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A20479	A righte noble and pleasant history of the successors of Alexander surnamed the Great, taken out of Diodorus Siculus: and some of their lives written by the wise Plutarch. Translated out of French into Englysh. by Thomas Stocker; Bibliotheca historica. Book 18-20. English	Diodorus, Siculus.; Plutarch. Lives. English. Selections.; Stocker, Thomas, fl. 1569-1592.	1569 (1569)	STC 6893; ESTC S109708	214,981	340

to passe before they vnderstood what he would do they durst not trust him nor yeld vntill such time as Demetre sent to them certen of his men which in his behalfe sayde that they néeded not to feare him for it was not his will to do them any hurte but prayed them to come to him and then he woulde shewe them a good reason why he hadde done that he dyd Whereupon the Macedonians ioyed that they were deliuered of that feare and daunger Wherfore they went all togyther vnto him and without gyuing eare or attending his oration salued him as their King and néedes would bring him into Macedon Of this chaunge was all the countrey maruelous glad for they so mortally hated Cassander for the cruell facts and great villanies by hym against the great King Alexander and his ligne after his death committed and also for the great oultrage and impious murder whiche Antipater Cassander his sonne had vsed towards his mother Thessalonicke that they desired nothing so much as a new King By reason whereof Demetre was of al the Macedonians generally well liked Ageyne his wife Phile and the children he had by hir so much renewed liuely reuyued the Image and likenesse of the good olde Antipater hir father that they reputed Demetre the verie true and vndoubted successour and heire to the sayde Realme ¶ Seleuke through a fatherly loue remitteth to Antioche his sonne his owne wife Stratonice daughter to Demetre and gyueth to them in title and name of the realme all the hier Prouinces The .v. Chapter THe same season that these things were exployted in Madecone Demetre had newes that his wife children besieged at Salamine were by Ptolome deliuered and with great honours and presentes sent awaye And soone after it was throughout al the coastes of Asie bruted that Stratonice Demetre his daughter whome Seleuke had married was diuorsed and espoused to Antioche his sonne and therfore by the people of the heir Prouinces receyued and named Quéene as followeth While Antioche laye and aboade in the house and companie of Seleuke his father he so muche haunted and frequented the cōpanie of Stratonice his mother in law being then yong maruelous faire and beautifull and had had also a childe by the sayde Seleuke in processe of time became so enamoured and rauished that daye and night his mynde wholy ranne on hir whereby he was so troubled fel into such weakenesse y ● to euery mans sight he dried and consumed awaye and so muche the more gréeued it him bicause what for shame as also for the reuerence and naturall loue he bare his Father he durst neuer discouer it to any in the worlde Wherfore séeing his maladie dayly vexe and trouble him and no hope of remedie he to be deliuered of that so gréeuous a martirdome tooke vppon him a quicke dispatche more necessarie than holsome He determined to feine hym sicke and vnder that colour to absteyne from meate whereby to being him selfe so féeble and weake that as then death must followe But after Erasistrate at those days a great Doctor in Phisicke whome Seleuke before all other had sent for to cure his sonne by his statue other wayes well considered what disease this yong Prince might haue he at last apperceiued it only to proceede of loue but for whome he knew not Wherefore he diligently and circumspectly marked and noted al the partes of his body which are woont to moue whē a man in amours séeth that he loueth And with great care watched when he sée any of the yong and faire Ladies Damosels of the house come to visite him But he could by no meanes perceyue that for any of them who often had recourse vnto him as it had ben moste reason that eyther he moued or chaunged his countenaunce but only when Stratonice entred with Seleuke And thē he was so sodenly taken that he as it were loste hys speache waxed very red his pulse vehemently beat a fine and subtill sweat running throughout all his body and in effect appeared in him all the accidentes that men gather to be in them which are in loue and after by little and little lost his senses waxing very pale and wanne ouer all the body By these signes knewe Erasistrate clerely that it was Stratonice whom the yong Prince