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.

APIUM,

Smallage, an Aquatick Plant, that grows by the water-side; which, according to Philostratus and Hyginus, was occasioned by the Death of young Archemorus, whom his Nurse Hypsiphile left lying upon Smallage near a Fountain, where a Serpent kill'd him. Gar∣lands were made of this Plant, which were given to those who were victorious at the Ne∣maean Games, that were instituted in honour of him. Plutarch, in the third Question of his Sym∣posiacks, says, that this Plant was used for the same purpose at the Isthmian Games, that were in honour of Palemon. Hence it was that Ti∣moleon, in the War of the Sicilians against the Carthaginians, took it for an Omen of assured Victory, that the Souldiers had Bundles of Smallage, since the Victors at the Isthmian Games, that were celebrated near Corinth, were crown∣ed with it; and hence also the Admiral Ship of King Antigonus was call'd Isthmion, because a Smallage grew of it self upon the Stern of that Ship.

This Plant was peculiarly consecrated to the dead, according to the Testimony of Pliny, De∣functorum epulis dicatum Apium. And Agrippa, in chap. 25. of his first Book of Occult Philosophy, informs us, That the Cypress as well as Smallage was a direful Plant dedicated to Pluto, which it was not lawful for any to crown themselves with on Festival days.