The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

B ANTE D, & E.

• BDelium, is a tree growyng in Arabia & Scithia. also a gumme commynge of the same tree, lyke to waxe, but clere as gumme, within vnctuous or fatte, verye swete of sauour, whan it is rubbed or bur∣ned, and bytter in taste.
• Bebry••ia, a coūtray callid the gret Phrigia.
• Bebrytius, a, um, & bebrix, bebricis, of the countray of great Phrigia.
• Bebritium, seu Bebriacum, a towne in Italye betwene Cremona and Verona.
• Beelphegor, a gapynge ydoll.
• Beelsephon, lorde of the northe, an ydol set vp in the places of espiall.
• Beelsebub, an ydoll callyd god of flyes.
• Beemoth, the deuyll, and signifieth a beast.
• Belbus, a beast callyd also Hiena.
• Belgae, people of Gallia, betwene the riuers of Ryne, Marne, and Seyn, and stretchith to the northwest see, in the whiche are now conteyned the countrays of Brabant, Flā∣ders, Holland, Ghelder, part of Friseland, Gulyke, Hennow, Pycardy, part of Cham¦payne, the great forest of ••••dan, the cities of Acon, Colayn, Triere, Rhein••s.
• Belial, the deuyll, whiche is interpreted A∣postata, without yoke.
• Bellatula, lyttell swete harte.
• Belliatus, ta, tum, beautified.
• Belle, welle.
• Belle se habet, he dothe or fareth well.
• Bellerophontes, seu Bellerophon, was the sonne of Glaucus kynge of Ephyra, who beinge a man of moche beautie and prowes was ardātly beloued of Stenobea, the wife of Pretus king of Ephyra, next after Glau∣cus, and whan she desyred him to committe adulterie with her, he fearynge the venge∣ance of Iupiter god of hospitalitie, and re∣membrynge the frendshyp shewed to hym by her husbande, refused her, and dyd put hyr away from him, whiche she disdayning, and beinge in a woode rage, accused hym to her husbande, that he had rauyshed her, but he like a sober man wolde nat than slee hym in his owne house, but delyueringe to him letters to his wyues father, sent hym in to Licia, where he than reigned, who per∣ceyuynge therby the mynde of Pretus, en∣couraged Bellerophon, to distroy the two mōsters callid Solymos and Chymera, and sent him therto that he mought be s••ayn vn∣der the colour of a valiaunt enterprise, but he acheuyng it nobly, returned with honor.
• Bellica, was a pyllour in the temple of Bel∣lona, callyd goddesse of battayle, where they vsed, whanne warres were proclay∣med, to cast a Iauelyn.
• Bellicrepa, a certayne fourme of daunsynge in harneyse.
• Bellator equus, a horse of warre.
• Bellatrix, tricis, a woman valyant in warres.
• Belligero, rare, to make warre.
• Bellona, callyd goddesse of battayle.
• Bellis, seu bellium, the white daysye, callyd of some the Margarite, in the northe it is callyd a Banwort. It is also a fyshe with a longe beake lyke a crane, whiche is callyd of some a kekehorne.
• Bellouaci, people of Beauuosyne in France
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• Bellum merum loquitur, he speaketh oonely of warre.
• Belon, the name of a citie & riuer in Spaine.
• Beluosus, a, um, full of monsters of the see.
• Bel••••••tus, ••a, tum, paynted or ••erued with great beastes.
• Belluara ••apetia, Tap••strye wroughte with great beastes.
• Belus, the fyrste kynge of Assiria, father of Ninus, and is signifieth the sonne, it is also a ryuer in Syria, which hath sande of the na∣ture of glasse, whiche it casteth vppe, also it torneth all other mettall that commeth into it, into glasse.
• Bembina, a towne by the forest called Nemae¦us. Bembinatus, of that towne or woode.
• Benacus, a great lake in Lumbardy.
• Bene accipere aliquem, to entreate one well, or entertayne hym.
• Bene acceptus, well entertayned.
• Bene agitur, the thynge is wel done.
• Bene ambulato, god he with the.
• Bene audire, to be well spoken of.
• Bene conuenire inter cos, they agreed welle to gether.
