Diodorus Siculus

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

ACteon; Torn in pieces by Dogs, and Occasion, Page 171
Adoption; the Rites of it among the Barbarians, 147
Adulteresses; an innumerable Company burnt in Egypt, 31
Aeacus; His Genealogy, 166
Aegestines; Their War with the Selinuntines, 297
Aegypt; Its Shape, Greatness, &c. 14
—All living Creatures first there, 3
—One Sea, 86
—Other Matters of Aegypt, 12, 13, 22, 36, 40, 41, &c. 42, 43, 51, 61
—Divided into three Parts; for the Priests, Kings, and Soldiers, 38
—Three other Classes, 39
—Their Gods most ancient, 3
—Many Colonies from hence; as Babylonians, Argives, Colchians, Jews, and Athenians, 13
—The Number of their Judges and Salaries, 39
—Their Kings, &c. p. 36 45, 46.
—Their Burials, 38 58
Aeolus, 164
—The Entertainer of Ulysses, 179
Aequinoctial; Under the Aequinox, the most temperate Air, and the State of the Days and Shadows, 82
Air; Airy Bodies seen in some Parts of Africa, 109
Aesculapius; His Original, 166
—Accus'd by Pluto, ibid. ibid.
Age; An Age accounted 30 Years with the Grecians, 81
Aethiopians; Boast they were the first Men; p. 85
—Religious 86 ibid
Aetna; Vomits Fire, 138.
Africa; Where Till'd, and where Desert, p. 108
—Freed from wild Beasts by Hercules, p. 136
—The nature of the Fruits of the African Palm-Tree, 81
Alexandria; Built by Alexander the Great; p. 26 33
Amalthea; Amalthea's Horn in Africa, p. 145
—In Aetolia, what? 120
Amazons of Africa, 110
—Their Seats, Arms, &c. 111, 112
The Scythian Amazons, 76
—Their Wars with Hercules, p. 77, 135 156
—Their Irruption into Attica, and Overthrow by Theseus, 141
Ammon King of Lybia, the Husband of Rhea, 120
—Overcome by Saturn, 122
Amphiraus General of the Argives at Thebes; a Conjurer Betray'd by his Wife, and Reveng'd by his Son, 163 188
Apis Consecrated to Osiris, 9
—Its Worship, 44, 45 55
Apollo; the Son of Jupiter,
—Found out the Laurel, 7
—His several Names, 211
—His good Acts, 209
—His Contest with Marsyas, and his Cruelty towards him, 114, 115
Apries; King of Aegypt, 35
—Strangl'd ibid.
Aquaduct; a Stately Aquaduct made by Semiramis at Ecbatana, 58 32
Arabia; its Description, Situation, People, &c. p. 78 92
—The Happy; its Fruitfulness, Spices, &c. p. 79
—The Tree as Cedar, Juniper, &c. ibid.
—Gold pure, Cattle, Wild Beasts, Precious Stones, 80
—A description of both Shoars in the Red-Sea, 102, &c. 122, 124
Arbaces the Mede, his Conspiracy against Sardanapalus, 66, 67 80
Argives; their War with the Thebans, 163
—The Destruction of the Seven Captains at Thebes, ibid.
Argonauts; the Expedition of the Argonauts, 148, &c. 181, 160
—Explanation of the Fable, 151
Ariadna; Ariadna's Crown in the Heavens, 160
Arts; one Man using several Trades not allow'd in Aegypt, 39
Asphaltes; the Lake Asphaltes, and its Brimstone or Pitch, 78
Assyrians; their Kings do not suffer Themselves to be openly seen, 64
—They sent Aid to the Trojans under Memnon, 65
Astrology; the Aegyptians excellent Astrologers, 26, 36 44
—So the Caldeans, 70
—Atlas Hercules, 141
—Hyperion 141
—The Heliadae in Rhodes, 200
Astyages; the last King of the Medes; overcome by Cyrus, 72
Atalanta; Belov'd by Meleager, Intrapt by the Thestiadae, 145
Athens; how their Common-wealth was divided, 13
Atlantides; their Country in Affrica, 115
—The Names of the Atlantides and their Offspring, ibid.
Atlas; his Kingdom, and chief Study, 115
—Why he's said to Carry the Heavens upon his Shoulders, ibid.
Avernus; a Description of the Lake Avernus, 138
Amber; where it is produc'd, 185, 186

