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A15807	Cyrupædia The institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, King of Persians. Eight bookes. Treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, vvarlike stratagems, preparations and expeditions: as appeareth by the contents before the beginning of the first booke. Written in Greeke by the sage Xenophon. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine and French translations, by Philemon Holland of the city of Coventry Doctor in Physick. Dedicated to his most excellent Maiesty.; Cyropaedia. English	Xenophon.; Holland, Abraham, d. 1626. Naumachia. aut; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 26068; ESTC S118709	282,638	236

serving upon the Assyrians Horses and intended to set at large all his Prisoners CHAP. IX The speech of Cyrus to the Assyrian prisoners at their deliverance CHAP. X. How Cyaxares envied the glory of Cyrus and was wroth with the Medes The answer that Cyrus made to him and the Embassage which he sent into Persia. CHAP. XI The Missive of Cyrus to Cyaxares CHAP. XII The ●ration of Cyrus directing his souldiers how they should part the spoiles Also how he mounted the Persians on Horsebacke CHAP. XIII How Gobryas yeelded himselfe unto Cyrus and related unto him the disasterous calamitie of his son and required revenge for his death upon the King of Assyria which Cyrus promised to doe THE FIFTH BOOKE CHAP. I. How Araspas had the keeping of faire Pan●hea on whom he became enamoured A discourse betweene Cyrus and him whether love were voluntary or forced CHAP. II. How Cyrus being assured of the Medes and other Allies rode to the Castle of Gobryas And of his Magnificence CHAP. III. How Cyrus intended to assault the great City of Babylon the discourses which hee had with the Prince of Hyrcania and with Gobryas CHAP. IIII. How Cyrus chalenged the King of Babylon to come into the Field and then making a league with Gadatas won the Fortresses of the Frontiers and augmented his Forces with a number of 40000. and how the King of Assyria would have surprised and taken in the Castles of Gadatas CHAP. V. How Cyrus exhorted his souldiers to give all the booty unto Gadatas how he rau●ged his battailes as well to fight as to march by night CHAP. VI. A Conspiracy against Gadatas An Ambush laid by the Assyrian King where he received a great overthrow How Cyrus saved Gadatas and all his men CHAP. VII The good Remonstrances of Cyrus as touching the fault of the Cadusian Prince The Treatie with the King of Assyria for the good of his people CHAP. VIII How Cyrus as hee returned into Media passed before Babylon and surprized certaine Forts upon the Frontiers CHAP. IX How Cyrus returned to the Monarchs of Media and laboured to appease the wrath of Cyaxares The answer also that he made unto him THE SIXTH BOOKE CHAP. I. The Counsell that Cyrus held about the dissolving his Armie for that yeere The preparations which he made against the yeere next ensuing The fabrick and engines that he devised for to batter the walls His Chariots armed with Pikes and Sithes carrying turrets upon them Also the Camels which he provided for the warre CHAP. II. How Cyrus sent Araspas as a spie into Lydia who feigned that he fled for the displeasure of Cyrus CHAP. III. How Panthea sent for her husband to come unto Cyrus The preparation that Cyrus made for the warre The forme of Chariots devised by him for the carriage of his great engins and fabricks CHAP. IV. How the King of India sent an Ambassage unto Cyrus to treat about a league with him who sent the said Ambassadours to listen after as spies the affaires of the Assyrians The newes that they brought backe CHAP. V. The oration of Cyrus unto his souldiers to put them out of that feare and astonishment which they had conceived of the Newes they heard as touching the warre toward CHAP. VI. The Instruction of Cyrus delivered unto his Chieftaines as well concerning their souldiers diet as the conduct of an Army in their march through the Country The order of the Pioners Merchants and Tradesmen Artizans and Munitioners CHAP. VII How Cyrus marched against his Enemies in Lydia The manner he used as well in encamping as in leading his whole Army CHAP. VIII How Araspas returned unto Cyrus and recounted unto him all the Ordnance and preparation of the Enemy How himselfe prepared to raunge himselfe in Battaile-ray CHAP. IX How Panthea enarmed her husband Abradate and Cyrus did put himselfe in readinesse to give battaile THE SEVENTH BOOKE CHAP. I. How Cyrus entred the field with his puissance approached King Croesus to gi●e him battaile The manner that both Armies used to fight with their be●● advantage CHAP. II. The great Battaile and slaughter of the Lydians where King Croesus and his force● were discomfited The Aegyptians yeeld unto Cyrus CHAP. III. How Cyrus following the traine of his victory forced the City Sardes and tooke King Croesus prisoner The discourse that he held with him as touching the Oracle of Apollo and how he did set him at liberty and saved the same City from saccage CHAP. IV. The death of Abradatas Of faire Panthea and her Eunuches Cyrus caused a good● ly