these two Consuls being Conquerors were slain upon which the three Armies obeyed Caesar Antony being put to slight having lost his Army went for succor to Lepidus who was General to Caesar's Horse and then commanded great Forces by whom he was received and soon after Lepidus endeavouring it Caesar made peace with Antony and as if he would vindicate the death of his Father by whom he was adopted in his Will he marched to Rome with his Army and by force procured the Consulship in the twentieth year of his age Having proscribed the Senate he began with Antony and Lepidus to govern the Commonwealth by an Army Cicero the Orator was kill'd by them with many other Noblemen In the mean while Brutus and Cassius the murtherers of Caesar rais'd a great War for there were many Armies in Macedonia and the East which they seiz'd upon wherefore Caesar Octavianus Augustus and Mark Antony went against them Lepidus staid behind to defend Italy they fought against 'em at Philippi a City of Macedonia Caesar and Antony were overcome in the first Battel but the most noble Cassius was slain In the second Brutus and very many Noblemen of his side were slain and then the Commonwealth was thus divided amongst them That Augustus should govern Spain France and Italy Antony Asia Pontus and the East But Lucius Antonius the Consul raised a Civil War in Italy his Brother who had fought with Caesar against Brutus and Cassius he was overcome and taken at Perusium a City of Tuscia but his life spar'd In the mean time Sextus Pompeius the Son of Cn. Pompeius made a War in Sicily those of Brutus and Cassius's party who remain'd joyning with him yet after a War brought upon him by Caesar Augustus and M. Antony at last a Peace was ratified At that time M. Agrippa acted prosperously in Aquitania and L. Ventidius Bassus overcame the Persians making incursions into Syria in three Battels He kill'd Pacorus the Son of King Orodes the same day that heretofore Orodes King of the Persians had kill'd Crassus by Surena his General He first triumph'd truly over the Persians at Rome In the mean time Pompey broke the Peace and being beat in a Sea-fight fled to Asia and was there slain Antony who govern'd Asia and the East being divorced from Augustus's Sister married Cleopatra the Queen of Egypt He also in person fought against the Persians and overcame them in the first Battel but in his return he suffered much by Famine and Pestilence and the Parthians falling upon him in his flight he lost his Victory He also raised a great Civil War by the instigation of his Wife Cleopatra the Queen of Egypt whilst she through a womans ambition long'd to rule at Rome He was overcome by Augustus in a famous Sea-fight at Actium in Epirus from whence he fled to Egypt and in despair when all his Soldiers had revolted to Augustus he killed himself Cleopatra died with the poison of Asps which she had put to her Breasts Octavianus Augustus added Aegypt to the Roman Empire and Cn. Cornelius Gallus was the first that governed it Thus having finished all his Wars every where Augustus in the twelfth year after he had been made Consul returned to Rome From that time he governed the Commonwealth alone for four and forty years having rul'd it twelve years before with Lepidus and Antony and so from the beginning to the end his Reign lasted six and fifty years He died a natural death in the seventy sixth year of his age in Atella a City of Campania He was buried in the Campus Martius at Rome a man not undeservedly for the most part reckon'd a God Nor was any one more happy than him in his Wars or more moderate in Peace He lived with the greatest civility all the four and forty years he ruled alone being most liberal towards all men and very faithful to his friends who he had advanced to so great honors that they were almost equal to himself The Roman affairs never flourished more before his time for besides the Civil Wars in which he was always conqueror he added Aegypt to the Roman Empire with Cantabria and Dalmatia oftentimes overcome before but entirely subdued by him also Pannonia Aquitania Illyricum Rhaetia the Vindelici and the Salassi living upon the Alps with all the Maritime Cities of Pontus and amongst these the famous Cities Bosphorus and Panticapaeon He overcame the Daci in several Battels He cut off the great Forces of the Germans and drove them beyond the River Allis which is up the Country far from the Rhine but this War was managed by his Son-in-law Drusus as the Pannonian War was by his other Son-in-law Tiberius in which War he brought four hundred thousand Captives out of Germany and planted 'em upon the Banks of the Rhine in Gaul He retook Armenia from the Parthians and the Persians gave Hostages to him which they never did before to any other Also they restored the Roman Ensigns which were taken away from Crassus when he was beaten The Scythians and the Indians sent presents and Embassadors to him who before had never heard of the Roman name Galatia in his time was made a Province being before a Kingdom and M. Lollius the Propraetor was the first that governed it The barbarous Nations so loved him that Kings who were Allies of the Roman People built Cities to his honor which they would call Caesarea as that built by King Juba in Mauritania and that in Palestine which now is a very famous City Many Kings left their Kingdoms to do him service and being dressed in a Roman Habit ran by him in his Chariot or on Horseback and dying he was stiled a God He left the Commonwealth to Tiberius in a most flourishing condition who being his Wives Son was afterwards his Son-in-law by the marriage of his Daughter and at last his Son by adoption Tiberius governed very lazily with great cruelty wicked avarice and filthy lust He never fought in person but carried on his Wars by his Lieutenants Some Kings whom he had enticed to him by his flatteries he never let return to their own Country amongst whom Archelaus King of Cappadocia whose Kingdom also he made a Province and commanded the chief City to be called after his name which now is called Caesarea and before Mazaca He reigned three and twenty years and died in Campania in the eighty third year of his age to the great joy of all men After him rul'd Caius Caesar surnamed Caligula Drusus the Son-in-law of Augustus was his Grandfather and Tiberius his great Uncle he was very wicked and horrible one who might excuse the Vices of Tiberius He undertook a War against the Germans and entering into Suevia performed no valiant action He committed Incest with his Sisters and had a Daughter by one of 'em when he had been outragious towards all men in Cruelty Avarice and Lust he was kill'd in his Palace in the nine and thirtieth year of