loued and none other Notwithstanding fearing the angre and displeasure of● his father and the daunger he might incurre if he discouered the case determined rather to leaue the sonne in that daūger whatsoeuer should come on him than to open the secret to the Father and putte his persone and life in hazard Howbeit after certen dayes when he see the great loue that Seleuke bare hys sonne and the malancolie he was in daye and night for his sicknesse he determined to bord and tel him and by some subtill meane and swéet vaine to feed his humour concerning his sonne Wherfore one daye he came vnto him and spake in this sorte Knowe Sir King that the mortall dysease which infesteth thy sonne is no dysease in the bodye whatsoeuer they saye but only an ardent desire in loue And paraduenture it were better for me to hold my peace and kéepe it close than to reueale and tell it thée considering there is for him no remedy Whereat King Seleuke all astonied and abashed of the matter said vnto him Now I praye thée my friend tell me ● ow the case standeth And if my sonne haue none other dysease but amoures is it not possible to find remedie Are we so vnprouided of wyt and wealth that we can no waye remedie it Finallie after long talke betwene them Erasistrate feining him to be sore troubled said Know Sir King that it is my wyfe on whom he is enamoured Whiche wordes Seleuke hearing w t warme teares trickling down hys chéekes embraced instauntly desired him to helpe that poore yong man and not suffer him wilfully to perishe considering it was he in whome consisted all his ioye and hope to whome the whole realme should lineally descend and in whome all the people and nations vnder his subiection hadde their expectation and hope And that after his death there remayned for him none other comforte but likewise present death without redemption Certes Sir King quod Erasistrate you speake this all on pleasure but admit he were as amorous of Stratonice as he is of my wife peraduenture you would then be of an other opinion Now I would it pleased the Goddes quod Seleuke it were so and that I could alter and chaunge that loue of thy wife to myne For I take all the Goddes to witnesse that if all the things whiche I holde moste déere in this world were togyther I would gyue them al for the sauegard of my sonnes life Then Erasistrate seeing hys maruelous affection and wéeping so tenderly tooke him by the hande and began thus to saye Nowe haste thou Sir King no more néede of my ayde for being a King

He also slewe Eudame captaine of the Indian Elephantes diuers other captaines his vtter enimies And for Eumenes he cōmitted the garding of him to certayn of his men vntil he had determined what to do with him For gladly he would haue reteyned him if eyther by good or gētle entreatie he thought he might win him bicause he knewe him to be a noble warriour and stout man Notwithstanding he had no great confidence in his premis by reason of the maruellous loue and singular affection that he did beare Olympias the Kings which he before had well declared For although he was by his meane from the siege of Nore deliuered yet after in the quarel of the Kings he warred vpō him with his whole power Moreouer seing the mortall hate of the Macedonians against him he determined to put him to death Howebeit for the loue and fauoure he before bare him he caused him to be burnt and in a faire vessell sent his bones to his kinsfolkes and friends He found likewise among the hurte men Ierome Cardian a wise and politike man whome Eumenes greatly honoured and familiarly vsed and therefore Antigone in like sorte after Eumenes hys death honoured and well entreated him ¶ Antigone retireth to winter in the countrey of Mede and of the deluge or floud which that time chaunceth in the countrey of Rhodes The .xvj. Chapter AFter Antigone had brought backe al his armie into the countrey of Mede he wintred in a village of the Ecbathanes harde by wherin is the Kings Palace of that quarter and deuided his men of warre through the whole countrey of Mede and chiefly in the waste country so called bicause of diuers mysfortunes which there sometime happened For in olde time about those quarters had bene the richest and gretest number of townes within al that Prouince and by reason of so many terrible and continuall earthquakes all the sayde townes together with their inhabitantes perished and were vtterly lost wherby the whole region was maruellously altered and chaunged for there were such new riuers and lakes séene as had not customably bene The same time that Antigone lay in Mede the citie of