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Show 540 . SS The fift Bookeof thefirftpart ; Cuaregn, oa ee aeee bounch:\aid being:promifed.a great reward in cafe heemade good his word, hadfirch Companies as was thought fit,appointed to follow his diredtions:' They trauailed, by night {itbeing then about thefull of he Moonc)andrefted in the day-time,for feareof being difcouered:When they hadirecouered the hill-tops,and were aboise the Macedo- Caarg§.n.. rs ofthe Hiforie oftheWorld, a . a eg ngoe : ; O24 Sls up Sel mans. «But there were other Motiues,inducing the Achwansto preferre the frietidfhip ofthe t@Corinth, now very fliortly fhould be rendred yntotheir Nation,by fauour ofthe RoRomdnsjbeforethe patronage ofPhilip ; whererothey had beene long acctiftomed. For nians,(thougi vadifcoucred by them) becaufe at their backs) they raifedaigreat fmake, whereby they gauenoticeof their fucceffeynto:the Confils: Some: skirmifhes; ;whileft this King*had fo many wayes offended them intime of peace, that they thought icthe beftcdurfeto rid their hands of him; whileft being intangled in a dangerous wWarre, hee thefe were on theiriourny,7.Qeietins hadiheld with the Macedonian: thereby toauert him from thought ofthat which was intended. But when on thethird morning he faw waritedmicanes'to hinderthe execution of {ich counfaile,as they fhould hold thefafettz Histyratirious praétifes to make himfelfe their abfolute Lord : His poy fonitig ofArarus the fmoke'arife moreand more plainly; and thereby khew that his mef had attained yntothe place whitherthey were fent, hee pteffed as neereas he could vnto the-Enemies 1° Cainpe,and affailedthem in their ftrength. He prenailédiaslittle as lin formertimes, vail] rheifhoutings ofthofe tharran downethe hill, and ‘charged PAiiip:oni the :backe, theirold Gouernour #'Hisfalfe dealing with the Meffenians, Epirots, and otherpeople W their Confederates; and his owne dependants : togetherwith many particular outrages by himcommitted ; had caufed them longfinceto hold him ‘as a‘wece//arie'enil, euen Whileft they were-vriableto be withouthis affitance. Butfince by'the vertue of Philo- aftonithed fo the Macedonians, that they betooke themfeluesto flights: ‘The King,vpon pamenthey were geowne fomewhat confidentin their owne ftrength, fo as without the firftapprtchenfionof the danger;made all fpecdaway to faue himfelfe., Yet anon. confidering, thatthe difficulty ofthe paflage muftneedes hinderthe Reinaus. from: purtving him: hee made aftand atthe end offiuemiles, and gathered there together his broken Macedonians helpethey could as well fubfift,as hauing him to friend:then did they onlythinke how e#i/ he was , and thereupon reioycethe more, in that hee was become no loniger'wecefary. Icangred him to perceiue howthey ftood affected : andtherefore hee tronps,of whom‘he found wanting no morethantwothoufand mien. The greateft lofle fentmurderers,to takeaway the life of * Philopemen. But failingin this enterprife ; and. py,, 54 05: was ofhis Campe and prouifions:: if. not rather perhaps of his reputation; forthat now the Macedonians began to ftandin feare, left being driten froma place offuch.aduan- tage,they fhould hardly makegood their party againft the Enemy; vpon equall ground: 20 Neither was Paifphimfelfe muchbetter perfwadéd. Wherefore he caufed the Theffali- ans,as many-of them as in' his haftierctrait hee couldvifit, ro forfake their Townesand Counttiescarying'away with'them as muchas they were able, and {poylingall thexeft. Butathof thenvcould not be perfwaded,thusto abandon((forthe pleafure eftheinking) Thefenewes were very welcome to T.Quintias. Embafladours were fent from the Romans, and their Gouledetares, King -4¢talws, the Rhodians,and Athenians,to treat withthe Athzans, making promile, that they fliould hate Corinth reftored vato them, ifthey.would forfake theMacedonianvAParliament oftheAchaans washeld at Sycion; to deliberate and refolue inthis weightie cafe. Therein the Romans and theit adherents theit-ancient habitations,and allthe fubftance which they' had gotten Somethere were thatforcibly refifted him;which they mighrthe bettérdoe;for that he could not fay to vicany-great commpulfion. Healfo himfelfetooke itverygricuoufly, that he was driuen to make fuch wafte ofa moft pleafant and fruitfull Countrey, which had euer been well affected vnto him: fo thara little hinderance did ferue, to make him breakeoffhis purpofe; and withdraw himfelfe home into his kingdomeofMacedon. 32 The Brolians and Athamanians,whenthisfell our, were cuen-in.a readinefle to in- uade Theffaly ; whereinto the wayes lay mbreopen, ‘out of their: feverall., Countries. Whenthereforethey heard foricertainty} that Philip iwas:beaten by the Romans: they foreflowed nottheoccafion; burmadeall {peedyeachofithiem to. lay:hold vpon what they might! 