Babylon; built by Semiramis, 57
—Its Walls, Towers, Lake, Passage under Water, Hanging Gardens, 57
Bacchus; how many there were, 116 to 119 148
—His Acts, 120 to 122 ibid. 141, &c.
—The Indian Bacchus the most Ancient, 126, 127
—Why he was of a double Shape, 129
—The natural meaning of Bacchus, 117
Bactra; 55, 56
—Besieg'd by Ninus, 57
Baleares; a Description of the Baliary Islands, 183
Balm; the Place and Usefulness, 79
Bards; Ancient Poets among the Gauls, 189
Belus; his Temple, 58
—His Statue, ibid.
Beasts; Worshipp'd in Aegypt, 43, 44 54
Brimstone; how it Rises up in the Lake Asphaltes, 79
—The Plenty of it about Babylon, 59
Britain; The Discription of the Island, 185
—Their Laws, Manners, &c 185
—Their Traffick with Tin there, ibid.
—The Island Discover'd by Julius Caesar, ibid.
Busiris; the Ground of the Story of his killing all Passengers that landed in Egypt. 46
Burials; the manner of Embalming in Egypt 47
Bull; a dreadfull wild Bull, 100
—The Marathonian Bull, 159

Cadmus; Built Thebes, his Wife, Children, &c. 127, 197 223
—Was the First that taught the Greeks Letters, and brought them into Greece, 201, 120 227
Cadusians; their perpetual War with the Medes, 71
Caesar; Julius Caesar first Discover'd the Northen Parts to the Romans, 185
—Conquer'd Britain, ibid.
Calydonia; the Calydonian Boar, the Hunting of him, 145
Camels; Wild Camels, 105
Camels; Leopards of Arabia, their Shape, 80
Campes; the Great Monster, kill'd by Bacchus, 122
Carbuncles; where they are Found, 111
Cat; Worship'd in Egypt, 47
Chastity; a Trial of Conjugal Chastity, 31
Celtiberians; their Description, Customs, &c. 190
Centaurs; their Original, 165
—Their Conflict with Hercules, 133
—And War with the Lapithae, 165
—Eurytion the Centaur kill'd by Hercules, 144
Cerberus; Drawn out of Hell by Hercules, 139, 140 c. 161
Ceres; is the Earth, 5, 117 137
—The same with Isis, as the Egyptians say, 206
—Her Acts, 177
—Obscene Speech in her Feasts, ibid.
Chaldeans; their Astrology, Augurs, 69, 70 82, 83
—Their Priests, 66
Chemmis King of Egypt, his Pyramid, 32
Chius; the Ancient Inhabitants of Chius, 239
Circes; her History, 150
Circumcision; the Troglodites Cicumcis'd, 98
Caelus King of the Atlantides, his Sons, 113, 115 135
Corsica; its Situation, Cities, ancient Inhabitants, &c. 181
—Bitter Honey, 182 ibid.
Corybantes; the Sons of the Mother of the Gods, 170
—Their Sacreds, 198
Crete; the Antiquities, 116, 122, 135, 204, 211 142, 230, 157, 238
—Its Name, whence, 122,
Crocodile; its Description, 16
—The Hunting of it, 16, 17
Crueltty of Hecates, 151, 152 151
Cyaxares; the first Monarch of the Medes, 71
Cybele; her Name, whence, 114
—The several Stories of the Atlantides and Phrygians concerning her, 114, 115 134
Cyrus transferr'd the Empire from the Medes, to the Persians, 72
—Crucified by the Scythian Queen, 76

Dactyli Judaei, 204
Daedalus; his Monument in Egypt, 170
—His Statues, 168
—His Works in Crete, 159
—In Sicily, ibid.
—His Wings, ibid. 182
—In Sardinia, 170
Daphne the Daughter of Tiresias, her Oracles, 164
—Her History, 173
Delphos; the Temple Rifl'd by the Gauls, 189
Derceto; the Syrian Goddess, the Mother of Semiramis, 55
Description of pleasant Places, 121, 173, 176, 194, 195 197, 199, 220
Diana; why the Nurse of Children, 208 235
—What Places Dedicated to Her in Sicily, 117
Deluge; by the Eruption of the Pontick Sea, 197
—In Boetia, 136
—Rhodes 200
—In Samo-Thracia, 197
—Deucalion 3
Diomedon; his Mares devour Men, 135
Dogs; Men with Dogs Heads, 100
—Why Worshipp'd in Egypt, 7
Doreans; their War with the Lapithae, 146
—Expuls'd by the Theban Exiles, 164
Dragon at Cholchos, what,
Druids; Poets of the Gauls, Philosophers, and Divines, 189
Dromenaries 106

Ecbatana; a Famous Aquaduct there, and the City Beautified by Semiramis, 60
—The Palace of Arbaces, 68
Effeminacy; a Remarkable Example of Effeminacy in Sardanapalus, 65
Elephants; the manner of Hunting them by the Ethiopians, 96
—How they are destroy'd by Serpents, 89
—Their Fight with the Rhinoceros, 99
—Their manner of Generation, bringing forth their Young, &c. 75
Epitaphs of Isis,
—Of Osiris of Osimanduas, 12
Ergamenes; King of Ethiopia, abolish'd the cruel Custom of forcing the Kings to kill Themselves, 87
Erycina; the Temple of Venus Erycina, 172
Eteocles; his cruel War with his Brother about the Kingdom of Thebes, 162
Euphrates; a Famous River, 67
Eurydices; the Wife of Orpheus, brought back out of Hell by Orpheus, 140
Eurystheus; imposes Labours upon Hercules, 132
—His Death, 158
Expiation; the strange manner of Expiation among the Ethiopians, 81

