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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The Number Ten, which the Romans figured thus X. We learn from Ovid, that this Number was very much re∣garded by the Ancient Romans. The Cabalist Hebrews and Pythagorean Philosophers are of opinion, that every number of Ten is full of Divine Mysteries. Romulus, says Ovid, made up the Year of ten Months only, he compo∣sed his Senate of one hundred Men, (which Number is made up of Ten multiplied by it self) divided still each of the three Tribes in∣to ten Hundred of Footmen, and ten Tenths of Horsemen. This number is so very perfect that Faith is represented with two right hands join'd together, and each of them being com∣posed of five Fingers, both together make up the number Ten: Numbers also don't go be∣yond

Ten, and after Ten we begin again with Unites, so ten and one make eleven. Plato teaches us in his Timeus, that Ten is composed of the four first Numbers, one, two, three, four, which joined together make Ten: that one represents the Point; two, the Line; three, the Superficies and the Triangle, which is the first plain Figure; and four the Square, and the solid Body in length, breadth and depth, or the Cube.