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

benefit for their service For this I know that unlesse they reape some fruit of their travailes I shall not have them long obedient unto mee Howbeit my meaning is not to give them the spoile of this Citie For I suppose that not onely the Citie would thereby be utterly destroyed but I wote well also that in the rifling thereof the worst will speed best Which when Croesus heard Give me leave I pray you quoth he to say unto some of the Lydians whom I will make choice of that I have obtained at your hands thus much That there shall be no pillage at all and that you will not suffer their wives and children to be quite undone In regard of which grace and favour That I have promised unto you in the name of the Lydians that they shall willingly and assuredly give unto you as a ransome whatsoever is faire and of best price in all Sardes For if they shall heare thus much I am assured they will come with what beautifull thing or precious jewell either man or woman hath here And likewise by another yeere the City will be replenished with many goodly things for you Whereas if you fall to sacke and spoyle it you shall have your very arts and sciences which are the fountaines they say of all good things to perish utterly Moreover seeing and knowing all this you may come and consult further hereafter of saccage at your pleasure But first of all quoth he send you for mine owne treasure and let your officers require the same at the hands of mine the keepers thereof Cyrus approoved all that Croesus had said and gave consent to doe accordingly But tell me first my Croesus quoth he and that to the full what was the end of those points which were delivered unto you from the Delphicke Oracle For it is reported that you have highly honoured Apollo and done all in obedience to him Helas I would it had prooved so quoth Croesus But the truth is My deportment to Apollo hath beene such as to doe all from the very first cleane contrary unto him How came that about quoth Cyrus enforme me I pray you For these be wonders and paradoxes that you tell me First and formost saith Croesus setting behind me all care to enquire of that God those things that were necessary for mee I would needs make proofe forsooth whether he could answer truth or no And well knowne it is saith he I will not say that God but even very men who are good and honest cannot of all things abide to be discredited and if they perceive themselves once that they are not beleeved they love not those that distrust thē But afterwards knowing that I had committed a grosse absurditie and was farre from Delphi I send unto him about children But he at the first time gave mee not so much as an answer Yet afterwards when by presenting unto him many gifts of gold and silver both and by killing very many beasts in sacrifice I had at length pacified him as I thought to this my demaund how I might doe for children hee answered me that children I should have And verily a father I was of children for in this also I assure you he lied not unto me But when they were borne I had no joy nor comfort of them For the one of them was all his life time dumbe and never spake word the other being growne to excellent proofe dyed in the very flowre and best time of his age Depressed thus with these calamities as touching mine issue I send eftsoones to know of the God by what meanes I might lead the rest of my life in greatest felicitie and this answere he returned to me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 KNOW THY SELFE CROESVS AND THOV SHALT SVRELY BE HAPPY OR THVS CROESE KNOW THY SELFE AND THOV ART HE THAT TO THY LAST SHALT HAPPY BE. Vpon the hearing of this Oracle I rejoyced For I thought that the God by enjoyning to me a most easie matter gave me happines For I supposed that as other men might partly know some and in part not so every one knew himselfe well enough And verily all the time following so long as I lived quietly in peace no cause had I after my sonne his death to complaine of fortune But being once perswaded by the Assyrian King to undertake an expedition and to warre against you I entred into a world of daungers Howbeit escape I did safe for that time without sustaining any hurt So that herein I blame not the God For so soone as I perceived my selfe unable to hold out with you in fight by the helpe of God both I and also my companie gat away in safety But now eftsoones waxing more proud by reason both of my present wealth and their perswasions also who requested me to be their Generall allured also by the rich gifts which they bestowed upon me sollicited againe by men who by way of flattery bare me in hand that if I would take upon me this soveraigne government all the world would be ruled by me Lord I should be of all and the greatest Potentate upon earth By these and such like words I say being puffed up so soone as all the Kings and Princes round about me had elected me for their Generall I tooke upon me to conduct this royall Armie as if I had beene the onely man sufficient for that supreme greatnesse But in truth herein I knew not my selfe For that I thought I was able to match you in the field who first descended from the Gods and then reckoning Kings for your progenitours have even from your