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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

opinion of some Writers was the same as Osiris the Father of Harpocrates Others represent him with a glittering head some have dress'd him in a Gown which hangs down to the heels carrying on his Head a branch of a Peach-tree which was a Tree consecrated to Harpocrates because the Fruit thereof resembles the Heart and its Leaves are like the Tongue as Plutarch has observed whereby old Writers signified the perfect correspondency that should be between the Tongue and the Heart Some others figure him with a particular Ornament on his Head having the badges of Harpocrates Cupid and Esculapius for he holds his Finger on his Mouth he carries Wings and a Quiver with Arrows and a Serpent twisted about a stick The union of Harpocrates with Cupid shews that Love must be secret and the union of Harpocrates with Aesculapius gives us to understand that a Physician must be discreet and not discover the secrets of his Patient The Pythagoreans made a Virtue of silence and the Romans a Goddess called Tacita as 't is related by Plutarch HARPIAE The Harpyes fabulous Birds only mentioned by Poets who describe them with the face of a Virgin and the rest of the body a Bird with crooked feet and hands Virgil's description of them runs thus in the third Book of his Aeneid v. 213. Quas dira Celaeno Harpyae colunt aliae ....... Tristius haud illis monstrum nec saevior ulla Pestis ira Deûm Stygüs sese extulit undis Virginei volucrum vultus foedissima ventris Proluvies uncaeque manus pallida semper Ora fame The truth of the Story is that Phineus King of Paeonia having lost his sight and his Sons being dead the Harpyes his Daughters were spending his Estate till Zethes and Calais his Neighbours Sons of Bordas drove these Ladies out of the City and re-establish'd Phineus in possession of his Estate HASTA signifies all kind of offensive Arms that have a long staff or handle as Pike Spear Javelin c. 'T was said in the Roman Law Hastae subjicere to signify thereby to confiscate or to sell by publick sale and sub hastâ venire to be sold by Auction for Romulus had order'd that this Pole should be set before the place where the confiscated Goods were sold HASTA PURA A Half-pike without Iron at the end us'd for a Scepter and a badge of Authority and not a Pike armed with Iron used in the war HEBDOMADA A Week the numof seven days Four Weeks make up a Month because of the four chief and more apparent Phasis of the changes of the Moon And as these four changes of the Moon are in a manner the space of seven days one from another 't is very likely that from thence the first Egyptians and Assyrians have taken occasion to divide time by intervals of seven days which therefore were called Weeks As for the Hebrews their way of reckoning the time by weeks has a most august Origine and the Law commanded them to forbear from all kind of work the seventh day to imprint in their memory the great Mystery of the Creation of the World in which God had wrought during six days and rested the seventh whereupon it was called the Sabbath-day which in their Language signifies a day of rest The other days took their name from that day for the following day was called by the Jews prima Sabbati the first day of the Sabbath the next day the second of the Sabbath then the third and fourth c. till the sixth called otherwise Parasceve which signifies the day of preparation for the Sabbath This way of reckoning by Weeks was properly speaking used only by the Eastern Nations for the Greeks reckoned their days from ten to ten or by decads dividing each month in three parts the first part was reckoned from the beginning of the Month the second was the middle of the Month and the third was the rest of the Month from the middle to the end thereof And thus the Romans besides the division of the Month by Kalends Nones and Ides made use also of a political distribution of a series of eight days distributed from the beginning of the year to the end thereof The names of the days of the week used by the Primitive Christians were founded on a more holy principle viz. the resurrection of our Lord which has given the name of Dominica or the lord's-Lord's-day to the day called the Sabbath by the Jews And because they to shew their joy in the celebration of the Feast of Easter i. e. of the Resurrection were used to keep the whole week holy resting from all servile work which is called in Latin Periani therefore they called the day following immediately after the Holy Sunday Prima Feria and the second day Secunda Feria the third day Tertia Feria and so forth and from thence the days of all the weeks were afterwards improperly called