Diodorus Siculus

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

A Gathocles his Butcheries in Sicily, 687
Abderites; almost all cut off by the Treballians, 423
—Deliver'd by Chabrias, ibid.
Acarnanians; their War with the Ambrociats, 287
Achaians; assist Phayllus, 494
—Demetrius restores Liberty to their Cities, 494
Acimnestus; his unfortunate aspiring to the Government at Enna, 364
Agrigentines; their War with the Syracusians, and their Rout, 243
Ada; Princess of Caria Restor'd by Alexander the Great, 531
Adranum; in Sicily built, 375
Aeacides; King of Epirus endeavours to restore his Sister Olympias to the Kingdom of Macedon, 612
—But in Vain, 624
—Is expell'd his Kingdom, ibid.
—Restor'd, and afterwards kill'd in a Battel, 642
Aegestines; their War with the Lilybaeans, 259
—With the Selinuntians, 297
—Burn the Tents of Dionysius, 382
—The Cruelties Executed upon them by Agathocles, 686
Aegesta; wholly Destroy'd and Raz'd, 687
Aegineans; are Subdu'd by the Athenians, 256
—Expell'd by the Athenians, 281
Aegium; taken and raz'd by Aristodemus, 637
Aegppt; their Defection from the Persians, 252
—The two Persian Expeditions against them, 254, 255 281, 282
—They assist Evagoras against Artaxerxes Mnemon, 410
—King Acovis leagues with Gaius against the Perseans, 413 462
—King Tachus his War with Artaxerxes, 473
—They revolt from Tachus, and Tachus restor'd by Agesilaus, 474
—Revolt from Artaxerxes Ocus, 496
—Gain'd by Alexander M. 542
—Ptolemys Province, 591 648
Aequi Conquer'd by the Romans, 289 786
Aetna; the City Aetna first call'd Eunesia, 254
Aetolians; overcome the Athenians, and Besieg'd Naupactus in vain, 287
—Rebell against Alexander the Great, 522
—Oppose Alexander's Edict, 577
—Their War with Antipater, 584
—Their Treachery against the Agrineans, 638
Africa; dry and full of Serpents, 674
—The Africans rebell against the Carthaginians, 391
—Divided into four Sorts, 681
Agathocles; his Original, Increase, and Cruelty, 607
—Becomes King, 610
—His Cruelty at Gela, 655
—His Fight with the Carthaginians at Ecnomus unsuccessfull, 655
—His Preparations for an Expedition into Africa, 658
—Burns his Ships in Africa, Beats the Africans, 660, &c. 739, 740
—His further Acts there, 670 752
—His treachery against Ophellas, 673 &c. 754
—Takes Utica, 680
—Flies back into Sicily, 681
—His Acts there, 682, 683, &c. 766
—Returns into Africa and is worsted by the Africans, 685
—A mutiny in his Camp, ibid.
—Flies out of Africa, his Sons murder'd, and his Army dispers'd, and all made Slaves, 686, 687
—His Cruelty upon the Aegestines, 687
—And the Syracusians, idid.
—His Sacrilege and Death, 699
Agesilaus; General against the Persians, 392
—His Praise, 421
—His Acts in Egyyt, 474, 475 506
—His Death, 475
Agis; King of Lacedemon, 277
—Accus'd for making Peace wiuh the Argives, 295
—His Valour at the Battel of Mantinea, 295
—General against Antipater, 547
—His Heroical Death, ibid.
Agrigentines; overcome by the Syracusians, 243
—A famous Pond there, and other Works, 228
—Their ancient Grandeur, 340
—Besieg'd 341
—The Miserable destruction of the City, 343
—They afterwards seek to free all the Cities of Sicily, 670, 681 762
Agrinium; a City of Acarnania, the Cities put to the Sword by the Aetolians against terms agreed, 638
Alcetas; Brother of Perdiccas overcome by Antigonus, 593
—Betray'd by the Pisidians; kills himself, 594
Alcibiades sent by the Athenians to Argos, against the Lacedemonians, 296
—His Praise, 297
—Accus'd to be the ••thor cutting off the Nead of Mercury's Statues, 301
—Is Condemn'd in his absence, 301
—Flies to Sparta, ibid.
—Restor'd to favour of the People, 333 368
—Banishes himself, 336
—Treacherously murder'd by Pharnabazus, 362
Alesa; built by Archonides in Sicily, 364
Alexander the Son of Amyntas King of Macedon, 433
—His Acts against Alexander Phereus, 434
—Kill'd by Ptolemy Alorites, 478
Alexander M. a short History of him, 521
—The Fight at Chaeronea, 516
—His besieging and razing of Thebes, 524 527
—His design against Persia, his Passage into Asia, and mustering of his Army, 528
—The Battel at Granicum, 529 573
—His Acts in the lesser Asia, 529, 530 576
—His desperate Sickness, 534
—The Battel at Issus, 535
—Besieges Tyre, 538
—Takes Gaza, 541
—Gains Egypt, ibid.
—Goes to Jupiter Hammon's Temple, 542
—The Battel at Arbela, 546
—Enters Susa, 551
—His kindness to the Greeks maim'd by the Persians, 550
Persepolis burnt by him, 552
Thalestris Queen of the Amazons, 554
—His other Acts in Persia, 555, 556, &c, 605, 606