force He overcame the Caeninenses the Antemnates the Crustumii the Sabins the Fidenates and the Vejentes in the War raised against him for the injury offered to their Women All these Cities lay about Rome And when upon a sudden Tempest at an Assembly he was never seen after in the thirty seventh year of his Reign he is consecrated being believed to have gone to the Gods Then the Government of Rome was in the power of Senators for the space of five days by turns which Authority lasted one year Afterwards Numa Pompilius was made King who waged no War yet he was no less serviceable to Rome than Romulus for he founded the Laws and Customs of the Romans who were now thought half Barbarians and Robbers from their continual Wars He divided the year into ten Months which before was confused without any account he constituted very many holy Rites and built many Temples at Rome and died in the forty third year of his Reign Tullus Hostilius succeeded him he renewed the War and overcame the Albani who dwelt twelve miles from Rome He subdued the Vejentes and the Fidenates some of these were six miles from Rome others eighteen He enlarged the City having added the Hill Caelius When he had reigned thirty two years he was killed by Thunder and his House burnt up with Lightning Ancus Marcius Reigned after him he was the Grandchild of Numa by his Daughter he warred against the Latins and joyned the Aventine Hill and the Hill Janiculus to the City built Ostia a Sea-Town sixteen miles from Rome He died a natural death in the twenty fourth year of his Reign Then Priscus Tarquinius was made King He doubled the number of the Senators and built the Circus Maximus at Rome He first instituted the Roman Sports which are continued to our time He also overcame the Sabins and having conquered much of their Country joyned it to the Roman Territory and first of all entred the City in Triumph he built the Walls and the Common Sewers he began the Capitol and was killed by the Sons of Ancus whom he succeeded in the thirty eighth year of his Reign Servius Tullius succeeded him born of a Noble Woman being a Captive and a Handmaid He also overcame the Sabins and added the three Hills Quirinalis Viminalis and Esquilinus to Rome He digged Ditches about the City And first of all numbered and taxed the people which thing was unknown throughout the whole World Upon the Assessment there were found eighty four thousand Roman Citizens with those who lived in the Country He was murthered in the forty fifth year of his Reign by the treachery of his Son-in-law Tarquinius the Son of Priscus his Predecessor and his Daughter Tullia whom Tarquinius had married Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was the Seventh and last of the Roman Kings He overcame the Volsci which people dwelt not far from Rome as we go to Campania he took the City Gabii and Suessa Pometia and made peace with the Thusci and built the Temple of Jupiter in the Capitol Afterwards besieging Ardea a City situated eighteen miles from Rome he lost his Kingdom For when his Son Tarquinius the younger ravished Lucretia a Woman of great quality and the most chast Wife of Collatinus and she complaining of the injury to her Husband her Father and her Friends killed her self in the sight of them all For which reason Brutus her Father and her Husband Tarquinius Collatinus stirred up the people and depos'd Tarquinius Soon after the Army which besieged Ardea with Tarquinius deserted him and he returning to Rome was shut out When he had reigned five and twenty years he fled away with his Wife and Children Thus Rome was governed by seven Kings for the space of two hundred forty three years the Romans hitherto scarcely possessing fifteen miles about their City For this reason two Consuls were chosen for one King that if one had ill Designs the other having equal Power might restrain him And 't was enacted by the Roman people that they should rule no longer than one year lest they should grow proud by a long continuance of their Power but be always courteous knowing they were to be private Men within one year Therefore Lucius Junius Brutus who had been very industrious in expelling King Tarquin and Tarquinius Collatinus the Husband of Lucretia were Consuls the first year But the Consulship was taken away soon from Tarquinius Collatinus for the Romans were not willing that any should remain in the City who was called Tarquinius therefore having gathered together his Estate he departed from Roome Valerius Publicola was made Consul in his stead But King Tarquinius Superbus who was driven out waged War against Rome and by the assistance of several people fought with them that he might be restored to his Kingdom Brutus the Consul and Aruns the Son of Tarquinius kill'd one another in the first Battel yet the Romans came off Conquerors The Roman Matrons mourned one year for Brutus as the Defender of their Chastity and their common Father Valerius Publicola took Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus for his Collegue who was the Father of Lucretia upon whose Death he took Horatius Pulvillus into his place so that there were five Consuls in this first year Tarquinius Collatinus went out of the City by reason of his name Brutus was kill'd in the Battel Sp. Lucretius died a natural Death Tarquinius again made War against Rome the second year that he might be restored Porsena the King of Thuscia assisting him and almost took it but was overcome at last In the third year after the banishing of th◠King Tarquinius when he could 〈◊〉 be received into his Kingdom nor would Porsena who had made peace with the Romans aid him retir'd to Tusculum which