Bibliotheca Eliotæ Eliotis librarie.

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TABANVS, a fly, whi∣che hath foure wynges, and byteth a man or best that the bloud foloweth.

Tabefacio, ere, to corrupt.

Tabella, a lyttell table.

Tabellarius, a caryer of letters, an auditour.

Tabellio, lionis, a scriuener that writeth com¦mune instrumentes and dedes.

Taberna, euery vyle habitation, also a shop or tauerne, where wares be solde, and al thinge that is vendible, as wyne, oyle, or any other thynge.

Taberna meritoria, an ynne.

Tabernaria fabula, a comedy or ēterlude, wher¦in are base personages, and no persons of dy∣gnitie or state.

Tabernaculum, a pauyllion or halle.

Tabernarius, he that selleth any maner of wa∣res. also a tauerner.

Tabes, bis, corruption in the bodye. alsoo ex∣treme leannesse, by a longe consumynge sick∣nesse. It is also matter and corrupt bloudde myxte together. also the impostume of the lunges, procedinge of humoures descendyng frome the head into the stomake, and so won∣dynge and corruptynge the lounges.

Tabesco, bui, scere, to languishe or consume, to be extremely leane, to be corrupted.

Tabidus, da, dum, corrupted, consumed.

Tabificabilis, le, that whiche maye be corrup∣ted, or fall into a consumption.

Tabificus, ca, cum, that whiche maketh o one corrupted, or consumeth the body.

Tablinū, was a wynter parlour, wherin were painted tables and bokes of stories.

Tabo, a consumption, wastyng, or putrifaction of thynges.

Tabor, a mountayne in the countreye of Gali∣lea, where Christe was transfigurate.

Tabula, a table, in the plurell number tabulae, doth signifie a testamente, or any commune instrument or writinge Also tabula, is a ta∣ble to playe on with dise or chesse men.

Tabulae nouae, were whā detters were not con¦strayned to paye theyr dettes, that they dyd owe, and the olde obligations were dissolued and newe were to be made for that whiche shulde newely be borowed.

Tabularia, are places, where euidences and writynges be layde.

Tabularium, a cheste, in the whiche euydences and recordes are put.

Tabulata, walles made of square stones, as if they were burded They be also the boughes

of trees and bushes, which do grow streight forthe and not not vpwarde.

Tabulatus, ta, tum, made of bourdes.

Tabulo, are, to make a thynge with bourdes, or to ioyne bourdes together.

Tabulatio, a ioynynge or closynge of bourdes together.

Taburnus, an hyll in Campania, wherein doo growe many olyue trees.

Tace, egomet conueniam iam ipsum, Let a∣lone, I my selfe wyll cōmune now with him.

Tacenda, those thynges whiche are not to be spoken.

Taceo, cui, cêre, to kepe silence, to be in rest, to be quiete, to be sure.

Taciturnitas, tatis, sylence.

Tacitus, he that holdeth his peace, and is se∣crete.

Tacito pede, softely, by stelthe.

Tacitum est, not a worde is spoken of it.

Tacitus, citius audies, be styll, thou shalte here the soner.

Tacitè, with out speakynge one worde.

Tactus, tus, feelynge.

Tactus fulmine, burned or blasted with lyghtnynge.

Taedet, it weryeth me, it yrketh me, I am we∣ry of it.

Taedium, werynes, or heuynes of mynde.

Taedulus, an olde dotarde, of whom all men are wery.

Taenarus, a darke place at the foote of the hill called Malea, by the citie of sparta, whiche was supposed to be an entry into hell.

Taenia, the edge of a fyllette. also a womannes fyllet, or that whiche nowe they call rolles, properly it is a kerchefe, which maydens do weare on theyr heades. Also a whyte stoone, whiche in the water sheweth long lyke a ker¦chiefe. It is also a village betwene Micenas & Corinthum.

Taenon, a citie in Laconia, an other in Arcadia

Tagasta, a citie in Affrike.

Tagax, acis, a felon, whiche happeneth on a manns fynger.

Tages, was he, whiche taughte fyrste the Thuscanes the crafte of diuination, called Aruspicium.

Tago, gere, olde writers vsed for tango.

Tagrus, an Hyll in Portyngale, where as it is wrytten, that mares doo conceyue of the wynde.

