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.

ARCADES,

the Arcadians, who are such Sots, says ••ucian, as to believe that they were Born before the Moon, and for that rea∣son would never receive Astrology. Their King Pelasgus first taught them the use of Acorns, for before his time they liv'd only upon Herbs and Roots: But Arcas the Son of Jupiter and Calisto, according to Vigenere, upon the Pictures of Philostratus, first shew'd them the Art of tilling the Ground, of sow∣ing Corn and making Bread, with which they afterwards maintain'd themselves, and forsook their Acorns: This he learn'd from Triptolemus the Son of Ceres, and the Country where they dwelt, which was formerly call'd Pelasgia, was afterwards call'd Arcadia. Among other Deities they worship'd Pan and Diana, as Virgil says, Pan Deus Arcadiae. They sacri∣fic'd Men to Jupiter Lycianus, according to the relation of Pliny. Aristotle tells us Book 4th. of his Meteors, that the Wine of this Country being put into the Skin of a He-goat, and plac'd near the fire, calcines itself, and is reduc'd to a Salt.