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PREFACE. present
work
designed to supply a want which
is
our School Classical Literature.
It
still
exists in
has been represented to the editor,
from several quarters, that his Larger Classical Dictionary, though well adapted for the use of the higher forms in the public schools, cluded, both by
its size
and
price,
are therefore obliged to put
obsolete work.
is
ex-
from a great number of schools, which
up with the abridgments of Lempriere's
In consequence of these representations, the editor has
been induced to draw up this Smaller Dictionary.
All names have been
which a young person would be likely to meet with at the commencement of his classical studies; and only those have been omitted which occur in later writers, or in works not usually read in schools.
inserted
The
quantities
serted.
have been carefully marked, and the gonitive
The mythological
from ancient works of
art, for
ful pencil of his friend,
presume too
which the
much on
Roman
cases in-
have been illustrated by drawings editor is indebted to the skill-
Mr. George Scharf.
Dictionary of Greek and to
articles
In
this,
as in the Smaller
Antiquities, care has been taken not
the knowledge of the reader.
It is therefore
hoped that these two works may be used conjointly with advantage, even in schools where Latin and Greek are not taught.
WILLIAM SMITHB
SMALLER CLASSICAL DICTIONARY. ABACAENUM.
ABORIGINES.
ABACAENUM (-i), an
the mere sight of it could reduce a revolted people to submission. ABDERA (-ae and orum), a town of ABAE (-arum), an ancient town of Phocis, Thrace, near the mouth of the Nestus, which on the boundaries of Boeotia; celebrated for flowed through the town. It was colonized an ancient temple and oracle of Apollo, who by Timesius of Clazomenae about B.O. 656, hence derived the surname of Aba&us. and a second time by the inhabitants of Teos ABANTES, the ancient inhabitants of Eu- in Ionia, who settled there after their own town had been taken by the Persians, B.O. 544. boea. They are said to have been of Thracian origin, to have first settled in Phocis, It was the birthplace of Democritus, Protagwhere they built Abae, and afterwards to oras, Anaxarchus, and other distinguished have crossed over to Euboea. The Abantes men ; but its inhabitants, notwithstanding, of Euboea assisted in colonizing several of were accounted stupid, and an "Abderite" was a term of reproach. the Ionic cities of Asia Minor. ABELLA or AVELLA (-ae), a town of ABANTIADSS (-ae), any descendant of but Abas, especially Perseus, great-grandson Campania, not far from Nola, founded by the of Abas, and Acrisius, sou of Abas. A female Chalcidians in Euboea. It was celebrated for descendant of Abas, as Danae and Atalante, its apples, whence Virgil calls it imalif&ra. was called Abantias. ABGARUS, ACBARUS, or AUGARUS (-i), ABARlS (-is), a Hyperbo