Monument to be erected for their perpetuall memory CHAP. V. How Cyrus by the Wisedome and Policie of Cadusius tooke the King of Ph●yg●a prisoner brought under subjection in small time the Cappadocians the Arabians and all the Nations round about which done how he embatta●led his forces to the number of 40000. men in Armes and approached Babylon CHAP. VI. How Cyrus laid siege unto the Citie Babylon and by a wonderfull Stratagem wo●●● How the King of As●ria and his men were slaine the Citie put to the sack and the Fortresses rendred into his hands CHAP. VII How Cyrus established his Kingdome in Babylon instituted the honour and veneration of Kings entertained Eunuches for the service of his House and Persians for the Guard of his person CHAP. VIII The Oration of Cyrus to his chiefe friends the Peeres or Homotimes To the Captaines also of his Allies for to induct and frame them to vertue and to entertaine prowesse and feats of Armes in his Dominion with many other good instructions to make them mild and vertuous THE EIGHTH BOOKE CHAP. I. How Cyrus ordered the seat of his Court What Institution of his life he recommended to his Courtiers The manner that he used in teaching them how to live devoutly to God-ward and to exercise themselves in all manner of vertue toward men CHAP. II. How Cyrus ordeined militarie Discipline in his Realme The Officers of his Court His mangnificence and humanitie CHAP. III. The Triall that Cyrus made of his friends love unto him How hee dealt away his riches to be himselfe the better beloved of them and they not to affect one another CHAP. IIII. The triumphant pompe of King Cyrus riding forth of his Palace A solemne Horse-running wherein himselfe was winner CHAP. V. The liberalitie that Pheraulas shewed unto one that gave him a faire Courser A notable discourse of that which is able to make a man happy and to live in contentment CHAP. VI. By what meanes Cyrus graced and honoured his friends The marriage of Gobryas his daughter with Hystaspas one of Cyrus his grand-Seigneurs CHAP. VII How Cyrus sent away his Associates into their owne Countries distributed the spoile and returned int● Persia. How he ordered and marshalled his Campe being arrived in Media where King Cyaxares offered him his daughter in marriage and gave with her for a portion the Kingdome of Media CHAP. VIII How Cyrus arrived in Persia where

troubles againe True it is ô Cyrus quoth Tigranes Our offences are such as give good occasion why we should no more be trusted howbeit in your power it is both to fortifie your castles with strong wals and also to keepe with garrison your sensed holds yea and to take what pledges and assurance you will of our fealty And verily quoth he such persons you shall have of us as will not greatly grieve hereat For call to mind wee shall that our selves are the cause of our owne woes But when you have made over the government of this State to any one of those that never trespassed against you if your selfe shall seeme then distrustfull take heed least as you gratifie and pleasure them so they withall take you to be no friend of theirs Againe while you would be thought to avoid the incurring of their hatred if you lay no yoke upon them for to keep them under so as that they can commit no insolent parts beware that hereafter you have not more need to reclaime them than now you have to reduce us unto goodnesse and order But for mine owne part quoth Cyrus so God me helpe I have me thinks no minde at all to put such ministers in trust whom I know to serve me upon compulsion But as for those whom I perceive upon good will and love unto me ready to doe their devoir I suppose I can better beare with them delinquent though they be than such as hate me doe they never so well and performe all double diligence upon constraint and necessity To this replied Tigranes As whose hands then can you ever win so much love and friendship as now you may gaine of us Even of those I think said Cyrus who never were my professed enemies so I would be beneficiall unto them as you are desirous now I should be unto you Why can you find any man good Cyrus quoth hee at this time unto whom you may be so bounteous as unto my father Say you suffer some one to live who never did you wrong what thanks suppose you will he render unto you Or if you bereave him not of wife and children who will in this regard affect you more than he who thinks himselfe to deserve no lesse than to loose the same And know you any man that is like to sorrow more if he hold not the Kingdome of Armenia than we Evident therefore it is quoth he that unto whom most anguish and griefe shall redound if he be not King the same also if he receive of you the Kingdome will yeald unto you the greatest thanks Moreover if you have any care of this also namely to leave the State here at your departure in least trouble consider quoth he whether you thinke all will be more quiet by innovation and change of the Government under a new Lord or by suffering the old and received manner to remaine still in force under their ancient Prince Semblably if you have an eie to this how to bring out into the field a puissant armie Who thinke you will muster and