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Show The thirdBooke ofthefrStpart norgood defert'was able to preferue the eftate of any fuchas had borne great office, lon gerthah by a the rafcall multitude, he was contentedto frameallhis words and otheirgoodliking. aa their SeAoishle cecsmatioit much offended Themiftocles ; who, thoughinfor. mertimeshe had layed the foundationsof his greatneffe vpon popularitie, yet nowpre, fuming vpon his good feruices:done to the State, heethought that withgreat reafon they might grant him theliberty to checke their inordinare proceedings, Burt contrat wifey they, were fo highly offended withhis often rehearfing the benefits which they had réceiued from him, thacthey laide vpon him the punifhment of Oftracifme, where: by.-hee was banifhed for ten.yeeres, as a man ouer-burthenfome to the Common- 3, i wealth. ofthe Hiftorie of the World. Cuar.7.§.5, ) Before the time ofhis returne washalfe expired,a new accufation was brought againft himibythe Lecedemonians,whocharged himofconfulting with Pau/anias, about betray. them whenthey ate hisenemies.Andthisbeing the purpofe of the Arhemians; theit Anbitioembich: had already. deuoured, in conceit, this and, vvas on the fodaine vvell-nigh choaked with agreater morfell; tofnatch at which, they let Cyprus alone; which they.mighteafily, haue {wallowed. and digefted, For /warus Kingofthe Lybians confining Egypt, haiing found how greatly the Country was. exhautted by the late warres;and: how vveakely defended by very lender Perfiaw Garrifons, conceis ued rightly,that if fuch finall forces as the Satrapa or Viceroy could make on the fodainé of his owne Guards, orlenie out ofthe ordinary Garrifans, vvere by him defeated ; thenaturals of the Country, not long fince opprefled by Cambyfes, and after areuolt very lately fubdued by Xerxes, would foone breake faith yvith him,vvho had no other 10ritlero that Kingdome than a good fivord. Further, he perfwaded himfelfe that the peoplewnable to defend themfelues againft the Perfizm vvithouthis affiftance, would eafily be drawne to accept him,the author of their deliuerance for King. Neitherdid this offecurity againft the malice of wo fuch mighty Cities, was driuen,after mapytrouble, fomeflights and dangerous remonings,to aduenture him elf into Perfiaswherehefound hope deceiue him. For hauing taken andcruelly flaine Achemenesthe Viceroy, divers Ci ties forthwith declared themfelues for him,and proclaiming him King, fhewedthetnoft of their endeuour for profecution ofthe warre.-Butheconfidering his owne weaké- which Artaxerxes had conceiued of aduancing hisaffaires by the counfell and aflitance ofThemiftocles, proued altogetherfruitlefle, For when the Athenians,in fauourof Inarus their defires, perceiued well,that torefift the power of C4rtaxerxes,farre greater for= cesthan his aud theirs wereto be procured, at what price foeuer he. obtained thems 20 ing the whole Countrey ofGreece vnto Xerxes, Heréupon Themiftocles finding no place Artaxerxes newly fetled,& was by hint very honourably entertained. But the great hope the Lybian, (who infefted Beypt, caufing it to rebcllagainft the Per(ian) had fenca Fleet 9 to Sea, landing an Armie in Egypr, and icowring thofe Eafterne Seas,to the great hinde; rance ofArtaxarxes, and (for oughtthat Ican vnderftand)to the manifeft breach ofthat peace, whichtotheir great honour they had concluded with Yerxes 5 thendid the King fend his Lettersto Themiffocles, requiring him to make good the hopes which he had gt uen, ofaffuring the Perfian eftace againit the Greekes. ' But whether Themiffocles perceiued much volikelineffe of good fiucceffe,in leading a gteat Army ofdaftardly Perfians againft the warlike people ofGreecesorelfe(asin fauour ofhis vertuc itis morecommonly reported) the loue of his Countrey would notpermit him to feeke honour by theruine of it: {ure itis, that being appointed by Artaxerxesto vndertake the condué ofgreat forces againft the Athenians, he decided thegteat conflict 30 betweenthankfulneffle to his well deferuing Prince, and naturallaffection rohis own ill; nefle, and that the meanes of the Zgptiens his adherents wete. nor anfwerable to Therefore hearing of the great Athenian flect, and knowing well, the vertue of the Souldiets therein embarqued ; he inuited the Commandersto fhare with him the king= dome of Egypz,as a farre greater rewardof their aduenture,than fuchan addition as that ot Cpruscould betotheireftate. Whetherhe or they (fthings had wholly forted according totheir expectation ) would hauebin contented with an equall {hare, and not hauefallen