—His Expedition into India, 558
—His Acts there, 560, &c. 612, 613
—His War with the Oxydracans, 563
—His desperate Case and Hazard there, ibid.
—Marries Statira, 567
—Enters into Babylon, 570
—Prodigies before his Death, 572
—His Intemperance, Sickness, and Death, ibid.
—The Division of his Conquests among his Captains, 574, 591 648
—A Description of his Funeral Charriot, 586
—The Captains join with Eumenes, and presently fall from him, 617
—The magnificent Feast of the Captains and Great Commanders in Persia, 617
—The third division of the Provinces, 628
—All the Captains join against Antigonus, 633
—Great Captains take upon them the Stile of Kings, 654, 680 761
Alexander King of Epirus, 510
Alexander Son of Alexander the Great, together with his Mother murder'd by Cassander, 654
—The Family of Alexander the Great Extinct, 672
Alexandria; in Egypt, built by Alexander the Great, 543
—Another beyond Caucasus, 568
—Another in India, 556
Alexander Pheraeus; his War with the Thessalians and Macedonians, 434, 438 494
—His Cruelty, 440 a. 466
—His other Acts, 442, 475 507
—Is murder'd by his Wife, 483
Alexander Polysperchon; his Acts, 602, 623, 632, 636, &c. 689, 700, 706 &c.
Amazons; the Queen lies with Alexander the Great,
Amilcar; the Carthaginian General besieges Himera, 226
—His Death, 227
Amilcar; the Carthaginian General against Agathocles 654
—Is taken attempting to surprize Syracuse in the night, and his Punishment, 669 748
Amhictyons; their decrees against the Spartans, 491
—Against the Phocians, 505
Amphipolis; an Athenian Colony, their Slaughters, 252, 276, 304, 279
—Their various Changes, 290
Amyntas; King of Macedon, 283
—Driven out of his Kingdom, 397
—His War with the Olynthians, 416
—His Death, 433
Andromachus; the builder of Tauromenium in Sicily, 480
Antigenes; Colonel of the Argyraspides, 601
—Burnt alive by Antigonus, 626
Antigonus; his share in the Provinces, 574
—Most Active of all Alexanders Captains, 584
—Joins with others against Perdiccas, ibid.
—His first Expedition against Eumenes, 591
—His other Acts, 592, 593, &c.654, 655, 656, 661, 666
—His second Expedition against Eumenes, 605, 614, 615 r, 666, 679, 680
—His other Expedition against Eumenes, 618
—A Battel between him and Eumenes, 620
—His last Battel with Eumenes, and his Victory, 626
—He robs the Treasuries at Susa, 629
—His Quarrel with Seleucus, 633
—Besieges Tyre, and takes it, 635
—His other Acts, 639, 641, 643, 648 712, 714, 720
—His Expedition against the Nabathaeans, 649
—Builds Antigonia, 677
—His Expedition into Egypt, unsuccessfull, 688
—His War with the Rhodians, 690
Antipater; Macedonia alotted to him, 574
—The Lamian War with the Athenians, 578
—Conquers the Athenians, and changes their Government, 581
Aorni; the Rocks of Aornus described, 558
Apes; the Indian Apes, 610
—Worship'd in Africa, 635
Apollonides forc'd to abdicate the Government of Agrigentum by Timoleon, 514
Apollo; the besieged Tyrians bind Apollo in Golden Chains, 541
—Alexander M. releases him, ibid.
Apology; Eumenes his story or parable of the Lyon wooing a Virgin, 618
Apothegms; of Agesilaus, 448
—Of Alcibiades, 277, 544 591
—Of Antipater, 612
—Of the Athenians to Mardonius, 230
—To them that fled from the Battel at Syracuse, 307
—Of the Mother of Brasidias, 293
—Of Callicratides, 348
—Of Charonidas, 270
Of Demades, 516
—Of Demaratus, 218
—Of Diomedon, 360 r, 386
—Of Dionysius, 479
—His Apothegmatick Letter to the sacrilegious Athenians, 504
—Of Dionysius his Friends, in perswading him not to leave the Government, 689
—Of Epaminondas, 430, 445, 618 503, 684
—Of Gellias, 340
—Of the Greeks, 216
—Of Heloris, 360
—Of Hephestion, 571
—Of Hermocrates, 519
—Of the Lacedemonian Ambassadors, 288
—Of Leonidas, 217 245
—Of Megaclis, 689
—Of Myronidas, 257
—Of Pharnabazus, 425
—Of Philoxenus, of Dionysius his Verses, 411
—Of Proxenus, 369
—Of Ptolemy, 647
—Of Socrates, the General of Cyrus, 369
—Of Sophilus, 368
—Of Thessalion, 497
—Of Thrasibulus to the 30 Tyrants, 373
Appius Claudius, his Works, 672 r 571
Arbela; the Battel at Arbela, by Alexander with Darius, 545, 548 596
Arcadians their Sedition, and War with the Exiles and Lacedemonians,
—Their other Acts, 434, 436, 443, 524 492, 500, 563
—Their other War with the Lacedemonians, and Rout, 410
—Their War with the Eleans, 440
Archenactidae; Kings of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, 275
Archagathus; Son of Agathocles kills Lyciscus in Africa, 670
—The Mutiny that arose thereupon, ibid.
—Against Agathocles, 684
