Mirror of History (1494) - Page 23


Also by the same [author] against the gluttonous, the fearful, the faint-hearted, and the arrogant	c.	29.
On the same against the proud, poor or rich: and also against the envious and the unstable	c.	29.
Also against the treacherous and the imprudent and those who sell their own liberty	c.	30
Also against the lazy, the envious, the greedy, the cowardly, the boastful, and the favorers of flatterers	c.	30
Also against the arrogant and the lazy: and how such fables are to be used	c.	30
On the chronicle of the kingdom of the Persians	c.	30
How Cyrus and Darius besieged Babylon	c.	30
How Babylon was captured	c.	30
On the nobility of the same city and its subversion and the reign of Darius	c.	30
How the captivity of the Jews was released by Cyrus	c.	30
On how the provincial angels of the Persians and Greeks hindered the return of the captives	c.	30
On the first return under the leader Zerubbabel	c.	30
On the foundation of the altar and the temple and the interruption of the work	c.	30
On Croesus king of the Lydians and his kingdom destroyed by Cyrus	c.	30.
On Tarquinius Superbus and Peisistratus the tyrant	c.	30.
On the death of Cyrus and the succession of Cambyses, who is also [called] Nebuchadnezzar	c.	30.
On the history of Judith	c.	31
How Judith is excused from the fault of lying and scandal	c.	31
On Hippias and Polycrates the tyrants, and on Cambyses who obtained Egypt	c.	31
On Pythagoras the philosopher and the battle of the Crotoniates	c.	31
On the deeds of Pythagoras and his studies and doctrine	c.	31
On the precepts and enigmas of the same	c.	31.
On the disciples of the same	c.	31.
On the reign of the two Magi in Persia	c.	31.
On the reign of Darius, son of Hystaspes	c.	31.
On the friendship of Zerubbabel with Darius and the solution of the question	c.	32
On the completion of the temple by the command of Darius	c.	32
On the death of Hipparchus and Hippias and the expulsion of Tarquinius from the kingdom: and on Brutus the first consul	c.	32
On Democritus and Heraclitus the philosophers	c.	32
On Anaxagoras the philosopher and Aeschylus the poet	c.	32
On the slaughter of the Persians in the Battle of Marathon	c.	32.
On the death of Valerius the consul and on Gelon of Syracuse and Aristides the Just	c.	32.
On the reign of Xerxes, son of Darius	c.	32.
On the war of the Persians against the Greeks and the victory of the Spartans	c.	32.
On the naval battle between the Greeks and the Persians	c.	32.
On the leadership of Themistocles in Greece	c.	33
On Pindar, Sophocles, and Euripides the poets	c.	33
On the death of Xerxes: and the reign of Artabanus and Artaxerxes	c.	33
On Pericles and Sophocles, the Athenian leaders	c.	33
On Ezra the prophet and his deeds	c.	33
On Empedocles and Parmenides the philosophers	c.	33.
On the ten men to be proscribed at Rome: assigned to the laws and on Appius Claudius	c.	33.
On Nehemiah and the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem	c.	33.
On the reading of the law on the Feast of Tabernacles	c.	33.
On the dedication of the wall	c.	34
On the hope of the resurrection and the celestial glory which was revealed to Ezra	c.	34
The complaint of Ezra concerning the affliction of the good and the multitude of the reprobate	c.	34
On the first vision of the woman, and the desolation and rebuilding of the city shown	c.	34
Revelation of the same concerning the coming of the Judge and the ten tribes	c.	34
On those things which he wrote by command of the Lord	c.	34.
On Hippocrates the physician and Gorgias the rhetorician	c.	34.
On Protagoras the sophist	c.	34.
On Socrates the philosopher and his study and books	c.	34.
On the character of the same	c.	34.
On his moral sayings	c.	35
On the reign of the second Xerxes and of Sogdianus and of Darius Nothus	c.	35
On the birth of Plato	c.	35
On Alcibiades the Socratic	c.	35
On Eudoxus the astrologer, and the theater of Heraclea, and Archelaus the Macedonian, and Euripides	c.	35.
On Orestes the Macedonian: and the thirty tyrants of Athens	c.	35.
On the reign of Artaxerxes, who is also Ahasuerus, and on the ascent of Cyrus	c.	35.
On the invention of Greek letters	c.	35.
On the death of Socrates	c.	35.
On Xenophon the Socratic	c.	35.


