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.

ARICIA,

a little of City Latium in Italy, which was built by Hippoli••us the Son of Theseus, in Memory of his Wife, who had the same Name, as Martial tells us, B. 4. Her Name was also given to a Forest, wherein Diana concealed Hippolytus, after he was rais'd from the Dead by Aesculapius; as an ac∣knowledgement for so great a Benefit he ere∣cted a Temple, to him whose Priests were to be fugitive Slaves. Hard by there was a Fountain sacred to the Nymph Egeria, where King Numa, having learned Hydromancy, or the Art of Divination by Waters, boasted that he had frequent Conversation with that Nymph, that he might the more firmly establish his Empire, raise his own Reputa∣tion to a higher Pitch, and conciliate greater Authority to his Laws among the common People. ••oli••ms and Cassius Hemina, think that the City of Aricia, was built by Archilacus the Sicilian, in the Year 425. from the buil∣ding of Rome. It obtain'd the Priviledge of the Roman Freedom, and was at first a Municipal City, and afterwards a Roman Colony, as Florus tells us, Marius Anttum, Ariciam & Lavini••n colonaias devastavit. It was the Place of the Nativity of Accia, the Mother of the Emperor Augustus.