¶ Howe to feare them that are befeged. Ca. viii.
VUhan Philip coulde by noo power get the castel Trinassum, he began to caste vp erthe before the walles, and
The strategemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre, gathered togyther, by S. Iulius Frontinus, and translated into Englyshe, by Rycharde Morysine
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- The strategemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre, gathered togyther, by S. Iulius Frontinus, and translated into Englyshe, by Rycharde Morysine
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- Frontinus, Sextus Julius.
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made as thoughe he wolde vndermyne theym. Wherfore they of the castell, fea∣ringe, lest they shuld haue ben ouerwhel∣med, yelded them selfe.
Pelopidas of Thebes, purposynge to conquere two townes at ones, of the Magnecians, whiche stode not farre a sonder, at the tyme that he moued one of his armies to the one of theym, he com∣manded, that. iiii. knyghtes shulde come from the other army, with garlandes on their hedes, and a notable mery chere, as thoughe they broughte tydynges of vic∣tory, and to helpe forthe this dissimula∣tion, he ordeyned, that a wodde, whiche stode betwene bothe the townes, shulde be set on fire, to make a shewe as though the towne had burned. Besydes that, he caused certayne prisoners in the townes mens apparayle, to be led and broughte thyther. By the whiche asseueration he so amased the besyeged, that they nowe thynkynge theym selfes halfe ouercome, yelded vppe.
Whan Cyrus kynge of Perse had in∣closed Cresus at Sardes, to which hold
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there was noo commynge, by reason it was fensed with a rough rocky hylle, he caused mastes to be reysed vp as hyghe as the toppe of the walles, whervpon he set images of armed men, arrayed lyke Perseans, and in the nyght made theym to be brought harde to the hyll. Than as soone as the day appered, he gaue assaut to the towne on the other syde. now whā the sonne arose, and those images gliste∣red, and shone lyke men of armes, the inhabitantes thought surely their towne had bē taken on that syde: wherfore they of feynt courage thynkyng to fle, caused their ennemies to gette the vyctorie.