FAUSTA,
Sister to the Emperor Max∣entius, and second Wife to Constantine the Great. She fell in love with Crispu her Son∣in-Law,
A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.
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- A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.
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- Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.
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- London :: Printed for John Nicholson ... Tho. Newborough ... and John Bulford ...,
- 1700.
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- Rome -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
- Greece -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
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"A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36161.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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and accused him of having attempted her Virtue, because he refused to yeild to her impure desires. The Emperor provoked to anger, put him to death, without inquiring any further after the accusation of his Wife. But a while after the Imposture being disco∣vered, Constantine ordered her to be smothered in a hot Bath.