Bibliotheca Eliotæ Eliotis librarie.

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IO, an interiection, sygnifyenge sommetyme griefe, as in Tibullo, Vror iò, O I burn. sometyme excessiue gladnes, as in Ouidio Dicite iò Paean.

Ioannes, a proper name of Hebrue, and sygni∣fieth the grace of god. Ioannes Baptista, sonne of Zacharias, and E∣lysabeth of the tribe of Leui, was sanctified before that he was borne, and declared by an aungell that his name shuld be Iohn̄. And by¦cause his father dyd not forthwith beleue it, he was specheles vntyll the eyght daye after the byrthe of the chylde, and that he hadde wrytten in tables, his name is Iohn̄, than was his mouth opened, and he spake glory∣fyenge god, and made than the psalme: Be∣nedictus dominus deus Israel, quia uisitauit & fecit redemptionem plaebis suae. This man was of suche perfection and holynesse, that oure sauyour Christe testified of hym, that he wente in the spirite and trouthe of Helias the prophete, but yet was he more thanne a prophete, and was the messanger whiche god promised by the prophet Mala∣chias, that he wolde sende, whiche shuld pre∣pare the way before hym. Semblably Iohn̄ testified of Christ, that he was the true lyght that lyghted euerye man that commeth into the worlde, and that he was in the worlde, and the worlde was made by hym, and that he bare recorde, that he was the sonne of god. Iohn̄ lyued in wyldernesse, his gar∣ment was of camelles heares, and his gyr∣dell of askynne aboute his loynes, and his meate was Locustae and honye of the wod∣des. He baptysed only in water teachyng re∣pentaunce and the approchyng of the kyng∣dome of heauen. But bycause he sayd to He∣rode, that it was not lefulle for hym to haue his brothers wyfe, he was by hym putte in prysone, and fynallye at the petytion of the doughter of Herodiades, who daunsyd be∣fore hym (by the perswasyon of Herodia∣des, who was the wyfe of his brother) the heade of Iohn̄ was stryken of, and in a dysshe was brought by the mayden vn∣to her mother in open bankette. Iosephus antiquitatum li. 18. calleth hym a very good man, who commaunded the Iewes to la∣bour to gette vertue, to obserue iustyce a∣monge theym selues, to kepe trewe relygion towarde god, and by baptysme to ioyne to∣gyther in oone. Alsoo he saythe, that many men thoughte, that in the battayle betwene Herode and Aretha, by the iust vengeance of god for puttyng Iohn̄ Baptyst to death, the hoste of Herode was vtterlye distroyed. He was born before Christ carnally moneths

and was put to death before Christe suffered his passion, one yere.

Ioannes, apostle and Euangeliste, the sonne of Zebedaeus, and brother of Iames the apostle callyd the more, was of Christ most tenderly beloued, and in the tyme of the emperoure Domitian, was exiled into the ile callid Path¦mos, where he wrate the boke of reuelatiōs callyd Apocalypsis. After the death of Do∣mi••••an in the tyme of Pertinax he retourned to Ephesum, and there remaynynge vnto the tyme of Traiane, he raysed many churches, and dyd sette theym in order, and beynge of great age, dyed .lxviii. yeres after the passion of Christe, as Sophronius writeth, and was buried at Ephesum. Polycrates an auncient and holy byshop in Asia, in his epistoll to Vi∣ctor bysshop of Rome, wryteth in this wyse: Also Iohn̄, whiche layde his head vpon our lordes breast, who was the chiefe prieste, and ware the pontificalle plate or table, martyr and doctour of the church, slept at Ephesum. He wrate his gospell last of all the Euange∣listes in the last ende of his lyfe, wherin he de¦clareth the diuinitie of our sauiour, more thā any of the other, whiche by the holye ghoste was reserued vnto hym.

Iocasta, was doughter of Creon, and fyrst wife of Laius kyng of Thebes, after whose dethe she being ignorant, maried Oedipus her na∣tural sonne. After that her sonnes Polynîces & Etheocles, whyche she had by Oedipus had one slayne the other in battayle, she alsoo kylled her selfe.

Iochabella, the name of Moyses mother.

Iocor, aris, ari, to speake meryly or in disport.

Iocosus, a, um, & iocularis, re, mery sportfull, prouokyng myrth.

Ioculus, a lyttell sporte or myrthe.

Iocus, plurali ioca, a mery worde, disporte.

Iohel, a prophet born in Bethon in the lande of Rubim, he prophecied moche of Hierusalem, and fynall conclusion of Gentiles.

Iōlaus, the sonne of Iphiclus, of whom the peo¦ple of Sardinia, were named Iolenses.

Iōle, the doughter of Euritus kynge of Aeto∣lia, whom Hercules loued soo moche, that he serued her in a womans apparayle, and span on a distaffe.

Ion, a stone of a violet colour.

