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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CYTHARA.

A Musical Iustrument with strings, of a triangular figure, which was played upon with a bow, as it is descri∣bed in a Letter attributed to Hieronymus. And according to what Pausanias says, Cythara and Lyra were two instruments, and Mercurius was the inventer of the Lyra, and Apollo of the Cythara. Yet most of the Ancient Poets con∣found these two Musical instruments, be∣cause they are very like one another. For Cythara was of a triangular figure, and the Lyra after the form of two opposite SS. There are some Statues and Medals whereon Apollo is represented with the Lyra in his hand, and sometimes with the Cythara.

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