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With great fidclitic'as well Philip of Macedom the Kings Fachersas bimfelfés Piarmeniothar firftopened the wayinto.4fia; That had deprett 4rralus tho Kings enetie § that had al: wayes,andinall hazards,the leaditig of the Kings: Want-enardsthat was no Jefe pradent in‘counfell,than fortunatein albattempts; A man beloned ofthe menof Waryand,toifay thetruth,he that had madethe purchafe forthe KingoftheEnipire of the Eaftandotail the glory and fame he had: Thar he might nottherefore reuienge the deathofhis Sonne. though not vponthe King,/forit was vnlikely that he would haue difhonouircdhis fide. lity in his eldeft age,hauing now lined threcfcore and ten yéarésJyet ypon thofe that by the witchcraft ‘offlattery had poffeft themfeluesioflhis affectidn'y it was refolued that ke fhould be difpatcht.Pe/ydemas was imployed inthis bufineffe,-a man whomofall other 19 Parmenio trufted moft,and louedbeft; who (tobe hort) finding Him inudedia}and hat uing Cleanderand other Murdeters with himslewshim walking imhis Garden,. whilehe ‘wasreading the Kingsletters. Hic exitus ParmeniOnisfaisyuilitex domig, clari viri, Mults Sire Regeprofpert,Rexfine ile nihil magne reigefferat This was the end ofRarmenio( faith Curtis )who hadperformed many notable things without the Kitgbut the King, mithont bim aid newer effect any thing worthyofpraifes §.XVIIL aid: How Alexandetfabdued the BatiriansSogdians, aud otherpeople.' How Beflus ses deliveres into bis hands. How befought with the scutbiaas, " Hen thefe things had end, Alexander went on withhis Armie, and brought : / \ ] vnderhis obedience the Arafpians or Euergitans ,he made Amenides(fome: time Darins his Secretarie)their Gowernour, then he fubduedthe Arachafi+ ans,& left Menon to command ouerthem. Here the Armie, fometimes led by Parma, findes him,confifting of twelue thoufand Macedons & Greekswith whom he paft throug fome cold Regions with difficultie enough. Atlength he cameto the foote ofthe Moun. taine Taurus towards the Eaft, where he built'a Citie,which he honoured jrith his own namejand pedpled it with feuen thoufand ofhis old Macedons,worne with ageand with trauailes ofthe warte. The Arians, who fince he leftthem were reuolted, he fubdued 30 againe by the induftry and valour of CarawasandErigins. And nowhe refoluesto finde outthe new king Befwsin Badtria, Beffus, hearing of his comming, preparesto pafleo- uerthe great River of Oxas which divides Ba@rig from Sogdiaza; Artabazns,is made Go+ nernoutof Baéiria abandoned by Beffas ; The.Adacedonian Armic. {affereth for want of Watersiafomuch as when they.cameto the River of Oxus,there died more ofthemby drinking inordinately, than Alexander had loft in any onc battaile againft the Pei' ofthe Liflorie ofthe Wonk. But whilehendwi thought-himfelffe feauiesfdibetwenty-shoafa nd Mountainensaflaul- ted his Camnpe;in repelling whomhe receiued a fhot in the leggesitheatrowdeadHicle . ingsa.the Acth;{o ais tue was carsiechinvaldor& Littersfometiine byche horlemen fore. atti oteahk y a timebythefootess Sooneattershercamie vitoAanacamdaswhich Petrus-Renandivws,tak €§$ be Samancha nd; thexegall Citie ofthe greatch4merlaine. Id shad incom pale threef{coreand ten furlongs (Curtin: faithi)cletaherectiued thes Embafiilors-of the Septhians (called Awjats }yvho offered.to feruchim. ; ila Insa0g Sanit ; The Bactrians are fhortly again with the segdians ftirred to Rebellion, bythe famesspis Io Mpunesand Carhbes,who hadlately deliukrediinto, highands, the' Traitor BeffuseMany Citieswere teloluedly defen dedagainithim,alLwhich,afthywiGory,he defaced & refed, lillingalltherein} As one ofthele héxeccingd ablowonthenecke, which Rruckebimto the groundsand tnuch difabledhinvfor many dayes after Jathe méane while Spitaménes hadcecoueredl A4aracanda,agninttwhomheadin ployed \aéenedemus with thtee thoufand fgore andeight Hundred horfe, a mordw ; WH daid sto go Inthebeateofthefetumults Alexander matched oatif wemaybélecue Gurtiag and o2 thers)till he.cametoithe Riuetof Taneigypon wholebankahe builsanotheralev andrin. thieelcore furlongsin compaflewhich he beautifiedtwishohoufeswwithia(uenteendaice aftes the wals. built.Tihe building. ofthis Gitte! is fhidtorbdnb bin ogcafionof awarbe s 20 tWedae, him and-the-Seythiandy:the Scythia King penGvading himfel fe; that this:new Towne was.fostifichof purpofeto keepGhimeundcsd.dednet well Vidertta e Sephians,offering war in fach«etriblé miamerzthat etdexanden wasiudged byndswhych hisndvtn' Souldices