Luridus pen. cor Adectiuum Hor. Pale wanne black and blewe Aconita lurida Ouid. Horror luridus Ouid. Luridus color Plin. Lumina lurida Ouid. Dentes luridi Hor. Mors lurida Sil. Luridae foetae Varro Pallor luridus Ouid. Pelle lurida amicta ossa Horat. Luridus sol Plin. iun. The sonne shining pale and watrishlye through a clowde Sulfura lurida Ouid. Luror lurôris m. g. Lucret. Palenesse wannesse Luscinia lusciniae f. g. Plinius Graeci Philomelam vocant A Nightingale LuscinÃola pen. cor Diminutiuum Plaut Var. A little nightingale Lusciosus qui luscitiosus pen. prod Plin. Hee that seeth little in the night or in the morning or after some hee that seeth better in the night than at midday Luscus lusci m. g. C. Martialis Porre blind also he that hath but one eye Lusca luscae Mart. A woman poreblinde Lusio Lusito Lusor Vide LVDO Lustrum lustri n. g. Virg. A denne or caue of wilde beasts in wooddes Deserta ferarum lustra Virg. Inuia Virg. Deuia Ouid. Tetrica Stat. ¶ Lustrum Cic. An house where riot and lecherie is vsed or the haunting of the same vices Mala lustra Horat. Quae auteÌ in lustris in vino coÌmentatio potuit esse Cic. ¶ Lustâum The space of fiue yeares or as Glarian writeth in his Chronologie the space of Olympias that is but foure yeares Veniet lustris labentibus aetas Virg. ¶ Lustrum Liu. The purgation of the citie by sacrifice euery fift yeare Lustro lustras lustrâre Virg. To purge by sacrifice Lustrare vrbem Pli. To purge the citye by sacrifice euery fift yeare Lustror passiuum Ouidius Magico lustrabere ritu Lustrare Virg. To go rounde about to view on euery side to beholde euery way to looke rounde about Aequora lustrare Virg. To compasse or go about Arua lustrare Virg. Oculis lustrare campos Lucan To looke rounde about Muros equo lustrat Virg. Sol flammis opera omnia lustrat Virg. The sunne with hys light compasseth Lustraro lampade Virg. To giue light to shine Lustrare vestigia alicuius Virg. ¶ Lustrare exercitum Cae. To muster an army and by sacryfice to purge it that is to leade rounde about it a sheepe a sow and two bulles by which ceremonie they thought the host purged from offences against their Gods ¶ Lustrare animo Cicer. Diligently to view and consider in the minde Pericula incerta lustrare Virg. Lustror lustrâris lustrári Deponens Plaut To haunt brothel houses or stewes Lustrâtus pen. prod Particip. Purged by sacrifice compassed Corpus lustratum diuino odore Ouid. Lustratum atque purgatum Capitolium Liu. Lustratus purificatione religionis Mart. Lustratum panificium Making of holy breade coniuring of bread Bud. quo modo lustrabantur olim tubae vt testatur Ouidius in Fastis Lustrális hoc lustrâle pen. prod Perteinyng to purging or making holy vt Sacrificium lustrale Liu. A purging sacryfice Aqua lustralis Ouid. Holy water Vota lustralia Val. Flac. Solenne lustrale exercitus Tacit. LustrÃficus pen. cor Adiectiuum Idem vt Cantus lustrificus Valer. Flac. Lústricus pen. cor Adiectiuum vnde Lustrici dies Tranquil The dayes when children were named which in men childreÌ was the ninth day in women the eight It may nowe be vsed for the christening dayes Lustrátio onis f. gen Verbale A going about on euery side a compassing Lustratio Col. A purging by sacrifice Lustrâmen pen. prod minis n. g. Idem Val. Flac. Lusus Vide LVDO Lutamentum Lutarius Lutesco Lutensis c. Vide LVTVM Luteola lae f. g. A litle flower of colour yealow in greatnesse and sauour not much vnlike a violet Also a little birde not much vnlike a goldfinch called a Siskin Luteus prima producta AdiectiuuÌ Yelow vt Luteus color Plin. Yelow colour Luteus frutex Colum. Papauer luteum Catul. Membrana lutea Tibul. Pellis lutea Persius Palla lutea Tibul. Sulfura lutea Ouid. Pallor luteus Hor. Vela lutea Lucret. Luteae violae Plin. The winter Gilofer ¶ Luteum oui Plin. The yolke of an egge Luteus prima correpta à luto Vide LVTVM Priore correpta Lutéolus pen. cor Diminutiuum adiectiuum Col. Somewhat yealow yealowish Caltha luteola Virg. The yelow marigolde Luter teris m. g. A cup wherein wine was delayed with water Sipont Luto lutas Vide LVTVM priore correpta Lutra lutrae f. g. Plin. A beast liuing in the water an Otter Lutum luti n. g. priore correpta Iuuen. Clay durt Amica luto sus Horat. The sow loueth the meyre Recenti luto spargere iumenta Iuuenal To sprinkle freshe durt or clay vpon Lutum paleatum Vide Paleatus in PALEA Vdum molle lutum Pers ¶ Imbre lutóque aspersus Horat. All wette with rayne and berayed with durt Pocula composuit de facili luto Tibul. He made cuppes of plyant and soft clay Concinnare lutum Plaut Demersus in luto Cic. Ouerwhelmed in durt Fictus ex argilla luto homulus Cic. Volutatus in luto Cic. That hath wallowed in the durt In medio luto esse Plaut To sticke fast in the middes of the myre In eodem luto haesitare Vide HAERâO ¶ Lutum per translationem vocat lenonem Plaut A filthy and baudy slaue Lutum sordes Cic. A vile and filthie person Lúteus prima correpta That is made of clay lome or morter vt Luteus paries A mudde wall Vasa lutea Cic. Earthen vessell Luteus homo Plau. A vile rascall of no estimation Lutea meretrix Plau. A filthy and vile harlot Opus luteum Ouid. A worke made of clay or earth Luteus panis Plaut Yelow breade with saffron Lutôsus pen. pro. Adiect Pli. All myrie and durtie Lutosus ager Colum. Lutosa rapa Col. Lutensis hoc lutense Pli. That is nutrished with mudde Piscis lutensis Pli. A fish muddy or that liueth in the mudde Luto lutas lutâre Cato To lay on clay lome or morter Lutare Mart. To spot or beray Lutesco lutescis lutéscere Ennius To turne to clay to waxe very durt Limo coenóque lutescunt Colum. Lutamentum lutamenti n. gen Cato A worke couered with lome or clay Lutulentus Adiect Col. Myrie berayed with myre Lutulentus sus Cic. A durtie sow Lutulenta persona Cic. A filthy and âile person Amnis lutulentus Ouid. A muddy ryuer Palma lutulenta Hor. A durây hande Lutarius Adiectiuum That lyueth in the mudde or ooes vt Lutariae testudines Plin. Cockles and shelfishe lyuing in the mudde Lutarius mullus Plin. Lux lucis foem gen Light day brightnesse cleerenesse an eye time lyfe Egens lucis aer Ouid. A darke ayre Egenus lucis Lucre. Die lux Lucret. ¶ Corusca lux Sil. Diurna Lucret. Larga Vide LARGVS Maligna Vide MALVS adiectiuum Praeclara Lucret. Publica lux mundi Sol. Ouid. Rosea Stat. Siderea Ouid. Pura Vir. Vaga Val. Flac. ¶ Admittere lucem in thalamos totis fenestris Oui. To
giuen to Moyses and where the bodie of the holye virgin Katherine is buryed Also another Mountayne called Casius where the great Pompeius is buried Arabia deserta of Strabo called Saenetis hath on the south the mountaines of Arabia foelix on the north Mesopotamia on the west Petrea The people of thys countrey haue no certaine habitation but dwell in tents Arabia foelix on the south lyeth betwéene the two seas Arabicum and Persicum which is so plentyfull that it bringeth foorth corne and fruites twise in the yeare They haue plentie of all fruire and cattell except Horses Mules and Swine Of all Foules except géese cockes and hennes Also there groweth all kinde of spices and swéete gummes The townes are vnwalled bycause the people doe liue alwaye in peace Arabicus and Arabius a um Of Arabie Arabis or Arbis A ryuer Arábrica A towne in Portugall Arabs bis One that dwelleth in Arabie Aráchne The name of a woman which first inuented spinning of lynnen and making of Nettes Arachosia A country in Asia Aracthus A great Ryuer in the vttermoste borders of Epyre. Aracynthus A mountaine in Boeotia in Gréece or after other in Athens in Arcadie or Acarname where Minerua was specially honored Araduca A citye in Sayne called commonly Arzua Aradus A citie in the I le Tripolis towarde Syria where as Possidonius writeth was seene a Serpent lying deade in length 125. paces and of such greatnesse that he might deuoure a man on horsebacke and euery scale of his skinne was greater than any shielde Arae Certaine Rockes in the Sea betwene Affrike and Sardinia where the Affricanes and the Romaines made a league Arae flauiae A ryuer in Germanie called Nordlingen Aragus A riuer néere to the Massageâae Aram Was brother to Abraham Aramaei The Scythians Arar or Araris A ryuer in Fraunce called nowe Sagona which is so quyet that vnneath it may bée perceyued which way it runneth Not farre from Lions it falleth into the ryuer Rhone Ouer thys ryuer Iulius Caesar made a bridge in one day Ararus A ryuer in Scythia which runneth through the realme of Armenie Arath A country in Armenie woonderfull fertile Arâtus A poet in Asia before the incarnation .246 yeres among diuers other workes wrote certeine veries of Astrologie which were translated by Tullie and also by Germanicus the sonne adoptiue of Tiberius the Emperour Araurius A ryuer of Fraunce called also Rauraris Arausio A citie called commonly Aurenge Araxes A riuer in Armenia ouer which great Alexander made a bridge and likewise did Augustus the Emperour Arba A citie and an Ilande of Illiria Arbea A citie in Iudea where Adam and other thrée patriarkes were buried Arbela A countrye in Persia Q. Curtius sayth it is a citie of Mesopotamie where great Alexander vanquished the power of Darius king of Persia Arbies A people of Indie Arbúscula lae The proper name of a woman Arca A citie in Syria Arcadia A country in Gréece set in the middle of Peloponnesus or Morea so called of Arcas the sonne of Iupiter who reigned there It was also called Pelasgia Parrhasia and Lycaonia There was the Bagpype first inuented Also the great fenne Lernea where Hercules slue the monster Hydra is there with the riuer Erymanthus and a mountaine of the same name There is also founde the stone Asbeston which being once hote may neuer be quenched and is of the colour of Iron Archadicus or Archadius a um Of Arcadie Archas adis or chados One of Arcadie Archas The sonne of Iupiter and Calisto daughter of Lycaon before the incarnation 1470. yeares hearing that his mother being a virgin consecrate was defloured by Iupiter when he was begotten and therefore expelled of the other virgins woulde haue slayne hir who being afearde of him fledde into wildernesse and hid hir tyll shée and hir sonne were reconcyled by Iupiter Afterwarde they both being dead the Painyms feygned that they were translated among the starres set nighe to the pole artike and the mother called Vrsa minor and the sonne Visa maior Arcésilas A philosopher the scholer of Polaemon There was also of that name a cunning keruer of Images specially the Image of Diana Arcesilâus One of the siue Capitaines of Boeotia that came to Troy Also a Philosopher of the sect of the Academikes and scholar to Crantor Archander Danaus wyues father Archédicus A comicall Poet. Archelaus The name of dyuers famous men One a philosopher the disciple of Anaxagoras borne at Miletum mayster to Socrates brought first naturall philosophie out of Ionia to Athens Of this name were dyuers kings One of Macedonia whome Plato called a Tyranne slaine by Cratena his minion Whan he hyred the famous painter Zeusis to paint his pallace Socrates sayde merily he did it to prouoke men to resort vnto him though they would not come for his sake yet at the least they should gladly come to beholde his faire house Also when he had with him at supper dyuers learned men a Poet desyred of him a summe of money which he caused to be brought and foorthwyth gaue it to Euripides who did not aske it saying thou art worthy to haue it and he to desire it Archemorus Sonne of Lycurgus king of Nemaea was slayne by an Adder as his Nourse layde him in the grasse by a ryuers side For whose sake were made certayne playes called Nemêi He was also called Opheltes Archeptólemus Was Charyot man to Hector of Troy Archias Called also A. Licinius A Poet of Antioch much fauoured and honoured of the noble men of Rome especially of Lucullus and Tullie who defended hym in a noble oration wherein he speaketh much to the commendation of Poetrie It was also the name of hym that buylded Syracusis Archibius A Grammarian of Alexandria Archidamus A noble man of Sparta being demaunded how much money would serue to the warre of Peloponnesus aunswered that warre sought for no certainetie Archidemus A mans name Aristoph in ranis Archigenes The name of a famous phisition Archilochus A Poet of Lacedemonia that wrate in the kinde of verses lambici wherein he was so vehement that where Licambes his wyues father tooke from him his wife and marryed hir to another man he so rated him with verses that he compelled him for sorowe and indignation to hang himselfe He was before the incarnation .650 yeares Archimedes A famous Geometrician of Syracusis in Sicilie who by his Arte did long time resist Marcellus Captaine of the Romaines that besieged the citie Finally the citie being wonne he sent for by Marcellus was founde drawing figures of Geometrie in the grounde wherunto he was so attentiue that when he was boden to come to Marcellus hée aunswered whan he had finished the figure he woulde come At which aunswere the messenger disdayning slue him For which déede Marcellus was excéeding sorye Some suppose he first inuented the making of materiall spheres and globes He made a Dooue of woode which had in it such equall poyse that it woulde hang in the ayre by a
maydens he first so much as he coulde aduertised them not to worke that villannie but when their rage woulde not be stayed by any counsayle he killed certain of them and by that terrour repressed the other Not long after when the maydens were raunsomed and sent for home they perceyuing Aristomenes to bée accused for the death of those that in their defence hée had slaine would not in any wise retourne to their countrye but continuallye laye prostrate at the Iudges féete vntyll they had obteyned pardon for the defender and preseruer of their chastitie This Aristomenes was of witte so subtile and craftie that sundry times he entered as a spie into the citie of Lacedemon and beyng once or twise taken and cast in prison escaped the daunger At the last being put to death and his bodie opened hys heart was found to be hearie Ariston onis A certaine grauer of Images Also a famous lawyer Aristonicus A Grammarian of Alexandria and an Eunuke of Ptholomeus which was a valiaunt capitaine Aristónimus A comicall poet ouerséer of Phylodelphus librarie Aristophanes A poet most eloquent in the tongue of the Atheniens although he was borne at the Rhodes He wrote 54. comedies wherein he spared not them which then lyued He was in displeasure with Socrates and therefore he reprehendeth him in his Comedie called the Clowdes It was also a Grammarian of Byzance Aristophon A painters name Aristorides Argus the sonne of Aristor Aristóteles Sonne of Nicomachus the phisition borne in Stragera in Gréece consumed his youth riottously He was after scholer to the noble Plato .xx. yeares continually He excelled all men in sharpenesse of witte and knowledge in dyuers sciences wherfore kyng Philip of Macedonie sent him his sonne Alexander to teache saying He thanked God that he had a sonne borne in his time This man began a sect the followers whereof were called Peripatetici Hée taught after Platos death .xxiiij. yeares He was banished out of Athens bycause it was supposed hée déemed not well of theyr goddes It is written that he died by this occasion As he went by the sea side hée perceyued fishermen sitting and dooing of somewhat And when hée asked what they dyd they tolde him a riddle which when by long studie he coulde not assoyle for shame and sorrowe hee dyed Of him Quintilian writeth thus What saye you by Aristotle whome I wote not whether I may iudge more excellent in knowledge of things in aboundance of writing ⪠in swéetenesse of Eloquence in sharpnesse of witte or else in diuersitie of workes He was little of personage crookebacked yll shapen and stutting He was 345. yeares before Christes incarnation Aristotelicus and Aristotelius a um Or Aristotle Aristoxenus A famous Philosopher and Phisition the scholar of Aristotle and dyuers other learned men Another of that name was in Cyrena so curious in gardeyning that euery night hee vsed to cast mulse on hys learuse to make them sauour more pleasantly Aritissa A lake in Armenia the greater Arius A ryuer in Aria néere to Baetria Armalcar The ryuer Euphrates Arménia The name of two regions Maior and Minor Arménia maior hath on the north Colchis Iberia and Albania on the weast part of Cappadocia on the east part of the Hircane sea on the south Mesopotamia and the mountaine Taurus Arménia minor hath on the north and weast part Cappadocia on the east the noble ryuer Euphrates and Armenia maior on the south part the mountaine Taurus Armeni People of Armenia which were christened of late yeares but nowe they be subiectes to the Turkes They in some things varyed from the Church of the Latines and Gréekes They haue one great Byshop whome they call Catholicum They kéepe holy neyther the natiuitie of Christ nor his baptisme saying Hée needed not to be pourged or clensed of sinne Also they take from all sacraments the vertue to conferre grace They eftsoones baptise those that come from the church of the latines to them saying that they be not of the catholyke fayth They say that no man may be christened vnlesse hée receyue the sacrament of the aultare and that infantes neede not to be baptised affirming that in them is no originall sinne That the holye ghost procéedeth of the father and not of the sonne That the sacrament of the aultare may not be consecrate of breade cleane without leauen Also in the consecration they put no water to the wine Moreouer they say that the receyuing of the sacrament profiteth onely to the bodye That when Christ descended into hell he ledde wyth him all the soules that were there That matrimonye is no sacrament and may be dissolued at the will of the man or woman That Christ did rise the Saterday after good Friday All these are sayde to be their opinions and are condemned as errours by sundry counsels Armon A riuer that commeth from the hilles of Arabie and deuideth Moabitide from Amonitide after Calepine Armorica The auncyent name of Brytaine in Fraunce Arnates A people of Italy Arna A countrey where the Boeotians inhabited Arne A citie néere to the goulfe called Maliacum Arnobius A noble Rhetorician of Affrike mayster to Lactantius He wrate against the Gentyles the yeare of our Lorde .305 whose exposition we haue vpon the Psalter Arnus A swift ryuer in Italy which runneth by the city of Florence called vulgarly Arno. Arôma The name of a citie Arpandes A Lieuetenant of Aegypt vnder Cambyses Arpinâs âtis A man or woman of Arpinum Arpinum An auncient towne in Italy famous and noble by the byrth of Plautus Tullius and Marius Arrianus A poet in the time of Tiberius Also an hystoriographer which wrate the gestes of Alexander the great Ariminensis synodus A generall counsayle kept at Ariminum in Italy the yere of our Lorde .360 the 22. yeare of the reigne of the Emperour Constantius where the Gréekes assayed by their subtil wittes to condemne the noble counsayle of Nice but by the wisedome of the Latines that disputation was deferred and at a generall counsayle at Rome the opinions of the Arrians were condemned Arrius An heretike a Priest in the church of Alexandria the yere of our Lorde 320. He was a fayre personage had a verie sharpe witte and was greatlye esteemed But falling into pride and ambition of honour he purposed and helde this heresie that the sonne was not equall to the father in deitie nor of the same substance but was a méere creature Vnto this errour he induced a great part of the worlde than christened as well noble Clearkes as other For the which was called the great counsayle of Nice the Emperour Constantinus magnus being present with .318 Bishops where it was after long disputation determined that the sonne is equall and of one substance with the father as touching the diuinitie Which decrée was approoued by the Emperour And Arrius wyth sixe Byshops which obstinately perseuered in their heresie were banished Afterward Arrius finished his life with an horrible death For as he
was disputing being prouoked to the stoole in exonerating nature he poured out all his bowels and so dyed Arrius or rather Arrianus an hystorian borne in Nicomedia among other workes he wrate in Gréeke the lyfe of great Alexander This man for his learning and vertue obteyned great honours at Rome of the Emperours Hadrian and Antonine in so much that he was once Consull There was one Arrius a philosopher in Alexandria in the time of Augustus and an other verye familier with Cicero Arsaces Was the generall name of the kings of Parthia Arsácia The name of a citie of Mede Arsanca A citie of Germanie called Cleppern Arsenária A citie of Mauritania called Arze Arsichina A citie in Germanie now called Bromp Arsichoras A king of Sardis in the time of Anniball Arsinoë The wyfe of Lysimachus king of Macedonie Also a citie in Cyrene called commonly Trochara Arsonium A citie of Germanie called Prinsintza Artabanus A king of Parthia the last of Arsaces stock whome Artaxerxes slue and restored the kingdome to the Persians .538 yeares after Darius was subdued by Alexander Artabazes vel Artabasdes A king of Armenie Sonne of Mithridates a man excellently learned Artabicia One of the yles of Propontis Artabri A people by the Promontory called Artabrum Artabrum A promontorye in Spayne Artace A citie of the Milesians in Asia Also a towne of Bithynia called Carpi Artacena A country of Syria Artacha An hyll full of trées in the yle of the Cyziceniens Artachaeas A capitaine in the armie of Xerxes Artanes A king of Armenie surnamed Sophenus Also a ryuer running into Ister Artaphernes One of Darius Capitaines vanquished of the Gréekes néere to Marathon Artanum A citie of Germany called Herbipolis Wirtzbourg Artaxa A king of Armenie of whome Tigranes descended Artà xata orum n. g. The chiefe citie of Armenie the great at the ryuer Araxis Artaxerxes A name whereby many kings of Persia were called Of whom one is named in the byble Assuerus An other which was his sonne by Hester called also Ochus An other called Longimanus bycause hys armes and handes were so long that standing vpryght he mought touch his knées with his handes He was benigne and loued peace and therefore was he well beloued of all his people He was before the incarnation 485. yeares and had to surname Memnon Artaxiasata A citie of Armenie Arteatae People of Persia Artembares A noble man of the Medes Artimidorus A learned man very familiar with Brutus which deliuered a booke to Caesar of the conspiracie against him the same daye that he was slayne willyng him to reade it foorthwith but he neglected it to hys owne confusion Artemis idis Is a name of Diana Artemisia The name of a noble Princesse wyfe to Mausolus king of Caria of a notable chastitie and excelled so in loue towarde hir husbande that when he was deade she caused his heart to be dryed in a vessell of gold into poulder by little and litle she dranke it vp saying Their two hearts should neuer depart a sunder and that she thought there might be no worthy sepulchre made for it but hir owne bodie Notwythstanding she made for his bodie such a sepulchre that for the excellent workmanship beautie and costlynesse it was taken for one of the marueyles of the worlde and for the noble fame thereof all sumptuous and great sepulchres were afterwarde called Mausolaea Shée founde also the herbe Artemisia called in Latine Damasonium of great vertue in womens diseases Artemisium A promontorie of Euboea and an ymage of Diana Artemisius The moneth of May among the Macedonians Also an hyll in Arcadie Artemita A famous citie .500 furlongs from Seleucia Artemius A mountaine of Achaia in Argo Artemon The proper name of dyuers men Artemon An heretike which affyrmed that Christ was but pure man taking hys begynning in the Virgin Marie This heresie being once condemned was eftsoones reuyued by Palus Samosatenus Arthurus A king of England when it was called Britannia a man of excellent prowesse who in xv great battailes against the Saxons vanquished them and finally draue the most part of them out of this Realme He subdued Scotland and Ireland at that time being wel inhabited and in culture And after kept an honorable house of valiant and noble personages wherein was such magnificence that it gaue occasion to Frenchmen and Spaniardes to exercise their wittes in auauncing of Arthurs maiestie with incredible fables which is no more to be marueiled at than the semblabe inuentions and fantasies of the Gréekes Albeit thys Arthur was a verye noble and famous prince yet of them which wrate hystories about hys tyme he was vnremembred He flourished about the yeare of our Lorde 510. Artigis A citie in Spaine called also Alhama Artómici People of a countrye in Fraunce called Arminake ArtotyrÃtae People which did offer to theyr God breade and chéese Aruales fratres Were supposed to be the foster brethren of Romulus to whome he gaue the dignitie of priesthoode to make sacrifice for growing and increase of corne and preseruation of the corne fieldes Aruerni People of Fraunce néere to the ryuer of Leyre Aruisium An hill on the sea coast of the yle called Chium where growe the wines called Aruisia vina nowe Maruisia vina Malmesey Arúnca A towne in Italy Arupenum A towne in Fraunce Arupinus A citie in Pannonie Arxata A citie of Armenie A S Asa In the language of Syria signifieth a phisition or a healer of sicknesses Of that name was the fifth king of Iuda the sonne of Abia who reigned .41 yeares He honored God destroyed Idols and was fortunate in battayle so that he is compared to king Dauid for his personage and vertuous qualities He slue the king of Aethyope wyth an infinite number of hys people He was before the incarnation .973 yeares Asachae A people in the mountaines of Aethiope fiue daies iourney from the sea who lyue onely by the hunting of Elephantes Asachus A ryuer in Macedonie running by Heraclia at the foote of the mountaine Oete Asae A towne or people of Peloponnesus Asaea A certaine hill Asaeus A Gréeke that was slaine of Hercules Asaph An hebrue word signifying gathering or finishing Of this name was a singing man in the house of God to whome king Dauid assygned certayne tytles of hys Psalmes Asbestae A people of Lybia where was an Oracle of Ammon Asbolus The name of an hounde in Ouid. Asbotus A citie in Thessaly Asca à lias Ascu A citie in Sicilie buylded by Elymu as prince of Troy Ascaláphus The sonne of Mars and Astiocles Also the sonne of Acheron and the Nymph Orphnes which was tourned into an Owle AscalÃngium The citie of Hilderhem Ascalon An hebrue worde signifying a poysing or a ballance or fire of infamie And it is the name of a citie in the higher Idumea from Hierusalem .90 myles as Egesippus saith The people of this citie were called Ascalonitae Ascalus The brother of Tantalus and sonne of Hymenaeus Ascancalis The citie of
Emperour Valentinianus being afearde sent vnto him Leo the byshop of Rome with the Consuls and certaine Senatours who submitted themselues vnto him And when his host supposed he would haue them in contempt and continue his iourney to destroy Rome he pardoning them departed whereat all men marueyled But he being demaunded why he had so done aunswered that whiles the Byshop and Senatours spake vnto him he behelde standing on eyther hande of him a man of armes of excellent personage euerye of them holding a naked swearde ouer him manacing to slea him if he spake any vnsitting worde or did make anye further attemptate Wherefore he discharged the Romaines with gentle language perswading his host to holde them content Afterwarde he entred into Germanie wasting the countrey and in his returne towarde Hungarie he maryed a wyfe In which maryage he so excessiuelye fylled himselfe with meates and wynes that thereby he fell in a bleeding and so dyed after the incarnation .401 yeares And at the beginning he called him selfe the scourge of God Atuacutum The towne of Antwarpe in Brabant Atura A towne of Aquitaine Aturius A ryuer in Fraunce called vulgarly Ledou Atys A childe of woonderfull beautie beloued of Cybele the mother of Goddes was turned into a pyne tree It was also a king of Lydia descending liniallye from Hercules and Omphale Also a ryuer of Sicilie A V Auantici A people of Fraunce Auáricum Vierron in Berry in the royalme of Fraunce Auctolicus A théefe that transformed himselfe into dyuers shapes Auctonus The sonne of Apollo and Cyrene Aucula or Aquilae A towne in Thuscane called Aquapendens Auella or Auellinum A towne of Campaine in Italy Auentinus An hyll at Rome Auentinus a um Of that hyll Auenuiorum colonia or Auenio Auenion a citie in Prouaunce Auerni People of the countrey in Fraunce called Auergne Auârnus ni mas gen and in the plurall number Auerna orum neut gen A lake in Campaine which was dedicate vnto Pluto king of hell where men suppose to bée an entrie or passage to hell Auernus a um and Auernalis le Of Auernus sometime of hell Auerrois A great philosopher and phisition enimie to Auicen and also to Christ And for hys great commenes wriâten vpon Aristotle he named Commentator He was aboute the yeare of our Lorde .1145 Aufidena ae A towne of Italy Aufidius A mans name Aufidus A ryuer in the country of Naples in Italy Auga vel Auge es The mother oâ Telephus by Hercules Shee when hir father vnderstoode that shee was with childe was gyuen to a shipman to be cast into the sea But before it was done shee was deliuered of a chylde which was hidden in the bushes and afterwarde found by shepeheardes and brought to Corithus who kept it as his owne and named it Telephus because it was founde âucking an hinde Auga hir selfe was giuen to certaine merchauntes that brought hir into Caria and presented hir to king Theuthras which had hyr in great estimation and tooke hir to his wife Augea A citie of Locris An other in Laconia Augea King of Elis one of Iasons companions to attaine the golden fliece He had an oxe stalle that woulde receyue 3000. oxen and had not beene clensed or rydde in 30. yeares Wherefore he thinking it a matter vnpossible hired Hercules to clense it who conueying into it the ryuer Alpheus with the water thereof did easily ridde away the dung gathered by so many oxen .30 yeares space which otherwyse vneath wyth any labour he coulde haue atchieued In the ende when he required the rewarde that was couenaunted Augea began to haft and finde quarrels takyng Phileus hys owne sonne to be arbiter or vmpier betweene them Phileus gaue iudgement wyth Hercules against his father for which dooyng hée chased hym out of hys realme into Duâyâhium Hercules thereat sore displeased gathering a power spoyled and sacked the citie Elis kylled Augea and bringing Phyleus out of banishment made him king in his fathers rowme Augias the sonne of Phorbas or after some of Nycteus or Epochus out of his eyes appeared as it were sunne beames Other affirme that this Augias was king of Epites or Elidenses that Euristeus caused Hercules to make cleane his stable wherein was an huge heape of dung Augusta Caesarea A city in Spayne vpon the riuer Iberus Augusta Emerita A citie in Portugall Augusta Taurinorum Turine Augusta Treuirorum The citie of Trier or Treues Augusta Rauricum A citie in Almaine called Basile or Basilaea Augusta Vindelicorum A goodly and beautifull citye in Germanie called Ausbourgh Augusta Vestonum Soysson in Campaine Augusta Gemella A citie in Spaine Augustae The surname of diuers Empresses of Rome Augustinus The famous Doctor in Chrystes Church borne in Affrike in a towne called Gathensis was of such excellent witte that in his childehoode he learned all the seuen liberall sciences without an instructor He was woonderfully learned specially in the doctryne of Plato whereby he was the rather induced to imbrace the Chrystian fayth He fauoured the errours of the Manichées but by the continuall prayer of hys good mother Monica and the perswasion of saint Ambrose he was at last conuerted to the true fayth They both replenished with the holye Ghost dyd sing togither the Psalme Te deum aunswering mutually the one to the other Afterwarde in prayer wryting and preachyng he so much profited that he was had in great reuerence of all men and wrote moe bookes than euer did anye in the Church of the Latines He liued .76 yeares was bishop .40 yeres died in the yeare of our Lorde .437 Augustodunum The citie of Auston in Fraunce Augustonemetum Neuers in Fraunce Augustoritum The citie of Poâcters Augustus The seconde Emperour of Rome sonne of Octauius a Senatour and nephew to Iulius Caesar whome he succeeded This man was wise curteous liberall and of much moderation and clemencie When he had ouercome Alexandria and the Citizens for that they had stubburnelye rebelled did looke for nothing but extremity he taking with him his friende Arius of the same citie went vp into an high place and sayde vnto them friendes I pardon your offence and spare your citie first for the greatnesse and noblenesse of it secondly for Alexanders sake that founded it and thirdlye at the contemplacion of this my friende Arius your countreyman Whereby he both shewed a singular example of clemencie and to his friende got great loue and estimation Hearing on a time that great Alexander after that hée had conquered the most part of the worlde before he was .33 yeres of age did doubt wyth himselfe what he might doe all the residue of hys lyfe he greatelye marueyled that so noble a prince dyd not count it a farre harder matter well to gouerne that hee had gotten then by might and force still to increase hys dominion In the .42 yere of this Emperours reygne our sauiour Christ was borne when that Augustus had confirmed such a generall peace in the
noble Romaines of whome mention shall be made in their surnames CornÃculum Was sometyme a towne in Italy Cornificius A learned man in the time of Salust Cornucopiae A horne that Hercules plucked from Achelous which horne the nymphes or immortall ⪠Ladyes filled with sweete flowers and fruites There is another opinion thereof which is this It was the horne of a Goat with whose mylke Iupiter was nourished in Creta of two maidens Adralica Ida otherwise called Amalthea Melissa daughters of Melissus king of Creta which horne Iupiter gaue to his nurses for a rewarde hauing therewith thys commoditie that whatsouer thing they wished for it shoulde abundantly come out of that horne whereof came a prouerbe when men would declare plenty of any thing they signifie it in these two wordes Copiae cornu Cornûtus The name of a learned man in the time of Nero of whom togither with Musonius the philosopher he was slaine Coroebus Looke Choroebus Corona The signe of Ariadne in the firmament which hath .ix. starres in forme of a crowne Corone A towne in Gréece in the partes nowe named Morea Coronea A citie in Boeotia where no moles bréede if any be brought thither he dyeth Corònis The daughter of Leusippus of whome Apollo begat Aesculapius Corsica An yle in the middle sea betwéene Gean and the yle of Sardinia called Cors It is now vnder the citie of Gean Corsicum mare The sea about the yle of Cors. Cortina A citie of Creta Cortona A citie in Tuscane Cortyna or Gortyna A citie in the yle of Candie Coruncanus A Romayne which first of any of the common people was made their high bishop Coruinus The name of a noble oratour Reade more of him in Messala Coruis A place in Thessaly into the which transgessours were hurled downe headlong Corybantes The priestes of the ydole Cybéle which as madde men wagging their heads and daunsing playing on Cymballes ranne about the stréetes prouoking other to doe the lyke They first inhabited the mounte Ida in Phrygia and afterwarde passing into Crete tooke for their abyding an hill which of their olde habitation they called also Ida where as poets feigne they priuily nourished Iupiter when his father Saturne commaunded hym to be slaine and continually played on tymbrelles and drumslades that the noyse of the chylde crying might not be heard Coribântius a um Pertayning to the sacrifices of those priestes Corybas antis The sonne of Iason and Cybele Corycia A promontorie of Crete and an hauen in Aethiope Corycides The surname of the Muses of an hil or denne in Parnassus by Delphi called Corycius Córicon A promontorie or elbowe of Pamphilia vnder the which the citie Atalia is scituate Corycos or Corycus The name of a mountaine and citye in Sicilie by the which is a caue called Corycius Corycus A mountaine and hauen of Pamphilia of the which certaine rouers on the sea were named Corycaei whose falsehoode in beguilyng the marchauntes resorting thither is growne to a prouerbe and of them all craftie and wily spyes and searchers out of matters are called Corycaei * Corycaeus auscultauit A prouerbe spoken when a thing greatly dissembled and kept secrete is by some spie disclosed Corydon A shéepeheardes name in Theocrite and Virgile Corydus The name of a Parasite Corythus A towne in Tuscane néere to Aretium Cos Looke Coos Cosmus mi A proper name Cossa A towne of Vmbria Cossus The name of a certaine Romayne Cosyra or Cosura An yle of the middle sea by Affrike Cotiae The Alpes Cotiso A king of the Danes Coton An hauen made with stone Also a towne in Siria of the which a certaine kinde of small fygges are called plurally Cotona Coctona or Cottona Cotta An oratour of Rome greatly commended of Cicero Cotylum A place in the Mountaine of Ida out of the which runne thrée great ryuers Scamander Granicus and Aesopus Cotys A king of Thrace which in the ciuile warre fauoured the part of Pompey Couinum A towne in Dorser shire called Dorchester Counos The yle of Shepey in Kent Cous a um Of the yle of Cos. C R Cragus A mountaine of Lycia dedicate to Apollo Cranaus A king of Athens who succeeded Cecrops Craneum A place of exercise at Corinth Craneus The first king of Macedon betwéene him and Alexander Magnus reigned .xxxvij. kinges about the space of .500 yeares Crantor oris The name of a philosopher Crassus The surname of diuers noble Romaines One named Lucius Crassus next to Tullie was the most excellent oratour among the Romaines of whome and Quintus Scaeuola Tully writeth in this wise Think not I say Brutus that in this citie were euer twoo more excellent persons For where it is well knowne that of all counsaylours the one Scaeuola was most eloquent the other Crassus was in counsayling most excellent Likewise in all other thinges they were vnlike one to another but so as yée coulde not tell vnto which of them yée woulde wishe to be lyke For Crassus of all delicate and ioly was the most sober Scaeuola of all that were sober was the most freshe and pleasant Crassus with gentlenesse had sufficient seuerity in the great seuerity of Scaeuola lacked no gentlenesse Crassus caâled Marcus was the richest priuate person of the Romaines he had in his treasure .7100 talents which amounteth of our money to 1100350. li. or more truely after the computacion and valuation of Tonstal to .852000 li. sterling besides that he had giuen the x. part of his mooueables to Hercules in offering and had made a feast to all the people of Rome appointing to euery man the rate of thrée Minas He woulde saye he ought not to be called a riche man except he coulde with his yearely rent maintaine a legion which commonly conteyned .6000 footemen and 500. men of armes By which wordes it may be well supposed that where Plinie estéemeth the rychesse of Crassus to be .20000 Sestertia which in the rate of our money is .131065 li. the same summe was the yearely reuenues of Marcus Crassus euerye Sestertium beeyng vj. li.xj.s.ix.d ob which reuenues were not onelye of hys possessions graine fruite and cattaile but also of the labours of bondmen which he did let to hyre they being instructed in all maner sciences and artes of whome were .500 Carpenters of all the other a much greater number All that they gayned came to his coffers Moreouer hée practised vsurie lending lightly to all men that would borowe but if they breake promise with him he was in exacting therof extréeme and rigorous He gotte infinite substance by men attainted in y e time of Sylla He was excéeding couetous vnstable but vsing much liberality and affability towarde the people he was alwaye in great estimatioÌ among them he was eloquent woulde pleade in euery common cause Finallye being stirred with couetousnesse and enuie at the great honours that Caesar and Pompey had obteyned hée procured warre against the Parthians by whom both he and his sonne
the birth of children make great lamentation at the death make great ioy Drepanum A citie in Italy called nowe Trapani Drilon A ryuer of Dalmatia called commonly Drino Druides dum or Druidae arum Were sometime in fraunce called Gallia one of the two estates of like condition as the spiritualtie is nowe among vs. They had in great estimation woodes of great Okes and in marueylous reuerence all thynges that grewe on Okes speciallye Misselden affyrming that it was sent from Heauen Their sacrifice was in thys fourme Vnder an Oke wheron grewe Misselden they caused meate to be prepared and set and two white Bulles to be brought foorth whose hornes were then first bounden that is to say were set first in the Ploughe or Wayne Then the priest being clad in white clambe vp to the trée and hauing a Byll of Golde in hys hande did shredde or cut of the Messelden then offered they the sacrifice praying that the gyft that shoulde bée giuen might bée to them that shoulde receyue it prosperous and fortunate supposing that the beast which was barren if hée dranke of the Misselden shoulde be fruitefull and that it was a sure remedie against all poyson It is supposed that their supersticyon came first out of this yle called Brytaine Drusomagus A city of Rhetia called commonly Rempten Drusus The name of a Romayne of right noble lynage and eloquence but he was prowde and ambicious Dryas The proper name of a man of Thessaly friende of Nestor Dryades Were fayries of woodes Dryidae idem quod Druidae Drylon Looke Drylon Drymodis Afterward Pelasgus is nowe called Archaââe Dryopes People of Epirus D V Dubis A ryuer in Fraunce called Le doux Ducona The citie of Caors in Fraunce Duellôna ae foem gen In olde time called Bellona Duillius A noble man of Rome that first in that citie tryumphed for a victorie gotten in a battayle on the sea When he was an olde man in chyding wyth his enimie it was cast in his téeth that hée had an yll sauouryng breath Wherewyth he beyng somewhat abashed went home to his wyfe and chidde wyth hyr that she neuer tolde him of it Syr sayde shée so woulde I haue done had I not thought that all mennes breathes had sauoured in lyke maner So farre were honest matrones in those dayes from clypping kissing and wanton daliaunce with straungers Dulichium An I le in the sea Maliake or as some saye Ionium Dulópolis A citie of Aethiope called by an other name Acanthus Dunium The towne of Dorchester Dunum A countrey in Englande called Durham Duram Some thinke to be the name of a ryuer néere vnto which the Gygantes made the tower Babell Some will it to be a fielde as in Daniel Durias or Turia The name of a ryuer néere to Valentia called commonly Duero Durocottorum The citie of Rheynes in Fraunce D Y Dynamene A certaine nymph Dyrrhachium A citie in Sicilio which was first called Epidamnus It is nowe called Durazo E A EAnus the God of the yeare whome the Phoenicians paynted a serpent with his tayle in his mouth Eantes The name of a story wryter that was in that age that Pigmalion reigned in the east part Easo The citie called saint Sebastian in Spaine E B Ebionitae Heretykes which denyed Christ to be God and affirmed that all partes of the olde lawe ought to bée kept with the newe lawe They receyued onely the gospell of saint Mathew and reiected the other and also all the epistles of saint Paule The authour of that secte was one Ebion about the yeare of our Lorde .88 Eblana A citie in Irelande called Dublin or Deuelin Eborácum or Eburacum ci A Citie in Englande called Yorke Ebosus An yle betwéene Sardinia and Affrike the earth whereof will suffer no venemous thing to lyue where is such bréede of Conies that they destroy the Iles next adioyning Ebron A mountaine in Palestina Ebrus or Hebrus A ryuer of Thrace running from the mountaine Rhodope in the grauell whereof are founde little rayes or péeces of golde Ebudes Iles in the sea about Englande I suppose nighe Wales and the west countrey where the people lyue by white meate and fishe Ebuleus The sonne of Iupiter and Proserpina Ebura A citie of Portugall nowe called Ebora Eburini People of Lucania Eburones People of the countrey called Liege or Luke beyonde Brabant Eburonices A people of Fraunce Eburum A citie of Germany called commonly Olmuntz E C Ecameda The daughter of the valiaunt Arsinous which at the battaile of Troy was giuen to Nestor Ecbatana The chiefe citie of the realme of Media There is a citie in Syria of the same name sometime called Epiphania and may be written Egbatana Echemon Priamus sonne slaine by Diomedes Echeneus A very courteous and gentle person of the people called Phaeaces Echinades Béene ylandes in a ryuer in Gréece called Achelous which deuideth Aetolia from Acarnania EchÃneis An yle in the sea Aegeum Echinon A citie of Thrace Echioni Thebanes so called of Echion one of the fiue that holpe Cadmus to buylde Thebes E D Edessa A citie beyonde the ryuer of Euphrates Edom Esau was so called and the countrey where he reigned Edomus An hyll next vnto Pangeum in the borders of Thessalie Edon onis mas gen A mountaine of Thrace Edones A people of Scythia Edoni or Edonij People of Thrace or in the borders of Macedonie néere to Thrace Edonides Were women which being stirred with a diuine furour did celebrate the mysteries of Bacchus Edonis idis A citie of Aeolis and a countrey of Thrace Edonius a um Of Edonis Edonus idem quod Edon Edonus a um Of Thrace Edri An yle on the east part of Irelande which Plinie calleth Andros Edyia A nymph the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys Eetion Andromaches father ⪠that reigned at Thebes in Cilicia E G Egelaste A towne in the higher Spaine Egeria An ydoll to whome women with childe did offer supposing that thereby they shoulde traueile easily Egesinus A philosopher the scholer of Euander Egesta A citie in Sicilie which Aeneas buylded Also the daughter of Hippotes the Troyan mother of Atestes Eioneus One of the Princes of Gréece which came to Troy mother of Thrace which ayded the Troyanes E L Elaea A citie of Asia an other of Italy the people wherof be called Eletae or Elitae It is also a citie of Phoenicia an other of Bithynia Elamitae Be called the princes of the Persians of Elam the sonne of Sem as Iosephus sayth Eleebus A citie in Fraunce called commonly Schelestade Eldana A citie in Spaine called Duennes Elea A citie in the countrey of Lucania Eleates A man of that citie Electra The daughter of Oceanus and Tethys She had a daughter of the same name on whome Iupiter begat Dardanus Electrion The father of Amphytrio and sonne of Alceus Electrites Certaine yles in the sea Adriaticum Eléctrius a um Of Electra Elei People in Gréece in the Countrey sometime called Peloponnesus nowe Morea Eleleus One of the
Papyrianae A citie in Italy called Fosso nouum Fossum Sempronij A towne in Italy called Fossenborne Also Fauentia F R Francones People of Germanie Fratres Aruales Reade before in Aruales Fregellae A little towne in Italy sometime a noble citie Frentani People of Italy Fretum Herculeum A narrow sea betwéene Spaine and the countrey of Moores called the straytes of Marrocke Frisij People of Hollande whereof the countrey is called Friselande Fronto A learned man instructour of M. Antonius Frusino A citie of Campaine Frusinum A citie of Campaine called Frusinona Frutinal A temple of Venus F V Fucinus A lake in Italy Fugalia orum n. g. plu A feast among the Romaines in remembraunce of dryuing out of the kinges and expelling of Tarquinius solemnised in the Moneth of Februarie Fulco A Duke of Angewe the fifth king of Hierusalem Fulginates A people of Italy Fulsinates People of Illyria Fuluiaster He that imitateth the maners of Fuluius Fuluius The name of a Romaine Furiae Goddesses of furie and the daughters of Nox and Acheron There were of them three Alecto Tisiphone and Megera Poetes feigned that these furies dwelled in hell but the meaning of olde writers was that they were nothing but the wringings torments and gnawings of yll consciences that vexed naughtie men Furiâlis le Of or pertaining to the furies Furnianus a um Of Furnius Furnius One that inuented certaine vessels which were therefore called Furniana vasa Fusidius The name of an oratour G A GAba A towne in Galilée Gabaa A citie of Syria Gabales A people of Aquitaine in Fraunce Gabalum A towne in Fraunce nighe to Narbone where very good chéese was made Gabalus The name of Heliogabalus before he was Emperour Gabaon A citie in the holy lande nighe to Rama where Salomon doing sacrifice spake with God Gabaonitae Men of that Citie Gabba A citie in Syria Gabij orum A Citie in Italy which the Romaines destroyed Gabinensis GabÃnus a um Of the people called Gabij Gabinius A Romaine Ambassadour which restored Ptolome to his kingdome Gabriel The name of an Aungell It signifieth the puissaunce or might of God Gaddir A citie of Spayne Gades dium foe gen plu Twoo Iles in the further part of Spaine beyonde Granate which in worthinesse of men before tyme haue excelled For at one tyme there were in Rome .500 men of this countrey citizens of the order and state of gentlemen In the lesse of those two Ilandes it is reported that Grasse is so battle as the milke of the Beastes doth cast no whey nor can haue any chéese made of it vnlesse it be mixed with much water It is written moreouer that vnlesse the beastes there feeding be often let bloude they will within .xxx. dayes be styfled and dye with fatte Which fertilitie maye séeme to gyue occasion of the fable of Geryons beastes that Hercules droue away Gaderes A citie of Syria not farre from Ascalon Gadira A place néere to the vttermost bounds of Spayne to which when Hercules came and coulde passe no further he set vp there his pillours Gaditânus a um Of or belonging to the Iles Gades Gaditanum fretum The entrie out of the Occean sea into the sea called Mediterraneum hauing Spaine on the northside and the Moores on the south Geon or Githon A great ryuer which runneth through Aethiope and Aegipt and is nowe called Nylus Gagátes or Gages A ryuer in Lycia where the stone Ieate was first founde Galanthis The handmayde of Alemena by whose craft she brought forth Hercules when she was let by Iuno and Lucina in despite whereof she was turned into a Wéefill called in Gréeke Gale Galata An I le not farre from Melita Galatae or Gallogreci People of Galacia Galataea A nymph or mayden of the sea and was daughter of Nereus and Doris Galatia or Gallograecia A countrey in the lesse Asia ioyning to Phrygia and Lidia Galba A Romayne which in his time was verye eloquent Galenus The sonne of Nicon a famous Geometrician In phisicke he was so excellent as he may iustly séeme to be raysed by diuine prouidence at that time to make perfite that noble arte and to confounde the manyfolde sectes and errours with which as then it was defaced Vntill he was xv yeares of age he was brought vppe by his father in Grammer Logike and Arithmetike Afterwarde he gaue himselfe to more graue studyes of philosophie and therein marueylouslye profyted So soone as he was .xvij. yeares olde his father was by a dreame admonished to set his sonne to the study of phisicke in which arte within fewe yeares he so notablye preuayled that he not onelye passed all his equalles in learning but with the admiration of all men his maisters also that taught him When that in Gréece none coulde bée founde at whose hande he might further learne he traueyled ouer many countreyes to learne and vnderstande the nature of simples and other matter perteining to the science that he professed After his sundrie traueyles by that he was .xxviij. yeares of age beyng well furnished with many profitable simples hée returned to his countrey Pergamus alwaye endeuouring to make other pertakers of those thinges that by his great labours he himselfe had learned By occasion of a sedition raysed in his countrey after few yeares hée went to Rome where by his great learning and marueylous cures that he wrought he procured fauour and loue of good men spite and enuie of the malycious but the admiration of all that knewe hym both good and euill Vntill he was xxviij yeares olde he was of body much in daunger to sickenesse All the residue of his life by good order and dyet ⪠he continued in most perfite health vnlesse it were sometime the grudging of a Feuer for a dayes space In witte and reasoning he was sharpe earnest and subtile In maners so curteous milde and gentle that he neuer corrected his seruaunts otherwise than with modest chastising in wordes Towards his pacients comfortable pleasaunt and pittifull Of such constancie and grauitie that he with lyke ââaye and moderation of minde did alwaye sustayne aduersitie and prosperitie honour and reproch loue and displeasure So little he estéemed vaine glory that hée would not haue set his owne name to the most famous workes that he wrote of all partes of phisicke In teaching his arte and science beside his notable eloquence and learning he vsed so excellent order and methode that his workes are woonderously estéemed of all that knowe what learning meaneth So much hée tendred hys owne natiue countrey that he chose rather in hys latter tyme to lyue there in meane estate than wyth the Emperours of Rome in great estimation and dignitye In âme he dyed beyng of age .70 yeares or as some wryte .140 and flourished especiallye in the time of Marcus Antonius Commodus and Pertinax the Emperours about the yeare of our Lorde .160 Galesus A ryuer of Calaber by the citie Tarentum Galilaea A countrey which marcheth on Syria Arabia and Egypt Gallecia A region in
brother Phaeton that therewith they died and were transfourmed as poets feigne into trées out of the which runneth the gumme called Electrum in Englishe ambre whereof beades were made Helias The prophete of Thesbis of the countrey of Arabie a Leuite of the tribe of Aaron He dwelt in Giliad for Thesbis was an habitacion dedicated vnto priests In the time of his birth his father Sobac did sée in a vision that men apparelled in white did call the childe threwe him into the fire and gaue to him a flame of fire to eate The father rising vp went to Hierusalem and shewed his vision to the priestes and he that gaue aunswere saide vnto him beware thou disclose it not The habitacion of this childe shall be light and his worde a demonstration and shall iudge Israell in the sworde and fire This is that Elias that brought fire thrise out of heauen and bare raine in his tongue and was taken vp into heauen in a fierie storme That which is written more of Elias in the Byble maye be there read Helice A citie of Achaia swallowed vp of the sea Helicon A mountaine of Boeotia dedicate to the Muses Heliócopis The name of a Nymph Heliodorus A famous Rhetoritian among the Gréekes Hellâgabalus Supposed to be the bastarde sonne of Antonius Caracalla Emperour of Rome and as Lampridius writeth in his life of Semiamitra or as Egnatius writeth of Scenides his cosen he was made Emperour after Macrinus and Diadumenus being but a boy of .xvj. yeres olde He so much excéeded in detestable leacherie and promoting of vile persons and rybaldes that finally he was hated of all men and at last slayne and drawne through the citie of Rome and throwen into the riuer of Tyber Albeit he was warned afore of Astronomers that he shoulde dye a violent death and therefore had prouided ropes of silke if néede were to hang himselfe swords of golde to kill himselfe strong poisons in Iacinctes and Emerauldes to poyson himselfe if he were inforced Moreouer he made a very high towre hauing the floore of boardes couered with plates of golde and bordered with precious stones from the which he woulde throwe himselfe downe when he were pursued But all this nothing auayled for he was slain by knaues Heliópolis A citie in Gréece called also Corinthus An other in Aegipt an other in Sicilie where Chrysippus was borne Helis Looke Elis. Helissaeus The prophete of Abelmuth of the lande of Rubim when he was borne in Galgalis the Cowe of golde in Selom cryed so lowde that she was hearde at Hierusalem And the priest sayde that it signified that a prophete was borne that day which shoulde dissolue and breake in péeces Images kerued and cast of metall Many marueyles almightie God shewed by him which ye may reade in the Bible Helius A mans name Hellas adis A riuer and countrey of Achaia Gréece was so called of Hellen Deucalions sonne Helle The daughter of Athamas king of Thebans which was drowned with hir brother Phryxus in the sea by Byzance Hellen The sonne of Deucalion of whome the Gréekes were named Hellenes Hellespontus Is the first part of the sea which deuideth Europa from Asia and is in breadth but .vij. furlonges which lacketh one furlong of a myle It is nowe called Brachium sancti Georgij Heloi In Hebrue signifieth God almightie Helôrus A riuer in Sicilie Also the sonne of the ryuer Ister slaine by Aiax Heluetij People called Swicers or Suyches by desire of warres enimies to all mankind subiects neither to God nor to Prince and readie for money to serue as well Turkes as christian princes Helymus and Panopes The companions of Acestes King of Sicilie Hemeresios A table which Pamphilus Apelles maister paincted in one day Hemisphérium ij n. gen Halfe the compasse of the visible heauen or firmament Hemodes Certaine yles in the Douche sea Hemus A great mountaine in Thrace nigh to the sea Propontis which is .vj. myles in height Henetia Was sometime vsed for Venetia Heniochi Looke Eniochi Heptagoniae The name of a place Heptaphônes A certaine hauen or rather a walking place or place of exercise at Olympia Heptápolis lis Was sometyme the name of Aegipt by reason of seuen cities that were first in it Heptáporus A riuer by Troie Hera rae foe ge The name of Iuno Heraclea A towne in the confines of Europe an other in Italy an other in Sicilie an other of Pontus called now Naxioportus It is also a citie of Lydia wherof the touchestone is called Heraclius lapis Heracleo A notable thiefe or robber Heracleon A Grammarian of Aegipt which wrate commentaries vpon Homere and other Heracleópolis The name of thrée cities one in Aegypt an other not farre from Pelusium the thirde not farre from the mouth of Nylus Heracleotes ae One of Heraclea Heracleoticus and Heraclius a um Of Heraclea Heracleus The name of diuers Emperours of Rome Heraclides The name of a philosopher of Pontus a sophister of Lycia a grammarian of Sicilie and a famous paincter of Macedonie Heraclitus A philosopher which alwayes wept when he behelde the people considering howe busie they were to gather treasure and howe negligent in the well bringyng vp of theyr children His workes of a purpose were obscure and harde to be vnderstande When hée was olde hée fell into a dropsie in which neglecting phisitions he wrapped hymselfe in cowe dunge and so lying a sleepe in the sunne was torne and deuoured of dogges He had no mayster but by hys owne nature and diligence preuayled to great knowledge He lyued in tyme of the last Darius and wrate many thinges of philosophie in verses Aristotle doth often vse hys testimonie An other of that name was an excellent runner Herbita A citie of Sicilie called saint Nicolas Hercaeus a um One of the surnames of Iupiter Hercinia A great woodde in Germanye the which is in breadth nyne dayes iourney and in length fortie dayes iourney as Caesar wryteth Pomponius Mela affirmeth it to be fortie dayes iourney in length Herculanium A towne of Campayne Herculânus or Hercâleus a um Of Hercules Herculanus nodus A certayne knotte harde to be vndone whereby a subtill question or syllogismus may be signified Festus Pompeius writeth that in olde tyme the custome was that when the newe maryed bryde went to bed she shoulde be gyrt with a woollen gyrdell knitte with Hercules knotte which the husbande for good lucke shoulde vndoe in the bed that he might be fortunate in getting of children For Hercules is reported to haue .72 sonnes and one daughter as Aristotle writeth De natura animalium lib. 7. cap. 6. Herculana pars and Herculeus quaestus Hercules his part it was the custome of men in olde tyme to auowe the tenth part of their goodes vnto Hercules and that tenth part was called Herculana pars Herculeè Lyke Hercules Herculeius A Romayne whiche fauoured the part of Marius Hercules Séemeth to be a generall name giuen to men excelling in strength all other of their time
