The historie of the world. In five bookes. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Sucessors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon / By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight.

  • Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
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[1652]
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Credit: The historie of the world. In five bookes. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Sucessors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon / By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6*4 The fiftT od}\ofthe firft Tart Chap ,6.§.l. and hemmed in the Spartans^ had alfo quite abolished Lycurgm his ordinances *, and go¬ verned the City by their own lawleffe Will. As for the Ach^nns they communica¬ ted their own Lawes, which they held for the bed,-or elfe would foon change them and take better, unto the Lacedemonians^ whom they found without Lawes, or any tolerable forme of policy. For conclufion, Lye ortas plainly told K^ipp, Claudius, the chief of the Embailadors, That he and his Countrym'emheld it ftrange, being friends and faithfull Allies of the Remans, to fee themfelves thus conftrained, to, anftver and giye account of their ad ons,as vaffals & Haves unto the people of Rome.Vot, if they were indeed at liberty: why might not the Acheans as well require to be fatisfied about that which the Remans had done at Capua, as the Romans did bufie themfelves, to takeac- 19 count how things went at Lacedaemon < for if tire Romans would Hand upon their great- neffe y ar.d intimate as they begun, that the liberty of their friends was nothing worth*' longer than fhould pleafie themfelves to ratifie it a then muft the Ackeans have recourfe unto thofe Agreements that were confirmed by oath, and which without perjury could not be violated -, as reverencing, and indeed fearing the Romans, but much more, the immortall gods. To this bold aniwer of Ljcortas Appius found little to reply. Yet taking Hate upon him *, he pronounced more like a Mafter than a judge, that if the A- chicans would not be ruled by fair means, and earn thanks while ft they might-, they lhould be compelled with a mifehief, to do what was required at their hands, whe- ther-they would or no. This altercation was in the Parliament of the Ach&ans, which i® groned to hear the Lordly words of Appius. Yet fear prevailed above indignation.* and it was permitted unto the Romans to do as they lifted. Hereupon the Embaffa- dors reftored fome banifhed and condemned men .* but the Roman Senate, very foon after, did make void all judgements of death or banifhment, that had been laid by the Acheans, upon any Citizen of Laced&mon fas likewife they made it a mat¬ ter of difputation, whether or no the City and Territory of Lacedemon^kbukbbe buf¬ fered to continue a member of the Ach&an Common-wealth or, taken frorro them and made as it had been an Eftate by it fclf. By bringing fuch a. matter into qneftiohy-the Romans well declared, that they held it to depend upon their own will, how mtich or how little any of their Confederates fhould be buffered to enjoy .* though by con- 30 tributing Sparta to the councell of Achaia, they difeovered no leffe, as to them feemed, the love which they bare unto the Achaians, than the power which they had over them. • 4? Into fuch flavery had the G reeks,and all Kings and Common-weals whatfoever,bor¬ dering upon any part of the Mediterran Seas, reduced themfelves, by calling in the Ro¬ mans to their fucCour.They wanted not the goodcounfel and-perfwafions of many wife an d temperate men among them • they had alfo the examples of tbcltahans ^Spaniardsy G aides pmd A fricans, all fubdued by the Romans-^and,by feeking Patronage,made meer Vaftsls^to inftrudf them,what in the likeca fc they fhould expeft: yet couldftdt t-he true reafons of Eftate and Policy fo prevail with them,but their private paffions* and neigh- 40 bouring hatred,which hath evermore bought revenge at the price of fclf-ruine,brought them from the honour which they enjoyed, of being free Princes and cities, into mofl bafe and fearfull fervility. All this made well for Philip of Macedon: who though he faw the Greeks very far from daring to ftir againft thofe, by whom both he and they were kept in awe; yet was he not without hope,that (few of them excepted, whom the Romans by freeing from his fubje&ion, had made his implacable enemies) in hearty affedlion all the countrey would be his, whenfoever he fhould take Armes, as fhortly he was like to do. Young Demetrius^ comming home from Rome, brought with him the defired ratification of peace-, though qualified with much indignity foon following. He had been lo* 50 vingly ufed at Rome^ and heard with great favour in the Senate. There,being confoun¬ ded with the muititudq of objections,whereto his youth,unskilfull in the Art of wrang¬ ling, could not readily makeanfwer : it was permitted unto him, to read fuch brief notes as he had received from his Father, and out of thofe the Senate were conten¬ ted to gadiei fatisfadbon -, more for Demetrius his own fake, as they then faid,and wrote into Maydon^ than for any goodneffe in the defence. Such pride of theirs, in rerouting hisfaults at the mrreaty of his fon, together with fome infolence of his- ion, growing (as appeared) from this favour of the Romans 3- did inereafe in Rhihp V