[Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler]@TWC D-Link bookSocial life at Rome in the Age of Cicero CHAPTER XI 41/216
_Coli rura_, etc.: it is a bad practice to fill the fields with men from the workhouse, or to have anything done by men who are forsaken by hope. Page 235, footnote 2.
_Regum_, etc.: we have taken the tyrant's temper. Page 239, l.10._ante focos_, etc.: it was customary once to take places in the long benches before the fireplace, and to trust that the gods were present at our table. Page 246, l.5._nunc vero_, etc.: but now from morning till evening, on holidays and working days, the whole people, senators and commoners, busy themselves in the forum and retire nowhere, etc.
(See page 133, l.
9, and translation of that passage.) Page 246, footnote 2.
_Urbem_, etc.: remain in the city, Rufus; stay there and live in that light.
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