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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HERM-EROS,

is a Statue of Brass, representing a God made up of Mercury and Cupid, called by the Greeks Eros. This God is expressed by the figure of a young Boy, holding the Caducaeum and the Purse, the two Badges of Mercury. The Ancients doubtless intimated by this Emblem, that Eloquence and Money were two necessary things to a Lover. Pliny speaking of fine Carver's work, mentions the Hermaerotae of one Tauriscus; and the word Hemero's, was often used by the Ro∣mans and the Greeks for a sirname; as we may see by the Inscription of an Epitaph found at Rome.

HFRMEROTI
AUG. LIB.
PRAEPOSITO TABULAR.
RATIONIS CASTRENSIS.
FRATRI INDULGENTISSIM.
AMPLIATUS AUG. LIB. FECIT.

To the Memory of Hermeros, Infranchised by the Emperor, Overseer of the Secretaries of the Camp; Ampliatus Freed-man of the Emperor, has dedicated this Monument to his very good Brother.