A

DICTIONARY

OF

GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.

EDITED BY WILLIAM SMITH, Ph. D.,

AND ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD.

First 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, NEW-YORK, AND
RECTOR OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF.STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by

CHARLES ANTHON,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

ΤΟ

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 Enscribed,

BY

HIS FRIEND AND WELL-WISHER,

C. A.