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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MENOECEUS;

the Son of Creon King of Thebes, who was willing to die for the Preser∣vation of his Country, for when they came to know by the Oracle, that the Thebans should obtain the Victory, if the last of Cadmus his Race devoted himself to the Infernal Gods, he slew himself with his own Sword, after he had so de∣voted himself.