City is not far from Rome and there lived a private life with his Wife fourteen years In the fourth year after the Kings were driven from Rome the Sabins waging War against the Romans were overcome upon which there was a Triumph In the fifth year Lucius Valerius the Collegue of Brutus and now the fourth time Consul died he was so poor that he was buried at the expence of the publick for whom the Matrons mourned one year as for Brutus In the ninth year after the banishing of the Tarquins when the Son-in-law of King Tarquinius had gathered together a great Army to revenge the injuries done to his Father-in-law the Romans created a new Authority which was called the Dictatorship being greater than the Consulship In the same year also the General of the Horse who was subordinate to the Dictator was made Nor doth Roman Story relate any thing more like the present Government of the Empire which Your Majesty now enjoys than the ancient Dictatorship chiefly when Caius Caesar and after him Augustus otherwise called Octavianus reigned with the name and honour of Dictactor of whom I shall speak hereafter But Largius was the first Roman Dictator and Spurius Cassius the first General
when he marched out armed a Crow sat upon his right Arm and a little while after when they were fighting the same Crow struck at the eyes of the Gaul with his Wings and Claws that he could not see before him wherefore the Gaul being slain Valerius the Tribune gained not onely the Victory but also a Name For afterwards he was called Corvinus for this Deed and made Consul in the three and twentieth year of his Age. The Latins who would not send the Romans Soldiers began to exact this of them that one of the Consuls should be chosen out of their People and the other from the Romans which being denied they took up Arms against them but being overcome with a great slaughter the Romans triumphed and for this brave Action the Statues of the Consuls were placed upon the Pulpit from whence they spoke their Orations Now the Romans begun to grow powerful for they made War with the Samnites living about a hundred and thirty miles from the City who were situate between Picenum Campania and Apulia L. Papirius Cursor commanded in this War with the honour of Dictator Who going to Rome charged Q. Fabius Maximus General of the Horse to whom he committed the care of the Army not to fight in his absence But he having found an opportunity fought very successfully and routed the Samnites For which thing the Dictator commanded him to be beheaded because he had fought against his Command yet he was freed by the great favour of the Soldiers and the People and there arose so great a mutiny against Papirius that he had like to have been killed amongst them Afterwards in the Consulship of Titus Veturius and Spurius Posthumius the Romans very dishonourably were overcome by the Samnites and made Slaves by them But the Senate and the People broke the Peace which had been made through meer necessity Afterwards L. Papirius the Consul overcame the Samnites and making seven thousand of them Slaves triumphed for the Victory obtained against them At the same time Appius Claudius Censor brought into the City Rome the Water called from his name Claudia and paved the Appian way The Samnites having renewed the War overcame Q. Fabius Maximus and slew three thousand of his Men. Afterwards having his Father Fabius Maximus for his Lieutenant he subdued the Samnites and took most of their Towns Then P. Cornelius Rufinus and Manius Curius Dentatus being Consuls were both sent against the Samnites and overcame them in several great Battels Then they finished the War which the Romans had waged with the Samnites for nine and forty years Neither was there now any Enemy in Italy who would make trial of Roman Valour A few years after some Forces of the Gauls joined themselves with the Tusci and the Samnites but as they marched to Rome Cn. Cornelius Dolabella defeated them At the same time the Romans proclaimed War against the Tarentini who lived in the farthermost part of Italy because they had affronted their Embassadors they desired Pyrrhus the King of Epirus who was descended from Achilles to help them against the Romans who came soon after into Italy This was the first time the Romans fought with a forein Enemy P. Valerius Laevinus the Consul was sent to fight them who having taken Pyrrhus's Spies commands them to be led about his Camp to view his Army and then be sent back to tell Pyrrhus how the Romans managed their Actions Upon the joyning of the Battel Pyrrhus fled yet he overcame the Romans by the help of his Elephants which they feared having never seen them before But the Night putting an end to the fight Laevinus fled Pyrrhus took eighteen hundred Romans whom he used very honourably and also buried their dead whom when he saw lying upon the ground with their wounds in their Breast and Face and with a stern countenance he is reported to have held up his hands to Heaven uttering these words That he might have conquered the whole World if it had been his fortune to have had such valiant Soldiers Afterwards Pyrrhus having joyned the Samnites the Lucani and the Brutii to his Army marched to Rome wasting all places with fire and sword he destroyed Campania and came to the City Praeneste eighteen miles from Rome A little while after he retreated into Campania being affraid of the Army which followed him under the command of a Consul The Romans sent Embassadors to Pyrrhus to desire him to restore them their Captives whom he received very honourably and sent back their Captives without ransom He very much admired one of the Roman Embassadours Fabricius by name and when he knew him to be poor he would have enticed him to leave the Romans and come over to him promising the fourth part of his Kingdom Fabricius despised it Wherefore Pyrrhus esteeming the Romans at a high rate sent an Embassadour a great Man by name Cineas to make Peace with them on equal terms which were that he might reserve that part of Italy which he had Conquer'd The Romans liked not the Propositions Therefore the Senate sent word to Pyrrhus that he could have no peace with the Romans if he