ADVERTISEMENT.

THE study of Homer and Virgil being considered an essential part of polite education, the young might, it was presumed, derive some advantage from a work intended as a companion to those poets: The author has endeavoured to comprise, in the following pages, the more material circumstances relative to the mythology, religious rites, customs, fables, traditions, authentic history, and geography of the ancients. A judicious execution of this design would present a great variety of information, which can otherwise not be attainable but by laborious research, and by reference to many scarce and expensive publications. The author has, therefore, spared no pains in collecting information from works of the highest au

thority; excluding, at the same time, whatever excep-
tionable language incidentally occurs in the history and
mythology of the classical writers.

A very copious Index is subjoined, which will supply
whatever convenience might have been derived if this
work had assumed the form and plan of a Classical
Dictionary.

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ILIAD OF HOMER.

[The passages inserted between inverted commas, to which the letter P. is added, are selected from the Notes of POPE.]