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A36034	The historical library of Diodorus the Sicilian in fifteen books : the first five contain the antiquities of Egypt, Asia, Africa, Greece, the islands, and Europe : the last ten an historical account of the affairs of the Persians, Grecians, Macedonians and other parts of the world : to which are added the fragments of Diodorus that are found in the Bibliotheca of Photius : together with those publish'd by H. Valesius, L. Rhodomannus, and F. Ursinus / made English by G. Booth ..., Esq.; Bibliotheca historica. English	Diodorus, Siculus.; Booth, George, 17th/18th cent.; Valois, Henri de, 1603-1676.; Rhodoman, Lorenz, 1546-1606.; Photius, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople, ca. 820-ca. 891. Bibliotheca.; Orsini, Fulvio, 1529-1600.	1700 (1700)	Wing D1512; ESTC R15327	1,369,223	858

Walls afford but very little Water and that stinking and very bitter And he sent them to this Place on purpose that they might not for the future do any more hurt nor lye lurking and unknown among other Men. But being banished to such a barren Place void almost of all things necessary for the support of Man's Life Men naturally Contriving all manner of Arts to prevent starving they wittily found out a way to supply their Wants For they cut up out of the Neighbouring Fields Reeds and flit them in several pieces and made long Nets of them and plac'd them several Furlongs all along upon the Shoar with which they catcht the Quails which came flying over Sea Vid. Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 10. c. 23. the Description of these Quails in great Flocks and by that means sufficiently provided for themselves After this King's Death the Egyptians recover'd their Liberty and set up a King of their own Nation to rule over them ‖ Mendes Mendes whom some call Marus who never undertook any Warlike Design but made a Sepulcher for himself call'd a Labyrinth not to be admir'd so much for Its greatness as it was unimitable for its Workmanship For he that went in could not easily come out again without a very skilful Guide Some say that Dedalus who came into Egypt admir'd the Curiosity of this Work and made a Labyrinth for Minos King of Creet like to this in Egypt in which they fabulously relate the Minotaur was kept But that in Creet was either ruin'd by some of their Kings or came to nothing through length of Time but that in Egypt continu'd whole and entire to our Days After the Death of this Mendes and Five Generations spent during which time there was an Interregnum the Egyptians chose one Cetes of an ignoble Extraction Proteus Cetes to be their King whom the Grecians call Proteus this fell out in the time of the Trojan War This Prince they say was a * To have knowledge of the Winds Magician and could transform himself sometimes into the shape of a Beast other times into a Tree or Appearance of Fire or any other Form and Shape whatsoever And this agrees with the Account the Priests of Egypt give of him from his daily Converse with the Astrologers they say he learnt this Art The Greeks rais'd this Story of Transformation from a Custom amongst the Kings for the Egyptian Princes us'd to wear upon their Heads as Badges of their Royal Authority the shapes of Lions Bulls and Dragons and sometimes to fix upon their Heads Sprouts of Trees Fire and strong Perfumes of Frankincense and other sweet Odours And with these they both adorn'd themselves and struck a Terror and Superstitious Awe into the Hearts of their Subjects at one and the same time After the Death of Proteus his Son Remphis succeeded him who spent all his Remphis Time in filling his Coffers and heaping up Wealth The poorness of his Spirit and his sordid Covetousness was such that they would not suffer him to part with any thing either for the worship of the Gods or the good of Mankind and therefore more like a good Steward than a King instead of a Name for Valour and noble Acts he left vast Heaps of Treasure behind him greater than any of the Kings that ever were before him For it 's said he had a Treasure of Four Hundred Thousand Talents of Gold and Silver After this King's Death for Seven Generations together there reign'd successively a Company of Kings who gave themselves up to Sloath and Idleness and did nothing but wallow in Pleasures and Luxury and therefore there 's no Record of any great Work or other thing worthy to be remembred that ever any of them did except Nile who call'd the River after his own Name which was before call'd Egyptus For being that he cut many Canals and Dikes in convenient Places and us'd his utmost endeavour to make the River more useful and serviceable it was therefore call'd Nile † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chembes Chemmis the Eighth King from Remphis was of Memphis and reign'd Fifty Years He built the greatest of the Three Pyramids which were accounted amongst the Seven Wonders of the World They stand towards Lybia * About 20 Miles Pyramids Hundred and Twenty Furlongs from Memphis and Five and Forty from Nile The Greatness of these Works and the excessive Labour of the Workmen seen in them do even strike the Beholders with Admiration and Astonishment The greatest being Four-square took up on every