Volume 1

The great historical, geographical, genealogical 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, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].

Louis Moréri

Date:: 1701

Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical 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, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$are, BaJlognCy Vam- Tvoix, AfmvUIe, The chief Cities, bcfides the Capital fillerSs Monmedy, Arlon, Thionvilis, I ii ton, behdch others to tlie number ot 20. ana contains near 1200. l^'f‘’^^s‘m^”Dd-?onfby'a^CmFrmo?h^ See Strabo, F/iny, Ifidorm, Caflaldm, Ciuvcriw, e houfe of one of the moh Noble Fa- and others, who mention this Country, milics of £«» o;-e,!or it hath produc’d 5EnTerors,vvhereof 3 were between Carta, and Pamph)Ha, and took its Name from Lyais the Son of Pandm. This Province was famous for the Moun¬ tain Ckymxra, often mentioned by the Poets, and by the Cities of Patara and Miru, the Birth-place of St. Kkholas and !.(, and hath, keen pohelfed of great Elfates in .(li.e. It hath alio furnini’d fix (Queens, and whofe Alliance hath raifed the Luffre of Kinj^s of Bohaa, Ucrmaay and K* minv prcarFimilies7‘The molt Ancient of this Houfe that we have Knowledge of, was Sigefreaus, youngeff Brother of Go./fu7 Earl of Vadiw, who by exchange got the C aftle of Laxembvrg, of Wiker Abbot of St. Maxmims of Irm April 17 oda whence he took his Surname, and the Title of Earl, which he left to his Polierity. This Family afterwards be- LYCOMEDES, King of the I He •f with whom Achilles abfeonded, when he was willing to decline going to the Siege of Troy. He was Father of Deidamia, dcbaucii’d by Achilles. Homer, Virgil, Ovid. LYCOPHRON, was the Son of Per under King of Corvth, who began his Reign A. M. 3425. He was fo concerned that his Father had murthered his Mother Lyfis, that he voluntarily banifhed himfelf, and could never be perfuaded to return to 7‘re‘verv‘conhdcrableabouttheXlIIthorXIVth Centuries, his own Country, notw'ithOanding that his Father fent for :j-J TK...... that nf liim With Dcfign to make him Ins Succefior, inftcad of his other Son Cypjelus. Peiiander at laff, refolv’d to go to Corfr, that his Son who would not fee him, might return to Corirth, but the Inhabitants of Cofn, to prevent PcrM«(/ei‘s dwelling with them , of which they were apprehenfive , kdi d Lycophron.Hercdot. 1. 3. Diog. Laert. Vit. Peri.wd. and was divided into Three Branches, vi:^. tliat of Luxemburg lipni of Luxemburg Brienne St. Paul, and Piiici, the Heirefs of which Branch the late Marefchal of Luxemburg married-, but he himfdf is defeended of the Earls of Boiitexille, thougli lie calls liimfelf Francis Henry of Montmorency, and hath taken the Arms of that Houfe. This Henry Duke of Luxemburg, has di- fiin^uifli’d himfelf in the Field upon feveral Occalions, par- ticuTarly at the raifing of the Siege of Woerden, where he de¬ feated the Dufiil); At the taking of Bodengrave in 1^73. At theFi°ht of St. Venys or Mens, in 1678. Upon the Plains of where he gave Prince Waldeck^z great Defeat, in 1 djo.^ At the Battel of of 1593- where he routed part of the Confederate Army, and took their Canon and their Camp &c. And, in fliort, he was one of the Greatcff Gene¬ rals of his Time. He died in yan. 1^94. The Third Branch that of Luxemburg Fiennes and Martigues, whicii is alfo ex- tinft the laft Male of that Family, SebalVun of Luxemburg, who’'lived in the laft Century, having left nothing but Daughters. LUZTGNAN, or LEZIGNEN, Lat. Lupgnanum, or Ltijiniamim, a fmall Town of France in Poidlou, with aCa- llle on the River Koiirf, below St. M.tixan,Vo\xc or Five Leagues 4r from Foi^iers to the N. W. towards Roche! ■, famous for the Valour of its Lords, who have been Kings of Cyprus, of Je¬ rusalem, and of Armenia, and, by the Story, of Melufma. Thev fay that this Fairy, half Woman and liaif Serpent, built the Caftle of Luxjgnan, which was looked upon to lie im¬ pregnable •, being the fame that Teligni furprized for tlie Proteflants in 1569. and which was a little while after fur- rendred to the Fienth King, and the Prince of Montpenfier did re-take it, after a Siege of Four Months, in 1574. and de- moliflied it. .- The Family of Luvgnan began with Hugh I. who was Great Mafterofthe Game in Fnmce, in the Xth Century; and en¬ ded In Hugh XIII. who died without Iffue in 1203. But the Branch of Luxignan furnamed Vltr.marinc, continued to the End of the XIHth Century, when Hugo III. King of Cyprus and of Jerufalem died without Children, in 1267. 1, U Z IG N A N fGuy dej i Prince of tliis Family, under took the ]ourney to tlie Holy Land, with the Chrijlians, in the Xllth Century. He married Sibylla, the eldeft Daughter of Amaury, or Emery, King of Jerufalem, and Widow of William Marquis of Montferrat, furnamed Long-Sword. By this Mar¬ riage he got the Title of K. ef Jerufalem, and loft that City. A. C. 1187. which Saladine took, Oilob. 