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.

PIETAS;

Piety, whom the Romans wor∣shipp'd for a Goddess. Antoninus Pius caused her to be represented in the Dress of a Roman La∣dy, holding a little Incense Box, named Acerra, in her Hand, and standing before an Altar where there was a Fire lighted, to offer Incense upon it. She may be also seen graven upon the Mo∣ney of the said Emperor, holding Two Children in her Arms, and with Two more, one on each side: We have also Piety represented divers ways, upon the Medals of Marcus Aurelius, Do∣mitian, and Sabina, Adrian's Wife. She appears in the Dress of a Roman Lady, in a sitting Po∣sture, holding a Javelin without any Spear to it in one Hand, and having little Children at her Feet, which she seems to instruct. As also under the Picture of Marcus Herennius, who carried his Father upon his Shoulders, and of Ae∣neas, who did the same by his Father, whom he pulled out of the Flames of Troy. By the Mo∣ney which Titus the Son of Vespatian coined, Piety

appears bringing the Two Brothers Titus and Domitian together, and making them give one another the Right-hand: She was also exprest holding Two Children in her Arms, with a Stork that carries her Parents about in their old Age, and feeds them, which is a Symbol of Piety. At Rome there was a Temple dedicated to Piety by Attilius, in the Place where that Daughter lived, who sustain'd her Father in Prison with the Milk of her Breasts.