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.

ADOLESCENS, and ADULESCENS,

a young Man, who is not yet past the age of grow∣ing. They commonly reckon'd this Age from twelve years to twenty five for Boys, and to twenty one for Girls. But if we consider the Use of this word among the Antients, we shall find that they used indifferently the word Ado∣lescens and Juvenis, for such as were not yet forty five years old. Cicero lib. 2. ep. 2. calls Curio adolescens, who was more than thirty years old. In lib. 2. de Oratore, he says, that there were some Works of Lucius Crassus which he wrote in his Youth, & ea ipsa adolescentem scri∣pta reliquisse. Sallust calls Caesar adolescentulum, when he obtained the Pontificate, and he was then at least thirty five years of age. Valerius Maximums calls Scipio Aemilianus admodum adolescen∣tem, who was more than thirty four years old. And lastly, Cicero calls Brutus and Cassius ado∣lescentes, in the year of their Praetorship, i. e. in the fortieth year of their age. All which Pas∣sages plainly prove, that it was not only in Writing that this word was used for one so far advanced in years.