Rhodes was the thirde time by deluge or floude ouercome by reason wherof a great many Citizens a new were at that present drowned more thā at the other two times For the first bycause the towne was newly buylt and little enhabited dyd no great hurt The second was much greater and did more domage for that there were more enhabitaunts But the third came about the spring and began through great raines showres whiche fel sodenly w t mightie maruellous hayle stones for they fel hole and bigge and waightie as a myne but some much bigger and heauier so that they beate downe the toppes of many weake built houses and kild a great number of people and bycause the Citie was round stepest and hiest in the middest in maner of a Theatre the waters on euery side so aboundauntlie flowed that the lower partes were incontinent filled vp and coulde no waye passe nor fall bicause the Citizens seeing winter paste tooke no great h● de to the clensing of their sinks vnder the earth And the more part of the sinks and chanels about the wals were so choked that the water in short time grew so ● ie strong that it flowed vp to the market place called Digma and the temple of Dionisie and in the end grew and arose vp like a lake euen to the temple of Esculape Whereuppon the Citizens seeing so great and sodayne a deluge sought euery man to saue him selfe Some ranne to the shippes some to the theatre and they whiche were most oppressed s● aled the tops of the churches and clymbed the pillers on whiche the statues and ymages stood And as the Citizens were in this terrour and perplexitie chaunced them a sodain remedy For one of the panes of the wall through the violence of the water fell downe and so by that means it voided and ranne into the sea It was also a happy tourne that the deluge chaunced on the daye bycause that when the Citizens see the imminent daunger they had leysure to get out of their houses and withdrawe them to the hiest places of the towne It was good happe lykewyse that the wals of their houses were stronglie buylt of stoane and not of bricke and therefore they which got vp to the toppes were safe Howbeit there died aboue .v. hundred and many houses ouerthrowen wholy beatē downe besides diuerse that were sore shaken and quashed In this daunger and inconuenience was the Citie of Rhodes ¶ Antigone by craft putteth to death Pithon who beginneth to rebell and gyueth the Satrapie of Mede to Orondonate and likewise vanquisheth certen other Median rebelles The .xvij. Chapter AS Antigone wintered in the countrey of Mede he was aduertised that Python practised with the soldiers in garrison about some enterprise Notwithstanding he made semblant that he beléeued not the report reprouing the reporters before the people saying that to set controuersie betwene him and Python they had fained and deuised it in their own heads He caused it also to be openly diuulged that he would leaue the said Python Satrapa and gouernour of al the Prouinces and Satrapes of the hye countrey together one parte of his armie so that he might rule the better and hold and kéepe him selfe in sauetie He writte also vnto him gentle and gracious letters praying hym to repaire ouer so soone as was possible to communicate and deuise of the affaires in those quarters to the ende Antigone might with more spéede returne to Sea This dyd he w t a crafty and painted contenaunce clerely to put him out of suspiciō thinking he would in hope of obtayning that Seignorie come to him For well he knew it was not hi●● ase forcibly to take him bicause he was a valiaunt and couragious man and such one that Alexander when he lyued by reason of his vertue had gyuen hym the gouernement of the same countrey of Mede whiche to that day he held and enioyed And to be short he through corruption and other ways greatly got the good willes of the men of warre that the more numbre promised to forsake Antigone and follow him Notwithstanding although he for this cause somwhat mistrusted his crafty cloyning yet through the hope which certen of his familiars and friends with Antigone put him in he came at his commaundement And so soone as he was come Antigone caused him to be apprehended and the chiefe and principall Captaynes of the armie being there in maner of a Senate assembled accused him Before whome he was lightly conuict incontinent condemned to death and with greater spéede executed Whiche done he assembled the whole army in their presence proclaimed Orondonate the Median Satrapa of the said Countrey of Mede hauing for his assistaunce and ayde Captayne Hypostrate with foure thousand Mercenarie footemen