Famine all the World over, but in Egypt, 13
Fire; its Irruption, 138, 179 202
Fortunate Islands of Arabia, 108
—In the Atlantick Ocean, 183
Fruits; Two Harvests in the Year in India, 72
—The Fruitfulness of Taprobane. Corn first found out by Ceres in Sicily, 176, 177, 206 200, 232
Funerals; the Funeral Rites among the Egyptians, 38
—The Pompous Burials of their Kings, 30

Ganges a famous River, 73
Gades or Cadiz, by whom built, 184
Gauls; 186
—The Extream Cold, their Rivers, &c. ibid.
—The Description, 187, 188, 189 to 214
Geometry; first found out in Egypt, 36
—The Usefulness of it, 42
Giants; Egyptian Giants, 10, 11
—Their Triple War with Jupiter, 207
—Overcome by the Gods, 121
Giants of Phlegraea, overcome by Hercules, 138
—Why said to be Born of the Earth, ibid.
Gods; the History of the Gods of Egypt, 23, 50
—Their Worship by the Cretians, Ethiopians, 210, 86 100, 237
—The God Jao of the Hebrews, 49
Gold; the Laborious way of making of Gold, in the Confines of Egypt, 89, 90 106
—The Gold Mines in Ethiopia, ibid.
—Gold chang'd for Brass or Iron, 106
—The History of the Golden Fleece, 157
—A River that flows down Gold, r.

Hecates; her History, 151
Helen; carry'd away by Theseus, 162
Heliopolis; by whom built, 50
Helius; the Son of Hypericon and Bazilia, metamorphos'd into the Sun, 113, 114
Hellespont; whence the Name deriv'd, 151
Heraclidae; Banish'd out of all Greece, 158
—Depart out of Peloponnesus for 50 Years, by Agreement, 158
Hercules; there were three, 124
—The Egyptian, Gelai, and him of Alcmena, ibid.
—The Acts of Hercules the Cretan, 210
—The Genealogy of the last, his Acts, 131
—His Sickness and Madness, 156
—His further Acts, 163
—His Labours, 132, &c.
—His Expedition into Spain, 153
—The Institutor of the Olympick Games, 134
—Is worship'd by the Agyrineans, 139
—Overcomes the Trojans, 152
—His Sickness,
—He burns himself, 147
Hermophrodites; their prodigious Originals, 129
Hermes; the Egyptian Hermes, 6
—His Inventions, ibid.
—First finder out of Arts, 23
Herodotus; the time he Flourish'd, 71
Hesion; expos'd to be devour'd by a Whale, 149
—Deliver'd by Hercules, ibid.
Hesperides; divers Opinions of the Hesperian Apples, 141
Hippolytus; his Stepmother falls in love with him, 161
—Is falsly Accus'd; Kill'd by his Chariot, ibid.
Homer; the most ancient of the Poets, 86
—His Works, 152, 164 176, 187
—Imitates Orpheus, 50
—The Place of his Birth, ibid.
Honey; bitter Honey, 182

Jambulus; his strange Voyage and Travels, 81, 84 99
Jason; Captain of the Argonauts, his Acts, 148, 149 171
—Goes to Corinth, cast of Medea, and marries Glauces, 145, 146
—His Death, ibid.
Iberians; their Gold Mines, 191
Ibis; the Usefulness of this Bird, 45
Ichneumenon; the Enemy of the Crocodile, 17 55
Ichthyophagi; not affected with any thing, 91
—The manner of their Burials, 93
Jehovah call'd Jao, 49
Indians; their Seven Tribes, 74, 75 89
—Their War with Semiramis, 62, 63
India; the Description, 72, 73 87
Indus River, 73
Jocasta; the Acts of Jocasta,
—The Mother of Oedipus, 162
Iolaus; one of the Thespidae brings a Colony into Sardinia, 142 164
Iris or Ireland, an Island of Britain, a fierce People, 189
Isis; the same with Ceres, 6
Jews; a Colony of Egypt, 10
—Why they are Circumcis'd, 28
Judges; the Proceedings in Judicature in Egypt, 39, 40
Jupiter; the Ancient Jupiter, was the Brother of Coelus, and King of Crete, whose Daughters were the Curetes: the other was Lord of the World, the Son of Saturn, 116 136
—The Kingdom of the Cretan Jupiter after Ammon and Bacchus, 123
—More 204 233
Ixion attempts to Ravish Juno, is tormented upon a Wheel, 165

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

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