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.

ANTONINUS,

the adopted Son of Adrian, to whom he succeeded: He was Sur∣named Pius, for his excellent Morals and sweet Temper, to which a reverse of a Medal al∣ludes, which represents Aeneas carrying his Fa∣ther Anchises upon his Shoulders from Troy. (This was the Badge of Piety and Love to∣wards Parents, among the Antients.) Antoni∣nus had a long Visage, which the Physiogmo∣nists say, is a sign of Good Nature and Kind∣ness, to which we may add a sweet, modest, and majestick Air, and a due proportion of all parts of his Face, as in the rest of his Body. He must be acknowledg'd to be a Prince good, merciful, just, liberal, sober, and eloquent,

one that was truly worthy to govern so great an Empire. This Emperor was compard to Numa, and indeed they had a very great resem∣blance one to the other, both as to their Minds and the Lineaments of their Face. He caus'd the Temple of Augustus, which was much ruin∣ed, to be rebuilt, and rais'd a new one to his Predecessor Adrian, who adopted him. He dyed in the Seventieth Year of his Age, and was as much lamented, as if he had been a very young Man; and 'twas observ'd, that he gave up the Ghost as if he had been in a sleep, Hea∣ven recompensing the sweetness of his Life by the easiness of his Death. He govern'd the Em∣pire Twenty two Years and Seven Months, or Twenty four Years, according to others.