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.

CLAROS,

a small City of Ionia, hereto∣fore famous for the Oracle of Apollo, who from them was surnamed Clarins. There was a cer∣tain Fountain, whose Water inspir'd Men to de∣liver Oracles, when it was drank, but it also shortned their Lives.

Strabo informs us, that Calchas the Diviner returning home by Land, after Troy was taken with Amphilocus, the Son of Amph••••raus, passed through Claros, where he found much more ex∣pert Diviners than himself; for, when Calchas to try one of them, asked him, How many Pigs a Sow, that was big, should bring forth; Mopsus, who was the Diviner, answered, That she should have but three, two Males, and one Female, which proved true. But Calchas not being able to give an Answer in his turn to this Question, How many Figs a Fig-Tree had, and Mopsus tel∣ling him how many, he was so discontented, that he died of Grief to see himself out-done in his

own Art. Nearcbus derives this Word Cl••ros from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a Lot, because it fell to Apollo in the Division. Some Authors say, it comes from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to weep, because Manto the Daughter of Tiresias the Diviner, to whom the Foundati∣on of that City is attributed, flying from Thebes after the Epigoni had destroyed it, landed in those Parts, where pouring out her Tears, she made a Fountain, which gave Name to that Place.

It is also an Isle in the Archipelago, between Tenedos and Soio, dedicated to Apollo, as Calli∣machus testifies in these Verses,

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