stayed in Italy Then the Romans commanded all those Captives which Pyrrhus had restored to be esteemed infamous who should have defended themselves with their Arms neither should they regain their former credit till they had brought back the spoils of their Enemies Pyrrhus his Embassadour returned with this answer whom when Pyrrhus asked what sort of place he found Rome he reply'd That he had seen a Country of Kings that they were all as brave Men there as he was counted in Epirus and Greece P. Sulpicius and Decius Mus the Consuls are sent Generals against him Upon the joining of the Battel Pyrrhus was wounded and his Elephants slain he lost in the Fight twenty thousand the Romans onely five thousand Pyrrhus fled to Tarentum the second year after Fabricius was sent to fight him whom before he could not bribe being one of the Embassadours having promised him the fourth part of his Kingdom Then his Camp and the King 's being nigh one another Pyrrhus his Physician came to him by Night promising to poyson the King if he would reward him for it whom he commanded to be carried bound to Pyrrhus and to be told that he had undertaken to kill him The King admiring at him is reported to have said This is that Fabricius whom 't is harder to disuade from honesty than to alter the Sun's course Then the King went into Sicily Fabricius having defeated the Samnites and the Lucani triumphed Then Manius Curius Dentatus and Cornelius Lentulus were sent against Pyrrhus Curius fought him and cut off his Army and having driven him to Tarentum took his Camp in the same day with the loss of three and twenty thousand of the Enemy Curius Dentatus triumphed in his Consulship he was the first Man that brought Elephants to Rome being four in number A little while after Pyrrhus
six hundred seventy eight M. Licinius Lucullus govern'd the Province of Macedonia the Cousin of that Lucullus who managed the War against Mithridates In Italy on a sudden arose a new War for seventy four Gladiators under the command of Spartacus Chrysus and Oenomaus having broken out of their fencing School at Capua fled away and wandering through Italy commenc'd as great a War as Hannibal did for overcoming many of the Roman Captains and two of their Consuls they gathered together an Army of almost sixty thousand Men at last they were conquered by M. Licinius Crassus the Proconsul in Apulia and after many calamities in Italy the War was ended the third year by him In the year of the City six hundred and eighty in the Consulship of P. Cornelius Lentulus and Cnaeus Aufidius Orestes onely the Mithridatick and Macedonian Wars disturb'd the Roman Empire Lucius Lucullus and M. Lucullus managed them For L. Lucullus after his Victory over Mithridates at Cyzicus and his Captains in a Sea fight pursued him and having recovered Paphlagonia and Bithynia he marched into his Kingdom and took Sinope and Amisus two famous Cities in Pontus The second Battel was fought at the City Cabira where Mithridates had gathered together great Forces from all his Countries thereabouts when five thousand Romans putting to flight Mithridates with thirty thousand of his best Soldiers plunder'd his Camp Lucullus also subdu'd Armenia the less which Mithridates governed But he was received after his flight by Tigranes King of the greater Armenia who then reigned with great Fame and oftentimes beating the Persians had seiz'd upon Mesopotamia Syria and part of Phaenicia but Lucullus demanding Mithridates that fled entred Armenia Tigranes his Kingdom took there the famous City Tigranocerta and with eighteen thousand so overthrew Tigranes coming against him with six hundred thousand Cuirassiers one hundred thousand Archers and armed Men that he cut off a great part of his Armenians From thence he marched to the City Nisibis which he took with the King's Brother But those whom Lucullus had left in Pontus with part of the Army to defend the Romans with their conquest in the adjacent Countries behaving themselves carelesly and covetously gave an opportunity to Mithridates of breaking into Pontus and so the War was renewed and one sent to succeed Lucullus having taken Nisibis and preparing the War against the Persians the other Lucullus who governed Macedonia was the first of all the Romans that waged War against the Bessi and overcame them in a great Battel on the Mountain Aemus and having taken the City Vscudama which the Bessi inhabited in one Day and Cibyle he marched Conquerer even to the Danube From thence he went against many Cities bordering on Pontus where he sacked Apollonia and took Calaâ—â—s Parthenopolis Tomi Histrum and all Buzia After the War was ended he returned to Rome and both of them triumph'd but Lucullus who managed the War against Mithridates triumphed with greater glory being Conquerour of so considerable Kingdoms The Macedonian War being ended and by reason of Lucullus his return to Rome the Mithridatic War continuing which Mithridates with new Forces prosecuted there arose a War in Crete Caecilius Metellus was sent thither and in three year having subdued all the Provinces and being stil'd Creticus he triumphed from the conquest of that Island About the same time Libya was added to the Roman Empire by a grant in King Apion's will in which Province there were these famous Cities Berenice Ptolemais and Cyrene Whilst these things were perform'd the Pirats so infested the Seas that the Romans though the Conquerers of all the World could not safely sail Wherefore this War was Decreed to be managed by Cnaeus Pompeius who with great fortune and celerity ended it in few months Afterwards the War against Mithridates and Tigranes was committed to him which having undertook he overcame Mithridates in Armenia the less in a Battel by Night and plunder'd his Camp cutting off forty thousand of the Enemy with the loss onely of twenty of his Soldiers and two Centurions Mithridates fled with his Wife and two Attendants Afterwards when he tyranniz'd over his people in a mutiny of his Soldiers raised by his own Son Pharnaces he was forc'd to poison himself Thus Mithridates died at Bosphorus a Man of great industry and conduct he lived seventy reigned sixty and made War with