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Show 150 ‘Lhe fourth, Booke ythe fart part , ‘Cuard.gs by oncand.the fame wayybur very, often in the alteration.of Kingdomes. and Eftates,by taking yitderitanding {vom:the Gouernours, fo,asthey canneither giuenor difcérneof Counfels.Ror Darius that-would needs ight with glexayderv.poniaihre ightnedpieceof ground.necre ynto the Citic ofJ,where, he could bring no.more bands to fightthan yttlexanaen Kould,Gwho by-the aduice-of armenfaicdthere.asina place of beadyan- -tage)was wtterly ouerthyawn,his Treafiure loft. his,Wife,Mothes; and Childven(wh om the, Greetans his followers had. perfwaded him to leauge in Babplops or-¢lewhere Yeakin prifoaers,andall theistraineot Ladies fpoilediofgheix rich Garments, lewels,and Honour. [his truesthat bork the Queensgwith her Daughters, who hadthe 800d hapro ite broughttoWexander s,prelence, wets.entertained with all relpe@:duevatotheir birth theit Honours preferuedand their lewels.and rich Garments,ceRtored vato them though patie Wifesvasia mof beautifull Lady,and-his Daughters of excelent zatid 19 forme yet Alexanatnmaltredhisafiections, towards theat alhs only, inisceported out ofArif. ulus the Hifkorian,that heimbracedtheWite ofthe valiant: Adzemn Ysher Husband ate. lydead,who was taken fying from-Damme/eus by.Raneyetio, at which time the Dabghtets of Orhus, who reigned before Darius, and the Wiues andiChildsen ofallthe Nobilis ofPerfig in eed,fell inte chiptiniciezay witichitimeallo, Darins Trealarecnot lot at ifs) was{eiced,amounting to,fixethoufandand two hundsed talents-of coine,and.ofBallin fiue hundred talents, withaworld.ofriches befides, Darsusihimlelfe leaning his brother dead, with diners otherof‘his chiefe Captaines yo Ceafting the.Crowne fromhis headyhardlyefcaped; After this overthrow giuien ynto Dariusall Pheimicia (the Citie ofTyre excepted/iivas yeelded to-diexander, of. which Parmeniowas madeGouernout., ». Aradns,&iden,and Bibles,maritimate Cities of:greatimportance; of which oné\strate was King,/buthated. ofthe people)atktiowledged\ alexander, Good fortune followed him fo faft that it trod on his heeles;for Autiyonus, AlexandersL ieutenantin Afathelefie, Ouerthrew,the Cappadocians Paphlagoniansand others lately revolted s.4ristodenus,Diri- us Admirall,had his Fleet partly taken, and in part drowned bythe Afscedoniansn ewly leuied, the Lacedemonians that warred againft|Amtipater were beatén;foure thoufandof thofeGyecks whichmadetheretraitatrhe lat. batraile,forfaking boththe party ofDarins30 and ofiAlexander, and led. by Amyntasinto Egypt, to hold it forchem{elues,wett buried theresfonsite Hale'was Not yet cométo diuide Kingdomes, Alexanderso honour Ephefioawhoin he loved moft;gaue him-power todifpofeofthe kingdome of.Ztdon., Aman ofa moft pooreeftate,that laboured to fixttainhis life being ofthe, Rayall bloud,was commended bythe people vnto him, who changedhis Spade into a Scepter,foas he was beheld botha Beggar and aKing in ohéand the famehoure: olt Wava.good defireoftthis new King, whenpeaking to A/exasder, he withtthathe could beare his profperity withthefame moderationSiquietrieile ofheart,that iehad doue his aduerfitie; butill dorie of. Alexander.in that he would. not pérformein himfelfe z that which he commendedin anothermans defire+ fonit wasadighe.thathe did butac- 4 company,and could,not gouerne his £elicitie. Whilene made fomie itayin thofe-parts,herecéiuedaletter from Darius; im porting the ranfome of his Wife,his Mother,and-his Children, tyith{fome other conditions of peeges fuck as ratherbecame a Gonqueror,than onethathad. now-been twice dhaines yoecaten hot vouchiafing, imhisdiveton,to tilesd/evanider King: It is ere, the Romansyafter that they had receiued an -ouerthrow. by. Pyrrbus, returned: bien that amore Eareckal anfwer yponthe offer of peace, than) they-did before the triall of his force mensafpedsaeee -ae pring,fo that of:Darius hadalready eaiblyatey taMleepaletdiflaiedtheoferoftichea Gn a his letterto.a Kine. but to ersio Dartys,and fent hint wordthat heinot i onely aire' 85 the King ofDarivs himfelfé, elericeene lien Cuar2$.6. vofthe'fliftorie ofthe World: ee eee factificeto:Herculesthe Protector of their Cities from whotw he was deftended: But the Tyriaasliké not his companiewichih their Walls, but tell hiny that the' Teniple of Hercules was {eared in the old: City