[Footnote 419: Hor. _Epist._ ii. 1. 103: "Romae dulce diu fuit et solenne reclusa Mane domo vigilare, clienti promere iura" etc. It is curious that all our information on this early business comes from the literature of the Empire. The single passage of Cicero which Marquardt could find to illustrate it unluckily relates to his practice as governor of Cilicia (_ad Att._ vi. 2. 5).] [Footnote 420: e.g. _ad Q.F._ i. 2. 16.; and Q. Cic. _Commentariolum petitionis_, sec. 17.] [Footnote 421: See what he says of M. Manilius in _De Orat_. iii. 133.] [Footnote 422: The word seems to be connected with ieiunium (Plant. _Curculio_ I. i. 73; Festus, p. 346), and thus answers to our break_fast_. The verb is ientare: Afranius: fragm. "ientare nulla invitat."] [Footnote 423: Galen, vol. vi. p. 332. I take this citation from Marquardt, _Privatleben_, p. 257; others will be found in the notes to that page. Marquardt seems to have been the first to bring the evidence of the medical writers to bear on the subject of Roman meals.] [Footnote 424: See the interesting account of these (salutatores, deductores, assectatores) in the _Commentariolum petitionis_ of Q. Cicero, 9. 34 foll.] [Footnote 425: See above, p. 109.] [Footnote 426: Q. Cicero, _Comment. Pet._9. 37.] [Footnote 427: See the author's _Roman Festivals_, pp. 125 foll.] [Footnote 428: Plutarch, _C. Gracchus_, 6.] [Footnote 429: Cic. _ad Fam._ ii. 12.] [Footnote 430: Fragm. 9. Baehrens, _Fragm. Poet. Rom._ p. 141. Cp. Galen, vol. x. p. 3 (Kuhn).] [Footnote 431: Livy xlv. 36; Cic. _ad Fam_. i. 2; for a famous case of "obstruction" by lengthy speaking, Gell. iv. 10.] [Footnote 432: Festus, p. 54.] [Footnote 433: _ad Fam._ vii. 30.] [Footnote 434: _de Divinatione_, ii. 142, written in 44 B.C.] [Footnote 435: Varro, _R.R._ i. 2; the words are put into the mouth of one of the speakers in the dialogue. See, for examples from later writers, Marq., _Privatleben_, p. 262.] [Footnote 436: _ad Att_. xiii. 52; the habit may have often been dropped in winter.] [Footnote 437: Seneca, _Ep_. 86. The whole passage is most interesting, as illustrating the difference in habits wrought in the course of two centuries.] [Footnote 438: Mau, _Pompeii_, p. 300. See above, p. 244.] [Footnote 439: See the plan in Mau, p. 357; Marquardt, _Privatleben_, p. 272.] [Footnote 440: See Professor Purser's explanation and illustrations in the _Dict. of Antiquities_, vol. i. p. 278.]