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Excerpt from Romae Antiquae Notitia, or the Antiquities of Rome: In Two Parts; To Which Are Prefixed Two Essays, Concerning the Roman Learning and the Roman Education Gonwm's Anthologia (which we usually meet with in our schools) besides that it wants all the advantages which we have received from the learned within these threescore years, is so short and unsatisfactory in subjects of the greatest con sequence so crowded with phrases which are to be found in all our dictionaries; so stuffed with long passages of La tin untranslated; has so little method, and runs so dry and heavy in the reading, that I fancy it is a general wish it were exchanged for something else of the same kind, ' of greater use, and more agreeable entertainment. 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.