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Title: Roman Antiquities, and Ancient MythologyAuthor: Charles K. DillawayRelease date: March 3, 2007 [eBook #20734]Most recently updated: January 25, 2021Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Barbara Tozier, V. L. Simpson, Bill Tozier andthe Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttp://www.pgdp.net
Title: Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology
Author: Charles K. Dillaway
Author: Charles K. Dillaway
Release date: March 3, 2007 [eBook #20734]Most recently updated: January 25, 2021
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Barbara Tozier, V. L. Simpson, Bill Tozier andthe Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttp://www.pgdp.net
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Pl. 1.
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, AND ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY; FOR CLASSICAL SCHOOLS.BYCHARLES 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.
BYCHARLES K. DILLAWAY,PRINCIPAL OF THE PUBLIC LATIN SCHOOL IN BOSTON.
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.
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 ofMassachusetts.
[Transcribers' Note:A detailedlistingof changes and anomalies is at the end of this file.]
[Transcribers' Note:
A detailedlistingof changes and anomalies is at the end of this file.]
POSITION OF THE PLATES.No. 1,before the title page.2, before page27.3, " "71.4, " "78.5, " "82.6, " "90.7, " "106.8, " "133.
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 other improvements made which it is hoped will be found acceptable. As it was not thought expedient to increase the size of the volume, the additions have been made by excluding the questions.
Boston, May, 1833.
CONTENTS.Chap.Page.Foundation of Rome and division of inhabitants9The Senate13Other divisions of the Roman people18Gentes and Familiæ, Names of the Romans19Private rights of Roman citizens21Public rights of Roman citizens23Places of worship24Other public buildings26Porticos, arches, columns, and trophies30Bagnios, aqueducts, sewers, and public ways32Augurs and Auguries33Aruspices, Pontifices, Quindecemviri, Vestals, &c.34Religious ceremonies of the Romans37The Roman year39Roman games42Magistrates44Of military affairs49Assemblies, judicial proceedings, and punishments of the Romans53Roman dress57Fine arts and literature59Roman houses61Marriages and funerals63Customs at meals66Weights, measures, and coins67
Chap.Page.
Celestial Gods71Celestial Goddesses77Terrestrial Gods82Terrestrial Goddesses87Gods of the woods94Goddesses of the woods101Gods of the sea106Tartarus and its Deities111The condemned in Hell123Monsters of Hell126Dii Indigites, or heroes who received divine honors after death128Other fabulous personages146