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Excerpt from Classical Antiquities, or a Compendium of Roman and Grecian Antiquities: With a Sketch of Ancient Mythology This work is designed as a manual of Classical Antiquities, and is divided into two parts: the first containing an account of the political institutions, religion, military and naval affairs, arts and sciences, manners, customs, &c., pertaining to the Romans; and the second, those relating to the Grecians. Most of the works in use, which treat of the Antiquities of these celebrated nations, are so copious and so intermingled with Greek or Latin quotations, that, though they may be highly valuable to the classical scholar as works of reference, they are rendered less useful to the classical pupil, as common text-books. There have, it is true, been published, in this country, one or two small volumes in which it is attempted to describe the Antiquities of the Romans, but these works are so contracted in matter as to be either partially or entirely deficient in many important subjects of which they profess to treat. The author has endeavored to adopt a medium course, by avoiding too great copiousness as well as a scanty conciseness of matter, and he trusts his treatise will be found sufficiently comprehensive for general use in academies and high-schools, as well as in colleges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.