§17.arg.0#1## τῶν Διοδώρου βύβλων τῆς ἑπτακαιδεκάτης εἰς δύο διῃρημένης ἡ πρώτη περιέχει τάδε.
Of the books of Diodorus, the seventeenth being divided into two, the first contains the following.
ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος διαδεξάμενος τὴν βασιλείαν κατέστησε τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἀρχήν.
How Alexander, having succeeded to the kingdom, settled the affairs of his empire.
ὡς τὰ νεωτερίζοντα τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀνεκτήσατο.
How he recovered the tribes that were attempting revolution.
ὡς Θήβας κατασκάψας καὶ φόβον ἐπιστήσας τοῖς Ἕλλησι στρατηγὸς αὐτοκράτωρ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ᾑρέθη.
How, having razed Thebes and struck fear into the Greeks, he was elected supreme commander of Greece.
ὡς διαβὰς εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν τοὺς σατράπας ἐνίκησε περὶ τὸν ἐν Φρυγίᾳ Γρανικὸν ποταμόν.
How, having crossed into Asia, he defeated the satraps near the Granicus river in Phrygia.
ὡς Μίλητον καὶ Ἁλικαρνασσὸν ἐξεπολιόρκησεν.
How he took Miletus and Halicarnassus by siege.
μάχη Δαρείου πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον ἐν Ἰσσῷ τῆς Κιλικίας καὶ νίκη Ἀλεξάνδρου.
The battle of Darius against Alexander at Issus in Cilicia, and the victory of Alexander.
Τύρου πολιορκία καὶ Αἰγύπτου παράληψις καὶ πάροδος εἰς Ἄμμωνα τοῦ βασιλέως.
The siege of Tyre, the taking over of Egypt, and the journey of the king to Ammon.
παράταξις ἐν Ἀρβήλοις Ἀλεξάνδρου πρὸς Δαρεῖον καὶ νίκη Ἀλεξάνδρου.
The battle-array of Alexander against Darius at Arbela, and the victory of Alexander.
μάχη Ἀντιπάτρου πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους καὶ νίκη Ἀντιπάτρου.
The battle of Antipater against the Lacedaemonians, and the victory of Antipater.
h(deute/ra perie/xei ta/de.
The second part contains the following.
Ἀρβήλων ἅλωσις ὑπʼ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ κατάληψις πολλῶν χρημάτων.
The capture of Arbela by Alexander, and the taking of much money.
ἀνάληψις τῆς δυνάμεως ἐν Βαβυλῶνι καὶ δωρεαὶ τοῖς ἀνδραγαθήσασι.
The recovery of the army in Babylon, and gifts to those who performed bravely.
παρουσία τῶν ἀποσταλέντων μισθοφόρων καὶ συμμάχων.
The arrival of the sent mercenaries and allies.
διάταξις καὶ κατασκευὴ τῆς δυνάμεως.
The reorganization and equipping of the army.
ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος παρέλαβε Σοῦσαν καὶ τοὺς ἐν αὐτῇ θησαυρούς.
How Alexander took over Susa and the treasures therein.
ὡς τῶν παρόδων ἐγκρατὴς ἐγένετο καὶ τῶν ὀνομαζομένων Σουσιάδων Πυλῶν ἐκράτησεν.
How he became master of the passes and overcame the so-called Susian Gates.
ὡς τοὺς ἀκρωτηριασθέντας Ἑλλήνων εὐεργέτησε καὶ τὴν Περσέπολιν παραλαβὼν διήρπασεν.
How he benefited those of the Greeks who had been mutilated, and having taken over Persepolis, plundered it.
ὡς κωμάσας ἐνέπρησε τὰ βασίλεια.
How, having gone on a revel, he burned the palace.
Δαρείου θάνατος ὑπὸ Βήσσου.
The death of Darius at the hands of Bessus.
Ἀλεξάνδρου στρατεία εἰς τὴν Ὑρκανίαν καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ φυομένων παραδόξων ἀπαγγελία.
The campaign of Alexander into Hyrcania, and the report of the marvelous things growing there.
ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐπὶ Μάρδους στρατεύσας κατεπολέμησε τὸ ἔθνος.
How Alexander, campaigning against the Mardi, subdued the nation.
ὡς Θάληστρις ἡ τῶν Ἀμαζονίδων βασιλεύουσα συνέμιξεν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ.
How Thalestris, the queen of the Amazons, met with Alexander.
ὡς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀνίκητον ἑαυτὸν εἶναι νομίσας ἐζήλωσε τὴν τῶν Περσῶν τρυφήν.
