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

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

• ACteon; Torn in pieces by Dogs, and Occasion, Page 171
• Adoption; the Rites of it among the Barbarians, 147
• Adulteresses; an innumerable Company burnt in Egypt, 31
• Aeacus; His Genealogy, 166
• Aegestines; Their War with the Selinuntines, 297
• Aegypt; Its Shape, Greatness, &c. 14
• —All living Creatures first there, 3
• —One Sea, 86
• —Other Matters of Aegypt, 12, 13, 22, 36, 40, 41, &c. 42, 43, 51, 61
• —Divided into three Parts; for the Priests, Kings, and Soldiers, 38
• —Three other Classes, 39
• —Their Gods most ancient, 3
• —Many Colonies from hence; as Babylonians, Argives, Colchians, Jews, and Athenians, 13
• —The Number of their Judges and Salaries, 39
• —Their Kings, &c. p. 36 45, 46.
• —Their Burials, 38 58
• Aeolus, 164
• —The Entertainer of Ulysses, 179
• Aequinoctial; Under the Aequinox, the most temperate Air, and the State of the Days and Shadows, 82
• Air; Airy Bodies seen in some Parts of Africa, 109
• Aesculapius; His Original, 166
• —Accus'd by Pluto, ibid. ibid.
• Age; An Age accounted 30 Years with the Grecians, 81
• Aethiopians; Boast they were the first Men; p. 85
• —Religious 86 ibid
• Aetna; Vomits Fire, 138.
• Africa; Where Till'd, and where Desert, p. 108
• —Freed from wild Beasts by Hercules, p. 136
• —The nature of the Fruits of the African Palm-Tree, 81
• Alexandria; Built by Alexander the Great; p. 26 33
• Amalthea; Amalthea's Horn in Africa, p. 145
• —In Aetolia, what? 120
• Amazons of Africa, 110
• —Their Seats, Arms, &c. 111, 112
• The Scythian Amazons, 76
• —Their Wars with Hercules, p. 77, 135 156
• —Their Irruption into Attica, and Overthrow by Theseus, 141
• Ammon King of Lybia, the Husband of Rhea, 120
• —Overcome by Saturn, 122
• Amphiraus General of the Argives at Thebes; a Conjurer Betray'd by his Wife, and Reveng'd by his Son, 163 188
• Apis Consecrated to Osiris, 9
• —Its Worship, 44, 45 55
• Apollo; the Son of Jupiter,
• —Found out the Laurel, 7
• —His several Names, 211
• —His good Acts, 209
• —His Contest with Marsyas, and his Cruelty towards him, 114, 115
• Apries; King of Aegypt, 35
• —Strangl'd ibid.
• Aquaduct; a Stately Aquaduct made by Semiramis at Ecbatana, 58 32
• Arabia; its Description, Situation, People, &c. p. 78 92
• —The Happy; its Fruitfulness, Spices, &c. p. 79
• —The Tree as Cedar, Juniper, &c. ibid.
• —Gold pure, Cattle, Wild Beasts, Precious Stones, 80
• —A description of both Shoars in the Red-Sea, 102, &c. 122, 124
• Arbaces the Mede, his Conspiracy against Sardanapalus, 66, 67 80
• Argives; their War with the Thebans, 163
• —The Destruction of the Seven Captains at Thebes, ibid.
• Argonauts; the Expedition of the Argonauts, 148, &c. 181, 160
• —Explanation of the Fable, 151
• Ariadna; Ariadna's Crown in the Heavens, 160
• Arts; one Man using several Trades not allow'd in Aegypt, 39
• Asphaltes; the Lake Asphaltes, and its Brimstone or Pitch, 78
• Assyrians; their Kings do not suffer Themselves to be openly seen, 64
• —They sent Aid to the Trojans under Memnon, 65
• Astrology; the Aegyptians excellent Astrologers, 26, 36 44
• —So the Caldeans, 70
• —Atlas Hercules, 141
• —Hyperion 141
• —The Heliadae in Rhodes, 200
• Astyages; the last King of the Medes; overcome by Cyrus, 72
• Atalanta; Belov'd by Meleager, Intrapt by the Thestiadae, 145
• Athens; how their Common-wealth was divided, 13
• Atlantides; their Country in Affrica, 115
• —The Names of the Atlantides and their Offspring, ibid.
• Atlas; his Kingdom, and chief Study, 115
• —Why he's said to Carry the Heavens upon his Shoulders, ibid.
• Avernus; a Description of the Lake Avernus, 138
• Amber; where it is produc'd, 185, 186

