Diodorus Siculus

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The FRAGMENTS out of the Lost Books of Diodorus the Sicilian, gather'd by Photius.

ALexander Epiphanes, King of Syria, murder'd by his Subjects, Book 32. Eclogue 1. Page 724
Antiochis Queen of Cappadocia, cozens her Husband with a supposititious Birth, b 31 e 3. 723
Antiochus Epiphanes prophanes the Temple at Jerusalem, b 34. e 1. 726
Antiochus Eupator, his War with the Jews, b 34. e 1. ibid
Ariamnes II. King of Cappadocia his great love to his Son, and his Son to him, b 31. e 3. 723
Ariarathes I. II. III. IV. V. VI. Kings of Cap¦padocia, and the last a favourer of Learning, b 31. e 3.
—And the pedegree of those Kings, ibid.
Athenio the Captain of the slaves in Sicily, and that servile War, b 36. e 1. 731

Battaces; the Priest of Cybele in Phrygia, comes in a strange Habit to Rome, b 36. e 2. 733
Bocchus, King of Africa overcome by Marius, b 36. e 1. 729

Cadmus; b 40. e 1. 736
Caesar; his War with Pompey, b 37. e 2. 735
—His Murder, ibid.
Callo, a young Wife, afterwards she became a Man, b 32. e 1. 724
Capadocia; The Genealogy of their Kings, b 31. e 3. 722
Carthage; height of its Walls, b 32. e 2. 725
Cattulus murders himself by the Fumes of Lime, b 38. e 2. 736

Demetrius, King of Syria, overcomes Alexander, b 32. e 1. 724

Enna taken, and plunder'd by the Slaves, b 34. e 2. 727
Eunus the Juggler, and Captain of the Slaves in Sicily, ibid.

Heraris. a young Wife, becomes a Man, b 32 e 1. 724
Hermaphrodites; strange Relations of Hermaphrodites, ibid.

Jerusalem; the Temple by Antiochus Epiphanes taken by Antiochus Eupator, b 34. e 1. 726
Jews, hated of all: An Heathenish Relation of their Coming out of Aegypt, b 34. e 1. b 40. e 1. 726, 736
—Their Laws by Moses, ibid.
Jugurtha, King of Numidia, brought Prisoner to Rome, b 36. e 1. 729

Marsian War, b 37. e 1. 734
Masinissa, his Srength and Age, b 32. e 3. 325
Megallis, the wife of Demophilus of Enna, thrown down a Rock by the Women Slaves, for her former Cruelty, b 34. e 2. 327
Titus Minutius buys a Slave, he fell in Love with, for a great Sum of Money, and stirs up the Servile War in Italy; at length betray'd by his own men, b 36. e 1. 729
Moses his Acts, b 34. e 1. b 40. e 1. 726, 736

Nerva manages the War against the Slaves in Sicily; slothful, b 36. e 1. 730

Persius, King of Macedonia, his extream Misery b 31. e 2. 722
Pompey, his Death, b 37. e 2. 734
Prusias, King of Bithynia, murder'd by his Son, b 32. e 4. 726

Romans; their superstition, b 36. e 2 733
—Their Statues of their Ancestors, b 31. e 4. 723
—Their Degeneracy from their former Frugality, b 37. e 1. 734

Salvius a Piper, Captain of the Slaves in Sicily, is made King, and call'd Tripho, b 36. e 1. 731
Sicily; Its lamentable Condition in the time of the servile Wars, b 36. e 1. 729
Sylla; His War with Marius, his remarkable Death, b 37. e 2. 735

Titinius betrays the S〈…〉s in Sicily, b 36 e 1. 731

Varius, Captain of the Slaves in Sicily, b 36. e 1. ibid.
Viriathus, General of the Lusitanians, once a Captain of Thieves, his Successes against the Romans, b 32. e 5. 726

War; The War of the Slaves among the Romans, b 34. e 2. 727
—And in Attica, ibid.
—At Nucera, Capua, and by Minutius, b 36. e 1. 729
—The Servile Wars in Sicily, under Eunus, Varius, Salvius, and Athenio. b 34. e 2. b 36. e 1. 727, 729

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