The Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon - Forming a Glossary of All the Words Representing Visible Objects Connected With the Arts, Manufactures, and Every-Day Life of the Greeks and Romans; With Representa... #262012

The Greek synonyms and the Index to them have received some considerable additions. It was not at first intended to insert any Greek terms at all but the advisability, if not the necessity, of doing 50, became apparent as the work progressed, and they were introduced amongst the articles as memory served, mostly while the pages were going through the press. Some few additional illustrations have been introduced from ori ginals discovered in excavations made since the previous publication, or which were at that time unknown to me, or had escaped my memory. Some few articles have likewise been added; and others have had more matter introduced into them, if interesting in itself; but always with extreme sobriety, so as not to destroy the original design, which was to produce a large book in a small compass, entitled to take its rank as an authority amongst scholars, and be a safe guide to the student, whilst it would serve no less as a manual of ready reference for artists, archaeologists, and all who interest them selves about the history and manners of bygone ages and especially of those two great and gifted families of the human race to whom our modern civilization is so largely indebted. How far that object has been accomplished is not for me to decide. But as the volume has been translated into the three principal lan guages of Europe, — French, Italian, and German, — without any con cert with myself, and therefore presumably because it supplied a want previously experienced, it may be permitted me to indulge a belief that the time and trouble expended upon it has not been altogether bestowed in vain.