levie it in better order than he that hath often used the same Now put case you stand in need of money whom suppose you meet to raise and procure it for your better than him who both knowes and hath also under his hand all the store that is Beware therefore good Cyrus least by casting off and loosing us you endammage your selfe more than my father can hurt or hinder you To this or the like effect spake Tigranes CHAP. II. How Cyrus with great humanitie did set the King of Armenia with his wife and children at large And after he had received their ransome levied a good power of footmen and horsemen both out of Armenia for this warre CYRVS was exceeding glad to heare him make this speech for that he thought now all was done and dispatched to his hand which he undertooke unto Cyaxares for to performe For he called to minde what he had said and namely how he thought to make the Armenian King a more fast and assured friend unto him than before Hereupon he demaunded of the King himselfe in this manner Tell me then quoth he ô King of Armenia Incase I should condescend unto your requests how great an armie will you send with me and how much mony will you contribute toward this warre Whereunto the Armenian King made this answer I can say nothing unto you good Cyrus either in termes more plainly or to the point more justly thē to declare unto you first all the forces that I have which when you see and know what they be you may have away with you as great a power as you list leaving as much as may serve for the defence of the land Then for mony likewise meet it is that I should shew unto you all the treasure that I have whereof you may take and leave what you thinke good Goe to then saith Cyrus Shew unto me directly what your strength is and tell mee withall what store of coine you have Hereto the Armenian King returned this answer Of horsemen the Armenians are able to make 8000 and of footmen 40000. As for mony quoth he togither with the treasures which my father left unto me being reckoned to the true rate or valew in silver it amounteth to more than 3000 talents Hereunto Cyrus as one in this behalfe nothing care-lesse said thus Of your armie then because the Chaldees your borderers make warre upon you send with me the one halfe but of your monies for those 50 talents which you paid as a tribute deliver double so much unto Cyaxares in regard of deteining the payment thereof And to my selfe you shall lend another hundred talents For the lone whereof I promise If God speed me either to doe you greater pleasures or else to repay you the mony if I be able If I doe not thought haply I may be unsufficient but judged worthily I shall never be unjust Now for Gods sake ô Cyrus said the Armenian King use not these words otherwise you shall not have me so confident and trustfull in you But make this accompt quoth he What monyes so ever you leave us they are yours no lesse than those which you carry from hence Well said Cyrus But how much mony will you part withall unto me for to have your wife againe Even as much quoth he as I am worth And what will you give me to enjoy your children also As much for them likewise as I can make By this reckoning then inferred Cyrus these be prised at twice so much as you possesse Now Tigranes to you I addresse my speech With what ransome would you redeeme your wife newly married he was and loved the woman exceeding well I assure you ô Cyrus quoth he I would lay downe my very life that she might never become thrall Take her to you then quoth Cyrus For yours she is neither doe I repute her to have beene a captive at all seeing

Cambyses treateth with him his Lords and Chiefe Commanders about the affaires of State How he tooke to wife the daughter of Cyaxares and being returned to Babylon sent Rulers and Deputies into all his Provinces CHAP. IX The expeditions that Cyrus made during his Reigne and how hee returned into Persia and there dyed CHAP. X. How after the death of Cyrus all his ordinances were perverted The Authours discourse concerning the government of the Persian Kings after Cyrus FINIS TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY MONARCH CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Most dread Soveraigne WHen that Maiden-Monarch the Wonder of the World in her time Queene Elizabeth of famous memory swaied the Imperiall Scepter of this Kingdome in her latter dayes my deere Father Doctor Philemon Holland presented unto her Maiesty his English Translation of the Romanes most renowmed * Historiographer And it pleased her Highnes full of Clemency to reach out the Golden Scepter of her gracious acceptance thereof Sol occubuit nox nulla sequuta est For no sooner was that glorious Sunne set to our sight on Earth in our Horizon and translated to shine in heaven but your Royall Father King Iames of blessed memory appearing even then by his radiant beames out of the North in maturitie of time came to weare the same Imperiall Diademe lawfully descended upon his Head At whose very first entrance my said Father dedicated his translation also of * Trajanus his Masters Morals unto his Majestie who was no lesse pleased to hold forth his Gracious hand and accept the