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 15, 2024.

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COELUS, or COELUM,

the Heaven, which the Greeks call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, either from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 video, to see; or from the Hebrew Word Or, that is to say, Lucere, to shine, or our, which is urere, to burn in Flame, from whence the Latins have also derived Aurora.

This Heaven was the first Object of false Worship, and Men took it for an Universal Nature, which it contains; whence it bears the Name of Jupiter, as if Jupiter were the Soul, and the Heaven, the Body of the whole Uni∣verse. This was the Opinion of Ennius when he said, Aspice hoc sublime candens, quem invo∣cant omnes Jovem.

Phurnutus makes 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to come from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is to say, a Guardian or Conservator, because the Heavens and the Stars were the first false Gods, who were honoured as the Conservators of the World.

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