Ionas, a prophet of the countrey of Cariatha∣maum, not farre frome Azotus a citie of the Grekes nygh to the sea in Siria, was in the tyme of Helias, and was the son of the pore wydowe, and hym dyd Helias restore vnto lyfe for the hospitalytie of his mother. And whan he came to ful age, he was by almygh∣tye god sente to the greate citie of Niniue in Assyria, and as he wolde haue fledde frome our lorde, and haue tourned his iourney vn∣to Tharsos, he was deuoured of a whale, & beynge at the last cast vp vnto the lande oute of the whales mouthe, whan he had ben thre dayes in the whales bealye, he went forthe and preached in Niniue in suche wyse, that the people by penaunce restrayned the sword of god, whiche was redy to stryke them. Af∣terward Ionas vexed with heuynes of mind retourned to his countrey, nor there longe a∣bydynge, he takynge with hym his mother, went to the lande of Sur, and as he haunted the lande of Saar he there dyed, and was bu¦ryed in the graue of Cinezeus the iudge, He prophesied that whan men shuld se in Hieru∣salem moche people come from the west par∣tes of the worlde, than shulde the citie be di∣stroyed vnto the harde erthe. Ionas in hebru signifieth a culuer, or a distroyer of people.

Ionia, a region of Grece in Asia, wherein were the cities of Ephesus, Miletus, Priena, and other, and the people therof be callyd Iones, and the tungue Ionica, and the sea ioynynge to it Mare Ionicum.

Ionicus, ca, cum, & Ionius, a, um, of Ionia.

Ioppe, a citie of the countrey of Palestina, not farre from Hierusalem, standynge by the sea, some men doo suppose to be the hauen callyd whyche Porte Iaffe.

Iordanis, a fayre riuer in Iudaea, which diuideth Galile from the resydue of Iudaea, and fallith into the dead sea.

Ios, an yle where Homerus was buried.

Ioseph, the sonne of Iacob the patriark, was through enuye solde by his bretherne vnto a marchant, who brought hym into Egypte, & gaue him to Putiphar great master of hous∣holde with kyng Pharao, whose wyfe bour∣nynge in concupiscence, bicause that Ioseph woide not cōmyt adultery with her, she cau∣sed him to be cast into prison. where he decla∣ri••nge to the kinges cupbearer the significa¦tion of his dreame, afterward he was by the same cupbearer remembred vnto king Pha∣rao, whā he had dreamid a dreame, which he wold haue expouned. And he expounding the kinges dreame, whiche signified .vii. plentu∣ous yeres, and .vii. scarse yeres of corne, was made by the kyng high stewarde of his roy∣alme. So that by his most excellent wysedom such abundance of grayne was brought into the kinges barnes, and there kept during the vii. plentuous yeres, that the .vii. scars yeres next ensuynge it suffysed not onely to relieue all the people of Egypte, but also refresshed other countrayes, and made the kynge exce∣dīgly rich. Moreouer the brethern of Ioseph being sent by Iacob these father to bie corne in Egipt, not knowing their brother Ioseph

were by hym sundry tymes apprehended, and compellid to fetche theyr yōger brother Ben-Iamyn, and at the last Ioseph discouerynge hym selfe vnto them, caused them to fetch his and theyr father into Egypt with all his fa∣mily, where they were honourably entertay∣ned of kynge Pharao and Ioseph. And Io∣seph had there two sonnes, Effraim and Ma¦nasses, and lyued a hundred and tenne yeres. Ioseph signifieth increase, or a great officer, he dyed before the incarnation of Christe a∣bout .MDClii. yeres.

Iosephus, the sonne of Mattathias, a priest of Hierusalem, whiche wrate in greeke the bat∣tayle of the Iewes and distruction of the ci∣tie by Vespasian and Titus, wherat he hym selfe was present. He wrate also of the anti∣quitie of the Iewes, in .ii. sundry argumētes. He was amonge the Romains had in such re¦uerence & honour, that his ymage was set vp in the cite. He had the spirit of prophecye, & beyng prisoner tolde vnto Vespasian that he shuld be emperour of Rome. Also in his boke of antiquities he writeth in this wise: At this tyme was Iesus a wyse man, if it be leful to call hym a man, he was a doer of wonderful workes, and a teacher of those men, whiche wyllingly do here thinges that be true, he ioy¦ned vnto hym many Iewes and also Genti∣les, this man was Christ. Whan Pylate by the enuy of the chiefe men of our nation had iudged hym to be put on the crosse, he forsoke not them, whom from the begynnynge he lo∣ued, but appered to them the thyrde day, eft∣sones alyue, accordynge as the prophetes by diuine inspiration spake before of hym, and that innumerable myracles shuld be done by hym. Hytherto wrate Iosephus. wherby ap∣pereth his excellente wysedome, and specyall grace, whyche he had receyued, and it repu∣gneth not moche, that in his harte he imbra∣ced the fayth of Christ .He was after the in∣carnation of Christ .lxxvi. yeres.

Iotapata, a citie in Syria.

Iouiniani, were mē of armes, so callid of Maxi¦mian the emperour, whiche dyd valyantly in the countrey of Illyria.

Iouis, the genitiue case of Iupiter.