didst me mate As to him then happened For hauing prosperous successe in the countrey of Peloponnese newes were brought him that his cities confederate in Asie could no longer hold out Lysimache his puisaunce who persecuted them And that if he the sooner came not to the ayde of the Isle of Cypres King Ptolome would subdue and take it Moreouer that his wife and children were in the Citie of Salamine besieged in great daunger of taking By reason of which newes he was forced to raise his siege frō Sparte and prouide for the foresaid mischiefs But as the womā according to Archilocke the Poet carrieth in one hand water and in the other fire euen so playeth Fortune with Demetre For so soone as he was departed frō the countrey of Laconie as aforesaid sodēly other newes came whiche put hym ageyne in good hope to exployte many notable things And firste it is to be vnderstoode that Cassander not lōg before was departed this world by reason whereof the realme stood in controuersie betwene the other two brethren the elder of which hight Alexander and the other Antipater Whiche Antipater after he had killed their mother Thessalonicke persecuted Alexander thinking to haue chased and expulsed him the realme who finding him self of no force in the countrey sent oute for ayde to King Pyrrhe in Cypres and to Demetre in Peloponnese Howbeit Demetre was so occupied about the estate and affaires of Peloponnese whē the Ambassadoures of Alexander came that he could by no meane helpe him In the meane tyme Pyrrhe with a mightie power came thyther in recompence of his aide and charge tooke possession of so large a piece of y t countrey of Macedone ioyning to his realme of Epyre that Alexander greatly dreaded him And while he aboade in this feare he was aduertised that Demetre whose helpe he had before required was with his whole armie comming thyther to ayde him whereuppon he considering his authoritie and great renowme and the worthinesse of his déedes and actes for whiche he was honoured and had in great admiration of the whole worlde did nowe more than before feare his estate if he entred hys realme Wherefore he went to méete him whome at their first méeting he right courteouslie and honorably entreated greatly thanking him of his curtesie trauel in that he would leaue his owne affaires of great importaunce and with so mightie an armie to come and ayde him He farther told him that he had already well quieted and established hys affaires and estate so that he should not néede any farther to trauaill Neuerthelesse he thought him so much bound as if he had come at his first sending for or that al things by his meane had bene appeased and quieted To these wordes Demetre curteouslie aunswered that he was of his quietnesse right glad and that he had now no néede of his helpe besides many other louing and gentle wordes whiche gréeting ended eyther of them for that night returned into hys Pauilion During this time arose such matters betwen them that the one greatly suspected the other For as Demetre was by Alexander bidden to supper he was willed to take good héed to him bycause that Alexander had practized by treason to slea him Notwithstanding he by no meane shewed any contenaunce of mistrust but ment to go to the banquet to whose lodging Alexāder was cōming to bring him on his way but he diuersly detracted the time went a soft and treatable pace to the end his souldiors might haue leasure to arme thē and commaunded his gard being a greater number than Alexanders to enter with him and also to wayte néere his person When Alexanders Souldiours sée them the weaker companie they durst not once attempt it And after they hadde supped bycause Demetre woulde haue some honest occasion to departe he fayned him to be something yll disposed in his body and therfore forth w e tooke leaue of Alexander and went thence The nexte day in the morning Demetre fayning that he had receyued certen newes sent word vnto him that he was aduertised of matters of great importaunce that he must of necessitie with hys armie returne into Peloponnese praying Alexander to haue him excused Neuerthelesse he offred him his ayde and helpe whensoeuer he néeded and desired him to vse him as one in whom he might repose and put his whole trust With whiche message the yong Alexander who greatly doubted him before he came and muche more after hys comming was nowe maruellous gladde that of hys owne accorde he returned out of his Realme and Dominions And bycause he would better let him vnderstande some signe of the acknowledging of his good will and loue he accompanied him into Thessaly But after they were arriued in the citie of Larisse they a freshe began to practise new treasons one against an other And firste Alexander to put Demetre quite out of suspicion withoute armoure or garde visited him hoping to make him do the like but he was in his so thinking greatly deceyued And as Alexander one night according to his accustomed woonte came to supper to Demetre without company and that they were in the chief of their supper Demetre sodenly arose from the table whereat Alexander was so sore abashed that he arose and followed him to the Haldore But so soone as Demetre was withoute he gaue signe token to his Souldiours who incontinent fell vppon Alexander and slewe him and certen of his men whiche would haue defended him among whome one as he was killed saide Demetre hath preuented vs but a daye onely With this slaughter were the Macedonians all that night and the next daye in the morning maruelously astonied and in great feare For séeing to oultrage was to no purpose and that Demetre after Alexander his death was very strong to bring his purpose
married and a Father as thou arte thou mayste be the right medecine and cure of thy familie bicause that for trueth it is not my wife whome thy sonne loueth but thyne owne with these wordes was Seleuke much abashed as of a very new and strange thing And thereupon prayed Erasistrate to declare vnto him the whole estate and circumstaunce of the matter and howe ◠e knew it And after he vnderstood that for childishe reuerence Antioche chose rather to die than discouer his fond loue he was moued with so great pitie that he determined all he might to saue him Whereuppon immediatly he assembled al his people and after he had with many faire and gracious wordes persuaded them he declared that it was his will and ordinaunce that Antioche his sonne should espouse Stratonice his wife and that they shoulde haue in the title and name of the Realme all the hier Prouinces thinking it vnreasonable to gainesaye hys sonne in that who neuer to him in any thing hadde ben disobedient And so by aduenture Stratonice his wife made therof some difficultie thought it verie straūge wherefore he prayed all hir friendes and familiars to persuade hir to obey his will and pleasure and farther to saye that all things which he had ordeined were good iuste and reasonable In this sorte was the marriage made and soone after with al the greatest ioye pompe of the world celebrated ¶ Demetre thrice conquereth the Countrey of Beoce and citie of Thebes and chaseth King Pyrrhe out of the countrey of Thrace The .vj. Chapter WHen Demetre in this season hadde obtayned all Macedone and Thessalie and many cities in Peloponnese Isthmus Athens and Megare he was not yet satisfied and content but determined to warre vpon the Beotians Howbeit that was no enterprise either long and difficile For after the Beotians were aduertized of his comming they came and desired him of peace and concluded vppon suche conditions as him liked albeit against their willes Whereupon Cleonyme King of Sparte came soone after from Thebes with great power and had gotten to his alliaunce Piside the Thespian a man greatly renowmed and done many notable exploites whereupon the Beotians waxed so proud that they rebelled against Demetre who being thereof aduertised determined sodenly to come vppon them and so to chastise their infidelitie and inconstancie Wherfore he incontinent departed with those armed men he had and besieged the citie of Thebes And sodenly planted his engines of battery against the weakest places of the wal whereat the Townes men were greatly astonied in so much that Cleonyme of Sparte stoale awaye and fledde wherevpon the Thebanes were in such feare that they sent their Ambassadoures towards Demetre remitting the citie and Citizens at his commaundement praying him to remember hys benignitie and clemencie wherin he surmounted all other Princes In this sorte rendred they whome he no whit hurte but exacted on them great summes of money thruste garrisons into their Townes and left Ierome the Historian his Lieutenaūt in that Countrey And thus shewed he according to his old accustomed manner hys debonaire and curtesie towardes the rebelles But especially towardes Pyside the Thespian who being his prisoner gently entreated him and after with great and large giftes rewarded him and gaue him charge of his Souldiours in the quarter of Thespie of which countrey he was Shortly after that these things were done in Beoce newes came to Demetre how that Lysimache was by Dromichete taken prisoner whereupon he thinking that to be an excellent occasion and good opportunitie for him to exploite great and waightie matters went in all spéed with such power as he could readily leaue into the Countrey of Thrace And at his first comming he besieged a forte and very riche Towne of the same Countrey whiche Forte and Towne at the first practized and deuised to render vnto him but when newes on euery side came to him that the Beotians ageyne rebelled and that Dromichete hadde deliuered and released Lysimache he was thereat abashed and sore despited with the commotion of the Beotians Wherefore he incontinent departed thence and in so short tyme as was possible returned into Grece to chastise them but before he could get thyther he was aduertised that his sonne Antigone had in battaill vanquished them all and that they greatly repented and bewailed their rebellion Of which newes he was maruelous glad and chiefly that his sonne hadde wonne the victorie And to execute and consūmate hys enterprise he continued his iorney to besiege the citie of Thebes But in the meane time he was aduertised that Phyrrhe King of Epyre was in armes entred Thessaly and hadde robbed and spoyled the Countrey vnto the citie of Thermopile Wherefore he left his sonne at the siege of Thebes with one parte of hys Souldiours and hym selfe with the rest made great spéede into Thessaly and at hys first comming made Pyrrhe soone retier to the strong passages and forsake the playne countrey Which done he left in that countrey for the garde thereof a thousand horsse and .x. thousand footemen and with the remnaunt returned to the siege of Thebes where he caused to be brought and planted that maruelous engine aforesayd named the beater downe of Cities albeit it séemed he coulde not in long tyme do it bicause the engine was of such poise and waight that it could scarsely be drawen in two monethes the space of two furlongs When the Thebanes had considered their fault and oultrage committed against Demetre they determined to stande to their defence euen to the last man bycause they hoped or looked for no mercie at his handes And he ageyn was fully persuaded to spare for no cost but that he woulde winne it more for to be of them reuenged than for any gayne or profit he loked for for the losse was muche greater than the gayne or commoditie bicause the more parte of the lustiest most valiaunt souldiours w t ouermuch aduēturing to assault the strōgest and most disaduantagious places of the citie were many times slaine Wherefore Antigone séeing the losse of so many braue and couragious Souldiours came to his Father and w t great méekenesse and humblenesse of mynd in this maner said vnto him To what purpose good father are at these lustie and valiaunt Souldiours dayly forced to hazard them selues to suche slaughter for a thing whereof will arise no gaine or emolument Whome Demetre all in a rage aunswered Why arte thou quod he so carefull of thy selfe séeing there are suche a numbre of men betwene thée and thy daunger And bycause hys Souldiours should well knowe that he would not haue them hazard farther than he him selfe would endaunger him He one daye amongst the thickest and with the foremost came to the assault where he nobly and valyauntly bare him but in the ende to openly approching the wall he was by the Townesmen with the blow of a stone hurte and although he felt
with the blowe great anguishe and payne yet neuer ceased he frō the assault but with much greater courage than before exhorted his Souldiours valiauntlie to stand to it whereuppon they waxed so hardy and bold séeing their King there in person to leade them the waye that through their great vertue and prowesse they by force entred the Citie and so tooke it whereat the Citizens were in maruelous feare looking for none other mercie but that he woulde make great slaughter of thē and after spoyle burn thē and neuer leaue doing of any mischief whiche might be deuised But he contrarie to the iudgement and expectation of all the worlde caused but .xij. to be executed sent a numbre in exile and left the rest entier whole Thus was the citie of Thebes in ten yeares by Demetre twise taken and subdued ¶ Demetre robbing and ouerrunning the Countrey of the Etholians enterpriseth warre against Pyrrhe King of Epyre and after missing of their encountre and meeting eyther of them do all the mischief they can one to anothers Countrey and of the renowme and fame that Pyrrhe getteth in that warre against the Macedonians The .vij. Chapter THe same verie season should the solempne feastes of the God Apollo Pythie haue bene celebrated in the Temple of Delphos but bycause the Etholians stopped the passage where they shoulde passe Demetre against the old auncient custome caused all the sayde pastimes with the pompes and ceremonies to be done within the citie of Athens which was the moste principall and chief place of Grece to honour their Goddes in And after his returne into Macedone considering that the aide of the Macedonians would more preuayle him in warre than in peace following his owne nature and inclination which was neuer to be at rest and in quiet incontinent arrered new warres against the Etholians w t great power went thyther where he robbed burnt and wasted the greater parte of their countrey and that done left Panthauke one of his Captaynes with a braue band of souldiours to gard and kept it and he with the rest in all possible spéede marched against King Pyrrhe with whome he had many quarrels Who being thereof aduertised came with so great will to fight against him as the other to assaile him Howbeit by Fortune it happened that they tooke seuerall wayes so that they meet not Neuerthelesse after Demetre was entred the countrey of Epyre he ouer ranne and spoyled the greater parte But Pyrrhe had a better aduenture for as he had gotten to the place where Panthauke was he fought w t him and throughe his great vertue and prowes wanne the victorie And as the two armies ioyned Panthauke calling oute vrging Pyrrhe to fight w t him body to body he willingly accepted the offer and in viewe sight of both the armies very brauely encountred and after he had receyued one wounde he gaue Panthauke two finally vanquished him and therewith put his armie to flight Whereupon Pyrrhe got him not so muche hatred and euill will of the Macedonians whome he had vanquished as he for this victorie wanne honour and admiration bycause all men wondred and were abashed at his vertue and valiauntnesse Wherefore they sayde it was he amongs al the rest of the Kings which should renue the vertue and courage inuincible of Alexander the great And that the reste all inflamed with honour and prodigalitie and enuironned with Souldiours alwayes went accompanied with whores and minstrels as common daunsers And amongs them was none other controuersie but who shoulde surmounte other in pompe deceipt and vaine glorie And that was spoken by Demetre who as they saide dyd not onely weare a Crowne royall and robes of crymosin tynsell but also shoes of golde It was also said that he caused a robe to be made like vnto heauen with starres in it a verie curious sumptuous worke which fashion he there long tyme ware but the alteration and chaunge thereof remained imperfect And neuer before or since was any King of Macedone were he neuer so proude and pompous that once durste enterprise or take on hande to cause such a garmēt to be made to weare These things abouesayd greatly troubled the Macedonians yet were there other fashiōs that Demetre vsed which more misliked thē both for his straungenesse in gyuing audience as also for his hie and stoute annsweres besides the ceremonie and grauitie intollerable But one thing amongs other whiche is talked noted of hym was that he helde and kept the Ambassadoures of Athens two whole yeares being more his friendes than any of the rest of Grece and made them follow him which waye so euer he went without any dispatche and in the end departed from him in as great hatred as they came Another time was an Orator sent to him from the Lacedemonians wherat he maruelously grudged thinking they estéemed him not for sending of so simple an Ambassadoure Wherefore he wonderfully reuiled with minatory words menaced them and after turning his talke to the Orator said And arte thou he whome the Lacedemonians haue sent hyther alone Whome the Orator very gently aunswered yea for so the Sir King to thée alone Another time also when he hadde caused it to be published that he would giue attentiue audience to all suters a numbre of people at the day appointed came with many supplications and deliuered them to him in writing whiche he verie curteously receyued and put them in the skirte of his gowne but at hys departing thence going ouer the bridge of the Riuer Axie in the sight of all those whiche had put vp and giuen him their supplications and followed for aunswer he caste them all in the ryuer whereat the Macedonians were greatly offended and discontent For they thought it not the office and honour of a King of hie and noble courage nor yet a good officer but rather of a iester and deceyuer of the people and of one who made no accompt of iustice And a great deale the more thought the Macedonians it straunge for that they hadde vnderstoode of their auncesters the great curtesie and facilitie that King Phillip father to Alexander the great vsed in gyuing audience to his subiects It happened one daye aboute the same season that a poore woman cōming to Demetre desiring him to heare hir he aunswering that he was not at leysure she ageyne with loude voyce replied and saide Then oughtest thou not to reigne Which wordes well considered and reuolued in his mynde at last constreyned him to giue good and gracious audience to his people And truely there is no one thing in the worlde that so well apperteyneth and is so propre to a King as to be at leisure and attent to iustice For as the Philosopher Timothey sayeth Mars is a Tyraunt and according to the iudgement of the Poet Pyndare The Lawe is king ouer al. Homere also sayeth that Kings and Princes reciued not of God engines
escape and take the Towne wherein they are emprisoned and in the ende ageyne taken Cap. 6. fol. 49 ¶ Antigone being come into Babylon and ioyning w e Seleuke and Python is by Eumenes repulsed the passage of Tygre to the great losse and slaughter of hys people Cap. 7. fol. 50 ¶ Of Antigone his comming with his armie into the Countrey of Mede and the daungers and hard passage he hath vpon the way Cap. 9. fol. 52 ¶ Eumenes to please his Satrapes with the whole armie marcheth into the countrey of Perse by hys wisedome and pollicie putteth Penceste who affected the gouernement and armie in great feare and after reconcileth the sayd Penceste and assureth him selfe of all the other Satrapes and Captaynes Cap. 10. fol. 53 ¶ Of the battaile betwene Antigone and Eumenes of their powers and of their retire to winter without victorie on eyther side Cap. 10. fol. 55 ¶ Eumenes burieth the dead and of a maruelous case whiche happened betwene two women of Inde Cap. 12. fol. 59 ¶ Cassander vnderstanding of that Quéene Olympias had done with his armie commeth into Macedone and besiegeth the sayde Olympias within the Citie of Pidue where the Quéene in short time is cleane voyde of hope of all succours she loketh for Cap. 13. fol. 57 ¶ Antigone thinking to surprise and discomfite Eumenes and his armie the sayde Eumenes throughe hys wisedome and diligence frustrateth his enterprise and by that meane saueth both his Elephants and baggage Cap. 14. fol. 58 ¶ Antigone in battaill ouerthroweth Eumenes putteth him to death and after seizeth on all hys armie Cap. 15. fol. 60 ¶ Antigone retireth to winter in the Countrey of Mede and of the deluge or floud which that time chaunceth in the Citie of Rhodes Cap. 16. fol. 67 ¶ Antigone by craft putteth to death Python who beginneth to rebell and gyueth the Satrapie of Mede to Orondonate and lykewise vanquisheth certen other Median rebelles Cap. 17. fol. 68 ¶ Antigone comming into Perse and there receyued as Lorde and Seigniour of all Asie deuideth the Satrapies thereof and after goeth to the citie of Suse and taketh all the treasure he there findeth Cap. 18. fol. 69 ¶ Cassander taketh by composition Olympias and after putteth hir to death Cap. 19. fol. 70 ¶ After the death of Olympias Cassander espouseth Thessalonice Alexander the great hys sister and foundeth the citie of Cassander And after he hath put in safe kéeping Roxanne and Alexander his sonne he goeth into the countrey of Beote and reedifieth the citie of Thebes Cap. 20. 71 ¶ Of the foundation and fortunes of the citie of Thebes in Beote Cap. 21. 72 ¶ After Cassander hath taken and subdued certen cities of Peloponnese and vnderstandeth of the comming of Alexander Polispercon his sonne against hym he returneth into Macedone Cap. 22. 73 ¶ Upon Antigone his arriuall in Babylon Seleuke perceyuing that he séeketh occasions to expulse or kill him flieth into Egipt Cap. 23. 74 ¶ Of Seleuke his practize and deuise touching the alliance and confederacie betwixt Ptolome Cassander Lysimache against Antigone Of their defiaunce they send him and of his preparatiō against them Also of his siege against the citie of Tyre in Phenice Cap. 24. 74 ¶ Of the wisedome and vertue of Phile Antipater his daughter Cap. 25. 77 ¶ Antigone winneth to his alliaunce Polispercon and Alexander his sonne and by a decrée by the Macedonians made denounceth Cassander an enimie and after taketh the citie of Tyre Cap. 26. 77 ¶ Of the practizes deuises and prouision by Ptolome and Seleuke on the one parte and Antigone on the other parte made by Sea in the countrey of Asie Cap. 27. 78 ¶ Of certen exploites of warre by Cassander and his souldiours in Peloponnese and other partes of Grece done And how Alexander Polispercon his sonne reuolteth After of a great victorie which Ptolome his Nauie hath against Antigone his Nauie in Cilice And after Ptolome and Antigone come to a parle and of certain exploites of warre betwene the Romaines and Samnites Cap. 28. 79 ¶ Of diuerse exploites which Aristodeme one of Antigone his captaynes doth against Alexander Polispercon his sonne in Peloponnese ◠and Alexander being slaine his wife through hir prowes taketh vpon hir the gouernement Cap. 29. 80 ¶ Cassander making amitie with the Acarnanians and Illirians and reducing to his alliaunce certen other Cities returneth into Macedone and the Etholians taking the citie of Arginye in Acarnanye slea and kill the inhabitaunts thereof Cap. 30. 81 ¶ Two bandes of Cassanders whiche he sendeth to Lemne and Carie are by the souldiours of Antigone ouerthrowen Cap. 31. 82 ¶ Antigone gyuing order aboute the affaires in Syrie goeth into Phrigie and of a notable victorie which one of his captaynes winneth at Sea on the enimie Ca. 32. 83 ¶ The Romaines losing a great battaill against the Samnites people the Citie of Locres with their men Cap. 33. 83 ¶ Lysimache subdueth the cities of Pont and Thaure whiche rebell and after vanquisheth the Scythes and supplies by Antigone sent into the same Countrey Cap. 34. 84 ¶ Thelesphore one of Antigone his Captaynes restoreth the greater number of the cities of Peloponnese to libertie And Philip a captayn of Cassanders vanquisheth the Etholians and the King of Epyre which came to their ayde Cap. 35. 83 ¶ Antigone apperceyuing that he is by Cassander deceyued taketh certen cities in Carie and after commeth to a parle with Cassander And vppon little or no agréement they beginne the warre in Grece Cap. 36. 83 ¶ The Romaines winne a victorie on the Samnites And the rebellious Champanois by an agréement putte them selues to their obeisaunce Cap. 37. 84 ¶ Ptolome and Antigone to despite one the other restore diuerse Cities of Grece to libertie And the same Antigone faileth of his entrie into Macedone After are entreated the matters by Ptolome ◠done in Cypres and Cilice in the hier Syrie Cap. 38. 85 ¶ Ptolome and Seleuke come into Sirie against Demetre and in battaill vanquishe him And after Ptolome conquereth the countrey of Phenice Cap. 39. 89 ¶ Thelesphore reuolteth from Antigone and Alcete by the Epirots chosen King making alliaunce with Cassander after many battailles is by his subiectes slaine And Cassander loseth a battaill before the citie of Apollonie in the countrey of Adrie Cap. 40. 92 ¶ Seleuke through hys wisedome and prowes with a small numbre of men which Ptolome hadde giuen hym conquereth the countrey of Babylon togyther Susiane and the rest néere ioyning whiche holde with Antigone Cap. 41. 93 ¶ Demetre in battaill vanquisheth Cylles Ptolome his Lieutenaunt and after Antigone hys Father commeth and ioyneth with him and then Ptolome forsaketh the countreys of Syrie and Phenice and leaueth them to the sayd Antigone Cap. 42. 95 ¶ Antigone enterpriseth warres against the Nabathians inhabiting the desertes of Arabia and Athaney his Captayne is by them discomfited Also after Demetre his comming thyther he concludeth a league
and amitie with them Cap. 43. 96 ¶ Of the Lake Asphalte and the maruelous nature thereof also the discomfiture of Antigone hys people there by the Arabians Cap. 44. 99 ¶ Demetre Antigone his sonne at hys Fathers commaudement goeth to Babylon to make thereof a conquest and after returneth to his father Cap. 45. 100 ¶ The Romaines vnder the conducte of Quinte Fabie their Dictator winne and take two cities from the Samnites Cap. 46. 101 ¶ After the alliaunce made and confirmed betwene Cassander Ptolome Lysimache and Antigone Cassander putteth to death the yong Alexander and Roxanne hys mother Cap. 47. 101 Of the third Booke OF certen aide which Cassander sendeth to the king of Peons of certen enterprises by Ptolome against Antigone done in Phenice How Polispercon taketh on hand to restore Hercules the sonne of Alexander to the realme of Macedone And finally of the pitiful and lamentable death of Nycocles and his whole familie Cap. 1. 103 ¶ Of the warres betwene Parisade his thrée children King of Bosphore after his death for the succession of the Realme togyther their déedes and gestes and also their endes Cap. 2. 104 ¶ Of two victories whiche the Romaines woon against the Samnites whereby they tooke many of their Cities Cap. 3. 107 ¶ Ptolome Prince of Egipt winneth from Antigone certen cities practizeth and getteth to him Ptolome Nephew to Antigone and after putteth him to death Polispercon also through the persuasion of Cassander putteth to death Hercules the sonne of Alexander And finally of Cleomenes death King of Lacedemon Cap. 4. 108 ¶ Of certen victories which the Romaines haue vppon the Tyrrhenians and Samnites And of certen innouations by Appie Claudie the Romaine Censor made in cōtempt and defacing of the Senate and nobles in fauoure of y e communaltie Cap. 5. 109 ¶ After Ptolome Prince of Egipt hath restored one parte of the cities of Grece to libertie he for despite and in recompence of their breach of promisse with him concludeth a peace with Cassander And Cleopatre sister to Alexander the great comming on hir waye towardes him is by the commaundement of Antigone miserablie slaine Cap. 6. 110 ¶ After the taking and razing of Munichie Demetre Antigone his sonne by his fathers commaundement restoreth Athens Megare and many other Cities of Grece to libertie and of their liberalitie towardes him and the honours they iudged hym worthie for that hys benefite and good turne Cap. 7. 111 ¶ Demetre Antigone his sonne vanquisheth in a battaill at Sea Ptolome before the citie of Salamine in Cypres and by that meane winneth the whole Isle from him And after the sayd Antigone Demetre and Ptolome take vppon them the Tytles and Dyademes of Kings Cap. 8. 112 ¶ Antigone and Demetre hys sonne with a mightie power inuade Egipt both by Sea and lande And after finding the entry and border of the countrey well prouided and furnished they returne without any exploit Cap. 9 116 ¶ Of certen exploites of warre betwene the Romaynes and Samnites Cap. 10. 118 ¶ Demetre by the commaundement of hys Father both by Sea and lande besieged the citie of Rhodes Of the great and lustie assaultes they gaue and the maruelous and honorable defence y t the Townesmen made Cap. 11. 119 ¶ Of two victories by the Romaines hadde vppon the Samnites Cap. 12. 124 ¶ Demetre at many assaultes by the Rhodians repulsed concludeth a peace And departing thence restoreth to libertie many cities of Grece Of the death of King Eumele of Bosphore and the raigne of Spartace his sonne Cap. 13. 124 ¶ The conclusion of a peace betwixt the Romaines and Samnites and certen other their neyghbours and of their subduing the Asculaines Cap. 14. 130 ¶ Demetre by force and treatie taketh many Cities of Grece and diuerse other render to hym all whiche he restoreth to their auncient accustomed libertie Cap. 15. 130 ¶ The Tarentines desire Cleonyme the Lacedemonian to ayde them against the Lucaines of the villanies and lecheries he committeth and after two mischiefes whiche in one tyme betyde him he retireth into Corcyre Cap. 16. 132 ¶ Cassander and Lysimache attending ayde frō Ptolome and Seleuke beginne to warre vppon Antigone the one in Thessalie the other in Asie and do take from him certen townes cities and castles Cap. 17. 133 ¶ Antigone commeth against Lysimache and after he hath him twice be sieged and can not gette him oute to battaill they are both fayne to sende their Souldiours in garrisons to winter Cap. 18. 134 ¶ Demetre commeth into Grece against Cassander and after certen small exploites on eyther side done they grow to a composition That ended Demetre goeth into Hellespont to ioyne with his father and of many and diuerse other things Cap. 19. 135 Of the fourth Booke ANtigone comming to battaill against the enimie is through the defaulte of hys sonne Demetre slayne Cap. 1. 137 ¶ After this discomfiture the Athenians woulde not suffer Demetre to enter their citie and how he ageyne gathereth togyther his armie After Demetre his daughter is married to Seleuke who treateth a marriage betwene Demetre and Ptolomais daughter to King Ptolome and of the deniall he hath of two little Cities Cap. 2. 138 ¶ Demetre at his pleasure taketh by siege the citie of Athens of his bountie and humanitie towardes them And after besiegeth the citie of Sparte in the countrey of Laconie Cap. 3. 140 ¶ Alexander King of Macedone praying Demetre his ayde goeth aboute to betraye him but in the ende hym selfe according to his demerite is by Demetre with such lyke practize slayne whome the Macedonians after receyued and honour as their King Cap. 4. 142 ¶ Seleuke through a fatherly loue remitteth to Antioche his fonne his owne wife Stratonice daughter to Demetre and gyueth to them in title and name of the realme all the hier Prouinces Cap. 5. 144 ¶ Demetre thrice conquereth the countrey of Beoce and citie of Thebes and chaseth King Pyrrhe oute of the countrey of Trace Cap. 6. 146 ¶ Demetre robbing and ouerrunning the countrey of the Eholians enterpriseth warre against Pyrrhe King of Epyre and after missing of their encountre and méeting eyther of them do all the mischiefe they can one to anothers countrey and of the renowme and fame that Pyrrhe getteth in that warre against the Macedonians Cap. 7. 148 ¶ King Pyrrhe entring the countrey of Macedone is by Demetre expulsed And after Demetre raiseth a mightie power to recouer his fathers Realme and the other Kings linke togyther against him And going ageyne to encountre Pyrrhe who was entred Macedone is throughe the mutinie of the Macedonians enforced to flie and after of the deuision of the realme betwene Pirrhe and Eysimache Cap. 8. 150 ¶ After Demetre his flight out of Macedone he besiegeth the citie of Athens whiche rebelled from whence he departeth withoute taking it and goeth into Asie to warre on Seleuke After he hath taken many Cities he is so sore pressed on that he sendeth towardes
