The Library of History
A TABLE OF The Principal Matters In the First Five BOOKS of Diodorus the Sicilian: Containing his MYTHOLOGIES.
A.-
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
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Aeacus; His Genealogy, 166
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Aegestines; Their War with the Selinuntines, 297
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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
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Aeolus, 164
- —The Entertainer of Ulysses, 179
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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
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Aesculapius; His Original, 166
- —Accus'd by Pluto, ibid. ibid.
- Age; An Age accounted 30 Years with the Grecians, 81
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Aethiopians; Boast they were the first Men; p. 85
- —Religious 86 ibid
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Aetna; Vomits Fire, 138.
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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
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Alexandria; Built by Alexander the Great; p. 26 33
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Amalthea; Amalthea's Horn in Africa, p. 145
- —In Aetolia, what? 120
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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
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Ammon King of Lybia, the Husband of Rhea, 120
- —Overcome by Saturn, 122
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Amphiraus General of the Argives at Thebes; a Conjurer Betray'd by his Wife, and Reveng'd by his Son, 163 188
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Apis Consecrated to Osiris, 9
- —Its Worship, 44, 45 55
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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
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Apries; King of Aegypt, 35
- —Strangl'd ibid.
- Aquaduct; a Stately Aquaduct made by Semiramis at Ecbatana, 58 32
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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
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Arbaces the Mede, his Conspiracy against Sardanapalus, 66, 67 80
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Argives; their War with the Thebans, 163
- —The Destruction of the Seven Captains at Thebes, ibid.
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Argonauts; the Expedition of the Argonauts, 148, &c. 181, 160
- —Explanation of the Fable, 151
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Ariadna; Ariadna's Crown in the Heavens, 160
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Arts; one Man using several Trades not allow'd in Aegypt, 39
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Asphaltes; the Lake Asphaltes, and its Brimstone or Pitch, 78
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Assyrians; their Kings do not suffer Themselves to be openly seen, 64
- —They sent Aid to the Trojans under Memnon, 65
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Astrology; the Aegyptians excellent Astrologers, 26, 36 44
- —So the Caldeans, 70
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—Atlas Hercules, 141
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—Hyperion 141
- —The Heliadae in Rhodes, 200
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Astyages; the last King of the Medes; overcome by Cyrus, 72
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Atalanta; Belov'd by Meleager, Intrapt by the Thestiadae, 145
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Athens; how their Common-wealth was divided, 13
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Atlantides; their Country in Affrica, 115
- —The Names of the Atlantides and their Offspring, ibid.
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Atlas; his Kingdom, and chief Study, 115
- —Why he's said to Carry the Heavens upon his Shoulders, ibid.
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Avernus; a Description of the Lake Avernus, 138
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Amber; where it is produc'd, 185, 186
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Babylon; built by Semiramis, 57
- —Its Walls, Towers, Lake, Passage under Water, Hanging Gardens, 57
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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
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Bactra; 55, 56
- —Besieg'd by Ninus, 57
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Baleares; a Description of the Baliary Islands, 183
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Balm; the Place and Usefulness, 79
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Bards; Ancient Poets among the Gauls, 189
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Belus; his Temple, 58
- —His Statue, ibid.
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Beasts; Worshipp'd in Aegypt, 43, 44 54
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Brimstone; how it Rises up in the Lake Asphaltes, 79
- —The Plenty of it about Babylon, 59
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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.
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Busiris; the Ground of the Story of his killing all Passengers that landed in Egypt. 46
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Burials; the manner of Embalming in Egypt 47
- Bull; a dreadfull wild Bull, 100
- —The Marathonian Bull, 159
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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
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Cadusians; their perpetual War with the Medes, 71
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Caesar; Julius Caesar first Discover'd the Northen Parts to the Romans, 185
- —Conquer'd Britain, ibid.
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Calydonia; the Calydonian Boar, the Hunting of him, 145
- Camels; Wild Camels, 105
- Camels; Leopards of Arabia, their Shape, 80
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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
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Celtiberians; their Description, Customs, &c. 190
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Centaurs; their Original, 165
- —Their Conflict with Hercules, 133
- —And War with the Lapithae, 165
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—Eurytion the Centaur kill'd by Hercules, 144
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Cerberus; Drawn out of Hell by Hercules, 139, 140 c. 161
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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.
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Chaldeans; their Astrology, Augurs, 69, 70 82, 83
- —Their Priests, 66
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Chemmis King of Egypt, his Pyramid, 32
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Chius; the Ancient Inhabitants of Chius, 239
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Circes; her History, 150
- Circumcision; the Troglodites Cicumcis'd, 98
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Caelus King of the Atlantides, his Sons, 113, 115 135
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Corsica; its Situation, Cities, ancient Inhabitants, &c. 181
- —Bitter Honey, 182 ibid.
