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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DANAUS,

The Son of old Belus, and Aegyptus's Brother, who drove away Stenelus out of the Kingdom of Argos, where he reign∣ed five years. Pliny relates, that he was the first who made use of Ships to cross over from Aegypt into Greece. He had fifty Daugh∣ters, whom he used very severely, forcing them to work with their own hands, and married them to the Sons of his Brother Aegyp∣tus, who were also fifty in number. Pausani∣as tells us, that Danaus built a Temple to A∣pollo, sirnamed Lycienus, either from Licia, or the Greek word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. a Wolf, or from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 light; wherefore Homer calls him 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, begetting light. Once he came to Argos to dispute with Gelamor, the Son of Stenelus, about the Kingdom, and having re∣ferred the controversy to the people, it was put off to the next day. But the next morn∣ing by break of day a Wolf crossing the Country, fell among a herd of Cattle, that were feeding along the Walls, and assaulted a strong and vigorous Bull. The Inhabi∣tants went upon the Walls, and stood there to see the event of the fight, and ascribed

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Gelamor's Party to the Bull, and the Party of Danaus to the Wolf. The Bull was over∣come, and the Wolf victorious, whereupon the Inhabitants adjudged the Kingdom to Danaus, who thought that Apollo had sent this Wolf on purpose to favour his right, who built him a Temple for an acknowledge∣ment of his good offices.

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