Amazones whom Hercules vanquished and gaue hir to Theseus Hippolytus The sonne of Theseus who at the complaint of Phaedra his stepmother was pursued with his father and he in a Chariote fléeing was ouerthrowne among the sharpe stones and rent all to péeces Afterwarde Aesculapius reuiued and restored hym to lyfe Wherefore hée woulde be called Virbius that is to say twise a man for as much as he had twise liued Hippómachus The name of a famous Mynstrell Hippomenes The nephewe of Neptune which ouercame Atalanta in running Looke Atalanta Hippona A Goddesse whome Horsekéepers did woorshippe Hipponax A gréeke poete borne in Ephesus who was deformed in visage but in style sharpe and vehement in so much as when a cunning paynter named Bubalus had paynted his yll fauoured face to make men laugh at it Hipponax made against him such vengeable verses that for anger and shame he caused hym to hang himselfe in his house Hippopodes People in the Scythicke Ocean which haue féete lyke horses Hippus A ryuer in Asia running into Phasis Hipsicratea The wyfe of Mithridates HÃra A citie by the sea side not farre from Pylos Hirpiae Certaine families not farre from Rome whiche doing sacrifice to Apollo went vpon the fyre and were not hurt therewith Hircius A consull of Rome which was vanquished in battayle by Antonie Hismaëlita A Sarasin HÃspalis vel Hispalum A citie in Spayne nowe called Sibilia or Siuââe Hispánia A countrey in the west part of Europa called Spayne sometyme called Iberia and Hesperia It is inuironed on the south part with the sea Mare Mediterraneum which deuideth Europe from Affrike on the north part with the sea Mare Cantabricum on the west with the great Ocean sea on the east with the mountaines Pyrenaei and the part of the realme of Fraunce called Aquitania Narbonensis This countrey is deuyded by Ptholomée into thrée Regions Bethica wherein is Granado Siuill Corduba c. Lusitania wherein is Portugall Gallecia c. Tarrhaconensis wherein is Castile Lions and Aragon At this tyme it conteyneth fiue Realmes Granado on the south part towarde Affrike Portugall on the west Gallecia and Biskaie on the north Arregon on the âast Câstile and Lions in the myddle Much of the west part by reason of rockes forrestes and for lacke of water is not fertile nor weâl inhabited The north part by reason of much colde is not plenteous The south part is wonderfull fruytfull It is in length as Strabo writeth 6000. furlongs which is .850 myles In breadth 5000. furlongs which is .625 myles Plinius next vnto Italy extolleth it in fertilitie aboue all other countreys Solinus compareth it with the best countreyes in plentie of grayne wynes oyle syluer golde and yron Statius and Claudius doe no lesse commende it HispanieÌsis se That was borne or bred in other countries and lyueth in Spayne Hispânus a um That is borne or bred in Spayne Histiaea A citie in Euboea Histiaeus A tyranne of Miletus Erasmus sayth it was a very wily and subtile man of the yle of Samos a friend of Darius of whose newe inuention of letters sending Au. gell writeth lib. 17. cap. 9. Noct. Attic. Histonium A towne in Italie not farre from the mounte Garganus H O Hoetychius A Gréeke very cunning in Image making Holus alias Homolus An hyll of Thessaly Homericus a um Of Homere Homeromastix tigis mas gen The reprocher of Homere Generally Homeromastices be taken for all reprochers and false detractours of learned men Homêrus The chiefe of all poetes whose proper name was Melesigenes But bycause he was blinde he was called Homêrus which in the tongue called Ionica signifieth blinde Cicero Tuscul 5. sayth it is written that Homere was blinde yet sée we his picture and not hys poeme For what countrey what marches what hoste what nauie what motions of mindes as well of men as of beastes are expressed in such wyse that he maketh vs to sée that he saw not Plutarchus in the booke which he wrote of him sayth that in his two workes he comprehendeth both the partes of man For in Ilias he describeth strength and valiantnesse of y e body in Odyssea hée doth set foorth a perfite paterne of the mynde Notwithstanding for his vndiscrete fabling of Goddes and Goddesses Plato excluded him out of his weale publyke Homole An hyll of Magnesia Homolium A towne of Magnesia Homolotti A certayne people Homonaea The proper name of a woman Honoraria Playes made at Rome to the honour of Bacchus Horatius A famous poete borne at Venusium a man excellent in sharpenesse of wit and quicknesse of sentence he was addict to Epicures sect somewhat wanton in maners though he with great libertie of speache noted the vices of other men in his verses called Satyrae In balades to sing to the harpe which were in .xviij. sundrie kindes of verses he passed all other that wrote in Latine Hée was in good fauour wyth the Emperour Augustus by the meanes of Mecoenas the Emperors minion who tooke in him for his myrth and witte much delectation to whome and to Augustus he wrote dyuers Epistles in verse comprehending great wisedome in compendious sentences and dyed when he was .57 yeares olde as Eusebius wryteth He was after the incarnation of Christ about tenne yeares Of his name were dyuers notable Romaynes Horatius Cocles A valiaunt Râmayne in that tyme that Porsenna in the quarell of the Tarquines besieged the citie When the citie was almost taken and all other did flie away this Horatius accompanyed onely wyth two other at a bridge that entered into Rome did kéepe backe the whole armie of Porsenna vntill the bridge was broken downe behynde him and then inspyte of his enimies armed as he was did swimme safe into the citie and so preserued his countrey Horîzon zóntis neu g. A circle deuiding the halfe sphere or ouer part of the firmament from the other halfe where to our sight it séemeth that the heauen toucheth the earth Horomasdes Among the Chaldées was named the good God Horontes Looke Orontes Horóscopus pi mas gen That part of the firmament which euery houre ryseth from the east Astronomers call it the ascendent Horténsia ae foem gen The daughter of Hortensius a woman most eloquent Hortensius An excellent oratour of Rome of a wonderfull memorie Horus An Aegyptian which wrate and declared the secret maner of writing which Aegyptians vsed called Hieroglyphica Horus was also the sonne of Isis Hosa A ryuer of Tuscan ⪠called nowe Martha Hospitalis Iupiter The God of hospitalitie or entertainement so called bicause straungers or guestes when they were yll intreated in their lodginges called him to witnesse desiring him to reuenge them H V Hungaria Reade after in Pannonia Hunni People which came out of Scythia and inhabited Hungarie H Y Hyacinthia festa Were solemne ceremonies done in the night Hyacinthus A boy that Apollo loued whome by misfortune he slewe wherefore he turned him into a flowre of his owne name Hyades Ace seuen
yeares Iosêphus The sonne of Mattathias a priest of Hierusalem wrote in Greeke the battayle of the Iewes and destruction of the citie by Vespasian and Titus whereat he himselfe was present He wrote also of the antiquity of the Iewes He was among the Romaines had in such reuerence and honour that his ymage was set vp in the citie He had the spirite of prophecie and being prisoner tolde vnto Vespasian that he shoulde be Emperour of Rome Also in his booke of antiquities he writeth in this wyse At this tyme was Iesus a wise man if it be lawfull to call him a man he was a doer of woonderfull workes and a teacher of those men which willingly doe heare thinges that be true he ioyned vnto him many Iewes and also Gentiles this man was Christ When Pilate by the enuie of the chiefe men of our nation had iudged him to be put on the crosse he forsooke not them whome from the beginning he loued but appeared to them the thirde day eftsoones alyue according as the prophetes by diuine inspiration spake before of him and that innumerable myracles shoulde be done by him Hitherto wrote Iosephus whereby appeareth his excellent wisedome and speciall grace which he had receyued and it repugneth not much that in his hart he embraced the fayth of Christ He was after the incarnation of Christ .76 yeares Iotapata A citie in Syria Iouianus Pontanus ⪠A poet Iouiniani Were men of armes so called of Maximinian the Emperour which did valiauntlye in the countrey of Illyria I P Iphianassa The wyfe of Melampus whome for hir beautie Iuno turned into furie or madnesse Also the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Iphiclus Sonne of Alcmena borne with Hercules at one birth but Hercules was gotten by Iupiter and Iphicius by Amphitrio And when two serpentes came to the cradell of Iphicius and slewe him after when they came to Hercules he tooke in euery of his handes one and slewe them There was an other Iphiclus the sonne of Phylacus and Clymene who as Hesiodus sayth was so light and swift that he ranne vppon the eares of wheate as they grewe and did not hurt them Also that he ranne on the water as well as on the lande Reade Coelium Lectionum antiq lib. 2. cap. 5. Iphicrates A noble man of Athens Iphidamas The sonne of Antenor Iphigenia The daughter of king Agamemnon whome he woulde haue offered in sacrifice going to Troy but the goddesse Diana being mooued with pitie accepted the offering of an hinde in steede of hir Iphimedia The wife of Aloeus and mother of the two gigantes Oetus and Ephialtes Iphinassa Idem quod Iphianassa Iphinous One of the Centaures Iphis The daughter of Lyctus and Telethusa who the day of hir mariage was sodaynly become a man whereas he had bene a woman euer before For when Lyctus taking a long iourney perceyued his wife with childe he straitly commaunded hir if it were a woman chylde to destroy it if it were a man chylde to keepe it and bring it vp She being deliuered of a mayde and lothe eyther agaynst nature to destroye hir owne chylde or on the other side vtterly to disobey hir husbands commandement tooke an indifferent waye and fayned that shée had brought foorth a sonne kéeping it vp alway in mans apparell At the length when he came to age his father appoynted him to mary a mayde called Ianthes Then Telethusa perceyuing the matter coulde no longer be hyd and fearing hir husbands displeasure called to the gods for helpe by whose power she was euen then turned to a man whose figure to that day in apparell shée had resembled Iphitus The sonne of Praxonidis which first ordeyned the solemne playes called Olympia Also the name of a Troyan I R Iria flauia A citie of Spayne Irpini Certayne people Irus ri m. g. A begger of whome Homere maketh mention who was great and feeble and being in Ithaca the countrey of Vlysses he being absent consumed his vitayles wyth the wooers of Penelope Wherefore Vlysses at hys returne home slewe him with his fist * Iro pauperior As very a begger as lyueth as poore as Iob in extréeme necessitie I S Is A citie eyght dayes iourney from Babilon Isaca The ryuer in Englande called Exe. Isaeus A famous Rhetorician which inuented to make euery matter compendious Isagora A mans name Isandrus The sonne of Bellerophon Isâpis A ryuer nigh to Cesenna Isara A riuer comming out of the riuer of Reine wher the hill called Cemenus is ioyned to the Reine and so runneth by Druentia into the goulfe of Venice Isatia An yle against Velia called also Oenótris Isauria A region in Asia ioyning to Cilicia Some doe take it to be part of Cilicia Isaurum A citie in the countrey of Pamphilia Isca A citie in Deuonshire called Exceter Ischalis A towne in Somersetshire called Ilchester Ischomache The name of Hippodamia Ischópolis A citie of Cappadocia called Tripolie Iscia Idem quod Isatia Isâacus ci The priest of the Goddesse Isis Isis called also âo one of the harlots of Iupiter whome he turned into a Cowe for feare of Iuno his wife Ismael Was the sonne of Abraham by Agar his wyues mayden of whome the Sarazens be called Ismaëlitae as they be called also Agareni Ismarus i mas gen plu Ismara orum A mountayne in Thracia Ismene The daughter of Oedipus Ismenias The name of an excellent Minstrel which plaied on the shaulkies Ismenides The women of Thebes Ismenus A riuer in the countrey of Boeotia named of Ismenus the sonne of Pelasgus Isocrates The name of a famous oratour of woonderfull eloquence out of whose schoole procéeded the most excellent oratours of Gréece Ispalis A citie in Spayne called nowe Siuile Ispolum A citie of the Vilumbrians called now Ispellum Israel Signifieth a man séeing God Also the name of Iacob the patriarke and the people of the Iewes were called by that name Howbeit sometyme it was attrybuted onely to ten tribes the tribes of Iuda and Beniamin being seuered from them Issa An yle in the Venetian sea ioyning to Slauonie Issus A citie in Sicilie and a riuer of Syria Ister A great ryuer called Danubius in dutche Donowe It commeth out of an hill in Germanie called of Plinie Noba of Ptolomie Arnoba of Tacitus Arbona It receyueth into it thrée score riuers whereof the more part be nauigable and runneth by Swaue Bauier Owstrike Hungarie Valachia and so through Europe and falleth into the sea called Pontus in seuen sundrie places as Solinus and Mela wryte But Plinie and Tacitus affirme but sixe Herodotus Arrianus and other but fiue Whyle it is in Germanye it is called Danubius and when it commeth into a part of Thracia called Istria where it is brodest it is then called Ister Isthmus mi mas gen A narrow part of the countrey where two seas are but a small distaunce asunder enclosing the lande on both sides in such a place is set the citie of Corinthus in Gréece There be
whéele fell of and Oenomaus with the fall of the Chariot was so sore bruysed that immediatly hée dyed yeelding both the victorie and his daughter to Pelops whome he also most earnestly desired to be reuenged on his false seruaunt Myrtilus by whose vntroth he was betrayed Wherefore when Myrtilus afterwarde with reprochfull wordes reâuired his reward Pelops threwe hym headlong into the sea as a due rewarde for him that had béene false to his Prince and mayster Oenone The concubine of Paris before that he rauished Helene Oenopia An yle called also Aegina Oenopides An Astronomer of Chios Oenops A mans name in Homer Oenotria A countrey in Italy Some write that Italy it selfe was so called of Oenotrus An Arcadian Oenotâides Two yles nigh to Calabria Oenotrius and Oenotrus a um Of Oenotria Oeta A mountayne betwéene Thessaly and Macedonia where is the sepulchre of Hercules OeÌta The father of Medea wife of Iason Oethyni People néere to Pontus Oetoscyros In the Scythiââ tongue the name of Apollo Oetus The brother of Ephialtes the gyaunt O G Ogdolapis A ryuer which commeth out of the hilles called Alpes and runneth to Rome Ogdous A king of Aegypt which first buylded the citie of Memphis Ogygea An yle betwéene Phoenicia and Syria where Calypso dwelled which deteyned with hir Vlysses Ogyges He that first buylded the citie of Thebes Ogygidae Thebans Ogydius a um Made or founde by Ogyges Ogyris An yle in Syria O I Oicles The sonne of Antiphates Oileus A king of Locris father to Aiax Oilides The sonne of Oileus O L Olbia A citie of Narbon called Ere 's Olcachites The bosome of the sea in the prouince called Zeugitana Olearus One of the yles called Cyclades Oleastrum I towne of Spaine Olenus ni Vulcanes sonne Olenus A citie in Arcadia where the Goate wyth whose mylke Iupiter was nourished was brought vp and therefore the signe of starres which was supposed to be the same Goate is named Olenia Olenius a um Of Olenus Oliba A towne in Spaine called commonly Olie Olicana A towne in Englande called Kyrkby Ollus A mannes name that was a great marker of other mens faultes Olophernes Chiefe Constable to the great Nabugodonosor king of Assyrianâ a valyaunt capitaine notwythstanding being ouercharged with wyne and to muche trusting in the beautie and pleasaunt speach of the Hebrewe Ladie Iudith he was by hir slaine in his bedde and had his heade stryken of and brought to his enimyes Hée was before the incarnation of Christ .633 yeares Olympia A citie betwéene the hylles of Ossa and Olympus Olympia ôrum Solemne playes games kept in Gréece to the honour of Iupiter Olympicus or after some in the honour of Hercules Olympiacus a um Perteyning to those playes or to the citie Olympia Olympias adis The name of Alexanders mother and a wynde blowing in Euboea Olympias is also the space of fiue yeares whereby the olde Gréekes did accompt as we doe nowe by the yeares of our Lorde as the first Olympias the seconde the thirde c. Glareanus wryteth that Olympias is the space of foure yeares and that they which take and wryte otherwise are deceyued Olympicus a um Of Olympus Olympicum certamen ⪠Was a game or pryce kept on the hyll of Olympus by all the princes and cities of Gréece euery fift yeare in the honour of Hercules who first beganne it In the which were all these maistries prooued Running on foote to a goale Also running foorth ⪠and back again two furlongs Also wrastling fighting with fistes running wyth horses and leaping from the one to the other coursing wyth Chariottes running with Mares but so as in the myddle of the course hée that did ryde should leape downe and holding fast the brydle shoulde make an ende of his course There was also contention and victorie of Poetes Rhetoricians Musitians and subtyle disputers In the place did growe a wylde Olyue trée whereof Garlands were made ⪠and gyuen to the victours herevnto assembled In the which tyme eyther warre was appoynted or leagues concluded Olympionices or Olympionicus He that hath had victorie in the games at Olympus Olympius a um Of Olympus Olympus A mountaine or hill in Gréece betwéene Thessalia and Macedonia aboue the which appeareth no cloud and therefore among the poets it is vsurped for heauen Plutarchus in vita Aemilij saith that it is tenne furlongs in height Olynâhus A citie néere Athens Olyras A ryuer in Gréece by the place called Thermopylae Olysippum A citie in Portugall nowe called Vlisbona in Englishe Lusseborne O M Ombrici People néere to Illyricum Omphale A mayden which was Quéene of Lydia whom Hercules did serue and she caused him to spinne on a rocke O N Onchiston A place in the marches of Thebes Onesicritus A Philosopher and an Historiographer of Aegina Onesimus A learned man in the tyme of Constantinus Magnus Onoba A citie of Spayne Onobalistura An other citie of Spayne Onophâius A certâine man that so loued solitarinesse that in the space of three score yeares he neuer sawe man and by that continuall being in wyldernesse becâme excéeding owglie to sée to For his heare and bearde couered all the vpper part of his bodie and hâs priuie partes hée hyd wyth barckes and leaues of trees He lyued thirtie yeares and neuer did eate any thing but hearbs and beryes Panutius when he sawe him was afrayd of him and thought he had béene a Satyre O O Oonae Iles in the north Occean where the inhabitaunts doe liue with egges of foules Oopellum A towne in Englande called Chester O P Opheltes The sonne of Lycurgus slayne by a serpent vide Lemnos Ophiogenes People of Hellespont which heale the stinging of serpents with touching the place Ophion One of Cadmus companions Ophioneus The name of a âoot sayer Ophióphagi People in Aâthiopâ which doe eate serpents Ophiucus The name of Aesculapius bycause that hée is ymagined to holde a serpent in his hande Some write that it is a signe in heauen which some call Hercules other Aesculapius Ophiusa An ylande called sometyme Rhodos Opigena Iuno was so called of women bycause they supposed that she hoâpâ them in their traueyle Opis opis pen. prod A Ladie companion to Diana It is also a citie by the riuer Tigris Opiterginus a um Of the towne of Carniers called Opitergium Opites The name of a Graecian ⪠which Hector slue Oppia A virgine vestale ⪠which being conuicted of whordome was bâryed quâcke Oppianus A certaine poet Ops opis pen. cor foe gen The sister and wyfe of Saturne Looke more in Cibéle Opuntius a um Of the citie Opus Opus untis A citie in Locris O R Orbelon A place in Thracia where Orphâus did dwell Orbilius A Grammarian of Beneuentum in Ciceros time Orbis obliquus The Zodiake Orcas promontorium The north ende of Scotlande Orââlis A towne in Spaine called commonly Origuela Orchades Thirtie ylandes in the sea by Scotlande Orchamus A king of Assyria which buryed his daughter Leucothea quicke bicause
Pli. Sengreene or houseleâke Zophita That are in part liuing creatures in part plantes as sponges oysters c. Zopissa zopissae Plin. Pitch taken from shippes and tempered with waxe and salt Zophyron pen. corr Herba quae Clinopodium dicitur Plin. Some call it Pulyoll mountaine Z V Zura A berie of white thorne Z Y Zygia A pipe whereon men played at weddings Zygos A yoke or couple Zygostates Zygóstatae pen. cor mas g. Libripens in vrbe constitutus qui ponderibus praefectus appellatur A clarke of the market to see to weights Zyme. Leauen Zymes Leauened breade Zythum zythi n. g. Pli. Drinke made of barley sodden and may be taken for ale or beere FINIS DICTIONARIVM HISTORIcum Poeticum propria locorum Personarum vocabula breuiter complectens AAron Was sonne to Amram and brother to Moises the worde signifieth the Mountayne of Fortitude or a strong hill He was of the tribe of Leui the fourth from him in lineal discent in his proper tongue very eloquent elected of God to be the first Bishop of the Iewes He liued .123 yeares and dyed before the incarnation of Christ .1471 yeares A B Aba A towne in Arabie and a Citie of Phocis Also an hill of Armenia out of the which the Riuer Euphrates springeth Abaae arum A towne of Phocis Abacena A Citie of Mede and also of Sicily Abacuk A Prophet of the tribe of Simeon he prophecied and lamented the taking of Ierusalem by Nabugodonosor Afterwarde as he caried meate and drinke to his haruest men an Aungell tooke him vp by the heare of the heade and caryed him to Babylon into the Doungeon where Daniell the Prophete was among Lyons Who being fedde and relieued by him was caryed home the same day He dyed two yeares before the retourne of the Iewes from Babylon .600 yeares before the incarnation of Christ Abala A towne of Afrike Abali A people of India Abalites A bosome or goulfe in the sea called Trogoniticum Abalus An I le in the Occean sea Abantes A people of Iones among the Achiues Abantias or abantis An I le in the sea called Mediterraneum Abaortae A people about the riuer of Indus Abarea The institution of Dionysius Abarimon A Countrey in Tartary where men haue féete turned backwarde and be woonderfull swift and wylde Abaris ris The proper name of a man It is also he that dwelleth onely in the mayne lande Abas antis The sonne of Liceus and Hipermestra the twelfth king of Argiues father of Pretus and Acrisius and Grandfather to Perseus Of him the kinges of Argiues were called Abantiadae An other Abas was a noble Troyan companion to Aeneas Abases A desert Countrie of Egypt Abaster or abastrus One of the horses of Pluto king of Hell Abaton That which a man can not come vnto wherevpon the place at Rhodes made to defende the ymage of Artemisia is called by that name Abanos i foem ge An I le of Egypt in the Marishe of Memphis Abaucas The proper name of a man Abdêra ae or abdera orum A citie in Spayne now called Almeria It is also an I le nigh vnto Samothrace and a citie of Thrace buylded by Abdera sister to Diomedes or as some write by Hercules in remembraunce of his minion Abderitus there eaten by the horses of Diomedes In this citie were borne Democritus the great Philosopher and Prothagoras the famous Rhetorician This citie was afterwarde called Clazomene Abderîta or abderites ae mas g. A citizen of Abdera Abderitanus vel Abderiticus a um Appertayning vnto that citie Abdias One of the twelue Prophetes and is interpreted the seruant of the Lorde Abea A towne of the Messenians and one of the seauen Cities that Homere feigneth Agamemnon to promise vnto Achilles Abeacus A king of Siraces Abeatae A people of Acaia Abededos A citie in Egypt wherein was the pallace of Memnon and the temple of Osiris Abel The seconde sonne of Adam is interpreted breath vapour or vanitie He was borne togither wyth hys sister Delbora xv ⪠yeares after Cain He is reputed to be the first Martyr slayne by his sayde brother of enuie for that God accepted his offering and reiected Cains when the sayde Abel was 100. yeares olde He was from his childehoode of great vertue and fayth He was slayne before the incarnation of Christ yeares Abella or Auella A towne of Campania in Italy Abellinates A people of Italye called before tyme Protropi Abellinum A towne in Italy now called Troy Aberdonia The citie Aberdeine in Scotlande Abessa The name of a iudge of Israell Abesamis A towne in Syria buylded by Semiramis Abeste A towne nigh to the ryuer Hermandrus Abeston A stone of yron colour founde in Arabia which hath growing about it a thing like vnto wooll called the downe of Salamander This stone made hote can neuer be cooled Abi A great ryuer in England called Humber Abij A people of Scythia Abila A towne in Decapoliton It is also an hill in Afrike looke Abyla Abilatae Men of the Citie of Abila Abis A riuer that runneth into the ryuer Danubie Abisari Otherwyse Biasari A countrie of Iudie Abisontes A people of the Alpes Abissa and Abissama A citie of Arabia Ablacus A riuer running into Danubius Ableti A people subiect to the Mysiens Abnoba ae A Mountayne in Germany out of the which springeth the riuer Danubie Abrobrica A famous towne in Spayne Aboecisis A towne of Ethiope Abolani A people of Latium Aboriense A towne in Affrike belonging to the Citizens of Rome Aborigines or Aborigenes People which first helde the countrie about Rome and lyued abroade hauing no house They may also be taken for any other people whose beginning is not knowne Aborras A riuer in Asia which runneth by the Citie Arthemusia Abraces One of Artaxerxes chiefe Capitaynes Abradatas A king of the people called Ciriens who accompanyed Cyrus when he fought against the Egyptians Abraham An holy Patriarke sonne to Thare borne in Caldei is interpreted the father of many Nations or of people séeing This man as well in vertue and perfite fayth as in sundrie and mysticall doctrines was most excellent He taught the Egyptians Astronomie and Geometrie He died before the incarnation of Christ .1838 yeares Abrettini People of Mysia Abrocomas One of Artaxerxes capitaines Abron onis The name of a man whose sensualitie and delicate life is growne to a Prouerbe Abroni menia A citie of Galatia Abroconion or Abrotonium The name of a woman Abrotonum A towne of Affrike It is also the name of an harlotte which as some saye was Themistocles mother Absarus A ryuer of Iberia which incloseth the lesse Armenie Absilâe Certayne people Absorus An I le in the sea Adriaticum or after Heroidian a citie in Illiria Abâyrtides Be Ilandes in the Venetian sea Absyrtus The brother of Medea whome shée dyd cut in poeces and cast into the sea when shée fled from hir father with Iason Abupus A ryuer in Englande called Humber Abydeni A people in Asia which
was slaine by Paris He was in height as Licophron writeth seuen cubites Achilleus a um Of Achilles Achilleus cursus A countrey nere to Boristenes whither Achilles pursued Iphigenia whome Diana had taken away and left an Hart in hir stéede Achilarmi A people of Afrike Achne The name of an Ilande Achola A citie of Afrike Acholius The name of an author Achrua A citie in Arabie Acibi orum A people of Sarmatia in Europe Acidalia The surname of Venus of a Fountayne in a citie of Boeotia called Orchomenum Acidalius A Well in Orchomenum dedicated vnto Venus and the Graces Acienses A people in Italy nere to the Albanoys Acila ae A marte towne from whence men sayle into India Acilius Buta A gentleman at Rome which did ryotously consume all his goodes Acimbro or Acinipo A citie of Spaine Acina ae A towne in Arabia Acintani A people in Spaine that worshipped the image of Mars Acjris A riuer in Italie Acis A riuer in Sicilye which runneth from the hill Aetna as swift as an arrow out of a bowe Acis is also a fayre chylde the sonne of Faunus and of the daughter of Simethus It is more ouer one of the yles called Cyclades Acitauones A people of the Alpes Acithius A riuer in Sicilie called also Acis and Acilius Acitia An Iland called also Melos and Siphnus in the sea by Candie Aciton An Ilande nere to Candie Acmodes An Ilande in the Britaine sea Acmonenses A people so called of Acmonia a Citie of Phrygia Acmonides One of the Cyclops Acoetes The name of a poore man Acone nes foem gen A port of Bithinia which hath such plentie of naughtie séedes that all hurtfull herbes bée called Aconita Aconteus The name of a famous hunter Acontius A mountayne of Boeotia Acra iapygia An elbowe of lande in Italy Acradina The Citie of Siracusis Acraëa The surname of Iuno and Fortune Acragas A citie of Sicilie called also Agrigentum Acragas mons looke Agragas Acragantinus a um Acragas Acridophagi The blacke Moores nigh vnto the desertes of Aethiope Acrio onis A Philosopher of Pythagoras sect Acris A ryuer in Italye Acrisius A King of Argiues the father of Danae on whome Iupiter begat Perseus Acrisioneis eidis f. g. Danae The daughter of Acrisitis Acrisioneus a um Of Acrisius Acritas An elbowe of lande in Peloponnesus néere vnto Malea and Tenarum Acroathon A towne in Thracia Acroceraunia Mountaines of wonderfull heigth betwene Armenia and Hiberia and also in Epire other places Acroconia Certaine Thracians hauing their heare ouer their foreheades womanlike Acrocorinthus An high Mountaine in Morea betwéene the two seas Egeum and Ionium Acrolochias A Mountaine in Egypt lying into the sea Acron onis A king of the Ceninenses whome Romulus siue hande to hande There was also in Agrigentine a Phisition of the same name and a Grammarian which made commentaries vpon Horace Acropolis ólios foem g. A castell set on an hyll in Athens Acta ae or Acte tes The country of Athens Acteon The name of a man whome Diana turned into an Hart bicause he saw hir naked and thereby he was torne and slayne of his owne houndes Acteus The first king of Athens Actasta The daughter of Oceanus and Tethis Actisanes A king of Egypt who expulsed Amasis and reigned there with great iustice Actium A towne in Epyre and an elbowe of lande lying into the sea where Augustus ouercame Antonius and Cleopatra Actórides dae mas g. The sonne of Actor Acyphantes A citie in Thessaly which is also called Pindus A D Ada ae The daughter of Hecatomnus king of Caria who being driuen out of hir kingdome by hir brother Pyxodorus was restored by great Alexander Adad or Adadus The great God of the Assirians whome they interpretate to be the sunne the word signifieth one or onely Adae arum A citie of Asia Adei Arabians nere to Aegypt Adam The first man that was created and doth signifie man or redde earth or a dweller He liued .930 yeres In the Byble is mencion made but of thrée sonnes one daughter that he begat Cain Abell Seth and Delbora whome Philo calleth Noaba And the same Philo reherseth xij sonnes and eyght daughters borne after Seth. Adamantius The surname of Didimus the Grammarian which was afterwarde attributed vnto Origen Adamastor A Gyaunt which was of incredible greatnes Adamitae vel Adamitani were heretiks which tooke their beginning of a Pycarde who came into the lande of Bohemia and sayde that hée was the sonne of God and named himselfe Adam And hée commaunded all men and women to go naked And that who soeuer desired to companie carnallye with any woman shoulde take hir by the hande and bring hir to him and say that he feruently desired hir company And then woulde Adam say Go togither and increase and multiply This heresie was begonne the yeare of our Lorde .1412 in the time Sigismundus the Emperour And men suppose that it endureth yet not onely in Bohemia but in other places also Adani Two cities in Arabia Addua ae A ryuer running into the poole or méere called Larius Ader A place by Bethléem where Aungels did sing at the birth of Christ and Iacob kept there his shéepe Adiabarae A people of Ethiopia Adiabene A country beyonde Armenia Adimanthus The brother of Plato Admete tes Oceanus and Tethis daughter * Admeti naenia A prouerbe which signifieth an heauie or sorowfull song or a lamentable complaint Admetus Was king of a people called Pherei vnto whome Apollo beyng exiled out of heauen by Iupyter came for reliefe and kept his cattell and by his craft caused euery Cowe to bring forth two Calues which thing Admetus thankfully taking entertained him honorably That being well considered of Apollo he obteined of the destenies called Parcae that when the day of the death of Admetus should be wounde vppon their spyndels if he coulde fynde anye other that woulde willinglye die for him he himselfe shoulde escape death at that time When the day was come that Admetus shoulde finishe his life all men and women yea father and mother refused to die onely Alceste his wife preferred the lyfe of hir husband before hir owne who being dead there was in the pallace of Admetus contynuall wayling and heauinesse vntill Proserpina mooued with compassion sent Alceste agayne out of hell vnto hir husbande Of thys fable came the prouerbe Admeti naenia Adonis The name of a chylde which was sonne of Cynare king of Cypres whome Venus had for hir derlyng which was slayne with a Bore whome the Poets âeigned that Venus turned into a purple flowre some saye into a Rose Adra ae A citie in Arabia petrea Also a towne of Surie and a towne of Liburnia Adramelech An Idoll of Siria whom the Samaritans honored Adramittium tij A towne of Aeolis Adramittis An Ilande in Lycia Adrana ae A ryuer in Germanie Adrapsa orum neut gen A citie of Bactria Adrasteus a um Of Adrastus Adrastia ae A countrye not farre from
at as a God he was sodenly stricken by an Aungell in the presence of an infinite number of people wherewith his bodye swelled and wormes issued out thereof wyth intollerable paynes and horrible stenche In the which torments he looked vpon his flattering Counsaylours and seruauntes and sayde Lo I whome you called a God am now in the paynes of death And in this wyse he dyed being of age lvij yeares Agrippias adis A citie called before Anthedon Agrippina Daughter of noble Germanicus sister to Caligula and by him abused was first maryed to Domitius by whome she had Nero. After the death of Domitius she was maryed to Claudius whome with his sonne Britannicus she poysoned to the intent to make hir sonne Nero Emperour But hir falshoode abhomination and crueltie was not vnpunished For some after hir owne sonne Nero notwithstanding that hée ioyned hir with him in equall authoritie and as some men supposed abused hir carnally hauing hir in most mortall hate caused hir to be most cruelly slayne Agrippina Mother to the sayde Agrippina was daughter of M. Agrippa and wife to Germanicus whome Tiberius by the commandement of Octauian had declared to be his heyre apparant to the Empyre And notwithstanding was after poysoned by consent of Tiberius For whose death the sayde Agrippina tooke such heauinesse that she determined to dye by absteyning from meate And although the Emperour caused meate to be put into hir throte she would not receyue it but in that voluntarie abstinence finally dyed Agrippina Colonia The Citie of Coleyne in Germanie Agrius The neuew of Mars Also the sonne of Vlysses by Circe Agron A king of Illiria Also a famous Phisition of Athens Aguntisi People of Aguntum Aguntum A towne in Sicile Agurium looke Agyrini Agyeus The surname of Apollo Agylla A towne of Tuscane called after Caere Agylleus A wrestler excéeding great of bodie Agyrini seu Agyrinenses People of the Citie in Sicilie called Agurium seu Agyrium A H Aherna A citie of Hertruria A I Aiax The sonne of Thelamon by Hesione daughter of Laomedon king of Troy was the strongest man of all the Gréekes next to Achilles but after Achilles was slayne Aiax contending with Vlysses for Achilles armour and Vlysses by force of eloquence obteyning sentence on his part became madde And in this furye slue many beastes supposing them to bée Vlysses and his companie There was also an other Aiax sonne of Oileus king of Locrenses in Gréece woonderfull swift and expert in handling a speare This man when Troy was sacked did violate the noble virgin Cassandra in the temple of Pallas Wherefore as he returned homewarde on the sea he and his shippes were burned wyth lyghtning Hée was before the incarnation .1190 yeares Ailoth Was a Citie in Iudea buylded by Ozias king of Iewes Aioth The second Iudge of the Hebrues A bigge man and valiaunt of courage and had equall strength and aptnesse in both handes of this man reade in the booke of kings A L Alaba bae A Citie of Spaine Alabanda dae A Citie in Gréece in the Countrey of Ionia Alabandes Alabandici People of Alabanda Alabandicus Alabandiacus a um of the citie Alabanda Alabenses vel Alabonenses People of the citie of Alaba Alabys One of the chiefest riuers of Sicilie Alachroae A people called also Lotophagi Alaci A towne of Affrike Alae arum A citie of Cilicia Alaesa A towne of Sicilie Alalcomenium A towne of Boeotia Alalia A citie of the ylande of Cyrnus Alaniticus A goulfe of the red sea Alana A citie of Ethiope Alani People of Scithia nigh to the ryuer Ister or Danubius Alania A region of Scythia in Europe which stretcheth to the great fennes of Meotis Alante A citie of Archadie another of Macedonie Alanus The Riuer of Scithia whereof the people called Alani tooke their name Alapeni A people of Arabie Alaricus King of Gothes besieged Rome and burned it in the yeare of our Lorde .408 In which siege such famine was in the eitie that the mothers were coÌstreined with hunger to eate their owne children There was also another Alaricus which was vanquished by Clodoueus king of Fraunce the yeare of our Lord .510 In whose tyme the part of Fraunce called Gallia Narbonensis and all Spayne were in the possession of the Gothes Alastor One of the horses of Pluto Also the name of a companion of Sarpedon king of Lycia whome Vlisses slue at the siege of Troye Alata tae A citie of Arabie Alatium A towne of Hierapolis called also Elatium Alatrium A citie of Campaine Alatrinates A people of Campaine Alâta castra A citie in Scotlande called Edenburgh or the castell of Maydens Alauna A towne in Brytaine Alauni Two ryuers in Brytaine Alaunij A people in Scythia Alauorsi People of the vttermost part of the North. Alazon onis A riuer that deuideth Albania from Iberia and runneth into the ryuer Cyrus Alba bae A citie nigh to Rome which was builded by Ascaneus sonne of Aeneas There was another citie in Lumbardie called Alba. In Spayne an other called Virgao Alba is also a ryuer in Spayne Alba Aemilius A mans name Alba Heluorum A citie of Narbon in Fraunce Albana A citie in Arabie Albanenses Were certayne heretikes in the yeare of our Lorde .1120 This sect helde sundrye heresies One was that y e soule of man after his death was put into an other bodie An other y t baptisme was of none efficacie The thirde that there were two Gods one good and another euill And that of the good God proceeded good things and of the euill God euill thinges The fourth that in hell were none other paynes than bée in this worlde The fift that the generall iudgement is past The sixt that it is not lawefull for anye man to sweare The seuenth that man hath no fréewill called in latine Liberum arbitrium The eight that the matter whereof the worlde was made was not made of God but is coeternall with God The ninth that there is no originall sinne and that children be not borne in originall sinne Also that sinne commeth not of fréewill but of the Deuill The tenth they denyed that the bodye shoulde eftsoones arise at the daie of iudgement The eleuenth they abiââted all the olde testament as a vaine thing and of none authoritie Albani People of Alba in Italy Albania Is a country in Asia hauing on the east the Sea Caspium on the west Iberia on the north the hilles Caucasus The people there were first poore and simple and as shepeperdes not hauing knowledge of money nor of any number aboue one hundred liuing by exchaunge not knowing weight measure nor husbandry and yet ready in warres They honoured for gods the Sunne and the Moone hauing among them as Strabo wryteth xxvj languages and as many kinges Of these people are supposed to come the Albanoises that dwell in Morea sometime called Peloponesus which be now vnder the Turkes or vnder the great Cane Albanus A ryuer and hyll not farre from the citie
to concorde sodeinely the voyce of an infant was hearde of all men which cryed Ambrosius is worthy to be bishop which voyce so feruently styrred the people that they all condiscended to make him their Bishop notwithstanding he was not yet baptised but newelye instructed in the faith And though he instantly refused they compelled him to take it vpon him And forthwith all the people of Lumbardie agréed in one opinion of the fayth Hée was of such holines such gentlenes such excellent wisdome and learning that not onely in his lyfe but also after his death he was throughout the worlde had in honour and reuerence A rare forme of election and as rare a thing it is to finde a byshop or priest of Ambrosius qualities although he were halfe a paynime and a temporal man when he was chosen bishop wherat they may be ashamed that be chrystened in their infancie and xx yeares or more priestes ere they be Byshops and yet some not worthie to occupie that reuerende office Ambrysus The name of two cities the one in Phocis the other in Boeotia Ambuariti A people of a part of Braband Ambulatri A people of Guian in Fraunce Amelas A towne of Lycia Amelius A philosopher the disciple of Plotine and mayster of Porphyrius Ameria An olde citie in Italy America A countrye late founde in the west part of the worlde by Americus Vesputius the yeare of oure Lorde .1477 Amerinus a um Of Ameria Ameriola A city in Italy Amestratini People of Sicilie Amicena A country of Cappadotia Amilcar The name of two noble capitaines of Carthage ⪠one in great Alexanders time the other Annibals father Aminaeum Called also Salernum a towne of Campaine in Italy Amipsias A comicall poet of Athens Amisus A towne of Galatia Amiternini The Sabines Amiternum ni A towne in Campania where Salust was borne nowe called Aquila Amiternus a um Of that towne Amithaon The father of Melampus Amithoscuta A countrye in Arabie Amitinenses A people of Italy Ammanethus An Ilande of Arabie Aminienses People of Spaine Ammon An hebrue name signifying the sonne of my people The sonne of Lot whom he begat on his yong daughter when he was drunke was so called Of this Ammon came the people in Syria Ammonitae whome Iosephus doth call Ammanitae By thys name was Iupiter also worshipped in Egypt Ammonius The name of a philosopher who was maister to Origine Amnus A ryuer in the Ilande Dolica in Arabic Amor The first sonne of Herebus and Nox whome the poets feigne to be a God Amorgos An Ilande Amorrhaei A worde of hebrue signifying cruell rebelles or great bablars Of that name was a people which were neighbours to the Iewes and oftentimes subdued by them and at the last king Salomon made them tryburaries to him Amos Father of the prophet Esay it signifyeth strong or puissaunt Amos One of the twelue prophets it signifieth burdened or charged The first hath in the beginning the letter Aleph The other hath the letter Aijn This man borne in the towne called Thieme was a shepeheard and sent by God into Samaria And when he had there prophecied against tenne trybes and somewhat spake of the other twoo Amasias caused him oftentimes to bée beaten but when hee coulde not resist the holy ghost Ochozias sonne of king Amasias caused a great nayle to be thrust into his temples and beyng halfe deade was caryed into his owne countrye where hée soone after dyed Ampeliotae A certaine nation in Affrike Ampeloesba A towne néere to Syria Ampelos A citie of Candie and a towne of Macedonie Also a childe whome Bacchus loued and after hys death turned into a starre also in Greeke it signifieth a vine Ampelus An Ilande or promontorie in Samos Ampelusia An I le called nowe Tinge Also a promontorie of Affrike Amphiaraus Sonne of Oileus an Argiue borne was a soothsayer whome Adrasius king of Argiues woulde haue taken with him when he made warre against the Thebanes but knowing that he should not returne he hyd himselfe At the last being discouered by hys wife he was compelled to go with the king And the first day that he came to Thebes the earth opened and swalowed him Amphictiones A noble counsayle in Gréece assembled at a place called Thermopylae wherein were the twelue sundrie people of Gréece Iones Dores Perrhebi Baeotij Magnetes Achaei Phthiotae Melienses Dolopes Aenianes Delphi and Phocenses Of this counsayle wrote Suidas Strabo lib. 9. Dionysius 14. Amphigenia A citie Amphilochus A philosopher Amphymedon One of the Centaures Amphinome A nymph Amphion A man which with natural eloquence brought rude and wilde people to a ciuile forme of liuing And as some suppose founde first harmonie Amphionius a um Of Amphion Amphipolis A citie nigh to Macedonie Amphiroe A nymph or mayden of the ryuers Amphisa A ryuer in Phocis a country of Gréece Amphissa A citie of Locris in Gréece Amphistratus A certaine grauer or Image maker Amphitoe es f. g. A nymph or mayden Amphitrio onis The husbande of Alcmena mother of Hercules Amphitrite tes f. g. Was daughter to Nereus and wyfe to Neptunus God of the sea And sometime it is taken for the sea Amphitus Castor and Pollux chariot man Amphrysus A ryuer in Thessaly by which Apollo kept the shéepe of Admetus Also a citie Ampycides ae Mopsus the sonne of Ampycus Amsanctus A well in Italy which after some issueth out of hell Amulius King of the Latines sonne of Procas great vncle of Romulus and Remus Amxyrus quasi sine rasura The surname of Iupiter among the Campaynes Amycla One of Niobes daughters Amyclas The sonne of Lacedemon Amyclae A citie in Lacedemonia where Castor and Pollux were borne an other in Italy Amycleus a um Of that citie Amycus The sonne of Neptune and king of the Bebritians that was slaine of Pollux Amydon A citie of Peonia Amymone The daughter of king Danaus on whome Neptune begat Nauplius Also a Well in Argos which hath the name of that woman Amyntas A shéepeherdes name in Virgill Amynthas Was the .xv. king of Macedonie Amyntor A gouernour of the people called Dolopes Amyson A citie in the realme of Pontus Amythaon The father of Melampus A N Ana A ryuer in Spaine which deuideth the Realme of Granato from Portugall It springeth in the hithermost part of Spaine called Amytanus ager And sometime spreadeth it selfe into great pondes or méeres Sometime scant appearing in little brookes or else hidden vnder the grounde At the last it falleth into the Spanishe sea It is called Guadiana Anabaptistae A sect of heretikes which began in Germany about the yeare of our Lorde .1524 whereof the first authour was Balthasar which taught that Baptisme dyd nothing profyte children but that they ought eftsoones to be baptised when they come to yeares of dyscretion Wherefore they be called Anabaptistae which doth signifie rebaptisours Anachersis A philosopher of great wisedome albeit hée was borne in the barbarous countrey of Scythia hée as Plinie supposeth found first
of his foote Androgeoneus a um Of Androgeus Androgeus The sonne of Minos king of Crete which by enuie was slaine by the Athenienses For the which certaine yeares after the sonnes of the Athenienses were sent to Crete to be deliuered to the monster Minotaurus which was afterwarde destroyed by Theseus It was also the name of a noble Briton when Iulius Caesar came into this Realme of Britaine Androgynae arum mas gen People in Affrike beyng of both kindes in one person man and woman Andromache ches foe g. The wife of the valiaunt Hector Andromede des foe gen The wife of Perses whome hée saued from a monster of the sea and was after by Minerua turned into a Starre Andromon He that buylded the citie Colophon Andros An I le betwéene Gréece and Asia directly against the citie Ephesus Also a towne Anedius An Emperour Angerona or Angeronia ae foe g. The goddesse of silence the mouth of hir Image was stopped and sealed Angylae People of Affrike of whome the women the first night they be maryed doe accompanie with all men that come to the wedding but euer after they be chast Angleria Is nowe a castell in Lumbardie which sometime was a citie fourtie myles from Myllayne set on a very high mountaine Anglia The Realme of England part of the I le called Britannia the people are called Angli of a people of Saxonie which were at that time most of reputation and therefore their name longest continued as well in the people as in the countrey reade more thereof in Britannia Anguitia The daughter of Aeeta and sister of Circe and Medea she inuented remedies against poyson Ania A Romaine woman which being faire and yoong after hir husbande was deade was counsayled to take another but she woulde not consent therto For if saied shée I shall hap to haue as good as I haue had I will not be in feare to lose him if I shall haue an euill husbande what shall I néede after a good man to suffer a shrewe Anien enis or Anio vel Aniénus ni mas gen A riuer in Italye in the fielde called Tiburtinum Anienus a um of Anio Anigrus A ryuer in Thessalie wherein the Centaures washed them when Hercules had wounded them Anius A king of Delos Anna A name of Hebrue which signifieth gracious pittifull resting or giuing Of this name haue beene many noble womeÌ One was a Iewe wife to Elcana which being a long time barraine by continuall prayer at last obteyned of God to be fruitefull and brought forth by hir husband the good and holy prophete Samuell who afterwarde was the chiefe priest and bishop of Israell Another was an olde widowe and prophetesse in Hierusalem at the tyme when Christ was presented in the temple Thys woman serued God daye and nyght in prayer and fasting and beholding Christ declared all that was prophecyed of him An other Anna was daughter to Isachar of the trybe of Leui or as Damascene saith of the tribe of Iuda and was maryed to Ioachim of the same trybe which beyng long barraine at last brought forth the blessed virgin Marie And after the death of Ioachim she was maried to Cleophas and after his death to Solome Anna Also the name of a Goddesse the daughter of Belus and sister of Dido Quéene of Carthage Annas Was bishop among the Iewes when Christ began to preach Anniball looke Hanniball Annus Is the proper name of an Egiptian that first inuented the Ouen to bake breade in Anser The name of a Poet. Antacites A riuer in the side of Asia néere to the towne Tyrambis Antaeus looke Antheus Antalcides A Lacedemonian Antemne A city in Italy Antênor ténoris mas gen Was of aliaunce to Pryamus and after the destruction of Troye he remained there with the Troyans which were left on lyue and being driuen thence by the sonnes of Hector fled with .2000 Troyans into the countrye called Venecia where hée buylded the noble citie Patauium called commonly Padua and there reigned during his lyfe Antenorius a um Of Antênor Anteros otis The sonne of Venus and Mars Anteuorta tae foe ge A Goddesse of the Romaines which foresawe things to come Anthemion A Troian the father of Simoesius Anthenodorus A stoike Philosopher he floryshed .xv. yeares before the incarnation of Christ Of whom this wise sentence procéeded Thou mayst thinke thou art frée from all couetousnesse when thou art come to that poynt that thou wilt desire nothing of God but that thou mayst openly craue Antheus The sonne of Neptunus and Terra a man in Mauritania of merueylous strength before the incarnation of Christ .1588 yeares with whome Hercules wrastled who perceyuing that as often as he threwe him to the earth hée eftsoones recouered his strength he at the last tooke him in his armes and lifted him aboue the grounde and so helde him till the soule went out of his bodie Sabellicus writeth that Sertorius founde the sepulchre of Antheus in a citie called Tigena in Barbarie which was in length .xl. cubites Anthos One of Nestors sonnes Anthylla A citie in Egypt Antia The daughter of Amphionassa and wife of Pretus king of the Argiues Antiates People of Antium Anticlea Vlysses mother Anticlus One of the Gréekes which were inclosed in the brasen horse whereby the city of Troie was betrayed And when the fayre Helene mistrusting that engine came vnto it and feigning the voices of the Ladies of Gréece did speake as euerye of them had spoken to theyr husbandes none of them regarded hir onely Anticlus thinking he heard the voyce of his wife Laodomia would haue aunswered had not Vlysses wyth his hande stopped his mouth vntill Helene commaunded by Pallas was departed by occasion whereof Antiâlus was strangled Anticyra An I le ouer against the mountaine Oeta of Theâsalie where the herbe Elleborus groweth which purgeth melancholye there it maye be taken without any daunger Whereof grewe this prouerbe spoken to men in their melancholy * Nauiga ad Anticyras Go sayle to Anticyra as who saith pourge your Melancholy Anticyra Is also a citie of Phocis Antidalei A certaine people in Pli. li. 6. cap. 28. Antidicomaritae A sect of heretikes which affirmed that the blessed Virgin Mary after she had brought foorth Christ was carnally knowen of Ioseph and had other children by him The author of this heresie was Heluidius about the yeare of our Lorde .406 Antegenides The name of a certaine boye Antigenidas A minstrell of Thebes the scholer of Philoxenus Pli. li. 16. ca. 36. Valer. lib. 3. ca. 7. Antigone es The daughter of Laomedon and Priamus sister who beyng prowde of hir beautie was of Iuno turned into a Storke Also a daughter of Oedipus king of Thebes Antigonia A citie of Epyre of Arcadie of Macedonie and of Bithinia Antigonus King of Macedonie and brother to great Alexander Also a king of Asia an other of Iurie Antigoneles Certaine people Antigragus A certaine mountayne Antilochus Nestors sonne Antimachus A Gréeke Poet of this
There is nowe lyuing a Phisition of that name in Ferrare who is right likely to set forth a woonderful knowledge in phisicke if ambition or auarice let him not as it doth other men of great learning Antor One of the Centaures Antronia A certaine citie in the countrie Peloponnesus Anthropomorphitae A sect of Heretikes who affyrmed that God had a body and members as a man had This sect began in Aegipt about the yeare of our Lord .380 Anubis Anubis vel anubidis Was a God of the Aegiptians whome they honored for Mercurius in figure of a Dogge Anulus A ryuer of Mauritania Anixus A ryuer in Asia running out of the Mountaine Armeneus into Mesopotamia Anxur tam mas quam neut g. A citie called also Tarasina Anxurus The surname of Iupiter because he was neuer shauen Anydrus An Ilande Anysis A king of Aegypt Anytus One of Athens enemie to Socrates A O Aon The sonne of Neptune Aonia A part of the country of Boeotia Aonius a um Of that country Aones An auncient people of Boeotia Aoris The sonne of Aras a great hunter and warriour Aorus A Citie of Crete Aous A ryuer Aornos A citie of Epyre. Aornus A ryuer that runneth through the citie Pheneum wherin is a fishe called Poecilus that hath a voyce lyke a Thrushe Aorsi People of Asia A P Apaei People of Ethiope Apamea An yle in the ryuer Tygrys Also a towne in Bithinia Apamia Was a citie in the lesse Asia through the middle wherof ranne the riuer Marsia It was also the name of a citie in Parthia an other in Phrygia Apathes Philosophers which helde opinion that a wise man had none affections or passions Apauortene A countrye of Scithia wherein is the Prouince of Hercania Apella lae mas gen A name wherby the Iewes were called in derision as it were Sine pelle bicause the skinne of their yarde was cut of whan they were cyrcumcised Apelles An heretike in Gréece the yeare of our Lorde 174. whose heresie was that he knewe not the God which he worshipped and that Christ was not God in verie déede but a fantasie appearing to men as a man Apelles An excellent paynter in the time of great Alexander borne in the yle of Cos of whom onely Alexander would be paynted When he dyed he left an Image of Venus vnperformed which no man after him durst enterpryse to finishe for the incomparable beautye thereof Apelleus a um Of Apelles Apeneste A citie of Puell commonly called Manfredonia Apesus untis A mountayne in Gréece Apharetis The father of Lynceus Aphaesas idem quod Apesus Aphedóntes People of Epyre. Aphidnae aââm A place in the country of Athens Aphrica maior The thirde part of the worlde which is seuered from Asia on the east by the ryuer Nylus on the west from Europe by the pyllers of Hercules The hyther parte is nowe called Barbarie the people Moores The inner parte is called Libya Ethiopia Aphrica minor Is in this wise bounded on the west with Mauritane and the riuer Ampsaga on the north with the sea Aphrican on the east with Gyrenaica on the âouth wyth the desertes of Libya In this are the cities Carthage Vtica Eârtha and the Prouince of Nuâe This countrye and Mauritania is nowe called Barbaria Aphricanus A name giuen to two noble Romaines called Scipiones ⪠bycause the one vanquished Anniball and subdued Carthage the other afterwarde vtterly subuerted and destroyed it Aphrodisium An Image of Venus Also a promontoâie of Caria an other of Spayne called Labo de cruz and a citie of Affrike Aphrodisius A prelate the disciple of saint Peter Aphrodite es The surname of Venus Aphthonius A Sophister which wrote exercises for children Apidanus A ryuer in Thessaly Apina nae or Apinae arum A city of Puel the name wherof is vsed as a prouerbe Apis Otherwise called Osiris king of Argiues and Iupiters sonne He leauing the kingdome of Achaia to his brother Aegialeus passed into Aegypt where when he had brought the rude people to a more ciuyle lyfe and taught them the maner of planting vines to their great commoditie with full consent of all hée was chosen to be their king When he had a long time gouerned that country with great wisedome and clemencie and had wrought many excellent benefites to his subiectes In the ende after his death he was worshipped as a God among them vnder the forme of an Oxe hauing thys shape folowing All the body black the forehead white a whyte marke on the back double heared in the taile and a knotte vnder the tongue This Oxe might not lyue aboue a certayne number of yeares which beyng finished they drowned him in an holy Well which they kept for that purpose Then proclayming vacation from all workes they tare theyr clothes rent theyr heare and pittifully bewayled the losse of theyr God and when with great séeking they had founde an other of the same shape they marueylously reioyced Thys dumme God gaue signification of prophecye not by Oracles of mouth as other did but by taking or refusing of his meate For the taking signified good successe in that was demaunded the refusing contrarywise Apitius A Romayne which delighted in delicate meates so much that he professed cookerie and infected Rome with gluttonie which before was the myrrour of temperaunce And when he had consumed in gourmandise Millies sestertium which amounteth after the computation of Senalis to two myllyons and 500000. crownes which is after our rate .583054 li. When he grewe in debt and made his reckning there was left but Centies sestertium which amounteth to this rate in our money .59505 li. 8. shyllings fearing in that substaunce to lyue in penurie he willingly dranke poyson and dyed Apoenninus An hyll that deuydeth all Italye into two partes Vnde Apoenicola Apoeninigena Apollinaris re Of Apollo Apolinaris The name of diuers men one was Byshop of Hierapolis a citie in Asia the yeare of our Lorde 1045. a great learned man He wrate a booke of the fayth of Christ an other worke against the gentiles dedicated vnto Antonius the Emperour Also agaynst the heretikes called Cataphrigae An other of the same name was Byshop of Laodicea which also was a noble learned man and wrate xxx bookes for our fayth against Porphyrius notwithstanding he fell into heresie saying that Christ receiued not fleshe of the Vyrgin Marie but that in the acte of his incarnation some parte of the worde was conuerted into fleshe He sayde that Christes soule was not of that parte which kept the bodye lyuing and therefore in his incarnation hee tooke onely the body and not the soule Apollinea A citie in Lumbardie nowe called Vercellae Apollineus a um Of Apollo Apollo called also Phoebus and Sol The sonne of Iupiter and Latona borne at one birth with his sister Diana When he came to age hée kylled wyth his bowe the Serpent Pytho and afterwarde the Cyclops for that they had made the lightning wherewith his sonne
