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.

ALBINUS,

a Native of Adrumetum in A∣frick: He was descended of a Noble Family which came from Rome, having the Whiteness of the Europeans, but a frizled Beard like those of that Country; his Stature was tall and pro∣portionably thick, he was of a melancholy Temper, and had a wide Mouth; he was also a great Eater. A certain Writer, named Co∣drus, has told incredible things of him, saying, That he eat at one Breakfast five hundred Figs, one hundred Peaches, ten Melons, twenty pounds of Raisins, one hundred Wood-peckers, and four hundred Oysters; which without doubt is rather an Hy∣perbole than a Truth. After the Death of the Emperour Pertinax, Albinus was chosen Empe∣rour by the Troops which he commanded in Great-Britain; and at the same time Severus, who had just defeated Pescennius Niger, was likewise chosen Emperour by the Eastern Troops. Albinus, fearing least he should be seiz'd in England, went into France with fifty thousand Men, and Severus had about as many. Albinus being secure, because the City of Lyons took his part, gave Severus battel. He had an Advantage at the first Onset, and Severus him∣self, being faln from his Horse, had thoughts of giving over the Battel; but at last Albinus was conquer'd, and the Conquerour caus'd his Head to be cut off and sent to Rome, and cast his Body into the River Rhosne.