INDEX OF THINGS

...the most [pleasant waters], CVZINÆ. Warm, SYDONIA. The coldest, TILPHOSSA. Changing color, IOB. Beneficial for the strength of teeth, ORAXVS. These entries refer to various springs and fountains described in the main text of the Thesaurus.
Hay that is harmful, and the same is also healthy, CRVSTVMERIVM.
Ants which do not cross a certain river, CAMPYLVS. Those that guard gold mines, DARDÆ. Ancient legends claimed that giant ants in India guarded gold deposits.
The homeland of the poet Fortunatus, DVPLAVLIS. He is corrected in the same place, and under VIRDO.
Fossilized fish, ASCANIA.
Photinus the bishop, SIRMIÆ.
The village of Fraga, CINGA.
Where Emperor Frederick drowned, CALYCADNVS. Frederick Barbarossa drowned in the Calycadnus River during the Third Crusade in 1190.
Frontinus is cleansed of errors, CADVRCI, CASVENTILLANI, CRISEORVM, ELEA, and FATVENTVM. He is noted, ATHMON, and HILDINACVM. Sextus Julius Frontinus was a first-century Roman author and engineer.
Grain where it does not grow even when sown, ARDANVS. Bursting those who eat too much of it, PISSOTIS.
Bishop Fulgentius, RVMPENSIS.
Gold found by the benefit of lightning, SACER.
The long-lived Fulnius Phryx, POLLISIA.
A mountain exhaling smoke, CHIMERA.
Where it is not allowed to steal at all, ATRI.

G.

The French usually write G in place of the digamma W, QVARTENSIS. In Latin the same is called WALONES. The digamma was an ancient Greek letter; Ortelius is noting the phonetic shift where Germanic 'W' becomes 'G' in Romance languages, such as William/Guillaume.
Italians pronounce G and Z with almost the same sound, IGINIVM.
Where the jet stone comes from, GAGE, and LEVCOLA. Jet is a type of lignite used in jewelry, named after the town of Gages in Lycia.
Gaius the priest, DIDDA.
Where Galangal comes from, SITI. Galangal is a root similar to ginger used in cooking and medicine.
Where Galbanum comes from, AMOMVM, and PACVS. Galbanum is a bitter aromatic gum resin.
The homeland of Galen, PERGAMVS. His reading is suspect, TABIÆ. Galen was a prominent Greek physician and philosopher in the Roman Empire.
The burial place of Emperor Galerius, ROMVLIANVM.
Where Emperor Galerius Maximianus was born, GEROICA. And where he was killed, CALLINICVM.
The Gaulish and German languages are the same, ALPES, CIMBRI.
Where the kings of France are crowned, DVROCOTTORVM.
A certain part of Gaul called Italy, DECIATIVM.
Where roosters are mute, NIBAS. Where they are bearded, TRIGLYPTON.
A speaking rooster, the Villa of GALLERII.
The slaughter of the Gauls, TICINVM. Their language, ALPES. That they spoke German, in the same place.
Emperor Gallus intercepted by Constantine, FALCONENSEM, FLAVONA, and THALAMVM.
The abduction of Ganymede, HARPAGIA.
The long-lived satrap Gaura, ROXANI.
What Gebel means to the Arabs, CALPE. Gebel or Jebel is the Arabic word for mountain; Calpe is the Rock of Gibraltar.
Gelenius is noted, ARBIS, and HIPPAGRETA. Sigismund Gelenius was a Czech scholar and translator.
Gellius must be corrected from Pliny, or Pliny from Gellius, SCIOPODÆ. The Sciopods or "Shadow-feet" were a mythical race said to have a single large foot they used as a sunshade.
The burial place of King Gelon, ENNEATYRSESIN.
The absurdities of Gemblacensis, CORDVRVS. Refers to the medieval chronicler Sigebert of Gembloux.
Geminus the priest, ZEBENNVM.
A river bearing gems, CYRVBS.
Bishop Gennadius, THIENNA.
An unwarlike people, AVTARCIATÆ. Extinguished by lions, NOMÆA. A wild race without voices, CHOROMANDARVM. Without their own names, APHARANTES, and ATLANTES. With flat faces, SESATÆ. With snub noses, SCIRATÆ. With rubbed-away noses, CIRRHADIÆ. Having only holes in place of nostrils, SYRICTAE. Never turning gray, METEREÆ. With sweet-smelling hair, MICELÆ. Devoted to wine, APYRI. Without heads, and with eyes in their chests, BLEMYES. A race which seems to crawl rather than walk, HIMANTOPODES. Four-footed, ARTHABATHITÆ. Resembling a dog in head and teeth, CYNOPROSOPI. With backward-facing feet, and eight toes on them, ANTIPODES, ABARIMON, and MILO. Which see better by night than by day, GERMARA. Which mourn those being born, and applaud the dead, CAVSIANI. Those who

