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Show 574. Thé jitt Bookeof the yfrftpart Crary 9.4) Oma P58 he ofthe Lifftorie ofthe World, fome podrelwretchesewhom he accufed ofa meating toflieto the Enemie. Thefe were openly whipt through allithe firectsjanddlaine. "Having thustafirighted the Citizens': that Winter (as there was no hope of making fhort worke ) before the City of Sparta: they were contented to-make peace with the Tyrant, vpon fuch Co Nditions as Titas welcommed them withtpfallicx wherein, as commonly happens, the Souldiers ofthe Towne had the betteratfirtt, buewere at lengeh yepelled with' loffe.. Titws abode'not manydaies before Sparta': batoner-rannethe Countrey!; hoping beliketoprouokethe ding ; Titus propoufdedmany other Conditions to Nabis, and fome ofthem very grie~ He turiedthemorefreélyall his thoughts towatdithe Enemic; thar came on apace: He yraarforthto bareailesoThe Roman Fleet arthe fame time, with king Eamencs'and the Rhodiabs laid fiegevnto'Gyttheumsthe onelyor principall Towa that Nabi had hikes dy they Weteto hauttaken it byforce, when thereappeared hope ofgetting itbytreafonyThereweretwo Gouernours within the Downe equallimauthoritie: whereof -the one,either for feareofdefire of rewardshad a-purpofetolet inthe Romans. "But the ‘0: ther finding what was in. hand, and being fomewhat more faithful; flacthe Traitor af: terwhofédeathyhe liimfelfe alone madethe betterdefence:! Yet when T.Qaintins with patvof his Armie‘cainethither to'Gyttheum: this Captaine of, the Towne hadnot the heart to abide the vttermoit, and await what cither'Time or his'Mafter migtit doe for him, bat was contented'to giue vp the place ; yetvpon-Condition}to departin fafety to Spartawithhis Garrifon. Pythagoras; the fonne-in:law of Wabisy ahd brother unto his wife, was come from Argis,whereofhe had the Gouerrimenr,witha! thoufand Souldia ours Mercenaries,and twothoufand Argiues : itbeing(as may feéme:) the Tyrants purpofeicorclikue Gyttheum + which hethought would haue held fonger our. But when2 they tiearachatic was loft, chen began they to thinkevponfinifhing the warre, by { realonable Com pafitions: Pyrhagorsthereforewas fent hisiEmballadour to Titas : rc quefting only thathe would appointatime'and'placefor Nabisee ect and{peak himt Thiswas etantéds fa vhat Patleethe Tyrane{pake very téafonablyforhi ine ie tafiered Wrdng:atid haddonendadyandthat by mianygood arguiients ; whercofthe fumitie was,That whatfocuerthey now didorcould obied vito: him, was ofelderdate than the League which they hadimadewith hime Whereupon hee ‘in- ferred,' Tiiat neither forhiskeepiigeeht Towne of Argos, norifor any other cauife by them alleaged, they ought to make warré vpon him ; fince Argos,andall other tlieir allegations'whatfocuer, had hot hinderedthem,in time of theirmoreneed of hinjifrom 3: entring into that League with him-whichwas never broken ombisipart, noroughtto bee on theirs /But Qaintzus was not herewith farisiediHe charged himwith Tyrannie; and thouldthinke meet. Befides the reftitution ofArgos, andallthe places thereon depen- uous. He would notfuffer the Lacedemoniah to haue ought to docin thelle of oa no, horto make any Confederaci¢s; nor warre,either in that Iland or clfe-wher e . tigk tobitild any Towne or Caftle vpon his owne Lands. not to keepeany other thippin thantwofmall Barkes; befides many other troublefomeiniunGions: with im soem 3 ofan hundred talents inl filuer tobe paid out ofhand, and fiftie talents yeerely, oe eight yectes nextenfuing. For obferuance of thefe Couenants hee demanded fine hoftages luchas he liimfelfe fhould name; and one of themto bee the Tyrants ewne fone. Ifig had beene'the meaning of Tétws, tosvi #draw the warre from Nabis; becanfeit. was not grounded vponinftice : then had itz #%ecnough,if not more than enough, to take.Are gosftom hin ; which he himfelfe did offer, thoughit were forfeare,to deliner vp-But if itwere thought reafonable,to difpenfe a little with the Roman faith, in regard of the great benefit which therby might redoundvntothe ftate oftheir beft friends in Greece: by the extirpation ofthis Tyrannie : then fhould this enterprife, when once it was taken in hand, haue bin profecuted vato the very vtmoft. As for this middle courfe which the Rotmans held : as it was not honourable vnto them, to.enrich themfelues by the fpoyle 20 ofonethathad notoffended them:nor pleafing tothe Acheans, whoindged it cuer aftera great blemifh to the noble a@s of Tits : fo did it minifter vnto the Atolians, and tofuch as curioufly pri¢d into the faults of thofe which tookeyponthem to be Patrons ofGreece,no barrett Subject of malicious difcourfe.For fince Philip,a King,and defcended of many famous'Kings, might not be fiffered by thefe Mafterly Romans; to hold any otte ofthofe Countries or Towns in Greece,that had belonged