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Show i ac cia: Booke ofthefirSt pars Lhe. fift\ a Seell ia: s Cwaring.7 cee Conful. atafani/fa likew ife,and the Carthaginiansdid firiue; which ofthemthoild bee moft forward in gratifying the Romans. Bach ofthenr promifed a great quantitic- of graineswhich they would fend:partly toRomespartly to theArmy in Greece, Aid Herein Mafanifja farre out-wentthe poote city of Carthage;as alfo;in that he offcredto lend the Conful fue hundred Horfe,and twenty Elephancs.On the otherfide, the Carthaginians vndertooketo fer out a Fleetat their own charges:and to'bring in at One'payment allthe Tribute-money,which wasbehinde, and oughtto be difeharged by manyyeerly penffons, But the Romansdid neither think itgood;to letthem'armea Fleet;nor wonld fetthem redeemethemfelucs out of Tribute, by:paying all at once. As for the''Corne,it Was accepted, with Condition,That they fhould be contented to'receine the price ofit, 5° Thehattic and ridiculousiflueofthis war, tharbegan with fuch noyfe and preparati- ots, were hardly credible: were not the difference excecding great,between the Roman andthe A fiatick fouldier. zatiockus had-gotren this'S pring'a' few townes ofAcarnania} after the fame maneras he had prenailed in other‘parts of Greeceypartly byfaire words, and treafon ofthe Rulers; partly byterror,that waslike to pronetheir exenfewhen they fhouldagaine forfakehim. But King Philip and:-Bebiws, hauing tecouered many places ; and the R oman Confubbeing artived,againit whom none made refiltance; He was glad towithdraw himfelfe.: Aminander fled out of his Athamania's which the' Macedonian tooke and enioyed; as inrecompenceofhis good feruiceto the Romans. PAilip,the bro- ther of Aminanders wife, was takerbythe Cotfal; madéamocking Rotke,& {cat a- 25 way prifonet to Rome.The Theffalians vied much thore diligence ittreturnitig to their old friends, than they:had donein yeelding tothe King. All theit tities, one ‘after other, ganevp themfclues:: the Garrifons ofAntiorbus,:compounding onely for theit owne lines, and departing vnarmed:: yet fo, that athonfand of them ftayed behind; ahdtooke pay ofthe Romans. This did wonderfully perplexe Aariochas,who hauing withdrawae himfelfeto Chalcis, and hearing how things wentcried out vpor his friends:and faid, That they had betrayed him. He had'taken agreat deale of royle during one halfeof a Winter,and {pent the other halfe infuch Nuptials, ‘as were little to his honouts after which,intime ofneed, Hee foundall the promifes ofthe tolians meetely verbal: and himfelfe reduced into'tcarmes ofgreat extrémitic. Hee thereforeadstired Mannital asawife man,yeaavery Prophet, that had fore-feenc ‘all this long before. ‘Neuertheleffe He fent word tothe Ztolians,that they fhould now make readyall their forces : as confidering their own needto benoleffe tham his: Butthe Arolians had caufetothinke, that they themfelues were fhamefully difappointed by Amriochuswho haning promife to doe gréat wonders) was in all this while feconded by no greater numbers out ofAfia, than fo many as would fill vpthe fameten thoufand which he ‘firft brought ouer. ‘Yet came there fome ofthem,though fewer thanat any time before,which joined withhim. Hereat the king was angry: and couldiget no better ‘{atisfaction, than that Thow and his fellowes had donetheir beft,in vaine,to hauemadeall the Nation take Armes. Since 9132.6.§-3- therefore neither his owne men came. oucr to.him out of ‘Afia, nor his friends oF4g Greece wouldappeare in this time ofdanger : ‘Hee'feized vpon the Streights ofThermopylz;as meaning to defend them againft theRomans,vntil more helpe fhould come. Ofthe Streights of Thermopyle there hath been [poken enough * before, vpon many occafions: ind then chiefly, when they were defended by Leonidas againft the huge Armic ofXerxes. Wherefore it may eafily be conceiued, how the Romans,that landed about Apollonia,and fo came onwardsinto Theffalie,were vnableto paffe that Ledge of Mountaines,diuiding theone halfeof Greece ;:vnleflethey could: win this difficulr entrance. But there was great difference betweene Leonidas and Antiochus. The former of thefe,with an handfull ofmen,defendedthis paffage two or three daiestogerhersagaintt a World of men comming to inuade the Country. The latterhaving taken vpon him to 50 doe great miraclesand effeét whathelifted himfelfein Greece:did'commit himlelfvatothe fafetie of this place; when hewas charged by:not ‘many more than be had in his owne Armie. There whilefthelay; He fent carneft meffengersone after anothertothe Arolians, intreating themnot tofotfakehim thus: but dtdeaftwife nowtohelpe, 1€ keepethe toppes ofche Mountaines; leftthe Romansfinding anyby- path,fhould con downelvponhim. By thisim portuninyshegondf theimtivo thoafand,that vnderto okto make'good the few paflages=by which ontly,andnovwithourextreind difficulty, ic #45 poilible for the Enemytoafcend.o The Romi Coufalin like fors, prepared to" £07" Caar.5.