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.

PYRAMIS;

is an heap of Square Stones, always rising up in a taper manner, like a Flame; whence comes the Name, for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Greek sig∣nifies Fire: There are some Pyramids of a vast height; and Pliny speaks of one, for the Build∣ing of which 32000 Men were imploy'd for Twenty Years: He says it took up Eight Acres of Ground. This Author informs us, that the Kings of Egypt, who put themselves to such great Expence, did it for no other End than to keep the People from Idleness, and thereby to pre∣vent the Insurrections that otherwise might have happened. See Obeliscus.