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The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus

• Ecbatana; a Famous Aquaduct there, and the City Beautified by Semiramis, 60
• —The Palace of Arbaces, 68
• Effeminacy; a Remarkable Example of Effeminacy in Sardanapalus, 65
• Elephants; the manner of Hunting them by the Ethiopians, 96
• —How they are destroy'd by Serpents, 89
• —Their Fight with the Rhinoceros, 99
• —Their manner of Generation, bringing forth their Young, &c. 75
• Epitaphs of Isis,
• —Of Osiris of Osimanduas, 12
• Ergamenes; King of Ethiopia, abolish'd the cruel Custom of forcing the Kings to kill Themselves, 87
• Erycina; the Temple of Venus Erycina, 172
• Eteocles; his cruel War with his Brother about the Kingdom of Thebes, 162
• Euphrates; a Famous River, 67
• Eurydices; the Wife of Orpheus, brought back out of Hell by Orpheus, 140
• Eurystheus; imposes Labours upon Hercules, 132
• —His Death, 158
• Expiation; the strange manner of Expiation among the Ethiopians, 81

• Famine all the World over, but in Egypt, 13
• Fire; its Irruption, 138, 179 202
• Fortunate Islands of Arabia, 108
• —In the Atlantick Ocean, 183
• Fruits; Two Harvests in the Year in India, 72
• —The Fruitfulness of Taprobane. Corn first found out by Ceres in Sicily, 176, 177, 206 200, 232
• Funerals; the Funeral Rites among the Egyptians, 38
• —The Pompous Burials of their Kings, 30

• Ganges a famous River, 73
• Gades or Cadiz, by whom built, 184
• Gauls; 186
• —The Extream Cold, their Rivers, &c. ibid.
• —The Description, 187, 188, 189 to 214
• Geometry; first found out in Egypt, 36
• —The Usefulness of it, 42
• Giants; Egyptian Giants, 10, 11
• —Their Triple War with Jupiter, 207
• —Overcome by the Gods, 121
• Giants of Phlegraea, overcome by Hercules, 138
• —Why said to be Born of the Earth, ibid.
• Gods; the History of the Gods of Egypt, 23, 50
• —Their Worship by the Cretians, Ethiopians, 210, 86 100, 237
• —The God Jao of the Hebrews, 49
• Gold; the Laborious way of making of Gold, in the Confines of Egypt, 89, 90 106
• —The Gold Mines in Ethiopia, ibid.
• —Gold chang'd for Brass or Iron, 106
• —The History of the Golden Fleece, 157
• —A River that flows down Gold, r.

• Hecates; her History, 151
• Helen; carry'd away by Theseus, 162
• Heliopolis; by whom built, 50
• Helius; the Son of Hypericon and Bazilia, metamorphos'd into the Sun, 113, 114
• Hellespont; whence the Name deriv'd, 151
• Heraclidae; Banish'd out of all Greece, 158
• —Depart out of Peloponnesus for 50 Years, by Agreement, 158
• Hercules; there were three, 124
• —The Egyptian, Gelai, and him of Alcmena, ibid.
• —The Acts of Hercules the Cretan, 210
• —The Genealogy of the last, his Acts, 131
• —His Sickness and Madness, 156
• —His further Acts, 163
• —His Labours, 132, &c.
• —His Expedition into Spain, 153
• —The Institutor of the Olympick Games, 134
• —Is worship'd by the Agyrineans, 139
• —Overcomes the Trojans, 152
• —His Sickness,
• —He burns himself, 147
• Hermophrodites; their prodigious Originals, 129
• Hermes; the Egyptian Hermes, 6
• —His Inventions, ibid.
• —First finder out of Arts, 23
• Herodotus; the time he Flourish'd, 71
• Hesion; expos'd to be devour'd by a Whale, 149
• —Deliver'd by Hercules, ibid.
• Hesperides; divers Opinions of the Hesperian Apples, 141
• Hippolytus; his Stepmother falls in love with him, 161
• —Is falsly Accus'd; Kill'd by his Chariot, ibid.
• Homer; the most ancient of the Poets, 86
• —His Works, 152, 164 176, 187
• —Imitates Orpheus, 50
• —The Place of his Birth, ibid.
• Honey; bitter Honey, 182

• Jambulus; his strange Voyage and Travels, 81, 84 99
• Jason; Captain of the Argonauts, his Acts, 148, 149 171
• —Goes to Corinth, cast of Medea, and marries Glauces, 145, 146
• —His Death, ibid.
• Iberians; their Gold Mines, 191
• Ibis; the Usefulness of this Bird, 45
• Ichneumenon; the Enemy of the Crocodile, 17 55
• Ichthyophagi; not affected with any thing, 91
• —The manner of their Burials, 93
• Jehovah call'd Jao, 49
• Indians; their Seven Tribes, 74, 75 89
• —Their War with Semiramis, 62, 63
• India; the Description, 72, 73 87
• Indus River, 73
• Jocasta; the Acts of Jocasta,
• —The Mother of Oedipus, 162
• Iolaus; one of the Thespidae brings a Colony into Sardinia, 142 164
• Iris or Ireland, an Island of Britain, a fierce People, 189
• Isis; the same with Ceres, 6
• Jews; a Colony of Egypt, 10
• —Why they are Circumcis'd, 28
• Judges; the Proceedings in Judicature in Egypt, 39, 40
• Jupiter; the Ancient Jupiter, was the Brother of Coelus, and King of Crete, whose Daughters were the Curetes: the other was Lord of the World, the Son of Saturn, 116 136
• —The Kingdom of the Cretan Jupiter after Ammon and Bacchus, 123
• —More 204 233
• Ixion attempts to Ravish Juno, is tormented upon a Wheel, 165

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
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