the armed and so marched on into the countrey of the Etholians to the intent they might ioyne with him whom they right thanfully receyued and with great courage accorded his request there vpon deliuered him seuen thousande Souldiers From thence he sent to the Locriens Phocians the other cities therabout solliciting them to take their part for the restauration of the whole countrey of Grece into hir pristinate estate libertie from the seruitude and bondage of the Macedoniās But in the citie of Athens the richest and welthiest citezins prayed and exhorted the cōmoners of the same to peace and quietnes Neuerthelesse there were other who diuers times many wayes had gratified and done much for the sayd cōmoners that continually moued and stirred the multitude to warres bicause their chiefe liuyng was by their salarie and wages in the time of warres Wherfore king Phillip oftentimes accustomed to say that peace was their warres and warres their peace Therfore an edict of the warres was drawen and published by them which were deputed by the communalty as followeth First that the people of Athens ought to take vpon them the quarrell to reduce into hir populer gouernaunce the whole countrey of Grece Also that there should be no garrisons maynteyned or kept within any the sayd cities Moreouer that there shold a nauie be sent to sea To say fourtie excellent tall long and fléete gallies of thrée tier of ores on a side and lxx of foure Also that all the Athenians of the age of fourtie yeares and vpward should be in a readines to warre Moreouer that of the ten tribunes of their people thrée should remayne at home for to defende the countrey the other seuen to be in a readinesse for the warres to sende whether it should be thought most conuenient Far◠her that Ambassadours should be sent through out all Grece pronouncing and signifiing to all the Cities of the same that euen as in tymes past the people of Athens dyd repute and take the whole countrey of Grece to be one common and frée countrey and domi◠ill of Greciaens had assayled chased and put to flight by sea y e Barbarians who ment to haue subdued and conquered them in like case also they nowe thought it best foorthwith for the cōmon libertie of Grece to moue warre and to be contributors in the same both with their shippes and money for the sa◠etie of the sayde Grecians before any other people of the world Whiche decrée and edict beyng approued and allowed was foorthwith put in execution Wherevpon many both graue wise Grecians seyng the imminent daungers that woulde ensue sayd that the Athenians had well considered of all things concerning honour but for any gaine or commoditie that thereby should ensue they greatly er◠ed and were deceyued alleaging that before they néeded they had taken vpon them to arrere warres against great and inuincible armies exhorting and praying all sage and wise men to be otherwise minded and to take example of the late destructiō of Thebes Notwithstanding this the Ambassadours of Athens neuer desisted but trauailled through all the cities of Grece persuading thē by eloquēt orations fine persuasions to wars so y t in the end the greater number of the cities agréed to ayde them some with all their powre and force other some with certain numbers of men And the rest which refused to ioyne with them some tooke part with the Macedonians and the other rather chose to be neuters Howbeit the first y t ioyned w t the Athenians were y e Etholians as we haue before declared After them all the Thessalians except the Pellenians All the Oetians also except the Heraclians All the Achees the Phitiothes reserued and all the Eliens except the Milesians And beside al these y e Dorians Locrians Phocias Aenians Elisians Dolopenians Athamantians and Leucadians and al y e Molossians vnder the gouernemēt of Aripthy For he had shewed him selfe to be their friende although after he betraide the Grekes and toke part with the Macedonians And as for the Illirians and Thracians fewe of them would take part with the Athenians by reason of the old enimitie they bare them But notwithstanding the Euboians declared them selues to be their ayders in those warres all those which dwell in the vttermost cōfines of Peloponese To say the Argiues Sicionians Elians Messenians and those which enhabite the quarter of Acten These were in effect all the people of Grece whiche conspired with the Athenians in those warres After which conspiracy the Athenians sent to Leosthenes a new supplie of fiue thousand footemē all Citizins fiue hundred horse and two thousand straungers Who trauailling the countrey of Boetia found al the people in those quarters against them bycause that when Alexander had assaulted and wonne the Citie of Thebes he gaue away al their landes possessions to the Boetians enhabiting there round about whiche people had made particion of all the sayd lands and possessions whose reuenues yerely amounted to a great value Wherfore fearing that if the Athenians preuayled they would rendre vnto the Thebanes their Citie and territories they determined the rather to take part with the Macedonians After Leosthenes had encamped before Platea he retourned with certen of his Souldiers into Boece and there ioyned with the armie of the Athenians wher they encountered and fought with the Boetians and ouerthrew them And immediatlie after the battaile he caused a Trophe to be set vp in token of victorie Which done he retourned to the passage of the piles and there continued certayn tyme always awayting the puyssaunce of the Macedonians But when Antipater vnderstood of the death of Alexandre and the diuision of the Prouinces which had ben made in Babylon he sent his messengers towards Cratere who was in Cilice who had ben sent thether before to conduct into Macedonie fiue thousande old Macedonian souldiers He sent likewise to Philote Gouernour of the countrey of Phrigie adioyning to Hollespont praying him to come to his ayde and succour and by y e meane he offred him one of his daughters in mariage he vnderstanding the concourse of the Grecians against him being Gouernour of Macedone he left in the Countrey for Lieutenaunt Sisbe and a certayn of suche Souldiers with him as he thought best commaunding him to leuie so manie men in the said countrey as he could And him selfe with .xiij. thousand footemen sixe hundred horse for more he coulde not well haue bycause the great numbre of his Souldiers were gone into Asia to garde that countrey and confynes of the same departed out of Macedone and came into Thessalie where he sée before his face vpon the sea coast of Macedone the whole Nauie which Alexandre had sent for the wasting of a great summe of money and a great deale of other treasure being in all an hundred ten tall Gallies of warre The Thessalians allied them w t Antipater for that cause
Antipater should go against Perdicas through the coūtrey of Cilicie Cratere against Eumenes For they thought if Eumenes could be vanquished that they might a newe ioyne together with Ptolome and his power whome they looked for they then should be well able to encountre the army royall and discomfite and ouerthrowe them When Eumenes vnderstood his enimies to be at hande he mustered his men and arranged them in order of battaill but chiefly his horsemen in whome lay all his hope of victorie bycause he knew right well his footemen were neuer able to abide the Macedonian Phalange When the armies were in view one of an other Cratere like a stout and valiaunt Champion exhorted his soldiers in hartie and couragious maner gyuing them if the victorie lighted on their sides the butin and spoyle of the enimies Camp thinking thereby the more to enbolden encourage them After which exhortation he also arranged his battaile placing him selfe in the right wing or voward and Neoptolome in the left wing or rereward He had in all xx thousand footemen the greater numbre Macedonians in whome he much trusted bycause they were all men renowmed and experimented in many battails and warres and about two thousande horsemen And Eumenes had of sundry Nations xx thousande footemen and about v. thousand horse with which he thought to gyue the first charge whereupon he deuided his horse into two wings and caused them to troup before the Phalang Cratere likewise with his horse first encountred Eumenes and fighting there valiauntly was in the prease ouerthrowen and smothered But after the horsemē which charged with him in the right wing or voward vnderstood of his death and séeing the enimy going about to enclose them notwithstanding their valyaunt fight retired to their battaill of footemen as vanquished But Neoptolome who led y e rereward of Cratere his army Eumenes which had the voward of his owne so violētly charged one an other that the fight on eyther side was cruel Then the two Captaynes which both by their horses and other signes tokens knew one another encountered body to body and with great courage fel angry moode valiauntly fought which fight was cause of victory for after they had a while buskled and fought together with their swordes they forsooke hold of their bridles and wrestled on horseback meaning by playne force to ouerthowe one another But as they were thus wrestling their horses drewe backe they both fell to the ground which fal was such that neyther of them by reason of the heauinesse of their armour coulde well recouer their selues Howbeit Eumenes first recouered his féete and comming with his sworde in his hande towardes Neoptolome gaue him such a blowe that he cut his hamme strings cleane asunder whereby he could not arise But his harte which supported the imbecillity of his body was such that he recouered his knées and defending him selfe manfully wounded his enimy on the hande and on both his thighes notwithstanding him selfe continually bled and bycause the wounds he gaue Eumenes were neither déepe nor deadly Eumenes at the next encoūtre so violētly strake him on the head that he yelded the ghost During this affray the Souldiers valiauntly fought and albeit on eyther side was great slaughter yet woulde they not gyue ouer vntil Neoptolome his death was knowen and then the horsemē gaue ouer and retired towards their Phalange as to their garde and place of suerty When Eumenes had considered that he had wonne honour ynough in obtayning victory and especially that he had gotten the bodies of two his chiefest enimies he caused to sound the retraict And after he had set vp garnished his Trophe and buried the dead he sent certaine messangers towards the Macedonian Phalange to exhorte them to take his parte offring to as many as were disposed leaue to departe Who taking the appointment league confirmed by their othes prayed they might go to the next villages to prouide them of victuals whereunto be agréed But after they had made their prouision falsifying their othe promisse they in y e night stole their wayes meaning to ioyne with Antipater whereof Eumenes aduertised and thinking of the periured traytours to be reuenged incontinent pursued them But séeing what for their manly noble courages and also for the dolor and anguishe whiche he felt of his wounds that he nothing preuayled he immediatly retired And thus through this great victory but chiefly by the killing of two his principall enimies being both noble personages well estemed he acquired great renowme and fame From thence he marched towardes Perdicas through the Countrey of Cilice hoping in good time to come to his succoure and helpe ¶ After Perdicas hath brought his Souldiers into Egypt they slea him And Phiton and Aride are chosen Gouernours ouer the Kings The .xiij. Chapter WHen Perdicas was entred Egypt something néere the Riuer of Nyle he encamped before the Citie of Peluse and there taking vpon him to scoure and make cleane an old ditch through which ranne an arme of the Riuer Nyle he impaired and lost all whiche before he had done for the riuer ranne then with so fierce and vehement a course that it carried awaye and ouerflowed all wherfore many of his Souldiers rendred to Ptolome for Perdicas in the ende became so detestable in pride beastly cruelty y t he put his Captaynes frō all gouernemēt and would by force viole◠ne ouer rule al. But Ptolome did otherwise for he was curteous liberall to his Captaynes would gladly heare them whensoeuer they spake besides he prouided for the méete and necessarie places of Egipt and furnished them with men armoure weapon and all other things néedefull for the defence of the Countrey Wherfore whatsoeuer aduentures he tooke in hande eyther in battaill or else he cōmonly had the better bycause his Souldiers loued him so dearely that they woulde hasard them selues in any daunger to do him pleasure seruice When Perdicas sée this eminent mischief meaning to get agayne the good willes of his Captaynes clerely lost and to put things in better order that were disordered he by the sound of the Trumpet assembled his Captaynes and Souldiers making a long protestation wherin with curteous and gentle wordes he exhorted them when he had by gifts wonne some and other with large promisses thinking that he had then brought them agayne to a good conformitie to serue him and to attempt any danger he would lead them to for his cause he commaunded them that they should by the first watch be in a readinesse to marche forward not declaring to any whether he wold and continuing their iourney all night with great spéede about the day breake they encāped by Nyle néere a towne and Castle called the Wall of the Camels and besieged it But after a dayes continuaunce there he beganne to set ouer his army And first he put ouer his Elephantes next to
them his footemen which carried the terges and scaling ladders and all the rest which were appointed for the assaulte of the towne After them he placed his best men at armes which should encountre Ptolome if at any tyme he issued out into the fields And as they were passing about the middest of the riuer they escried on the other side the enimy whome Ptolome with great spéede ◠hrust into the towne for the defence thereof And although they were first entred the towne which they well vnderstood both by their noyse and sound of Trūppets it nothing daunted the courages of Perdicas Souldiers but that they stoutely approched the walles and addressed them to the scaling thereof and they which led the Elephaunts threw downe the trenches and battred and spoyled the batlements of the Curtennes whiche thing Ptolome séeing and minding to encourage his Captaynes and Souldiers whereof were many both famous and valiaunt encountred them euen vpon the vttermost rampare at the push of the Pyke and fighting in a place of aduauntage put out the eyes of the foremost Elephant and sore wounded his ruler an Indian This done he with great despite and mighty blowes charged the scalants tūbled them frō the ladders into y e riuer which ranne alongest the side of the Towne Then his friends compaignions in armes purposing some notable exploit with shot so charged the other Elephant which followed the first that they slew his gouernour whereby he could do nothing Notwithstanding all this Perdicas Soldiers cōtinued the assault forced to enter when Ptolome sée y t he then bare him selfe twice so bold stout to gyue good example of wel doings to all his friēds he in his owne person exploited notable déedes of armes whereby many worthy mē through y e noble courages of their Captaynes w t aduenturing lost both life limme And bycause Ptolome had the place of aduaūtage the enimy the greater nūbre the assault on eyther side cōtinued long daungerous vntill at last Perdicas séeing he could by no meane winne it and that night drew on he retired into his Camp immediatly without noyse priuily remoued and came to a place right ouer against the Citie of Memphis where the Riuer Nyle maketh a particion like vnto an Isle and an excellent good and méete place to encamp a great mighty army Into this put he ouer his army being hard for the Souldiers to passe bycause they waded vp to their chinnes through the violēce and swiftnesse thereof so staggered that with great payne they hardly passed When Perdicas had séene the daungerous and difficult passage he sent his Elephantes on the left side vp into the Riuer to breake the violēce of the streame and beneath on the right hande placed his horsemen to take vp them whome the violence of the water did carry away and so bring them to land In this passage chaunced a singular thing and greatly to be maruelled at For after the first company had safely passed ouer the rest which followed were in wonderfull daunger bycause the Riuer sodenly swelled and became so déepe that none could perceyue by any apparaunt reason whereof it should come for it ranne aboue the Soldiers heads And being enquired and reasoned of what might be the cause aunswere was made that there was some lowe or hollowe place about the arme of the Riuer stopped vp by meane whereof the waters goulfed therevpon procéeded the swelling and waxing some sayd it had rayned about the head or spring of the Riuer and that that might be the cause But after it was found to be neyther the one nor the other for they whiche went ouer first so raysed and remoued the sand and grauell which lay in the bottome of the water that the violēce and swiftenesse therof carryed it away and so by that meane became déeper and chiefly in the chanell When Perdicas sée that his souldiers already ouer were not able to resist Ptolome nor him self able to make any shift to set ouer y e rest he was in such a perplexity that he commaunded them that were ouer to returne So the mighty and strong men and such as could swimme came hardly backe agayne leauing behind them notwithstanding their armour other which had no skill in swimming were with the water swallowed vp and a great many violētly carried downe with the streame were eaten and deuoured of the Crocodiles the rest whiche durst not gyue the aduenture yelded to the enimy who spoyled and robbed them of all they had When Perdicas in this sorte had lost better than two thousand of his men amongs whome were a great many good Captaynes the biggest nūbre of the army found them sore agréeued with◠him Contrariwise when Ptolome had burnt the dead carcases whiche were cast on lande on his side he sent their bones to their kinsfolks and friends When the Macedonians with Perdicas vnderstood that they were then more offended with Perdicas ◠than before and enclined to the good nature and conditions of Ptolome But at night all the whole Camp was filled with sorrowes complaintes lamentations wéepings bycause they had lost through euill conduct and want of good guyding without fight such a numbre of their friends of which the better parte of a thousand were eaten and deuoured with Crocodils whereupō diuerse of the Captaynes for y e causes aboue rehearsed assembled openly blaming Perdicas Againe y e battail of footemē w t threatning wordes shewed their malice grudge against him For that very cause also the principall Captaynes assembled amongs whome Pithon was chief the same Pithon who at the commaundement of Perdicas had in the hier Asie discomfited the Grecian rebels and for his noblenesse and vertue nothing inferior to any of Alexanders friends and familiars Whereupon they all with one accord hauing at their commaundement certain of the men at armes forcibly and violently rushed vpon the pauillon of Perdicas and there incontinent slew him The next day following Ptolome came towardes the Macedonians and after he had saluted them and excused him of all suche matters as Perdicas would haue charged him withall he caused to be brought such abundaunce of bread wine and diuerse other necessarie things as furnished and fillede their Camp whereby he acquired so great fauoure and good will of the whole army that they woulde néedes in Perdicas stede make him gouernour and regent of the Kings whiche charge he clerely refused but made meanes that that gouernement with the whole power aucthority therof by the aduise and deliberation of the whole counsaill might be bestowed vpon Pithon Aride the same Aride who transported the bodye of Alexander in to the Citie of Alexandrie Thus and in this maner dyd Perdicas after he he had ruled and gouerned the principalitie the space of .iij. yeares lose both Empire and li◠e. ¶ After Perdicas his death the Macedonians slea all his kynne and friends in the army and adiudge
footemen of the best and most trained Souldiers he had and two thousande horse who with such diligēce sped him that sodenly about midnight when they were all at rest and a sléepe he stole vppon the said rebelles and tooke Perdicas and brought him backe to Eumenes together the men of warre with him who according to the qualitie of the offence punished the chiefe and principal procurers of that conspiracy and deuided the rest by their bands reconciling them with giftes and faire promisses In this meane time had Antigone secretly sent to Apollonide generall of Eumenes horse to betraie him whom at last through large promisses he corrupted promising y t whensoeuer they came to battaill he would retier to Antigone and reuolt from Eumenes It happened that Eumenes encamped in the middest of a large and great playne of Cappadoce bycause he would be the better ayded and succoured with his horse And Antigone encamped at the foote of the hill ioyning vpon the saide playne Nowe had Antigone in his hoste about ten thousand footemē the better halfe Macedonians notable and valiaunt Souldiers and in martiall factes greatly experimented two thousand horse and thirtie Elephauntes But Eumenes had not many lesse than twentie thousand footemen and as many horsemen Anone they ioyned battaill and whiles they were in the chiefe fight Apollonide with his horse reuolted and turned to Antigone who then wanne the victorie so that there were slayne on Eumenes parte about eight thousande Souldiers besides the rifling and spoyling of the Camp which was verie riche Whereupon Eumenes his Souldiers that dyd escape séeing besides the losse of the fielde their friendes and compaignions that they had also lost their goodes they became verie desperate and out of harte When Eumenes sée his Soldiers in this disorder he determined to flye towards Armenie trusting to get certayn Soldiers there which would take his part and helpe him Agayne séeing the enimie sore distresse him and the greater numbre of his Souldiers yeld to Antigone he retired into a litle strong Towne called Nore situate on a rocke and not aboue two furlongs compasse But by reason of the strength of the seat and the fortification and strong buylding thereof it was of maruelous strength and force and had bene of long furnished with all things necessarie to abide a siege Into the same Towne retired Eumenes with fiue hundred Souldiers which dearly loued him all determined to spill their blouds in his seruice When Antigone sée his power waxe strong by reason of Eumenes Souldiers which daylie repaired to him and that he had wonne his Countreys and exacted on them great stoare of money he reuolued in his minde many notable and worthy enterprises séeing right well that none of the Satrapies nor Captaynes of Asie were able to contend against him for the Principality Notwithstanding he all that while dissimuled the matter vntill he had well assured all his affayres with Antipater whome he serued and obeyed but his meaning was that after he had takē order gone through with that businesse according to his promisse allegeance then neyther to be subiect to him or the Kings But first he besieged Eumenes his people within the towne of Nore enuironed it with a double wall great ditches and déepe trenches After that he parled with Eumenes to whome he began to recompt the olde acquaintaunce and great amitie betwéene them of long had persuading him to ioyne with him in all his affaires businesse But Eumenes allthough he sée the sodayne chaunging and alteration of his fortune demaunded greater and larger requests than the daunger or necessity of the place required or deserued For first he asked pardon of all he had perpetrated and done agayne he would that those Satrapies which he before held and enioyed should be restored vnto him Whom Antigone aunswered that he would aduertise Antipater of those his demaundes But after he sée he could not win him to be of his faction he left behind him at the siege such a numbre of Souldiers as he thought would suffise and him self went against Alcete and Attale During whiche time Eumenes sent his Ambassadoures to Antipater among whom Ierome who writ y e histories of the successours of Alexander was chiefest And although Eumenes sée him selfe in this miserie and so distressed yet would not his hart yeld for he had experimēted so many chaunges of fortune that still he hoped out of hande to sée an other chaunge to his great aduauncement and honour For he considered that y e Kings had no more but the title name only and y e many noble mighty Princes which there gouerned always cōsidered regarded their priuate and singular honor and estate royall for the vsurpation of the whole regiment and principalitie Wherefore he thought he was therin not deceyued that many of those Princes shoulde haue great néed of him bycause he was not only a man of great wisedome and vertue and notably experimented in martiall pollicies but also faithfull and constant And as he thus lay attending the occasiō and oportunitie of time and séeing he could not exercise his horses by reason of y e straightnesse of the place he bethought him of a new kinde and fashion of exercise to the end they should not be vnbreathed with still lying First he caused their forepartes to be tied vp with yron chaynes so hye that the horses do what they could were not able to touch the planks with the tippe of their houes before whereupon they striuing to set their fore féete on the planchers aswell as their hindre féete laboured so sore that they were dryuē into a watery sweat by which deuise they were alwayes in breath able to trauail and yet neuer come out of the stable He also made such deuision of his victuals amongs the Souldiers that euery man had as great portion as him selfe or rather a greater so that he still wanne their good wills and fauour In this estate were Eumenes and his men ¶ Of the conquest which Ptolome maketh on the countreys of Phenice and Celosirie The .xviij. Chapter BUt to returne to Ptolome after he had dispatched him of Perdicas and dryuen out of Egypt the army royall he held and enioyed that countrey as his owne and as if he had wonne and gotte yt by conquest And considering that the Prouince of Phenice and that parte of Sirie called Celosirie were hard adioyning to Egipt he toke vpon him to conquere them whereupon he sent out one of his chief friends and Captaynes named Nicanor with a sufficient army into Sirie who tooke in battaill Laomedon Gouernour thereof and brought vnder Ptolome his subiection all Siry From thence marched be into Phenice and dyd the like and furnished the Cities with garrisons and soone after returned into Egypt when he had in short time performed his enterprise and voyage ¶ Antigone enterpriseth warres against Alcete and Attale and discomfiteth them The .xix.
