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The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus

• Kings; draw a Chariot
• —The strange way of living of the Kings of Egypt, 36
• —Death to the Sabaean Kings to stir abroad, 107
• Kingdoms; formerly bestow'd upon such as had done good Publick Service, 23

• Lakes; a wonderful Lake in Ethiopia, 60
• —A Description of the Lake of Myris, 26, 27 33, 34
• —In Sicily, 139 161
• Lapithae; their War with the Centaurs, 165
• —With the Doreans and Hercules, 146
• Laws; Of the Egyptians,
• —Of the Ethiopians, 87
• Liparae Islands; their fruitfullness, &c. 180
• Letters; Two Sorts in Egypt, 86
• —Hieroglyphicks of Egypt and Ethiopia, what, ibid.
• —Greek Letters, why call'd Pelasgian, and Phaenician, 120
• Letters in Tabrobanana, vii Figures, 83
• Locusts; Eaten, and liv'd upon by the Ethiopians, 97
• Lotus; of Egypt, what,
• —Tall Trees of Lotus, 105

• Macarian Islands; why so call'd, 213
• Megabarean Ethiopians; their manner of Burial, 98
• —Their voluntary Deaths, 99
• Marathon; the Marathonian Bull, 159
• Maraneans of Arabia; how destroy'd, and rooted out by the Garyndaneans, 105
• Marsyas: His Contest with Apollo in Musick; his Death, 114, 115
• Mars; his Inventions and Acts, 209
• Medea; assists the Argonauts with her Advice, and makes an Agreement with Jason, 151, 152 174
• —Her wonderful Witcheraft in the Palace of Pelias, 153, 154 177
• —Forsaken by Jason, and cruel Revenge upon her own Children, 156
• Media; a Catalogue of the Kings, 71
• Meleager; his sad Destiny, 145
• Malta Island; its Description, 181
• Menas; the first King of Egypt, how preserv'd by a Crocodile, 46
• Mercury; the Egyptian Mercury, his Invention of Arts, Eloquence, Musick, &c. 6, 23 28
• —Conductor of Souls, 50
• Meroes; Islands in Nile, their Description, 20
• Minerva; the Place of her Birth, 208
• —Her Inventions, 209
• Minos the first, Son of Jupiter, 160
• —The second, of Lycasta, ibid.
• —His Cities, Laws, &c. 211
• —His Death in Sicily, 170
• Minotaur; Kill'd by Theseus, 160
• —How born, 169
• Money; the Punishment of those that counterfeited Money in Egypt, 41
• Moses; the first that put Laws in writing, 49
• —His Praise, ibid.
• Mice; Bred in Egypt out of the Mud or Slime, 2
• Muses; Accompany Bacchus, 127, 128
• —And Osiris, 8
• —Why Virgins, 130
• —Their Names, ibid.
• Miris King of Egypt; his Lake, 26, 27 34
• —His Pyramid and Sepulchre in the Lake, 27
• Myrrhe; A Description of Myrrhe, 194

• Nabathean Arabians, 78, 105 130
• —Thieves, never Conquer'd, ibid.
• Naxus; the History of Naxus, 198, 199 224, 225
• Nemean; a Description of the Nemean Lion, his Place, Death, &c. 132
• Neptune; his Inventions, good Deeds, why accounted God of the Sea, 207
• Nile; the Islands in it, 15 20
• —The Cattracts, Mouths, ibid.
• —Beasts, Fishes, &c. 16, 17 21
• —Flow its Decrease is observ'd, and the different Opinions of the Inundations of Nile, 18, &c. &c.
• Ninus, King of Assyria; his Acts, 54, 55, 56 65, 66
• —His Death and Sepulchre, 57
• Nineveh; Built, 55,
• —Its Shape, Compass, &c. ibid.
• —Its Siege, and taking by Arbaces, 66, 67, 68
• Ninyas; the Son of Ninus, 64
• Niobe; her Pride and Punishment, 167
• Nysa; the pleasant Situation of the City the Birth-place of Bacchus, 120, 121
• —The Cave of Nysa, a most pleasant Place, 127

• Obscenity; Obscene Speech us'd in the Feasts of Ceres, 177 201
• Obelisks; the Obelisks of Semiramis, one of the seven Wonders of the World, 59
• Oedipus; his Birth, Casting forth, his Acts, Marriage, &c. 162 185
• Olympicks; the Years: The Olympicks were distant one from another,
• —Invented by Hercules Dactylus, 204
• —Instituted by Hercules, 134, 155 178
• Orion; the Story of Orion, 173
• Osymanduas; King of Egypt, 24
• —His stately Pyramid, ibid.
• —His Epitaph, 25
• Orpheus; why said to draw Beasts after him, 139, 140
• —His History, 140 ibid.
• —His Verses, 45
• —Rites of Bacchus brought into Greece by him, 50
• Osiris; his Expedition throughout the whole World, and Acts, 5, 6, 7, 8 10
• —Deify'd; Death, Burial, and Epitaph, 9, 12 12

