Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole.

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Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole.
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Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642.
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At Oxford :: Printed by Joseph Barnes,
1614.
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Rome -- Civilization -- Early works to 1800.
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"Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01818.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2025.

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BENEVOLO LECTORI, S.

TRia auguror potissimùm futura in hoc opusculo, quae parùm faciant ad aliquorum hominum palatum; quae tamen singula lectorem aequum spero aequi consulturum. Primò aegrè ferent quòd antiquitatis hae suo debito .i. Ro∣mano destituantur nitore, & idioma∣tis nostri solaecis (tanquam tot laceris pannis) vestitae foras extrudantur: secundo insimulabunt me gravem rei literariae iniecisse plagam, nempè qui hac ratione feci, vt quivis fumiuendulus Grammatista poterit in lectione Ciceronis sine cortice natare, poterit gryphos antiquitatum qui passim historiarum occurrunt sine negotio solvere: tertio hoc illos male torquebit, quòd tota mea textura est adeò incon∣cinna & inconsona, adeò sterilis & humi serpens, adeò sangui∣nis & sublimitatis expers. Primò velim intelligant me nō tam exuisse eas suo nitore, quàm cruisse ex tenebris, nempè trans∣fundendo eas in linguam magis cognitam. Secundò sciant me, non aliâ mente accessisse ad hoc opus quàm vt meo labore cui∣vis sciolo & tyrunculo, vix dum literarum studijs initiato imò pueris ad huc sub ferulâ militantibus, facilis aditu ad adyta haec patefieret: de sterilitate quam mihi impingunt, me mihi plaudo, rectius{que} nomine perspicuitatis eam dici oportere con∣tendo; quid emolumenti enim ex ampullsis istiusmodi verbo∣rum prodigijs (quibus fulminare, nullus est elementarijs qui, si velit, nequit) emergit lectori? praesertim tyrunculo, quem ista verborum tonitrua magis admiratione afficiunt, quàm instru∣unt cognitione. Sed his missis, Lectorem benevolum monitum

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velim, vt quoties antiquitates Romanae, quoties antiqua ali∣qua lex, quoties minùs visitatae dictiones, vel dictionum signi∣ficationes, quoties paraemiae ex his antiquitatibus enatae illum morantur in lectione autorum, Ciceronis praecipuè (cui prae cae∣teris meum erat consilium lucem inijcere) vt indicem meum vice Dictionarij consulat: vel si magis placebit, taedium quod ex gravioribus studijs obrepere solet, discutiat & exuat, lec∣titando has antiquitates, in quibus nihil occurrit ceratinum quod negotium cuivis facessat, nonnulla forsan quae sopitum lectoris animum everberent & exacuant magis.

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