The .xx. Chapter WHat time Antigone departed from Piside he with his armie trauailled into Phrigie And as he laye to repose him in the Citie of Crete there came to him Aristodeme the Milesian aduertising him of the death of Antipater and farther declaring that the Empire and gouernement of the Kings was gyuen to Polispercon the Macedonian Of which newes Antigone was right ioyous determining now to establishe him selfe Lord Seigniour of al Asie But for a while we will omit speaking of him make report of al things which were done in Asie It happened at that season that Antipater fell into a gréeuous disease and in déed waxed so sicke that by reason of his great age all men thought it impossible for him to escape the danger wherefore the Athenians thinking Demades the notable Orator a méete and necessary man for such a charge sent him in an Ambassade to Antipater to require him that he according to his former promisse should call home his garrisons from the towne of Munichie And although Antipater had before tyme very well loued Demades notwithstāding after y e death of Perdicas such letters were found in Demades his chest writen with his owne hand to the Kings in which he exhorted Perdicas to passe into Europe against Antipater that Antipater was maruelously despited therewith Neuerthelesse he dissimuled his grudge and anger But Demades with arrogant language and threatning words so stil pursued and delared his Ambassade that Antipater without aunswere caused him and his sonne ioint Ambassadours in the same Ambassade to be apprehēded and forthwith cōmitted them to the rulers and gouernours who immediatly sent them to prison and after put them to death Not long after whē Antipater perceyued he could not escape death he nominated and appointed Polispercon gouernour of the Kings chief of all the whole power bycause he was y e auncientest Chie ◠ayne that had serued with Alexander and of all the Macedonians had in great honour He ordeyned also Cassander his sonne Chiliarque or Captayn of a thousand men and next in authoritie The same order of Chiliarque was first erected by the Kings of Persie after continued maintayned by Alexander and therfore dyd Antipater long before he dyed giue the said office to Cassander his sonne when he was yet very yong Neuerthelesse after the death of his father he liked not his constitution and ordinaunce but thought he had done him great iniurie and wrong to preferre Polispercon to the Empire before him selfe being his child not of so néere alliaunce as he knowing also that he was both able and sufficient to gouerne the Realme as by experience ynough both of his valiantnesse and wisedome he had before séene and well appeared Wherfore ryding abroad in the countrey with certayn his friends he deuised with them at his leysure touching the Empire and gouernement and seducing euery of them moued them to take his parte and ayde him with their power for the attayning of the principalitie promising them in their so doing large and honorable rewarde He sent also his Ambassadoures to Ptolome to renue and confirme the old amitie and friendship lately had betwéene him and his father Antipater praying his ayde also in the same warre and to send him out of hande his Nauie from Phenice into Hellespont He likewise sent messangers to other nobles Captaynes and cities to be confederate with him in the same matter And during the time of this practise to put him selfe out of suspicion of this conspiracy and treason he made semblaunt as though he cared for none other thing but hunting and such like disports In this meane while Polispercon Gouernour of the Kings by the aduise and cousaill of his friends sent to Olympias Alexander his mother praying hir to repaire into Macedone to take vpon hir the gouernement of yong Alexander hir sons sonne For Olympias by reason of y e discord enmitie betwéene hir Antipater had long before gotten into Epire there continued In this state stood y e affaires of Macedon ¶ Antigone vnderstanding of Antipater his death taketh vpon him the gouernement of the Empire of Asie and sendeth to Eumenes desiering his returne The .xxj. Chapter AFter it was diuulged in Asie that Antipater was dead the people began to studie and muse of straunge and new deuises and chiefly suche as gouerned vnder him were in doubt what to do But amongs others◠when Antigone was nominated and proclamed Emperour of Asie and had greatly encreased the othe deliuered him by Antipater through the subduing of Eumenes Alcete and Attale he became after so many victories so proude and arrogant that he persuaded him selfe with ease to enioy the gouernement ouer all the rest and not to be subiect to the Gouernours He agayne thought considering his power which was at least .lx. thousande footemen ten thousande horse and thirtie Elephaunts he might reare of all the treasure in Asie for that there was none able to resist him and hoped for his mony to leuie in Asie a numbre of hiered soldiers to augment his armie And dwelling in these ymaginations and deuises he sent for Ierome the Historian a friend familiar of Eumenes Cardian who lay besieged in y e towne of Nore aforesaid whom he with large promisses sent towards Eumenes to persuade him to forget the battaill and conflict betwixt them in Cappadoce and to ioyne with him as his allie and companion whiche if he woulde do he promised honorably to reward him and to bestowe on him greater Satrapies and dominions than euer before he had and to hold him as his most deare friend and neuer to enterprise or do any thing but that he shoulde be priuie of After Antigone had thus done he assembled his friends declaring to them his meaning and purpose and entred them in a booke in whiche he made to some a diuision of certain Satrapies and gaue to other the charge and leading of Souldiers so that in déede they all greatly hoped to be both honorable and rich and were thereby in all his attemptes seruices the rather encouraged to serue him For he determined wholly to subdue and conquere Asie and to expulse al the Satrapies and in their steades to place his familier and trustie friends ¶ Aride is repulsed from the siege of the Citie of Cizice The .xxij. Chapter AS Antigone was thus occupied Aride gouernour of Phrigie about Hellespont doubting the enterprise of Antigone determined to fortifie and furnish his principall Cities and townes And bycause the Citie of Cizice was verie strong and méete for the warres he incontinent went thether accompanied with .x. thousand Mercenaries a thousand Macedonians fiue hundred Persian shot and viij hundred horse He was farther well prouided and furnished of all maner of weapon both great small engines also to shoote great stoanes and pieces of wood and all other things méete and necessarie to maintayne a siege So he sodenly
came vpon them and on the waye he tooke vp a great numbre of the Citizens whiche were dispersed abroad in the countrey and after besieged the towne and would néeds enforce the sillie besiegeaunts to receyue and take in his garrisons And although they were vnprouided of men and all other things necessarie to holde out the enimie yet determined they to defend their libertie Notwithstanding they sent first their Ambassadoures to Aride praying him to rayse his siege saying they were all at his commaundement to do whatsoeuer he woulde except the receyuing of men into garrison But in the meane time they secretly armed all their yong and lustie fellowes to man the wall and curten And when they sée Aride still vrge them to receyue his garrisons they aunswered they would comprimit the matter to the deliberation of the cōmunaltie and for dispatch thereof demaunded truce for the next day and night following which was graunted and in the meane while made they greater preparation for their defence When Aride sée he was thus deceyued and mocked he lost both oportunitie hope for winning the Citie bycause it was verie strong both towardes the Sea and lande standing almost like an Island within the Sea and but one way to enter by lande and that parte towardes the Sea very strong bycause Aride had there no ships They sent also by Sea to the Bizancians for men armoure and all other things necessarie to holde out the siege which they incontinent sent whereupon they were greatly assured and tooke meruailous courage to defende their Citie Farther they sent out their gallies alongest the shoare to gather together their people which were dispersed in the countrey and in the end they had assembled so great a numbre of men of warre that they sallied out vpō the enimie slew many and repulsed the rest from the siege Wherefore Aride deceyued by pollicy returned into his Satrapie without any exploite ¶ Antigone commenceth warre against Aride gouernour of Phrigie and against Clyte Lord of Lydie And in the ende openly proclaymeth him selfe enimie to the Kings and enioyeth one parte of Asie The .xxiij. Chapter AS Antigone abode in the Citie of Celene he was aduertised of the siege of Cizice wherefore he thought if he sent towards them spéedy ayde and succoure in their distresse that it woulde be a good occasion for him to winne the said Citie to be his friend and confederat For which cause he chose out of the whole armie .xx. thousand of his most warlike Souldiers and .iij. thousande horse and in his owne person spéedely marched to aide the Cizicians And although the siege was raised before his comming yet euer after they became and remayned his most bounden friends Notwithstanding he sent his Ambassadours towards Aride declaring to him that he had done verie yll to besiege a frée Citie of Grece and friend to the Macedonians considering the people thereof had in nothing abused him and that he had shewed inough to make him selfe of a Deputie and Gouernour a Potentate and commaunder commaunding him therefore to gyue ouer his said Satrapie and for his habitation to betake him to one onely Citie When Aride vnderstoode the charge of the Ambassadours he greatly detesting the arrogancie of Antigone aunswered that he was not as yet determined to leaue his Satrapie but to kéepe and defend it and if Antigone would come to expulse him he should then sée whether of them had the better right After the Ambassadours had receyued this answere and were departed he soone after fortified and furnished his Cities and townes He also sent to Nore a bande of Souldiers to Eumenes vnder the leading of one of his owne Captaynes thinking therby to winne his fauoure and be his confederate When Antigone had receyued aunswere from Aride he sent one half of his army against him and him selfe with the rest trauailed into Lydie to chase out Clyte Gouernour thereof But so soone as Clyte vnderstood the cause he garrisoned his Cities and made as good prouision against him as he could That done he immediatly went to Sea and transfreted into Macedone signifying to the Kings the boldnesse of Antigone saied that he went about to aduaunce him selfe to some high and honorable estate and to rebell against them praying therefore aide for the repressing of him In the meane time Antigone by the intelligence of certain citisens tooke at his first cōming the Citie of Ephese But after he vnderstood that Eschil the Rhodian was there arriued and would for the behoue of the Kings carrie out of Cilice into Macedon in foure shippes sixe hundred Talents he intercepted them and tooke it away saying that he had great néed thereof for the wageing of his mercenaries which déede imported that he ment to establishe him selfe some great Prince and to warre vppon the kings When he had this done he went against the other Cities of Asie and by violence and practise brought many vnder his subiection ¶ Of diuerse aduentures which happened Eumenes and of his deliueraunce from the siege of Nore The .xxiiij. Chapter WE will here leaue a while to speake of Antigone and returne to Eumenes who besides many and diuerse mishaps had also ben in sundrie aduentures both good and bad for after the death of Alexander he still tooke part with Perdicas who gaue him the Satrapie of Cappadoce and the countreys thereto adioyning in which he had assembled and gotte together numbres of men of warre and great summes of money getting thereby great renoume alway liuing in prosperitie and felicitie He in battail vanquished and killed Cratere and Neoptolome two of the most renowmed Captaynes amongst all the Macedonians and all the Souldiers whiche serued vnder them which had ben continuall victors where euer they became But when he thought him selfe most puyssaunt and none able to resist him he was by Antigone in battaill sodenly vanquished and constrained to flie and retier with a fewe of his friends into a litle towne castle where being besieged and enclosed with a double trenche could not in one whole yeare be aided to raise the siege Howbeit about the yeares end when he was almost out of hope in despaire sodenly came vnto him present remedie For Antigone who still helde him besieged hauing altered his determination and purpose sent to him requiring his friendship companie and after he had takē his othe and faith he deliuered him of the siege Who departing thence trauailed into Cappadoce and being there but a short time assembled the Souldiers lately vnder his charge dispersed through the said countrey and by reason of the earnest zeale and loue they had to him he had gotten together in a little whyle a great numbre at his commaūdement For ouer and besides the six hundred whiche were with him during the siege he had gotten aboue two thousand other souldiers and in the ende came to great authoritie for he was made Generall of the armie Royall to warre vppon
Deicete to execute willing therefore and commaunding you wholly to obey him accordingly as we haue heretofore written vnto you For if any take in hand to doe contrarie to our ordinaunce aforesaid we will by no meanes suffer and abide it When Polispercon had published this edict he cōmaunded the Argiues and other Cities to expulse the Gouernours whome Antipater had authorised and to condemne and put certain of them to death and confiske their goods that Cassander might not be holpen thereby He write also to Olympias to returne into Macedon and take vpon hir the gouernement of Alexander vntill he came to age He write likewise letters in the names of the kings to Eumenes not to reconcile him to Antigone but to take parte w t the kings and returne into Macedone where he should be receyued as a compainon with the said Polispercon to the gouernement of the said kings or else if he would farrie in Asie there should be sent vnto him both men and money to warre vpon Antigone an vtter enimie and rebell against the kings and that he would also render the Satrapies which Antigone had expulsed him together al the rest which he before held and enioyed in Asie Saying farther that it was hée aboue all other which of right ought to be most zelous and vigilant about the affaires and authorite of the ligne Royall by whiche he was altogether preferred and honored following his accustomed care and diligence whiche he before at all times had shewed to the same And if he néeded greater force the saide Polispercon would with the kings and their power come into Asie These matters were done the yeare that Archippe gouerned Athens and Quinte Elye and Lucy Papyre were created Consulles at Rome ¶ Eumenes taking parte with the kings goeth into Cilice and of his practises to gette men of warre The .xxvj. Chapter SOone after that Eumenes was departed the Citie of Nore he receyued letters frō Polispercon wherein were conteyned ouer and besides the things abouesaid how that the kings somewhat to countreuayle his great losse had fréelie gyuē him fiue hundreth Talents and that they had written to the Pretors and receyuers of the countrey of Cilice to deliuer him other fiue hundred Talents and so much money besides as was sufficient to paye his Souldiers wages and for the buying of all other his prouision for the warres and that the Captaines of the Argiraspides who had about sixe thousand men should serue vnder the said Eumenes as Lieutenaunt to the kings and Lord and Gouernour of all A◠ie Anon were brought letters from Olympias to him praying and requiring his aide in the behalfe of the kings and hir For that he alone had bene alwayes iust and faithfull to the kings and was presentlie able to deliuer them from the troubles which grew dayly vpon them And farther she desired his counsail whether it were hir best to remayne in Epyre and not to gyue credit to them which séemed but protectors and gouernours and in déede affected the onely kingdome or to returne into Macedone Whome Eumenes agayne aunswered by letters y t he thought it the surest waye for hir to remaine still in Epire vntill she sée some ende of the warres But Eumenes euermore trustie and faithfull to the kings purposed not to take parte with Antigone affecting the kingdome but rather to serue the Sonne of Alexander yet a boy who through the wickednesse of his Captaynes seruitours wanted ayde and to aduenture him selfe for his cause in al daungers Wherefore he departed incontinent out of Cappadoce with eight hundred horse and two thousand footemen hauing no time to tarrie and abide for all those which promised to ioyne with him bicause Antigone vnderstanding that he was his enimie had in all haste sent Menander w t a mightie armie to expulse him Cappadoce When Menander came thether and found Eumenes gone thrée dayes before he determined to pursue him but seing he could not ouer reach him he retired into Cappadoce Shortlie after Eumenes through his great spéed passing the mount Thaure got to Cilice As soone as Antigene and Teutame Captaynes of the Argiraspides who serued the kings vnderstood of his comming they mette him on the waye with a numbre of their friendes who after they had reioyced together with him in that he had escaped from so manie daungers they fréelie and redilie offered him their seruice In like case also did the Argiraspides Macedonians greatlie wondering at the varietie of his fortune considering that not long before he was adiudged a rebell to the kings he and all his friends condemned to death and now reuersing their iudgement they had not only pardoned him but also had gyuen him the gouernement of their whole Empire Notwithstanding suche as considered Eumenes straunge Fortune little or nothing maruelled thereat For what is he whiche marketh and noteth the instabilitie of our life that knoweth not the chaunge and mutabilitie of fortune Or who is he which ouermuch trusteth to the honor and prosperitie whiche in this world happeneth him that is not subiect to fleshly britlenesse For the common and ordinarie life of men gouerned and ruled by some secret ordinaunce of God is without any stabilitie continually turned to good and euill Wherefore let no man meruaill if any thing chaunce to him sodenlie but rather if whatsoeuer commeth commeth not vnlooked for And therefore by good reason ought all men to cōmend histories For the varietie and instabilite which men in worldly matters find by experience abateth the pride and ambicion of those whiche haue in them any felicitie and enboldeneth and gyueth hope to such as are in aduersitie as to Eumenes chaunced who knowing the slippernesse of worldly Fortune constantly endured his infelicitie hoping and looking for better And then seing him selfe preferred and aduaunced to great authoritie foreséeing the inconstancie of Fortune verie wiselie and circumspectlie ordered his affaires and businesse For first he considered that he being a straunger the gouernement of a realme and so princelie an astate was vnméete not apperteyning vnto him and that those whome he should gouerne were Macedonians and had condempned him to death and that al the Captaynes and Gouernours of the Prouinces were honorable personages and of hie courages and pretended great and waightie enterprises Wherefore he suspected that if he shoulde take vpon him so great a charge they woulde contemne him being a straunger and thereby he shoulde get great enimitie and alwayes stand in daunger of losing his life For he knew well that the Macedonians woulde in no wyse be at his commaundement bicause they reputed him a meane man and much inferior to them and therefore rather thought that he should be subiect to them than they to him Wherfore all these things considered he declared to the Captaynes and Souldiers that first where it had pleased the Kings by their letters to graūt him for his reliefe .v. hundred Talents he highlie
thanked thē but vtterlie refused the receipt thereof saying he néeded not so great a reward and gift since he affected neyther Empire or dominion nor to haue any suche charge was his desire but that by the letters of the kings he was commaunded to do it neyther was he able any longer to abide the labors trauails of warre bycause he was now sore broosed and lame doing them farther to wete that he looked not therby to attayne to any principalitie considering he was a straunger and not a Macedonian He also affirmed that in his sléepe he see such a vision that him thought necessarie to be manifested to them forasmuch as in his iudgemēt it might be an helpe to vnitie and concord and also very profitable to the common wealth He thought in his sléepe that Alexander appeared to him as if he had bene alyue and in the same robes which he commaunded all his princes and Captaynes and ministred the Lawes apperteyning to the Empire Wherefore quod he I thinke it good that of the kings treasure a Throne imperiall be forged made of golde and thereupon to be placed and set the statue or image of Alexander crouned holding a Scepter as he did in his life time And that all the Princes and Captaynes shall euery morning assemble there and after the sacrifice finished to sit in counsaill of the affaires of the warres and whatsoeuer is concluded on to take it as frō the mouth of y e said Alexander which thing was thought good by all the assistauntes and they all out of hand caused the said deliberacion to be executed and forged a statue or ymage bycause in the treasurie of the kings was great stoare of golde and siluer Whereupon within few dayes after an image was enstalled in a Throne Imperial with a Diademe Scepter and other kinglie robes About the same was an Aulter rered vp and fire layed thereon of which all the Captaynes tooke coales and put them in Censures of golde wherewith they encensed the Statue with swéete and precious smelles making sacrifice thereto as vnto God After the sacrifice was done stooles and formes were brought whereon sat all the noble Princes and valiaunt Captaynes consulting of the incident affaires In doing whereof Eumenes tooke vpon him no authoritie or title of Gouernour but shewed him in all points egall to them and through curteons and gentle language was voide of all grudge and hatred and gotte the good willes of all the Captaynes Moreouer bycause of the superstition they vsed towardes the statue of Alexander they hoped to prosper as if some God had gouerned and guyded them And vsing the same humanitie towards the Argiraspides Macedonians they highly estéemed him and accomted him worthie the charge and gouernement of the affaires of the kings This done he sent his principall and wisest friends to assemble and wage other Mercenarie Souldiers appointing large sallarie and entretainement Of whiche Cōmissioners some departed into Piside Lycie and other Regions néereby other into Celosirie and Phenice the rest into Cypres so that amongest them they leuied a great numbre of men But after it was noysed that they tooke vp Souldiers and gaue good entretainement a numbre of good fellowes of the Cities of Grece offered their seruice and were enrolled so that in short time as besides the Argiraspides and other whom Eumenes brought with him they had gottē together aboue ten thousand footemen and two thousand horse ¶ Ptolome goeth about to cause the Argiraspides to kil Eumenes whome he by his wisedome appaised and after sendeth an army by Sea into Phenice The .xxvij. Chapter WHen Eumenes in short time was sodenly became puyssant Ptolome arriuing with his Nauie at the Citie of Zephire in the countrey of Cilice sent letters to the Argiraspides signifying to them that they ought not of right to obey Eumenes considering he had ben by the Macedonians already condemned to dye He sent also straight admonition to all the townes in Cilice not to deliuer him any money promising to saue thē harmelesse against him Howbeit there were none that made any accompt of his letters bycause the kings Polispercon their gouernour and Olympias Alexander his mother had writen to the contrarie that they shoulde obey Eumenes and to whome they shoulde gyue whatsoeuer he demaunded as to the Lieutenaunt generall of the kings hauing full power and authoritie Now waxed Antigone maruelous angry by reason of Eumenes his authoritie For he knew it was Polispercon who had so aduaunced and set him in such rowme to plague the rebelles against the kings Wherefore he determined eyther by treason or some other villanous meane to bring him to his ende And therfore sent he Philote one of his chief friends with letters to the Argiraspides and the rest of the Macedonians Whereupon he incontinent appointed thirtie Macedonians both wise and well spoken to accompany him commaunding them to prease and talke with the Captaynes of the Argiraspides to saye Antigone and Teutane and to promise that if they would kill Eumenes to rewarde them largely and besides bestowe on them greater Dominions than before they enioyed and make the like promisses to all the Argiraspides with whome they had any acquaintaunce or familiaritie Howbeit they founde few or none agréeing thereto but Teutane onely who in all he might labored to winne Antigone his companion But he as one that estéemed his faith and honour did not only gainesay so wicked and villanous an act but in the ende conuerted his corrupted friend saying that it were much better for them that Eumenes dyd lyue and beare rule than Antigone For y t if Antigone attained the greatest dignitie and authoritie he woulde expulse them their Satrapies and gyue them to his friends where Eumenes being a straunger durst not affect the principalitie but continuing Chieftayne and Lieutenaunt would alwayes gently and fauourably entreat them as his special friends and companions and in taking his parte woulde suffer them to enioye and possesse their Satrapies and paraduenture bestowe some better vpon them By this meane and persuasion they whiche came to betraye Eumenes were frustrate of their enterprise Notwithstanding Philote assembled the Argiraspides and the other Macedonians to whom they presented their letters writen by Antigone wherein he greatly accused and charged Eumenes commaunding them incontinent vpon the sight of the letters to apprehend and put him to death And in case they would not he threatned and ment with his whole power to come against them for their disobedience sharply to punish thē When the letters were séene and read both Captaynes and Souldiers stood in great perplexitie and doubt◠for they sée that they by no meane could escape the daunger bycause if they tooke parte with the kings Antigone would ouerthrow them and if they obeyed Antigone the kings then would plague them And as they were in this trouble of mind Eumenes boldly entred the assemblie after he had read the letters he pronounced vnto them that
