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The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus
—With the Lacedemonians, 319
—The lamentable Sedition at Argos, 296
—Another dreadful Sedition at Argos, call'd the Scytalisme, 432
—Another War with the Lacedemonians, 493
—Another Sedition. 635
Argyraspides; their age, and Valour, 625, 626 694
—Their treachery towards Eumenes, and their just Punishment, 628, 629 697
Aristides; the Athenian General at Platea, against Mardonius, 231
—His eminent Justice, 239 r 266
Aristophanes; his Verses of Pericles, 274
Aristotiles; the Philosopher, one of the Learnedst Grecians, 263
Armenia;
—The Snowy Mountains, the danger of the Grecians there, 370
Arridaeus; made King in the room of Alexander M. is murder'd by Olympias, 612
—His royal Burial, 630
Arses King of Persia murder'd by Bagoas, together with his Children, 603
Artabanus murders Xerxes, 251
—Is kill'd, upon his Attempt to murder Artaxerxes, ibid.
Artabazus; the Persian General against Datames, 447
—Rebels against the Persian King, 462
—Is restor'd to the Kings favour by Mentor, 502
Artaxerxes succeeds Xerxes, 251
—His War with the Egyptians, 253, &c. 281, 282
—With the Athenians at Cyprus, 265
—His other Acts, 266
—His Peace with the Lacedemonians, 273
—His Death, 289
Artaxerxes II. Mnemon, succeeded Darius the second, 353
—His War with the King of Egypt, and the Grecians, 446
—War with his Brother Cyrus, 365, 367 368 407, 408
—His War with Evagoras, 399, 410 459
—His Death, 482
Asia; the Description, 575
Astrology; Meton's Circle of 19 years, call'd Enneadeceterides, 277
Asphaltes; the Lake Asphaltes, 651
—The Description of Pitch, and how it's gather'd, 652
Atalanta; Vid. Island.
Athenians; their City burnt by Xerxes, 223
—Their Walls rebuilt by the Policy of Themistocles, 236
—Gain the Dominion of the Sea, 239
—Aid the Rebels in Egypt, and overcome the Persians, 252, 253 280
—Their War with the Corinthians and Egeans, 253, 255 283
—Their remarkable Victory at Tanagra, over the Thebans, 257
—Their flourishing Condition after the War with Xerxes, 263, 264 292
—The Peloponnesian War, 277 &c.
—Their Expedition into Sicily, 284, 285 314
—Their Fight and Rout in the Battel with the Beotians, 290
—Their Expedition into Thrace, against Brasidias, 292
Their Cruelty with the Scyonians, ibid.
—Their second Expedition into Sicily, 300 227 332
—They besiege Syracuse, 302
—Their Victory at Sea, 303
—Beaten at Sea, 307
—Their Ruin in Sicily, 307
—And their misery there, 314
The Government of 400 in Athens, 315
—Are overcome by the Lacedemonians, ibid.
—Their Victory against Callicratides, 349
—Their unjust Judgment against their Captains, 350
—Their Ruin at Egos Potamos, 352
—The taking of their City by Lysander, 353
—The Thirty Tyrants of Athens, 357
—The War with the Tyrants, 373
—Their Ejection, ibid
—Ten others set up in their room prove as as bad as they, 374
—Athens wall'd again, 393
—They stir up the Cities against Sparta, 419 471
—The Beotian War, and their Expedition into Beotia, 420
—How the league with Sparta is broken after the Peace of Antilcida, ibid.
—A new War with Sparta. The first Victory (after their loss at Egos-Potamos) against the Spartans at Naxos in a Sea-fight, 422
—Their Expedition into Corcyra, and Victory over the Spartans,
—They assist the Spartans, their implacable Enemies, against the Thebans by Iphicrates, 435, 437 493
—Are routed by Philip, 478
—Their Acts in the Social War, 485
—Their War with Philip, 503
—The Battel at Chaeronea, where they are overcome by Philip, 516
—Their War with Antipater, 578 &c.
