The Private Life of the RomansJohnston, Harold Whetstone
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The Private Life of the Romans
Johnston, Harold Whetstone
Rome -- Social life and customs
mēnsa prīma, first course, 308.
mēnsa secunda, dessert, 308, 309, 311.
MENU, of dinner, 309.
merenda, irregular meal, 302.
merīdiātiō, noonday rest, 302.
mēta, of a grain mill, 284*.
mētae, in a circus, 331*, 335.
MILESTONES, 386*.
MILL, for grain, 284*;
for olives, 292*;
as a punishment, 148, 171.
missus, seven laps in a race, 331;
"spared," of a gladiator, 361.
MIXING BOWLS, 314*;
three thousand of Pompeius, 326;
mixing wine, 314.
mola, mill, 284*, 285*.
monopodium, table with one support, 227*.
MONUMENTAL sources, 11.
"Moritūrī tē salūtant," 362.
MOSAICS, 221.
MOTHER, as nurse, 100;
as teacher, 104, 105.
MOURNING, signs of, 246, 253;
periods of, 437.
mulleus, patrician shoe, 251.
mulsa, water and honey, 298.
mulsum, wine and honey, 298.
mūnera, opposed to lūdī, 345;
gladiātōria, Chap. IX. See Table of Contents.
mūnīre viam, of road building, 387.
murmillōnēs, class of gladiators, 360.
mustāceum, wedding cake, 85.
mustum, new wine, 296.
MUTUAL obligations, of patron and freedman, 175;
patrician patron and client, 179;
later patron and client, 182;
of hospitēs, 185.
N
NAME, Chap. II. See Table of Contents.
See also praenōmen, nōmen, cognōmen.
nārrātiō, narration, taught in schools, 115.
NATURALIZED citizens, names of, 60.
naumachiae, naval battles, 364.
NETS, for the hair, 264.
NEW clients, 181.
NEWSPAPER, substitute for, 413.
NICKNAMES, 54;
See also cognōmen.
NIGHT for burial, 432.
NOBLES, debarred from business careers, 404;
funerals of, 433 f.
nodus Herculāneus, 77.
nōmen, before and after cognōmen, 40;
endings of, 46;
sign of gēns, 21, 47;
two or more in one name, 55;
used as praenōmen, 55.
nōmenclātor, 151, 415.
nōminālia, 97.
novendiāle, 437.
nūbere, meaning, 77.
nūcleus, in roads, 387.
NUMERALS as praenōmina, 44;
as names of women, 57.
nūptiae iūstae, 67;
iniūstae, 69.
NURSERY stories, 100.
NURSES, 100;
Greek preferred, 101.
NUTS, in wedding festivities, 87;
for marbles, 103;
grown in Italy, 274.
O
OBELISKS in the circuses, 336*.
OCCUPATIONS of slaves, 143.
oecī, rooms in house, 207.
OLD and new clients, 176 f.
oleum olīvum, olive oil, 291.
OLIVE, uses, 289 f.;
preserved, 290;
oil, uses, 291;
manufacture, 292.
ollae, urns for ashes of dead, 428, 429, 430*, 431, 437.
ollus quiris lētō datus, 434.
ONION, unrefined, 275.
oppidum, in circus, 330*.
opus, caementīcium, 210, 211*;
incertum, 212*;
quadrātum, 210*;
rēticulātum, 212*.
Orange, theater at, 327*.
ORANGE, not grown in Italy, 274.
ōrdō, in columbārium, 428, 431;
scrībārum, 414.
ōrnāmenta, theatrical properties, 324.
ōrnātor, valet, 150.
ōrnātrīx, ladies' maid, 150, 265.
os resectum, bone for burial, 436.
ōstium, door, 195.
ōva, in the circus, 336.
OVEN, for bread, 287*.
P
p., for periit, of gladiators, 361.
paedagōgus, 123*.
paenula, cloak, 248*.
palaestra, exercise ground, 367, 376*.
palla, woman's robe, 261.
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