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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MAXIMINUS

was a Person of a mean Birth, but succeeded Alexander Severus in the Empire: He was of a Gigantick Stature, being Eight Foot and a Half high, insomuch that his Wife's Bracelet served him for a Thumb-ring: He was robustick and strong as if he were ano∣ther Milo, which made every Body dread him, so that Balbinus trembled when he heard but his Name mentioned. He had a long and sharp-pointed Chin, which is a common Sign of a fierce and cruel Nature; and so indeed he was violent and cruel to the highest Degree, that being his Maxim, that he could not maintain himself in the Empire but by Severity. Moreover, as he was a Person of an extraordinary Size, and had a large Mouth, as great Eaters usually have, 'tis the less to be wondered at what Historians write, that he sometimes did eat in one Day Forty Pounds of Victuals, and drunk as many Pints of Wine. He was killed together with his Son by the Soldiery, having reigned only Three Years.