And for that euerie man was gladde to saue him selfe they made such spéede to their shippes to haue repassed that with an ouercharge the greater numbre sonke and the rest which thought to be saued assayed to swimme but few or none escaped drowning by reason of the violence and swiftnesse of the Riuer And they whiche thought better to render to the mercie of the enimie than to be drenched in the water were taken prisoners being aboue foure thousand And although Antigone see before his eyes so great an ouerthrow of his Souldiers yet could he by no meane remedie it by reason of the want of shippes Wherefore considering it was impossible to passe he returned went to the Citie of Bedace standing vpon the Riuer Eule But bycause it was in the middest of Sommer and the Countrey maruellous hoate he lost in traueling many of his Souldiers wherefore the rest of the Souldiers were almost in despaire but after that they had reposed them selues and soiourned in the same Citie a certaine time they were well refreshed and tooke then better harte ¶ Of Antigone his comming with his armie into the countrey of Mede and the daungers and harde passage he hath vpon the way The .ix. Chapter WHen Antigone had certain dayes in the Citie of Bedace well refreshed his armie he determined to marche therewith into the Region of Ecbathane in the countrey of Mede hoping thereby to conquer the hie Countreis And although there were two wayes to passe into Mede yet was it a hard matter for him without interruption and let to get through any of both For the way by the mannured lande was fayre excellent but very hoat and little lesse than .xl. dayes iourney But the other leading through the Countrey of the Eosians was very short and close howbeit colde sharpe straight hilly and barren and the enimies coūtrey so that it had ben very difficult without the good wils of the paysaunts to passe an army being a people which time out of mind had alwayes lyued at libertie dwelling in ca◠es liuing with acornes mushrubbes and the fleshe of sauage and wilde beastes poudered Neuerthelesse Antigone hauing so mightie an armie thought it ouer great a shame to pray and require suche paysauntlie slaues of passage recourse Wherefore determining to take that waye he chose out of the whole army the targe carriers archers all other shot and light armed men which were the lustiest fellowes and most aduenterours and deuided them into two bands whereof the charge of the one he gaue Nearche commaunding him to march before and to winne the most méete and conuenient passages And the other bande he deuided and set al alongs the way in diuerse places as occasion serued Then him selfe marched on with the phalange or battail of footemen and cōmitted the rereward to Python But the first which were sent out after they had won certain trifling passages to no purpose not the passages most necessarie the paysaunts at hande so stoutly charged them that they slew a great number and the rest very hardly escaped And Antigone comming on with his battail of footmen thinking to win the straightes was in great daunger which by no meanes could be remedyed For the paysants knowing the ways and straightes of the passages had preuented them and from the tops of the rocks cast and tumbled downe agaynst the souldiers as they marched huge and mighty stones They had also great strength of bowes wherwith they hurt and galled the enimie bicause they coulde neyther defende nor yet eschue the dinte of the shotte by reason of the hardnesse of the way which was stiepe and almost inaccessible so that the Elephants horsemen and the armed footemen coulde no waye succoure them for that that they were in as greate daunger or more than the rest Then acknowleged he his fault and repented him that he had not beléeued and followed the aduise counsel of Python other his friendes for buying of the passage Notwithstanding in the ende he so valiantly and wisely bare hym selfe that he had wythin nyne dayes with great losse maruelous daunger and sore trauaile of his souldiers gotten the countrey habitable of Mede Wherfore they were so mutinous that euery man cōplained cried out and spake very euill words of hym And to saye the truthe for the space of .xliij. dayes they had abidden many maruellous aduentures and suffered intollerable mischeues Howbeit he with swéete words and stoare of victuals appeased their mutinie and well refreshed them and after commaunded Python to trauaile through the whole countrey of Mede there to leuie so many horsmen horses as he coulde get Whiche commaundement he diligently executed and in shorte time bicause the region was well furnished with horse and other bestiall he brought .ij. thousande lusty horsemen and very neere a thousande spare horsse well appointed for the warres And of al other kinde of cattel as Mares and such like bearing beasts so many as suffised the whole armie and bisides broughte .v. hundred talents of the tresure royall on the emptie horses Then remounted Antigone all those which had loste their horses and amongs the reste diuided the other bestiall Which liberall dealing brought him againe in fauoure with his men of warre ¶ Eumenes to please his Satrapes with the whole armie marcheth into the countrey of Perse and by his wisedome and policie putteth Penceste who affected the gouernment and armie in great fear and after reconcileth the sayd Penceste and assureth him selfe of all the other Satrapes and Captaines The .ix. Chapter AFter Eumenes the Satrapes with him vnderstode of Antigone his commyng into Alcide they called many counsells and were of diuers opinions For Eumenes and Antigene captaine of the Argiraspides and all the rest whiche came out of the lowe countrey dyd thinke it méetest and moste for their safetie to go towardes the sea from whence they came But the Satrapes of the hye countreys hauing special regard to their owne particular case sayd that the best were to march into the higher regions When the dissention thus encreased and waxed hoter Eumenes foreséeing that if the armie should be deuided and dispersed either part then should be to weake to encounter the enimie condescended to the Satrapes of the high cuntreys Wherupon they remoued their Campe from the Ryuer of Pasitigre and marched on to Persepolis the honourablest citie of Perse being about .xxviij. dayes iorney a countrey very hilly the one way lying beneath the mountaines very hotte and barrein of all kindes of victuals and the other a hie countrey very holsome and a good aire ful of al kindes of pleasant fruites It was also ful of valeys close and shodowy and gardens aboūding with all sorts of trées and frutes great store of fountaines likewise running with cléere waters makyng the countrey maruellous pleasaunt and delectable whiche caused the passengers to desire to rest and soiorne there Moreouer there wer many faire
He also slewe Eudame captaine of the Indian Elephantes diuers other captaines his vtter enimies And for Eumenes he coÌ„mitted the garding of him to certayn of his men vntil he had determined what to do with him For gladly he would haue reteyned him if eyther by good or geÌ„tle entreatie he thought he might win him bicause he knewe him to be a noble warriour and stout man Notwithstanding he had no great confidence in his premis by reason of the maruellous loue and singular affection that he did beare Olympias the Kings which he before had well declared For although he was by his meane from the siege of Nore deliuered yet after in the quarel of the Kings he warred vpoÌ„ him with his whole power Moreouer seing the mortall hate of the Macedonians against him he determined to put him to death Howebeit for the loue and fauoure he before bare him he caused him to be burnt and in a faire vessell sent his bones to his kinsfolkes and friends He found likewise among the hurte men Ierome Cardian a wise and politike man whome Eumenes greatly honoured and familiarly vsed and therefore Antigone in like sorte after Eumenes hys death honoured and well entreated him ¶ Antigone retireth to winter in the countrey of Mede and of the deluge or floud which that time chaunceth in the countrey of Rhodes The .xvj. Chapter AFter Antigone had brought backe al his armie into the countrey of Mede he wintred in a village of the Ecbathanes harde by wherin is the Kings Palace of that quarter and deuided his men of warre through the whole countrey of Mede and chiefly in the waste country so called bicause of diuers mysfortunes which there sometime happened For in olde time about those quarters had bene the richest and gretest number of townes within al that Prouince and by reason of so many terrible and continuall earthquakes all the sayde townes together with their inhabitantes perished and were vtterly lost wherby the whole region was maruellously altered and chaunged for there were such new riuers and lakes séene as had not customably bene The same time that Antigone lay in Mede the citie of Rhodes was the thirde time by deluge or floude ouercome by reason wherof a great many Citizens a new were at that present drowned more thaÌ„ at the other two times For the first bycause the towne was newly buylt and little enhabited dyd no great hurt The second was much greater and did more domage for that there were more enhabitaunts But the third came about the spring and began through great raines showres whiche fel sodenly w t mightie maruellous hayle stones for they fel hole and bigge and waightie as a myne but some much bigger and heauier so that they beate downe the toppes of many weake built houses and kild a great number of people and bycause the Citie was round stepest and hiest in the middest in maner of a Theatre the waters on euery side so aboundauntlie flowed that the lower partes were incontinent filled vp and coulde no waye passe nor fall bicause the Citizens seeing winter paste tooke no great hâ— de to the clensing of their sinks vnder the earth And the more part of the sinks and chanels about the wals were so choked that the water in short time grew so â— ie strong that it flowed vp to the market place called Digma and the temple of Dionisie and in the end grew and arose vp like a lake euen to the temple of Esculape Whereuppon the Citizens seeing so great and sodayne a deluge sought euery man to saue him selfe Some ranne to the shippes some to the theatre and they whiche were most oppressed sâ— aled the tops of the churches and clymbed the pillers on whiche the statues and ymages stood And as the Citizens were in this terrour and perplexitie chaunced them a sodain remedy For one of the panes of the wall through the violence of the water fell downe and so by that means it voided and ranne into the sea It was also a happy tourne that the deluge chaunced on the daye bycause that when the Citizens see the imminent daunger they had leysure to get out of their houses and withdrawe them to the hiest places of the towne It was good happe lykewyse that the wals of their houses were stronglie buylt of stoane and not of bricke and therefore they which got vp to the toppes were safe Howbeit there died aboue .v. hundred and many houses ouerthrowen wholy beateÌ„ downe besides diuerse that were sore shaken and quashed In this daunger and inconuenience was the Citie of Rhodes ¶ Antigone by craft putteth to death Pithon who beginneth to rebell and gyueth the Satrapie of Mede to Orondonate and likewise vanquisheth certen other Median rebelles The .xvij. Chapter AS Antigone wintered in the countrey of Mede he was aduertised that Python practised with the soldiers in garrison about some enterprise Notwithstanding he made semblant that he beléeued not the report reprouing the reporters before the people saying that to set controuersie betwene him and Python they had fained and deuised it in their own heads He caused it also to be openly diuulged that he would leaue the said Python Satrapa and gouernour of al the Prouinces and Satrapes of the hye countrey together one parte of his armie so that he might rule the better and hold and kéepe him selfe in sauetie He writte also vnto him gentle and gracious letters praying hym to repaire ouer so soone as was possible to communicate and deuise of the affaires in those quarters to the ende Antigone might with more spéede returne to Sea This dyd he w t a crafty and painted contenaunce clerely to put him out of suspicioÌ„ thinking he would in hope of obtayning that Seignorie come to him For well he knew it was not hiâ—â— ase forcibly to take him bicause he was a valiaunt and couragious man and such one that Alexander when he lyued by reason of his vertue had gyuen hym the gouernement of the same countrey of Mede whiche to that day he held and enioyed And to be short he through corruption and other ways greatly got the good willes of the men of warre that the more numbre promised to forsake Antigone and follow him Notwithstanding although he for this cause somwhat mistrusted his crafty cloyning yet through the hope which certen of his familiars and friends with Antigone put him in he came at his commaundement And so soone as he was come Antigone caused him to be apprehended and the chiefe and principall Captaynes of the armie being there in maner of a Senate assembled accused him Before whome he was lightly conuict incontinent condemned to death and with greater spéede executed Whiche done he assembled the whole army in their presence proclaimed Orondonate the Median Satrapa of the said Countrey of Mede hauing for his assistaunce and ayde Captayne Hypostrate with foure thousand Mercenarie footemen
he would yeld and reuolt from Antigone to gyue him the gouernement of Peloponnese and the aucthoritie ouer all the armie farther to vse him as his companion and aduaunce him to great honour and dignitie When Alexander had considered that the same offer whereunto Cassander graunted was the onely occasion of the warres betwene them he allied with hym so became and remayned Gouernour of Peloponnese In this meane while Policlete sent by Seleuke out of Cypres touched at Cencre and vnderstanding of Alexander his reuolte and séeing there no armie of aduersaries sailed into Pamphilie and from thence to the citie of Aphrodise in Cilice where he vnderstood that Theodote Admirall for Antigone was loused from Patare in the region of Lycie in the shippes whiche came from Rhodes maÌ„ned with Marriners of Carie and that Perilaye for the more safetie of the said Nauie went by land with a terrible armie Wherefore he by ambushes deceyued both the said armies for he closelie laid a numbre of men against the enimie which came by land where they must néedes passe and him selfe with the Nauie laye behind a promontorie attending the enimie to battaill It happened that the armie by land first lighted vpon the Ambushe where being surprised and sodenlie come vppon they were almost all slaine and takeÌ„ prisoners amongs whome was Perilaus all in the sight of the Rhodian Nauie who with great spéede making towardes the lande to their ayde were by Policlete which there road in order of battail so lustelie bourded that they discomfited all the whole Nauie and prized their shippes and the greater numbre of their men amongs whome was Theodotus who soone after of the woundes he had receiued in fight died When Polyclete had thus without daunger wonne these victories he sailed into Cypres and from thence to Peluse whome Ptolome honorablie receyued and with great rewardes and giftes rewarded and to him gaue a farre greater charge as to the Aucthor of that notable and honorable victorie He deliuered also Perilaus and manie other prisoners for deliuerie of which Antigone had sent an honorable Ambassade and to treat a peace Which treatie was graunted to be had at the place called the Eruption where they met togyther and commoned of the matter but departed without conclusion bycause Antigone would not agrée to Ptolome his demaundes The same season the Romaynes inuading the Samnites tooke by force from them the Citie of Ferent in Ponille But the Citizens of Nucere called Alphaterne by the persuasion of some reuolted from the Romaynes and confederated with the Samnites ¶ Of diuerse exploites which Aristodeme one of Antigone his Captaynes doth against Alexander Polispercon his sonne in Peloponnese Alexander being slaine his wife through hir prowes taketh vpon hir the gouernement The .xxix. Chapter THe self same yeare that Nicodore gouerned Athens and Luce Papyre the fourth time and Quinte Publie the second time were at Rome created Consuls Aristodeme Antigone his Lieutenaunt vnderstanding the reuolte of Alexander Polispercon his Sonne accused him in the presence of all the assemblie of the Etholians and persuaded them to ioyne with Antigone Whiche done he departed with his Mercenaries out of the countrey and came into Peloponnese where he found Alexander and the Etholians besieging the Citie of Cilene sore distressed and by his comming in good time to the ayde thereof raised the siege And after he had thrust in as he â—â— ought a sufficient numbre to garde and defende it he went to Acaie and there likewise deliuered the Citie of Pataras by Cassanders souldiours besieged He tooke also by violence the citie of Ege and vsed the garrison therof at his pleasure and according to the generall Edict determined to restore the Citie to libertie Howbeit he could not bicause the men of warre who by assaut hadde taken it were wholie bent to the spoile slewe manie of the Citizens and razed and sacked a numbre of their houses After that during the time he was in Etholie the Citizens of Dyme kéeping a garrison of CassaÌ„ders in their Citie sodenly had buylt and set vp a wall betwene the towne and castle to seperate them exhorting one another to reduce their citie to hir pristinate libertie and entrenching the Castle gaue many proude assautes Which doings Alexander vnderstanding w t his whole power returned and after he had entred the towne he put to death the principall mutiners imprisoned some and bannished a numbre By meane whereof the remnaunt neuer durst a long tyme after make or reuiue any commocion or rebellion reducing to memorie the miserie and punishment of the late rebelles But not long after they got in their ayde the souldiours of Aristodeme in Ege by whose helpe they againe attempted the Castle and by great industrie wonne it and flewe the greater parte of the garrisonne togyther all the citizens which tooke parte with Alexander who departing at the same time from Sycione was vnder the coulour of friendship by Alexion and certen his complices shamefully slaine Notwithstanding after his death Cratesipolis his wife tooke vpon hir the domination and rule of the citie and armie whome the Souldiours dearelie loued by reason of the great pleasures she had oftentimes done them and always helping their present miseries She was a wise Ladie and in matters of great importaunce had a meruellous forefight and an hart and courage more valiaunt than to a woman was pertinent which she amongs the Sicionians throughlie shewed For when the Sycionians after the death of hir husband without making any accompt of hir had gotten in armes in hope to haue restored their libertie she in battaill vanquished and ouerthrewe them In whiche conflict were manie slaine and .xxx. of the rest after takeÌ„ and hanged When she had appaised thus this mutenie she peaceably gouerned the towne and had at commaundement a great number of Souldiours which were all determined to abide in hir seruice any aduentures whatsoeuer These things were done in Peloponnese ¶ Cassander making amitie with the Acarnanians and Illyrians and reducing to his alliaunce certen other Cities returneth into Macedone and the Etholians taking the Citie of Arginye in Acarnanye slea and kill the inhabitaunts therof The .xxx. Chapter WHen Cassander had considered that the Etholians which fauoured Antigone warred against the Acarnanians their neighbours he thought he should do very well to allie with the Acarnanians in that warre and so abase and represse the Etholians Whereupon he trauailed with a mightie power oute of Macedone into the countrey of Etholie and encamped about the ryuer Cambile and there called togyther the Acarnanians to speake with them to whome he declared the importaunce of the warres which they so long had had so néere hand and yet stil continued And the better to encounter them said that it was very néedfull that they did forsake the indefensible small townes and villages and get them into
entier and deare friend For suertie and performaunce of which things he gaue him in ostage his brother Agathon Notwithstanding before many dayes past he repented him of that alliaunce and founde the meanes by stealth to get awaye his brother And incontinent after he sent towardes Ptolome Seleuke and Cassander to send aide for his defence and suertie Whereof Antigone aduertised in great despite sent both by sea and lande a mightie armie to set the Grecians Cities at libertie to saie Mede his Admirall by sea and Decime by land And when they arriued before the citie of Mylese they denounced to the Citizens that they were come to restore them to their auncient libertie and to expulse the garrison in the Castle In this meane while Antigone tooke be force the citie of Tralles From thence he marched by land and came before the citie of Caune whether he made his shippes also to come by Sea and it besieged wonne except the castle he could not presentlie take Howbeit he entrenched it on that side it was siegeable and gaue many assauts And as he laye thus before the castle he sent in the meane time Ptolome with one part of his armie to the citie of Iase and draue them to a composition whome he enforced to take parte with Antigone and so the cities of the countrey of Carie became subiect to Antigone Few dayes after the Etholians and Beotians sent an Ambassade towardes him to treat an alliaunce which was concluded vppon That done he came to a communication with Cassander about Hellespont thinking to haue agréed vpon some conclusion of peace but they departed doing nothing By reason wherof Cassander voyde of all hope of peace determined againe to winne the Grecian cities Wherefore he departed with .xxx. saile to besiege the Citie of Orey and so stoutlie charged it with siege and assauts that it was in great daunger of taking or rendring But all at one instaunt Thelesphore came out of Peloponnese with .xx. saile and Medie out of Asie with an hundred who séeing Cassanders shippes kéepe the Port threw in amongs thē wilde fire and burnt foure and failed verie little that the rest had not ben so serued And as Cassander was thē the weaker behold so sodeyn ayde came to him frō the Rhodes where with his Souldiours tooke such courage that they assailed the enimie nothing fearing or doubting anie suche thing eyther yet accompting of their force vntil they had sonke one of their shippes and tooke other thrée and the men within them These matters were done in Grece and Pont. ¶ The Romaines winne a victorie on the Samnites And the rebellious Champanois by an agreemēt put them selues to their obeisaunce The .xxxvij. Chapter IN Italy the Samnites pursued their victorie winning destroying the townes and cities which hadde taken parte with the Romaines in Pouille Again the Romaine Cōsuls marched on with their armie to the ayde of their friends and allies and perceyuing that the Samnites laye before the citie of Cynue they came and encamped hard at their noses and forced them to raise the siege But few dayes after they ioyned battaill wherein manie on both sides were slaine but in the ende the Romaines wanne the victorie and in fight so lustelie pursued the enimie that they slew aboue .x. thousand During which time and before the victorie knowē abroad the Champanois contrarie to their alliaunce with the Romaines came towards the ayde of the Samnites which thing the Romaines vnderstanding fully aucthorized Caie Manlie and sodenlie sent him against them and according to their custome ioyned with him Manlie Fuluie And as they were encamped about Capue the Champanoys put them selues in armes to gyue battaill but so soone as they vnderstoode of the ouerthrow of y e Samnites and fearing that the Romaines had sent against them all their puissaunce they made an appointment by whiche were rendred the aucthours of the reuolte Who by reason of iudgement prolonged and sentence not pronounced they in the meane time slewe them selues And the cities of Champanois being pardoned continued with the Romaines their pristinate alliaunce and amitie ¶ Ptolome and Antigone to despite one the other restore diuerse cities of Grece to libertie And the same Antigone faileth of his entrie into Macedone After are entreated the matters by Ptolome done in Cypres and Cilice in the hier Syrie The .xxxviij. Chapter THe yere following that Ptolome gouerned Athens and that at Rome Lucie Papirie the .v. time and Caye Iunie were created Cōsuls And the Cxvij yeare of the Olympiade when Parmenon of Mythilene wonne the prise at the running Antigone sent his Captayne Ptolome into Grece to restore the Grekes to libertie gyuing him Cl. Gallies vnder Mede the Admirall .v. thousande footemen and .v. hundred horsse And besides allied with the Rhodians to fight for the libertie of Grece who sent him .xx. saile armed and furnished Ptolome likewise with his power at Sea arriued at a Porte of the Beotians called the déepe Porte and there mustered and tooke vp .ij. thousande two hundred Beotian footemen and three hundred horsse He called backe also his Nauie frō Orey ◠and after he had with a wall entrenched Salmone he brought thyther his whole power For he verilie trusted to take the Calcedonians being onelie defended from the enimie but by a garrison of Eubeans But Cassander myndfull of Calcide and fearing the loste thereof raised his siege from before Crea and came to the laid Calcide and commaunded his armie to marche thyther When Antigone vnderstoode that the two armies were assembled there togyther watching one another and euerie of them attending the oportunitie and aduauntge he commaunded Mede with al spéede to returne into Asie And at his comming backe he agayn enbarqued hys armie and hastily sailed into Hellespont thinking through Cas◠ander his absence to finde the countrey of Macedone vnprouided of men and so win the same before he could returne from Calcide or if he came backe for the defence of the realme of Macedone he should lose that he held in Grece When Cassander vnderstood thereof he left for the defence of Calcide his Lieutenaūt Plistarche with a numbre of his men and him selfe with the remnaunte went to the citie of Orope in B◠ote and by force tooke it and trucyng with the other Cities of the Countrey of Beoce left for his Lieutenaunt in Grece Eupoleme and returned into Macedone chieflie to stoppe the enimie for passing into Europe When Antigone was come to the passage of Propontide he sent his Ambassadoures towardes the Bizancians requiring their ayde in those warres who there found for the same matter the Ambassadoures of Lysimache requiring that they would not go against him nor Cassander By reason whereof the Bizancians fully determined to take neyther part When Antigone sée he failed of his purpose and that y e winter drew néere he deuided hys Souldiours into garrisons
