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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Title: 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.
Author: Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Nicholson ... Tho. Newborough ... and John Bulford ...,; 1700.
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Subject terms: Classical dictionaries.; Rome -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.; Greece -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
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ARGONAVIS,

the Ship of the Ar∣gonauts, in which Jason sail'd to Colchos, to fetch the Golden Fleece. This Ship was built by Argus, with the help of Miuer∣va, of the Pine Trees in the Forest of Pe∣lens or Dedona. Phaedrus in the 4th. Book of his Fables, Fab. 6. speaks of it after the follow∣ing manner.

I would to God that the Thassa∣lian Ax, had never cut down the high Pines of the Forrest of Peleus, and that the sub∣til Argus, having a mind to go upon the Waters a daring Voyage, expos'd to many visible dangers of Death, had never fram'd a Ship by the Art of Pallas, which by ope∣ning the 1st. Entrance into the Sea, that hitherto had continued inaccessible, has been so fatal both to the Greeks and Bar∣barians. You will tell me doubtless, con∣tinues the same Author, that all this Pray∣er is impertinent, and founded upon a mi∣stake about the 1st. Ship, since it is certain that a long time before the Argonautes, Minos overcame the Violence of the Eg••an Sea, by covering it with a great Fleet, and reveng'd the Death of his Son by a Punish∣ment no less just than Exemplary.