—Archagathus kill'd by the Souldiers with his Brother, 686
Archelaus; King of Macedon, 323
—His Death, 374
Archidamus King; of his Prudence in the Earthquake, and the War, 248
—His Acts, 280, 282, 284 311, 313
Archidamus Son of Agesilaus his Acts, 488, 508 545
Archeus King of Macedonia, 397, 474 550
Arginusae, 348
—The Sea-Fight at the Islands of Arginusae, between the Athenians and the Spartans, ibid.
Argivi; their War with the Mycenians, 249
—With the Lacedemonians, 319
—The lamentable Sedition at Argos, 296
—Another dreadful Sedition at Argos, call'd the Scytalisme, 432
—Another War with the Lacedemonians, 493
—Another Sedition. 635
Argyraspides; their age, and Valour, 625, 626 694
—Their treachery towards Eumenes, and their just Punishment, 628, 629 697
Aristides; the Athenian General at Platea, against Mardonius, 231
—His eminent Justice, 239 r 266
Aristophanes; his Verses of Pericles, 274
Aristotiles; the Philosopher, one of the Learnedst Grecians, 263
Armenia;
—The Snowy Mountains, the danger of the Grecians there, 370
Arridaeus; made King in the room of Alexander M. is murder'd by Olympias, 612
—His royal Burial, 630
Arses King of Persia murder'd by Bagoas, together with his Children, 603
Artabanus murders Xerxes, 251
—Is kill'd, upon his Attempt to murder Artaxerxes, ibid.
Artabazus; the Persian General against Datames, 447
—Rebels against the Persian King, 462
—Is restor'd to the Kings favour by Mentor, 502
Artaxerxes succeeds Xerxes, 251
—His War with the Egyptians, 253, &c. 281, 282
—With the Athenians at Cyprus, 265
—His other Acts, 266
—His Peace with the Lacedemonians, 273
—His Death, 289
Artaxerxes II. Mnemon, succeeded Darius the second, 353
—His War with the King of Egypt, and the Grecians, 446
—War with his Brother Cyrus, 365, 367 368 407, 408
—His War with Evagoras, 399, 410 459
—His Death, 482
Asia; the Description, 575
Astrology; Meton's Circle of 19 years, call'd Enneadeceterides, 277
Asphaltes; the Lake Asphaltes, 651
—The Description of Pitch, and how it's gather'd, 652
Atalanta; Vid. Island.
Athenians; their City burnt by Xerxes, 223
—Their Walls rebuilt by the Policy of Themistocles, 236
—Gain the Dominion of the Sea, 239
—Aid the Rebels in Egypt, and overcome the Persians, 252, 253 280
—Their War with the Corinthians and Egeans, 253, 255 283
—Their remarkable Victory at Tanagra, over the Thebans, 257
—Their flourishing Condition after the War with Xerxes, 263, 264 292
—The Peloponnesian War, 277 &c.
—Their Expedition into Sicily, 284, 285 314
—Their Fight and Rout in the Battel with the Beotians, 290
—Their Expedition into Thrace, against Brasidias, 292
Their Cruelty with the Scyonians, ibid.
—Their second Expedition into Sicily, 300 227 332
—They besiege Syracuse, 302
—Their Victory at Sea, 303
—Beaten at Sea, 307
—Their Ruin in Sicily, 307
—And their misery there, 314
The Government of 400 in Athens, 315
—Are overcome by the Lacedemonians, ibid.
—Their Victory against Callicratides, 349
—Their unjust Judgment against their Captains, 350
—Their Ruin at Egos Potamos, 352
—The taking of their City by Lysander, 353
—The Thirty Tyrants of Athens, 357
—The War with the Tyrants, 373
—Their Ejection, ibid
—Ten others set up in their room prove as as bad as they, 374
—Athens wall'd again, 393
—They stir up the Cities against Sparta, 419 471
—The Beotian War, and their Expedition into Beotia, 420
—How the league with Sparta is broken after the Peace of Antilcida, ibid.
—A new War with Sparta. The first Victory (after their loss at Egos-Potamos) against the Spartans at Naxos in a Sea-fight, 422
—Their Expedition into Corcyra, and Victory over the Spartans,
—They assist the Spartans, their implacable Enemies, against the Thebans by Iphicrates, 435, 437 493
—Are routed by Philip, 478
—Their Acts in the Social War, 485
—Their War with Philip, 503
—The Battel at Chaeronea, where they are overcome by Philip, 516
—Their War with Antipater, 578 &c.
—Their City given up to Antipater, and garison'd by him, 581
—Their Democracy restor'd, 602
—Antigonus and Demetrius honour'd by them, 677
Athenae; a University for the Liberal Arts and Sciences, 311
Attica; wasted by Xerxes, 223
—By Mardonius, 230
—By the Spartans, 280, 284 309, 314
Atho; Mount Atho digg'd thro' by Xerxes's Army, 310
Augurs; a superstitious Observation of Augurs, the occasion of the Ruin of the Athenians in Sicily, 305
—Shew'd to Philomelus, 489
—Portending the death of Alexander M. 571
Axiotheca; the Wife of Nicocles murders her self and her whole Family, 665

