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Show "" be fit Booke of the Sirf pare Cc HAP: 4! (sp withtheinjbeihg atthe fubied ofourftoriepit'is meetithat wee fhould relate, thoiigh fomewhat briefy)the beginning of his reigne; andhis firt AGionsTt waslike to prove abnfietime inthe world,when; within the {pace of4. yestes;new Kins began to teigne inthe moft ofall Countries knowne yand:3 ofthicm young boyes, in 37 ofthe greatelt Kingddmes.:'F his hapried from the third yeere'of thehundred thirty ‘ninth Olympiad), vato the third ofehe Olympiadfollowing. Forin'this time died Selencw Cerauxns Kin ofAfia and Sytia; iniwhofe roomefiucceeded-his brother #atiochus, afterwardscalled rhegreat.?tolomiePhiloparer facceeded:in the Kingdome ofABypr'vntohis father Ewer getesAndPhilip thefotine of Demetrinisbeing 1 6cor 1piyextes'old, receiuedthe Kingdom ofMacedormtagether withthe Patronage of the Acheatisand moftofthe Greckes: 14 by thedeceafeofhis Viicle Astigonns Defonsthat was called'the' Tutor oi Procedctor. A+ bowothe fame rimealfo was the like change in' Cappadocia, ‘Laccdamon;'& the Countriesubour Mount? Taurus. For Arsarathes thén began his reigneiw Cappadocia. Lycurs gus found ineans to ‘make himfelfe King! ouer' the -Lacedemonians; whofe Common: wedle;fincethe iia of Cleomenes) had continaed ina manner headleffezand' Achewe, a kinftan ofdurioches but a Rebell-vnto him) o¢cupied:the Regions! weeré-vntb Mount Tautusj;ékeprawhile rhe Stare ofamighty King.Laftlyinthe fecondand third yeers of thebundted & fortieth Olympiaddtowas,thar opehiwar brake outbetween Rome & Car- thagesSethav'vaxaibabbezan his gteat Inuafion vponItalie! Thofetroubles ofthe We ftern¢ world,which wrreinddedtheg teateftiwehaue already followed vnto'an end: Of, . AntinhssRooleneserve rettiwetiialld peake heveatter,when the Romans'find them out." gheansand Macedonians; by. whom themfelues had lately beene fubdued.It is truc,thar the Lacedamonians had beene fo affegted:and (whichfwas worfe)at the arrinall ofPhilip, gothey flew, fuch friends of hissas haning checked thicir inclination, feemcd. likely to. ap peach themiofthe intended rebellion, Weither,durft they well commit themfelues to iudgement, but entreated the King,that he would .abftaine from comming to them with an Atmy.:fince their Towne was lately muchdifquicted with ciuill difcord, which they hoped{oone'to appeafegand meant alway es toremaineathis,dcuotion. Pip was eafily fatistied with this:notforthat heCorratherold Arazus,whothen wholly gouernedhim) did mif-underftandthe Lacedemonians;butforthata greater workeyas inhand,which ought not to be interrupted. There merat Corinth,in prefence.of the King, theEmbat fadous ofthe Achawans,Boeotians,Epirots, and Acarmanians:all complayning yponthe Atolians :and-defiring to haue war,decreed againgtrhem, by commonaflent.? beige fent hisletters' vato the: Astolians; requiring themto make readytheir anfiyer in fome conuey Menttinie: ifthey couldalledgeany thing in excufeofthat which,they had done. They flood this for certaine,they adiourned the Coungell.ynto.a furthet.time : faying, That fuch Weighty matters ought not to, be handled, fauc.n the great Parliament of all Actolia. This tricke of Lawnotwithftanding, open war.was proclaimedagainft,them,.And they,asit were to fhew how wellthey,had defcrued.it, made clection ofScopasto be their Pretor, that was Authorof thefe Inuafions. made.on Pcloponnefus; andthe onely man, #9in4 fort, vpon whom they muft haue laid the blame ofthele aétions, ittheywopld have hhifted it from the publike. iti ' ) fter this,Pbilip wentinto Macedon, where hee,preparcd bulily forthe warreagainit pleafed him to comejor fend, he fhould.be wellinformed:ofthemandtheir ;wholesmeas ting, ‘The King prepared to haue begne thereat the day. But whenthe Atolians vinder- theyeere following... He alfo aflayed the Illyrian, Scerdilardas,with faire words andpro mhiless whom‘he ealtly wonfromthe Actolian fide,forafmuchas the Actolians had cou- Tetvitorie,had (agwastheie mannet done what harme theylifted: Olde odratus could Zenedhimof his fhare;when he was.partner with them in their late robberies,In like fort hatdlyabidethefel#irolians; as both:knowing welltheir naturey‘and-remiembring the iniuries; wherewith: molt inigratcfally' they: hadréquitedono {mall benefits:done to the Ach#ans,who had firft ofall others proclaimedthe warre in their owne Countrey, them by-tlié Acheans. Hee wastherefore!fohaftieto:falli vpn: this thei Ariny;that heecould:hardlyendure'to ftay few daies yhtilhthe time ofhisoiwne Office came ; be ing» chofen Pratop.ofthe Achrans forthe yeere followingy But shissangercwas grea- 4° ten 'tham-his-cobrage? and he fhewed himfelfe a manfitter (dshath beencalreddy noted rissa ofthim) forany ovherferitice;thaivleading of an‘Aunie. |He futered themtovpafle quiet» 13b-5,003.