the Romans forty years Then Pompey made War against Tigranes who surrender'd himself and coming to him in his Camp sixteen miles from Artaxata fell at his feet and delivered up his Crown which Pompey restored again and received him honourably but took away Syria Phaenicia Sophone besides fining him in six thousand Talents of Silver to be paid to the Romans for raising War against them without a cause Afterwards Pompey brought War on the Albani and thrice overcame Orodes their King who at last obtain'd a Peace by his Letters and Presents to Pompey He also overcame in a Battel Anthaces the King of Iberia who submitted to him He gave Armenia the less to Dejotarus the King of Galatia for assisting him in the Mithridatic War And restoring Paphlagonia to Attalus and Pylemenes he made Aristarchus the King of the Colchi Then he subdued the Ituraei and the Arabians and coming into Syria made Seleucia near Antioch a free City because it had not aided King Tigranes He restor'd the people of Antioch their Hostages and added some grounds to the Daphnenses to enlarge their Groves being delighted with the pleasantness of the place and its many Springs From thence he marched into Judaea and in the third month took Jerusalem the chief City and having slain twelve thousand Jews he receiv'd the rest into his protection Having performed these things he returned into Asia and so ended this long War In the Consulship of Marcus Tullius Cicero the Orator and C. Antonius in the year of the City six hundred eighty nine Lucius Sergius Catilina a Man of high birth but of a very vitious Disposition plotted with some audacious Noble Men against his Country but he was driven out of the City by Cicero and his Associates upon apprehension strangled in Prison Catiline also overcome in a Battel was slain by Antonius the other Consul In the year of the City six hundred and ninety in the Consulship of D. Junius Silanus and L. Murena Metellus triumphed for conquering Crete and Pompey for the Piratic and Mithridatic Wars no pomp of a Triumph was ever like to Pompey's for Mithridates his and Tigranes's Sons also Aristobulus the King of the Jews with a great Sum of Money were carried before his Chariot At that time there was no considerable War in all the World with the Romans In the year of the City six hundred ninety three Caius Julius Caesar who was afterwards Emperour and L. Bibulus were made Consuls Caesar having obtain'd by Order of Senate the Government of Gaul and Illyricum with ten Legions first overcame the Helvetii who are now
North Armenia the Less and on the South Susiana Atella a Town of Campania Athenians the People of the City of Athens now called Setines famous for an University built on the Sea-Coast in Attica first by Cecrops and called Cecropia Aventinus one of th seven Hills of Rome Now M. di S. Sabina B. BAbylon a noble City in Chaldea anciently famous for its Brick-Walls built by Semiramis in height 300 foot in bredth 75. the River Euphrates passed through the midst of it It is now called Bagdet Basternae a People of Sarmatia in Europe in the Kingdom of Poland near the Euxine Sea Barbaria a Country in Africa it is divided into four Kingdoms Tunis Algiers Fess and Morocco and it lies all along the Africk Shore from the Streights of Gibraltar to Aegypt Bebriacum a Village in Italy between Cremona and Verona where Vitellius worsted Otho it is now called by the Italians la Bina Belgica the Low-Countrey or Neatherlands it containeth seventeen Provinces Beneventum a Town of the Hirpini now in the Kingdom of Naples built by Diomedes it was called Maleventum untill a Colony of Romans was brought there and for good lucks sake it was called Beneventum Berenice a Maritime City of Cyrene another in Aegypt both built by Ptolomy in honour of his Wife Bessi People of Thrace by the River Strymon famous for Theft and Robbery Bithynia a Countrey of Asia the Less next to Troas by Solinus it was called Bebrycia afterwards Mygdonia now 't is called Bursia and Becsanguil by the Turks Manili Bononia Bulloign a City of France in Picardy Bosphorani a People of Sarmatia nigh the Bosphorus Cimmerius Britannia the Isle of Britanny containing England Scotland and Wales it is 800. Miles long the whole Compass 1836 miles It hath on the East the German Sea on the West the Irish on the North the Scottish on the South it is divided by a narrow Sea from Gallia Belgica Brundusini the People of Brundusium now called Brindisi it is a City of Calabria by the Adriatick Sea which hath been a very commodious Haven whence was their usual Passage into Greece Brutij a People in the farthest part of Italy beyond the Lucani over against Sicily whose Kingdom is now called Calabria Burdegala Burdeaux in Guienne in France an Arch-Bishops Seat Byzantium a City of Thrace built by Pausanias a Spartan Captain it was called Ligos afterwards Nova Roma in the time of Severus and being enlarged and made the head of the Oriental Empire in the time of Constantine it was called Constantinople it is now under the power of the Turks being won by Mahomet the Second and it is called Stambol here is the Seat of the Grand-Seignior C. CAbira a City of Asia the Less in Paphligonia Callaeci a People of Lusitania or now rather Gallicia Campania a Champian Country of Italy in the Realm of Naples now called Terra di Lavoro Cannae a pitiful Village in Apulia famous for a great Overthrow which Hannibal gave the Romans there where were slain 40000. and among them such a number of Gentry that he sent three bushels full of Rings to Carthage Capitolium the Capitol a strong Castle of Rome built on one of the seven Hills of Rome of that Name Cappadocia a Country in Asia the Less it is otherwise called Leucosyria Almasia or Geneck and anciently Moga Capua a famous City of Campania not far from Naples Carnuntum a City of the Upper Pannonia now St. Petronel. Carpi a People of Salmatia Europoea Carrae a City in Mesopotamia by the Hebrews Charan now Heren Here Abraham dwelt and it was here that Crassus the Roman with his whole Army was Routed so miserably by the Parthians Carthago a famous City of Africa built by Dido after the Temple of Solomon 135 years and before the building