Babylon; Alexander M. his first Entry into Babylon, 548
—His second and last, where he died, 570
Babylonia; the Province of Arcon, 574
—Its Scituation, 576
—Antipater allotted it to Seleucus, 590
Bactria; Conquer'd by Alexander M. The Province of Philip, 574
—The Scituation, 576
Bagistama; a fruitful Country,
Bagoas the Eunuch, colleague with Mentor in Egypt, 499, 500 536
—Destroys Ochus and all his Family, 501
—How he was punished, 502
Belus; his Sepulchre, repair'd by Alexander M. 570
Bessus; treacherously murders Darius, and stirs up the Bactrians against Alexander M. 552
—Punished by Alexander M. 556
Beotians; whence so call'd,
—Their War with the Plateans, 280
—With the Athenians, 290 321
—With the Phoceans, and Lacedemonians, 393, 394, 395 441, 442
—The Beotian War against the Lacedemonians to the end, 414 466
—Overcome by Philomelus, 491
—By Onomarchus, 493
—They overcome Phayllus at Orchomenus, Cephissus, and Chaeronea, 504
—Overcome by Leosthenes, 578
—Join with Antigonus, 642
Boeotarchs 431
Bomilcar; his Ambition, 661
—Invades the Soveraignty over the Carthaginians, 674
—His Conflict with the Citizens, 675
—His punishment, 676 〈◊〉. 756
Bucephalus; Alexander M. his Horse, his properties, 554
—Is taken, ibid.
—Built a City in India call'd Bucephala, in memory of his Horse, 564
Bura and Helice drown'd, two Cities in Greece, 428
Buildings; Stately Buildings in Sicily, 514
Burial; the remarkable love of a Wife to her Husband at his Funeral, 622
Bees make their Honey Combs in the Hipps of Agathocles his Statue, 607
Byzantians their Expedition into Bithynia, and Cruelty, 297
—The City taken by the Athenians by Treachery, but not without Blows, 331

