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The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus

• Darius; his Warlike Preparations against the Grecians, 215
• Darius the Son of Xerxes, murder'd by his Brother, 251
• Darius King of Persia, 291
• Darius; the last made King by Bagoas, 522 r 564, 565
• —His Preparations against Alexander M. ibid.
• —The Battel at Granicum, 530
• —His first Expedition against Alexander M. 534
• —His second Expedition, 544
• —The Fight at Arbela, 545
• —Kill'd by Bissus, 552
• —Alexander M. marries his Daughter, 568
• Decalia; The Decalian War, 303
• Delphos; How the Oracle was first discover'd, 488
• —Why an old Woman was Priestess, ibid.
• —The vast Sum robb'd out of the Temple, 402
• —The Robbers punish'd by the Gods, 505
• Demetrius Governor of Syria, by his Father Antigonus, 636
• —His Expedition against Ptolemy, 644
• —His War with Ptolemy and Seleucus; Fight, and Flight, 646
• —His Beauty, 644
• —His Expedition against the Nabathaeans, 652
• —Into Babylonia, 644
• —Honour'd at Athens, 646
• —His Expedition against Cyprus. 677
• —His great Engines in Cyprus, 677
• —His Preparations to fight Ptolemy, 678
• —His Victory, 679
• —The great Damage of his Fleet at Gaza, 640
• —His War with the Rhodians, 690, 691 775
• —A Description of his Engine Helepolis, 694
• —His War with Cassander, 699
• —His Acts in Asia, 704
• Demosthenes the Athenian General; his Acts, 287, 290, 291 321, 322
• —General in Sicily, 304
• —Is taken, 308
• —Put to Death, 314
• Demosthenes the Orator, 503, 515. 554
• —Stirs up the Athenians against Philip, ibid.
• —His Banishment, 579
• Deucetius; the Sicilian General, 254
• —Builds Menaeus.
• —His War with the Agragentines and Syracusians, 353
• —Builds Callatina, 274
• Dimnus; a Plotter to kill Alexander M. Kill'd by the King's own hand, 554
• Diocles. Vid. Laws.
• Diodorus the Sicilian; his History: How many it comprehended from the Ruine of Troy to Agathocles, 607
• —And to the Death of Antigonus, 657
• Diomedon the Athenian General; his Speech when he was most unjustly led to Execution, 305
• Dion; his Preparations for War with Dionysius, 479, 480, 481 513, 515
• —His Fight with Dionysius, 482
• —His Honours at Syracuse, 485 521
• Dionysius, the Tyrant of Sicily; his Rise, 344, 345, 346 381, 382
• —Declares himself Monarch, 347
• —His Horsemen rebel, spoil the Palace, and abuse his Wife, 355
• —Oppos'd by the Syracusians, 359
• —Disswaded from Abdicating the Government, 360
• —Restor'd to his Government in Syracuse, 361,
• —Walls Epipole with wonderful Dispatch, 365, 366 405
• —His Prepartions for the War against the Carthaginians, 376, 378 420
• —Theodorus his Speech against Dionysius, in his presence before the Syracusian Assembly, 386
• —His attempt upon Rhegium, 397, 400 448
• —A new War with the Carthaginians, 399
• —His Poems exploded at the Olympick Games, 404
• —His Cruelty to the Rhegians, 405
• —He sells Plato, 411
• —His other Acts, 413, 414, 415, 437 465, 466, 493
• —Dies of a Surfeit, 439, 440 496
• —His Letter to the sacrilegious Athenians, 504
• Dionysius; the younger his War with Dion, 481, 532 576
• —Is Conquer'd, ibid.
• —Reigns again in Syracuse, 509
• —Abdicates the Government, and lives a private life, ibid.
• Dioxippus the Athenian; his famous Victory in a Duel, over Charogus the Macedonian, his sad Misfortune and miserable Death, 566
• Drangina; Conquer'd by Alexander M. 554
• —The Province of Stasanor, 574
• Duel; between Coragus the Macedonian, and Dioxippus the Athenian, 566, 568 618
• —Of Darius with Cadusius,

• Erygius's Combat with Sartibarzenes, 556
• —Eumenes with Neoptolemus, 587
• Earthquakes at Sparta, 244
• —At Rhages, 627
• —God the Cause of Earthquakes, 418 •
• Eleans; their Commigration, 243
• —Their War with the Lacedemonians, 365
• —With the Arcadians, and Pisatae, 440
• —Join with the Athenians in the Lamian War, 578
• —Elis Conquer'd by Telephorus, 648
• Epaminondas; his Praise, 424
• —The Theban General, 430
• —His Valour in the Battel at Leuctra, 435
• —Rebuilds Messina, 435
• —Besieges Corinth, 436
• —Preserves the Army, 437
• —His Acts in Peloponnesus,
• —His other Acts, 441, 443, 362 500, 401
• —His Valour at Mantinea, and Deaths wound, 445
• —Was a Pythagorean, and Fellow-Schollar with Philip King of Macedon, 477
• —Regardless of Auguries, 430 485
• —His Sayings at the time he lay a dying, 445
• Ephori; the Great Court at Sparta that overruled the Kings, 639
• Epidamnus; The sedition there, 275
• Evagoras endeavors to recover all Cyprus, 399
• —His War with Artaxerxes, 411
• —Kill'd by Nieucoles, 428
• Euboea; Subdu'd by Xerxes, 222
• —The intestine War, 480
• Eumelus; King of Bosphoros, his War with his Brother for the Kingdom, 665
• —Overcomes his Brother Prytanis, 667
• —Kill'd by his Horses running away with his Chariot, 667
• Eumenes; Governor of Cappadocia, 581
• —His Expedition against Antipater, 587
• —His Battel with Craterus and Neoptolemus, and Victory, 587
• —Is overcome by Antigonus, and besieg'd, 591
• —His Exercise of his Horses in the Siege, 589
• —His various Fortunes, 596
• —His other Acts, 598, &c. 659
• —His danger at Euphrates, 604
• —His Expedition against Seleucus, 612
• —His danger at Tigris, ibid.
• —His other Acts, 613, 614, 616, 617, &c. 680, 682, 683, &c.
• —His last Battel with Antigonus, 625
• —Deliver'd up to Antigonus and put so death 626
• Euripides; His death, 351
• Eurydice; The Wife of Archidaeus, 590
• —Hangs herself, 612
• Eloquence. See Gorgias.