On Diogenes and the sect of the Cynics	c.	36
On the same and his death	c.	36
On Speusippus the Platonic: and the first Carthaginian war	c.	36
On the deeds of Hasdrubal and Hamilcar	c.	36
On Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily	c.	36
On Plato and his character and studies	c.	36.
His opinions concerning God	c.	36.
On the books of Plato and his opinion on the immortality of the soul	c.	37
On the longing for death toward the desire for immortality	c.	37
On certain sayings of Plato	c.	37
On Archytas of Tarentum and his sayings	c.	37
On the siege of the Roman Capitol by the Gauls	c.	37.
On Aristotle and his sayings	c.	37.
On the sect of the Peripatetics: of which he himself was the author	c.	37.
On the books of Aristotle	c.	37.
His moral excerpts from the Ethics. Or "The just is the judgment of the wise"	c.	37.
His excerpts regarding things to be chosen	c.	38
On the Roman pestilence: and on the death of Artaxerxes	c.	38
On the reign of Ochus: and Demosthenes the orator	c.	38.
On Aeschines the orator	c.	38.
On Hanno of Carthage	c.	38.

Table of the Fourth Book.

The fourth book contains a

history of 353 years, namely of the kings under whom Ochus reigned after the birth of Alexander the Great, and the 12 years in which the same Alexander afterwards reigned, until he perished by taking poison. Herein also are inserted certain excerpts of the philosophers Apuleius and Plato, of Hermes, and of the Epicureans, and many other things. It has 66 chapters.


On the origin of Alexander the Great: and the flight of Nectanebo into Macedonia	c.	38.
On the conversation of Nectanebo himself with Olympias	c.	39
On the deception of Alexander the Great	c.	39
On the trickery of Nectanebo toward King Philip	c.	39
On the birth of Alexander	c.	39
On the death of Plato and his disciples	c.	39
On Apuleius the Platonic and his sayings	c.	39
On Plotinus the philosopher	c.	39.
His sayings on the four virtues	c.	39.
On Hermes Trismegistus and his sayings	c.	39.
On the death of Nectanebo and on the tyrant Agathocles	c.	39.
On the good nature of Alexander	c.	40
On the reconciliation of Olympias with her husband	c.	40
On Xenocrates the philosopher	c.	40
How Philip subjected Greece, and Nebuchadnezzar made Judea tributary again	c.	40
On Isocrates	c.	40
On the reign of Arses or Arsamus and Darius his son	c.	40
On the death of Philip of Macedon	c.	40
On the character of the same: and on Pausanias his killer	c.	40.
Also on the writings and deeds of Philip	c.	40.
On the incest of the vestal Minucia and the crime of the Roman matrons	c.	40.
On the reign of Darius son of Arsamus and of Alexander of Macedon and his character	c.	40
How Alexander won the minds of the soldiers to himself	c.	40
On the regions which, while traveling through, he federated to himself	c.	40
How he destroyed Tyre, which resisted him	c.	41
On the mutual letters of Darius and Alexander	c.	41
On their first encounter: and the victory of Alexander	c.	41
How he destroyed Thebes and caused it to be rebuilt	c.	41
On the subjugation of Athens: and Demades the philosopher	c.	41
On the second encounter with Darius	c.	41
On the luxury and pride of Alexander	c.	41.
On the sacrifices which Alexander offered in the temple of God	c.	41.
On how he ordered himself to be called the son of Hammon	c.	41.
That Alexander did not wish for a confederation with Darius, but rather an ending	c.	41.
How Alexander, pretending to be a messenger, dined with Darius	c.	41.
On the final encounter and the victory of Alexander	c.	42
On the pursuit of Darius	c.	42
On his death: on the tally of the fighters in the three battles	c.	42
On Anaximenes and Epicurus the philosophers	c.	42
On the opinion of Epicurus concerning the pleasures of the body	c.	42
On his moral sayings and his errors	c.	42.
On the insolence of Alexander after the victory	c.	42.
On the shutting away of the ten tribes	c.	42.
On the avenging of the death of Darius by Alexander: and on Alexandria which he built	c.	42.