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Show HO ‘Theft Bonkeyf theoppant Curvag.c Cuar.r.§.6. of the Hiftory ofthe orld: OF Cleomenes ratified by his owne mouth, fhould prefently be wonne with his gentle words, aad finifh the bargaine without moreadoe. "Therefore Cleomemes widte ynto the whole Councell,bitterly complaining againit thefe itiggling trickes:and ‘Arates was fuch as were'difappoirited oftheir vniuft hopes,began to turné good Coinmon-wealths men and called him Tyranvfor his doings at lome,becaufe he vvould not doe thelike not farre behind with him,inas bitter an Oration,So betweene feare ofthe oneéand ree erence of the other,the Affembly knew not howto proceed,but abruptly brake vpyleae wing all as it were to fortune.Cleamenes tookehis aduantage Of their prefent' weake. neeaiid renewed the Warte.Many Cities yeelded vnto him willingly ; many hefore peeces the Refcue thathe fence ; and compelled him at length, to farfake the defence of ceéds and partly byforce, partly by terrout,he wanne Argoswhich never King Ofsparte before him could doe. In this cafe ratus {ent his owne fonné to‘ Asticonus,entreating him to deferre notime,but comeprefently to relicue the diftreffed Acheaws, Anticonas 16 Batie good wordsas could be wifhed : fauing that hee viterly refufed ‘to doe any thing, vnleffe hee might firft haue Acrecorinthws put into hishands. This demaund was fomewhatlike-vato that ofthe Hunter, who promifedto helpe the Horfé againft his enemie the Stagge': but with condition, that the horfe fhould fuffer himfelfe tobe faddled and abroad. So they tooketheir times inuited the Achsans; affailed his. Gatrifon; cut in Corinthand lookevnto the enemies that were behind his back. For when he. vnderftood by continual meflages;that his men which held the Citadell at rges;werealmoft lots' hebegin:to feare,left his labour in guarding the entry, fhould grow friuolons sthe.- cheans in the meane while {poiling all that lay within. Therefore he forfooke his euftes dy of the bmus,and madeall hafte towards «drges : which if he could faue, he meant yo totruft fortune withthereft. And fo farrehe prenailed at his comming to 47gos sthat both UArginesand Acheans vvere glad to houfe themfelues, leaving him Mafter of the fireets : when the horfemen of Antigonws were difcouered a farre off, hafting ro relicue the Citizens sand Astizons himfelfe (to whom Corinth was yeelded, asfooneasthe Spartan had turned his backe}) following apace with the body ofhis Armie. Cleomenes bridléd. Aratus was herewithall contended , but wanted all ‘honeft colour to docit: thetefore hadino more taida, than ta make a fafe retrait.. This he did, and got him honicinto Laconia 3\lofinginthort {pace all, or moft of that which he hadbin longin "Yet at lerigth an occafion was found ; ‘for thatthe Ceri#thisms, perceiving what heein- etting. : eitvas haning fhewed himfelfe at Argos, and commended the Citizens,yvenit inte Arcadia where he vvan fuch Caftlesas were held for C/eomenes, and reftored them to feeing the ‘Corinthians tad no way deferued,to'be thus giuen away to the Addcedonians, ‘tended; were minded to arreft him, So he' withdrew himfelfe out oftheir Citie, and Seat word to Antigornschat their Caftle fhould béready to let himin. The Corinthians ‘Onthe otherfide ranie'to Clramenes ; who loft'no'time, but ‘made hafte with them to Corinthiwhere he fought howto get poffeffion Of their Cattle or at leaft to faue it from** Anrigonusby furrounding it within Trenches; ‘that none mightiffie norenter without #0 the old Poffeffars. T his done,he tooke his vvay to cZgivm, vvhere vvas held.a-Parlia= mentby the échzans,to whomhe declared the caufe ofhis comming; and {pake braue words,thatfilled themayith hope, The cheans were not behinde with him ; bur made ‘Hisleaue. Whileft this was doingyhe tdoke {peciall order; that Coratuc his houfe and him Captaine Generalloucrthem and their Confederates; and further entred into.co= "perfwafions,then would hegive him double the fame penfion,which he had been wont the only man, that feemed torule the, Kings heart: carrying! him to Sicyen, his owne Toivn( for Winter was come on.) where henotonly feafted him asa great Prince; but oods,within the Towne,fhould be kept for the Owner ;to whom he fent'Meffenger "after Meflenger, defiring him to cometo agreement, and not to bring in the Barbarous IWacedenians,and iyrians, to Pel*ponne/us . promifing that ifhe would hearkento thefe toreceili¢ of King Ptolomie. As forthe Caftle of Corinsh, which was the pateof Pels- uehant witlvhim,That they ftiould notdeale with any Prince orState, either by writing orEmbafladour,without his confent. All this while, and fomewhat: longer,! Aratus.was pennefia, ‘and without which none could hold affuredfoueraigntie ofthe Coantry ; hee fuffered more than humane honours,asfacrifices