• Palestina, 104, 105
• Palm-Trees; a full Description of the Palm-Trees in Arabia, and the Province of Babylon, 81
• Palmetum; a pleasant Place of Palms, and other Delights in Arabia, 104, 105
• Panchaian Islands; their Descriptian, 195 221
• —Genius and Customs of the Inhabitants, 196
• Paradise; the Earthly Paradise in India, 121
• Parents; the Honour given to dead Parents in Egypt, 48
• Pasiphae; the Wife of Minos, 160
• —Her Carnal knowledge of a Bull, 169 193
• Patricides, 162 185
• —How Patricides are punish'd, 40
• Pelias; King of Colchos; his strange Death by his own Daughters, through the Witchcrafts of Medea, 154, 155 178
• Penthesilea; the Amazon Queen, assists the Trojans, 77
• Perjury; the punishment of Perjury, 40
• Persians; the Persians record their Antiquities in Rolls of Parchment, or Skins, 71
• Plague; a great Plague in Rhodes, and the Cause, 213
• Phaeton; the Story of Phaeton, 186
• Phineus; a Prince in Thrace: his Cruelty towards his two Sons, 149
• Phaenicians brought Letters into Greece, 209
• —Eminent for getting of Wealth, 191
• —Their Colonies, 184
• Perithous; the History of Perithous, the Rape of Helen, 161, 162 185
• Pillars; Hercules Pillars, 135, 136
• Pityusa; Islands Describ'd,
• Pleiades; their Names, 115
• Pluto; his Genealogy, Invention, 211
• —Why call'd the God of the Dead, 207
• Punishment of various Crimes in Egypt, 40
• Polynices; his War with his Brother, 163
• Pontus or the Pontick Sea; once but a Lake, 197
• —Of its Breach, 148
• Priamus; King of Troy, 168
• —Plac'd in the Kingdom by Hercules, 152
• Priapus; what, 129
• Promotheus; the Explication of the Fable, of his stealing of Fire, 205
• —His Eagle, what,
• —Loos'd from his Chains by Hercules, 135
• Proserpina; her Rape, 176, 177
• —Places in Sicily dedicated to her, 177
• Proteus; King of Egypt, 32
• —Why he was said to have several Shapes, ibid.
• Pyramids; the Pyramid of Chemmis, one of the seven Wonders of the World, 32
• —Mountains like Pyramids, 106
• Pythagoras; What be learnt from Egypt, 51
• —His Opinion of the Metempsychosis among the Gauls, 187, 188

• Religion: The Neglect of Religion punish'd; the Calydonian Boar, 145
• Remphis; the Egyptian King, exceeding Covetous, 32
• Rhadamanthus; his Justice, Acts, Sons, 211
• —His Parents, 211
• —The Lawmaker in Crete, 160
• Rhinoceros 99
• —His Fight with an Elephant, ibid.
• Rhodes; divided into three Parts, 158
• —The great Deluge there, 200
• —Why so call'd, ibid.
• Rome; taken by the Gauls, 189
• —Built by Romulus, 137

• Sabaean Arabians, 107
• —The Kings, Riches, &c. 107, 108
• Samothracia; The Name, Inhabitants, Deluge, Mysteries, Temple, &c. 197, 198 223
• Sands; Mountains of Sand, 106
• —The sandy Deserts of Arabia, 81
• Sardanapalus; his Effeminacy, Luxury, Deposition, Death, 65, &c. 79, 81
• Saturn, King of Egypt, 5
• —Saturn one of the Titans, 204, 205
• —Kill'd his Children, 207
• —Overcome by Bacchus, 122,
• —Saturn the Brother of Atlas, 116
• —His Impiety, &c. ibid.
• —The Golden Age of Saturn,
• Satyrs; the Companions of Bacchus, 129
• —Of Osyris,
• —Why they are worshipp'd, 45
• Scorpions; where they abound, 97, 91
• Semele; her Adultery with Jupiter, and how she was consum'd, 117, 118 138
• Semiramis; her History, 55, 56 66
• —Her Journey into Bactria,
• —Builds Babylon, 57
• —Her Expedition into India, and other Actions, 60, &c. &c.
• Serbon; The Lake of Serbon very dangerous, 14
• Serpents; vast Serpents in Ethiopia, 100, 101
• —Destroy Elephants, 89, 102
• —The great Serpent taken, and brought to Alexandria, 101
• —How taken, fed and made tame, ibid.
• —Serpents infest Khodes, 201
• Sesostris; King of Egypt, 27, 28 31
• —Travels through the World, his famous Acts, 29, 30 35, &c.
• —Sesostris the Second, how cur'd of his Blindness, 31
• Sicily; its ancient Names, 176
• —Its Circuit, Princes, &c. 178, 179
• —Once a Peninsula, 173
• Silla a wonderful River, 73
• Silenus; the first King of Nysa, 122
• —Tutor of Bacchus, 128
• Sun; in what Shape it rises among the Arabians, 108
• —Its Circuit and Course, 51
• —India directly subject to the Tropick of Capricorn, 72
• Spectra's; in the Air among the Lybians, 109
• —The natural Reason of them, 110
• Sphinx 162
• Spouses; in the Baliaries prostituted at the Nuptial Feasts to all the Guests, 183
• Suatues 168
• —As if they were living Men, ibid.
• Stratagems; Mock-Elephants made by Semiramis, 62
• Stymphalia; the devouring Birds of Stymphalick Lake destroy'd by Herculess 133

