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 14, 2024.

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ANCHISES,

the Son of Capys, lived in the Desarts of Phrygia, where he spent his days in keeping his Flocks. The Fable says, that Venus often came down upon Mount Ida to en∣joy

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his Love; and of her Aeneas, the Trojan Prince, was born, who in the Destruction of Troy sav'd him from the flames, carrying him upon his shoulders. He dy'd at Drepanum, and his Son celebrated anniversary Games in ho∣nour of him, of which Virgil speaks in his fifth Book.

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