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Show a d beietind Booke ofthe first part. Cuarangy < u0QvOooo th - k if . aan ae yeeld vponthefirft fame ofhis exploit,fet faile for Athens,and ioyninghisf aces wih thofe of Ages & Pawfanias, Kings of Sparta,fummonedthe City:which Radias er borne to yeeldjund tus Hrond robewon on thefaddenjhe put fotth agairtetds Sti, ap ther byrerrour than violence,compellingall the Hands,andfuch owns aftieden a: as'hadformerly heldofthe Atheniansjto fibmitthemfelues to;Sparta, hee dithel ati cut off all prouifionioBvicwals,and other neceffarics,from,the cities tical... pleby metre famirieroyeeld to thefe conditions: Thatthe long wals dices oe Townetothe Port, fhould be throwne: downe); Thatiall Citiesfubicct to cl 3 Bhat . fhould befetar liberty ;"Phat the:Athenians fhould be Matters onlyoftheisowa Te toricsjahd the fields adioyning totheir,Town, And thatthey:fhould Ps twelve Ships sy Thatthey thould hold.as Friends or Enemies,the fame whormthe oh a1 damonians didjand follow the Lacedemonians as. Leaders inthe Wars., eer Thefé Articles being'agreed/vpon,the wals)wenethrowne down withgreat reioycing of thofe who had bornedifpleafureto Athens, & not without fome ponialtctan afde ftroying the City,and laying wafte the Land aboutit. Which aduice although it pi not entertained,yet were thirty.Gouernors,orzathercruell Tyrants appointedyouerthe people,who recompenfed their formerinfolency.and iniuftice guert heir Ga ptaines by opprefling them withall bafe and intolerable flauery, es Theonly fmall hopethen remaining to the Athenians,was,that A/cibiades mightperhapsxepaire what theirowne folly had ruined. But the thirty ‘Tyrants acuaarhs 10 aduertifédthe Lacedzmonidns therof,who contrived,and (as now. fine fing ine : ry quarter)foon effected his fuddaine death. Pind ae ee (aedyewSore the Petopotinelian watwAfter wibich the Lacedamoniansabuling thereP sand great power,whichtherin they had obtained, grew, yery odions toGreece, & by Combination ofmany Gities againft them,were difpofleffed oftheighigh oc eo that very‘Age,)iniwhich they had fubdued Athens: The gxeateltfoiteshat eytook was ofthe Thebans, led by, Epaminondas, vader wh Philip of Macedon, fathertodlexanderthe Great,had thebett offhis ¢ducation See thbaccine city of Thebansthe nation: Byinthele, ve a dy othersreat loffest oo Sparta(befides shed hinotioy ratasi Dwas fundry.times danger ot being taken.But é Signoties case a pine: aere finally tonothing ; for the fevierall Efta Niet "ece,were grown fo iealous one ofanothers greatneffe,that the La monians,Athenians, Argiues,eThebans,which werethe mightieft,affociatingth felueswith the weaker party did foeounterpoize meieendclallocaMere extend thelimits ofher inti(clidtion fo fe ees aARBCs: that no One icon" And thusall parts of the count eae parenkinaks henistiible poner Naaibos. waeagreeing cuenllyballanced,thap , * = ee ed1 5J,Alexander, Philip,and fuchtimeas till one depelids Gere Kings of Macedon, (whofe, foretathers ce Pandas; ers,yeaalmoft meere Vaflals tothe Eftates of Athe parca) found meanes, by making vie of their facti bri Ii rit fromwhich they could befree,ree,till till the the Romansiprefenting ee ee emaTe pectutiek entsneuer ooee them witha thew aotifle Y3 rem{¢elues indeed become their Matters. : Cuar.[X, atters concurring Offmatter yt with f the Pelopontefian Warre; or fhortly following it, of the Fiftory of theWorld: Cusp9:22 them, the. younger fucthefons.of fier) heldthe Kingdomic butoneyedre betweene haue {aid before)to purfuethe Hifloofe(asl my-purp Ivisnot hes bro elder his coeding e than, otherwif rfians from henceforthy by rehearfall ofall the particulars, ty ofthe:Pe e fuffice to fay, TI asthey fhall beincident othe affaires of Greece» It may, therefor not by, furxeryesthe fecond,being avicious Prince,did perifhaftera moneth or two,if Likewile.of. Sogdianus it ., Sogdianm brother riotous y-ofhis treacher the by feit,chén Bagoraces a prin- , e flew wainftly. more ctuelljh pe his brother. vets y and ; fouind.t : o ill-as 7 hat being:as F ee RS Baftard, had not cipall Eunuch, & would haue doneas much tohis brother-Dgerimthe Sagdianmcould leathis