O Jupiter, I have taken the Earth to my self; Take thou Heaven: with which Alexander was so well pleased, that he published a Proclamation, that none should draw his Picture but Lycippus.Apelles drew Alexander's Picture with a Thunderbolt in his hand, to shew his admirable celerity, and unresistableness in his Conquests.This bloudy man lived not out half his Dayes, and not long after his Death all his Posterity was rooted out.His Posterity and Kindred that he left behind him, were; his Mother Olymtias; his Unkle Pyrrhus, King of Epirus: His Brother Arideus, and his Sister Cleopatra: His two Wives, with their two Sons; Roxane with Alexander, and Bursines with Hercules▪ Olympias caused Arideus to be Kil∣led: Cassander thereupon took occasion to put Olympias to death, being al∣most fourscore years old: and then he poysoned both Alexanders Sons, [Alexander and Hercules] with Roxane Alexanders Wife. Cleopatra, Alex∣anders Sister, the Governour of the Sardians, who was base Brother to Phi∣lip, Alexanders Father, procured her to be killed, therein thinking to gratifie Antigonus: And last of all, Pyrrhus was vanquished by Antigonus, the Son of Demetrius, by whom his Head was cut off.0