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Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero

CHAPTER XI
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_Romae_, etc.: in Rome it was for a long time a joy and a pride to open up the house at early morning and attend to the legal needs of the clients.
Page 275, l.20._Nesciit vivere_: he did not know how to live.
Page 277, l.10._ad noctem_: late into the night.
Page 280, l.17._Saepe tribus_, etc.: often you would see three couches with four guests apiece.
Page 283, l.21.

[Greek: Emetikhaeu], etc.: he was under the emetic cure, and consequently ate and drank freely and with much satisfaction; and everything certainly was good and well served; nay more, I may say that "Though the cook was good, 'Twas Attic salt that flavored best the food." Page 283, footnote 1.

_qua lege_, etc.: which law did not determine the expense, but the kind of victuals and the manner of cooking them.
Page 285, l.11._Agricolo_, etc.: the farmer is the first who after a long day of toil in the fields adapted rustic songs to the laws of metre; the first in satisfied leisure to modulate a song on his reed, which he would say before the gods decked with flowers.

It was the farmer, O Bacchus, who with his face colored with reddish minium, taught his untrained feet the first movements of the dance.
Page 287, l.13._Quippe etiam_, etc.: for even on holy days, divine and human laws allow us to perform certain works.

No religion has forbidden to clear the channels, to raise a fence before the corn, to lay snares for birds, to fire the thorns, and plunge in the wholesome river a flock of bleating sheep.
Page 303, l.2._lex de ambitu_: law concerning the courting of popular favor in canvassing.
Page 307, l.4._Eandem_, etc.: a time will come when you will bewail that valor of yours.
Page 309, l.7._Spectatum_, etc.: they come to see, but they come also to be seen.
Page 313, l.27._summuts artifex_: consummate artist.
Page 314, l.3.


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