outrun horses, AVTOLOLÆ, TRAGODITÆ, and OCYPODES. Which catch wild beasts by running on foot, TRAGODITÆ. Deadly to humans, THYBII. Living on the milk of dog-headed people, MENISMENI. Living without bread, ALANÆI. Which fight with spears hardened by flame, BAMVRÆ. Which have white hair in youth and black in old age, PANDORÆ. Which eat the breasts of foreigners, CHABARENI. [Eating] those dying, CALLATIÆ. Which slaughter no animal, ARITONI. Which kill everyone seventy years old, BERBICCÆ. Living for two hundred years, PANDORÆ. For one hundred and forty years, CYRNI. Living only on water, DALION. Most devoted to wine, TAPYRI. Which fight by night and make peace by day, BASVLIENSES, and THYNI. Having nothing except a cup and a sword, SORDOLIBYI.
Where the Gentian herb is found, GEMELLI Hills.
King Gentius, IGITVRVIVM, and LABEATES.
Where a just race of men is found, VCHALDVS.
The observation of George of Austria, PYRENÆI.
Georgius Fabricius led astray by an impure manuscript. Fabricius was a German Protestant poet and scholar.
The praise and reliability of Gerard Mercator, ARSENARIA, COLAICUM, and PILA Terræ. Mercator was the famous cartographer and a contemporary of Ortelius.
The very wide use of the German language, Lake MÆOTIS, and the ALPS. Etymologies of the German language, ARDVENNA, DOCIRAVA, FENNI, GOTHI, HYPERBOREI, MÆOTIS, NEVRI, PYGMÆI, SCYTHÆ, SILVA CANDIDA, and WALONES.
The Gesa, a weapon of war, MAGETÆ.
The river Geta, DIABLINTRES.
Where the bodies of giants were found, LITRÆ, and the Cave of DIANA.
Gilbert of Limburg, The Fountain of the TVNGRORVM.
From where ginger is brought to us, BARBARIA.
The town of Gisors, VELOCASSES.
People [who eat] the acorns of mice, CREOPHAGI.
Glaucus the actor, GLAVCI.
Bishop Glycerius, PORTVS.
The geographical ignorance of the commentator on Juvenal, CORYCVS.
Godfrey, King of Jerusalem, BVLLONIVM. Godfrey of Bouillon was a leader of the First Crusade.
Gongylus the governor, GRYNIA.
The tomb of Emperor Gordian, CIRCESSVM.
The city of Gorga, NEPHTHALITÆ.
Where the Gorgons were born, TITHRASVS.
Gothic peoples, BVBEGENTAS.
Where Gaius Gracchus was killed, FVRINÆ. Where Tiberius Gracchus perished, THE VETERES Fields.
Grammarians sometimes lack geographical knowledge, APHESAS, CLVSIVM, CORYCVS, CYTHISA, ITVRÆI, ORICVM, PARNASSVS, PHYLLVS, PINDVS, PACTOLVS, TEMPE, and THEVMESIVS.
The poet Gratius is corrected, NEBRODES.
Gregory of Tripoli, LIMETARVM.
King Gretas, ELVRI.
Griffins guarding gold, TARCYNITÆ.
What Guad means to the Arabs, ANAS, and BAETIS. Guad comes from the Arabic wadi, meaning a river or valley.
The river Guerba, VOLCIANI.
Guilandus unfairly criticizes Eustathius, RED SEA. Melchior Wieland, known as Guilandus, was a 16th-century Prussian botanist.
Where the throats of the inhabitants swell, MEDVLLI. A reference to goiter, a condition often noted in Alpine regions.
Gylippus, IEGAS.
Gyraldus is corrected, PATEIDES.

H.

Bishop Habetdeus, TEVDELENSIS.
That Hadrian should be written with an aspiration [the letter H], HADRIANI.
The tomb of Emperor Hadrian, HADRIANI Imp.
The homeland of Emperor Hadrian, ATRIA.
Bishop Hadrian, NIRIDANUM.
The river Hania, SCALDIS. The Scaldis is the Scheldt River in modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands.