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Diodorus, of Agyrion in Sicily; travelled in the Eastern Mediterranean c. 60 B.C.; lived till after 36 B.C. [See Pauly-Wissowa, v, 663.] He wrote a history of the world, under the title Βιβλιοθήκη; edn. of Books I–XV by F. Vogel (Leipzig, 1888, 1890, 1893), of Books XVI–XVIII by C. T. Fischer (Leipzig, 1906). [Book II, chaps. 35–42, gives an account of India taken from Megasthenes; trans. M'Crindle in Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian. Book XVII contains an account of Alexander's expedition, derived in part from Clitarchus; trans. M'Crindle in The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great. Book XIX, chaps. 33–4, contains the account of the *satī* (*v. sup.* pp. 414–15); trans. M'Crindle in Ancient India as described in Classical Literature (Westminster, 1901), pp. 202 f.]