out in the partition, were perhaps a divination vaneceffary. He vvas pof= fefled of the peoples loue, they vvere of moft power. But the iffue of thofe affaires vyas fuch:as. left them nothingto, communicate but misfortunes, which they fhared fomewhat equally, Yet had the beginnings oftheir enterprifevery good and hopefiull fuccefle : For they 30 eatred the Landas farreas to A4emmpbis, the principall Citie ;:and-ofthe Citieit -felte they tooke two parts : tothe third part,vvhich wascalled the White wall,they laid fich hard fiege, that neither thofe forces of the Perfians; vvhich. thenvverein Egypt, vvere deferuing people, by finifhing his life witha cup of poyfon. ftrong enough to remoue them; neither could -"raxerxes vvell deuife what meanes §0V. tovie forthe recoueryofthat which wasloft, or for the preferuation of the remainder. Thebeofhis hope wvas by fetting the Lacedemonians vpon Athens, to enforcethe A- How the Athenians, breaking thepeace, which totheir great honour theyhad made withthe Pevfian, were(bamefully beaten in Egypt. @ Hen was Artaxerxes driuen to vie thefervice of his owne Captaines in the E- oyptian ware, wherein it appeared well, Thataintt caufeisa good defence a ; gainita {trong enemy. An Athenian Fleet oftwo hundred faile ftrong was fent 40 forthynderCimon ,totake in theIfle of Cyprus: whichconquelt feemeded t ; both to make and to maintaine,the Perian being vtterly broken at Sea,& thereby voable *entaus to looke homewards to their owne defence. This vvas the firft time that the Perfian fought to procurethe affiftance of the Greekes one againft the othet,byftirring hem yp vith gold tothe entertainment ofpriuate quarrels, for the good of their com40Menemy.Tothis purpofe he fent Adegabazus to Sparta vvith much Treafure;. who, after great expence,finding thatthe Lacedemonians vvere nothing forward in imploylbgtheir whole force againftthe Athemiazis, vvhomin many conflicts ofgreat impor- taheethey had found to be. their matches, notwithftanding the abfence oftheir Ar- torelieuethe Ifland, Nowalthoughit were fo, that a peace had been concluded,which mein, Fee; he thoughtit his wifeft way to imploy thereft of his mony and meanes waslikely to haue been kept fincerely by the Perizwho had made fo good proofofthe Grecian valour,thathe was nothing defirousto build any thips of Warre (without Which the Greekes could receiue no harmefrom him)wherofifany onefhould be found fay" towards Greece,the peace was immediately broken sand ifnot,his whole eftate;yet 00 Sea-coaft(no {malpart of his Dominions)expofedto the wate ofan enemy too freer matching him.Yet whether the Athenians were in doubr,leftthe league which in his ay . 2 worferfortunes he had made with them,he would break in theirs;and therforefoug : a get fach affiranceinto their hands, as might vtterly difable him fromattempting one againftthem ; or whether theincreafe oftheir reuenuies & power,by adding that richage great Mand to their Empire,caufed themto meafire honour by profit;they thought itt wifeft way,to take whileft they might, whatfoeuer they were ableto get and hola, "°" he vnable to defend. 3 ; aag ‘The We of Cyprus lying in the bottomeof the ftreights betweene Cilicia, Sp _ Spt; isvery fi tly-feated forany Prince of State, thatbeing mightyat Sea, doth ¢ a of scke to enrich himfelfe by trade with thofe Countries, or ro infeft one oF hes totheir reliefe, who had now the {pace of fixe yeares defended his matters right ‘in *g Pt.Thereforehe haftily difpatched another of hisname, the fonne of Zepyras, vvho SHMIDE In. Esypt,vvasfirft encountred by the reuolted people ; ouer whom heobtaiee wes yvhich made him mafter of the Countrey, whileft the Athenians lay bus Out Memphis the great Citic. $o ‘cannot be doubted,that long abodeina ftrange ayre,and want offupply,had much en ee led the thenians : fure it is, that when #4egabazms, hauing reduced the Counhad au > obedience, attempted the Citie it felfe, whetherhis formerfucceffe feo the Foura ge ofthe Perfians, or want ofneceflaries made the Ashemians in pites an id between 2¢ chaled themout of Memphis, and ‘purlued them fo neere, a dibeecr € ap ee Me where Riuers of Profopites, of ‘t to fort Ifle the in themf{elues teria. ane y & Phar€ene mon >» turning away one partof the ea by. a renee, affaihted tive a cthisf cus,two Put of all Ole Rirsed torn, ee impediment et vere too ct oe pe : y s \en- of: faue'a fewthat® faued themfelues by flight into Lyia , the lame » ra ey "4s tinementhad fiftie other Gallies which'they fent tothe fuccourof the firft two andria, tertair Ooo handred. outelers tolex |