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Corybantes; the Sons of the Mother of the Gods, 170
- —Their Sacreds, 198
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Crete; the Antiquities, 116, 122, 135, 204, 211 142, 230, 157, 238
- —Its Name, whence, 122,
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Crocodile; its Description, 16
- —The Hunting of it, 16, 17
- Crueltty of Hecates, 151, 152 151
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Cyaxares; the first Monarch of the Medes, 71
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Cybele; her Name, whence, 114
- —The several Stories of the Atlantides and Phrygians concerning her, 114, 115 134
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Cyrus transferr'd the Empire from the Medes, to the Persians, 72
- —Crucified by the Scythian Queen, 76
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Dactyli Judaei, 204
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Daedalus; his Monument in Egypt, 170
- —His Statues, 168
- —His Works in Crete, 159
- —In Sicily, ibid.
- —His Wings, ibid. 182
- —In Sardinia, 170
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Daphne the Daughter of Tiresias, her Oracles, 164
- —Her History, 173
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Delphos; the Temple Rifl'd by the Gauls, 189
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Derceto; the Syrian Goddess, the Mother of Semiramis, 55
- Description of pleasant Places, 121, 173, 176, 194, 195 197, 199, 220
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Diana; why the Nurse of Children, 208 235
- —What Places Dedicated to Her in Sicily, 117
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Deluge; by the Eruption of the Pontick Sea, 197
- —In Boetia, 136
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—Rhodes 200
- —In Samo-Thracia, 197
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—Deucalion 3
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Diomedon; his Mares devour Men, 135
- Dogs; Men with Dogs Heads, 100
- —Why Worshipp'd in Egypt, 7
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Doreans; their War with the Lapithae, 146
- —Expuls'd by the Theban Exiles, 164
- Dragon at Cholchos, what,
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Druids; Poets of the Gauls, Philosophers, and Divines, 189
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Dromenaries 106
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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
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Epitaphs of Isis,
- —Of Osiris of Osimanduas, 12
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Ergamenes; King of Ethiopia, abolish'd the cruel Custom of forcing the Kings to kill Themselves, 87
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Erycina; the Temple of Venus Erycina, 172
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Eteocles; his cruel War with his Brother about the Kingdom of Thebes, 162
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Euphrates; a Famous River, 67
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Eurydices; the Wife of Orpheus, brought back out of Hell by Orpheus, 140
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Eurystheus; imposes Labours upon Hercules, 132
- —His Death, 158
- Expiation; the strange manner of Expiation among the Ethiopians, 81
F.- 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
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Ganges a famous River, 73
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Gades or Cadiz, by whom built, 184
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Gauls; 186
- —The Extream Cold, their Rivers, &c. ibid.
- —The Description, 187, 188, 189 to 214
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Geometry; first found out in Egypt, 36
- —The Usefulness of it, 42
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Giants; Egyptian Giants, 10, 11
- —Their Triple War with Jupiter, 207
- —Overcome by the Gods, 121
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Giants of Phlegraea, overcome by Hercules, 138
- —Why said to be Born of the Earth, ibid.
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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.
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Hecates; her History, 151
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Helen; carry'd away by Theseus, 162
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Heliopolis; by whom built, 50
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Helius; the Son of Hypericon and Bazilia, metamorphos'd into the Sun, 113, 114
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Hellespont; whence the Name deriv'd, 151
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Heraclidae; Banish'd out of all Greece, 158
- —Depart out of Peloponnesus for 50 Years, by Agreement, 158
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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
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Hermophrodites; their prodigious Originals, 129
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Hermes; the Egyptian Hermes, 6
- —His Inventions, ibid.
- —First finder out of Arts, 23
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Herodotus; the time he Flourish'd, 71
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Hesion; expos'd to be devour'd by a Whale, 149
- —Deliver'd by Hercules, ibid.
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Hesperides; divers Opinions of the Hesperian Apples, 141
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Hippolytus; his Stepmother falls in love with him, 161
- —Is falsly Accus'd; Kill'd by his Chariot, ibid.
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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
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Jambulus; his strange Voyage and Travels, 81, 84 99
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Jason; Captain of the Argonauts, his Acts, 148, 149 171
- —Goes to Corinth, cast of Medea, and marries Glauces, 145, 146
- —His Death, ibid.
