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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a Midwife, being such an one as delivers a Woman in Labour; Hyginus informs us, the Ancients having no Midwives, several Women died in Labour, because of their being ashamed to have Recourse to the Physi∣tians for Help, and since there was a Law a∣mong the Athenians which forbad Women to have any thing to do with Physick: Hereupon a young Woman called Agnodicia, having a great Inclination to the Science, disguised her self in Man's Cloaths and studied it, and then went to Women in Labour, and for the removing of all Scruples from them, she made her Sex known unto them and then delivered them. The Phy∣sitians observing that this would make them lose their Practise among the Women, sued the said young Woman, and accused her of ill Practises in Respect to the Female Sex: In short, they got her condemned by the Areopagites, but she gave them Proofs of her Innocence in a full Assembly: Then the Physitians had Recourse to the Law which prohibitted Women to profess Physick; upon which the Athenian Ladies inter∣posed in the Matter, and got the Law repealed; so that Women were left at full Liberty to study that Profession.