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.

ANTINOUS,

of Bithynia, the Empe∣ror Adrian's Favourite, who was drowned in the Nile, in a Voyage from Egypt. The Empe∣ror was so sensibly touched with his Loss, that to comfort himself, he plac'd him in the rank of the immortal Gods, causing Temples to be built to him, erecting Altars, and appointing Priests and Sacrifices.

He caused several Medals to be stamp'd to perpetuate his Memory, and plac'd his Statues in the Colleges.

We have Three Medals of his: upon the Reverse of the First there is the Figure of a Temple, with the Emperor Adrian built upon the Nile, in Honour of him, with these Greek words, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Adria∣nus construxit. At the bottom of this Temple there is drawn a Crocodile, a Creature that a∣bounds in the Nile, where Antinous dyed.

Leonicus, in his Historia variâ, says, That he saw at Venice a Silver Medal of Antinous, on which were these words, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is to say, Antinous the Here. On the reverse of this Medal is represented a Sheep, with an Inscription quite worn out.

There is yet a Third Medal of Antinous, wherein, on one side is the Portraiture of this young Bithynian Lad of extraordinary Beauty, with these Greek Letters, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Hostilius Mar∣cellus Sacerdos Antinoi Achaeis dicavit: On the reverse is the Horse Pegasus, with Mercury ha∣ving his winged Shooes on, and his Caduceus.