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Show The fourth Booke ofthefirt part ~Cuar.t.§.6, Ciiaen.§.7.8.°° ofthe Fiftory of theWorld, phyctiones which the Phocians had, withthe firpetintendency ofthe Pythian gathes; Forhe neither forbare the murderofhisiownebrothers,the breachoffaith, thebuying forfeited by the Corinthians,by being partakersin the Phocianfactiledge, of other mens fidelity ; hee efteemed no place ftrong wherehis Affe loaden withgold might entet : Norany City-or State vnconquerable, where a few ofthe greateft, tobe made greater, could lofe the fenfe of other mens forrow and fubiection. And becaufe he thoughtit vain to practifethe winning of Olynthus,til he had inclofed all the power they had within'their owne Walls, he entred their Territory,and by the aduantage ofa well-compoundedandtrained Army,he gaucthem two ouerthrowesere he fate down before the City itfelfe: which done, hee bought Euthicrates and Lafthenes from their §: VIL How Philip with illfucce(/é attempted upon Perinthut, Byzantian ated the Scythians,' papssind from the feruice of theis Country and Common-weale, by whofetreafon ee entred the Towne, flew his brothers therein,fackt it, and foldthe inhabitants for flaues by the drumme: By the fpoile of this place he greatly enriched himfelfe,and had to treafure fufficient to buy in other Cities withall, which he daily did. Forfo was headuifed by the Oracle in the beginning ofhis vndertaking; That be[bowld make his afanlts withfilnerpearess Whereupon Herace well and truely faid, P=" after his triumphant returneinto Macedon, ‘by the Lieutenant of his Ay2 my Parmexio, {laughtered many thoufands of the Illyriansand Dardarians, atid brought the Thracians to pay him the tenth part'of all their euenues: But ‘his nextenterptife againft the Perinthiansftayedhis fury. Perinthus was a City of Thrace, {eated:vpon Propontis,in the mid-way between Seftos and Byzantiumiya place ofgreat firength, anda'people refolued to defend theirliberty againft Philjp,where the Athe: hians incouraged andaffiftedthem: Philip fare downe before it witha puiflant Army; madé many: faire breaches, gaucmanyfuriousaffaults',; built matiy ouer-topping and commanding *Towers aboutit.' But he was repelled with equall Vidlence. For Wheréag Philip thought by his continual! affaults to vveary them} and wafte both their-meén and Diffidit Vrbivm Portasvir Macede,crfubruit emules Reges muneribus. munition,they were fupplied,not only from the Perfian with men and mony,& fuccoit 20 ted from Byzantium' which {tood vponthe fame! Sea-coatt ;°bit they vvere rélictied By gifts the Macedonclaue Gates afunder, AndKings enuyinghis eftate brough: vnders fiom Athens, Chio, and Rhodes, by the !condudtion'df phocion, with whatfocuer was wanting to their neceffiry.: But becaufe thofe ofByzantium , by reafon of their neighbourhood,and eafie paflage by water, gaue them often and ready helpe ; Philp vemos uedthe onethalfe of his Army and befieged it , leaning' fifteene thoufand foot before Petinthus,to:forceitifthey could sButtobe fhort, He failed'in bothattempts, (as all Anditis truethathe won moreby corruption and fraud,than he did byforce; Fors he had in all the principall Cities ofGreecehis fecret workers(which way of Conquett was well followed by Philip thefecondofSpaine :) So when in the contentionbetween the Competitors, for the kingdome of Thrace,he was chofen the Arbitratour, he came not tothe Counfell accompanied with Picty and Iuftice, but with a powerfull Army, tices commonly doethat vndertake'diucrs enterprifes atone tite) and returned ‘into Macedon with'no-leffedifhonour than loffe : whereupon hee madean Ouerture of peace with the Athenians, andgreatly defiredit, to which though Phocion perfwaded and hauing beatenandflaineboth Kings,gaue fentence for himfelfesand madethe Kingdomehis owne. them in all hecould, &that by the occafion' oferedthey mightgreatly ‘aduantage their 3° conditions': Yet