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Show Thefourth Bookeofthefirftpart Cuar,7.¢5, f{word,; Thetops of the houfes were coueredwith women, thatiitood lookirig onthe fight. Among thefe was one; that faw her. owne' fon in'dangetons cafe; fighting With Pyrrhas. Whetfore, thetdokatile:ftonejorflate; andithrewit fo'violently.down on the headof Pyrrbas, that he fell to ground aftonifhed with the blow', and lying inthat cafe ? had his head cut off. Thus ended the reftlefle'ambition of Pyrrbas,togetherwithhis life's andthusrersr: ned theiKingdomeof: Macedon to Antigoaus » who forthwithpoffe(fed the amie, thé body; and.the childteniofhisenemyi'The bodyofPyrrbas had honourable burialljand was giuen by datigenas vato Helenns his fon;which yong Prince he gracioutly fent homey :into his fathers Kingdomeof' Epirus: "From this time forwards; the race ofAntigeoasihield the Kingdome ofMacedon; the pofterity of'se- IRSTPART OF \dewens reigniedouer Afia and Syriayand'thelhoule ofProlomie tiad quiet pofleffion of Egyprs vatillduchttithe; as the Citie of Rome, fwallowing all vp,digefted thefe} among other Countries, into the body of hhericowne Empiteo:! od . WSTORTE*OR*' VViO:R.L-D!! THE INTREATING OF THE TIMES FROM the fetled rule jof AtexaN Des Succeffers in the Eaft; ontill the Room w-ws,prenailingouer all, Fini Libri quarti made Congueft of ASIA‘ and MACEDON. THEFIRST BOOKE Car, ‘T. Ofthefirft Punicke Warre, Adifcu/sion ofthat prableme of Linie ; Whether the Romans could haverefifted the great Alexander. That weither the Atacedonian northe Roman Souldier, was of equall valour to the Engl D, WHAT queftion handled byLiate wherher thegreat Alexander could baue préwailed-againf? the Romkws,ifafter bis Ea~ flerneconquefthe had beat all bisforces' agdinft them, hath Wy bin;8&‘is,the fubiect ofmuch difpnee }Which\(as it feemes toime)the arguments oh' both-fides doe notfo well explaitte,as doth the expetiencé thar )rr4as hath ginen of thé Roman power,in his dayes. For; if he; a Comrtiander (id Hannibals indgemenit)inferior to Alexanderthough to none elfé}could with fihall Rrength ofnien, & little ftore of moti¢ysr of othe iced full helpesia warre; ‘variquith thern'in.twobattailes; and endanger thei Eftate, when it ANA wasiwell fétled& held ‘the beft part ofWalse,vndera conce: what would d/examder haue done,that was aboundantly prouided of jo all Whichis needfull to-2 Conquéfour,wanting onely matter ofeniployment,comming Yponthem before theif Dontinion was halfe fo well ferled ¥ Iris eafie to fay; that alestndep had n0'more,than thirty thou faiid foot, & foure thoufand horferas indeede, at hi¢ fift paflage into Afajhe carried onersnot many more.) and thar the're(tofhis followers Were ho better than bafe effeminate Afariydes. But lie that confiders the Armies ofPerbut, Antipater,Craterus,EumenesPtolomie, Astigonusahd Lyfimachas,with theations by ; Cm Performed, cuery one of which¢to.omit others) commianded onely forme fragment . ~ a Eniperours power, thal! eafily finde, ‘that {ucha reckoning is farre fhort-of tuth. Tewereneedeleffeto fpeake of Treafuure, Horfes, Elephants, Engines ofbatterie, and Kkkk the |