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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	accusation_n	accuse_v	accuser_n	43	3	10.4977	5	false

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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

they plac'd themselves at Table and chang'd their Cloths putting on a Garment which they called Vestis coenatoria and putting off their Shoes that they might not dirty the Beds They bound about their Heads Fillets of Wool to prevent the Distempers of the Head which the Fumes of Meat and Wine might cause for which reason they used afterwards Garlands of Flowers Their Women did not eat lying after this manner such a Posture being esteem'd indecent and immodest in them except at a Debauch where they appear'd without any Shame or Modesty yet in an antient Marble which is at Rome we find the figure of a Woman lying at a Table upon a Bed as her Husband does and Virgil also seems to attest this when he represents Dido lying at Table at a Feast which she made upon the Arrival of Aeneas unless he means that she was already smitten with Love with her new Guest ACCUSARE in the Law to Accuse to draw up or lay an Accusation or Process The antient Lawyers put a difference between these three words Postulare Deserre and Accusare for first leave was desired to lay an Action against one and this was called Postulare and Postulatio after this he against whom the Action was laid was brought before the Judg which was call'd Deserre and nominis Delatio and lastly the Accusation was drawn up accusabatur The Accuser was obliged by the Law to sign his Accusation at the head of which he plac'd the Name of the Consul which signified the Year when the Romans reckon'd Years by their Consuls he set down also the Day the Hour and the Judg before whom he intended to prosecute his Accusation We learn from Tacitus that the Accusers had two days given them to make their Complaint in and the Accused three days to make his Defence and that six days were allow'd between them both to prepare themselves From the very moment that any Person was accused of a Capital Crime that deserved Death he was stript of all his Marks of Honour and appear'd in a careless Habit he was obliged to give Sureties that he would appear in Court when there was occasion which if he did not he was laid up in Prison to secure his Person The Libel being drawn the Accused was summoned to appear at three Market-days in trinundinum and he always came attended with his Neighbours and Friends who were concerned for him and threw themselves at the feet of the Magistrates and People to beg favour for him in case he were found guilty If the Accused refus'd to appear he was summoned with the Sound of a Trumpet before his House or Castle and after the time allow'd was expir'd he was condemn'd for Contumacy The Accuser had two hours wherein to speak against the Accused and three hours were granted to the Accused to make his Defence which was measured by an Hour-glass of Water called Clepsydra of which I shall give an account in its proper place which made a Greek Orator say to the Judg when he had a mind to signifie to him the Goodness of his Cause That he would bestow part of his Water on his Adversary i. e. of his Time which the Lex Pompeia made by Pompey in his third Consulship allowed him for his Defence If the Accused was found guilty Sentence was pronounced against him in these words Videtur fecisse i. e. he is attainted and convicted of having committed the Crime If on the contrary he was found not guilty he was then declared innocent in these terms Videtur non fecisse i. e. he is cleared from all Suspicion of Guilt All these Circumstances which were observed in Accusations are related by Cicero and Tacitus But if it appeared by the Event that the Accuser was a Calumniator i. e. that he had falsly accused the other Party or that he was a Prevaricator i. e. that he had betray'd his Cause to make way for the Criminal to escape and obtain Absolution or at least that he had desisted from and given over Prosecution without the Leave of the Magistrate or the Prince and without a lawful Cause then he was sentenced by the Magistrate to suffer the same Punishment which the guilty Person deserv'd ACERRA a little Pot which held the Incense and Perfumes for Sacrifices such as are now made in the form of a small Boat and are used in the Church of Rome at this day An Incense-Box for burning Perfumes upon the Altars of the Gods and before the dead Bodies The Rich says Horace offer'd Boxes full of the finest Perfumes to their false Deities Et plenâ supplex veneratur Acerrâ And the Poor according to Lucian were excused for making a Bow and throwing some grains of Incense into the Fire that burnt upon the Altars ACESSEUS the Name of a certain Seaman who was very careless and always attributed the bad Success of his Voyages to the Moon from whence comes the Latin Proverb Accessei Luna to signifie a lazy and negligent sort of People who always throw off the Blame from themselves in case of any bad Success tho their own Negligence was the only Cause of it ACETABULUM a small antient Measure which contained about the fourth part of an Hemine being about two ounces and an half of either liquid or dry things as Pliny explains it towards the end of his twelfth book This Measure held a Cup and an half and answers to our Quartern but is now more in use among Druggists and Apothecaries than Victuallers both for Liquids and Solids It was also a kind of Spice-Box which contained all sorts of Spices whereof the Ancients used to make their Sauces to season their Victuals together with Vinegar and Verjuice It was made in the form of a Pyramid and had several Drawers wherein were put different sorts of Spices as Pepper Nutmegs c. ACHELOUS a River whose Spring-head rises on Mount Pindus in Thessaly and from thence crosses over Acarnania which it separates from Etolia and then dividing it self into two Streams it runs into the Gulph of Corinth This River was called Thoas according to Stephanus and afterwards Achelous from one Achelous who came from Thessaly to inhabit in these parts with Alcmeon the Son of Amphiaraus who kill'd his Mother Eryphile he is commonly called Aspri and according to others Catochi He was according to the Poets the Son of the Ocean and the Earth or of Thetis as Servius would have it who makes him the Father of the Syrens He wrestled with Hercules for the fair Deïanira whom her Father OEnus King of Calydon would not bestow in marriage upon any Man but him who was victorious in this kind of Exercise Achelous finding himself too weak was put to his shifts and changed himself sometimes into a Serpent and sometimes into a Bull but this avail'd him nothing for Hercules overcame him and pluck'd off one of his Horns which the Naiades took up and having fill'd it with Fruits and Flowers they call'd it Cornutopia