Foriae in practice of the Church The Origine of the names commonly given to the days of the week being names of Divinities ador'd by superstitious Antiquity comes from a more remote principle for 't is likely that these names passed from the Assyrians to the Greeks and from the Greeks to the Christians And we may reasonably presume that the Chaldeans who were esteemed the first Men who addicted themselves to study Astronomy have also given the name of their Gods to the Planets or at least the same names which they have afterwards ascribed to the Gods whom they ador'd and that they might give more authority to that art which they profess and by which they foretold things to come by the observation of the Stars They attempted to ascribe them an absolute Empire over the nature of Men allowing to each of them several Offices and Employments to dispense good and evil and that lest that dreadful power which they ascribed to them should be kept in the only extent of their spheres they had very much enlarg'd the bounds of their Dominions submitting to them not only the several parts of the Earth and the Elements not only the Fortunes Inclination and Secrets of the most close Men overthrow of States Plagues Deluges and a thousand other things of that nature but endeavoured also to set them up for the absolute Masters of time allowing a Planet to preside over each year another to each month to each week each day each hour and perhaps to each moment From thence each day of the week has took the name of the Planet ruling over it and Monday which is in Latin dies Luna i. e. the day of the Moon was so called because the Moon presides that day dies Martis i. e. the day of Mars which was under the direction of Mars dies Mercurii ruled by Mercury dies Jovis under the conduct of Jupiter dies Veneris under the direction of Venus dies Saturni under that of Saturn dies Solis ruled by the Sun 'T is true that the order that the Planets

God of him Homer makes Aeneas appear very glorious among the great Heroes of his Iliads and says That the Trojans reverenc'd him as a God The younger Philostratus in his Heroicks equals him with Hector for his size and Mien but says that he surpass'd him in Virtue and good Sense and that the Trojans call'd Hector their Arm and Aeneas their Head 'T is agreed among all these Authors that Aeneas came into Italy under the Reign of Latinus the Son of Faunus but the difficulty is to know what Year he came of which Titus Livius and many others say nothing Dionysius Halicarnassaus thinks that it was in the Forty Fifth Olympaid Cassiodorus in the Twenty Fifth and Vigenere in the Twentieth insomuch that 't is difficult to determin in a matter so much contested yet there is some reason to believe that Aeneas landed in Italy in the Thirty Fourth Year of the Reign of Latinus AENEAS Secundus or Latinus Sylvius as Sextus Victor calls him or Silius and Posthumius as Messala calls him was the posthumous Son of Aeneas and Lavinia The Name of Silvius was given him because he was brought up in the Woods whither his Mother retired for fear of Ascanius her Son-in-Law He had a great Contest with Julus his Nephew the Son of Ascanius but the Aborigines favour'd in his Person the Blood of their antient Kings and advanc'd him to the Throne and pacifi'd Julus by promoting him to the chief Honours and Employments of the State The Caesars glory in their descent from him Silvius reign'd 29 Years AENEAS Tertius Silvius reign'd 31 Years AEOLUS the Son of Jupiter and Acesta or Sergesta the Daughter of Hippotas a Trajan who is thought to have liv'd at the time of the Trajan War He commanded the little Isles call'd Aeolionae and was by the Poets made King of the Winds Virgil speaks of him as such Aeneid Lib. 1. v. 6. Hic vasto rex Aeolus antro Luctantes ventos tempestotesque soner as Imperio premit ac vinclis carere frenat But the Worship of the Winds was more antient than the Reign of Aealus The Persians and Scythians ador'd them according to Strabo and Lucian and yet they never heard a word of the King of these little ●sles All the Eastern Idolaters gave Honour to the Winds before ever the Fable of Aeolus was forg'd 'T is probable that the Sicilians and Italians took occasion from the nature of these Isles to make them the Dominion of the Winds because they frequently saw storms of Smoke Wind and Fire issued out of them Diodorus Sicedus and Varro suppos'd that the Poets attributed the Government of the Winds to Aeolus because he perfectly understood the Nature of them and was the first that invented Sails for Ships Velorum usum docuit nauticae rai studiosus 〈◊〉 ignis quoque prodigiis diligenter observatis qui ●anti ingruituri essent indigenis certo praedixit Unde ventorum