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