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The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus

—Confirm'd in the Government of Egypt, 590

—Subdues Phoenicia, 592

—Opposes Antigonus in divers places,

—His Expedition into Cyprus, Silicia, and Syria, and his Successes, 98

—His Battel and Victory, 646, 647 718

—His War with Antigonus, 664

—His Sea. Fight with Demetrius at Cyprus, 678

—Is worsted, and returns into Egypt, 680

—Recovers Coelo-Syria, 704

Pylae; the Gates or Entry into Cilicia, 366

Pyrrhus; the famous Enemy to the Romans, 623

Pythagorean Philosopher; the Master to Epaminondas, and Philip King of Macedon, 478 510

—The last of his Sect, when they liv'd, 440

Pythia; why the Priestesses were no longer Virgins, 489

Q.

• Quinda; a strong Castle where Alexander M. Treasures were laid up, and carried away by Antigonus, 633
• Quinquiremes; or five Oars on a Bank, when first us'd, 376, 377 419

R.

• Race; a Horse over-run by a Man, 362
• Rhegion; a pleasant and fruitful Country in Africa, 659
• Religion; Zeleucus his Law concerning it, 270
• —The Violation of Religion punish'd by publick Calamities, 286, 391, 392, 428 436, 437, 482
• Rhodes; the miserable Inundation at Rhodes, 627
• —Their War with Demetrius, 691
• —Staightly Besieg'd, 692
• —Their Fight with Demetrius and Victory, 693 778
• —The repairing of the City, 699
• Rhoxana Wife of Alexander M. murder'd with her son, by Cassander, 654
• Romans; the first time they paid Wages to their Soldiers, 364
• —The first time the People disobey'd the Senate, 404
• —Their sad Overthrow by the Gauls at Allia, 406
• —Defend the Capital, 406, 407 456
• —Their Wars with the Samnites, 611, 640, 641, 642, 652, 675, 710, 711, 713, 726
• —With the Marsians and Hetrurians, 676

S.

• Sacrifice; a Butcherly Sacrifice of Captives, punished by God, 684
• Sacrilege; in divers manners punished by the Gods, 504, 505, 506, 490, 494, 698 542, 543, 526, 529, 784
• —Causes a War, 443
• —Check'd by an Earthquake, 503
• —Cast in the Teeth of the Athenians by a Tyrant, ibid.
• Salamis; the Sea-Fight at Salamis between the Grecians and Persians, and the remarkable Victory of the Greeks, 224, 225 252
• Saturn; a Boy offer'd up to him: The Idol at Carthage, 341, 663 740
• Sciones; besieg'd and taken by Storm, and most cruelly dealt with by the Athenians, 291, 292, 294 323, 325
• Stytalisme; amongst the Argives what it is, 432
• Sedition: Of the Arcadians, 433
• —Of the Argives, ibid.
• —Of Alexander M. his Soldiers, 568
• —The most bloody Sedition of the Corcyrians, 322
• —Of the Corinthians, 424
• —Of Dionysius his Horsemen, 355
• —Of Megareans, 425
• —Phialeans 424
• —Of the Phliasians, 425
• —Against Timoleon, 513, 514 553
• —Of the Syracusians, 253
• —Of the Zacynthians, 426
• Seleucus Governour of the Province of Babylon, so made by Antipater, 590
• —His Acts, 613, 632, 634, 635, 646 701, 703, 705, 717
• —Recovers Babylon, 649
• —Wears a Diadem, 680
• Serpents; the Serpents of India, the Greatest and the most Venomeus, 562
• —Of Africa, 674
• Sicilians; their War with Hannibal, 339
• —With Imilcar, 341
• —With Imilco, 380
• —With Hanno, 312
• —With Amilcar, 654
• —Assists Dion, 481
• —Recover their Liberty by the help of Timoleon, 511
• Sidonians; their Revolt from Ochus, King of Persia, 496 531
• —Are betray'd by Mentor the Rhodian, 497, &c. &c.
• —Their miserable Destruction, 498
• Socrates; His Condemnation, 374
• Sogdiana; Its Scituation, 576
• Sophocles; the Athenian General in Sicily, 285
• —The wonderfull Death of the Poet, 351
• —His Son likewise a Tragick Poet, 382
• Soul; the Immortality, 574
• —The Cure of the Soul more excellent than the body, 268
• Spartans; the praise of them that were kill'd at Thermopyle,••0
• —Sparta first b•sieg'd by the Thebans, 435
• Speech; Gyiipus the Lacedemonian his severe Speech against the Athenian Captives in Sicily, 312
• —Nicolaus his brave Speech to save their lives, 308, &c. &c.
• Stratagems; of the Aegestines against the Athenians of Agathocles against the Geloans, 609, 655 729
• —Against the Carthaginians, 656, 659, 660, 661, 664, 671, 683 735, 736, 738, 750, 705
• —Against Sosistratus, 602
• —Of Alcibiades in perswading Ducetius to to fortify Sparta, 303
• —Of Alexander M. in Burning his Fleet, 530 &c.
• Susa deliver'd up to Alexander M. 548
• —The Situation, 576
• Sybrarites; Sybaris razed by the Crotoniats, 266
• —Repair'd 267
• —Again erected, 261, 267, 271 295, 300
• Syracusians; Besi•g'd by the Athenians, 302
• —Overcome the Athenians in several Sea-Fights, 305
• —Their Cruelty upon the Athenian Captives, 314
• —Their many Wars with the Carthaginians, 319, 320, 339, 341 353, 374, 377
• —With Dionysius 359
• —They beat Imilco in a Sea-Fight, 385
• —How they were freed from the Tyranny of the Dionysiates, 481, 510 547
• Dion receiv'd, ibid
• —The City plunder'd by the Dionysians, 485
• —Deliver'd from slavery by the assistance of the Corinthians under Timoleon, 507, 509, 510 . 546, 547
• —The City sadly plunder'd by the Soldiers of Agathocles, 609
• —His cruel punishment of the Citizens, 687
• —And his butchery of the Fugitives, 693
• Syria the Province of Laomedon, 574
• —The Situation, 576
• —Subdu'd by Ptolemy, 592

T.