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
—Burnt with their dead Husbands in India, 562
—A Contest between two Wives which should be burnt with the dead Husband, 622

Gauls; Take Rome, 406
—Are almost all cut of by Camillus, 407
Geloans; they leave the City Gela and go to Syracuse, 264
—Then to the Leontines, 358
Gela besieg'd by the Syracusians, 609
—The Cruelty of Agathocles at Gela, 655
Gellias the Agragentine; his Wealth, Hospitality, Beauty, &c. 340
—His Wine-Cellar, 341
—His Death, 343
Gelo; overcomes the Carthaginians at Himera, 227
—His Praise, ibid.
—His Victory, and the Death of Leonidas, fall out both on the same day 227
—Inriches Sicily with the Spoils of his Enemies, ibid.
—His Death, Burial, &c. 235, 249 276
God; God defends the Greeks against Xerxes, 222
—His Anger the Cause of all publick Calamities, as Earthquakes, &c. 428
—His Revenge of Sacrilege, 505, 506, 508 543, 545
—Remarks of Divine Providence, 508, 514, 553, 769
Gorgias; the Leontine his Eloquence and invented Rhetorick, 284
Grecians; their Assembly and Decree at the Isthmus against the Persians, 216
—Their Valour at Thermopyle, 219
—The Sea-Fight and Victory at Artemesia over the Persians, 222
—At Salamis; 223
—Their Expedition against Mardonis and their Fight with him 231
—The Grecian Auxiliaries against Artaxerxes for Cyrus his Brother are Victors, 368
—The Grecian Captains that were prisoners all put to Death, 369
—Their troublesome passage out of Persia back into their own Country, 370, 371, 471 412, 413
—The Grecian Cities confederate against the Lacedemonians in the Theban War, 419
—The Grecians advis'd to Peace amongst themselves by Artaxerxes, 438
—Peace after the Battel at Mantinea, 446
—Their War at Lamia with Antipater, 496
Gylippus; his severe Speech against the Athenian Prisoners in Sicily. See Speech.
Gold; the Sacred Hunger of Gold, 492
—Rich Mines at Philippi, 480
Gulf; a deep Gulf cover'd with Sand in Egypt, 498

Halicarnassus; Taken by Alexander M. 531, 532 576
Hammon; the Temple of Hammon, 542, 543 589
Hannibal; the Carthaginian General against the Syracusians, 319
—Razes Selinunt, 327
—Dies of the Plague, 341
Harpalas; his Luxury and Rapes, 569
Helepolis; an Engine of Battery us'd by Demetrius describ'd, 677, 694 779
Helice and Bura; two Cities drown'd, 428
Hephestion dies at Ecbatana: His Funeral, 623
Hercules; the ancient Hercules: His Acts, 557, 564 613
Hermocrates; his Acts in Sicily, 330
—Is slain, ibid.
Hicetas, Prince of Syracuse, ejected by Dionysius Junior, 508
—Overcomes Dionysius, is routed by Timoleon, 509, 511 548
Hiero, King of Syracuse, 235
—His Acts, 240, 241, 243 268, 269
—Builds Catana, 240
Hilotes; their War with Sparta, 248, 290 320
Himera; raz'd to the Ground by Hannibal, 328
Historians; who are to be Blam'd, and who Excusable, 244
—Who end with the Battel at Mantinea, 446
—Unpleasant when broken off with many Speeches, 657
—The Profit of History, 583
Honey in Colchis; makes Men mad, 371
Horses; how exercis'd by Eumenes when he besieg'd in a strait Place. See Exercise.

