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Show <a The thirdBoake of thefirft part . 42 Cuars.f.6, nl §. VI. a rebear[all ofthegonernThe firff occalion ofthe warre which Darius made upon Grecce,with : we mentin Athens whencethe quarrelorem, Owthe betterto vnderftandthe reafon and motiues ofthat great War,which followed foone after,betweene the Perfians and Grecians, itis neccflary to make a fhort repetition ofthe ftate of Athens which Citic endured the hardeft and worftbrunt ofDarias inuafion onthat fide the Sea with admirable fuccefle.Neitherdo Eholditany impertinency, to belarge in vnfolding cuery. ci! cumftance of fo greata 19 y quenched,yntill in bufinefle as eaue fire to thofe wars,which neuer couldbe thro theruine of this great Perfian Monarchie, Perfepalis the apitall € re of the Empire,was atthe requeft ofan Athenian Harlot confumedwithaflame, as eadfull as in thepride of their greatnefle,the Perfians had raifedin Athens. Nowtherefore as out of the former bookes it maybe gathered, how Arhens,& other patts of Greece,wereanciently gonerned,the famebeing alreadyfet down,though{catmong other the Contempora y occurrents of the Eaftern tetingly,é&in feuerall times Emperors.and the Kingsof ladea,foI thought itver ; pertinent in this place to remem- beragaine the twolaft changes in the State of Athens. As forthe Lac maintained ftill their ancient policie ynder Kings,though thefe alfo after fome hiteene 20 efeents bridled by the Ephori. Coar King of the Athenians in the forme r bookes remembred, who willingly died thin none worny, for the fafetie of his people,was therefore fo honored bythem,as( thy to fucceed him )they changedtheir former gouernement, from Mor hicall to é < pats ae eh Bs ' 4 caf Princes for tearme oflife,of which 4¢edon the fon of Codrus was thefirft, after whom they were called medontide:and ofthefethere weretwelucGenerations belides Medon, to-wit. Apeftus. ( forlifehauing continuedin all three hundred and fixtcene years.The firtt of thofethat gouernedforten years,orthe 5g Archippus,in whofe times the Greekes tranfported themfelues' into Jenia,after Troy an hundred and foureftore yeares,accor- Therfippas. Lawesto the Spartans. Phevedus. Ariphron. Pauf-pagrgg. Dionyf.l.3. Paufip.169, Paufan.170. P4233 Theifpias, in whofetite the Affjrian Empite was' ouer-throwne by Belochus,and Arbaces. Agamneftor. Afchylas,in whofe timethe Ephori (according: to Eufebius) were erected in Lacedenon, cameron; the lafe Prince for life, after whofe death the' athenians ele&ed De- praciceand thaintenance ofa popular gouerninent ; the fate of Athens was very foont changédinto a Mofiarchie byPifilrarusthe foot Hippocrates : ling thé Citizens diftracted into two factions, whereofAfegacles & Lycurgus, zetis ofnoble Families;were become the heads ,tooke occafion by their contention raifé athitd faction more powerfull than the other two,and more plaufible feemed a Protectorof theCitizens in general. Hating | and credit,he wounded himfelfe,& fained thatb y mali haue beeneflaine for his loue to the goodCi and with that band of men furprifi . }ohimfelfe Lord ofthe towne; Hegefift in every change of gouernment had foug from the forme of a Monarchie,could foill bro was driuen for lacké of helpetoflye thetowne, as f ning their forces)attempted his expulfion, Yera vponthe diffenfion of theCitizens.wa hte welreedified by the newbre the power ofLycargus to growere the weaker fide)call in the common enémy mattiagesby which alliance the Family of tl yo Decamavery powerfull yet fo that Pififratas themand all thereft. But this < ly Mepacles being incenfed as rement held not ift Pififty atas foxhis i Whetfore theypractifed with the Souldiers of the To fofectetly,andfo farve;that Pififtratasvponthi Noother'remedyforhis ‘ affaires,than to with nedeleauen'yeates. 