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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CHORUS,

the Chorus in a Comedy was but one Person only, who spoke in the ancient Composures for the Stage; the Poets by De∣grees added to him another, then Two, after∣wards Three, and at last more: So that the most ancient Comedies had nothing but the Chorus, and were only so many Lectures of Vertue, for as Horace says, they ought to en∣courage the Good, reconcile Enemies, pacifie the Enraged, applaud the Just, and command Frugality, Justice, Laws, Peace and Fidelity in keeping Secrets; intreat the Gods to debase the Proud, and pity the Miserable.

Ille bonis faveatque, & concilietur amicis, Et regat iratos, & amet pacare timentes. Ille dapes laudet mensae brevis; ille salubrem Justitiam, legesque, & apertis otia portis. Ille tegat commissa, deosque precetur, & oret, Ʋt redeat miser is, abeat fortuna superbis. De Arte Poet. V. 195.