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Iberians; their Gold Mines, 191
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Ibis; the Usefulness of this Bird, 45
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Ichneumenon; the Enemy of the Crocodile, 17 55
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Ichthyophagi; not affected with any thing, 91
- —The manner of their Burials, 93
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Jehovah call'd Jao, 49
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Indians; their Seven Tribes, 74, 75 89
- —Their War with Semiramis, 62, 63
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India; the Description, 72, 73 87
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Indus River, 73
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Jocasta; the Acts of Jocasta,
- —The Mother of Oedipus, 162
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Iolaus; one of the Thespidae brings a Colony into Sardinia, 142 164
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Iris or Ireland, an Island of Britain, a fierce People, 189
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Isis; the same with Ceres, 6
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Jews; a Colony of Egypt, 10
- —Why they are Circumcis'd, 28
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Judges; the Proceedings in Judicature in Egypt, 39, 40
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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
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Ixion attempts to Ravish Juno, is tormented upon a Wheel, 165
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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
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Lapithae; their War with the Centaurs, 165
- —With the Doreans and Hercules, 146
- Laws; Of the Egyptians,
- —Of the Ethiopians, 87
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Liparae Islands; their fruitfullness, &c. 180
- Letters; Two Sorts in Egypt, 86
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—Hieroglyphicks of Egypt and Ethiopia, what, ibid.
- —Greek Letters, why call'd Pelasgian, and Phaenician, 120
- Letters in Tabrobanana, vii Figures, 83
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Locusts; Eaten, and liv'd upon by the Ethiopians, 97
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Lotus; of Egypt, what,
- —Tall Trees of Lotus, 105
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Macarian Islands; why so call'd, 213
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Megabarean Ethiopians; their manner of Burial, 98
- —Their voluntary Deaths, 99
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Marathon; the Marathonian Bull, 159
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Maraneans of Arabia; how destroy'd, and rooted out by the Garyndaneans, 105
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Marsyas: His Contest with Apollo in Musick; his Death, 114, 115
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Mars; his Inventions and Acts, 209
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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
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Media; a Catalogue of the Kings, 71
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Meleager; his sad Destiny, 145
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Malta Island; its Description, 181
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Menas; the first King of Egypt, how preserv'd by a Crocodile, 46
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Mercury; the Egyptian Mercury, his Invention of Arts, Eloquence, Musick, &c. 6, 23 28
- —Conductor of Souls, 50
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Meroes; Islands in Nile, their Description, 20
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Minerva; the Place of her Birth, 208
- —Her Inventions, 209
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Minos the first, Son of Jupiter, 160
- —The second, of Lycasta, ibid.
- —His Cities, Laws, &c. 211
- —His Death in Sicily, 170
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Minotaur; Kill'd by Theseus, 160
- —How born, 169
- Money; the Punishment of those that counterfeited Money in Egypt, 41
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Moses; the first that put Laws in writing, 49
- —His Praise, ibid.
- Mice; Bred in Egypt out of the Mud or Slime, 2
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Muses; Accompany Bacchus, 127, 128
- —And Osiris, 8
- —Why Virgins, 130
- —Their Names, ibid.
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Miris King of Egypt; his Lake, 26, 27 34
- —His Pyramid and Sepulchre in the Lake, 27
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Myrrhe; A Description of Myrrhe, 194
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Nabathean Arabians, 78, 105 130
- —Thieves, never Conquer'd, ibid.
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Naxus; the History of Naxus, 198, 199 224, 225
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Nemean; a Description of the Nemean Lion, his Place, Death, &c. 132
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Neptune; his Inventions, good Deeds, why accounted God of the Sea, 207
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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.
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Ninus, King of Assyria; his Acts, 54, 55, 56 65, 66
- —His Death and Sepulchre, 57
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Nineveh; Built, 55,
- —Its Shape, Compass, &c. ibid.
- —Its Siege, and taking by Arbaces, 66, 67, 68
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Ninyas; the Son of Ninus, 64
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Niobe; her Pride and Punishment, 167
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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
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Obelisks; the Obelisks of Semiramis, one of the seven Wonders of the World, 59
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Oedipus; his Birth, Casting forth, his Acts, Marriage, &c. 162 185
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Olympicks; the Years: The Olympicks were distant one from another,
- —Invented by Hercules Dactylus, 204
- —Instituted by Hercules, 134, 155 178
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Orion; the Story of Orion, 173
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Osymanduas; King of Egypt, 24
- —His stately Pyramid, ibid.