2. together with the greateft pu t of the Holy Land. Afterwards Guy fold this Title of King of Jerufalem to Richard King of England, for that of Cyprisf -, which the Houfe of Luzignan kept till An. 1473. Guy died in 1194. according to the Anonymous Au thor in Gelia Deeper Francos. He left 4 Sons, which died at the Siege of Acre, cr Aeon. LYC£EUM, a place at Athens, where Arijletle taught. Faufanias tells us, That formerly it had been a Temple of Apollo, built by Lycus, tlie fon of Fandion. But Suidas, and fome others tell us. That it was a College founded by Pififlra- tns, or Pericles ; or ratiier, begun by the one, and finiflied by the other. Tis from this place that Ariflotlei Philofophy is called. The Phihfnphy of the Lycirum : And becaufe he was ufed to teach there walking up and down, therefore the Name of Feripateticl^s was beftowed upon his Difciples. Paujan. in Attic. Meurf. lib 2. cap. 3. Athcn. Att. LYCAON, the Son of Pelafgus, lyrznt of Arcadia, who murthered all his Guefts Jupiter luiving on a time made a Trial of his Cruelty, metamorphofed him into a Wolf. Pau- juinas tells us. That this judgment bcfcl him for having mur- thcred an Infant on Jupiter's, Altar ; and tliat from that Time he did eat Grafs. Ovid Metam. lib. i. Faufanias in Arcad. L Y CI A, a Province of Afa, whereof one Part is now called Aldmelli, and the other Manteftlli, or Briquia. It lies LYCOPHRON, A Greek Poet and Grammarian, who • liv’d in the 450th Year of Rome, in the time of Ptolem.ius Pbiladelphtts. He was born at Chalcis in Eubea, now called Negrnpmt. He wrote a Poem, call’d Cajfandra, which has gi¬ ven the Learned a great deal of trouble to underftand -, for which rcafon they call’d him the Muddy, or Myjierious. This Poet likewife wrote 12 Tragedies, the Names of which are mention’d by Suidas. I’ojfm de Poet, Grac. cap. 8. ifye. LYCOPOLIS, a City in E^ypt, near the River Kile. Diodorus Siculus tells us, That the Egyptians were iil'ed to wor- fhip Wolves in the place where they built this City ; which was therefore called The City of Wolves ; for that is the import of Lycopolts in the Greek Tongue. This City is now called Munia, and was formerly an Epifcopal See. Ecclefiaftical Hiftory makes mention of one Meletius Bifliop of Lycopolis, who was the Author of a troublefom Sclhfm. Pliny, lib. 5. cap. 9. Strabo, lib. 17. Socrat. lib. 1. Hijl. L Y C O S T H E N ES, or Wolf hart f Conradns J was born at Ruffacb in Alface, in i5i8. He ftudied at fle'idelberg, and made himfelf famous for his Skill in Languages and Sciences. He was afterwards Profedor at Bafil, tvhere he died in i66\. He left behind h\m Commentaries upon'.EYmy the Tounger. He publiflied the Treatife of Julius Obfequens of Prodigies, and continued it : And alfo. Compendium Bibliothecn Gefneri. Ve Mulieium prxclare diHis tfyfaiiis, (fyc. He begun alfo a Work, intituled, Theatrum Vita Humana^ which was afterwards ft- niflied by Theodorus Zuingerus. Pantaleon lib. 3. Profopogr. Zuinger. in Prafat. Theatr, Hum, Melchior Adam, in Vit. Germ. Theol. LYCURGUS, the famous Lacedemonian Legiftator, was the Son of Eunomus King ot the Lacedemonians, of the Family of the Proclide, and Brother of Polydeiles, who fuccceded his , Father. Eunomus had Lycurgus by a fecond Wftfe, called Dio- najfa. He Ihewed his Inclination to Learning and Expe¬ rience, by his travelling through all the cities of Greece and Crete; and, according to fome, into Egypt alfo, and India, to confer with the learned Men of thofe Countries. Neither was his Valour and Conduft in Martial Affairs inferior to his Defire of Knowledge; wherefore alfo the Spartans had a fm- gular Eftecm for him. After the Death of his Brother Poly- deUes, Ins Widow fent to defire Lycurgus to take the Crown upon him; promifing that fhe would make her felf milbarry of the Child Ihe was big with, in cafe he would marry her; But Lycurgus generoufly refus’d the Offer, and contented him¬ felf to be the Guardian of his Nephew Charilaus', which was in the 300th Year after the taking of Troy, and the io8th be¬ fore the firft Olympiad. As foon as Charilaus was come to be of Age, he delivered up the Government to him. Notwith- ftanding that Lycurgus'% Adions were very prudent and blame- lefs, yet could not he avoid the Reports of fome, who accu- fed him of affefting to ufurp the Sovereignty; which made him leave Sparta, and retire to Candia; where he fpent his whole Time in ftudying the Nature of the Laws and Cuftoms of People. And being re called again to his own Country, he reformed the Government, enafted very good Laws, vvhicli the Spartans engaged themfelves to obferve inviolably. It is faid, That, to lay a ftronger Tie upon them to obferve his Laws, be made tlicm promife to be obfervant of tliem till his Return from a Journey he was about to make. Whereupon, foon after he went into Candia, where fome fay he killed himfelf, (having firft had his Law-s confirmed and approved by the Velphicf Oracle) left, by his Returning to his own Country, the Lacedemonians might have thought themfelves freed from their Oath of Obferving his Laws till his Return. Plutarch in Vit. Clemens Alexandrhw, Lib. i. Strom. Clemens Alexandrtim, upon the Authority of Eratoflhenes, an ancient Chronologer$

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