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 15, 2024.
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ZODIACUS,
the Zodiac, an imaginary Circle in the Heavens containing the Twelve Signs or Constellations, which the Sun runs thro in a Year's Space; it's interfected into Two e∣qual Parts by the Equator, one of which contains the Six Northern Signs towards the Artick Pole, and the other the Six Southern Signs towards the Antartick: It's called the Zodiac, that is, Life-bearer, by reason of the Figure of the Ani∣mals in it that represent the Twelve Signs, viz. Aries, Taurus and Gemini, for the Spring; Can∣cer, Leo and Virgo, for Summer; Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, for Autumn; Capricornus, Aqua∣rius and Pisces, for Winter: In Verse thus.