Tables
The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Wine-Cellars; the stately Wine-Cellars of Gellias in Agrigentum, 341
- 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
A TABLE OF THE Eclogues or Fragments.
Note: The Letter b in the Fragments stands for Book, and the Letter e for Eclogue or Excerpt; Likewise the Letter l stands for Lib. and the Letter s for Section.
The ECLOGUES or FRAGMENTS out of the First Six Books after the Twentieth of Diodorus the Sicilian.
A.- ACra Leuca, built in Spain by Amilcar, Hannibal's Father, Book 25. Eclogue 2. Page 720
- Aemilius, the Consul, wast the Country of the Celte Galls, b. 25. e. 3. ibid.
- Agathocles, King of Syracuse, his Acts and Death, b. 21. e. 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12. 709
- Alexander, the Son of Cassander, murder'd by Demetrius, b. 21. e. 7. ibid.
- Amesalus raz'd by Hiero, b. 22. e. 15. 714
- Amilcar, his Acts in Sicily against the Romans, b. 23. e. 9. 716
- —His Death, b. 25. e. 2. 719
- Antander, the Sicilian Historian, b. 21. e. 12. 710
- Antigonus his Death, b. 21. e. 1. 709
- Appius Claudius his Acts in Sicily, b. 23. e. 2. 715
- Ar•s; none can please all in any Arts, b. 26. e. 1. 721
- Asdrubal unsuccessful in Sicily, b. 25. e. 2. 719
- Barcas, the Carthaginian General, his Acts in Sicily, b. 24. e. 2. 719
- Brennus, the Gall, his Inroad into Macedonia, the Slaughter of his Army, and his Death, b. 22. e. 13. 713
- Brutii; they rout Agathocles, b. 21. e. 3. 709
- —He wasts their Country, e. 8. ibid.
- Cadmean Victory, what, b. 22. e. 4. 712
- Calatinus routs the Carthaginians at Sea, b. 24. e. 12. 719