Abire a Term of Imprecation as may appear from these Passages of the Comic Poets Abi in malam rem Abi in crucem or in maximum magnum malum Go in an ill hour Go hang your self Go to the Devil The Word Abire is also us'd in the Form of granting Liberty to Slaves as Abito quo voles quo lubet nihil te moror or Liber esto atque abito quo voles or Tu vero abeas neque te quisquam moratur I make you free go now whither you will no body detains you you may go where you please It is also used in the Law after this manner Abiit dies actionis the Time of Prosecution in this Cause is over or according to the common Phrase of the Court There 's an end of this Suit it is quite out of doors and cannot be brought on again ABJUDICARE a Term of Law to take away something from a Person by a Sentence to declare that it does not belong to him ABJURARE Creditum or Si quid creditum est to deny a Depositum or Pledge in a Court of Justice to make oath that there was no such thing left with me Plautus says Quique in jure abjurant pecuniam who deny in Court that the Money was left in their hands ABLUERE se a Term of Religion us'd in the ancient Sacrifices to wash and purifie our selves before we offer Sacrifice The Romans look'd upon it as a part of Religious Worship to wash their Hands and Feet sometimes the Head and oftentimes the whole Body when they were to sacrifice to their Gods And therefore Virgil brings in Aeneas telling Anchises that he could not discharge his Duty to his Houshold-Gods till he was purified in some running Water because he was defiled with Blood and Slaughter at the Sacking of Troy Donec me flumine vivo abluero We read also in the same Poet that Dido having a mind to sacrifice to the Infernal-Gods told her Sister that she must first wash and purifie her self in running Water Dic corpus properet fluviali spargere lympha The People and Assistants were also purified with a Water which was called Lustral according to the Practice of Aeneas at the Funerals of Misenus in Virgil for he tells us that he sprinkl'd Lustral Water three times upon his Companions with an Olive-branch Idem ter socios pura circumtulit unda Spargens rore levi ramo felicis oliva They us'd sometimes a sprinkling Instrument to throw that Lustral Water which they esteemed holy because the Link or Torch which had been used at a Sacrifice was extinguished in it It was their Custom also to place at the Entrance into their Temples Vessels made of Marble triumphant as Du Choul calls it fill'd with Water wherewith they wash'd themselves A Custom which without doubt they learn'd from the Jews since we read in Scripture that Solomon plac'd at the Entry into the Temple which he erected to the true God a great Laver which the Holy Text calls a Sea of Brass where the Priests wash'd themselves before they offer'd Sacrifice having before-hand sanctified the Water by throwing into it the Ashes of the Victim that was slain in Sacrifice ABOLERE a Term of the Roman Law to abolish to annihilate to reduce to nothing to destroy a thing after such a manner that nothing remains not so much as the Remembrance of it And according to this Notion of the Word is the Phrase Abolere crimen to abolish a Crime and Abolere nomina reorum to rase or expunge the Names of the accused out of the Table or Register to strike them out of the List of the Prisoners ABOLITIO Abolition the Remission of a Crime Amnesty is a general Abolition of all that has been committed during a Civil War or in any popular Commotion This Abolition was granted after three different manners Either by the Prince on a day of Triumph and for some remarkable Victory obtained by the Commonwealth or else it was granted by the Magistrate when the Accuser desisted from his Prosecution before him or lastly it was granted to the Accused after the Death of the Accuser ABOLLA a kind of Purple Garment doubled which was very large had many Plaits and was adorned with great Buttons which the Romans wore to defend themselves from Cold and the Injuries of the Weather This Garment was used by Military Men Persons of Quality and even by Philosophers as the Verses of Martial and Juvenal do plainly prove We read in Suetonius That the Emperour Caligula was much offended with King Ptolomy for appearing at the Theatre with this double Garment of Purple which attracted the Eyes of all the Spectators towards him ABOMINANTES a Term of Execration Those who abhor any bad Presage and pray the Gods to prevent its falling upon their Heads They made use of certain Latin Expressions frequent in the Comic-Poets and others Quod Dii omen avertant quod ego abominor procul omen abesto procul sit omen procul haec avertant fata Quod Dii prohibeant Dii meliora Dii melius Dii melius duint for dent Which God forbid which I pray the Gods to remove far from us and to turn away from falling upon our Heads which Mischief may it never come upon us which may the Gods preserve us from ABORIGINES a very antient People of Italy about whose Original there are four principal Opinions the first is that of Aurelius Victor who calls them Aborigines as who should say Aberrigines i. e. Vagabonds wherein he disowns that Division made by Berosus of Janigenes and Aborigines and affirms on the contrary that these Aborigines were wandring and vagabond Scythians who came and settled in that part of Italy Nevertheless against this first Opinion it may be said that if these Aborigines had been Scythians they would never have employed the Greeks against the Scythians but on the contrary would have made use of them as safe Auxiliaries to aid them against the Natives of the Country and against the Greeks who were lately come thither S. Jerom and Denis of Halicarnassus think that they were call'd Aborigines as who should say absque origine without beginning or rather as being the first Natives of the Mountains from these Tuscan and Armenian words according to the Talmuds for Ab signifies a Father ori a Cavern or hollow place and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies a Race or Posterity as who should say Men born in Caverns Some think that Chamasenus aliàs Cham the Son of Noah who was the Saturn of the Egyptians having gather'd together divers wandring and vagabond People conducted them into that part of Italy which at present is call'd Romania and at that time was call'd Latium Titus Livius and Dionysius Halicarnasseus assert that the first Aborigines came from Arcadia into Italy under the conduct of Oenotrus the Son of Lycam and that they learn'd the Letters of the Alphabet from Evander who was then King of it