long space He made also an horologe wherein might be séene the true course of the heauens and Spheres He was afore the incarnation .192 yeares Architas A noble Philosopher of Tarentum the disciple of Pythagoras and Capitaine of the inuincible armie of the Tarentines He was mayster to Plato in Geometrie whome hée also deliuered from Dionysius the tyrant of Sicilie He was before the incarnation of Christ about .370 yeres There was a cunning Carpenter of the same name Arcitenens éntis The surname of Apollo which is alway painted with a bow in his hande Ardalides The surname of the Muses after Ardalus the sonne of Vulcan Ardea ardeae A citie in Latio being from Rome about xviij myles In it was the palaice of Turnus whome Aeneas vanquished and the people there were called Rutili Ardeas atis and Ardeatinus a um Of the citie Ardea Ardis The sonne of Gyges king of Lidia Ardiscos A ryuer of Scythia Arduenna A great wood in Gallia Belgica which was in length .500 myles comming from the riuer of Rheme through the lande of Luke vnto the citie of Tourney Arecomici People of Narbone in Fraunce Arelate A citie in Fraunce called Orleance Also an other in Norica called Lynze Aremórica The countrie of Aquitaine in Fraunce Arêna A citie in Peloponnesus Areopagitae Iudges which sate in a place by Athens to iudge causes of murder and weighty thinges concerning the common weale It is vsed sometime for other seuere and vncorrupted iudges Areopagus The Village of Mars where the saide iudges did sit in iudgement Areopolis A citie in Arabie called also Aloab Ariopolitae The inhabitants of Areopolis Areta The daughter of Aristippus the Philosopher which succéeded him in hys schoole She taught that the pleasure which most delighted the bodye was the chiefe goodnesse Arete in latine Virtus in Englishe vertue It was also the name of the wyfe of Alcinous king of Phaeacis of whome Homere writeth in Odyssea Arethûsa The companion of Diana It is also the name of a Fountaine in Sicilie and of an other in Metia Also a towne in Gréece a citie in Eâboea and an other in Syria Arethusis The name of the citie Syracusis neare to the Fountayne Arethusa Arethyssa Arethusa A ryuer in the great Armenie Aretinus a um Of the citie Aretium Arétium A citie in Tuscan called Arezo .50 myles from Peruse Aretus The sonne of Nestor and Euridices Arganthonius An hyll nyghe to Bithynia by the citie of Brusias nyghe therunto is a Well where Hylas the companion of Hercules was sodainely taken awaye by the Nymphes when hée was at that Well to fetche water Arganthonius A king of a citie in Boeotia Also another in Spaine which lyued 120. yeres or after some .300 yeares Argentina A fayre citie in Germany on the west side of the ryuer of Rhene called Strausbrough It was also called Argentoratum Argaea Places in Rome where certaine auncient Gréekes were buryed Argaeus A verye high hill on the top whereof is alwaye Snowe Argeus a um Of the citie of Argos Argi Grecians Argi A citie of Italy buylded by Diomedes called after Argiripa Argia Daughter to Adrastus king of Argiues and wife of Polynices This woman was of so louing affection towarde hir husbande that when he togither wyth his brother Eteocles was slayne in battayle she doubted not euen in the night tyme among great heapes of dead men to séeke out hir husbandes bodye to burye it being accompanied onely with hir husbands sister Antigone who of lyke affection towarde hir brethren stole priuily in the night out of Thebes to bring theyr dead bodies to interrement contrary to the cruell commaundement of the tyran Creon For which acte not long after both of them were put to death of the sayde Creon Wherefore in reuengement of his wycked crueltie Theseus made sharpe warre vpon the Thebanes and punished Creon with iust and worthy death for his impietie Argiae plu A citie in Laconia Argiphontes The name of Mercurius bycause hée slue Argus Argilétum The sepulchre of Argus It is also a stréete in Rome where booke sellers dwelled Argilus A citie of Emathia neare to the mouth of the ryuer Strymon Arginusae Thrée little yles in Asia by the yles of Mitele and Lesbos Argiripa Looke Argi. Argis aduer At the citie of Argos Argissa A citie of Thessaly neare to Peneum Argiuus A Grecian Argólicus a um Of Argos Argonautae Were the companions of Iason which sayled wyth him vnto Colchos as Castor Pollux Hercules Telamon Orpheus Zetus Calais and manye other noble men as well of bloude as in prowesse This voyage was before the incarnation 1254. yeres Argopelasgus One of Thessaly Argos A country and citie in Thessalia where Inachus reigned In this country be the famous Mountaines of Olympus and Ossa Also Argos was a citye not farre from Athens another in Achaia It was also the name of Vlysses dogge Argulus The sonne of Amyclas Argûra A citie of Thessalia Argus The sonne of Aristor the fift king of Argiues which made the ship wherein Iason and other sayled to Colchos The Poets feigne that he had an hundred eies signifying thereby his wisedome and circumspection Moreouer that Iuno appointed him to kéepe Io whome she had transformed into a Cowe But Mercurius beyng sent by Iupiter with his swéete harmony brought Argus on sléepe slue him tooke Io from him and brought hir into Egypt Than Iuno tooke Argus eyes and set them in the Pecocks tayle wherefore the Pecocke is called Auis Iunonia Argyra A citie in Sicilie where Diodorus Siculus was borne Argyraspidae mas ge Men bearing shyeldes of Syluer These were great Alexanders souldiours which were after his death retayned of dyuers Prynces as the Launce knightes be ArgyrÃni A certaine people in Epyre. ArgyrÃppa A city of Puell buylded by Diomedes Argyróndes A ryuer in Etolia in colour lyke Syluer Aria A country in Asia bounded on the north with Margiana and a part of Bactria Thrace was once called by this name Ariabignes The sonne of Darius by the daughter of Gobrias one of the Admirals of Xerxes nauie Ariadne nes foem gen A Ladye the wyfe of Theseus whome he forsooke notwithstanding she had saued hys lyfe Ariadneus a um Of Ariadne Ariannes A famous citie in Armenie Ariapythes A king of Scythia Ariarathes A king of Capadocia vnder whom that countrie was first allyed with the Romaines Ariathes A mans name Aricandos A ryuer of Lycia whereof a citie there is called Aricanda Aricia A citie in Italy ten myles from Rome called now Ricia castellum Also the wyfe of Hyppolitus Aricinus a um Of Aricia Aricinum nemus A wood by the sayde citie where Numa the king of Romaines feigned to speake with Egeria the Fayry Aricînus lacus A brooke by Aricia called Speculum Dianae Aricomissi A people of Fraunce néere to the riuer Rhone called also Arecomici and Volcae Arij A people of Scythia Arimaspi People of Scythia which haue but one eye and that in their forehead They fight continually
Swetz in Germanie Ascania One of the yles called Cyclades Also a country in Asia and a citie and a méere or marishe in Troas Ascanius The sonne of Aeneas the Troian and Creusa hys wyfe daughter to king Pryamus of Troy who comming into Italy with his father sustayned sundrye labours And finally after hys father reigned ouer the Latines with Syluius Posthumus hys brother in lawe and buylded the citie of Alba Longa. He was also called Iulus he reigned .xviij. yeares Of thys name was a ryuer in Phrygia of the which Ascanius was named Asciburgium The cytie of Emeriche in Germanie Ascytae Arabyans Asclepiades A famous phisition Also a philosopher which beyng blind was demaunded in scorne what his blindnesse profited him he aunswered that he had the more companie by one boy that led him It is also the name of an hystoriographer of Cypres and dyuers other men Asclepiodorus A paynter in the tyme of Apelles Also one of Alexandria which was excellent in the mathematicalles and knowledge of herbes and stones Asconius Pedianus The excellent expositour of the Orations of Tullie when he was .73 yeares olde became blinde and lyued afterward .12 yeares in the great estimation and honour He flourished about the time of Nero the Emperour Ascra A towne in Boeotia by the mountaine Helicon In this towne was borne Hesiodus the famous poet and therefore he is sometime called Ascraeus Ascruium Called also Ascriuium A citie in Liburnia Asculum A citie in Puell in Italy where Curius and Fabritius discomfited Pyrrhus Asdrubal A name of dyuers noble men in Carthage of which one maryed the sister of Anniball He ruled the citie of Carthage and sent Anniball into Spaine and there exercised him in continuall labours At the last in the middle of his friendes and seruauntes hée was slaine by a Mooraine slaue whose mayster he had slaine a little before This slaue feared death so little that when he was put vnto most horrible tormentes he being in them shewed alway a laughing countenaunce Aséllius Sempronius An hystoriographer in the tyme of Scipio Aemilianus Asia ae foe gen The thirde part of the worlde deuyded from Europa by the sea called Bosphorus Thracius and the great ryuer of Tanais And from Affrike by the famous ryuer Nylus and is in quantitie supposed to be as great as both Europa and Affrike Asia minor is a part of the other Asia which is nowe called Turkey and conteineth in it these realmes Pontus Bithynia Phrigia Caria Lycia Lidia and Lycaonia Asia is also a meere fenne or marishe néere to the ryuer Caystrus Asiáticus Asiacus Asiânus Asius a um Of or pertaining to Asia Asiáticus A surname giuen to one of the Scipions because he subdued the lesse Asia Asine vel Asina A citie of Peloponnesus néere to Messenia Asine Is also one of the Iles called Sporades in the sea Adriaticum Asinius Pollio A Noble senatour and oratour Romayne whom the emperour Octauian specially fauoured He was very eloquent but noted of too much affectation which tooke away the grace of his orations He was in iudgement very exquisite and vsed to reprooue other much better learned then himselfe as Tullie Caesar Salust and Liuie He made the first common librarie wherein he set the Image of Varro and had victorie ouer the people of Dalmatia To his honour the Poet Virgill made one of his Egloges He liued .80 yeares Asinius Gallus Sonne of Pollio a man of great learning he wrote a booke wherein he compared and preferred his father to Tullie Thys booke was afterwarde aunswered by Claudius the Emperour Tiberius the Emperor commaunded him to be slaine for what cause it doth not appeare Asis A mountaine in Vmbria Asis terra Is vsed for Asia Asisium A towne whereof the people be called Asisinates Asius The sonne of Dymas Also a ryuer in Italy called Esino Asmodeus The name of a Deuill and signifyeth a destroyer or abundance of sinne or measuring fire Asophis A country in the prouince of Achaia Asopis idis The daughter of Asopus Asopus A ryuer in Sicyonia that runneth out of Phrygia An other in Peloponnesus néere to Corinthe Asorus A ryuer running by the citie Heraclea Aspasia A woman of Miletum in Gréece notably learned in Rhetorike she loued and taught the eloquent Pericles Duke of Athens Wherefore notwithstandyng she was a captiue he tooke hir to his wife It is written that she was one of the concubines of Cyrus kyng of Persia And afterwarde by hir procurement for displeasure that she bare to them she caused the Athenienses to make warre against the Peloponnenses Aspasius The name of diuers learned men Aspendius A certaine Harper Aspendus A citie of Pamphilia Asphaltîtes or Asphaltum A lake of Syria called Mare Mortuum therein is the lyme myxte wyth brimstone called Bitumen or Asphaltum wherein no lyuely thyng can drowne Some suppose that in that place stoode the cities of Sodoma and Gomorrha Asplendon A citie of Phocis Asporenus An hyll in Asia néere to Pergamus Assabinus A God among the Aethiopians Assacani A country of India wherein is the city Magosa Assaracus The sonne of Tros king of Troyans AssÃsia One of the names of Pallas and Minerua Assuêrus A king of Persians who is also called Artaxerxes and Memnon Assur A citie in Iudea buylded by king Salomon Assyria A region in Asia called nowe Syria in English Surry which marcheth on the East vpon Indie on the West vppon the noble Ryuer of Tygris on the south it hath the countrey Media on the north the hill Caucasus Assyrius a um Of Assyria Asta A towne in Spaine Also an olde towne in Liguria Astaboras A ryuer in Aegypt Astaces A ryuer running into Ponte Astacoeni People of India Astacus A citie of Asia so named of Astacus the sonne of Neptunus and Olbia Also a towne of Megaris and a citie in Acarnania Astapus A ryuer in Asia by which the people Rizophagi dwelled Astaroth A name of Hebrue which signifieth rychesse or flockes Also making search or the mouth of the law It was the name of an ydol which the Iewes honoured Also the name of a citie in Syria which was giuen to the children of Gerson of the kindred of Manasses Also of a countrey whereof mencion is made Geneseos 14. Astarte A Goddesse of the Assyrians which after Cicero was the fourth Venus that was maryed to Adonis to whome Salomon to please his concubyne raysed an Aultar Aster Astri mas gen Platos seruaunt Astéria ae foem gen The name of the Iles of Delos and Rhodes Asterie Was daughter to Caeus and sister to Latona of whome Iupiter in likenesse of an Eagle begat Hercules she was tourned into a Quayle and after into a stone Asterion A citie of Thessalie an other of Surrye Also a ryuer of Achaia running into the wood Nemaea It was also the sonne of Cometa that followed Iason into Colchis Asteris or Asteria An yle betwéene Samos and Ithaca It is also a citie in Spaine and the
name of Titans daughter the sister of Latona Asterusia An hill in the south part of Crete Astice A countrey of Thrace AstÃcla idem quod Astypalea Astigi A citie of Spaine Astinome The daughter of Chryses which Homer calleth Chryseis Astióchia The mother of Tlepolemus Astomi People in the furthermost partes of Indie toward the East which haue no mouthes all their bodye hearie and are arrayed wyth cotten gathered on the leaues of trées They eate no meate but lyue onelye with swéete sauours of rootes herbes and fruites and are quickly killed with any yll sauour Plin. Astraea The daughter of Astraeus and Aurora or after some of Iupiter and Themis It is taken for iustice as the worde doth signifie She detesting the naughtie and vniust liuing of men flewe to heauen and was turned into the signe called Libra Astraeus One of the gygantes that rebelled against the Goddes Astrophe One of the starres called Pleiades Astur uris A nowne possessiue and signifieth of Asturia as Astur homo a man of Asturia Astura A towne and ryuer in Italy Asturia A country in Spaine betweene Galicia and Portugal which sometime was famous for mines of gold and ambling hackneyes called Asturcónes Asturica Augusta A citie in Spayne called Astorga Astúricus a um Of Asturia Astyages The last king of Medes father to Mandana the mother of noble king Cyrus who was .597 yeares before the incarnation reigned .38 yeares and at last was deposed by Cyrus An other Astyages was by the Gorgons heade of Perseus tourned into a marble stone Astyalus A Troyan slaine by Neoptolemus Astyanax actis Was sonne of Hector by Andromache whome after the winning of Troy the Gréekes cruelly threwe downe from a towre so that his braynes cleaued to the walles Astycratia The daughter of Eolus Astydamas The name of two tragicall poets of Athens the father and sonne Astynous A Troyan slaine by Diomedes Astyochia The daughter of Actor which was rauyshed by Mars Astypalea An yle in the Sea Aegeum It is also a mountayne in Creta an other by Athens Astypaleius a um Of that yle Asychis A king of Aegipt Asylas The name of a soothsayer Asylus An Image wherevnto men were woont to runne for succour as to a sanctuary A T Ata tae or Ate tes in latine Noxa detrimentum the name of a hurtfull spirite alway working yll to men Atabyria The auncient name of the Rhodes Atabyris A very highe Mountaine in Rhodes Ataceni People of Arabia Atacini People of Narbone in Fraunce Atalà nta A mayden daughter to Iasius a prince of Arcadia came with diuers noble men of Greece into Etolia to slea the great Boare which destroyed that countrey the same Boare did shée first strike and wounde But afterwarde he was slaine by Meleager sonne of the king of Aetolia who loued Atalanta and tooke hir to his wife and had by hir a sonne called Parthenopaeus which was slayne at the battayle of Thebes An other Atalanta daughter of Caenâus king of the yle Scyrus contended in running wyth them that came to wooe hir When shee had vanquished and put manye to death for that was the wager or else to haue hir at last a noble yong man caâled Hippomenes whiles they were running threwe at sundrye times thrée apples of Golde from him in taking vp whereof she was taryed and so ouerrunne Ouid writeth that as they two medled togyther in the temple of Cybele the Goddesse hauyng thereat indignation transformed them both into Lyons Atalantaeus a um Of Atalanta Atargata Called also Atergatis A Goddesse of the Syrians Atarna A citie of Mysia in Asia Atarnes The brother of king Darius Atax A famous ryuer in Narbone Also one that inhabiteth about that ryuer Atella Looke Attella Atergaris Called also Athara Derceto and Dagon A monstruous Goddesse of the Sidoniens whose Image in the vpper part represented a woman in the neather part like a fishe This was the mother of Quéene Semiramis who tooke the losse of hir chastitie so gréeuously that she cast hir selfe headlong into a poole And because hir body could not be founde they beleeued that she was transfourmed into a fishe Wherefore the people of that countrey woulde not eate any fishe Aternus A ryuer in Italy Atesis idem quod Athesis Ateste A citie in the country of Venice Athalia Daughter of cursed Quéene Iesabell and mother to king Acab being also mischieuous hearing that hir sonne Ochozias was slayne and Ioram with all his housholde destroyed shée being inflamed with desire to reigne laying apart all womanly pittie determined to destroy vtterly all the posteritie of Dauid But through the goodnesse of God Ioas the sonne of Ochozias an infant was vnwares to hir conueyed awaye by Iosabeth his aunt and hid in the house of Ioiades the byshop and there kept sixe yeares After this cursed woman Athalia had reigned ouer Ierusalem seauen yeares Ioas which was supposed to be slayne was by Ioiades made king whereof she being aduertised and crying to the people to slea Ioas was taken of the men of warre and shamefully drawne vnto the gate of the citie called Mularia and there slayne Shée was before the incarnation .900 yeares Athamanes People of Aetolia Athamas Aeolus his sonne and king of Thebes maryed Nepheles and on hir begat Helles and Phryxus But when Nepheles was by Liber pater cast in furie and ranne into the woodes Athamas maryed Ino the daughter of Cadmus who as a cruel stepmother with so many and grieuous complaints brought Helles and Phrixus in hatred of their father that for safegarde of themselues they tooke the Ramme with the golden fléese And sitting on his backe swamme ouer the sea at Helesponte where Helles was drowned gaue name vnto the sea Wherfore Iuno being angry with Ino the stepmother cast Athamas into a furie or madnesse who in his rage séeing Ino his wife comming towarde him with hir two children thought it had béene a Lionesse hir whelpes therfore caught fiercely Learchus one of the children and dashed him against the stones which thing Ino séeing fled away with Melicertus hir other sonne and cast hir selfe downe of an huge rocke and so the cruell stepmother ended hir lyfe Athamanteus a um Of Athamas Athamanticus a um idem Athamantis idos foe gen Ino or Leucothea wyfe of Athamas Athanasius The Byshop of Alexandria the yeare of our Lorde .348 A man of holy life and great learning sustayned manye and great persecutions of the Arrians For whan in the counsayle holden at Laodicia hée had confounded them with most puissaunt arguments he stirred almost all the worlde against him wherefore he fled And sixe yeares continually he abode hyd in a drye Cesterne where he neuer sawe the sunne shyne Then was he discouered by a Mayden and fled eftsoones by the helpe of God wandring about the world notwithstanding Princes their people and hostes did continually persecute him so that he might scace finde anye plaee to abyde in Also a common harlot was brought
worlde as neuer was but once before from the beginning of the Romaine Empyre Auia or rather Liuia A citie in Spaine called Villalon Auicenna or Abicena A famous phisition whome some suppose to bée of a citie in Spaine called Hispalis or Ciuile Some name hym prince of Aboalim Some say he was king of Bithynia He was excellently learned and wrote in the Arabike tongue manye noble workes of Philosophie naturall and metaphisike Hée comprehended phisicke in fiue volumes wherein hée calleth himselfe the interpretour of Galene He was about the yeare of our Lorde .1151 And was as some suppose poysoned by Auerroâs whome he sâue before he dyed Auidienus A mans name in Horace which was rych and yet a very niggarde Aulerci People of a citie in Normandie called Roane Aulercij People of Orlyaunce in Fraunce Aulis lis or lidis A little countrey or shire in Boeotia in Gréece It was also a great citie and hauen where the princes of Gréece assembled togither and conspired the destruction of Troy Aulocrene nes A countrey wherein was the plaine trée on which Marsya being vanquished of Apollo was hanged Aulon The name of a mountaine and citie in Calabria where groweth excellent good wynes Also of two other Cities the one in Macedonia the other in Cilicia Aulus A name vsed among the Romaines Auo or Auus A ryuer in the hither Spaine Auras A great ryuer in Europe falling into Ister Aurélia A family in Rome Auriga ae A signe in the firmament vpon the hornes of the Bull that hath ioyned to it one cléere starre In the hand of Auriga be two starres called Haedi whose rising and going downe doth oftentimes cause great tempests Aurigda A cytie of Cyrene called Zodra Aurora The daughter of Titan and Terra Aurúnca A citie buylded by Auson Aurunci or Arunci An auncient people in Italy Ausa A citie of Spaine Ausci People of the citie Aux in Guyan Auselij idem quod Aurelij Auser or Auseris A riuer in Italy néere the citie Luca. Ausitis itidis The countrey called Hus where Iob dwelled Ausones Were the auncyent kings of Italy Ausónia The part of Italy wherein standeth Beneuent and Cales so called of Auson the sonne of Vlysses and Calypso Afterwarde all Italy was called Ausonia and the people Ausonij Ausonius a um and Auson Of Ausonia Ausonius A Sophister Also a Poet of Burdeux in Gascoyne Austrâuia An yle in the Occean Sea towarde the north part of the worlde called Glessaria Austria Is a great countrey on the vttermost east part of Germanie sometime called Pannonia superior It boundeth Eastwarde vpon the realme of Hungarie Westwarde vpon the countrey called Noricum and Taurisium Southwarde vpon Italy Northwarde it is inclosed wyth the great ryuer Danubius or Ister in Dutche Donow In it is the noble citie Vienna sette vpon the sayde ryuer There is also a famous vniuersitie where especiallye the mathematicall sciences are most exactly taught Authe One of the seuen daughters of the Gyaunt Alcyoneus whome Hercules slue Autini or rather Auteri The Irishe men Autócthones People which began in the countrey where they inhabit which name was giuen to theÌ of Athens Autololes A people of Mauritania Autólycus The sonne of Mercurie or Deucalion and Graundfather to Vlysses by the mother side famous for his theft There was one Autolycus felowe to Iason an other was a noble wrestler Automala vel Automalax A citie of Cyrene called also Pentapolis Automedon ontis Achilles Chariot man Autômolae A people which came out of Egypt into Ethiope Among the Gréekes it doth signifie runnagates or runnawayes Autonoë es The daughter of Cadmus and Hermione ⪠wife of Aristeus and mother of Acteon which after hir is called Autonoëius Autricum The citie of Charters in Fraunce Auximum A citie of Picenum in Italy called commonlye Osinum A X Axantos An yle in the Occean sea beneath Englande and Irelande Plin. li. 4. ca. 16. Axiaces A ryuer called also Hypanis Axiocus A philosopher to whome Plato wrote a booke of death Axion The brother of Alphesiboea Axium A citie of Mysia called commonly Chilia Axius A ryuer in Macedonia Axon A ryuer of the Iones in Asia Axona A ryuer in Fraunce in the borders of Reynes called Desne Axones People of Fraunce Axos A citie in Thrace Axus idem quod Axius Axylus A man of Phrygia verye happie in all thinges pertayning to the lyfe of man who vsed great humanitie towarde straungers A Z Azan An hill in Arcadie where Cybele the mother of the Goddes was honored Azana A country of Ethyope towarde the red sea Azanes People of Archadie Azanaea A region of Archadie barraine and vnable to be tilled looke the prouerbe Azanaea mala Azania Azanium or Azeanum A citie of the lesse Asia Azanium A Well the water whereof being drunke causeth men to hate the sauour and taste of wine Azesia A name of Proserpina Aziris A citie in the lesse Armenie néere to Euphrates Azotus A citie in Syria Also an other of Achaia B A BAal In the tongue of Syria signifieth Lorde and is attributed to Iupiter After some interpretation it signifieth hauing dominions subiection or possession It was an ydoll that the Samaritanes and Moabites worshipped Babba A towne of Mauritania called Iulia Campestris Babactes One of the names of Bacchus Babel Signifieth confusion or mixture It was the name of a âower buylded by Nemroth before the incarnation 274. yeares At the buylding hereof was the first confusion of tongues This was done in the land of Sennaar in the country of Chaldea Babylas A famous Bishop of Antioche Babylon A great citie in Chaldie and signifieth confusion or translatioÌ where was a tower buylded by Nemroth in height fiue myles .170 paces Afterwarde being enlarged by Semiramis it conteyned in compasse .60 myles The walles were in height .300 féete in thycknesse of breadth .75 féete and had .100 gates of brasse There ranne through the middle of it the famous ryuer Euphrates It is also a towne or rather a great citie in Aegypt Babylonia The country where y e citie of Babylon stood on the north it is bounded with Mesopotamia ⪠on the west with Arabic the desert on the east with Susâan on the south with the red sea In this country is Chaldea Babylónycus and Babylonius a um Of or perteyning to Babylon Babyrsa A strong towne of Asia in the countrey Atropatia néere to the citie Artaxata Babys A foolysh minstrell Marsyas brother Bacales People in the sea coastes of Lybia Bacchae arum Women which sacrificed to Bacchus Bacchaemon The sonne of Perseus and Andromede Bacchânal or Bacchanâle lis neu ge The place where the solemnitie of Bacchus was kept Baccheis idis A woman belonging to Bacchus BacchÃadae People which came out of Corinth into Sicilie and had their first beginning of Bacchia the daughter of Dyonisius Bácchicus or Bacchiéius a um Of Bacchus Bácchides A capitaine that betrayed the citie Sinopis to Lucullus Bacchius A sworde player Also a Corinthian who
maryed the daughter of Clythius the king of Megarence Bacchius a um Of Bacchus Bacchus chi called also Liber Dionysius Osiris Priapus Lenoeus Bromius and Brotinus The sonne of Iupiter by Semele The poets feigne that after Iupiter had gotten Semele with chylde shée desired him to companie with hir like as he did with Iuno in his diuine maiestie wherefore he bringing with him his thunder and lightning came to hir but shée not able to susteine his presence fell in trauayle was deliuered long before hir time and dyed Iupiter tooke and deliuered the childe to Mercurius who by his commaundement caryed it vnto Nysa where he was nourished vp by the Nymphes Lyke foolishely other imagined ⪠that Iupiter made an hole in hys thygh to put in the chylde where it remayned vntyll the full tyme of hys byrth This man among the Gréekes did set vines and make wyne Also he first yoked oxen in the plough and gathering vnto him a great number of people went a great part of the worlde destroying monsters and tyrannes and conquered the countrey of India but his people delyghting in wyne and drynking superfluously therof fââl to fighting among themselues Wherefore he prouided that when they dranke they should haue in theyr handes nothing but canes or other light stickes Bactes A name of Bacchus Bactra ârum A citie in the furthest part of Persia the people wherof are called Bactri Bactriani in whom is such inhumanity that when their parents be very sicke or olde they throwe them vnto fierce dogges which doe rent them in pieces and deuoure them The women of that countrey vse passing gorgeous apparel with swete oyntments and other ryche attyre and are of the seruantes farre more obeyed and reuerenced than the men are They neuer come abroade but on horsebacke with riche ornamentes of precyous stones and Iewelles Chastitie they regarde not but make themselues common both to their seruauntes and to straungers theyr husbandes finding no fault thereat ouer whome they séeme to haue dominion Bactriani The people of that countrey Bactriâna A countrey wherin were sometime a thousand cities It is bounded on the West with Margiane on the North with Sogdione deuyded from it wyth the ryuer Oxo on the South with Aria and Paropanisade Báctros A ryuer of the Bactrians whereof a citie is called Bactrum Badacum A citie of Norice or of Bauarie named at thys day Salizaburgensis Of the ryuer Saliza Badas A ryuer of Surry néere whervnto Memnon was buryed Baelon A citie of Spaine nowe called Tarissa Baenecus looke Benacus Baenis A great ryuer in Portugall Baetâcae A countrey in Spaine which taketh his name of the ryuer Baetis running through it It was also called Turdetania and is the South parte of Spayne where be nowe the cities of Cybile and Corduba and the realme of Granado and extendeth to the pillers of Hercules It hath on the North Portugall beyng deuyded from it wyth the ryuer Guadiada on the West the maine Occean Sea on the South the streightes of Marroke and the middle sea on the east as it were a lyne drawne from the citie Balearia vnto Ana. Baeticola A dweller by the ryuer Baetis Baetirae A citie of Narbon in Fraunce called Besiers some wryte Baeterrae some Bliterrae other Blitera Baetis A ryuer in Spaine by Granado called now Guadalqueuer Baetulon A ryuer in Spayne called also Bethalon commonly Beson Baganum The city of Turney Bagoas An Eunuche whome great Alexander fylthilye loued Bagrada Bagradas or Bengrada A ryuer in Affryke by the citie called Vtica where Attilius Regulus and the host of the Romaynes slue a serpent which was in length .120 féete Bahal or Baal The ydoll of Tyre Baiae ârum A towne in Campania on the sea side betwéene Puteolus and Misenum for temperatenesse of ayre and fayrenesse of buylding much haunted of the auncient Romaynes There are hote waters naturall both pleasaunt and wholesome Therefore it is supposed all other hote Bathes naturall were called Baiae Bairon An historiographer which wrote an abridgement of the gestes of great Alexander Baius The companion of Vlysses buried in Campania after whome the towne Baiae was named Bal idem quod Baal Balaam Signifieth the age of the people the deuouring or destruction of them It was the name of a soothsayer whome Balac the king of Moabites desired to curse the Israelites who by the waye was lette by an aungell that the Asse whereon he rode did beholde and asked why he did beate him And then he himselfe perceyued the Aungell who bade him go to Balac and speake nothing but that he commaunded hym And so finally he blessed the Israelites contrary to the expectation of Balac Balanaea A towne not farre from Laodicia Balbina A virgin in Rome martyred vnder Traiane Baldraca A poore mayde that woulde in no wise be corrupt by Otho the Emperour notwithstanding all hys great offers and promises Beleardus A christen philosopher in Fraunce disagréeing in some pointes from the Church of the Latines Baleares Two ylandes in the Spanish sea thirty myles dystaunt one from the other the one called Maiorica towarde the East ten myles in length the other named Minorica onely sixe myles Florus wryteth that the custome is in those ylandes that when the children are hungrye their mothers set vp their breakefast on the ende of an high beame or pole so that they cannot come vnto it vntill they strike it downe with their slinges by which practise the people of those countryes become verye cunning in that feate There was in those ylandes so great store of Cunnyes that as Plinie wryteth they were fayne to desire ayde of men of Augustus the Emperour to destroy them for feare they woulde haue vtterly vndermined their landes Baleâris re and Beleáricus a um Of or belonging to those yles Balesium A towne on the sea coast in Italy not farre froÌ Brundyse Balinienses People of Latium called also Trebulani Ballio onis The name of a Bawde in Plautus of whom other Bawdes be called Balliones Ballienus Catilines Vncle. Ballonoti or Bellonoti People of Scythia in Europe Balsa A citie in Portugall called also Tauila Baltia An yle in the Germaine sea Bambotum A ryuer of Mauritania Bambyca A citie of Mesopotamia called also Edesa and Sacra Bambyce A citie in Syria Banasa A towne in Affrike called also Valentia Bannomanna An yle a dayes iourney from Scythia Banurri Inhabitaunts of the countrey called Tingitana Bara An yle not farre from Brundise Barachum A towne in Cyrene Baracura A port towne in India called also Bangella Baragasa A towne in Ethiope Baramalacum A towne of the people called Nabathei in Affrike Bárathrum thri A place in hel Also a dungeon in Athens where prisoners were kept Barbaria A countrey where dwelleth people rude and beastly sometyme euery countrey except Gréece and Italy Barbésula A towne in Spaine called Barbesul Also a ryuer that runneth by that towne Barcei People néere to Carthage Barce A citie in Affrike called also Ptolomais
It was the name of Sichaeus nurse and a Quéene of Lybia Also a promontorie Barcenis A wood in Germanie beyonde the ryuer Rhene called Sylua nigra which deuideth the swaues from the Cheruscians Barcha The surname of Amilcar Anniballes father Barcino A citie in Spaine called commonly Barcelona Bardasanes A bishop of Mesopotamia which wrot against Marcion in the Syrian tongue Barderate A citie in Fraunce Bardesanes An excellent Astronomer Bardi Were certaine witches or prophetes in Gallia Barduli People of Biscaie in Spaine called also Turduli and Tapari Barea A towne in Spaine Bargeni People of Affrike Bargus A ryuer of Thrace Bargylia orum A citie in Caria Bargylus An hill in Asia Baria A place among the Sabines Bariona Iohnson or the son of Iohn as Barptholomeus Ptolomeus sonne whereby it séemeth that Bar in the tongue of Syria or Hebrue signifieth a sonne Barium A town of Puel in Italy called coÌmonly Barry Barnichius A ryuer in Peloponnesus Barnus untis A towne in Macedonia néere to Heraclea Barra A towne of the Orobians in Italy Barrus A mans name in Horace which was an excéeding great detractour Barum A certaine citie Barutis or Barutum looke Beritos Basabocatis People of Aquitaine in Fraunce Basan A countrey beyonde the ryuer of Iordan in Iudea which was deuyded to two of the trybes It may be interpreted most fertile and fatte Bascropeda A countrey of the Medes néere Marmonia Basilaea A citie in Germanie called Basile Basilei People of Sarmatia surnamed Iasiges and Vrgi Basilia An yle in the North Occean sea Basilicus sinus A bosome of the sea néere Ionia Basilidae A people of Scythia in Europe hauing theyr beginning of Hercules and Echidna Basilides An heretike which affirmed that Christ was not crucified but Symon Cyrenus who as the Euangelistes wryte was constrayned to beare the crosse when our Sauiour waxed faynt through effusion of bloud by his scourging He sayde it was none offence to denie Christ in the time of persecution Hée denyed the last resurrection Against whose heresies a learned man named Agrippa Castor wrote certaine books which were after in great prince among the Christians He was about the yeare of our Lorde .110 Basilidiani The followers of Basilides Basilius A man of incomparable vertue and learning borne in Capadocia of a noble house His parents as Gregorius Nazianzenus writeth were christians his father was named Basilius Magnus by which name hée was also called His father taught him aswell Grammer as other learnings called Quadriuiales After hée went to Cesaria and from thence to Constantinople where he learned Rhetorike Logike and philosophie more perfectly From thence he came to Athens where he disputing with diuers great learned men finally vaÌquished them But whiles he exactly studied in philosophie Gregorie Nazianzene being then wholly dedicate to the study of scripture seruice of God louing Basil intirely came into the schoole where he read in a chaire and taking him by the hande brought him to a monastery where laying apart all bookes of philosophie hée onely intended to the reading of holy scripture At the last being led by the spirite of God they deuided themselues Basile going about the countrey Pontus taught the people the true fayth After he was Bishop of Caesaria and exiled by Valens the Emperour who fauoured the Arrians heresie He was of such a reuerent grauitie with humblenesse that the people loued him the Emperour and men in authoritie feared him so that hée was eftsoones reuoked from exile When other of the true fayth were put out of the countrey Basile onely for feare was reserued He was about the yeare of our Lorde .367 There were two other Byshops of the same name one of Ancyra in the tyme of Constantine he wrote against Marcellus An other of Cilicia vnder Anastasius Basilius Is also a ryuer in Asia Basilus One of the slears of Caesar Also a notable pyrate Basistani People of Spaine called also Bastuli Bassareus A name of Bacchus Bassaricus a um Of Bacchus Bassaris idis A priest of Bacchus Bassianus A byshop in the tyme of Ambrose borne aâ Syracusa Bassus The name of diuers learned men Basternae or Bastarnae People on the north side of Thrace about the ryuer of Ister or Danubius Bastuli People of Spaine neâre to the Turdulians Bata A towne and an hauen in Asia Batala An auncient citie in Italy Batalus A certaine effeminate person The name of a rybaude poet Also the surname of Demosthenes gyuen to him of his foes when he was a childe Batauia A countrey in lowe Germanie called Holland Batauus a um Of Hollande Batea The daughter of Teucrus and wife of Dardanus Bathyllus A yong man of Samos beloued of Anacreon the poet Also a famous scoffer and dauncer Batia The tumbe of Ilus in Troie Batina after some Bantina A towne of Puell in Italy Battalus The name of an effeminate and wanton Mynstrell Batton A comicall poet Battus His name that builded Cyrene of whome the women of Cyrene be called Battiadae Herodotus wryteth that the Libians call a king Battus Battus The name of a certaine heardman that Mercurie turned into a touchstone called Index For when Apollo kept king Admetus his cattell Mercurie stole away certaine of them that wandered somewhat farre from the residue of the heard no man espying him but onelye this Battus that then was in the fielde Wherefore Mercurie wylled him to kéepe his counsayle and the sooner to doe it gaue him a fayre cowe But after hée was departed mistrusting that he would bewray him Mercurie to trie and prooue him chaunged his shape and returning to Battus inquired for such cattell promising to his rewarde if he could tell a faire bull and a cowe He for couetousnesse of the double rewarde tolde him and poynted with his finger where they were Wherefore Mercurie to punnishe his vnfaythfulnesse in bewraying turned him into the stone Index Batulus A towne in Campaine Bauaria Called also Baloaria in Dutch Berne in French Bauiere a countrey in highe Germanie lying in the East on the south it boundeth on the Mountaines of Alpes which deuide Germany from Italy On the west lieth the country called Sueuia in Dutch Swaue On the east Austria called in Dutche Owstrike On the North the realme of Boheme Bauari vel Baioarij People of Bauiere Baucis An olde poore woman wife to Philemon who only when Iupiter and Mercurie trauayled through the countrey of Phrygia did vouchsafe to entertaine them in their house Wherefore bicause Iupiter for the vncurtesie of that lande had determyned to destroy it and let it bée swallowed by an earthquake hée aduertised Philemon and Baucis if they would saue themselues to followe him They following Iupiters aduice when they came to the toppe of an hill not farre of looked backe and sawe all the countrey drowned in a marice sauing their owne cottage which in their séeing was turned into a temple Then they beyng willed by Iupiter in rewarde of their courtesie in
Bocchyris A kynges name of Aegypt famous for hys iustice Bocenses People of Sardinia Bochiana A towne of the Troglodites Boderia Called of Tacitus Bodotria A créeke of the Brytaine sea Bodin comagum A towne in Italy called also Industria Bodincas The ryuer Poo in Italy Boca A towne of Peloponnesus in the goulfe Argolicum Boebe es A citie and lake of Thessaly Boebéis éidos A lake of Thessaly and a place by it named after Boebus the sonne of Glaphyrus Boëmia A realme called Beme inclosed with the bounds of Germanie hauing on the east Hungary on the south Bauier on the west the countrey Noricum on the northeast Polonia It is equall in length and breadth eche of them being about thrée dayes iourney It is enuironed with y e famous forest Sylua Hercynia Through the middle thereof passeth the great ryuer Albis and the riuer Multania Vpon the ryuage whereof is sette the chiefe citie Braga or Praga The language there is the Slauoyne tongue Notwithstanding in the churches the people are taught in the dutche tongue in the churchyardes they are taught in the Beame tongue They vary from the Romaine Church in the sundrye opinions and doe scorne all ceremonies In some places it is sayde they priuily obserue the sect of the Adamites and Waldenses in the acte of lecherye whereof it is wrytten in the worde Adamitae Boeodurum A citie in Almaine nowe called Patauia or Passawe Boeótia Is a country in Gréece wherein was the city of Thebes now it is called Vandalia It was sometime called Aonia Mesapia Ogygia Cadmeis and Hyantis Boeôtus or Boeótius a um Of Boeotia Boëtius A learned man and Senatour of Rome in the time of Theodoricus Boetus A ryuer in Spaine Bogadium A citie in Germanie called vulgarly Forstleysz Boges A Persian which being besieged of the Athenienses slue first his wife and children and after hymselfe Bogudiana A part of the prouynce in Affrike called Tingitana Bogus A king of the Mauritaynes which was with Antonie at the battayle of Actium Bohemia looke Boëmia Bohilla A towne in Italy Boianum A citie of the Samnites in Italy called nowe Bouianum Boij People of Burbon in Fraunce and Bauer in Almaine Boin A towne in Cyrene Boion A towne of Doris in Gréece Bola A towne of Campaine in Italy Bolbitinum One of the mouthes of Nylus Bolbulae A towne and an Iland in the sea Mediterraneum Bolentium A towne in Hungarie called Rachell spurge Bolingae People of Asia Bomarei Also people of Asia Bombos A countrey of Cilicia Bombus i m g. The name of a certaine deuinour Bomilcar The sonne of Anulcar a Duke of Carthage which was hanged on a Gibbet in the middest of Carthage Bona dea Was she that some called Batua Fauna or Senta of whome Varro wryteth that neuer man did sée hyr nor heare hir named but onely hir husbande Bonni Certaine hilles in Aetolia Bonânia A towne of Hetruria Bononiénsis se Of Bononia Bonosus An Emperour of Rome sonne of a scholemayster He was so great a drinker and quaffer as neuer any was knowne but he Of him Aurelius writeth that he was borne not to lead a lyfe but to lyft a pot When straunge ambassadours came vnto him of purpose hee woulde drinke and quaffe vnto them to make them drunke to the ende that then he might the sooner cause them to vtter secretes When hée was ouercome by Probus his successor hée hanged himselfe whereat men scoffed and sayde it was a tankerde and no man that hung there Booscoetae A citie of Hellesponte Boosura A citie of Cypres Boótes t is and tae also Boòtus ti A starre that followeth Charles wayne Borama A citie of Phenicia Borbetomagus or Vormatia A towne in Almaine called Wormes Borcani People of Italy Borcobe A citie of Thrace Boreostoma matis One of the mouthes of Danubius Borion A promontorie of Affrike Boron A towne of Troglodites Borsippa A towne of Babylon where is much wooll wrought Borysthenes A great ryuer in the countrey of Scythia Also a towne Borysthenides People dwellyng by Borysthenes Bosphoranus or Bosphorius a um Of Bosphorus Bosphorus The name of a part of the sea which lyeth in twoo sundrye coastes One by Constantinople an other more northwarde Bosra Botzra or Bozra A citie of Idumea Botrys A towne of Syria Botiaei People of Thrace Bouianum An olde towne in Italy Bouillae arum A towne not farre from Rome B R Brabasthenes An hill tenne myles from Lacedemonia Brachara A citie in Spaine nowe called Bracha Brachata Gallia Narbon in Fraunce Brachodes A city in Affrike called Monexi Brachmanes Philosophers of India Bractia An yle of Illyricum Bragada A ryuer néere to Vtica in Affrike Bragae Certaine desert ylandes Brana A towne of the Turdulians in Spayne Branchidae Certaine priestes of Apollo in Posideum a towne in Ionia Branchosi People of Asia Brannouites People of a countrey in Fraunce called Le vale de Moriane Brasidas A capitaine of Lacedemonia Brattia An yle in the prouince of Maesia Brauron or Brauion A towne in the countrey of Athens where was a chappell of Diana Brauum The citie of Burgus in Spaine Breges Briges and Phryges idem Brigmenteni People of Troas Brenda A towne of Brunduse in Italy Brennus A capitaine of the Galles that buylded the citie Brennon by Venice which afterward was called Verone This man breaking into Italy with a mightie armie ouerthrewe the Romaynes aâ the ryuer Allia and afterwarde pressing on to the citie tooke it and burned it all sauing the capitol or castell ⪠whether the youth of the nobilitie fledde for succour When they assaulted that also the Romaynes agréed with them that for a certaine number of talents in golde they shoulde rayse their siege and depart Therefore while the golde was weighing the capitaine Brennus pulled oute hys sworde and commaunded them to counterpoyse that with golde also But when the Romaines refused it as a matter vniust and the Galles stoode in altercation with them in the meane time Camillus a banished man that in his absence was made Dictatour had gathered a companie of them that fled out of the citie and sodainely setteth vpon the Galles Then vpon the sodaine being much abashed to saue themselues left the golde and with great losse of men betooke themselues to flight Camillus eagerlye pursuing them draue them cleane out of Italy Brennus not long after entering into the Temple of Apollo at Delphos to spoyle it by the displeasure and reuengement of the God killed himselfe Brepium A promontorie of Achaia Breetna Called nowe Brintum the citie Brindes in Italy Bretoleum A towne of Portugall now called Britium Breuci A people of Hungarie by the ryuer Sause Breuni People of the Alpes Briareus A gyant which was of an excéeding greatnesse and had an hundred armes He was also called Aegeon Brias adis A citie of the country Pisidia in Asia Brigantes Were auncient people in the North part of Englande Brigantium A citie in Galitia called
coastes of Lybia was forbidden there to rest by Hyarbas king of that countrey fearing least she with hir company woulde occupie some great part of his dominion Shée therefore craftily desyred to buy of him onely so much ground as might be compassed with a beastes hyde Which thing when shee had obteyned shée did cut the beasts hyde into small thongs and therewithall compassed .xxij. furlongs called Stadia on the which shée buylded the citie after named Carthage The Castell she called after the beastes hyde Byrsa Byzacium A countrey of Affrike Byzantium A citie of Thrace now called Constantinople sometime builded by Pausanias Duke of Spartanes the inhabitantes whereof were called Byzantij Afterwarde it was augmented by Constantyne the Emperour and was the chiefe and heade of all the Empyre orientall It is nowe vnder the Turke who wanne it in the yeaâe .1453 Byzenus The sonne of Neptunus who vsed such a libertie in speach that thereof grewe this prouerbe Byzeni lybertas Byzeri or Byzeres Looke Buzeri C A CAbala A tradition of the Iewes left among them by Moyses without wryting but from the father to the sonne and so continually in their generations wherein is concluded the vnderstanding as well of the secretes of nature as the misticall sense included in the wordes of holy scrypture Cabalaca A towne of Albania in Asia Cabalia A countrey of the lesse Asia the people wherof be called Cabalij Cabalînus sons The Well called also Hellicon aboute which was the most haunt of the nyne Muses Cabellio The towne of Cauaillon in Narbon Cabera The daughter of Protheus which had thrée sonnes by Vulcane called Caberi or Cabiri and as many daughters called Caberidae Caberon A ryuer in Asia Cabiri The sonnes of Cabera Cabullinum A citie in Fraunce Cabyle A citie in Thrace Cabyria A citie in the lower Asia although Cabyrij bée people in India Cacidini People of Scythia Cacirini People of Sicilie Cacus A famous shepheard of great and mighty strength who beside other notable robberies stole some of the Oxen that Hercules brought in hys hearde oute of Spaine after he had slaine the cruell tyranne Geryon ⪠ât which time that the tracke of the beastes might not be espyed this Cacus drew the Oxen backwarde by the tayles into hys caue Hercules therefore missyng some of the number of his beastes went towarde the nexte denne to seeke them But bicause he sawe all the steps fromwarde he mistrusted not the place Afterwarde passing by the same denne wyth hys droue of beastes those that Cacus had stollen wanting their company as the nature of them is did bellow which thing Hercules perceyuing made towarde the caue and when Cacus woulde haue stopped him from entrance with his club slue him This Cacus of Poetes is imagined to bee Vulcanes sonne and to cast fire and smoke ouâ of hys mouth of personage bigge and of strength mightye and terryble which happily they feigned bycause hee was dreadfull to the countrey where he abode and spoyled all places with sworde and fire Cadducij People of Media Cadi A citie of Phrygia Cadiscus An hill in Candie Cadmea The citie of Thebes Cadmeides patronimicum Cadmeius a um Cadmeus a um Of Cadmus * Cadmea victoria A prouerbe applyed to that victorye whereof commeth more harme then good or that it were better to loose then to get Reade hereof in Chil. Erasmi Cadmus A prince the sonne of Agenor and brother to Europa who buylded Thebes and brought out of Phoenicia into Greece sixteene letters and founde out the fusing and casting of mettalles Thys man as Poeâs feygne was sent by his father Agenor to seeke his sister Europa whom Iupiter vnder the fourme of a whyte Bull had stollen away and caryed into Crete When he coulde not finde his sister nor durst for feare of hys fathers displeasure returne home into his countrey he stayed in Boetia not farre from the Mountayne Parnasus In that place certaine of his companie that he sent for water were slayne of a Serpent which Serpent Cadmus afterwarde did slea and sowed his teeth in the earth whereof sodainely rose vp a number of armed men They all immediately fyghting one with another kylled themselues sauing fyue that accompanyed Cadmus in buylding hys newe citie of Thebes In the ende Cadmus being driuen out of his kingdome by Amphion and Zethus fledde to the Illyrians where by the power of the Gods he was turned into a serpent There was an other Cadmus the first that euer wrote in prose Also an hyll in Asia Cadueni People of Caria Cadurci Cahors in Fraunce Cadytis A great citie Syria Caea or Caeos and after some Cea An yle in the Sea called Aegeum where sylke wormes were first founde It is the countrey of Hippocrates the prince of phisitions Caecilius The name of dyuers notable men one was so ryche that notwithstanding a great part of his goodes was destroyed with ciuil warre yet he had left .4116 seruants .360 yoke of Oxen of other cattell .257000 in money .600 HS. Caecinos An hill in Sicilie Caecubum A towne of Campaine in Italy where is made good wine Caecubus a um The adiectiue Caeculus Was counted Vulcanes son As his mother sat by the fire a sparke hapened to light into hir lappe by which she sayde she was conceyued with chyld When hir full time was come shée was delyuered of a sonne whom because he had verye small eyes shée called Caeculus Of him the family of Caecilians in Rome would séeme to haue their beginning Caedicus The name of an exceeding ryche man Caeditiae Certaine houses or tauernes buylded by one Caeditius Caeix vide Caeyx Caeleââm People of Vmbria Caelââer The surname of Atlas whome Poets feigne to beare vp heauen Caelicuâum A place where was a temple of Diana Caelimontanus a um Of the hill Caelius Caelius The name of dyuers notable men of which one was an Oratour an other a Pretor of Rome Caelius mons One of the seauen hilles that Romulus enclosed Caelos An hauen in Thrace Caelus The father of Saturnus and Titan. Caene A citie about the goulfe of Laconia and a little yle in the Sicilian sea Caeneus A very expert warriour of Thessalie Caenica A countrey of Thrace Caenina A towne of Latium Caenis A promontory of Italy Caenis The daughter of Elatheus one of the Lapithes who beyng rauished of Neptune obteyned to be turned into a man and had the gyft that no weapon coulde wounde hir Caenites An hauen of Achaia Caepori People of Spayne Caere vndeclined and Caerête tis n. g. Was an auncient citie of Tuscia Caeretanus amnis A ryuer that ranne by the city called Caere Caeretum A towne of Vmbria Caerites People of the citie Caere Caesar The surname of the house of the Iulians in Rome eyther bycause the first of that stocke was cutte out of his mothers wombe or for that he had Caesios oculos terrible glistering eyes or as some wyll gray eyes Of this name most notable was Iulius Caesar Consull and
philosophie practising in his actes and liuing that which hée read of vertue and honestie and studyed eloquence onelye to the intent that in counsayling and reasoning he mought adde vnto philosophie more force and ornament and yet woulde he not practise it openly When one sayde to him men disprayse thyne obstinate silence he aunswered I force not so they disprayse not my lyuing but I will breake out of this silence when I can speake that is worthie to be spoken Beyng Tribunus militum he was sent into Macedonie wherewith hys marueylous grauitie prudence and painefulnesse he made all that were vnder him fierce and hardie against their enimies gentle to their fellowes fearefull to doe iniurie prompt to get prayses and himselfe labouring with them vsing his apparrell ⪠féeding and going like vnto them he contrary to mens expectations notwithstanding his seueritie wanne the heartes of them going on foote and talking with euery man He was of such constancie and so farre from ambition and flattery that neyther Pompey nor Caesar in their chiefe pryde when all men eyther for dread or fauor inclined to theyr desires could perswade him to agrée to their mindes in cases where it séemed to be agaynst the weale publike neyther mought any maner menasing or dreadfull tokens moone him from that constancye In so much that when hée heard that Caesar had vanquished Pompey and that his friendes woulde haue sent to Caesar to desire his fauour he aunswered they which are vanquished or haue any wise trespassed ought to make sute but he in all his life was neuer vanquished and in innocencie surmounted Caesar who in making warre agaynst his owne countrey had condemned himselfe to haue done that thing which hée had often denyed Finally not for malice of Caesar but bycause he woulde not beholde the weale publike destroyed hée slue himselfe at Vtica hauing with him at supper the euening before the greatest officers of that Citie and manye of his friends Also this sentence being spoken amongst other Onely a good man is a frée man all yll men are bonde when one happened to reason against it Cato béeyng therwith chaufed disputed with the other so vehementlye and long that all men suspected that he woulde not long liue He dyed before the incarnation 44. yeares Catoni People of Scythia about Maeotis Catti Looke Chatti Catulária ae f. gen One of the gates of Rome Catullus The name of a Poet. Catulus A Romaine capitaine in the first warres of Carthage Also an oratour that was consull wyth Marius Conturactorium A citie called Carlile in England Caturiges People of Italy Catus The name of a noble and wise family in Rome Cauares People of Narbon in Fraunce Cauca A citie in Spaine called commonly Quenca Cáucasus An hill one of the highest in all Asia situate aboue Iberia and Albania on the north part and is a part of the mountaine Taurus one of the partes of this hill deuiding India and Medea stretcheth toward the redde sea Philostratus Cauche Certaine fieldes by the ryuer Tygris Caudînus a um Of Caudis Caudinae furcae A place in Italy where the Romaines were discomfited by the Samnites Caudis or Caudium A towne of the Samnites Caulum or Caulon A towne which as Plinie writeth is scituate in the first region of Italy Caumas A Centaure the sonne of Ixion Caunus A citie in Caria by the ryuer Calbis This city is very queisie and daungerous to dwell in both at other times of the yeare and especiallyâ in summer and Autumne aswel for the vntemperate heate of the ayre as for the great abundance of fruites Therefore it is reported that the scituation is very vnholesom and the ayre contagious When Stratonicus a pleasaunt Musitian and mery conceyted man beheld the inhabitaunts thereof so wanne and yll coloured he scoffed at them with this sentence of Homere Tale quidem genus est hominum quale est foliorum The men and the leaues of this countrey looke very lyke that is both wanne and pale without liuely colour For which scoffe when the people were much grieued and bitterly rayled at hym why sayth he may I not iustly call this a sickelye and queisie citie where deade men walke with which aunswere he farre more sharpely nipped their deadelye colours and wearishe lookes than he had done before Caurium A towne of Portugall called also Caura commonly Corra. Cauros An yle which was afterwarde called Andros Caycus A ryuer in Phrygia Cayster or Caystrus A ryuer of Asia Caystrius a um Of Cayster Caystros A famous ryuer of Ionia by the citie Ephesus C E Cea Looke Caea Ceadus A Thracian which ayded the Troyans Céebes êtis A philosopher of Thebes Cebrenia A place of Troy called of some Cebrinia Cebrenij People of that countrey and also of Asia Cebrenis idis patronymicum foemininum Cebriones The bastarde sonne of king Pryamus Cecinna A ryuer by Volaterie Also the name of a Romaine which fauoured the quarell of Pompey in the ciuile warre Cecropia A towne that Cecrops buylded which was after the castell of Athens Cecropidae Men of Athens Cecropis idis A woman comming of Cecrops Cecropius a um Of Cecrops Cecrops opis ma. ge An auncient king of Athens whose ymage was made hauyng two heades Hée first in those partes brought in the bonde and knotte of maryage inuented ymages buylded aulters and offered sacrifices which thinges before him were neuer knowne in Gréece He was before the incarnation .1589 yeares Cecryphalea A promontorie of Peloponnesus Cedar A region in Arabia Ceditiae tabernae Looke Caeditiae Cedras A towne of Caria Cedâópolis An other towne in Caria Cedros An ylande in the coastes of Germanie Celadon One of them that was slayne at the maryage of Perseus and Andromeda Also a ryuer Celadusa A little yle in the sea Adriaticum Celaeno One of the rauening byrdes called Harpyiae Celâia A towne of Norice called commonly Cilia Celâna ae A place in Campayne dedicate to Iuno Celenae arum Sometime the chiefe citie of Phrygia Celendris A towne in Cilicia Celer A mans name Celeâini People in the higher Spaine Celeus Two syllables a mans name Celmus A man that nourished vp Iupiter whom he turned afterwarde into a Diamonde because he affyrmed him to be mortall Celom Rauening people Celâenies People of Spaine Celsus A noble Romaine which wrote of Phisicke and husbandrie in most eloquent latine Celtae Frenchmen Celtiaca A citie in Spaine in the countrey of Hispalis Celtiberi People of that part of Spaine which is called Biskaie Celtiberia Biskaie Celtiberius and Celtibericus a um Of Biscaie Celtica The country of Lyons in Fraunce Celtici People of Spaine which tooke their beginning of the Frenchmen called Celtae Celticum A promontorie of Spaine Celtogallia Is that part of Fraunce which conteyneth Aquitaine ⪠Lyons Belgica and Narbon whereof the French king hath three partes whole Belgica for the more part is in the handes of the Emperour that nowe is âeade of eueryche of them in their letters Cemelleo A