Japygians; Overcome the Tarentines, 241
Jason the Pherean; his Acts, 420, 432, 433 487, 488
Ida; the Mountain Ida describ'd, 524
—The Wonders there, ibid.
Illyrians; Overcome the Macedonians, 478
—Conquer'd by Philip, 479, 486 522
Imilco; the Carthaginian General in Sicily: his Acts, 380, 382, 383 426, 427
—His Sacrileges, 385
—Looses his Fleet, Army, &c. 391
—His extream Misery in his own Country, ibid.
—Dies for want, ibid.
Isaurians; burn themselves in Pisidia, 584. 640
India; the Description, 576
—By a Law among the Indians, the Wives burn themselves with their dead Husbands, 622
Inundations; fearful Inundations in Peloponnesus, 428
—And in other Parts of Greece, 286
—At Rhodes, 627
Iphicrates; the Athenian General in Egypt, 425
—His Acts in Egypt, 426
—His other Acts, 397, 435, 486 490, 521
—His Praise, 516
Issus; the Battel at Issus by Alexander M. with the Persians, 535
Judges in Persia are flea'd alive, 411, 412 463

Lacedemon; the Earthquakes at Sparta, 244
—Take Athens, 353
—Their Quarrels with the Eleans, 365
—Assist Cyrus against his Brother, ib. 367 407
—Lose their Dominion at Sea, 394,
—Overcome by the Athenians in a Sea-fight at Naxus, 422
—Their War with the Argives, 493
Lamia; the Story of Lamia, 674
Lamia; the Beginning and Cause of the Lamian War, 490, 576 631
Laws; Laws of Charondas 267
—Of Zeleucus, 269
—Of Diocles the Syracusian, and his Tragical End, 314
—Of the Twelve Tables of Rome, 271, 272 301
—Confirm'd by the Death of the Legislator, 270, 314 347
Leonides; the Spartan General at Thermopyle, 217
—His Heroick Death there, 220
Leosthines; the Athenian General in the Lamian War, 569
—Overcomes Antipater, 579
—His Death, and Praise, ibid.
Lesbians; subdu'd by the Athenians, 286
Libanus; a Description of Mount Libanus, 367
Long Life of Democritus, 362
Lucanians; their War with the Thurians, and remarkable Victory, 400
—With Dionysius the younger, 479
—With the Tarentines, 701
Lycaonia; the Situation, 576
Lydia; the Province of Meleager, 574
—The Situation, 576
Lysander; the Spartan General against the Athenians, 333
—His Victory over the Athenians at Aegos Potamos, 352
—His Death, 393
Lysimachus; one of Alexander M. his Commanders.
—Thrace his Province, 574
—Relieves the Rhodians with Provision,
—Assists Cassander, 702
—Stoops to Antigonus, ibid.
Lysimachia built, 667

Macedonians; the Parricides amongst the Macedonian Kings, 477
—Rout the Greeks at Charonea, 516
Mago the Carthaginian General, fights with Dionysius, and is kill'd, 414
Mantineans; overcome by the Lacedemonians, 295
—The City Mantinea besieg'd, and taken by the Spartans, 411, 413 464
—The Battel with the Tageans describ'd, 445 503
—Their War with the Megalopolites, 449
Marathon; the Slaughter of the Persians there,
Marmarensians; being besieg'd, burn their Houses, Parents, and Friends, 532
Megalopolis built, 439
—Their War with the Mantineans, 449
—With the Spartans, 495
Megara; the Acts of the Megareans, 231, 256, 265 283, 293
—Their Sedition,
Mentor the Rhodian, betrays the Sidonians, 496
—His other Acts, 500, &c. &c.
Mesopotamia; the Province of Arcesilas, 574
—The Situation, 576
Messenians; their War with the Spartans, 248
—Are routed out of Greece by the Spartans, 374
—Their Increase in Sicily, 392
—The City Messina in Sicily sack'd by the Carthaginians, 382, 383, 427
—Repair'd by Dionysius, 392
—They assist Dion, 481
—The City gain'd by Agathocles, 652
—Messina in Peloponnesus rebuilt by Epaminondas, 435
Meteors; an Astrological account of them, 429
Methon; a City in Thrace Sack'd by Philip, 493
Meton; the Circle of 19 years call'd Enneadeceterides, 227
Miletum; their War with the Samians, 273
—Their bloody Sedition, 352
Mitylene; taken by the Athenians, 285, 286 315
—Their Goods sold, ibid.
—The Port, 340
Motya; a City of Sicily,
—Taken by Dionysius, 373, 379 422
—Recover'd by the Carthaginians, 382
Munychia; Raz'd by Demetrius, 676
Muses; the Games of the Muses in Macedonia, 527
Mycale; a Description of the battel at Mycale, 234
Mycenas Raz'd to the ground by the Argives, 249

