Examples of selfe Murther.
Calanus an Indian Philosopher followed Alexander M. [ 24] when he returned out of India, who having lived seventy three years without any disease, was at last taken with a dysenterie, and fearing that his former felicity should be overclouded with a lingring disease, he asked leave of Alexander that he might burn himself: the King laboured to disswade him from his unnaturall purpose, but when he could not prevail by arguments, he gave his consent, whereupon Calanus caused a pile of wood to be made, and riding to it, he made his prayers to his Countrey gods, and so with a cheerfull countenance he ascended the pile, and causing the fire to be put to it, he sate with a fixt and unmovable bo∣dy, till he was burned to ashes. Q. Cur.
Alex. M. besieging one of the Indian Cities, the in∣habitants [ 25] seeing that they could hold out no longer, shut up themselves, their wives and children in their houses, and set fire on them: Alexanders men breaking in, laboured to quench the fire, and the others labour∣ed as much to encrease it, so that it was a strange thing to see the fight that was betwixt, one to destroy themselves, the other to save their enemies. Quin. Cur.
Demosthenes the Athenian Orator for standing for [ 26] the liberty of Greece, was hated by Antipater the Go∣vernour of Macedonia, who sent some to kill him un∣der Captain Archia; whereupon Demosthenes took san∣ctuary in Neptunes Temple: But Archia sent to him to