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Show The fift Bookeofthefirs part Cuar.4.6.9, Cnar4aS8. Prediscas.crucified,efpying his time while the Macedonians wereat of theFiftorie oftheWorld, a 529 «- were mighty at Sea,and-held very good intelligence with the Egyptians, Syrians, and civil warrés amon oa ; : themfelues;recouered his dominion,andpaffedit onerto his off-{pring, The Kings of many,other, Princes and States hecafily drew:into.a freight alliance with him ;bytheir pee ate hatred newlyconcelued again kt Philip. % Vponconfidenceimthefehis friends; butmoft ofall, inthe ready.affittance of the Pontus had alfotheir beginning from the Perfian Empire;&are faid to haueiffaed from the royall houfe ofAchemenes, The Paphlagoniansderiued them(felues from Pylenenes, aking that aflifted Priamus at the warre ofTroy. Thefe, applying themfelucs vnto the hthe Macedonian byopen warre.It had becne Rhodians, Attalus prepared todeal times, were alwaies conformablevato the ftrongeft. The Anceftors of Prwfas had bez yntealonable to prgeraftinatc,,,and expeé whererothe doings of the Enemy tended s Theylay fomewhatout ofthe Macedonians way : by whomtherefore, hauing other was fuchhis defire. They met with him fhortly not farre from, Chios,'and. fought with hima battaile at Sea:: wherein though 4sralws was drinen to runac his:owne thi ppc. on: sigronnd, hardly efcaping to land: thoughthe Admitall ofthe Rhodianstook his deaths gun to reigne in Bythinia, fome few generations before that of the great Alexandey, employment, they werethe leffe molefted. Calantus, one of U4lexanders Captaines, made an Expedition into their Country ; where hee was vanquifhed. They had after: 10 wards to doe witha Lieutenant ofAxtigonus, thar madethem fomewhat more humble, finceisdefire roifaften ypon Afizwas manifeft.and his falfhood noleffc manifeft,than wound :.and though Philipafterthe battaile rooke, harbour ynder a Promantoric,-by; And thusthey thuffled,as didthereft,vntill the reigne ofPrufizs,whomwe hauealready fometimes mentioned, whichthey. had fought,fo that he had the gathering ofthe wracks vpon the fhoares Yer of fhips and men,than had the Enemy:and forafmuchas hehadfuffered far greater loffe fincehe durft not in few dayesafter put foorthto Sea, when dttalus and the Rhodians §. VIL The TowneofCios taken by Philip,at the infance ofPrufias,King of Bithynia, and cruelly de» Srroyed.. By this and like actions, Philipgrowes hateful to manty of the Greekes: andis warred vpon by Attalus King ofPergamus, and by the Rhodians, Pp Refias as aneighbour King, had many quarrels with A¢talns 3 whofe greatneffe hefufpected,He therefore ftrengthened himfelfe, bytaking to wife the danghter , ofPhilipas Attalus, onthe contraryfide, entred into a ftri@ Confederacie with the £tolians,R hodians,and other of the Greekes. But when Philip had endedhis £tolian warre,and was deuifing with Astiochus about fharing betweene them two the Kingdomeof Egypt, wherein Prolemie Philopater afriend vnto them bothwas newly dead,and had left his fonne Prol.Epiphanesa yongchildehis heirethe Bithynian entrea- ted this his Father-in-law to come ouerinto Afia,there to winne the Towneof the Ciani, and beftow itvpon him. Prafias had noright vnto the Towne, nor iuft matter of quarrell againft ic: butie was fitly feated for him; atid therewithall rich, Philp came,as onethatcould not well deny to helpe his Sonne-in-law. But hereby he mightily offended.no {mall part ofGreece.Embafladors came to himwhileft he lay at thefiege, from the Rhodians,and diuicrs other States: intreating himto forfake the enterprife.He gaue | dilatorie ,but otherwife gentle anfwers:making fhewas if he would condefcend totheir requeft,when he intended nothing leffe. At length he got the Towne: where, euen in prefenceof the Embafladors, of whofe follicitation he had feemed fo regatdfll , Hee omitted no part of cruelty. Hereby hee rendred himfelfe odronéto his neighbour s, asa perfidious and ervell Prince, Efpecially his fact was detefted of the Rhodians whohad made vehementinterceffion forthe poore Ciani': and were aduertifed by Embafladors of purpofefent yntothem from Philip, That, howfocuer it'werein his powerto winne yg the Towne asfooneashelifted: yer'in regard of his loue tothe Rhodians, He'was contented to giue it ouer. And bythis his clemency, the Embaffadours faid. manifet yntothe