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Show : L befecond ‘Booke of the first part . sd Cuwarry, §.4: BuroneTpress an Athenian Poet,whom by appointment ofan Oracle they had gotten to direa&them,re-enforced their fpirits with his Verfes. A fter t his, Ariflomenes took by furprifea Town in Laconia,and vanquifhed in fight avaxanderking of Sparta, whodid fet vponhimin hope to haue recouered the booty. MD But all thefe victories of Aréjfomenes perifhed, in the loffe ofone battaile,whereofthe honour(ifit were honour) or furely the profit, fell vpon the Lacedamonians, through the treafon of Ariffecrates, king of Arcadia, who being corrupted bytheenemies with moriey, fled away,and left the Meflenians expofed toa cruell butchery. T he loffe was fo great, that together with Andania their principall Citic, allthe townes of Meffene, ftanding toofar fromthe Sea, were abandoned, for lack of mento defendthem, & the MountErafortified whitherthe multitude,that could not be fafeabroad, was conueyed into a place of fafety.Here the Lacedemoniansfounda tedious work,that heldthem eleauen yeares, For befidesthat Era it felfewasaftrong peece, Ari/lomenes withthree hundred ftout Souldiers,did many incredible exploits, that wearied them,andhindred their attendance on thefiege. Hee wattedallthe fields of Mefféne, that wer in the ene- mies powet, and brake into Laconia, takingaway Corne,Wine,Cattell, andall prouifions, neceflary for his owne people ; the Slaues and houfhold ituffe he changedinto money, fuffering the owners to redeeme them. To remedythis mifchiefe the Lacedemonians madean Edi&, that neither Meflene, nor the adioyning parts oftheir owne Country, fhould betilledor husbanded ; which bred a great tumult among priuate a mien, that were almoft vndone byit. Yet the Poet Tyrteusappeafed this vproarewith pleafing Songs.But 4ri/fomenes grewfo bold,that he notonlyrangedouerall thefields, but aduentured vpon the Towns,furprifed,and fackt Amycle,& finally caufed the enemies to encreafe and ftrengthen their Companies ; which done, thereyet appearedno likelihoodoftaking Era. In performing thefe and other feruices,thrice Ariflomenes was taken prifoner; yet fill heefcaped. One efcape of his deferuesto beremembred, as a thingveryftrangeand maruailous. He had with too much courage aduentured to fet vpon both the Kings of Sparta ; and being in thatfight wounded, and felled to the ground, wastakenyp fenfe- Cuar.27.940 ofthe Hiftorie ofthe World, relt didsas for Ari/lomenes,he was woundedof late in fight,and could not look abroad: neither was it to be feared, that the enemies would ftirre, in fuch adarke rainie night as this was. The flaue that heard thefetidings,rofe vp fecretly out of his lurking hole, and gothim. tothe Lacedzmonian Campe with the newes. There he found Emperamus his Mafter, commanding in the Kings abfence. To him he vtteredall ; and obtaining patdonfor his running away,guided the Armyinto the Town. Little or nothing wasdone that night. For the Allarme was prefently taken , and the extreame darkneffe together with the noife of winde and raine,hinderedall dire@tions. All the next day was fpent in moft cruel fight ; one part being incited, by meere hope of ending a long worke.the iootherenraged by meere defperation. The great aduantage that theS partans had innum- bers, was recompencedpartly by the affiftance,which womenandchildren (to whom thehatred of feruitude had taught contempt of death) gaue to their husbands fathers ; partly by the narrowneffe ofthe ftreetes and other paflages., -which and admittednot many handsto fight at once. But the Meffenians werein continual! Enemies fought in courfe, refrething themfelues with meate and fleepe, toyle ; their and thenreturning fupplyed the place of their wearyfellowes with freth Companions. -773Homenes therefore, perceiuing that his men for want of reliefe were no longer able to hold out, (as hauing beene three dayes, and three nights vexed with all miferies, of labour, watchings, fighting, hunger and thirft, befides continuall taine and cold) 20 gathered togetherall the weakerfort, whom he compaffed round with armed and fo attempted to breakeout through the midft of the Enemies. Emperamus men Genetallof the Lacedamonians vvas glad ofthis : and to further their departure, caufed his Souldiers to giue an open way, leauing a faire paflage to thefe defperate madmen. Sotheyiff entertained, ed forth, and arrined fafein Arcadia, where they were moft louingly 7 Vponthe firftbruit ofthe taking of Era, the Arcadians had prepared therefcue: but ariflecrates their falfe-hearted King, faid it was toolate, for‘themfelues to that all was euerit cameto