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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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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Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.
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London :: Printed for John Nicholson ... Tho. Newborough ... and John Bulford ...,
1700.
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Classical dictionaries.
Rome -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
Greece -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36161.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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CINCINNATUS,

a Roman Captain born in a mean Place, but great for his Vertue and Courage; as he was plowing a Field of Four Acres the People of Rome made him Dicta∣tor,

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which they had not done but that the Affairs of their Republick were in a desperate Condition? He accepted of that Dignity un∣willingly, and having settled the Publick Af∣fairs in Seventeen Days, he left it freely, and returned to his Plough as before.

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