• Tantalus; his History in short, 167
• Taprobana; a Description of the Island, and of the Inhabitants and their Manners, 90, 97, 98, 99 82, &c.
• Thebes; in Egypt built by Osiris, 6
• Thebans in Greece; their War with the Argives, 162, &c. 187.
• Theseus; his Original, Acts, Wives, &c. 159, &c. 183
• Thespiadae; their Original, 142
• —Driven out of Sardinia, settle about Cuma, 182
• Titans; in Africa, 113
• —Assist Saturn, 116
• —Are rooted out by Bacchus, 123
• —The Titans in Crete, their Parents, Sisters, &c. 204, 205
• Troglodites; their Manners, 18, 98, 99, 100 117, 120
• Troy; taken by Hercules, 143, 144 166, 175
• —The Pedigree of the Kings, 167, 168
• Typhon; the Giant in Phrygia, 127,
• Trees; how Sinnis destroy'd Men by binding Trees together,
• —Them that sleep in Trees, 159

• Uchoreus; King of Egypt, built Memphis, 26 33
• Venus; the Daughter of Saturn, 5
• —Her Office, 208
• —Her several Names, 211
• —Her magnificent Temple in Sicily, 172
• Vesuvius; Mount Vesuvius in Campania vomits Fire, 138
• Virgin; a monstrous Virgin in Scythia, 76
• Vulcan; the Inventer of Fire, 5
• —Where he is worshipp'd, 209

• Writing; from the top of the Leaf downward, in Tapribana, 83
• Wine; made of Barley, found out by Osiris, 8

• Xerxes; his innumerable Army, 56

• Years; an Account of the Egyptian Year, 26
• —The Greeks Great Year, 78
• —The Lunar Year of 30 Days, 12
• —The Year of 4 Months, ibid.

• Zythus; a Drink of Barley, 127

A TABLE OF The Principal Matters In the Last Ten BOOKS of Diodorus the Sicilian: Containing his MYTHOLOGIES.

• A Gathocles his Butcheries in Sicily, 687
• Abderites; almost all cut off by the Treballians, 423
• —Deliver'd by Chabrias, ibid.
• Acarnanians; their War with the Ambrociats, 287
• Achaians; assist Phayllus, 494
• —Demetrius restores Liberty to their Cities, 494
• Acimnestus; his unfortunate aspiring to the Government at Enna, 364
• Agrigentines; their War with the Syracusians, and their Rout, 243
• Ada; Princess of Caria Restor'd by Alexander the Great, 531
• Adranum; in Sicily built, 375
• Aeacides; King of Epirus endeavours to restore his Sister Olympias to the Kingdom of Macedon, 612
• —But in Vain, 624
• —Is expell'd his Kingdom, ibid.
• —Restor'd, and afterwards kill'd in a Battel, 642
• Aegestines; their War with the Lilybaeans, 259
• —With the Selinuntians, 297
• —Burn the Tents of Dionysius, 382
• —The Cruelties Executed upon them by Agathocles, 686
• Aegesta; wholly Destroy'd and Raz'd, 687
• Aegineans; are Subdu'd by the Athenians, 256
• —Expell'd by the Athenians, 281
• Aegium; taken and raz'd by Aristodemus, 637
• Aegppt; their Defection from the Persians, 252
• —The two Persian Expeditions against them, 254, 255 281, 282
• —They assist Evagoras against Artaxerxes Mnemon, 410
• —King Acovis leagues with Gaius against the Perseans, 413 462
• —King Tachus his War with Artaxerxes, 473
• —They revolt from Tachus, and Tachus restor'd by Agesilaus, 474
• —Revolt from Artaxerxes Ocus, 496
• —Gain'd by Alexander M. 542
• —Ptolemys Province, 591 648
• Aequi Conquer'd by the Romans, 289 786
• Aetna; the City Aetna first call'd Eunesia, 254
• Aetolians; overcome the Athenians, and Besieg'd Naupactus in vain, 287
• —Rebell against Alexander the Great, 522
• —Oppose Alexander's Edict, 577
• —Their War with Antipater, 584
• —Their Treachery against the Agrineans, 638
• Africa; dry and full of Serpents, 674
• —The Africans rebell against the Carthaginians, 391
• —Divided into four Sorts, 681
• Agathocles; his Original, Increase, and Cruelty, 607
• —Becomes King, 610
• —His Cruelty at Gela, 655
• —His Fight with the Carthaginians at Ecnomus unsuccessfull, 655
• —His Preparations for an Expedition into Africa, 658
• —Burns his Ships in Africa, Beats the Africans, 660, &c. 739, 740
• —His further Acts there, 670 752
• —His treachery against Ophellas, 673 &c. 754
• —Takes Utica, 680
• —Flies back into Sicily, 681
• —His Acts there, 682, 683, &c. 766
• —Returns into Africa and is worsted by the Africans, 685
• —A mutiny in his Camp, ibid.
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