childhood practised vertue and chivalrie Whereas the first of my auncestors that ware a diademe I heare say became at once a King and a Free-man By good right therefore punished I am for mine ignorance in that behalfe But now at last good Cyrus quoth he I know my selfe and thinke you Sir that Apollo spake true when he said That if I knew my selfe I should be happy For this question verily I put unto you of purpose because you seeme able to give the neerest conjecture thereof by this present occasion seeing in your hand it is to effect the thing Then said Cyrus Impart unto mee your counsell concerning this matter For considering your former felicitie I pitie your present condition and herewithall I permit you to enjoy your wife whom you have your daughters also for I heare say you have some together with your friends your servitours and the table such as hitherto yee have lived at As for battailes and wars I disable you If it be so quoth Croesus then for the love of God deliberate no further what answere to give unto me as touching my happinesse For now I protest unto you If you doe thus as you say it will come to passe that the same life which others have reputed most blessed and to whom my selfe have accorded I shall now both have and hold Then replyed Cyrus And what person enjoyeth

you well interrupt ones joy with manifold troubles And you my sonne Cambyses I would have you to know that it is not this golden Scepter that is able to preserve your Kingdome and Royall estate But many friends and those trusty are unto Kings the truest appay and surest Scepter to rest upon And never thinke that men are naturally borne faithfull friends unto you for if that were so the same men would be true and loyall unto all like as other things in one nature are seene to bee the same unto all indifferently But every Prince must himselfe make men trusty and fast unto him and made they are such not by force but rather by beneficence and bountie If you therefore would gaine others unto you for to bee assistant in the preservation of your royaltie begin not at any other before him who is sprung from the same stocke that you are to wit your owne brother And verily you see that naturall Citizens are more neerely linked unto us than strangers such as eate drinke and daily converse with us more than those that live apart and be unacquainted with us They then that are come of one seed and the same blood nourished by the same mother brought up in the same house loved of the same parents calling one father and one mother how can these otherwise be but of all others most inward and familiar Suffer not then those good blessings to be in vaine bestowed upon you whereby the very Gods lead brethren to the entertainment of mutuall amitie but over and above this foundation already laid build forthwith other workes of love and thus your reciprocall friendship shall continue for ever invincible And to say a truth he regardeth his owne selfe who taketh care of his brother For unto what other person is a brother if he be a mightie man such an ornament as to his brother And who beside is able to honour a puissant Potentate so much as a brother And whom will a man having a great person to his brother feare to wrong so much as hee will his owne brother See therefore that no man obey him sooner nor be readier to come and assist him than your selfe For neither his prosperitie nor adversitie concernes any man more properly than you Consider moreover in gratifying whom you should hope to gaine more or winne greater thanke than if you doe your brother a pleasure In succouring shall you get a firmer Ally than him whom is it more unseemely or dishonest not to love than a brother and whom in all the world is it more decent and befitting to honour above the rest than a brother It is a brother onely and none but he ô Cambyses who if hee have the principall place of love with a brother incurreth not the envie of others thereby For the tender love therefore of our tutelar Gods my children As yee have any desire to gratifie mee your father honour yee one another For yee doe not I trow beleeve and know for certaine that when I end this humane life I shall become nothing at all and have no more being Neither did yee so much as erewhile see my soule visibly but by the operations which it had yee conceived of it as of a reall essence Or know yee not yet what terrours doe their soules who have suffred violence and wrongs strike into murderers hearts and what revengefull tormentors they send among the wicked Thinke yee that the honours done to those that are departed would have endured so long if their spirits had no power and strength remaining in them For mine owne part my sonnes I could never be perswaded to beleeve that the soule all while it is contained within this mortall body should live and afterwards die when it is departed from it For this I see that the soule quickeneth these mortall bodies and giveth life to them so long as it remaineth therein Neither could I ever be brought to thinke that after the soule is separate from this blockish and senselesse body it shall be it selfe void of sense and understanding But when the pure and sincere minde is once departed then by all likelihood and reason it is most wise After the dissolution of a man every