Nabathaeans; Arabians, their Laws and Manners, 650
—Their War with Demetrius, 651
Naxus; Raz'd by Dionysius, 480
Nectanabus; King of Egypt, his War with Artaxerxes, 425
Nectanabus; revolts from his Father Tachos King of Egypt, and is overcome by Agesilaus, 448
—Rebells against Ochus, 496
Neptune; the Causer of all Earthquakes and Innundations, 429
—Priests drown'd in the Sea offer'd to him, 305
Niceas; the Athenian General his Acts, 485
—His Expedition into Peloponnesus, 290
—His great misfortunes and lamentable Condition in Sicily 307, 308, 311, 312 341, 344, 345
—Is put to death, 314
Nicocles; the Cyprian, the Tragical end of him and his whole Family, 665
Nicolaus the Syracusian; his brave Speech for the saving the Athenian Captives from being put to death, 200

Ocean; the Wonders found in it, 568, 569 619
Ochus; King of Persia succceeds Artaxerxes, 448
—His Expedition against Egypt, 491
—His Acts, 498 534
—Is destroyed with his whole Family, 413
Olympias; the Mother of Alexander M. 598
—Her Return out of Epirus into Macedonia, and Cruelty towards Archidoeus and Eurydice and others, 612
—The terrible Famine in the Siege of Pydna, 621
—Her Accusation and Death, 629, 630 699
Olympus; the Temple of Jupiter Olympus, at Agrigentum, 340
—Another at Syracuse 301, 514 553
Olynthians; their War with Amyntas King of Macedon, 416
—Demand their Land again, 397.
—War with the Lacedemonians, 417
Ophellas; Subdues the Cyrenians, 583
—Joins with Agathocles in Africa, 673
—He with his Auxiliaries perfidiously slain by Agathocles, 674
—His Cruelty, ibid.
Oracle of Dodona, 439
—Of Hammon, 543
Oracles deliver'd to Alexander M. at Hammon, ibid.
—To the Clazomeans and Cumeans, concerning Leuca,
—To Dionysius of his death, 440
—To Eumelus King of Bosphoros of his death, 667
—To the Helicenses, 428
—To the Ionians, ibid.
—To the Lacedemonians of expiating the murder of Pausanias, 239
—To the Messinians in Sicily, 399
—To Philip before his death, 517
—To Philomelus, 489
—To Satyrus King of Bosphorus, of the manner of his death, 667
—To Seleucus by the Caldeans, 632, 649 720
—To the Spartans of the Victory of the Thebans, 241, 430 485
—To the Thebans of the Victory at Leuctra,
—Of their ruin, 524
—To Timoleon of his success in Sicily from Ceres, 508
Orchomenos; Raz'd by the Thebans, 441
—The Thebans their old Enemies, ibid.
Ostracism; the Law and manner of it at Athens, 244

