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



  • 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
    • Q.
    • 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
    R.
    • 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
    S.
    • 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
    T.
    • 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
    V.
    • 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.
    W.
    • Wine-Cellars; the stately Wine-Cellars of Gellias in Agrigentum, 341
    X.
    • 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
    Z.
    • Zacynthus; the Sedition and War at Zacynthus, 416
    • Zaleucus; his Laws at Thurium in Italy, 270


    A TABLE OF THE Eclogues or Fragments.

    Note: The Letter b in the Fragments stands for Book, and the Letter e for Eclogue or Excerpt; Likewise the Letter l stands for Lib. and the Letter s for Section.


    The ECLOGUES or FRAGMENTS out of the First Six Books after the Twentieth of Diodorus the Sicilian.

    A.
    • ACra Leuca, built in Spain by Amilcar, Hannibal's Father, Book 25. Eclogue 2. Page 720
    • Aemilius, the Consul, wast the Country of the Celte Galls, b. 25. e. 3. ibid.
    • Agathocles, King of Syracuse, his Acts and Death, b. 21. e. 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12. 709
    • Alexander, the Son of Cassander, murder'd by Demetrius, b. 21. e. 7. ibid.
    • Amesalus raz'd by Hiero, b. 22. e. 15. 714
    • Amilcar, his Acts in Sicily against the Romans, b. 23. e. 9. 716
    • —His Death, b. 25. e. 2. 719
    • Antander, the Sicilian Historian, b. 21. e. 12. 710
    • Antigonus his Death, b. 21. e. 1. 709
    • Appius Claudius his Acts in Sicily, b. 23. e. 2. 715
    • Ar•s; none can please all in any Arts, b. 26. e. 1. 721
    • Asdrubal unsuccessful in Sicily, b. 25. e. 2. 719
    B.