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Show The third Booke ofvbefirstpart Cuir.ti.g.3, Sparta, concerning the demands propounded ‘inthe Treaty ; which were on the one part,That allthe Grecksiin Afiamight enioy theirownliberty and lawes; but contrariwife onthe otherfide,That the Lacedemoniansfhoulddepart Afia,& leane the Towns tothe Kings pleafure. This Treaty wasof none effect ; only it feruedto free the Greeks from the'prefent danger, and togaine time vnto Ti/aphernes, who defiredto auoide . the! Watreby procraftination , which he durft not aduentureto finifh bytriall ofa battaile, cs §. IIT. How the Lacedemionians tooke renenge vpon the Eleans for old di{pleafare. The difcontents. of10 the Corinthians and Thebans,conceined againft the State ofSparta. N the meane feafon the Lacedemonians, who found none able to withftand them in. Greece, began tocall the Eleans to accompt for fome difgracesreceiued by them, during,the late Warres ; when'leifure was Wanting to the ‘requitall of fuch petty iniuries. Thefe Eleans being Prefidents of the Olympiaque games, had fet afine ypon the City ofSparta, for Non-paiment of which, they forbad them to come tothe folemnity ;and publiquely whipt one of them, that was ofnote, for prefuming to contendagainfttheir decree. Likewife they hindred'.4gss King of Spar-, ta, from doing facrifice to Inpiter sand in all points vfed great contempt toward the?° Spartans, who now had no bufineffe that could hinder them from taking renenge : and therefore fent a peremptory meflage to the Eleans, commatiding them to fet at liberty the Cities which they held in fubieétion.' This was the vfuall pretence which they made the ground of all their Warres: thoughlittle they‘cared for the libertyof fuch Townes, which they. caufed afterwards to become followers,andlittle better than meere Vaflals ofthe Lacedemonians. Intheir late Wartes with Athens,the {trong op- Pelion which they found, caufedthis goodly Title ofliberty t worke veryflowly: ut having now to doe witha State of great {pitit and {mall force, it gaue prefentfuccefle'to their-defires, Two yeares together they fent'an Army into the Country of 36 the Eleans: the firft yearean Earth-quake (held in thofetimesa prodigious figne, and whichdid alwayes forbid the profecution ofany enterprife in hand) caufed themtoretire: the fecond yeare,all the Townes of theEleans did haftily reuolt, and the City it felfe was driuen to fubmiffion sconfenting bothto fuffer their old {abiects freely to enioy their liberty, and to haueher owne wals throwne downe. Only the Prefident- thip ofthe Olympian games was left vntothem, which; it was not to be doubted that they wouldin time comming vfemodeftly,finding themfeluesto ftand at the mercyof Sparta. In this expedition all the Greeks were affiftant to the Lacedxmonians, ¢xcepting the Corinthians & Beeotians, whofe aide hauing bin ofas miich importance in the fareEsleppnnesian Wat,as the force of Spartait felfe > they could not {mother their 40 diflike of their vnequall diuifion following the viGory'; which gaue to Sparta thecommand of all Greece sto Thebes & Corinth,only fecurity againft Athens,but fucha feCurity as was worfethanthe danger.For.when the equal greatnes oftwo mightyEftates did counterpoife each the\other,it wasin the poweroftigete Neutrall Common-weals aches Rovrithienyes the conditionoftheir affaires required ; but when to reuenge Bish ¢y had by mortal] hatred profecuted the Warte to extremity, leauing the one ity naked.of power and-frien ds, theothermightily eficreafed in both ; it was then pe; accellary to obey thegteatneffe which shenfelues had made,yet)foolith and dange an i provoke it. Neuerthelefle, itwas not the purpofe of the Spartans to take 0c Hot any quatrell;which they could not finifhat pleafure,till fuch time as theyhad >Y ' victory of compofition m: . stent : care and forces,made {ome g good end with the Perfian,toward wh omtheyj beat all their Caarrs§.4.