The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history : containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, ... heresiarchs, ... emperors, ... and all those who have recommended themselves to the world ... together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders ... ; [with] The genealogy of several illustrious families in Europe ; The fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes ; The description of empires, kingdoms ... / collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery ... his sixth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clark ... now done into English ; to which are added by way of supplement ... the lives ... and writings of the illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility ... clergy ; as also an exact description of these kingdoms ... by several learned men ; wherein are inserted the last five years historical and geographical collections of Edmond Bohun ... never extant till in this work.

• Ctesias, a Physician, Native of Cnidos, lived in Xenophon's time; for he was taken in that Battle which Cyrus the Young fought in 352 of Rome, with his Brother Artaxerxes, called Mne∣mon, and cured this last of a Wound he received in that Fight. Afterwards, he kept with this King, and practised Physick for 17 years in Persia. He composed in 23 Books a History of the Assyrians and Persians, which was in such great Esteem with Di∣odorus Siculus, and Trogus Pompeius, that they chose rather to follow it than that of Herodotus, because Ctesias assures us, that he took all he advances there out of the Archives or Records of the Royal Family. Vossius.
• Ctesias, a Greek Historian, Native of Ephesus, was the same that made some Works quoted by Plutarch, in his Treatise of Rivers and elsewhere.
• Ctesibius, of Alexandria, a Mathematician, who first invented those sorts of Organs that went by the means of Water, where∣of Nero had the Invention, as we learn of Suetonius, in that Em∣peror's Life. He lived in Ptolomy's time, King of Egypt, call'd Physcon, about 120 years before the birth of Christ, that is, in the CLXVth. Olympiad, the 634th. of Rome. He writ a Trea∣tise of Geodesie, which according to Clavius, is the Science of measuring and dividing Bodies. If we believe Possevin, this Treatise is in the Vatican Library.
• Ctesilochus, a Painter, who drew Jupiter quoifed like a Ma∣tron crying out amidst Midwifes, and ready to be delivered of Bacchus.
• Ctesiphon, an ancient Town of Assyria, near the Tygris, said to have been built by the Parthians, out of Spight to Seleu∣cus, to oppose it to Seleucia.
• Ctesiphon, a famous Architect, who is also called Chersiphron, gave the Design of the famous Temple of Diana in Ephesus, built part under him and by his Direction, the rest under his Son Metagenes, and other Architects. Plutarch speaks of ano∣ther of this Name, who was an Historian, and composed seve∣ral Books. Vitruvius.