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

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
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The first five books

BOOK I  BOOK II  BOOK III  BOOK IV  BOOK V 

The last ten books

BOOK XI  BOOK XII  BOOK XIII  BOOK XIV  BOOK XV  BOOK XVI  BOOK XVII  BOOK XVIII  BOOK XIX  BOOK XX 

Contents

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