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Show The fift Booke ofthe Sift part ici x any people of Greece,they haningbeene the firtt thatcalled chefe their Mafters into the Countrie. The ile of Cephalenia was taken from themby the Romans ;, who keptit-for themfelues (as not long fince they-had gotten Zacinthus fromthe Achaans, :by ftiffely preffing their owneright ) that fo they might haue pofleffion along the coaft- of Greece, whileft they feemed to forbeare the Countrey.; But concerning thofe,placts, whereto rc - - . - of the £ii/tory of the World; oach.by Embafla dors, whomhefentforthat purpose, Finally; hauing fetiin order. the matters of Afiashe took his way toward theHellefpont,loadenwith fpoyle as carrying with,him(belades,othertreafures)all thatthe Gallo-Greeks bad info many yeets aats ted;fromithewealthy Provinces that lay roundabout thems, Neitherdidthis.-Armicaf Maaliis veturne home,rich inmoney-alonésor cattell or things of needfullvfe, which the Roman:fouldicr- had beencwonttotakeas the onely good purchafes:but Fisrnithe withfini ptuious: houfthold-ftuffe,and flanesiof- price; excelleat Gookes, and Muficians Philip, or others, might lay.claime,there was fet down an:Order fo perplexed, as would neceflarily require to haue the Romans Iudges of their controuerfies, whenthey should arife. And hereof good vfe will bee fhortly made : when want ofeniployment elfe: where,fhall caufea more Lordly Inquifition to beheld, ypon the affaires! of Macedon and Greece. Ca. Manlius, the other Confull, had at the fame time warrein Afia,, with.the.Gallo: Greeks and others. His Armie was thefame that had followed £. Scipio; of whofe vit : Crap.5.§.9. Cue psc§ 9) forbanquets,and inaword,withthefeedes of chatluxurie,which finally que-grew.and, : choked the Rdmati vertue. 10 toric,his acts were the confummation.Hevifited thofe Gountries on the hither fide-of Taurus,that had {carce heard ofthe Romans ; to. whomthey were abandoned by Antie- ches. Amongthefe were fomepetty Lords, or Tyrants; fome free. Cities, and fome that weretogether at Warres,withoutregard of the great-aiteration thathapned in Afias Fromcuery ofthefe hee getfomewhat; and by their quarrells found occafion to vifite thofe Prouinces, iato which hee fhould elfe haue wanted.an-errand...Hee was -cuen loaden with booty,when, hauing fetchta compaffe about Afia, he came at length vpon the Gallo-Greeks.Thefe had long domineered ouer the Countrie.: thoughof late times, it20 10> The Countsy,of Thrace lay,between Hellefpont.& the kingdome of Macedon;which way Maslins wascotake his iourney homeward. 4,Scepiohad found no impediment.as mongthe Thracians: either forthat he pafled throughthem,without anyfuch booty.as might prouokethem; or perhapsrather, -becaufe PAilip of yMacedon had taken ordery thatthe Barbarians fhould notitirve. Bus when) Manlias, came,along with a hugetraine ofbaggage;the Thracians could.not fo well. contain themfelues. Neither was inthought, , that Philip tooke it orherwifethan very pleafanrly,to haucthis Roman Armie robbed,ég well beaten onthe way. Hehad caufe tobe angry, feging howlittle himfelfe was regara ded,and what great rewards were giuen to Ewmencs. For he vader{tood,and afterwards gauethe Romans to vaderftan d,that-Exmenescould nothaveabidden Gs dome,ifthe people of Romehadnot madewarrein Afia: where in -his owne kings vile, Aetsan wasrather the fame and terrorof their fore-pafled ac&ts,than,anyprefent vertue of theirs; chas had offered vato himfelferhree thoufandtalents, and fiftie {hips whichheld them vp inreputation.Ofthe Romans theyhad lately {uch triall,whenthey did ferue vnderking _4ntiochus, as madethem.to acknowledge themfelues farre the part with him and the #tolians, promifing moreouer to refiorevate bim allthe:Greeke worfemen. Wherefore they thoughtit no {mall part oftheir fafetie, that they dwele ypon the Riuer Halys, in an In-land Countrie, where thofe enemies were. not very liketo fearch them out. But when fuch hopes failed, and. when fome Princes of their owne'Nation; that had beene friends of Eamenes, exhorted the-reft to yeeld: then there was no counfaile thought fo good, asto forfake their houfes and Countrey, and, withallthat they could carrie or driue,tobetakethemfelues vnto the high mountaines of Olympus and Margana. Thefe mountaines were exceeding hard. ofafcenty30 thoxgh none fhould vadertake the cuftodie. Being therefore well manned. and viGual- fed fora long time; as alfo thenaturall ftrength being helpt,by {ich fortificationas promifed greateft aflurance: it was thought, that the Conful would either forbeare the attempt of