1. ALL Vice is to be avoided by every Wise Man, but especially Covetousness. For this (through hopes and desire of Gain) prompts many to acts of Injustice, and so becomes the occasion of the greatest Mischiefs to Mankind. For being in the very highest Sphere of Wickedness, it involves not only mean Men, but even Kings themselves in extream Calamities, For Antigonus King of Asia, as an Example of this Truth, out of his insatiable desire, beginning a War against Four other Kings (who join'd against him) viz. Ptolemy Lagus King of Aegypt, Seleucus King of Babylon, Lysimachus of Thrace, and Cassander the Son of Antipater King of Macedonia, perish'd in Battle being shot through the Body with Multitudes of Darts and Arrows, (tho' afterwards Bury'd in a Royal manner) and his Son Demetrius, with his Mother Stratonice (who were then in Cilicia) were forc'd to sail away with all the Wealth they had to Salamis in Cyprus, that remaining still in the hands of Demetrius.
2. Agathocles King of Sicily, burnt all the Macedonian Fleet, and so freed Corcyra when it was Besieg'd by Cassander, both by Sea and Land, and very near and likely to be taken. Oh the many uncertainties of War! For Folly and Fraud many times effect as great things as true Valour and Courage.
3. Agathocles being return'd to the rest of his Army from Corcyra, when he heard that the Ligurians and Tyrrhenians (who were his Mercenary Soldiers) had assisted those who kill'd his Son Archagathus in his absence, put them all to the Sword, to the number of Two thousand: Upon which Account the Brutii deserting him, he resolv'd to Besiege their City call'd Aethas. But the Barbarians in great numbers falling upon him suddainly in the Night, cut off Four thousand of his Men, and so he return'd to Syracuse.
4. Agathocles rigg'd out a great Fleet, and sail'd into Italy; and having a design to march his Army to Crotona, he sent a Messenger before to Menedemus, King of Crotona (who was his particular Friend) not to be afraid of his Motion; which was meerly to deceive him; and purposing to Besiege the Place, he gave out that he was sending away his Daughter Lanassa with a Royal Fleet to Epirus to Marry her: And by this Fraud he came upon them when they were unprovided, and never suspected him. Thereupon, applying himself with all earnestness to the Siege, he block'd up the Place by a Wall drawn from Sea to Sea. And having by his Mines and Batteries ruin'd the greatest House of the Town, the Crotoneans out of fear open'd their Gates and receiv'd his Army into the City, who breaking in like a Flood, first rifl'd all the Houses, and then put all the Men to the Sword. He likewise made a League with the neighbouring Barbarians, the Japygians, and Peucetians, furnishing them with Ships for Piracy, and shar'd with them in the Robbery. At length having p • t a Garison into Crotona, he sail'd back to Syracuse.
5. Diallus the Athenian Writer compos'd a General History in Twenty six Books. And Psaon of Platea anoth • r in Thirty Books.
6. In the War against the Hetruscians, Gauls and Samnites, and their Confederates, the Romans destroy'd (w • en Fabius was Consul) an Hundred thousand Men, as Daris relates.
7. Antipater out of Envy, kill'd his own Mother. Alexander his Brother was likewise kill'd by Demetrius, whom Alexander had sent for to his assistance. Antipater the Murtherer of his Mother was a • so serv'd the same Sauce by Demetrius, unwilling to have a partner in the Kingdom.
8. Agathocles rais'd an Army and sail'd over into Italy with 30000 Foot and 2000 Horse. And • ving the Command of the Fleet to Stilpo, he order'd him to wast and spoil the C • untry of the Brutii: While he was harassing the Sea-coasts, he lost many of his Ships in a Storm. But Agathocles, by the help of his battering Engines took the City Hipponium: which so terrify'd the Brutii, that they sent Ambassadors to treat with him upon ter •• of Peace: Upon which he put in a Garrison and carry'd away with • im Six hundred • ostages, and return'd to Syracuse. But the Brutii made slight of their
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