Pallica; a City in Sicily; built by Ducetius, 261
—Its Growth and Destruction, ibid
—The strange boiling Pots call'd Craters in the Earth there, ibid.
Pamphilia; the Province of Antigonus, 574
—The Situation, 576
Paphlagonia with Cappadocia, 574 628
—The Provinces of Eumenes, 581
Parmenio; his Acts in Phrygia, 540
—Suspected of Treason, and put to death, 554
Pausanias; the Lacedemonian General at Platea against Mardonius 231
—His Treason against his Countrey, 237238 265
—Discover'd how, and punished, ibid.
Passes difficult Passes in Thermopyle, 219
—In Uxiana 549
—In the Rock Aornus, 557
Peace; Peace all over the World, 273
Pelopidas; the Theban General, 434
—Taken by Alexander Prince of Pherea, 438
—Deliver'd 440
—His Acts and Death, and Praise, 442
Peloponnesus; Peloponnesus liable to Earthquakes, 429
—The Peloponnesian War, the Causes, Renual &c. 271, 280, 303 308, 325
Perdiccas; One of Alexander M. Commanders 547
—At Arbela, ibid.
—Divides the Conquer'd Provinces, 574
—His other Acts, 575, 576, 581, 583 631, 636, 639
—The Captains conspire against him, 585
—His Expedition into Egypt, 588
Pericles; His Acts in Peloponnesus, 259, 260 287
—His other Acts, 273, 274 302
—His Arrears the publick Cause of the Peloponesian War, 277
—His hot Speech, 273
—His second Expedition into Peloponnesus, 281
—His Death, ibid.
Persepolis; Taken and burnt (by the instigation of a Strumpet,) by Alexander M, 550
Persia; The Province of Peucestas, 574
—The description of a pleasant Tract there, 616
Petalisme 259
Phalaecus; The General of the Phoceans, 495
—His Sacrilegious Covetousness, 503
—Punish'd by the Gods, 505
Pharnabasus; The Persian General, 316
—Helps sometimes the Athenians and sometimes the Lacedemonions, 321, 324, 375 357, 416
—General of the War against the Aegyptians, 446
Phialensians; Their seditian, 424
Philip King of Macedon; The Epitome of his History, 477
—His Acts and Wars, 477 to 516 to 556
—His Feast and stately Games; and ominous Verses, 518
—The Plot against his life, and the Cause ibid.
—His Murder. &c, 519
Philocles; The Athenian General at Aegos-Potamos, 352
—Is put to Death ibid.
Philomelus; stirs up the Phoceans, 486
—Robs the Temple at Delphos, 491
—Casts himself down from the top of a Rock, ibid
Phoceans; Their War with the Doreans and Spartans, 256
—With the Boetians, 393
—With the Thebans, 432
—They spoil the Temple at Delphos, 488, 491 526
—Their Fight with the Thebans, 503
—Are burnt in the Temple, 504
Phocio; the Athenian General, 496
—The sentence upon him and his punishment, 602
Phoenicia; the Situation, 576
Phrygia the Less, the Situation, ibid.
—The Greater, ibid.
Pindar; When he flourish'd, 200
Pisidia; The scituation, 576
Plague; Grievous amongst the Carthaginians, 418
—The first Plague at Athens, 281
—The second, 286
—And the Causes, ibid
—In the Camp of Hanniball in Sicily, for his Impiety, 341
—In the Camp of Imilco, and the Cause, 389
—In Africa, 358
Plateans; the Battel at Platea with the Persians, 231
—Are besieg'd by the Spartans, all put to Death and the City raz'd, 282, 286 315
—Their other misfortunes, 427
Plato; Sold by Dionysius, 411
—The most learn'd of the Greeks, 263
Porus; His War with Alexander M. 561
—His Valour and Stature, 562
Princes strengthen themselves more with Gentleness than Arms, 309
—Their Vices most notorious, •57
Prodigies; to Alexander M. before his Death, 572
—To the Athenians before irreparable slaughter in Sicily, 305
—To Epaminondas before his Victory at Leuctra, 428, 430, 484
—To Hannibal after the violation of the Sepulchres in Sicily, 341 r, 377
—To Pelopidas before his Death, 442
—To the Spartans before their slaughter at Leuctra, 428, 430 484
—To the Thebans before the Sacking of their City, 604
—To Timoleon before his Expedition into Sicily, 508
—Before his Fight with the Carthaginians, 513
Ptolemy Alorites, King of Macedonia, kills his Brother, and was kill'd by his Brother, 440, 477 r, 497, 550
Ptolomaeus Lagus was cur'd by a divine Power, 567
—Governour of Egypt, 574
—His stately preparations for the buying of Alexander M. 587
—Confirm'd in the Government of Egypt, 590
—Subdues Phoenicia, 592
—Opposes Antigonus in divers places,
—His Expedition into Cyprus, Silicia, and Syria, and his Successes, 98
—His Battel and Victory, 646, 647 718
—His War with Antigonus, 664
—His Sea. Fight with Demetrius at Cyprus, 678
—Is worsted, and returns into Egypt, 680
—Recovers Coelo-Syria, 704
Pylae; the Gates or Entry into Cilicia, 366
Pyrrhus; the famous Enemy to the Romans, 623
Pythagorean Philosopher; the Master to Epaminondas, and Philip King of Macedon, 478 510
—The last of his Sect, when they liv'd, 440
Pythia; why the Priestesses were no longer Virgins, 489

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

Zacynthus; the Sedition and War at Zacynthus, 416
Zaleucus; his Laws at Thurium in Italy, 270

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