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Show The jifrh Bookeoftbesfrtpars Cuara§gta Land,fometimes with illjand at othertimes with good fucceffe « but in conclufiony took from their Fort,neer vnto Syracufeyat the Promontory, called PLammyrinm: whetinthe Athenians loft their treafurejand a a part of all their provifions. Nowwithftan- ding whichloffe, & thatthe Athenians themf{elues, in Greece, were(in effed) befieged within Athens,by the Lacedemonians,yet were they moft obftinatein profecuting the Warreit Sicil, & difpatched away Demzoflhenes with new fuccours. Demefthenes,in his way towards Sicil,encountred with Polyamthes the Corinthian, withhis fet: boththe Captaities being bound forSicil;the one to fuccour Nicias,the other Gylippus. The loffe ibetweene thein wasin effe& equall and néitherfo broken bur that each ot them profe- cuted the enterprife they had in hand:But before the fuccoursarriued to either, Gylippusto and Arjiton had affailed the Athenians inthe great Port of Syracufe, andina Sea fight put themtothe worft,tothe great difcouragement ofthe Athenians. On the necke of this, Demo/fhenes arrived with threefcore and thirteen Gallies;charged with footmen, and (blaming the floath of Nicias) he inuaded the Syracufians,thefame day that heear- rived. But he made more hafte than he had good fpeed,being thamefully beaten, and te. pulfed with great loffe.Hereupon Demofbenes and Ewrymedondetermine to rife vp from before Syracufe, anid returne to the faccour of Athens: but Wicias difputed tothe¢on- trary, pretending that he had goodintelligence within Syracule, whereby he learned, thatthe Towne could riot long hold ont. Whiatfocuer Wicias his intelligence was ;vpon the artiuall of a new fupply into theso Towne;the Athenians had all confentedto depart, & to lodgeat: Catana : had notan Eclipfe ofthe Moone, boding(as was thought)ill fucceffeycaufed them to deferre their departure. But this fuperftition coft them deare.For the Syracufians,Lacedemonians,& Corinthians,with threefcore and fenenteen faileof Gallies,entred the great Port ofSy- racufe,wherin the Athenians kept their flectand wheron they hadfortified themfelues. The Athenians, in'the fame Port encountred them with fourefcore & fixe Gallies,commanded by Eurymedonsin which the Athenian fleet was beaten,by theleffer number, & Eurymedon flaine. Now,though it were fo,that the Sy racufians receiued the more lolle by land(forthe fight was generall) yet when the Athenians were beaten byfea,in which kinde they thought themfelues inuincible, they were wonderfully caft downe. Foritze was well {aid ofGylippas,tothe Syracufians,when any people doefinde themfelues vanquifbedinthat manner offight, and with thofe weapons, in which they perfwade rhemfelues that they exeeede all others, they not onely lofe their reputation, but their courage. The Athen ans,befides the Gallies funcke and wrackt,had feuenteene taken, andpoffeft by theenemy and with great labour and lofle they defended the reft from beingfired, having drawn them withina Palifado,in‘one corner ofthe Port,vnaduifedly ;forit isas contra- ty to.aSea-war,to thruft thips into a ftreight roome and corner,as it is to fatterfootin a seiid field againfPhorfe ; the one fubfifting;by being at large ; the otherby clofeim- ofthe HiftornoftheWorld, folue tohazard, with all their fhipping(to thenumberofone hundred Sccen, ofall forts) and>with all the ftrength of their Land-arniie, in them, imbargqued. But the Gallies, which were within the bridge ofboatsdid fodiforder,the Athenian ficetjere they. came to force the bridgesas,albeit fomefew of them had broken through the chaines; yet be« ing ftoprwith thethips withoutjand aflailed. by other loofe Gallies of the Syracufians, whithawere puripofely leftat largeinthe Seajth wereeither taken or fuk, I bree.great difadnantages the Athenians had:the firftsthawfghting within a Hauen, and(asitwere) indfreight they:had no roonrtoturne themfelues;nox ro freethemfelues one from ans other;being intangledj the fecond, that hauing oner-peftered their Gallies with Sonldi- ro'ets,iwho vfed offenfine armes ofdarts and flings, they, had not place ypon.the decksto firetchtheir armes: the third was,the difcomfortable end for which they fought,names ly;toforceapaflagé, by whichtheymight faue themfclues by running away. To bee thort, the fight washo leffe terrible than the confufiony the {laughter great onall fides andthe noife,aad the cries,folowd and lamentable,as that no direction could be heard, Butimthe end,the Athenians,as manyas fuxuiued, were beaten backe to the Land,with lofleofthreefcore oftheir Gallies,broken,fuake,or abandoned,The Syracufians didal- folofervwenty oftheirs,with:Pyz4o#,Commander of the, Corinthians. Therelt of the Athenian Gallies,running themfelues into the bottome of the Port,faued themfelues by thehelpe