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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PASIPHAE;

the Daughter of the Sun, and Wife to Minos, King of Creet: The Fable tells us, she fell in Love with a Bull, whom she enjoy'd by Daedalus his Contrivance, who by his Skill made a Cow, wherein Pasiphae being inclo∣sed, she conceived by this Bull a Creature that was half Man half Bull, which was shut up in the Labyrinth, and with the Assistance of Ariadne killed by Theseus. Servius informs us, that this Taurus was one of Minos his Captains, who by the Procurement of Daedalus enjoy'd Pasiphae, and because the Child she bore was like unto Taurus and Minos, he was called Minotaurus. Lucian says, that Pasiphae hearing Daedalus dis∣coursing of the Coelestial Sign Taurus, she became in Love with his Doctrine, which she learnt from him, and this gave the Poets occasion to feign that she fell in Love with a Bull.