• Tarrentines; Their unfortunate War with the Japygians, 241
• —They help the Sicilians against Agathocles, 640
• —Antigonus against Eumenes; 620
• —Their War with the Lucanians, 701
• Tauromenum; When built, 480
• Tegeans; Their War with the Mantineans, 477
• Teribazus the Persian Governor of Armenia, allows quiet Passage to the Greeks returning out of Persia, 378
• —Is accus'd by Orontes, and acquitted, 411, 412 463
• Thais, the Strumpet, perswades Alexander M. to burn Persepolis, 511
• Thalestris the Amazon Queen, comes to Alexander M. to have Issue by him, 554
• Thebans; their War with the Athenians, 257, 280, 286, 300 308, 319, 322
• —Their Cittadel Cadmea seiz'd by the Spartans against the League, 417, 421 474
• —They refuse to join in the General Peace, 424, 429 483
• —Their great War with the Lacedemonians, ibid.
• —The Prodigies that appear'd before the War, ibid.
• —Their Victory at Leuctra, 407
• —Their other Acts, 408, 434, 436 489, 492
• —Their Expedition into Peloponnesus, 437
• —Another Expedition into Peloponnesus, 440
• —Some Battels with the Lacedemonians, 495
• —They raze Phocis, 496
• —Their Fight with the Phoceans, 503
• Thebes Garrison'd by Philip, and afterwards driven out, 516, 521 563
• —Rebell against Alexander M. 524, 525 567
• —The miserable destruction of their City and Inhabitants by Alexander M, 526, 527 569
• —The City rebuilt by Cassander, 630
• —Its various Changes, 631
• Themistocles the Athenian General, 216
• —His wise Counsels at Artemesium, and at Salamis, 222, 223 250
• —His Stratagems, 224, 225 252
• —His banishment 243
• —Flies to Xerxes, 244
• —His last Stratagem whereby he deceiv'd Xerxes, 245
• —His Death and praise, 245, 246 272
• Theodorus; His brave Speech to the Syracusians to preserve their Liberties, 386
• Thermopyle; defended bravely by the Greeks against Xerxes, 217, 219 246
• Thrace; The Province of Lysimachus, 574
• —They waste Chersonesus, 375
• —Treacherous to the Abderites, 423
• —Their War with Lysimachus, 640
• Thucydides; where he begins and ends his History, 319, 377 352
• Tigris; The Course of the River Tigris, 549
• —Join'd with a Bridge by Antigonus, 614
• Timoleon; The Corinthian General into Sicily: A short Account of his Acts, 507, &c. 513 &c. 551
• —Causes Peace and Plenty all over Sicily, 513, 514 553
• —His Death, and pompous Funeral at Syracuse, 516
• Tissaphernes the Persian General, fights bravely with Cyrus, 368
• —Treacherously cuts off the Grecian Commanders, 369
• —His War with Agesilaus in the Lesser Asia, 392
• —Overcome by Agesilaus, 393
• —And afterwards Beheaded, ibid.
• Trees; Trees distilling of Honey, 553
• Tribunes; Military Tribunes, when first Created at Rome, 251, 271, 272, 277 300, 301, 306
• Tripolis; a City in Phoenicia, 496
• Tunis; taken by Agathocles, 501
• Tyrants; the Thirty Tyrants at Athens, 357, 358, &c. &c.
• —Their Cruelties, ibid. 372 ibid. 413
• —A Tyrant distracts every body, 675
• —How Tyrants are to be dealt with, 411
• Tyre; besieg'd by Alexander M. 537, &c. &c.
• —Made a Peninsula, ibid.
• —Is taken, 431
• —An ancient City is had been, but then destroy'd, 537
• —Afterwards rebuilt, 541

V.

• Virginia; kill'd by her own Father at Rome, to prevent her being a Slave to a Villain that had sworn, she was his Slave Servant, 271
• Virtue; we hate when it's present, but desire it earnestly when it's lost, and taken from us, 221, 566 615
• Utica; the memorable Siege and Defence at Utica in Africa by Agathocles, 680
• —The Captives of Utica hung at the Engines alive to be shot at by the Townsmen, ibid.

W.

• Wine-Cellars; the stately Wine-Cellars of Gellias in Agrigentum, 341

X.

• Xenophon the Historian; where he begins and ends his History, 319, 446 504
• —Is created General over the Greeks that return'd out of Persia, 374
• Xerxes; his Expedition, Armies, &c. into Greece, 213, 216, 218 243, 245
• —The Sea-Fight at Artemisium, 222
• —The Fight with Leonidas at Thermopylae, 218, 219 246
• —The Sea-Fight at Salamis, 224, 225 252
• —His Flight to Ecbatana, 234
• —Is Assassinated, 258

Z.

• Zacynthus; the Sedition and War at Zacynthus, 416
• Zaleucus; his Laws at Thurium in Italy, 270

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