1611 Diodore de Sicile, Bibliotheca Historica / Bibliothèque historique.

Latin edition, published in Germany.

Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BCE); and history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books 1–5 (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks); Books 11–20 (Greek history 480–302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them faithfully. He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.

Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams (1869-1919) was a British civil servant, economist and historian who worked in the British government's India office.

Childhood and education
Born in 1869, Abrahams was the only son of Mordecai Abrahams, a noted shochet, and long-time secretary of the Initiation Society.

Abrahams graduated from the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford, which he attended from 1892 to 1898. In 1894 he won the Arnold Prize for historical essay writing.

Career
Abrahams joined the India Office in 1893. Abrahams was appointed secretary of the Indian Currency Committee in 1898. He was appointed Assistant Financial Secretary in 1901 and Financial Secretary in 1902, a position he held until 1911. He was appointed Assistant Under-Secretary of State for India in 1911, a post he held until 1917. He was appointed Companion of the Bath (CB) in 1908. He was elevated to the rank of Knight-Commander of the Bath (KCB) in 1915.

Abrahams was the first Jew to hold a position as high as Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the British Civil Service.

As Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Abrahams was responsible for monetary and financial matters.

Reputation
Shirras describes Abrahams as 'a permanent civil servant who served India's financial interests with remarkable efficiency and a zeal of his own': 192-193 Shirras also writes that 'It was probably Sir Lionel Abrahams that Sir James Meston had in mind when he referred to the fact that in the Indian Secretariat "we have nothing like the competent and qualified staff possessed by a public office in London".

Writings
Abrahams wrote The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290, the thesis for which he won the Arnold Prize in 1894. It was reprinted in the Jewish Quarterly Review in the October 1984, January 1895 and April 1895 issues. He also wrote "Debts and houses of Jews of Hereford, 1290" which was published in the first volume of The Jewish Historical Society of England - Transactions in 1894.

Personal life
Abrahams married Lucy, daughter of Nathan Solomon Joseph, in 1896. They had a son, Arthur Charles Lionel Abraham