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Show ae = _Suns Lhefourth Bookeopt eSinft part. , and therfore hafted them away betimesashaving done enough, inaduenturingto come fonegrethat they-might bedeferied. This braketheheartof the people} among whom they badehim takeheir Hauens, and difpofe.ofthemathis pleafuxe ; hee was! reddy.to lay bold vpon.theword,&leaue a fare. Garrifon, within their wals.tokeep them honelt acn htae this hewent ino Peloponnefus,vanquithed the Lacedznioriansiintwo bartailes,and was.nvery. faire pofibility torake their, Gity,:, whenthedangerousnewes called himinall hatte, of Ly/imachus and, Réplomy ; thatypreuailed fattervponhin.elfe id where;than himfelfe did yponhis enemies jn GreecesLyfimacheshad wonmany;Town in-Afia.; Ptolemy hadigotten all theIfle of Gy prus,exceptthe City, ofSalamis, whereit Demetrius had lefthis Children.& Mothex,that were\ftvaightly befieged,Whilfthewas bethinking himfelfe which,way. tosurnehis face, a notable pieceotbafinelfe offeredit elfe,whichthruftall other,cares outofhis head. 2041or bobatrinh Caffander.waslately dead.in Macedon,and foonafter him,PLiliphis eldeftfon,whole twoyounger brethren,datipeter & Alexanderfought for the Kingdome.In this quatrell Thefclanice the Daughter of King Phissp,ywhom Gaffander had martied,feemed bettctalfected to.1dlexander , than to.hereldet fon: whothereupon grew fo.enraged,tharmoft barbaroufly heflew his owne Mother, Fhe-odioufheffe of this fad gauea fairelultze to 35 Alexanders caule: drawing the generality. ofsheMacedons to take his partjas in revenge ofthe usensseattvpon that wicked parricide Antypater. But véntipater was (olvonge ly backed by Lfimachus,whofe daughter he had marriedsthat Alexander couldnothope to makehis party good without fome forraigneaide.For which caufehe called in both Pyrrbus and Demetrivswho how they dealt with him,it will {oon appeare inthe gre ing Tragedy,of him andhis brother. FhéirFather Caffander had been one that thifte well for himfelfe,arfuch timeas euery man fought how to.get fomewhat;in the iltvorde- red diuifion ofthe Empire.Hewas cunning in practice, & a good Souldier:oneof more open dealing than were his Companions, but withall more impudent, rudely killing : thofe;whomethets would more wifely hatte madeaway. Hedeeply tiated themematy 4 of\dlexander,that had knocked his head againftawalivpon fome opinion of vont With Olympia he hadan hereditary quariell, derived from his Father,whom fhecot! agtabidesHetfeminine malicedid{o exafpérate himjby cruelty,that the vfed againft a frtends,bothalitieand deadsas it madehimaduentore vpon fhedding the Royall tis : wherewithywhen once he had ftained his hands,he did not'care bowfarre he praeette inthat courfeofmurder. Hiscarefalneite to deftroy thofewomenand children; oe liwes hindred his purpofe, argues himtovhaue been rather skilfulliin matters of Armé p thatva valiant man:fuch cruelty being atraé marke ofcowardize, which feares a theidangers, that may quietly paffe away! aiid fecks to-auoide them by bale an Oaeanes,as neuer thinkingit felffafe enoughyyntil thee be nothing leftjthat ae on lihood ofdanger-OfO/ympias and Roxancit may be faid{that they hadwell defence! " bloudy end which ouer-tooke them ; yetill befeemed it Caffanderto doe the ei cS Hang-man. But Alexandersichildrenhad byno'lawiofinen, defernéd todiefor7nid ranny oftheir Father.Wherfore,though Ca/fander died in his bedsyet the 'diuite blo Brought fwords vponhis wife and childteri,that well reuenged the cruelty of this dyman, by deftroying his whole houfe,as hehad'done his Matters: gyvil " ; prenailesi# warre again? the Greekes : Lofesh reputation - hie againfl Demetrius. Pyrrhus axd Lyfimachus imwade hitn, his th us; whobares the Kinydomeof Macedon with Lyfimachus, tion,they made.it a capitall offence,to propofeany motion of peace, Yet werethey fain way the liues.ofchefé,ynthankfull:men,, whichthéy-had fubmitted vate his mertyosbut §-VIlio.5 eames warre agdinit Pyrrhus', and ix his ciuill Gonernment', and prepares to win Afia. How af ton/pire to. yeeld vp the Towne, and ‘erdue pardons hauing fo farre offended, that out ofdefpera- outothis liberality, gauethem-food,& placed in, Office amongft them {uchasiiveteriot acceptable tothe people. Neuerthelefle he was growne wifer thanto truft themfo,faras he-had donedn tunes patt., And,therefore, when (among otherflattering acclamatians) : 24n Bo of Pytthus andhis doings im Macedon. The death ofCaffanders children. Detetriys vets the Kingdome ofMacedon thefamine was foextreame,that a Father and bis:Son did, fight for adead Moule,which dropped