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CLASSICAL AND ARCHEOLOGICAL

DICTIONARY

OF THE

MANNERS, CUSTOMS, LAWS, INSTITUTIONS, ARTS, ETC.

OF THE

CELEBRATED NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY,

AND OF

THE MIDDLE AGES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A SYNOPTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL VIEW OF ANCIENT HISTORY.

By P. AUSTIN NUTTALL, LL.D.

TRANSLATOR OF JUVENAL'S SATIRES, WORKS OF HORACE, &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WHITTAKER AND CO; T. TEGG; DUNCAN AND MALCOLM ;
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.; J. SOUTER; J. BOHN; AND HARVEY

PRINTED BY NUTTALL AND HODGSON,

GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET.

TO THE

RIGHT HON. GEORGE EARL OF ABERDEEN,

VISCOUNT FORMARTINE, LORD HADDO, METHLIC, TARVES, AND KELLIE; VISCOUNT GORDON IN THE PEERAGE OF ENGLAND;

K. T. F. R. S. F. S.A. ETC. ETC.

MY LORD,

As Chancellor of the venerable University of

which I have the honour to be a Member, - as President of the'

-

Society of Antiquaries of London, to whom this Work may be acceptable,—and as a Nobleman whose classic mind and exalted virtues form the brightest gems in his coronet, I respectfully submit to your Lordship's approbation and patronage the result of my humble labours; and remain, with the utmost deference,

Your Lordship's

Most devoted

And most humble Servant,

P. A. NUTTALL.