scutica Cerdo onis An heretike which affirmed that Christ was neuer borne of a woman and that he had no fleshe nor suffered any passion but feygned to suffer Also hée taught that the God which was declared by the lawe and prophetes to be God was not the father of our sauiour Christ for he was knowne the other was vnknowne the one was iust the other was good Also hée sayde the olde testament was naught that some creatures are yll of themselfe and that they were not made by that God that was the chiefe goodnesse but of an other the beginning of all yll whome he named the principall mischiefe He was about the yeare of our Lorde 144. whose heresies be all condemned by the generall consent of all Christendome Cerdonia A citie in Italy Cerealis A towne in Spaine called also Ebura Cereâlis le Perteyning to Ceres the Goddesse Cerealia orum n. gen Solemne feastes and sacrifices dedicated to Ceres by Triâtoâemus Ceres cereris The daughter of Saturnus and Ops called also Isis was wife of Osyris king of Aegypt who as the Gréekes suppose dyd first inuent the sowyng of wheate and barley which before did growe wilde among other herbâs Also that she did first make lawes whereby iustice should be equally ministred to all men vyolence and wrong being by feare taken awaye Herodotus wryteth that the Aegiptians affirme Ceres and Bacchus to beare the chiefe rule in hell This Ceres as poets feigne had a daughter by Iupiter named Proâeâpina whom Pluto God of hell caryed awaye by stealth as she was walking Wherefore Ceres in great sorrow lighting torches at the Mount Aetna traueyled ouer all the worlde almost to seeke hir daughter At the length she was tolde by Arethusa the Nymph that hir daughter was in hell and stolne away by Pluto She therefore going to Iupiter complayned of the vniust dealing of his brother Pluto and at the length obteyned that hir daughter shoulde returne againe on thys condition that while she was in hell she tasted of no fruite In the ende when Ceres hoped well to recouer hir daughter one Ascalaphus bewrayed that while Proserpina walked in Plutos Orcharde she plucked a pomgranate and tasted one grame of it vpon which detection it coulde not be that Proserpina shoulde returne Wherefore Ceres in reuengement of his blabblishe tongue turned Ascalaphus into an Owle But Iupiter to quiet his sisters minde graunted that hyr daughter halfe the yeares space shoulde be in heauen with the Goddes the other halfe yeare in hell with hir husbande Ceretani and Cerretani A people in Spaine Cerinthes thi A towne in the ylande Eubaea Also an heretyk which liued in the Apostles time Looke Cherinthus Cerites A people which the Romaines vanquished and ordeyned that they should make no lawes among them ⪠Cermorum A towne of Macedonie Cerna or Cerne An yle in the sea of Aethiope Cernetani A people of Italy called also Mariani Ceruaria A place in Aquitaine Cescus A citie in Pamphilia or in Cilicia Cesena A towne in Italy Cessero The citie Castres in Narbon Cessa I towne in Iberia Cestria A towne of Epyre. Cestrus A ryuer of Pamphilia Cethegus A name of certaine Romaines wherof one conspired with Catiline to destroy his countrey Cetij People in Asia Cetius A mountaine in Noricum called commonly Kalenberge or Calembrig C H Chaa A citie of Peloponnesus by the fielde called Ephasius Chaam Called also Gog Chaam is the name of dignitie of the great Emperour of Tartarians called the great Chane of Cathay or Cambalu whose dominion extendeth from the furthest part of the east vnto the countrey of Russy northwest and so vnto the north sea on the southeast vnto the south or Indian sea on the southwest vnto Persia so that by the charte appeareth there is vnder him as much mayne lande within little as is the residue of all Asia Europa and Affrica Chabrias A noble capitaine and Philosopher of the Athenienses Chaeremon A Gréeke poet Chaerephon A philosopher of Athens the disciple of Socrates Chaeris A foolyshe mynstrell Chaeronea A towne of Boeotia Chala A towne of Aegypt Chalaeon An hauen of Locris Chalame A citie of Persie which nowe is called Aetisiphon Chalastra A citie by the bosome of the sea called Termeum Chalce An yle and a towne by Rhodes Chalcedon A citie in Asia against Constantinople Chalceritis An yle in Pontus Chalcia One of the ylandes called Cyclades Chalcidicus a um Of Chalcis Chalciope The wise of Phryxus and sister to Medca ⪠Chalcis idis foem gen The name of a citie in Greece Also of an yle Chalcitis is foe gen An ylande by the mouth of the ryuer Rhynoacus in Asia Chalâaea A countrey which as Strabo wryteth ioyneth to Arabia and to the sâa Persicum Solinus and Plinius name that countrey Chaldea where the great citie of Babylon stoode In the newe chartes it is set in this wise on the west it ioyneth on Mesapotamia on the north vpon Assyria and Media on the east vppon Persia on the south vpon Arabia Deserta and so it is farre from Iudea They haue a proper language somewhat lyke to Hebrue but their letters are vnlyke to any other Strabo nameth the countrey where the people Chalybes dwell Chaldaea Chaldaei Be taken for great Astronomers of the countrey of Assyria Chalestra A citie in Thessaly on the sea coast Chalybes A people in the lesse Asia in the countrey called Pontus which digge great plentie of Iron and go naked It is also the name of a ryuer in Spaine Chaones People of the countrey of Epyre in Gréece the countrey is called Chaonia Chaos neut gen Vndeclyned a confuse matter without forme made first of nothing whereof poets supposed all other things to proceede Sometime it is taken for hell Charadrus A méere or poole by Cilicia néere to the ryuer Charadrus Charax âcis mas gen A place where the Carthaginenses kept their Marte Charaxes The brother of Sappho Chares retis A capitaine in Athens Also a caruer the scholer of Lysippus Charetes A duke of Athens which would promise euery thing and naught perfourme Charillus A capitaine of Lacedemonia Charisins An oratour of Athens Chârites The graces which were supposed to bée the daughters of Iupiter thrée in number whose names were Aglaia Thalia and Euphrosyne And where in speaking or wryting appeared to be a marueylous delectation or sweetenesse it was sayde that therein was a grace in Gréeke Charis Some men suppose that there were thrée Graces deuised to signifie that men ought to be both bountifull and gracious to other and secondly to take benefites at other mens handes and thirdely thankefullye to requyte benefites receyued which are thrée sundrie actes in the vse of lyberalitye Other say they imagined thrée graces to signifie liberal thankefulnesse and that wée shoulde plentifully requite benefite with vantage more than we receyued Wherefore they paynt the Graces in this maner that the ones backe shoulde be towarde vs and hir face
fromwarde as procéeding from vs the other two towarde vs noting double thanke to bée due for the benefite we haue done They were also painted naked to doe men to witte that pleasures shoulde be done vnfaynedly wythout cloke or dissimulation they were made yong to note that the memorie of a benefite shoulde in no tyme weare away and decaye they were discriued laughing because pleasures ought to be done with a chéerefull and glad minde finally their armes were painted as it were linked one within an other to teach that kindnes shoulde be vndissoluble and one benefite so to prouoke an other as it may make the league of loue and friendeship sure and perpetuall Charmione The handmayde of Cleopatra that willingly dyed with hir maystresse Charmonia A citie of Spaine Charon t is Was named of the Paynims the boateman that caryed soules ouer the thrée ryuers of hell Acheron ⪠Styâ and Cocytus It is also the name of thrée historiographers Charonia A countrey by Hierapolis Charonium A certaine denne consecrate to Pluto and Iuno Charopes A Troyan the sonne of Hippasus Charundas The name of a man which gaue lawes to the Atheniens Charybdis A goulfe of the sea by Sâcilie wherin is daungerous sayling by reason of streames flowing contrarye eche against other whereby ships be therein deuoured Chatti called also Cathi and Catti People of Germanie Chelidoniae Two ylandes ouer against the mountayne Taurus Chelidonium nij neut gen An elbowe of the mountayne Taurus lying into the sea Chelonates A promontorie of Achaia Chelonóphagi A people of Carmania which lyue by eating Torteyses where are founde so great that they couer their caues with the shelâes Chemmis An ylande in Aegypt which swimmeth and is dryuen hyther and thither with the windes notwithstanding that in it are woodes and an huge temple of Apollo Pomponius Mela. lib. 2. Herodotus calleth it Echeâimis Cheops A king of Aegypt which made the great stéeple at Memphis whereon were so many men workyng that he spent onely in persely onyons and garlike .1060 talents which if it were the great talent amounted of our money to 250550. poundes Chephren The brother of Cheops and reigned after him Cherilus An vnlearned poet that wrote the Atheniens victorye against Zerxes and the gestes of great Alexander And of all his great worke there were but .vij. verses allowed For the which he was rewarded with seuen péeces of golde and for eche other verse he had a good buffet He dyed in prison for hungar Cherinthus An heretyke which affyrmed that Christ shoulde come and reigne in the worlde the space of 1000. yeares and during that time men shoulde liue in all carnall delytes and afterwarde come vp to heauen where they shoulde euer liue in the pleasures of gluttonie and leacherie Hée denyed Christ to bée any other than pure man He receyued onely the gospell of Saint Mathew and reiected the other Euangelistes and the actes of the Apostles He was about the yeare of our Lorde .88 Chernitus A childe of excellent fauour who abandoned himselfe to the filthie imbracing of men Cherronêsus idem quod Peninsula The part of Gréece nowe called Morea It is sometime taken for the north part of the great Asia It is also called Chersonnésus Chersidamas A Troyan Cherubin One of the holy orders of aungels wherein is the science diuine and mysticall Cherusci A people of Germanie Chia A maydens name in Horace and a certaine ylande Chidnaei People about Pontus Chidorus A ryuer of Macedonie Chiliastae Were chrysten men which helde this opinion that Christ shoulde come personally and reigne as a king in this worlde a thousande yeares of which opinion was Lactantius Chilo ónis mas gen One of the seuen wise men of Gréece Hée lyued in Lacedoemon and dyed for ioy for whose death all Gréece mourned Ghimaera rae foem gen A mountaine in Lycia out of the which issueth fire It is also a monster hauing thrée heads one like a Lyon an other lyke a Goate the third like a Dragon After Homere it is a beast inuincible Chimaerij A people bordering on the Amazones and all people dwelling in colde countreyes are called Chimaerij Chimerium An hill in Thessaly Chione es A famous harlotte Chios Looke Chius Chirocrates The name of a famous Carpenter Chirogylium An ylande Chiron ônis The name of a man who did first finde the vertues of herbes He taught Aesculapius phisicke Apollo to harpe and Hercules astronomie He was mayster to Achilles and excelled all other men in his time in vertue and iustice Chius An yle by Gréece in the sea Aegeum which as Strabo writeth is in compasse .900 furlongs which is an hundred Italyan myles In this yle doe growe verye good malmeâeyes and other hote wynes Some Greeke authours wryte that it cannot be remembred that within that countrey was any auoutrye committed or vnlawfull companying of women among themselues * Chius ad Coum A prouerbe noting a very vnequal comparison as an ase to a syse Chius after some is a citie of Caria an other of Euboea an other of Rhodes by Triopia Chius a um Of Chius Chloris Chlóridis foe gen The daughter of Amphion wyfe of Neleus and mother of Nestor Also the Goddesse of flowers otherwise called Flora. Choaspes A famous ryuer in Asia which runneth into the great ryuer Tygris Choatrae A people about Maeotis Chobar Signifieth all the great flouddes that are in the region of Chaldea Choerilus Looke Cherilus Choralistria Phyllis A woman that Propertius loued which daunced finely Chorannei Certaine men that liue in woodes in Persia which are so swift that they take Hartes with running Chorineus A mans name which was a good Archer Choroebus Was one of Athens which did first inuent the making of earthen vessell Also the name of a yong man mencioned of Virgill Chosroes A king of the Persians excellently wel learned Chrestus The name of a noble Sophyster of Bizance Christodórus A poet of Aegypt in the time of Anastasius the Emperour an other of Thebes Chromis The sonne of Hercules Also a boy mencioned of Virgill Chromius One of Argos of whome Herodotus wryteth Chrysa A citie of Phrygia and an ylande of Indie Also a ryuer in the countrey of Syracuse Chrysaor The sonne of Neptune begotten of the heade of Medusa Chrysas A ryuer that the Paganes worshipped for a God Chryse An yle which Plinie and Solinus doe set out in the mouth of the famous ryuer Indus where as Martianus wryteth is such abundaunce of fine golde that thereof the yle tooke his name For Chrysos is in Englishe golde It is also a citie in Lemnus Chryses A prophete among the Gentiles Also a mayden giuen by the Greekes to Agamemnon at the battayle of Troy Chrysippus A noble philosopher borne in Cilicia in the towne Solae as Solinus wryteth but Laertius writeth that he was borne in Tarsus he was of the secte called Stoici Chrysoceras A promontorie of Thrace by Byzance Chrysógonus One whome Sylla the Romaine of a
promontorie in the same place C O Coa A towne in ArabÃa foelix Coaspis A riuer of y e Medes which runneth into Tygris Coastrae People of India where bée trées so high that a man can not shoote to the toppe Cocalus A king of Sicilie to whome Dedalus sled out of Creta when Minos pursued him Cocanicus A ryuer in Sicilie whereof a certayne kinde of salt is called Cocanicus Cocles A Romayne which at the siege of Rome kept backe Porsena and all his armie till the brydge was broken behinde him Liu. Decad. 1. li. 2. Cocnithum A great promontorie in Italy Coctiae A part of the mountaines Alpes Cocytia Sacrifices that were done in honour of Proserpina Queene of hell Cocytus A ryuer of hell Codanonia An yle of Germanie Codanus A goulfe in Germanie aboue the ryuer Albis hauing many ylandes in it Codera A fielde by Tyber Codrus dri The proper name of a king of Athens who to saue his countrey willingly lost his lyfe Also a verye poore man whose name is growne to a prouerbe * Codro pauperior Poorer than Codrus Coea Of Politian is vsed for Coa Of the yle of Cos. Coele A name of Syria Coelos An hauen in Thracia Coemba A citie of Gedrosia called nowe Cambaia Coenoeum The citie of Lubembergh in Germanie Coenôsus The name of an hauen Coeos vide Caea Coeus The name of a gigant sonne of Titan and Terra Colaicum A promontorie of the ylande Taprobana Colapiani People of Pannonie Colassis The scholer of Lysippus which made the ymage called Collossus at Rhodes .70 cubites high Colaxes The sonne of Iupiter and Ora which was slaine by Iason Colchi People of Asia wherof the countrey is of Strabo called Colchis by the sea side called Pontus where the toppe of an hill Caucasus turneth to the Mountaines Riphei the one side bending to the sea Euxinum and the fenne called Maeotis the other side towarde the sea Caspyum In this Cuntrey is the famous ryuer Phasis And it was the countrey of Medea wife to Iason Colchis Is sometyme a woman borne in that countrey Colchiacus Colchicus a um Of Colchis Colchus a um idem quod Colchiacus Colidos An ylande in the Occean of Indie consecrate to Venus which was so high that no birde flew vp to it Collatia A towne by Rome whereof one of the gates of the citie was called Colatîna Collatina dea Was supposed to bée the Goddesse ouer small hilles Collatâna porta The name of a gate in Rome Collatinus The name of a noble Romaine which was husbande to the chaste Lucres Collina porta A gate at Rome Collonaeus A place where Sophocles the poet was born Colônus ni m. ge An high place in Athens where Neptune was worshipped Cólophon ônis A citie of Ionia in Gréece where was the temple of Apollo called Clarius and Homere the famous poet was borne Colophonij People of Colophon Colórbasus The name of an heretike which taught that all mans lyfe was gouerned by the seauen Planets Colosse A citie of Phrygia whych in the time of Nero was ouerthrowne with an earthquake Colotes The name of a painter Colpe A citie in Ionia Colube A citie of India Colubraria An yle in the middle sea Columella The name of one that wrote of husbandrie most eloquently in the daies of the emperour Claudius Columna ae A citie in Brutium Columnae Herculis Two mountaines one at the vttermost part of Spaine the other in the vttermost west part of Affrike where nowe are the streites of Cyuill or âarrocke Some holde opinion that they are two yles in the sayde streites one of them in Europe and the other in Affrike Some as Strabo sayth affirme them to be in deede two pyllours of brasse in the yle of Gades belonging to Spaine set in the temple of Hercules in the honour of him where they that traueyled by the middle sea and were come to the vttermost part thereof and enteryng into the Occean sea came and did sacrifice to Hercules which opinyon Possidonius thought to be most true Colúri Are two great circles in the Sphere which doe declare the tyme called Aequinoctia Solstitia that is to say when the day and night be equall in length also when the day is longest and the night at most length Comagene A part of Syria Comana A citie in the greater Cappadocia an other in Pontus The people are called Comani Comari A people of Asia beyonde the Scythes Comata A shepeheardes name in Theocrite Combe A mayden that inuented the armour of Aeneas Comenses People of Comum in Fraunce Cométes The father of Asterion one of the Argonautes Commorientes The name of a comodie in Plautus Comum mi neu gen A citie in Fraunce on this side the mountaines the inhabytauntes whereof are called Comenses Comus The God of banketting or rere suppers Concana A citie in Spaine the people whereof be called Concani Concilium Antiochenum The generall councel holden at Antioche in Syria in the yeare of our Lorde 346. Concilium Ariminense A general councell holden at Ariminum in Italy the yeare of our Lorde .361 In the which the articles of the counsell of Nice were confirmed Concilium Arelatense A generall councell holden at Orleance the yeare of our Lorde .814 Concilium Basiliense A generall councel holden at Basile the yeare of our Lorde .1345 ConsilÃum Calcedonense A generall councell holden at Calcedon in Bithynia the yeare of our Lord .453 In the which counsell the heresies of Nestorius and Eutiches were condemned and all the kookes of the Manechées heresies were burned Concilium Carthaginense A generall councell holden at Carthage in Affrike the yeare of our Lorde .419 Concilium Constantiae A generall councel holden at Constance in Heluecia the yeare of our Lorde 1414. and endured thrée yeares and more Concilium Constantinopolitanum A councell holden at Constantinople the yeare of our Lorde 869. Concilium Ferrariense A generall councell holden at the citie in Ferraria in Italy where the Churches of the Latines and Gréekes became one Church in the yeare of our Lorde .1438 Concilium Lateranense A generall counsell holden at Rome in the palaice of the Bishop of Rome called Lateranum the yeare of our Lorde .1215 Concilium Lugdunense A generall councell holden at Lions in Fraunce in the yeare of our Lorde 1273. where the Gréekes accorded with the Latines in procéeding of the holy Ghost from the father and the sonne in dyuinitie Concilium Nicenum The first generall councell which was holden at Nicea a citie in Bythima the yeare of our Lorde .327 Concordia A citie in Italy an other in Spaine Also a Goddesse of the Romaines Condalus A Lieuetenant of king Mausolus of Caria was a marueylous deuisour to wrest money from men by craftie meanes For he perceyuing that the people of Lysia where he was Liuetenant did much delight in kéeping their heare and trimme bushes on a time feyned that he had receyued letters from king Mausolus that all the people of Lysia shoulde
cutte off their heare and sende to him Wherewith perceyuing that they were astonied he sayde if they woulde charge themselues with a peece of money that he would finde meanes that mens heare shoulde be brought in Gréece and sent to the king to satisfie his minde and they should keepe weare styll theyr trymme bushes By thys meanes he wreasted from them a marueylous summe of money which they were content to paye rather then to poll their heades Condatae The citie of Rhenes in Britaine Condigramma A towne of Carmania Condiuincum Nauntes in Fraunce Congedus A ryuer in Spayne néere to the towne called Bilbilis Connas A drunken minstrell that after was a great doer in the playes of Olympus in Greece hee was oft victour and yet very poore Connus Socrates mayster in Musicke Conon onis A famous capitaine of Athens Cononienses People of Narbone in Fraunce Consaburenses People of Spayne Consentia A citie of the Brutians Consentini People of that citie Consilinum A towne of Italy néere to Tarentum Consoranni People of Aquitaine in Fraunce Constantinopolis A citie in Thrace sometime called Byzantium and afore that Lygos It ioyneth to the Sea Pontus Euxinus on the narrowest part betweene Europa and Asia It was sometime the chiefe pallaice of the most christen Emperour Constantine and is nowe the pompeous denne of the great Turke enemie to Chrystes faith It was taken of the Turkes the yeare of our Lorde .1452 Mahumetes being great Turke and Constantine Emperour of Gréece Constantinus The name of dyuers Emperours The most excellent was sonne of Constantius a noble and valiaunt prince felowe in the Empyre with Maximinus and of Helene a woman borne in Englande then called Britaine After he had attained the Monarchie he daily most studiously laboured to augment the fayth of Christ notwithstanding in his time were dyuers heresies and horrible contentions among the Byshops which he did either dissolue or at the least waye reuerently moderate with a woonderfull temperaunce Hée reygned .xxx. yeares and was buryed in Constantinople He dyed in the yeare of our Lorde .330 Consualia orum n. g. Places dedicated to Consus the God of counsayle Consuanetes People of the Alpes Consus î m. gen The God of counsayle Coon The eldest sonne of Antenor Coos vel Cos vel Co vel Coum The name of an yle nigh to the Rhodes Copae arum A citie of the Boeotians Cophantus An hill of Bactria in India which euer burneth Cophes A ryuer in India Cora A citie that Dardanus buylded of the which the inhabitaunts are called Corani Coracesius A part of the hill Taurus Corasini People of Asia Corax A learned man of Sicilie who wrote first of Rhetorike He couenaunted with Lysias to teach him hys science ⪠vnder this condition to haue halfe his money before hande and the residue when he first by pleadyng ouercame and obteyned any cause in iudgement Lysias in processe of time profyted much in eloquence and yet woulde not take vpon hym any cause to pleade Which thing when he was thought to do of purpose to defeate hys mayster of the residue of his money Corax sued him in the lawe and concluded the summe of his accusation in this subtile argument Learne thou foolishe yong man that thou art that which waye soeuer the matter nowe falleth out in iudgement thou must paye me my money For if thou ouercome and cast me then is my money due by the bargaine that was betwéene vs If I ouercome and the Iudges condemne thée to pay it then is it due by lawe To this aunswered Lysias Nay sir not so saith he but vnderstand you being so wyse a man as you are that you can haue the money of me by neyther meanes For if you ouercome in iudgement then by the agreement betweene vs can you require no money for our bargain was you should haue it when I did first ouercome in iudgement but if I cast you howe can you lawfully aske money at my handes being quyted and discharged by the sentence of the Iudges Which when the Iudges hearde béeyng in admiration of the yong mans witte sayde ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã that is Mali corui malum ouum A curst Crowe hath hatched a shrewde egge a craftye mayster hath bred as craftie a scoller alluding in the Greeke prouerbe to the name of Corax Also Corax is an hill in Sarmatia and a ryuer running out of the hyll Caucasus Coraxi People of Colchis Coraxicus A part of the hill Taurus Corcyra rae f. gen An yle in Greece Corcyreus a um One of that yle Cordilio A stoyke philosopher so seuere that he contemned the acquaintaince and friendshippe of kinges and great princes Cordistae A certaine nation that abhorreth golde neyther will they bring it into their region nor suffer other to be spoyled of it Corduba A citie in Spaine where Lucan the poet and both the Senecaes were borne Cordus One of the maysters of Alexander Seuerus Also an historiographer Coresa An ylande in Gréece Coricae Two ylandes by Peloponnesus Corinium A towne of Dalmatia called nowe Corninium Also a towne in Englande otherwyse called Claudiana castra Claudiocestria Glocester Corinnus A poet which wrote of Troy before Homere Corinthius and Corinthiacus a um That which is of the Citie of Corinth Corinthus A famous riche and great citie in Achaia scituate in the narrow streâât entering into Peloponnesus nowe called Morea By reason of the commodious scituation for resort of marchaundize out of all countreyes it was the greatest marte towne in all the worlde and thereby rose to so great wealth and power that the Romaynes began to suspect and feare them Wherefore on a tyme when with prowde wordes they abused the Romaine Ambassadours or as Strabo writeth cast vryne on their heades as they passed through the city the Romaines taking therewyth great dyspleasure sent their capitaine Mummius against them who besieged the city within short space so destroyed it that scantly and token of so noble a citie wythin fewe yeares remayned In the burning of it so many riche and costly ymages of sundrie sortes of Mettall were melted that thereof after was founde a kinde of precious brasse called Aes Corinthium which long time after was had in great estimation Coriolanus A noble man of Rome Corioli A towne of Latium Coritus An hill of Thessaly and a king on whose wyfe Iupiter begat Dardanus Corna nae The name of two cities Cornelia The proper name of dyuers noble women Of which one was sister to Scipio mother of Tyberius Gracchus and Caius Gracâhus who beyng men of excellent eloquence in the latine tong were taught onely of theyr sayde mother Thys woman was of a marueylous temperaunce For on a tyme beyng in companie with other Ladyes of Rome beholding hir meane apparayle was demaunded if shée had no better rayment Shée pointing to hyr twoo sonnes which then went before hyr aunswered Loe here is my freshe apparayle wherein I delyte Cornelius The proper name of diuers
with 30000. Romaynes were slayne many also were taken which as Plutarch writeth happened by hys negligence beeing more industrious about the gathering of money than in gouerning his armie He died before the incarnation of Christ .51 yeares Cratéra rae or Crater téris A great hole on the top of the marueylous hill Aetna in Sicilie out of the which issue flames of fire Craterus One of great Alexanders companions Crates A philosopher which to the intent he might more quietly studie philosophie threwe all his goodes into the sea saying Hence with a mischiefe yée vngracious appetytes I had leeuer drowne you than you shoulde drowne me supposing he mought not haue vertue and ryches togyther Suidas and Laertius wryte that he made money of all the substaunce that he had and put it in the handes of a banker willing him if his children prooued to bee philosophers to giue the money to hys poore countreymen saying that philosophers hauing wit and learning did neede no rychesse but if they proued vnlearned then to deliuer them the stocke of money that he left behinde him for their reliefe Crathis The name of two ryuers the one in Gréece the other in Calaber Cratilus The name of a philosopher to whome Plato wrate a booke Cratinas A ryuer in Affrike Cratinus A poet which wrote comedies Cratippus The name of a philosopher Cremera A ryuer of Tuscia Cremôna A towne of Italy Creon The sonne of Menoetius and father to Iocasta who after that Oedipus had vnwittingly killed hys father did take vppon him the kingdome of Thebes But forsomuch as the monster Spinx did with great crueltie spoyle all the countrey about nor any other remedie could be found of that great miserie but that one must dissolue the doubtfull ryddle that Spinx proposed This Creon caused proclamation to be made ouer all Greece that whosoeuer could doe it shoulde haue the olde Queene Iocasta to hys wyfe and that hée woulde willingly also yeelde vp the kingdome of Thebes vnto him This large offer caused many to attempt the thing but when they could not rightly doe it they were cruelly slaine by the monster At the last Oedipus the vnknowne sonne of Iocasta mooued with the fame hereof commeth from Corinthe thyther and by his wisedme dissolued the ryddle which thing Spinx tooke so grieuously that he cast himselfe downe an hill and brake his necke By this meanes Oedipus gat the kingdome of Thebes and vnwittingly maryed his owne mother Iocasta whereas he had not long before also ignorantly killed his father Laius Which thinges when hee dyd afterwarde vnderstande hee conceyued so great sorrowe that he pulled out his owne eyes and woulde also often tymes haue slaine himselfe had not his daughter Antigone kept him Wherefore hee willinglye went in banishment to Athens leauing his kingdome to Eteocles and Polymces his two sonnes to occupie the same by course But when Eteocles being the elder after the first yeare woulde not admit his brother Polymces to reigne vpon that occasion great and cruell warre was raysed betwéene the Thebanes and the Argiues In which when it happened both the brothers méeting in the battayle to be slaine eche of other Creon tooke on him the kingdome againe Finally for his outragious crueltie as well in other things as in murdering Antigone and Argia Theseus of Athens made warre vppon him and slue him An other of the same name was king of Corinthe whose daughter Creusa Iason maryed when he forsooke Medea Also a mountaine of the yle of Lesbos Creontiades The sonne of Hercules by Megara the daughter of Creon of Thebes Creophilus The name of a poet whome some affirme to be mayster to Homere Crepsa A citie of Liburnia called also Crexa Cres cretis One of Creta Cresseis A nymph of the sea Cressa A woman of Creta Also an hauen of Caria ouer against Rhodes Creta ae foe g. and Crete tes An yle lying betwéene Peloponnesus and the Rhodes It hath on the north part of the sea Aegeum and Cretense on the south the sea of Aegypt and Affrike It is nowe called Candie In thys yle was Iupiter nourished whome the painyms named their chiefe God There Minos reygned and Radamanthus gouerned vnder him with most exquisite iustice of whose lawes other countreyes tooke their first paterne yet notwithstanding the people of that countrey were noted to be vicious and shamefull lyers as Epimenides wrote in a verse recyted by saint Paule in his Epistle to Titus saying Cretes alway bene lyers vngracious beastes and slouthfull panches This is nowe vnder the Turke Cretéus Cressius Créticus a um Of Creta Cretheus The sonne of Aeolus which begat Aeson Alcimedon and Amythaon on Tyros the daughter of hys brother Salmoneus Crethon The sonne of Diocles. * Cretizare cum Cretensibus A prouerbe vsed where a craftie man will deceyue him that is craftie a théefe steale from a théefe or a lyer before them that vse to make leasings Creusa The daughter of Creon king of Corinth whom Iason maryed Shée was afterwarde burned in hir palaice by the wylde fyre that Medea in maner of a present did sende hir inclosed in a Casket because Iason had forsaken hyr to marry this Creusa It is also the wife of Aeneas daughter of Pryamus and Hecuba whome as Virgile sayth Aeneas lost in the stréetes of Troye as hee scaped with his father and hys sonne Other write that he killed hir by couenant made wyth the Grecians that none of Priamus his stocke myght remaine aliue Creusis A towne of Boeotia Crimissa A citie mencioned of Strabo Crimissus A ryuer of Gréece Crissa A towne buylded by Crissus the sonne of Phocus Crispus The name of Salust Critheis The daughter of Attellis the mother of Homer Critias One of the thirtie tyraunts of Athens Crito A philosopher of Athens familier with Socrates Critobulus A phisition of whome Plinie speaketh Lib. 7. Critolaus A philosopher of Athens and a Capitaine of Achaia which destroyed the citie of Corinth Crobialon A towne in Paphlagonia whereby runneth the ryuer Parthenius Crobylus A ruffian baude so naughtie that of him grewe a prouerbe Crobyli iugum Crocodilon A towne of Phoenicia Crocodilus An hill of Cilicia Crocus The sonne of Eumenes the nourse of the Muses who was turned by Iupiter into the signe called Sagittarius Some write his name Crotus or Croton Croesus A king of Lydia sonne of Halyattes who subdued many great countreyes in Asia and Gréece and gathered innumerable rychesse He on a tyme demaunded of Solon who was the happiest man that euer he did sée He sayde Tellus a man of Athens who had honest and good sonnes and they also had likewyse good children all which he sawe in his life and when he had lyued a good time honestly at the last fighting against and vanquishing the enemies of his countrey hée dyed a fayre death and was in the fame place honourably buryed of the Atheniens When Croesus asked who was most happye next Tellus hée sayde Cleobis and Biton which
to be sacrificed and afterwarde also in their presence killed hir selfe Cyaraxes The sonne of Phraortes king of Persia and Media and father to Astyages Cybéle les or Cybéles lis or after some Cybelle Looke Cybele Cyclades The fiftie yles in the sea called Aegeum Cycloborus A ryuer of Attica swift and violent Cyclops âpis mas gen A Cyclope These Cyclops were an auncient people inhabiting the yle of Sycilie which were lyke gygantes hauing but one eye in their foreheades Cyclus cli mas gen A rounde place in Athens where things were solde Cycnus A capitaine of the Ligurians who bewailing the death of Phaeton was turned into a swanne Cydias A painter which painted the Argonautes Cydippe A mayden whome a yong man called Acontius loued and signified the same vnto hir by wryting on a fayre Apple which he sent to hir Cydnus A ryuer in Cilicia which runneth from the great mountaine Taurus and passeth through the citie Tharsos which ryuer is so colde that when the great Alexander in his iourney against Darius went into it to refreshe him he was so mortified with cold in all hys bodie that he shoulde haue dyed had not that excellent and faithfull phisition Philip recouered him Cydon One of the notable townes of Candie Also a man of Corinthe which kept so great hoâpitalitie that therof grewe a prouerbe Cydonea An yle by Lesbos Cyleno The daughter of Atlas and mother of Nycteus Cylicrani A people of Spayne Cyllarus The horse of Castor Cylleborus The sonne Sthelenus Cyllene An hill of Archadie where they say Mercurius was nouryshed Cyllenius One of the names of Mercurie Cymbrica Chersonesus The countrey of Denmarke Cyme A citie of Aeolis Cymes Sybel called Cumaea Cyminus A lake in Italy Cymodoce The daughter of Oceanus and Tethis Cymothoe The daughter of Nereus and wyfe to Neptune Cynaethium A citie in Archadie Cyneas An excellent wise man who beyng sent from king Pyrrhus ambassadour to Rome the next day after he came thither he saluted the whole Senate and gentlemen by their names Seneca in prologo libri 1. Decla sayth that hée saluted the Senate and all the people standing about to beholde him by their names Cynegirus A capitaine of Athens Cynice es f. g. The sect of philosophers called Cynici Cynici Were a sect of Philosophers which signifieth doggishe for the similitude of their condicions For they barked at all men and occupyed women openly and lyued without any prouision The first authour thereof was Antisthenes and next him followed Diogenes Cyniphis or Cyniphos A ryuer of Affrike by the which are bredde great Goates Cyniphius a um Of that ryuer Cynocéphali People vnder the great Chane hauing heades like dogges Cynopolis A citie where Anubis was honoured Cynos A citie in Locris Cynosarges A place in Athens where children which were bastardes were exercised Cinthia One of the names of Diana Cynthus An hyll of the ylande Delos where Apollo and Diana were borne Cyparissa A citie of Achaia Cyparissus The sonne of Telephus which bewayling the death of a tame Hynde slaine by his louer Syluanus was turned into a Cypres trée Cypria Was one of the names of Venus Cyprius a um Of the yle of Cypres Cyprus An yle in the sea called Carpathium against the countrey called Syria on the north it hath Cilicia on the south and the east Aegypt It is in length after the description of Strabo .175 myles after .viij. furlongs to the myle Some suppose it was at the first a portion of Syria deuided by earthquakes This countrey aboundeth in wyne oyle mettall vitriole and canes whereof suger is made Also Venus was there had in great reuerence in so much that men before they did set forth their daughters in maryage offered them to such straungers as came into the countrey to be by them defloured and afterwarde maryed them to husbandes Cypsella A towne of Thrace Cypselus A king of Corinthes father of Periander one of the seauen sages of Greece Cyptasia A citie in Galatia called Carosa Cyrcilus A man of Athens who was stoned to death for perswading them to yéelde the citie of Xerxes Cyrenaica A country in Affrike called also Pentapolitana It hath on the west the great Sertis and the lesse Affrike on the north the part of the middle sea called Lybicum on the cast Marmarike on the south the desertes of Lybia In this were the notable cities Beronice Arsinoe Ptolomais c. Cyrenaica secta A sect of Philosophers who affirmed the chiefe felicitie to be in carnall delectation of whome Aristippus was chiefe Cyrene es or Cyrenae arum A famous citie in Libia Also a citie in the yle oâ Cypres Cyreneus A man of that citie Cyrillus The name of dyuers learned byshops of the which one wrote against Nestorius Cyrâus The yle which is called Corsica or Corse the people whereof are called Cirnij Cyrrestis A Goddesse worshipped in the countrey called Cyrrestica Cyrrha A towne of Phocis by the which be the fieldes called Cyrrhaei campi Cyrrhea A citie in the mountaine of Helicon Cyrus The name of two ryuers the one in Armenia the other in Media Cyrus A noble king of Persia the sonne of Cambyses and Mandanes the daughter of Astyages king of Media This man excelled all men of his time in goodly personage gentlenesse prowesse liberalitie wisedome and memorie Solinus writeth that of the excéeding multitude of men which were in his host hée so retayned the names that he called euery man by his proper name when he spake vnto them The residue of his woonderfull vertues be written by Xenophon most eloquentlye in Gréeke At the last beeyng insaciable in couetyng countreyes he was slaine by Tomyris Quéene of Scithia with 200000. Persians Of him reade Iustine Lib. 1. Herod lib. 1. and Solin Valer. Max. lib. 8. cap. 7. Cyssus vel Cysthus The name of a ryuer Cyte es A towne of Colchis Cyteus or Cyteius a um Of Colchis or of Medea Cyteorum A towne of Cappadocia Cythêra orum neu gen An yle against Candie and a citie in the same dedicated to Venus Cythére es and Cytherea ae One of the names of Venus Cytheris An Harlottte looued of Cornelius Gallus the Poet. Cythaeron A Forrest or wood in Boeotia consecrated to the Muses Cythnos One of the yles called Cyclades Cytorus Looke Citorus Cyzicenus A philosopher of Athens excellent in Geometrie Cyzicum A famous citie of Bithinia so named of the kyng Cyzicus Cyzicus The name of an yle by Gréece Also a citie of Propontis D A DAae arum People of Scythia Dacia A countrey beyonde Hungarie it hath on the north Sarmatia of Europe on the west the Iazigians of Metanest on the south Mysiam superiorem and Dunaw on the east the lower Mysiam and Dunaw they call it nowe Transyluaniam They doe not well which call Denmarke by this name which is Dania Dácicus a um Pertayning to the countrey called Dacia Dacus ci One of the countrey of Dacia Dacus and Dacius a
um idem quod Dacicus Daedala neut gen Were feastes celebrated yearely in the honour of the reconcyling of Iuno to Iupiter Reade before in Citheron Also Daedala was the generall denomination of ymages wrought of whome it seemeth to some that Daedalus tooke his name Also it is a town of Lycia where Daedalus was buryed Daedalus The name of an excellent Carpenter of Athens which first founde the Saw the Twibile and the Augour and made the place in Crete called Labyrinthus Daedalus la lum and Daedaleus a um Of Daedalus Daedicae A certaine people of Scythia on the part of Asia Demogorgon onis Whome paynims called the God of the earth first creatour of the earth Daemon monis Is one of the names of Saturne Daetor A Troyan mencyoned in Homere Dai People of Persia which were all shepeheardes and grasiers Daliae People of Scythia valiaunt and cruell in battaile Dalida vel Dalila An harlotte dwelling in Gaza in the countrey of the Philistians which deceyued the strong Sampson Dalmatia A part of the great countrey called Illiria or Sclauonia It hath on the west Croatia on the east Bossina on the north the great Mountaine Albanus mons and the countrey called Seruia on the south the sea Adriaticum or the goulfe of Venice Dalmata ae A man of that countrey Dalmaticus a um Of Dalmatia Damascene A part of Syria called also Mesopotamia Damascénus a um Of Damascus Damascius An hystoryographer which in the time of Herodotus wrote of things done before the warre of Peloponnesus Damascus A famous citie in Syria supposed to bée the first that euer was inhabited Damasithymus One of Xerxes capitaines Damatris The Priest of the Temple of the Goddesse Damia Damia One of the names of the Goddesse Cybele Damianus A sophister of Ephesus Damocles One of the flatterers of Dionysius Damoetas A shepeheardes name in Virgile Democrates A Phisition Damocrita A matrone of Rome wyfe to a noble Citizen called Alcippus This woman wheÌ hir husband was expelled the city by certain of the coÌtrary faction was not onely forbidden to followe him into banishment whome shée loued most entirely but hir daughters also were restrayned from maryage that no issue myght discende of them to reuenge the crueltye shewed to Alcippus Wherefore Damocrita thinking some way to be reuenged on a tyme when all the noble women according to their custome should come togither into an house to solemnise a sacrifice Damocrita wyth hir daughters minding to burne all that were within locked the doore and with the wood prepared for the sacrifice began to sette the house on fire But when a multitude of men came to quench the fire Damocrita to preuent the crueltie of hir enimies first killed hir daughters and afterwarde hir selfe Damon Pythias Two philosophers of Pythagoras his sect in the league of friendship beyng eche to other most faythfull For when Dyonise the tyranne of Syracuse had condemned the one of them to death and he had required certayne dayes respyte to go home and dispose such thinges as he had the other became suretie for him on this condicion that if his friende returned not he would be concent to suffer death for him But when he at the day appointed according to his promise did returne the tyranne woondred at theyr faithfulnesse pardoned the offender and requested that he might be receyued as thirde into their knotte and league of amitie Damophila A woman of Greece excellently well learned Damostratus A philosopher that wrote of fishes Damoxenus A poet of Athens Dan A towne which is in the boundes of Iudea on the north part Danaë The daughter of Acrisius king of Argiues vnto whome beyng closed in a strong tower Iupiter came in the forme of a shower of golden raine in at the house top and gat on hir Perseus who was afterward a valiaunt knight Hee gaue the name first to the countrey and people of Persia By this fable is signified that Iupiter sent treasure priuily vnto Danae and also to them that had the keeping of hir wherewith they being corrupted suffered Iupiter to enter into the tower and accomplish his pleasure The fable declareth the force of money and gyftes in assaulting of chastitie Danaides The daughters of Danaus Danaus King of Argiues of whome the countrey of Achaia was after named Danaa and all the Grecians Danai He begat fiftie daughters which of their graundfathers name was called Belides and of their father Danaides They all in one night killed their husbandes the sonnes of their vncle Aegyptus sauyng onely Hypermnestra which saued hir husbande Lynceus Vide Belides Dandarica The countrey of the people called Dandaridae Dani People of Germanie called now Daci Daniel elis An holy prophet of the trybe of Iuda a noble man borne being a yong childe was brought to Babilon and became a man of such temperance that among the Iewes he was taken to bée Enuchus or a man gelded Hée continually bewayled Hierusalem and in fastings refrayned all maner concupiscence In forme of bodie he was drie and leane but in the fauour of God he was beautifull By hys prayer he restored Nabuchodonosor to his first figure where he was transformed of God into a monstruous beast notwithstanding that a little before hée by the same Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon was throwne into a dungeon among hungrie Lions which neuer woulde touche him to hurt him He being afterwarde deliuereâ prophecyed both of the comming of Christ and of the Empyres of Babilon Media Persia Gréece and Romaynes And finally dyed at Babylon and there was buryed he liued before the incarnation of Christ .619 yeares Dante 's A poet of Florence Dantiscum A towne of Polonia Danubius A famous ryuer called Dunowe after the description of Plinie hath his beginning in Germanie out of an hill called Arnoba and passing by countreyes innumerable retayneth his name but as soone as hée entereth into Illiria hee is called Ister and receyueth into him lx other ryuers well nighe the halfe of them beyng nauigable Finally being in sixe wonderful great armes he falleth into the sea called Pontus The same is affirmed by Tacitus sauing that he calleth the hyll where Dunow springeth Arbona and not Arnoba Daphnis idis The sonne of Mercurie Also a delectable place without the citie of Antioche and the name of a portion of Lycia by the sea side Daphnites One of the names of Apollo Daradus A ruyer of Lybia nowe called Darat Dardania The countrey where Troy stoode or the towne of Troy Dardánides dae One of the stocke of Dardanus Dardanis idis A woman of Troy Dardanius a um Of Troy Dárdanus The name of a prince reigning in that part of Phrygia where Troy stoode which was of him called Dardania Dares An hystoriographer of Phrygia which wrote of the battayle of Troy Daridaeus The name of a king of Persia in the time of Tyberius Caius and Claudius the Emperours Dariorigum Vannes in Britaine Darius The name of dyuers kinges of Persia Daruernum Douer Darus A
he had greatlye enryched the citie of Athens in yearely reuenues and adourned it with commodious buylding the people in the honour of him did set vp 300. and .60 of his ymages made in mettall But afterward being absent by the meanes of certaine enuious persons the people condemned him to die and also pulled downe his ymages some they broke some they folde onelye one was kept whole in the Castell whereof Demetrius hearing sayde yet haue they not plucked downe the vertue for which they did set vp these ymages This man caused Ptholomeus king of Aegypt to make his great librarie and to sende to the Iewes to haue their lawes and prophecyes translated into Greeke who sent vnto him of euery trybe twelue great learned men who did accomplishe his desire and are called Septuaginta interpretes although there were of them .lxxiiij. persons He was afore the incarnation of Christ .277 yeares Democedes A notable pâisition in the tyme of king Darius Demochares An oratour of Athens nephew to Demosthenes He beeing sent to king Philip in ambassade after he had declared his message and the king had asked wherein they thought he might most pleasure the Atheniens forsooth sir sayth he if it will please you to hang your selfe This vncourteous aunswere when other were much grieued with it the wyse Prince tooke in good part and willed them to returne to the Atheniens and to aske of them whether they thought more noble those that vsed so vncourteous and vnséemely language or those that paciently coulde heare it and let the speakers returne without punishment Democides A phisition belonging to Polycrates the tiranne of Samiens He wrote a booke of Phisicke Democles A notable flatterer in the time of Dionysius the tyranne This flatterer when he would oftentymes extoll beyonde measure the kinges felicitie Dyonise willing to giue him a tryall and proofe of it caused him to be arrayed in princely robes and so did set him at a table to be serued like a king But iust ouer his heade in the place where he should sitte he caused a sworde to be hanged by a small thréede which when Democles perceyued hée coulde not for feare eyther taste of his pleasaunt meates or take any comfort in his royall seruice Whereby Dionysius did him to wit that the lyfe of a tyrant in myddes of all princely pompe and royaltie is continually in feare and daunger of death and extremitie Democoon The bastarde sonne of Priamus Democrates The name of a Carpenter of a notable wrestler and of a phisition Democritus An excelent philosopher being a chylde learned of the wise men of Chaldea astronomie and theyr diuinitie afterwarde he went into Persia to learne Geometry After he returned to Athens where he gaue his possessions rychesse innumerable vnto the weale publike reseruing a litle a gardeyne wherin he mought at more libertie searche out the secretes of nature Hée wrote many wonderfull workes in naturall philosophie and phisicke When he behelde the citie of Athens hée continuallye laughed at their foolishe dyligence which spared no paines to get authoritie and ryches that they were not sure to kéepe which laboured to get theyr children great possessions who eyther dyed before theyr fathers or else ouerlyuing them shortly spent away all that theyr fathers left them But the Atheniens not perceyuing the cause of hys laughter thinking him mad caused Hippocrates the phisition to go vnto him Who perceyuing the occasion of his laughter sayd Democritus is not madde but the Atheniens be madde at whome he doth laugh He was before the incarnation of Christ .492 yeares Demodocus The name of an Harper of whome Homere maketh mention Demogorgus An inchaunter which was supposed to bée of such excellencie that hee had authoritie ouer all spirites that made men afearde Demolchus A poet of Syracusae Demonax A philosopher in the tyme of Adrian the Emperour He contrary to all other philosophers eschewed solitarinesse and desired the company and friendship of men Demonica A woman which for money betrayed Ephesus to Brennus Demopósis The sonne of Themistocles Démophon or Demophoon The sonne of Theseus and Phedr .1 king of Athens Demósthenes The most excellent oratour of the Gréekes was first disciple of Plato after he folowed Eubulides an oratour and vsed such wonderfull diligence and laboure to attaine to the perfection of eloquence that where he had an impediment in his pronunciation hee by putting small stones in his mouth and inforcyng to speake treatably at last attained to most perfite forme of speaking When king Philip besieged Athens and sore distressed it vpon certaine treatise offered them hee required to haue deliuered vnto hym tenne Oratours of whome Demosthenes was one and then woulde hee rayse his siege Demosthenes hearing thys and comming into the common counsayle rehearsed this fable On a time the Wolues exhorted the shéepeheardes to be in league with them wherevnto the shéepeheardes accorded then the wolues required to haue delyuered vnto them their Mastyues which were the cause of debate betwéene them The shéepeheards graunted therevnto and deliuered vnto the wolues their dogges the most vigilant keepers of their flockes Afterwarde the wolues being without any feare did not onely now and then eate a shéepe to allay their hunger but did also for theyr pleasure rent and teare other in pieces In lykewyse sayde Demosthenes king Philip after hée hath taken from you your Oratours which by theyr wyse aduertisementes haue hytherto preserued you from hys tyrannie he will doe the semblable Which the Atheniens hearing agréed to hys counsalye and valiauntly defended the citie Hée was afore the incarnation of Christ .345 yeares Deo The name of Ceres Derbices People of Asia about the sea called Mare Caspium which haue this custome that when their friends come to the age of lxx yeares they slea them and eate them calling all theyr neighbours to the feast Olde women they sley not but doe onely strangle them and afterward bury them Semblably if men die before the sayde age they also doe burie them They punishe euery offence be it neuer so little with death Derce A well most colde in summer betwéene Bisbilis and Sepobriga Derceto A Goddesse name of the Assyrians Dercyllus One of the Capitaynes of Pyrrhus Dersaei People of Gréece in the borders of Thrace Deua A ryuer in Scotland called Dée and the towne called Dondée is also Deua Deuana Called also Duana castra a towne in the north part of England called Dancaster Deucalion The sonne of Prometheus a man of great wisedome and vertue who saued much of the people of Gréece in the time of an vniuersall floude whereby the more part of Gréece was drowned The poets feigne that after the floud he asked counsayle of the Goddesse Themis howe mankynde myght bee restored and it was aunswered if he and his wife Pyrrha did cast the bones of their mother behinde them Deucalion beeyng very wittie perceyued that the earth was mother of all things and the stones the bones thereof
Therefore he threw stones behinde him and they became men and his wyfe dyd likewise and they became women But in deede he saued the people by bringing them to the hill called Parnasus Hee was before the comming of Christ .1534 yeares Deuona A towne in Almaine called Newemarke betwene Nuremburg and Rentzburg Dexamene A nymph of the sea Dexippus A phisition the scholer of Hippocrates D I Dia An yle by Gréece called Naxus Diagoras A philosopher of Miletus who had thrée sonnes notable in sundrie feates of actiuitie all which in one day at the solemne games of Olympus with great glory wan their pryces And when they imbraced their father there present setting their Garlands on his head and the people with ioyfull acclamations cast flowers on him as the maner was for exceeding ioy that he conceyued euen in his sonnes armes he ended his lyfe An other of the same name was a famous poet Diâna The daughter of Iupiter which fléeyng the companie of men to the intent that she would not be moued with carnall lustes did continuallye exercise hir selfe in hunting wilde beastes and for hir chaste lyfe was honoured of the Paynims for a Goddesse she is also taken for the moone Diáponi Certaine dogges in Créete Dias A philosopher of Ephesus in the time of Philip king of Macedonie Diaula One of the foure notable porches in Rome Dibutades A porter of Corinthe which taught first to make vessels of Chalke Dicaea A citie in the goulfe called Thermaicus Dicaearchia ae foem gen The citie called Puteoli Dichaeárchus chi mas gen The name of a philosopher Dicaeogenes A certaine poet Dicaeus A mans name Dicte es An hyll in the yle of Candie where Iupiter was nourished Dictynna One of the names of Diana Also a citie of Gréece Dictynneus An hyll wherein the temple of Diana was scituate Dictys One of the Centaures Also an historiographer of Candie which wrote the battayle of Troy Dictys Is also a fisher which nouryshed Perseus Dido or Elisa Daughter of Belus king of Tyre shée was first maryed to Sichaeus Hercules his priest whome for couetousnesse of hys great rychesse when hir brother Pygmalion had cruelly slaine shée with certaine that shee knewe to hate the couetous tyranne fledde out of hir owne countrey into Affrike Where to buylde hir a castell she bought as much lande as she coulde compasse with an Oxe hyde as is before declared in Byrsa Afterwarde when âarbas king of Getulia profered hir maryage and shée for tender loue of hir first husbande refused to mary any other the barbarous prince with force and warre woulde haue constrayned hir vnto it But the noble gentlewoman rather choosing valiauntlye to dye than to appeare to forget the loue of hir first husbande killed hirselfe Yet Virgill and other poets feigne that shée was enamoured on Aeneas fléeing out of his country and by aduenture arriuing at hir city of Carthage and afterwarde when shée perceyued ⪠that he would forsake hir and depart into Italy that for sorrow thereof she killed hirselfe But by the credite of most certaine historyes ⪠that is conuinced to be false For Carthage began to bée buylded by Dido 70. yeares after Rome and Aeneas came into Italy before Rome was builded 300. yeares and aboue where his posteritie reigned in Alba. Didymae arum Ilandes of Affrike that bounded vpon Aegypt Didymaon A famous maker of harneys Didyme es An I le in the Sicilian Sea Didymeus One of the names of Apollo Didymi Certayne hilles in Arabia foelix Didymus a um Is in Latin Geminus in Hebrue Thomas in English a twinne in birth or double a man It is also the name of diuers learned men of which one being a Grammarian wrote .3500 bookes Diéspiter One of the names of Iupiter quasi diei pater Diiouis Iupiter Dindymene and Dindyme One of the names of Cybele called the mother of the Gods Dindymus The ridge of the hill of Ida in Phrigia Dinocrates A philosopher Diocles A poet of Athens Also a phisition in the time of Darius Histaspis Diocleus The sonne of Orsilochus Diodorus A philosopher of Socrates sect and Diodorus Siculus a storye wryter and an other Diodorus a sâoâke philosopher of whome Cicero wryteth Diogenes A famous philosopher of their sect y t for their vncurteous demeanour were called Cinike or doggish He liued without any maner of prouision from daye to day begging his meate and drinke In the nightes he lay in the common porches and gallereyes of the citie in the day time he vsed for his house a tunne which he coÌtinually sate in And when hée turned his tunne which waye hys pleasure was hée merily made his aduaunt that his house woulde turne with euery time For in the winter he did set the mouth toward the south in the summer towarde the north and which way soeuer the sun did bende Diogenes his tumbling palaice did turne it selfe Great king Alexander on a time mooued wyth the fame of this philosopher came to him as hée was sitting in his tunne and beyng in admiration of that contempt of the worlde that in him appeared lyke a noble Prince bade him aske at his hande what soeuer he woulde desyre Syr quoth hée then I praye you stande a syde and take not from me that you can not giue meaning the warmenesse of the Sunne towarde which at that time hée had tourned his Tunne Alexander was not onelye nothynge dyspleased wyth the vncurteous aunswere of thys currysh Philosopher but also sayde openlye that if he were not Alexander hée coulde fynde in hys heart to be Diogenes He dyed beyng 90. yeares of age and beyng at the poynt of death willed his body to be left vnburyed and when his frinds asked him whyther he woulde lye aboue the grounde to be deuoured of byrds and beasts no friendes saith he but laye you by me a little staffe that I may feare them awaye therein deryding theyr curiositie that séemed to be so carefull for burying the dead carkasse as though there had béene great difference whether it were deuoured of beastes or eaten and consumed of wormes in the grounde Diogenianus A gramarian of Heracleâ Diognetus A learned man which wrate the expedition of Alexander Diomeda The daughter of Phorbas Diomedea An yle wherein Diomedes was buryed Diomedes King of Aetolia Tydeus his sonne who with the residue of the Grecians went to Troy and there so manfullye behaued himselfe that next to Achilles and Aiax hée was counted the moste valyaunt For beside that he slue in battayle sundry famous kings fought hand to hand with Hector and with Aeneas he wounded the God Mars and the Goddes Venus comming to rescue hir sonne wherewyth shée takyng great displeasure incensed his wife Aegiala with so outragyous letcherie ⪠that she made hirselfe common to all yong men that would offer hir dishonestie For shame wherof Diomedes after the warre ended would not returne home into his country but sayled into the part of Italy called Apulia where