Tagus, a riuer in Spayne, whiche diuydethe Castile from Portugall, wherein hath bene founde grauell of golde.

Taigete, is the name of one of the seuen sterres whiche so appiereth, as it maye scantelye be perceyued, whiche sterre is also callyd Maia, & Electra.

Talaria, were showes, whiche Mercurius did weare, wheron were set whynges.

Talaris, re, that whiche commeth downe to the ancley, as Toga talaris, a longe gowne, to the ancley.

Talarius, ria, rium, perteynynge to dyse, as Lex talaria, a lawe agaynste dyse plaienge.

Talassio, was a songe contryned in certayne verses, sungen at weddynges. It was also a certayne exclamation or erie vsed at marya∣ges, the begynnynge wherof beganne, whan Romulus and the Romaynes rauysshed the maidens of the Sabines, among whom was one of excellent beauitie, whom whan many of the Sabines wold haue rescued, they whi¦che caried her toward Romulus, to thintent that she shulde not be taken from them, cried Talassio, whiche was the name of a noble prynce of the Sabines, as if they wold haue broughte her to hym, and by that meane they escaped, and broughte her to Romulus. and afterwarde they vsed at mariages to crye Talassio.

Talea, a stocke sette in the erthe, wheron men do graffe. also a truncheon, a staffe, a byllet.

Talentum, was accompted sommetyme for a poyse or weyght, and therof were sundry sor∣tes. one was called Atticum minus, or Com¦mune, whiche conteyned .lx. poundes of A∣thenes weyght called Minae, or Mnae, which is of Troye weygh .lxii. pound, and a halfe An other was called Talentum atticum ma∣ius, whiche conteyneth .lxxx. Mnas, of troye weyghte .lxxxiii .li. and foure ounces. And that was also called Euboicū. An other was called Talentum Haebraicum, whiche con∣teyned an hundred Mnas, whiche is of Troy weyghte .C.iiii.li. and two ounces. An other was Talentum Syrum, whiche was but of xv. Mnas, of troye weyght .xv. pounde .vii. ounces and a halfe. Diodôrus writeth, that the commune Talent was but .xl.li. and na∣meth thre sortes, The one called Ptholom ai∣cum, whiche conteyneth .CC.lxxii.li. The seconde conteynynge .C.xxv.li. The thyrde a hundred pound. Talentum was also accō∣ted in valuation. Atticum minus uel com∣mune, to the value of .lx. Minae, whiche of our money accomptynge an hundred grotes to euerye Mina, to an hundred pounde ster∣lynge. euery pounde beinge of thre score gro∣tes. not withstandynge the iuste value of Ta¦lentum, is more or lesse after the fynesse, base¦nesse or weyght of the englyshe grote. Talen∣rum atticum maius, was accompted to lxxx. Minas, whiche of our sterlynge money is .C.xxxiii.li.vi.s.viii. pens. Talentum Haebrai cum sanctuarij, conteyned an hundred Mnas Hebraicas, wherof euery one was .lx. Sicli,

euery Siclus, beinge .iiii. sterlynge grotes, so that Talentum was of our money sterlynge .CCCC.li. Talentum Haebraicum uulgare, was halfe so moche, videlicet. CC. li.

Talia, the blade of an onyon or chiboll.

Talio, onis, an equall peyne in recompence of a hurte, as for the cuttynge of a mans hand, to lose a hande, or for puttinge out of an eye, to lose an eye.

Talior, ari, to be cut: it is properly spoken of wodde, whiche we nowe cal talling of wood.

Talipedo, dare, to go on the pasternes.

Talis, tale, suche.

Taliter, in suche wyse.

Talitrum, a fylyppe gyuen with ones fynger or nayle.

Talpa, a molle or want.

Talpa caecior, blynder than a molle, a pro∣uerbe applyed to them, whiche lacke iudge∣mente in thinges that are playne.

Talum reponere, to refourme that, whiche was negligently done, with more diligence.

Talus, the ancle aboue the foote. It is also the pastern bone of a beast, Also a dye or dice.

Tam, as well, also, as, so. Tam bonus, as good

Tam sum amicus republicae, {quam} qui maximè, I am so frendely, or as moche frende to the publike weale, as he that is moste.

Tama, whan with moche trauaile the bloude commeth downe to the legge, and causeth it to swell.