—Their City given up to Antipater, and garison'd by him, 581
—Their Democracy restor'd, 602
—Antigonus and Demetrius honour'd by them, 677
Athenae; a University for the Liberal Arts and Sciences, 311
Attica; wasted by Xerxes, 223
—By Mardonius, 230
—By the Spartans, 280, 284 309, 314
Atho; Mount Atho digg'd thro' by Xerxes's Army, 310
Augurs; a superstitious Observation of Augurs, the occasion of the Ruin of the Athenians in Sicily, 305
—Shew'd to Philomelus, 489
—Portending the death of Alexander M. 571
Axiotheca; the Wife of Nicocles murders her self and her whole Family, 665
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Babylon; Alexander M. his first Entry into Babylon, 548
- —His second and last, where he died, 570
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Babylonia; the Province of Arcon, 574
- —Its Scituation, 576
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—Antipater allotted it to Seleucus, 590
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Bactria; Conquer'd by Alexander M. The Province of Philip, 574
- —The Scituation, 576
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Bagistama; a fruitful Country,
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Bagoas the Eunuch, colleague with Mentor in Egypt, 499, 500 536
- —Destroys Ochus and all his Family, 501
- —How he was punished, 502
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Belus; his Sepulchre, repair'd by Alexander M. 570
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Bessus; treacherously murders Darius, and stirs up the Bactrians against Alexander M. 552
- —Punished by Alexander M. 556
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Beotians; whence so call'd,
- —Their War with the Plateans, 280
- —With the Athenians, 290 321
- —With the Phoceans, and Lacedemonians, 393, 394, 395 441, 442
- —The Beotian War against the Lacedemonians to the end, 414 466
- —Overcome by Philomelus, 491
- —By Onomarchus, 493
- —They overcome Phayllus at Orchomenus, Cephissus, and Chaeronea, 504
- —Overcome by Leosthenes, 578
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—Join with Antigonus, 642
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Boeotarchs 431
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Bomilcar; his Ambition, 661
- —Invades the Soveraignty over the Carthaginians, 674
- —His Conflict with the Citizens, 675
- —His punishment, 676 〈◊〉. 756
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Bucephalus; Alexander M. his Horse, his properties, 554
- —Is taken, ibid.
- —Built a City in India call'd Bucephala, in memory of his Horse, 564
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Bura and Helice drown'd, two Cities in Greece, 428
- Buildings; Stately Buildings in Sicily, 514
- Burial; the remarkable love of a Wife to her Husband at his Funeral, 622
- Bees make their Honey Combs in the Hipps of Agathocles his Statue, 607
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Byzantians their Expedition into Bithynia, and Cruelty, 297
- —The City taken by the Athenians by Treachery, but not without Blows, 331
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Cadmus; the first King of Thebes, 271
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Cadmea; the Cittadel of Thebes taken by the Spartans, 416
- —Recover'd 418
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Callantineans; their War with Lysimachus, 640
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Callicrates; his Sea-Fight with the Athenians, 305, 349 385
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Camillus; overcomes the Volsci, Equi, and the Gauls, 406
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Campanians; assist Dionysius in Sicily, 330
- —Are Rooted out of Sicily by Timoleon, 514
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Cappadocia; the Province of Eumenes, 574
- —Its Situation, 576
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Carducians; the hardships of the Grecians through their Countrey, 370
- —The Mountains there, ibid.
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Caria; its Situation, 576
- —The Province of Cassander, 574
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Carmania; the Province of Tlepolimus, 574
- —Its Situation, 576
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Carrhae; Villages in Mesopotamia, 569
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Carthaginians; their numerous Forces brought into Sicily as Confederats with Xerxes, 225
- —Their miserable slaughter at Himera, by Gelo, 227
- —Their Cruelty and Impiety in the Sacking of Selinunt, 327
- —And after, of Himera, 330
- —Their War with Dionysius, 376
- —Are overcome by the Syracusians, 385
- —Their Navy damag'd by Dionysius, 391
- —A grievous Plague amongst them, ibid.
- —The burning of their Fleet, 390
- —Another Expedition into Sicily, against Dionysius, 398
- —Another War with him, 414
- —Plague and Pannick fears, 418
- —The last War with Dionysius, 439
- —Another Expedition against Timoleon, 508, 512 550
- —Overcome by Timoleon, 513
- —Their Expedition against Agathocles, and their Shipwrack, 654
- —The manner of the publick Mourning, ibid.
