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end_n	east_n	land_n	league_n	1,491	5	9.2013	5	false

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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

went and acquainted the Tribunes that passing through the New-street in the night he heard a Voice more than human over the Temple of Vesta which gave the Romans notice that the Gauls were coming against Rome This Information was neglected upon account of the Person who gave it but the Event prov'd the Truth of it Hereupon Camillus thought that to appease the angry Gods he ought to acknowledge this Voice as a new Deity under the Title of The Speaking God and to build an Altar to offer Sacrifice to him ALA a Wing in the Roman Armies was made up of the Cavalry and Infantry of the Confederates and which cover'd the Body of the Roman Army as the Wings cover the Bodies of Birds There was a Right and a Left Wing both mix'd with the Cavalry and Infantry which they called Alares or Alares Copiae They were made up each of four hundred Horsemen divided into ten Squadrons and 4200 Foot Some say that Pan the Indian a Captain of Bacchus was the first Inventor of this way of drawing up an Army in Battle whence it comes to pass that the Antients have painted him with Horns on his Head because what we call Wings they called Horns ALADUS or ALADINUS SYLVIUS Eutropius calls him Romus Cassiodorus and Sextus Victor names him Aremulus Titus Livius Messala and Sabellicus call him Romulus But tho there are different Opinions about the Name of this Prince there is an universal Consent in the Abhorrence of his Tyranny and a general Agreement about his exttaordinary Death His Pride transported him so far as to equal himself with Jupiter the King of the Gods in his Age. He counterfeited the Noise of his Thunder by certain Engines but at last he perished by a Tempest and Thunder as real as his own were vain Fire from Heaven consum'd his Palace the Lake in the middle of which it was built flowed extraordinarily and contributed to the Destruction of his Family He reigned nineteen years ALAPA a Box on the Ear. Majoris Alapae mecum veneunt Phaed. I do not grant them Liberty so easily Boxes on the Ear were usually given to Slaves when they were set at Liberty ALAUDA a Lark The Poets say it was Scylla the Daughter of Nisus King of Megara whom she deliver'd into the hands of Minos King of Crete having cut off his fatal Hair which was of a purple Colour The Gods changed her into a Lark and her Father into a Hawk which continually pursues her says the Fable to punish her horrible Treason ALAUDA the Name of a Roman Legion of a French one according to Bochart the Soldiers of which carried a Lark's Tuft upon the top of their Helmets ALBA a Name given to three or four Cities of which the principal was Alba Longa so called by the Antients because it extended to a great Length in the Territory of Rome it was built by Ascanius the Son of Aeneas from whence the Inhabitants are called Albini Ascanius built it in a place where he had observ'd a white Sow thirty years after the Foundation of Lavinium which his Father had built This number of Years was signified to him by the thirty Pigs which that Sow then suckled He would have transported the Gods of Troy which Aeneas had brought with him into this new City but he found the next day they were carried to Lavinium whereupon Ascanius left them there and contented himself with settling a College of six hundred Trojans to serve them according to the Worship used in Phrygia Aegistheus was chosen to be the Chief of those Priests This City had several Kings and maintained fierce Wars against the Romans which did not cease till the famous Combat between the three Curatii on the Albins parts and the three Horatii on the Romans side The three Curatii were slain and and by their Death their Country became subject to the Romans as both Parties had agreed before the Combat Metius Suffetius was made the first Governour of it ALBINUS a Native of Adrumetum in Africk He was descended of a Noble Family which came from Rome having the Whiteness of the Europeans but a frizled Beard like those of that Country his Stature was tall and proportionably thick he was of a melancholy Temper and had a wide Mouth he was also a great Eater A certain Writer named Codrus has told incredible things of him saying That he eat at one Breakfast five hundred Figs one hundred Peaches ten Melons twenty pounds of Raisins one hundred Wood-peckers and four hundred Oysters which without doubt is rather an Hyperbole than a Truth After the Death of the Emperour Pertinax Albinus was chosen Emperour by the Troops which he commanded in Great-Britain and at the same time Severus who had just defeated Pescennius Niger was likewise chosen Emperour by the Eastern Troops Albinus fearing least he should be seiz'd in England went into France with fifty thousand Men and Severus had about as many Albinus being secure because the City of Lyons took his part gave Severus battel He had an Advantage at the first Onset and Severus himself being faln from his Horse had thoughts of giving over the Battel but at last Albinus was conquer'd and the Conquerour caus'd his Head to be cut off and sent to Rome and cast his Body into the River Rhosne ALBION or BRITANNIA England Caesar l. 5. c. 3. of the War with the Gauls gives this Description of it the interiour part of Britannia is inhabited by the Natives of the Country but on the Coasts by the Gauls which for the most part keep still their Names the Island is well peopled and their Houses much like the Gauls they have much Cattel they use Copper Money or Iron Rings by weight for want of Silver they have Mines of Tin in the middle of the Country and of Iron on the Coasts which yield no great Revenue but the Copper which they use is brought them from abroad all sorts of Wood grow there as in France except Beach and Firr the People scruple to eat Hares Geese and Hens altho they breed them up for Pleasure the Air is more temperate than in Gallia and the Cold less violent the Isle is triangular the side which is opposite to Gallia is above an hundred and twenty Leagues in length from the County of Kent which is the furthest end towards the East and where almost all the Ships from Gallia do land to the other which is Southward the Western Coast which lies overagainst Spain and Ireland contains near 180 Leagues in length Ireland is not half so big as England between them lies the Isle of Mon or Anglesea where some say there are thirty Days all Night in Winter but I found no such thing only I have observ'd by Water-Clocks that the Nights are shorter in those Parts than they are in Gallia The most civiliz'd People of England are those of the County of Kent which lies along the Coasts The inward parts of the Countrey