vnto his Anceftors: it Was thoughtvery fttange,that Lacedemon, oncethe moft famous Citie among all the Greckes was by the fame Romansleft in pofleffion ofa Tyrant, that had vfurped it but yelterday : and Hee therein rooted bythcir authoritie,as their friendand Confederates _ Nabe onthe other fide thought himfelfevnmercifully dealt withall, by the felfe-fame 30Romans,whofe amity he hadpreferred intime ofa doubrfull warre,beforethe loue and affinitic ofthe Macedonian king,that had committed rhe Citie ofArgosinto his handss Butfalfly had he dealt with the Macedonian ; and falfly was hee dealt with by thofe,to which points,forafinuch as they knewthis Wabi tobe guiltiey beforethey madePeace Whom he did betakehimfelfe. Among thefe Articles propounded, there was nothing that pleafed him ; fane onely that for the banifhed Laccdemonians, (of whom a great fhould be alleaged.: Whereforehe faid furth et} Thatthis Tyranrhad occupied Meflene, Sparta,that being a young childe was driuen out by Lycwrges, the firft of the Tyrants ) gaue inflance,as eafily hemight, of divers barharous cruelties by‘hit' committedy Ivall and Confederacie with him'; it was expedient, that fomeottier cane ofthis Inuiafion a Towne Confederate with the Romans :| Thathe had bargained toioyne with Pil; whet he wes theireneimie; noronely'in League, but alfo inalfinity- > and that his F! had robbed manyof theit {hips,aboutthe Cape of Malea. Nowtouching this Pyracie, finceiathe Articlés by Titus propounded vnto Wabis, there was no reftitution mentio- 49 nedsotherthanofthips; by him taken fromthe Greekshis neighbours, with-whiomhee had long held watte: ic may feemeto hane beeneobieaed, onelyiby' way'of Complemint, andto enlargethe' Volume of thofe complaints; that wére orherwifevery friuo- lous: As for Meflentsandthe bargaine ofAlliancemdde with PAsips they were niatters foregoing the Leagtie,that was thade betweenethe Romans and this Tyrantyandtherefore'norto haue bechéimentionedsr'A tbthis ir emesthat Ariffanusjthe Pretor of the Achieaasivery well perceiied:whothe?foredoubting leftthe Romans,(that werewont totale fothuch sfehen' own iuftice? honouty and faithfalldealing) thould nowrelent anid folbeareto mivlet him3who)thougha wicked man, was yettheir Confederate, an haditeuerdone than Wiotis s fratied his difcourfero anorhérend) He entréatec to corllidel Well oFhisOwieeftater sito fertle his fortuncs,while? he mightdoicwit b out haz2ard': ‘alledging-the examples ofmany!Tyrants that had roled in theneighbout eities)/2ndcheteificoin mitted oxeat obtragesiviyer were afterwards contented to furtender theld Races ard ined ia oréar fcurities honouty aida ppinefley as private mee Thastheydiftouttedvneill RighhoPhe next day Mabicwas contented. ro reliaquisl Ar Sos; MEreqacihedthem to deliver:vate himlin Writing their orher-demiands,s that he mighetake coanfile withhiofiicydexPhe ive ofall was, Phariioe Wheicatthe Confederates minh Bed for nainednaice of an Arnie" : number were inthe Romah Campe ; hating among them Agefpolis the naturall King of there was made no prouifion, to haue themreftored vato their Citie and Eftates; but Onely leaue required for as many of their wines,as would be fo contented,to liue abroad With them in bani(liment.. Wherefore he forboreto giueconfent vnto thefe demands: 40andfiftained an affault or two ; hoping belike that the enemies would foone bee wearies But his fearfull dacure fhiortly ouer¢ame the refolution, which the fenfe ofthefeiniuries had putinto him. Soyeelding vnto all that had beene propounded, Hee deliuered the oftages!and thereupon obtained peace,that was confirmed afterwards at Rome by the enateand People. From his time forward, He thought the Romans farre more wic<li himfelfe;and was ready vponthe firft aduantage,to doe themall the mifchiefe : j that he could. Phe'Argiues tad Heard news that Lacedamonwas eucnat point of being taken.This ected them,and gatté them heaft to. thinke ypoatheir owne good, So they aduentuTedtofet ypon the Garrifon ; which was much-weakened, by the remooue of the three Sothoufadd catried thence by Pythagoras to helpethe Tyrantat Sparta. There needed vatotheirlibertic nd mote. than that all of them ioyntly fhould fet their handsro the gets ting' ofjt ; which tio {oonerthey didthan they obtained it. Prefently after this came T+ Rbititins to Argos: where hee was ioyfally welcommed. Hee was deferuedly acknow- ledged 4$ author or that benefit, whercon the Citizens had layed hold without ftaying Or hit': and that he might the better entitle bimfelfe thereto, he eaufed the liberty of the Aigines to be proclaimed at the Nemaan games;as ratifying it by his authority. The itie Was antiexedagaine tothe Councell of Achaia ; whereby the Achaans were not More ftrensthened,thanthie Argiues theimfelucs were fecured from danger of selaphts |