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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
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 Familiae, 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



CHAPTER I.

_Foundation of