§.6, a> sess Z along with their bootie,througha part of hecCountreyywherein he might very 4° y hatte diftreffed them? and aftetwardspreffedthem:fonécte; when they had recoue; xed grolincbof iaduantages that they:eafily defearediall his Armies So they departed homerichyantiweil&ninrated to return¢ againedsAs forcthenAchzans, they got here. oes by only therftiendthipmf-thé »Meffenians:: With.whom, byilicence of Kings?Ap; cis sach rate Shey atiaideconfederacy2:Shortly -after ,. the -Ainolians inuaded; Peloponsiefus againe 5 2 hauling Borhoreto doe,thantopaffe outr thenatrow Streights ofthe ‘Corinthian Bays called howthe GulpivofLepahté,wherethcy mighrJand in the Conntrey ofthe Eleans. 6 "There ioyned with them, in this thei: fecondinuafion,a great numberoftherfllyrians : 240,240 Whonegleding than Condition impafed vpontlemi by the Romans, offerting out no cpz§.r, dition,andreturnediome, without,finding any refiftance. ) OFthefe things great complaint.was made vata. Philip, when: hee came to Gotiath, Andbecaufe nien were defixousto farishe themfelues with fome {peedy reuenge.> there werethatyrgedso haue fomegrieuous punifhment layd vpon the Lacedamonians:who werethought- vyndev-haad to,haue fauopred the Atolians,in nicere defpight ofthe A- Cleémencs 3 was néw Sccome io lee obnoxious:td the Macedonian, than it {hould haue they-hadat theprefentin P cloponneéfus: Them inuafion was nolefle vnexpected,than it wasvninit: whereby:witt greateteaftthey made fpoyle ofthe Countrey:finding none preparcdto!make refiftance. The Achwans,were called bythe Meflenians tochelp:which they didthe:moreiwillingly; becanfé the Atolians*paffing without Jeaixeithrongh their IWide:¢ gotten whatthey conld.clfe,where by, roningat Sea,accompanied the Atoliansinto Peloponnelis: whomade greater hauogke inthe Countrey now, thanintheir former Ex- ieturned, word, that a Diet{hould.be holden at Rhium, for, that purpofe: whither ifir defpifedicuenthe MacedoniamKingsthat were Patrons thereof The Atoliahs wereno mon tobridle:nopawerd much addicted vntoany other Artthan war.Therefore wanting employmednt;tlicyifell "poreeble Molvitians chanweretheirowneClients,and(excepting the Bteans,thatweiean cientlyoftheir confanguinitic ) therdnely. good friends which 36 453 ofthe Eiftory of the World. Phsdipfooneatterthe bepintingof his'reigiejcame into Peloponnefiis:preatly defired ofche Achzansjanditany: dthershis dependants. ; Thar Countryhauing fred itfelfeby thehelpeotAnrizorus fionierite danger'¢accolnted gteat }cof an eafie fubiection vate Deene tothe Spaetans Sotheiewithalliclay openvnto theviolenceiofthe Atolians,;who gil Cuar.4,§:15 fhips of war yntothecoaftof Gteecezmadehdld torfetk aduentures againe,é did great Milbhicke, DemetrivePharinsa creatuteafithe Rémans,commanded a part oftheft Hly- ‘Hans:iwho fhorly repentedihim ofthis hissvoyagex!which caufed him to lofhis Knee sdom,asisthawed betoresButiliis Bemmstins went andther way,éfell vpon the Hands 0 the Cyclades ih the Ageah ita: whenck returning, he-did-fomegeod offices for King bili, ot isfriends. These of che Hlysians vader iscerdilaida; orScerailerad, hawng i315 gouen ent ynto the Acarnanians,Epirots, Meflenians, and Lacedxmonians: requefting them ftayforthwith to declare themfelues,andto denounce war vnto the Actolians without INg(@s it were)to await the event. -Hereunto they receiued diners an{wers, according to 49 thequalities of thofe with whom theydealt. The Acarnanians,afree- hearted and yaliant, though-a {mall Nation,and bordering vpon the.Actolians, of whom they ftood in Continual] danger; faid, thatthey could not honeftlyrefufe to fhew their faithfull mea- Ang inthat warre,which was concludedbygenerallaffent, J he Epirots that were more Mighty, wereneuertheleffe more cunning andreferued:fo, thabthcy ftoodvpona ned: tlle point,and defired to be held excufed,yntill PAitp(of whofemeaning they nseaed AOt to haute made any doubt)fhouldfir proclaime the war. Bhe Mefle ans, for w 10fe Caufethewarre wasyndertaken,excufed them{clues, by realon of a aera Pach she etolians held vpontheirborders;and faid,that they durft pat hronet;be eeynts § lat ldlewere taken out oftheir mouths.,\As for the Lacedemonians, the chicte 2 i aie 4 idionely,how tomannagethetreafon, for which there Cityhad beene 4 ft y foPardoned : and therefore difmiffedthe Embafladours of the Confederates, av pate "yanfiver at all, They had three yeeres together gontinued fabject gaint a ny tothe: Macedonians , expecting ftill when: Cleomenes fhould retur ne OUbs , BE Telgne Ouer them againe, and maintaine, as hee ‘was wont the penout PA , OF this tegard they chofe not any Kings; but were contented with shee ee ith tle therewwere fome, that thought the publike fafety, to confift, 19 2 A feehetcoutis ¢0 they,referred al bthsedoun Withthe Macedonian that had preferued them: And heretosnefit, refpe ondebet Chity W which might. oed eh ref}batt & ; bei perhapsa little moued with stt being |