Mirror of History (1494) - Page 24

On Helicon, whom he killed and afterwards repented	c.	42.
On Callisthenes the philosopher and his listener Lysimachus	c.	42.
On the journey of Alexander into India: and on the nature of that land	c.	43
On his entry and the embassy of King Porus to him	c.	43
How Alexander overcame Porus in war	c.	43
On the glory of the army and the palace of Porus	c.	43
On the journey of Alexander along the shores of the Ocean	c.	43
On Queen Candace and her treaty with Alexander	c.	43
On the wonders which Alexander saw in India	c.	43
Also on the same and the trees of the Sun and the Moon	c.	43
On the response of the trees to Alexander	c.	44
On the other wonders which Alexander saw	c.	44
On the boasting and ambition of Alexander	c.	44
On his superstition and envy	c.	44
On his last arrival in Babylon	c.	44
On the poison offered to him	c.	44
On his death	c.	44
Epilogue on the peace of the Brahmans with Alexander	c.	44
On the mutual letters of Alexander and King Didimus regarding their philosophy	c.	44

Table of the fifth book.

The fifth book contains the history of 276 years through the times of the eleven kings of Egypt named Ptolemy, up to Julius Caesar, who, having defeated Pompey, was the first of the Romans to seize sole empire. Here are interspersed the flowers of the philosopher Theophrastus, and of Cato, and of the two Scipios, as well as the poets Plautus, Terence, and Statius, and many other things. It has 117 chapters.

On the division of Alexander's monarchy into four kingdoms: and on Ptolemy Soter, king of Egypt	c.	45
On Theophrastus the philosopher and his sayings	c.	45.
That a wife should not be taken by a wise man	c.	45.
On Menander the comic poet, and Philemon, and the rise of the kingdom of Asia	c.	45.
On the victory of the Romans over the Samnites	c.	45.
On Papirius the warlike consul	c.	45.
On Fabius the consul	c.	46
On Marcus Curius the consul	c.	46
On Cassander king of the Macedonians and the death of Olympias	c.	46
On Polemon the philosopher	c.	46
On the rise of the kingdom of Syria	c.	46
On Seleucus Nicanor	c.	46
On the high priests Simon and Eleazar, and the Pharos of Alexandria	c.	46.
On the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus and his love for the Scriptures	c.	46.
On the seventy-two translators whom Eleazar sent to him at his request	c.	46.
How they instructed him and translated the sacred books for him	c.	46.
On the approval of the translation and the veneration of the same	c.	46.
On the studies and books of the aforesaid Ptolemy	c.	46.
On Brennus, leader of the Gauls, how he overcame the Macedonians and Delphi	c.	47
How the same Brennus with his men afterwards succumbed through the deception of Apollo	c.	47
How the Gauls perished among the Macedonians	c.	47
On certain prodigies and wars	c.	47
On Arcesilaus the philosopher and the error of the New Academics	c.	47
On Crates the philosopher, and Stilpo, and Aratus the astrologer	c.	47
On Zeno and Chrysippus, the leaders of the Stoics	c.	47.
On Diodorus the Socratic and Carneades, philosophers	c.	47.
On the true and false opinions of the Stoics	c.	47.
A disputation against the Stoics concerning benefits	c.	47.
On the changing of opinion or counsel	c.	48
On passion and pleasure	c.	48
On virtues and vices	c.	48
On Erasistratus the physician and the first Carthaginian war under the consul Duilius	c.	48
On the war of Regulus against the Carthaginians	c.	48
Also on the other battles of the Romans against the same, and on the death of Regulus	c.	48
On Onias the high priest and Antiochus Theos	c.	48.
On the power of Philadelphus and the Roman slaughter	c.	48.
On the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes and Antigonus the Macedonian	c.	48.
On the prodigies which preceded the Punic War and on the destruction of Saguntum	c.	48.
On the reign of Philopator and the confidence of Antiochus the Great	c.	48.
On the triple victory of Hannibal over the Romans	c.	49