thing is seene to returne againe unto its owne kinde save onely the soule which neither present nor absent can be seene Consider moreover quoth he that nothing in the world resembleth mans death neerer than sleepe But the soule of a man whiles he sleepeth sheweth most of all her divinitie yea and foreseeth future things being as it seemeth at such a time at greatest libertie Is it so then as I perswade my selfe it is doth the soule quit and forsake the body In all reverence and honour therefore unto my soule performe that which I request you to doe But were it nothing so but that the soule as it abideth in the body so it perisheth with the same yet feare yee the Gods who are immortall who see all things and bee omnipotent who maintaine and keepe this orderly course of the whole world so certaine perpetuall infallible and for the grandeur and beauty thereof so inexplicable Feare the Gods I say that yee may neither commit nor devise any impietie or injustice Next unto the Gods reverence all Mankinde which in a continuall succession is perpetuall For the Gods doe not cover you with darkenesse but all your actions must of necessitie be exposed to the eyes of the world which if they be pure and void of iniquitie shall make you powerfull with all men but if yee devise and practise to wrong one another yee shall be disreputed with all men For no man were he never so well aff●cted can trust you any longer when he sees him to receive injury at your hands who is linked most neere in the bond of friendship If then this remonstrance of mine be sufficient to instruct you in your deportment one to another it is well if not yet at least wise learne of them who lived before us for this is the best way simply of teaching and instruction Many parents there have beene who constantly persisted in love to their children and many brethren likewise to their brethren yea and some of both sorts have plotted the cleane contrary one against another Whether of them therefore yee know to have reaped more good by that which they have done if yee make choise of their deeds and follow their steps yee shall doe very well But hereof peradventure I have said enough And now my sonnes as touching my body when I have once finished the course of this my life see yee enshrine it neither in gold nor in silver nor in any thing else but presently with all speed enterre the same For what is more happie than to be committed unto the earth which as a mother beareth and as a nource feedeth all things faire and beautifull all things good and profitable I have beene otherwise at all times a respective lover of

you never fled from us You also King of Armenia have away with you both your wife and children without any ransome at all that they may know they come unto you free And now verily for this present take your suppers with us and when yee have supped Depart whither yee list So they stayed But after supper whiles they were yet in the pavilion Cyrus questioned in this manner Tell me Tigranes quoth he what is become of the Gentleman that was wont to hunt with us For you highly esteemed him Why quoth he hath not this my father here put him to death Of what offense said Cyrus was he convict Hee laid to his charge quoth he that he corrupted me And yet my deere Cyrus so good a man he was and so honest that even then when he was to die he called unto mee and said Bee not you greived Tigranes and offended with your father in that he mindeth to take away my life For he doth not this in any malice but of errour and ignorance And what trespasse men upon errour doe commit I suppose is done against their wils At these words said Cyrus Alas good man that he was But the Armenian King turning unto Cyrus spake in this wise Neither doe those good Cyrus who take other men naught with their wives pursue them therefore to death for that they make their wives more wanton and unchast but because they thinke they steale away their hearts and quench that love which they owe unto them in which regard they proceed against them as very enemies And even so Ielous was I and envied that man because me thought he was the cause that my sonne admired and esteemed him more than my selfe Then Cyrus So God me love good King of Armenia as I thinke your fault was no other than any man would have done Therefore Tigranes pardon your Father for this Gentlemans death Thus having at that time discoursed lovingly entertained and embraced one another as meet it was after this reconciliation they mounted upon their carroches togither with their wives and so with great joy departed CHAP. III How Cyrus tooke Tigranes with him in his traine and went to assaile the Chaldees upon the mountaines WHEN they were come home some made report of Cyrus his wisedome others related his patience and sufferance one spake of his mildnesse another of his beautie and goodly tall presence Whereupon Tigranes asked his owne wife and said How now my Armenian Ladie Seemed Cyrus in your eyes also a faire and beautifull personage In good faith quoth she I never looked upon him Whom then did you behold said Tigranes Even him I assure you quoth she who said That with the price of his life he would redeeme mee from captivitie And then as meet it was after such matters as these passed they tooke their rest togither