Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	able_a	great_a	speak_v	260	4	3.9623	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19723	The history of Quintus Curcius conteyning the actes of the greate Alexander translated out of Latine into Englishe by Iohn Brende.; Historia Alexandri Magni. English	Curtius Rufus, Quintus.; Brende, John.	1553 (1553)	STC 6142; ESTC S3998	287,606	468

feare that they durst neither put on their armour lest they might geue occasioÌ„ to the BactriaÌ„s to set vpoÌ„ theÌ„ nor they could not remaine quiet lest thei might seme so wickedly to leue their kynge There were clamours through out the campe of diuers sortes and tunes wythout any head and without any apointment Such as partayned to Nabarzanes and Bessus deceiued by such lameÌ„tacion as they harde brought them worde that the kyng had killed him self Whereupon the prepaired thither so fast as thei could gallop Darius taken prisoner by Bessus and Nabarzanes and such folowed after as thei had chosen to be mynisters of their mischeife When they were entred into the kings pauilion bicause the Enuches declared that he was on liue they coÌ„maunded him to be bound Thus he whych before was caried in a chariot and honoured of his men like a god was made prisoner by hys owne seruauntes without any foreine powre and put into a vile cart couered ouer with beastes skynnes and spoyle was made of the kinges stufe in such sort as if it had bene taken in the warres And when they had laden them selues with the pray gotten after so foule a maner they conuaied them selues into their countries But Artabazus with those of whom he had the charge and with the Greake souldiers toke the way towardes Parthina thinking to be more sure any where then in the felowship of those traitors The Percians whom Bessus had burdened with so many faire promises specially bicause thei had no other maÌ„ to folowe ioyned them selues to the Bactrians and the third daye ouertoke them But to thintent Darius should not want such honor as was due vnto his estate Bessus caused him to be bound wyth golden fetters such were the despightes that his fortune made him subiect vnto And for that he should not be knowen by his apparell â–ª they couered the carte with foull hides of beastes and caused vnknoweÌ„ meÌ„ to driue it forwards And lest by enquiring the Armye he might be discouered such as had the charge of hym folowed afarre of Whan Alexander hard that Darius was remoued to Echatane he lefte the way that he was in and with all the spede he could make folowed after Darius that was said to be gone into Media But when Alexander was come to Taba which is the cheife Citie of Paratacene Taba Paratacene it was there shewed him by fugitiues that came out of Darius camp that he was fled with al spede into Bactria And afterwardes vnderstod the matter more certeinly by Bagistenes of BabiloÌ„ who could not affirme directly that Darius was vsed as a prisoner but declared that either he was in dauÌ„ger of death or of captiuitie Alexander vpon those newes called his capteines togither and shewed them that he had a greate enterprise but such one as the trauail was verie short Darius he sayd was not far of forsaken of his own men and either takeÌ„ as a presoner or slaine In whose parson he shewed their whole victorye to consiste and the greatnes of the matter to be reward sufficient of their haste making They all cried with one voice that they were redy to folowe him where he would go and that he should neither spare there labor nor their perill Wherupon he coÌ„ueied his army forwardes with merueilous spede rather in post then after the coÌ„mon ordre of marching neither resting daie nor night til they had passed v.c furloÌ„ges come to the village where Darius was taken There Melun Melun Darius Interpreter who by reason of his sicknes could not folowe the army was taken through Alexanders celeritie who fayning that he fledde awaye from his maister declared the whole matter but how great so euer his desire was to ouertake his enemies it was necessary for hym to giue his men rest of their trauayle So that determining to leue the teste of his army behinde did chose out six thousand horsemen and added to them iii.c whiche they cal Dimichas that were fotemen heuy harnised but yet did ride on horseback and when the matter and place required lighted fought on foote When Alexander was taking ordre about these thinges Orsellos and Mythracenes which for the hatred they bare to Bessus for his treason fled from him declared to the kynge that the Percians were but v.c furlonges of and proffered to guide hym by a nearer way