• Bene cogitare de aliquo, to haue a good opi∣nion of one.
• Bene curare aetatem, to lyue pleasantly.
• Bene hercle denuncias, thou tellyst me good tydynges.
• Benedico, dixi, dicere, to prayse, to say well.
• Benedicé, an aduerbe, signifieng in praysing or saying wel. Cum illiciebas me ad te blan∣de et benedice: whan thou dyddiste trayne me vnto the with plesant wordes and prai∣synge of me.
• Benefacio, cere, to do well.
• Benefactum, it is well done.
• Benefacta, Benefytes, pleasures.
• Beneficiū, a benefite, a plesure, or good torne
• Beneficentia, is not onelye lyberalitie in gy∣uing of money, or possessions, or other like thynges, but also in helpynge a man with counsayle, solicitation, or other labour.
• Bene ferre gratiam, to do pleasure to one.
• Bene habere, to behaue me or hym well.
• Bene hoc habet, this matter commeth well to passe.
• Bene longus sermo, a very longe tale.
• Bene magnus, very great.
• Bene manè, very tymely.
• Bene mereri, to do pleasure to one.
• Bene multi, very many.
• Bene nummatum marsupium, a purse wel sto¦red with money.
• Bene nummatus homo, a well monyed man.
• Bene successit, it came well to passe.
• Bene ••ale, farewell, a dowe.
• Bene ualere, to be in good helthe.
• Bene uertāt di••, god turne it to good: I pray god brynge it well to passe.
• Bene uiuere, to make good chere.
• Beneuolens, beneuolent, he that loueth well an nother.
• Benigna terra, a grounde that is fertile.
• Benigne, an aduerbe, whiche signifieth cur∣teysly, graciously, bounteously.
• Benignitas, curteysie, lyberalitie, gentylnes.
• Berecyntus, a mountayne and citie in Phri∣gia, where Cybele, callid the mother of the goddis was chiefely honoured.
• Berecyntia, callid the mother of goddis.
• Bersab••, a citie in Iudea, callyd also Puteus iuramenti, the pytte of the othe, where A∣braham dwellid, whiche is the consynes of the lande of behest.
• Berillus, a stone whiche is verye clere, and somewhat inclynynge to a grene colour. it is not that, whiche we commonly do calle Berall, in drynkynge cuppes, but it is ra∣ther that, whiche we do call christall, whi∣che beinge wrought into squares, hathe in them a glymse of a lyght grene.
• Beta, an herbe callyd Beetes.
• Bethania, a towne two myles from Hieru∣salem, on the side of the mounte Oliuete.
• Bethel, a citie in Samaria, where the people dwelled whiche were callyd Iebus••i.
• Bethleem, the citie of Dauyd the prophet, where he was borne and dyed, where alsoo our sauiour Christe Iesu was borne: there also dyed Rachel the wyfe of Iacob the pa∣triarche. it was assigned to the tribe of Iu∣da, and was distant from Hierusalem .vi. mi∣les, and was firste called Euphrata, and sig∣nifyeth in the hebrewe tongue, the howse of breadde.
• Bethsaida, or Bethesda, was a great ponde in Hierusalem, wherin the pristis washed the shepe, whiche shuld be sacrifised, and may be interpreted the house of cattell. It was also the name of a towne, where Peter & Phylyp the apostels were borne.
• Bethsamis, a citie in Galilee, where Christe dyd many myracles.
• Bethsamitae, people of Bethsamis.
• Bethsura, & Bethsurae, a stronge fortresse of the Iewes.
• Baeticatus, he that weareth a black or broune garment.
• Baeticus, ••a, cum, blacke or browne.
• Baetica, a prouynce or countray in Spayne, callyd nowe Granado,
• Baetis, a ryuer in Spayne by Granado.
• Betonica, an herbe callyd Betayne.
• Betonica altilis siue coronaria, I suppose hit to be Gyllofers.
• Betphage, a towne in Iudea, and may be in∣terpreted

• the house of a mouth, or a iawe.
• Betula, a tree, called birche.

Notes

• Plautus. Plautus in Ruden.
• Note here the malyce of hariots.
• Cice. Atri.
• Plautus.
• Plinius.
• Plautus in Pseud. Plautus in Trinum. Plau••
• Plautus in Rude. Plautus in Epidic.