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



  • 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
    • O.
    • 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
    P.
    • 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
    R.
    • 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
    S.
    • 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
    T.
    • 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
    V.
    • 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
    W.
    • Writing; from the top of the Leaf downward, in Tapribana, 83
    • Wine; made of Barley, found out by Osiris, 8
    X.
    • Xerxes; his innumerable Army, 56
    Y.
    • 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.
    Z.
    • Zythus; a Drink of Barley, 127


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