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Show Cua Pung 7 hefecond Bookeof thefirst part ceensisal Cuap.i§.7. tetaenisicaiacniie Abc whichtime wee mufticount herno leffe than fifteene yearcs old , for the women did not Burt.chron, Eujeb. Coren. Hall. 1. ofthe Hiflory oftheWorld, times, idlechroniclersyfe when they.want good matter, to filtwhole, books, with.peports ofgreatfroftsjoridry fummers,and-other fuch things whichno,man-cares toseade;to.did coinmonlybegin foy.oung asthey doe now) thee was thenat leaft rwo and fiftic yeares old at the deftruGion of Trey: and when thee was ftollen by Parés,cight and thirtie + but Hercidthe Ghrozologers doe notagrees Yet Enfebius and Bunting with Halicarnaffens doe they whoifpakelof Greecerin:her. beginnings, remember onely,the great floudspwhich werein thetimesof Ogyresjand,Deacalion : or elfe rchearfe- fables of raen changed, dato in etfe& confent, that the City was entred, and burnt inthe firlt yeare of Demophoon King ofarhen's, the fucceflorof Atse/theas, thefucceflor of Thefeus, feucnteene dayes before birds, of {ttangemonftarsy of: adulterie committed by, their gods, andthe mighty;men thie Sammer Tropigues and that about the eleuenth of September following, the Trojans crofttheicle/pont into: Thrace,and wintered there, andin the next {pringthat they nx nigated into Sici/ia, where wintering the fecond yeare, thenext {ummer theyarrived x Lanrentum,and builded Lauinium. But Saint Augustine hath otherwife, That when Poly. phides gouerned Sicyon,Mneftheus, Athens;Tastanes, A[yria;Habdon,l[raclchen Aeneagt. riuedin Jta/se,tran{porting with him intwentie thips the remainder of the Troians : bu thedifference is norgreat: and hereof more at large in theftorie of Troyathand, In Sityonia Pheflus thetwoandtwenticth King, raigned eight yeares, beginningby the common accountin the time of Tho/s. His fucceflours, Adraitus, who raigned foure yeares, and Palyphides who raigned thirtcene, are accounted to the time of Jair, {oisallo Muefleus King of Athens,and Atrens,whoheldagreat part of Peloponnefus. In Affyrs, whichthey begat, without;jyriting ought that fauoured of humanisie before thetime.of the wane of Thebes» the briefe whereof. is this. Oedipusthe fonne of ai#s King of Thebes, hauing'beene caft forrhwhen-he.was aning fant; becaufe an Oracly foretold what euill fhouid cometo pafle by, him, did afterwards xo inanerrom paflage contending forthe way, flay-his.owne father,.not knowing either then.orlorigafter, who hewas.; Aftetward hee became King of Thebes, by marriage the Queene ora/ta;called by Homer Epicafle : op whom, not knowing herto bee his mo- #0 ther, hee begat two fonnes, Ercocles and-Polywices, But when in.procefle of time, fin ding outby good circumftances;, who-were his parents, hee vnderftood the gricuous raurtherandincefthee had|committed; hee tore out his‘owne eyes for gri: 2 fe the, Cities.His wifeand motherdid hang them{elues.. Some fay that ips. having hiseyes pulled out; was expelled Thebes, bitterly curfing his fonnes,becaufe.they, fut. fered their father to bee,caft out of the Towne,. and ayded him. not. Hoyle it were, his two Sonnes. made this.agreement, that the one of themfhould 1 duting the gonernmentof thefe two peaceable ludges, Aditreas, and after him Tantants raigned. In Egypt Amenophus, the fonne of Ram/es, and afterwards Annemanes, So one yeareiand the other another yeare;-and fo by-courfe rule interchang this appointment wasillobferued., For when Polynices had aftera y refigned the Kingdome to, his brother: or (according to. others };when. Ete §. VII. Of the warre of Thebes which was in this age. saigned the firft yeare; hee; refufed, to_giue-ouer the rule to. Polyzices.... Hereupon PoLyntces; ledde:vnto Argos.,iwhere wAdraftus the fonne of Talaas then raigned, vate whofe palace comming by night, he was driuen ro, feeke lodging inan out-houfe Fe N thisage was the warre of 7hebes,the moftancient that euer Greeke Poet or Hiftorian wrote of: Wherefore the Roman Poet Lucretiusaffirming(asthe Ep cures in this pointheld truely againftthe Peripaterickes) that che world hada beginning,vrgeththem withthis obiegtion. -- backefide..;; ts > de#s- a. Bore;siia