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The Library of History - Diodorus Siculus

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

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