7 Darius puts Bagoas to death. Alexander destroys Thebes, and is appointed general of the Grecians against the Persians in the place of his
8 Alexander passeth into Asia, and wins the battle of Granicus.
9 He reduceth all Lesser Asia, and wins the battle of Issus.
10 He destroys Tyre and Gaza, and conquers Egypt.
11 He passeth the Euphrates and the Tigris, wins the battle of Arbela, and takes Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis, and the provinces belonging to them.
12 Darius slain by Bessus. Alexander subdues the Medes, Parthians, Hyrcanians, Arians, and several other nations. Puts Philotas and Parmenio to death
13 He subdues the Bactrians and Sogdians, and puts Bessus to death.
14 He marries Roxana, passeth into India, and con- quers all to the river Indus.
15 He passeth the Indus, vanquisheth Porus, and subdueth all as far as the river Hyphasis. 16 He puts his army on board his fleet, and saileth down the Indus, conquering several nations in his way.
17 Having passed down to the mouth of the Indus, he sends Nearchus with his fleet through the ocean to Babylon, and marcheth thitherward with his army by land.
18 Conquers the Čosseans, and enters Babylon. 19 He there dies. Aridæus, his brother, made nom- inal king, and the commanders of the army di- vide the provinces of the empire among them- selves.
20 Perdiccas and Eumenes make war against An- tipater, Craterus, and Ptolemy.
3 321 3 2161 Eumenes vanquisheth Craterus, and slays him in battle. Perdiccas is slain by his own soldiers in Egypt. Aristotle dies.
2 Antigonus being sent against Eumenes, vanquisheth him in battle. Ptolemy seizeth Judea, Phoenicia, and Cœle-Syria, and taketh Jerusalem.
3 Antipater being dead, Cassander seizeth Macedon, and Antigonus all Lesser Asia, and shuts up Eumenes in the castle of Nora.
4 Eumenes, being got out of Nora, passeth into Cilicia, and having there gotten together an army, marcheth into Syria, and from thence into Mesopotamia.
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5 Eumenes marcheth to Susa, and is there joined by the governours of the eastern provinces. Aridæus slain by Olympias.
6 Antigonus marcheth into the East against Eu
7 Eumenes betrayed into the hands of Antigonus by his own soldiers, and put to death. leucus, Ptolemy, Cassander. and Lysimachus confederate against Antigonus.
8 Antigonus dispossesseth Ptolemy of Syria, Phœnicia, and Judea
9 Antigonus leaveth Demetrius his son, with part of his army, in Phoenicia, and marcheth with the other against Cassander.
Demetrius besiegeth Rhodes without suc
2 Seleucus having made himself master of all the provinces of Alexander's empire be- yond the Euphrates, invadeth India, and maketh peace with Sandrocottus.
3 Seleucus, Ptolemy, Cassander, and Lysima- chus confederate against Antigonus. 4 They vanquish and slay him at Ipsus in Phrygia.
5 After this victory, Ptolemy had Judea, Pho- nicia, and Cole-Syria, and Seleucus Up- per Syria, where he builds Antioch.
6 Demetrius gives his daughter, Stratonice, in marriage to Seleucus, and seizeth Cilicia.
Cassander dies in Macedonia.
8 Pyrrhus marries Antigone, the daughter of Berenice, Ptolemy's best beloved wife, and by his assistance recovers his kingdom of Epirus.
9 Samaria wasted by Demetrius' soldiers from Tyre.
10 Ptolemy recovers Cyprus from Demetrius. 11 Demetrius made king of Macedon, and there reigns seven years.
12 Seleucus builds Seleucia on the Tigris. 13 Simon the Just, high priest of the Jews, dies, and is succeeded by Eleazar, his brother.
A. ACHORIS, king of Egypt, his wars with the Persians 253-260, his death 262.
Adoration paid to the king of Per-
sia by the Greeks 267. Era of the Seleucida, or of con- tracts 369, why called by the A- rabs, Taric Dilcarnain ib. of the creation of the world ib. of the Julian period ib. Agesilaus king of Sparta, his wars against the Persians 243, ill con- duct ib. his parley with Pharna- bazus 248, corruption ib. greedy of money 272, his treachery 273, makes Nectanebus king of Egypt 274, his death ib.
Alcibiades put to death at the instiga- tion of the Lacedemonians 232. Alexander, the Great, his birth 279, victories in Greece 294, his army in Asia ib. victories there 295, sac- rifices to God at Jerusalem 303, his cruelty and vain glory 307, re- duces Egypt 308-310, his vanity and cruelty 311, 312, builds Alex- andria 311, punishes the Samari- tans for the death of Andromachus 318, masters the Persian empire 319, plunders Persepolis 321, burns it ib. his luxury there ib. weeps over Darius' dead body 323, his swift marches 324, builds another Alexandria 325, wars with the northern Asiatics 326, kills Clitus ib. Callisthenes 327, his vanity ib. march to India 328, conquests and return 328-330, his lust and cru- elty 333, his riches 334, his designs 338, his death 339, his burial 349. Alexandria built 311, now a village ib. settled 317, peopled with the Jews 372.
Amyrtæus reigns in the fens of Egypt
75, recovers the whole kingdom 204, 205, dies and is succeeded by his son 227. Angels of the churches, why the Asian bishops so called 175. Annius, a lying historian 401. Antalcidas the Lacedemonian, his bad peace with the Persians 251, 254, 255, starves himself to death ib. 266.
