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
published aunswered that he would cōclude no peace with the Athenians vnelesse they wold wholie submit them to his discretion and gouernement alleaging that what time they besieged him within the Citie of Lamie they woulde make none other answere to his Ambassadoures When y e Athenians sée none other boote that they were no longer able to resist they remitted the whole gouernement of the Citie to his pleasure Who being of such moderation of mind redeliuered to them their Citie and landes with all their goods and cattels Howbeit he altered and chaunged the gouernement of the Citie Declaring that where before the rule and estate of the Citie was common he therefore now decréed and ordayned that none should be admitted to anie office or dignitie within the Citie except suche as were of good reuenue and liuing that might at least dispend two thousand Drachmes by yeare they to haue all the aucthoritie gouernement and ordering of the same And that the rest whose lands did not amount to the clere yerely value aforesaid as persones seditious and desirous of tumultes and warres were clerely excluded from authorite and gouernement Neuerthelesse they that were contented to dwell elsewhere he gaue them the conntrey of Thrace for their habitation and reliefe of whiche sorte were aboue xx thousand which went to dwel al in Thrace And there remained in the Citie of auncient and landed Burgesses about ix thousand or néere thereabout who gouerned the same and territories therof after the Lawes of Solon without taking away frō Perseus any of the goodes which he possessed And for their better quietnesse and refuge Antipater least behinde vnder the the charge of Menille a garrison of men of warre for the repressing of such as would go about to commence or reuiue anie innouatiō or mutation And for as Samy he least it to the willes and discretions of the Kings Thus the Athenians being gently handled and well entreated farre beyond their expectation minded vpon that cōclusion to liue in rest and peace and to vse their trauaill without feare by meane wherof in shorte time they grew to great wealth After Antipater had atchieued and obtained these victories he retourned with Cratere into Macedone whome he perfectly loued and greatly honoured bestowing on him large and honorable gifts giuing him also in mariage hys eldest daughter Phile a yong a Damsel of excellēt fauoure and beautie making farther great preparation for his retourne into Asie Moreouer he used such great humanite and curtesie towards all the Cities of Grèce and reduced them to ciuility and politique gouernement that he acquired great prayse and renowme Perdicas lykewyse rendred to the Samians their Citie and Countrey and called home all the citisens which had ben in exile xl yeares and more ¶ Of the explotys done by Thimbron and Ptolome in the warres of Cyrene The ninth Chapter NOwe since we haue spoken of all the factes of warres done in the Lamian warre it behoueth vs out of hand to make mencion of the warres which the Macedonians had against Cyrene and to gyue it this meane space to the end we deferre not those gests so long from the time in whiche they were done but to make the matter more clere and manifest we must beginne somewhat farther of What time Harpale fled out of Asie into Crete with a certen numbre of souldiers as in the booke before we haue mencioned Thimbron who by outward apparaunce séemed his friend traiterously slew him and seising on all his money men and shippes sailed with all the said souldiers and riches into the countrey of Cyrene and by the meane of the aide and conduct of the exiles of the same Citie he gaue battaill to the Citisens gouernours and vanquished them wherof he slewe many and tooke a numbre of prisoners and so wanne the Port or hauen whereupon he put the Citisens in such terror and feare that he draue them to come to a composition wherein they agréed that he should haue v. hundred Talents of siluer and the one half of his Charriots and Charrets that he woulde occupie in his warres This agréement concluded on he immediatly sent his Ambassadours to the rest of the cities néere hand demaunding their ayde for the subduing of the Region of Lybye thereto adioyning He farther willed his Souldiers to spoile and but in all the goods which they founde in the shippes within the said Port the rather to enbolden them to enduer the warres And albeit fortune highly fauoured the said Thymbron that he became rich proude yet not long after she brought him agayne into as great miserie by this occasion for one of his Captaines named Mnasicles borne in Crete a man expert in martial factes chalenged him and said he had done yll bycause he made no egall diuision of the but in And being a valiaunt and stout man and of nature mutinous reuolted tooke parte with the Cyrenians greatly blaming and discommending the crueltie and disloyatie of Thymbron dissuading them to breake promisse with him and to set thē selues at their owne choise and libertie But when Thymbron sée that they had not as yet payd but lx Talents and that frō daye to day they delayed the payment of the rest he held the agréement and composition on their parte infringed brokē wherfore he tooke so many Citisens as were within the Port prisoners to the nūbre of foure score That done with al his force he besieged the Citie and preuayling nothing retired into the hauen In this while the Barcians Hesperits toke part with Thymbron wherfore the Cyrenians purposing some facte least one part of the Souldiers within the Towne and with the other parte salied out and ranne vpō the Barcian and Hesperite camp who were forced to send to Thymbron for ayde whether he came with all his power which when Mnassicles sée and perceyuing he had leaft the Hauen vnfurnished persuaded the Cirenians in the Towne to assaye to winne the hauen whereupon they immediatly issued out and with great ease wanne it bycause there were few or none leaft to defend the same all whiche was exploited and done by the meane and conduct of Mnasicles who straightwayes redeliuered to the merchaunts of the towne so muche of their goods as might be found and after furnished the Porte with a garrison of valiaunt men of warre When Thymbron vnderstood that the Port so méete a place for the anoying of y e enimy was lost al the bagage of his mē of warre he was thereat greatly abashed Howbeit he tooke to him a martiall courage went to the siege of an other Citie called Thacire which he wanne wherfore he waxed right glad and bolde Neuerthelesse not long after happened him other great misaduentures For first his Souldiers which were a bord hauing lost the Hauen therby cut of from victuals at land were constrayned to make out certeyn bandes to fourage the fields and Countrey for prouision of victuals whome
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
