Library of History
By Diodorus Siculus. Made English, By G. BOOTH. London [1814]



  • —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
    • E.
    • 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
    F.
    • 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
    G.
    • 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.
    H.
    • 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
    I.
    • 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
    K.
    • 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
    L.
    • 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
    M.
    • 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
    N.