of Rome 133. in the year of the destruction of Troy 300. now called Tunis Catalauni the People of a Country in Spain belonging to the Kingdom of Arragon Catanenses the People of Catana now Catania lying between Messina and Syracuse Catti People of Germany now under the Langrave of Hessen Celtiberia a Country in Spain lying near the River Iberus in the Countrey of Biscay Chalcedon a City in Bithynia where the fourth General Council was held before Christ 453. to refute the Heresie of Nestorius it is otherwise called Computa and of late time Calcitiu and Caulina Cilicia a Countrey in the Lesser Asia where St. Paul was born it is now called Caramania and Fenichia Cimbri a People of Denmark and Holstein Circessunt a Castle of the Romans not far from Euphrates Clypea a Maritime City of Africa Coelius one of the Seven Hills of Rome now M. di S. Giovanni Laterano Caeninenses the People of the Town Caenina in Italy Colchis a Countrey by the Euxine Sea in Asia near Pontus having on the North the Hill Corax being a part of Taurus on the East Iberia on the South Phasis it is now Mengrelia and Laxia Colchi the People of Colehis Concordia a City of the Carni by Aquileia also a City in Germany called Kochersberg Constantinople a City in Thrace called the Port by the Turks Stambol it is the Seat of the Grand Seignior Corinth a famous and rich City of Achaia placed in the Isthmus going into Morea Corsica an Isle in the Ligustick Sea about six miles from Sardinia 't is in compass 300 miles it is now under the City of Genoa Creta the Isle called Candia situated in the mouth of the Aegean Sea between Rhodes and Peloponnesus the breadth of it is fifty miles the length 279. Crustumii a People of Thuscia nigh the Veii in Italy Ctesiphon a Town of Assyria called Calamio or Calaneth Cyrene a Province of Libya between Mareotis and Zeugitana Cyzicus a large City of Mysia in the Lesser Asia by the Propontis D. DAcia a Country beyond Hungary and the Danow 't is now divided into Transylvania which was called Dacia Mediterranea and Valachia called the Hilly Dacia and Moldavia Daci the People of Dacia Dalmatae People of Dalmatia Dalmatia part of Illyricum now called Sclavonia lying between Croatia Bosnia Servia and the Adriatick Sea Danubius the Danow the greatest River in Europe as it passes by Illyricum it changes its name and is called Ister it receives into it sixty more Rivers and arises in the lowest side of Germany out of the Hill Arnoba and runs into the Euxine Sea Dardania the City of Troy in Phrygia in Asia the Less built by King Dardanus Dodonae a City of Chaonia or Molossia now called Larta or Janna and by the Turks under whose Government it is Arbanos E. EBoracum a City in the Kingdom of England called York Edessa a City of Syria Edessi the People of Edessa Ephesus a City in Ionia built by the Amazons as Justin says and called by Lysimachus who removed it to where it now stands after his Wife's name Arsinoe but now Figena or Efeso famous for the Temple of Diana one of the seven
Wonders of the World which was burned by Erostratus the same night that Alexander was born Epirus a Country in Greece 't was called by the Ancients Chaonia and Molossia now Larta and Chimera 't is under the Turks and by some called Albania inferior Esquilinus one of the seven Hills of Rome Eumenia a City of Phrygia built by Eumenes from whom it took its name Euphrates a River of Mesopotamia rising out of Niphatis a Hill of Armenia one of the Rivers that come out of Paradise it passes through Babylon and now called Aferat or Frat. Europa Europe one of the four parts of the World and most considerable for Arts and Arms so called from Europa the Daughter of Agenor King of Tyre F. FAlisci a People of Tuscany in Italy subdued by Camillus the Consul Fidenae a City of Latium a Province of Italy now called St. Peters Patrimony G. GAbii a City of the Volscians twelve miles from Rome in the way to Praeneste now called Campo Gabio Galatia or Gallograecia a Country in Asia the Less lying between Paphlagonia Pontus and Cappadocia whereof Dejotarus for whom Tully did make an Oration was King 't is now called Chiangare and by the Turks Gelas. Gallia now called France it is bounded with the English Aquitane and Mediterranean Seas the Pyrenean Hills and the Alps. Galli the People of Gallia now called the French Germania Germany a most large Country in Europe having on the West the River Rhine on the North the Baltick Ocean on the South-West the Danow 't is divided into ten Circles and Governed by the Emperor and seven Electoral Princes with other Dukes and Petty Princes Germani Germans the People of Germany Gothi a people of the Lower Scythia in the Northern part of Europe they did Wast and Depopulate a great part of Europe Graecia a famous Eastern Province of Europe the Nurse of Valour and Learning H. HElvetii the People of Helvetia now called Switzers Heraclea a City in Thrace betwixt Stanbol and Galliopolis once called Perinthus Hierosolyma Jerusalem called also Salem and by the Poets Solyma the chief City of the Holy Land indeed once of the whole World 't was also called Aelia from Aelius Adrianus The Turks who have it now in possession call it Chutz or Gots Hispania the Country of Spain by the Ancients called Iberia 't is environ'd with the Mediterranian the Ocean and Cantabrian Seas except towards France from which 't is sever'd by the Pyrenean Hills I. Janiculum a Castle upon the Hill Janiculus one of the four Hills of Rome called from the God Janus now Montorio Iberi a People of Spain which was called Iberia either from King Iberus or from the River Iberus Illyricum the Country called Sclavonia or Wedenland having on the North Pannonia on the West Istria on the East Mysia Superior and on the South the Adriatick Sea India a large Country of Asia call'd by the Natives Indostan 't is bounded on the East with China on the North with Tartary on the West with Persia and on the South with the Indian Sea Interamna and Italian City in Vmbria called Terani Isauria a Southern Country of Galatia joyning to Pisidia with a City called Isauria which was afterwards called Claudiopolis Istri the People of Istria a Country now in Italy by the Dutch