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The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus

• Cadmus; the first King of Thebes, 271
• Cadmea; the Cittadel of Thebes taken by the Spartans, 416
• —Recover'd 418
• Callantineans; their War with Lysimachus, 640
• Callicrates; his Sea-Fight with the Athenians, 305, 349 385
• Camillus; overcomes the Volsci, Equi, and the Gauls, 406
• Campanians; assist Dionysius in Sicily, 330
• —Are Rooted out of Sicily by Timoleon, 514
• Cappadocia; the Province of Eumenes, 574
• —Its Situation, 576
• Carducians; the hardships of the Grecians through their Countrey, 370
• —The Mountains there, ibid.
• Caria; its Situation, 576
• —The Province of Cassander, 574
• Carmania; the Province of Tlepolimus, 574
• —Its Situation, 576
• Carrhae; Villages in Mesopotamia, 569
• 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.
• 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
• Caulonia Besieg'd and raz'd, 401, 403 451
• Cerberus; how he was pull'd out of Hell by Hercules, 372
• 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
• Charonaea; Philip gains a great Victory over the Athenians at Charonaea, 516 555
• Chaldaeans; their Opinion of the Prodigies in the Heavens, 429
• —The Nature of their Divinations, 570
• Chares; the Athenian General overcomes the Argives, 440
• —His Acts in the Social War, 480, 486 521
• Charonidas; His Laws, 267
• Cilicia; The Province of Philotas, its Situation, 578
• Cimon; His Acts in Thrace, Asia, and Victories both by Sea and Land, 246, 247, 248, 264 273, 274, 292
• —His Death, 265
• Clearchus the Peloponnesian General; his Acts, 324, 362, 366, 368, 369 401, 406, 408, 409
• Cleombrotus, King of Sparta, 430
• —His Acts and Death at the Battel of Leuctra, 432
• Cleomenes King of Sparta, reign'd 60 years 10 months, 668
• Cleon; his Cruelty, 285
• —His Death, 292
• Cleopatra the Sister of Alexander M. marry'd to Alexander, King of Epirus, 517
• —Murder'd by Cassander, 673
• Concubines; how they were us'd to be convey'd to the Persian Kings, 247
• 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
• Corcyrians; their War with the Corinthians, and Victory, 275
• —A dreadful Sedition amongst them, 322
• —Their other Acts, 643, 701 787
• 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.
• Cheronea; A great Battel there between the Athenians and the Thebans, 265
• 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
• Crotoniats; they destroy the Sybarites, 266
• —Their War against Dionysius, 397
• 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
• Ctesias the Historian; Where he ends his History, 379
• Cyprus; the War with Evagoras by the Persians, 399
• —The War between Demetrius and Ptolemy for this Island, 675
• —Recover'd by Demetrius, 680
• Cyreneans; a lamentable Sedition at Cyrene, 374
• —Their War with Thimbro, 582
• —Are reduc'd by Ptolemy's General, 644
• —March to assist Agathocles, 673
• Cyrus the Elder; his courteous Behaviour, 308
• Cyrus the Younger; his War against his Brother Artaxerxes, 362, 365, 366, 405, 406
• —His Battel with the Persians, and Death, 368
• —The Valour of his Captains after his Death, 361

• 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
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