and the like,to be done vato-him:This example of 4ratus and his Sicyentians,was followedby the ‘reft.of Atbaigs ¥vhich had the Lacedemonians and ~atheans/All this entreaty ferued to no purpofe.For Carat,tedecting viterly the motion,fent his owrie fonne'as an Hoftage to Ctntigonws; and labou- 29 made (forfooth)a very wife hatgaine, if in ftead of :Cleamemes that vvould. haue' bin 2 King,it had obtained the protection ofa God. But this God was' poore; and wanting wherwith to pay his Atacedoniansimpofedthe burthen vpon the cacheans. -This yvas ‘defired that it might not be committed vnto his owne difpofition,but be iointly kept by 4g yedwithithe Acheans,t0 put Acrecorinthae inrohis hands. ‘Which when Clesmenes vnderftood,he feifed vpon the goodsofCaratas in Corinthand wafted all the Couutrey of Sreyorwherofthis his Adueriary was native," : Mntigonws inthemcanctime drew ieere tothe [fms shauing palfed with his Army through Ewbes,becaufe the e£rol/ans held the ftreights of Thermepy/eagaintt him. This theyididy tither.in fauour of Cleomenes, which they pretended ; or in doubtofthe "‘greathefle,wheteunto the Macedentans might attaine by thegood fucceffe of ‘this tournysAthis ‘comming thitherhe foiind the Lecedemonians ready to forbid his‘entrance* 4g andthar with fufficientttrength >yctwith no-purpofe to hazzard battaile, but ratherto weary him thence with hunger; againft which he came not well provided. Amtigen® therefore labouredhard to make his way by? forée; but he was notable fo to doc: he feeretly-gorinto the Coriathien Hanen ; but was violently driven out againe, with greet foffeofmen ; finally he refoluedto turne afide! "and feeke a patfage ouerthegulfe hardly taken : yet worfe muft be endured in hope ofbetter. Neither vyas «4ratws hims {elfc ouct-carefully refpected;whenthe ftatues ofthofe Tyrants,which he had throwne downein Argos, were again erected by -datigonss.; or when the ftatues, which hie had etected,ofthofe chat had taken Acrocersntbus with him,were-all thrown downe by the fameKing,and one only left vnto himfelfe at his earncft entreaty. It mighttheres foreappeare, thatthis God wasalfo {pightfull. Neuertheleffe in taking reuenge-vpon thofethat offended him, Arats did fatisfie his own paffion by theayde ofthefe Atagedee 4° nians,For with extreame torments he did put Ari/fomachus to death, vvho. had bin once Tyrant of Cages; afterwards Generall of the Achesns.and. from them renolring Vato Cleamenes,did fall at length into their hands.Ialike fort handled he ( though not ag Yetthe Adantineans for their ingratitudeand cruelty fhewedtathe Acheans.Forhe flue allthe principall Citizens,andfold the reft, men, women, and-children,all forbondy lWes:diuiding the {poiletwo parts tothe Adasedomians, and the thirdtothe Achasns, Corinthxo Sicyon.or foreother patt of Achaia , but this required much time, ‘and gre# Thetownit felfe was giuen by Amtigenns to. the Argivess who. peopled. it with aGor Ony oftheir own;and Arates having charge ofthis bufineffe,caufed itto benew-named "Aatigonia.Surely ofthis cruelty there can be no better excufe';than,eten tho flattery, and no‘leffe troubled his enemies The achadnswere gotteninto that Citic; an = Which stratus vvas drinento vie Aatigonus : forafmuch as.it wasatoken:offerullity, Whereinto they had vrged and brought him ; whomhe,asinrenenge, thereof,did ighus forequite, Butleauing to {peake ofthis change, which the commingin. of the Atssedawiats preparation which was not eafily made! 3 ; 2 ‘Tathis perplexity newes front 4rgorcame by Sea,that eréatly comforted: Antigens' Gartifon which Cleomenes had lefetherein; though ic was not driuen out ofthe a 9 yetwashardly diftreffedjand ftood in' need of préfent helpe. Arges had alwayes 00 enemy to Sparse, ‘and well affected to the Kings ofAtaceden. Wien Cleements ae he forbaieto chafeout thofe whoin he moft fufpectedspartly,at the entreaty of ot 44 and partly,for that they all made thew to beglad ofhis profperity: They wert la bise deedufic/eomenes his viSories,both in' Argos and elfewhere, as many as hopedthat . would caufe all debtors to be difcharged from their créditots,as he had lately done i Sparta; Bucthat which Cleomenes had done in Sparta, was agrecable tothe 5par"* se i Satioa in other places wheie itwould hauc been'tyratinicall, Hedid it not. Te‘9 Wrought, inthe Ciuill tate ofthe Acheans ; Lec ys returne into-bis warre againft she A<monian. ‘ The Next Summer Antigonus wan Teges,Mantines, Orchomenus, Herea,anid Techphaff4 Mastines hedifpeopled, as was faid, befores in Orchomenus he placed a Garrilon of Macedonians . the reft he reftoredto the -cheans : with whom he wintted apgh #",Wherethcy helda Parliament.Once only Cleamenes had met him this yearezand: thas Wat onthe borders ofLacewia, where he lay readyso defend his, owa Territories The Rerra séafon |