adioyning, now abandonedand defolate. To be short} Alexander refolued to enter it by force: and thoughit wereaplace in all mens opinion impregnable, becanfethe land whereon it wast uilt; was eighthundredfuttot the Maine,yet with the labour of many hands, having great ftoreof ftone fron Tyreandtimbcr fufficient from Lybanus; he filled the paflage of the Sea betweene tk Tland andthe Maine, whichbeing more than once'cartied away bytheftrength of the Sea vpon a ftorme of winde,fometimeby the Tyrians fi red,and fometimie torneafunde *3 10 yet withthe helpe of his Nauie whichartiued: ¢ duting the fiege )from Cyprus; hé oue Tt- cameall difficulties and preiiailedjafter he had fpent'ftuen moneths in th at attempt. The Tyrians inthe beginning ofthefiege iad :barbaroufly' drownedthe meffengers fent by Alexatder,pexfwading themto renderthe City, inrefpe& whereofjand ofthegrearloffe oftimeand.men,he put cightthoufand tothe fword, and caufedtivo thoufandof thofe; that efcaped the firft furie, to behahged on Croffeson the Seathore, atid referued for flaues({aith Disdore)thirteene thoufand; Arrianns reckons them atthirry choufand/Many srrian, mote had. died had not the Zidovises,that ferucd Alexander, conucyed great hurnbers a: way by hipping vnto their owne Citie. ibs Happy:-it was for .pollethat the Towne was'taken:' for one' of the Tyriaas hatouing.dicamt, that thisigod meant to forlake the Citic; they'bound hin faft witha golden.chaine to the [doll of Hercules; but Alexander, like a gracious Prince; loofened himagaine, Itis true,tharit was a notable enterprifeand a difficult,but ereatthings are made grea= tet.For Nabychodexofor had taken itbefore,andfilled'vp the channell,that lay betweene thelland andthe Maine. Thegonernement ofthis Territorie he -gaue'toPhiforas, the Sonne of Parméiio : Cilicia, he committed to Socrates, and Andiomachas Lieutenant vader Parwienid; EpbeSion hadthe charge ofthe Fleet, and was directedto finde Alexander at Gaza towards Egypt. §. VI. How Darius offered conditions ofpeace to: Alexander,.Alexander wins Gaza;and deales Rracton/ly with the Iewes, Nithe meane while) Derive fends againe.to' Alexander, {ets before ‘himall thé [oats ofpafling on towards) the Eaft, and ilaieth« the ‘loffe vof the Taft battaile tothe ftreightneffe of the place :;hehoped toterrifie him; by threatding t6'encom- Palle him inthe plaine Countries, he bids him to copfider, how impoffibleit was to paflethe Rivers of Enphrates, Tigris, Araxes; and the reft, witli «all fuch other feare+ 40 full things :forhethat was nowfilled with nothing but! feare, ‘had arguments' eriowof that nature to pricfent vnto/another: All che kingdoities betweene'the River of As, and he Helleponthe offered himin Dower withhis beloued danghter.But Alexander anfwered,Thathe offered him nothing but his owne,and thatwhich victory'and his own vertuchad Poffeft:him of; That he wasto give conditions,and not toreceitie any, & that "he auine paffed the Seait felfesdifdainedtothinke ofvefiftance in tran{porting himfelf ower Rivers, Tris Gidithat Petmenio,whowasnow oldandfall of honour and riches, told the king,That werehe Alexander, he would accept of Darius his offers'to which? Alex anderantwered, That {o would he,if he wete Parmenio; 1 30 : 9 pultht goes on towards Zeypr, andicommiing before Gaze, Getta faithfull {ertant to ; Deriuhursthe Gate againft him,andidefends the Towne withanobftinate refolution, ae elieBewhereofAlexander veceiuedia woundinthethoulder, which was daigerous; andablow.onhis legee with aftone;) He found berter men'in this place than he-did'at the Otmerbattailes,for-heleft fo many ofhis Atacedonians buried in the {ands of Gaza, ; f §. V. How Alexander beficcedl and swan the Citje ofTyre. of agolden Tyre; receiued, from-them. the prefen Crowne,eseatoinniitie with great ftoreofofvid Cree tuals,. and. ‘other, prefents, wit Ax hg tooke very thankefully, returning : < 7 eee fet a them,anfwer, «‘Thathe defired facrifice athe was fore'rto fend-fora new firpplyinto GreeceHerelit was that Alexentter fir! befAdtochange Condition andto exercifercruelty.' For ‘afterthat he had entred Guba by Aultandtaken Betisewhom Iofephus calleth Babemefis) that was weakened with mahy Wounds.and whoncuer gaule ground to the: Affailanits; he Bored ‘holes throughrhis feete, and cauled him vo be diasvsigabout theftrect, ‘while hewasasyethline who a . ¥: 4 valiant |