Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 341 pages of information about Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 341 pages of information about Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero.
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APPENDIX

Page 1, l. 12. totam aestimare Romam:  to appreciate Rome in its entirety.

Page 3, l. 12. Hinc ad Tarpeiam, etc.:  he leads him next to the Tarpeian Rock and to the Capitol, now of gold, once thick with wild bushes.

Page 4, l. 24. Hinc septem, etc.:  from here you may see the seven hills of the sovereign city, and appreciate Rome as a whole, the Alban and the Tusculan hills, and all the cool suburban retreats.

Page 10, l. 1. rerum, etc.  Rome became a supreme thing of beauty.

Page 10, l. 13. nativa praesidia:  natural defences.

Page 10, l. 21. regionum, etc.  A site in the middle of Italy, singularly fitted by nature for the development of the city.

Page 17, l. 2. nec ferrea, etc.:  nor has he seen the hardships of the law, the mad forum, or the archives of the people.

Page 22, l. 2. Ille, ille, etc.:  he it was, Jupiter himself, who withstood the attack, he who willed it that the Capitol, that these temples, that the whole city and you all should be safe.

Page 29, footnote 1. in montibus, etc.:  built between mountains and valleys, raised and almost suspended on high, through the stones of its buildings, with its back streets.

Page 39, l. 6. ubi semel, etc.:  he who has once strayed from the right path will come to calamity.

Page 52, l. 11. lanificium:  the working of wool.

Page 55, l. 26. graffiti:  ancient scribblings, scratched, painted, or otherwise marked on a wall, column, tablet, or other surface.

Page 61, l. 4. quaestio de repetundis:  court for extortion.

Page 64, l. 15. familiarem, etc.:  intimate with L. Lucullus, wealthy, of intractable character.

Page 73, l. 14. qui de censoribus, etc.:  whosoever shall have secured a contract from the censors shall not be accepted as associate or shareholder.

Page 73, footnote 2. Asiatici, etc.:  of the public revenue of Asia, he had a very small share.

Page 91, l. 3. fortissimus, etc.:  a most powerful and important farmer of the public revenue.

Page 93, l. 20. insanum forum:  the forum in its maddening bustle.

Page 116, l. 12. doctissimus, etc.:  the most learned of that time.

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