Cumaan Sybil supposed to have offered books to Tarquin,

I. 253.

Curtius, I. 191.

Cyrenius appointed judge in Syria, I. 327.
Cyrus, prophecy of, I. 205.

the elder, Xenophon's character of, I. 206. II. 135.
The younger killed at Cunaxa, II. 132. Prophecies of
Isaiah shewn to him, I. 27. A subject of prophecy,
I. 131.

D.

Daniel, prophecies of, shewn to Alexander, I. 27. Josephus
speaks of his having written, concerning the stone, 317.
Concerning the Romans, 318.

Darius, his shade called up, II. 80.

Declamations prevailed in Greece, II. 424, note.

Deities descending, I. 40.

Represent real characters, 179.

Called down by sacrifices, II. 44.

Delphic oracles, Juvenal's remark on their termination,

II. 482.

Deluge, I. 170. Berosus and Abydenus speak of it, I. 170.
Demetrius speaks of Moses, I. 73.

Democedes procures the pardon of the Egyptian physicians
at the Persian court, II. 119.

Demosthenes, II. 180.

Devotion of human victims, I. 191.

Diomed, I. 191.

Dionysius Halicarnassus, his work, II. 296.

Discord cast out from Heaven, I. 161.

Doctrine of the Trinity, proofs from the Old Testament of,
I. 139-141. Prevailed amongst the Chaldeans, Persians,
and Egyptians, 145. Brahmins and Indians, 147.

Doves, considered as sacred birds by Semiramis and the Sy-
rians, I. 173.

Dream of Hystaspes, of the extirpation of the Roman em-
pire, I. 16.

Drought, which happened in the time of Elias, mentioned
by Menander, I. 178.

Druids inculcated the doctrine of the immortality of the
soul, I. 154. Computed by evening and morning, 104.
Their precepts borrowed, in some respects, from Mosaic
law, II. 361.

E.

Eastern sovereigns ambitious of despotic power, I. 217.
Egypt, I. 75. Prophecies relating to it, 204.
Egyptian killed by the word of Moses, I. 81.
Egyptians, I. 75. Had some notion of Supreme God, 123.
Belief of the immortality and transmigration of the soul,
153. The worship of the serpent recorded in their his-
tory, and of the Phoenicians, 161. Superstition, 126.
Eldad, of 13th century, speaks of ten tribes in Æthiopia,
I. 15.

Eleazar's letter to Ptolemy, I. 12.

Elizabeth, Queen, translated Sallust, II. 357.

Enceladon considered as Akalathon, I 269.

Epicharmus, a comic writer, his tradition that God existed
before chaos, described the divine word as the author
of all useful instruction, I. 145.

Epictetus deemed himself a favourite of heaven, though a
slave and lame, I. 230.

Epicurean principles introduced among the Romans by
Cineas, II. 323.

Epimenides, his description of the old Cretans, supposed to
be referred to by St. Paul, I. 279.
Erasmus, his opinion on Cicero, II. 337.

Esdras, 2d book, mentions emigration of ten tribes, I. 14.
Eupolemus, I. 43. Mentions Abraham, I. 43.

Euripides, II. 105. Those Athenians, after the death of

Nicias, who could repeat his verses, were saved from the
fate that overwhelmed their countrymen, 106..

Euryalus (the Pythagorean) declared that man was made in
the image of God, I. 163.

Events, subsequent to birth of Christ, substantiate truth of
sacred records, I. 273.
Evil, origin of, I. 157.

Extract, concerning the Jews, from Esdras, I. 14.
Ezekiel, prophet, describes Persian worship, I. 56.

a tragic poet, speaks of Moses and the Exodus,

F.

Facts of Scriptures attested by heathen writers, I. 176.
Falkland, Lord, tried the Sortes Virgilianæ, I. 377.
Favour, shewn by the Romans to the Jews, is supposed by
Whiston to have procured for them the blessings of Chris-
tianity, I. 117.

Felix spoken of by Josephus as having procured the death of
Jonathan, I. 340. Seduced Drusilla, 341.

Festus, Portius, mentioned by Josephus, I. 340.
Future state of rewards and punishments, I. 264.

G.

Gadara Pompey rebuilt the city at the instance of Deme-

trius, I. 112.

Gandanus (Corn. Sconæus), II. 320.

Gauls offer up human sacrifices, II. 361.

Genesareth, district of, admirable for fertility, I. 199.

Giants, fables with respect to their battle with Jupiter,

formed from corrupted accounts of the fall of angels,
I. 158.

Gibbon misrepresents the sentiments of the Roman govern-
ment, in respect to the religion of the Jews, I. 116.
Glaucus, relation of his conduct, I. 212.

Gods, heathen, passage of Cicero relating to, I. 181.
Gravina, his observation on changing Creator into Creature,
II. 63.

Grecian states cherished a love of freedom and noble action,
but shewed a disregard of justice in their contests abroad,
I. 217. Ingratitude and jealousy of their distinguished
men at home, ib.

Greek letters of Phoenician origin, I. 94.

Greeks had no historian, whose works are now extant, who
lived within 400 years of the Trojan war, I. 104.

H.

Hanno, his prayer, II. 315.

Harduin, extravagant theory, Virgil, II. 374, and Horace,

383.

Hare, Druids, abstain from eating it, I. 360.

Heathen gods, exceeded 30,000 in the time of Varro, I. 135.
Testimonies demonstrate the truth of the prophecies of
Christ and his Apostles, I. 281. Testimonies of the ac-
complishment of prophecies, 203. Heathen Oracles,
whether inspired, 260. Supposed to have been con-
strained to silence, 263. 277.

Heathen morality, I. 208.

Heavenly bodies adored, I. 124.

Hecate, oracles, seem to allude to Christ, I. 262.
Hecatæus, I. 87.

Helladians, supposed to be Hellenes, from Hellen, son of

Hermes Trismogistus, I. 83. His cosmogony, 84.
Herod Agrippa, account of his death, I. 335. His army
defeated in an expedition against Aratus, II. 325. Placed
a golden eagle in the temple, I. 22.
registers of the Jewish families, 241.
brate his nativity at Rome, 242.

Destroyed the
Herodians cele-

Herodotus, II. 114. Erroneously asserts that the Jews
state that circumcision was borrowed from the Egyptians,
117.

Heroes, supposed by Plato to be derived from gods and
women, I. 180.

Hesiod, II. S. Ages resemble Daniel's figure, I. 14. Said
to have been the inventor of fable, 74. Lived twenty-
seven years before Homer, II. 8.

Hesperides, account of, borrowed from sacred accounts,
I. 161.

Hezechias, the High Priest of the Jews, mentioned by He-
catæus, taken to Alexander by Ptolemy, son of Lagus,
I. 78.

Hieronymus does not mention the Jews, I. 19.

Hiram, letters between him and and Solomon, I. 71.
Hobbes translated Thucydides to expose the follies of de-
mocracy, II. 112.

Holy Ghost, I. 142.

Homer, II. 21. His notion of the imortality of the soul,
I. 132. Ejection of Discord from Heaven, supposed to
be a corrupted tradition of the fall of Satan, 162. Inti-
mations of a future state, 153. His writings, 340. Mo-
rality, 39.

Horace, II. 379. Speaks of the corruption of human na-
ture, I. 164. Of intercession, 240.

Hyde's history of the Persians, I. 53.

Hyrcanus receives honours from the Athenians, I. 107.
Hystapses, his dream forshewing the destruction of the
Roman empire, I. 16.