'Which time being expired, h pats ofGrecce,he againe recoueredthe priincipality of Athens: hing his eftate,he gouerned Arhens feuenteeneyeares, accord nedinallthirty and three yeares, faith E/ianas but as Ju/fizehath it,foure and thirty, ac-, ZoCOUnting thetime belikeas well beforeas afterhis feverallexpulfions." Herddoras gine Hipparchiswho zoucrnedthe Athenians with fuch moderation, as they ratherfeemed the Lineall fucceffors of a naturall Princethan ofa Tyrant. Butinthe end,é fome three yearesbefore Hippias was expelled out of Athenshis brother Mipparchas was intirdered by Harenodins and Aviftogiton. The caufe why, and the manner howperformed, Thacz- Leocrates, Abfander. Diogenetus, in whofe time Lycargas gaued of the Fisflorie oftheWorld. . the Fatherand the Son fixeandthirtie yeares; Aviffotve fue andthirty .But Thucidides affirmeth,that hediedvery old, leauing for his Succeffours his twofons Hippie and firtt Archon,was ding toEn/ebixs : which migtation all o- Charops,then ther Chronologers({uch as follow Eu/e- Afjmedes, bigs herein excepted finde in the yeere Elydicus. after Trey fallen one hundredand fortie. Higppomenes, Phorbar: Méxsdes. Cuar.s.f.6. Erixias wasthelaft Archon ofthe decennal Gouernours,vvhich forme continuing threefcore and tenne yeares, was then 49 changedinto a#zuall Magiftrates, Maiors,or Burg-mafters, of vvhich Thefens was the firft, according to Panfantas + 0 thers finde Leoffratas; andthen Aathosthenes. Archimedes. Miltiades. Damafias, ides hath written atlarge. Andthough Hipparchus were charged with vanatutall tuft alter Harenodius, yet Plato in his Dialogue,intituled Hipparchus, dorh greatly magnife himaffirming that he was'a Prince of'as inany eminent vertues asthat Age hadany,alqotogether condemning the murderers & authors ofthatfeandall. Hippie fearing thar this enterprife vponhis brother had more & deeperrootés'tlian were apparant, firftfought % difcouer the further intents of Harmoius and Arijtegiten,by.a Harlotoftheirs called oilsaa' becaufe fhe would not reueale her Companions, did cutout her owne ae endid Hippias the better toftrengthen hime ap ‘ a éssTyrant ofthe City Lawmipfatus,whom héknewto'be greatly fauoured by Da- ‘towholefon Hypaclus he gaueone of his Daugliters in martiage. But fome three tafe hinge death of his brother,doubting I ktiow tot what' rong practife apainft Draco. Megacles. tobere| Solow,8 others,whoare theleffe cennall Gouernours > theformer Princes ( garded,by reafon of the yearely change This Solon being a man of excellent wifedome, gaue lawes to the Athenians,whic™ were publithedaccording to Gellius,in the three & thirticth yeere of Tarquinins PrJ@™" and were in after ages deriued vnto the Kemanes, and bythe Decem viri (Magittrates " Rome createdfor that purpofe) reduced into twelue Tables, which weret! rround- o the Romane lawes. But thefe goodly ordinances ofSolom,were in his owne dayes V0.la ted,and fora while almoft quite extinguifhed,For whereasthey were framed vatot he practice is © ebegan to vfethe Citizens with great{euerity, whic heither Pierdens tae SOAndhens Hippias himfelfe had euer exercifed, duting the irvfarpation elyA ea eaemis fearing left that this dif ife ae increas ethan ditopradtig ny ftirred vp Cliftines one ofthe nobleft andbeft able oftheir se ile a cir delinery:who calling to his affiftance the banifhied-A/cménide,together tay ashy eel ofthe Lacedemonians led by Cleemenes their King, fo affrighted Eikais : inibark; Polition he gaue ouerhis eftate,andthe poffeffion of Arhews,and from thence P ues mg mimfelfe,tooke land at* Sizewm, whence he went to' Lamp/acus in Myfiz go- i ered b' ne RN : aoe 3 ey DAs Y Bantideswho prefented him to Darins? He was deprived of his eftate,~as tmehe¢ and Thucidides agtee,twentyy vyeares before thé battell of atarathen: all which" Sntinued,partly WitheZavpidessat other times with Arraphernes Sicincriane for Herodotus Pay, f |