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Fowler, W. Warde, 1847-1921

"Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero"


Page 309, l. 7. _Spectatum_, etc.: they come to see, but they come
also to be seen.
Page 313, l. 27. _summuts artifex_: consummate artist.
Page 314, l. 3. _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.


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