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Show The third Bookeofthefirftpart Cuar.9:§.2, thePerfiats by force the: City Bicastium, now Conflantin ople: from whence Panfanias, behauing himfelfe more likea Tyrant than a Captaine , efpecially towardsthe Jonsans Lacedemon, and not Ihitlyteuolted from Xerxes, was called backe by the Councell of afedes,& Treawiththe ce Intelligen of s,but behauiour infolent ofmany accufed diiely e the fame eithergan o Decres,wh imployed they ftead his Tn fon againtt his Countrey. ment in that caute ofoffence ; or elfe the Athenians , who affected the firft commande warre, pradifedthe fouldiers to complaine ; thoughindeede the wife and vertuousbeble finhauiour of AriffidesGeneral ofthe Athenian forces, aman ofrare & incompara n ofhimfelfe; cetity, had been able to make a good Commander {ceme ill in comparifo ed 7g &therefore was much moreauaileable,in rendring thofe detcfted,whofe vicesafford wearied of little matter of excule.Howfoeuer it were, the Lacedemenians being no lefle c, and the theireaf obtained onc the it, purfue cagctto were Athentans the the war,than ofPelopon fe Greeks(tho the all for defired: they which honour other the executionand nefus excepted)willingly fubieéted themfelues tothe commandementof the Athenians, which was boththe beginningoftheir greatneffe in that prefent age,& oftheir ruinein the next fucceeding. For the charge ofthe watre being how committed vnto them,they bebeganto ratethe confederated Cities ; they appointed Receiuers and Treafurers,& Ntoleuic mony,accordingto their difcretion,for the maintenance ofthe generall de. leffe, & ence of Greece,and forthe recouering ofthofe places on Enrope fide, in Afia theGreckes) 19 theTlands,from the Perfians. This tribute(the firft that was euer payed by the hothe by eafily raifed was which ; Talents threefcore and hundred foure o amountedt nef care of that inft man 4riffides , to whofe difcretion all the confederates referred ofAthemfelues,& no oné man found occafion to complaine of him. But asthe vertue; fothe fiftides,& other worthy Citizens,brought vntothe Athenians grcat commodity & defire which they conceiued ofencrcafing their commoditycorrupted their vertue, their abandoned , powerfull m madethe had h loue,whic generall ofthe robbing them City tothe defence ofher treafure,which with her inthe next age perifhed. For it was to fixe hundred, not longere thefe foure hundred and threefcore Talents were raifed fior long after that,ere their couctous tyranny had conuertedtheir followers into flaues; was 230 and extorted from themyearely thirteene hundred Talents. The Ifle of Delos vp, and the firft appointed for the Treafure-houfe wherein thefe fummes werelaid confedebythe where, atthegencrall Affembly , the Captaines ofthofe forces, fent fates, were for formefake called to confulration. But the ‘Athenians, who wereftronget by fea than all Greece befides,had lockt vp the commontreafure in an Ifland,vader their afterwar owne protection, from wheace they might tranfportit at theirpleafure, as theydid. ~The generall Commanderin this Warre was Cimon,the fonne ofMiltiades,who firt tooke Etova,vpon the RiuerSfrimor ; then the Ifle of Scires, inhabited by the Dyopes: they,maftered theGari/fy,& broughtinto feruitude the Waxg,contrary to the formotthe confederacy; So. didthe otherthe inhabitants of Greece,ifat any timethey failed oftheit 4° contribution, or difobeyed their commandements; taking vpon them and viurping t affuredly, kinde of foucraigne authority over the reft: which they exercifed the more becaufe they werenow become Lordsofthe Sea, and could not be refifted. For many, ofthe confederated Cities and Nations, weary of the warre in their owne perfons,an¢ their parts in mony,than giuenvp altogether totheireafe, made choiceratherto pay either in men ofwarte,orin fhips;leauing the prouifion ofbothto the Athenians. Here by theone grew weakein all their Sea-defences, and inthe exercife of the Wart 5 the other greatly ftrengthened their Nauie and their experiences,being alwayes 4 imployed in honorable Seruices,at the coft ofthofe,who hauing lifted theminto Saddles, were now.enforcedto become their foormen. Yet was the Tribute-M uied vponthefe their confederates, employed fo well by the Athenians at the firtt of f¢P proceedings are often founded vpongood beginnings) that no great caufewher' ,very wellmanned, Waggiucn.Forthey rigged outta great Fleet ofGallics monthe Admiral {eouring