Tam magis, for tanto magis.

Tamerindi, a fruite growynge in India, the tree whereof is lyke to a palme or date tree, the fruite sower, lyke grene damsyns, whi∣che is medicynable in asswagynge the heate of cholere.

Tamaritae, people in Asia, not sarre frome the sea called Caspium.

Tamarix, ricis, a tree vulgarly called Tama∣riscus, reade Myrice, some cal it whitbeame.

Tamen, not withstandynge. also yet. Tamen à malicia non discedis, yet wylte thou not de∣part from thy malyce? somtyme it signifyeth forthwith, at the laste, so that. Quod pote∣ro, faciam, tamen ut pietatem colam, I wil do that I maye: so that not withstandyng I omytte not my duetie to my father.

Tamesis, the noble ryuer of Tamyse in Eng∣lande.

Tametsi, albeit, alwaye.

Taminea Vua, Dioscor. li. 4. saythe that it is the herbe whiche is called Bryonia nigra, Cornelius Celsus. li. 3. sayth, it is that whi∣che of the grekes is called Stauis agria, whi∣che is thought to be false, for Plinius. li. 26. ca. i. supposeth, that it is the wyld vyne called Labrusca, the same is affyrmed by Ruellius.

Tam ne, olde writers vsed for eous{que}, vntyll that.

Tanager, a riuer in Lucania, betwene Cam∣pania and Calabria.

Tanagra, a towne in Perside.

Tanais, a greatte ryuer in the northe parte of the worlde, whiche diuideth Europa frome Asia.

Tanaquil, was wyfe to Tarquinius Priscus the kynge of Romaynes.

Tanaus, was kynge of Siria.

Tandem, at the last, sometyme at the leastway also vneth, not withstandynge.

Tandiu, so longe.

Tango, tetigi, gere, to touche, to meue, to vn¦derstande, or perceyue, to come to to deceyue.

Tangere ulcus, to rub on the galde place, to speake to one of a thynge, whiche greueth hym to here of.

Tetigit aures meas, It came to myne cares.

Tanis, the principall citie of Egypte, where Moyses dyd shewe meruayles.

Tanos, a stone of the kynd of Emeralde grene and blacke.

Tanquam, as it were, lyke.

Tantalides, the progeny of Tantalus.

Tantali horti, a prouerbe signifieng good thynges to be at hande, whiche not withstan¦dynge a man maye not vse.

Tantalus, the son of Iupiter and Plota, was kynge of Phrygia. of whom the poetes doo write that bicause he discouered the counsail of the goddes, he is in hel tourmented in this wyse. He standeth by a fayre ryuer, hauynge before hym a tree laded with pleasaunte ap∣ples, and yet he is alwaye thursty and hun∣gry, for as often as he stoupeth to drynke. he holdeth vp his handes to gather the appuls, but both the water and the tre do withdraw them soo frome hym, that he can not touche them.

Tanti, for so moche. This worde doth perteine to byenge and sellynge.

Tantidem, at that price.

Tanti aestimo, tantifacio, tanti pendo, I set so moche by, or I so moche esteme it.

Tantillus, la, lum, & tantulus, a, um, the dy∣minutiue of tantus.

Tantisper, so longe.

Tantopere, so moche, so vehemently.

Tantum, onely.

Tantum non, almoste.

Tantum sat habes? arte thou content?

Tantummodo, all onely.

Tantundem periculum, so great daungier.

Tantò, an aduerbe, signifienge so moche, as tanto magis, so moche more, tanto peior, so moche worse.

Tantum abest, it is so farre frome, or soo moche vnlyke.

Tantundem, euen so moche.

Tantumnum, also, ye also.

Tantus, ta, tum, suche, sometyme so moche, or so great.

Taos, a stone of the colour of a peacoke.

Tapetia, hangynges of houses, or clothes wher¦with pauementes are couered.

Tapetum, tapes, tapis, tapesrye, or clothes wherin are wrought diuerse pictures, with thredes of sondry colours.

Taphiae, & taphus, an ••e by Grecia, where dwelled the people called Telebois.

Taphius, a citie in Egypt, the people whereof were called Taphnii.

Taphos, in greke, is a sepulchre or tumbe.

Tapinosis, a figure, wherby a great thynge is basely described.

Taposiris, a citie in Egipte.

