OF ANCIENT CLASSICAL AND SCRIPTURAL PROPER NAMES: IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND A CORRECT EPITOME OF THE HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND RELIGION OF THE JEWS, THE GREEKS, AND THE ROMANS; THE NEW YORK ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1919 L District of New-Jersey, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of December, L. S. in the thirty-fifth year of the independence of the United States of America, DAVID ALLINSON & Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "A Dictionary of ancient Classical and Scriptural Proper Names: in which will be found a correct Epitome of the History, Biography, and Religion of the Jews, the Greeks, and the Romans; together with the Fubles and Mythology of the Classical writers. Each Name being accurately accented according to the authority of Mr. Walker." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to the Act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act entitled, an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." ROBERT BOGGS, Clerk of the District of New-Jersey. PREFACE. THE work which we now present to the American publick is, with a little variation, the Classical Dictionary of Mr. Brown, enlarged by the adoption of the scriptural proper names and improved by the accentuation of Mr. Walker. Mr. Brown's work is a correct and full abridgment of the learned Bibliotheca Classica of Mr. Lempriere, and was designed to facilitate to youth the acquirement of the knowledge of the history and mythology of the ancients. This knowledge, so useful to every English scholar, and so essential to those who are desirous of perusing the monuments of genius, learning and taste handed down to us from antiquity, is here presented in a small compass, well digested and lucidly arranged. Those religious rites and mystical ceremonies, which in modern times afford so copious a source of beautiful and classical allusion to our poets, once constituted the prevailing religion of the most polished and refined nations of the world. The divinities of Olympus have no longer any influence over the hearts of men, but the religion of the Greeks and Romans is a faith into which every reader, even of modern poetry, must be initiated. In schools and colleges where the classical languages are studied, a work of this nature, affording with facility, in a clear and intelligible manner, that information for which there is a constant demand, has been long desired. The scanty and meagre information upon these point's usually annexed to the Latin Dictionaries used in schools, is better calculated to incite than to allay the curiosity of any other than a superficial inquirer. In order to render this work more generally |