thé Afiaticke Seas,took-in the City ofPha/elis;whi h hawins way affift the Greeks MO" formerly. pretended neutrality,and refufed to relicue,or any arhensa" enforcedto pay ten Talents fora fine, and fo tobecome followers ofthe Pande yearly contribution. tomthence hie fet faylé for the Riner Ewrymedon in Pamphylia, where the : per[is® Gas4.poftheBifleryoftheWorlk. ing to the moft {pating teport)three Plect rode} being of‘lixe hutidred fayle, (or accord ll. which jaadied andfifty and having'a great Latids Armie,encampedvponthe fhoaresa terly de> wetevt Greece in affaires Kings the ing aduanc for ed forces having beene prouic ng broken roftbei the s, henian thew#t by taken fhips d feared in oie day,andtwo hupdre Cimon having inons to'pieces , orfunk, ere eucrtlicy: had {wom inthe Greckifh Scas. other by Land; was very day obtairied two great victories, the one by the Seas andthe Phenicians (wlio were the beftof foone prefentedwith athitds For fourefcore fayle of lues withthe yned therife ¥\)'Sea-men, vnderthe Perfian command) thinking to Haueio nt of what had paffed,: and Fleet before deftroyed,artined vpon the {ame Coatt, ignora oftheit approach ; C#aon 10 fearing nothing Jefe than what eafueds Vpon thefirlt notice fo amazethem,that weighed anchor,and meeting thematanhead-Land,called Hydra,did ing fewof their théy onely fotight to runthem felues on groundsby Which meane preféra Perfian; that) mien, they loft allttheirfirips: Thefe lofles did fo breake the courage of the ener Articles it omitting all hope ofpreuailing vpon Greece , he condefcendedto whatfo ting fia; inhabi Greekes the all nto liberty ng granti nd, propou to ns pleafed the Uhenia ardof Weftw the to yle fhouldfa War of fhips his of and further couenanting, That none : the Ifles, called Cyanee and Ghelidonie. neither did theyin Thiswasthe moft honourable peace thareuerthe Greekes made; ofthe whole elfed, after this time, makeany warre that redounded to the profit or glory n which Per(asi of empiie rewthe ouerth hey nder,t UAlexa vader £0 Nation, till fich time as her war,fewi,or perhaps none of them, hadany place of éréat comand, but ferued altoget vader the Aacedonians. ae [Beee9 Efides c SE ceeaeeeneeaeeee §. ITT, The death of Xerxeslythe treafan of Artabanus, troubles ofthe thefe tolls, which could Hotcafilyhate bit repaired,the caufé tothe Persian of {ecking peace is 8 4 Empire, were at this time firch, as gaue iuft nws, the vncle Of Xer- nk pay vponany teatmes not altogether intolerable. For Artaba Mafter did eafily take {mall occafions tothed fo SS es, perceiving, thatthe King his flehope theblood offiich, as in kindred or place were necre vnto him,beganto repotele defttoyinga by igntie, Soue the ing obtain of than ull, faithf ing remain in ofafafetic misfortunes. Princethatwas fo hatedfor his cruelty, and defpifed for his cowardife and ates an Bunuch, A fithrid Haning conceiued this Treafon,he found meanesto execute it by nt)heaecufed Darins thefon in fichclofenianiner,that (as if he hinafelfe had been innoce des Whether.it be true, that by this of Xerxes,and caufed himto fuffer death asa Patrici rinten- he got the Kingdome, andheld it feuen moneths ; or whethe gteat wickedneffe ented andfarprifed, Ging the like euill toArtaneyxes the fon of Xerxes,he was by himpren dken hee.was, Wetchardtd firme any certainty. Butall Writcrsagree vpon this, Thatt the fentence, to ording ts,acc tormen 4oand withhis whole familie put to death by extreame : Verfe he thantt t ancien e ismor whereof the truth Raro antecedentemfcelefium Deferuitpede pana clando. he make, Seldomethevillaine, though much hafte ke. Lame-footed Vengeancefailes to onertaO O eeeremnvet §. III. toArtaxerxes newly reigning ia Perfias Co _ Thebanifoment of Themittocles: hisAls $05 death, hauing fo compounded with Rg Ktaxerxes being eftablifhed in his Kingdome , and concciuc ANS the Athenians asthe prefent neceflity of his affaires required, beganto his predeceflors had heor than Greekes, the againft fortune better of Sex new hopes whenthe Perfians were chafed out, of "uer hitherto found. For the people of UAthens, thought onely Greece, didfo highly value their owne merits inthat feruice, that they not ouer many Townes and Lflands of the it fit fotthemflues to become the Conimanders of: Gothey would admit none other forme but euen within their owne wals, Greekes, were {o infolent, that no inegritic ni Heramentthan meerely Democraticall.. Hercinthey i} it ni i By tiath I |