world,whatflanderous tonguesthey were:which rhat he would noyfed abroad fuch reports,as went of his falfhood and oppreffion. Whileft the Embaffadours were declamung at Rhodesin the Theater to this effeét;there'came fome that made a true relation ofwhat had hapned:fhewing that Philip had fackéd & deftroye d theTown of Cios,and, FpAcreeanghnes ae Inhabitants,had made flaues of all that efcapedthe fword, ianstookethis in {pi effe were the £tolians i -d agai him: fince they had fenta etiedeececro n oie re Boor by his doings at Lyfimachia & Chalcedon(which hig he had edtehia withdrawn taen tonthe from theirConfe5¢@ ltCo deracieto his owne)whatlitle truft was to berepofed inthe faith this king. But molt ofall others was 4sta/us moued with confideration ofthe Macedoniofansviolent ambiti- on,& of his own eftate.He had muchto lofe;and was not without hope of getting much if he could make aftrong Partie in Greece. He had already as a new F >. followed the example 4/exander .i purc hafi shies chenliccof P' aines,in aafing with much een liberalitySeat the loneof ne the¢ he A5 ehich os s Captaines c swhich were notable Trumpeters of other mens vertue,hauing loft their ownepe the friendthip ofthe £tol tans hee had caufe to prefume ; mby good offices, many andgrear,in their late watre with haning bound them vato Philip. The Rhodians that were cameto,brauc himin his Port ; the honour ofthe victory, was adiudged to his Enemies: This hotwithftanding, Philip afterwards befieped and wonne fome. Townes in Caria,: whether only in a.branery,andto defpight hisoppofites ; or whether yponanyhopefull delirejot conqueft, it is.vncertain. Theftratageme,by which he wonne Prinaflus,is worearth fo ftony, thar it refithy.ofnozing. He attemptedir by aMyne: and finding the grounds to make anoife vadet neuertheleffe command fed his, worke:he ed the Pioners 2 < 1 p 4 tidiecrerly in the night-time he raifed great Mounts aboutthe entrance.of the Myne,to breedan opinion in the befieged, that the work went maruelloufly forward. At length hefentwordto the Town{-men,that by his vnder-mining,two actes oftheir wall ftood onely pon wooddenproppes, to whichiffhegaue fire, and entred bya breach, they thould expect no mercy. The Prinaflians little thought, that, he had fetchtallhis earth andrabbifls by night agreat wayoff, toraife yp thofe heapes whichtheyfaw, but ratherthat all had beeneextracted out ofthe Myne. Whejefore they, fuffered themfelues tobeout.faced, atid gauevpthe Towne as Jott, uich the Enemy, had no hope|to winneby force. But P4rlip couldnot ftay,to fertle himfelfe in thofe parts. Attalas and the Rhodians were too ftrong forhimat Sca,and compelicd him.to makehafte back/in3,0 Macedon,whither they followedhimallthe way in.manaerof purfuit, 3 ay §. VIL. The Romazsafter their Carthapinian warre, fecke matter of gwarrell agaiaf Phil ips The Athewiens upon fight caufe, proclaime warre againft Phili Ps mooi thereto by Artas lus whom theyflatter. Philip wianes diners T omnes: ati ? akes peremptory anfwer to the Roman Ammbaffadour. Thefurious refolution ofthe Abydeni, Hefe A fiatique matters, which no wayconcerned the Romans, yetlerged well a defireof mato.makeanoyfein Rome; and fill the peoples he ads, ifnot with zscxpraiens pradaey king warre in Macedon, at leaft witha conceit that 1t # The Roman Senate was perfectlyinformed of thefate of thof Kaew,that there was none other Nationthanthe Greeks, which lay betweenthe the Lordibip of Afia.- Thefe Greeks were factious, and} orthe Macedonian,though length oftime,and continu: thercignes ofPhilip and Alexander, had left no dif ewas originallyforfootha and they that had beene ofhim, byreafon of his perfonall turalis ; yet moft ofthemabhorred his Dominion,becaul af Barbarian : many of chem hated him vpon Moit beholding ynto him, were newerthe 1 1 ne ~ . 7 would notlong detaine the Roman, of Greece Pe a yl ate faults. All this eauchope,that the affair "es 30 A ties: efpeciallyfincethe diuifion Country were iuc late Was apt to take countaile apar ere Commonalty of Rome had nc piile. ‘They werealready quite exhaufted, t yt a Loanc to the Republike, 4 iMthey had giuen by c at a se ? x? fi >d, neither did they receine vatill Himme backe againe, That part of payment aio as. yet ioe whlch. ise" : frerthis,their whole ly made, being not in veal tremte £0 ¢ while; an Piefent mony. but much oficin Land: itbcnones 7 |