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Show ne TheyiftBookeof therlpart Cuar.s.§.2. Hee alfodidthelike: andaduanced{o farre, thatthey might vnderftand: his meaning to fight, The Roman Armieconfifted of foure Legions, two Roman and two Latine: in each ofwhich were fiuethoufand and foure hundred men. The Latines,as vfuallywere inthe poiats,the Romans,in the maiaebatteli. All of them,according to their wonred forme, were divided into Maniples. The Hu/lati had the leading: after them follow: the |Principesyat {uch diftanceas was vfuall ; and laft of all,the Tréerij. Now befide thefe, there were about threethoufand Auxiliaries; partly Achaans;and pattly fuchias belongedto Enmenes: whichwere placed in an equall Front beyond the Latines in the right wing. Vemot.of ail ( faue fome fiue hundred Cretians,and of the Trallians) were almoft three !® thoufand Horte : of which, Ewmenes had brought thither eight hundred ; the reft being Roman. Theleft wing was fenced bythe banke ofthe riuers,yet foure Troups of horfe were placed there,though fich helpe feemed ina manner needleffe. Two thoufand Voluntaries,Macedoniansand Thracians, were leftto guard the Campe. The' Confal had with him fixteene African Elephants,which hebeftowedin his Rere : forafmmuch as had they cometo fight with thofe of Asriechus; they onely would haue ferued to dif- courage hismen ; as being fure to bee beaten : the Indian being farre the greater, and morecouragious beaftes : whereof 4asiechas had likewife much. aduantage in number. The kings Armiebeing compounded ofmany Nations,diuerfly appointed; and not 10 allaccuftomed to onemanner.of fight, was ordered accordingto the feuerall kindes, in fuch wife as cach might be ofmoft vie. The maine ftrength ofhis Foot confitted infix teene thoufaad,armed all Macedonian-like,and called Phalangiers.T hefe hee placed in the middeft,and divided into tenne Battalions: euery one haningtwo and thirtyin File, and fittiein Front. Betweene enery Battalion were two Elephants, goodly beaftes, and fuch as being adorned with Frontals, high Crefts, Towers on their backes, and befides him that gouerned the Elephant, fouremenin euery ‘Tower, made gallant and terrible fhew. Onn the right hand of thefe werefifteene hundred Horfe ofthe Gal- lo-Greeks : then, tliree thoufand Batbd Horfe: anda Regiment of almoft a. thoufand Horfe; called the -4eena, that were all Medians, the choyce. of the Countrie, and 3° ‘accompanied by. fomeothers.\ Allwhich Troupes of Horfe, dinided in their feuerall kindes, doe fcemeto-hauc followed,one another in depth, ratherthan rohaue bin ftret- ched outin Front. Adioyning vnto thefe, were fixteene Elephants. together in one flocke.. A little furthertothesight hand, was the kings! owne Regiment; called the "Argyrafpides, or Silwerfbields, by aname borrowed from:their furniture, but nothing like fo valiant as thofe of the fame name,that had ferued vnder Great Alexander : then, twelue hundred Archers on hotfebacke, three thoufand Jight-armed Foot, two thoufand and fiue hundred Archers.of My fia ; with foure thoufand Slingers and Archers of the Cintxans, and Elymeans.On the left hand ofthe Phalangiers, were placedthe like numbers ofGallo-Grecks,and Barbd Horfe:.asalfo two thoufand horfe that were fent 4o from Ariarathes,with two thovfand.and feuen hundred of divers Nations; anda Regi en of athoufand Horfe'more lightly armed,that were called The Kings Troup, being ytians;Phrygians,and Lydiins. In frontof allrhefe Horfe werethe Chariots armed with hookes or fythes,and the Dromedaries, whereon fate Arabians with long Rapiers, that would ferue to reach from thofe high Camels. Beyondthefe were,.as in the right wing, arable ofmany Nations,Carians, Cicilians,Pamphylians,Pifidians, Cyrtaans,Elynivans,and manyothers, hauing alfo with them fixtcen Elephants. Antiochus himfelfe commandedinthe right wing : Se/ewous in the Jeft : and three of his principall Captains comumanded ouerthe Phalangiers. metfirft onsfet was ginen : ques the 5° The by the Dromidaries, and armed' Chariots «ofBios which. one, being liketo terrifiethe|Horfe , the other, tobreakethe Squadrons.of the Foote; Eamenes witha fewlight-armed Cretiansy Archers, Darters; and Slingers, eafily me fruftrate the dangerthreatned, by,them-both,. For with -fhoutings, and noy!es, 20 fome wounds,they were driten.aut ofthe field; and runniaig: backe vpon their owne mien, did the fame harme whichthey had intended tothe Enemies.) Wherefore the Roman Horfe following this aduantages charged vpontheleft wing «! whereas they found norefiftance; fome being out oforderjothers being withour courage.Ieis fiaiao? fullto rehearfesandfo ftrange,that it may hardly feemecrtdible: that the Phalangiets; with C Bars.