Taprobanē, an yle in the Indian sea, and was of some old writers supposed to be in the con¦trarye parte of the worlde agaynste vs, and therfore they called it an other worlde. It ly∣eth in the poynte betwene easte and west, the quantitie thereof is dyuerselye described by sundry authors. For Strabo writeth that it is in lengthe viii. thousande furlonge, whi∣che is a .M. myles. Plinius, Martianus, and Solinus, doo affirme it to be in lengthe vii. M. furlonge, whiche is .viii.C.lxxv. myles, in breadeth .v. M. furlonge, whiche is .DC.xxv. myles. parte of it extendeth be∣yonde the equinoctiall lyne, more south, and hath on the northest, the lasse Inde, it is now called Samotra, and is vnder the subiection of the great Cam, and is gouerned by foure kynges in an exquisite fourme of iustice: not withstandyng that the people be idolatours. They hunt Tygers Olyphantes and Pan∣theres, of the whiche there is great plentye. also there be founden carbuncles saphires isrinctes topaces rubies and granates, in gret numbers. There groweth cinamome, cauell, benioyme, and other swete trees in great a∣boundaunce, and they haue moneye of golde syluer and brasse, of the same waight and va¦lue, that the auncient coyne of the Romains were. There is also founden plenty of greate and orient perles.

Tapsus barba••us, an herbe, reade Phlomos & Verbascus.

Tapsus, an yle by Sicile not far frō Siracuse.

Tapulla, a lawe made for feastes.

Tapyri, people in Parthia, whiche vse to giue theyr wyues in maryage to other men, after that they haue hadde foure or fyue chyldren by them.

Taraconia, a countrey called nowe Aragon.

Taracon, the chiefe citie therof.

Tarandrus, a beaste in body lyke to a great oxe hauynge a heade lyke to a harte, and hornes full of branches, the heare roughe, of the co∣loure of a beare, I suppose it to be a rayne deere.

Tarandulus, the beaste called a Buffe, whiche is lyke an oxe, but that he hath a berde lyke a gote.

Tarantula, a kynde of the beastes called Stel∣liones, lyke to a lysarde, of whose bytynge no man dieth, onely it stonyeth hym that is bytten.

Taras, the sonne of Neptunus, who buylded Tarentum.

Taraxacon, an herbe called Sousistell. reade Cicerbita & Sonchus,

Taraxis, whan the eyen do bolne out moch, and be redde.

Tarbeli, the citie of Tarbes in Gascoyne.

Tarchesius, was a myscheuouse kynge of the people called Albani.

Tarchon, a duke in Hethruria, whiche was al¦so a great diuinour or southsayer.

Tardatio, a tarienge.

Tarde, slowe, late.

Tardigradus, that whiche hath a slowe pase, or gothe slowely.

Tardiloquentia, a slowe speche.

Tardiloquus, he that draweth his speche in lengthe.

Tardior, slower.

Tardissimus, moste slowe, or slowest.

Tarditas, & tarditudo, & tardicies, slownesse

Tardius, more slowely.

Tardiusculè, somewhat slowely.

Tardiusculus, somewhat slowe.

Tardo, dare, to tary, to beslowe.

Tardus, slowe, rude, somtyme well durynge. also thycke or grosse.

Tarentinus, a, um, of the Citie of Tarento in Calabria.

Tarentum, a noble citie in Calabria, called Taranto.

Tarmes, a wourme, whiche eateth flesshe, a magotte.

Tarpeius, an hyll at Rome.

Tarquinus superbus, was the laste kynge of Romayns, which was expelled out of Rome for his pryde and crueltie.

Taracina, a towne in Campania called also Anxur.

Tarsus, the chiefe citie in Cilicia, where saynct Paule was borne.

Tarsis, a region in India, it is sometyme takē for Carthage.

