A righte noble and pleasant history of the successors of Alexander surnamed the Great, taken out of Diodorus Siculus: and some of their lives written by the wise Plutarch. Translated out of French into Englysh. by Thomas Stocker

¶ The Satrapes of the hie countrey of Asie, to resist Python, ioyne together: and of the power they assem∣bled.

The .iiij. Chapter.

WHen Python gouerner of Mede, and chiefe ru∣ler of all the higher Satrapies, was with greate power come into Parthie, and had killed Philote deputie therof,* 1.1 and in his stede placed Eudame his bro∣ther,* 1.2 all the other Satrapies vnderstanding the case, and fearing his like dealing with them, assembled agaynst him, & vanquished him in battaile, so that he was w^t the losse of a greate numbre of Souldiers forced to abādon the countrey of Parthe. Whereupon he first retired into Mede, and from thence towardes Seleuke in Babylon, to craue his aide and succour, offring to make partition of the countreys he had conquered. By reason wherof, the Satrapes which vnderstod it, assembled theyr power, and by that meane Eumenes his messangers foūd them in armes, vnder the conduct of Penceste,* 1.3 whom they had appointed their general, a mā highly renoumed amon∣gest the rest, and of the chieftayns best estéemed, whom Alexander also in his life time by reason of his strength and mightinesse of body, had apointed to be of his gard, & after gaue him the Satrapie of Perside, whiche he many yeares during Alexanders life enioyed, and so well go∣uerned the same, that all the people of the countrey, greatly loued and honoured him. Wherfore Alexander minding to gratifie them, suffered him onely, and none other of the Macedonians, to be apparelled like a Per∣sian, thinking they woulde therby be more addict and o∣bedient to his gouernaunce. He had .x. thousand Persian shot, and .iij. thousand other armed after the maner of the Macedonians: Greekes and Thracians vj. C. horse, and of Persians, aboue .iiij. hundred. Ouer and besydes these,* 1.4 Polemō the Macedonian gouerner of Carmanie, had a thousande fiue hundred footemen. & .vij. hundred horse, Sybirte bailiffe of Aracosie,* 1.5 a thousande footemen & .vj. C. horse.* 1.6 Androbase gouerner of parte of Paropamsade was sent w^t .xij. C. footemen, and .iiij. hundred horse. Stasander of Arie and Draugine,* 1.7 with a bande of Bactrians, hadde a

thousande and fiue hundred footemen, and one thousand horsse. Out of the countrey of Inde came Eudame wyth v. hundred horsse, and .iij. thousand footmen, & .xxx. Ele∣phants: which Elephantes he got after the death of A∣lexander from king Pore, whom by treason he had slain. And thus the power of all the sayde Satrapes together, were .xxj. thousande and two hundred footemen, and .iiij. thousand and two hundred horsse.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Philote.
• * 1.2

  Eudame.
• * 1.3

  Penceste.
• * 1.4

  Polemon.
• * 1.5

  Sybirte.
• * 1.6

  Androbase.
• * 1.7

  Stasander.