the siege thereof one of his friendes hight Archelaye with .v. thousande footemen and a thousande horsse to continue the siege and him selfe with the reste returned to Sea ¶ The Romaines vnder the coÌ„duct of Quinte Fabie their Dictator winne and take two Cities from the Samnites The .xlvj. Chapter DUring the time that these things aforesaide were done in Asie the warres betwene the Romaines and Samnites in Italy waxed and continued more fierce neuer ceasing besieging of Townes making incursions and robberies one into anothers countrey and running all ouer with rolling campes For these two Nations notable Souldiours and warlike people left nothing vnhazarded for the winning of Empire and Dominion one of another It happened also that y e Romaine Consuls with one part of their armie were come and encamped more néere the campe of the enimie to espie the tyme and aduauntages for them to fight and also to staye the enemie that they might thereby hold kéepe the Cities allied and confederate with them in suertie The other parte of the armie ledde Quinte Fabie Generall of the whole armie and soueraigne Dictator who wonne and forcibly toâ— ke the Citie of Ferent and sent two hundred of the principall Citizens to Rome prisoners whom for their common rebellion against the Romaines they according to the Lawe and maner of the Romane custome were whipt about the Citie and after beheaded in the great market place Shortlie after he entred the territorie of the Nolaines tooke the citie and by the sound of the drumme sold the butine thereof and deuided one parte of their lande amongs the men of warre Wherefore the Romanes séeing their affaires prosper and go forward sent a Colonie of Citizens into the Isle of Potide ¶ After the alliaunce made and confirmed betwene Cassander Ptolome Lysimache and Antigone Cassander putteth to death the yong Alexander and Roxanne his mother The .xlvij. Chapter THe yeare ensuing in which Thesimonide hadde the gouernement of Athens and that Maâ— ke Valerie Publy Dece were at Rome created Consuls Cassander Ptolome and Lysimache treated a league and amitiâ— which was put in writing By which Cassander was declared and named Gouernour and Emperour of Europe Lysimache of Thrace Ptolome of Egipt and the Cities neere there about aswell in Lybie as Arabie And Antigone of all Asie vntil that Alexander Roxanne hir sonne came to his full age It was also concluded and agréed vppon that the Grekes should remayne and be at libertie after their accustomed lawes Neuerthelesse the sayde Princes continued nor remained not in that accord and appointement for euery of them by exquisite meanes went about to enlarge and encrease his Dominion and authoritie But Cassander séeing that Alexander y e sonne of Roxanne waxed and grewe in yeares and bignesse that in Macedon the voices went and men talked that it was néedfull and requisite to take Alexander oute of prison and to restore hym to the authoritie and gouernement of his fathers Realmes and fearing if that should so come to passe it would go awry with him commaunded Glaucye who had charge and kéeping of the infant secretlie to put him his mother to death whiche thing was spéedily done Through which facte both Cassander Ptolome Lysimache and Antigone so soone as they had thereof intelligence were clerely deliuered of the feare they had of the yong King Alexander For after him remayned no succeâ—â— our of Alexander the great but euery of the Gouernours of the Countreys and Prouinces aspired the Kingdomes and principalities and after held and kept them as their owne inheritaunce acquired and gotteÌ„ by the right and conquest of warre And the same tyme in Italy the Romaines with a great number of footemen and horse went to besiege the citie of Spolite in the countrey of Maruce and sent into that countrey a Colonie of their Citizens whom they called Interanneis The ende of the .xix. Booke of Diodorus Siculus the second part of this present volume and here beginneth the .xx. of this volume the third parte A little shorte Prologue wherin the Author declareth in what sorte it is commendable and well beseeming a good and perfect HistoriaÌ„ to vse Rhetoricke Orations Declarations and such other like NOt without iuste cause ought they which vnderstand and knowe the arte of Rhetorick to reproue their order which in Histories do admixt eyther too long or many orations bycause they by such impertinent and superfluous wordes doe not onely interrupt and breake the order of their narration but also do hinder the desire of the Readers for vnderstanding of the things passed And if suche Oratours and Rhetoritians wil by such orations shew their skill and learning and the elegancie of their spéeche and language they may particularly by them selues couch the orations and Ambassades apperteyning to Ambassadours the prayses and disprayses able and méete and other suche like and so vsing their arte and elegancie in such tales and busying them in this and that matter particularlie shall be coÌ„mended therin Howbeit at this day some writers w t vsing the art Oratory reduce the greater part of Histories into Orations tales whiche to the Readers are verie tedious and yrkesome not only for that they haue naughtely written and made them but also bycause they no whit regarded the order and nature of the Historie By reason whereof suche as do read them verie ofte passe ouer vnread the saide orations and declarations which by great arte and cunning had bene composed and made or else for the length impertinencie are so weried that they leaue all vnread And not withoute good reason for the nature of an Historie is to be plaine and continued without interruption like as when the bodye of a man is dismembred it loseth hys kindely vertue but when it is whole ioyned togyther it hath then the full grace and perfect strength And so in like case the narration and setting forth of an History gyueth to the Reader thereof a manifest and delectable pleasure if it be playne and continued Notwithstanding I wil not altogyther reiect and forbidde the vse of Rhetoricke in an Historie for that to make it pleasant it ought with some varietie and copie to be garnished is therfore very requisite that in some corner place thereof be orations and declarations Neyther will I my selfe be altogyther voide of that facultie and arte when I shall come to the talke of any Ambassadoure Counsailour or other such graue personage but I will recite what he hath saide And they whiche haue not the knowledge to do that might find manie excuses and say they had forgotten to put it in which had ben expedient and necessarie in the same place to haue ben interlaced Therefore where things be worthie memory and profitable whereby the Historie should be garnished they ought not negligentlie to be passed ouer as it were vnder colour that they nothing serued to y e purpose not properlie couched and
enterprised to subdue and conquer the whole coūtrey of Pont which he had without pe◠aduenture compassed if death by a meruelous mishappe had not shortened hys dayes after he had raigned .v. yeares and .v. monethes For as he was ryding in a coche running on foure wheles by foure horsses drawē towards a sacrifice or pilgrimage the horsses sturtling at some thing they sée ranne quite out of the waye coursing ouerthwart all the fieldes But when the King sée that the waggoner coulde not stay thē fearing the ouerthrowe of y t coche or charriot made haste to get oute thinking to leape to y e ground his sworde caught betwene the spokes of one of the wheles wherewith he was immediatlie drawen vnder the wheles aud there frushed and brused to death And it is said that y e death of him and his brother were by certen playne and simple Oracles pronosticated of which in deed the men of the countrey greatly credited For one daye Satire demaunding what death he shoulde die aunswer was by the Oracle made that he shoulde take heede and beware he were not by a mouse sodenly slayne By reason whereof he would neyther suffer free or bond bearing that name to tarry within his coūtrey and so feared the myse in field and towne that he commaunded all should be slayne and farther made all the holes in the ground to be stopped vp whiche they might come oute at Howbeit that serued to no purpose nor was the cause of his ende but died of a wounde on the muscle of the arme by vs called the brawne It is to be vnderstood that a mouse in Latin is called Mus and a little Mouse Musculus and thereby was signified that he should take héede he died not by a mouse and after his death some enterpreted that it was of the muscle which in Latin may be said a little mouse also the brawne And it was of Eumele presaged to beware of the fall of a house and therefore he neuer entred any house but that he would first circumspectlie aduise and looke vpon the fundation to sée if it were stable and sure But after he was dead in maner as aforesaide some thoughte the Oracle was accomplished and that the Charriot was vnderstood the fall of an house But for this time we wil gyue ouer mencioning of the things done in the East parte of Pont and speake of those the same season done in Italie ¶ Of two victories which the Romaines wonne against the Samnites wherby they took many of their Cities The .iij. Chapter IN this season the Romaine Consuls being come with their armie into the coūtrey of Puille wanne a battaill against the Samnites aboute a place called Talie who retired into a mountayne there by called by the inhabitaunts the holy hil so that the Romaines could not pursue them that daye bycause night drew on and therfore returned to their campe But the next daye in the morning they ioyned battaill where a numbre of Samnites were slaine and aboue two thousande taken prisoners Through which victorie the Consuls kept the fields and tooke the Cities and Townes against them Amongs which by force were taken Cataraste and Carauille and certen other by treatie and practise And thus muche touching the matters of Italie ¶ Ptolome Prince of Egipt winneth from Antigone certen Cities practizeth and getteth to him Ptolome Nephew to Antigone and after putteth him to death Polispercon also through the persuasion of Cassander putteth to death Hercules the sonne of Alexander And finallie of Cleomenes death King of Lacedemon The .iiij. Chapter THe same yéere that Demetrie Phalerie gouerned Athens and Quinte Fabie the seconde time and Caie Martie were created Consuls at Rome Ptolome aduertised that his Captaynes in Cilice had lost all the Cities they had wonne and taken betooke him to sea with his whole armie and arriued at Phaselid whiche Citie he tooke by siege and from thence sailed into the Countrey of Lycie and there tooke the citie Xanthe garded by Antigone his Souldiours after that he came before the citie of Caune which he by Sea attempted and wanne he likewise tooke by force the Castle of Heracle and the Castle Persike yelded vppon compositon From thence departed he and came before the citie of Coo at this daye named Laugo and there practized with Ptolome Antigone his brothers sonne and Lieutenaunt of certē men of his fathers whome he drew to his alliaunce made him reuolte from Antigone hys vncle And going from Calcide where his armie laye to méete with Ptolome at Coo he receyued and welcomed him right honorably But after he sée his prodigalitie and ambition to winne and get away Ptolome his Captaynes fearing he went about to betray him he preuented the matter and caused him to be apprehended and poysoned and attracting his Souldiours to his fauoure deuided them amongs his bandes In this meane while after Polispercon had assembled a great armie he tooke hys iourney to bring Hercules the sonne of Alexāder by Barsine to the realme of Macedon And when he was with hys armie come to the place Stymphale Cassander also came thyther with a puissaunt armie and encamped very néere hym But when he perceyued that the Macedonians which came with him were satisfied and contēt that Hercules should be restored to his fathers realme and fearing if they sée him they would quickly take his part sent secret Messangers to Polispercon declaring that so soone as he had restored Hercules to his realme he shoulde then become his subiect and thrall but if he would kil him and make alliaunce with the saide Cassander he would first render and restore to him al that he before held and enioyed in Macedone gyue him a sufficient armie nominate proclame him Prince and Gouernour of Peloponnese make him partaker and consorte of all he had vnder his dominion and besides haue him in greater honour and reuerence than any other of the Satrapes Through these persuasions and faire promisses he induced Polispercon to consent vnto this mischeuous and wicked practize and after they had plighted their faythes one to an other he caused the yong Hercules trayterouslie to be slaine and that done openly then shewed him selfe friende to Cassander who for accomplishing hys promysse rendred first to him all that he had held and enioyed in Macedon and after deliuered him .iiij. thousand Macedonian footemen and .v. hundred Thessalian horsse and so many as voluntarily came to serue him he receyued and gaue them good enterteynement with which armie he inuaded and entred Peloponnese through the countrey of Beoce but being by the Beotians and Peloponnesians repulsed he returned with his armie and wintred in Locres The self same yeare founded Lysimache a citie in Theronese called after his owne name Lysimache And when Cleomenes King of Lacedemon hadde raigned Lx. yeares and .x. monethes he died after whose death his Sonne Arete succeded and raigned .xliiij. yeares ¶ Of
certen victories which the Romaines haue vppon the Tyrrhenians and Samnites And of certen Innouations by Appie Claudie the Romaine Censor made in contempt and defacing of the Senate and nobles in fauoure of the communaltie The .v. Chapter ABout the same time the Tyrrhenians besieging the Citie of Souttre a colonie of the Romaines were in vattaill by the Romaine Consuls vanquished chased home into their campe whiche Romaines came thyther with great power of purpose to rayse their siege On the other side the Samnites séeing the Romaine armies farre from their countrey burnt wasted and pilled the landes and countrey of the Iapides confederats with the Romaines By reason whereof the Consuls were enforced to deuide their armie leauing Fabie in Toscane and sent Martie against the Samnites who tooke by force the citie of Aliphe and deliuered the Allies of the Romaine people from the necessitie and daunger they were in Agayne Fabie séeing that a great number of the Tyrrhenians were assembled to besiege the Citie of Souttre secretly departed from that quarter and passing throughe the territorie of their neighbours before they were espied entred the hie countrey whiche of long had bene vnpilled and vnrobbed of any enemie and spoyled and fouraged it all ouer and slew numbres of the paysaunts that resisted hym and tooke many prisoners Whiche done he went against Perouse and finding the Tyrrhenians there assembled in battaill discomfited them and slew a great numbre wherwith they were maruelously amazed for the Romaines had neuer ben so beforehand as Fabie was thē Who after that victorie trused with the Aretians Crotonians and Perousians and shortly after tooke by force the citie of the Tyrrhenians named Castolle by meane whereof they were enforced to raise their siege from before the citie of Souttre In this season Appie Claudie and Lucie Claudie were by the Romaines elect and named Censores And the said Appie being throughe flatterie of his companion in all doings followed chaunged and altered many of the ancient customes of the citie for he to please the communaltie had no regard to content the Senate And firste he caused a pipe of lead to be brought into the Citie by conductes foure score furlongs long to the great coste and charge of the common treasure withoute making the Senate any thing priuie thereto and called it after his owne name Appie He likewise caused the wayes and straights from Rome to Capue being a thousand furlongs distaunt betwene to be paued and called them Appie he playned and leuelled also all the rockes and mountaynes and filled vp all the ditches and vallies w t earth and rubushe so that he had about those works employed bestowed almost the whole reuenue of y e Citie to haue his name ymmortall for his liberalitie and munificence towardes the weale publicke besides great nouelties and chaunges in the Senate by him made For where in times past were none but of the noblest houses and greatest wealth admitted to the dignitie of a Senator he put in many sclaues borne wherewith the nobles and gentlemen were greatly offended He likewise graunted to euery of the Citizens to enrolle writte him selfe in what tribe he would and in the same paye his rente Moreouer when he perceyued the nobles wholie moued and bent against him he woulde do nothing that in any wise should seeme to please or content them nor do any thing according to their intention and desire that by any meane might displease the meane sorte of the communaltie making in this sorte hys parte good against the nobles through the good willes of the commons So that when it came to the musters of the horssemen he woulde not once reiect any horsse of theirs and in vewing the Senate would not put backe one of the infamed according to the auncient custome therein always before obserued and kepte By reason whereof the Senates to despite him when they assembled the Senate would not once cal to counsail the Senators by him appointed but onely those whiche before had ben by the others Censors nominated and chosen Howbeit the communaltie thinking to please Appie to vpholde and mainteyne that whiche he had done and also desiring that the promotion of their kinsfolkes and friends by him pronounced Senators might take effect chose to the chief and principall office of Edilite Gne Flauie sonne to a bondman whiche thing in Rome was neuer before seene When all these things were finished and done and that the ende and terme of Appie was cōsumed and determined to auoyde the malice and displeasure of the nobles cōceyued against him he feigned and countrefaited blindnesse and neuer after remoued out of his owne house ¶ After Ptolome Prince of Egipt hath restored one parte of the Cities of Grece to libertie he for despite and in recompence of their breach of promisse with him concludeth a peace with Cassander And Cleopatre sister to Alexander the great comming on hir waye towardes hym is by the commaundement of Antigone miserablie slayne The .vj. Chapter THe yeare that Carine helde the principalitie of Athens and at Rome were created Cōsuls Publie Decie and Quite Fabie◠and in the Olympiade the Cxxvij Ptolome Prince of Egipt went to Sea with a great armie from Mynde and sayling alongest the Isles of Grece deliuered first Andrie from the subiection of Antigone◠and expulsed his garrisons From thence he sayled to the straight of Peloponnese called Isthmus and there tooke the cities of Sycione Corynth and Cratesipole and restored them to libertie fully de◠ermined to do the lyke to the rest of the cities in Grece thinking thereby to get great good will and fauoure and so to fortifie and make strong his estate But after he sée that the Peloponnesians would not with victuals and money ayde him according to their promisse he for despite and anger allied and cōcluded a peace with Cassander wherein was declared agreed on that euery of them should gouerne the Cities and Prouinces alreadie in their possessions And vppon that conclusion after he had garrisonned Sycione and Corinth he returned into Egipt In the meane while Cleopatre séeing the enimitie dayly betwene hir and Antigone encrease determined to ioyne with Ptolome and so departed from the Citie of Sardis meaning to séeke hym out It is to be vnderstood that Cleopatre was sister to Alexander the great and sometime wife to Alexander late King of Epyre deceased whiche warred in Italie whome for the noblenesse of hir ligne and stemme Cassander Lysimache Antigone Ptolome and in effect all the puissaunt and renowmed Princes Chieftaynes which remained after Alexander the great greatly desired to wife thinking that the Macedonians would soone obey and follow him who shoulde marry hir by reason of the affinitie he should haue in the bloud Royall and be held for chief and soueraigne ouer the rest But the deputie of the Citie of Sardes for Antigone hauing from hym expresse charge and cōmaundement to take
