From all these causes, I feel no doubt that the cost of living for the poor is comparatively small, though of course the rate of wages is small in proportion.

For ordinary unskilled labour, the day-wages, at the winter season, are about three pauls to three pauls and a half; in summer about five pauls; and in the height of the vintage as much as six or seven pauls, though this is only for a very few weeks.

I should suppose, therefore, that from 1_s_.6_d_.to 1_s_.9_d_.

a day, taking the paul at 5_d_., were the average wages of a good workman at Rome.

From these wages, small as they are, there are several deductions to be made.
In the first place, the immense number of "festas" tells heavily on the workman's receipts.