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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36161	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.; Dictionarium antiquitatum Romanarum et Graecarum. English	Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.	1700 (1700)	Wing D171; ESTC R14021	1,057,883	623

opinion were the Sons of Faunus King of the Alorigines in Italy They were represented with small Horns on their Head and pointed Ears and the rest of their Bodies like Goats The Country People worshipp'd them and offered them Goats in Sacrifice These Demi-Gods were only the Gods of the Latins and were unknown to the Greeks FAVONIUS The West-wind that blows from the Equinoxial Line of the West i. e. from that place where the Sun sets in the time of the Vernal Equinox The Greeks call it Zephirus i. e. bringing life because it revives and renews Nature in the Spring FAUSTA Sister to the Emperor Maxentius and second Wife to Constantine the Great She fell in love with Crispu her Son-in-Law and accused him of having attempted her Virtue because he refused to yeild to her impure desires The Emperor provoked to anger put him to death without inquiring any further after the accusation of his Wife But a while after the Imposture being discovered Constantine ordered her to be smothered in a hot Bath FAUSTINA The Wife of Marcus Aurelius who taking occasion from her Husband's kindness to lead a lewd life Her Husband prudently winked at it yet he cannot be excused for raising to the greatest Imployments in the Empire those who defiled his Bed Whereupon the People passed many Jeers upon him And those who were zealous for the service of their false Gods were asham'd to see Faustina the lewdest of all women rank'd amongst the Divinities served by Priests and worshipped in a particular Temple like Pallas who was accounted a Virgin FAUSTULUS Numitor's Shepherd who saved Remus and Romulus two Children of Rhea the Vestal whom Amulius her Father had exposed on the River Tyber and brought them to Acca Laurentia his Wife who brought them up secretly FEBRIS A Fever an Ague a Disease proceeding from an excess of heat and drowth in the blood and humours which communicates it self from the Heart to the whole Body through the Veins and Arteries and is known by a violent beating of the Pulse The Romans put her among their Divinities and built her a Temple Poets banish'd the Diseases into Hell as Virgil has done Primis in faucibus Orci Pallentes habitant Morbi But the ignorant People place them among the Divinities Clemens of Alexandria speaks thus of them The Romans offered Sacrifices to Hercules the Fly-driver the Fever and Fear Romani Herculi muscarum depulsori Febri at Pavori sacrificant And St Austin says that Felicity is received among the Divinities and joined with Priapus Cloacina Fear Paleness Fever and many others that cannot be adored without Crime Whereupon Lactantius tells us that 't is a strange depravation to confound these Gods and Evils together though they pretend that some Gods are honoured for help and others are respected lest they should do harm FEBRUA A Goddess who presided over women's Terms This word is derived from the Latin word Februa i. e. to purify to purge FEBRUARIUS February the second Month of the Year under the protection of Neptune This Month is not found in the Calendar of Romulus the Year being then composed but of ten Months only but during the reign of Numa Pompilius the Calendar was reformed for the first time Numa had discoursed very particularly with Pythagoras concerning Astronomy and made use of what he had learn'd of him to make this reformation and followed very near the order kept then by the Greeks for the distribution of time Yet the common Years of the Greeks were but of 354 days however Numa made up his Year of 355 days that it might be an odd number out of a superstition of the Egyptians who accounted even numbers to be fatal Wherefore he took a day out of each of these six Months April June Sextilis September November and December that Romulus had made up of 30 days that they might be but 29 leaving to the other Months the 31 days they had before Then adding these six days to 51 which was wanting to the Year of Romulus which was 304 days to make up his Year 355 days he made 57 days of them which he divided in two other Months and placed them before the Month of March viz. January of 29 days and February of 28. He did not much matter that the number of days of this last Month was even because it was appointed for the Sacrifices that were offered to the Infernal Gods to whom this fatal number seem'd agreeable He called this Month Februarius because of the God Februus who presided over the Purifications or because of Juno sirnamed Februa Februata or Februalis for in this Month the Lupercalia were celebrated in honour of her where the Women were purified by the Priests of Pan Lycaeus called Lupercals And to make this more establish'd and perpetual Numa made use of the 45 intercalar days of the Greeks and distributed them every two Years and at the end of the two first Years there was a Month of 22 days set before the Feast called Terminalia which was kept the sixth of the Kalends of March i. e. the 24th of February and after the two other Years the three and twenty remaining days were set at the same day so that in the space of four Years the whole intercalation of 45 days was made and was even with that which was practiced by the Greeks in their Olympiades This interposed Month every two Years was called by the Romans Mercedonius or Februarius intercalaris See Annus At the Calends or the first day of this Month was kept the Feast of June Sospit who had a Temple on Mount Palatine near the Temple of the Grand-mother of the Gods The same day was solemniz'd the Feast of the Wood of Refuge called Lucaria which Romulus had instituted that he might People his new Town And that day they sacrificed in the Temples of Vesta and Jupiter sirnamed the Thunderera to whom a Sheep of two years old was sacrificed in the Capitol This day there were also Sacrifices offered to the dumb Goddess or the Goddess of Silence See Muta Dea. There was still upon this day another Ceremony observed called Charistia because all the Kindred of the same Family having the foregoing days perform'd the Service for the dead made among themselves a Banquet of Charity whereby they put an end to all Disputes and Controversies that might be amongst them As we learn from Valerius Maximus lib. 2. c. 1. Convivium etiam solemne Majores instituerunt idque Charistiam appellaverunt cui praeter cognatos affines nemo interponebatur ut si quae inter necessarias personas querela esset erta inter sacra mensae tolleretur On the 21 or the 22 was kept the Feast of the Bounds called Terminalia in honour of Terminus the God of Bounds The Ceremony of this Feast was performed in the Country upon Stones used for Bounds and were accounted by them as so many Gods they offered them some Wheat Cakes with the first Fruits of