Social life at Rome in the Age of CiceroFowler, W. Warde (William Warde)
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Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde)
Rome -- Social life and customs
Page 280, l. 17. _Saepe tribus_, etc.: often you would see three
couches with four guests apiece.
Page 283, l. 21. [Greek: Emetikhaeu], etc.: he was under the
emetic cure, and consequently ate and drank freely and with much
satisfaction; and everything certainly was good and well served; nay
more, I may say that
"Though the cook was good,
'Twas Attic salt that flavored best the food."
Page 283, footnote 1. _qua lege_, etc.: which law did not determine
the expense, but the kind of victuals and the manner of cooking them.
Page 285, l. 11. _Agricolo_, etc.: the farmer is the first who after
a long day of toil in the fields adapted rustic songs to the laws of
metre; the first in satisfied leisure to modulate a song on his reed,
which he would say before the gods decked with flowers. It was the
farmer, O Bacchus, who with his face colored with reddish minium,
taught his untrained feet the first movements of the dance.
Page 287, l. 13. _Quippe etiam_, etc.: for even on holy days, divine
and human laws allow us to perform certain works. No religion has
forbidden to clear the channels, to raise a fence before the corn, to
lay snares for birds, to fire the thorns, and plunge in the wholesome
river a flock of bleating sheep.
Page 303, l. 2. _lex de ambitu_: law concerning the courting of
popular favor in canvassing.
Page 307, l. 4. _Eandem_, etc.: a time will come when you will bewail
that valor of yours.
Page 309, l. 7. _Spectatum_, etc.: they come to see, but they come
also to be seen.
Page 313, l. 27. _summuts artifex_: consummate artist.
Page 314, l. 3. _gravis_: serious.
Page 314, l. 4. _gravitas_: seriousness.
Page 315, l. 14. _Fescennina_, etc.: the rude Fescennine farce grew
from rites like these, where rustic taunts were hurled in alternate
verse; and the pleasing license, tolerated from year to year,
gambolled, etc.
Page 317, l. 18. _Nihil mihi_, etc.: know well that I lacked nothing
except company with whom to laugh in a friendly way and intelligently
over these things.
Page 324, l. 28. _mos maiorum_: the customs of our ancestors.
Page 327, l. 12. _Felix_, etc.: blessed is he who succeeded in knowing
the causes of events.
Page 327, l. 16. _Fortunatus_, etc.: fortunate he also who knows the
rustic gods.
Page 333, l. 6. _lectisternia_: a feast of the gods during which their
images on pillars were placed in the streets.
Page 333, l. 6. _supplicationes_: religious solemnities for
supplication.
Page 333, l. 6. _ludi_: games.
Page 339, l. 23. _numen_: godhead, deity.
Page 340, footnote 3. _idem etiam_, etc.: he says also that Jupiter is
the power of this law, eternal and immutable, which is the guide, so
to speak, of our life and the principle of our duties; a law which he
calls a fatal necessity, an eternal truth of future things.
Page 341, l. 15. _qua_: as.
Page 341, l. 26. _O qui res_, etc.: thou who rulest with eternal sway
the doings of men and gods.
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