Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

PREFACE
THE SECOND EDITION.
IT was inevitable that many defects should be found in the first Edition of a
work like the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, embracing a great
variety of subjects, written by different persons, and published periodically.
Of these no one was more fully aware than the Editor; and accordingly,
when the sale of a very large impression rendered the preparation of a second
Edition necessary, he resolved to spare no pains and exertions to render the
work still more worthy of the approbation with which it had been already
received. The following will be found to be the principal improvements in
the present Edition.
1. Many of the most important articles are rewritten. This is especially
the case in the earlier portion of the work, since it was originally intended to
complete it in a much smaller compass than was afterwards found advisable;
and accordingly many subjects in the earlier letters of the alphabet were treated
in the first Edition with a brevity which prevented the writers from giving a
full and satisfactory explanation of several important points.
2. Many subjects which were entirely omitted in the first Edition are here
supplied. Any one who has had experience in the arrangement of a work in
alphabetical order will not be surprised that there should be many omissions
in the first Edition of such a work. Some idea may be formed of the extensive additions made to the work, when it is stated that, including the articles
which have been rewritten, the present Edition contains upwards of three
hundred pages of entirely new matter.
3. Those articles which have not been rewritten have been carefully revised,
and in many of them errors have been corrected, extraneous matter omitted,
and much additional information given. In this part of his labours the Editor
has received the most valuable assistance from Mr. George Long, Dr. Schmitz,
and Mr. Philip Smith.
4. Additional illustrations have been given by means of new woodcuts,
wherever the subjects appeared to requilre them. Many of these new wood