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Show The file Booke ofthe firft parte Cuar.6, §u10. Guar. 6.§.1. And hetero Callverates wasvery vigents fearingyand procuring themto feare inbehalfe ofhitnand hisfiiendsythaciffomedharpe order were novnowtaken, he and his fellowes fhould be made to pay ‘for theirmifchieuous denices, ere long time pafleds So the Ems baffadowrsicame'among the Achweats:whereone ofthem yin open affembly' of the Natiotijfpdkeas Callicrates had before initthcted hinysiHeefaid, thatifome ofthe'chiefe a4 mongthem, had withinioney and othermeanesbefriended: Perfews, This ibeingfo she ratemanyjand confidentin-his innocence,thenfhould I likewife haue beene: friend to Perfeas : whereof, ifany man can accufe me, I fhall throughly anfwer him, either here refentlyjor beforethe Senateat Rome: V ponthefe words of Xenex the Embafladour fad hold,and faid that euen foit werethe beft way,for himand theveft ‘to. purge themfelués before'the Senate at Rome. Then began'heto nameothers,'andleft noryatill he had citedaboneathoufand ; willing them to appeare and:anfwer before the Senate. This might euen betearmed the captinitie of Greece ; wherein fomany oftht honeftett and worthieft men were carried from home,for nofie other-caufe ‘than:their lone vnto theit Co untry; to be punifhed: according tothe will ofthoft;!who:could notendure, 24 that vertue, & regard ofthe publike liberty,fhould-dweltogether inany,ofthe Greeks: Artheir comming to Rome,thiey werealcaftinto prifonjas menalready.condemned by the Achzans.Many Embaflages werefent from Achaia(whereit isto' be wondred,that any fuch honeft careofthefe innocent men could be remaining: fince honcftic had been thus punifhed asa vice,in fo many:ofthe worthieft among them) toinforme the Senate, that thefe men were neither condemned by the Achzans, nor‘yerheldto be offendors. Butin ftead of better an{wer,it was pronounced ;: That the Semate thoug he: it wot-expedi- entforthe Countrie,that thefe menould returne into Achaia. Neithericould any follicita- tion ofthe Achzans, who neuer ceafed to importunethe Senate fot their libertie, pre- uaileat all; vatill after feuenteeneyeeres, fewerthan thirty of them were enlarged, of 39 whom that wifeand vertuous man Polytiusthegreat Hiftorian,was one. Al! therett were ¢ither dead in prifon yor hauing made offer to-efcape, whether vpon the way before they'cameto Rome' or whetheroutofTayleJafter that they were committed thereto, fuffered death as malefaG@ors. ut c This was gentle correction, in regard ofwharwas done vponttlie Epirots.:'For the Seniate being defirous to preferuethe Macedonian Treafure wholezyerwithall, to grati+ fie the Souldiers, gaue order,That the whole Country of Epirusifhould be putto fackei This was 4 barbarous and horrible cruelty; as alfo-it was performed' by ~£mylias with tmhifchieuousfubtiltie-Hauing taken leaue ofthe Greckes,andiofthe Macedonians, with bidditig them wellto vfethe libertie beftowed vpon them bythe people of Rome'; hee 4° fet vatéthe Epirots for ten ofthe principal men our'of euery' Citic.Thefe he commanded to deliticr vp all tiie Gold and Siluer which they-had s-and'fent along with' them, into eucty oftheir Townes what companies ofmen hethoughtconuenient, as it were to fetch themoney:' Buthe gauefecret inftruction to the Captaines, that vpon a ccr- taineday by him appointed, they thould fall ro facke, euery one the Towne whereintohewasfent: Thus in one day ‘were: threefcore-and tenne Cities; all confederate withthe Romans,fpoyled by the Ronian'Souldicrssand befides other aétsof hottility in atime of peace, a hundred and fiftie thoufandof that Nation made flaues. Iemay begranted;thatfome-ofthe Epirots déferued puniflinent, as'hauing fanoured! Per/ens. Butfince they, among this people,that were thouglit guilty of this offence, yea, or but se coldly affeted to the Romans, had beenalready font into Italie, thereto receiuetheit due; and fince this Nation,in generallswas not onély at the prefent' ia good obedience, but had cuen in this warre,done good feruice to thé Romans? Lhbld this aa fo wicked, that I fhould not beleeueit,had any one Writer delivered the contrary. Bat the truth "being manifett by content ofall yitisthe leffe miuriteilous, thatGod was pleafed tomake 659 thefe Embaffadours came. §. XI. The warre ofAntiochus vpon Eaypt, brought to endby the Roman Embalfadéurs. defited:thatall fichmen might be condemnedwhom, after: fentence giuen,, hee would flanievatothem: Afterifentence giuen (cried outthe wholeaffembly )whaciuttice were this 2) Namethem firft,and letthemanfwer; which ifthey cannot well doe, weewill fodaerohdemnethemy Then faid the Romanboldly, that all theit Pretors,as iany-as' ro hadied theirarmies, were