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Fowler, W. Warde, 1847-1921

"Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero"


Page 10, l. 1. _rerum_, etc. Rome became a supreme thing of beauty.
Page 10, l. 13. _nativa praesidia_: natural defences.
Page 10, l. 21. _regionum_, etc. A site in the middle of Italy,
singularly fitted by nature for the development of the city.
Page 17, l. 2. _nec ferrea_, etc.: nor has he seen the hardships of
the law, the mad forum, or the archives of the people.
Page 22, l. 2. _Ille, ille_, etc.: he it was, Jupiter himself, who
withstood the attack, he who willed it that the Capitol, that these
temples, that the whole city and you all should be safe.
Page 29, footnote 1. _in montibus_, etc.: built between mountains and
valleys, raised and almost suspended on high, through the stones of
its buildings, with its back streets.
Page 39, l. 6. _ubi semel_, etc.: he who has once strayed from the
right path will come to calamity.
Page 52, l. 11. _lanificium_: the working of wool.
Page 55, l. 26. _graffiti_: ancient scribblings, scratched, painted,
or otherwise marked on a wall, column, tablet, or other surface.


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