paffe)tooke noharme. Yet was it harme enough to be imprifoned ina deepe Dungeon,among dead carcaffes, where he was like to perifh through hunget and already loft. When Ariflomenes hadplaced his followers in fafety , hée chofe' out fue hundred the luftiett ofhis men,with whom he refoluedto march in all fecret hafte vato 30 Sparta, hoping to findethe Towne fecure, and ill manned, the people being runne forth tothe fpoile ofMeffene.In this enterprize,ifhe {ped well, it was not doubted, that < Tacedzmonians would be glad to recouer their owne,byreftitution ofthat which icy had taken from others ; if all failed,an honourable death was the worft that could ao were three hundred Arcadians that offered to ioyne with him ; but ftench.Butafter a while he perceiued by fome{mal glimmering oflight@which perhaps camein at the top)a Foxe that was gnawing vpona dead body.Hereupon he bethought er ae i piftle which Anaxander fent backto Ariflecrates,was intercepted by fome leffe, and carried awayprifoner, withfifty ofhis Companions. There wasadeepena- 3¢ turall Caue into whichthe Spartans vfed to caft head-long firchas were condemnedto dye for the greateft offences. Tothis punifhment were Arisfomenes and his compationsadiudged. Allthereft ofthefe poore men dyed withtheirfals; Avifiomeneshowlo- himfelfe,that this beaft muft needes know fome way, to enterthe place and getoll. For which caufe he made fhift to lay hold vpon it, and catchingit by the taile with one 40 hand,faued himfelfe frombiting with the other hand , by thrufting his coateinto,the mouth ofit. So letting it crepe whitherit would, he followed, holdingitas his guide, vntill the way wastoo ftrait for him and then difmiffed it. The Foxe being'loofe,ras through an hole at which cameinalittle light sand there did Aristemenes delue fo long withhis nailes, that at laft he clawedouthis paflage. When {ome fugitiues ofMeticne brought word to Sparta,that Ariffomenes was returned home,their tale founded alike, asif they had faid, that adead man was reuiued. But when the Corinthian forces, that came'to helpe the Lacedemonians inthe fiege of Era, werecut in pieces , their Cap- tainesflaine, and their Campetaken ; then wasit eafily beleeued, that Arijloreanes Was aliue indeed. Thus eleuenyeares paffed whileft the enemies houering about Era,fawno Likelihood ofgettingit sand Ariftomenes with fall forces did them ‘greater hurt than:they knew how to requite.But at thelatt,a flaue,that had fled from $ parta,betrayedthe place. his fellowhad enticedtolewdneffe the wife of a Meffenian 5 and was entertained by het, when her husband went forth towatch. It happened ina rainie-winter-night, that husband camehome vnlooked for, whileftthe Adulterer was within. The Wome hie herParamour, and made good countenanceto her husband, asked him, by what 9% fortune hewas returned fo foone. Hetold her, that the ftorme of foule weather 1% fuch,askad made all his fellowes leaue their Stations,and that himdfelfe had doneas tH Soars ie ae all, by fending fpeedy aduertifement thereofto dsaxander King of wh on, him to whomit was directed. Therein was foundall his falfhood,which iske e ithed in open affemblythe Arcadians {toned him to death, and cafting forth ‘body vnburied,erected a monumentofhis treachery,with a note: Thatthe Periurer 4o ©a0not deceiue God, : ee no more is remaining to be faid,thanthat committing his peopletothe thw fects"4 # Gorgus & other firfficient Gouernours,who fhould plant them in fome abiding she refolued himfelfe tomake aboadin thofe parts,hoping tofinde the office ace workat home.His ‘daughters he beftowed honorablyin marriage.One Oracl éetus,whoreignedin the Ile ofRhodes,tooke to wife, being willed byan Fache.to marr y the of the beft man in Greece. Finall Ariflomenes went with his daughter to Rhodes:daughter whence!he purpofed adled Greer Kine off me es,whence tf Ardys d: the Sonne of tohauetrauaile d vato wherehe® ydia,&to Phraortes King ofMedia: but death preuented him at Rhodes, 11 ne Was honourably buried. ap: aeEat rae inuited by Awaxilas (whofe great Grandfathet was a Meffeni- Siri. to Italy after the former watte) being Lord ofthe Rhegians in Italy,ta didi Zancleans in= Sicily, onthe other fide of the Streights. They fo . Pattagainftthe saad : this oe winning the Towiie of Zancle,called it; Meffene, which nameit: keeps to This fecond M effenian warte endedin the firft yeare of the twenty eight Olympiad, ‘ 0; de htinte, the reft of that Nation, whoftaying at homefetued the Lacefake Pele ound meanesto rebell; but were foone vanquifhed, and being driven to Poanefiss, they went into Acarnania ; whence likewile, after few ages they Fff2 were |