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قراءة كتاب Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
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Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
Pl. 1.
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, AND ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY; FOR CLASSICAL SCHOOLS.
SECOND EDITION.
BOSTON:
LINCOLN, EDMANDS & CO.
NEW YORK; KEY AND MEILKE, PHILADELPHIA;
CUSHING AND SONS, BALTIMORE.
1833.
Edmands & Co. In the Clerk's office of the District Court of
Massachusetts.
[Transcribers' Note:
A detailed listing of changes and anomalies is at the end of this file.]
POSITION OF THE PLATES.
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 occasionally made.
Boston, July, 1832.
In the second edition now offered to the public much has been added to the department of Antiquities. A more comprehensive chapter upon the weights, measures and coins of the Romans has been substituted in the place of the former one, and many