one Daunus gaue him the one halfe of his kingdome An other Diomedes was Kyng of Thrace which féeding his horses with mens fleshe was afterwarde by Hercules cast to them to bée deuoured Dion Syracusanus A noble mans sonne of Sicilie called Hipparinus brother to Aristomacha wyfe to the elder Dionyse Wherefore hée was long tyme in fauour wyth hym in so much that Dionyse commaunded hys offycers that they shoulde gyue to Dion all that he woulde aske Reade this Dions lyfe and actes in Plutarke Dion Prusieus A Phylosopher surnamed Chrysostomus who vsed to go abroade beyng cladde wyth a Lyons skinne Traian the Emperour vsed him familiarlye wyth whome he most commonlye aboade He wrote in defence of Homere against Plato foure bookes and other things besides Dionaeus naea naeum Perteyning vnto Venus Dione A Goddesse of the sea the mother of Venus Dionysiópolis A citie of Thrace Dionysius Reade in Bacchus It is also the name of two kings of Sicilie which for their crueltie and auarice were called tyrannes the first was sonne of Hermocrates a riche man of Sicilie whome for hys valiauntnesse in armes the Sicilians ordayned to be their Capitaine agaynst the Carthaginiens which inuaded them and menaced to destroye theyr countrey and take from them their libertie But after the enimies were vanquished Dionyse which preserued his countrey from bondage of a benefactour became a cruell tyran The other Dionyse was sonne vnto thys like in conditions but beter learned He also made meanes to haue Plato come vnto him a good space had him in much reuerence and hearde hys Lessons in philosophie Fynallye suspecting that he conspired against him wyth Dion and other whome he had expelled vnneth at the desire of Architas Prince of Tarentum and other he suffred him to returne to Athens Of both these ye may read in Plutarke in the life of Dion also in Iust lib. 21 and many thinges notable in Erasmi Apoph Dionysius Areopagita A famous philosopher of Athens disciple to saint Paule He onely of all the Phylosophers beléeued Paule preaching of Christ And before wheÌ he was in Aegypt whither he went for learnings sake and there togither with Apollophanes his instructer beyonde all compasse of reason did sée the Eclipse that was at the death of Christ Eyther sayde he the God of nature suffereth vyolence or else the frame of thys world will be nowe dissolued He wrate to Timotheus Byshop of Ephesus twelue bookes De diuinis nominibus of the heauenly Hierarchie and many other workes as Suidas witnesseth Diophanes A Rethoritian the mayster of Gracchus Diores A mans name in Virgile Dioscorides called also Pedacius and Phacas a worshipful knight of Aegypt who ioynyng learning with chyualry being in the Romaines hoste in diuers countreyes in tymes vacant from battayle made diligent search for the fygures and vertues of dyuers herbes and other things necessarie for medicine and wrate most truely of them in Gréeke as Galene testifieth He lyued vnder Cleopatra and Antonius Dioscoron An ylande within the borders of Italy Dioscippus A notable wrestlar Also a souldiour of Alexander the great Dioscurias A citie of Colchis in the which were sometime people of thrée hundred diuers nations Diospolis A citie of Aegypt There be foure other of the same name in Aegypt but very small Cities in comparison of this Dipoenus The brother of Scyllys which two were the first inuenters of grauing in marble Dirce A womans name the wyfe of Lycus king of Thebans Also an other of Babilon which for speakyng against Pallas was turned into a fishe Dirâs An highe hiâl of Mauritania nowe called Atlas D O Doclea A citie of Liburnia Dodona A citie in Gréece whereby was a woode in the which men thought that trées spake Dodone The daughter of Iupiter and Europa Dodoneus a um Of Dodona Dodonis idis One of Dodona Dodonides Certayne Nymphes the Nourses of Liber pater Dolabella A Romayne Ciceroes sonne in law Doliche An ylande called before Icaris Dolichiâte An other ylande Dolon The proper name of a man of Troy that was verie swift on foote Dolopëius a um Of the people called Dolopes Dolopes People of Thessalie Domitianus An Emperour of Rome by nature brother vnto the gentle prince Titus but in conditions and maners farre vnlike When he was first admitted to the Empyre he vsed much to be in a secret place alone and there dyd nothyng but take flyes and pricke them through with an néedle Wherefore when it was demaunded of one Crispus who was with the Emperor he pretily aunswered not so much as a flye At the beginning he séemed so much to abhorre murder that hée myght scantly suffer an Oxe to be kylled for sacrifice but in the ende folowing the steps of Nero and Caligula he became a most detestable and cruell tyranne as well towarde all other as towarde them that professed the name of Christ Domitius The name of dyuers Romaynes Domnonij A people of the countrey in Englande called Deuonshyre Donatistae Heretikes that affirmed the congregation of Christian people to be no where but wyth them and that they onely perteyned to the Church Wherefore those that came from the catholike part to them they dyd eftsoones baptise Also they affirmed that in the church were no ill people but onely good The authour of this heresie was Donatus a Numidian about the yeare of our Lorde .353 Donâtus i mas gen A Grammarian mayster to Saynt Hierom. Donysa An yle in the sea Aegeum Doria and Dorica Names of the countryes ioyning to Athens Doricus a um Of Doria or Dorica as Dorica lingua The language of the people called Dores the fift tongue of the Gréekes Dorij Dorienses or Dores A people in Gréece so called of a people inhabiting by the mountayne Oeta which wandering lyke to the Gothes by force wanne certayne Countryes and finally subdued the olde inhabitauntes Dorion A towne of Achaia Doris idis The countrey by the hyll Oeta Doris A nymph of the Sea and is interpreted bytternesse Doriscus A place in Thrace which conteyneth iuste 120000. men by the which Xerxes numbred hys great armie Dorius A ryuer of Portugall Dorius a um idem quod Doricus a um Dorpia Were certaine dayes which the Atheniens kept solemne in open feasting and banketting Dorticum A citie in Mysia by the ryuer Danubie Dorus The sonne of Neptune which reigned in a part of Gréece Doryclus The Bastarde sonne of Priamus Dorylaeum or Dorylaum A great citie of Phrygia Dorylus One of the Centaures D R Dracus A capitaine of Achaia vanquished by Lucius Mummius the Romaine Draco onis ma. ge One that first gaue lawes to the Atheniens wherein hee appoynted death for euery small faulte Wherefore it was sayde hée wrate his lawes with the bloud of men DraconÃgena Of Poets was called the citie of Boeotia ⪠bycause it was buylded by Cadmus and the fiue men that sprang of the Dragons téeth Drangiana A prouince in Asia the more Drausi A people of Thrace which at
Europa and finally destroyed Rome and inhabited the part of Italy now called Lumbardie likewyse subdued the realmes of Castile and Arragon G R Gracchanus a um Of Gracchus Gracchuris A citie of Italy Gracchus Sempronius The father of Caius Tiberius who being sent as Proconsull into Spaine subdued the Cââtiberians and to the remembrance of his noble acte repayred agayne their towne Ilurcis and called it of hys name Cracchuris His wife was the noble woman Cornelia for hir chastitie learning and sober womanheade famous through all the world On whom he begat Tiberius and Catus yong gentlemen of excellent witte and passing eloquence but in their tyme so much giuen to maintayne the Commons of Rome agaynst the Noble that to the great vnquietnesse of all the Empyre they published the sedicious lawes of distributing of landes from the nobles portionmeale among the coÌmoners whereby they raysed the Nobilitie agaynst them and wrought in the ende theyr owne confusion For Tiberius was first slayne in a commotion within the citie by the noble man Publius Nasica and hys brother Caâus two yeares after him by the commaundement of the Conâell Opimus These two gentle men were brought vp and instructed in learning and eloquence by theyr owne mother Cornelia and therein became so excellent that in that age was none lyke to them GradiuÃcola One that worshippeth Mars Gradiuus One of the names of Mars Graecanicus a um Come out of Greece Grecia ae foem gen The fountayne of prowesse and doctrine and nourse of eloquence a great and famous couÌtrey contayning these noble regions Epirus Acarnania Aetolia Phocis Locris Achaia Messenia Laconia Argos Megaris Attica Boeotia Doâis Phthiotia Thessalia Magnesia Macedonia and Thracia All the which of late yeares were vnder the yoke of Christes religion and now alas to the great discomfort of all perfit Christen men are vnder the most cruell subiection and seruitude of the great tyranne the Turke and become barbarous liuing in the beastly superstitioÌ of the false prophete Mahomât Graeciensis ciense Of Gréece or comming out of Gréece Graeculus a um A diminutiue of Graecus Graecus ci m. g. A man borne in Gréece Graecus a um Of Gréece Graiúgena ae com gen A Gréeke Granata A realme and citie in Spaine ioyning to the sea called Mare Mediterraneum which was vnder the subiection of the Moores eyght hundred yeares At the last by the great wisedome pollicie and prowesse of Fernanoo and Elizabeth of famous memorie late King Quéene of Spaine was eftsoones restored vnto Chri and stendome and the Moores expelled Granicus ci mas gen A ryuer of Bithynia at the which great Alexander ouerthrew and put to flight the power of Darius Gratiae The Graces looke Charites Gratidia The name of a woman of Naples in Horace whome he calleth Canidia Grauionarium A citie in Almayne called Banbergh Grauiscae A castell of the Tuscanes Gronij People of Spayne Gryllus li m. g. Xenophons sonne Gryneus a um Of Grynia Grynia A towne of Aetoâia in the borders of Ionia G Y Gyarus i or Gyra ae Looke Giarus Gyas The name of a Troyane Gygeus A lake of Lydia Gygemorus A little hill not farre from Thessaly Gyges The sonne of Daseylus one of the seruauntes of Candaules king of Lydia as Herodotus wryteth or his companion as Trogus rehearseth was also king of Lydia by this meanes CaÌdaules had a wyâe whom for the inordinate loue he bare to hir he supposed to be the fayrest woman liuing On a tyme he praysed his wyues beautie vnto Gyges adding thereto that he might the better beléeue him he woulde cause him to sée hir naked But Gyges refused disswading as much as he coulde Candaules from that folly with ryght wyse exhortations But Candaules obstinately persisting in his foolish fantasie dyd sette Gyges in a secrete place where he behelde his wyfe naked going to bed And as Gyges departed the Ladie behelde him And finally the matter disclosed vnto hir by hir husbande she intended to be reuenged For in that countrey it was an intollerable reproche to a man or woman to be séene naked Wherefore calling vnto hir such of hyr seruauntes as she speciallye trusted she sent for Gyges who beyng come she proposed vnto him this election eyther he himselfe to be slayne or else to promise to slea Candaules and take hir to his wyfe and the realme with hir which he abhorring and a good whyle resisting with sundrye perswasions at the last he chose rather than to die himselfe to slea Candaules as he did lying in his bedde by the meanes of the Quéene whome he tooke to his wife and was king of Lydia Plato libro 2. de iusto telleth that Gyges had a ring of such vertue that when the broder parte thereof was tourned to the palme of hys hande he was séene of no man but he might sée all thinges and when he tourned the ring on the contrarye part he was himselfe séene openly by meanes whereof he slue Candaules and committed adultery wyth hys wife There was also an other Gyges a great gyaunt and brother of Briareus Gymnosophistae Philosophers of Indie which went alwayes naked Gyndes A great ryuer of Assyria which Cyrus caused be deuided into xlvj channelles or streames Gytheum A towne which Hercules and Appollo buylded togither and the inhabitaunts of the same towne be called Gytheares H A HAbessus A citie of Lycia Habraham A noble Patriarke and iâ interpreted father of many nations Hadramitani People of Sicilie Hadria ae foem gen A citie of Italy on the sea side by the which the sea betwéene Italy and Slauonie was named Mare Hadriaticum Hadria ae mas gen A bosome or goulfe of the sea or the sea it selfe called Hadriaticum Hadriónopolis A citie of Thrace Hadriánus A noble Emperour in all sciences excellently learned Hée was after Christes incarnation .109 yeares and reigned .xxj. yeares Haebudes Are .v. yles beyond Scotland two daies sayling Haedui People of Fraunce which be nowe called Burgonions and Burgonoises Haedi Certaine starres Haemodes An hill of Lycia Haemon A Thebane which loued Antigone Haemonia The countrey called Thessaly Haemus Looke Aemus Halalcómene or Halalcomenae A towne of Boeotia Halcyon graece and as Varro saith Halcedo Latinè The daughter of Neptunus and wife of Ceyx whome shée beholding to be drowned for sorrow drowned hir selfe wherefore the Poets write that they were both transformed into birdes and called Halcyones Halcyóneus a um Of Halcyon Halesina A citie of Sicilie Halesina regio A countrey wherein is a Well the water whereof being alwayes quiet and plaine if one standing by it doe play on a shaulme or other lyke Pype the water in the well wyll rise as it daunced insomuch that at the last it will mount and runne ouer the brim of the well and the pype ceassing the water will foorthwith fall and become quiet Halesus A ryuer and hill not farre from Aetna Halia A nymph of the sea Haliacmon A riuer of Macedonie Halicarnassus A citie of Caria
poet of Athens Also a philosopher in the tyme of Adryan Hermocrates A famous Sophister vnder the Emperour Seuerus Hermodorus A philosopher of Ephesus which caused the twelue tables to be made Also a philosopher of Sicilie the scholler of Plato Hermogenes The proper name of a famous Rhetorician Hermolaus A Grammarian of Constantinople An other of the same name conspired agaynst Alexander Hermon A little hill that standeth on Iordan Hermópolis The name of a citie that Hercules buylded Hermus A ryuer which in the middes parteth the fieldes of Smirne and falleth from the hyll Dorylao and deuideth Phrygia from Caria wherein Virgile supposed to be golden sande Hernici People of Campaine Hero Looke Ero. Herodes The sonne of Antipater which in the tenth yeare of Augustus was of the Romaynes declared king of the Iewes and he reigned .37 yeares To winne the fauour of the Iewes he pulled downe the temple that after the captiuitie was builded by Zorababell Iehosua and Esdra and wyth excéeding great charges buylded an other to the figure and paterne of that which Salomon erected That yeare that Christ was borne hée both killed all his wiues kindred and his owne two sonnes Aristobolus and Alexander and also put to death the Phariseys that prophecied to him that hys kingdome shoulde not long continue Of that name were diuers other kinges of whome Iosephus writeth abundantly Herodianus A noble historian whiche in Gréeke wrote most eloquently and truly the lyues of the Emperours from Marcus Autonius philosophus to Gordianus the yonger which booke is most eloquently translated into Latine by Angelus Politianus Heródotus Was a noble historian borne in the citie of Halicarnassus in Asia Hée wrote most eloquently a generall historie of the actes done in Europa and Asia by the space of two hundred and fortie yeares vntill the warres among the Gréekes called Bellum Peloponnesiacum which Thucidides with an equal stile wrote and perfourmed Hée flourished before the incarnation of Christ two hundred yeares Hieron An oratour of Athens Heróstratus A poore foolishe man who to haue a perpetuall fame burned the most famous temple of Diana at Ephesus and after detected hymselfe and was put to death Hersilia The wyfe of Romulus the first kinge of Romaines Hesichius A learned man in the time of Anastasius the emperour which wrate an historie as wel of the Romaine Emperours as of other nations HesÃone Was daughter of Lacedemon king of Troy and sister to Pryamus whom Hercules at the first destruction of Troye gaue in mariage to Telamon a noble prince of the Gréekes HesÃodus An auncient poete of the Gréekes which first wrate of husbandrie whome Virgile followed in hys Georgikes Hesperia Italy Hesperia vltima Spayne Hesperides The thrée daughters of Atlas which kept the gardens wherein grewe the golden Apples that were taken away by Hercules Hesperidum horti The gardens wherein were the golden apples now called Orenges Hésperum A promontorie in Affrike Hésperus i m. g. The west starre that followeth the sunne going downe the euening starre Hesseni called also Esseni Essei People of Palestine which woulde neuer eate Pigeous and lyued wythout the companie of women Hestiaea Is a part of Thessaly sayth Strabo and Ptholome and in Homere it is a towne of Euboea Stephanus sayeth it is a citie in Acarnania Hetruria The countrey of Tuscane wherein is the citie of Florence Hethburgum gi Edenburgh in Scotlande Hetruscus a um Of the countrey called Hetruria as Hetrusca disciplina A certayne doctrine taught in Tuscan concerning the interpretation of lightninges tokens in the firmament and thinges monstruous which was of such estimation among auncient Romaynes that it was decréed by an ordinaunce of the Senate that into sixe partes of that countrey shoulde be sent sixe sonnes of noble men to learne that arte Heuilath Looke Euilla H I Hiarbas The sonne of Iupiter which was king of the Getulyans and made warre against Dido quéene of Carthage Hiberia and Hiberus Looke Iberia Hibernia The yle called Irelande betwéene Englande and Spayne in the Occean sea On the East it hath Englande wythin one dayes sayling on the south it hath Fraunce Spayne on the west distaunt thrée dayes sayling on the north the maine occean sea It is not farre from Scotlande Hibla Looke Hybla Hidruntum A towne of Calaber called commonlye Otronto Hiera An yle betwéene Sicilie and Liparis dedicated to Vulcane Also the name of a way and of a woman the wife of Telephus kyng of Mysia which in beautie was supposed to excéeâe Helena Hierapolis A citie of Asia ouer against Laodicea where were certayne bathes the water whereof woulde soone harden and congeale into the stone called Tophus There is also a certayne caue in the earth into which if any liuing creture doe enter immediatly it dyeth Before the mouth of it is a little valley of halfe an akers compasse ⪠so darke that scantly the ground may be séene Strabo writeth that for experience he did let into this Caue certayne sparrowes which foorthwith dyd fall downe dead About that citie also is a water that dieth wooll of a purple colour Hieremias A Prophete borne as Epiphanius wryteth at Anathoâstis and slayne by his people at Taphnas in Aegypt But afterwarde the Aegyptians had hym in great honour and buryed him in the place where Pharaos palaice stoode For he draue thence serpentes and Crocodiles This prophete before the alteration of the temple tooke the arke or holye coffer and that which was in it and caused a stone to swalowe it vp ⪠saying to the Priestes and auncient men that were present our Lorde is departed from Sina to heauen and shall returne with an holy puissaunce and this shal be the signe of his comming when all people shall honour a trée He sayde moreouer vnto them Neuer man shall open this arke neyther Priest nor prophete except Moyses the elect of God The tables within it no man shall vnfolde except Aaron And at the resurrection first this arke shall rise and shall come out of the stone and shall be set in Mount Sina and all saintes shall resort thervnto there to receyue the Lorde and shall flée from the enimie which woulde haue destroyed them And he sealed the stone wryting thereon the name of our Lorde The signe was lyke as it were grauen in yron and a cloude then couered the stone but no man knoweth that place Hieri People beyonde those which are called Sauromatae which be balde and flat nosed euen from the natiuitie They are very iust people and neuer warre one on an other Hiero onis A king of Sicilie which was lyke a priuate person very rude and homely and of his nature intractable and fierse But after he became sicke and ceassed from businesse the feuer nowe and then taking hym he became a man of good maners and honourable And in the meane tyme that he was not vexed wyth the feuer he fell to learning Wherefore being recouered hée vsed the companie of Simonides Pindarus and Baccilides
most excellent poetes at that tyme lyuing who in their wrytinges brought his name in an honourable remembraunce An other of that name of Athens was familiar friende and scholar with Nicias Hierocops An yle in Cypres néere to Paphus Hieronymus The most noble and famous interpretour of holy scripture He was after the incarnation of Christ about .387 yeares as he himselfe wryteth Hee was borne in a towne called Strido which was in the confines of Hungarie and Dalmatia Hys fathers name was Eusebius There was an Historiographer and a philosopher of Rhodes of thys name Also a tyran of Sicilie the sonne of Hiero. Hiaerosolyma ae and Hierosolyma orum Or after the Hebrues Hierusalem the chiefe citie of Iudaea as Eusebius writeth in compasse about sixe myles and an halfe And as the same aucthour sayeth lib. 9. Preparationis euangelicae cap vltimo it was called Hieron Salomonis that is to say Salomons temple And after by corruption of speache was called Hierusalem and Hierosolyma But Lyranus on the .xxviij. chap. of Genesis writeth that it was first built by Melchisedech and by him called Salem that is to say peaceable For so much as he was king of peace and iustice Also that it was called Solyma Luza also Bethel Hierus Hierosolyma Aelia Albeit Iosephus de bello Iudaico lib. 7. cap. 26. affirmeth that the first buylder thereof was Chanam which made there a temple and called it Hierosolyma where before it was called Solyma Saint Hierome De locis Actorum apostolorum sayeth that the citie was called Aelia of Aelius Adrianus the Emperour which eftsoones repayred it after that it was destroyed by Titus and made it larger It was fiue tymes wasted and at the last destroyed by Titus after the incarnation of Christ .71 yeares Hierosolymarius The surname of Pompey for conquering of Hierusalem Hierotheus The proper name of a man Hilaria plur The eyght calendes of Aprill when the day and night haue equall houres and the day beginneth to increase Hilarius The proper name of a man Hillus The sonne of Hercules by Deianyra Himera A ryuer in Sicilie diuided into two partes the one fresh water the other salt Hipparchus A notable Astronomer that wrote agaynst Plato Also a comicall poet It is also the sonne of Pisistratus the tyranne Hippasus A philosopher the scholar of Pythagoras Hippe The daughter of Chiron the Centaure Hipperides An oratour of Athens enimie to Demosthenes Hippias A Rhetorician as Apuleius saith Floridorum .2 excelled all men in the multitude of craftes and was equall to any man in eloquence Hée came on a tyme to Pisa to the great triumph called Olympicum and euery thing that he did weare vpon him was of his owne making his shoes patents and coate wrought of the finest thréede with thrée thréede stitches ⪠a baudrike of baudken wyth chaungeable colours and sundrye pictures a mantell of white ouer all a ryng on his finger wyth a stone where was a signet most perfectly wrought All this did he worke with his owne handes Also he caryed with him a little oyle bottell with a narrowe mouth and the residue rounde and flat with a little instrument to strike sweate from his body hanging thereat He played excellently on euery instrument and sang his owne verses in all kindes which no man coulde amende In all parts of Logike Rhetorike and Philosophie hée vanquished manye and was vanquished of none He ranne wrestled and did other feates of actiuitie that all men beholding him were therwith abashed Finallye he séemed not to be ignoraunt weake or vnable in any thing Notwithstanding Plato in two dialogues bringeth in Socrates disputing wyth him In the one in searching what beautie is in the other what a lye is He concludeth and prooueth Hippias to be an arrogant and ignorant foole for as much as praysâng beautie he wyââe not what beautie was and boasâing that he before any other man coulde discerne a lieâ from a true man he coulde not make of them a definition By this it appeareth howe much the common iudgement of men varyeth and is inferiour to the iudgement of a perfite wise man as Socrates was Hippius Tyrius Was he that first made shippes whiche serue onely for burdeynes called in Latine Naues onerariae Hippo m. g. The name of two cities in Affrike of one of them saint Augustine was Bishop Hippocentáuri Were a people in Thessalia by the mount Pelius which were also called Centauri the whiche were the first that were séene in Gréece ryding vppon horses wherof came the fable that Centauri were halfe men and halfe horses Hippocrates The name of a most excellent phisition scholar to Democrates and lyued in the time of Perdicâas king of Macedonie in hys court Artaxerxes king of Persia wrate of this Hippocrates in this maner to Hystanes his lieuetenaunt of Hellespont as Suidas witnesseth The great king Artaxerxes to his lieuetenaunt Hystanes sendeth gréeting I haue hearde of the fame of the notable phisition Hippocrates Sée therefore that thou giue him as much money as he will desire with all other things necessarie and sende him to me He shal be in as great honour with me as the best in all Persia c. He dyed being .104 yeares of age there were also of the same name and stocke fiue other all notable and famous in phisicke but this farre passed them all Hippocréne A fountayne in Boeotia dedicated to Apollo and the nine Muses Hippodamia or Hippodame The daughter of Oenomaus king of Arcadia vnto whome it was tolde by the soothsayer that when his daughter did marry he should dye Therefore when she came to the yeares of maryage he ordeyned a pryce of running with Chariots and caused to be proclaymed that whosoeuer did vanquishe him therein should haue his daughter to wife and he that was vanquished by him shoulde die Many of these woâers were slaine At last Pelops desiring to haue the sayde mayden promised priuily to Myrtilus which draue the kings Chariot that if he did winne the price Myrtilus should lye wyth Hippodamia the first night vpon the which couenaunt Myrtilus made the axeltrée of waxe by occasion whereof the Chariote fell downe and was broken Wherefore Oenomaus slue himselfe and Pelops enioyed the Lady and the Realme When Myrtilus asked that which was promised him Pelops threwe him into the sea next adioyning which thereof was euer after called Mare Myrtoum There was an other Ladie called Hippodamia which was wyfe to Pirithous for whome the battayle was betwéene the people called Centauri and them which were named Lapythae Hippódamus mi mas gen A learned man of Miletus ⪠which wrote first of the good state and gouernaunce of a citie Hippodorus A prince of Athens which to séeme gentle to the people vsed great seueritie towards his owne children and kinsfolke Hippolochus Bellerophons sonne father of Glaucus An other of the same name was the sonne of Antimachus the Troyan Hippolyte The wyfe of Acastus king of Magnesia An other was Quéene of
although the whole name be interpreted Sauiour who being equall in diuinitie with God the father begotten of him before the world was created and without tyme willingly for the redemption of man descended into the bodye of the blessed virgin ⪠and was conceyued in hir by the holy Ghost the thirde person in Godhead and of hir borne the 3962. yeare after the creation of the worlde and being God and man lyued here xxxij yeares in forme of pouertie and then being betrayed by his owne disciple was by the Iewes his owne people most cruelly nayled on the crosse the yeare after the creatioÌ of the world .3994 I G Ignatius An holy bishop of Antioche the thirde after saint Peter disciple to saint Iohn the Euangelist In the time of Traian he was condemned to be deuoured of beastes and as he was ledde towarde Rome with tenne men of warre whome for their crueltie he called Leopardos he by the way confirmed all Chrisâen men in the fayth as will by prâyers as by letters sâying in thys wyse so that I may finde Christ and imbrace him I woulde there shoulde come vnto me ãâã gâbbets beasts crasshing of bones renting of all the bodye ⪠and all the torments of the deuill When he hearde the roaring of Lyons ⪠which shoulde deuour him he ioyously sayde I am the wheate of Christ let mée be grounde with beastes téeth that I may be founde to be pure and fine manchet He was martyred after the incarnation about 80. yeares IgnÃpotens One of the surnames of Vulcanus I L Ilba or Ilua An Iland in the Tuscane sea where is great plentie of corne Ilerda A citie of Spaine called Leyda or Leryda Ilia The mother of Romulus and Rhemus Iliacus a um Of Troy Ilias adis The worke of Homere of the siege of Troy * Ilias malorum A prouerbe vsed when many and great mischiefes and misfortunes happen to a man Iliberis A citie in the prouince of Narbon Ilienses Auncient people of the I le Corsica Ilione The proper name of the eldest daughter of Pryamus Ilioneus The proper name of a Troyan Ilissus The name of a ryuer in the prouince of Athens Ilithyia A name of Diana Ilium The palaice of Pryamus It is taken for Troy Ilius a um Of Troy Illiberis A citie of Narbon after Pomponius after Ptolomie the chiefe citie of Granade in Spaine Illipula An hill in Spaine called commonly Ilipa or Ilpa Illuro A citie of Spayne Illyberis A citie of Prouaunce Illyria Illyris or Illyrium A countrey which hath on the north both the countries Pannoniam superiorem and inferiorem on the west Histriam ⪠on the east Mysiam superiorem on the south the sea Hadriaticum That countrey is now called Sclauonie or Wendenlande Illyricus a um Of Illyria Ilua An Ilande by Tuscane looke Ilba Ilurco A towne in Europe Ilurcis A citie of Iberia Ilus The sonne of Tros king of Troyanes that buylded Ilium I M Imantopodes A people of Aethiope which haue creeked legges Imaus A mountayne in India Imbrius a um Of the towne or Ilande called Imbrus Imbrus An Ilande of Thrace and a towne in the same is so called Imola imolae A citie of Italye sometyme called Forum Cornelij I N Inaccessa Called of the Gréekes Abaâos An Ilande in Aegypt to the which is no comming Inachia The countrey of Pelopennesus Inachides The sonne or nephew of Inachus Sometime one of Argos Inachis The daughter or néece of Inachus Inachus The first king of Argyues Inalpini The people that dwell vpon the Alpes Inarime An I le in the Tuscane sea Also a mountayne Incensinnarium rij neut ge The name of the inner treasurie in the teÌple of Saturne in Rome where treasure was kept agaynst extreeme necessitie and daunger It was called also Cimeliaâchium India A great riche countrey called in Englishe Indie lying on the southeast partes of the worlde which as Ptolomeus wryteth is deuided into two partes The one is called Indie within the ryuer of Ganges which on the west is bounded with Araâosia Gedrosia ⪠on the east with the great ryuer called Ganges on the north with the hyll called Imaus on the south ⪠west ⪠with part of the Indian sea The other parâ of Indie without Ganges is bounded on the west with the sayde riuer Ganges on the North with part of Scithia Setica on the east with the region called Sinarum on the south with the Indian sea Nearchus great Alexanders admirall affirmed as Arrianus wryteth that it was foure monethes iourney by the playnes of Indie Megasthenes sayd that the breadth of Indie from the east to the west coÌtayneth 16000. furlongs which is 2102. myles The length from the North to the south 22000. furlongs which is 2850. myles Ctesias affirmeth it to be as much as the residue of Asia But Onesicritus which wrote the actes of Alexander demeth it to be the thirde parte of Asia There are alwaye two sommers and fruites and grayne twise gathered The windes be alwayes temperate the beastes and foules much greater than in the other countreys and of more diuers kindes The names of the countreys and cities there be nowe otherwyse than they were in the tyme of the auncient writers They which be nowe knowne shall be declared in their places wyth the Mountaynes and Ryuers which are great aboue all other Indus i m. g. A noble ryuer that commeth from the great mountayne Taurus and incloseth Indie on the west and runneth into the Indian sea Into this ryuer run xix great and famous ryuers the least of them is more than the great ryuer of Dunowe where he is broadest Strabo sayth that they which doe write most moderately of Indus doe affirme that he is in breadth fifty furlongs which is twelue myles and a halfe The water thereof causeth great fertilitie when it ouerfloweth and thereof many sundry pleasaunt and holsome fruites doe spring without labour Ingeniculus A figure among the starres called now Hercules Inguinium A citie in Liguria auncient and riche Initia orum neut gene plur num Sacrifice done vnto Ceres Initiorum dies Dayes on the which those sacrifices were kept Ino huius Inus The daughter of Cadmus wife to Athamas king of Thebes which hâr husbande being mad and Learchus hir sonne slayne threwe hirselfe into the Sea Inous a um Of Ino. Insubres Lumbardes properlye men of the Duchye of Melayne Interamna A citie in Italy Inutrium A towne in Almaine called Insprough Inuus Is the rusticall God of the Paynyms called also Pan. I O Io The daughter of Inachus Ioannes A proper name of Hebrewe and signifieth the grace of God Ioannes Baptista Sonne of Zacharias and Elizabeth of the trybe of Leui was sanctified before he was borne and declared by an Aungell that his name shoulde be Iohn And bycause his father did not foorthwith beléeue it he was spéechlesse vntill the eyght daye after the byrth of the childe and that he had written in Tables his name is Iohn
call it Vogesus Iustinianus An Emperor of Rome who valiauntly ouercame the Sarasins and forced them to be at league with him Leontius being incyted by Galinicus patriarke of Constantinople expelled this man out of the Empire and in reproche cutting of his nose sent him in banishment to Chersona Not long after by ayde of the Bulgares he was restored to the Empire and euer after shewed extréeme crueltie towarde his enimies and and their alies For so oft as he mooued his hande to wipe the filth from his nose remembring the villanye that his aduersaries had wrought him hée commaunded one of them to be pulled out of pryson and put to death Iustinus An Emperour come of a poore kynrede his mothers brother Iustinus Emperour before him being but a swineheard succéeded his vncle at the age of .xiiij. yeares in the Empire and gouerned it nobly the space of xl yeres augmenting it honorably He caused the lawes ciuile dispersed in infinite volumes to be reduced into 50. bookes called the Digestes and 4. bookes of Institutes to bée made and lykewyse the Code conteyning the decrées of the Emperours although he hymselfe knewe no letters An excellent Prince if hée had not bene corrupted wyth auarice and the heresie of Eutyches He was after the incarnation of Christ .570 yeares Iuturna The sister of Turnus Iuuenalis A poet which wrote Satyres Iuuentas tatis Iuuentus tûtis foem gen The Goddesse of youth Iuuerna The olde name of Irelande called of some Iuernia Hibernia The Greekes call it Iuernion Ierna I X Ixion A king of Thessalye who falsely brake promyse with his wiues father and threwe him into a pit of fire He also called by Iupiter vnto a feast stirred Iuno to commit adulterie which Iupiter perceyuing made a cloude lyke vnto Iuno and delyuered hir to him on whome hée begat the people called Centauri But when hee had auaunted that he had companyed with Iuno hée was driuen downe into hell and there bounde to a whéele alwayes turning and full of Serpentes as poets feigne Ixioneus a um Of Ixion Ixionides Pirithous the sonne of Ixion L A LAbatus A mans name often mencioned of Plutarch Labdacus A king of Thebes father of Laius who was father of Oedipus Labeo A mans name Laberius A poet a gentleman of Rome Labicanum A towne in Italy Labici The inhabitaunts of that towne Labiénus A noble man of Rome capitaine vnder Caesar in Fraunce Also an historiographer Labicus Was the name of the sonne of Minos who was named also Glaucus Labio The surname of a Romayne Laboriae The name of a countrey in Italy vulgarly called Terra laboris the lande of labour Laborinus A field in Campania where the stubble of corne is so great that the people doe burne it in stede of wood Labynetus The sonne of Nictorie Quéene of Babilon where afterwarde he also reigned Labyrinthus A place made in such wyse that who so euer came into it coulde not issue out without a very perfite guide or without a thréede leading him ⪠wherof the bottome or clewe should be left at the entrie Of this name were thrée principall places One in Aegypt by the paterne whereof the other were made described by Herodotus who wryteth that he sawe it saying that it was aboue the great poole called Myrios towarde the citie of Crocodiles Strabo in his .xvij. booke calleth the sayde poole or méete Muris Herodotus in Euterpe sayeth that first there were .xij. halles couered sixe towarde the north and sixe towarde the south all inclosed wyth one wall Wythin the wall were houses in two dyuers sortes one sort vnder the ground another aboue ground ouer them euery sort being in number .3500 The ouermost as he sayth he behelde the neathermost hée mought not be suffered to sée but as he heard by report of them which sawe it he wrote The ouermost which he did beholde excéeded all workes of mennes handes for hée went from a hall into parlours from parlours into chambers from chambers into other sollars and from parlours into other halles The beame which bare the floores was of stone wrought wyth ymagery euery hall enuironed with pillers of white stone In the ende of that Labyrinthus standeth a stone large beneath and small on the toppe called Pyramis which is of length .xl. paces in the which are wrought great Images and thereat is the entrie vnder ground to the other Labyrinthus An other Labyrinthus was in Ereta made by Dedelus by the commaundement of Minos for a prison but it was much lesse then the other But by diuers doores enterings ⪠and issuings out it deceyued them which came into it The thirde was in Italy by a towne called Clusium made by king Porsena and as Plinie and Varro wryte was of square stone the sides .30 foote brode ⪠in height .50 foote Into the which who so euer went without a clew or bottom of thréede coulde neuer returne On this plâce stoode v. Pyramides or stéeples one at euery corner and one in the myddle euery of them .150 foote highe on the toppes of them great bolles of brasse and thereon horses with winges from which did hang chaynes hauing belles at them which mooued with the wynde rendred a sharpe sounde Also vpon the foure bolles of brasse stoode foure other Pyramides or sharpe pyllers of an hundreth foote hygh and on that which was in the myddle stoode one sharpe pyller whose height Varro durst not rehearse bycause it séemed a thing incredible All these things were made by great kinges which hauing abundaunce of treasure and lacking learning did sette their delyte in such vayne ostentation Lacaena A woman of Lacedemonie Lacaenus a um Of Lacedemonie Laccobriga A citie of Spaine Lacedaemon A noble citie in Gréece called also Sparta in the region of Achaia The countrey is called Laconia Lacedaemonius a um Of Lacedemonie Lachesis One of the thrée Ladies called Parcae whome poets did feigne to haue the rule and continuance of mans lyfe Laciburgium A citie in Germanie called Rostolsium Lacinium An elbowe of lande lying betwéene the sea called Adriaticum and the sea Ionium Lácinius a um Of or belonging to that promontorie Lacippo A citie in Spayne called also Lapecia Lacon ônis A man of Lacedemonie Laconia The country where Lacedemonie standeth Lacònicus a um Of the countrey Laconia Lactucinij The surname of certaine Romaynes Lacus Lemanus Losan in Péemountaine Lacydes A philosopher of Cyrene Ladas A man who ranne so swiftly that on the sande or dust he left no print of his foote Ladon A ryuer in Arcadie Also one of Actaeons dogges Laeander vide Leander Laelius The familiar friende of Scipio Affrican Laërtes A citie in Cilicia Laërtes The sonne of Acrisius and father of Vlysses Laërtiades Vlysses the sonne of Laertes Laërtius a um Of Laërtes Laértius The name of one which wrote the lyues of philosophers Laestrygones Were people which did eate mans flesh Vide Lestrygones Lagia One of the names of the yle of Delos
Lagyges People of Sarmatia Lagyra A citie of Chersonesus Lais A common harlotte in Gréece who was of such excellent beautie and therewyth so pleasaunt that vnto hir out of all Gréece there came to Corinthus where she dwelled men noble and ryche in great number to companie with hir On a tyme came to hir Demosthenes the greatest oratour of Gréece and desired to lye with hir of whome she asked for one night a thousand Dragmas which amounteth to the rate of our money at this present tyme to .xxiij. l. xix s. x. d. which Demosthenes hearing departed saying in this wyse I wyll not repent me at that price or I will not buy repentaunce so déere Some wryte that shée demaunded 10000. Dragmas which in our money ryseth to aboue 200. poundes Laius A king of Thebes and father of Oedipus whome Oedipus vnwares slue in battayle and wedded hys wife which was also Oedipus mother called Iocasta Reade after in Oedipus Laletania A countrey in Spayne the people whereof bée called Laletani Lambotus A ryuer in Affrike Lambrani People dwelling about the riuer of Lambrus Lambrus A ryuer of Lumbardie which méeteth with the ryuer of Po called Padus Lamia The surname of a noble Romaine and also of a famous harlotte Lamiae Be women which beholding children or giuing to them gyftes doe alter the fourme of them which children be afterwarde called Elfes or taken with the fayrie And some such women will sucke the bloude from chyldren They be also those which be called Ladyes of the fayrie which doe allure yoong men to companie carnally with them and after that they be consumed in the acte of lecherie they couet to deuour them Lamirus The sonne of Hercules and Iole Lampetia The daughter of Phoebus by Neaera which with hir sister Phaethusa kept shéepe in Sicilie Lampeus An hill in Arcadie Lampia A ryuer in Arcadie Lampon The name of an horse Also of a soothsayer that vsed to sweare by a goose whereof grewe a Prouerbe Lampon iurat per auserem Vide Erasmum in Adagijs Lampsacius The sonne of Cilix Lampsacium A towne on the sea side called Hellespontus in the side of Asia where Priâpus was honoured Lampsacênus a um Of Lampsacum Lamyrus vide Lamirus Langia A fountaine in Nemaea a countrey of Arcadie where the host of Argyues was refreshed when they went against Thebes Laniuium or Lanuuium A citie in Italy belonging to the Romaynes Lanubium A citie of the Latines now called Lauinium Lanuuium Looke Laniuium Laocoon The sonne of Priamus Laodamas One of the sonnes of king Alcinous Laodamia The wyfe of Protesilaus Also the daughter of Bellerophon on whome Iupiter begat Sarpedon Laodicea A citie in Syria at the ryuer Lycus An other at the mountayne Lybanus Laódice or after some Laodoce One of Priamus daughters which was maryed to the sonne of Antenor king of Thrace An other Laódice was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Laódocus The sonne of Antenor the Troyan Laómedon ontis The father of Priamus Laomedontéus a um Laomedontius a um Of Laómedon Lapethos A citie in Cipres Lapithae People of Thessalie of whome Pirithous was king Lapitheus or Lapitheius a um Of the Lapithes Lara vel Larunda A mayden which shewed to Iuno the wanton pastymes of Iupiter wyth women for the which Iupiter did cutte out hir tongue and commaunded Mercurius to bring hir to hell who begot on hir two sonnes which were called Lares Laranda A citie of Lycaonia Larentia A famous harlotte which bycause she made the people of Rome hir heire they named hir a Goddesse and called hir Flora. Looke Flora. Lares Gods which the Paynyms did suppose euery person had belonging vnto him they were also called Penates Larina The name of a famous woman of Italy Larine A fountaine in Attica Larise A citie of Aetolia Larinna A towne of Boeotia Larissa The name of diuers cities one in Thessalia whereof Achilles was called Larissaeus an other in Asia whereof Iupiter was called Larissaeus The thirde in Italy an other in Crete Larius A brooke or a great poole by the citie of Comum Larodij People of Scythia Larua ae f. g. and Laruae arum plur A spirite which appeareth in the night tyme. Some call it an hegge some a goblin some a ghost or an elfe Larunda vide Lara Laryna vide Larina Lassia An yle in the sea Aegeum It was also called Andros Lasthenia A woman which was Platos scholler comming alway into the schoole in mans apparayle Lasus A man in the tyme of Darius that wrote first of musike Lateranus The name of a Consull of Rome of whose house was made a Church in the citie of Rome of saint Iohn which is now called Lateranensis Latiâlis le and Latiaris re Of the part of Italye which was called Latium Latinae arum Sacrifices to Iupiter named of the Latins who first did ordeyne them Latiniensis se idem quod Latinus a um Latînus a um Of the people called the Latines Latini People of Latium in Italy Latinus ni The proper name of the father in lawe to Aeneas Latium tij neut gener A part of Italy betwéene the ryuers of Tyberis and Lyris wherein standeth the citie of Rome Latius a um Of that countrey Látmius a um Of Latmus Látmus A mountaine in Ionia where as Poetes saye the Moone kyssed Endymion Also a mountayne of Caria Latomiae or Latumiae arum plur Was a strayte pryson in the citie of Sycacusis in Sicilia an other in Sparta Latôna The mother of Apollo and Diana Latonia A Goddesse called also Diana Latónius a um Of Latóna Latonigenae dij Apollo and Diana Latóus Apollo Lauce An yle in the called Pontus Lauerna A Goddesse vnder whose protection theues were in Rome Lauinia The daughter of king Latinus who was first betrothed to Turnus and after gyuen in maryage to Aeneas which thing betwéene the twoo Princes was cause of long and great warre in the ende wherof Turnus was ouercome and slayne Aeneas also within thrée yeares after dyed leauing his wyfe Lauinia great with childe who fearing hir husbandes sonne Ascanius fled away ⪠and in the woods soiourned with the shéepeheard Tyarheus and there was deliuered of a sonne whome shee called Iulus Syluius Posthumus bycause after his fathers death he was borne in the wooddes But after a tyme Ascanius sent for hys mother in lawe and placed hir in the kingdome going himselfe to a citie that he buylded called Alba Longa. Lauinium or Lanubium A citie in Italy called also Laurentum Laura Such a place of pleasure at Samos as Anco was at Sardis Laurens t is or Laurentis te Of the citie called Laurentum Lauréntia ae foe gen The wyfe of Faustulus which nourished Romulus and Remus and brought them vp in hir house as hir owne children Bycause this woman was a strumpet and of very euill lyfe the shéepeheardes of that coast called hir Lupam of which name was taken the occasion of that fable that those founders of the citie
cubitus A place in Cappadocia Leucothea The Goddesse which was called Matûta and Aurora Leucothoë The daughter of Orchamus of Babilon and Eârynoe whome being begotten with childe by Phoebus hir father did burie alyue but Phoebus as poets feigne did transforme hir into a trée out of the which runneth Frankinâense Leuctra plur and Leuctrum or Leuctra sing A towne of Boeotia Leuctricus a um Of Leuctra Leui One of the sonnes of Iacob the Patriarke Leuiathan A dragon of the sea It is taken in holy scripture for the deuill Leuphana A citie of Germany called commonly Hanofer Leurychides A kyng of Lacedemonie enimie to Demaratus Lexouij or Lexuuij People in hygh Fraunce about Burbon L I Lia One of the wyues of Iacob the patriarke Liba An yle in the Indian sea Libanius The name of a great Rhetorician in the tyme of Iulianus Apostata which wrote arguments vpon the Orations of Demosthenes Libanus A mountayne betwéene Arabia and Phoenicia wherein growe very high trées Libarnum or Libarna A citie in Liguria called now Lauanium Libentina One of the names of Venus or Proserpina Liber liberi The finder of wine called also Bacchus and Dionysius Liberália ôrum neur g. plur A solemne or festiuall day dedicate to Bacchus the Gréekes call it Dyonysia Libethra A Caue wherein was a Well called Libethros where the Muses being conuersant were therefore called Libéthrides Libéthrides The Muses or Ladies of sciences Libethrij A people of Persia vtterly rude and vnlearned Libethrus A mountayne in Macedonia where the Muses did dwell Libitina ae foe ge A Goddesse in whose temple were solde all things perteyning to sepultures or funeralles Libo bonis The name of a Citizen of Rome Libora A citie in Spayne called sometyme Elbora nowe commonly Taleuera Liburni People of the countrey called Liburnia Liburnia A part of Dalmatia or Slauonie nowe called Croatia Liburnus a um Of Liburnia Libya Was among the Gréekes the generall name of all Affrica Notwithstading it is of the Romaines taken onely for that part of Affrica which is from Aegypt to the west Occean conteyning Cyrenaica Affrica minor Numidia and Mauritania The Spaniards doe commonly call them all Moores Libya interior Is bounded on the North wyth the two countreyes called Mauritania with Affrike the lesse and Cyrenaica on the east with Aethiope on the south with Aethiope the further on the west with the Occean sea In this countrey are the people called Garamantes and Getulae Libycinus a um Of Libya Libycis cidis A towne of Iudaea on the east part of the riuer of Iordan Libycus a um Of Libya Libyophaenices People of Affrica Libys and Libyssa A man and woman of Libya Libyssa A citie of Bithynia called commonlye Polmen where Anniball dyed Libystinus a um The surname of Apollo Lica ae The name of one of Hercules companions Licambes A citie of Lacedemonia Licianus A poet in the tyme of Martiall Ligarius The name of a Romaine Liger ligeris m. g. A riuer in Fraunce called Loire Liguria A part of Italy from the hyll called Apoeninus vnto the sea called Tuscum also from the ryuer Varus vnto the ryuer called Macra In it be the cityes Genua Sauona Naulum and Albigena Ligus liguris vel Ligur guris Of the countrey of Liguria a Ianuens of Ianeway Ligústicum or after some Ligustinum mare The sea that is by Ieane Ligusticus a um Of Liguria Ligyes Are people of Asia which with Xerxes warred agaynst the Gréekes Ligystus The sonne of Phaeton of whome Lyguria was named Lilybaeum A towne or promontorie in Sicilie where one of the Sybilles lyeth buryed Limiosastum A citie of Germanie called commoÌly Gnisna Limnus An yle in the east part of Irelande Plinie calleth it Silimnus Limonum A towne of Poicters in Fraunce Limuici or Limouices Limosin in Poicters Lindos or Lindus A citie of Rhodes Lindum A citie in Englande which some doe suppose to be Lincolne some Linne LÃngones People of Fraunce in the countrey called Langres Linternum A towne in Campania where Scipio Affricanus dyed and is buryed Linternus a um Of Linternum Linternus A ryuer in Campania Linus The most auncient Poet a Theban whome Virgile calleth the sonne of Apollo and Vrania one of the nine Muses LÃpara ae foem gen An yle by Gréece Liparis A ryuer in Cilicia Liquentia A ryuer in Lumbardie Lirimiris A citie of Germanie Liris A riuer in Campaine by the towne called Minturnae Lisus A ryuer in Thracia wich Herodotus wryteth was drunke vp by the armie that Xerxes king of Persia led into Greece Lissus A citie of Dalmatia It is now called Alexium Lituania A countrey which is part of Sarmatia called Luten and ioyneth to Polonia on the north and is vnder the king of Poole Liuius The prince of Latine historiens Liuius Andronicus The first Latine Poete which wrote Comoedies or Tragydies in Latine about the seconde warres of Carthage Also hée wrote .xxij. bookes of the yearely actes of the Romaynes which were called Annales Liuonia A part of Sarmatia beyonde Luten northward hauing on the west the sea called Germanicum Lixos A towne and ryuer of Mauritania in Affrike Lixus idem quod Lixos L O Locoritum A Citie of Germany called now Trutonia commonly Forchem Locris cridos A countrey in Gréece néere vnto Phocis Locrenses and Locri People of Locris There is also a citie of the Brutians so named Locrus A citie in the vttermost part of Italy which was named Magna Graecia Londinum The noble Citie of London Erasmus vpon the prouerbe Rhodij sacrificium writeth that Londinum is deducted of Lindus a citie of Rhodes which Stephanus calleth Lindonium Longa Alba A citie in Italye buylded by Ascanius the sonne of Aeneas Longobardi Lumbardes Longobardia A region called Lumbardie which is from the mountaynes Alpes vnto the ryuer of Rubicon It is also called Gallia Cisalpina Citerior Gallia and Gallia Togata Lotaringia A countrey beyond Picardie and Normandie Lothoringia A countrey called Loraine Lotóphagi People in Affrike which doe lyue by eatyng onely the fruite of a trée called Lotos Lotos or Lotis lotidis A nymph the daughter of Neptune which sléeyng from Priapus was turned into a trée of that name Loxa A riuer in Englande called Firth Loxïas One of the names of Apollo L V Luca A citie in Italy of which the inhabitaunts are called Lucenses Lucani People of the countrey of Lucania Lucania A countrey belonging to the realme of Naples betwéene Puell and Calaber Lucanus A famous Poet which wrote the battayle betwéene Caesar and Pompey Lucentia A citie of Spayne Lucentum A citie of Spayne called Susana Luceres The thirde part of the people of Rome distributed by Tatius and Romulus Luceria A citie of Apulia Lucerius A king of Arcadia which holy Romulus against Tatius Lucetia One of the names of Iuno Lucetius A name of Iupiter Lucilius The name of an olde Poet. Lucina One of the names of Iuno and Diana called the Goddesse of byrth Lucinia idem quod Lucina Lucius
A mans name Lucomones The Tuscians Lucretia A noble woman of Rome wyfe to Tarquinius Collatinus and a singular paterne of chastitie both to hir tyme and to all ages following whome Sextus Tarquinius when by fayre meanes hée coulde not obtaine by force and violence did rauishe For being intertayned for kindreds sake in hir house hée brake into hir chamber and with his sworde drawne menaced present death vnlesse she would condescende vnto his pleasure adding moreouer that he would kill one of hir seruauntes and laye him in bed with hir and so spreade abroade that hée tooke them in aduoutrie and slue them For feare of which shamefull reproche and infamie rather then for dreade of death as after appeared she suffered the violence of the wicked aduouterer But the next day she sent for hir husbande that was absent and the residue of hir kinsfolke and friendes and in the presence of them all pitifully bursting out in wéeping declareth the cruell villanie of the tyranne desiring them earnestly to séeke reuengment of the same and therwithall pulleth out a knife that for that purpose she had hyd vnder hir clothes and strake hirselfe vnto the heart affirming that the example of Lucrece shoulde neuer be a cloke for lyght womon to excuse the vnfaythfull breach of wedlocke With indignation of this horrible act hyr father and kinsfolke being mooued raysed the people and expelled both the proude king Tarquine and his whole stocke out of the citie for euer Lucretilis An hill in the countrey of the Sabines Lucretius A Latine Poet. Lucrinum A towne of Apulia Lucrinus A méere or great water in Campania Luctatius Catulus A Citizen of Rome Lucullus A famous and noble man of Rome in rychesse learning and martiall prowesse verye excellent Being Questor hee dyd set foorth excéeding sumptuous games and sightes vnto the people In hys Praetourship he gouerned Affrike with great iustice When he was sent as Capitayne agaynst Mithridates into Asia hee deliuered his companion in office Cotta that was besieged in Chalcedon hée rescued the citie Cizicon being in much daunger he ouerthrewe Mithridates in a great battayle draue him out of his kingdome he discomfited him the seconde tyme when he was ayded of the mightie prince king Tigranes of Armenia ⪠and woulde cleane haue finished that warre had not the fame of his couetousnesse caused him to be sent for home by the Senate After his returne out of Asia hee gaue himselfe altogither to sumptuous and sensuall life For in hys voyage against Mithridates hée gat so great âyââesse and treasure that hee was not able to waste the same in most sumptuous buyldings of gorgeous houses ⪠libraries galleries and walkes in making of fishe pondes gardeyns and other deuyses of pleasure in so ââraunge fashion and maner as neuer before his tyme was sâââe whereas dayly also hée vsed such outragious fare in feasting and banketting that his deliciousnesse and sensualitie is growne to a prouerbe In the ende he being altered in his wiâtes was committed to the tuition of his brother Ma. Lucullus Lucumo A mans name of whome the Tuscians were called Lucumedi and Lucumones Lucus A citie in Spayne by Compostella which is nowe called Lucensis Also a promontorie of Hetruria called commonly Petra sancta Lucus Augusti A citie in Spayne called Oluca Luentinum Powes landes in Wales Lugdunum ni n. g. A citie in Fraunce called Lions Lugdunensis Gallia The thirde part of Fraunce called nâwe the countrey of Lions It hath on the north the English sea on the west partly the Occean partly the countrey Guyan on the east the ryuer Seyne on the south Narbon Lugodinum called also Traiectum A citie in Hollande named Vtriche Luna A towne of the Ligurians Also a promontorie in Portugall Lunarium A promontorie called nowe Mons Iouis Schalae Annibalis and Mouini Lupercal A place at the foote of the Mount Palatine dedicated to Pan the shéepeherdes God in which certaine sacrifices and games were solemnised yerely in Februarie In these sacrifices Pans priestes and ministers called Luperci ranne vp and downe the stréetes of the citie naked striking the heads and bellies of women with a Goates skinne By which ceremonie they were perswaded that barraine women were made fertyle Thys maner is thought first to haue béene ordeyned by Euander comming into Italie to the honour of the rusticall God Pan whome the people of Arcadie in like maner doe worship Lupercalia The sacrifices and playes made to Pan. Luperci Ministers of that solemnitie Lupfurdum A citie in Germanie called now Misna vulgarly Meissen Lupia A riuer in Germanie called Neccharum Lusitania The realme called Portugall Lusius A riuer of Arcadie Luspiae A citie of Calaber called commonly Leccio Iezo Lutetia The citie of Paris in Fraunce L Y Lyaeus One of the names of Bacchus called God of wynes Lyaeus a um Of Bacchus Lycaeum Looke Liceum Lycaeus A mountayne of Arcadie dedicated to Iupiter In that was also an aultare erected to Iupiter on the which when Lycaon the sonne of Pelasgus did sacrifice a chylde he was for the same cruelty tourned into a woulfe Lycambes A Thebane whome Archilocus rating wyth verses caused to hang himselfe Lycaon áonis A king of Arcadie and sonne of Pelasgus of whome Ouide wryteth thus Iupiter after hée had heard great complaint of the wickednesse of mankinde came downe into the worlde to vnderstande whether it were true or no. When he came to Arcadie to king Lycaons palayce and there had gyuen by myracle some token of his Godhead the people came in to worship him and to doe sacrifice vnto him But Lycaon deryded their curiositie and sayde that the same night he woulde vnderstande whether he intertayned a God or a man wherefore priuily in the night he came into the chamber and woulde haue murdered him But when he sawe his wicked attempt tooke no place he assayed an other way The next daye hée kylled yoong Gentlemen of the Molossiââs ⪠that were with him as pledges and serued the fleshe of one of them to Iupiter sitting at the table to trie whether he were a God or no. Hée therefore detesting that horrible and wycked act with lightling fyred the tyrannes pallayce and turned himselfe into a Wouâfe Lycaones People of Asia the lesse néere to Lycia as wryteth Ptolome Lycaonia A countrey in Asia After some wryters it is a part of Arcadia Lycaste One of the daughters of Priamus Lycastos A citie of Candie Lyceum Aristotles schoole in Athens Also a schoole of Ciceros in his place at Tusculum Lyceus Vide Lycaeus Lychas Hercules seruaunt Lycia A countrey in Asia the lesse betwene Pamphilia and Caria in the which are two great cities Patara and Myra Sometyme there were .70 cities Lycidas The name of a Centaure and of a shéepehearde in Virgul Lycimnius The brother of Astiochia Lyciscus A boyes name in Horace Lycium Idem quod Lyceum Lycius One of the names of Apollo Lycophron A Grammarian and wryter of Tragedyes of Chalcedonie Lycopolis A
