Roman Antiquities 
AND 
ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY. 
BY O. K. DILLAWAY, A. M. 
Late Principal in the Boston Public Latin School 
Illustrated by elegant Engravings. 
Sixth Edition , improved. 
This work is rapidly coming into use all over our country; it is 
already introduced into most of our High Schools and Academies, and 
many of our Colleges A new and beautiful edition has just been 
published. 
From the Boston Education Reporter. 
“ The want of a cheap volume, embracing a succinct account of an¬ 
cient customs, together with a view of classical mythology, has long 
been felt. To the student of a language, some knowledge of the man¬ 
ners, habits, and religious feelings of the people whose language is 
studied is indispensably requisite. This knowledge is seldom to be 
obtained without tedious research or laborious investigation. Mr. Dil- 
laway’s book seems to have been prepared with special reference to the 
wants of those who are just entering upon a classical career; and we 
deem it but a simple act of justice, to say, that it supplies the want, which, 
as we have before said, has long been felt. In a small duodecimo, of 
about one hundred and fifty pages, he concentrates the most valuable 
and interesting particulars relating to Roman antiquity ; together with jj 
as full an account of heathen mythology as is generally needed in our 
highest seminaries. A peculiar merit of this compilation, and one which 
will gain it admission into our highly respectable female seminaries, is 
the total absence of all allusion, even the most remote, to the disgusting 
obscenities of ancient mythology ; while, at the same time, nothing is 
omitted which a pure mind would feel interested to know. We recom¬ 
mend the book as a valuable addition to the treatises in our schools and 
academies.” 
From E. Bailey , Principal of the Young Ladies’’ High School , Boston. 
“ Having used Dillaioaifs Roman Antiquities and Ancient Mythology 
in my school for several years, I commend it to teachers with great 
confidence, as a valuable text-book on those interesting branches of 
education. E. Bailey.” 
From the American Traveller. 
“ We well remember, in the days of our pupilage, how unpopular as 
a study was the volume of Roman Antiquities introduced in the acad¬ 
emic course. It wearied on account of its prolixity, filling a thick octa¬ 
vo, and was the prescribed task each afternoon for a long three months. 
It was reserved for one of our Boston instructors to apply the condens¬ 
ing apparatus to this mass of crudities, and so to modernize the antiquities 
of the old Romans, as to make a befitting abridgment for schools of the 
first order. Mr. Dillaway has presented such a compilation as must be 
interesting to lads, and become popular as a text-book. Historical facts 
are stated with great simplicity and clearness ; the most important points 
are seized upon, while trifling peculiarities are passed unnoticed.” 
