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Show Thethird Bookeoftheyni part Cuars.6.8. CwaP.Gi§.t ic feemeth, thatthe inuading Army, afterthe' firft encounter, fought'with their beckes Cuar. VI. towards their chémyy and loftthatnuniber 5 by Heriedoras fet downey in their diforder. ly vetraity onratherinttheit fac runningaway, As for yaitives reports That two hun Of Xerxes, dredthonfand ofthe Perfian Army weredlaine, the fame hath no apparance nor pot. fibility of rath: ‘In this: fight. tiippses the. perfwaderiof the enterprife was-flaine faith Ja/tixe and Cicere; but Swidas tels vs, That he e{caped,anddied moft miferably in §. I. Lemnos; Thepreparation of Xerxes againft Greece, Erxesreceiued fromhis father, as hereditary, a double Warre; orie'to be made againft the Egyptians,which he finifhed fo {peedily, thatthere is nothing remaining in writing how the {ame was performed : the other againft the Grecians ; of whichitis fard toiudge, whether the preparations were more terrible, or the fuccefie ridiculous.In the confultation,forthe profecution ofthis (The greateft-honourofthis victory was caft vpon:dtiltiades,whobothperfivaded the triall by bartaile; :and behaued himfelfe therein anfiverably tothe counfell ‘which hee gaue. Themiitecles hadhis firftreputation in this fight; being but young and ofthe firt beatd. Thofeofthe Grecians; of markeand.commandiment, thav fellin the fiten: 3 counter,were Callimachas & Stefileus: Teis.alfo faid, That Cyneyyras following the Per: fianstotheir-embarking; laid hands on one oftheir:Gallies, to. haue held it from pur- ting of the fhore, & hauinghis right handcut off,he yeroffered té arreftir withhis left: ofwhichalfo being depriued, hetooke hold ofit with his teeth) This encounter happe- }) Warre, which was chiefely bent againft the Athenians, the 3 ned in the firit yeare of the threefcore and twelfth Olympiad,aboutthe time of the war : Invita Arifte ofthe Hiftorie of the World, 44 Princes of Perfia were diuided in opinion. MMardonins, who madeby Cortolanas againtt his féllow-Romans: Alexander the fon ofAmyntas being then King of Macedon, and Phanippus then Gouernour of Athens, according to Plutarch, or had formerly comamanded in Thrace and Macedon,vnder Dirius,and had alfoHy/la/pes This great fray thus parted, and the Perfians returned backe into the leffer ‘Alia, 4g Miltiades {oughtand obtained am imploymentagainft the Ianders of Paros, one' of yncleto, Xerxes, maintained the contrary counfell, laying before Xerxes the lamen- tableand ridiculous fucceffe of the two late inuafions, which Darius had made con- Ceres, wherewith himfelfe being made vnable, and his Companies difcouraged,he his Honour, forhis grandfather, as Xerxes had,and married Xerxes his fifter Artozefres, perlwaded by many arguments the European warre. But Artabanus, brotherto the late Daridsand Hybilides,after Halycarna(fens. the) Cyclades, and pafling ouer his Companiesin threefcore and ten Gallies,afterfixe and twenty dayes affault:heebrakehisthigh, in feeking to enterit by the ‘Teniple of trary to his counfell : The one in perfon vponthe Scythians, the other by his Lieutenants vpon the Greeks; imeach of which Darivaleft to his enemies both his Army and returned to Athens ; where thofe vngratefull Citizens forgetting all his'fernices paft ; and that of all other the moft:renowned at the battaile ofMarathon, did by Hetherfore befought Xerxes to be right well aduifed before he did toofarre imbarke himfelfe in this bufineffe. For whatfoeuer vndertaking hath deliberate and found counfell for conductor,thoughthe fucceffe doe not alwaies anfwerthe probability,yet hath i the perfwafion ofXamtippas, the fatherofPericles (who enuied his fame) caft hii into prifon, and fet on him a fineoffifty Talents , where his weake and wounded body beng an ableto endure