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The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus

—Flies out of Africa, his Sons murder'd, and his Army dispers'd, and all made Slaves, 686, 687

—His Cruelty upon the Aegestines, 687

—And the Syracusians, idid.

—His Sacrilege and Death, 699

Agesilaus; General against the Persians, 392

—His Praise, 421

—His Acts in Egyyt, 474, 475 506

—His Death, 475

Agis; King of Lacedemon, 277

—Accus'd for making Peace wiuh the Argives, 295

—His Valour at the Battel of Mantinea, 295

—General against Antipater, 547

—His Heroical Death, ibid.

Agrigentines; overcome by the Syracusians, 243

—A famous Pond there, and other Works, 228

—Their ancient Grandeur, 340

—Besieg'd 341

—The Miserable destruction of the City, 343

—They afterwards seek to free all the Cities of Sicily, 670, 681 762

Agrinium; a City of Acarnania, the Cities put to the Sword by the Aetolians against terms agreed, 638

Alcetas; Brother of Perdiccas overcome by Antigonus, 593

—Betray'd by the Pisidians; kills himself, 594

Alcibiades sent by the Athenians to Argos, against the Lacedemonians, 296

—His Praise, 297

—Accus'd to be the ••thor cutting off the Nead of Mercury's Statues, 301

—Is Condemn'd in his absence, 301

—Flies to Sparta, ibid.

—Restor'd to favour of the People, 333 368

—Banishes himself, 336

—Treacherously murder'd by Pharnabazus, 362

Alesa; built by Archonides in Sicily, 364

Alexander the Son of Amyntas King of Macedon, 433

—His Acts against Alexander Phereus, 434

—Kill'd by Ptolemy Alorites, 478

Alexander M. a short History of him, 521

—The Fight at Chaeronea, 516

—His besieging and razing of Thebes, 524 527

—His design against Persia, his Passage into Asia, and mustering of his Army, 528

—The Battel at Granicum, 529 573

—His Acts in the lesser Asia, 529, 530 576

—His desperate Sickness, 534

—The Battel at Issus, 535

—Besieges Tyre, 538

—Takes Gaza, 541

—Gains Egypt, ibid.

—Goes to Jupiter Hammon's Temple, 542

—The Battel at Arbela, 546

—Enters Susa, 551

—His kindness to the Greeks maim'd by the Persians, 550

Persepolis burnt by him, 552

Thalestris Queen of the Amazons, 554

—His other Acts in Persia, 555, 556, &c, 605, 606

—His Expedition into India, 558

—His Acts there, 560, &c. 612, 613

—His War with the Oxydracans, 563

—His desperate Case and Hazard there, ibid.

—Marries Statira, 567

—Enters into Babylon, 570

—Prodigies before his Death, 572

—His Intemperance, Sickness, and Death, ibid.

—The Division of his Conquests among his Captains, 574, 591 648

—A Description of his Funeral Charriot, 586

—The Captains join with Eumenes, and presently fall from him, 617

—The magnificent Feast of the Captains and Great Commanders in Persia, 617

—The third division of the Provinces, 628

—All the Captains join against Antigonus, 633

—Great Captains take upon them the Stile of Kings, 654, 680 761

Alexander King of Epirus, 510

Alexander Son of Alexander the Great, together with his Mother murder'd by Cassander, 654

—The Family of Alexander the Great Extinct, 672

Alexandria; in Egypt, built by Alexander the Great, 543

—Another beyond Caucasus, 568

—Another in India, 556

Alexander Pheraeus; his War with the Thessalians and Macedonians, 434, 438 494

—His Cruelty, 440 a. 466

—His other Acts, 442, 475 507

—Is murder'd by his Wife, 483

Alexander Polysperchon; his Acts, 602, 623, 632, 636, &c. 689, 700, 706 &c.

Amazons; the Queen lies with Alexander the Great,

Amilcar; the Carthaginian General besieges Himera, 226

—His Death, 227

Amilcar; the Carthaginian General against Agathocles 654

—Is taken attempting to surprize Syracuse in the night, and his Punishment, 669 748

Amhictyons; their decrees against the Spartans, 491

—Against the Phocians, 505

Amphipolis; an Athenian Colony, their Slaughters, 252, 276, 304, 279

—Their various Changes, 290

Amyntas; King of Macedon, 283

—Driven out of his Kingdom, 397

—His War with the Olynthians, 416

—His Death, 433

Andromachus; the builder of Tauromenium in Sicily, 480

Antigenes; Colonel of the Argyraspides, 601

—Burnt alive by Antigonus, 626

Antigonus; his share in the Provinces, 574

—Most Active of all Alexanders Captains, 584

—Joins with others against Perdiccas, ibid.