called Histerech so called from the River Ister under the Dominion of Venice Italica a City of Spain built by Scipio Africanus Ituraei the People of Iturea a Region of Palestine bordering upon Arabia Judaei Jews People of Judaea or Palestine now dispersed over all the World L. LAcedaemonia a large Country of Peloponnesus now called Tzaconia the chief City whereof was Lacedaemon called also Sparta Lacedaemonii the People of Lacedaemon Latini the People of Latium a Province in Italy now called Compagna di Roma Leptis a City of Africa between the two Syrtes belonging to Tripoli and now called Lebeda or Lepeda Libyssa a Town of Bythynia called now Polmen where Hannibal died between Nicomedia and Chalcedon Ligures the People of Liguria in Italy reaching from the Hill Apenninus to the Tuscan Sea of which Genoa is the chief City 't is now called La Riviera di Genoua Lilybaeum a Promontory and City of Sicily now called Capo coco Lingones People of France dwelling about Longres Lorium a Village 12 miles from Rome Lucania a Country of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples Lugdunum the City Lyons in France called for difference-sake Lugdunum Celtarum from Lugdunum Batavorum Lusitania the third part of Spain now called Protugal 't is parted on the North from Tarracon by the River Ducro Lycia a Country in Asia the Less now called Bricquia by others Aldinelli situated between Caria and Pamphylia M. MAcedonia a large Country of Greece containing several Provinces 't is now all under the Turks Maesi People of Maesia a Country in Europe adjoyning to Pannonia and running out at length along the Danube to the Pontus antiently the higher and the lower now Bulgaria Servia Magnesia a Country of Macedonia joyning to Thessaly containing Pieria and Pelasgia Marcomanni People near Austria whose Country is called Mark or as others Bohemians Mare Rubrum the Red Sea called by the Greeks Erythraeum and 't is also called Sinus Arabicus it parts Asia from Africa Mariana a City in Corsica now called Matino or Zagorolo Marsi a People of Latium in Italy Massilia a City in Provence in France called Marsiles Mazaca the City Caesaria in Cappadocia by the Hill Argaeus Mauritania a Country in Africa called Morisco lying towards the Gaditan Straits and the West Ocean 't is divided into Tingitana which contains in it the Kingdom of Fess and Morocco and Caesariensis called the Kingdom of Algier and is now with other Countrys contained under the general name of Barbary Mediolanum the City of Milan in Italy where St. Ambrose was Bishop remarkable for four things for multitude of People a stately Church a strong Castle and a Library well furnished Mesopotamia a Country of Asia between Tigris and Euphrates Milvius Pons a Bridge two miles from Rome where Milvius Ager lies Moguntiacum the City Mentz in Germany the Seat of one of the Spiritual Electors of the Emperor here was Printing first invented Munda a Town in Hispania Boetica where the last and most bloody Battel that ever Caesar undertook was fought between him and the Sons of Pompey Mursa a Town in Pannonia N. NArbona a City in France an Arch-Bishops See Nicomedia a City of Bithynia by the Propontis Nicomedienses a People of Bithynia Nisibis otherwise Antiochia of this name are many Cities one of Syria called Epiphane Nola a City of Campania fourteen miles from Naples where Augustus Caesar died tho our Author mentions Atella Noricum a great tract of Ground containing several Countrys as great part of Austria Stiria Carinthia c. Numantia a City of Spain now called Soria or Garray Numentana via a Road that went from Rome to Nomentum Numidia a part of Africa now
called Biledulgerid bounded with Mauritania Carthage and Aethiopia Numidae the People of Numidiae O. OLympus 't is the name of three Cities the first in Pamphylia the second in Lycia the third in Cilicia also the name of a Promontory of Cyprus and of twelve Hills especially one very high in Thessaly and 't is also a Promontory in Crete now called Cambrasia or Cambrussia Osdroene a Country in Syria on the confines of Mesopotamia Osdroeni the People of Osdroene P. PAlatinus one of the seven Hills of Rome called so from Palatia Evanders Daughter now Palazzo Maggiore Palaestina a Country of Asia called by the Ancients Canaan and the Land of Promise by Ptolomy Palaestine or the Country of the Philistines and now by Christians the Holy Land it containeth the Countrys of Idumaea Samaria Judaea and Galilee the chief City was Hierusalem Pamphylia a Southern Country in Asia the Less between Cilicia and Lycia now Subject to the Turk and lying on the West part of Caramania Panticapaeon a great City of Taurica now Tartary the Less near the Cimmerian Bosphorus call'd Pantico Pannonia a large Country of Europe now called Hungary divided into the Upper and the Lower Pannonii the People of Pannonia Paphlagonia a Country in Asia the Less lying between Galatia and the Euxine Sea now called Bolli Parthi the People of Parthia a Country in Asia lying between Media Carmania and the Hyrcane Sea by Mercator 't is called Aroch by others Corasan Parthenopolis a City of Macedonia and of Mysia in Asia the Less Peligni a People of Italy about the City Sulmo Pergamus a City of Troas in Asia the Less now called Pergamo or Bargamo where Galen was born Persia a large Country of Asia lying between the Caspian Sea and the Country of the Moguls 't is Ruled by a Sophy and the Inhabitants call it Farsi Perusium a City of Tuscany in the mid-way betwixt Rome and Florence Praeneste a City of Latium in Italy now called Palestrina twenty four miles from Rome Phaselis a City of Pamphylia built in the year of the World 3257. it was a long time held by Pyrats Philippi a City of Thessaly built by Philip King of Macedonia who called it after his name Phrygia a Country in Asia bounded with Caria Lydia Mysia and Bithynia it is divided into the greater and the less now called Troas Picentes the People of Picenum a Country in Italy now called la Marca de Ancona Piraeeus the Port-Town of Athens now called Porto di Setine Ponticum mare called Pontus Euxinus and now the Black Sea Pontus a Country of Asia the Less lying between Bithynia and Paphlagonia