hated, King §@ aftrong5er Army:t NO; Olt, J han heforefveneitat 9 id by:raifing eld io uiesfeized at, once vponthe: King and Kingdome. Darin hauing flaing his brother,h and him, againft d .rebelle Egyptian n ofSais.a Amprtaus rytares, the Enipire nineteche hauing:partly flain,parcly chafed out ofthe Landthe fofrmely with theGrecks,that by:their aide h¢ina ome, and deliue- Warres)s red it onerto his pofterity,who (notwithftand ingthe fury, oftheir ciuill xes: MneArtaxer {on ofhis and. Darius, this: of dayes the all Perfian, the againft tdined ir i ral his of Subicét , a mons Likewile Amorges elf nant of Garia,tebelledagainftihim;con in Sicil,haning put new he Athenjans greatcalamityjbeforefpoken ofwhich fe | ubieét to the State af 5.8 e life intothe Spaitans;and ginen:co out well for Darz: Irfell bondage tinuea longcon oftheir yoke 4b Athens,to thake offthe ithto defray the charge of MOnY5) thatthe Lacedemonians being « aduance the war againft the { agreat Nanié,without whichity nto crauc his affiftance,whicl thens,tharremained-powerfulbyfe rds the tedvitothem,fir ypon what conditions beft pleafed himfelfe, though afterwa te cife morepre n downei fet mwere andthe him ne betwee Atticles ofthe league Athewherein itwas concludeds'That-heand they fhould make warre ioyntly vpon the oy ofthem,and (whichwashighlyto the niansjand yponall that fhould rebel frot his, or Kings honourandprofit) thatall che Cit sof Afia, which had formerly: beene the war enfuing his Predeceffours;{hould returneto his obedience. By this Treaty,and 3o(ofwhich have already fpoken)he recoueredallthat his Grand-father and Fatherhad loft in Afia, Likewifebyaffiftance of the Lacedemonians, heegot Amerges a-line int the City of Jafus; the Athenians wanting either force or his hands; who,was takenin caufe whercourageitofuccour him. Neuerthelefle Egypt fill held out againfthim; the ofcatnotbe the eniploiment ofthe Perfian forces on theparts ofGreece: for heaboun- manhood,which ded inten,of whom hehad enough forall occafions,but they wanted s;é caufed himto fight with gold;which effedted for him by Souldiers of other Nation e. his naturall enemies, what the valourofhis own Subie@s syas infufficient to perform to him (befides otherchilbareva who fifter, owne his s Pary/ati ge marria in ad Dartsh erer, who e dien)4ytaxerxes called Adnemon,thatis to fay the Mindefull,orth Rememb , and 40 facceeded himin the Kingdome,; & Cyrthe younger, Prince.of fingularvertue accounted by all'that knew him,the moft excellent manthat ever Perfia bred afterCyras r fonne Artaxerxes the Gréat,, But the old King Dariws, intending to teauevnto hiselde doings of young theinheritance ofthat great Empite, did caft a iealous eyevponthe , befitted a himethan vpon more tooke ; Afia lower ofthe ant Lienten being yrw, ‘who Subie@ ; for which caufe his father fent for him, with intent to haue taken {ome vetytharpe courfe with him, had not his owne death, prenented the comming ofhis . Ofthe warre betweene thefe bree younger fonne,: and placedthe elder in his Throne at in more i §.1. Hove the affaires ofPerfiafood in thefe times. Ftno thet mts r V cea times of this Peloponnefian War, and thofe-ot expe ee foregoingit; Artaxerxes Lonzimanus,hauit enio zalong reigne rejone ouer > the th Perfians,, ‘ ce JefePr itj byhis ther to Darizs, who was' called: Darius, Wothus , or the whom the *Greeke Hiftorians (lightly paffing ouer X¢ cond, > and Segdianns,as Vftirpers.. and; for ogadiansss,as Vfurpers; for their their {hor f bat hime cs\ or. Me I Xerxes HUE ACS them,.orr o nextivnto; place regarded) who, it be and his brother Sogdianus after him (feeming & thrensand fummatily of Artaxerxes,we {hall haue occafion to fpeake fomewh ‘ conuenient place. §. 11. How the thirty Tyrants got their Dominion in Athens. ES it in this place very conuenient t0 fhewthe proceedings of the Gr the fabuerfion ofthe wals of Athens,which gaue endtotha ré called the Pek ~potinefian warre, but could not freethe vahappy Country of Greece from ¢iuill ‘Were tenes thirty Gouernours;commonly called the thirty Tyrants of Athens Slenatthefir by the people to. compilea bodyot theit Law,&makea collection ot fach |