the one,nor his eftate to paythe other,heaftera fewdais ended is life. Fortunenothingelfetbereof to vaunt, than the yariableneffe ofhis owne nature,which zo 0nly the dinine Prouidence,and not any humane power,can conftraine. Which enuy of:the betterfortto each other,with theirpriuate Fa@tions,aflifted bythe vathankfull and witleffe people,brought them,not many yeares after,from a vidorious that. Artabanus , whetherterrified by Vifions (as itis written of him) or fearing the Kings hatred,which he made knowneto all thofethat oppofedhis defire to this Warre called Cymon,begotten on Hegefipila, daughter of Oloras King of Thrace,who (faith Plue chad, After the Warre ofEgypt was ended, foure yeares were confumedin defcribing and But fo obftinate wastherefolation of Xerxes in profecution of his former intent; and famous Nation, to bafe fubie@ion and flauery. A¢é/tiades left behinde him one fon (Caging opinion and counfell) affifted the Grecian Expedition with all the power éarch)was neitherinferiorto his fatherin valour,nor toTihemiftocles invaderftanding,but exceeded them bothin inftice and good gouernment, gathering an Army for this inuafion : which being compoundedofall Nations fubie& tothe Perfian Empire,confifted of feuenteene hundred thoufand foot,and eighty thou- NowDarius taking greater care howto recouerhis honour,than forrowforthe loffe fand horfemén,befides Chariots, Camels,and other Beafts for Carriage,if we may be- receiued inGreece, 1 »gauc orderfor new leuies of men,& all other warlike prouifions.But the Egyptians reuolting fronvhis obedience(a Kingdome ofgreat ftrength & revenue) greatly diftracted his refolution for the reinuafion ofGreece. Thediffenfion alfoamong his fons ; of whom,the youngerbeing borne after he was King,and by fo greatamothet as Atoffa,difdained to giuie place to hiselder brother,borne before Darias obtained the Empire,greatly vexed him, Andlaftly,death,who hath no ref}pect ofany mansaffaires, Saucend toall his confiltations and enterprifes, and ioyned him tothe earth ofhisan- ceftors, about a yeare afterthe battaile ofMarathon,andafter that he had reigned fixe and thirty yeares. He left behinde him fiuefons, namely Artabafanes, borne before he obta wifes inedand chs the King a, ¥ xer-ves wh ofucceed dome ceedeed him, EgyPs im, Achemenes Gouernour of eye 40 leeue Heradotiss : for ofthis multitude, Tégus findes the numberleffe by fenen hundred Her-h7 40 thoufand footmen. The Gommanders ofthe feuerall Nations were the Princes ofthe bloudofPerfia,et- ther by marriage in the kings houfe,or otherwife: for to thefe wereall commandements ofthis nature giuen,fome few people excepted,who had oftheir owne Leaders. The charge of the whole Army was beftowed on Mardoniusthe fon of Gobryas by a tot Davia.to whom were ioyned fome others ofXerxes his neereft kinted,as GeneF/souerall ; fauing that the charge often thoufand felect Perfians, called the immortall Regiment (becaufe if any one ofthe whole number died, or were flaine, there was another Prefently chofen in his ftead) was giuen to Hydarnes ; the eighty thoufand n emen were led by the fons of Dat#, who commanded the late Army of Darivs in cece, CHAP. The Fleete of Gallies were 2200.and eight, furnifhed by the Phcenicians, who 4¢ Commanders oftheir owne Nation,and by the Cy priotesjCilicians, Pamphilians, Yclans, Dorians, Carians, onians, Aolians,and Hellefpontines ; who were trufted With the furnifhing of their owne Veffels , though commanded by the Princes of Ri as by Ariabignes, the fon of Darius, and others. The reft ofthe Veffels for temipegion were threethoufand. There werealfo certaine Gallies fornifhed by 4r- whi athe daughter of Lyg dames, Princeffe of Halycarmaffeusand the Hands adioyning,, Chhetfelfe commanded. Thofe Gallies by her preparedand furnithiedjeteceded Mmm 3 alk |