may observe, that these Poisonous Creatures, so destructive to Man, are no less noxious to each other. And this, many Times, is the Case of Nations, and Kingdoms, as was exemplify’d in the _Romans_, when they made War upon us; killing, and destroying one another, through the Power of _Christ_, who rejoyceth not in Blood, and disperseth the Nations that delight in War; who maketh the Just to walk upon the Adder, and the Basilisk, and treadeth the Lyon and Dragon under his Feet. * * * * * _In the Beginning of this_ MS _upon a large Folio Page, are inscrib’d the following Words, in the Benefactor’s own Hand_. “_Sir_ John Roe, _Bart. Ambassador from His Majesty of_ Great Brittain _to the_ Grand Seignior, _as a perpetual Testimony of his Gratitude to the University_, (Oxon) _gave this Book, which he met with in his Travels, to the Publick Library_, 1628.” [Illustration: Page Decoration] [Illustration: Page Header Decoration] AN EXPLANATORY INDEX. A. ABACUS from ἄβαξ, which signifies a square Trencher. It is the four square Table, that makes the Capital on the Top of a Column, _p._ 148 ACROPOLIS, is that Point of Land where Old _Byzantium_ stood, 157 ÆGYPTIANS, how they adorn their Pillars, 175 ALPHABETS, _Assyrian_ and _Greek_, 77 ANNULETS, are little square Parts turn’d round in the _Corinthian_ Capitals, 264 ANTIQUITY, a famous Piece of it, 154 APOPHYGE, it comes from the _Greek_ Word ἀποφυγὴ, and signifies that Part of a Column, where it seems to _fly_ out of its _Base_, 253 AQUEDUCT of _Valens_, 197 Of _Valentinian_, 212 Other _Aqueducts_, 213 ARCHITRAVE, this Word is a Compound of two Languages, ἀρχὴ and _Trabs_, and denotes the first Member of the _Entablature_, 113 ARIUS, his miserable Death, 177 ARMATION, a Place of Arms, 28 ASTRAGAL, is deriv’d from the _Greek_ Word Ἀστράγαλος, and signifies the little Joynts in the Neck. It is a Member of Architecture joyn’d to _Bases_, _Cornices_, and _Architraves_, 242 AVASARIUS, a Street in _Constantinople_, 238 B. BAGNIO’S, of _Achilles_, 20 Of _Arcadius_, 79 Of _Anastasia_, 208 Of _Bajazet_, 193 Of _Carosia_, 198 Of _Constantius_, 210 Of _Honorius_, and _Eudocia_, 169 Of _Zeuxippus_, 97 BASE. This signifies the Foot of a Pillar, which supports it; as also that Part, upon which the Shaft of the Pillar bears, 109 BASILICA, is derived from Βασιλεὺς, a King, and was a large Building, made at first for Kings and Princes; afterwards they were turn’d into Courts of Justice, and sometimes into Churches. _In Constantinople_ it contain’d the Imperial Library, consisting of six hundred Thousand Volumes; was also a Seat of Learning, and a Place of Traffick, 145 BEZESTAN, in the _Ottoman_ Language, is their Grand Exchange, 48 BLACHERNÆ, a Part of the Suburbs, 63 BRAZEN-BULL, 228