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.

JAPHETUS,

One of Noah's Sons. The name of Japhet signifies a great extent, according to the blessing of Noah, God shall enlarge Japheth. Wherefore the Scripture says that Wisdom is wider, i. e. of a greater extent than the Seas. But instead of Japhet mention'd in the Holy Scripture, the Greeks have found out Japetus. However, the Jape∣tus of the Greeks, is nothing like the Japhet of the Scripture; for the Greeks tell us, that Ja∣petus was Brother to Saturn, and that Jupiter threw him headlong into Hell with the other Titans. They represent him like an old de∣cripit Man, and proverbially say, older than Jopetus; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 notwithstand∣ing he was younger than Japhes the Son of Noah, for they say, that Japetus was the Grand-father of Deucalion, who liv'd: in Moses's time.