Antigonus, his government after Al- exander's death 344, his war 349, sets up for himself 353, wars with Eumenes 353-361, puts him to death 363, his greatness 364, wars with Seleucus 869, with Ptolemy 371, causes Alexander's sister to be murdered 383, his cruelty ib. takes the title of king 387, his ill nature 388, confederacy against him 391, routed and slain 393. Antioch built 395, ruined 397, why called Tetrapolis ib.
Antipater conspires the death of Al- exander 341, dies 352. Apis the Egyptian god, killed by Ochus 290.
Apollo of Tyre chained by them 300. Apollonius Tyaneus, history of him, a fable 409.
Arbela, Darius routed, there 320, arbitrary power, the ill effects of it 231. Argyraspides, why Alexander's sol- diers so called 355, betray Eume- nes 364. Aridæus, Alexander's bastard bro- ther, made king 342, an idiot ib. murdered 359.
Aristotle, how many lines his works consisted of 112, his birth and life 288, his converse with a Jew 289, 295.
Arses has only the name of king of Persia 291, slain 292. Artaxerxes, his army routed in E- gypt 11, bribes the Lacedemoni- ans 12, his death 198. Artaxerxes Mnemon, why so called 229, his negotiations with the Greeks 254, 262, 265, his inces- tuous marriages 275, death 276. Ashes, the manner of a death in Per- sia 200. See Maccabees xiii. Asphaltites, lake of Sodom, why so called 376.
Atheism punished by the Athenians 204.
Athenians assist the Egyptians 10, rout the Persians 12, their losses in Egypt 75-77, allowed two wives, and why 197, use a Per- sian ambassador honourably 198, vanquished by the Lacedemonians 228, put Socrates to death and
repent of it 240, assist Euagoras against Artaxerxes 253. Athens, plague there 188, 197, walls rebuilt by Conon 250, taken by Demetrius 385, 402. Azelmelic made king of Tyre by Alexander, and why 302.
Babylon taken by Alexander 320, by Demetrius 378, entirely ruined 405. See Elugo.
Bagdad, situation of it 405, where Selueia was 410, whence its name ib.
Bagoas, the Egyptian eunuch favour- ite to Ochus 290, why offended at him ib. his revenge 291, makes Darius king 292.
Bagorazus, his fidelity to Artaxerxes,
and death 199, 200. Bagoses, the Persian governour, lays a mulct on the Jews' sacrifices 270 Barsona, Memnon's widow, marries Alexander 298, murdercd 381. Baruch, the book so called, what account of authority 28, note. Belus, temple of, at Babylon, Alex- ander's design to rebuild it 338. Bessus, his treason to Darius 322, declares himself king 324, pun- ished by Alexander 325
Betis, the eunuch, Alexander's cru- elty to him 307.
Bible, the Jewish 105, 106, some books want the correctness of oth- ers 107, how read 108, how at first written 111,123, concordance made to it 114, of its vowels and pointing 124-145, wherein the Samaritan and Jewish differ 219, when it ends 225.
Bible, Christian, when divided into chapters 117, 118, books added to it after Ezra's time 412.
Bible of Bononia, said to be Ezra's, a cheat 144. Bigthan and Teresh, their conspiracy against king Ahasuerus 74, discov. ered by Mordecai ib.
Bitumen found in the lake of Sodom 376.
Boated to death, the manner of it in Persia 7.
Books of holy Scripture, how divided by the Jews 105-108.
Cabbalists, Jewish doctors so called 132.
Cabballa, what 133.
459, their manners 260, said to be part of the ten tribes ib. Cadytis, Jerusalem so called by He- rodotus 153.
Callisthenes the philosopher, killed by Alexander's order 328. Canon, Jewish, of Scripture, when completed 102-114, 411-414. Captains, Alexander's, assume the name of kings 343, 380, 387, es- tablish four great monarchies 393, Daniel's prophecy of them fulfil- led ib. Cassander, son of Antipater, suppos- ed to have poisoned Alexander 340, his designs against Alexander's children 353, puts his mother to death 359, and wife 380, and son ib. takes the title of king 387, di- visions among his family 403, 404. Cassius, his virtue 398. Chapters, the division of Scripture into them 114, why Scripture di- vided into chapters 115 Charrae Mesopotamia, the Haran of the Scripture 356, Abraham dwelt there ib. Crassus routed 357. Christ's coming, Daniel's prophecy of seventy weeks concerning it made clear 16-73, when they be. gin 24, 49, when completed ib. perplexed 67.
Chronicles, book of, more modern than the rest 412. Clearchus leads a Grecian army to assist Cyrus against Artaxerxes 232, 334, slain 235. Cleopatra, Alexander's sister, mur-
dered by order of Antigonus 383. Cleophis queen of the Assacans, pros- titutes herself to Alexander 329,
has a son and successor by him ib. Clitus killed by Alexander 326. Coans refuse to deliver Hippocrates to Artaxerxes 190. Concordance, Latin, the first that was made 114. Concordance, Hebrew, when made, 116.
Conquerors, their detestable charac- ter 308.
Conon the Athenian, his friendship to Euagoras of Salamine 238, com- mands Artaxerxes' fleet 241, his men not paid 245, he complains of it 246, beats the Lacedemonian fleet 249, rebuilds the walls of Athens 250, put to death 252. Crassus, his riches 79.
Cadusians subjected by Artaxerxes Craterus sent by Alexander to lead
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