praeses disponsater à fabula declaratus est Servius said that there are Nine Isles in the Sicilian-Sea whereof Varro tells us Aeolus was King And from hence came the Fiction That the Winds were under his Government because he foretold Storms that should happen by observing the Vapors and Smoke which proceeded from these Isles and ehiefly from that which takes its Name from Vulcan But this learned Grammarian after he has related this Fable confesses it was founded upon Reason Pliny says That the Isle Strongyle was one of these burning and smoking Isles that the Inhabitants by its Smoke foretold the Winds Three Days before and that upon this account it was feign'd that Aeolus was Lord of the Winds Btrabo remarks out of Polybius concerning the Isle of Lippara which is the greatest of the Seven Aeolian Isles that before the South-Wind blew it was cover'd with so thick a Cloud that it hindred the near Neighbours of the sight of Sicily but before the North-Wind blew that then this great Isle vomited up clear Flame and made an exceeding great noise and roaring upon which account the King of these Isles was called the King of the Winds AEOLIAE INSULAE the Aeolian or Vulcanian Isles near the Promontory of Pelorus in Sicily where Aeolus reigns They are Seven of which the most considerable is that of Lipara from whence proceed Winds and storms of Fire and Flames together with terrible Earthquakes which occasioned the Poets to say That it was the Habitation of the Winds and the Forge of Vulcans who with his Cyclops were the Smiths of the Gods AEQUIMELIUM a great place in Rome before the Temple of the Goddess Tellus at one end of the Street call'd Execrable This place was so call'd from Saptimus Melius a Roman Knight who had a House there which was raz'd to the ground by the Sentence of the Dictator L. Quintius Cincinnatus because he aim'd at usurping the Sovereign Power by bestowing Largesses on the People L. Minutius Commissary General of the Provisions discovering the secret Intrigues of Melius gave notice of 'em to the Senate who judg'd it an Affair of so great consequence that immediately they created a Dictator call'd Cincinnatus The next day after Melius was cited to answer the Accusation but he refus'd to appear and endeavour'd to make his escape but was pursu'd and kill'd by Servi●ius The Dictator order'd that his House should be raz'd to the ground and that no person for the future should build-upon the place where it stood And to perpetuate the memory of this Perfidiousness of Melius and of his Punishment the place was call'd ever after Aequimelium quasi ab aquata domo Malii pro domo sua Cicero in his Oration relates the Story thus Melii regnu●● appetentis domus est complanata quid aliud aquum accidisse Meli● P. R. judicaret Nomine ipso Aequtmelil stultitiae pirna comprobata est Titus Livius relates the Story at large Book IV. Dec. 1. AER See it after Aerarius AERA a Number stampt upon Money to signifie the current Value of it according to Lutilius it signifies also the same with Epoch i. e. A certain Time from whence to compute or begin the new Year or some particular way of reckoning Time and Years And in this last sense the word is thought to be corrupted and to come from the custom of the Spaniards who reckon'd their Years by the Reign of Augustus who for shortness sake they commonly set down thus A. E. R. A. to signifie Annus erat regni Augusti The Transcriber not understanding this sufficiently in process of time made of these Letters the word Aera in the first sense the word comes from Aes and Aera in the Plural Number from whence was made the Aera of the Feminine Gender either because in their Accompts to every particular Sum they prefix'd the Word Aera as we do now Item or because the Number of Years was mark'd down in Tables with little Brass Nails AERA MILITUM in Suetonius the Soldiers Pay because

is also call'd the Coptick Year is four whole months and three days before the Kalends of January which is the first day of the Roman Year The Persians count their Years as the Aegyptians do ever since Cambyses became Master of Aegypt For having ransack'd the Sepulchre of Simandius he found a Circle of 365 Cubits round every Cubit representing a day of the year which was graven and mark'd by the rising and setting of the fix'd Stars which made them fix their year to 365 days without mentioning the hours Quintus Curtius tells us that the Persians adore the Sun and have an holy Fire kindled by its Rays to be carry'd before their King who is follow'd by 365 young Lords cloath'd with yellow Robes to represent the 365 days of the Year The Arabians Saracens and Turks at this day reckon their Year by the Course of the Moon making it to consist of twelve Moons