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Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero

CHAPTER XI
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_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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