and countenance ofthe Land-armie, there fortified. Inthis defperate eftare, the Athénian Commanders goeto counfell.Demofthenes perlwades them;to furnifh with freth Souldiers thofe few Gallies which remained; and while the Syracufians were thir umphing, and madefecure bytheir prefent victory, to {et vpon thein, and fercing their Way outofthe Port, toreturneto Athens: This was no ill counfailes For, as. wee haue heard ofmany great Gaptaines, (yea, the greateft numbexofall that haue beene victori- olls)that haue neglected the {pecdy profecution of a beaten enemy; fo. might wee pro- duce many exaniples of thofe,who, hauing flepr fecurely inthe bofome ofgood fucteffe hauebeene fuddenly awaked, by the re-allied nee ofa broken Aric, and haue thereby loft againe all the honour,andaduantage,formétly gotten -ButNicias oppoleth theaduice of Demoftbenes : Others fay, that the Sea-men, were againft i, Whereupon 3° abandoning their Gallies,they all refolueto march ouer, land tothe Cities of their Confederares,till fome more fauourable fortune fhould call. shcin thence, On the otherfide, Gylyppus, 8c other the Lacedzemonian & Corinthian Captains,wich Hermocrates,exhort theSyracufians to put themfelues prefently into the field, & to ftop all the paflages, leaditig to thofe Cities of cheir enemies,to which the Athenians mightimake retrait. ry many were weary, and many, were wounded, and many of them baught that py ha one chough forthe prefent... Which humour. in fome of our Gommanders at: Cadez, loys botlr the Indian fieet,and the fpoiles of many, other. Neighbout-places. Herazecrates,the Syracufian finding it aloft labour, to perfwade bis SPUBTAe any ie Profecution, deuifed this good ftratagem, thereby to gaine time; not ee tin» = that attal 10g. Fhe Syracufians,hauing now weaknedthe Athenian fleet, refolue to imprifon thein 48 within the Port. And to that purpofe they range all theirGallies in themouth ofthe Hi: uen,being about a milé ouer,and there they cami¢ to Anchorsfilling the out-let withall mannerof Veffels,which they man moft ftrongly, becaufe the Athenians, being n0W made'defperate, fhould not with double ranks of Gallies break through the Syracufian fleet svvhichlay but fingle, becaufe they were forc't to range theirifelues ouer all the Out-levofthe Port,' They therefore, not onely ‘mored themfelues. {trongly by theit certaine thips,which ferued in the former ware for vi@uallers: tothe end,tharif any© Anchors, but chained thefides oftheir Gallies together; andlaid behitide themagain" their Gallies were funke;orthe chaine,whichioyned thenitotheir Crari.§:4.7.3. fellowesibroken, the thenians might yct find themfelires,a fecond time,intangled and arrefted.Todifor der $9 alfo thofe Athenian Gallies, which came Onin forme of a wedge,ro breake through, and forcea paflage,the Syracufians had left within thefe Gallies & Ships,inchained f0- getherya certain numberofloofe Ones,to ftop their courfeand fury. For where the 7 ofany veffell,vfing oare or failes, is broken;atid theirfpeede fore-flowed,they can ree'with any weightand vidlence,the refiftatice oppofing. Sale ‘Ontlie otherfide, the Athenians ‘knew that they were vtterly lofrexcept with "df Eincible refolution, they could itiaketheir way;and breake downe this great bridge OatsOE(at lealt) force a paflage thtough them in fome part or other :'which "7foe 4° aftera day ortwo,he fhould draw them willingly out. He fent two or Henan me Out ofSyracufeby night,willing them to finde Nici#, and ( after they ad aflured ae thatthey were ofthe Atheniansfaction)to gine him aduice not to march areAer. ttily fromthe place, wherein he wasfortified; alledging that the Srineuats 2 ip + edtheir Armie,whichcould not longftaythere, vpon the paflages and p aA P i ea tage, leading towardsthe Cities oftheir Allies. Thefe tidings Nicias cafily be ceued, and put offhis iourny tothethird day. For mena tiewly beaten, are ( forthe iy part) More fearefull than wife,and to them,cuety thiftle in the fieldappeates,by night;a man i j Gallies, i and all theisit baggage) being Thethird day (leaving all their aggage) C they yeremoue; Bg Pane i Pierced and purfued with the lamentable out-cries of thofe that were ficke an soWhom they abandon co the cureof their enemies fwords. The reft march away; 4 ¥ umberofforcie choufand; and maketheir firlt pailage by force,ouer the RitesS is Rapus,aotwith{tanding the oppofition oftheir enemies. But being eucty day. ¢ ee itheir marches,é& by the Syracufian horfe-men, beatenin from forragingae coMton: Onof food, they grow weake and heartleffe. The Syracuflans alfo poffel i t Shaeite taine Lepas,by whichthey wereto paife towatds Camierina,and shery vag iis fall backe againe towards the Sea-coaft,and to take what way they cen ttolf a t0 proceed in their iourney intended. Many hard thifts they made,in dificult p a4d |
