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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ALEXANDER SEVERUS,

the Son of Varus and Mammaea. He was made Emperor of Rome before he was 16 years of Age, and was one of the wisest and most learned of the Emperors. He would not suf∣fer any Offices to be sold, but gave them, to Persons of Merit. His Council was made up of the most virtuous and able Lawyers of the Empire, viz. Ulpian, Callistratus, and Modestinus. He was a great Lover of Arts and Sciences. He was liberal without Profuseness, valiant without Cruelty, a severe Judg, yet was eve∣ry way just and equitable.

He discover'd a great Inclination to the Christian Religion; for he set up in his Chap∣pel the Image of Jesus Christ, together with Abrahams: And some likewise conjecture, that he intended to build him a Temple at Rome. His Severity, tho' just, yet was fatal to him, and provoked the Soldiers of the German Le∣gion to slay him near Mens, after he had reign'd Thirteen years.

He retain'd so great a Modesty in his highest pitch of Honour, that he never would suffer himself to be call'd Lord; for he order'd that all Salutations to him should be utter'd in these words, Ave Alexander, and condemn'd by his Modesty his Predecessors, and chiefly Helioga∣balus, who would be saluted thus, Dominus, ac Deus noster sic fieri jubet, Our Lord and God will have it so: As Suetonius saith.