Their coÌ„myng was gratefull to the king for by their conduccion in the begynning of the nigh the toke his iourney wyth suche horsemen as he had appointed willing his fote battell to folowe after wyth all spede possible He marched forwardes in a square battell and kept such an ordre that the firste might ioyne with the laste and such as came behind releue them the went before When they had passed .ccc. furlonges of their way Broculus Broculus the sonne of Mazeus that sometime had bene gouernour of Siria met Alexander and declared that Bessus was within two huÌ„dred furlonges marching with his men out of all ordre as one that did caste no doubtes seming to him that they went towardes Hircania wherfore yf haste were made he said they myght sone be ouertaken found disparckled here ther out of al aray He affirmed also that Darius was yet aliue Alexander that was hote before in his pursuite was with his wordes muche more pricked forwardes so that he caused them put spores to their horses and passed forwardes a gallop and went so farre forth that they might heare the noise of their enemies made as thei marched But the duste that dyd ryse toke awaye their fight and therefore he stayed a while tyl the duste was vanished away And then both Bessus parceyued the Macedons and they sawe the Percians as they fled Notwithstanding they had not ben hable to haue matched with them if Bessus had had as great courage to fight as he had to betraye hys master For besides that they excedid the Macedons in nombre and powre who being forweried and sore trauayled should haue had to do with them that were iustie freshe But the name of Alexander and his fame which is of great moment euer in the warres put theÌ„ in such feare that thei could not staye them selues Then Bessus and other that were parteners of the coÌ„spiracy came to the carte where Darius was parsuaded him to leape on horsebacke and fle from hys enemies that were at hand But he affirming that the gods were come to his reueng and calling for the assistaunce of Alexander Darius wounded to death said that in no wyse he woulde go wyth traitors wherewith they were so sturred to wrath that they threw dartes at him and left him wouÌ„ded in many places of his body They thucst in the beastes also that driew the cart to thintent they should not be hable to passe forwardes slew his two seruauÌ„tes that did waite vpon him WheÌ„ they had coÌ„mitted this acte they thought it expedient to disperse

theÌ„ and receiue likewise some again One thing is to be laught at that I should refuse Iupiter for my father being so acknowledged by his oracle as who saith the answere of the gods were in my power he proffered the name of his soÌ„ne vnto me which was not vnmete for the thinges we purposed I woulde wishe that the Indians beleued me to be a god for the successe in warre stand much by fame and that which is faulsely beleued somtyme worketh theffect of thinges true Do you me geue too excesse and prodigalyte bicause I garnished your armor with gold and siluer my purpose was to shewe to men accustumed with it nothing to be more vile then such kynd of mettell and to declare that the MacedoÌ„s inuincible in other thinges could not be ouercome with gold it self After this maner I shall blynd the eyes of the barbarous which are wont at the first sight to wonder at things be they neuer so base and wile And in that we shewe to make no estimacion of it We shal declare to euery one that we are not com for desire of gold nor siluer but to subdue the hole world From which glory thou traitour woldest haue bereued me and betraied the Macedons I being slaine to the barbarous nacions Thou doest exhorte me to spare your Parentes It is nedefull I should make him priuie what I haue determyned vpon them no and to that intent he might die wyth the greater dolour if he hath any care or memory of them It is long ago sins I did fordo the custume of putting thinnocent parentes and kinsfolkes of traytours to death with them And I now professe to pardon and haue them al in the same estymacion I had before I knowe whie thou wouldest haue thy Maister Calistenes brought furth whiche only estemeth the being of his sorte bicause thou desirest to he re pronouÌ„ced of his mouth those rayling wordes which euen nowe thou diddest spyt out agaynst me If he had bene a Macedon borne I had brought hym in wyth the a worthye mayster for such a desiple But being borne in another countrey he is subiect to an other lawe When he had spoken these wordes he dismissed the counsail commaunded all suche as were condempned to be deliuered to the souldioures of their owne bandes