.xij. thousande footemen and .viij. hundred horsse and encountred him in battaill but after the horssemen had a while lustely charged one another the Menelaians retired and fled and the Demetrians séeing the victorie theirs subsecuted and chased them harde to the walles of the citie so that they slewe aboute a thousand and tooke aboue thrée thousand prisoners Whome Demetre reteyned in wages and deuided amongs hys bandes But when he see they dayly fled from him to Menelaye bycause their goods and baggage were left in Egipt with Ptolome and that he could not reduce thē to his amitie and seruice he enbarqued y e rest and sent them to his father lying in the hier Syrie where he buylt about the ryuer Oronte a verie sumptuous Citie called after his owne name Antigone being foure score furlongs about Now was this a méete and necessarie place to get and hold the imperiall dominion of Babylon and al the hier and lower Satrapies in subiection notwithstanding it stoode not or continued long for Seleuke shortly after destroyed it and transported the inhabitaunts into an other citie of his foūdation and building called after his name Seleuke After Demetre hadde bene victor in the battaill aforesaid Menelaye and the reste of his Souldiours which escaped and had gotten the Citie of Salamine made great preparation of shot and engines for their defence and suretie deuiding the quarters of their walles with the towers and flankers betwene them bycause they sée that Demetre determined with al his power and force to attempt and assault the citie They also sent into Egipt to Ptolome signifying to hym of their estate aud daunger solliciting him to send hys ayde and helpe When Demetre sée that the Citie was mightie and strong and throughlie māned he determined to make huge mightie engines wherewith they commonly vsed to besiege and ouerthrow Townes and Cities which shot stones and other kinde of shot of all sortes against the walles and the residue of his prouision maruelous terrible to batter ouerthrow the same For exploiting wherof he sent for a wonderful number of workemen and artificers plentie of yron and such other stuffe out of Syrie so that in short tyme he had prepared and made readie all things to batter and ouerthrow the walles But amongs other his deuises he caused an engine to be made called Helepolis to saye an ouerthrower of cities .xl. cubits eche waye square and foure score and ten cubits hie in which were .ix. stories or sellers deuided one from another with planchers of wood all running vppon foure great wheles .viij. cubits hie He had also many other engines called Rammes very large great to batter any wall two great and puissaunt Tortoises to helpe them In the lowermost sellers of the Helepolis he planted store of engines and ordinaunce which threw and shot stones the greater sorte waying thrée Talents In the middle stories he planted engines made like boltes shooting long sharpe shot and in the hier stages were other whiche shot lesse and lighter He placed also in the saide roomes or stories two hundred experte Souldiours to shoote off and handle the said ordinaunce and engines After he hadde placed his engines of battery against the wall he in short time beat down the toppes and batlements of the curten and after sore battered and shaked the walles Howbeit the besieged so valiauntly defended their Citie with such weapon and engines as they had prepared against the assaultes that for certen dayes no mā could iudge of the winning of the citie suche were the noble hartes and courages inuincible of the honorable Captaynes and lustie Souldiours on eyther side But to be short the wall was so sore battered and shaken and a long breach made that the citie was disfurnished of defence and no remedy but to yelde or be taken the nexte day following if there were not found some newe maner of defence that night before the assault ceassed Wherfore the Menelayans hauing great store and plenty of drie wood and suche like stuffe whiche soone would take fire about midnight so néere approched y e engines of the enimie that with long poles and other which they had lighted they cast in fire so that in lesse thā an houre the fire grew so quicke and terrible that they had burnt the greater part of the engines and the souldiours within them which thing the Demetrians coulde not helpe and auoide by reason of the sodainenesse therof And althoughe Demetre for that time was frustrate of hys determination purpose yet had he good hope and still vrged to take the citie continuing the siege both by Sea land not doubting but in the ende to winne it In this meane while Ptolome hauing intelligēce of the affaires and slaughter of his people departed oute of Egipt and tooke sea with a great power sayling towardes Salamine and being dryuen into the Porte of Paphe in the Isle of Cypres he there landed and got togyther all the ships of the cities thereabout and from them made his course to Syrie distaunt from Salamine two hundred furlongs He had in his Nauie an Cl. Gallies wherof the greater were of .v. tier of ores on a side and the lesser of foure he had also aboue two hundred Barques wherein were enbarqued aboue ten thousand souldiours and the reste laden with baggage and other prouisiō He sent by land likewise certen Messangers to Menelaye commaunding him if it were possible to send the .lx. Gallies lying in the hauē of Salamine which ioyned with his he thought to be much stronger at sea then Demetre hauing two hundred Gallies or better When Demetre vnderstoode of Ptolome his comming he left the siege furnished before the citie and enbarqued the rest of his Souldiours with great store of shot and engines which shot far off planting them in the noses of his Gallies and when he had arranged them all in order of battaill he enuironed the Towne and in the mouth of the hauen cast ancre and road there all that night withoute the daunger of the shot bothe for stopping of the Gallies which laye in the Port that they should not get out to ioyne with Ptolome and also to sée what course Ptolome kept to the ende that which waye soeuer he came he would be arranged and readie in order of battaill to fight But after the day once appeared he might descry a mightie and terrible Nauie of Ptolomes sayling towards the citie whereat he was astonied wherfore he left his Admirall Anthiston with ten Gallies of fiue tier of ores in the place where he laye to garde and take héede that the Gallies of the Towne made not out commaunded hys horsemen to ryde all alongest the shoare to the end that if any mischief happened him they might saue them which were ouerthrowen into the sea and swamme to lande and him selfe in order of battaill sailed against the enemie with a Nauie of a Cviij saile with those
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
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
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