A DICTIONARY

OF

GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES

EDITED BY

WILLIAM SMITH, PH.D.

Third American Edition, Carefully Revised

AND CONTAINING

NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL ARTICLES RELATIVE TO THE BOTANY, MINERALOGY
AND ZOOLOGY OF THE ANCIENTS

BY

CHARLES ANTHON, LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE
AND RECTOR OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand

eight hundred and forty-three, by

CHARLES ANTHON,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District

of New York.

W. P. 21

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WILLIAM B. ASTOR, ESQ.

AN ALUMNUS OF OUR COMMON ALMA MATER, AND A STRIKING PROOF HOW GREATLY AN UNCEASING ATTACHMENT TO CLASSICAL STUDIES TENDS TO ELEVATE

AND ADORN THE CHARACTER OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANT

This Work is Inscribed

BY

HIS FRIEND AND WELL-WISHER

C. A.

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