- —His Epitaph, 25
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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
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Osiris; his Expedition throughout the whole World, and Acts, 5, 6, 7, 8 10
- —Deify'd; Death, Burial, and Epitaph, 9, 12 12
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Palestina, 104, 105
- Palm-Trees; a full Description of the Palm-Trees in Arabia, and the Province of Babylon, 81
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Palmetum; a pleasant Place of Palms, and other Delights in Arabia, 104, 105
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Panchaian Islands; their Descriptian, 195 221
- —Genius and Customs of the Inhabitants, 196
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Paradise; the Earthly Paradise in India, 121
- Parents; the Honour given to dead Parents in Egypt, 48
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Pasiphae; the Wife of Minos, 160
- —Her Carnal knowledge of a Bull, 169 193
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Patricides, 162 185
- —How Patricides are punish'd, 40
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Pelias; King of Colchos; his strange Death by his own Daughters, through the Witchcrafts of Medea, 154, 155 178
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Penthesilea; the Amazon Queen, assists the Trojans, 77
- Perjury; the punishment of Perjury, 40
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Persians; the Persians record their Antiquities in Rolls of Parchment, or Skins, 71
- Plague; a great Plague in Rhodes, and the Cause, 213
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Phaeton; the Story of Phaeton, 186
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Phineus; a Prince in Thrace: his Cruelty towards his two Sons, 149
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Phaenicians brought Letters into Greece, 209
- —Eminent for getting of Wealth, 191
- —Their Colonies, 184
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Perithous; the History of Perithous, the Rape of Helen, 161, 162 185
- Pillars; Hercules Pillars, 135, 136
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Pityusa; Islands Describ'd,
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Pleiades; their Names, 115
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Pluto; his Genealogy, Invention, 211
- —Why call'd the God of the Dead, 207
- Punishment of various Crimes in Egypt, 40
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Polynices; his War with his Brother, 163
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Pontus or the Pontick Sea; once but a Lake, 197
- —Of its Breach, 148
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Priamus; King of Troy, 168
- —Plac'd in the Kingdom by Hercules, 152
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Priapus; what, 129
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Promotheus; the Explication of the Fable, of his stealing of Fire, 205
- —His Eagle, what,
- —Loos'd from his Chains by Hercules, 135
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Proserpina; her Rape, 176, 177
- —Places in Sicily dedicated to her, 177
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Proteus; King of Egypt, 32
- —Why he was said to have several Shapes, ibid.
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Pyramids; the Pyramid of Chemmis, one of the seven Wonders of the World, 32
- —Mountains like Pyramids, 106
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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
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Remphis; the Egyptian King, exceeding Covetous, 32
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Rhadamanthus; his Justice, Acts, Sons, 211
- —His Parents, 211
- —The Lawmaker in Crete, 160
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Rhinoceros 99
- —His Fight with an Elephant, ibid.
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Rhodes; divided into three Parts, 158
- —The great Deluge there, 200
- —Why so call'd, ibid.
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Rome; taken by the Gauls, 189
- —Built by Romulus, 137
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Sabaean Arabians, 107
- —The Kings, Riches, &c. 107, 108
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Samothracia; The Name, Inhabitants, Deluge, Mysteries, Temple, &c. 197, 198 223
- Sands; Mountains of Sand, 106
- —The sandy Deserts of Arabia, 81
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Sardanapalus; his Effeminacy, Luxury, Deposition, Death, 65, &c. 79, 81
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Saturn, King of Egypt, 5
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—Saturn one of the Titans, 204, 205
- —Kill'd his Children, 207
- —Overcome by Bacchus, 122,
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—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
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Semele; her Adultery with Jupiter, and how she was consum'd, 117, 118 138
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Semiramis; her History, 55, 56 66
- —Her Journey into Bactria,
- —Builds Babylon, 57
- —Her Expedition into India, and other Actions, 60, &c. &c.
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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
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Sesostris; King of Egypt, 27, 28 31
- —Travels through the World, his famous Acts, 29, 30 35, &c.
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—Sesostris the Second, how cur'd of his Blindness, 31
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Sicily; its ancient Names, 176
- —Its Circuit, Princes, &c. 178, 179
- —Once a Peninsula, 173
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Silla a wonderful River, 73
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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
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—India directly subject to the Tropick of Capricorn, 72
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Spectra's; in the Air among the Lybians, 109
- —The natural Reason of them, 110
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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
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Stymphalia; the devouring Birds of Stymphalick Lake destroy'd by Herculess 133
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Tantalus; his History in short, 167
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Taprobana; a Description of the Island, and of the Inhabitants and their Manners, 90, 97, 98, 99 82, &c.
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Thebes; in Egypt built by Osiris, 6
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Thebans in Greece; their War with the Argives, 162, &c. 187.
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Theseus; his Original, Acts, Wives, &c. 159, &c. 183
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Thespiadae; their Original, 142
- —Driven out of Sardinia, settle about Cuma, 182
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Titans; in Africa, 113
- —Assist Saturn, 116
- —Are rooted out by Bacchus, 123
- —The Titans in Crete, their Parents, Sisters, &c. 204, 205
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Troglodites; their Manners, 18, 98, 99, 100 117, 120
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Troy; taken by Hercules, 143, 144 166, 175
- —The Pedigree of the Kings, 167, 168
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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
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Venus; the Daughter of Saturn, 5
- —Her Office, 208
- —Her several Names, 211
- —Her magnificent Temple in Sicily, 172
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Vesuvius; Mount Vesuvius in Campania vomits Fire, 138
- Virgin; a monstrous Virgin in Scythia, 76
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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
Bibliotheca Historica