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Show Cra P..§.5, ofthe Fiftorie of the World, recoucrtheir owne, muchleff¢ to worke any wonders againft their borderers.. And,in- deed,it was not in their Philofophy to confider, Thatall great alterations are ftormelike, {uddaine, and violent ; and that it isthen ouer-late to repaire the decayed and bro, ken banks,when great riuers are once {wollen,faft-running,and intaged.No,the Greeks did rather imploy themfelues, in breaking downe thofe defences,whichftood between them andthis inundation,than {eek to rampare and re-enforce their ownefields,which bythe Leuell of reafon they might haue found to hauelien vnderit. It was therefore THEFIRST PART OE To © OH PSTO REE OP tHE faly and Epirus. Their Kings were ofthe family of Teamenws, ofthe race ofHercules, & by Nation Argiues ; whoarelifted as followeth. About fome fixe yeares afterthe tranflation of the INTREATING OFTHE: TIMES "PROM ‘THE wFeigne OF Pini eof Mace pow, to.the eftablifhing ofthat Kingdomé;in the race of ANTTGON VS: Affytian Empire, 4réaces then gouerning Media ; Caranm of Argos,commanded by an 20 Oracle, to leadea Colony into Macedon, departed thence with many people,and as he Was marching through that Country, the weather being raynie and tempeftuous, he e{pieda great heard of Goats,whichfled the ftormeasfaft as they could,hafting themto their knowne place ofconert. Whereupon Caranus, calling to minde, that he had alfo se THE FOV RTH B00 K E, by another Oracle beene direéted, to followthefirlt troupe ofbeafts, that fhould ei- curio, ther leade him,orflie before him ; He purfued thefe Goates to the Gates of Edefla, and dntio.6. being vndifcoucred by the Inhabitants,by reafon of the darkneffe of the aire, he entred thei City without refiftance,and poflcftit. Soone after this,by the ouerthrowof Ciffe- En/eb.in chra Guar. ‘OfPhilip the Father ofAlexanderthe Great, oAof‘Macedon: sto nm rhiseb ee what K ings reigned in Macedo Ey ? Js f 2 . id The Kingdome of Macedon,focalled of s¢acedon,the fonne of Ofiré,or,as other Authors affirme,ofIupiter and -Aithra, is the next Region towardsthe North whichbar- dereth Greece ; It hathto the Eaft, the Augean Sea; it is bounded on the North and North-weft,by the Thraciansand Illyrians;and on the South and South-weft,byThef- VV.0.R uD: J well concluded by Orefius : Gracie Ciuitates imperare fingule cupinat, imperium ops0103000 nes perdideruat , The Cities ofGreece lait their command, by firining cach of them to commana alt, " others Againft Xerxes,thegreateft Monarch of that pa World, they defended their liberty, wi cefle as euer Nation had,& with nolefs honor, ener bin acquired bydeeds of Armes.And |! %, Caranus became Lordof the reft of Macedon, andheldit eight andtwenty yeares, Canis (ucceeded Caranue, and reigned tweluc yeares. Tprimeas followed Cawws,and rugoled cight and twentyyeares. Y Perdiccas the firtt, the fonne of Tyrimas,gouerned one andfifty ycares ia Prince, for his preat valour, and many other vertues, much renowned, Selinus, Plinie, Inftine, Eu- eee 145° 5, Sebits Theophilus, Antiochenus,and others athirme,that hee appointed a place of buriall "+" forhimfelfe, and for allthe Kings ofMacedonhis Succeffours,at Aige : affuring them, thatthe Kinedome fhould fo fong continue in his Line & Race,as they continuedto lay vptheit bodies in that Sepulchre; wherinitis {aid,thatbecaufe Alexander the Great failed, therefore the pofterity ofthe Temenidx failed inhim: a thing rather deuifed after the cffedtas I conceiue,than foretold by Perd 4rgeus Succeeded vnto Perdiccas,and ruled cight and twenty yeares. 49 Pilthefirttshis Succefiour,reigned eight and twentyyeares.., ie? _Parepus followed. Philip,and gouerned fixe and twentyyeares.: in whofe infancy the llyrians inuaded Macedon,and haning obtainedagreat victory,they purfued thefame, tothe great dancerof that State. Whereupon the Macedonians, gathering newforces, adrefoluing either to recouer theirformerloffe, orto lofe at once both their King- triall and experience, morethan foftur dome their King, they carried him with theminhis Cradleintothe field, & returned "itotiousfor they were either confident that their Nation could not bee beaten(their Ang being prefent)orratherthey perfivaded them! that there was no man fovoid yr, ° houpur and compaffion, as to abandon theirna rall Lord, being aninfant, and no 4 Way(but by the hands of his feruants) able to defend himfelfe from deftruction. The 777.5, | Nations, theyfolittle regarded what m : = -J them, whohad fo oftenforfeited the rep forces, as whatfocuer could be {paredfromtheir owne diftracti I {ported guerthe Hellefpont,as fufficiept,to entertaine and bufie th aoe poe cuery manof mark in the worlc with the Greeks: For oFfia lpof itl Maced, Ce ieee - ae P cMaerdon whom wearenow to f a ostdas they grew cuenthen more violent in deuouring each other, growing greatnefie of fuch a Neighbour-King, fhould, in regard ofth haue ferued themfora ftrong argument ofynion and accord. Butthe fian victor les, wherewith they were pampred and madeproud, ta eo nbur themfelues,and all Nations f anctherather tovalue ilueat little rhe powe "viacedonians,becaufethofe Kings & States a ane of Amyatas thefather ofPhilip,fo, which fate neer much w wat they were not (as the Grecians periwaded themfelues) in KCiS teported by Aimenias ofClotarius the fon of Fredeguada, 90. Nhetas fucceeded -4iropus,and ruled nine and twenty yeares. : ; Aiiyatasthe firttfiucceeded Alceras, and reigned fifty yeares ,He liued at fuch time S Darius Histafoes, aficr his vnprofperous returne out of Scythia,fent Megabazus with Fe: Armyinto Europe, who in Xerxes name required Amyntasto acknowledge him for "8 Supreme Lord, by yeelding ynto him Earthand Water.. But his Embafladours, as You hae heard efore were.fortheir infolent behauiour towards the Macedonian La; lt om flainebythe direction Ofdlecandcr, who was the fonne of Amynta, and his Suc-°** t0ur, "éuser farnamed the Rich; thefonne of Ay ntas., zouerned Macedon three and forty ie Ttte |