A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids : together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, and other remarkable places throughout the world : illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty : the whole extracted from the best authors in all languages (1763)
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen, Jefferys, Thomas, -1771, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Wale, Samuel, d. 1786, Owen, W. (William), d. 1793 · London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street · leaf 149
Quadrature. LUPERCAL1A, a feftival of the antientRomans-in honour of the god Pan, ob-ferved on the 15th of February, and focalled from luperci, the priefts cf that fa-bulous diety. This feftival was infti-tuted bv Evander, who being driven fromArcadia, and received by king Faunus,introduced the… … •ys set L U S [ 1979 I LUS with thongs cut out of the fkirs cf goats sthe women foolifhly imagined that theirreceiving the (acred flroke helped concep-fion, and rendered their delivery moreeafy, Cicero, after fpeaking with con-tempt of the luperci, in his iecond Phi-lippic, ridicules Anthony for…
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