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.

PAVO;

a Peacock; a Bird by the Heathens consecrated to Jupiter; they feigned that Argus his Eyes were put into the Peacock's Tail. Lucian has left us an Account of him thus:

The Pea∣cock, says he, at the Beginning of the Spring, when the Flowers first peep out, spreads abroad his Golden and Azure Feathers in a most mag∣nificent manner, and contends with the Spring which of them shall produce the most beautiful Things; he spreads himself, turns and admires his own Beauty, whose Splendor is doubly in∣creased by that of the Light, which does not only embellish the Colours, but multiplies them: This particularly happens to those Golden Circles, which crown the Enamel of his Tail, and each of them resemble a Rain∣bow that changes its Colour according to the divers Reflections of Light.