- —Their Victory at Ecnomon, 656
- —The Terror amongst the Carthaginians, upon the landing of Agathocles in Africa, 660
- —Human sacrifices in Africa, 662
- —Towns taken by Agathocles in Africa, 664
- —Their miserable Slaughter in Assaulting Syracuse, 668
- —They overcome Agathocles in Africa, 684
- —The Tents of the Carthaginians burnt by chance, cause a great terror, ibid.
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Cassander; his War with Olympias, 622
- —He builds Cassandra, and repairs Thebes, 630
- —Uses Rhoxana and her Son very ill, ibid.
- —His Expedition into Peloponnesus, 630
- —Confederates against Antigonus, 632
- —Another Expedition into Peloponnesus, 635
- —Into Illyrium, and his happy success there, ibid.
- —Into Cario against Antigonus, and his good success there, 641
- —His War with the Apolloniats, 648
- —Wickedly murders the Son of Alexander and his Mother, 654
- —Assumes the Kingdom, 680
- —His Expedition against Antigonus, 702
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Caulonia Besieg'd and raz'd, 401, 403 451
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Cerberus; how he was pull'd out of Hell by Hercules, 372
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Chabrias; the Athenian General defends Corinth against the Thebans, 437
- —Their General in Sicily, 285
- —His Victory at Sea over Pollides the Spartan 422
- —His Death, 423
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Charonaea; Philip gains a great Victory over the Athenians at Charonaea, 516 555
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Chaldaeans; their Opinion of the Prodigies in the Heavens, 429
- —The Nature of their Divinations, 570
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Chares; the Athenian General overcomes the Argives, 440
- —His Acts in the Social War, 480, 486 521
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Charonidas; His Laws, 267
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Cilicia; The Province of Philotas, its Situation, 578
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Cimon; His Acts in Thrace, Asia, and Victories both by Sea and Land, 246, 247, 248, 264 273, 274, 292
- —His Death, 265
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Clearchus the Peloponnesian General; his Acts, 324, 362, 366, 368, 369 401, 406, 408, 409
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Cleombrotus, King of Sparta, 430
- —His Acts and Death at the Battel of Leuctra, 432
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Cleomenes King of Sparta, reign'd 60 years 10 months, 668
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Cleon; his Cruelty, 285
- —His Death, 292
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Cleopatra the Sister of Alexander M. marry'd to Alexander, King of Epirus, 517
- —Murder'd by Cassander, 673
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Concubines; how they were us'd to be convey'd to the Persian Kings, 247
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Conon; the Athenian General in Corcyra, 323
- —His Sea-Fight with the Spartans, 337, 375, 392, 394 417, 438, 441
- —He builds the Walls of Athens, and is cast into Prison, 395
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Corcyrians; their War with the Corinthians, and Victory, 275
- —A dreadful Sedition amongst them, 322
- —Their other Acts, 643, 701 787
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Corinthians; their unhappy War with the Me gareans, 256
- —With the Corcyreans, 275
- —Their Sedition, 395
- —Another Sedition, ibid.
- —Another Sedition, 424
- —They help Dion the Syracusian, 513
- —The Assembly of the Greeks at Corinth about the Persian War, ibid.
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Cheronea; A great Battel there between the Athenians and the Thebans, 265
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Craterus Alexander M. his special Friend, 570
- —Assists Antipater at Lamia, 581
- —Against the Etolians, 585
- —His Expedition against Eumenes, 578
- —His Death, 587
- —His Burial, 634
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Crotoniats; they destroy the Sybarites, 266
- —Their War against Dionysius, 397
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Crucifixion; Daimenes crucifi'd by Dionysius, 382
- Cruelty; prevented by a prudent Speech, 286
- —Of the Spartans upon the Plataeans, ibid.
- —Of the Carthaginians in the Sacking of Selinunt, 327
- —Of the Persians towards the Grecians, 550
- —Of Antigonus upon the dead Body of Alcetas,
- —Of Olympias upon Arrhidaeus and Eurydices, 612
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