1. Invasion of Attica by Datis; the story of Cynaegirus, matched with
the story of a Roman, 450, 451. 2. Invasion of Greece by Xerxes; war
of Porsena against Rome; a story under each, 451, 452. 3. Combat
of the Argives with the Lacedaemonians in Thyreatis; defeat of the
Romans at the Caudine Forks, 452, 453 4. Leonidas at Thermopylae;
Fabius Maximus in the Punic War, 453. 5. Chasms in the earth closed
by men leaping into them, 454. 6. Amphiaraus, and Valerius Conatus,
swallowed up alive by the earth, 455. 7. A king of Euboea, and a king
of Alba, drawn in pieces by horses, 455. 8. Philip of Macedon and
Aster the archer, Porsena of Clusium and Horatius Cocles, 456. 9.
Saturn and his four children, 456, 457. 10. Pausanias, the Spartan
traitor, and Cassius, a Roman traitor, both starved to death, 457.
11. Filial treachery in Persian and in Roman history, and its
punishment, 458. 12. A son of Epaminondas, the Theban general, and a
son of Manlius, the Roman consul, beheaded for disobeying the orders
of their fathers, 458, 459. 13. Iole, the beloved of Hercules, threw
herself from a wall without hurt; this story matched from Roman
history, 459. 14. The sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis, matched among
the Romans, 459, 460. 15. The story of Tarpeia, promising to betray
the Roman capitol, matched at Ephesus, 460. 16. The combat of the
Horatii and Curiatii in Roman history has a parallel in Tegea, 460,
461. 17. The Palladium in Ilium and in Rome, 461. 18. Codrus of
Athens, and Decius of Rome, 462. 19. A Syracusan and a Roman, each
having refused worship to Bacchus, are intoxicated to commit incest,
and are slain, 462, 463. 20. A daughter of Erechtheus, and a daughter
of Marius, sacrificed by their fathers to procure victory, 463. 21.
A Thessalian wife, and a Sybarite wife, torn in pieces by dogs of
their husbands, 463, 464. 22. Two maidens, a Greek and a Roman, who
had carnal knowledge of their fathers; their punishment, 464, 465.
23. Diomedes and Calpurnius Crassus liberated from captivity by women
who loved them, 465. 24. Priam commits his son to the care of one
who murdered him; the story matched in Roman history, 465, 466. 25.
Aeacus and his two sons; Caius Maximus and his two sons, 466. 26.
Mars, and his lascivious misdoings in Greece and Italy, 466, 467.
27. Telamon deflowers a virgin, whose father orders her to be thrown
into the sea; a parallel at Rome, 467. 28. Six sons and six daughters
in two different families; incest of a brother with a sister, 467,
468. 29. Two cases of men having carnal knowledge of brutes, and
what followed, 468. 30. As the price of peace women are given up to
the embraces of the enemy, 468, 469. 31. The allowance of soldiers
shortened in war, and the fatal result to him who did it, 469. 32.
Romulus murdered in the senate, and his body carried away in pieces;
a parallel in the Peloponnesian war, 470. 33. Pelops and his two
sons, Atreus and Thyestes, their story; a parallel in Italy, 470,
471. 34. Theseus and his son Hippolytus; the latter is killed by
his horses running away: a parallel in Italy, 471, 472. 35. A noble
virgin to be sacrificed to obtain relief from pestilence: an instance
in Lacedaemon, another in Falerii, 472, 473. 36. The story of Romulus
and Remus suckled by a she-wolf: a parallel in Arcadia, 473. 37.
Orestes slays his mother, in revenge of his father’s death: a similar
story from Rome, 474. 38. Strangers murdered by Busiris in Egypt,
and by Faunus in Italy, 474. 39. A brazen cow made for Phalaris of
Agrigentum, a brazen horse for a tyrant of Egesta, 474, 475. 40.
Evenus cannot keep his daughter a virgin: neither can Anius, king of
the Tuscans, 475.
OF THE NAMES OF RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS, AND OF SUCH THINGS AS ARE TO BE
FOUND THEREIN.