whereof some have thirty and some twenty nine days alternatively one after the other which make all together but 354 days so that the Duration of time being less than the Solar Year by about eleven days it follows that their Month Muharran which they count for their first place in the whole Course of the Solar Year which it precedes 11 days every year and more than a month in 3 years so that in less than thirty four years it runs through all the season of the Solar Year and returns to the Point from which it first began And since the exact time of the 12 Moons besides the 354 whole days is about 8 hours and 48 minutes which make 11 days in 30 years they are forc'd to add 11 days extraordinary in 30 years which they do by means of a Cycle of 30 years invented by the Arabians in which there are 19 years with 354 days only and 11 intercalary or Embolismical which have every one 355 days and these are they wherein the number of hours and minutes which are Surplus to the whole days in every year is found to be more than half a day such as 2 5 7 10 13 16 18 21 24 26 and 29 by which means they fill up all the Inequalities that can happen The Greeks consider the Motions of the Sun and Moon in their Year and as they suppos'd in antient times that the Moons Course was exactly 30 days they made their Year to consist of 12 Moons and by consequence of 360 days but quickly perceiving their error they took out 6 days to bring it to the Lunar Year of 354 days which being less than the Solar Year by 11 days they found it convenient for reconciling the Inequalities in the Motions of these two Luminaries to insert at the end of every second year an intercalary month of 22 days which they call'd upon that account 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est a Month added or inserted They understood afterwards that the 6 hours they had omitted which yet are a part of the time of the Solar Year above the 365 days and make one whole day in four years were the cause that their Year anticipated the true Solar Year one day at the end of four years which oblig'd them to change their Intercalation and put it off to the fourth year and then leaving only 354 days to the 3 first under the name of the Common Year they reckon'd 399 days to the fourth by the addition or intercalation of one month and an half consisting of 40 days arising from the 11 days by which every Solar Year exceeds the Lunar being four times counted and the day which arises from the adding of the six hours in four years And to render the Intercalation more remarkable they made a noble Consecration of it by instituting the Olympick Games in the time of Iphitas at which all Greece met together every fourth year and hence came the Computation of time by Olympiads every one of which consisted of four years and are so famous in History Nevertheless they found at last that this space of four years did not rectifie all the Irregularities that happen'd in the Courses of the Sun and Moon which oblig'd them to double 'em and make a Revolution of 8 years and because they were not hereby yet fully satisfy'd they introduc'd another of 11 years Notwithstanding this the Athenians did not receive such satisfaction as they hop'd for by this last Period of 11 years but they had still remain'd in a perpetual Confusion had not one of their Citizens nam'd Meto an Astronomer of very profound Judgment at last discover'd that all these different Changes which happen'd betwixt the two Motions of the Sun and Moon would be accommodated by a Period made up of the two former of 8 and 11 years i. e. in the space of 19 years after which those Stars return again to the same place where they were at first This Period of XIX Years of Meto was ordinarily call'd The Enneadecas eterais and was receiv'd with so great Applause among the Athenians that they would have it written in large Characters of Gold and set up in a publick Place which gave it the Name of the Golden Number and the use of it became common not only in Greece but also among the Jews who made use of it to regulate their years afterwards among the Romans and lastly among the Christians The Athenians began their Year at the New-Moon after the Summer Solstice in the Month call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. between the months of June and July All the Magistrates says Pluto must meet in the same Temple the day before the Kalends of the Summer Solstice when the New-year begins Some made their Year to consist only of three Months others of four as we read in Macrobius his first Book of his Saturnalia Chap. 12. The Carians and Acharnanians made their Year to consist of six months and Justin tells us That they reckon'd but fifteen days to their Month. The Romans had three sorts of Years 1. That of Romulus which contain'd but ten months beginning with March whence it comes that December is call'd the last Month. 