The day following the Armenian King sent unto Cyrus and the whole armie gifts and tokens of hospitalitie He gave warning also to his owne subjects such as were to goe to warfare for to be ready against the third day following As for the money whereof Cyrus spake he payed it downe double But Cyrus when he had taken of it so much as he required sent backe the rest and demaunded withall whether of them twaine would lead the armie The sonne or himselfe Whereunto both of them made answere the father in this wise Even hee whom you shall commaund but the sonne after this sort as for mee ô Cyrus I will not leave you no though I should follow you hard at heeles as a Campe drudge Hereat Cyrus laughed heartily and said And how much would you be content to give for to have your wife heare you are become a Campe slave and to carry fardels Shee shall never need quoth he to heare that For I will bring her along with me that shee may see what ever I doe But now said Cyrus it were time for you to trusse up and be furnished every way for this journey I make full accompt quoth Tigranes that we shall shew our selves in readinesse with whatsoever my father hath allow'd And so for that time the soldiers after gifts of friendly entertainment bestowed upon them went to rest The next day Cyrus taking to him Tigranes with the best and most select horsemen of the Medes as many also of his owne friends as he thought convenient rode abroad to view the country of Armenia devising where he might build a fortresse And being mounted up to an hill top hee asked Tigranes which were those mountaines from whence the Chaldees used to make rodes downe into the plaines and so to drive away booties Which when Tigranes had shewed unto him he asked againe whether those mountaines were now without companie and unfrequented No verily quoth he for they have alwaies certeine spies and Sentinels who signifie to the rest whatsoever they discover And what doe they saith he when they have notice of any thing Every man saith Tigranes makes what hast he can up to the hill tops for to help and succor When Cyrus heard this and withall beheld the country all about he might perceive that a great part thereof lay as wast ground to the Armenians and untilled by reason of the warres Then for that time returned they to the armie and after supper tooke their repose and slept The morrow next ensuing Tigranes shewed himselfe ready and well appointed having raised a power of foure thousand Horsemen with ten thousand Archers and as many Targuatiers But whiles these forces were a levying Cyrus sacrificed and seeing the entrails of the beasts to be faire and fortunate to him he called togither the Leaders both of the Persians and of the Medes and in the presence of that Assembly made this speech My welbeloved friends These mountaines that we see belong to the Chaldaees which if we may first be masters off and on the top of them build a fort and plant our garrison of necessitie as well the Chaldaees as the Armenians will demeane themselves loyally toward us As for our sacrifices they betoken all good on our side and as touching mans alacritie and humane meanes nothing will so much help the same forward to the atchieving of this exploit as expedition For if we can climb up the hils before the enemies assemble their power we shall either gaine the hill tops wholly without any resistance or else skirmish with our enemies when they are but few in number and feeble in strength No labour therefore can be easier and more void of daunger than if presently we be resolute in celeritie and quicke dispatch Arme your selves therefore on all hands As for you the Medes march on our left hand but yee the Armenians goe one halfe of you on the right side and the other halfe lead the way in the vaward before us Yee that bee horsemen follow behind in the Rear to incite and put us forward up the hill neither suffer yee any one faintly to draw backe When

wife brought unto him an helmet of gold with vambraces likewise and broad bracelets to weare about the wrests of his hands Also a side purple cassocke downe to his foot with the skirts falling in plaits beneath togither with a crest upon his armet of an Hyacinth or Azure dye All these ornaments had shee wrought for her husband unwitting to him as having privily gotten the just measure of his armour Which when he beheld he wondered thereat and said unto Panthea How now my wife hast thou cut and mangled thine owne Iewels and ornaments for to make mee this faire armour No verily quoth Panthea I have not yet defaced the most precious and richest jewell of all For if you Sir appeare unto others as you seeme unto me your selfe shall be my greatest and most soveraine jewell And as shee thus said shee fell to enarme him and how ever she did what shee could not to be seene for to weepe yet for all that the teares trickled downe her cheeks And Abradatas albeit hee was before a goodly man to see to yet now after he was thus dight and harnessed with this armour he seemed right beautifull and of a most liberall presence as being by nature also correspondent thereto Then having taken of his charriottier the reines into his owne hand hee addressed himselfe presently to mount up into his chariot But then Panthea commanding all those that were present