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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Title: 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.
Author: Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Nicholson ... Tho. Newborough ... and John Bulford ...,; 1700.
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Subject terms: Classical dictionaries.; Rome -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.; Greece -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
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HECATE,

A Divinity of Hell, Wri∣ters report her birth variously. Orpheus tells us, that she is the Daughter of Jupiter and Ce∣res; others say, that she is the Daughter of Jupiter and Asteria; and Apollodorus's opinion is, that Hecate, Diana, the Moon and Pro∣serpina are all one and the same, where∣fore they call her triple Hecate, or the God∣dess with three heads, being the Moon in Hea∣ven, Diana on Earth, and Proserpina or Hecate in Hell. She was called Trivia, because her Image was set up in cross-ways, either be∣cause of the noise that was made in the night, to imitate the howling of Ceres seeking after Proserpina, or because she was the Moon in Hea∣ven, and Diana on Earth, and Proserpina or Hecate in Hell, as the Scholiast of Aristophanes reports: Hecaten coluere antiquitus in trivies, propterea quod eandem & Lunam, & Dianam, & Hecaten vocarent.

Servius tells us the same thing upon this Verse of Virgil,

Nocturnisque Hecaten triviis ululata per urbes.

She was represented with a dreadful coun∣tenance, her Head attired with Serpents; and was called upon in Magick, they sacrificing to her Victims, the blood whereof was shed in a Ditch, digged in the ground for that purpose.