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VIL, , Cxar.8:9.8. theFliftory ofthe World. now bycounfell of Alcibiades, (who fecking renengevpon his.owneCitizens was fled yntothem)fortific the' Town of Deceléa,which'was neere to Athenswhence they ceaz fed not with daily excurfions to hatry all the' Country round about,and fometimes giue alapme‘vato the City it'felfe:Th thefe extremities,the perterfe obftinacy ofthe Athenians was very ftrange; who leauing attheir backes, and at their ownedoores, an énemy little leffe mighty than themfelnes,did yet fend forth another Fleet into Sicil, to inuade How.the‘peacebetmecne Athens.and Spartayas ill kept, tho gli not openly krokew, ; hem. apeoplenoleffe puiffant,which had neuer offendedt counfaile feem wifer thanit was; T.was.not long erethe Argiues andtheir fellowes had found bufineffewherwithto It often happens,that profperous euent makes foolih which came to paffemany:times'among the Athenians, whofe vaine conceits Pallas was fo faid toturne vnto the beft. But where vnfound aduice, finding bad proofe,is obfti- fet the Athenians on worke,and make feof this coniunétiéal, For, prefuming vpon the frength of their fide, they began to meddle withthe Epidaurians,whonrit ton cerned the State of Spartato.defend: So,many.adts ofhoftility were committed, wher- nately purfued,ncither Pallas norFortune can be iuftly blamed fora miferableiffue. This in Athens and Spatta-did(as principals) infeft cach the others: but cameiin collaterally; "hl thesforfecond Fleet of the Athenians,which bettérmight haue ferued to conuey home By thefe occafionshe Corinthians, Bocotians,Phocians,Locrians,&-othérpeople of Greece, began a-newto rangethemfelues voder the, Lacedgmonians; dofollow thei enfignes.One victory;which the Lacedamoniansjobtained by. their mee?vdlourin merthat was defeated ; after omeattemptsmade to fmall purpofe:againtt the Siracufans, was finally (together withthe other part of the Nauie, whichwasthere befére) quite vanquithed,& bardvpinto the hauenof Siracute,w herby the camp of the Athenis reputation, though otherwileit-yeclded them no great profit,The ciuill diffenfionai- breakevp, and flyeaway by Land ; in whichfight they were ouer-taken, routed, and as to the aide of theirfeuerall friends. battell,ncer to Mantinea, againft the Argiue-fide; helpedawellto repaire their i fing fhortly after within Argosit felfe,betweene the pringipall Citizens-andthe mons, had almoft-throwne downe the whole frameofthe) new-combination.:] Com Sparta, wher chiefe Citizens gettingthe vpper hand, made a league with taenmtn few ond quiteouerthrowne;in fuch wifethat fcarce any man efcaped. _ Thismifchiefe wel deferued fell vpon the Athenians,who had wickedly condemned 40 into exile Sophocles and Prhioderws Generalls, formerlyfent into that Ile,pretending that Rand' ceeded fo farre asto renounce the amityof the Ashainan ans,ytterly deprived ofall benefit by Sea, either for fuccouror departure, wasdriuento they had taken mony for making peace in Sicil,wheras indeed there was'notany means d the Mantineans.to thelike. But in-fhort {paceof time the eaticeade ‘nites tthe chenatoluesita applied all chis, and hauing chafed away. their ambitious Nobility . ss aan Athenians.as clofely,as before. or poffibility to haire made warre. Herebyit' cameto pafle, that Vieier; who had the ruine of chiefe commandin this vnhappyenterprife, did rather choofe tohazzardthe his Country bythe loffe ofthat Army,wherin confifted little leffe thanall the power of all parts of Greece; &Jlikewife:in Macedon,to the Athenians; whofe foirties & readin thameleffeaccufers, and the fentence ofIudges before his triall refoluedito condemne lesin Befide thefe vprores in Peloponnefis, many aflaies were madeto raife vp g from Siracufe,when wifdomeand neceliity required it. For (faid hee) requited all with fomey fomethings,reuengedother, and for execution, preuented the t Athenians wanting matter ofquarrell; &th {pcrous attcmapts, Finally hearts, to be quiet retaining {till that enmiity.imtheir