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Title: Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology

Author: Charles K. Dillaway

Release date: March 3, 2007 [eBook #20734]
Most recently updated: January 25, 2021

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.

[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 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.

  1. Foundation of Rome and division of inhabitants 9
  2. The Senate 13
  3. Other divisions of the Roman people 18
  4. Gentes and Familiæ, Names of the Romans 19
  5. Private rights of Roman citizens 21
  6. Public rights of Roman citizens 23
  7. Places of worship 24
  8. Other public buildings 26
  9. Porticos, arches, columns, and trophies 30
  10. Bagnios, aqueducts, sewers, and public ways 32
  11. Augurs and Auguries 33
  12. Aruspices, Pontifices, Quindecemviri, Vestals, &c. 34
  13. Religious ceremonies of the Romans 37
  14. The Roman year 39
  15. Roman games 42
  16. Magistrates 44
  17. Of military affairs 49
  18. Assemblies, judicial proceedings, and punishments of the Romans 53
  19. Roman dress 57
  20. Fine arts and literature 59
  21. Roman houses 61
  22. Marriages and funerals 63
  23. Customs at meals 66
  24. Weights, measures, and coins 67

MYTHOLOGY.

  1. Celestial Gods 71
  2. Celestial Goddesses 77
  3. Terrestrial Gods 82
  4. Terrestrial Goddesses 87
  5. Gods of the woods 94
  6. Goddesses of the woods 101
  7. Gods of the sea 106
  8. Tartarus and its Deities 111
  9. The condemned in Hell 123
  10. Monsters of Hell 126
  11. Dii Indigites, or heroes who received divine honors after death 128
  12. Other fabulous personages 146