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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LUCTA;

was one of the bodily Exercises used among the Athenians, being an Encounter between Two Men only, for a Trial of Strength, and wherein each endeavoured to give the other a Fall: This sort of Combating, and the Prize appointed for the Conqueror, they had in the Olympick Games. Lucian in his Dialogue con∣cerning the Exercises of the Body, brings in A∣narcarsis, a Scythian, speaking thus to Solon, concerning the said Exercise, where he deter∣mines how it should be done.

Anacarsss. Why do these young Men give one another the Foyl, and tumble in the Dirt like Swine, endeavouring to Stifle, and hinder each other to take breath? They anointed and sha∣ved one another at first very friendly; but sud∣denly stooping their Heads, they butt at each o∣ther like Two Rams: Then one of them hoist∣ing up his Companion, throws him violently down upon the Ground, squeezing his Throat with his Elbow, and pressing his Body with his Knees, insomuch, that I have been afraid he would have choaked him, tho' the other clapp'd him on the Shoulder, to desire him to let him go, as acknowledging himself overcome.