nians growing weary,they began 5. thoughnot yet breaking outsuintoterms 4g ;fconered in effects ae pl es theyhad fufficiently.di which = of open Warte. of Athens: than to aduenturé his owneeftate, his life, and his honour vponthe tongues him,byretirin they (ballginefentence vpn vs, who Knownot the reafon of ae would gine care to and vaine rumors that tay thet would[peake in our behalfe, but altogether harken. tofa[pictous ink in fafety, 1 p 0 returne cat now aré fo defirous Plas whe ; ws: yea thefeRoe ont see b all be browzht Souldiers againft 30 Pal be pleafureo the lewd and infolent well contented to frametheir tales to the re our dancer willin o. be aoe matituae, hoThis refolution of av/cias though it cannot be commended (for it is the part ofan neftand valiant manto doe what reafon willethsnor what opinion expecteth; & to mea- ‘ . 7 | than informed confcience, H > rather : C ¢ h well of his difhonour by by the allurance of the affurance honour or fure ‘Honour or difhonour had before - . The. Athenians fited. ; t fendino Py and vtterly Sending two Fleets to Jacke Siratife; are put to flight, afm ~ a ss y.0 "ditt V ring thisintermiffion of open War; the: Atheniansre-enter a offubduing Sicil,whither they & ta Fleet fo mighty as' neuer wasfet! rafter inany Agebeforeo after. g mdait Greece : ; neceffaties to lim d withall . well manned,&&furnifhe Th is3. Fleet Was very : Ati dition. All which cameto nought. partlyby the factior thens, wh factions e h t par 5 i S : the Generalls of heirFi efTens, V Authior.al thar veyage,,..and oneof > "ralis ©: f aia VE oS " 4 : EHECE, -W EMCI iudoement.ac of fach himfelfe. for feare Care OF oe ids 3 bine ‘ iuch 1udgement, as elfe he was like rohauev the J Sask n which partly bytheinuafio people; incented ation 5 ofthat State werefofar ater his aie {which the Lacedwmoniar forces whileftthe home: ‘Hereunto was added the tom ; eee REE 5 ae erliaswho te lupplied the Peloponnefi s withmony. Wasthelucceile of things in Sic likelihood ofa goodendi oermri! S a terprife hadiffo well fuc . cee } Iland, and one of ns , swhichel ~* - 1 C, | than a wicked fact, as being held.apre fide ncand patterne W herby oppr efWorfe ly his feare of Deginning vponone, is extended as wairantable vponall. T herefore Hoa wronghull condemnation was fuch;} as aconftant man couldnot eafily haue: ouer-mafte1 of fafety than the expectation her hauingn other Army , havingno afterwardsthe ted. but'when , expecta besa the Army = Whenafterwards hope of afecret flight, he was {fo terrified with an Eclipfe of the Moon, happening natedvp . . . a4 0 diflodge,that camp break | would ner‘ confent to hauethe were about ro : . ridicuand foolith "nas cu was ffe Histimoroufne patt. were renty daies Gases ‘ He: :the ¢Heanens,&th tend leffe euill any Afro! $0 ues deftr of 2 sO year 'y JOULES 0 aMtica,, Which haning We ; * Berry at the powerot For hefhould not hauethougheth oUS,25 theiffie of it was lamentable. musi vind pte* hie or might Nature, would be as vniuft as his Athenians, courfe of mht ' ues by Land andSea; yet wheathe Tor ielus, Ne Ccame ro palle Itcame Pale tlth all fides, in fach wife tha Uther rieet-tvas : fhuc not iflue our. AstheAd ims Went veryilinSicil, for that the Laced monians,who had beer Mee beexcufed: fincehe by themilicious report & cenfure of others) yet it may that a wicked fentence is inynderftood hadwell ais ¢i¢s the iniuftice of his people,and f sene wherby - F 3. ra flothfull.' than to fuch as did their beft. Neither doe I thinke that 2 eage this Eclipf jotherwifethan as the r her acaufe or prognoftication ofthat Armen did, by application, turtie it to their imitated this fnflew Julius Cafar, who he, : Hads €.C. fame fortune e jas, he had furelyfou Army de broken remainderof Cra chan accidentas this, toconti every like. But when, bythe Parthian Arhere he then was, till - ftood not in fuch At a yponh 1 yi Lommed tomake Wea" frowning « f the ; made fuch a fafe anc a yt he : : t ple totha ! exam giue d relomition,an fhewhis noble h, g00dr Pppa Seaplane |