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Show 7 are ann tenet. " TL Lhe fifeBookeofthefnfpart Guarasiat,4s eTaékedhis treafinces sand fovhamefully abufedhis wife that for.the gri¢te therof thépoi. -foned herfeltc: But hefollowed their bocles apices adichfixing a-Gave of the Citiebi - night cntred fodmecnoughrotake reuenge,by making {pcedyriddance of theta, For rhe {pared noriqof his: knownesno,notlis fifipedted: cneniics. Afver'that, hee giewio woubetull ofhis dife,.as he ncterdurhktrut Barberitotrint him, fordny perfor, Tidy not fo muchas his brother, to enterinto his chamber,vnit tiptand fearched., Heewas the greateft Robber of the peoplethat cuer raignedin any State,andwithall themog vore- ry ipectiuelycrucll. After this,he feparatedwith fostification that part ofthe Citic, calledthe Iand,from the reft; like MensSpabiatduittrehe Cee! Of Atitikerpes thee He\lodged his Treqet fires, andhis Guards. . >. aun ay) me Fle chen begart te makewarrovponthe free Citiesof Sicil : but while hee lay before Herbcile,ag inlandTowne,the Syracutiansrebelled againt him, (0,28 with greatditt. -Cultic he recouered his Citadel : from.whence, hauingalluredthe old Souldiersofthe -Gampanians,who torcedtheir paflage throughthe Citic, with one thoufand, andtwo "hundréd horle,he againe recouered the mafteric ouet the Sytacutians,AndWhen'a mul. titude ofthem werebufiedin gathcringintheir haruefthe difarmed allthe Towns-men "remayning and tiew.[teggthened the Bort ofthe Iand,with a double wall. Heeinclo- Aed Cuara§iq.t.4,, of the Lyftory ofthe World, a having' téceided aidefrom the Lacedemonians ) viderthe condutt-of Pharacidas, puts himfelfe to Sea,to make prouifion forhis Citizens, who in his abfence, take twenty of the Carthaginian Galliesjand finke foute. ‘Hereupon,finding their owne fucceffe pro{perous;aind that ofthe Tyrant exceeding ill:hauing alfo atthe prefent weapons ia their hands sthey confullt howto recouertheirliberty."And this they had done, had hot Pharaids the Lacedemonian refifted them.Italfo fel out,to his exceeding advantage,that theplagewas foincreafed; andfo violent, among the Carthaginians ; as it is faid) thar abouean hundred thoufand of themdied thereof.He therefore, with the poweithat he could gathcrtogether, fets vpon themboth by Sea and‘Land; and hauing flaine great 7 numbers ofthem, forceth Hémilcoto defire peace. This peace Dionyfius fold him for a great fummbof moneys oncondition that he fhould freale away with his Carthagini- ansonely ¥ which he baftly accepted, betrayingthe reft ofthe Africans and Spaniards, Yernofaith was kept with:him : for he waspurfuied, and left many of his Carthagini- ans behinde him. The reft of the Africansfell vnderthe fwordsof their enemies 3 oniely the Spaniards, after they hada while brauely defended themfelues, were (aftertheir fubmiffion)ehtertained; and ferued the Conquerour. f Manyfachicxam ples ofperfidious dealing haueI noted in otherplaces,and can'hardly forbeareto deliver vnto memory thelike practifes, when they meet withtheir iiac- that part alto,called Epipoles:which, withthreefcore thoufand Jabourers,he nih. ches :'That'which hapned vnto -Adenffeur de Piles, was very futable to this trecherie, lies,and repaired onchundredandten oftheold; forged onc hundredandfoitie thoy. fand Targets,with'as many, (words,and- lead-pecces, with fourtcene thouland corflers, 20 wherewith Diony/ine purfued Hiemilce. I was prefent, when De piles related the iniutie _Sdinthrec weekes, beingtivo leagues in compaife:Hethen buile two hundred newGal-ag -andallotherfutable armes.Which done,he fent wordto the Carthaginians,(eteatlyin- donevato him. He had rendered S./eha d' Angelietothe French King Charles the ninth, who befieged:-him therein. Herendred it, vpon promife madeby the ‘faith of a King, thathe thould befuffered to depart in fafery, withall his followers. ‘Yet in prefence of held in Sicil, he would make warre vpon.them.: and, not ftaying For antiver, heetooke theKinghimfelfe, ofthe Duke of 4nion his brother, Gencrall of his Armie, of the Queene Mother, andof' diuers Dukesand Marfhals of Franceshe wasfet vpon,and bro- feebledbythe plague,/Thacexcepr theywould abandonthe Greek Towns,whichthey the {poile ofall the Phoenician thips, and merchandizé, Within, his Ports, as King Phi4p the fecond didof our Englith, before the warre in out late Qucenes time, Hee then Res: to the held with fourelcore thoufandfoot,and threethoufand horfe,-andfends his rother Leptines tofea,withtwo hundred Gallies,& fue hundred {hips of burden. Moft ofthe Towns whichheld for Carthage ycelded ynto him;fauing Panormus,Segefta or Egefta,Ancyre,Motya,and Entella.Ofthefe,he firtt wan Motyaby affault,and put al34 therein to the fword;but before