Demofthenes with his eloquence prevailed in the tefufall. In the meane While, 24idphaning digefted his lateaffront; andfupplied hisexpence,by the taking of an hundred andthreefcoteand ten Merchantsthips, he gathered new forces, and being : §. VIL How Philip ended she Phocies warre. accompanied with his fonne Alexander, led theminto Scythia ; but he was alfo vapro- fperons in this enterprife : For the Triballi, a peopleof Moéfia,fet on him inhis return, a him,.and tooke from him the greateft part of the {poiles; which he had ga- He warre ftill continued betweene the Phocians, and the Affociates ofthe holy Warre, the Borotians,finding themfelues ynable to fubfift without fome prefeat aide ; fent vnto. Philip for fuccour , whowillingly yeelded totheirneceflitics, and fentthem fucha proportion of men, as were neitherfufficientto mafter their ene Mics, norto affure themfelues ; but yet to inable them to continue the warre, andto waftetheftrength ofGreece.Theyalfo fent to Artaxerxes Ochus for fupply of trealiite, wholent them thirty talents, which makes a hundred & foure(core 10 thoufand but when withthefe fuppliesthey had ftilthe worft againft thePhocians,who CrOWnES: held from. them three of the ftrongeft Cities within Beeotia ir felfe, they then befought philipof Macedonthat he would affift them in perfon,to whomthey would giue an entrance iM: totheir Tertitory,andin all things obcy his Commandementsin war. Nowhad Philip what he longed for'; for he knew himfelfein ftateto giuethe law both,& fo quitting all his other purpofes towards the North,he imatchedwith afpecdy pacetowards Boeotia, where being arriued, Phallechus who commanded the Phocia# Army,fearin to thock withthis vi@orious King, made hisowne peace, and withdrew ' him(elfe with a Regimentofeight thoufand Sonldiers into Peloponnefus,léauing Phocians tothe mercy ofthe Conqueroury andfor conclufion he hadthe gloryof thal _ called Sacred, which the Grecians withfo many mutuallflaughters had continues i ‘ten years;and,befides theglory,he poffeft himfelfof Orchomene, Coronea,& Cor ; Pepprouseche Phociansinto feruitude,& wafted their Cities,and gauethem but ain to inhabite,referning vato himfelfe the yearly tribute ofthreefcore talents, the! © iain the country ofthe Boeotians,' who inuited him to be vi@orious ouer them(elus:- " € lixe & thirty thoufand French Crownes.He allo hereby(befides the fame oF P'™ ty for feruice of the gods) obtained the famedouble voice in the Conncell ee! Ste p 1yetic thered, §. VIII. 9 go MowPhilip dverthrowing the Greckes in the battaile ofCheronaa, was chofen Captaines General ofGreece, The death of Philip. Mong thefe Northern Nations (part of which hefuppreft,andpart quieted) he {pent {ome cight years sandin the ninth yeare; afterthe end.of theholy Warres he was byhis rear aduantageinuited againe by the Grecians to their affiftance: For the Citizens of Amphiffa hauing difobeyed the deeree ofthe Amphyétiones, in Which Philip had a double yoice,and who by ,reafon'tharthe Thebans & Loctians gaue countenance and aideto.the Amphiffonians , the reft:werenorof them{elues able:to Confttaine them , they. befought Philip to.come in perfor totheiraffiftance.. Now. you Muft thinke that Philip-was not long in refoluing vponthis enterprife; hee needed:no sedtawing ‘on ,» whom nothing could keepe backe; nor otherdiffwafion than a maftring Power could hold thence. Hetherefore commandedhis Army forthwith to march;the ame being compounded of thirty thoufand Foot, and twothoufand Horfe ; and with much expedition as could be made, -he entred Phocis, wan Platza, and brought into fubicdtionall that Region. ' freft,& efpecially theAtheniarisjalthough they had good caufeto fear that a great Be + this ftorme would fall. on themfelues, yet werethey diffwaded by Denife > sccepting fuch:reafonable conditions of peate'as Philip offeredjand rathet made Sholcechanine drawne the Thebansto joytie withthem)to leanethe enioying 7 Citdlce |