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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AEGERIA,

a Nymph, or Deity that was worship'd in the Forest Aricina, which Titus Livius places seven miles from Rome, but Festus says it lay only a little way without the Gate Collina. Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, feign'd that he had frequent Conversa∣tion with this Deity, that he might add greater Weight and Authority to his Laws and Ordi∣nances, and root them deeper in the Minds of the Romans, making them believe that this Nymph Aegeria dictated them to him. Ovid makes her the Wife of Numa, who was chan∣ged into a Fountain by Diana. Fast. lib. 3. ver. 275.

Aegeria est quae praebet aquas, Dea grata Ca∣moenis: Illa Numae conjux, consiliumque fuit.

She was reverenc'd by the Romans as a Deity; and the Women with child pray'd to her, in the time of their Travel, that by her Aid they might be safely deliver'd of their Children, as we learn from Festus: Aegeria nymphae sacrifica∣bant praegnantes, quod eam putabant facile concep∣tum alvo egerere. She was also call'd Fluonia, because she stop'd the Bloody-flux in Wo∣men.