citie of Aegypt Lycorias The name of a nymphe Lycormas A riuer running out of Aetolia Lyctonia A citie of Crete Lyctus A citie of Crete named of Lyctus the sonne of Lycaon Lycurgus A noble man of Sparta sonne of Polydecta and brother to Eumonus kyng of Lacedemon whome hée succéeded in the kingdome not knowing that he left his wife with chylde Which thing so soone as Lycurgus vnderstoode he left the name of a king and called himselfe gouernour or protectour When the yoong prince came to age he faythfully restored the kingdome to him But in the meane tyme perceyuing the citie to be in yll forme of gouernment he deuised newe and wholsame lawes which when by the oracle of Apollo he had learned to be very profitable he published the same And after he had well iniured the Lacedemonians to be obedience of them feigning that he had a iourney to Delphos he caused all the people to sweare that they should faythfully obey and kéepe those lawes vntill such tyme as he returned Going therefore to Delphos when the oracle had signified that Lacedemon shoulde flourishe so long as it kept his lawes hée determined neuer to returne into his countrey but euer after lyued in banishment and at his death commaunded his ashes to be cast into the see that the Lacedemonians by procuring to haue them myght not thinke themselues discharged of the othe that they had taken but perpetually should be bounde to the kéeping of those lawes which hée had deuised Lycus A ryuer in the countrey of Caesarea Also the name of diuers men Lydda A citie of Iudaea called Rhamâ Lydia A countrey in Asia on the east ioyning to Phrygia on the north to Mysia on the south vpon part of Caria In this region is the hyll called Tmolus out of the which commeth the riche ryuer called Pactolus Reade of of them in their owne places * Lydi mali Post hos Aegyptij A prouerbe applyed where two euill persons be compared togither ⪠and the one being founde very vngracious the other deserueth the lesse disprayse Lydus lyda lydum Lydius a um Of Lydia Lydus The sonne of Hercules An other the sonne of Atys and brother of Tyrrhenâs of whome Lydia was named An other Lydus was the sonne of Giges Lygdamum The name of a towne Lygdamus A Sicilian of the citie of Syracusis a puissaunt wrestlar whose bones after his death were found to haue no marrowe Lymira A ryuer and a citie of Lycia Lyncestius a um Of the water of Lyncestus Lyncestus A water which maketh men drunke like wine Lynceus dyssyllabum A man ⪠who as Varro wâyteth coulde sée shippes on the sea an hundred and thirtye myles from him ⪠and did number them Some wryte that he coulde sée through a wall and therefore they that haue very sharpe sightes be sayde to haue Lynceos oculos the eyes of Lynceus Linceus A mans name that first founde out the mettall mynes of brasse siluer and golde Lincus A king of Scythia Lyndus A citie in the yle of Rhodes where they did sacrifice to Hercules with reproches and curses Lyris A ryuer of Campayne Lyrnessus One of the citie of Troy Lyrseus A well out of the which issueth the ryuer of Inachus Lysander A king of Lacedemonia When it was layde to him for a reproche that he did more by subtiltie then by prowesse hée did aunswere in this wyse where the Lions skinne doth not auayle a man must sowe or tye a Foxes skinne vnto it Notwithstanding that practise is seldome commended in any noble man But this Lysander was alwaye of that opinion that hée estéemed truth and playne dealing no longer then it stoode wyth hys commoditie And therefore he confessed that truth was better then lying but that the woorthinesse of them both was to be measured by profite When it was layde to his charge that he had broken the league that in Miletus he was sworne vnto Tush sayth he as chyldren are to be trayned and deceyued wyth Apples and tryfles so are men to be beguyled with othes Lysanias An oratour of Gréece Lysiades A philosopher of Athens Lysias An oratour most pleasaunt of whome Quintilian speaketh Lysicrates A man which in his olde age dyed hys white heares blacke that he might séeme yoong Lysimachia A citie in Hellespont which fell downe with an earthquake Lysimachus Agathocles sonne one of the Capitaynes of king Alexander who as he was of noble stocke so was he in vertue more famous and noble He so excellently loued learning and those that were the professors of the same that when Callisthenes was cruelly imprysoned by Alexander he oftentimes resorted to him and hearde him dispute of vertue and learning and at the request of the philosopher brought to him a poysoned cuppe to ende his lyfe rather then to abyde the miserie that hée susteyned in the stinking dungeon Which thing when Alexander did vnderstand he tooke it so grieuously that he caused Lysimachus to be cast without weapon to be deuoured of a Lyon But he as a valiaunt and stoute gentleman folding his cloke togither about his arme thrust his hand into the Lions mouth and so killed him For which act he was after more estéemed of Alexander then euer he was before and therefore aduaunced to great honour Lysippe One of the daughters of Proetus kyng of Argyues Lysippus An excellent keruer Lysistratus The brother of Lysippus Lysius A riuer of Arcadie called also Lusius Lyus A ryuer of the lesse Asia M A MAcae People of Arabia foelix Machareus The sonne of Aeolus which begatte a childe on his owne sister Canace and for feare of his fathers displeasure fledde his countrey and went to Delphos where he became Apollos priest Vide Canace Macharia The daughter of Hercules Also a fenne or marice in Marathon Macarius The name of a man in Latine it signifieth blessed Macedo onis A man or woman of Macedonie Also the sonne of Osyris of whome Macedonie was named Macedonia ae foem gen A Realme in Gréece first called Aemathia On the north it boundeth as Ptholomeus wryteth vpon the sides of Dalmatia Mysia superior and Thracia On the west it stretcheth to the sea Ionium Pius describeth it to ioyne south and west to Thracia and that the south side lyeth on the backes of Thessalia and Magnetia the north on Poeonia and Paphlagonia That it hath also on the south Epirus on the north Iliyria which varyeth not much from Solynus who sayth that it is deuided from Thracia with the ryuer Strimon It is now vnder the Turke Macedónicus a um and Macedonus Of Macedonie Macer Aemulius An olde poet which was in Ouids time who as he sayth wrote of byrdes in verses also of the vertue of herbes But it was not y e Macer whose works we nowe haue of the vertue of herbes but rather hée whom the yoonger Plinie prouoked to write some thing lyke vnto his vncle Finally that little booke of herbes is right profitable in diuers places to
knitte the browes or shewe any token that he felt griefe therat But when the surgeaunt woulde in lyke maner haue vsed the other legge nay sir sayth he the curing of the disease is not woorth so much paine as a man must abide for it Marmarica A countrey of Affrike betwéene Cyrene Libya and Aegypt hauing on the north the Aegyptian sea Mardaridae People in Affrike marching to Aegypt Maro ronis The name of the most excellent Poet Virgyll Maronia A citie of the Ciconians where is verye good wine and after some so strong that if twentie times so much water be put to it kéepeth his strength still Maronaeus a um Of Maronia Marpesus An hyll in the yle called Parus Marpesius a um Of the same hill Marpissa The daughter of Euenus and wife of Idas Marrucini People in Italy Mars God of battayle and onelye Iunos sonne wythout companie of hir husband For when Iuno was greatly displeased with hirselfe that Iupiter by striking of his heade without companie of woman did bring foorth Minerua she went toward Occeanus to learne how she also might be deliuered of a childe without companie of man In the way being very wearie she sate downe at the gate of the Goddesse Flora wife to Zephirus who asked hir the cause why she went to Oceanus Which when Iuno had declared she sayde that in the fieldes of Olemus was a flower which if she did touch she should foorthwith conceyue without companie of man Iuno proouing that conceyued and brought foorth a son which she called Mars To him was the dominion of warre and battayle committed MartÃcola A worshipper of Mars Martigenus a um Come of the kinde of Mars Marsi People in Scythia Marspiter The father of Mars Marsia A countrey in Italy It is also a ryuer running by Apamea Marsus and Marsicus a um Of Marsia Marsyas The name of a famous Historiographer and of certayne other men Also a ryuer of Phrygia named of one Marsyas a minstrell Martia Catos yonger daughter Martia ae foem gen A water in Rome very wholsome and excellent Martiális le Borne vnder the Planet of Mars Martiâlis mas gen The name of a poet who wrote Epigrammes Martiânus a um Of Mars Martius The name of dyuers Romaynes Martius Ancus The fourth king of Rome in religion and iustice very famous He subdued the Latines added the mountes Martius and Auentinus to the compasse of the citie builded walles rounde aboue Rome gaue certaine wooddes to the maintenaunce of the name appointed a tribute to be payed of salt pits and first ordeyned a pryson in the citie for punishment of offenders Martius a um Perteyning to Mars Martius campus A field at Rome dedicate to Mars where the yong men of Rome did exercise themselfe Also there were their assemblies for the election of their great officers Martius mensis The moneth of March. Marullus The name of a Romayne enimie to Caesar Also of a Poet and of a Grammarian Masalia A riuer of Creta Masdoranus A mountayne which diuideth Parthia from Armenia Masinissa Looke Massinissa Massa ae m. g. A ryuer in Libya Massagetae A people in Asia which running on horsebacke through desertes doe drinke their horse bloude mixte wyth mylke they also doe eate their parentes if they dye for age but if they be sicke they cast them to wylde beastes to be deuoured Massica A countrey in the south part of Spayne Mássicum ci n. g. Wine of the mountayne Massicus Massicus A mountayne in Campania where is very good wine Massilia A notable citie in Prouaunce called Marsiles It was buylded .620 yeares before the incarnation of Christ This citie in tyme past so flourished in all kinde of good learning that the Romaynes leauing Athens went to the vniuersitie of Marsiles to learne It was also both in rychesse and martiall prowes of great fame and alway of sounde friendship towarde the good state of the Romayne Empire Massiliensis se Massilitanus and Massilioticus a um Of Marsiles Massinissa A king of Numidia and great friend to the Romaynes Massilia A Countreye in Affrike amonge the Westerne Moores Massylus Massylius and Massyleus a um Of Massylia Masúrius The name of a famous lawyer which wrote on the lawes ciuill Matinus A hyll of Calabre Matrália neut gen plur The solemne feastes of Matuta Matiacum A towne in Germanie Matùta tae foe g. A Goddesse called of the Gréekes Leucothea and is often vsed for Aurora Mauors ôrtis The God Mars Mauortius a um Perteyning to Mars Mauri People called Moores Mauritania The country now called Morisco or of Moores lying on the west part of Affrik betwéene the sea called Mare Mediteraneum on the north Libya on the south Martianus sayth that in length it is tenne tymes eight and thirtie myles which is thrée hundred and foure score myles and in breadth towarde the south foure hundred thrée score and seuen myles It is diuided into two countreys Tingitana and Caesarensis Tingitana hath on the west the Occean sea on the north the strayt of Marrocke called Fretum Herculeum vnto the ryuer Malna on the east Caesariensis on the south Getulia and Libya Caesariensis hath on the west Tingitana on the north the sea Sardoum vnto the ryuer Ampsagus on the south the mountaynes of Libya and the countrey of Getulia Maurus a um and Maurusius a um Of Mauritania Mausóleum solei n. g. A sepulchre or tombe which Artemisia made for hir husbande Mausolus which for the excellent workemanship was accompted for one of the seuen marueyles of the world and for the famousnesse thereof euery great and notable sepulchre is called Mausoleum Mausolus The king of a Realme called Caria Looke Artemisia Maximus The name of a cunning painter Mazaca A citie in Cappadocia vnder the hill Argeus It is nowe called Caesarea Mazax A man of a certaine people in Affrike Mazeras A ryuer in the mouth of the sea called Mare Hircanum Mazeres A souldiour of king Cyrus M E Meander or Maeander A ryuer in Phrygia which by sundrie windings at the last falleth into a créeke which deuideth Miletus and Priena in Gréece Mearus A riuer of Spayne Mecistus One of the companions of Aiax Telamonius Mecoenas âtÃs A gentleman of Rome minion to Augustus the Emperour and bycause hée was the supporter of great learned men all fauourers and succourers of learned men be so called Mecybeâna A towne of Macedonie Meda A citie of Thessaly Medea A notable sorceresse daughter of king Oeta by his wyfe Hypsea She intertayned the aduenturous Iason comming to Colchos to winne the golden fléese and being rauished with the loue of this goodlye personage taught him how to escape all those daungers that of necessitie he must aduenture to winne his purposed enterpryse After all which thinges atchieued she ranne away with Iason and tooke with hir Absyrtus hir yoong brother But Oetes sore displeased that he was so betrayed by his owne daughter pursued them wyth such spéede that he had well néere ouertaken them Wherfore Medea séeing
that nothing could stay hir fathers haste fearing to be taken killed the yong babe hir brother and and scattered his limmes in the way as hir father should passe With sorrowe whereof and long séeking the parts of his yong sonnes body the father was stayed and Iason with Medea in the meane time escaped out his realme After long iourney she came with Iason home to Thessaly and by hir sorcerie restored to yong yeares agayne his olde father Aeson In the ende Iason reiected hir and maried Creusa the kinges daughter of Corinthe Wherewith Medea sore grieued and yet pretending friendship did sende vnto Creusa in maner of a present a gorgious basket with wilde fire inclosed therin Which when Creusa did open sodainly it burned both hir and the pallayce where she was Medeis Medeides patronymica foem gen Of Medea Medera rae foem gen An ylande in the Occean sea scituate from Spayne southwest being distaunt from the poynt of the lande of Spayne called Caput sancti Vincentij almost .100 myles Medeficastes The bastarde daughter of Priamus Media A countrey in Asia hauing on the north the sea called Hircanum on the west Armenie the more and Assyria on the south Persia on the east Hircania and Parthia Médicus a um Of Media Mediolanium A citie or towne in Englande in Leycestershire called Manchester Mediolanium The citie of Orlyaunce in Fraunce Also a citie in Westphalia in Almaine called Munster which for as much as the people therof were infected wyth the heresie of the Anabaptistes and other detestable errours was destroyed by the Princes of Almaine about the yeare of our Lorde God a thousande fiue hundred thirtie and nine Mediolanum The chiefe citie of Lumbardie called Myllane Mediolum A towne in Spayne Mediomatrices Mastright in Brabant Meditrina The goddesse of phisike Medod One of the Centaures Medon The bastarde sonne of Oileus Also one of Penelopes wooers Medua An hauen in Italy Meduacus A ryuer about Venice called nowe Brent Medullina A mayden of Rome which being rauished by hir father killed him in sacrifice Medusa A Ladie of whome fables doe report that by Minerua hir heares were turned into adders and they which behelde hir were turned into stones whom Perseus afterwarde slue She is sometyme taken for one of the furyes of hell Mega A promontorie of Mauritania called commonly One or Oue Megabyzi or Megalobyzi Priestes of Diana which alwayes were gelded Megaera A furie or tormentour of hell whome Paynims doe suppose to prouoke or stirre men to woodnesse Megalesia The festiuall day dedicate to Cybele called the mother of Goddes among Paynims Megalopolis A great citie of Arcadie Megara A citie belonging to Athens It was also the name of one of Hercules wiues Also an hill in Sicilie where is great plentie of Bées Megareus Megareius Megaricus and Megarus a um Of Megara Megaris idis A countrey in Achaia Meges One of the princes of Gréece that went to Troy Melaenae A towne in Arcadie Melaene The yle Corcyra Melamphillum An yle in Asia Melamphillis An yle of Samothrace and Samos is also called Melamphyllis Melampus A mans name Also one of Actaeons dogges Melanes A mountayne in Arabia deserta called now Mons Sinai and Mons S. Catherinae of the Hebrues Sur desertum Melanthia The daughter of Deucalion by Pyrrha hys wife Melanthius The name of a Troyan and of diuers other men Melanthus One of them that Bacchus turned into Delphins Melas The name of dyuers riuers Meleager or Meleagrus The sonne of Oeneus kyng of Calydon Meleagraea The citie called Calydon Melegina An yle in the Venetian sea Meles etis A riuer by Smyrna Melesigenes The proper name of Homer Meletius A bishop in Aegypt of Arrius sect Meliboea A citie in Thessalie Meliboeus A shéepeheardes name Melicerta The sonne of Athamas and Ino whome the Gentiles did honour for one of the Goddes of the sea ⪠called also Palaemon Meligene The yle Melite Melissa A woman who with hir sister Amalthea nourished Iupiter Melissus The name of him which first did sacrifice vnto Idols Also the name of an auncient philosopher Melita siue Melite An yle lying betwene Sicilie Affrike After Plinie lib 3. cap. vlt. it lyeth betwéene Corcyra nigra and Illyricum wherein is plentie of honie and is nowe called Malta wherein at this tyme the company of the knightes Hospytelers doe inhabite as they did at the Rhodes Meliâaeus a um and Melitensis se Of that yle as Melitaei canes Melitenses Pretie lyttle houndes in the which Ladyes tooke pleasure and delyte which were brought out of the sayde yle of Melite Melitus The name of him that accused Socrates Melizandrus Hée that wrote the storie of the warres betwéene the Lapithes and the Centaures Mella A riuer of Fraunce Mellene A citie in Archadia Melo A riuer called also Gehon and Nilus Melobosis A nymph the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys Melocabus A citie in Germanie Meloessa An yle by Sicilie in the which was great plentie of shéepe Melonia A Goddesse among the Romaines Melos One of the yles called Cyclades Melpómene One of the nine Muses Melus A towne of Thessalie besieged and wonne by Nicias the Athenian capitaine namely by famine whereof grewe the prouerbe Meliaea fames Memmius A citie of Rome Memnon The sonne of Tithon which came to the ayde of the Troians Memnonius a um of Memnon as Memnoniae aues Byrdes which were supposed to growe of the ashes of Memnon Memphi People of Memphis MemphÃtes patronymicum mas gen Memphîtis patronymicum foem gen Memphis A great and famous citie in Aegypt Memphiticus a um Of that citie Memphricus A king of Brytaine which slue his brother Malys that he might reigne after him Menaechmi The name of a comedie in Plautus Menaechmus A philosopher of Platos sect which wrote vpon his booke De republica Also an historiographer that wrote the historie of Alexander Magnus Menalcas A shéepeheardes name Menalippe The sister of Antiope Quéene of Amazones whome Hercules vanquished Menalippides The name of two poets Menalippus He that slue Tydeus An other of that name was brother of Tydeus Menander A famous poet ⪠a wryter of Comedis Also a notable heretike which followed Simon Magus Menapij People of the countrey called Gellarland or Gylderlande and Cleaue Menaria An yle in the sea betwéene Carthage and Sicilie Mendesicum One of the mouthes of Nilus Meneceus The sonne of Creon king of Thebes Menecina A citie in Oenotria Menecis The vttermost citie of Phocis toward the west Menécrates Was an arrogant and prowde phisition who bycause hée chaunced to heale sundrie persons of whose health men did dispayre and therefore in commending him called him Iupiter he after that named hymselfe Menecrates Iupiter Menelaus Brother to Agamemnon and sonne of Atreus Hée was king of Sparta and husbande of the beautifull Quéene Helena Whome when Paris king Priamus his sonne in his absence had stolen awaye he sent Ambassadours to require hir to be restored agayne But when they returned in
burned into the which hée wyllingly thrust his hande that had fayled to slea the king and suffered it to be burned to ashes affirming that besides him there were three hundred that had vowed to make lyke attemptate Wherewith the king being abashed and fearing their inuincible courage made peace with the Romaynes taking pledges of them and raysing his siege departed without molesting of them euer after Mutunus An Idoll who was also called Priâpus M Y Myagrus called also Myodes The God of Flies Mycale The name of a sorceresse in Ouid. Mycénae arum MyceÌna ae Mycéne enes A citie in the part of Graecia called Peloponnesus and a lyttle region where Agamemnon reigned called nowe Morea Mycenaeus a um Of Mycenae Mycerinus The sonne of Cheops king of Aegyt Mycon The name of a famous painter Mycone es Myconos ni One of the yles called Cyclades Myconij People of that yle which be naturally balde and of them balde men be called Myconij Mydia An yle named also Delos Mydon Sonne of Arymnis slaine by Antilochus at the siege of Troy Mygdonia A part of Macedonia on the sea side where Niobe was turned into a stone Aristotle sayth that it is a part of Phrygia ioyning to Lydia Solinus sayth it was called Bebrycia and after Bithynia Mygdonides The sonne or nephewe of Mygdonus Mygdonis idis foem gen The daughter or néece of Mygdonus Mygdonus The brother of Otreus Mylae A certayne towne Mypsaei A people of Thrace which yéelded to Darius Myra A citie in Lycia Myrina A Quéene of Amazones Myrlea A towne of Bithynia Myrmecides A cunning caruer of small things Myrmidones The people called also Hellenes that accompanyed Achilles going to Troy They were so named of Myrmice the mayde of Athens whome for hir chastitie witte and diligence Minerua greatly fauoured But when shee had disclosed and made common to all ⪠the plough that Minerua had made in despite of Ceres the Goddesse being angrie turned hir into an Emmot or Pismier Strabo sayth they were called Myrmidones bycause they were paynefull husbandemen and alwaye occupyed in digging and labouring lyke Emmots Myron onis The name of an excellent caruer Myrâha The daughter of king Cinyras which loued hir owne father filthily Myrsinus A citie in Peloponnesus Myrsum A towne in the part of Gréece called Peloponnesus Myrsus The father of Candaules Myrtilus A chariot man of king Oenomaus Looke Hippodamia Myrtóum mare A portion of the sea which is betwéene the sea called Aegeum Ionium Mys yos The name of a cunning grauer Mysia A countrey towarde Greekelande which is deuided into two partes the higher and the lower The higher hath on the north Dacia on the east Dalmatia on the south Macedonie on the west Thrace this is nowe called Seruia The lower Mysia hath on the west Dacia on the north Sarmatia on the east the sea Euxine on the south Thrace This is now called Valachia and Bulgaria Ptholomeus writeth of two countreys called Mysia the more and the lesse and both in Asia beyonde Bithynia not farre from Ida. Mysi Certaine people * Mysorum postremus habetur Prouerbially he is neglected and contemned he is cast at the cartes arse Mystillus A Cookes name in Martiall Mythridâtes Lââe Mithridates Myxus A priest of Diana glorious and a stoute talker N A NAaera The handemayde of Cleopatra that wyllingly dyed with hir maystresse Nabathaea A part of Arabia foelix ⪠lying betwene the Persian sea and the redde sea Nabathaei People inhabiting the countrey called Arabia foelix very continent and in preparing and keeping their commodities right prudent as Strabo writeth in whome ye may reade more abundantly of their maners not much expedient to be declared in this place Nabius A riuer in Spaine Nabriassa Or after some Nabrissa A citie in Spayne It is nowe called Veneria Mabuchodonosor The ninth king of Babilon or the thirde king of Chaldeys named of Berosus Nabugodrosus of the Hebrues Nabuchadnezzar He by the occasion of his great and woonderfull dominions fell into such pride that he woulde haue his Image honoured for God Wherefore Almightye God sodeynly transformed him into an horrible Monster hauing the heade of an Oxe the féete of a Beare the tayle of a Lyon and did eate haye as a beast And after he had in that forme done penaunce by the continuall prayers of Daniell the prophete God being mooued with mercie restored hym to his pristinate fourme and afterwarde hee lyued well and commaunded that the verye God of heauen shoulde be onely honoured Hée was before the incarnation of Christ .633 yeares Hée reygned .xliiij. yeares Naeera The proper name of a woman Naenia A Goddesse Naeuius The name of a Poet. Naeuianus a um Of Naeuius Nagnia called nowe Narnia A citie in Italy Nagnata A citie in Irelande Naides Elfes or fayries haunting ryuers and fountaynes Naim A citie of Galilie Nais naidis A riuer in the east which runneth out of the mountayne Taurus into the sea called Pontus Also a nymph of the water Namnitae People of Nauntes Nannetes A towne in little Britaine called Nauntes Napataei People in Aethiope Napaei People of the yle of Lesbos Napeae Goddesses of flowers and wooddes or rather Elfes haunting wooddes Napitae People of Scythia Nar A riuer which runneth into Tyber There is an other ryuer of that name in Germanie which commeth out of the great ryuer Danubius or Donow Narane A ryuer in Dalmatia about an hundred myles from Epidaurus Narbasis A towne in Spaine Narbo Martius Called commonlye Narbona a Citie in Fraunce Narbonensis prouincia A part of Gallia hauing on the east the mountaynes Alpes on the south Mare Gallicum on the west the Mountaynes Pyrenaei on the north the Mountayne Iura It conteyneth the countreyes called Sauoy Dolphyny Prouance and Languedocke It was in the olde tyme called Gallia Bracchata Narcissinus a um Of Narcissus Narcissus The sonne of the ryuer Cephisus which was turned into the flower called Narcissus It is also a certaine riuer Naritia An yle in the sea Aegeum Narius A riuer in Vmbria Narna or Narnia A towne in Italy Also a citie of Vmbria Narniae or Narnienses People of Narnia Narniensis ager The countrey about Narnia where the grounde with rayne waxeth duitie and in drie weather durtie Narona A riuer of Dalmatia called nowe Narenta Narses A mans name an Eunuch of the Emperour Iustiman which was a valiant and prudent capitaine Nartes People of Italy called also Interamnates Narytium A towne of the people called Locrenses where is plentie of excellent and good pitch Nasamones People dwelling in the myddle of the sandes of Libya Among whome is founden the precious stone called a Carbuncle Nasamorrius and Nasamoniacus a um Of the people Nasamones Nasica The surname of a noble Romaine called Scipio Nasium A citie in Fraunce called Nanse Nastes The brother of Amphimachus which came to help the Troyans Natio The name of a Goddesse Matiso A riuer in the countrey of Venice Naualia A
sea Nesium or Nesis An yle by Campania Nessus A Centaure which rauished Deianira Hercules wife who being wounded to death gaue to Deianira a poyson wherewith Hercules shirt being washed and put on him his body did rot with most horrible paynes which he not susteyning did enter into a great tire and let himselfe be burned Nestor The sonne of Neleus and Chlorys In the tyme of the Troyan warre being then almost thrée hundred yeares olde he went with the other Graecians to Troy accompanied with fiftie shippes and there by graue and wise counsaile so much furthered and profited the Graecians affayres that the Prince Agamemnon sayd openly hée woulde not doubt in short space to take Troy if he had fortuned to haue ten such counsaylors as Nestor was For beside his great wysedome gathered by long experience hée was so eloquent that Homere affyrmeth his talke procéeded from him swéeter then any honie Nestorides The sonne or nephew of Nestor Nestorius A great heretike byshop of Constantinople the yeare of our Lorde .419 who denied Christ to be God Of him the heretykes holding that opinion were called Nestoâiani Nestus A ryuer of Thrace Neuceria A citie in Vmbria a part of Italy Neuola A riuer in Vmbria Neuri People of Scythia of whome it is written that in Sommer they were turned into Woolues Neustria Normandie N I Niaetos A riuer in Sicilie Nicaearchus A famous painter Nicandrus or Nicander A famous Poet which wrote of poysons Nicânor nicánoris A Grammarian of Alexandria in the tyme of Adrian the Emperour Nicator nicátoris m. g. The surname of Seleucus and signifieth a vanquisher Nicea or Nicia A citie in Bithynia where was holden the holy counsayle agaynst Arrius In the which was present the noble Emperour Constantinus Magnus There is an other citie of that name in Fraunce Nicepsus A Gréeke phisition and a great Magician about the yeare of our Lorde .650 Nicetes A sophister in the time of Adrian excellently learned Nicias A noble man of Athens It is also the name of certayne other Nico One of the Tarentines that conspyred against Anniball Nicocreon A tyranye of Cypres Nicolaitae Were heretikes which tooke that name of Nicolas one of the seuen deacons in the time of the Apostles who being blamed of them for ielousie brought his wife who was faire among all the disciples saying that who so woulde should vse hir thinking therby to purge himselfe of ielousie whereof other yll men taking occasion beléeued that euery man might lawfully vse euery woman that he lusted Which heresie as reason woulde was condemned immediatly but it is to be feared that it is not cléerely extinct Nicolaus A mans name Nichomachus The name of diuers men Nicomedes A king of Bithynia Nicomedia A noble citie in Bithynia where Constantinus Magnus the Emperour dyed It is nowe called of the Turkes Nichor Nichophanes A cunning painter Nicópolis A citie in Epire where Octauian vanquished Antonie and Cleopatra Nicostrata called also Carmentis Was mother vnto Euander king of Latines and a Prophetesse Nicostratus A famous oratour of Macedonie There was also a Poet and a Minstrell of the same name Also an excellent player of Comedyes Nigidius figulus An auncient Romaine which was a philosopher of the sect of Pythagoras and wrote woonderfull subtilly about the yeare of our Lorde .48 he dyed in exyle Nigir A ryuer of Libya Nigrinus A mans name in Lucian Nigâi A fountaine in Aethiope which some suppose to be the heade of the famous riuer Nilus NilÃgenus a um Engendred or bred in or of Nilus Nilôtis nilótidis f. g. Of Nilus Nilus A famous and great riuer running through Aethiope and Aegypt and is supposed to be one of the ryuers of Paradyse called in holy scripture Gehon Albeit to me it séemeth vnlykely for as much as in Genesis it is wrytten that Gehon enuyroneth all Aethiopia where is no mention made that it passeth through Aegypt albeit that Aegypt and the ryuer Nilus were more nigh to Moyses when he wrote the booke Genesis then Aethiope was And also Nilus was famous for the vertue of the water thereof which ouerflowing the countrey of Aegypt made the grounde woonderfull fertyle many yeares after so that wythout labouring the earth brought foorth abundaunce of sundrie graines and plantes delectable and profitable Also beastes of sundrie kindes wythout other fourme of generation especially when the ryuer came to the déepenesse of .xl. cubites Lykewise when it excéeded not .viij. cubites ⪠there succéeded much famine and scarsitie NilÃacus Nilóticus a um Perteyning to the ryuer Nilus Nimblis An yle in the sea called Ionium Niniue siue Nisibis A citie in Assyria buylded by Ninus in compasse thrée dayes iourney There was an other citie of that name in the corner of Iudaea towarde Arabia Ninos A citie of Assyria called also Ninus and Niniue Ninus A king of Assyria and sonne of Belus was the first that made warre Hée conquered vnto Indie and vanquished Zoroastres kinge of Bactria which first inuented arte Magike and also caused first money to be currant Hée had to his wyfe Semiramis he reigned 52. yeares before the incarnation of Christ .2055 yeares Niobe bes Daughter of Tantalus king of Phrygia wife of Amphion a woman of much wisedome who brought foorth seuen sonnes and as many daughters of excellent beautie whereof she vaunted and preferred hirselfe before Latona mother of Apollo and Diana Wherefore Latona being angrie commaunded Apollo to sleâ all the sonnes and Diana all the daughters For which deede Niobe through discomfort and heauinesse lost hir speach and remayned without moouing Wherefore the Poets feigned that she was transformed into a stone vpon the sepulchre of hir children Niphaeus A mans name in Virgil. Niphates A ryuer of the great Armenie Nireus dissyllabum The sonne of Charopus the moste beautifull of all the Gréekes that came to Troy Nisa A womans name in Virgill Nissa A citie in Lydia Also the name of diuers men Nisaee The name of a nymph or fayrie Nisaeus A place in Media where was a good bréede of faire horses Niseus a um Of Nisus Nisus A king of whome it is written that he had one golden heare the which caused him alwayes to be victorious But his daughter called Scylla stole away the sayde heare and brought it to Minâs hir fathers enimie whome shée loued thinking by that meanes to please him whereby hir father was vanquished and slayne Nisyros An yle nigh to Gréece Nitriobriges People of Narbon in Fraunce nowe called Mount pellier Nitria A countrey in Aegypt and the name of two cities aboue Memphis Nixus â A starre or planet in the firmament N O Noctiluca A name whereby the moone is called Nodinus A God whome the auncient Romaynes worshipped Nodus Caelestis Waâ of auncient wryters taken for the signe of Pisces Noe Signifieth rest or ceassing from labour It was the name of an holy patriarche the sonne of Lamech whome onely wyth his wyfe and thrée sonnes God elected to be
she was rauished of Apollo Orchoë A citie of Babilon Orchomeneus a um Of Orchomenus Orchomenus A mountaine in Thessaly Also a citie and a ryuer in Boeotia Orcinus a um Of Orcus Orcus A ryuer of hell Also an other in Thessaly It is sometyme taken for hell Ordessus A ryuer of Scythia Ordo luci Hilles that doe deuyde Scotland and England they be nowe called Cheuiet Ordouicum vici A citie in Brâtaine the people whereof were called Ordouices whome Iulius Agricola subdued Oreades Nymphes of the mountaines Orebatis A citie of Persis Oresitropus One of Actaeons dogges Orestes The sonne of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra His sister Electra when shée perceyued the aduouterer Aegisthus and hir moâher woulde haue slaââe him with his father conueyed him priuilye out of the waye ⪠and sent him to his vncle Strophius kynge of Phocis where hée was brought vp vntill he came to age and then returning to Argos with the conâent of his sister Electra in reuengement of his fathers death slue both his mother Clytemnestra the aduouterer Aegisthus Afterwarde also he killed Pyrrhus in the temple of Apollo for that hee had maryed the Ladie Hermione that was before to him betrothed For these murders Orestes was so cruelly tormented with furies that he wandred madde in many countreys and neuer coulde be holpen before that by sacrifice he purged his cruell doings at the aulter of Diana in Taurica In all his troubles and aduersities he had a faythfull friende named Pytades that did alway accompanie and helpe hym and loued him so entirely that hee woulde haue gyuen hâs lyfe for hym For when kyng Thoas doubted which of them was Orestes being in fauour very lyke Pylades sayde he was Orestes thât he myght haue béene put to death for him and Orestes againe for his part affirmed earnestly as the truth was that hée was Orestes that his friende might not for his sake wythout cause léese his lyfe Wherefore these two are noted as an example of faythfull friendship Oresteus a um Of Orestes Orestis idis A part of Macedonie Oretae People of Indie Oretus A ryuer of Sicilie Oreto or Oria A towne of Spayne called Calatraua Oreus A name of Bacchus Orge A well in Narbone ⪠wherein groweth a certayne herbe which Oxen and Kine doe so greatly desire that they thrust theyr heades wholye vnder the water to get it Orgia ôrum n. g. plur Ceremonies or songes perteyning to infernall Gods or to Bacchus Oribasius A noble man which was familiar with Iulianus the Emperour he wrote .72 bookes of Phisicke Oricius a um Of Oricos Oricos or Oricum A citie of Epyre. Origenes called also Adamantius borne at Alexandria in Aegâpt was sonne of one Leoniâes the martyr a mân of moste excellent doctrine and vertue from hys childehoode who being on sleepe his father came into the châmber and taking awây the clothes softly ⪠kyssed the breast of the infant as a temple hâuing wythin it the holy ghost and gâue thankes to God that hee had gyuen him such a sonne When his father was martyred Origen being but a yoong childe and yet desirous of martyrdome ranne among other that were ledde to be slayne and by all meanes profered himselfe to die with them But his mother who liued him most intirely perceiuing the matter ⪠did first lamentably intreate him to withdrawe him but his desire of martyrdome was the more increased thereby Wherfore in the night when hee was in his bed she stale away his clothes so that in the morning when he woulde haue gone forth he might not come by them wherefore hee was constrayned to tary at home Of the which deceyte of his mother hée complayned to his father in prison desiring him to persist constantly in his good purpose After the death of his father hee gaue himselfe continually to the studie of holy scripture which he had tasted before hy his fathers instructions And yet before hée was .xx. yeares olde hée excelled all men of his tyme as well in philosophie as all other sciences At the age of .xviij. yeares he expounded Gentile Authours openlye wherein he so enterlaced the holy scripture that he conuerted manye great learned men to the fayth of Christ Hys lyuing was so strayte and vertuous that he drewe many vnto him and was among all men had in a woonderfull reuerence Hée neuer ceased in all persecutions to comfort and confirme men in the imbracing of martyrdome and did continually reade openly and also wryte innumerable bookes in the expounding of holy scripture He went into dyuers countreys to preach and for his great fame Mammea the mother of the noble Emperour Alexander Seuerus sent for him to Rome and heard him and as some suppose was by him conuerted He obserued al the precepts of the Gospell most straytly in continuall fastinges and watchings hauing but one garment going alwayes barefoote counsayling all his hearers to renounce all that they had and to giue it in almesse Also he gelded himselfe not onely to be the more chaste but also bycause in the tyme of persecution he taught the worde of God as well priuily as openly to men and women to let the Paynyms to speake distonestie of him and those that repayred to his sermons and lessons which although he did secretly yet God would not haue it hyd so that it came to the eare of Demetrius the byshop of Alexandria who first woondered at the stomacke and vertue of the man praysing the feruentnesse of hys fayth sayde vnto him Nowe sticke to thy doctrine and preaching since thou hast left vnto thyne aduersaries none occasion of suspition But afterward the same Demetrius stirred with enuie layde it in reproche against him openly finding nothing else wherewith to disprayse him He that will knowe more of Origen let him reade the sixt booke De hystoria Ecclesiastica and saint Hierome De scripto eccle He was after the incarnation of Christ 204. yeares Orion orionis The sonne of Neptunus Some feygned that when Epinous had lodged Iupiter Mercurie and Neptune and had killed for them an Oxe he desired theÌ to graunt him a sonne Then those thrée pissed in the hyde of the Oxe of the which being laid on the ground came Orion as it were Vrion For Ouros in Gréeke is vrine When Orion being an hunter would haue defloured Diana he was slayne of a scorpion and translated among the starres and there is the signe called in latine Iugula Orithaea A nymph that encouraged men to runne Orithyia The daughter of Erichtheus kyng of Athens whome Boreas loued and conueyed awaye with hym into Thrace An other of this name was Quéene of Amazons Orizon ontis mas gen Is the furthermost part of the firmament that mans eye can determine Ormenius A citie of Magnesia Ornea Sacrifices dedicated vnto Priapus Orneus One of the Centaures Oroandes An hill by the mountayne Imaus Oroatis A ryuer in the bosome of the sea called Persicum southwarde Oroba A citie of Assyria Orobatis A citie of Persis
third citie of his name the vttermost ende of his iourney Also in the same place were aultars buylded by Bacchus and after by Hercules then by the Quéene Semiramis last by Cyrus Pandana porta A gate of the citie of Rome which was first opened and last shut for all thinges to be brought into the citie Pandatória An yle in the sea Tyrrhenum Pandectae arum foem gen plur The volume of the lawe ciuile called the Digestes and signifieth comprehending all things PandÃon onis The sonne of Erichtheus king of Athens Pandiónia The countrey of Athens Pandionius a um One of the countrey of Athens Pandôra A woman vnto whome sundrie Gods gaue sundrie giftes Pallas gaue hir wisedome Venus beautie Apollo musike Mercurius eloquence And therefore shée was called Pandôra which signifieth hauing all gyftes Hesiodus the Poet wryteth that Iupiter sent hir into the worlde to deceyue mankynde Also Deucalions mother Pandosia A citie in Italy another in Epire. Pandosius A poole in Arcadie Paneus A towne and a ryuer of Colchis Pangaeus An elbowe of Thrace Panhormus idem quod Panormus Paniscus A God of the wooddes Pannonia The countrey now called Hungaria which tooke that name of an other Hungaria nowe called Iulira It lyeth in the north part of the worlde not farre from the ryuer Tanais and is tributarie to the Moscouites The boundes of Hungarie are nowe much larger theâ they were of olde tyme and hath on the west Ostrike and Beame on the south the part of Slauonie that lyeth on the sea Adriaticum on the east Seruia on the north Polonia and Moscouia The countrey is ryght fertile of graine and riche of golde and siluer And as the inhabitauntes doe report there is a ryuer wherein if yron be oftentymes déeped it will be turned into copper This noble realme is nowe destroyed and vnder the captiuitie of the Turkes which is sore to be feared all christendome shall repent For it was sometyme reputed the puyssaunt bulwarke of all christian realmes agaynst the intollerable vyolence of Sarasyns and Turkes Pannonia superior The countrey called Austria and Stiria In this countrey standeth Vienna Pannonia inferior hath on the north Dunow and Germanie on the west Pannonia superior on the south Liburnia on the east Iaziges This countrey is almost wholy vnder the Hungares Pannones Hungarians called also Paeones Panomphaeus a um A name of Iupiter signifiying that he heareth all mens voyces or bicause he is worshipped of all men Panope A citie in Phocis Panope and Panopaea A nymph of the sea Panormita Panormitanus and Panormius One of Panormus Panormus and Panormum A citie in Sicilie nowe called in Italian Palermo Pantaces A ryuer in Samos Pantagias A ryuer in Sicilie Pantanus A poole of Puell in Italy Panthea The wife of Abradota a Persian Pantheon A temple in Rome of all the Goddes Panthesilêa A Quéene of Amazones Panthoides The name of Pythagoras which sayde that he was once the sonne of Panthous the Troyan Panthous or Panthus A Troyan the sonne of Otreus brother of Hecuba Panticapâs A ryuer of Scythia Panticapeum A towne not farre from the same place Pantomatrium A towne by the sea side in Candie Pantrepes A riuer of Scythia Paphages A king of Ambracia Paphlago onis One of Paphlagonia Paphius a um Of Paphos Paphlagonia A countrey in the lesse Asia ioyning to Galatia where dwelled the people called Veneti of whome came the Venetians It is bounded on the east wyth the riuer called Halys running out of the south betwene Syria and Paphlagonia Paphos A citie in the ylande of Cypres which was dedicate to Venus whereof she was called Paphia Paphus He that buylded the citie Paphos PapÃa A citie in Lumbardie called Pauie Papinianus A famous lawyer in the tyme of Seuerus the Emperour Papinius A poet of Naples Pappus A philosopher of Alexandria Papyrius The name of a noble yong gentleman who being a childe as the maner then was came with his father into the Senate at such tyme as it happened weightie and very secrete matters to be talked of When he came home his mother was very earnest with him to knowe what matter was handled in the Senate that daye He séeing none other shift and yet loth to vtter the truth sayde forsooth mother they debated that it myght be lawfull for one man to haue two wiues She thinking it to be true the next morning when the Senate was againe set gathered togither the noble women and with admiration of all men commeth into the Senate there with a solemne tale requesleth that by the same lawe it might be lawfull for women also to haue two husbands The Senate at the first woondred much at hir wordes but when the matter was declared by the yong gentleman they much praysed his wisedome and towardnesse and with rebuke dimissed the women that shewed theÌselues so foolish and so curious to knowe that which nothing apperteyned to them Paradisus i mas gen or after some foem gen Paradice It signifieth a gardeyne ParadÃsus A towne in Syria Paraesitaceni People in the vttermost borders of Media Paraetonium A citie in Aegypt ⪠with a great hauen Paraetonius A great hauen of Cyrenaica Also a towne of the same name Paralléli Lynes in the Sphere of the worlde equally distaunt whereby the sunne passing causeth variation in the houres of the day Paralus His name that first inuented Galyes Parapotamia A countrây néere to Tygris Parcae Ladyes of destinie The names of them bee Clotho Lachasis and Atâopos The first of them is deuised to beare the distaffe the seconde to spinne out the threede of mannes lyfe so long as it doth continue the thirde breaketh of the thréede and endeth the mans life They are ymagined to be the daughters of Erebus and Nox Parectonia The mother of Plato the most noble Philosopher Parienna A towne in Germanie called Frydeâlz Parilia and Palilia orum neut gen plûr Festiuall dayes which the Romaynes kept for preseruation of their cattell Parion A citie in Hellespont Parippi Dogges âmong the Atheniens as swift as horses Paris King Priamus hys sonne of Troy whose mother being with chylde dreamed that she was deliuered of a fire brande which thing the soothsayers interpreted that the childe she went with should be the confusion of Troye Wherefore when he was borne kyng Priamus commaunded hym to be destroyed but Hecuba of motherly pitie procured him to be priuilye brought vp of a shéepehearde in mount Ida. This man is alway descriued of Homere as a more pleasaunt carpet knight then stoute warriour and more delyghting in instruments and daliaunce then Martiall prowesse and Chiualrie Wherefore poetes write of him that when Iuno Pallas and Venus were at controuersie for the golden apple that lady Discorde did cast among them to be gyuen to the fayrest they were appoynted by Iupiter to vse the iudgement of this Paris being then a shéepehearde in Ida. Iuno to haue the prayse profered him a noble kingdome Pallas promysed the gift of
that they woulde not with a worde displease them Notwithstanding they beléeued that all things happened by constellation and yet tooke they not away free wyll from man They affirmed that soules are immortall and that God shall come in iudgement Hereby they came in woonderfull credence wyth people whereby they drewe to them great multitudes and of them were dyuers good men among whome was saint Paule Nicodemus and other which afterwarde were Christes disciples although the multitude taking that profession only for vaine glorie ⪠peruerted that honest fourme of lyuing into hypocrisie deceyuing the people whome Christ sharpely rebuked and declared their folly And yet wyth some of them which by lykelyhoode were good men hée dyned and otherwyse vsed them familiarly Pharius a um Is put for Aegyptius Pharius and Phariachus cha chum Of Pharos Pharmacusae Two yles by Attica Pharnaces or Pharnax pharnacis King Mithridates sonne whome Caesar vanquished Pharos A little yle in Aegypt against the mouth of Nilus by the Citie Alexandria In this yle was set a verye highe tower wherein were great lyghtes all the night long for the comfort and suretie of them which were in voyage eyther on the sea or on the lande Whereof all other towers made for such purpose are called Phari Pharphariades Part of the mountaine Taurus Pharsalia A countrey in Thessalia where the battaile was betwéene Caesar and Pompey Pharsalos A citie in Thessalie nigh to the which was the great and sharpe battayle betwéene Caesar and Pompeius where Pompeius was vanquished and fledde It is also called of Lucanus Pharsália Pharusij or Pharusi People of Libya which are nowe excéeding poore Phase A worde of Hebrue which signifieth passing ouer It is commonly called Pascha Easter Phaselis A citie of Pamphilia which was a refuge for Pirates Phasis sis or sidis A great riuer in the countrey of Colchis whereof Erasmus sayth the byrde Itys is called Phasianus Phasis is also a citie there Phauorinus Looke Fauorinus Phayllus A mans name that woulde leape .55 foote Phegeius a um Of Phegeus Phegeus The father of Alphesiboea Themon and Axion of whome Alcmaeon was purged for sleaing his mother Eriphyle Phemonoë A mayden prophetesse of Apollo in Delphos Pheneum A towne of Arcadie Pheneatae People of that towne Pherae A citie of Thessalie Also a place and towne of Achaia and a towne of Attica betwéene Megara and Thebes Pherecides A famous Philosopher and writer of Tragidies which dyed of the lousie sicknesse he was Pythagoras mayster There was an other of that name before his tyme. Phereclus The sonne of Hermonides which made the shippes wherein Paris sayled into Gréece when hée stale away Helen Pherecrates A poet of Athens Pherenice A womans name Pheretrius A name of Iupiter Phiala One of Dianas companions Phidias An excellent workeman in making great Images of golde or Iuorie Phidiacus a um Of Phidias Phila ae f. g. An yle of the French sea Philadelphia A citie in Mysia ioyning to Lydia Philadelphus called Ptolomeus king of Aegypt who made a Librarie wherein were fiftie thousand bookes He also caused the fiue bookes of Moyses to be translated into Gréeke by .lxxij. interpreters doctours of the Iewes Phylae arum An yle by Aegypt Philagrus A philosopher of Cilicia Philemon A comicall poet Phileni Were two breâhren of Carthage of whome it is wrytten that where they of Carthage and they of Cyrene did striue for their boundes it was agréed that of eche citie two men should issue and where as they mette shoulde be the boundes then the sayde brethren being sent went a great way into the boundes of the other ere they myght returne And when they of Cyrene did sée that they were preuented they tooke it displeasauntly and menaced the two brethen that if they woulde not go back they shoulde be put quicke into the earth but they notwithstanding woulde not depart Wherefore they being buryed on lyue theyr countreymen made ouer them two aulters which at this day be called Arae Philenorum which are nowe within the realme of Tunise Philesia Temples dedicate to Apollo Philesius A name of Apollo Philetas A Grammarian in the time of Philip and Alexander instructour to Ptolomaeus Philadelphus Phileum A citie in Friseland called commonly Groningen Philippi A citie in Thessaly Philippicae Demosthenes Orations agaynst Philip and Ciceros against Antonie Philippides A comicall Poet. Philippopolis A citie of Macedonie Philippenses Men of that citie Philippus i A king of Macedonie sonne of Amyntas father of great Alexander A prince from hys chyldehoode of excellent wit and power of whome these notable things be remembred After hée had vanquished the Athenians at Chaeronea he beganne to reioyce of his felicitie But to the intent that he therefore shoulde not be the more prone to iniuryes towarde hys subiectes nor to haue indignation at them whom he vanquished he then and euer after caused a chylde to come to his chamber doore in the morning ⪠and to say alowde Philip thou art a man mortall Which hée obserued so constantlye that hée neuer went out of his chamber or receyued any counsaylours or suters tyll the chylde had thrise spoken these wordes notwithstanding that he was a Paynime Also where one named Machaetas had a matter in varyance before him Philip taking lyttle héede what was spoken and sometyme sléeping at the last gaue iudgement agaynst Machaetas who crying out wyth a lowde voyce appealed wherewith Philip being sore mooued wyth a grieuous looke sayde to whome doest thou appeale I appeale sayde Machaetas vnto your selfe but being better awaked and taking héede what is spoken Philip being throughly awaked and hearing eftsoones the matter perceyued that Machaetas had wrong and woulde not reuerse the iudgement but the summe of money wherein Machaetas was condemned he payde of his owne treasure In this man it is notable howe sundrie vertues were tempered wyth dyuers vices He was a prince more giuen to costly prouision of warrefare then sumptuousnesse in banketting and therefore his greatest rychesse was in the furniture and habiliments of warre Hée was more cunning to get rychesse then circumspect to kéepe them and therefore notwithstanding his continuall spoyles hée was alwaye néedie Mercy and treacherie in lyke maner hée estéemed No way séemed to him dishonourable whereby he myght attaine victorie Fayre language he would vse where occasion serued and likewyse pretende displeasure where he hated not In talke and conference craftie more would promise in wordes then in déede perfourme Verye skylfull both in pleasaunt ieasting and also earnest debating of weightie affayres Friendship he measured more by profite then by faâthfull dealing To pretend fauour where he hated and to set hatred betwéene friendes séeking for fauour on both sides was his common custome Wyth these things was ioyned so excellent language and vtterance as neyther readynesse of tongue wanted fine ornaments of eloquence neyther flowing speache sharpe inuention of wittie matter In warrefare subtill and guylefull wyse in counsayle desirous to be
were the priestes that sacrificed to Hercules Pinarius and Potitius Two olde men to whome Hercules reuealed how he woulde be worshipped Pindarus A Theban Poet and chiefe of them which were called Lyrici Wherefore Alexander when he destroyed the citie of Thebes caused the house of Pindarus to be preserued with all his familye An other Pindarus was a tyranne of Ephesus Pindus A mountaine in Thessalia Also a citie there Pintia A towne in Spaine called Valladolite Pinton An yle betweene Sardinia and Corsica Piones People in Mysia named of the citie Pione Pipleus An hyll called also Pimpleus Piquentum A citie of Istria Piraea A famous citie sometime called Aminsus Piraeeus An hauen in Athens which may receyue .400 shippes There is also an hauen of the same name at Corinth Pirithous The sonne of Ixion one of the Lapithes and friend of Theseus with whom he went to hell and was there deuoured of Cerberus Pirus A prince of Thrace slaine at the siege of Troy Pisa A citie in Gréece betwéene the two mountaynes Olympus and Ossa Also a citie in Arcadia from which came the people that inhabited Pilae in Italy Pisae arum A citie in Italy called Pise Pisani People of the citie of Pise Pisandrus A poet of the citie Camârus in Rhodes before the tyme of Hesiodus an other Pilandrus was in the tyme of Alexander Seuerus Pisaurensis That dwelleth in the citie Pisaurum Pisaurum A citie in Italy called Pesero Pisaurus A riuer in Italy Pisces One of the twelue signes Pisei People of the citie Pisa in Gréece Pisenor A Centaure the sonne of Ixion Piseus He that first inuented the brasen trumpet Pisidae People in Asia called before tyme Solymi of Solymus Iupiters sonne Pisidia ae A countrey of the lesse Asia Pisistratus A noble man of Athens which chaunged the common weale of that citie from the rule of the people to the rule of one gouernour and therefore was called a tyranne notwithstanding as hee wrote vnto Solon which maynteyned the popular estate he ruled by their owne lawes and was righteous and gentle vnto the people Pisones Men of a noble family or house in Rome Pistorium A citie in Italy Pistris tris A signe or planet called Cetus and Pistrix Pistrix tricis Idem quod Pistris Pitane A citie of Aeolis in Asia the people wherof be called Pitanei or Pitanitae Pithecusa An yle in the sea against Campania so called for the great plentie of Apes there bredde afâer some Pitheus The sonne of Pelops which buylded the Citie Troezen Pitho or Pithus The Ladie and president of Eloquence to perswade called of Ennius Suada of Horace Suadéla Pithodemus A famous wrastler Pithoegia orum ne ge A certayne sacrifice ⪠vsed in Gréece in the moneth of Ianuarie at the tapping or setting of wine abroche in the which they gaue wine to their seruauntes and slaues Pithonosâomes A place in Asia where after the Idus of August great flockes of Storkes doe assemble togither Pithumnus A God among the Romaynes which first inuented to grinde corne to make breade Pittacus One of the seuen sages of Graecia and was of the citie Mitylene His saying it wâs that a wise man should foresée that misfortune came not but if it came to take it in good part Pityusa An yle by Graecia called also Myletus P L Placentia A citie in Liguria Placentini People of the citie Placentia Placia A towne of Mysia Planaria An yle beyonde Corsica Planasia An yle in the sea Tyrrhenum Plancus A noble man of Rome Plantanodes A promontorie or hyll in Achaia Plateae A citie in Boeotia not farre from Thebes Plateenses People in the citie of Plateae in Gréece Plato The Prince of all philosophers in wisedom knowledge vertue and eloquence farre excéeding all other Gentiles was borne in Athens his father was named Ariston of an auncient and honourable house his mother Parectonia descended from Solon Lying in his cradell Bées were founde to bryng honie into his mouth wythout hurting the childe which diuinours did interprete to signifie that from him shoulde flowe eloquence most swéete and delectable Socrates dreamed the night before he was brought to him to be instructed that he helde betwéene his knées a white cygnet who hauing feathers quickly growen flewe vp toward heauen and filled the ayre with most swete tunes So the day after Plato being brought by his father Socrates beholding him well sayd This is the byrde whose Image I behelde the last night His name was first Aristocles after called Plato bicause as some suppose he was broade in the shoulders other wryte bicause he had a broade visage In his youth he exercised wrastling and other feates of actiuitie and till hée was .xx. yeares olde hée gaue himselfe to make amarous verses which after hée came to heare Socrates hée threw into the fire and burned and then most ardently and attentiuely hearde Socrates doctrine during the tyme that he lyued After that he not onely hearde the most famous Philosophers Geometricians in Grece but also went into Italy into Affrike and Aegypt to heare the mysticall sciences And it is thought that hée heard some of the Prophetes since there be founden in his workes sentences not abhoring from our catholyke fayth He was experte in martiall affayres for he had fought in thrée great battayles He chose a place by Athens called Academia where he taught and therefore his disciples were called Academici There was in him a maruelous sharpenesse of witte with an incomparable dexteritie in disputing and making of aunsweres his constancie temperaunce and grauitie with curtesie in language were of all other incomparable hée was so desirous of knowledge that he was no lesse studious to learne then he was to teache Wherefore being scorned of one which asked of him how long he would be a scholer so long sayde he as I repent not to be wyser and better Hée is called Diuinus Plato for his excellent doctrine which conteyneth many thinges as saint Augustine fayth which accorde with holy scripture so that therein is perceyued the first part of Genesis vnto Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas and the mysterie of thrée persons in diuinitie is there expressed Hée dyed wryting of the age of 81. yeares before the incarnation of Christ .342 yeares Reade more of him in Dionysius Plautius A certayne Poet. Plautus A comicall Poet borne in Vmbria when he had spent all his substance on players garments and thereby was brought to extréeme pouertie he was fayne for his liuing to serue a baker in turning a querne or hand-mill When he was vacant from that labour he wrote most eloquent and pleasaunt comedies wherein he was reputed so excellent that Epius Stolo saide of him hée doubted not but that y e Muses would speake as Plautus did write if they shoulde speake Latine He was in the tyme of Cato Censorius Pleiades The seuen starres which mariners vse in trying of coastes Poetes feigne them to be the seuen daughters