guilty ofthis crime. Ifthis were true, {aid Xeaon,:a tempex ofthe Hiftorie ofthe World. ans. How terriblethey were to other Kingdomes abroad; it will appeare by the efficacie ofan Etmbaflagefent from them to -Aasiechus's whereof before we fpeakes. we muft fpeaké fomewhat of Antiochus his foregoers,ofhimfelfe,andofhis affaires about which Ntiochus the Great,after his peace with the Romans, did ficthing that was més 10 morable in the fhort time following of his reigne and:tife. Hee died the fixe andthirtieth yeere aftet hehad wornea Crowne;andin the fenenteenth or eigh- teenth of Prolomie Epinhanes: while he attempted to rob the Temple of Bel, or (accors Strabilib. #6. ding to I#ftine) ofupiter: He left behinde him threcfonnes, SelexcusPhilopater; canrian35 chus Epiphanes; Demetrias Soter;and one daughter, Cleapatra, whom heehad given in miattiage to Ptolomie Epiphanes, king of Egypt: Se/eacusthe fourth of that name, and the eldeft of Avtiocbushis fonnes; reigned in Syriatwelue yeeresjaccording to'Bufebius, zufeb.ih chee; Appian,and Sulpitins's though Jofephus giue him but feuer. A Prince, who as hee was 4??-4e bel floathfull by nature ; fothe great loffe whichhis father Autéochus had receiued, tooke:,at from him the meanes ofmanaging anygreat affaire. Of him,aboutthree hundred yeers 20 beforehis birth, Damiel gauethis indgement, Ethabst in loco eins vilifsimus CO indignws Dantrvrts decore regio, And in bisplace {peaking of dativchas, the Father ofthis man) ballfare-up 4 vildeperfon, unworthy the bonour of a King, Vader this Selewews, thofe things were done which are fpoken ofOxia the highPrieft,in thefe words, & otherto thefame ef- a Mnécap.3, fe&': what time as the holy City was inhabited with all Peace, becanfe ofthegodlineffe of ONiasthe Prieff, it came topaffe,that euew the King did honour the plate, and garnifhed the Temple withgreat gifts. And all that is written in the thitd Chapter of the fecond of Macchabees, ofSimon of Beniamin, who by Apellowias betrayed the Treafures of the Temple: and of Heliodorusfent by the king to feize them , of his' miraculous ftriking by God, and his recouery at the prayers of Ones: of the kings death, and of his fuccef~ 30 four Axriochus Epiphanes. tis therefore fromthe reigne ofthisking, thatthe books of the Macchabees take beginning. Which booksfeeme nottobe deliuered by one and the fame hand. Forthe firft booke,although itouch vpon Alewenderthe Great, yetit hath nothingel fe ofhis ftorie, nor ofthe acts of his flucceffours,till the time ofAntiochus Epi- phanes, the brotherand fucceffour ofthis Se/eucas; from whomdowawardtothe death OfSimon Macchabens(who died in the hundred threefcore and feuenteenthyeere of the Greeks in Syria) that firtt booke treateth. The Author of the fécond booke,ilthough he take the Sroric fomwhatfurther off, by way ofa Prozme, yet he endeth with the buns dred and one andfiftieth yeere ofthe Grecian reigne, and withthe death of Wicanor; brother of flaine by /adas : remembring in the fourth Chapter the practice of fefox the for, for the Priefthood. It is alfo held by semfenius andothe grave Waiters, thatit Eimbafladours to the was inthe time ofthis Ona, that Arivs king ofthe Spartans fent 4 ~ > antellion Which pe ee our2 pio ; bet"twe intelligence Which i brothers and kinfinen, Tewes,as to their ond . 0 the brother and fucceflour of Inada, remembreth in the. Greeks, Jonathan A ae that Epiftle,whichhe himfelfe directed tothe people of Sparta by 4 amenias ss raed Senateo the timeto fame the at employed pater his Embaffadours, whomhe had fete om high peating alfo the former Letters word by word, which Arius nie e eee Prieft, whereof 7o/ephus addes,chat thename of the Laceda A an Eag o , a °, >| 0 4) > 4 50 ding a ‘Dragon inher clawes. Antiochus - .Se Nowtothis seleucus, the fourth ofthat name, fuceeeded was ae - hundred and feuen and thirtieth yeere ofthe Greeks in Syria. He ofthe Grear Antiochas ¥ and he obtained his Beecath by procuring the he vfurped from his brothers tonne. alfo his Brosher;which King ewe Mhis fifter Cleopatra, were ~~ 5 being then very young,had y Ptolomie Philometor, his Nephew byhis fifter beeneaboit feuenyeeres King of Egypt+ and twenty yeers;in gteat quiet, but doing lit tle ornothingthat was memorable. : To fiich tianner dealt the Roiians.after their vidtorywiththe Greeks arid'Macedoatans. 4 fealedwith Demoreles, and thatthe Letters had a fquare Volume,é& were vEmylias childeleffe; even ‘in the glory of his triumph; how greatfoeucr otherwife his C e i vertues were. ; Mati die 46 Onizs, who after the deathofSeleacus, preuailed with Antiochus Epipbanes, his fuccel syoer.rccl;ts4s Egypt foure Ptolomie Epiphazes, the Father ofthisKing Philometor, had-reigned in ee ° |