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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 It may perhaps be thought, that in some too many authorities. But he is confident who takes the trouble to examine them. This he esteems the most valuable part of the book. It has at least been the most la borious. A work of this kind, he imagines, if properly executed, might be made to serve as a key to all t e classics, and in some de gree supersede the use of large annotations and commentaries on the different authors; which, when the same customs are alluded to, will generally be found to contain little else but a repetition of the same thin 9. As the wor is not divided into books and chapters, the table of Contents, it is hoped, will supply that deficiency. 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.