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Excerpt from Roman Antiquities, or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans: Respecting Their Government, Magistracy, Laws, Judicial Proceedings, Religion, Games, Military and Naval Affairs, Dress, Exercises, Baths, Marriages, Divorces, Funerals, Weights and Measures, Coins, Method of Writing, Houses, Gardens, Agriculture It may perhaps be thought, that In fome places he has quoted too many authorities. But he 13 confident no one will think fo, who takes the trouble to examine them. This he efteems the moi't valuable part of the book. It has at leaft been the moff laborious. A work of this kind, he imagines, if properly executed, might be made to ferve as a 13i to all the clafiics, and in fome degree fuperfede the ufe of large annotations and commentaries on the different authors; 'which, when the fame cuf'tcms are alluded to, wil ll generally be found to contain little elfe out a repetition of th fame things. 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.