Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 341 pages of information about Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 341 pages of information about Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero.

[Footnote 377:  Fasti, vi. 299.]

[Footnote 378:  Cato, R.R., ch. ii. init.; Horace, Epode 2. 65; Sat. ii. 6. 65.]

[Footnote 379:  Romische Religion, p. 214.]

[Footnote 380:  Or lectulus adversus, i.e. opposite the door; Ascon. ed.  Clark, p. 43, a good passage for the contents of an atrium.]

[Footnote 381:  See Mau’s Pompeii, p. 248.]

[Footnote 382:  Mau, Pompeii, p. 240.]

[Footnote 383:  The extent to which this could be carried can be guessed from Sall. Cat. 12.]

[Footnote 384:  Quintus Cicero, growing rich with Caesar in Gaul, had a fancy for a domus suburbana:  Cic. ad Q. Fr. iii.  I. 7.  Marcus tells his brother in this letter that he himself had no great fancy for such a residence, and that his house on the Palatine had all the charm of such a suburbana.  His villa at Tusculum, as we shall see, served the purpose of a house close to the city.]

[Footnote 385:  A great number of passages about the noise and crowds of Rome are collected in Mayor’s Notes to Juvenal, pp. 173, 203, 207.]

[Footnote 386:  Some interesting remarks on the general aspect of the city will be found in the concluding chapter of Lanciani’s Ruins and Excavations.  For the bore elsewhere than in Rome, see below, p. 256.]

[Footnote 387:  ad Fam. ii. 12:  “Urbem, Urbem, mi Rufe, cole, et in ista luce viva Omnis peregrinatio (foreign travel) obscura et sordida est iis, quorum industria Roma potest illustris esse,” etc.]

[Footnote 388:  Lucr. ii. 22 foll.; iii. 1060 foll.  Cp.  Seneca, Ep. 69:  “Frequens migratio instabilis animi est!”]

[Footnote 389:  de Oratore, ii. 22.]

[Footnote 390:  These houses, with the coast on which they stood, have long sunk into the sea, and we are only now, thanks to the perseverance of Mr. R.T.  Guenther of Magdalen College, realising their position and former magnificence.  See his volume on Earth Movements in the Bay of Naples.]

[Footnote 391:  See Cic. pro Caelio, Sec.Sec. 48-50.]

[Footnote 392:  Cicero’s Villen, Leipzig, 1889.]

[Footnote 393:  Varro, R.R. iii. 13.]

[Footnote 394:  The villa had once been Sulla’s also:  and the aristocratic connection gave its owner some trouble.  See above, p. 102.]

[Footnote 395:  Schmidt, op. cit. p. 31.]

[Footnote 396:  de Finibus, iii. 2. 7.]

[Footnote 397:  de Legibus, ii. 1.]

[Footnote 398:  op. cit. p. 15.  I am assured by a travelling friend that the Fibreno is a delicious stream.]

[Footnote 399:  ad Quint.  Fratr. iii. 1.]

[Footnote 400:  ad Att. xiii. 19. 2.]

[Footnote 401:  For further details of the amenities of the villa at Arpinum see Schmidt, op. cit.]

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