77,Quintivs followed them within alittle while»: butrthey had gotten. fo mucltbefore his coming,that hesin gleaning aftertheir harneéft, could not finde enough to maintaine his Army. Thus'werethe poore Theffalians,.6f whofe: libérty the Romans a fewdayesfince had made thewto be very-defirous, wafted byi the fame Romans and their Confederates not knowing whichwaytoturnethemfelues,or whom to anoyde. T. Quintieswonne Phaleriaby affault: Metropolisand Piera yeeldedyato him. -Rhage " he befieged »and-hauing matlea faite breachyet-was viable to forceit; fo ftouslyitwas defended both bythe Inhabitants,and by.aMacédonian Parrifonthexein. Philp alfo at the fametime; hauing fomewhattecolleéted his fpirits;lhonered about Tempe with his Arnyytheutting tien into albplaces, thatavere like tobeidittreffedy. So the, Cenfil, habingawell-neereifpent his vidthals, and {eeing nolHopetoprenaileatRhage'; brake vp his fiegéanddeparted our of TheflalyHe had appointed his {hips of. burdento meete-him at-Anticyrajan' Haten TowneofPhocisjonthe Gulph:ofiGorinth? which Country: be- ing friend tothe Macedonian, he prefentlyinuaded: :riot fo muchfor hatred: wate the people,as becaufeirlay-couueniently fearedibetween Theffaly atidother regions, whet . ihe had bufineffeorswas thorly'liketo haue. Mary. Townesdn Phocis hesvonne byeatr fault : manywere ycelded vp vnto him forfeare ; and within fhort {pace hee had ae" fed) matteredivall: i vc) Tathe meanctineZ.Qaintite the Goafiils brothersBeing then Adunixall for rhe Romansin this watrejioyned with King -4ttalwsand the Rhddian Fleet. ‘They woanee™ 2 Cities in Eubcedsand afterward laid fiege-vrito. Cenclireé,anHauea anid Arcenall of the Corinthians on their Eitterne Seay This enterprifedid fomewhat helpé forward We cheats,in theit defire to leauethe partofPhilip: Since it might cometo paite,-that G9 tinthvit {elfejerelong time were sipent;éthat Ceonchecewith otheriplaces appe*ee. being deteéted,hedid thereby onely fet fire to the Wood,which wasthroughly drie be: t« Pbilopem, fore,and prepared toburne. Philopemes wrought fo with the Achwans, that n& dif-+3 yo courfewas more familiar with them,than what great caufethey had to withdraw themfelues'from the Macedonian. Cyc/iadzs,a principall man amongthem, andlately their Pratot,was expelled by them,for fhewing himfelfe paffionatein the caufe of Philip,and Ariflenus chofen Prztor, who laboured to ioyne themin focietie with the Romans. defired the Achzans, to ioyne with them in making warre vpon Pilip. Contrariwife, othe Embafladors of Philip, whora he had alfo fent for this bufines, admonifhing the Acheans oftheir Alliance with the king, & of their faith due vnto him; requefted them, that they would be contented to remaine as Neaters. This moderate requelt of Philips Embaffadour,did no way aduancehis Mafters caufe. Rather it gauethe Achansto voderftand, That hee, who couldbee fatisfied with fo little ar their hands, knew himfelfe vnable to gratifie chem in any reciprocal demand. Yet werethere many in that great Councell . who remembring the benefites of Philip and 4atigenus, laboured earncftly forthe preferuation ofthe ancient League. Butin fine, the fenfe of late iniuries,and exof thofe Peation oflike or worfe from him in the future;preuailed againft the memorie old good turnes, which hee,( and Avtigouus before him)hadpartly fold vato them, and was gopartly had vfed as Baites, wherebyto allure them into abfolute fubiection. Neither to preuailé likely and ng, ereftro Romansw thc That ; ce importan leaft ofthe itperhaps thenceforinthe Bd, So after frisehaltereation;the Decreepaffed, That they fhould Watd renounce the Macedonian,and take part with his enemies in this warre. With Romans (be4ttales and the Rhodians, they forthwith entredinto focietie: withthe approuedit) they people had Caufeno League would bee offorce, vatill the Senateand Embafladours ‘orboreto decree any focietie at the prefent, vntill the returne ofthofe om Rome, which they determined to fend thither of purpofe. The Megalopolitans, any ee ymeans, and Argiues, haning done theirbeft forthe te as go biS aning pe Cc. ‘te: beforet they were bound; rofevp out ‘of the Councell, acd departed hereto giue a ioVectee, which they couldnotrefift,nor yet with honeftyt : little ziues had fo ife d, the Argiues th fhortly manifefte ich they vhich i teirgo or efcaping how excufed,f oetaleGkcessAtkins ise bethebetter held + : they a Prince. i ds offofell migh ie Giinet ie shecectiasyocn(oleic day at Argos,the affection of the within Pedit felfe (> plainel inthe behalfe ofPhilip,that they which were his Partifans ifOEY pore ass € Towne, made Saad of putting the Citic into his Batis, which he y then in Corinth, any finall affittance. philecles, a Lieutenant of the Kings,la to ae he € ConfpPirators drew _ ‘Himt ae and ns Roma t the againf ded defen i lly tmanfu |