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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BASSAREUS,

and BASSARI∣DES, Epithets given to Bacchus, and the Bacchae, from the long Robe Bassara, which they are said to wear, as Hesychius, and Pol∣lux teach us; and as we learn from the Statues of Bacchus. Phornutus, and Acron, the Scholiast of Horace, think that this Word Bassara, comes from a City of Lydia, called BASSARA, from whence the Fashion of it came.

The Grammarian Cornutus upon Persius will have them to be so called from Foxes skins, which in the Thracian Language are called Bassares, with which the Bacchae were cloathed,