The plebeians were often the richest.

They too held farms leased to them by the state, and had often small shops in Rome.

The whole territory was so small that it was easy to come into Rome to worship, attend the Senate, or vote, and many had no houses in the city.

Each man was married with a ring and sacrifice, and the lady was then carried over the threshold, on which a sheepskin was spread, and made mistress of the house by being bidden to be Caia to Caius.

The Roman matrons were good and noble women in those days, and the highest praise of them was held to be _Domum mansit, lanam fecit_--she stayed at home and spun wool.