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.

GRAECI,

The Greeks, the Inhabitants of Greece, who are differently named by Wri∣ters Achaij, Argivi, Danai, Dolopes, Helleni, Io∣nij, Mermidones, Pelasgi, according to the Cities they inhabited, and their several Facti∣ons.

Eusebius affirms, that Hellen the Son of Deu∣calion, repopulated this Country after the De∣luge, that happened in the time of Moses, about the year 3680. à mundo condito. They very much improved Arts and Sciences, that they learned of Eumolpus and Orphaeus, the Assyrians and Phaenicians. The Greeks increased the num∣ber of Gods, and shared the Empire and Ad∣ministration of the World, appointing seve∣ral Gods for Corn and Vines, to Plants and Flowers; which gave occasion for all the chimerical divisions of Gods, relating imagi∣nary particulars of them, and giving them names, without any other ground, but their own vanity and presumption.

The Phaenicians having disguised the true Histories of the Bible, and composed their Fables of it, the Greeks also appropriated the Phaenicians Fables to Greece.

Pliny affirms, that Cadmus, about the year 2520 à mundo condito, brought from Phaenicia sixteen Letters into Greece; viz. A, B, C, D E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, to which Palamedes added four, during the Trojan War, O, Z, φ, X.