Square † Seven Plethras Seven Hundred Foot of Ground in the Basis and above Six Hundred Foot in height spiring up narrower by little and little till it come up to the Point the Top of which was * Three Yards Six Cubits Square It 's built of solid Marble throughout of rough Work but of perpetual Duration For though it be now a Thousand Years since it was built some say above Three Thousand and Four Hundred yet the Stones are as firmly joynted and the whole Building as intire and without the least decay as they were at the first laying and Erection The Stone they say was brought a long way off out of Arabia and that the Work was rais'd by making Mounts of Earth Cranes and other Engines being not known at that time And that which is most to be admir'd at is to see such a Foundation so imprudently laid as it seems to be in a Sandy Place where there 's not the least Sign of any Earth cast up nor Marks where any Stone was cut and polish'd so that the whole Pile seems to be rear'd all at once and fixt in the midst of Heaps of Sand by some God and not built by degrees by the Hands of Men. Some of the Egyptians tell wonderful things and invent strange Fables concerning these Works affirming that the Mounts were made of Salt and Salt-Peter and that they were melted by the Inundation of the River and being so dissolv'd every thing was washt away but the Building it self But this is not the Truth of the thing but the great multitude of Hands that rais'd the Mounts the same carry'd back the Earth to the Place whence they dug it for they say there were Three Hundred and Sixty Thousand Men imploy'd in this Work and the Whole was scarce compleated in Twenty Years time When this King was dead his Brother Cephres succeeded him and reign'd Six Cephres Chabryis Suppos'd to Reign in the time of David and the beginning of Solomon's Reign Helv-Chron 42. and Fifty Years Some say it was not his Brother but his Son Chabryis that came to the Crown But all agree in this that the Successor in imitation of his Predecessor erected another Pyramid like to the former both in Structure and Artificial Workmanship but not near so large every square of the Basis being only a Furlong in Breadth Upon the greater Pyramid was inscrib'd the value

THE HISTORICAL LIBRARY OF Diodorus the Sicilian In Fifteen BOOKS The First FIVE Contain the Antiquities of Egypt Asia Africa Greece the Islands and Europe The Last TEN An Historical Account of the AFFAIRS of the Persians Grecians Macedonians and other Parts of the World To which are added The FRAGMENTS of DIODORUS that are found in the BIBLIOTHECA of Photius TOGETHER With those Publish'd by H. Valesius L. Rhodomannus and F. Vrsinus Made English By G. BOOTH of the City of Chester Esq LONDON Printed by Edw. Jones for Awnsham and John Churchil at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row and Edw. Castle next Scotland-Yard Gate M D C C. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE Earl of Warrington THIS Translation of Diodorus the Fruits of some vacant Hours when first attempted was as early design'd by a Dedication to be shrowded under the Shelter and Protection of Your Lordship's Honourable Father whose Publick Spirit ever prompted him to those Generous and Worthy Actions without Self-seeking that might any ways Advance and Further the Publick Good in the Preservation of the Peace and Happiness of his Country Besides the Honour of his particular Respect to my self his Noble Imitation of the Patterns of Virtue here presented so far Encourag'd me as not in the least to doubt of a Favourable Acceptance especially from him who breath'd as it were the same Spirit and Soul with those Noble Hero's that are long since gone for the Defence of the Laws and Liberties of his own Country as they in their several Generations did in theirs As Your Lordship therefore is an Immediate Branch of that Honourable Stock and next in Succession to his Estate so I hope and have great Reason to believe his Virtues and Generous Qualifications as well as his Honour and Lands are Your Lordship's Inheritance In Confidence therefore of the like Acceptance as from him I intreat Your Lordship's Favourable Entertainment of this Greek Stranger now Cloath'd as well as I could in an English Dress He 'll be no Burthen but a Diverting and Profitable Companion useful not only to the Expert General and Honest Statesman but to all Degrees for a Prudent Conduct of their Lives by Examples of other Mens Harms In all which Respects that it may be Serviceable to the Publick and as such Accepted and Approv'd by Your Lordship is the Ambition of MY LORD Your Lordship 's Most Affectionate Kinsman And Humble Servant G. BOOTH TO THE READER SO many are the Encomiums of History both by Ancient and Modern Authors that little or nothing can be further added to what is already extant upon that Subject and therefore I shall wave troubling my Self or the Reader with Discourses of that kind but leave every Judicious Person to his own Experience which is the best Judge and will give the surest Testimony to the Truth of these Commendations He that rests barely in the Matter of Fact related in History pleases his Fancy for a Moment while he is Reading but never Improves his Judgment to make it Usefull in Conversation