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Title: Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology
For Classical Schools (2nd ed)

Author: Charles K. Dillaway

Release Date: March 3, 2007 [EBook #20734]

Language: English

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ROMAN ANTIQUITIES,

AND

ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY;

FOR CLASSICAL SCHOOLS.

BY

CHARLES K. DILLAWAY,

PRINCIPAL OF THE PUBLIC LATIN SCHOOL IN BOSTON.

SECOND EDITION.

BOSTON:
LINCOLN, EDMANDS & CO.

CARTER, HENDEE AND CO. BOSTON; COLLINS AND HANNAY,
NEW YORK; KEY AND MEILKE, PHILADELPHIA;
CUSHING AND SONS, BALTIMORE.

1833.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, By Lincoln,
Edmands & Co. In the Clerk's office of the District Court of
Massachusetts.

POSITION OF THE PLATES.

No. 1, before the title page.
2, before page 27.
3, " " 71.
4, " " 78.
5, " " 82.
6, " " 90.
7, " " 106.
8, " " 133.

PREFACE.

The editor has endeavored in the following pages to give some account of
the customs and institutions of the Romans and of ancient Mythology in a
form adapted to the use of classical schools.

In making the compilation he has freely drawn from all creditable
sources of information within his reach, but chiefly from the following:
Sketches of the institutions and domestic customs of the Romans,
published in London a few years since; from the works of Adams, Kennett,
Lanktree, Montfaucon, Middleton and Gesner: upon the subject of
Mythology, from Bell, Spense, Pausanias, La Pluche, Plutarch, Pliny,
Homer, Horace, Virgil, and many others to whom reference has been
occasi