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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AEGEUS,

the Son of Pandion King of A∣thens, who begot Theseus upon the Nymph Ae∣thra. Minos King of Candia declar'd War a∣gainst him, to revenge the Death of his Son Androgeus, whom some of the Athenians had kill'd. In this War the Athenians had conside∣rable Losses, which forc'd them to desire a Peace, and it was granted them, on condition that they should send every year six young Men, of the better sort of Families, to be ex∣pos'd to the Minotaure, for appeasing the Ghost of his Son. The Lot fell upon Theseus, the Son of King Aegeus, who escap'd the Fury of this Monster: But Aegeus seeing the Ship re∣turn, which had carry'd this cruel Oblation, and not percieving the white Flag set up, (as had been agreed between them) he suppos'd his Son was dead, which put him into such a Fit of Despair, that he threw himself head-long into the Sea. The Athenians institu∣ted Feasts to his Honour, and sacrific'd to him as a Sea-God, and an Adopted Son of Ne∣ptune.