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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The God of Riches, also called Plutus. He is represented lame and blind; wherefore when Jupiter sends him to any person, he arrives there but very late, and often when there is no want of him: But when he returns, he goes as fast as the wind, and men are amazed to lose the sight of him so soon. And if Riches come to men sleep∣ing, he don't walk then upon his own Legs, but he is carried away, and then 'tis not Ju∣piter who sends him; but Pluto, who is also the God of Riches, as 'tis intimated by his name, for he makes great Riches pass from one hand into another: And being blind, he often misses his way; but he turns so of∣ten up and down, and on every side, that he meets some one or another who takes hold on him. Wherefore he inriches but very few just men; for being blind, how can he find a just man, who is a thing so scarce to meet with? but the wicked being in great numbers, he easily met with them.