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




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

A.
  • 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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