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PREFACE.
cellent and indefatigable director of the ex-
cavations at Pompeii. This volume, which
has been twice printed, is intended as a
pocket companion and guide to those who
visit the spot, and is both convenient as to
size, and replete with every information
which might be expected from the enthu-
siasm, talents, and opportunities of an author
whose whole occupation is the study of Pom-
peii, where he became director in 1828. It
is to him that we are indebted for the com-
munication of what appears to be the just'
interpretation of all those inscriptions at
Pompeii which have an accusative termina-
tion, and which have hitherto so much puz-
zled the antiquary.
The letters AED, which had been sup-
posed to refer to the house, seem really to
signify the aedile whose favour was invoked
by the owner of the shop: an easy and satis-
cellent and indefatigable director of the ex-
cavations at Pompeii. This volume, which
has been twice printed, is intended as a
pocket companion and guide to those who
visit the spot, and is both convenient as to
size, and replete with every information
which might be expected from the enthu-
siasm, talents, and opportunities of an author
whose whole occupation is the study of Pom-
peii, where he became director in 1828. It
is to him that we are indebted for the com-
munication of what appears to be the just'
interpretation of all those inscriptions at
Pompeii which have an accusative termina-
tion, and which have hitherto so much puz-
zled the antiquary.
The letters AED, which had been sup-
posed to refer to the house, seem really to
signify the aedile whose favour was invoked
by the owner of the shop: an easy and satis-