Tartaria, is a countrey of incomparable great¦nesse, it boundeth on the west vppon Russia, and extendeth into the easte, after the descri∣ption of the laste Card, aboue .MDC. duch myles, whiche is of Italion myles .vi. thou∣sande and .iiii. hundred miles and more, the

bredth from the southe into the north is more vncertayne, it marcheth on the south vppon Persiam and Indiam. the northe is moche parte desert for the coldenesse and barennesse therof. The people haue no cities or townes, or elles very fewe, but they lye in pauillions, and vnder their cartes, whiche they doo re∣meue into sundry partes, as the tyme of the yere dothe requyre, dryuyng theyr cattel with theym, of whome they do eate the fleshe mo∣che parte rawe, and do drynke the mylke and bloude of them. The people be fierce and cru¦ell, and therwith vyle and beastly in theyr ly∣uyng. They be all vnder the subiection of the great Chaam, yet haue they many puissaunt pryncis, whiche do vse a wonderfulle obedy∣ence towarde theyr emperour. They beleue in one god, creatour of all thynges, but they be not chrystened. They ar so populouse har∣dy and fierce, that the great kynges, whiche do marche vpon them, haue moche to doo to resyste them, as the great kyng of Russi, and the kynge of Persia Sophias. Also one of theyr prynces toke in playne battayl Pazaie∣tes the great Turke, whom beynge bounden with chaynes and gyues of golde, and inclo∣sed in a cage of yron, he caryed aboute with hym vntyl he dyed, and in that battaile there were slayne two hundred thousande Turkes the captayne of the Tartariens was named Tamberlane. Theyr emperour Chaam be∣sydes Tartariam hath also subiect vnto hym the lesse Inde, and all the royalmes and yles in the easte and southeaste part of the worlde and he nameth hym self in his style, the sonne of god, rede more in Chaam. Moche of Tar∣taria was that countray whyche was some∣tyme callyd Scythia.

Tartareus, ea, eum, of helle.

Tartarum, the lees of wyne.

Tartarus, the depest place in helle. it is alsoo a Tartaryan.

Tartarinus, rina, rinum, olde wryters vsed for horryble or terrible.

Tartesij, people in Iberia, amonge whome be cattes of excedynge greatnesse.

Tartessus, a citie in the vttermooste parte of Spayne, on the sea syde by Gades, now cal∣lyd Cales, where Columella the most eloquēt and perfyt husband was borne. it was called also Gadir & Cartheia.

Tascaneum, a whyte clay or marle.

Tasimenes, seu tasmenes, one of the sonnes of duke Nestor.

Tata, dady, whyche children call theyr father.

Tatae, a wanton worde, wherwith one answe∣reth to an nother.

Tateus, a kynde of salte, whiche cometh out of Phrigia, and is medicinable for the eyes.

Taua, Tynmouth in Englande.

Taura, a barrayne cowe.

Tatianus, a mans name. Tatius, a mans name.

Taurarij, people in Scithia.

Tauria, a scourge made of netes lether.

Taurica Chersonesus, a countray in the northe part of Europa.

Taurici, people of cruelle maners that offered straungers in sacrifice to Diana.

Taurilia, were playes made in the honoure of internall goddis.

Taurinus, na, num, of a bulle.

Taurius, one of the goddis of the sea.

Taurominium, a mountayne in Sicile, so cal∣lyd for the plenty of neate, whych fed theron. also there was by it a citie of the same name.

Taurominitanus, na, num, of the citie of Tau¦minium.

Tauroscythae, people of Scithia, dwellyng by the mountayne callyd Taurus.

Taurus, a bulle, sometyme a stronge oxe. It is also one of the xii. celestyall sygnes.

Taurus, a great and famous mountayne, whi∣che begynneth at the Indian sea, and rysyng into the north, passeth by Asia vnto the fenne or mere called Maeotis, and bordereth vpon a great numbre of royalmes. also the hyll cal∣lyd Caucasus is parte therof.

Tautologia, a fygure where oone thynge is twyse spoken.

Tax, the sounde of a stroke with a whyp.

Taxa, a kynde of bayes or laurell, wherewith herbars are made.

Taxatio, a settynge of a taxe or subsydy.

Taxatores, they whych do rebuke one another.

Taxim, softely, scantly touched.

Taxis, olde wryters vsed for tetigeris, thou shalt touche.

Taxilli, smalle dyse.

Taxo, nis, a gray or brocke, or badger.

Taxo, are, to touche often. alsoo to taxe or cesse a thynge at a certayne value. also to reproue one an nother.

Taxus, a tree lyke to fyrre, whych beareth bea∣ryes, wherin is mortall poyson. It is also the tree callyd yew.

Taygetus, a hyll, vnder the whiche is sette the cities of Sparta and Amycle.