Princes which before were but as Uicegerents and Gouernours entituled them selues then by the names of Kings to saie Seleuke of the Satrapies and hier Prouinces by hym newlie conquered Lysimache and Cassander of those whiche at the first were gyuen them and still reteyned ¶ Antigone and Demetre his sonne with a mightie power inuade Egipt both by Sea and lande And after finding the entry and border of the countrey well prouided and furnished they returne without any exploite The .ix. Chapter THe yeare that Corile gouerned Athens and at Rome Quinte Martie and Publie Cornelie were created Consuls after King Antigone had sumptuously celebrated the funeralles of Phenix his yonger Sonne deceased he sent to his Sonne Demetre in Cypres to make haste and come to him and in the meane time him selfe made great preparation to arrere warres against Ptolome in Egipt Which done he tooke hys iourney through the countrey of Celosirie with an armie of foure score thousand footemen about .viij. thousand horsse and foure score and three Elephantes and sent his sonne Demetre by Sea with L. Gallies and aboue an hundred Carraques and Barques whiche carried his people and their baggage commaunding him to saile alōgest that shoare side which the armie marched on by land And although the Marriners counsailed him to staye .xv. dayes longer vntill suche tyme as the daungerous season of winter were passed ouer yet woulde he not be ruled but very angerly gaue them despitefull and reprochefull words calling them cowards and dastards and encamping at the citie of Gaze determining to preuent Ptolome hys armie commaunded his Souldiours to make prouision of victualles for ten dayes and laded the Camels which y e Arabians brought with Cxxx. thousande Medynnes of wheat and haye for their horsses great store and hys shot armour weapon and other necessaries were carried by carte through the desertes a laborsome and painfull iourney bycause the wayes were myery déepe and ful of marshes but especially as he drew néere the countrey of Baratre And Demetre who the same daye about midnight loused from Gaze had for certen dayes a faire and caulme ceason During which time he haled drew with his Gallies the Carraques and Barkes fraught w t Souldiours and sarriages And as he thus for a fewe dayes rowed sodenly arose so great a flaw of wynd out of the North that it put the Gallies in great hazarde in so much that some of them were carried with the surgies and bellow into the daungerous mouth of the port of Raphie bycause it was almost choked vp with a shelf of dyrte and ouze And some of the Barques whiche carried the shot armoure and other carriages perished by tempeste and other were dryuen backe ageyne into Gaze. But the rest of the Nauie wherin were the strongest Gallies and lustiest Souldiours so labored against the wether that they arriued about Cassile a citie scituate vpon the riuer Nile hauing no Port but only a rode which in the tyme of any vnseasonable wether or tempest is very daungerous by reason wherof the Marryners were forced to caste Anker two furlongs from the shoare riding in much daūger for y e Bellow went so hie that it was great maruell the shippes and men had not out of hand ben ouerthrowen and drowned And to land could they not get eyther with boat or man which land also belonged to the enimie and that which was worse their fresh water failed and they driuen to such néede that if the tempest had continued but one daye longer they had all died of thirst While they were in this dispaire looking for present death sodēly the wind calmed anō they descried Antigone his armie encamped not far from the Nauie wherefore they came on lande there refreshed them certē dayes attending some good newes of the rest of their shippes In this tempest perished .iij. Gallies but by good hap many of the Souldiours were saued and came on land From thence departed Antigone and encamped within two furlongs of Nyle But Ptolome alreadie aduertised of the enimies comming had throughly furnished all the fortes and blockhouses which fronted on the enimie with strong and mightie garrisons◠and sent certen in smal pynnaces with commaundement that they should row néere and make proclamation that so many as would come and serue hym he would gyue liberall wages and gentle reteynoure to saye to euery common Souldiour two mynes a day and to euery Captayne or any other which had charge a Talent a day By reason of which proclamation most of Antigone his Mercenarie souldiours minded to serue Ptolome and amongs them many Captaynes also for diuerse occasions desired to serue him so that Antigone séeing his Souldiours dayly steale from his campe was enforced to set strong garde and watch all alongest the ryuer side with great store of shot and engines to stop the enimie for comming on lande and gréeuouslie punished certen of those which were taken going to the enimie to the ende to put the rest in terrour and feare Demetre also with those fewe shippes he had entred an arme of the riuer Nyle whiche ranne into the Sea called the false Porte thinking there to lande a number of his Souldiours But when he founde it garded with a lustie garrison and that he was with shot and all other kinde of engines repulsed and the night drawing on retired and commaunded all the Captaynes of the ships to followe the Admirall by the light in the mayne toppe sayling directlie to the other entry of Nyle called Phenitique When daye was come bycause manie of his ships had missed their course he was driuen to stay for them sent oute his Brigantines to séeke and haste them forward Wherefore with spending much tyme in getting them togyther Ptolome who was aduertised of the certeyntie thereof made spéede to gard the said passage so that he had a great numbre of able fighting men readie arranged in battail vppon the shoare When Demetre sée them thus furnished and that the Countrey next to the said entry was almost all marish ground he sailed backe into the déepe where immediatlie arose suche a great wind which so violentlie draue them towards the shoare that .vj. Gallies and as many Barques which carried men of warre with the vehemencie of the wether were runne on lande vnder Ptolomees power and the rest with strength of ores rowed against the winde to the place where Antigone encamped When Ptolome had thus furnished all the passages of the Sea w t strong garrisons and the entry of Nile with shippes shot and men Antigone was in great feare For once Demetre his Nauie at Sea serued to no purpose to enter the mouth of Peluse being so well garded and kept ageyne the armie by land could no waye passe by reason of the swelling and rysing of the ryuer and that whiche was worse they hadde so long trauailled that they wanted victuals both for men and horses When the souldiours for
of Grece waxe strong and doubting that al the warre in the end would be transferred against the countrey of Macedone he was thereof so carefull that he sent his Ambassadours to Antigone in Asie to treat a peace with him who aunswered that there was but one way for him to auoyde the warres which was to submit hys persone and whole estate to him with which aunswere he was sore abashed Wherfore he sent into Thrace to Lysimache praying him to come ouer that they might togyther consult of his estate For in all his affaires and waightie businesse he always accustomed to sēd for him to communicate with him of them and also to desire his ayde aswell for that he was a noble and valiaunt man as also bycause he was néere neighbour to the countrey of Macedon After Cassander and Lysimache had long cōsulted and debated togyther of their businesse they determined to send their Ambassadoures to King Ptolome in Egipt and to Seleuke gouernour and ruler of the hier regions to declare to them of Antigone his proude and arrogant wordes and how that the hazard of that victorie was common to them all For if he were seized on the realme of Macedon such was his desire of Dominion and rule thinking him to haue no pere that he would dryue them euery man oute of their Countreys as they had by experience séene and proued Wherfore it was méete and necessarie to ioyne all togyther and with one common accord warre vppon him To which admonitions Ptolome and Seleuke soone agréed and promised eche of them to sende a mightie power of men to resiste the said Antigone if at any tyme he came to pierce and inuade their countryes Howbeit they determined not to looke for him before he came to séeke them at home in t◠eir owne countrey and then to preuent him and do some exploite of great waight they deuided them into two bandes the one of which Cassander gaue to Lysimache and with the other him selfe went into Thessaly against Demetre and the Grekes As for Lysimache he passed into Asie at his first comming receyued and got to his amitie the Lampsacians and Paryanians whome he set at libertie bycause they yelded to him of their owne accorde But he forcibly tooke the Sigeans who stoode to their defence and thrust a garrison into their citie This done he deliuered to Prepelaye one of hys principall Captaynes .vij. thousand footemen and a thousande horsse to go reduce into his obeisaunce the Cities of Eolide and Ionye and him selfe went and besieged Abide But as he was making preparation with his Engines to assaile the towne vnderstanding that Demetre hadde by Sea sent thyther ayde sufficient to defend it he chāged his determination and purpose and departed thence and came into the countrey of Phryge by Hellespont and there besieged the citie of Synade wherein stood a strong Castle in which Antigone layde vp and kept one part of his treasure and richesse But in the ende he so practised with Docime deputie for Antigone that he deliuered the Towne and Castle and ioyned with him against Antigone and was the cause that certen other forts and Castles rendred within which likewise Antigone hadde an other parte of hys treasure And Prepelaye who was sent into Eolide and Ionye tooke as he passed the Citie of Adramit and after encamped before Ephese where he put the Townesmen in suche terror that they rendred to him vpon composition and found in it a hundred Rhodians which he sent away vnransomed and without endomaging the Townesmen any whit at all Howbeit he burnt all the shippes within the Hauen bycause the enimie was at Sea stronger than he and the successe of that war is yet vncertayne and vndetermined After that he incontinent drewe to his alliaunce the Theians and Colophonians But the Erythreans and Clazomenians he could not winne bycause they were spéedly ayded by Sea notwithstanding be made incursions and robbed all their lande After that he went against the citie of Sarde whiche he by composition tooke on Phonicke and Docime Antigone his deputies and wanne them to hys alliaunce Howbeit he could not get the castle bycause Philip Captayne thereof one of Antigone hys chiefe friends would not by any practize or deuise be wonne but honestly kept it for his said Master who put him in that truste In this estate where the affaires of Lysimache ¶ Antigone commeth against Lysimache and after he hath him twise besieged and can not get him out to battaill they are both fayne to sende their Souldiours in garrisons to winter The .xviij. Chapter THe same season had Antigone made great preparation for the sportes tournais and diuerse other pastimes in the citie of Antigone For performaunce whereof he caused a great numbre of all sortes of people thyther to repaire as sword players wrastlers and all the most excellent artificers But after he vnderstood of Lysimache his passing by and the reuolting of his captaynes he left of all his sportes and pastimes Neuerthelesse to content thē that were come thyther he gaue aboue two hundred Talents to be distributed amongs them and after departed with his armie out of the countrey of Syrie making haste to come before the face of the enimie And after he had gotten to the citie of Tarse in the Region of Cilice he payed all his Souldiours for .iij. Monethes And besides carried in siluer with hym three thousand Talents bycause he would want no money to atchieue his enterprises what so euer should happen From thence passed he the Mount Thaure and entred the countrey of Cappadoce and from thence into the hier Phrygie bringing vnder his subiection the Townes and cities of the said countreys whiche were reuolted Whereof Lysimache aduertised assembled his captayns and consulted what was best to be done And in the end cōsidering the great puissance of the enimie they were all of the opinion not to ioyne battaill vntill such time as the ayde and succours which Seleuke should send out of the hier Satrapies were come but still to kéepe in the strongest places and most of aduantage to fortifie their campe stronglie to keepe good watch And to be shorte whatsoeuer séemed for their most aduantage they right wysely performed For althoughe Antigone approched them presented battaill yet made they no semblaunt once to sallie out of their campe Which thing Antigone apperceyuing tooke and kepte certen passages to cut them from their victualles Whereupon Lysimache fearing famine by that meane to be forced to render to the enimie stoale away by night and without staye trauailled foure hundred furlongs vntill he came to Dorythe and there pitched his campe bycause the place was well purueied of victualles and all other things necessarie hauing a Ryuer running hard by it whiche was a great sauegard and comfort for the armie and entrenched his campe with a broad and déepe ditche and thrée trenches In the meane season Antigone aduertised of
and besides for the space of .xxxvj. yéeres gouerned the countreys of Cappadoce and Paphlagone The same season also Cassander after the departure of Demetre recouered the cities he had lost in Thessalie and sent in Lysimache his aide Plisterche one of his captains into Asie w t the greater parte of his armie being about xxij M. footmen and .v. C. horsse But after Plistarche was come to the straight of Hellespont and sée it garded by Demetre his Souldiours he returned The ende of the third Booke The fourth Booke is taken out the wise Plutarque in the life of Demetre ¶ Antigone comming to battail against the enimie is throughe the default of hys sonne Demetre slayne The first Chapter ABoute the spring the two armies to saye Antigone and Demetre on the one parte and the Kings confederate on y e other with great power came into y e fields one against an other For Antigone had about Lxx. thousand footemē .iiij. thousand horse and Lxxv. Elephantes And on the enimies side were about Lxiiij thousand footmen .xv. thousand horsse foure score Elephantes and Cxx. armed charriots When the two armies were in viewe one of an other Antigone was maruelously troubled and very pensife For there ranne in hys fantasie many things and especially the great daunger and hazard of that battaill whereof he no lesse doubted the losse than he had good hope of victorie And although one waye by reason of his continual victories he well hoped but chiefly for the fame and reputation by him newly gotten for hys laste victorie in Cypres yet he agayne as a wise man and one experimented in martiall pollicies considered the varietie of Fortune who is neuer firme or stable but still delighteth in mutation and chaunge All whiche things throughly wayed he became so sore troubled and gréeued that where he before in other warres and battailles was accustomed to speake lowde and fiercely in reproche and despite of the enimie and set forth hys stoutenesse and magnanimitie he then without words was altogyther heauie pensiue which imported a maruelous thought and care in him as if he had had some present infelicitie in his head which sodaynly happened him He did also at that time as they said many things whiche he neuer woonted to do For he there openly in presence of al declared and named his sonne Demetre successor of hys realme as thoughe he should presently haue died and after tooke him into his Pauilion a great while and conferred with him alone whereat the whole armie was maruellously abashed bycause he neuer before vsed a parte to talke nor yet communicate with him in secret of his affayres but trusting to his owne wyt determined all matters after his owne fantasie and withoute demaunding aduise or counsail of any would cōmaund that to him seemed best In so muche that at one tyme they said when Demetre his sonne being but a yong Souldiour demaunded when he should returne to hym with the armie with a troubled and disdainfull countenaunce aunswered Arte thou so very a boy cowarde that thou canst not without me heare the sounde of the Trumpets Ageyn besides these his fantasies and imaginations many things then happened whiche might be iudged pronostications of euill lucke and misfortune towardes him For Demetre one night sée in his dreame Alexander the great al armed in white who asking him what signe and token he should giue to hys Souldiours in that battaill aunswered that Iupiter gaue victorie and by and by hym thought that Alexander saide and I also will take parte with your enimies It was likewise reported that after Antigone had aranged his Phalang or battaille of footemen and comming oute of hys Tente that he stoond one of his féete and therewith sodenly fel flat to the ground And after he was lift vppe holding vp his handes to heauen made his humble prayers to the Gods that they would eyther gyue hym victorie or at the least that he might be slayne rather than with shame to be enforced to flie and all at once wholy went to the battaill which on eyther side beganne very hoate and cruel It happened soone after y e Demetre with a lustie band of horssemen vnder his charge so violently charged Antioche the Sonne of Seleuke that he put him and all his company to flight and by reason of the excessiue ioye of victorie hadde them so long in chase that with his too great desire he lost altogyther For during the time he had them in chase the Seleukeans séeing the footemen left naked without horse whiche shoulde haue ben their garde and succoure so encompassed them as though they would on euery side haue charged Wherevpon some seeing all their horssmen gone forthewith rendred and the reste whiche stood to the defence after they see their inabilitie to withstand fled so that when Demetre was returned from the chase he could no way bring them ageyne into order And immediatly after this companie was discomfited a great band of the enimie charged the battaill wherein Antigone was euery of them meaning to get his persone Whiche thing one of his Souldiours apperceyuing sayd to him Saue thy selfe Sir King for euery of these men séeke and desire none but thée whome he ageyne thus aunswered In vayne they séeke and desire me for Demetre will soone be here to ayde me Howbeit the charge was so sodaine and impetuous that before his Sonne coulde come to helpe him many times calling for him to his ayde and looking round about if he came was by the enimie enuironed and after he was dead sore wounded And then all his enimies about him fled except Thorax of Larisse who alone tarried with the body ¶ After this discomfiture the Athenians woulde not suffer Demetre to entre their Citie and howe he ageyne gathereth togyther his armie After Demetre his daughter is married to Seleuke who treateth a marriage betwene Demetre Ptolomais daughter to King Ptolome and of the deniall he hath of two little Cities The .ij. Chapter AFter the Kings confederate had wonne this victorie they deuided amongs them as a great praye but in all Antigone and Demetre their landes and Seigniories And after Demetre sée the battaill loste he in all haste with .v. thousande footemen and foure thousand horsse fled to Ephese Whereupon the Citizens considering his losse and the necessitie he was in greatly feared that he woulde robbe and spoyle the riche Temple of Diana Howbeit he tooke not a Talent but doubting that his Souldiours bycause they were not well pleased with him would do some wicked déede he therfore determined to departe the Citie And after he sée the wind beganne to blowe vp he enbarqued all his soldiours and sailed directly into the Countrey of Grece meaning to get into the citie of Athens whiche he hadde kepte for his onely and singular refuge and therefore had there his shippes treasure and Deidamie his wife being fully persuaded that that Citie would neuer faile whatsoeuer
chaunce and aduersitie might happē Howbeit he was therein greatly deceyued for so soone as he was thyther come arriuing aboute the Cyclades there came messangers to them from the Athenians whiche brought him such newes as he neuer thought on or looked for signifying to him that the Athenians had concluded and determined not to receyue any King into their Citie praying him therefore to refrayne and staye hys comming thyther Neuerthelesse that they would send him his wife in suche honorable estate as became them to do and as to the wife of so honorable and Noble a Prince apperteyned With whiche Ambassade Demetre was so angry agréeued that a litle thing would haue made him lost all the hope of his estate and almost desperate For although what with the losse of his Father armie and realme he see him reduced and brought from so great felicitie almost to extreme miserie and beggerie yet considering the power and nature of Fortune to whome al men are subiect he paciently endured and abyd all his misfortunes and infelicities But séeing him so frustrate of his hope deceyued and mocked of the Athenians he was thereat so agréeued and despited that he could by no meane beare it Whereupon by example may be learned and by experience knowen that the hyghe and mightie Princes which thinke bicause of the great honor and seruice that the people do them that therefore they singularly loue them and that that is a great establishemēt and suertie of their estate are therin maruelously deceyued And although of their owne accord for some good will they beare to Princes they oftentimes do them these honoures yet many tymes it is for feare for we dayly sée that they will do as great honour and make as humble reuerence to them whom they hate as to those they honour and loue Wherefore all sage Princes and Gouernours of common weales do not care or force to be so much honoured of the common people by Decrées by setting vp their statues or images by orations and other like means as to do such things as are worthie and deserue such honours Notwithstanding his angre and despite against the Athenians séeing yet no way of reuenge he dissimuled the matter hoping one daye to haue a more conuenient tyme season Neyther gaue he the Ambassadoures any euill or discurteous language nor yet made semblant as though he were discontented but required them one thing to send him his shippes lying in the Porte of Pyrey amongs which was one of .xiij. tier of ores on a side which they speedely did And so soone as he had them he sailed in all haste to the straight of Peloponnese called Isthmus being there arriued newes were brought hym out of al quarters that his case daily empaired and that his garrisons euery where were expulsed his townes without resistaunce rendred to the enimie Where upon he was in maruelous doubt what to do Notwithstanding considering that he left Pyrrhe in Grece he went w t his whole armie into Cheronesse to inuade Lysimache his countrey and in short time his strength and power so encreased that he had an able armie whereat the other Kings were nothing agréeued bycause they all maliced Lysimache his pride and enuied his puissaunce But shortly after happened Demetre a better aduenture For Seleuke séeing that Lysimache had had in marriage two of Ptolome his daughters one for him selfe an other for Agathocles his sōne he likewise determined by alliaunce with the other Kings to establishe and fortifie his realme as much as he could Whereupon he sent to Demetre demaunding in marriage his daughter Stratonice whiche sodaine aduenture Demetre right well knew how to accept and thereuppon incontinent with his whole Nauie sailed into Syrie brought his daughter to Seleuke But coasting alongest the shoare straight vppon the Countrey of Cilice hys Souldiours went on lande and robbed and spoyled the countrey Wherupon Pisistrate brother to Cassander whiche Cassander had had the same Countrey by particion made at the spoyle of Antigone was verie sore displeased Wherefore he incontinent went towardes Seleuke and made to him hys complainte and farther declared that he did euill to seperate him selfe from the other Kings who had altogyther made alliaunce with him against the said Antigone But when Demetre vnderstood that Pisistrate was gone he set on land the greater numbre of his Souldiours in the said Countrey and ageyne robbed and spoyled the same and in the ende made the paysaunts compound w t him for .xij. hundred Talents which they payed on the nayle and thereupon he ageyue enbarqued his Souldiours and kept his course directly towardes Syrie And one euening going on land with his wife Phile he found Seleuke come thyther before where at their firste méeting without countenaunce of mistrust the one of the other was made great chéere But firste Seleuke feasted Demetre in his Pauilion on lande and after Demetre feasted him in a Gallie of .xiij. tier of ores and all that daye they had great talke and long conference togyther without armour or watche one to another but altogyther good chéere and confidence amongs them and their Souldiours Finallie when Seleuke had espoused Stratonice he brought hir away and with his whole furniture departed thence towardes his Sonne Antioche Demetre likewise returned into Cilice and after his arriuall he incontinent sent Phile his wife towardes Cassander hir brother to excuse him of the incursions robberies by him in the said Coūtrey committed and done In the meane season arriued out of Grece Deidame before Demetre who within fewe dayes after fell into a disease whereof she died Shortly after whose death Demetre seeking new alliaunce a marriage by Seleuke his meane was concluded betwene Demetre and Ptolomaide daughter to King Ptolome wherein Seleuke dealt very gentlie and curteously towards Demetre But not long after he played him as vngentle a parte and ill agréeing to the affinitie with him newly contracted For notwithstanding Demetre his large and great offer of money to Seleuke he not only refused to render the coūtrey of Cilice but also denied him two Cities Tyre and Sydone whiche in Seleuke was a great discurtesie and therefore reputed of great pusillanimitie that he being Lord and King of all the lande and countreys betwene the Indian Sea vnto the Syrian shoare did more estéeme two trifling cities of no ◠alue than the amitie and parentage of one so noble and valiaunt a King And although he had married his daughter séeing him by Fortune persecuted euen to the hard hedge did not only refuse to ayde him but in refusing to giue him the domicile of two small Cities secretly expulsed him all hys landes and dominions And trulie this pusillanimitie doth the sayings of Plato well proue in this I counsaill him that woulde be riche sayeth Plato not to studie and deuise to gather togyther great store of treasure but that he refraine his couetous desire For he shall