and the Euxine Sea Ptolemais a Town by the Red-Sea there are also four Citys of this name Pyrenaei Montes the Mountains that part Spian from France running from East to West eighty five Leagues in length cross the Land Q. QVadi a People in Germany in Moravia Quinquegentiani a People of Africa Quirinalis one of the seven Hills of Rome called so from Romulus's name Quirinus now Monte Cavalle R. RAvenna a City of Italy upon the Coast of the Adriatick Sea Rhaetia the Country of the Grisons on the Alps. Rhenus a River which parts France from Germany and after it has run 300. miles it falls into the River Mosa and the German Sea by two mouths whence Virgil calls it Rhenus bicornis Rhodanus the River Rhone in France Rhodii the People of Rhodes an Isle near Caria in compass an 110 miles Rhodopa a Province of Thrace Rome the chief City of Italy seated on the River Tybur now in the power of the Pope S. SAbini People of Italy not far from Rome Saguntum a City in Spain now called Morvedre famous for its Ruin by Hannibal Saguntini the People of Saguntum Salassi People of Piedmont whose Country in Dutch is called Austhalles from Augusta Praetoria the chief Town Salentini a People of Italy inhabiting that corner of Italy called Terra de Otranto formerly Messapia Salonae Cic. Salona Pl. a City once of Dalmatia out of whose Ruins Spalato came Samos an Isle of the Icarian Sea lying over against Ephesus the compass of it 87 miles Samnites a People of Italy whose Country was called Samnium or Samnis now adays Labruzzo Sardica in this Author is a City in Dacia upon the Ister and also 't is a City anciently in Thrace now the head of Bulgaria called by the Turks and Greeks Sophia Sardinia an Island of Italy under the Spaniard it is 170 miles in length 80 in bredth 450 in compass the chief City is Cagliare Sardi the People of Sardinia Sarmatae the People of Sarmatia Sarmatia a large Country Northward part in Europe part in Asia containing Poland Russia Muscovy and most part of Tartary Sauromatae the Scythians and Tartars a wild People that drink horses blood Saxones the People of Saxony once Masters of great part of Germany some of them came over into England the Duke of it is one of the seven Electors of the Empire Scordisci a People of Pannonia Scythae People of Scythia Scythians or Tartarians in the North parts of Asia and in some part of Europe also Eastward Seleucia the name of several Citys one in Syria in Mesopotamia in Cilicia in Pisidia Sena the City Siena in Tuscany 100 miles from Rome Sicilia the Island of Sicily lying at the toe of Italy and parted with a narrow dangerous Sea 600 miles in compass Siculi the People of Sicily Sipylum the name of a Town and Mountain in Lydia called formerly Tantalis Sirmium the City Sirmisch in the Lower Hungary Smirna a City of Ionia called the old Naulochus now Smyrna or Ismyr Stratonice a Town of Macedonia called so from Stratonice the Daughter of Ariarathes and afterwards built by Adrianus and now called Castro Franco Sutrium the People are called Sutrini a little City of Hetruria now called Tuscany in the Province of St. Peters Patrimony Suevi a People of Germany lying about the Danaw the Country now called Schwaben Suessa Pometia once a City of the Volsci in Latium St. Peters Patrimony Syria a Country in Asia bounded with Asia the Less Euphrates and the Mediterranean Sea divided into Phoenicia and Palaestine Syracusani the People of Syracusae a City of Sicily called Saragossa T. TAiphali and Thervingi People of Dacia Tarentini the People of Tarentum called now Taranto Tarentum a noble City in the farthest part of Magna Graecia now called Tarento Tarraco the chief City of Hispania Tarraconensis which is one of the three parts of Spain and larger than both twice it doth now contain the Kingdom of Castile Gallicia Navarre and Arragon Taurominitani the People of the City of Taurominium in Sicily now called Taormina Taurus a continual Mountain in Asia beginning at the Indian Sea and stretching its Arms Northward and Southward it also reacheth Westward to the Aegean Sea Teutones the People of Germany in General called Almaines Thracia a large Country of Europe commonly called Romania bounded with the Euxine and Aegean Sea Macedonia and the Mountain Hoemus Thessalonica a City of Macedonia built by Philip of Macedon in Memory of Conquering Thessaly now called Salonichi Thessalia a Country of Greece between Boetia Macedonia the River Peneus and Thermopylae Thusci a People now called Tuscans Tygris a famous River of Asia it riseth in Mount Araret in Armenia parts Mesopotamia and Assyria it continues its course after it s joyned with the River Euphrates into the Persian Gulf. Tigurini the People of Tigurum a City of the Helvetians now called Zurich Tygranocerta the Town Sultania in Armenia the Greater Tomos a City of Pontus whereunto Ovid was Banished Transalpini the People of Gaul beyond the Alps from Rome now called the Realm of France Trebia a River of Italy called la Trebia near Placentia running into the Po. Triballi a People of Mysia between Danubius and Aemus now the Bulgarians Tripolis a City of Syria by which name several other Citys are called Troy a City of Phrygia a Country of Asia the Less Tuscia a large Country of Italy called Tuscany divided into two parts the one under the great Duke and the other under the Pope called the Churches Patrimony Tusci a very ancient People of Italy also called Hetrusci now Florentines their Country was called Hetruria now la Toscana Tusculum a City of Latium in Italy now Frascati 12 miles from Rome U. VAndali a People of Germany about Mecklenburg after setling in Spain Andaluzia was called from them Vectis the Isle of Wight about sixty miles in compass twenty in Length and twelve in bredth Newport is the chief Town Vejentes the People of Veii a Town of Hetruria in Italy Venetia the Country of Venice Verona a City of Italy in the Territory of the Venetians Victophali a People of Dacia Viminalis one of the seven Hills of Rome called so from the Osiers that grew there Vindelici People of Vindilicia a Country of Germany where now Bavaria is Volsci a People of Latium in Italy now called Campagna di Roma FINIS * Valens * Julian