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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HYDROMANTIA,

A South∣saying performed by way of water, wherein the Images of the Gods were seen. Varro tells us, that this kind of divination was found out by Perses, and that Numa Pompilius, and after him Pythagoras the Philosopher made use of it, and that thereby Spirits are also conjur'd up by spilling blood, and this performance was called by the Greeks Necromantia. These kinds of South-sayings were rigorously forbid by the Laws of all Nations, even before the coming of our Lord. However, by this means, Numa learned the Mysteries that he instituted; and because he used water to perform his Hydromantia, it was said that he married the Nymph Egeria, as Varro tells us.