§.3, ) oftheFsftorie ofthe World, with fuch varieties. of Auxiliaries, madelittle or no tefiftances but all of them fled;ina manner, asfooneasthcy werecharged. Onely the king, Antiochus himfelfe, being ia theleft wing of his ownebattaile; and {ecing the Latines,that ftood-o ppofite ynto him weakly flanked with Horfe : gaue vpon them couragioully, and forced them.to retire, but 44,-Bmé/ius; that had the Guard ofthe Roman-Campe,iffued forth withall his powerto helpe his fellowes: and,what by perlwafion, what by threats,madethemrenew the fight, Succoural{o came fromthe right wing; yherethe Romans were already viGorious;: whereofwhen Antiochus difcoucred the approach ; Heenot onely turned his yo Horleabour,but ranneaway.vponzhe {pur without further tarriancg.. The Campe was defendedialittle while: :andwith nogreat valour; though by a great multitude that werefled into it. Antiochus is faid.to haueloft inthis bartaile fittie thoufand Foot, and foure thoufand Horfe; befides thofe that were taken. Of the Romans, there were nor flaingabouethree hundred Foot,and foure and twenty Horfe : ofEumenes his followers fiue and twenty. ' Aatinchus Aed.co'Sardes,and fromthenceto Apamea,the fame nightshearing that Se- lencus.was gone thither,before, He leftthe cuftodie ofSardes, andthe Caftle there, to one whom, he thought faichfull,, But theTownef-men and Souldiers were fo.difmayed withthegreatneffe of the Querthrow, ; that onemansfaith wasworth nothing. All the Townesin thofe parts, without expecting f{ummons, yeelded vp themfelues by Embaf{20 fadours : whomthey fent tothe Romans, whileft they were on the way. Neither were many daies fpent, cre Avtiochas his Embafladour wasin the Campe : hauing none other ettand, thanto know whatit would pleaferhe Romansto impofe vpon the king his Mafter:. P.Scipio wasnow.come to hisbrother, who. obtained Jeaue to. make, the an- fwer, becanfethat it fhould bee gentle.,-They required.no, more, than.they had lately done: which was, that he fhould quite abandon his Dominions on this fide Taurus.For their charges in that Warre, they required fifteenethoufand, Talents: fiuehundred in hand;two thoufand and fue hundred,when the Senate and Peop|¢ of Rome fhould haue confirmed the peace ; andthe other twelue thoufand, intwelue yeeres next en{uing, by _ euenportions. Likewife they demanded foure hundred Talents for Ewmenes ; and fome 30ftote ofGorne,that was ducto him ypona reckoning. Now belides twentic hoftages Which they required, very:carneft they, were to. haue Hanarbaé the Carthaginian, and Thozs the Acolian,with{ome others who had ftirred yp theKing tothiswar, deliuered into their hands. Butany wife man, might fo eafily haue percetued,that it would betheir great are was needful to bepurpofeto makethis.oneoftheirprincipall demands; as nO guiletheir malice. ‘Thekings Embafladourhadfull commiffion,to.refule nothing that fhould be enioyned., Wherefore rhere,was Ro moreto coe, than to {end immediately to Rome for the ratification ofthePeace. j . There were new, Confulschofen in the meane while at Rome, M4, Fulniusand Ca, Man~ hwVolfe, The Atolians defired peace, but could not obtaine,st : becaule they would 49accept ncither of the two Conditions te them before pi opounded. Soit was decreed, That eneofthe Contfuls fhould make warre vponthe Atolians ; the other, vpon dation chwsin Afia. Nowthoughfhortly there came newesthat dnteoc hus wasalready Yani thed in battaile,and:had fubmitced, himfelfe vnto all chat could be required athi ; pands ; one V ictory, pit Yetfince the State of A fiawas notlike to bec fo throughly fettled by that many things mightfallout worthy ofthe Romans care ; Ga, ddanlins,to whom Alia fellby lor, had not his Prouiace changed. by Rome, accompanied Soone afterthis,came the Embaffadours of Kin o Aatiochusto By 41 rerfon; whofe prefence ad+ With the Rhodians and {ome.others:yca,by king Eamemes 10pes reace'to bee made with ' deda goodly luftreto the bufineffe in hand. Concerningthe approoued. All the trouble enerally Soking Antiechus,there was nodifputation zit wasg umenes reckoned.vp.his own, defetts ; Was.about the diftribution of the purchafe, King £4 ans, would be more bountiy and comparing himfelfe with Mafaniffa,boped thatthe Rom d found him a, King, ins full to himthan they,had)beeneto the Numidian Ange th poth haeandhis Father had deed, whereas Mafani{f2 was oncly {uchja title andifjace e Roman fortune. Yet was alwayes beenetheir friends, eueninthe very worth oF the oilsaleing bitalelieco there much adoe to make himtell what hee wang haue an yh oe soda eg Sheit courtcfic ;and they defiring himto APPSBRS 1 : ‘ken fing Antiochusas they Would beftow yponhint,as muchoffhe nnn cate £ Ohad |