• Fabii; Three Hundred of the Family kill'd together in one Battel 243
• Famine; At Athens in a Siege, 353
• —At Rhegium, 320
• —At Pydna, where Olympias was besieg'd 629
• Feast; By Alexander M. before his Persian Expedition, 527
• Fountain; at the Temple of Jupiter Hammon of a Wonderful Nature, 543
• Fortune; hates the Proud and Cruel, 308
• —The wonderful Turns in Eumenes, 5•6
• —In Agathocles, 662, 670, 678 749, 759
• —In the Carthaginians, 662, 668 746
• —Of a Gardner makes a King, 541
• Funeral; the sumptuous Funeral of Hephestion 571
• —Far more pompous of Alexander M. 586
• —Burnt with their dead Husbands in India, 562
• —A Contest between two Wives which should be burnt with the dead Husband, 622

• Gauls; Take Rome, 406
• —Are almost all cut of by Camillus, 407
• Geloans; they leave the City Gela and go to Syracuse, 264
• —Then to the Leontines, 358
• Gela besieg'd by the Syracusians, 609
• —The Cruelty of Agathocles at Gela, 655
• Gellias the Agragentine; his Wealth, Hospitality, Beauty, &c. 340
• —His Wine-Cellar, 341
• —His Death, 343
• Gelo; overcomes the Carthaginians at Himera, 227
• —His Praise, ibid.
• —His Victory, and the Death of Leonidas, fall out both on the same day 227
• —Inriches Sicily with the Spoils of his Enemies, ibid.
• —His Death, Burial, &c. 235, 249 276
• God; God defends the Greeks against Xerxes, 222
• —His Anger the Cause of all publick Calamities, as Earthquakes, &c. 428
• —His Revenge of Sacrilege, 505, 506, 508 543, 545
• —Remarks of Divine Providence, 508, 514, 553, 769
• Gorgias; the Leontine his Eloquence and invented Rhetorick, 284
• Grecians; their Assembly and Decree at the Isthmus against the Persians, 216
• —Their Valour at Thermopyle, 219
• —The Sea-Fight and Victory at Artemesia over the Persians, 222
• —At Salamis; 223
• —Their Expedition against Mardonis and their Fight with him 231
• —The Grecian Auxiliaries against Artaxerxes for Cyrus his Brother are Victors, 368
• —The Grecian Captains that were prisoners all put to Death, 369
• —Their troublesome passage out of Persia back into their own Country, 370, 371, 471 412, 413
• —The Grecian Cities confederate against the Lacedemonians in the Theban War, 419
• —The Grecians advis'd to Peace amongst themselves by Artaxerxes, 438
• —Peace after the Battel at Mantinea, 446
• —Their War at Lamia with Antipater, 496
• Gylippus; his severe Speech against the Athenian Prisoners in Sicily. See Speech.
• Gold; the Sacred Hunger of Gold, 492
• —Rich Mines at Philippi, 480
• Gulf; a deep Gulf cover'd with Sand in Egypt, 498

• Halicarnassus; Taken by Alexander M. 531, 532 576
• Hammon; the Temple of Hammon, 542, 543 589
• Hannibal; the Carthaginian General against the Syracusians, 319
• —Razes Selinunt, 327
• —Dies of the Plague, 341
• Harpalas; his Luxury and Rapes, 569
• Helepolis; an Engine of Battery us'd by Demetrius describ'd, 677, 694 779
• Helice and Bura; two Cities drown'd, 428
• Hephestion dies at Ecbatana: His Funeral, 623
• Hercules; the ancient Hercules: His Acts, 557, 564 613
• Hermocrates; his Acts in Sicily, 330
• —Is slain, ibid.
• Hicetas, Prince of Syracuse, ejected by Dionysius Junior, 508
• —Overcomes Dionysius, is routed by Timoleon, 509, 511 548
• Hiero, King of Syracuse, 235
• —His Acts, 240, 241, 243 268, 269
• —Builds Catana, 240
• Hilotes; their War with Sparta, 248, 290 320
• Himera; raz'd to the Ground by Hannibal, 328
• Historians; who are to be Blam'd, and who Excusable, 244
• —Who end with the Battel at Mantinea, 446
• —Unpleasant when broken off with many Speeches, 657
• —The Profit of History, 583
• Honey in Colchis; makes Men mad, 371
• Horses; how exercis'd by Eumenes when he besieg'd in a strait Place. See Exercise.

• Japygians; Overcome the Tarentines, 241
• Jason the Pherean; his Acts, 420, 432, 433 487, 488
• Ida; the Mountain Ida describ'd, 524
• —The Wonders there, ibid.
• Illyrians; Overcome the Macedonians, 478
• —Conquer'd by Philip, 479, 486 522
• Imilco; the Carthaginian General in Sicily: his Acts, 380, 382, 383 426, 427
• —His Sacrileges, 385
• —Looses his Fleet, Army, &c. 391
• —His extream Misery in his own Country, ibid.
• —Dies for want, ibid.
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