to void said thus unto him My Abradate If ever there were any woman that esteemed her husband more than her owne life I suppose you acknowledge mee also to be one of them And therefore what need I to particularize in every point For I am perswaded that the deeds which I have done already are of more credit with you than the words which I now speake Howbeit although I bee thus affected as you know well enough yet doe I solemnely professe my love to you-ward and yours also to mee and that I had rather togither with you having borne your selfe as a valiant Knight be enterred than live with you disgraced and taking disgrace my selfe So farre forth esteeme I both you and my selfe worthy of the best respect Moreover in my conceit we are much beholden unto Cyrus in this behalfe for that he daigned to enterteine mee a captive woman and selected for himselfe not using me as a slave with villany nor as a free woman with disparagement of mine honour but when he had received me kept me for you as if I had beene his owne brothers wife Againe when Araspas my Guardian revolted from him I assured him if he would give me leave to send unto you that you should come unto him a more faithfull friend and a better and every way by farre than Araspas Thus spake she and Abradatas much delighted with her speech softly touching her head and therewith looking up toward heaven made this prayer O most mightie Iupiter graunt that I may bee thought an husband meet for Panthea and a friend worthy of Cyrus who hath so honourably dealt with us With these words he mounted the Chariot at the entry and doore of the seat thereof When he was thus gotten up and that the Vnder-Chariotier had made fast and shut the seat close after him Panthea having no other meanes otherwise to embrace him kissed yet the very seat And so the Chariot went forward But she closely followed after her husband unseene of him untill such time as he turning himselfe and espying her said Be of good cheere my Panthea Farewell and now depart Then her Eunuches and waiting women tooke and conveied her into her Caroch and when they had laid her downe they covered her within the closet thereof But the folke there in place albeit both Abradatas and his Chariot also made a goodly show yet could they not behold him untill Panthea was quite gone Now when Cyrus had sacrificed with the favourable approbation of the Gods and the armie was set in aray as he commaunded and had appointed Avant Curriers one before another he assembled his Captaines togither and made a speech unto them in this wise Deare friends and Confederates The Gods shew unto us such signes in our sacrifices as they did sometime when they gave unto us our first victory I will recall therefore into your minds those points which if ye remember ye shall in mine opinion advance more couragiously to battaile For in martiall prowesse exercised ye are much more than your enemies In the same yee have beene brought up and trained farre longer than they and joyntly one with another have atchieved victory Whereas many of your enemies with their Associates have beene foyled and vanquished And of both sides as many as have not yet fought those of the enemies part know well enough that they have for Assistants such as will betray them but yee that side with us are sure that yee shall hazzard the fortune of battaile with them that are desirous to helpe their Allies And it standeth to good reason that they who repose mutuall trust one in another will joyntly sticke to it and fight with one accord but they that distrust must needs devise how every one may soonest get away and escape Advance wee therefore my friends against our enemies with strong armed Chariots against those that are not armed with horsemen likewise in compleat armour and horses bard against those that be naked ready to cope with them hand to hand As for you that are footmen yee shall deale with no other than yee have heretofore The Aegyptians be harnoised after the same sort and in like maner set in aray For greater shields they have than that they can either doe or see ought and being raunged by hundreds no doubt they will hinder one another in the medley except some very few Now if they trust by preassing hard upon us to make us give backe and lose ground First they must beare-off the brunt of the horses themselves then of the yron harnois wherewith the horses are strengthened And say that any of them shall hold out and abide by it how can they possibly at once mainteine fight against the horsemen and the maine battalion of footmen and the turrets beside For from those turrets our men will be alwaies ready to succour us and annoy the enemies so as being by us slaine they will rather despaire than fight it out Now if ye thinke that yee want ought let me know for with the leave of God yee shall lacke nothing Againe if any man be disposed to say ought let him speake his minde If not draw neere to the sacrifices and when yee have prayed unto those Gods to whom we have sacrificed repaire unto your companies See also that every one of you put them in minde who are under your charge concerning those points that I have admonished you of And let each one shew himselfe unto those that are in his conduct so undaunted and fearelesse in gesture countenance and speech