2. Of Numa which corrected the gross Mistake of Romulus and added two months to the year viz. January and February making it to consist of 355 days only which makes 12 Lunar months 3. Of Julius Caesar who discovering a further Error in the Calculation viz. That there were ten days more than Numa reckon'd made a Year of 365 compleat days and reserving the six hours to the end of four years made a whole day of 'em which he inserted before the 6th of the Calends of March so that in that year they counted the 6th of the Calends twice Bis sexto Calendas whence came the word Bissextile and the year had 366 days and was call'd Bissextile And this way of computation has continued to our time and from its Author is named the Julian Year Now the 10 days which Caesar added to the year were thus distributed to

and preserve her from the God Silvanas viz. INTERCINODA PILUMNUS and DEVERRA The Child who was born was put under the protection of these Gods VAGITANUS to preside at his Cries LEVANA to take him up CUNINA to lay him in the Cradle RUMINA to suckle him POTINA to give him Drink EDUCA to feed him OSSILAGO to knit his Bones CARNEA or CARNA and CARDEA to take care of his Vitals JUVENTUS presided over his Youth ORBONA was called upon by the Parents lest she should take away their Children When the Child grew up they prayed to other Gods in his behalf viz. MURCIA lest he should be idle STRENUA to act with vigilancy and vigour ADEONA and ABEONA to go and come again AVERRUNCUS to put away evil ANGERONA to drive away Melancholy and two GENII one good and the other bad The Names of the Country Gods JUPITER the EARTH the SUN the MOON CERES LIBER MINERVA VENUS PALES FLORA POMONA VERTUMNUS SEIA or SEGETIA SEGECE TULLINA TUTANUS ROBIGUS PAN SILENUS SILVANUS TERMINUS PRIAPUS and an infinite number of others as the Gods PENATES and LARES of whom we will speak severally and in their Order DILUVIUM A Deluge a general Inundation that God sent formerly upon the Earth to drown both Men and Beasts to punish their wickedness For that purpose God opened the Cataracts of Heaven and preserved only Noah and his Family out of this Deluge with two of each kind of all living Creatures in an Ark that he ordered him to build for that purpose There has been formerly five Deluges yet there was but one universal one sixteen hundred years and more after the creation of the World in the time of old Ogyges the Phaenician as Xenophon tells us The second Deluge covered only the Land of Egypt with Waters and was occasioned by by an overflowing of the River Nile in the time of Prometheus and Hercules and continued but a Month as we learn from Diodorus Siculus The third Deluge happened in Achaia in the Province of Attica and lasted threescore days in the time of Ogyges the Athenian Diodorus speaks of it in his sixth Book and Pausanias in his Attica relates that in the lower Town of Athens in the way that leads to the Temple of Jupiter Olympius there was a hole seen in the ground a foot and a half wide and thro' that hole the Waters of the Flood were sunk wherefore it was a custom among the People to throw every year into that hole a kind of an offering made with Wheat-Flower and Honey The fourth Deluge was in Thessalia in Deucalion's time and continued a whole Winter as Aristotle tells us in the first Book of his Meteors The fifth hapned about the Ostia of the River Nile in Egypt in the Reign of Proteus and about the time of the Trojan War But Poets confound these Deluges and say that the Universal Deluge was in the time of Deucalion the Son of Prometheus who escaped alone with his Wife in a Boat on the top of Mount Parnassus in Ph●cis Lucian seems to countenance this opinion of the Poets in the Dea Syriae The most common opinion says he is that Deucalion of Scythia is the founder of this Temple he means the Temple of Syria for the Greeks say that the first Men being cruel and insolent faithless and void of Humanity perished all by the Deluge a great quantity of Water issuing out of the bowels of the Earth which swell'd up the Rivers and forc'd the Sea to overflow by the assistance of Rain and violent Showers so that all lay under water only Deucalion remain'd who escaped in an Ark with his Family and two of each kind of all living Creatures that followed him into the Ark both wild and tame without hurting one another He floated till the Waters were withdrawn then populated the Earth again They added another wonder that an Abyss opened of it self in their Country which swallowed up all the Waters and that Deucalion in memory of that Accident erected