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 394: The villa had once been Sulla's also: and the
aristocratic connection gave its owner some trouble. See above, p.
102.]
[Footnote 395: Schmidt, _op. cit._ p. 31.]
[Footnote 396: _de Finibus_, iii. 2. 7.]
[Footnote 397: _de Legibus_, ii. 1.]
[Footnote 398: _op. cit_. p. 15. I am assured by a travelling friend
that the Fibreno is a delicious stream.]
[Footnote 399: _ad Quint. Fratr_. iii. 1.]
[Footnote 400: _ad Att._ xiii. 19. 2.]
[Footnote 401: For further details of the amenities of the villa at
Arpinum see Schmidt, _op. cit._]
[Footnote 402: _ad Att._ ii. 14 and 15.]
[Footnote 403: O.E. Schmidt, _Briefwechsel Cicero's_, pp. 66 and 454;
but see his _Cicero's Villen_, p. 46, note.]
[Footnote 404: _ad Att_. xii. 19 init.]
[Footnote 405: See Seneca, _Epist_. 69, on the disturbing influence of
constant change of scene.]
[Footnote 406: There is an exception in the young Cicero's letter to
Tiro, translated above, p. 202.]
[Footnote 407: Censorinus, _De die natali_, 23. 6.; Pliny, _N.H._ vii.
213. On the whole subject of the division of the day see Marquardt,
_Privatlben_, p. 246 foll.]
[Footnote 408: In the XII Tables only sunrise and sunset were
mentioned (Pliny, _l.c._ 212). Later on noon was proclaimed by the
Consul's marshal (Varro, _de Ling. Lat_. vi. 5), and also the end of
the civil day. Cp. Varro, _L.L._ vi. 89.]
[Footnote 409: Cic. _pro Quinctio_, 18. 59.]
[Footnote 410: See the article "Horologium" in _Dict. of Antiquities_,
vol. i.]
[Footnote 411: Our modern hours are called equinoctial, because they
are fixed at the length of the natural hour at the equinoxes. This
system does not seem to have come in until late in the Empire period.]
[Footnote 412: For the water-clock see Marquardt, _op. cit_. p. 773
foll.]
[Footnote 413: The lines are so good that I may venture to quote them
in full from Gell. iii 3 (cp. Ribbeck, _Fragm. Gomicorum_, ii. p. 34):
"parasitus esuriens dicit:
Ut illum di perdant primus qui horas repperit,
Quique adeo primus statuit hic solarium.
Qui mihi comminuit misero articulatim diem,
Nam olim me puero venter erat solarium,
Multo omnium istorum optimum et verissimum:
Ubivis ste monebat esse, nisi quom nihil erat.
Nunc etiam quom est, non estur, nisi soli libet.
Itaque adeo iam oppletum oppidum est solariis,
Maior pars populi iam aridi reptant fame."
The fourth line contains a truth of human nature, of which
illustrations might easily be found at the present day.]
[Footnote 414: Pliny, _N.H._ xv. 1 foll, supplies the history of the
oil industry. For the candles see Marquardt, _Privatleben_, p. 690.]
[Footnote 415: See above, p. 93.]
[Footnote 416: Marq. _Privatleben_, p. 264.]
[Footnote 417: Cic. _ad Q.F._ ii. 3. 7. For the lippitudo, _ad Att._
vii. 14.]
[Footnote 418: Hor. _Epist_. ii. 1. 112; Pliny, _Ep_. iii. 5, 8, 9.]
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