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
[Footnote 43: Cicero (_Leg. Agr._ ii. 35. 96) describes Rome as being
(in comparison with Capua) "in montibus positam et convallibus,
coenaculis (i.e. upper rooms) sublatum atque suspensam, non optimis
viis," etc. Vitruv. ii. 17 is the _locus classicus_.]
[Footnote 44: Cic. _pro Caelio_ 17.]
[Footnote 45: In _C.I.L._ vi. 65-67 we find a Bona Dea erected "in
tutelam insulae," i.e. a common cult for all the lodgers. De Marchi
_l.c._ compares the common shrine of the Neapolitan lodging-house.
Tutela is mentioned as a protecting deity both of insulae and domus by
St. Jerome, _Com. in Isaiam_, 672.]
[Footnote 46: Cic. _de Domo_ 109.]
[Footnote 47: Cic. _ad Att._ xv. 17; cp. xiv. 9.]
[Footnote 48: Plut. _Crassus_ 2: perhaps from Fenestella.]
[Footnote 49: "Dormientem in taberna," Asconius, ed. Clark, p. 37. Cp.
Tacitus, _Hist_ i. 86, for persons sleeping in tabernae.]
[Footnote 50: Tucker, _Life in Ancient Athens_, p. 10.]
[Footnote 51: The _Moretum_ may be a translation from a Greek poet,
perhaps Parthenius, but it is certainly as well adapted to the
experience of Italians.]
[Footnote 52: e.g. Caesar, _Bell. Civ._ iii. 47. Cp. Tacitus, _Ann_.
xiv. 24.]
[Footnote 53: On this point see Salvioli, _Le Capitalisme dans le
monde antique_, ch. vi. is a book with many shortcomings, but written
by an Italian who knows his own country.]
[Footnote 54: See the author's _Roman Festivals_, p. 76 (Cerealia).]
[Footnote 55: Marquardt, _Staatsverwaltung_, ii. pp. 107, 110 foll. A
modius, which = nearly a peck, contained about 20 lb. of wheat (Pliny,
_N.H._ xviii. 66). Four and a half modii x 20=90 lb.]
[Footnote 56: Hirschfeld, _Verwaltungsbeamten_, ed. 2, p. 231; Strabo,
p. 652 (Rhodes).]
[Footnote 57: Caesar, _B.C._ iii. 42. 3.]
[Footnote 58: Marquardt, _op. cit._ p. 110.]
[Footnote 59: For Gracchus' motives see a paper by the present writer
in the _English Historical Review_ for 1905, p. 221 foll.]
[Footnote 60: Cic. _Tusc. Disp._ iii. 20. 48.]
[Footnote 61: Lex Julia municipalis, 1-20, compared with Suetonius,
_Jul_. 41.]
[Footnote 62: A good example will be found in Cic. _ad Att._ iv. 1.
6 foll.; the first letter written by Cicero after his return from
exile.]
[Footnote 63: See my _Roman Festivals_, pp. 85 and 204.]
[Footnote 64: Pliny, _Nat. Hist_. xviii. 17.]
[Footnote 65: Suet. _Aug_. 42.]
[Footnote 66: Frontinus i. 4. The date of his work is towards the end
of the first century A.D.]
[Footnote 67: See Lanciani, _Ruins and Excavations_, p. 48; Mommsen,
_Hist_. vol. i. Appendix.]
[Footnote 68: Frontinus i. 7, whose account is confirmed by the
recently discovered Epitomes of Livy's lost books.--Grenfell and Hunt,
_Oxyrhynchus Papyri_, iv. 113.]
[Footnote 69: See the useful table in Lanciani, _op. cit._ 58.]
[Footnote 70: This dates from the reign of Domitian. The nature of the
public fountain may be realised at Pompeii. See Mau, _Pompeii, its
Life and Art_, p. 224 foll.]
[Footnote 71: Cic. _de Officiis_, i. 42. 150.]
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