who bicause they woulde declare by some crueltye the loue they bare towardes their prince flew theim all by tormentes Calistenes also died vpon the racke innocent of the conspiracye against the kinges person but a maÌ„ not pliable to the custome of the courte and abhorring from the disposition of flatterers There was neuer thynge that brought the Grekes in greater indignation againste Alexander then that he not onelye kylled but caused to be tormented to death and that wythout iudgement a man endued with Godly maners good sciences by whom he was perswaded to liue when he purposed to haue died for sorowe that he hadde slayne Clitus with his cruelty repentauÌ„ce folowed that came to late But least he myght nourishe idlenes apte for sowynge of sedicious rumours he marched towarde India alwayes more glorious in warre then after his victorye The discriptioÌ„ of India The whole countrey of India lieth chiefely towardes the East conteyning more in length then it doth in breadth The North partes be full of mountaines and hilles but all the rest of the lande is plaine hauynge manye faire riuers whiche runninge out of mounte Caucasus do passe pleasauntlye throughe the countrey Indus Indus is more colde theÌ„ any of the other riuers whose water is not vnlike the coler of the sea But of al the riuers in the orient Ganges is most excellent Ganges which running froÌ„ the south passeth directly throughe many great mouÌ„taines vntil that by the encountring of rockes his course is turned towarde the east where it is receiued into the red sea the violence of the streame breaketh downe his bakes swalowing in trees much of the grounde In many places the streme is kept in with rockes wherupoÌ„ it beateth But where the grouÌ„d is more softe there the riuer becommeth more larger maketh many Ilandes The greatnes of Ganges is much encreased by Acesines Acesynes wherunto Acesines doth enter into the sea where these two riuers mete the water is violeÌ„tly troubled whiles the one resisteth the others enter neither of them seme to geue place Diardenes is a riuer of the lesse fame Diardenes bicause it runneth in the vttermost bondes of India but yet it bryngeth forth Crocadiles as Nylus dothe also Dolphines with other monsters vnknowen to other nations ErimaÌ„thus Croked Erymanthus with his many turnynges and reflexioÌ„s is consumed by the inhabitours with wateryng their grounde which is the cause that when it draweth nere the sea it becommeth very little and beareth no naÌ„me There be many other riuers that do deuide the countrey but none of theim be so famous as these because they do not runne so farre The northe wynde dothe blast and harme most those partes that be nexte vnto the sea But those wyndes be so broken wyth the toppes of the mountaynes that they can not endomage the inwarde partes of the countrey wherfore fruites be very plentifull there and perfite But that region doth differ so much for thordinary course of time in other partes of the world that when other couÌ„tries be burned most with the sunne India is couered ouer with snow And when other places be froseÌ„ the heat is there most intollerable yet there appeare not any natural cause why it should be so The couler of the Indian sea not differing much froÌ„ the water of other seas did take his name of king Erithrus wherof the ignoraunte toke opinion that the water of those Seas was redde The land is very habouÌ„dant of flaxe whereof the more part of their garments be made The twygges of the trees be so tender that they receyue the prynt of letrs lyke waxe The byrdes by teaching counterfeit mens voyce There be manye beastes that are not bred amonges other nacions Rinocerities be there brought furth but not bredde The Elyphantes of that countrey be stronger then those that be made tame in Affrike and thre bignes do aunswer vnto there strenght The water of the Riuers do cary downe gold and ronne mildly without any great fall The Sea doth cast vpon the Shore both parles and precious stones Wherof proceded the cause of there great riches after ther Marchandise was once knoweÌ„ to other nacions the purgings of the seas being then estemed as mans fansy would make the price The dissposysioÌ„s of the men as in all other places be according to the scytuacion of the countreys they dwell in They make there garmentes of lynnyn cloth whych couer their bodyes downe to there fete They bynde soules vnder there fete of beastes skynnes wrappe roules of linnine aboute there heades Such as be in any degre either of nobilitie or riches haue precious stones hanging at

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