there an Altar and built a Temple A Man may still see there a very small Cliff where the Inhabitants of that Country with those of Syria Arabia and the Nations beyond the Euphrates resort twice a year to the Neighbouring Sea from whence they fetch abundance of Water which they pour into the Temple from whence it runs into that Hole and the Origine of this Ceremony is likewise attributed to Deucalion and instituted in commemoration of that Accident This is what Holy Scripture informs us concerning the Universal Deluge The wickedness of Men being great in the Earth at last the day of Punishment came And the Lord commanded unto Noah to put in the Ark all sort of Provisions and take two of each kind of unclean Animals and seven of the clean Animals viz. three Males and three Females to preserve their Specie upon the Earth and one more for the Sacrifice after the Flood should be over This being done Noah shut up himself in the Ark the seventeenth day of the second Month of the Solar Year which was the nineteenth of April according to our computation with his three Sons and their Wives It did rain forty days and forty nights And God opened the Cataracts of Heaven and the Fountains of the Deep and the Waters increasing during an hundred and fifty days the forty Days above-mentioned being included were fifteen Cubits higher than the top of the highest Mountains And all Flesh died both Men and Beasts and none escaped but those that were in the Ark. The hundred and fiftieth day the waters abated by a great wind that the Lord raised and the twenty seventh of the seventh Month to reckon from the beginning of the Flood the Ark rested upon a Mountain of Armenia Hieronymus calls it Mount Taurus because the River Araxes ran at the foot thereof Others grounding their Opinion upon a more ancient Authority tell us that the Ark rested upon one of the Gordian Mountains and Epiphanius says that at his time they shew'd yet the remainders of the Ark. Many Arabian Geographers and Historians are of this Opinion The first day of the tenth Month the tops of the Mountains appeared And Noah and his Family went out of the Ark the twenty seventh day of the second Month the twenty ninth of April according to our account by the command of the Lord as he went in before by the same order DIOCLETIANUS Born in Dalmatia of a mean Parentage and Slave to Annulinus the Senator His great ability in War and Government raised him to the Throne And as soon as he had obtained the Soveraign Power he put Aper to death to make good the prediction of an old Witch who had foretold him that he should be a great Man when he had kill'd the fatal Wild-boar for till that time he was but a Wild-boar Hunter nevertheless this Prediction was to be understood of Aper Mumerian's Father-in-law for Aper signifies in Latin a Wild-boar This Emperor raised a most

after Cattle there MONS CAPITOLINUS This Mountain was at first called Saturninus because Saturn lived there and afterwards Tarpeius from Tarpeia who was there crushed to Death with the Shields of the Sabins and at last Capitolinus à Capite toli the Head of a Man which was found there as they were digging to lay the Foundation of the Temple of Jupiter surnamed Capitolinus This was the famousest Mountain of them all because of Jupiter's Temple which was begun by Tarquinius Priscus finish'd by Tarquinius Superbus and dedicated by Horatius Pulvillus Here it was that they made their Vows and solemn Oaths where the Citizens ratified the Acts of the Emperors and where they took the Oath of Allegiance to them and at last where such as triumphed came to give the Gods Thanks for the Victory they had obtained MONS QUIRINALIS Mount Quirinal was at first called Mons Agonius but after the Alliance that was made between Romulus and Tatius King of the Sabins who dwelt there they named it Quirinalis from their chief City called Cures and from thence the Citizens of Rome came to be called Quirites and after the Death of Romulus there was a Temple built here under the Name of Quirinus MONS CAELIUS was formerly called Quercetulanus from the Oak that grew there and afterwards Caelius from one Caelius Vibenna General of the Tuscans who posted himself upon this Mountain so as opportunely to succour Romulus in the War he waged against the Sabines MONS EXQUILINUS Mount Esquiline was so called ab excubiis or Guards which Romulus posted there for fear of the Revolt of the Sabines of whose Fidelity he was doubtful It was also called Cespius Oppius and Septimius by Reason of some small Hillocks which it inclosed or hemmed in MONS VIMINALIS took its Name from Oziers that grew uponit and here was a Temple dedicated to Jupiter Viminalis It had the Name of Vimineus or Fagutalis from a