same Also when my unworthy selfe offred mine owne Collections entituled Her●ologia Anglica unto his Highnesse he most graciously received it And now most deare Soveraigne unto this present version of Xenophons Cyrupediam out of Greek which is as I may say the Authour his Master-Peece and my fathers worke likewise your Majestie hath the sole right in regard that he enterprized it long since and that by speciall order and direction from your Royall Father delivered unto him by one of his neere servants in Court even when your selfe were in your tender yeeres for the contemplation and use of your most Generous and Magnanimous Brother Prince Henry now in Heaven Of whose vertuous life and Princely exercises more may bee seene in the said Her●ologia His death caused a demurre as it were in publishing thereof untill of late my father importuned by some friends having revised and finished his said Traduction destined it to me his sonne that in regard both of the Author and Argument it might lie no longer in obscurity but at length and as I hope in good time see the light of the Sunne The Author then of these books Xenophon a deepe Philosopher a politike Counseller of State and an expert Warriour beside how-ever hee penned them Non ad Historiae fidem as Cicero writeth sed ad Effigiem justi Imperij yet in such request they were that Scipio Africanus the famous Romane Commaunder was never wont to lay them out of his hands for as the same Oratour recordeth Nullum in hijs praetermissum est officium diligentis moderati Imperij No mervaile then that L. Lucullus A noble Generall under the Romanes being at first a raw and unexpert Commaunder by serious studying upon these books on ship-boord became so worthy a warriour and compleat Generall as that he vanquished the most puissant politick and victorious Mithridates King of Pontus who had before subdued in manner all Asia And all these books wrote he so sweetly and eloquently in Greek that he was named the Muse or as Suidas writeth The Bee of Athens Insomuch as the very Muses were reported to have spoken in Xenophons voice as out of whose mouth by the testimony of that Romane Oratour alluding to Nestor in Homer melle dulcior fluebat oratio Which albeit my father in English could not Parallele yet treating as he doth of the life and atchievements of so worthy a Prince of whom may I seeme to crave Patronage in the first place but of your sacred Selfe my liege Lord For these books how ever Englished may haply hereafter if your Majesty shall thinke so good be held worthy the view and imitation of your right Ro●al Son our most hopeful Prince Charles whom I cānot name but with this zealous and devout prayer That he may grow up in stature and in favour with God and Man Vouchsafe therefore I most humbly crave of your innate Clemency which makes you renowmed throughout the Christian world not to withhold your Golden Scepter but in like manner as your late Predecessours and Progenitours have done to welcome into your Court Greeke Xenophon his Cyrus a Persian Prince by birth but now clad in English Accoustrements speaking our Language and hither arrived to kisse your Roiall hand especially seeing he is that Cyrus the elder of whom the holy Scripture maketh honourable mention And why should I doubt hereof considering he being a warlike Monarch and skilfull in Armes according to the auncient discipline tendereth discourse of military Preparations Stratagems and Expeditions now in these dayes not without Gods providence of Action when as your Majesty and your subjects are so deeply engaged with your Royall Allies and Confederates in Martiall Actions who fight the Lords Battailes and that blessed be God with late good and vi●torious successe so as we cannot but hope still for better now that your Royall Aide is not wanting and the Britains Banners are there advanced For although your Majestie in great wisedome hath of late laid downe Armes and entertained Peace with some Christian Princes so as wee for the time may say Dulce bellum inexpertis Yet as the wisest of Kings said There is a time for Warre as well as for Peace Demaundeth your Majesty now what he is that dareth to approach so neere your Presence as to speake of Warre in time of Peace● Give your poore vassall leave to answer in the submissive voice of a loyall subject He is no Schollar professed nor Martiall man yet a lover of learning and being one of the Trained Band to guard CAMERAM REGIS alwaies prest without your Imprest money to fight if occasion be presented in defence of your Majesties person of the Realme of that Faith and Religion whereof you under God are entituled The sole Defender yea even to lay downe his dearest life For according to my fathers Imprese Pro Christo Patria dulce periculum Which I desire of God may be my last Cygnean song However The Lord of Hosts fight for you The God of Iacob protect you The King of Kings preserve your most excellent Majestie in health and safety of soule and body from all your enemies spirituall and temporall Foraine and Domestique The same IEHOVAH preserve you from all Warres Disasters and Diseases and in the end he give you one Coelestiall Crowne for your three