Egeftahe loft a great part ofhis Armic,bya fallyofthe Citizens. In themcane while Himilco arriues, but,creherooke land,heloft ina fight at ‘Sea,With: LeptinesAttic thips ofwarre,and fiuethoufand Souldicrs, befides many thips OF burden. This notwithitanding, hee recoucred againe' Morya vpon his fittt defcent, Fromthence marching towards Meffena, hetook Lypara, and (foon after)Meffena,and tazeditto the ground. Now began Dignyffds greatly to doubt his.eftare. Hee therefore Jortied all theplaces he could,in the Tertitorie ofthe Leontines, by which heluppofed that Himilce would pafle toward Syracufe; and.hee himfelfe tooke the fieldagainc, ‘with foure andthirtic thoufand foot, andone thonfand horfe. Now,hearing that #-* mlcohad divided his Armicinto two patts,marching with the one halfe ouer-land,and ‘fending Adgeo with the other by Sea: hefent Leptines, his brother,to encounter Mage "But Leptines Was ytterly beaten by the Carthaginians; twenty thoufand of his men "Wetellaine, andan hundred of his Gallies low ‘It is yery ftrange, and hardly creat: les Which yct good Authorstell vs; That one Citic fhould bee able to furnithfue hundred faile offhips, and two hundred. Gallics : (for, fo, manydid Syracule agme A ‘this warre) and more {trangeit is,that ina battaile at Sea, without anygreat prMasket-thot, twenty thoufand fhould bee flainé in one fight. inall ourArtilicrit, fights 4 gant the Turkes, of which that at Lepanto was the moft notable, wee hearc uch numberloft; "norin any otherfight by Sea, that cuer happened in ourage, beforeys.. When Charles the fift went tobeficge Algicr, hehad inall his Actt, t posters andoothers,. but twwo-hundred and hiftie faile offhippes, and threefcorcand™ { Gallics:for the furnithing ofwhich flect, Hee fought: helpe fromall ‘the Cities 27° Pots of Spaine, Naples, and-the ret of ltalic. Bur it old timesi¢was the mann Satayinto the field, vpon cxtrenutic, asmany as were needfull, of all that cou? stimcs, Siuing themlittle wases, or otherallowanee: in our dayes it isnot {05 De didecde.is it often requifite .Vponthisquerthrow, Dionsfins pottes away tosytHee ay Hreagthen its Hizmilco followes him,andbelicgerh the Towne by Band and Siterhat kenimhis March; fpoyled ofall that he had;and forced to faue his life by flight, leaning themoftiof his Souldiersdead vponthe place: the Kings hand & faith, Warranting him tomarchaway with enfignes difplaid':-and with all his goods and prouifions, no‘whit auailinghim! Trneeds nottherefore feeme ftrange, that an Heathen' Tyrant fhould thiis 3° breake his faith, fince Kings, profefling Chriftianitie, are boldto doethe like, ox command their Captainesto doeit forthem. ah j Dionyfins| atter this:great victorie, tooke care to re-edifie Meflena. 47420, wo ftaiediin Sicil;tohold-vp the Carthaginians therein , is againe beaten by areey whoisalfo beaten bythe Tauromenians. A newfupply of fourefcore thoufand Sou 5 diersisfent from Carthage to Mago 3 but thefe takeegges for their money, a - Peace With Diony/ins, leaning the Sicilians in Tauromenium, tofhift wea ues': whom Dionyfius, after a long liege, ouer-came, and gate their Citie to hismercenarie Souldiers, Be side ae Hethen paftinto Italiejobtained diuers victories there,brought the Rhegians a ae 49 knees, forced them to pay him one hundred & fourefcorethoufand crownes, to urnif a lim with threef¢ore Gallies,and to put in an hundred pledges, for affurance of their fu- tute: obferuance of:couenatits. "This he did, not with any purpofe to performe Yntothem the peace that they had fo dearely boughr ; but that hauing taken from them their Gallies,he might befiegethem,and ruine themveterly,with the more -. to the end he might not,without fome colour,falfifie the faith that he had giuento't i ™ 5 epreteidcd to wantviduall for his Armie, at fuch timeas he feemed ready to' de part Out of Traliey and fent:to themto ee ee promifing to returne them the like qualitie, at his Comming home to Syracufe. i ais ated it du refifedtofurnih him;he would then maketheir a fall the caufe of hisquartelb: if they yeeldedto aide him with the proportion w a ihe jo defired, that then theythould not beable; for want of food, to endurea fiege any ang Umeasaiaf him: For,to cuine'therii he had fully determined,at what price eae bteatreafon he had totakercuengeof them, if hee had doneit fairely 9 an sen mm teach of faith.: For when in the beginning of hisreigne, hee defired them a & : hter.offomie oftheir Nobilitievpon him for a:wife : they anfwered, ve io hotahy onefit for!him, faue the:Hangmans daughter. Princes oe a f r ir donill'deedes,than villdnous Words, Alexander the greatforgaue many ; i" neni Neuer ainy-fharpe torigues ;:no, though hey - 9p butvtruely of his er"re [ 7 |