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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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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Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.
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London :: Printed for John Nicholson ... Tho. Newborough ... and John Bulford ...,
1700.
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Classical dictionaries.
Rome -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
Greece -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36161.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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Y. (Book y)

Y Is the 22th Letter in the Alphabet and the Sixth Vowel, used in Words derived from the Greek; 'tis the Ʋpsilón of the Grecians, which is one of the Three Vowels that they call common. We make use of the Letter Y very often in the End of Words in the English Tongue, though we have lost the Sound of it and pro∣nounce it always like an I; and have also passed the same Pronunciation into the Latin, which in some measure must be allowed of because of Custom, though it would by no means be re∣ceived into the Greek Tongue, where the Ʋpsilon should always be pronounced like our Vowel Ʋ, according to the Opinion both of ancient and modern Grammarians.

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