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.

PANTHEON,

the Pantheon, or a Tem∣ple built by M. Agrippa, Augustus Caesar's Son in Law, of a round Form in Honour of all the Gods; it was made of Brick on the Out-side and within was adorned with Marble of various Co∣lours: There were Niches in the Walls where∣in were placed the Statues of the Gods, espe∣cially that of Minerva which was made of Ivory by Phidias the Statuary, and that of Venus at whose Ears hung a very rich Pearl of Queen Cleopatra's, which Augustus ordered to be cut in two, because it could not be matched, which the said Queen at a Feast with Mark Antony caused to be dissolved and drunk it up: It weighed Half an Ounce, and was valued at 10000000 Sesterces, which in English Money amounts to a∣bout 76390 l. 11 s. The Gates of that Temple were made of Brass, the Beams covered with guilt Brass, and the Roof made of Silver Plates, which Constantine carried to Constantinpole. It was dedicated to Jupiter Vindex. The Emperor Adrian built one like it at Athens in Honour of all the Gods, which he enriched with 26 Columns of Thrygian Marble, and there he erected a Li∣brary and an Academy called by his Name, which he adorned with 100 Pillars of Lybian Marble.