forcing them, orcafily bee repelled ; andthatfinally; when kee had ftayed therea while, winter,and much want, fhould. force him to diflodge.. Yet all. this auailed not. For whereas the Gallo-Greckes had beene careleffe of furnifhing themfelues with cafting weapons, asif {tones would haueferuediwell enough for that purpofe: the Ro- mans, who came farre otherwife appointed, found greater aduantage in the differenc® of Armes, than impediment in difadnantage of ground: Archers and Slingers did ea fily preuaile againft cafters of ftones ; e{pecially being fuchas werethefe Gollo-Greeks, 4° neither exercifed in that manneroffight,nor hauing prepared theirftones before-hand, but catching vp whatlay next, the too great, and thetoo little, oftnerthan thofe ofa fit fize. Finally, the Barbarians, wanting defenfiue Armes, could not hold ‘ont againf the Arrowes and weaponsof the Roman light armature : butwere driuen froma piece of ground, which they had vndertaken to make good,vp intotheir Campe on the rop of the mountaine ; and being forced out of theirCampe, had none otherway-eft, ¢! to caft themfelues headlong downe the fteepe rockes. Fewof their men, did. efcape aline : all their wiues, children, and goods becamea prey ynto the Romans, Inthe very likemanner, were the reft of that Nation. ouercome foone after, at, the other mountaine : onely more ofthemfaued themfelues by flight, as having fairer way#50 their backes. Thefewarres being ended : Faluius and Manliwus were appointed bythe Senate, cach of them toretaineas Proconful, his Prouince for another yeere, Fatujas, in his telittle ot nothing.Manlius gaue peace to tho{e whomhe had yanquithed; condyeere,did as likewife to 4réarathes the Cappadocian,and fome others,not byhim yanqu thed, but fabmitting them{eluesforfeare ofthe Roman armes.He drewfromthem all, iO fic hecould : and laid vpon them fuch conditions, as hethought expedient., He atic finiththe league of peace with Antiochus ; whercto hee fwore, and receined the K of warre, to take Cities;thathad been taken fromhimby the Romans.Such being thedifference between him and Ewmenes when the warre began: hethought i-nocucn dealing ofthe Romans, aftertheir vidtory,to giue away,not onlythehalfe of Afiasbut Cherfonnelus & Lyfimachiain Europe,to Eumenes:whereas vpon himfelfethey beftowednotany, onc Towne, Ttagreed norindeed with his Nobilitieto goeto Romeand beggePronincesin the Se. nate,as Ewmenes andthe Khodianshadlately. dgne.H¢ hadentertained louingly.the two, Scipio's, which he thought the moft honourable men in Rome;and was grown intoneer acquaintance with:Pabliws; holding correfpondencewwith him by letters, whereby hee ** made himfelfc acquainted with warres in S neand Africke. This perhaps he dees medfufficient, to breedin the Romans aducrefpect of him, But Eamenes tookeafurer way:Forthe Scipies hadinota difpofiog of that which they woane from,Aatiochus::, as neitheirirideed had Manlivs,northe ten Delegates aflifting him;but the Senate of Rome, by which thofe- Delegates were chofen,and inftruéted how. ta proceed. When Philip therfore fawthefe vpftart kings of Pergamus, whomheaccounted as bafe companions; aduancedfo highly, and made greaterthar himfelfe ; yea himfel raregarded,contemned, and expofed to nrany wrongs: thenfoundhe great cauleto wifh,that hehad not fo hattily declared himfelfe againft Antiochus,or rat andthe Atolians, by whom he might haue becae! 40 what great argument offuch difcontentednefs the 1, with radios: Net Haier But ve {hall ie y hors d ic a lybevrged to difcourfe moreatlarge.At theprefentit, were by him {eron,toaffailethe Romans pall aduantages ; andthey fell, vnexpected, vponthecarri. midft of the Armie; whereof part had already pafleda the elec i Thracians | us wood,through which the bagaagefollowed; part was not yet fo enough to leaue behind: though both theg as well ofthe Barbarians,as ofthe Romans. Tacy the Thracians withdrew themfelnes ; not withouta $m s cnough to.get,and y itucs, : &thea ¢ 1s to their full content. And of fuchtrouble there wasim OFEs thous 4 ial 3° Armie could get out ofThrace into Macedon. i nrong! march into Epirus,and fo to Apollonia,which wasthe see the Citie.w OEMS To Atanlius.and to Falsiss, when eachot them rerurne¢ 7 ew honourof Triumph, Yet not without contradiction: of pecially £0 4 sransed oftheren Deleg tes appoi ted to allifthim,did wes Bi th Wotaeda ood aniwer, mander, Touching the reft of theiracculation 5 Iti" ete (eis worthy of more parti and was.approoned by. the chiefe of the papain oy Sdeedene peace ith Antiochus: cularconfideration, Reprehendinghis defircro bane bine \ they |