How the king, believing himself to be invincible, imitated the luxury of the Persians.
στρατεία Ἀλεξάνδρου πρὸς τοὺς ἀφεστηκότας Ἀρείους καὶ ἅλωσις τῆς Πέτρας.
The campaign of Alexander against the revolting Areians, and the capture of the Rock.
ἐπιβουλὴ τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ κόλασις τῶν ἐπιθεμένων, ὧν οἱ ἐπιφανέστατοι Παρμενίων καὶ Φιλώτας.
The conspiracy against the king, and the punishment of those who attacked him, of whom the most prominent were Parmenion and Philotas.
στρατεία Ἀλεξάνδρου εἰς τοὺς Παροπανισάδας καὶ τὰ πραχθέντα κατʼ αὐτήν.
The campaign of Alexander into the Paropanisadae, and the deeds accomplished during it.
ἡ γενομένη ἐν Ἀρείοις μονομαχία καὶ παράληψις τοῦ ἔθνους.
The single combat that took place among the Areians, and the taking over of the nation.
Βήσσου τοῦ ἀνελόντος Δαρεῖον θάνατος.
The death of Bessus, the slayer of Darius.
ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος διὰ τῆς ἀνύδρου πορευθεὶς πολλοὺς ἀπέβαλε τῶν στρατιωτῶν.
How Alexander, marching through the waterless country, lost many of his soldiers.
ὡς τοὺς Βραγχίδας τὸ παλαιὸν ὑπὸ Περσῶν μετοικισθέντας εἰς τὰ ἔσχατα τῆς βασιλείας ὡς προδότας τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀνεῖλεν Ἀλέξανδρος.
How Alexander put to death the Branchidae, who of old had been resettled by the Persians at the ends of the kingdom, as traitors to the Greeks.
ὡς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ Σογδιανοὺς καὶ Σκύθας ἐστράτευσεν.
How the king campaigned against the Sogdianians and the Scythians.
ὡς οἱ πρωτεύοντες Σογδιανῶν ἀπαγόμενοι πρὸς τὸν θάνατον παραδόξως ἐσώθησαν.
How the leading men of the Sogdianians, while being led away to death, were marvelously saved.
ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἀποστάντας τοὺς Σογδιανοὺς κατεπολέμησε καὶ κατέσφαξεν αὐτῶν πλείους τῶν δώδεκα μυριάδων.
How Alexander subdued the Sogdianians who had revolted and slaughtered more than one hundred and twenty thousand of them.
ὡς Βακτριανοὺς ἐκόλασε καὶ Σογδιανοὺς τὸ δεύτερον ἐχειρώσατο καὶ πόλεις ἔκτισεν εὐκαίρως πρὸς τὰς τῶν ἀφισταμένων κολάσεις.
How he punished the Bactrians and subdued the Sogdianians for the second time, and founded cities opportunely for the punishment of those who revolted.
ἀπόστασις τρίτη Σογδιανῶν καὶ ἅλωσις τῶν εἰς τὴν Πέτραν καταφυγόντων.
The third revolt of the Sogdianians, and the capture of those who fled to the Rock.
περὶ τοῦ ἐν Βασίστοις κυνηγίου καὶ τοῦ πλήθους τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ θηρίων.
Concerning the hunt in Basista, and the multitude of wild beasts in it.
περὶ τῆς εἰς τὸν Διόνυσον ἁμαρτίας καὶ τῆς παρὰ τὸν πότον ἀναιρέσεως Κλείτου.
Concerning the transgression against Dionysus, and the slaying of Cleitus at the drinking-bout.
περὶ τῆς Καλλισθένους τελευτῆς.
Concerning the death of Callisthenes.
στρατεία τοῦ βασιλέως εἰς τοὺς καλουμένους Ναύτακας καὶ φθορὰ τῆς δυνάμεως ὑπὸ πολλῆς χιόνος.
The campaign of the king into the so-called Nautaca, and the destruction of the army by heavy snow.
ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐρασθεὶς Ῥωξάνης τῆς Ὀξυάρτου ἔγημεν αὐτὴν καὶ τῶν φίλων πολλοὺς ἔπεισε γῆμαι τὰς τῶν ἐπισήμων βαρβάρων θυγατέρας.
How Alexander, having fallen in love with Roxane, the daughter of Oxyartes, married her, and persuaded many of his friends to marry the daughters of prominent barbarians.
παρασκευὴ τῆς ἐπὶ Ἰνδοὺς στρατείας.
The preparation of the campaign against the Indians.