• Babylon; built by Semiramis, 57
• —Its Walls, Towers, Lake, Passage under Water, Hanging Gardens, 57
• Bacchus; how many there were, 116 to 119 148
• —His Acts, 120 to 122 ibid. 141, &c.
• —The Indian Bacchus the most Ancient, 126, 127
• —Why he was of a double Shape, 129
• —The natural meaning of Bacchus, 117
• Bactra; 55, 56
• —Besieg'd by Ninus, 57
• Baleares; a Description of the Baliary Islands, 183
• Balm; the Place and Usefulness, 79
• Bards; Ancient Poets among the Gauls, 189
• Belus; his Temple, 58
• —His Statue, ibid.
• Beasts; Worshipp'd in Aegypt, 43, 44 54
• Brimstone; how it Rises up in the Lake Asphaltes, 79
• —The Plenty of it about Babylon, 59
• Britain; The Discription of the Island, 185
• —Their Laws, Manners, &c 185
• —Their Traffick with Tin there, ibid.
• —The Island Discover'd by Julius Caesar, ibid.
• Busiris; the Ground of the Story of his killing all Passengers that landed in Egypt. 46
• Burials; the manner of Embalming in Egypt 47
• Bull; a dreadfull wild Bull, 100
• —The Marathonian Bull, 159

• Cadmus; Built Thebes, his Wife, Children, &c. 127, 197 223
• —Was the First that taught the Greeks Letters, and brought them into Greece, 201, 120 227
• Cadusians; their perpetual War with the Medes, 71
• Caesar; Julius Caesar first Discover'd the Northen Parts to the Romans, 185
• —Conquer'd Britain, ibid.
• Calydonia; the Calydonian Boar, the Hunting of him, 145
• Camels; Wild Camels, 105
• Camels; Leopards of Arabia, their Shape, 80
• Campes; the Great Monster, kill'd by Bacchus, 122
• Carbuncles; where they are Found, 111
• Cat; Worship'd in Egypt, 47
• Chastity; a Trial of Conjugal Chastity, 31
• Celtiberians; their Description, Customs, &c. 190
• Centaurs; their Original, 165
• —Their Conflict with Hercules, 133
• —And War with the Lapithae, 165
• —Eurytion the Centaur kill'd by Hercules, 144
• Cerberus; Drawn out of Hell by Hercules, 139, 140 c. 161
• Ceres; is the Earth, 5, 117 137
• —The same with Isis, as the Egyptians say, 206
• —Her Acts, 177
• —Obscene Speech in her Feasts, ibid.
• Chaldeans; their Astrology, Augurs, 69, 70 82, 83
• —Their Priests, 66
• Chemmis King of Egypt, his Pyramid, 32
• Chius; the Ancient Inhabitants of Chius, 239
• Circes; her History, 150
• Circumcision; the Troglodites Cicumcis'd, 98
• Caelus King of the Atlantides, his Sons, 113, 115 135
• Corsica; its Situation, Cities, ancient Inhabitants, &c. 181
• —Bitter Honey, 182 ibid.
• Corybantes; the Sons of the Mother of the Gods, 170
• —Their Sacreds, 198
• Crete; the Antiquities, 116, 122, 135, 204, 211 142, 230, 157, 238
• —Its Name, whence, 122,
• Crocodile; its Description, 16
• —The Hunting of it, 16, 17
• Crueltty of Hecates, 151, 152 151
• Cyaxares; the first Monarch of the Medes, 71
• Cybele; her Name, whence, 114
• —The several Stories of the Atlantides and Phrygians concerning her, 114, 115 134
• Cyrus transferr'd the Empire from the Medes, to the Persians, 72
• —Crucified by the Scythian Queen, 76

• Dactyli Judaei, 204
• Daedalus; his Monument in Egypt, 170
• —His Statues, 168
• —His Works in Crete, 159
• —In Sicily, ibid.
• —His Wings, ibid. 182
• —In Sardinia, 170
• Daphne the Daughter of Tiresias, her Oracles, 164
• —Her History, 173
• Delphos; the Temple Rifl'd by the Gauls, 189
• Derceto; the Syrian Goddess, the Mother of Semiramis, 55
• Description of pleasant Places, 121, 173, 176, 194, 195 197, 199, 220
• Diana; why the Nurse of Children, 208 235
• —What Places Dedicated to Her in Sicily, 117
• Deluge; by the Eruption of the Pontick Sea, 197
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