MANNERS, INSTITUTIONS, AND ANTIQUITIES
OF THE ROMANS;

WITH NUMEROUS BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES;

A DICTIONARY

EXPLAINING THE MOST DIFFICULT WORDS, AT THE BEGINNING,

AND

QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION

AT THE END OF EACH SECTION.

"Converse familiar with th' illustrious dead;
With great examples of old Greece or Rome
Enlarge thy free-born heart."-SOMERVILLE.

CORRECTED AND ENLARGED, BY W. C. TAYLOR, LL.D.
WITH SEVERAL ENGRAVINGS FROM MONTFAUCON AND
OTHER AUTHORITIES.

PREFACE.

THE researches of Niebuhr and several other distinguished German scholars, have thrown a new light on Roman history, and enabled us to discover the true constitution of that republic which once ruled the destinies of the known world, and the influence of whose literature and laws is still powerful in every civilized state, and will probably continue to be felt to the remotest posterity. These discoveries have, however, been hitherto useless to junior students in England; the works of the German critics being unsuited to the purposes of schools, not only from their price, but also from the extensive learning requisite to follow them through their laborious disquisitions. The editor has, therefore, thought that it would be no unacceptable service, to prefix a few Introductory Chapters, detailing such results from their inquiries as best elucidate the character and condition of the Roman people, and explain the most important portion of the history. The struggles between the patricians and plebeians, re