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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 Chi∣maera.

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 The∣bes.

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 o∣ther, 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 Empe∣rour.

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 de∣parting 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 lit∣tle part bordering on Hungarie: the people be rude, and

Stoechades,

Thrée yles in the French sea against Langue∣docke.

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.

Stratíphocles,

The name of a man.

Strato,

A king of Sidon, who being ouercome of the Per∣sians, tooke his sworde in his hand, minding to kill him∣selfe, 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, wre∣sted 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 hir∣selfe also, that she might not abide the villany of hir bar∣barous 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 Tus∣culani.

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 Mem∣phis.

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.