On Marcus Marcellus, who took Syracuse, and on Archimedes the philosopher	c.	49
On the victory of Hannibal over Flaminius the consul	c.	49
On the Battle of Cannae	c.	49
That Hannibal was prohibited from marching on Rome by an onrushing storm	c.	49
On Scipio Africanus	c.	49
Also on Africanus	c.	49.
On Panaetius the philosopher	c.	49.
On the consuls Valerius, Marcellus, and Fabius, and their triumphs	c.	49.
On the victory of Scipio over the Africans	c.	49.
That the Romans granted peace to the defeated Carthaginians	c.	49.
On the death of Philopator and his concubine Agathoclea	c.	49.
On the reign of Ptolemy Epiphanes and on Antiochus the Great	c.	50
On Plautus the comic poet and his sayings	c.	50
On the liberty of the Greeks granted by the Romans, and on the leader Junius	c.	50
On the two brothers, the Scipios	c.	50
On Seleucus Philopator and Heliodorus and Titus Livius, and certain battles of the Romans	c.	50
On the flight and death of Hannibal and on Prusias	c.	50
On the victory of the Messenians over the Achaeans, and the death of Africanus and Ptolemy [Epiphanes]	c.	50.
On the reign of Philometor, and the poet Statius and his sayings	c.	50.
On Antiochus Epiphanes, and the profanation of the Holy City, and the ambition for the priesthood	c.	50.
On the appearance of horsemen through the air, and the death of Menelaus, and the plundering of the temple	c.	50.
On the second repulse of Antiochus from the siege of Alexandria, and on the drowning of the Bastarnae	c.	51
On the subversion of the kingdom of the Macedonians by the Romans, and Ennius the poet	c.	51
On the impiety of Antiochus toward the Jews, and the zeal of Mattathias	c.	51
On the seven Maccabean martyrs	c.	51
On the battles of Judas Maccabeus and the shameful death of Antiochus	c.	51.
On Antiochus Eupator and his battle against the Jews	c.	51.
On King Demetrius, and the victory of Judas over Nicanor	c.	51.
On Terence and his comedies	c.	51.
On the flowers of his comedies	c.	51.
On the revived kingdom of the Jews, and the death of Judas	c.	52
On Jonathan the leader, and the poet Pacuvius, and the theater forbidden at Rome, and Alexander, king of Syria	c.	52
On the reign of Euergetes II, and the rites of Cybele accepted by the Romans	c.	52.
On the preparation for the Third Punic War, and the site of Carthage	c.	52.
On the destruction of Carthage	c.	52.
On Demetrius the Cretan, and the death of Alexander and Euergetes	c.	52.
On Accius the writer of tragedies and certain battles of the Romans	c.	52.
On the youth Antiochus, and the deceits of Tryphon, and the leadership of Simon	c.	52.
On the Servile War of Sicily and its poets	c.	52.
On Attalus, king of Asia Minor, and Aristonicus	c.	52.
On the prodigies preceding the Arvernian war	c.	53
On Antiochus son of Demetrius, and the death of Simon the high priest, and the succession of John Hyrcanus	c.	53
On the repeated reign of Demetrius and the victories of the Romans over the Gauls	c.	53
On the cunning of Ptolemy and the death of Demetrius	c.	53
On Antiochus Grypus	c.	53
On the reign of Ptolemy Physcon	c.	53
On the Jugurthine War, and on the daughter of Lucius Bellius struck by lightning	c.	53
On the reign of Aristobulus and his death	c.	53
On Alexander Jannaeus and his cruelty	c.	53
On the victory of the Romans over the Cimbri under the leader Marius	c.	53
On the expulsion of Physcon from Egypt by his mother Cleopatra	c.	54
On the reign of Ptolemy Alexander, and the end of the Syrian kingdom, and Lucretius and Pomponius	c.	54
On the prodigies which preceded the Social War of Italy	c.	54
On the war of Pompey against the city of Asculum and against the Picentes	c.	54
On the Civil War and the flight of Marius	c.	54
On the return of Marius, and the continuation of the Civil War	c.	54
On Mithridates and his war against the Romans	c.	54
On his cunning and tyranny against the Romans	c.	54
On the repeated reign of Physcon, and the writers of that time	c.	54
On Sulla, the conqueror of Mithridates, and his death	c.	54
On the victory of Lucullus over Mithridates	c.	54
On the kingdom of Alexandria	c.	55
On Hecato the Stoic philosopher and his sayings	c.	55
On Cato the Stoic and his sayings	c.	55
On the sayings of the same Cato	c.	55
On Diogenes the Babylonian and his disciple Antipater	c.	55