—His first Expedition against Eumenes, 591

—His other Acts, 592, 593, &c.654, 655, 656, 661, 666

—His second Expedition against Eumenes, 605, 614, 615 r, 666, 679, 680

—His other Expedition against Eumenes, 618

—A Battel between him and Eumenes, 620

—His last Battel with Eumenes, and his Victory, 626

—He robs the Treasuries at Susa, 629

—His Quarrel with Seleucus, 633

—Besieges Tyre, and takes it, 635

—His other Acts, 639, 641, 643, 648 712, 714, 720

—His Expedition against the Nabathaeans, 649

—Builds Antigonia, 677

—His Expedition into Egypt, unsuccessfull, 688

—His War with the Rhodians, 690

Antipater; Macedonia alotted to him, 574

—The Lamian War with the Athenians, 578

—Conquers the Athenians, and changes their Government, 581

Aorni; the Rocks of Aornus described, 558

Apes; the Indian Apes, 610

—Worship'd in Africa, 635

Apollonides forc'd to abdicate the Government of Agrigentum by Timoleon, 514

Apollo; the besieged Tyrians bind Apollo in Golden Chains, 541

—Alexander M. releases him, ibid.

Apology; Eumenes his story or parable of the Lyon wooing a Virgin, 618

Apothegms; of Agesilaus, 448

—Of Alcibiades, 277, 544 591

—Of Antipater, 612

—Of the Athenians to Mardonius, 230

—To them that fled from the Battel at Syracuse, 307

—Of the Mother of Brasidias, 293

—Of Callicratides, 348

—Of Charonidas, 270

Of Demades, 516

—Of Demaratus, 218

—Of Diomedon, 360 r, 386

—Of Dionysius, 479

—His Apothegmatick Letter to the sacrilegious Athenians, 504

—Of Dionysius his Friends, in perswading him not to leave the Government, 689

—Of Epaminondas, 430, 445, 618 503, 684

—Of Gellias, 340

—Of the Greeks, 216

—Of Heloris, 360

—Of Hephestion, 571

—Of Hermocrates, 519

—Of the Lacedemonian Ambassadors, 288

—Of Leonidas, 217 245

—Of Megaclis, 689

—Of Myronidas, 257

—Of Pharnabazus, 425

—Of Philoxenus, of Dionysius his Verses, 411

—Of Proxenus, 369

—Of Ptolemy, 647

—Of Socrates, the General of Cyrus, 369

—Of Sophilus, 368

—Of Thessalion, 497

—Of Thrasibulus to the 30 Tyrants, 373

Appius Claudius, his Works, 672 r 571

Arbela; the Battel at Arbela, by Alexander with Darius, 545, 548 596

Arcadians their Sedition, and War with the Exiles and Lacedemonians,

—Their other Acts, 434, 436, 443, 524 492, 500, 563

—Their other War with the Lacedemonians, and Rout, 410

—Their War with the Eleans, 440

Archenactidae; Kings of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, 275

Archagathus; Son of Agathocles kills Lyciscus in Africa, 670

—The Mutiny that arose thereupon, ibid.

—Against Agathocles, 684

—Archagathus kill'd by the Souldiers with his Brother, 686

Archelaus; King of Macedon, 323

—His Death, 374

Archidamus King; of his Prudence in the Earthquake, and the War, 248

—His Acts, 280, 282, 284 311, 313

Archidamus Son of Agesilaus his Acts, 488, 508 545

Archeus King of Macedonia, 397, 474 550

Arginusae, 348

—The Sea-Fight at the Islands of Arginusae, between the Athenians and the Spartans, ibid.

Argivi; their War with the Mycenians, 249

—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

B.

• Babylon; Alexander M. his first Entry into Babylon, 548
• —His second and last, where he died, 570
• Babylonia; the Province of Arcon, 574
• —Its Scituation, 576
• —Antipater allotted it to Seleucus, 590
• Bactria; Conquer'd by Alexander M. The Province of Philip, 574
• —The Scituation, 576
• Bagistama; a fruitful Country,
• 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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