of Lycurgus or Atlas Pleias pleiadis Maia the chiefe of the seuen sisters called Pleiades Pleione The daughter of Oceanus and wife of Atlas Plemmyrium A ryuer in Sicilia Pleuron onis A citie of Aetolia Pleuronius a um Of Pleuron Plexaura A nymph the daughter of Oceanus Plinius The name of two noble learned men the one wrote the most excellent worke called the historie of Nature the other wrate eloquente Epistles and an oration to Traiane in his commendation which oration is called Panegyricus There is also a worke of the practise of phisicke in the name of Plinius but whether it were of the first Plinie or no it is not very certayne some call him Valerianus Plisthenes The name of a certayne vnchaste and wanton person Plistónicus The name of a certaine learned man Plotae Two yles of Aeolia called also Strophades Plotina A woman of great vertue and courage wyfe to Traianus the Emperour Plotinus A philosopher of Platos sect Plotius A Rhetorician that taught Cicero Plotus Looke Plautus Ploxemus A mans name Plutarchus A noble Philosopher in the tyme of Traiane Pluto The sonne of Saturnus and Ops and brother to Iupiter and Neptune which comming to the deuision of their fathers kingdome the West part towarde the lower sea fell to Pluto the yongest sonne the East part to Iupiter and the Ilandes to Neptune Hereof began the Poets fable that Iupiter was king and Godde of heauen Pluto of hell Neptune of the sea Plutus God of ryches whome Poetes feygne to be lame when he commeth to a man and to haue wynges when hée departeth by that deuyse signifiyng that riches are long in getting but quickly vanishe away if they be not well husbanded He is also imagined to be blinde ⪠as more often lighting on vnworthy men and naughty persons then on such as for their vertue are most woorthy to be enriched Pluuiales Hedae Two starres that the signe Auriga holdeth in his hande Pluuiália ae One of the yles called Fortunatae P O Podalirius One of the sonnes of Aesculapius and a great surgion he came to the siege of Troy with his brother Machaon Podarge One of the Harpies Poean antis The father of Philoctetes of whome he was called Poeantius Poecilasium A citie of Crete called commonly Peulalo Poecile les f. g. A place in Athens where the Stoike philosophers did reade and teache Poëmenis A dogges name in Ouid. Poenicus a um Of Affrike reade Punicus Poenus ni A man of the citie of Carthage or an Affricane Poenus a um Of Carthage or of Affrike Pola A citie of Istria Pólemon A Philosopher of Athens which was firste a wanton and dissolute person An other Polemon surnamed Helladicus was a famous historiographer Polemonium A Citie of Cappadocia called commonlye Leona Polentia A citie of Liguria called commonly Palanza Polla The wife of Lucan the poet Pollentia A towne in one of the yles called Baleares an other néere the Alpes where as is excellent good wine Pollentinus a um Of Pollentia Pollio A noble man in Rome in the tyme of Augustus Pollux lûcis Was brother to Castor both being borne at one burthen which poetes feigne to come of one egge leyed or brought foorth of a woman called Leda wyth whome Iupiter companied in lykenesse of a swanne Polus Agrigentinus A sophister the scholer of Gorgias Polyaenus A learned man in the tyme of Iulius Caesar an other borne in Macedonie which wrote of Thebes and of the âeates of warre Polybius A learned man of Magalopolis in Arcadie maister to Scipio Affricane he wrote the Romaine history in 40. bookes Polybotes A gygant whome Neptune slue Polycarpus pi m. g. A famous martyr Polycletus A notable ymage maker or grauer Polycrates A tyranne of Samos he was so fortunate that he neuer suffred any aduersitie or griefe wherfore he at the last dreading the chaunge of fortune hauing a ryng wyth a stone of an excellent value did caste the same into the sea to the intent he woulde suffer some displeasure and so satisfie fortune but a fishe deuouring the ryng was the same day taken of a fisher and giuen to the king for the greatnesse of the fish which being opened the sayd ryng was founde and brought to the king whereat as well he ⪠as all other about him maruayled Soone after the same king was taken of Orontes a persian and hanged Polydamas A Troyan one of them that betrayed the citie with Aeneas Antenor Polydamas was also a famous wrastler a man of great strength Polydôrus The sonne of kyng Pryamus and Hecuba who was by his father in the tyme of the warres at Troye sent to Polymnestor king of Thrace wyth a greate summe of golde to be kepte out of the peryll of warres But the citie of Troye being taken Polymnestor to inioye the treasure slewe the childe wherfore afterward quéene Hecuba scratched out the eyes of Polymnestor Polydora A nymphe the daughter of Oceanus Also an yle of Propontis Polydectes The sonne of Magnetes which nourished Perseus the sonne of Iupiter and Danaë Polygnotus The name of an auncient peincter Polymedia A towne in the countrey of Troas Polymnestor oris A king of Thrace to whom king Priamus sent his son Polydorus with a great sum of golde Polymnia One of the Muses which worde signifieth much memorie Polynices The sonne of Oedipus looke Eteocles Polyphémus A Gygant that had one eye in his foreheade which was put out by Vlysses Polypoetes The sonne of Pirithous and Hippodamia Polyteba A citie of Mesopotamia Polytes One of king Priamus sonnes slaine by Pyrrhus when Troy was taken Polyxena The beautifull daughter of kyng Priamus which after the destruction of Troye was slayne by Pyrrhus on his fathers Toome For Homere writeth that at the siege of the citie Achilles espying this ladye on the walles was rauished with hir beautie and after meanes made requested to haue hir to hys wyfe The matter was by the parentes agreed and the place appoynted in the temple of Apollo where in tyme of truce they shoulde méete and be maried At that tyme trayterous Paris standing priuilie behinde an Image when he little minded any such daunger shot at Achilles and killed him Wherefore when Troy was wonne and this lady Polyxena taken alyue Achilles his ghost appeared in the nightes to the nobles of Gréece and required to haue that woman by death sent vnto hym vnder pretence of whose mariage he was so traiterously slaine Of which crueltie his owne sonne Pyrrhus as before is shewed ⪠was minister Polyxenus One of the Gréeke capitaines y t came to Troy Polyxo lyxus One of y e Amazons prophetesse of Apollo Pomona nae f. g. The goddesse of fruite Pompeius Called Magnus for his incomparable victories whose father was called Pompeius Strabo had so good a grace in hys vysage that from hys chyldehoode he moued the people of Rome most entirely to fauoure him for his singular beneuolence continencie of lyuing martiall experience and knowledge pleasauntnesse of
famous worke was named Ialysus and was dedicated in the temple of peace at Rome Which table when hée paynted he lyued onely with Lupines soked in water that he might not with y e pleasantnesse of other meates darken the quicknesse of his wittes and senses In this table was a dog made marueilous liuely as which was paynted both by great chaunce and singular cunnyng For when he had satisfied himselfe in all other partes he lyked not in any wise the some that he had made in the dogges mouth which he had paynted ouergreat and oftentymes putting it out and altering his pensill coulde neuer doe it so exactly as he desired for still it appeared to be paynted and not a ryght fome in déede Wherefore in great displeasure with himselfe hée flang his pensill out of hys hande vpon the place wyth the sperkling whereof appeared so liuely a fome as no man woulde haue iudged to be made with mans hande And so by chaunce made perfite hys worke that by no cunning he coulde bring to passe Protogenia The daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha Protaplastus i m. g. Adam was so called bycause hée was first fourmed or made Protótocos Eue was so called bycause shée was the first that brought foorth children Prusa A Citye in Gréece at the foote of the Mountayne Olympus Prusenses The people of Prusa Prusias A king of Bithynia vnto whome Anniball fledde after he was banished from Carthage Prylis The sonne of Mercurie Prymnesia A citie of Maeonia Prymno A nymphe or mayden of the sea one of the daughters of Oceanus Prytaneum The counsayle house in the Castell of Athens P S Psamate A fountaine in Thebes Also a citie and a mountaine Also the daughter of Crotopus king of Argiues An other was a nymph daughter of Nereus Psammenitus A king of Aegypt vanquished by Cambyses Psammetichus A king in Aegypt in whose tyme 200008. Aegyptians forsooke theyr Countrye and went to the Aethiopes Psappho A man of Libya who going about to be reputed a God tooke a great many of such byrdes as myght be brought to resemble mans speache and taught them to vtter these wordes Magnus deus Psappho that is the great God Pâappho And when they had this learned he cast them of into the mountaynes where they both vsed those wordes themselues and taught other birdes to doe the like Which thing the people hearing and not knowing the cause but thinking it to be done by diuine power began to worship Psappho and consecrated him as a God Psecas psecadis foem gen A nymphe one of Dianas companions Psellús The name of an olde writer which wrote of dyet Psophis The daughter of Eryx Psylli People in Libya whose bodyes are venime to serpentes and they also do cure the stinging and poysoning of Serpentes by sucking the place which is venimed Psyllium A citie of Bithynia called commonly Picello Psyra An yle not farre from Chios whereof Homere writeth Odysseae .3 Also a citie of the same name P T Pteria A citie in Cappadocia Pterophoros A countrey by the mountaynes Riphaei Pthia A part of Thessaly where Achilles reigned Ptolomaeus The sonne of Lagus a common souldiour of great authoritie vnder king Alexander and after hys death reigned ouer Aegypt Affrike and a great part of Arabia He ruled .40 yeares and of him many other kinges were after named Ptolomaei He died in his greatest glorye hauing not long before yéelded vp his kingdome to his sonne named Ptolomaeus Philadelphus This Philadelphus was a man of great learning disciple to the philosopher Strato and builded the notable library at Alexandria furnished wyth all maner of workes which to the great losse of learning was burned in the first warre that the Romaines had with Alexandria An other Ptolomeus liued in the time of Antonie the Emperour who restored out of darkenesse the mathematicall sciences and wrote diuers workes of which some at this day be extant Ptolomais maidis The name of a citie in Phoenicia first called Acha. P V Publicola The surname of Valerius which was one of the first Consulles of Rome so called bycause he was a fauourer of the people Públipor publÃporis Publius boy or seruaunt Publius The name of a Romaynâ as Marcus is Pucînum A towne of Histria Pucinum vinum Wyne growing nighe to the goulfe of Venice by the towne Pucînum Punicanus a um Of Affrike or of Carthage vt Punicanae fenestrae Such windowes as they vse in Carthage Puniceus a um Idem quod Punicus Punicus a um Of Affrike or of Carthage vt Bellum Punicum The warre that the Romaynes had with the Carthagimens Puppius The name of a certayne poet Puteolanus a um Of Puteoli Putéoli A citie in Campania P Y Pygmaei A dwarfishe people in the vttermost mountaynes of Indie as Plinie saith inhabiting in a very holsome fertile and pleasaunt countrey In height they are not passing one cubite and their women the fift yeare of their age beare children and in the eight they waxe olde The report is that ryding on Weathers and Goates armed with bow and arrowes they go in the spring time in great companyes towarde the sea side to destroy the neasts egges and yong bréede of Cranes which otherwise would increase to such multitudes that they should not be able to resist them Their houses in stéede of tyle or thetch are couered with clay and egge shelles Pygmalion Looke Pigmalion Pylades The sonne of Strophius Orestes friende Vide Pilades Pylaea A place of Arcadie Pylaemenes A Duke of the Paphlagonians that came to Troy and was slayne by Menelaus Pylene A citie of Aetolia Pylos An auncient citie of Achaia Strabo wryteth that there were many cities called Pylos and each contended for Nestor Pylius a um Of Pylos or of Nestor Pympleides Looke Pimpleides in Pimpla Pyracmon One of the Cycloppes Pyraechmes A mans name in Homer Pyramides Certaine outragious buildings in Aegypt in fourme of stéeples foure square made vp to such exceeding height and so small vpwarde to the toppe as it might séeme incredible to be wrought with mans hand In the botome were the sepulchres of the kings There were in that Countrey many of them and buylded by Princes drowned in excéeding wealth onely for a vaine ostentation or that they might not leaue ouer much store of treasure to their successors Authours write that in the buylding of this kynde of monstruous townes in Aegypt were bestowed .xv. thousande talentes onely on Onyons Garlyke and Chéese for the labourers Pyramus A yong man of Babilon betwéene whome and a mayden named Thysbe was passing great loue contrarie to the willes of their parentes by whome they were so dilygently kept that notwythstanding their houses ioyned togither ⪠they coulde not eche enioy others companie Wherefore by an hole in a wall they agreed both in the night to steale out of their fathers houses and méete at a certaine place in the field Thither came first Thysbe who being in great feare of a Lionesse that she espyed by
the Moone lyght ranne into a caue thereby and for haste did set fall hir vpper garment which the beast did reât and teare in peeces Not long aâter whiâe Thysbe was yet in the Caue Pyramus coÌming to the place appointed and séeing his loues garment torne and blouddie thinking she had béene destroyed by some wilde beast for sorrow drew out his sworde and slue himâelfe Thysbe when hir feare was past comming from the place where as she hyd hirselfe and espying Pyramus in such maner slain and the life not yet cleane out of his body surmising how the matter came to passe with many teares pytifully bewayling both their fortunes ⪠with y e same sworde ended hir lyfe wherewith not long before he had kylled himselfe for whose loue she came thyther Pyramus is also a ryuer in Cilici Pyrander A man of Athens Pyreicus A famous caruer of small Images Pyrenaei montes Mountaines which doe deuide Fraunce from Spayne It is also read Pyréne in the singuler number Pyrene A certaine fountaine Also the name of a mayden Pyréneus trysyl A certaine king of Thrace Pyrethi Certaine inchaunters of Cappadocia Pyréthia septa Places inclosed which had in y e midle of theÌ an aulter on y e which was kept fire continually burning Pyraeus Looke Piraeus Pyrgi Is thought to be an olde citie of Hetruria Pyrgoteles The name of a cunning grauer in stones Pyria A citie of Lesâos Pyro A nymph the daughter of Oceanus Pyrodes The name of him that first strake fire out of flint Pyrous One of the horses of the sonne Pyrois pyroëntis idem Pyrpile A certaine ylande where fire was first founde Pyrrha The wyfe of Deucalion Also a citie of Caria Erasmus sayth it is a citie in the yle of Lesbos Pyrrhia A womans name in Horace Pyrrhiadae Was the auncient name of the people called Molossi Pyrrho The name of a Philosopher whiche was first a paynter Pyrrhus The sonne of Achilles by Deidamia ⪠so named of his yealowe heare Hee was also called Neoptolemus bycause he was a yong souldiour and came with his father to the warre of Troy when he was but a childe When Troy was taken he killed Polytes and Priamus in reuengement of his fathers death In the ende he was slain by Orestes ⪠for that he had taken from him the Ladie Hermione that was before affâaunced to him Pyrrhus A king of Epyre by his mothers syde descended of Achilles by his fathers of Hercules a stoute warriour and valiaunt capitaine He ayded the people of Tarentum and the Samnites against the Romaines and in certayne battayles ouerthrewe them and wrought them much trouble When his sonnes being but yet chyldren asked him to which of them he woulde leaue hys kingdome to him sayth hée that shall haue the sharpest sworde gyuing them to vnderstande that hée woulde giue the succession of his principalitie to manhoode and not to age By that spurre hée incensed hys children to contende which myght passe other in noble vertue and prowesse Pythágoras A man of excellent witte borne in an yle called Samos ⪠which countrey being subdued by the tyranne Polycrates ⪠he forsooke and went into Aegipt and Babilonia to learne mysticall sciences and afterwarde came into Italy where he continued the rest of his lyfe Hée was the first that named himselfe a Philosopher ⪠where before men of great learning were called wyse men and bycause he woulde eschewe the note of arrogancie when one demaunded of hym what hée was hée sayde Philosophus whiche signifyeth a louer of wysedome He was in sharpenesse of wit passing al other and found the subtile conclusions and misteries of Arithmetike Musike and Geometrie Plato wondreth at his wisedome his doctrine was diuine and compendious the which he reacheth to other enioyned them to kéepe silence fiue yeares and heare him diligentlye ere they demaunded of him any question He neuer would do sacrifice with any bloud he woulde eate nothing that had lyfe and lyued in a marueylous abstinence and continence and was in such authoritie among hys disciples that when in disputation they mainteined their opinion if on demaunded of them why it shoulde bee as they spake they would aunswere onely Ipse dixit he sayde so meaning Pythagoras which aunswere was reputed as sufficient as if it had béene prooued wyth an ineuitable reason so much in estimation was he for his approoued truth and incomparable learning He was noted to be expert in magyke and therefore it is written of him that nigh to the citie of Tarentum he behelde an Oxe byting the toppes of beanes there growing and treading them downe with his féete wherefore he bade the heardman to aduise his Oxe that he should absteyne from graine the heardman laughing at him sayde that he neuer learned to speake as an Oxe but thou sayde he that séemest to haue experience therein take myne offâce vpon thée Foorthwith Pythagoras went to the Oxe and laying his mouth to his eare whistered somewhat of his Arte. A marueylous thing the Oxe as if he had béene taught left eating of the corne nor neuer after touched any but many yeares after mildely walked in the citie and tooke hys meate onely of them that woulde gyue it him Many lyke wonderfull things are written of him Finally his disciples for their wysedome and temperance were alwayes had in great estimation He was before the incarnation of Christ .522 yeares Pythagoricus Pythagoreus One of the sect of Pythagoras Pythagorista tae m. g. He that counterfeyteth or imitateth the lyfe of Pythagoras Pytheum Was the place in the which Apollo gaue aunsweares Pythias A womans name Pythia pythiorum n. g. plur Playes made in the honour of Apollo Pythius One of the names of Apollo Pythius A Lydian dwelling at a towne in Phrygia called Celene who had such abundaunce of golde that he receyued Xerxes king of Persia with all his whole armie which was innumerable and that with great magnificence and offered moreouer to gyue treasure as well for prouision as also for wages to haue had his sonne discharged of the warres which Xerxes taking displeasantly caused the yong man in his father sight to be cut in sunder This man gaue also vnto Darius father to Xerxes a plane trée of golde and a vine of the same mettall yet hée taking thought for hys sonne ⪠inclosed himselfe in a sepulchre which he let make and there finished his life miserably and in extréeme sorow Pytho A citie in the countrey called Phocis the people whereof were named Delphi Pythodorus A famous grauer Python pythônis m. foem gen A Dragon which was slayne by Apollo Pythópolis A citie of Asia in that part which is called Mysia an other of Caria Q V QVadi People of Boeme or Boemia which did eate the flesh of horses and woolues Quadratus A byshop of Athens disciple of the Apostles which had the gyft of prophecie Quadrurbs A name by the which the citie of Athens was called of Actius the Poet the worde
signifieth a Citie vnto the which doe come or are brought all the people being left in foure cities Quari People of Narbon Quercus A place where the Milesians slue a great number of the Prienses Quietalis Was the name of Pluto called God of hell Quinquatria orum A feast dedicate to Pallas which dured fiue dayes Quinquâtrus us m. g. Idem Quinquatrus dies A feast so called bycause it was after the fift Idus of March Quintana porta The chiefe gate in the campe which was called Praetorium where the market was woont to bee kept Quintia porta Quintia prata Was a gate and medowes at Rome which tooke their name of one Quintius a noble Consull of Rome Quintilianus The name of a notable Rhetorician Quintilis The moneth of Iuly Quintilius A mans name familiar with Virgyle and Horace Quintipor poris The boy or seruaunt of Quintus Quintius and Quintus The names of dyuers Romaynes Quintius a um Perteyning to Quintus Quirinâlis le Of or belonging to Romulus Quirinalis collis An hyll at Rome where the Temple of Romulus was set Quirinalis porta The gate next to that hyll Quirinalia orum Dayes in the which men did sacrifice vnto Romulus called Quirinus Quirînus The surname of Romulus Quiris quirÃtis or Quirîtes quiritis or hic haec Quirîtis A name whereby the Romaynes were called of their first king Romulus called Quirinus as it were Quirinus people R A RAbirius A gentleman of Rome Also a Poet in Ouids time Radagasus A certaine king of the Gothes Rage A Towne and Castell in Englande called Notingham Ramnetes The thirde part of the people of Rome in Romulus tyme. Ruminenses Idem Randuscula porta Looke Rauduscula Ratiâstum Limogeis in Poito Ratispona A citie in Almaine called Rentzburgh Ratumenna The name of a certaine chariot man Rauduscula A brasen gate of Rome Rauenna A citie in Italy Rauennas âtis omnis generis That dwelleth or is in Rauenna R E Reate t is n. g. A citie in Italy Rediculi A temple at Rome wythout the gate called Capena where Anniball being afrayde retyred backe Regillus The name of a ryuer in Italy Regium A citie beyonde the mountaine towarde Italy called Rezo Regulus The name of a Consull of Rome looke Attilius Also a great Rhetorician in the tyme of Plinie Remona The dwelling house of Remus Remoria A place on the top of the hyll called Auentinus where Remus stoode and by the flight of byrdes aduised the buylding of Rome Remulinus ager Remus fielde Remus The brother of Romulus by whome he was put to death for that in scorne he leaped ouer the walles of the newe buylded citie And so beganne Rome wyth bloudshed and heynous murder by him committed that was the first Founder of the Citie After the death of Remus the citie was in punishment thereof sore vexed with a grieuous plague and Apollo being asked howe it myght be stayed dyd giue aunswere that the ghost of Remus must by some solemne ceremonie bée pacified Wherefore Romulus deuised that when so euer he did sitte in royall throne to make any law or ordinaunce there shoulde be set by him an other chayre of estate with a scepter dyademe and other royall ensignes in it that his brother being deade might séeme in a sort to reigne with him whome being alyue he woulde not abide to be partaker of his kingdome and so wyth a shadowe woulde séeme to satisfie that which in déede hée coulde not suffer Renuntiata An yâe by Aethyope so ryche that the inhabitants do giue for an horse by exchaunge a talent of gold R H Rha A ryuer of Sarmatia called also Volga or Voltia Rhadamanthus A king of Lycia which was a straight executer of Iustice and therefore was supposed of the Paynyms to be afterwarde one of the iudges in hell Rhagusium A citie in Dalmatia Rhamnes and Rhamnetes Certayne gentlemen of Rome Rhamnus nuntis A famous village by Athens Rhamnusia The goddesse of vengeance Looke Nemesis Rhamnúsis sidis Of Rhamnusia Rhamnusius a um A man of the village called Rhamnus by Athens Rhamsinitus The name of a certayne king of Aegypt as Herodotus wryteth Rhaphia A citie of Palestine called of the Iewes Rhama Rhea Looke Cibéle Rhea Syluia The mother of Romulus and Remus called also Ilia Rhebanus A riuer in y e mouth of Bosphorus in Thrace Rhebas An other ryuer there Rhedones Men of the citie of Reynes in Fraunce Rhegium A citie in the borders of Italie towarde Sicilie Also another citie not farre from Parma Rheginus A man of the citie Rhegium in Calabre Rheginus a um Of Rhegium Rhemi People in Fraunce called also Rhemenses Rhene One of the yles called Cyclades Rheni ôrum People dwelling by the Rheyne Rhenenses People dwelling on the ryuer of Rheyne Rhenense vinum Rhenyshe wine Rhenus A notable ryuer in Germanie called the Rheyne Rhesus A kyng of Thrace which came to the ayde of the Troyans and was slayne of Diomedes of whome a ryuer about Troy was called Rhesus Rheti A people in Italie néere to the Alpes Rhetia A countrey in Germanie hauing on the weast the Heluetians on the north it marcheth vpon Danubius on the east vpon the ryuer called Lycus on the south it lyeth vpon the mountaines called Alpes Rhetico rheticonis mas gener A certayne Mountayne by Rhetia Rhéticus a um Of Rhetia Rhetus A gyaunt whome Dionyse being tourned into a Lyon slue Rhexenor The sonne of Nausithous Rhion A promontorie of Aetolia Rhitimna A citie of Créete called commonly Aretina Rhodanus A ryuer in Fraunce called the Rone Rhodia A nymph the daughter of Oceanus Rhodius a um Rhodinus Of the Rhodes Rhodogune The daughter of king Darius which kylled hir nurse for perswading hir to mary after hir first husbandes death Rhodophone That part of Syria that goeth ouer the mountayne Taurus Rhódope A mountaine in Thracia Rhodopeius a um Pertayning to that mountaine of Rhodore or of Thrace Rhodopis A famous Harlot of Thrace of excellent beautie and woonderfull riche Rhodos A famous yle in the sea called Carpathium lying beyonde Candy hauing on the north the countrey called Lyciâ on the south Aegypt In this yle were borne many excellent philosophers and Rhetoricians it was sometyme puissaunt and riche Rhoeteus Rhoeteius a um For Troianus Rhoetus A mountayne of Troy where Aiax Telamonius was buried Rhoxia A countrey by Polonia Rhoxolani People on the north part of the riuer of Danubius or Donow Rhuteni A people in Fraunce called Rhodes Rhymnus A certayne ryuer Rhyndacus A ryuer which runneth into the Sea called Pontus Rhynitalchus A man of Thrace Rhynton A certayne comicall Poet. R I Ricina An yle by Irelande Regiacum A certaine citie Ripae seu Ripaei Mountaynes in Arcadie Riphaei Mountaynes in Scythia where as is continuall winter and snow with huge windes Ripheus One of the Centaures Risinum A citie of Lyburnia Ritius A citie of Crete R O Robigália The ceremonies pertayning to Robigus the prâseruatour of corne Robigo ginis f.
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Was honoured of the Romaynes for a goddesse whome they supposed mought preserue their corne from blasting Robigus The olde Romaynes named the God that preserued corne from blasting Roma The citie of Rome Romanensis He that commeth from an other countrey and dwelled at Rome Romania A countrey called also Thracia Romanus A Romayne Romanus a um Of Rome Romandues called now Veromandi Vermandois Rómula A trée vnder the which Romulus and Remus were founde Romuleus a um Of Romulus Romulidae The Romaynes Rómulus As the Romayne storyes affirme the sonne of Mars by Ilia the daughter of Numitor but more verily the sonne of Amulius his great vncle who of purpose rauished Ilia in the darcke being a virgin vestale to haue a quarrell to put hir to death For king Numitor had a brother named Amulius of nature wycked fierce and cruell who not being content to take the kyngdome from his elder brother and cast him in prison did also murder his sonne Lausus and vnder colour of honour made his daughter Ilia a virgin vestale vnder the bonde of perpetuall chastitie that shée myght not haue any issue But shée being afterwarde founde with chylde by Mars as the Romaynes woulde haue men beléeue was delyuered of two sonnes which Amulius commaunded to be cast into Tyber and theyr mother according to the law of the vestales to be buryed quicke As it happened at that tyme the ryuer of Tyber was swollen ouer the bankes so that men coulde not come to the déepe of the channell Wherefore they that had the charge of drowning the chyldren cast them into the land flood ⪠where the water sodainly falling left them alyue and so were they founde by Faustulus the kings shepehearde who brought them home to be kept and nouryshed of his wyfe Laurentia which bycause shée was a strumpet was named of the shepheards Lupa Whereof rose the fable that the Founders of the Romayne citie were nourished of a shée woulfe When these chyldren came after to age being instructed by Faustulus of their stocke and beginning they gathered togyther a bande of shepheardes kylled Amulius restored Numitor to his kyngdome and on the mount Palatine where they were brought vp beganne to buylde them a newe Citie And bycause they were twynnes both of one age there fell controuersie betwéene them which shoulde giue name to their new citie This contention so grewe from wordes to tumulte and strokes that in the bickering Remus was slayne Although the more common opinion be that he was put to death bycause scornefully he leapt ouer the newe walles of the citie Romulus being then king alone peopled his citie by erecting a sanctuarie for safegarde of all transgressours that would come thither ordeyned an hundred Senatours called fathers procured wyues for his people by rape of all the maydens of the countrey resorting thither to solemne games and playes ouercame the people of Cemna and slue their king vanquished the Sabynes and people of Atemna and receyued them into his citie with other diuers valiaunt actes Which when hée had done on a tyme calling an assembly at the marrice named Caprea in a great tempest sodainly was gone no man could tell how as it was thought for his sterne gouernement murdered priuily of the Senators who to please the people fayned that he was a god and named him Quirinus Vnder which name the Romains euer after worshipped him Rómulus a um Of Romulus Roscius A Romayne and a player in commedies whome for his excellencie in pronunciation and gesture the noble Cicero called his iewell and so much delighted in hym that hée contended wyth him whether Roscius coulde set foorth one sentence in mo facions of gesture and countenaunce or he expresse the same sentence in a more diuersitie of eloquent wordes The excellencie of this man in his arte howe it was estéemed and fauoured of all the Romaynes it appeareth well in that they gaue to him for a continuall stipende one thousande of their grotes for euery day which amounteth of our money to sixtéene pounde thirtéene shyllings and foure pence And Lucius Sylla being Dictatour gaue to him a ring of golde which was the token of a knight at that tyme as a coller or chayne of golde is at this tyme. Rothómagus The citie of Roan in Normandie Roxana The daughter of Darius and concubine of Alexander which being great with childe was drowned by hir sister Satyra Roxicum A citie of the I le Corsica called commonly Rogela R V Rubi rubôrum A towne in Campania Rúbicon conis A ryuer in Italy which deuydeth Gallia from the part of Italy nowe called Romandiola and in olde tyme Flaminea Rubigália ôrum Feastes ordeyned for the preseruation of corne from blasting Rubricatus A ryuer in Spayne called Robregat Rudiae rudiarum An olde towne in Apulia where the poet Ennius was borne Rufinus The name of certaine Romaines Rufrimaceriae A towne of Campaine Rufus The name and surname of diuers Romaynes Rullus A Romaine which brought first a whole Bore to the table in seruice Rumia A Goddesse whome the Paynyms supposed to be beneficiall to womens breastes and to sucking chyldren Ruminalis ficus A figge trée vnder the which it is supposed that a Woulfe gaue sucke to Romulus and Remus Runcina The Goddesse of wéeding Runsor ôris One of the names of Pluto called God of hell Ruscinum Russilion or Perpignian in Fraunce Rusticus The proper name of a man Rutheni People beyonde Liuonia of whome the countrey is nowe called Russia There be also people in Fraunce about Towres so called Rutilius The name of diuers Romaines Rutuba A ryuer in Liguria running from the mountaine called Apenninus Rutuli An auncient people in Italy of whome Turnus was king whome Aeneas vanquished Rútulus a um Of the People Rutuli Rutûlus A mans name Rutupiae An hauen in Kent called Sandwich Rutupinus a um Of that hauen Rutupinum promontorium A gore or elbowe of lande in Englande lying into the sea about Sandwich S A SAba or Sabe A great citie in Aethiope Also the chiefe citie of the people called Sabaei in Arabie the worde Saba signifieth a misterie Sabaea or Saba A countrey in the middle of Arabia toward the east inuyroned about with great rockes wherein is a great woodde of precious trees some of Cynamonie and Cosia some bringing foorth Frankensence and Myrre The length of that woode is twenty of theyr myles called Schoeni which comprehendeth of Italian myles one hundred and fittie Plin. li. 12. Theophrastus li. 9. de hist plant Solynus writeth that the region bringing foorth Frankensence is from a towne there named Atramitae .viij. mansions which in déede conteyneth .224 myles Mansio or Stathmos being of .xxviij. Italian myles The chiefe citie of that Realme is called Sabota Sabei People of the realme of Sabaea Sabaeus a um Of the people Sabaei Sabacus The name of a certaine king of Aethiope Sabata Sabatia or Sabatium A citie of Liguria commonly called Sauona Sabatae A certaine poole Sabath A proper name
whereof commeth Sabatheni the name of a people Sabe In the Syrian tongue is the moneth of Februarie Sabelli People dwelling in the mountaines betwéene the Sabines and Maesy in Italy Sabellus and Sabellicus a um Of the people Sabini in Italy Sabidius A Romaine which was a notable glutton Sabim Among the Arabians doth signifie God Sabini People in Italy betwéene Latini and Vmbri Sabinus a um Of the Sabines Sabiusa A gate at Rome out at the which men went to the Sabines Sabota or Sabora A citie of Arabie Sabriana A créeke in the Britaine sea Sabrina A great ryuer in England called Seuerne which runneth into the sea by Bristow Ptolomaeus calleth it Sabriana Sabura rae A mans name Sabyllus A tyranne of a citie in Sicilie called Gela. Sacae People of Scythia Sacarum A countrey of Asia beyonde the sea called Caspium the people whereof haue no houses but dwell in Caues Sacer mons A hyll dedicate to Iupiter thrée myles from Rome beyonde the ryuer called Anio an other by Galatia wherein golde is founde Sacra via A stréete in Rome where peace was made betwéene Romulus and Tatius and through the which the vanquishers passed wyth their triumph to the Capitoll Sacrani Certaine people of Italy Sacrum promontorium A great mountaine or rocke in the Southwest part of Spayne lying on the sea called now Cape sainct Vincent Sadducaei Were men of a certayne sect among the Iewes who helde opinion that the soule was mortall and that it dyed with the bodie they were diuers in maners and cruell to straungers Sadyattes The sonne of Ardis which reigned after his father in Lydia Saepinum A citie of the Samnites Sagaris or Sagarus A certayne ryuer Sagittárius sagittarij mas gen One of the .xij. signes in the firmament Sagra A ryuer in Italy Sagona A ryuer in Fraunce called the Sone Saguntia A citie of Spaine Saguntus vel Saguntum A citie in Spayne beyonde the riuer of Iberus about one myle from the sea the people thereof being in amitie wyth the Romaynes were of such faithfulnesse that when Anniball had long besieged them and brought them at the poynt to be famished the chiefe of the citie made great fyers and let cast into it their treasure and many of them entered into the fire and were wilfully burned all the residue fought and were slayne so that none escaped whereof came thys prouerbe Saguntina fames applyed to a great and horrible famine In the place where this citie stoode is nowe the towne called Moruetrum Saij A people of Thrace Sais A citie in Aegypt where is one of the entres into the ryuer of Nylus the entry or port is called Saiticum Sala A towne and riuer in Mauritania Also a towne of Phrygia Pannonia and Armenia and a ryuer of Germanie Salacia The Goddesse of water Salambria A citie of Cappadocia Salamin Salamis or Salamina An yle by Athens Salaminius Salaminiacus and Salaminus a um Of that yle vt Salaminia nauis A shippe of Salamin Salanga A promontorie of Irelande Salanga A very hyghe hyll betwéene great Britayne and Irelande now called our Ladies hyll Salapia A towne in Apulia Salapusius A name gyuen to Caluus an Oratour which being of a childes personage vsed much ieasting and taunting merily Salaria via An hie way by y e which salt was caried to Rome Salassij People by the Insubriens Salentia The Citie of the Messapians Salentinum A countrey in Italy Salentini A people in Italy Salernum A towne in Italy Salia A ryuer in Spayne Saliaris re Perteyning to the priestes of Mars Vt Saliaris coena A banket or supper made by the priests of Mars Saliares virgines Maydens which were with the priestes of Mars and did sacrifice with the bishops wearing on them cote armours and bishops myters on their heads Salij The Priestes of Mars in Rome which daunced about the Citie bearing Targates called Ancilia Salij be also people of Germanie called Franci and their countrey Franconia Salinae arum A citie in Sicilie Salinator The name of a noble man of Rome Saliocanâs An hauen in Fraunce called saint Paulus Salisi People of the Alpes consynes to the Swycers and the people called Boij Salmácidus a um Of the fountaine Salmacis Salmacis A fountayne in Caria where a nymphe finding Hermaphroditus the sonne of Mercurie and Venus naked shée embracing him desired of the Gods that of them two might be made one bodie and so it happened Also the people of Caria be sometime called Salmatij Salmantica A towne of Portugall Salmóneus trisyllabum A king of Elis which taking foolishly vpon him to haue diuine honours done vnto him and woulde séeme to cast lightnings lyke vnto Iupiter being ouerthrowne with lyghtning ⪠was cast into hell Salmonis idis Patronymicum foemininum Salo A ryuer called also Bilbilis wherewith yron is tempered and made stronger Salomon Solomon onis Is interpreted peaceable The name of a king of the Iewes the sonne of king Dauid who excéeded all men in wysedome and knowledge and neuerthelesse was by dotage on women brought vnto Idolatrie Salomonius a um Of Salomon Salon A countrey of Bithynia very commodious for the féeding of cattaile Salonae A citie in Liburnia betwéene Dalmatia and Illyrea Salonius The sonne of Pollio Salopia A towne and country in England called Shrewsburie Salpiae A towne of Apulia Salsuse A fountaine of salt water of Narbon in Fraunce Saltiae People ioyning to the sea called Pontus Euxinus Salustius A notable Historiographer which wrote of the conspiracie of Catiline and of the warre agaynst Iugurth Samara An hyll in the east Occean sea at the further ende of the mountaine Caucasus Samaria A countrey and citie in Syria ioyning to Iudaea which was the chiefe citie of the ten trybes of Israell who being taken prysoners by the king of Syria and led away captiues thither were sent Paynims for them to enhabite the countrey which were after called Samaritani and they mixt the lawe of Moyses wyth ydolatrie the citie was afterwarde called Sebaste Samarobrini People in Fraunce about Cambrie Sambicus A mans name which was for spoyling of Diana hir temple tormented a whole yeare most gréeuously and so dyed Same An yle in the sea Ionium Samius a um Of the yle of Samos Samnites People of Samnium a countrey in Italy called nowe Aprucium Samonium A Promontorie of Crete ouer against the Rhodes Samos The name of two Iles in the sea called Aegeum One by Thracia and therefore it is called Samothracia the other lyeth against Ephesus Samosata A citie of Asia by Euphrates Sanates People dwelling about Rome Sancus One of the names of Hercules Sandalarius A name of Apollo Sandaliôtis An yle called now Sardinia Sanga A riuer in Portugall Sangaris A ryuer of Galatia which running through Phrygia falleth into the sea Propontis It is commonly called Zagarie Sangarius puer Ganymêdes Sannaus A ryuer or poole in Asia Santones and Santoni People of a countrey in Fraunce called Xantongue Santonum portus Rochell in Fraunce
the Brutians in Italy Scylliaâ or Scyllis The name of a Gréeke which swimming vnder water did cutte in sunder the cables of the Persians shippes Scyllus luntis A towne in Achaia Scylurus The name of a man that had .lxxx. sonnes who when he dyed called them before him and deliuered to euerye eche of them a sheffe of arrowes commaunding them to breake the sheffe incontinent which when they mought not doe he tooke out of the sheffes one arrowe after another and brake them al lightly declaring therby vnto his sonnes that if they continued and agreed well togither they should be puyssaunt and if they varied and were disseuered they should be féeble and shortly destroyed Scymnus ni m. gen A mans name Sceriades Women of the yle Scyros Scyritae People in India which haue no noses but in the stéede of a nose they haue two holes in their visage Scyricus and Scyrius a um Of Scyros Scyron A notable robber in the countreye of Attica who woulde sit on a high rocke and compell them that came by to washe his féete or else to honour him and when they had so done he threwe them downe into the sea Finally hée was slayne by Theseus and it was surmised that his bones being cast into the sea were turned into great rockes which of him were named Scyronia and they be betwéene Attica and Megaris whereby the passage is harde Scyron A certayne wynde whose hurtfull blast is of all Gréece knowne onely to them of Athens Scyros An yle in the sea called Aegeum stonie and vnfruitfull where Achylles was hyd by his mother in a womans apparayle to the intent that hée shoulde not go with the Gréekes against Troy Scytha A man or woman of Scythia Also Hercules sonne Scythes One of Scythia Also Iupiters sonne which first inuented bowe and arrowes Scythia A great countrey which is deuided wyth the ryuer Tanais and stretcheth into the east so that one part thereof is in Europa the other in Asia and hath on the south part Sacas and Sagdianos people vnder the king of Persia and on the north part be countreys vnknowne and desert and is now vnder the dominion of the great Cane of Cathaie The people of this Countrey are descriued to be cruell sauage and wilde They vsed no boundes of their grounde For they neyther husbanded their land nor occupied any priuate house Setled place of abyding they had none but with their wiues children wandred from place to place through wildernesses ⪠driuing droues of beastes before them by which especiallye they lyued Their wagons wherein they caryed their wyues and children being couered with leather in winter and tempestuous weathering serued them for houses Iustice naturally and not by lawe they muche estéemed and vsed For no offence was so grieuous among them as theft Golde and siluer they as much despised as other countreyes gréedily desired They sedde most on mylke and honie and as for wooll and cloth or the vse of apparayle they knewe not They were called Scythae of Scythes one of Hercules sonnes Scythicus and Scythius a um Of Scythia Scythis Patronimicum foem Scython A mans name which when he lysted was man or woman Scythópolis A citie of Decapolitana in Syria Scythotauri People of Scythia which sacrifice strangers that come thither S E Sebaste A citie in Syria called before Samaria Sebastópolis A citie in Pontus called saint Gregories Sebennytum A citie in Aegypt Sebethys béthidis foe gen Of Sebethos Sebêthos A fountayne at Naples which serueth the citie running throughout the citie Sebinus A poole that the ryuer Lollius maketh Sebritae A people sometyme called Sembritae Secundus A philosopher of Athens Sedigitus The name of Volcatius a noble poet which had vj. fingers on one hande Segesta An olde towne in Sicilie Also the name of a Goddesse Segestanus a um That dwelleth in Segesta Segestia The Goddesse called also Segesta Segmenta Be certaine lynes ymagined by the which Cosmographers doe deuide the worlde into portions which be called also Paralléli whereby the distaunce of places is founde Segodunum Rhodes in Fraunce Segodunum Is also a noble citie in Almaine nowe called Nurenberge Segobrida A towne in the part of Spayne which is nowe called Biscay Segor A citie which was preserued by the prayer of Loth when Sodome was destroyed by the vengeaunce of God Segusiani or Segutiati Bresse in Fraunce Segusium The part of the Alpes called mount Sion Seia The Goddesse called Segesta SeÃanus A mans name Seir A mountaine in the countrey of Edome where Esau the brother of Iacob the patriarke dwelled Seius A mans name Seleucia The principall citie of Syria which is .30 furlonges from Babilonia Seleucus A king of Syria next after alexander the great Sélinis The name of thrée ryuers in Greece Selinis A ryuer by Lylibaeum Selymbria A citie in Propontis neare to Bizaunce Semele The daughter of Cadmus and mother of Bacchus Semelëius a um Of Semele Semiramis A famous Quéene of Assyria wyfe to king Ninus who after the death of hir husbande being loth on the one part to commit the charge of so great an empyre to the gouernment of hir yong sonne and on the other fearing that the fierce people woulde be loth to be gouerned by a woman altered hir apparayle sowewhat to the fashion of men and tooke on hir the person of hir sonne to whome she was both in stature and fauour very lyke But when by many notable enterpryses and valiaunt actes she had so much confirmed and inlarged hir Empire as she might séeme to haue passed the compasse of enuie she disclosed what she was why she had so done Which thing knowne did not onely nothing appayre hir authoritie but styrred greater admiration toward hir As she was on a time attyring hirselfe worde was hastily brought to hir that the citie of Babilon rebelled She being in a rage therewith ⪠ranne forth with the one side of hir heare not dressed vp and with a power that she had in a readynesse assayled the citie and neuer gaue ouer nor dressed vp hir heade tyll she had brought the citie in subiection At the last falling from noblenesse to sensuall lust shée desired the companie of hir owne sonne and of him was slaine Sempronius A Senatour of Rome Sena A citie in Tuscane called Senes which is an hundred myles from Rome Sometime it is written Senae in the plurall number Séneca ae The name of two great learned men Sennaar The fielde where the tower of Babilon was buylded Senogallia A citie in Italy Senones People in Fraunce Senta Was called Fauna or Bona dea The good goddesse Sentica A towne of Spayne called Simancas Sentinaria A countrey in Italy Sentinum A towne in Italy called now Saxofarratum Sepinus piuntis Sipus puntis Sipontum A Citie in the realme of Naples Seplasium or Seplasia A stréete in the citie of Capua wherin were diuers delicate oyntments September bris m. g. The moneth of September It is sometyme
vsed Adiectiuely Septémpeda A place in Italy called saint Seuerine Septéntrio ônis The north Pole Septentrionâlis le Of the north Pole Septentriones The seauen starres which are séene by Charles wayne or Vrsa maior Septius The name of a man who first graffed a kynde of rounde apples called of his name Septiana mala Septicollis By that name Rome was called bicause of the seuen hils which were in it Palatinus Quirinalis Auentinus Caelius Viminalis Exquilium and Ianiculum Septimatrus Was an holy day kept the day following the sixt Idus of euery moneth Septimius A Romayne of whome Catullus wryteth Sequana A ryuer in Fraunce called Sein Sequáni Burgonions of high Burgoyne Sera A citie of Asia Séranus The surname of a noble Romaine which was fee from the ploungh and made Dictatour Serapion An orator of Alexandria which wrote to Adrian the Emperour an other was bishop of Antioche in the time of Commodus an other was a notable painter Serapis or Seraphis idis A serpent which the Aegyptians worshipped for a God Seres A people in Asia hauing great plentie of silke Séricus a um Of the people Seres Sergestus One of Aeneas shipmen Seria A citie of Spayne SerÃphius a um of Seriphos * Rhana seriphia Spoken prouerbiallye of them that be as they were dumme or can say nothing in any matter Seriphos An yle by Graecia in the sea called Aegeum where the frogges that therein bréede are dumme Serius A ryuer of Fraunce Sermyla A citie of Macedonie Seropta A citie in Phoenicia Serra re f. g. A name of the ryuer Tyber Sertorius A Romayne which rebelled agaynst his Countrey Seruius A surname among the Romaynes Sesamus A citie of Paphlagonia Sesostris A king of Aegypt which intended to make a ryuer betwéene the redde sea and the ryuer of Nylus Sestiae aquae A certaine water of the prouince of Narbon Sestius The name of a man of whome a certayne kinde of Apples called Sestiana mala tooke their name Sestos A citie in Thrace Setabis A ryuer in Spayne Setia A citie in Campania Setinum vinum Wyne made about the citie of Setia Setubia A towne of Spayne Seuerus The name of diuers men Also an hill in Italy after Seruius Sextilis The moneth now called August Sextius Caballus The name of a notable scoffer or rayler Sextus A philosopher Plutarchus nephew and instructor of Marcus Antonius the Emperour S I Siambis An yle in the Brittishe occean sea on the North part Sibaris or rather Sybaris An olde towne twelue myles from Rome Also a citie in Calabria Sibariticus or rather Sybariticus a um The Adiectiue Sibyllinus a um Of Sibylla Sibylla lae foem gen A generall name of all women which had the spirite of prophecie of them as Varro and Lactantius doe write were tenne the first called Perfica the seconde Libyca the thirde Delphica the fourth Cumaea the fift Erythrea the sixt Samia the seuenth Cumana the eight Hellespontia the ninth Phrygia the tenth Tyburtina euery one of these as Lactantius sayth prophcied of the incarnation of Christ Sicambri The people of Nassau and Hessen in Germanie Sicâni People of Sicilie which came out of Spayne Sicania The yle of Cicilie Sicanius and Sicânus a um of Sicilie SÃcelis sicelidis Of Sicilie vt Sicelides musae The Muses of Sicilie Sicendus A Lake in Thessalie where the Frogges be dumme Sichaeus Didos husbande Sicilia A noble yle first called Trinacria afterward Sicania and at the last Sicilia it is in fourme thrée cornarde and therefore hath the name of Trinaria The one corner called Pachinus extendeth towarde the part of Gréece which was called Peloponnêsus now Morea The second corner called Pelorus lyeth towarde Italy The thirde called Lilybeus it extendeth toward Affrica of the which Pelorus excéedeth in the temperaunce of the earth for with no wette there may be any myre nor by any dryth dust This yle conteyneth in circuite as Solinus writeth thrée thousand furlongs which is of Italian miles 3â5 as Diodorus Siculus wryteth .4360 But Plinius sayth that the thrée corners be distaunt from Pelorus to Pachinus by lande .166 myles from thence to Lilybaeum 200. myles from thence to Pelorus 170. myles and sayth also that Agrippa affirmed it to be in circuit .618 myles which doe not agrée wyth Solinus nor Diodorus which may happen to be by the diuersitie of furlongs called in Latine Stadia The fertilitie of this yle in all grayne beautie of Medowes delicatenesse of waters colde and hote mountaynes and caues miraculous and other things there excéeding notable many authours haue wrytten and woondred at both Gréekes and Latines Sicilienses People dwelling in Sicilie which were borne else where Siciliensis se That is in Sicilie Sicilisso aui are To speake the language of Sicilie Sicinius dentatus A valiaunt warriour of Rome Sicoris A ryuer in Spayne Siculi Men of Sicilie Siculus a um Of or belonging to Sicilie or that dwelleth in Sicilie Siculum mare The sea by Sicilie Sicynus One of the yles called Sporades Sicyon onis or Sicyonia foe gen A citie in Achaia not farre from Corynth called now Clarentia where is great abundaunce of mettall Sicyonis or Sicyonia An yle in the sea Aegeum Sicyonij The inhabitaunts of Sicyon Sida A towne of Pamphilia Sidicânum ni neut gen A towne of Italy Sidicinus a um Of Sidicinum Sidon A citie in Phoenicia vpon the sea side so called for the plentie of fishe there being taken there was glasse first made Sidones People of Thrace by Hebrus Also people of Scythia Sidonij People of Sidon Sidonis is foe g. A woman of Sidon Sidonius a um Of the citie Sidon Sidrona or Stridon A citie of Dalmatia where saint Hierome was borne called commonly Sdrigna Siga A citie of Mauritania Caesariensis Sigaeum A great mountayne in the sea by Troy Sigaeus and Sigaeius a um Of Sigaeum Sigillaria ôrum plu Certayne stréetes in Rome Also certaine dayes added to the feast called Saturnalia on the which men did send little Images for gyftes one to another Sigillaria opera Workes wherein were sette small Images Signia A citie in Campania after some an hill at the foote whereof standeth Apamia Signini People of Italy Signînus a um The Adiectiue Signinum vinum Wyne made by the people Signini Signinum opus A worke made with shelles and morter or tyles and morter Silanius An high hill in Irelande Silarus or Silaris A Ryuer of Lucania which tourneth boughes twigges and leaues into stones and yet is the water holsome to be drunke Silenus The foster father of Bacchus Siler or Silerus A ryuer in the realme of Naples Some write it Silarus Silia A ryuer in Asia in the which after some authours nothing doth swimme but sinke to the bottome Silis A riuer by Venice Silla Idem quod Silia Sillura An yle in the Britayne sea Silon An yle of Indie where the trées neuer loose their leaues Siloson The brother of Policrates the tiranne of Samos * Silosontis chlamis Is spoken in a
ostia Places in Indie where AlexaÌder was in great daunger by reason of great heate Solis mensa A place in Aethiope where the Tables be alwayes full of good meate and readye for them that will come and eate it Soloe A citie of Cilicia the people whereof be called Solenses Solon A noble man of Athens which by his mother linially discended from Codrus the last king of Athens he was a man of excelâent witte and called one of the seuen wyse men of Greece and was in such authoritie in that citie that he made and gaue to them lawes which were neuer repelled notwithstanding when Pisistratus his kinsman wente aboute to chaunge the fourme of that common weale which was popular into a Monarchie he willingly went in exyle and so dyed Reade of him in Croesus When he was writing of his lawes Anacharsis the philosopher sayâ that Solons lawes should be like to Cobwebs and little flies intangled in them but great flyes shoulde make holes and breake through them Solymae plu The Citie of Hierusalem an other Citie in Cilicia Solymi People by Lycia Sophaci People of Affrike Sophenae People of Armenia Sophilus A Thebane poet Sóphocles A wryter of tragedyes Also the name of diuers other learned men Sophoclêus a um Of Sophocles Sophrónia A matrone of Rome in the tyme of Decius the Emperour Sora A towne of the Volscians in Campaine Sorani People called also Hirpini Soranus A phisition of Ephesus which liued at Alexandria Soracte t is neut gen Sorax ractis and Soractes t is foe gen An hyll .xx. myles from Rome Soritae People which are deuided from India by the ryuer called Arabis Sosia A mans name Sosij Certayne bookesellers SosÃpatra A prophetesse of Libya the wyfe of Aedesius the Sophister Sóstratus A mans name which buylded the Tower in the yle Pharos Sotades The name of a lasciuious and wanton poet Sotericus A poet which wrote Dioclesians prayses Soticena One of the names of Iuno S P Spaco King Cyrus nurse and signifieth in the tongue of Medes a dogge Spargapises The sonne of Thomyris the quéene of Massagetes Sparta tae or Sparte tes The chiefe citie of Lacedemonia It was also called Lacedaemon and Theramne * Spartam nactus es hanc orna A prouerbe signifying the estate or office which thou hast ⪠order or apply it well Spartacus Was a famous sworde player which gathered an host of slaâes and made warre agaynst the Romaynes and was vanquished by Crassus Spartiâta tae and Spartanus One of Sparta Sparchias adis foem gen Patronymicum foemininum Of Sperchius Sperchionides Patronymicum masculinum Spherchius A ryuer of Thessaly Speusippus A noble philosopher cosen to Plato Sphinx gis or Sphingos foem gen A monster which had the head and hands of a maiden the body of a dogge winges like a byrde nayles like a Lion a tayle like a Dragon the voyce of a man which proposed to men subtile questions It proposed to Oedipus this riddle What lyuing creature is that which in the morning had foure féete ⪠at noone two at night thrée Which Oedipus in this maner dissolued ⪠that it was man who being a yong infant crepâ on all foure as it were a beast with foure féete comming to strength all the middle of his age hée went on two legges and when he was olde in his latter tyme vsed a staffe to stay him so that he might séeme to haue thrée legges Which interpretation being according to the truth of hir meaning Sphinx tooke so grieuously that she flang hirselfe downe a rocke and brake hir necke looke Creon Spica ae foem gen A signe of starres SpicÃfera The surname of Ceres called Goddesse of corne Spintharus A notable carpenter which builded the temple of Delphos Spio onis A nymph the daughter of Nereus Spoletium A citie in Italy Spolitini People of the citie Spoletium Sporades Iles in the sea called Aegium Spurina A capitaine of the Parthians which slue Crassus the Romayne Spurius rij m. g. The surname of dyuers Romaynes S Q Squintij People in Italy called also Sabelli and Samnites S T Stáphilus He that did first mingle water with wine Starcharerus A king of the Danes Statanus A God which the Paynims supposed to haue the gouernance of children Statilinus Was called a priuate God which men supposed to be alway with them Statius A noble poet Stator A name gyuen to Iupiter by Romulus bicause he supposed that he made the Romaines to stay when they fledde the Samnites pursuing them Statae matris simulachrum An Image set vp by the people in euery stréete at Rome Statyelli A people of Liguria Stechades Thrée little yles by Marsiles Stella The name of a poet Stenio The daughter of Phorcys and sister to Medusa Stenoboea The wyfe of Proetus king of Ephirie who loued Bellerophon that vanquished the monster Chimaera Stentor oris A Gréeke which had a voice as lowde as fifty men Stercutius The sonne of Faunus he first founde and vsed dunging of the grounde Stesibrotus The sonne of Epaminondas Duke of Thebes Stesichorus A famous poet of whome it is written that when he was an infant in his cradel a nightingale sate on his mouth and did sing signifying that he shoulde be the swéetest poet that euer was afore hym hée founde first singing of songes in a daunce Stesilaea A woman of excellent beautie whome Aristides and Themistocles loued Stesimbrotus An Historiographer Sthenelus The sonne of Capaneus and Euadne An other the sonne of Perseus Stheneleus a um Of Sthenelus Sthenoboea The wyfe of Proetus Stilbo A Philosopher looke Stilpo Stilbon bontis The starre of Mercurie Stilico A noble man in the tyme of Honorius the Emperour Stilpo ponis A Philosopher borne in the citie of Megara in Gréece which his countrey being burned and his wyfe and children lost in the fire escaped onely and departing alone the king Demetrius asked of him if he had lost any thing he aunswered I haue lost nothing for all that is mine I carie with me meaning thereby that vertue which is onely the proper goodes of a wise man and cannot be taken from him he tooke away with him Stimicon A shéepeheardes name in Virgill Stiphelus One of the Lapithes Stiria A countrey ioyning to Austria and Carinthia in the east part of Germanie full of mountaines sauing a little part bordering on Hungarie the people be rude and the women haue so great throtes by the corruption of the water and ayre that not onely their speache is lette thereby but as some doe write when they giue sucke to their children some be faine to cast the bagges which doe hang vnder their chinne ouer their shoulders In that countrey is plentie of yron and siluer if the negligence of people did not let the finding thereof Stoechades Thrée yles in the French sea against Languedocke Stoici A sect of Philosophers which affirmed that no griefe myght happen to a wyse man and that felicitie was onely in vertue Stoicus ca cum
