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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

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

hauing alreadie such encrease of power and authoritie as might beséeme a right mightie King w t glory fame worthy a great Empire ¶ Demetre in battaill vanquisheth Cylles Ptolome his Lieutenaunt and after Antigone his Father commeth and ioyneth with him and then Ptolome forsaketh the countreys of Syrie and Phenice and leaueth them to the said Antigone The .xlij. Chapter DUring the time that Seleuke was occupied as is aforesayde Ptolome who had in battaile vanquished Demetre in Celosirie as aboue and there still remained vnderstanding that Demetre was againe come into the hier Syrie and there encamped sent one of his captaynes named Cylles a Macedonian with suche numbre of men as he thought good eyther to expulse him the coūtrey of Syrie or else to kéepe hym so occupied that he should do no kind of exploite But as he was vppon the waye Demetre being by his scoulte aduertised of hys comming and their disorder bycause he neyther feared or estéemed the enimie in the night departed from hys camp lying nere Myunte w t hys horsse and light armed footemē leauing in his camp the rest with the baggage and so hasted that about the daye breake he assayled Cilles camp which he found so disordered that they without resistaunce yelded togyther Cylles himselfe Whervpon when Demetre had thus sodenlie done so great an exploite he thought he had well reuenged the shame and domage by him at the battail before lost receiued Notwithstanding doubting that if Ptolome hearde of those newes he would with his power come agaynst him he pitched his campe in a verie strong place hauing at hys backe a great Marris and then so much as in him laye sent to aduertise his father of that he had done praying him with all diligence to sende a strong supplie or else with all his power to come him selfe and enter Syrie to recouer it Of these newes Antigone then lying in Cylene in the countrey of Phrigie was right glad that his sonne a yong man had wonne so great and honorable a victorie whereby he deserued to be a King And incontinent he with hys whole armie departed Phrigie and after he had passed the moūt Thaure he made such spéed that within few days he was come to his sonne When Ptolome vnderstood of his comming he aduised with hys counsaile what should be best to doe whether to attend the enimie in Syrie and there to fight or to returne into Egipt and from thence make warre as he hadde before done against Perdicas Whereuppon they all agréed that he should not hazard his case against the force of the enimie ioyned togyther and chieflie bycause they hadde a great numbre of Elephants and Antigone hym selfe also in persone who neuer yet was vanquished Wherefore it séemed to them that the beste surest way was that Ptolome should returne into Egipt where were victuals great store and might there kéepe hym selfe in strong and aduauntageous places In following which counsaill he delibered to go into Egipt but before hys departure he beat downe and razed certayne faire and beutiful cities to wete Hace in Phenice Yoppe in Samarie and Gaze in Sirie That done he with his armie and al the mouable goods which might be carried went into Egipt By this meane Antigone without difficultie or resistaunce recouered all the countreys of Sirie Phenice ¶ Antigone enterpriseth warres against the Nabathians inhabiting the deserts of Arabia and Athaney his Captayne is by them discomfited Also after Demetre hys comming thyther he concludeth a league and amitie with them The .xliij. Chapter AFter Antigone had thus recouered and wonne the countreys of Syrie and Phenice he indicted warres to the Arabians called Nabathians whō he thought his enimies Wherfore he chose out one of his Captains named Atheney and deliuered to him .iij. thousande shot and .vj. hundred of his lightest horsse cōmaunding them to enter the said countrie and to make so many incursions as they might But bycause the maner of life and order of the said Arabians is farre different and disagréeing from all other I thinke it meete and expedient here to make some mention and declaration thereof First they dwel wildlie abroad without eyther townes or houses wherefore they saie their lande is vnhabitable bicause there are neither ryuers or foūtayns wherwith to maintayne an armie They haue also a lawe which prohibiteth them on paine of death not to sowe any corne neyther to set or graf trées bearing fruit nor to drinke wyne or build houses This they hold mayntayn bycause they thinke that those which haue houses and maneured lands and fruitfull are always subiect to conquerours But there are amongs them many whereof some haue great flockes of shéepe other great heards of Camels going abroad in the desertes neuer tarrying long in one place And althoughe there are diuerse kindes of Arabians whiche inhabit the desertes yet are the Nabathians the richest and wealthiest and are about the numbre of .x. thousand whereof some are accustomed to trade by Sea with incense myrrhe and other drugs aromatique growing in the fertile Countrey of Arabie They are also meruelouslie determined to kéepe and mainteyne their libertie And when any enimie inuadeth they draw to the desert and places solitarie which serue in stead of castles and forts where no straunger can liue Notwithstanding they haue certen receptacles within the Caues whiche they digge in the same earth being of plaister and softe stones whereby they may the better digge the Caues the entry of which are little but within large and déepe so that they are more than an Arpent square and in those they set earthen vessels filled with great store of rayne water and then they in suche sorte couer the entry of the Caue aboue that they which passe by can not perceyue it but them selues knowe it again by a signe which they leaue behinde and euery third daye they water their cattell with that water to the ende if they were put to flight they should not want drinke and their chief foode is flesh mylke and other things which the lande bringeth forth verie good and holsome to eate In this lande also groweth Peper and wild honie which they drinke with water There are besides beyond these other Arabians dwelling in the maneured land and are tributaries as the Syrians and liue in such order as they doe saue that they dwell in no houses And this is y e maner and life of the Arabians Nowe is there a place in the same Countrey verie strong without walles or anie suche like defence distaunt from the land habitable two dayes iourney where at one time of the yeare whiche was euen verie then they repaire and come from all quarters of the countrey to buy and sell. And as the merchaunts were there assembled and had left at home their goodes wyues children and olde men and women in a certen strong rocke Atheney who had wel espied out his time with