An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world in five books ... : wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abrig'd according to his own method in the larger volume : to which is added his Premonition to princes.

CHAP. IX. Matters concurring with this War, and a while after.

§. 1. PERSIA after, had Artaxerxes, Xerxes the Second, and after him, Sogdianus his Brother (who seem to be the Sons of Hester) but one year; whom Darius Notbus succeeded, who slew Sogdianus as he had his Brother Xerxes. He reigned Nineteen years. Amyrtaeus an Egyptian, Allyed himself with Greece, overthrew the Persian Garrisons in Egypt, and Reigned; while Darius assisting the Lacedemonians with Money, by the Overthrow of A∣thens, recover'd what had been lost in Asia the lesser, over which he made Cyrus, his younger Son, Lieu∣tenant, but upon some dislike, intended to have dealt sharply with him, had not Death prevented.

§. 2. Athens, after her Overthrow, had Thirty Governours, called Tyrants, chosen to execute the Law, with supreme Authority. These contriving

to retain that Power, put certain Seditious Fellows to death without Law, which all Men approved, considering their Lewdness, but not that it might prove their own case, if their Governours please to call them Seditious, as it fell out. For their Thir∣ty sent to Lacedemon, to desire a Garrison, pretend∣ing to cut off the Seditious; but by entertaining the Captain to his liking, they grew bold with the Chief Citizens, and shed much Blood. Theramenes one of them, shewing his dislike, after they had cho∣sen Three thousand Citizens of their liking, to as∣sist in the Government, with priviledge, in que∣stion of Death to be tryed by Law, and not at Commandment of the Thirty; they call Theramenes in question, as without the priviledge, and put him to death.

§. 3. After this, the Tyrants Out-rage made ma∣ny good Citizens fly to Thebes, where Thrasybulus, and about Seventy more, resolve to free Athens of the Tyrants, and take Phyla, a strong place in the Territory of Athens, which the Tyrants, in vain, sought to recover, their strength encreasing to a Thousand, with which they got Pyraeus, the Sub∣urbs of Athens on the Port, and slew Seventy of the Three Thousand which came to expect them, and Critias the chief Tyrant. The Tyrants send for Aid to Sparta, and Lysander is sent with Forces, and Pausanias followed, not to overthrow Thrasy∣bulus, but after some shew, to work Peace, which he did, sending the Thirty, and others that were the cause of the Tumult, to Sparta,