§.7- ofthe Fiiftorie ofthe World. the Stréights } withotit'Rtaying to expe@ king Philip: that was ‘hindered byfickeneff¢ fromaccompanying him-He had with him 44. Porcius Cato, and L.Valerias Flaccus, that had both ofthem beene Confuls: 'Thefe he fent forth by night with two thoufand men totry whether by any tneanes'they could get vpro'the Atolians, He himfelfe incouragedhis Armicnatohely bytelling them,with what bafe conditioned enemies they had to deale:but what tich kingdomes Antiochus held, that fhould bountifilly reward them ifthey were victors. This was on the day before the battaile. All that night Cato had a foreioarney (for what happened vnto Z./alerias it is vncertaine, faue onely thathe failedin his intentyand fo much'the worfe,for that he had no skilfull giide. Seeing thereforehis men exceedingly tired,withclimbing vp fteepie Rocks and crooked wayes : He 10. comimanded them to repofe themfelues ; whileft Hee, being avery able'man of body. tookein hand the difeouery,accom panied with no morethan one of like mettle to hire felfe.After a great deale of trouble;He found at length a path: whichhe tooke to be,as indeede it was, the belt way leading vato the Enemies. Sothither he brought his men ; andheld.onthe fartié path till toward break ofday. It was a place not hanted, becaufe in time of peace cheré was a faire way throughthe Streights below, that required no fuch trouble of climbinginéither had this entrance of the Thermopylz bin fo oftenthe Sear ~ efWaryas'might caufeany'trauailers to fearch outthepaflages of thofe defolate Mountaines) Wherefore the way that Cafo'followed, thoughit were the beft : yet didit lead him to abogge at the end, whichwould finffer him to pafle no further. So he ftaid there yntill day-light : by which he difcouered boththe Campeof the Greekes vnderneath 2° him; and fome ofthe Atolians very neere vito him,that were keeping wateh.He ther fore fent forth a luftie Crue of hismen,whom he thought fitteft for that feruice,and Wwilled them by any meanesto get hin fomeprifoners. This waseffected: and hee therchy vniderftood, that thefe Atoliatiswere no morethan fixe hundred; as alfo that king dgtitchus lay beneath inthe Valley. So hee prefently fet vpon the Aitolidns, overthrew them,flew-a great part ofthem,and chafed thereft,that by flyinginto their Campe,guidedhim vntoit. The fight was already begun betweene the Armies below:and the Roy mans;that had eafily repelled thekings men, and driven them into theit Campe, found itinamannera defperate piece ofworke to affault the Campeit felfe ; which occupied the whole bredth of the Streights; was notably fortified, and not only defended by Aas 3° tiochus his long Pikes which were beft at thatkinde offeruice ; but by Archers and {flingers that were placed ouer them onthe Hill-fide,:and powred down a fhowre of wea- Pons oh their heads. But Cato his approch determinedthe matter. It was thought at firtt that the Jtolians had beene comming to helpe the Kings men: but when the Roman armesand enfiones wete difcoucréd, {uch was the terrour, that none made offer of ‘refi ftance:: but alloftHem forfooke the Campe,and fled. The flanghter was hotgreat ; for thatthe: badneffe ofthe way didhinder theRoman Armyfrommaking purfuit. Yet this from thence dayesloffe draue:Antiochws out of Gteece,who directly fled to Chalcis,and ; withthe firft opportunitie, got him backe into Afia. forthwith to Allthe Cities that had: imbraced the friendfhip of Antiochus, prepared ; andprefenting 49 entertaine the Romans,and intreat for pardon: fetting open their gates themfelues vinta the Conful; in manner offuppliants. Briefly, ‘in few dayesall wasreout,becaufe they knew coucred that Astiorbus had gained:the Axolians ohelyftanding from hot whatielfe to doe.Neither did the Conful giue them any re{pite. Athis returne Chalcishe met with king Phifipthat hauing recouiered health, cameto ioyne withhin alreade gotten, Heedid gratulate again{t Antiochus: ouer whom fince the victory was take part with them in the Atoliaa Vitothe Romans their'good fucceffe; and offeredto Heraclea and Philip,Lamia ; Watre. So it was agteed, That the Conful thouldbefiege faine would atthe fame time. Bach of them pli¢d his worke hard;efpecially Philip, who be. For $0 haue gotten Lamia before the Conful fhould.cometo helpe him.But it could not by the ftoni¢e hindered ouermuch were Myne, workéby to vied at hisMacedoniansth the Confil,hauing nee ee 8tound. ¥ er was Lamia euenready tobe taken;when ped gs aime thither,and told. Phi/sp,that the fpoyle of thefe towns was a rewat ¢ V ay went be e.Herewith Philip mutt be contented ; and te a ad fought at/Thermopyl e < im suing y Way quietly, But Aciljasthat could foill endute to fee Philip in pen r \ontu wa: anothe as me fuchti vatill fe: te Ronrans vidtoty,got not Lamia himfel Tead ¥tocafe him i ofhisc i harge. The Rerrr3 $93 |