alwayes be poore who without setting measure to his couetousnesse hath an ardent desire to get Neuerthelesse although Demetre was thus of his intention purpose by his sonne in lawe frustrate yet lost he no whit his courage but as a man of an inuincible harte one that oftentimes had assayed the deceytes of Fortune said to his friends Although I should a thousand times haue ben vanquished and ouercome yet would I not be so fainte harted and effeminate for so small a trifle to lose the loue and fauoure of my sonne in lawe ¶ Demetre at his pleasure taketh by siege the Citie of Athens of his bountie and humanitie towardes them And after besiegeth the Citie of Sparte in the countrey of Laconie The .iij. Chapter WHile these matters were doing Demetre was by letters from his friendes oute of Grece aduertised how Lamacare throughe a popular sedition which had ben at Athens vsurped the Dominion thereof Wherfore they willed him not to lose any such occasion for recouerie of so noble a citie Whereuppon he incontinent went to Sea with his whole armie and sailed directly into Grece But as he drew néere the regiō of Athens sodenly arose a sore tempest wherein many of his shippes and men perished whereby he was enforced for his better sauetie to come on land and for that time to leaue of his enterprise of Athens vntill some other more conuenient season Wherefore he gaue in charge to certen of his mē that they should new calke amende hys shaken and brused shippes and hym selfe with the rest sailed into Peloponnese and besieged the Citie of Messene at whiche siege as he one daye went about the wall to view the Towne there came a shot out of it which gaue him such a blowe on the chappes that he had almost yelded the ghoste neuerthelesse being soone after healed he tooke the sayd citie by cōposition many other This done he ageyn enterprised his voiage of Athens and after his entry into the countrey he tooke the cities Eleusine and Rammise and farther commaunded his men to make incursions and to spoyle and rob all the countrey about the citie of Athens When the Athenians were by Demetre his Souldiours thus we◠ied and endomaged happened them an other sodain inconuenience which sore troubled them For as a Carracque of theirs was comming to the Citie laden with corne Demetre toke it immediatly hung the Patron thereof the taking of whiche draue them to so great a necessitie that a Myne of salte was solde for .xl. Drachmes and a Bushel of corne for three hundred Wherevpon they were so troubled and in suche despaire that they beganne to treat and rendre But as they were in that mind newes came to them from all coastes howe King Ptolome would send an Cl. sayle to their ayde alreadie séene at Eugine whereupon they were not a little encouraged and hoped to saue all When Demetre vnderstood of the comming of the saide Nauie he got togyther in the countrey of Peloponnese and Cypres two hundred shippes so that when Ptolome hys Captaynes see that they were not able to resiste so mightie a Nauie they durst not abide but incontinent retired After Lamacre had heard of that he secretly stoale out of the Citie and fled And although the Athenians had decréed and published a new and common Decrée that who so euer did talke or once make motion with Demetre of peace or conclusion in peace he should lose his hed yet being with famine sore oppressed and gréeued they were enforced to agrée vpon such composition as him best liked and set open the gate nexte to his campe and sent their Ambassadoures to rendre the Citie and Citizens at hys pleasure with petition that he would not forget his old accustomed benignitie and clemencie neyther to be reuenged of the iniuries and offences against his Maiestie committed And this did not the Athenians for any fauoure or grace y t they hoped for at Demetre his hands considering his mortall grudge towardes them but by famine enforced thought it muche better to submitte them to his highnesse discretion and mercie than to die of hunger which as they said was then so great that a rat falling from the toppe of a house downe vnto the flowre the father and hys Sonnes straue maruelously which of them should haue it to eate And the Philosopher Epicure fed his housholde with beanes whiche he gaue them out by tale When Demetre with his whole armie was entred the citie he commaunded that all the people should at the Theatre assemble in the middest wherof on a great scaffolde pitched he his Pauilion and appointed his Souldiours to stand about the same with their weapons in their handes And soone after the people were come togyther he descended from his Pauiliō vnto a Tribunall much lower whereat al y e people that sée him were in maruelous terrour and feare But after they heard him vtter no sharpe or rigorous words they were well recomforted And when he had in the beginning of his Oration checked and reproued their stubbornesse and obstinacie he gently in al humanitie benignitie procéeded on with the rest And in token and signe of reconciliation he gaue them two thousand Medymnes of wheat and appointed them such Officers as were méetest to Gouerne the Citie according to their auncient accustomed libertie Wherat y t people were so excéeding glad and reioyced that they neuer ceased highly to prayse and commend Demetre and to blason hys name throughoute all quarters the Oratours also of the citie were wel furnished to make and set forth Orations in his commendation and prayse And bycause Democlide after he had made his Oration would seeme to do something more than the reste he propounded a Decrée whereby was ordeyned that the people of Athens should fréely gyue to Demetre the Townes of Pyre and Munychie to vse at his pleasure which Decrée being by the people allowed Demetre calling to remembraunce their former rebellion receyued their gentle offer and immediatly fortified the Towne of Munychie to the ende if they at any tyme else rebelled he had now gotten a reyne to restrayne them After Demetre had thus recouered the citie and Countrey of Athens he rested not but still continued frō one warre to another and with his armie went against the citie of Lacedemonie and when he was come about the Towne of Mantine he encountred Archidame King of the Lacedemonians who with great power was come thyther to stoppe his passage whome at the firste ioyning he put to flight and incontinent without farther resistaunce entred the countrey of Laconie robbing and spoyling vntil he came before the citie of Sparte which he besieged And as he laye before the citie the Citizens sallied out vppon him but they so valiauntly repulsed them that there were two hundred slaine and .v. hundred taken and it went very narrowly that his Souldiours had not entred the
angrie that they would neyther obey any within or withoute the campe and that which was worse they with euill and oultragious wordes reproched Demetre And there was founde set vppon his Pauillion written in a table these wordes O thou sonne of good father Antigone into what region wilt thou now carry vs Finally when he sée the famin more and more dayly increase augmente he thought it most expedient and necessarie considering the necessitie of the time to departe that with the losse of eight thousand Souldiours he retired into the citie of Therse And bycause that Countrey was subiect to Seleuke he was carefull to looke about him that his men should not spoyle the Countrey whereby he might prouoke Seleuke his indignatiō against him whose puissaunce was very strong but especially at that tyme bycause he had such great affaires in hande whiche was impossible for him to compasse considering the necessitie and pouertie of his people And Agathocles so garded the passages of the ryuer Tygre that he was euery waye inclosed Whereupon considering the daunger he was in he determined to slie towardes Seleuke but before he would so do he wrote vnto him his pitifull letters conteining all his misfortunes and aduersities gréeuously complaining his miserable estate praying him to haue pitie and compassion of so wretched a man his familiar and neere allie who alreadie had had so many aduersities that his verie mortall enimies thereof ought to haue compassion and pitie These letters receyued Seleuke hauing pitie and compassion of one so noble a personage by fortune come into such calamitie and miserie writte to his Officers and Lieutenaunts in those quarters that they should vse and entreat him as apperteyned vnto so noble a Prince and farther to cal backe the men of warre which pursued him But after that Procley a sage and wise man and one of Seleuke his counsaill had told him that it was not expedient he should nourishe and mainteyne Demetre his men of warre nor yet to guie occasion to a Prince and Chieftayne of warre and so Noble a warriour to tarrie long within his coūtreys he grew maruelous suspicious and by by altered his opinion For men quod he ought not to make light accompte of so quarrelous a man which hath alwayes inuented and deuised straunge and hie enterprises and chiefly of one in so great aduersitie which were inough to moue a man of small courage to enterprise and execute a very great oultrage to his best and dearest friende These persuasions so moued Seleuke that he leuied a sufficient armie and with great diligence entred the countrey of Cilice When Demetre heard therof he was wonderfully abashed and astonied to sée so sodayn a mutation chaunge and so spéedy a returne Wherfore he with his armie retired into the strongest places of the mount Thaure and sent towardes Seleuke his Ambassadoures praying of him ayde and helpe for the obtayning and getting some principalitie and Seigniorie in some of the prouinces néere hand which had no King wherein he might staye him selfe ende his banishement and there leade the rest of his life and mainteyne his armie and further furnishe him and his people with victuals for want wherof sore distressed and in great néede and not to suffer that one of his familiars and poore and miserable allie to liue to his great dishonour vnder the power subiection of his enimies Wherevpon Seleuke greatly suspecting aunswered him That he was content Demetre and his armie should remayne two monethes in the countrey of Laconie alwayes prouided that he send certen his principall friends for hostages When Demetre vnderstood this aunswere he then wholly dispaired séeing him selfe on euery side enclosed and enuironed with Seleuke his garrisons and out of hope by prayers or entreatie to vrge him Wherfore he turned al his despaire into a rage and determined to warre and fight w t hym and thereupon descended into the playnes where he made great incursions robberies wasting the playne and champion Countrey and after came and encamped so neere Seleuke that they dayly escarmoushed togyther in which Demetre had alwayes the better And at last as they were one day arranged in order of battaile redie to fight after Demetre had repulsed and discomfited certen armed charriots he brauely put all the reste of Seleuke hys armie to flight And all at once with all possible spéede marched against Seleuke Souldiours keeping the passages of Syrie whome he likewise withoute great resistaunce incontinent chased and erpulsed ¶ After the victorie by Demetre wonne on Seleuke certen of his Souldiours by reason of a dysease which happened him forsake him but he with the rest still warring vpon Seleuke is at laste vanquished and enforced to render and in the ende kept as a prisoner The .x. Chapter OF this victorie were Demetre and hys Souldiours so proude and cruell that they dayly presented battaill to Seleuke But he who feared Demetre his hazard and fortune then verie miserable yet bycause she ageyne somewhat fauoured him and aduaunced hym to an hier degree of prosperitie turned backe Lysimache his souldiours by him sent in his aide for that he had no great trust or confidence in them And with the reste of his own kept him in the places of most aduauntage not meaning to fight In this sorte began Demetre to gette ageyne courage and strength But as he stood vppon the point to exploite some notable matter he was sodenly with a gréeuous maladie which troubled and hindred al his enterprises taken For his Souldiours who throughe victorie hadde gotten courage and in good hope to worke wounders seeing their chieftayne so sore sicke faynted ageyne so that some fled from the armie some rendred to the enimie and other thinking by straunge and vncouth wayes to retire home villanously died Notwithstanding when Demetre with much a doo had in .xl. dayes recouered his health he with the men which remained forcibly entred the country of Cilice ouerrunning and spoyling euery where and in the ende encamped in so hie a place that the enimie being a great waye of might easely sée them When night came he without noise departed with his armie and passed the mount Aman and after descended to the foote of the mountaine into the playne and there spoyled and wasted all harde to the citie of Cyriste But shortly after Seleuke who faire and easely pursued him encamped néere him Whereuppon Demetre was right gladde thinking that that happened well for his purpose to surprise him in such sorte as he had determined to do and in the night at such tyme as he thought Seleuke and his men were at rest and a sléepe and doubted nothing he putte all hys hoste in armes and came straight vppon the Campe of the enimie to assaile them are they were prouided Neuerthelesse he was not so soone approched the sayd cāpe but that certen of the scoultes were come in extréeme haste to aduertise Seleuke of his comming who at
the long he had by his wife Illiriade and the other he got of Ptolomayde who after reigned Lorde and King of Cyrene There are some also which saye that Barrabe begotten of Euridice was likewise his sonne Thus after hys death the succession and posteritie of the sayde Demetre obtayned and enioyed the realme of Macedone vntil the reigne of King Perse whome the Romaynes after vanquished and expulsed Thus endeth the Historie of the Successors of Alexander extracte out of Diodore the Sicilian some part out of the wise Plutarque which conteyneth their actes iestes from the death of Alexander the great vntil the death of Demetre sonne to the great Antigone And whosoeuer lysteth to read and know the end of the other may read the Historie of Troge Pompey abridged by Iustine FINIS ¶ The Table of the Chapters conteyned in this present volume The first Booke AFter the death of Alexander the great Aride hys brother is established King and Perdicas appointed his Gouernour Chapter .1 fol. 1 ¶ Perdicas taking vpon hym the gouernement of the Realme deuideth the Satrapies amongs the Princes Chapter .2 fol. 2 ¶ Perdicas sendeth Python against y e Grekes rebelling in the hye countreys whome he ouerthroweth And incidentlie the description of the scite and compasse of all Asie Chap. 3. fol. 4 ¶ Of the warres that the Atheniās made against Antipater called the Lamian warre Cap. 4. fol. 6 ¶ Certē of the Princes vpon whome Perdicas had bestowed the gouernement of the Prouinces go about to Seiniorize them Cap. 5. fol. 9 ¶ Leonathe cōming to the rescous of Antipater is by the Athenians ouerthrowen and slayne But after the sayd Athenians are by Clythe chased and ouerthrowen at Sea Cap. 6. fol. 10 ¶ Perdicas ouercōmeth Ariarathes restoreth to Eumenes the countrey of Cappadoce Cap. 7. fol. 11 ¶ Antipater in fight vanquisheth the Grecian armie putteth in subiection the greater numbre of the cities of Grece and Athens and in the ende restoreth them to libertie Cap. 8. fol. 11 ¶ Of the exploits which Thymbron Ptolome did in the warres of Cyrene Cap. 9. fol. 13 ¶ Perdicas entring Piside taketh the Lamadians prisoners and by siege so distresseth the Isaurians that they kill them selues And at the entreatie of Antigone Antipater and Cratere whiche warred vppon the Etholians concludeth a peace with them bycause they woulde go against Perdicas Cap. 10. fol. 15 ¶ Of y e transporting the body of Alexander into Egipt out of Babylon The forme and fashion of the charriot w t the Pompe and solempnitie thereof Cap. 11. fol. 17 ¶ Eumenes is in battaill ouerthrowen and Cratere slayne Cap. 12. fol. 19 ¶ How the souldiors of Perdicas after he had brought them into Egipt slew him And howe Python and Aride were chosen Gouernours of the Kings Cap. 13. fol. 21 ¶ After the death of Perdicas the Macedonians flea all his kynne and friends in the armie and adiudge Attale and Alcete with their abettours and friends enimies rebelles Of the retire of Attale into the citie of Tyre consequently howe he a freshe assembleth all Perdicas friends which are escaped Cap. 14. fol. 23 ¶ The Etholians to put Antipater from his enterprise enter Thessalie who by the Acarnanians are constrayned to returne into their countrey And in what sorte Polispercon conquereth the countrey of Thessaly Cap. 15. fo 24 ¶ Antipater being constituted Gouernour and Protectour of the Kings a newe deuideth the Satrapies Cap. 16. fol. eodem ¶ Antigone vanquisheth Eumenes and besiegeth the Citie of Nore Cap. 17. fol. 25 ¶ Of the cōquests which Ptolome made on the countreys of Phenice and Celosirie Cap. 18. fol. 27 ¶ Antigone enterpriseth warres ageinst Alcete and Attale and discomfiteth them Cap. 19. fol. 27 ¶ After the death of Antipater Polispercon is ordeyned Gouernour of the Kings Cassander enterpriseth to expulse him the Gouernement Cap. 20. fol. 29 ¶ Antigone vnderstanding of Antipater his death taketh vpon him the gouernement of the Empire of Asie and sendeth to Eumenes desiring his returne Ca. 2◠fo 30 ¶ Aride is repulsed from the siege of the Citie of Cizice Cap. 22. fol. 31 ¶ Antigone commenceth warre against Aride gouernour of Phrigie and against Clite Lorde of Lydie And in the ende openly proclaymeth him selfe enimie to the Kings and enioyeth one parte of Asie Cap. 23. fo 31 ¶ Of diuers aduentures whiche happened Eumenes and of his deliueraunce frō the siege of Nore ca. 24. fo 32 ¶ Cassander sheweth him selfe enimie to Polispercon and getteth to his alliaunce many of the Satrapes Polispercon by an edict Royall restoreth the Cities of Grece into their auncient libertie Cap. 25. fol. 33 ¶ Eumenes taking parte with the Kings goeth into Cilice and of hys practises to gette men of warre Cap. 26. fol. 35 ¶ Ptolome goeth about to cause the Argiraspides to kill Eumenes whome he by his wisedome appeased and after sendeth an armie by sea into Phenice Ca. 27. fo 37 ¶ Nycanor kéeping and occupying the Porte of Pyre against the Athenians is besieged by Alexander Polispercon his sonne and of the mutenie in the citie of Athens Cap. 28. fol. 38 ¶ Polispercon besiegeth Cassander in Pyrey and perceyuing that he coulde not winne it departeth thence and besiegeth the citie of Megalopolis where by the wisedome and policie of Demades he is at an assault repulsed Cap. 29. fol. 41 ¶ After Clyte hath ouerthrowen at Sea Cassander he is through the wisedome of Antigone soone after discomfited and finally slaine in his flight Cap. 30. fol. 43 ¶ Eumenes vnderstanding that Antigone is comming against him departeth out of the countrey of Cilice And when he hath by his wisedome and industrie escaped in the waye the handes and ambushes of Seleuke he commeth into Perse. Cap. 31. fol. 44 ¶ The Athenians make a perfecte amitie and inuiolable peace with Cassander and allie with him After he killeth Nycanor and bringeth the greater number of the cities of Grece to his alliance Cap. 32. fol. 44 Of the second booke OF certayne matters both by the Romaines and the Crotonians exploited in Italie Cap. 1. fol. 45 ¶ Olympias Alexander his mother by meane of Polispercon obtayneth the gouernement of the Realme of Macedone causeth King Phillip and Euridice his wife to be executed and besides vseth many other cruelties Cap. 2. fol. 46 ¶ Eumenes passeth the Ryuer of Tygre and maugre Seleuke and Pythō marcheth into Susiane and after commaundeth the Satrapes of the higher Asie w t their whole power to mete him Cap. 3. fol. 47 ¶ The Satrapes of the hier countrey of Asie to resiste Python ioyne togyther and of the power they assembled Capt. 4. fol. 48 ¶ Eumenes through hys wisedome appeaseth the dissention of the Satrapes stryuing for the principalitie and payeth his men of warre And of the preparation which Antigone for his part maketh Cap. 5. fol. 49 ¶ How eight prisoners Alcete his souldiours throughe their great prowes
Seleuke to conclude a peace and vppon the refusall he ageyne commenceth the warres and winneth on hym certen victories Cap. 9. 152 ¶ After the victorie by Demetre wonne on Seleuke certen of his Souldiours by reason of a dysease whiche happened him forsake him but he with the reste still warring vppon Seleuke is at laste vanquished and enforced to render and in the ende kept as a prisoner Capt. 10. 154 ¶ Antigone for deliuerie of his father Demetre maketh great spéede but in the ende Demetre dieth in prison and of the honours done to him after his death Cap. 11. 157 The ende of the Table ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman dwelling in Knightrider streat at the signe of the Mermayd for Humfrie Toy ANNO. 1569. Taxille Osarte Epheston Pore Meruelous enterprises and ordinaunces of Alexander Mesopotame to say lying betwene two riuers whiche are Euphrates and Tigris Philo. The tenour of King Alexanders letters Leosthenes Sisbe The Citie of Milet. Antiphile Clite Ethion The riuer Pene. Demades Phocino Menille Mnasicles Thacyre Tenare Orphellon Nice Cleopatre Antigone Demetrie Alcete Neoptolome Nyle Peluse The Wall of the Camelles A thing to be maruelled at Memnon Triparadis Nore Ierome the Historian Nicanor Laomedon Thormese Aristodeme Demades Munychie Polispercon Cassander â—â— lene Eschilus The substance of the Decree Menander Antigene Teutame The varietie instabilitie of worldlie things The commendation of Histories Zephire Philote Pyre The furie of the people Damides Cyanâ— Bizance A Stratageme X. Minae is of our money .xx. poundes Demetre Phalare Canouse Euridice Amphipolis The prophecie of a sage man whiche dyed Philote Eudame Penceste Polemon Sybirte Androbase Stasander Stratonice Xenophile Maruellous industrie Pasitigre The Citie of Bedace The ryuer of Eule Nearche The Citie of Persepolis A moral fable Gabene A cautell A Stratageme The number of the men on either side and their order Antimacke Cephele Clepoleme Lysanias Demetre The number of the dead hurte Gabene The citie of Tege The Citie of Perrhebie Dynias Aristone The Citie of Pidue Attarie Lyciseus Callas The number of the men on eyther side and order of their battailes Ierome The wast Countrey Digma Orondonate Hyopstrate The Citie of Ecbathane The Citie of Persepolis Meleager Menete Pampolemon Erite Euagoras Oxiarthe Euen so commeth to all Traitours Thespius Ascleptodore Xenophilus Choenice was a measure amongs the Grekes about the bignesse of our quart or somewhat more Aristone Amphipolis Monime Polle Cratebas Bedine Thessalonice The Citie of Cassandria Cadme Amphion Zethe Homeâ— e. Polydore Beote Neptune Menalippe Isthmus Megare Epidaure Argos Ithome Hermonide Gerannie Moliecke Aspise Pithon Maley The Citie of Quint. Antigone hys yearelie reuenue Aristodeme The mount Libane Nicocre Citike Lapite Marye Cerenite Andronice Hyoppe Gaza Phile. Aristodeme Amise Asclepiodore Tyre Mirmidon Polyclete Menelaus Stasicetus Amathusius Cithia Themison Dioscorides Apollonide Stymphale The Citie of Cencre Orcomenie Messenie Damides Propelle Polyclete Aphrodise Theodote Patare Perilaye Aristodeme Cilene Pataras Ege Dyme Sycione Alexion Cratesipolis The riuer of Cambile Strate Saurie Arginie Lyascke Leucade Apollonie Hebrus Glaucie Epidaure Demetre Dionise Aristotre Dioscorides Cassander Propelaus Eupolome Nearche Python Andronicke Phillip Cilene Medius Plastick Sore Straticole Quint Fabie Quint Elye Laâ— scalle The mount Emus The Cities of Odesâ— a and Obsesta Calantia Lycon Pausane Seuthes Phillip Eacide Agathon Medius Decimus Mylese Tralles Caune Iase C. Manlye M. Fuluye Salmone Plistarche Eupoleme Cadmea Epinete Agis Pigmalion Praxippe Nicocreon The Citie of Gaze. The variable nature and coÌ„ditions of soldiours Azote Tripoly Elyn Cylene Ariuille Lyciske Casopey Alexander Theucer Eurimen Dyme Poliarche Deiphile Euager Cylles Myunte Cylene Hace Yoppe Gaze. The Arabians maner of life in the deserts The Lake Asphalte The sweete Baulme The Citie of Damas. Patrocles Eutela Archelaye Quinte Fabye The Citie of Fretonia or Ferent The Isle of Potide Glaucie Antholion Satrapeas Hercules Alexander his bastard sonne Nycocles Argey Calicrate A pitifull History Parisade Satyre Euâ— ele Pritame The Riuer of Thatis Menisce Galgaze Panticape Agare Yse The superstition of the Paynims Talie Cataraste Carauille Phaselid Xanthe Caune Souttre Fabie Martie Perouse Castolle Ap. Claudius I. Claudius Gne Flauie Stratocle The Citie of Imbre Carpasie Vranie Salamine Menelaye Helepolis Anthiston Mede The valiauntnesse of Demetre Neon Buricke Menete Phenix Gaze Baratre Raphie Cassile A Myne was a coine amongst the Greekes of two sortes the one called Mina Attica Solonis in value of our money xlvij s. xj d. the other named Mina vetus worth .xxxv. s. and .xj. d. farthing A Talent of Talenâ— es were diuers sortes one worth fiue hundred pouÌ„d one of ccâ— li. but the coÌ„mon â— alent of .xl. li. Dionise Zatras Clearche A Drachme is about the value of our Grote Exaceste Palinians Phaleritide Sore Arpine Saronie The descriptioÌ„ and commendation of Demetre Demophile Carpathe Menedore Patare Phile. Aminthe Anathagore Ananie Antigone Alcime Mancie Pritame The coÌ„clusion of the peace Aulide Calcide Eumele Spartacke Prepelayâ— Sicione Bute Scyre Orcomenie Strombicke Cleonyme Synade Adramit Sarde Antigone Tarse Dorythe Salmone Heracle Amistre Oxiarthe Calchide Euboye Larisse Pronas Pteley Dium Orcomenie The great power on eyther side Mythridate Thorax The industrie of Demetre Deidamie What faith and confidence a Prince ought to haue in hys subiectes Stratonice Pisistrate Phile. A goodlie example of Plato against auariâ— ious men Lamacare Messene Eleusine Rammise A myne here was a waight amongs the Greks of three sortes the one named Mina Attica waying xij ounces and a halfe Mina Medica xij oÌ„c. And Mina Alexandrina xx ounces Great famine Epicure Democlide Mantine Archidame Sparte The great varâ—â—â— ie of Fortuâ— e. Eschine Archilocke hys similitude of a woman Cassander Phillip Alexander Antipater Thessalonike Pyrrhe the King Larisse Stratonice Erasistrate A sage wise medicine The maruelous loue of a Father Cleonyme Piside Thebes Ierome the Historian Great bountie of a King Dromichete Antigone The great humanitie and mercifulnesse of a King Panthauke The ryuer Axie A good holsome documeÌ„t for a King Tymothey â—â— ndare â— omere Pelle Edisse A terrible power Ptolome Philopater An horrible great Gallie Menelaus Sophocles A man greatly subict to Fortune Euripide Deiphil Crathes Milet. Euridice Sardes Agathocles The Riuer Lis. Therse The Mount Aman. Cyriste The port Caune Sosignes Pausanias Cheronness Patras The crueltie of Lysimache Against ambitious Princes Xenophante
