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Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero

CHAPTER XI
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_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.
Page 121, l.11._monumentum_, etc.: a monument more enduring than bronze.
Page 123, l.20._vere humanus:_ truly refined.
Page 127, l.23._omnia_, etc.: he transforms himself into all portentous shapes.
Page 130, l.20._menager ses transitions:_ to pass gradually over to the other side.
Page 132, l.18._de vi:_ of criminal violence.
Page 133, l.9._Uni se_, etc.: they are addicted to one and the same practice, that they may cautiously cheat and craftily contend, outdo each other in blandishments, feign honesty, set snares as if they were all enemies to each other.
Page 133, l.28._rari nantes_, etc.: few and scattered swimmers in the vast abyss.
Page 142 (bottom).

_Claudite_, etc.: close the doors, maidens, enough have we sung.


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