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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CRUMATA,

Another kind of Casta∣niets made of little bones or shells, as Sca∣liger observes upon the Copa of Virgil, they were very common among the Spaniards, and especially among the Inhabitants of the Pro∣vince Baetica about Cadiz, to which Martial makes allusion:

Nec ae Gadibus improbis puellae, Vibrabunt sine fine prurientes, Lascivos docili tremore lumbos. Epigr. 79. lib. 5.

The same Poet in another place speaks of a Woman that could play with that Instru∣ment, and make motions with her Body.

Edere lascivos ad Boetica crumata gestus, Et Gaditanis ludere docta modis. Epig. 71. l. 6.

The Inhabitants of that Country have kept to this time the use of that Instrument, and from them Castaniets come to us.

Yet these Castaniets were not unknown to the ancient Greeks. Aristophanes calls them 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Oyster's shells, and Marshal, Testae.

Audiat ille testarum crepitus.