Chapter THe same yeare that Apollodore gouerned Athenes and Quinte Pompile and Quinte Publie were created Consulles at Rome soone after ◠hat Antigone had vanquished Eumenes he beganne to warre vppon Alcete and Attale whome Perdicas in his life amongs all the Chieftaynes and Captaynes in his army most honoured and estéemed eche of them hauing an armie Ryall able so make warre and fight for the principalitie and gouernement And first he marched with his armie into Piside where Alcete Attale and their Souldiers were res◠a◠nt and contending to come thether with spéede he with his armie in seuen dayes had trauelled two thousand fiue hundred Furlongs and gotten to the Citie of Crete where through his expedition he tooke and furnished certayn straight passages and mountaynes néere adioyning before Alcete knew it But as soone as Alcete and Attale knew and vnderstood thereof they arranged their battaill of footemen and with their horse charged those whiche had wonne the hye passages thinking to repulse them Whervpon the skirmish waxing very boat and cruell with maruellous great slaughter on eyther side Antigone with sixe thousand horse violently and with great force spedde him against the Phalange of the ◠nimy thinking to enterclude Alcete from his footemen Whiche done they in the mountaynes by reason of their great numbre and difficultie of the places clerely repulsed Alcete But in the retier when Alcete sée they were cut of frō their footemen and encompassed with the multitude of enimies he then looked for none other but present death And although the matter stoode vpon this tickle and dangerous point yet at last with the losse of many Souldiers he got and recouered to the battaill of footemen Howbeit Antigone with his mighty Elephauntes and army marching against them in order of battaill greatly amazed them being farre the weaker For Alcete had not in all the world aboue .xvj. thousande footemen and nine hundred horsemē and Antigone ouer and besides his Elephants had aboue fortie thousand footemen and eight thousand horsemen Wherfore whē the Phalange of Alcete sée the Elephants marche towardes them in the front or voward and the horse by reason of the great numbre enuiron them and that the footemen in a maine battaill marched also against them being the greater numbre and valiaunter Souldiers they were therewith greatly astonned and the rather bycause of the place of aduauntage whiche the enimy had wonne and the thing done vpon such a sodaine that their Captaynes and Leaders had no leysure to arrange their battaill Wherefore they fledde in which flight were taken Attale Docine Poley and many other noble and valiaunt Captaynes But Alcete with his Esquiers and familiars together the Pisides which he waged fledde into a Citie of Piside named Thormese When Antigone had won this victorie he pardoned and forgaue all Alcete his men of warre whiche were left and deuided them amongs his bandes But the Pisides whiche escaped with Alcete to the numbre of sixe thousande prayed him not to be discouraged nor dismayed promising him that they woulde liue and dye with him For they all which were with him singularly well loued him bycause that he after Perdicas his death hauing no trustie Companions or allies in all the Countrey of Asie determined by gifts and curtesie to drawe the Pisides to his friendship thinking thereby to get a warlike nation to be at his commaundement and a countrey very strong and hard to be entred being full of many inuincible castles and fortes For this cause in al his warres honored he them more than the rest and of euery spoyle and butin which he got of any enimies the moetie he gaue to them He was very familiar amongs them dayly inuiting of the chief and principall to dynner or supper sometime one other while an other rewarding them also particularly with diuerse and many gifts as those in whose friendship and alliaunce he reposed his finall trust and confidence wherein he was nothing at all deceyued as then appeared For as Antigone with his whole power encamped before the towne and demaunded nothing else but Alcete notwithstanding that the auncient Burgesses of the Citie were of one determinate minde to deliuer him yet the lustie yong gallaunts and Souldiers against the willes and minds of their owne fathers concluded and agréed rather than to render so noble and worthy a man of warre to abide and sustayne all mischiefs and daungers whatsoeuer But when the auncient Burgesses sée that neyther counsaill or reason could persuade to the contrary they practised an other deuise Wherefore they secretly in the night aduertised Antigone by their intelligencers that they would deliuer Alcete alyue or dead For accomplishing wherof they willed him after a while to approch the town and make some skirmishes and false Alarmes and sodenly to retier as though they fled which woulde be a meane to cause all the lusty young Gallaunts and Souldiers to sally out vpon them so y t they being in the skirmishe busied the rest within would assault Alcete being disfurnished of his said companions and with ease take him Whiche thing according to their demaund and request Antigone performed For while the yong and lusty Souldiers were salied out of the towne to skyrmish and chase the enimy the old men with their sclaues and other lustie fellowes no mē of warre assailed Alcete in his lodging but alyue they could not get him For he séeing the present daunger wherin he was kild him selfe rather than he would be rendred aliue to the enimy Notwithstanding they layd him dead on a beare couered ouer with a most vile robe so carried him through the gates of the towne to Antigone before the yong blouds in the skirmish knew of it By this meane y e auncient Citizens saued their Citie from desolation and spoyle But after the Souldiers vnderstood thereof they for the great loue they bare him were so agréeued and angry that they kept one parte of the towne and held a counsaill wherein they first concluded and agréed to set fier on the towne and after to gette them out in armes to pille and destroye Antigone his countreis hard adioyning to the foote of the Moūtaynes Howbeit after they tooke better aduise than to burne the towne but gotte them out in armes wasting and spoyling the greatest parte of the playne countrey of the enimy After Antigone had gotten Alcete his body he dyd him all the opprobries he knewe or could deuise and in the ende of thrée dayes after it began to corrupt he threw it into the fields without buriall and so departed from Piside Howbeit the lustie yong Gallaunts of Thormese tooke him vp and honorably enterred the dead Whereby may be apperceyued that the curtesie and pleasure which men do one to an other engendreth in them whiche receyue it an indissoluble bond of loue and amitie ¶ After the death of Antipater Polispercon is ordeyned gouernour of the Kings and Cassander enterpriseth to expulse him the gouernement
Citie of Amphipolis where not long after she also was taken Thus when Olympias had taken Philip and Euridice prisoners she shortly after without danger seazed on the realme howbeit she very vngently entreated them For first she caused Euridice and hir husband to be detruded into so straight a prison that they coulde scarse tourne them within and had their meate giuen them in at a little hole And after they had bene a great while thus miserably dealt withal Olympias perceiuing that the Macedonians for very compassion that they had of the said captiues maliced hir caused king Phillip by certaine souldioures of Thrace to be slaine after he had raigned and continued king six yeares and foure monethes And bicause that Euridice somewhat insolentlye spake and saide that she had better right and title to the realme than Olympias she therfore without regard either of the late dignitie royall that the sayde Euridice had bene in or yet the common varietie of fortune sent hir thrée instruments to end hir life withall to wete a sword a halter and poyson willing hir to choose which kinde of death of the three she best liked Whereupon as maters after fel out Olympias in y e same sort miserably ended hir life For when the thrée kindes of death wer presented Euridice she prayed the gods y t such presents might light vpon Olympias And after she had adorned the bodie of hir husbande Phillip slaine in hir presence and stopped vp the woundes to couer the deformitie of them in the best manner she could with hir owne girdle strangled hir selfe neuer sighing nor wéeping eyther yet shewing any countenaunce of desire to liue suche was the greatnesse and courage of hir heart there shewed in the ende of hir dayes After Olympias had thus shamefully put thē to death she made Nicanor Cassanders brother to be slaine and defaced the Tombe and monument of Iolas hys other brother to reuenge the death of Alexander hir sonne as she sayde bicause that it was suspected that he had poysoned him in gyuing him drynk Ouer and besides this she picked and wéeded out an hundred noble men of Macedon Cassanders friends and caused their throtes to be cut Wherefore the people of the countrey séeing hir cruell dealing reduced and called to memorie oft times the wordes of Antipater on his death bed prophecying of things to come who exhorted them to beware howe they gaue the regiment of a realme vnto a woman In thys sorte was then gouerned the realme of Macedon which euidently proueth that there was very oft great alteration and chaunge ¶ Eumenes passeth the riuer of Tygre and maugre Seleuke and Python marcheth into Susiane and after cōmaundeth the Satrapes of the higher Asie with their whole power to mete him The .iij. Chapter AFter al these matters it is méet we somwhat speak of the things that tyme done in Asie Eumenes who had then in his companie the Macedonians Argiraspides and Antigene their captaine wintred in the Prouince of Babylon in the chief townes of the marches and from thence sente his ambassadors towards Seleuke and Python praying and exhorting them that they with hym would ayde the Kings against the rebell Antigone bycause that in the seconde distribution of the prouinces made at Triparadis was giuen to the sayde Seleuke the Satrapie of Babylon and to Python Mede Whom they then aunswered that to serue the Kyngs they were at commaundement but to obey Eumenes by the Macedonians adiudged an enimie and condempned man that woulde they neuer do And after they had with the sayd Embassadors at large debated the matter they sente a counter ambassade to Eumenes and the Argiraspide◠to persuade them that of right they ought to depose Eumenes from his authoritie which thyng they denied wherfore he gaue them heartie thankes and great commendations From thence departed he with his armie and encamped on the riuer Tygre being thrée hundred furlongs from the Citie of Babylon to the intent to come to Susie and get the fauours of the Satrapes of the hyer countreys and helpe hym selfe with the treasure of the Kings as he thought néedefull Notwithstanding in the ende he must néedes passe the riuer bicause on that side where he remained were no victuals left and on the other side store And as he had gotten a numbre of ships to put ouer hymselfe and his armie Seleuke and Python therof aduertised rowed down the riuer in two galeys of thrée tire of oares and many brigantines and other pinnaces whiche had bene there builte and lefte in the countrey and remained from the time of Alexander his being in that quarter of Babilon And as soone as they were come thither they nowe a freshe practized and suborned the Argiraspides willing them to expulse Eumenes his authoritie saying he was a straunger had caused many Macedonians to be slaine But when they sée that they coulde not compasse them to execute the same the Seleucians rowed downe the riuer vnto an old ditche and opened the mouth therof which of long time had bene stopped vp wherevpon the water in shorte space had so broken and runne out that it couered and ouerflowed the campe of the Macedonians and all the countrey rounde about who being therewith in greate dāger not knowing all the day how to remedie it armed them with pacience vntil the next day in the morning that they had gotten together their pinnaces and barkes to the numbre of CCC or therabouts in the whiche without stoppe they put ouer the greater parte of the armie bicause Seleuke had on the other side none but horsse and fewer in numbre than the Macedonians But when Eumenes sée nyght drawe on and the greate difficultie and hardenesse to put ouer the baggage hée caused those that were already passed to returne And by the aduise and counsell of certaine peasantes he hollowed and clensed a place of the ryuer through whiche the water myght runne and voyde to ouerthrowe the countrey next adioynyng Whiche thing the Seleucians seing and desirous to discharge them their countreye incontinent sent messangers towardes them by whom they agréed to graūt passage and truce for certain days They sent also ambassadours with all diligence towardes Antigone in Mesopotamie requiring hym to come in all spede with his whole power before the other Satrapes of the hier Regions came downe to ioyne wyth Eumenes and the Argiraspides After Eumenes had passed the Riuer and come into the countrey of Susiane he deuided hys armie into thrée partes bycause victuals there were very deare For they neither had wheate or barley but of other graine as rice and the fruict of palmes growyng in that cuntrey great abundance which he by measure deuided amongs hys souldiers And although he had by his first Ambassadors sente to the gouernours of the higher countreys the letters patents of the Kings by vertue of whiche all the gouernoures and Captains were commaunded to obey him yet sent he after his posts requiring
they with a numbre of pycked men and trayned Souldiours and those newly come out of Egipt went against the enimie that had entred the breache but during the night no great exploite was done Aboute the dawning Demetre gaue a signe as well to those Souldiours which assayled the Porte as to all the rest at one present to make a great showte and noise to encourage thē whiche were entred and hadde wonne the Bulwarkes and Bastils about the Theatre When the shoute and noyse was heard women children and all the weake companie beganne to crie howle and wéepe as if the citie presentlie had ben taken But the lustie and couragious Souldiours valiauntlie assailed the enimie entred who verie long right stoutlie defended so that on eche side were a great number slayn But in the end y e Townesmen still releued aswell with freshe men as also men of valiaunt and lusty courages for that it then stood vpon the hazard of the losse of them and their Citie and contrariwise y e force of the enimie decreasing they so stoutly after charged the Demetrians that they slewe in honorable fight Alcime and Mancie the two Captaynes of those bandes and the greater number of their Souldiours the rest they tooke prisoners except a fewe which fled that waye they entred and returned to Demetre Notwithstanding a great number of the Citizens were slayne amongs whome was Prytame of Demotele a mā greatly renowmed for his valiaunce and martiall pollicies After this assaulte Demetre yet had a greater affiaunce and hope to take it than before Wherefore he agayne furnished him to gyue a fresh assault But in the meane while he receyued letters from his father which willed him to conclude with the Rhodians so honorable a peace as he could Wherefore he attended and espied some occasion to come to an honest composition agreement with them Ageyne Ptolome had addressed his letters to the Citizens letting them to wete y t he woulde send a new supplie of thrée thousand men notwithstanding counsayling them that if they might come to anie gracious and fauourable composition not to refuse it Which letters séene and read they all were enclined to peace It happened the selfe same tyme that the Etholians had sent their Ambassadoures to Demetre to entreat a peace who after many entercourses betwene one an other a finall peace was there concluded as foloweth First that the Rhodians should be at libertie and liue after their old accustomed manner and not to be enforced to take in or keepe any garrison Also that they should continue and remayne friendes and Allies with Antigone with all and against all except Ptolome Item for assuraunce and confirmation thereof they should deliuer an hūdred ostages such as Demetre would chose out except and alwayes reserued the officers In this sorte the Rhodians after they hadde susteyned and abidden one whole yeares siege were deliuered And so many as bare them in that siege valiauntly and manfully were continually euer after highly honoured and largely remunerated with manie great giftes And all the sclaues who hadde well serued were bought of their Lords set at libertie enfranchised and made Citizens They caused also in their Theatre the Images of Cassander and Lysimache to be enstalled and diuerse other of lesse honour and dignitie who had them in that siege ayded And bycause they woulde honour Ptolome more than all the reste they sent into Lybie to the God Hammon to enquire if it were lauful for them to honor the said Ptolome as a God And when they had aunswer from the Oracle that they might not they buylt and set vp a Temple in hys honor within the Citie foure square like a Cloistre a furlong eche waye which they called the Temple of Ptolome They likewise repared their Theatre and all the places of the Walles beaten downe much fairer and stronger than before And after the conclusion of the peace Demetre with his whole armie tooke shipping and following hys Fathers commaundement sayled alongest the Isles and arriued at the Porte of Aulide in the Countrey of Beoce being commaunded to deliuer the Cities of Grece many of which during the siege were by Cassander and Polispercon robbed and spoyled And at his first arriuall he deliuered the Citie of Calcide by the Beotians garrisoned and constrained the saide Beotians to forsake the amitie of Cassander and after alliaunced with the Etholians against Polispercon and Cassander and vppon them arrered warres In this season died Eumele King of Bosphore after he had reigned sixe yeares and after hym succeded Spartace his Sonne who reigned .xx. yeares ¶ The conclusion of a peace betwixt the Romaines and Samnites certen other their neyghbours and of their subduing the Asculaines The .xiiij. Chapter IN the same yeare was treated and concluded a peace betwene the Romaines and Samnites after the warres hadde betwene them continued .xxij. yeares and sixe monethes That done Sempronie one of the Consuls tooke from the Asculains in L. dayes L. Cities and enforced them to submit to the Seigniorie and obeisaūce of the Romayne Empire and after returned to Rome where he was with great triumphe receyued And soone after the Romayne people made peace and alliaunce w t the Marians Palians and Marucians ¶ Demetre by force and treaty taketh many Cities of Grece and diuerse other rendre to him all which he restoreth to their auncient accustomed libertie The .xv. Chapter THe yéere ensuing when Leostrate gouerned Athens and y e Serie Cornele Lucie Genuce at Rome were created Consuls Demetre arrered warres against Cassander to restore the Cities of Grece to libertie and before all other things to set a staye about the affaires of the same Countrey aswell for that it séemed to hym good in doing the same to gette great glory and renowne as also for that he determined to discomfit Cassanders armie in Prepelaye after to go with hys whole power against the saide Cassander And firste he came before the citie of Sicione the deputie wherof was a noble and cheualrous Captayne of Ptolomes named Phillip who being by night sodenly surprised was repulsed and enforced with all his Souldiours to retire into a very great and strong Citadell When Demetre hadde thus taken the towne he encamped betwene the town and Citadell and planted his engines of battery against the same Wherfore the defendaunts séeing them withoute ayde and succoure yelded vppon such composition as they might and so from thence went to sea and sailed into Egipt When Demetre had wonne the Citadell he transferred the Citizens thyther razed the one parte of the citie ioyning to the Port bicause it was to strōg so he holpe the Citizens with his money to build and repaire the Citadell and therewith restored them to libertie By whiche occasion they adiudged hym yearely go◠ly honors to wete sacrifices assembles solempne processions and combats and named the citie Demetriade and did him many
and such other warlike instruments to batter and ouerthrow walles and Bulwarkes of Cities but iustice and to exercise vse that for the preseruation of their people and subiectes Therfore the saide Poet calleth not that King a good disciple of God which is cruell and fierce but commendeth him which is gentle and iust And for trueth Demetre delited in a name and Title more agreable to the great God Iuppiter than méete or apperteyning to him For he would be called the Garden and conseruator of Cities and also the ouerthrower and destroyer of them Wherefore it is oftentimes séene that villanie and wickednesse entring the house of honour and honestie and fauoured of the vulger opinion and ignoraunce of the people vsurpeth the name and title of dignitie and renoume ¶ King Pyrrhe entring the countrey of Macedone is by Demetre expulsed And after Demetre raiseth a mightie power to recouer his Fathers realme and the other Kings linke togyther against him And going ageyne to encountre Pyrrhe who was entred Macedone is throughe the mutinie of the Macedonians enforced to flie and after of the deuision of the realme betwene Pyrrhe and Lysimache The .viij. Chapter SHortly after these matters aforesayd when it was blowen abroad and come to Pyrrhe his eare that Demetre was sore sicke in the citie of Pelle he thought he hadde then good occasion to occupie and enioy the realme of Macedone Wherefore he sodenly assembled the greatest numbre of Souldiours he could gette and with great hostilitie entred the sayd countrey robbing and wasting all he encountred euen to the citie of Edisse bycause none came against him Nowe was the estate of Demetre in great daunger after he was cured of that maladie Notwithstanding he caused hys captaynes to assemble hys whole armie to encountre King Pyrrhe who vnderstāding of their cōming retired in great hast out of the countrey of Macedone And shortly after Demetre concluded a peace with him fearing that being his néere neyghbour a valiaunt and Martiall man he might for the execution of hys other enterprises of greater importaunce much hinder him For he thought the time was come that he might to his great honoure and glorie recouer the Realme whiche hys Father not long before had lost which was the greatest thing of the whole world that he considered and thought on Wherfore minding nothing else but the execution thereof bycause he knew it very hard leuied in short tyme aboue a hundred thousand footemen and .x. thousande horsse besides a Nauie of .v. hundred sayle which with maruelous spéede had come out of diuerse places Firste he caused some of the kéeles and bottomes to be built in Pyre Calchide and Pelle and after went him self to those places to gyue order for the finishing of them so that by hys wisedome and industrie they were in fewe dayes made an end of armed apparelled and furnished ready to sea Whereat all the worlde wondred not at the shippes alone but at the straungenesse of the workmanship and buylding For he had there which excéeded in bignesse al those that euer were séene euen those of .xv. and .xvj. tier of ores on a side then thought very straunge But after Ptolome King of Egipt surnamed Philopater ◠made one of .xl. tier on a side whiche in greatnesse excéeded all those that euer were seene For it was by the kéele two hundred and foure score cubits and from the kéele to the netting .xlviij. For nauigation whereof were appointed .iiij. thousand men to rowe for sayling thrée hundred marryners There were also laid in aboute foure thousand armoures to arme them aboue The Uessell was so ponderous that they had much ado to styrre it built more for the shew and to be maruelled at than for any seruice But to returne to Demetre his Nauie they were not onely maruelous great and full of good workmanship but also the vse of them where for the warres méete and necessarie At this great preparation wherof the like was not sene since the time of Alexander were Ptolome Seleuke and Lysimache greatly astonied and therefore they lincked togyther to resist him They also sent by a common accorde towardes King Pyrrhe persuading him to warre in Macedone declaring that the peace which Demetre had made with him was to none other ende but to amase him that he in the meane time might vanquishe the other Kings and so consequently destroye all at hys pleasure And in effecte that was a fire to burne al the whole world in order if it were not in good season extinquished and therfore that they all with one consent should ioyne and linke togyther to resist him their common enimie who in mind hadde conceyued to subdue all Asie and Europe Throughe these persuasions Pyrrhe moued to his alliaunce and to the otheir kings being ioyned togyther to take their whole force against Demetre maruellous warres on al partes were arrered against him before he was fully furnished and ready For all at one instaunt to wete Ptolome w t a great Nauie and armie went to sea to inuade perce Grece and Pyrrhe and Lysimache Macedone to saye Lysimache on the coast of Thrase and the other on his owne coast in the countrey of Epyre ioyning vpō Macedone When Demetre had notice of these things he sent hys sonne into Grece with one parte of his armie to gard it and he with the rest went into Macedone And firste he marched into that quarter where Lysimache was entred But before he came there he had newes how Pyrrhe by force hadde taken the citie of Bery and burnt and wasted all the countrey round about with which news the Macedoniās were sore vexed and troubled y t there arose great tumulte and mutenie with wéeping wayling maledictions cursing ageinst Demetre throughoute the whole armie Whereuppon many vnder colour for the defence of their houses children and parentes came to him and prayed leaue to departe but their meaning was to yeld to Lysimache whiche thing Demetre well apperceyued and therfore determined he not to come néere Lysimache whome he knew the Macedonians both for his noblenesse and familiaritie vsed to a numbre of them in the tyme of Alexander woulde accept Wherefore he marched against Pyrrhe a straunger and of another Nation but as after it appeared he was much deceyued For so soone as he was come néere the place where Pyrrhe was many Citizēs of Bery came to the campe who aboue the heauens praysed and commended Pyrrhe saying he was valiaunt in Martiall factes inuincible liberall towardes his Souldiours and towardes them whome he vanquished curteous and gentle And farther put them in remembraunce that their aūcestors always reputed those true and vndoubted Kings who knewe to vse armes in tyme of warre and gouerne their subiectes by gentlenesse and curtesie in tyme of peace In all whiche things they preferred and commended King Pyrrhe And to be brief they sayd the time was come y t they might