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Show Thefoareh Bookefthefrppart Cuar3.8.12ofthe Hiftorie ofthe World. Python, fecing this;would needs refignohis oficesylieshet-vponayearingtle ofthecontentions daily:growing; oronipurpofeta bring rhe: Queenb into enui¢, inis vncertaing, Perhaps hee thought, thar now being the far worthie# ananin the.Gampe, hee thould be intreated to retaine'the place;andshaudhisauthorisie confymed; or(as might beyincreafed,wereitburforwant obaifit Succellor.Eurydice was nothing {orrie at this.courfe, for nowdhethoughttomenkectheafizires oftheEmpire ather owne will, being freed mnen, and interred the bones and afhes ofthe Captaines, and common Souldiers; apait, raifing yp heapes of earthas mountaines ouer them, and fo went his way. As thisbold aduenture bred in the Macedonians}. (returned to their campe) great admiration of his brauefpirit:fo the newes'w‘+Memander(whowas{et to look vnto their carriags)brought and publifhed among them, enticed them to loue himastheir honourable friends Hee had found Mesander in anopenPlaine; carcleffe,as after an affured vidory,andloaden ftom acisbiolelagedlamen aProtector: Butthe Souldiers difappointed both her ‘withthefpoyles ofmany Nations,the rewardsof their long feruice;all whichhe might man of d/axandeys Gaptaines, then tining,into theroome of2ythoa...Hereat the Queen hauetaken + but fearing eft fiich a purchafe fhould prouea heauie burden tohim,whofe chiefe hope confifted in fwiftexpedition, he gaue fecret warning to Asenander-to flie to 1o the mountains,whileft he detained: hismen(whomauthority: could not hauereftrained) and Pyrboa,-of theiti¢entaey expcations)s,choeling«.7atipater, the onely powerfull fretted txceedinglys& beganito,dealoearneftly, withthe Macedonians,that they fhould.ro acknowledg¢ no lorebfdue-only:the KingtheirSoueraigne.. Yet-fhee failed of herpurpole, being hindreth(asmayfdeme)by thee things the apparaatpyeaknefle of, her hulband theigrowrhtofisvexaaders children, whe Ghough borne of out-landifh women) wercbred inthe Macedonian Campe sand themightinefle of Aptipater, who comman, diriga preatArmi¢neerekthand,| arriged in few,daies at,the,Campe,and, enforced Zardiceto hold herfelfe content. Antipater was of{uch power,that he needed notto work by-any-clofedenices,as Perdiceas had done: he had. nq.concurrents,.allthe Gouernours of Pirouinces that remained aline\acknowledged himtheir better; y¢a,many-ofthem he difplaced outof: hand}: putting others iatheizroomes,; This dope, he tooke the King; Queehe, and Princes steng with himinto Macedonia,leauing Aztigonus General oftheze Royall: Anmic¢.::towhom for his good feruices. doncandto,be done againtt Eumenes,he gauc the tule ofSuifiana,befides his former Prouinces,and.committed imto his hands the gouernmentofAfia during that. warre. ; §. XI. Antigonus LieutenantofAfia, winnes a batrellof Bumenes,and befiegeth hin in Nora: He vanquilbeth otherfollowers of Perdiceas. Ere begins thegreatnefleof Antigonuswhofe powerin few.yeares.querigrows Hie: the reft, wanted little of {preading it felfe onerthe whole Monarchie. Hee 3¢ 4 Was to make warre vpon Ewmenes, Alcetusthe brother, and Atta/w the brother in-law to Perdiccas : worke enoughto keep his Armie imployed in the publik {¢ till fuchtime as he mightfinde occafion to makevfeofit in his own bufinefle.. T ofthefe which hee vndeértooke was Enmenes, with Whom Alcerus and Attala ret ioyne, hauing vn{eafonably contended with hint in time of Common dangef abou chiefeplace. Eumenes hadan Army {trong in number;courage,and all needful prow ons; butobedient only at difcretion., Therefore Antigonws tried all waies ofcorruptag his Souldiers ;.rem pting firtt the whole Army,withJecters ; which practic Fasling BY. the cunning of Ewmenes. (wlio. madefhewas if hee himfelfe had {cattered abro letters,to.trie the faith of hismen)he dealt apart with fuchCapraines,as he thou eafieto be wonne.Ofthefe Captaines one rebelled,breaking out too haftily be helpe wasmeerehim, yct looking {o,carelefly ro himfelfe, thathee andhis wert fed, whenhe thought his enemies farre off. Anotherfollower ofEvmenes good fortune, which he thoughtnew to bee in company with datigonm)kept , cheryfecret, referuing it forthe time of execution. Vpon confidence of the creaio! whieh this falfe man, Apollonides had vndertaken, Autigonus prefented battel t inth¢ heat wherof Apotonides,Gencral.of theHorle to Eumenes,fcd quer tothe co fide, with fucl as he could get to follow him: but was clofely