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



K.
  • Kings; draw a Chariot
  • —The strange way of living of the Kings of Egypt, 36
  • —Death to the Sabaean Kings to stir abroad, 107
  • Kingdoms; formerly bestow'd upon such as had done good Publick Service, 23
L.
  • Lakes; a wonderful Lake in Ethiopia, 60
  • —A Description of the Lake of Myris, 26, 27 33, 34
  • —In Sicily, 139 161
  • Lapithae; their War with the Centaurs, 165
  • —With the Doreans and Hercules, 146
  • Laws; Of the Egyptians,
  • —Of the Ethiopians, 87
  • Liparae Islands; their fruitfullness, &c. 180
  • Letters; Two Sorts in Egypt, 86
  • —Hieroglyphicks of Egypt and Ethiopia, what, ibid.
  • —Greek Letters, why call'd Pelasgian, and Phaenician, 120
  • Letters in Tabrobanana, vii Figures, 83
  • Locusts; Eaten, and liv'd upon by the Ethiopians, 97
  • Lotus; of Egypt, what,
  • —Tall Trees of Lotus, 105
M.
  • Macarian Islands; why so call'd, 213
  • Megabarean Ethiopians; their manner of Burial, 98
  • —Their voluntary Deaths, 99
  • Marathon; the Marathonian Bull, 159
  • Maraneans of Arabia; how destroy'd, and rooted out by the Garyndaneans, 105
  • Marsyas: His Contest with Apollo in Musick; his Death, 114, 115
  • Mars; his Inventions and Acts, 209
  • Medea; assists the Argonauts with her Advice, and makes an Agreement with Jason, 151, 152 174
  • —Her wonderful Witcheraft in the Palace of Pelias, 153, 154 177
  • —Forsaken by Jason, and cruel Revenge upon her own Children, 156
  • Media; a Catalogue of the Kings, 71
  • Meleager; his sad Destiny, 145
  • Malta Island; its Description, 181
  • Menas; the first King of Egypt, how preserv'd by a Crocodile, 46
  • Mercury; the Egyptian Mercury, his Invention of Arts, Eloquence, Musick, &c. 6, 23 28
  • —Conductor of Souls, 50
  • Meroes; Islands in Nile, their Description, 20
  • Minerva; the Place of her Birth, 208
  • —Her Inventions, 209
  • Minos the first, Son of Jupiter, 160
  • —The second, of Lycasta, ibid.
  • —His Cities, Laws, &c. 211
  • —His Death in Sicily, 170
  • Minotaur; Kill'd by Theseus, 160
  • —How born, 169
  • Money; the Punishment of those that counterfeited Money in Egypt, 41
  • Moses; the first that put Laws in writing, 49
  • —His Praise, ibid.
  • Mice; Bred in Egypt out of the Mud or Slime, 2
  • Muses; Accompany Bacchus, 127, 128
  • —And Osiris, 8
  • —Why Virgins, 130
  • —Their Names, ibid.
  • Miris King of Egypt; his Lake, 26, 27 34
  • —His Pyramid and Sepulchre in the Lake, 27
  • Myrrhe; A Description of Myrrhe, 194
N.
  • Nabathean Arabians, 78, 105 130
  • —Thieves, never Conquer'd, ibid.
  • Naxus; the History of Naxus, 198, 199 224, 225
  • Nemean; a Description of the Nemean Lion, his Place, Death, &c. 132
  • Neptune; his Inventions, good Deeds, why accounted God of the Sea, 207
  • 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


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.

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