downebetweenthein from the houfe topei Wherefore they fent Embaffidors tq aboliththis decree: rather becaufethey knew:notwhatelfe toide, than becapfethey hopedtobe forgivens lir; AT he exulg) Mo: ¥ >Pemctrias,contented with the honour ofthe vidtory, did not oply, forbearto takeae 2° "ofthe Fliporie ofche World, Cu AP.OSJu e the hungry City. Butthefe hundred and fifty were. wnableto.deale with three hundred goodfighting thips,which Demetrins had 'sxather they fcared.to becdmeap rey to him, to Armyyeelds to Pyr | the Sonne of that vnfortunate Prinée eAacid es, which perished in warre again Caffander, was hardly. peeferued,beinga fuckling Infant, fromthe fury of his Fathers enemies: ‘When«his Fofterers had conueig hed ‘him to Glancizs Kins ofIllytia ythedeadly hatred of Caffander would haue bought his life with the fatrefrom betray ing Pyrrhus, that he reftored ore him by forceto his Fathers Kingdome, whenhe was buttwelue yeares ofage. Within the compafle offixe years, either the in_ Price of two hundred Talents. But no man can‘ kill him that fhall be his Heire. Glancizs was fo difcretions of his youth, or therebellioustemperof his Sobieés, : draue him outof his Kingdome,and left him to triethe world anew: Then went heto Demetriws(who mar- nied hisfifter) became his Page,followed hima while in his Warres; great battell of Ipfus,whénce he fed with him'to Ephefus, & was was with him inthe contentto.b e hoftage 2°forhimsin his reconciliation with Prolomy.In Egypt he fo behaued himfelfe,t hat he gor » the fauoiid of:Rerenice,Ptalomies principall wife;fo that he married her Daughter, & was thetupon fent Home, with mony Semen, into Epirus ; more behold ing nowto Prolomy, than to Demertrivs, When he had fully recouered the Kingdome of Epirus, and was fertled init,thenfel out that bufineffe betweenthe children of Caffanderwhich drew both him and Demetrius into Macedon: Antipater, the eldet of Caffanders fons): was fo farre too weake for Pyrrhas, that hee had NOdefireto attend the comming ofDemetris, but made hafty agreemen t, and diuided the Kingdom withhis younger brother Alexander,whoan likewifefelt the aide of Pyrrhus fo troublefomie,that he was more willing to fend him away, than to call in fuck 30another helper. For Pyrrbus had the audacity torequeft; ortakeas granted, by ftrong hand, Ambrac ia,Acarnania,and much more ofthe Country,as the reward of his pains: I Caving the two brethtento agree as well as they could about the reft. Neceffity enforcedthe brethren to compofition : but their compofition vvould nor fatisfie Demetrius, Whotooke the matter hainoufly;that he was fent for;and madeafoole, tocome fo farre withan Army, and findeno wvorkefor it. This wasa frivolous complaint; wherebyit eee that Demetrius hada purpofeto docas Pyrrbus had done, and fo much more, YA0w muchhe wasftronger, Hereuponit feemedto Alexander ayvile courfe, to re- mouethis ouer-diligent-friend, by murdering him vpon fomeaduan tage. Thus Demetriusteported the ftory, andit might be true ;thoughthe greateft part, and perhaps gocheywifeft, beleeuedit not: But the iffue was, that Alexande flain e by Demetrius; who tooke his part of the Kingdome r himfelfe was feafted and ,as a rewardof the murder; excufing the fa@t fo well, by telling his owne danger, and vvhata naughty man Caffan- had beene , that all the Macedonians grew glad enough to acknowled King, It fell out happily,that about the fame time Lyfimachns was bufied ge him their in watte with 4 King ofthe wilde Thracians : for therby he was compelled to feck peace of Demetri- #; which to obtaine he caufed the remainder of Macedon to bee given vp;thatis, the Part belonging to ‘Antipatershis Son-in-law, Atthis ill bargaine Antipater gticuoufly ‘formed, though he knewnot how roamendir: yet ftill he ftormed; vntill his Fatherin-ly W3to faue the labour ofmaking many excules,took away histroublefome life. Thus $9in hafte, with a kin deofnegleé, and asit were to auoide moleftation, vvere flaine the children OfCaffander: ofCaffander that had flaine his owne Cour Matters children; in ‘a wife fe of policy,with carefull meditation ({o much the more wicked as the morelong) Udying howto erect his owne houfe,that fell downe vponhis graue,ere the earth on it Was throughly fetled: Te might bethought, that fuch an acceffe ofDominion,addedmuchito thesréatiiéfie oD Smetrixs, But indecdit fhewedhis infirmity : aid theteby made him neglected by Many.andat length hated by all. For he had no Art.ofcivil! Gouerninent but thoughy or fh ewed-by: his a¢tionsthat hethought)the vie and fruit of ai Kingdome,to enone Hhhh3 other, |