followed by fon company, hedefited Not.Eumenesperceiving the irrecouerable mifchicf whic terous practice had brought ypon him,purfued the villain,& cut him offbefors thruft himfelfe into the rroups of dasigenus, and boaft of his treachery. his comfortto Ewmenes in the lofic ofthat battell, whichdifabled himvtterlytok field;8 left it very hard for himté make a {afe retrait Yet one thing he did w amazed. his encniies,and (thoupha matte: of {mall importance) caufed Anti felfeto admire his high refolution, ‘Trwas held no {mall part of the victory. Leffion. of the dead bodies. Ewmenes, whileft <Antigonus held him in chaf¢,, 42° ofthe way, and ferching a compaffe, returnedto the place wherethe battail¢ had : fought; there heburned (according to the manner of the time)che bodies of b WA . . by this fleight,fetting them to bait their horfes.T he Macedonians extolled him forthis courtefie, asa noble Gentleman,that had forborn when itlay in his power to ftrip them out ofall their wealth,and make their children flaues,and to rauifh their wiues': but tigonustold them,that he hadnot forborne to doe this ont ofany good wil to them; but out of meere-fubtiltic had auoyded thofe precious'fetters, which: would haue hindred his {peedy fight: He told them true. For Eameres didnot only thinkeall cariagestobe ouer-burdenfome,but'the numberof his men to be moretroublefomethanauaileable in his intended courfe: Wherefore he fent them fromhimias faft as hecould ,wifhing them to fhift for themfelues: ;'and retaining only fiue hundred horfe, andtwo hundred foor, 30 When hee had wearied Aatigonus a while in following him vp and downe, he cameto Nora: where againe,keeping no moreabout him,than neceflity required to make good the place,he louingly difmifledall the reft. Nora wasalittle Fortreffe in the borders of Lycaonia and Cappadocia,fo ftrongly fituated,that it feemed impregnable, & fo wel viéualed and ftored withall neceffaries,thatit might hold outfor many yeares. Thither did dutizonus follow him,with more defire to make him his friend,than to vanquith him in warres:! To this purpofe hee entertained parlee with him, but in-vaine. For, whereas Antigonysoftered him pardon,and his lone, Ewmsenes required reftitution of his Prouinces,whichcould not be granted without: Astipaters confent.Then.was Nora clofed VP; where Antigonus leaving fufficient ftrength for continuance of the fiege, tooke his iour= 30 Nicinto Pifidia againtt Alcetus and Attalus,withwhom he made {hort worke. He came Vpon them vnexpected,and feized on paflages, which wanted not men, but fucha Cap- taineas Ewimenes, tohaue defendedthem: -A/cetas and Astalus, asthey had been too fe~ cuitebefore his comming,fo were theytoo aduenturous,infighting at the firttfight,vponall difaduantages: andtheir folly was attendedwith futable euent, Attalus with mas AY principall Captains wastaken; Alcetus fled tothe Cityof T ermefus,where the loue of the yongerfort roward himwasfo vehement,that ftopping their earesagainft all per= Wafions of the ancient men, they needs would hazzardtheir liues and their Countrey Town hauing inhis deferice. -Yerthis anailed him nothing: For the Gouernors of the fecretly compounded with dstigonus, caufed the yong men to fally our; and viing the as "me ofaduantage,theywiththeir feruants didfer vpon Alcetus,who vnabletot efitt flew imfelfe, His dead body was conueyedto Antizonus,and by him barbaroutly torny was catt forth without buriall. ‘When 4#tizozus was'gone, the yong meninter redthe car? caffe with folemne funetals,hauing once been minded:-to fet on: fire their ownetown.in Tetienge of his death;) Such fauourliad he purchafed with courteous liberalitie :butto makeanable Generall; one-vertue, howgreat foencr,isin{fufhicient, wea 6X1. Prolomit witines Syria'and Phanicia. The death of Antipater. Hileft thefethings wereindoing, the reft ofthe'Princes lay idle, rather feekingtéenioy thei Gouernments for the prefent, than to conniee enlarge them: Only Prolomie looking abroad,wan all Syria andPhoenicia: : So tance, burnot remarkeable for any circumftanice in the managreatimpor of ation 8g. Hefene a Lieutenant withan Armie, who quickly tooke Laomeon prifoncr, that tuled thereby appointment of Autiparer, and formerly ofPerdiceass but (as may feeme) relying vpon the Without any great ftrength of Souldiers;far from affiftants,and vainlywith greatercares, authoritie which had given him thatProuince,& was flow occupied Office. withfecking to maintaine him in his Ddd d , . 3 Antivater |