to, counterfeir: ficktiefles forvory feare, thouls nenerthelefie! make duit for Peace' neither findeilthe seafon!why! Alexander (novintending tleconquelt:of thofe Northemre defaxts,: but oncly the defeneddfinisownebanke) foildrsfuleroletsthény alone,with vyhom hecduldiioriteddle futtherthan chtyfould agteets fifferhim¥ec hereof is made a great matter ; anda victory defcribed;in purflais otfwhid the Macedons, tan beyond the bounds and monuments of Bacehuis his:gx peditiqns s\432.4 The truth is, That Gurtivs and Irogus haue greatly. miftakenthis Ridenwhich theycall 90 144415, Forit was the Rivero, laxartes.thacruns betweene Sogdiang tind Sopthias Which Alexander, Paft oucr} while adenedemms was i ployed) in:the recouetydof, Samarcha rd : But: Tenads which divides fia froumEnroge.is nceretwothowandmiles-diftant from any PatbofBedria and Sogdiana, andthe way defatvandvoknowne: So thavd/exanderi had Chelides zaxartes ) the great River ofYo/geandmany.others:to| fwim ouer; ere he could Tecouet Tamas svvhich( fromthe place'whetehe was )he could hardly haue difcbuered withthe Armie thar followed thim,if hchadimploied.all the tinie that he litedin fia And it may wellbe ; For (as Clytws did after obieét vato him dhe fought againft women, ‘that trauaile, bankes of this great Riuer no manner of Timber or other materials, to make citact boates, bridgessoxwaffe,but was fore't to few together the Hides that conered his cf4o -ages,and ftuffe them with{traw,and.onthem in fixedaiesto pale ouerhis Armi¢¥ Hefmighteafily-bane diftreft, if he had dared butto behold the Macedonian Army { KS far off. Hehad-formerly complained againtt Dariws for negleéting defend the P of Tigrisand.other paflages,and yetnow,whenthistraiterous flaue to hadftyled him! King; he durft nor performeany thing worthyof.aflaue.. And therfore thofe that We difturbethe erection, of this néwCitie,vvhichivvas like to giue fome hindetance to their mot again{t men; and not againftitheir perfons, but their fhadowes. Hee found 09 ye i Whereforeit is enough to belecne,thatthel /ffiatique Scithians;makiag ome offer to ao &xcurfions,were dritien away bythe Macedonians; and being naked of defenfine Armes, cafily chafed fometen'or twelue miles; which:isché fubhtance of Custiys hisrepott. As Orthedimits ofBacchus his iournie : likeendiighitis that Saechws.(ifinhis life time! he Weteas fobera man,asafterhis death hewas Held adninken god) went veryfar intothat waft Country, where he could finde nothing butitrees and ftones, not nor otherbufi- neffethan to fet Vp'amonument. heereft vnto him, and whom heemoft trufted, to wit, Spitamenes, Dataphernes, CH ae and others the‘Commanders of his Army,moued bothby the care oftheir own i@ and by the memoryof Beffus his Treafon and crueltyagainft Darixs, bound fiminti thet inthis fights which might eafily. bein faflinga greatRiver, defended againtt that he had the cha clofed about his.necke like a mattiffe Dog, and fo was dragged alongto bepreteatees'? his enemie, 2 ito the Campe,and manyprifoners. It is forbidden by fomeHiftoriads,iand: indeede ats hardly poffible,to fet down the numbers of fuch as perifh in battell : yet Ce/ar. com: like manner that lie had done his Mafter, but with this difference, Inithe meane while, Alexander was arrived at a.certaine Town inhabited w reeked? of AMilerum, ‘brought thither by Xerxes, when long before hee returned out of ¢ rece' whofe iffues had,well-neere forgotten their, Country-language. Thefe moft a 5 tertheyhad récéiued him with gteatioyJhe put.to.the fword,and deftroyedthest uA Atthis place hereceiued Beffies, and hauingrewarded Spitamenes withthe reft ue ae linered him,he gauc the Traitoyintothe hands of Oxatres, Darius his brother,to 9S! rovated, ane ul aa Pet teefcore of the. asecedonsare faid-to-hauerbith flaifie|andone thoufind‘one hun: ¥ good Archers. Of Seythiaw horfes:onethouland eight hundred weré-brought Monly did ir, And where the diligence of theyigtors hath beene fo inquifitiue into 1¢. beeneable to deliuerfuch parti- Re : ; yecatnelle $0 the of theira: ownfuuccefle, that waiters h' maa credible report, Tholditnot v ni a full to if t downe vvhat vye finde« %; ¥ whenit ferues to gine lightto the bufitteffe inhan dis he fmallndmber ae ince loft the omiffionof the:iamberwvhichtheyflew sca cHiing got ral "uswhio forbéares nothing that niayfet ouch grearnesaf dlexander)é the little Pe oe ae gotten:doe make dc probablodhae tnissagonns tio Lory ams the Se UIE Tattars(tlicllike being par perforingd by thie sh/rouste; wit oy Bbbb 3 Ee |