Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

Of Myletus.

THis was a famous city, scituated vpon the borders of Ionia and Caesaria, close by the shore of the Aegean sea, 104 miles from Ierusalem towards the Northwest. The Poëts fein, that Mi∣letus, who was the first builder of this citie, was the son of Apollo, and called it after his owne name Myletus: but Strabo, lib. 12. thinketh that it was rather built by Sarpedon the sonne of Iupiter, and brother to Radamanthus and Minos, and by him was called Myletus, from another Citie of the same name, which stood in Crete. The wooll that commeth from this towne is wonderfull soft, and singular good for many purposes; but it was principally vsed to make cloth of, which they died into an excellent purple and transported into many places. There were many famous men that either liued or were borne in this towne; as Thales Milesius one of the seuen Wise-men of Graece, Anaximander, who was his scholler, Anaximenes and Hecataeus the Historian; also Eschenes the Orator, (not he that contended with Demosthenes who taking

too much libertie against Pompey was banished) Timothius the musician, and Pittacus the Philosopher, besides many others.

But of all these, Thales Milesius was held in greatest estimation, because he was thought to be the first that taught natural Philo∣sophie and the Mathematicks amongst the Grecians. He was the first also that foretold of the Eclipse of the Sun, about such time as the battell was fought betweene Cyaxares father of Astyages King of the Medes, and Hallyat••es father of Croesus K. of the Lidi∣ans, which was about the 44 Olimpiad. There came vnto him a certaine man, who asked him what was the hardest thing in the world; he answered▪ seipsum nosce, to know himselfe. Another came to him, and askt him how he might do to liue justly; he answered, Si quae in alijs reprehendimus, ipse non faciamus, That we doe not those things which we reprehend in others. He died about the 58 Olympi∣ad. Meletus at this day is called Melasa.