that of Polysices-a-Lyon, hee remembred, an olde Oracle, by, which Sinnlla fitgenitalis orizo hee was|aduifed to gine his two daughters in marriage,to a Lyon anda, Bore. :, and,ac- Rernmg, & mundi , femperque eterna fuere, Curfupra bellum Thebanum, cfunera Troiz, Nove alias aly quoque res cecinere‘poeta? cordinglytheedid beftow. his daughter Argia vpon Tydeus,.and Deipyle vpon, Polynices, promifing.to reftorethemboth to their Countries.., Tothis purpofe leuying an Armic, and afferablingias many, valiant Captainesashee could drawro followhim, hewasdeli« Tousathongethersto carrie Amphiaraws the fonne of Oicleus a great Soothfayer, anda If allthis world hadno originall, But things haue euerbeene as now they are: Beforethiefiege of Thebes or Troyes \aft fall, valiant shan, along with, him. But Amphiaraus, who is faidto haue forefeen« things; knowing well thatnone of the Captaines fhould efcape,fauconely :-4draitus, didborhvtterly refufe tobee one in that, expedition, and perfwaded others. to ftay at Whydid no Poet fing fome elder warte + home. Polynices therefore dealt with Eriphyle the Wife of Amphiaraus, offering. vnto Iris truethat inthefe times Greece was very faluage,the inhabitants being often chaced4! from placetoplace, by the Captains of gteater Tribes: and no man thinking the groun fowe more'corne than was neceffary for their fattenance.Money they had littleorfo™ fo, asa Woman fhould that did loue a. bracelet better than her Husband. Hee now finding that it was farre more eafie to forefee than auoide deftinie, fought for fuch comfort, as reuenge might afford him, giuing in charge vnto his fonnes, that when theycameto fullage, they fhould kill their mother, and make ftrong warre vpon the WwW aSswo) Wi th an hundred Beeue s,and the co PP erarm *C our ofl . willeafily appeareto fiichas' . o Lhebanes; v Now,had dra/lus affembledall his forces, of which, the feven chiefe. leaders were, him(felfe, Arnphiaraus, Capanens,and Hippomedon (infteadof whom fome name Adeciflews JallAxciues, with Polynices the Theban, Tydews the Atolian, and Parthenopeus the Arcadian, fonne of Meleager and Atalanta.. When the Armie came to. the Nemzan Wood, they meta woman whom they defired to helpethem to fome water; thee ha- uing a childe in her armes, laid it downe, and led the Argiues to afpring : but exe thee em +! yet thatthe laadin ‘generall was ve seturned,a Serpent had flainethechilde.. This woman was Hypfipy/e the daughter of P reface to his Hiftorie. Wherefore, as ghe confid et, what Thacidydes the greateft of theit hath written ‘to this effect, in the el him. The Sooth{ayer knowing whatfhould workehis deftinie, forbad his Wife to take not refufeit. _Therefote whereas agreat controuerfie, betweene 4emphiaraus-and, Ay draitws, was by way of compromife put. vato the decifion of Eriphyle, either of them being boundby folemne oath to ftand to her appointment : fhee ordered the matter foritisthought thatthe nameof money wasnotheardin Greece; when Hamer did wit who meafutes the valew of gold and braffe by the worthin cattell ; faying that theg>" den armour Of Glancus - Robbetiesby land and {ea wer 5 OF tiea the vfuall exercife of th € common and'without fhame, andtofteale horle cir greatmen. Theirtownes were not many, Wet tholetha: t were walled were ¢ very ' few: and not reat; For 24 he princi incippaall Citie® Pela} re Wasa verylittle thing, atidicmaytwe lt be thobghythat ee reft were PY Portionable:: briefly, Greece was thenin her infancie, ‘andthough in fome {mall 40 her avery faire bracelet, vpon condition. that thee fhould caufe her, Husband to. affift any gift of Polynices. Butthe bracelet wasin hereye fo precious a Jewell,thatfheecould whereon hee dwelt his owne longer than hecould holdit by ftrong hand. Wherefot merchandize and otherintercourfe they vfed litle, neither did they plant many trees,08 : ; Therehe met.with Tydews the fonne.of, Ocwens, who was fled.from calydoz :. with whom ftriuing aboutrheir, lodging, hee. fell to.blowes,.. Adraflus hearing the. noyle, came forthandtookevp:the quarrell.. At which time perceiuing in the-{hield.of 7y- Tedasthe Lemaian; whom thee would haue faued when the women ofthe Ile flew alf |