[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 44/216
_gravis_: serious. Page 314, l.4.
_gravitas_: seriousness. Page 315, l.14._Fescennina_, etc.: the rude Fescennine farce grew from rites like these, where rustic taunts were hurled in alternate verse; and the pleasing license, tolerated from year to year, gambolled, etc. 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.
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