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DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.
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that not only (according to the old apologue) do they labour under the disadvantage of a few bricks, brought to shew what the house is like, but they are brought from that part of the house to which avowedly the least attention has been paid, and apparently (if one may judge by the alterations in the articles "Castra," "Chiridota," and "Braccæ,") less attention in the second edition than in the first. At least however they will furnish good models for the mode of treating the same subjects, if any adventurous student of future years should be incited to attempt a similar " opus desideratum" in the field of medieval antiquities.

We add one or two extracts with their accompanying illustrations.

"Armillae. These seem to have been frequently made without having their ends joined, they were then curved so as to require when put on to be slightly expanded by having their ends drawn apart from one another, and Ladiea with bracelets, from a Greek vase. according to their length they went once or twice or thrice round the arm, or even a greater number of times. The annexed cut is from Sir W. Hamilton's great work on Greek vases.

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1. Found at Rome. Vi. In the British Museum. "The following cuts exhibit Roman bracelets : the first figure represents a gold bracelet discovered at Rome on the Palatine mount : the second a gold bracelet found in Britain and preserved in the British Museum. It appears to.be made of two gold wires twisted together, and the mode of fastening it upon the arm by a clasp is worthy of observation.

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