or in the Management of Publick Affairs He gains no more than Children by hearing a Winter Tale and Strange Stories of this brave Hero and that mighty Giant who did Wonders in the Land of Vtopia The Profitable Reader is He that not only seeks to please his Fancy but makes use of his Reason in observing chiefly the Wonderful Providence of God in Ruling and Governing the World in all Ages to this day His Setting up and Pulling down of States Kingdoms and Empires in certain Periods of Time His Justice in punishing Wickedness and therein the Confirmation of his Truth and Holiness to see and consider his Wisdom in Ordering and Disposing of one Event for the Effecting of his Purpose in another To observe the Causes Progress and End of this or that Accident this War that Revolution this Success and that miserable Disaster are the main and chief Ends and Designs of Reading of History whereby the Understanding and Memory are not only furnish'd with Notions of Things done and long since past but the Judgment is improv'd with that Moral Prudence and sometimes Religious too as to be careful to avoid the Rocks others have before split upon and to imitate the Virtue and honourable Actions of others at least for the sake of Reputation that attends upon them in this World Here may be found Examples which may justly put Christians to the Blush who come not up to the Moral Virtues of poor Heathens heretofore famous upon that account in the Ages wherein they liv'd as Themistocles for his Faithfulness to his Country Aristides for his Justice Scipio for his Chastity Cato for his Sobriety and several others for Eminent and Virtuous Qualifications As to this present Author and his History he 's well known among the Learned to be a Treasury of Ancient History Amongst others Henry Stephen in his Tract of Diodorus gives him this honourable Encomium Quantum Solis lumen inter Stellas tantum inter Omnes quotquot ad nostra tempora pervenerunt Historicos si utilitas potius quam voluptatis aurium habenda est ratio noster hic Diodorus eminere dici potest And Justin Martyr and some others call him the most famous Author of all the Greek Historians Amongst other Excellencies of this Author he is peculiarly observable to have a Regard and Respect to the Providence of God in the Affairs of the World and is the Only ancient Author that takes notice in the Course of his History of the Times wherein the most famous Historians Philosophers and Poets flourish'd Our Author himself liv'd about Threescore Years before our Saviour's Birth in the time of Julius Caesar and the Reign of Augustus and writ a General History from the beginning of the World to his own time in Forty Books call'd the Historical Library of which only Fifteen are extant the rest lost by the Injury of Time The Five first are properly the Mythological Part of the History more incertain and full of Egyptian and Grecian Fables but very useful for the Understanding of Ancient Authors and the Knowledge of the Assyrian Monarchy They give an Account of the Affairs of the World from the Beginning of Time known to the Heathens to the Trojan War exclusively The Five next in order are perish'd which is the reason the Eleventh Book immediaelty follows which begins with the Expedition of Xerxes into Greece and from thence the History is continued in Five Books to the beginning of the Reign of Philip King of Macedon Father of Alexander the Great and from the Reign of Philip in Five more to the Expedition of Seleucus Nicanor in Capadocia containing an Account of Things done for the space of 179 Years The Books are divided into Chapters for the Ease of the Reader who may thereby the better Pause and Breath when he thinks fit and to supply a Chronological Table in the Ten last Books the distinction of Times is observ'd in the Margin both

World For they know exactly the Nature of the Land the Inundation of the Waters Seed-time and Harvest and the gathering in of the other Fruits of the Earth partly from the knowledge gain'd from their Ancestors and partly from their own particular Experience The way and manner of the Shepherds is the same who being us'd to look after the Flocks and Herds from Father to Son make it their whole Imployment to feed and pasture them They have indeed learnt many things from their Ancestors concerning the best way of governing and feeding their Flocks but not a few by their own Study and Invention And that which is chiefly to be admir'd is that their Industry is such in these matters that they that keep Poultry and Geese not content with the ordinary way of breeding these Creatures as amongst other People but by their Wit and Ingenuity cause them to increase to an infinite number for they do not suffer them to hatch but to admiration force out the Young with their Hands with so much Art and Skill that it 's done as effectually as by Nature it self Arts and Trades likewise among the Egyptians are greatly improv'd and brought All to follow their own Trades and no other to their highest perfection For it 's a Rule only among the Egyptians that no Mechanick or other Artificer is to be of any other Trade or Imployment or to be reckon'd up among any other Orders or Classes of the Commonwealth than such as by the Law is allow'd and taught them