Beech-Tree which was consecrated to Jupiter Fagutalis MONS AVENTINUS Mount Aventine took its Name from a King of Alba named Aventinus who was buried there as well as Remus and Tatius the Sabine Diana had a Temple here MORBUS a Disease of whom the Poets make mention as an hurtful Deity and Virgil places him at the Mouth of Hell Pallentes habitant Morbi MORBUS COMITIALIS the Falling-sickness when in the Assemblies of the People of Rome any fell into this Sickness the Assembly presently broke up and therefore it was called Morbus Comitialis because it broke up their Comitia or Assemblies MORPHEUS see after Mortui MORS Death the Poets made him not only an existent Being but also a false Deity picturing him like a Skeleton with Claws and a Sythe in his Hand Death was honoured by the Lacedamonians and Servius in explaining that Verse in Virgil Multa bonum circa mactantur corpora Morti Says that Death is a Goddess of whom Lucan and Stacius make mention for which he cites these Words of Stacius In scopulis Mors atra sedet And those of Lucan Ipsamque vocatam Quam petat à nobis Mortem tibi coge fateri They make her to be the Daughter of the Night and Sister of Sleep and the same is drest in a Robe full of black Stars as also with black Wings MORTUI the Dead the Romans burnt their Dead as being of Opinion it would be a Benefit to the Soul to have the Body quickly consumed and this continued to the Time of Macrobius or the Antoninus's The ancient Persians as Agathias relates exposed their Dead to be devoured of Beasts they believing that such as continued long entire were wicked and the Relations of the Deceased regulated their Joy or Sorrow accordingly See Cadaver where I have shewed the Way of burying dead Corps and their Funeral Obsequies the same may also be seen under Funus MORPHEUS was according to the Fable one of the Servants of Sleep Ovid places a Multitude of Dreams under the Empire of Sleep but he makes Three of them to be endued with a much greater Power than the rest viz. Morpheus Icelas or Phobeter and Phantasos The 1st imitates Mankind the 2d other Animals and the 3d Mountains Rivers and other inanimate Things At pater è populo natorum mille suorum Excitat artificem simulatoremque figura Morphea c. MOVERE SENATU is a Phrase to denote one's being turn'd out of the Senate ignominiously or to be degraded MOVERE TRIBU to removeone from a considerable Tribe to a meaner MOYSES or Moses his Father was Atram and Mother Jochabed who put him into an Ark of Bulrushes that was daubed over with Pitch and Slime and so exposed him upon the Brink of the Nile in Compliance with Pharaoh's Order in a Place whither the Daughter of Pharaoh whose Name was Thermutis according to Josephus was observed to resort to wash her self his Sister Mary had Orders to stay at a small distance off to see what would become of him the Princess seeing the said little Cradle floating caused it to be brought to her and finding a Child therein of Three Months old whom she knew to be of a Hebrew Race by his being circumcised she was moved with Compassion and resolved to save him The Sister coming thither as by chance asked her if she would please to send her to get a Nurse to suckle him of that People to which the Princess agreeing she immediately ran to the House and brought his Mother for a Nurse for him At Three Years end she carried him to Thermutis who adopted him for her Son and gave him the Name of Moses which in the Egyptian Language signifies one saved from the Water Clemens Alexandrinus says his Friends had named him Joachim when he was circumcised He was very carefully educated in Pharaob's Court and as he was a Person of excellent Parts he became quickly an admirable Proficient in all the Sciences which at that time flourish'd among the Egyptians The Scripture informs us that he left Pharaob's Court when he was Forty Years old in order to go and visit his own Nation and that finding an Egyptian abusing an Israelite he killed him in the Heat of his Zeal Hereupon fearing the King's Displeasure be fled into the Desarts of Madian chusing rather to be afflicted with the People of God than to possess all the Treasures of Egypt There he married one of the Daughters of Jethro or Raguel a Priest whose Name was Sephora He lived Forty Years in that Country and as he was one Day leading his Father-in-Law's Cattle to the Bottom of the Wilderness towards Mount Horeb he saw a Bush burning with a great Fire which yet consumed it not and as he was about to draw near unto it the Lord called him by his Name and let him know that he had seen the Affliction of his People in Egypt and that he would by his Means work Deliverance for them he endeavoured to excuse himself upon the Account of his Incapacity and