| ofthe Hiftorie ofthe World, + §. LY. with Tifaphernes. "How Tiffaphetnes wes warre His phepalfage of Avefilais into Apia) and ut to death; and the warre diverted into another Prontnce, through perfreafion gifts of Tithrautes bis fuccefour. How carcle(fethe Perfiam Lieutenants were of thes Kings good. Gefilaus newly made King of Sparta,was defirous to hauethe honourof the viAortic nee ie caufe, he expected vpon thote ofAfia ,and therefore procuring agreat Army to ioyne withthat ofDyreillidas,he tookhis way ingréat 19 pompeto Aulis in Boeotia, aHanen, lying oppofite to' the Iland of Eubcea ; in which place gamemnen (leading the power ofall Greece to the war againft Troymany Ages before) had embarked hismen. In imitation of Agamemnon he meant alfoto doe facti- fice in Aulis, whichthe Thebans,Lords ofthat Country,would not permit,but faying, thatthe performanceof. fuch ceremoniesin that place > belonged vnto their Officers; they were fo vnableto conceale their malice, that fending fome Companies of horfe, they threw. downehis factifice fromthe Altar. It was not then: conuenient time for 4 gefilass to enrangiehimfelfeand his Country inanew warre; therefore = better opportunity of reuenge, he quietly fwallowed the contumely, and arene his maine intendment.Hauing landed his men at Ephefus,he was entertained by Tif/aphernes with a Treaty ofpeace, wherein Agefi/ans peremptorily requiring thatthe Perfian fhould reftoreto liberty all the Greek Townsin Afia, was promifed that the King,being firft informed ofhis demand,fhould fend anfwerto his good liking,ifhe would in the meane whilemake Truce. Truce was therefore made, which Ti/aphernes had fought, only to win time of making prouifion forthe warre,andgetting fupp'y ofmen and monyfrom Artaxerxes; whilelt Agefilans was bufie infetling the eftates o his confederate Cities on that fide ofthe Sea.The end ofthis long vacation from war was atthecomming downe ofthefeforces which Artaxerxes had fent : at whattime Agé/ilass receiued a plaine mef- olaBe from Tiffaphernes,that either he mutt forth-with departiont of Afia; or make Se hisaboade by {trong hand, Age/i/ass returning word, that he was glad toheare that his enemies had by periurydeferued vengeance from Heauen; prepared to: inuade' themj and fending word to allthe Towns which lay between him and Caria, that they ‘fhoul belecue, prouide vidtuals & other neceflaries for his Army;did:eafily make Tiffaphernes that his intent was toinuade that Province wherein Tiffaphernes dwelt, and which was yi forHorfe, in whichpart ofhis forces the Perfian had moft confidence. besi with his horfe es Tifjaphernes beftowing all his Companies of foot in Caria, entred theplains ofMéeander,hopingtherbyto ftop the paflageofa heauie Ortere fi ch ting them to paffe into that Country whichwasfitteft for their feruice. But ie Gree C otthim waiting there in vaine, and marched directly into Phrygia, we they un met 4cus ofPharna Horfe-men asthe time fuch Bteat fpoyle withoutrefiftance,till Whoina {mall skirmifh hauing the better ofthe Grecks,were the occafion that Agefileus Teurned to Ephefis. Although in this laft fight only tweluemen wereloft,yet Asch t ¢ Petceining by that triall how hardit wouldbeto preuaile, and holdthe maftery 0 bY part a encreafe to care poffible ll Horfe,tookea eld,without a greater ftrength of Storces. By which meaneshauing enabled himfelfe, whileft witter eect he eine Country ofTif/aphermes, as fooneas the feafon'of the yeare would Pies ¢ Ypoathe hot only tooke a'great booty; butfinding the Horle-men of Tiffaphernes in the plainco Mediderwithout affiftance oftheir infantery, he gaue them battaile, rived a een Meier 0 ie a $0; staking their Campe in whichhe found great riches. The vpon Ti/faphernes, who either vpon cowardife hadabfente es eee le attaileor following fome other bufineffe;was then at Sardis. For which cau € e c be the fooner had, whic echauing him in diftruftjand thinking that peace might noe much defired, ifthe man fo odious to the whole Nation ofthe Greekisyweretale a Perfian,to cut offthe head of TG efthe way she fent into thofe parts Tithranjtes ¥es, and fucceed him in thegouernment: Such' was the end of this Seed a whenby periury he tee id .ois a Shitician, who little caring to offend Heanen, cs on Eaith,failed atthe'laft through too much ouer-weentng © " Se aes seueh in that part ofcunnihg,wherein hethought himfelfe moft perfect ; Ssoe |