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.

Page 317, l. 18. Nihil mihi, etc.:  know well that I lacked nothing except company with whom to laugh in a friendly way and intelligently over these things.

Page 324, l. 28. mos maiorum:  the customs of our ancestors.

Page 327, l. 12. Felix, etc.:  blessed is he who succeeded in knowing the causes of events.

Page 327, l. 16. Fortunatus, etc.:  fortunate he also who knows the rustic gods.

Page 333, l. 6. lectisternia:  a feast of the gods during which their images on pillars were placed in the streets.

Page 333, l. 6. supplicationes:  religious solemnities for supplication.

Page 333, l. 6. ludi:  games.

Page 339, l. 23. numen:  godhead, deity.

Page 340, footnote 3. idem etiam, etc.:  he says also that Jupiter is the power of this law, eternal and immutable, which is the guide, so to speak, of our life and the principle of our duties; a law which he calls a fatal necessity, an eternal truth of future things.

Page 341, l. 15. qua:  as.

Page 341, l. 26. O qui res, etc.:  thou who rulest with eternal sway the doings of men and gods.

Page 342, l. 1. Olli, etc.:  the sire of men and gods, smiling to her with that aspect wherewith he clears the tempestuous sky, gently kissed his daughter’s lips; then thus replies:  Cytherea, cease from fear; immovable to thee remain the fates of thy people.

Page 351, l. 13. Iuppiter, etc.:  Jove reserved these shores for the just, when he alloyed the golden age with brass; with brass, then with iron he hardened the ages, from which there shall be a happy escape according to my predictions.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  Martial iv. 64. 12.]

[Footnote 2:  Aen. viii. 90. foll.  The Capitoline hill, which Virgil means by “arx” a conspicuous object from the river just below the Aventine, and would have been much more conspicuous in the poet’s time.  There is a view of it from this point in Burn’s Rome and the Campagna, p. 184.]

[Footnote 3:  Plutarch, Cato minor 39.  Cato was expected to land at the commercial docks below the Aventine (see below), where the senate and magistrates were awaiting him, but with his usual rudeness rowed past them to the navalia.]

[Footnote 4:  Aen. viii. 363.  Possibly Virgil meant to put this dwelling on the site of the future Regia, just below the Palatine and between it and the Forum.  See Servius ad loc.]

[Footnote 5:  The modern visitor would cross by the Ponte Rotto, which is in the same position as the ancient bridge, just below the Tiber island.]

[Footnote 6:  Livy v. 54.]

[Footnote 7:  The Fratres Arvales.]

[Footnote 8:  For navigation of the river above Rome see Strabo p. 235.]

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