by their Parents to the end that neither Envy attending Magistracy nor publick Business of the State or any thing else might interrupt them in the diligent improvement of their Trades In other Places we see Artificers and Tradesmen busy'd about many other things and to gratify their Covetousness not to stick to any one Imployment For some apply themselves to Husbandry others to Merchandize and some follow Two or Three Trades at once And many who run to the publick Assemblies in Cities under a Democratical Government by Bribes and Rewards inrich themselves to the damage and prejudice of the Commonwealth But in Egypt if any Tradesman meddle in Civil Affairs or exercise any more than one Trade at once he is grievously punish'd And in this manner the antient Egyptians divided their Commonwealth and every Order took care to preserve themselves intire as that which they had learnt and had been handed down to them from their Ancestors They Courts of Justice were likewise extraordinary careful concerning their Courts of Justice for they lookt upon just Sentences and Decrees pronounc'd from the Seats of Justice on both sides to be of great weight and moment to the advancement of the publick good For they knew very well that Mens miscarriages would be best reform'd if Offenders were duly punish'd and the Injur'd and Oppress'd reliev'd And on the contrary they foresaw that if the Punishment due by the Law to Malefactors could be bought off for Mony Favour or Affection then nothing but Disorder and Confusion would enter into all Orders and Societies of Men among them And therefore to prevent this with good effect they chose Men of the greatest Reputation out of the Chiefest Cities to be their Judges As out of Heliopolis Thebes and Memphis which Assembly of the Judges was nothing inferior to the Arcopagites in Athens or the Senate at Sparta Out of these being Thirty in number they chose one the most eminent among them to be President and in his Room the City sent another The Judges receiv'd their Salaries from the King but the President had the greatest Allowance about his Neck he wore a golden Chain at which hung a Picture representing Truth set with precious Stones When the President put on his Chain it was a Sign then he was about to hear Causes And when the Eight Books wherein the Laws were written were laid before The Law proceedings the Judges it was the Custom that the Plaintiff exhibited his Complaint in writing distinctly and particularly setting forth wherein he was injur'd and how and the value of his damage sustain'd On the other side the Defendant or the Party accus'd after a Copy had of his Adversaries Libel answered in Writing to every particular either by denying or justifying or pleading something in mitigation of Damages Then the Plaintiff reply'd in Writing and the Defendant rejoyn'd After the Litigants had thus twice exhibited their Libels it was then the part of the Thirty Judges to consider amongst themselves of the Judgment to be pronounc'd and incumbent upon the President * To shew that Truth was on his side to turn the Essigies of Truth towards one of the Litigants And this was the usual manner of Proceedings in their Courts of Justice among the Egyptians For it was judg'd that by the Harangues of Lawyers a Cloud was cast upon the Truth and Justice of the Cause inasmuch as the Arts of Rhetoricians the jugling Tricks of Dissemblers and the Fears of them that are like to be overthrown in their Cause have wrought upon many to wave the strictness of the Law and to turn aside from the Rule of Justice and Truth And indeed it s often found by experience that Offenders brought to the Bar of Justice by the help of a cunning Orator or their own Rhetorical Flourishes either through a Fallacy put upon the Court or taking Insinuations or melting Compassions wrought by the Speaker in the Judge have escap'd Therefore the Egyptians concluded that if all the Accusation was put into Writing and consideration had barely of what was there set down the Sentence would be more exact and just And so by that means crafty and ingenious Fellows would be no more favour'd than those that were more dull nor the experienc'd Artist more than those that were ignorant and unskilful nor the audacious Liar more than those that are modest and sincere but all would have equal Justice in regard sufficient time was allow'd by the Law both for the Parties to answer each other and for the Judges to consider and give Judgment upon the Allegations of both sides And since now we are come to mention the Laws we conceive it will not be Laws of Egypt foreign from our History to give an account of such Laws of the Egyptians as are either remarkable for their Antiquity or strange and different from all other or that may be any way useful and profitable to the studious Readers 1. And in the first place those were to dye who were guilty of Perjury being such as committed the Two greatest Crimes that is Impiety towards the Gods and Violation of Faith and Truth the strongest Band of Humane Society 2. If any upon the Road saw a Man likely to be kill'd or to be violently assaulted and did not rescue him if he were able he was to dye for it And if in truth he were not able to defend him yet he was bound to discover the