Of the Stoikes Stoicè Like a Stoike Stolo A citizen of Rome Stomaca cae foem gen A well in Germanie the drinking of the water whereof bréedeth a certaine disease Strabo A learned man which wrote of Geographie Stragona A citie of Germanie Stratius The name of one of Nestors sonnes StratÃphocles The name of a man Strato A king of Sidon who being ouercome of the Persians tooke his sworde in his hand minding to kill himselfe rather then to come into their handes But while he houered timerously looking vpon his sworde his wife perceyuing the enimies to be at hande to take him wrested it out of his hande and quickly thrust him through And after she had stretched out his bodye and layde it comely to be buryed with the same weapon she slew hirselfe also that she might not abide the villany of hir barbarous enimies Stridon A towne in Dalmatia where saint Hierome was borne Strimon onis vide Strymon Strongyle les and Strongylos An yle in the sea Aegeum now called Axos sometyme it was called Dia. Strophades Two yles in the Gréeke sea Strophius A king of Phocis father to Pylades Struma A mans name in Catullus Strupearia Holy daies among the people called Phalisci on the which the people did go with garlandes on theyr heades Struppum Is a lyke holiday among the people called Tusculani Strymon onis A ryuer of Thrace Strymónius a um Of that ryuer Stultorum feriae Was a tyme in the moneth of Februarie that fooles kept holy fooles holy day Stura An yle against the mouth of Tyber Styga A fen in Aegipt not farre from the citie of Memphis Stygius a um Perteyning to Styx the great fenne Stymphálides aues Byrdes supposed to be so bigge that they shadowed all the sunne beames and wasted the countrey of Arcadie Stymphalius a um Of Stymphalus Stymphâlus A ryuer or poole of Arcadie Stymphâlum A towne by the sayde poole of Arcadie Styx Poetes doe feigne that it is a fenne or ryuer in hell by the which the Gods vsed to sweare in déede it is a well of Arcadie the water whereof is a verye strong poyson so extréeme colde that nothing can conteyne it but the house of a Mule S V Suada dae foem gen Called in Gréeke Pitho was called the goddesse of eloquence or delectable speache Subalpini People vnder the mountaines Alpes called Péemountaynes SublÃcius pons A bridge at Rome made on Pyles Subur A towne in Spayne called commonly Cubelles Suburra rae foem gen A stréete in Rome Suburrana regio The stréete in Rome where the brothell houses were Suessa A towne of Campaine Suessiones People of Fraunce Sueui People in high Germanie Sueuia The chiefe countrey of Germanie in fertilitie holsomenesse and beautifull personages It hath on the east Bauiere on the west Halsate and the ryuer of Rhene on the south the mountaynes Alpes on the north Frankelande It was sometime called Alemania whereof all Germanie was called Almayne In dutch it is now called Swaue Suffenus A Poets name in Catullus of all other most foolishe Sullanus a um For Syllanus Sullaturire For Syllaturire Sulmo monis A towne in the countrey of Peligna where Ouid the Poet was borne Sulmonensis One of the citie of Sulmo Sulpitius Galba The name of a Romayne Sultanus A Soudan which was the name of dignitie of the king of Aegypt and Syria Summanus A God whome the Paynims thought to haue preheminence in the night some take it for Pluto Sunium A promontorie or elbowe of the countrey of Attica also a village there Superum mare The sea which is called Adriaticum wherin standeth the citie of Venice Surrentum A towne in Campaine Surrentinus a um Of that towne Susa ae and Susa ôrum The chiefe citie of Persis Susiana ne or Susiane nes A prouince of Asia Sutrium A very auncient towne of Hetruria xxiiij myles from Rome S Y Syades Starres called also Hyades seuen in number Sybaris A towne .xij. myles from Rome an other in Grece Also a ryuer in Calaber Sybarita ae A man of Sybaris Sybaritae The people of the Citie Sybaris in all kynde of sensuall deliciousnesse farre passing all other They vsed commonly to byd their guesse an whole yeare before that neyther the bidder might lacke tyme to prepare all maner of delicious fare and costly furniture nor yet the guesse sumptuously to adourne and trimme vp themselues in golde and precious stones At the last they making warre against the citie of Croton although they were in fielde with .300000 men yet were they with great shame discomfited and put to flight to their vtter confusion as men more trained in delicious fare and daliaunce that in handling armor and abyding the strokes of valiaunt enimies Sybaritanus a um Of Sybaris SybarÃticus a um Idem * Sybaritica mensa A prouerbe applyed to feastes and bankettes which doe excéede in delicatenesse Syboti People in the north part of the worlde Sycheus Didoes husbande Sycion He that first founde garlandes Syderis A Ryuer where the sea Hircanum taketh hys name first Syene A citie in the confines of Aegypt and Eethiope Sygaeum A promontorie of Troy Syla A mountayne in Lucania and a wood in it Sylla A Romayne of the noble house and familye of the Scipions in Gréeke and Latine well learned eloquent quicke witted craftie and subtile desirous of glory of haught courage and of great successe in all his dooings so that Salust wryteth it was to be doubted whether valiantcie in hym were greater or else felicitie Of hys behauiour Plutarke writeth that it was so repugnant as he might séeme inconditions to be contrarie to himselfe From many he pulled their goodes by extortion and violence to other he gaue liberally and bountifully Diuers vnwoorthie persons he greatly aduaunced towarde manye other hée shewed much reproche Those whose helpe he woulde vse he marueylously reuerenced such as were suters to him he excéedingly disdeyned Some for light and trifling causes he put to most grieuous torment the great iniuryes and reproches of some other hee tooke very pacientlye In heynous and grieuous offences verye easie to be pacified in small matters of no importance excéeding harde to be intreated Notwithstanding he did dyuers things in the commoÌ wele valiantly Being sent into Affrike he brought Iugurth captiue In Asia ⪠he quayled the rage and furie of Mithridates In Italy he allayed the blustering trouble of the sociall warre He repressed the cruell dominion of Cinna and forced Marius for his safegarde to flâe into that prouince in the which before tyme hée disdeyned to haue Sylla to hys vnder officer Béeing Dictatour he so oppressed the common weale that no man but by his fauour could enioy goodes lyfe or countrey At the last he gaue ouer his office and went as a priuate person to Puteolae where he dyed of the lowsie sickenesse Syllanion A famous maker of Images which was neuer taught Syllanus a um Of Sylla Syllatúrio syllatúris rire To haue an appetite or desire to follow Sylla
the sisters called Pleiades T E Teanum The name of two cities in Italy Tearco A famous king of Aethiope Tearus A ryuer of Thracia at the heade whereof Darius king of Persia when he went into Scythia pyght his pauilions and there abode thrée dayes And delyting in the most pleasaunt water of that ryuer he set in the same place a pyllour grauen with letters of Gréeke declaring his being there wyth commendation of the water Teatea A citie in Italy called commonly Tieti Techynes Were they which also were called Corybantes and were feigned to be the sonnes of Minerua and Sol. Tectosage Tolouse in Fraunce Tectosagi People of Tolouse Tectosages Languedocke in Fraunce TedÃfera dea Ceres whose sacrifices were done in y e night by torche lyght Tegea A citie in Arcadie Tegeaeus Tegeaticus a um Of Tegea Tegeaticus deus Pan. Tegeaeus Tegeaticus volucer Mercurie Tegeates Men of Tegea Teium A citie in Paphlagonia where Anacreon the Poet was borne Teij The people of Teium Teius a um Of Teium Telamon The sonne of Aeacus the father of Aiax Telamonides The sonne or nephew of Telamon Telchius and Amphius The chariottemen of Castor and Pollux Teleboae People of Gréece Teleboas One of the Centaures Telegonus The sonne of Vlysses by Circe the witch who following his father into Ithaca slue him vnwitting Telemachus The sonne of Vlysses and Penelope Telemus The sonne of Eurymus a soothsayer among the Cycloppes Telephus A king of Mysia ⪠Hercules sonne by Auge Hée indeuouring to stay the Graecians goyng to Troy that they might not passe thorow his countrey was wounded of Achilles Which wounde when by no meanes he could get cured he learned by Oracle that he must haue remedye by the same speare wherewyth he was hurte Wherefore he being reconciled to Achilles obtayned to haue a plaister made of the rust of his speare wherwith shortly after he was healed Telesco A nymph the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys Telesilla A woman excellent in Poetrie Telethusa The wyfe of Lictus mother of Iphis. Tellen téllinis A foolishe poet and minstrell Tellias A soothsayer among the people called Phocenses Tellus li A mans name whome the wise Solon iudged to be more fortunate then the rich king Croesus Tellus luris f. g. A goddesse called also Cibéle Telos The name of an yle where the oyntment called Telinum is made Telphussa A citie in Arcadie Telphussium A towne in Boeotia Tembrius A ryuer by Pontus Temesa A towne of the Brutians some write it Temessa Temeseus a um Of Temesa Tempe A place in Thessalia wonderfull pleasant hauing trées and medowes marueylous delectable wherein birdes of dyuers kyndes doe sing continually with excellent melodie there of all pleasaunt woodes haue the name of Tempe Tempsa A citie of the Brutians Tenea A certaine village néere to Corinthe full of woode and delectable Tenedius A certayne king who made a lawe that the man and woman taken in aduoutrie shoulde be cut asunder with an axe which law he executed on his owne sonne Tenedius a um Of Ténedos Tenedia bipennis aut securis A quicke or sharpe axe A prouerbe applyed to iudges which be hasty and cruell in their sentences Ténedos An yle in the sea Aegeum betwen Mytilene and Hellespont not farre from Troy Tenia A village betwéene Mycenae and Corinthus Tenitae Were called goddesses of lottes Tennis vel Tennum A citie in Aeolia Tennites or Temnites One of Tennis Tenos An yle in the Gréeke sea one of them which are called Cyclades Téntyra orum A citie in Aegipt Tentyritae A people dwelling in an yland within the riuer of Nilus whome the Crocodill so much feareth that he cannot abyde their voyce Teos A citie of Ionia an other of Scythia by the which is a ponde of fishe which in faire weather make so much oyle that it may be scommed of the water Terapne nes or Terápnae arum plu A countrey in Lacedemonia where the fayre Helen was borne Also an yland now called Coâsica Terapnéus a um Of Terapne Terebris A ryuer of Spayne Terentia Ciceroes wyfe Terentianus a um Of Terence Terentinus a um Of Terentus Terentini ludi Playes kepte euery hundreth yeare thrée dayes and thrée nightes continually togyther Terentius The most eloquent writer of comedies Terentum A place in the fielde by Rome called Campus Martius wherein was an aulter of Pluto and Proserpina Tereus A king of Thrace the husbunde of Progne Vide Progne Tergeste A citie in Italy Tergestum A towne in Slauony now called Trieste Termera A citie in Lycia so called of Termero Termerium A place in Caria betwene Melus and Halicarnassus which tyrannes vsed for a prison * Termeria mala Extréeme euils vide Adag Eras Termes A mountayne in Asia It is also a Towne in Spayne Termilae A people in Lycia Terminus deus An ydole which was supposed to haue the preeminence ouer bounds of lande whose temple had eeuer an hole in the roufe forasmuch as they thought it vnlawfull that boundes of landes shoulde be couered or hidde Terpandrus dri An olde musician who added .vij. strings to the harpe Terpnus An harper in the tyme of Nero. Terpsichore One of the nine Muses Terra ae f. g. Looke Cibéle Tertullianus A great learned man of Carthage the sonne of a capitayne of the Romayne He was in his tyme a very excellent man in witte and learning and wrate many fayre works in defence of Christendome But being in his middle age made a Prieste vexed with sundrye wronges and displeasures by the enuy of the cleargy of Rome he as it were enforced at the last fell into the heresie of Montanus which heresie hée dyd enterlace with his bookes that he wrate and lyued till he came to extreme age He flourished about the yeare of our Lord 210. Saint Ciprian when he lusted to reade Tertullianus workes would bid his seruauntes bring him his maister Tetartemorion rij n. g. The fourth parte of the Zodiake circle wherein are the xij signes It is also that which Astronomers call the quadrate aspect of the planets Tethys thys vel thyos The wyfe of Neptune called Goddesse of the sea Tetragrammaton The name of God which the Iewes do call Ineffabile that is to say vnspeakeable and is Iehoua Tetrápolis The countrey of Antioch wherin be foure notable cities Tâtricus or Tétrica A rough hill in Italy full of rockes and harde to go vpon Tettius Caballus A scoffer in the tyme of Vespasian Teuca A Quéene of Illyria which lyued euer chaste and vanquished many noble Capitaynes and dyuers hostes of the Romaynes Teucer or Teucrus cri The name of a king of Troyanes Also of the sonne of Telamon the valiaunt Gréeke Teucer cra crum Idem quod Troianus Of Troy Teudamedus The father of Pelasgus Teuderium A citie of Germanie called commonly Badborne Teumesus A little hill in Boeotia Teumesius leo A Lyon which Hercules did slea when he was a childe and of his skinne made him a cote Teutates Was in olde
tyme among the French men taken for Mercurius Teutha Idem quod Teuca Teuthania A piece of the countrey of Troy Teuthis A noble man which went wyth the Gréekes towarde Troy Teuthrania The farthest part of Mysia Teuthras thrantis A kyng of Mysia the sonne of Pandion Teuthrantius a um Of Teuthras Teutonicus a um Of the Almaynes Teutones Teutoni or Teutonici People called Almaines T H Thabis A mountayne in Scythia Thais The name of an harlotte Thales A philosopher one of the vij wyse men of Gréece Also a Poet of Candy Thalestria A quéene of Amazons the which came to king Alexander with 300. women with hir to the intent to haue issue by him and his men and when she perceiued that she and hir Ladies were sped they departed home agayne Thalia One of the graces which the auncient Poets dyd suppose to be one of the daughters of Iupiter and gyuers of delectable speach and pleasaunt pronuntiation Thalus A man of excéeding swiftnesse whom poets feigne that Iupiter made with brasen féete Thamyras Was he which first played on a harpe wythout singing thereto Tharsus A citie in Cilicia Thasij People dwelling in the yle Thasus Thasus A towne Also an yle in the sea Aegeum Thassus sayth Eras Is an yle neere to Thrace noble and fertile * Thassus bonorum A prouerbe applyed to them that promise great thinges as a man woulde say a worlde a countrey of wealth In Cambridgeshire the vulgare worde is a mine of golde Thaumantias Iris The daughter of Thaumas Electra Thaumantis idis Idem Thea A nymphe the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys Theagenes The name of thrée diuers men of Athens Theano A woman of the sect of Pythagoras excellently learned in philosophie and Poetrie Theanum A towne in Apulia Thebaei People of the citie of Thebes in Aegypt Thebae arum Theba bae or Thebe bes The name of diuers cities wherof one was in Aegipt builded by Busiris an other in Boeotia builded by Cadmus an other in Cilicia where Andromache the wyfe of Hector was borne Thebe A maydens name out of whose bosome flue two culuers one to the fountayne of Hammon the other to the woode Dodonaea where they gaue aunsweres Thebais idis idos A countrey in Aegypt It is also the name of a booke made by Statius the Poet. Thebánus a um Of Thebes Thelbencane A citie in the country of Babilon called now Maraga Theleboae People of an yle called Capreae which lyeth against Naples Theleboij Idem Thelephus A king that came in the aide of the Troyanes and was slayne by Achilles Thelphusia A citie in Arcadie Thelphussium or Thelphossion A citie in Boeotia where Pyndarus praysed Bacchus Thembinachia A countrey called also Nemea Themes An olde towne in the yle of Cypres where brasse was first founde Themillas lae A mans name in Virgil. Themis mis midis or mistis A goddesse one of the sisters of Iupiter on whome he begate Minerua she which commaunded men to aske that which was lefull some take hir for Iustice There was an other woman called Themis named also Carmentis ThemÃscyra A citie in Cappadocia called afterwarde Caesarea Themisones People of Lycia Themista Idem quod Themis Themistius A philosopher which wrate commentaries on Aristotles workes Themistecles A famous capitain of Athens In his youth giuen to riote sensualitie and wantonnesse delyghting neyther in learning nor other commendable exercyse But afterwarde he was so incensed wyth the desire of fame and glory by the example of Miltiades which ouercame Darius in the fieldes of Marathon that in the night he could not rest in his bedde but woulde ryse and say that the triumph and victorie of Miltiades woulde not suffer him to sléepe Whereupon he gaue himselfe to martiall prowesse and affayres of hys countreye and therin behaued himselfe so nobly and became so wise and politike as within fewe yeares he did not onely match but farre surmount that man whose example first excited him to noble doyng For by his manhoode and policie he deliuered not onely his owne citie but all Gréece from the great power and innumerable army of Xerxes wherwith he ouerflowed that countrey and caused that Prince wyth one small vessell dishonorablye to flée for sauegarde of his lyfe whose huge multitude of shippes not long before séemed to ouerlode the seas Neuerthelesse he was after by his vnkinde citizens expelled hys countrey and fled to king Xerxes his enimie who séeyng him and vnderstanding his case did both very honourably interteyne him and desired God euer to kéepe his enimies in that mynde to sende from them such men as he was Xerxes hauing him in great trust and credite sent him with a mighty armie agaynst the Atheniens but when he perceiued his countrey in perill to be destroyed he poysoned himselfe by drinkyng of bulles bloud and chose rather so to dye then eyther vnfaithfully to betray that prince that trusted him or vnnaturally to destroy that countrey that bredde him Themistogenes An historiographer of Syracuse Theoclymenus A soothsayer which tolde Penelope of hir husbande Vlysses returne Theocritus A poet of Syracuse which wrate Bucolica or the contention of the hierd men Theodomas The father of Hyla Theodomantéus a um Of Theodomas Theodectes An oratour of Cilicia scholer to Plato Theodorus A famous philosopher Also a notable caruer Theodosia A citie in Chersonesus called now Capha Theodosius A worthy emperour of Rome who much fauored and furthered Christian religion and was beside indued with many excellent vertues In fauour of body comely of mynde gentle mylde and mercifull so humble and curteyse of behauiour as he might séeme only in princely apparayle to dyffer from other honourablye bountifull to all but excéedingly liberall to good men Simple natures he loued well learned honest wittes he had in passing great admiration His olde frendes at whose handes he had found pleasure he rewarded excéedingly with honorable promotions money other benefites By expresse law he decréed that dauncing wanton daliaunce should not be vsed in bankettes In learning if we regarde those that be excellent but meanely instructed but very wittie and diligent also to haue the knowledge of histories wherein he alwaye detested the actes of them that were cruel prowde and enimies to liberty as Marius Sylla and Cinna His feasting was princely and pleasant but without excesse or great sumptuousnesse his féeding temperate respecting more his health then sensuall delight Towarde his chyldren a milde and gentle father towarde his wife a louing and quiet husbande He died at Millayne being .50 yeares of age about the yeare of Christ .397 Theodotus The instructour of the last Ptholomeus Theognis A certaine poet of Gréece Theon The name of dyuers learned men Theonînus a um Of or lyke Theon which was an horrible rayler and carper of other mens doinges * Theonino dente rodere To rebuke a man shamefully Theóphilus The name of diuers bishoppes It signifieth deuout louing God Theophrastus A noble Philosopher and of excellent
eloquence Theopompus An historiographer after the tyme of Herodotus and Thucydides Also an auncient poet and a king of Lacedemonia Theópolis The chiefe citie of Syria called also Antiochia Theótocos The mother of God Thera A Citie by Athens Also one of the yles called Cyclades Theramenes A philosopher of Athens Theramne A towne of the Sabines Theramnéus a um Idem quod Sabinus Therasia An yle by Euboea Theridamas antis A dogges name in Ouid. Therimachus A famous peinter Theoriomachus One of Hercules sonnes Thermae arum f. g. plur A towne of Sicilie Thermodoon or Thermódon A riuer of Thrace Thermodóntius Thermodontaeus Thermodontiacus a um Perteyning to that riuer Thermopylae A mountaine which passeth through Grece hauing a narowe entrie or passage where .4000 Lacedemonians with their capitayne Leonides fought against .x. hundred thousande Persians and resisted them two dayes vntil the said Lacedemonians were all slain Thero A mans name in Pindarus Therodamas or Therodamon A king of Scythia which fed Lyons with mens bloude Therpsichore Looke Terpsichore Thersander The sonne of Polynices Thersilochus A mans name in Virgile Thersîres A prince that came wyth the Gréekes to the siege of Troy which in person and conditions was of all other most deformed Theseus The sonne of Aegeus king of Athens a strong and valiant man the companion of Hercules and in famous actes next vnto him who was much defaced by breaking his fayth which he had promised to Ariadne the daughter of Minos king of Creta whom he left in a desert yle called Naxus for the which as Virgile writeth he is perpetually tormented on a whéele in hel Thesêus a um Of Theseus Thesîdes The sonne or nephew of Theseus Thesiphon t is A citie in Parthia not farre from Seleucia the great citie of Assyria Thesmophoria The ceremonies of Ceres the goddesse of grayne Thesmophoros A name of Ceres Thespiae A frée towne in Boeotia Thespius Thespiacus a um Of Thespiae Thespiades The Muses abyding about Thespiae Thespis A towne in Boeotia by the hil called Hellicon Also the name of an auncient Poet and certayne other men Thesproti People of Epire. Thessalia A region in Gréece called also Aemonia sometyme Pandora somtyme Pyrrhea of some Pelasgia of Homere Argopelasgicon It is inuironed wyth foure great and famous hils on the east with the mountaines of Pelion and Ossa on the north with Olympus on the west with Pindus on the south with Othrys It marcheth on Macedonia on the East The people were valiaunt men on horsebacke and inuincible in battayle as Polybius wryteth but very vniust of their promise the women there being woonderfull witches transformed men into the figure of beastes Thessálicus a um Thèssalus a um Of Thessalia Thessalónica A citie in Macedonia Thessalis idis A woman or mayden of Thessalie Thessalonicenses People of Thessalonica Thestius The sonne of Parthaon Thestor oris The father Chalcas the soothsayer Thestorides dis m. g. The sonne or nephew of Thestor Thestilis A womans name in Virgile Thetis thétidis The mother of Achilles Theutones or Theutonici People in Germany called dutch men Thideus vide Tydeus Thinissa The citie of Tunise in Affrike Thiodamas The sonne of Melampus Thiriomachus One of the sonnes of Hercules by Megara Thisbe A mayden of Babilon Vide Pyramus Thisbêus a um Of Thisbe Thisias An auncient writer of Sicilie Thoantêus a um Of Thoas Thoas antis The name of two kings one of Taurica and an other of Lemnos Thoë One of the nymphes Thon nis He that first brought phisike into the fourme of a science among the Aegiptians An other was king of Canopus Thonis A citie néere to Zephyrium Thonius One of the Centaures Thoon A Troyane slayne by Vlysses Thoota The daughter of Phorcus on whome Neptunus begat Polyphemus Thootes A mans name in Homere Thorax A mountaine by the citie Magnesia where Daphita the grammarian was hanged on a gibbet for makyng verses againg kinges wherof commeth this prouerbe Caue à Thorace Stephanus sayth Thorax is a citie of Aetolia and also of Magnesia Thous A Duke of Troie Thoxeus The sonne of Eurytus and brother of Iole Also the sonne of Thestius Thrace ces Thraca cae Thracia ae A region in Europe On the North it is bounded with the lower Mysia on the East with the higher on the South with the Sea Aegeum on the Weast with Bosphorus Thracius and Propontis Therein is the Citie of Constantinople sometyme called Byzantium Thraceas vel Thracias A Northweast winde Thracius Teraicus Thraitius a um Of Thrace Thraessa or Thraissa A woman of Thrace Thrasillus or Thrasius Hée that taught Busiris to offer his guestes to Iupiter to the intent to obtayne rayne and was first himselfe killed in sacrifice Thraso A souldiours name in Terence Also a paynter that Strabâ mencioneth Thrasâmenus looke Trasumenus Thrasibulus A Duke of Athens which deliuered the citie from the thirtie tyrantes Thrasymacus The scholer of Isocrates Thrâsymedes The sonne of Nestor Thrax acis A man of Thrace Threicius Of Thrace Thressa or Threissa A woman of Thrace Thriae The thrée nurses of Apollo Thryus A ryuer of Elis which runneth into Alpheus Thucydides A noble Historiographer Thucydididus a um That followeth Thucydides or of Thucydides Thule les The name of two yles one beyonde Scotlande an other ouer against Carthage Thurij Thuria or Thurion A citie of Calabre Thuringia Thurin in Fraunce Thurini People of Italie Thurinus a um Of Thurij Thurium A towne in Italy where Herodotus dyed and was buryed in the high stréete Thuscana A citie in Italy Thusculani A certaine people by Rome Thusculanum A place not farre from Rome where Tullie Cato Varro and dyuers other noble Senatours of Rome had manour places Thúsculum li n. g. A citie in Latium Thyamis A riuer that deuideth Thesprotis from Cestrina Thyamon An hyll in Thrace Thyas thyadis A woman that offereth sacrifice to Bacchus Thyasus si A daunce dedicate to Bacchus Thybris One of Aeneas companions Thyestes The sonne of Pelops and Hippodamia who aspâring to the kingdome of Micenae committed aduoutrie wyth the wyfe of his elder brother Atreus who therefore slue the children of Thyestes and causing them to be rosted made hys brother to eate them vnwares Thyestâus a um Of Thyestes Thyle The yle called Iselande Thymbra A place néere Troy where muche Sauerye groweth Thymbraeus The name of Apollo Thymele les A woman which first taught daunsing in open places Thynia An yle by Bythynia Thynius a um Of Thynia Thyâos A towne of Cilicia Thyóââus ââisyllabum A name of Bacchus Thâââ A citie of the Messenians Thyââa An yle of Peloponnesus Thyâââ A citie vnder Nestors dominion Thyâââgeâae People of Scythya which liue onely by hunting T I Tiaââra A Citie in the countrey of Mysia Tibareni People of Scythia being in Asia Tiberias adis A citie of Galilée Tiberis or rather Tyberis A ryuer in Italy called Tiber which comming from the mountaine Apenninus deuideth Ethruria from Vmbria Tiberius
Vallonia Was called the goddesse of valleys Vandali People of Vandalia Vandalia A countrey in the north part of the worlde Vangiones People of Germanie of a Citie called Woormes Varar Dunbar in Scotlande Varduli A people of Spayne Varro onis A noble Romayne of all other most excellently learned Varus A riuer which diuideth the part of Fraunce called Narbon from Italy Also it was the name of a poet Vascones People in the part of Spayne called Taraconensis Vaticanus collis An hyl in Rome where now is the church of saint Peter Vatinius A Romayne so greatly hated of the People that therof grewe a prouerbe Odium Vatinianum Vaunia A citie in Italy néere vnto Venice called commonly Louino V B V C Vbij People in Germanie dwelling in Colayne and the partes adioyning Vcalegon A certaine Troyans name Vcia A citie in Spayne some write it Vria Vectis The name of an yle by Englande called the yle of Wight Vectones People of Spayne Vedra The ryuer of were in Wales Vegeti People of Asia Vegetius A noble man that wrote of martiall doctrine Veia A certaine forceresse Veiens entis Of Veios Veientanus a um Of the citie Veios Veientes People with whom the Romaines had long time warres Veij The people of Veios Veios A citie in Hetruria Veiouis A god which had no power to doe good but onely harme Velabrum bri n. g. A certaine place in Rome Velauni Velay in Fraunce Velia A sen in Italie in the countrey of Calabria Veliates People of Liguria Velina A streete in Rome by the hyll called Mons Palatinus Velitrae arum plu A citie in Italie .xx. myles from Rome Vellocasses A people of the countrey of Lions in Fraunce Venafrum A citie of Campanie where is great plentie of olyues Venafránus a um Of that citie Venaria An yle wherein be many veynes of metall Veneris portus A towne in the mountaynes Pirenaei Venetiae arum The citie of Venice Véneti Vanes in Brytayne also the people of Venice Vénetus a um Of Venice as Venetus color the colour of light blew or blunket Venta An hauen in Englande called Bristowe Venulus The ambassadour that Turnus sent to Diomedes Vénus veneris The goddesse of loue Venusia A towne in Apulia Vercellae A citie in Liguria nigh to the mountaines called Alpes Vergiliae The seuen starres called also Pleiades Vergobretus ti A magistrate among the people called Hedui in Fraunce Vermis The name of a fish in the riuer of Ganges which is in length .lx. cubites and is blue in colour whiche hath such strength that when Olyphantes come to the water to drinke he wyll take one of them by the nose and plucke him in to him Vero A riuer in Byskay Veromandui Vermandoise in Fraunce Verona A noble citie in Italie in the countrey called Marcia Taruisina not farre from the mountaynes where Catullus the poet and Plinie were borne Verones People dwelling nigh to the riuer of Vero. Veronensis se Veroneus a um Of Verona Verpi The Iewes Verra An aulter at Rome whereat they prayed that children shoulde not be wrong borne Verrea orum neut gener piur Feastes ordayned by Verres Verres A Romayne whome Cicero accused Vertobrige A towne of Spayne Vertumnalia The solemnitie of Vertumnus whiche was kept in October Vertumnus A god supposed of the Painims to haue the gouernaunce of mens myndes or after some of bying and selling * Iniquo Vertumno natus He that knoweth not howe to gouerne or rule himselfe Verulani A people of Italie Veseuus An hill by Naples out of the which issueth alwayes fire and smoke like Aetna Vaspasiânus An emperour of Rome descended but of a base stocke but in valiaunt prowes and knightly courage to be compared to the best for his honestie and wisedome highly commended He neuer bare grudge ne malice to any man were he neuer so much his enimie For onely auarice he was euill spoken of among hys subiectes It is sayd he aduaunced to high promotions diuers in couetousnesse most notable to the ende that when they had well gathered hée might vse them as spunges and by making some pretensed quarell against them to wring from them that which by extorcion they had gotten Hée ordeyned a tribute to be gathered on the quantitie of vrine made in euery house For which bycause he was euill spoken of his sonne came to him and perswaded him to leaue it as a thing very vile and dishonourable vnto him Vespasian at that present sayde nothing but when the money of that taxe was next brought in he taking his handefull of it and calling his sonne to him helde it to his nose and asked him whether the money sauoured well or no he aunswered it sauoureth well why sayde he and this commeth of vrine wherefore thou mayst sée The sauour of gayne is sweete whereof soeuer it commeth Vesperies A towne in Spayne Vessones People of Campaine in Fraunce Vesta The mother of Saturnus also his daughter which for hir chastitie was honoured for a goddesse Vestâlis le Perteyning to Vesta Vestáles Were virgins that ministred to Vesta whiche were chosen betwéene the age of .vj. and .x. yeares and xxx yeares they remayned virgins afterwarde it was lawfull for them to marie Vestini People in Italie Vesulus A mountayne in Liguria by the Alpes at the roote wherof the riuer called Padus or Po springeth out Vesuuius seu Veseuus An hyll in Campania foure myles from the citie of Naples whereon groweth plentie of vines and olyues but the toppe thereof was barraine by reason of fire which sometime riseth out of the earth It is also called Vesuius Vetones People in Spayne which first founde the herbe called Betonica Vetulonia A place in Tuscia called also Viterbo Vfens vfentis A riuer in Pontus V I Via A riuer of Spayne Vibon A towne in the countrey of the Brutians Vicentia A citie in Venetia betwéene Verona and Padua Vienna A citie in Austria an other in Dolpheny Vigisonus A brooke by the citie of Padua Viminalis collis A little hyll at Rome Vinalia vinaliôrum neut gener plur A certayne feast the tenth callendes of Maie made for tasting of wines Vindelici People called Vandales Vindelitia A countrey wherein is the citie of Augusta called Ausburgh On the west it hath the riuer Lycus and Rhaetia on the north the ryuer Dunawe on the east the riuer Aenus and Noricum on the north it hath the Alpes Vindemiator A signe of starres that appeareth the thirde Nonas of March Vindenij fluuij ostia A towne in Irelande commonly called Drodagh Vindius An hill in Spayne Vintium A citie by the Alpes called Mount Visol Vion Valentia A citie in Apulia Virbius virbij masc gen Twise a man which name was giuen to Hippolitus the sonne of Theseus after that Aesculapius had brought him againe to life Virgi A towne of Spayne Virgilius The most famous poet of Mantua VirÃplaca A goddesse in whose temple women were reconciled to their husbandes Viritium A citie in Germanie
established lawes restored honestie expelled vicious persons and bribours aduaunced men of vertue and learning to great offices and dignities renued the Senate prepared also a great and noble counsayle about his person and so hated corrupted iudges that he did not onely put them to torments but when any came in his presence was readie wyth his two fingers to put out their eyes And yet this noble and gentle prince by the false treason of one Maximinus whome of a muletter he had made a great captayne was in a sodaine commotion slayne of his owne people at Maguntia in Germanie with his mother Mammea a wyse Ladye and a vertuous Some suppose it was bicause that by hir counsayle he became auaritious and was not so liberall as he and other Emperours had bene before Alexandra Called also Cassandra the daughter of Priamus Also the wife of Alexander a king of the Iewes Alexandria The name of diuers Cities one in Aegypt buylded by the great Alexander 320. yeares before the incarnation of Christ in the space of .xvij. dayes although it conteyned within the walles sixe myles in length It was made in the forme of a mantel deuyded with two brode wayes one crossing ouer the other for easie conueying of caryage euery way being in breadth 100. foote Which wayes laye in such wyse that the wholesome windes blew abundantly in the citie This citie was set betwene the fennes of Nilus and the sea nigh vnto the noble hauen Pharus In this citie euery king of Aegypt after Alexander buylded a royall pallace whereby it shewed so beautifull and magnificent that the lyke was not in the worlde Many excellent and learned men were borne and brought vp in that citie as Philo the Iewe Origenes Clemens Antonius Didimus Maximus Theophilus and Athanasius were there Bishops S. Marke the Euangelist preached there and was ordeyned byshop by the Apostles It was destroyed by the Romaines and reedified by Traianus the Emperour Afterwarde the yeare of our Lord .1230 Peter brother to the king of Cyprus wyth certayne Frenchemen and Catalones eftsones destroyed and robbed it so that to this day it was neuer reduced vnto the first estate Nowe is it in subiection to the Turkes There is an other Citie called Alexandria in Lumbardie an other in Asia and an other in Scythia Alexandrinus a um Of Alexandria Alexandrium A citie in Iurie Alexandropolis A Citie of Parthia buylded by great Alexander Alexia A citie in Fraunce ⪠now called Laussâis in Burgoyn Also the towne called Arras in the Countrye of Artoys Alexis A comicall Poet. Also a famous caruer It was the name of Pollios seruaunt of whome Vergue speaketh Alexius The name of two emperours of Constantinople Also there was one Alexius the sonne of Ephimianus a noble senatour of Rome who hauing a wise of excellent beautie for the loue of God left hir and secretlye went sundrie pilgrimages in the habit of a poore man And after much pacience and long pouertie returned to his fathers house being there vnknowne till after his death that he was disclosed by a letter which was founde in his hand At his burying God shewed many woonderfull myracles than being present Hoâârius and Arcadius Emperours of Rome the yeare of our Lorde .410 Algarbe A part of the kingdome of Portugal and is called Caput S. Vincentij or Finster sterne the vttermost part of all the lande it was once called Colimbrica Algidensis sâ Of the citie called Algidum Algidum A citie in Italy situate on an high hill Algidus A mountayne xij myles from Rome Algida silua A wood at the foote of that mountayne Alia vel Allia A ryuer not farre from Rome ⪠where the host of the Romaynes was vtterly destroied by Breânus who we say was a Briton sonne to Molmitius king of this Realme Alieu Iles in the sea of Aethiope Aliartum A towne of Boeotia Alidra A towne called also Alindra Alifa A citie of the Samnites Aliphani vel Alitani People of Aliphe Aliphe es A citie of Campania and also of Acerra which the ryuer Clanius oft endomageth Aliphirei People of Arcadia Alista A citie of the Ilande Corsica called at this daye Amassa Allante tes vel Allas lantis A towne of Macedonie of Arcadie called also Alantium and Allanteum and the people Allantenses Allobroges People of Sauoy and Daulphiny Allotriges A people of Spayne Almedessos A towne of Thrace Almo almonis mas gener A ryuer néere to Rome where the priests of Cybele vsed to wash them when they had done their bloudie sacrifice It is also the name of a man and of a towne in Thessaly Almopia Part of Macedonie Almops opis A Gygant the sonne of Neptune and Adamantis of whome the Countrey of Almopia was named Almus mi The sonne of Sisyphus Aloeus Was the name of a Gygant sonne of Titan on whose wyfe Neptune begat two sonnes Oetus and Ephialtes which were called also Aloidae and were great gygants Alogiani Were heretikes which denyed that the sonne of God was Logos which some doe interpreate into latin Verbum some Sermo And therefore they reiected the Gospell of Saint Iohn and his Apocalipsis saying that they were not his works Alonae A citie of Spaine called commonly Alicante Alone An Ilande Alonesus The name of a Citie and of an Ilande Aloni A people of Asia néere to whome the ryuer Zerbis runneth into Tigris Alontigiceli A people of Spayne Alontium or Aluntium A towne of Sicilie Alope The daughter of Cercion after whome a Citie in Thessalie was so called Alopece An Ilande in Pontus Euxinus Alopeconesus A Citie in Asia and after some an Ilande and a Citie of Hellesponte Aloros A citie of Macedonie Alostigi A people of Spayne Alpes pium pibus foe gen The Mountaynes which depart Italy and Fraunce Alpesa A towne in Spayne Alphenus A Coblers name in Horace Alpheias The name of Arethusa daughter of Alpheus Alphesibaea The daughter of the riuer Phlaegeus whome Alemeon tooke to wyfe Alpheus A ryuer of Achaia by the citie of Pisa Also the name of a Mountayne Alpheus a um Of that ryuer Alphion A lake or méere in Pyrrhea Alphioniae The Temple âf ãâã and a woode at the mouth of the ryuer Alpheus Alphito A womans ââme Altellus The surname of Romulus the first founder of Rome Althaea Is the daughter of Thestius and wyfe of Oeneus king of Calydonia ⪠which repenting the slaughter of hir sonne Meleager slue hir selfe Altilia A towne in Lumbardie called at this day Alteiola Altinates People of Altinum Altinum An olde citie by the riuer of Venice called nowe Torrello Aluerni A certayne people of Aquitaine hauing their beginning of the Troyans Alyaâmon A riuer of Macedonie Alyattes The father of King Cresus Alyba A countrie not farre from Mysia where as Hoââmerus doth wryte were mynes of siluer Alysius The name of Bacchus Alysonij A people of Scythia Alyssos or Alyssus A well of Archadie the water wherof healeth them that be bitten with mad dogges
Alyxathoe The daughter of Dymas Alyzia A citie of Acarnania .xv. furlongs from the sea A M Amadoca A Citie of Sarmatia in Europe Amadoci Certayn hilles Also people of the same country Amaea A name of Ceres Amalchium A part of the Occean sea towarde the North. Amelech A worde of Hebrue which may be interpreted a people lycking or striking It was the name of a king of Siria which resisted the people of Israell when they came out of Egypt and slue many of them Wherfore he was afterwarde slayne by the commaundement of God It is sometime taken for the Countrie whereof Amalec was king Amalecitae The people of Amalec whom God commaunded Saule to destroy vtterly And bycause he did not he was reeiected of God Amalthea A woman which with hir sister called Melissa nourished Iupiter with the milke of a Goate It is also the name of Prophetesse Aman A name of Hebrue which signifieth troubling or murmuring Of that name was one of the house of Agag whome Assuerus king of Persia and Medea exalted aboue all his lordes and counsaylers and willed all thinges to be done as they woulde commaunde Of whole pride and punishment ye may reade in the booke of Hester Amanicae pilae The streights or entries of the mountayne Amanus Amanoides A promontorie in Cilicia Amantes A people of Hungarie Amanthes After Calepine but more verily Hammanienses People of Aphricke in the furthermost part of Aethiope who haue such plentie of precious stones and salt that thereof they make great houses Among them is founde the Carbuncle Amantia A citie of Macedonie Amanum An hauen in the higher Spayne Amanus A mans name Also one of the Persians Gods and a part of the mountayne Taurus néere to Cilicia Amara A citie in Arabia foelix Amaracus Was the name of a yong man which as Poetes feygne was turned into that herbe Amaramis The father of Moyses Amaranthi People of the countrie of Colchos wherein was a shéepe that bare the golden fléece Amarbi People in the Occean sea by Scythia Amardi People of Hircania Amardus A riuer of Mede Amariacae A people néere to Hircania Amarispus A ryuer reade Arispus Amarni People néere to the Hircanes Amarusia ae foem gen The name of Diana among the Athenienses Amarynthus thi m. gen A riuer that boundeth vpon Archadie Also a towne in Euboea Amasa A name of Hebrue signifieth the people that spareth or lifting vp the people It was the name of a noble man sonne of Abigael sister to Dauid Also a Capitayne whome Ioab slue in kissing and saluting him vnder the colour of friendship Amasenus ni m. g. A riuer in Italie An other in Sicilie Amasia A citie in Germanie called Marburge Also a riuer betwéene Rheine and Albis Amasias A name of Hebrue signifieth the strength of the Lorde Of that name was one king of Iudea sonne of Ioas .853 yeares before the incarnation of Christ he reigned .29 yeares A man very eloquent and at the beginning of his reigne of much humanitie towarde all men and obserued competently the commaundements of God But yet he did not vtterly take away Idolatrie He was long time fortunate and waxed ryche but at last he forgat God and became prowde and not contented with his estate he wrote vnto Ioas king of the Israelites commaunding him and his people to bée vnder his subiection But Ioas after defiance gathered an armie and went against Amasias among whose men fell such a sodaine feare that all trembling they fled ere euer they came to strokes Amasias was taken and brought to Ioas who threatned to kill hym except he caused the gates of Ierusalem to be opened against him which was done Notwithstanding Ioas caused .400 cubites of the wall to be beaten downe and entred into the city that way in a Chariot leading Amasias with him as a prisoner and tooke all the treasure of the Temple and of the kinges house and caused it to be brought into Samaria Afterward being deliuered his owne people sâue him Amasis A noble king of Egypt he made a lawe that euerie yeare eche man should make a reckoning to the head officers of his realme howe and by what occupation he lyued and he that did not so should be put to death Amasius or Amisius The ryuer in Germanie commonlye called Entis Amassi People about Maeotis Amastris The principall citie of Paphlagonia Also an other in Bithynia called commonly Soyastro Amata The wyfe of a king of Latines and sister of the Goddesse Venilia Also the name of a virgin Vestale when they were first admitted Amatae People of Indie Amataei People of Arabie Amath The sonne of Chanaan Amathuntaeus and Amathusiacus a um Of or perteyning to the Citie Amaâhus Amathus untis A citie in Cyprus dedicate to Venus of the which that Ilande was called Amathusia Amathus thi A ryuer running by the citie Pylos where Nestor was borne It is also the father of Aerias which builded the temple of Venus in Cyprus Amathusia The I le of Cyprus Amaxia A citie of Cilicia Amaxitos A citie of Doris Amaxitus A citie of Phrygia Amaxobij People of Sarmatia so called of waines which they vsed in stéede of houses Amazones WomeÌ of Scythia which wanne a great part of Asia They slue all the men children and kept the women children of whome they burned the right pap because it should not let them to throw their Iauelins or to shoote For their beginning and facions reade Iustine Amazones be sometime taken for poore people that liue barely Amazonicus a um Pertaining to the Amazones Amazonicus ci A country called after Cesaria It is also the name of the mountaine Taurus Amazonides idem quod Amazones Amazonius a um idem quod Amazonicus Amazonius nij An hill in Cappadocia whereby runneth the ryuer Thermodoon Ambantae People of Asia Ambarri People of the country of Lyons in Fraunce Ambastae A people of Asia Ambastum A ryuer in Asia Ambe es A citie in Arabie Ambiani seu Ambienses People in Fraunce about Languedok called Amboise some suppose it to be Amiens Ambigatus A king of the Galles which sent his two nephewes Bellouesus and Sigouesus to séeke aduentures in straunge Countryes Ambilates People in little Britaine called Darenchis Ambratia A citie in Epyre in a countrey whereof the people be called Thesproti This citie was first called Eponia and Paralia Of thys Citie was named a goulfe or bosome called Sinus Ambratiensis which is as well by nature as by arte made woonderfull strong hauing a double wall and inclosed on both sides with fennes hauing none entrie but one narrow way Ambratienses and Ambratiotae People of Ambratia Ambratius a um Of Ambratia Ambrosius sij m. gen The name of dyuers men of which one most excellent was bishop of Millaine the yeare of our Lorde .373 a Romaine borne of a noble and auncient house and had béene Consull As this man being sent by Valentimanus the Emperour to Myllaine to pacifie a sedition perswaded the people
bondman made frée Also a gentleman of Rome martyred vnder the Emperour Dioclesian Chrysopolis A citie of Bithynia Chrysorrhoas A ryuer that runneth by Damascus in Syria Chrysóthemis The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra Chrysostomus The name of a famous bishop of Constantinople and also of an hystorian which were so called for their eloquence For Chrysostomus is in Englishe a golden mouth Chryxus The nephewe of Brennus vnder whome the Galles inuaded Rome C I Cibarci People of Spaine Cibéle or rather Cybéle es and after some Cybelle The daughter of Minos king of Creta shee was cast out into the desert nourished with beastes and founde by a woman that kept shéepe and by hir nourished after she became marueylous fayre and wyse she founde first the pype and tabour and cimbals among the Greekes moreouer the education of children all which shee so tenderly loued that for the death of a child called Atis she became madde She was wyfe to Saturne and named of Paynims the mother of the Gods and after hyr death was honoured for a Goddesse She was also called Rhea Vesta Pessinuncia Berecynthia Ops Terra Hir ymage beyng speciallye honoured in a citie of Phrygia called Pessinus was by the counsell of Sybilla fetched thence by Scipio Nasica and brought to Rome and had there in great reuerence Cibotus A citie of Asia called also Apamia Cibyra A citie of Phrygia Cibyratae People of that citie Cicero ônis mas gen The surname of Marcus Tullius whose diuine eloquence abundant learning sharpenesse of witte dexteritie in actes and most ardent loue to the common weale of hys countrey cannot bee sufficiently expressed by a mortall mans tongue or penne He liâeally descended from the auncient kinges of the Volâcians albeit time and occasion wearing out dignities in bloud his name continued long in the state of worship His auncestours were called Ciceornes bicause Tullius Appius a noble king of the Volscians had on hys nose a marke lyke a chiche pease called Cicer. In hys childehoode hee so excelled all other children in wytte that their fathers mooued with thys fame went purposely to the schoole to behold and heare him He so profited in the eloquence of Gréeke and Latin that not onelye his companyons were in a merueylous admiration of him but also Appolonius the most excellent oratour at that time hearing him and not speaking a great space sayd at the last Truely Cicero I prayse thee and marueyle at thée but I lament the fortune of the Greekes when I consider that by thée learning and eloquence which were left vnto vs onely are euen nowe translated vnto the Romaynes which saying was afterwarde founde true For looke what subtiltie was in Logike what commoditie in morall Philosophye what secrete knowledge in Philosophie naturall hée knewe it as Tacitus writeth and declared it in Latine most eloquently And hee beyng but a verye yonge man came to practise in Rome studyed abundantlye the ciuile lawes was marueylouslye occupyed in greate weightie causes And after hée was Senatour was continually as it séemed most busie about the weale publike Yet he that exactly readeth his workes shall thynke he neuer did any thing but read great authours and wryte bookes For there was no philosopher no oratour no poet before his time that escaped him as doth in his bookes sufficiently appeare And yet howe manye bookes made he since wée haue not the thirde part of them yet such as we haue if any man nowe did wryte so much and so well we shoulde thinke hym to haue spent the more part of his time in writing And noble Cicero ãâ¦ã howe manye thinges dyd hee exploite by his wisedome and diligence in most weightie affayres as well in warre as peace howe did he by his dexteritie and prudence saue the citie and people of Rome from the most pernicious confederacie and rebellion of Catiline and other of the nobilitie which went about to destroy the weale publike and robbe the citie howe preserued he the same citie and people after the death of Caesar that they were not oppressed by Marcus Antonius For his incomparable actes the whole Senate and people gaue to him first before anye the name of father of the countrey What trouble and myserie susteyned he beyng exyled by the procurement of Clodius only for y e putting of the said rebelles to deth Such is the rewarde of people vnstable Likewise for dryuing Antonius out of Rome and by his sharpe orations causing him to be proclaymed enimie to the weale publike he made Antonie so much his enimie that in the treatie of peace betwéene him and Octauius hee demauÌded Cicero âo do with him his pleasure Which thing graunted of the vnkinde Octauius whome Cicero had brought vp and by his meanes caused to bee made chiefe gouernour of Rome Antonye sent one Herennius whâme Cicero had saued from death by his eloquence to pursue him as hee fledde Which thing when Cicero perceyued hee abode his comming And lying in an horselitter for weakenesse he did with constant eyes prepare his throte to Herennius who did al other men abhorring strike of his head and hands and brought them to Antonie who reioysing thereat caused the heade and handes to bée set ouer the place of ciuile iudgements of Rome which daily beholden of the Senate and people of Rome was lamented He flourished about .xl. yeares before the incarnation For his life and actes reade Plutarch de vitis Corn. Nepos Appian Sabel Apoth Erasmi Ciceroniânus a um Of Cicero or that studyeth to followe Cicero Cicheus A ryuer Cicimeni People about Moeotis Cicones A people of Thrace dwelling by the ryuer Hebrus Ciconius The name of him that buylded Brixia Cicuta The name of a notable vsurer Cilicia A countrey in Asia partly inclosed with the highest part of the mountaine Taurus and hardest to passe by Strabo deuideth Cilicia into two partes one called Teacher that is to say rough or rockie the other Campestris that is to say plaine Iosephus writeth that it was of olde time caueâ Tarsus of Tarsis one of the sonnes of Iaphet the yongest sonne of Noe. Herodotus saith the people were called Cilices of Cilix the sonne of Agenor king of Phoenicia where before it was called Hyppateus Saint Hierome interpreteth Cilicia a congregation a lamentation an assumption a lamentable calâing or vomite The people were by nature inclyned to lying and stealing whereof grewe this prouerbe * Cilix non facile verum dicit The Cicilian not lyghtly sayth truth A prouerbe applyed to a couetous man which alwaye lyeth for his particuler aduauntage as nowe a dayes most men doe which lyue onely by selling Cilicensis se Of Cilicia Cilissus a um Idem Cilix icis An inhabitaunt of Cilicia Also the sonne of Phoenix Cilla A citie néere to Thebes Cillicon contis A traytours name Cimas An yle by the ryuer Ister Cimbri People that inhabited Denmarke and Norwaie who had a marueylous custome Their wiues folowed them in warres women cunning in diuination
then was hys mouth opened and he spake gloryfying God made then the Psalme Benedictus dominus deus Israell This Iohn was of such perfection and holinesse that our Sauiour Christ testified of him that he went in the spirite and truth of Helias the Prophet but yet was he more than a prophete the messenger promised by the Prophete Malachias that God woulde sende which shoulde prepare the way before him Semblably Iohn testified of Christ that he was the sonne of God Iohn liued in wildernesse his garment was of Camellus heares his girdell of a skinne about his loynes his meate Locustae hony of the wooddes He baptized onely by water teaching repentaunce and the approching of the kingdome of heauen But bycause he sayde to Herode it was not lawful for him to haue his brothers wife he was by him put in prison and finally at the peticion of the daughter of Herodiades who daunced before him by the perswation of Herodiades who was his brothers wyfe hys head was striken of and in a dishe brought by the mayden vnto hir mother in open banket Iosephus antiquitatum lib. 18. calleth him a very good man who commaunded the Iewes to labour to get vertue to kepe true religion towarde God and by baptisme to ioyne towarde God and by baptisme to ioyne togither in one Also he sayth that many men thought that in the battayle betwéene Herode and Aretha by the iust vengeaunce of God for putting Iohn Baptiste to death the hoste of Herode was vtterly destroyed He was borne somewhat before the natiuitie of Christ and was put to death before Christe suffered his passion one yeare Ioannes Apostle and Euangelist sonne of Zebedaeus brother of Iames the Apostle called the more was of Christ most tenderlye beloued and in the tyme of the Emperour Domitian was exiled into Pathmos where he wrate the Apocalipsis After the death of Domitian in the tyme of Pertinax he retourned to Ephesus and there remayning vnto the tyme of Traiane he raysed many Churches did set them in order and being of great age dyed lxviij yeares after the passion of Christ as Sophronius writeth and was buryed at Ephesus Polycrates an auncient and holy bishop in Asia in his epistle to Victor bishop of Rome writeth in this wyse Also Iohn which layde his heade vpon our Lordes breast who was the chiefe priest and ware the pontificall plate or table martyr and doctour of the Churche slept at Ephesus He wrate hys Gospell last of all the Euangelistes in the last ende of his lyfe wherein he declareth the diuinitie of our Sauiour more than any of the other which by the holy ghost was reserued vnto him Iocasta Was daughter of Creon and first wyfe of Laius king of Thebes after whose death she being ignorant maryed Oedipus hir naturall sonne After that hir sonnes Polynices Etheocles which she had by Oedipus had one slayne the other in battayle she also kylled hir selfe Iochabella The name of Moyses mother Iohel A prophet borne in Bethon in the lande of Rubim He prophecied much of Hierusalem and finall conclusion of the Gentiles Iol A citie of Numidia Iolaus The sonne of Iphiclus of whome the people of Sardinia were named Iolenses Iolcos A towne of Thessaly Iole The daughter of Eurytus king of Aetolia whome Hercules loued so much that he serued hir in a womans apparell and spanne on a distaffe Ion The name of a Gréeke poete Ionas A prophete of the countrey of Cariathamaum not farre from Azotus a citie of the Greekes nigh to the sea in Syria in the tyme of Helias and was the sonne of the poore widowe and him did Helias restore vnto life for the hospitalitie of his mother When he came to full age he was by almightie God sent to the great citie of Niniue in Assyria and as he woulde haue fled from the Lorde and haue turned his iourney vnto Tharsos he was deuoured of a Whale and being at the last cast vp into the land out of the Whales mouth wheÌ he had béene thrée dayes in his belly he went foorth and preached in Niniue in such wyse that the people by penance restrayned the sworde of God which was readie to strike them Afterwarde Ionas vexed with heauinesse of minde returned to his countrey nor there long abyding taking with him his mother went to the lande of Sur and as he haunted the lande of Saar he there dyed and was buryed in the graue of Cinezeus the Iudge He prophecied that when men shoulde sée in Hierusâlem much people come from the west partes of the worlde then shoulde the citie be destroyed vnto the harde earth Ionas in hebrue signifieth a culuer or a destroyer of people Ionia A region in Gréece of Asia wherein were the cities of Ephesus Miletus Priena and other and the people thereof Ephesus Miletus Priena and other and the people thereof be called Iones and the tongue Ionica and the sea ioyning to it Mare Ionicum Iónicus a um Ionius a um and Ioniacus a um Of Ionia Iopas A king of Affrike one of Didos wooers Ioppe eâ f. g. A citie of the countrey of Palestina not farre from Ierusalem standing by the sea This is a most auncient citie for it was buylded before the vniuersall floud Some men doe suppose it to be the hauen which is called Port Iaffe Iordânis A fayre ryuer in Iudaea which diuideth Galilée from the residue of Iudaea and falleth into the redde sea Ios An yle where Homer was buryed Ioseph The sonne of Iacob the patriarke was through enuie solde by his brethren vnto a marchaunt who brought him into Aegypt and gaue him to Putiphar great mayster of housholde wyth king Pharao whose wife burning in concupiscence bycause Ioseph woulde not commit adulterie with hir caused him to be cast into pryson where he declaring to the kinges cup bearer the signification of his dreame was afterwarde by the same cup bearer remembred vnto king Pharao when hée had dreamed a dreame which hée woulde haue expounded And he expounding the kinges dreame was made high stewarde of his Realme So that by his most excellent wisedome such aboundaunce of grayne was brought into the kings barnes and there kept during the .vij. plentifull yeres that the .vij. yeres of scarcitie next ensuing it sufficeth not onely to relieue all the people of Aegypt but also refreshed other countreyes and made the king excéedingly riche Moreouer the brethren of Ioseph being sent by Iacob their father to bye corne in Aegypt not knowing their brother Ioseph were by him sundrie times apprehended and compelled to fetch their yonger brother Beniamin and at the last Ioseph discouering himselfe vnto them caused them to fetch him and their father into Aegipt with all his familie where they were honourably enterteyned of king Pharao and Ioseph And Ioseph had there two sonnes Effraim and Manasses and lyued an hundred and tenne yeares Ioseph signifieth increase or a great officer Hée dyed before the incarnation about .1652