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.
of hot air (thermae).  The latter invention is said to have come in before the Social war (Val.  Max. ix. 1. 1.).  Some baths seem to have been run as a speculation by private individuals, and bore the name of their builder (e.g. balneae Seniae, Cic. pro Cael. 25. 61).  In summer the young men still bathed in the Tiber (pro Cael. 15. 36).  At Pompeii the oldest public baths (the Stabian; Mau, p. 183) date from the second century B.C.]

[Footnote 442:  The tradition was that the paterfamilias originally also sat instead of reclining.  See Marq. Privatleben, p. 292 note 3.]

[Footnote 443:  Columella, ii. 1. 19, a very interesting chapter; Plutarch, Cato min. 56.]

[Footnote 444:  Plut. Lucullus 40; see above, p. 242.]

[Footnote 445:  Plut. Quaest.  Conv. 1. 3 foll.; and Marq. p. 295.]

[Footnote 446:  Hor. Sat. i. 4. 86; cp.  Cic. in Pisonem, 27. 67.]

[Footnote 447:  Cic. de Senect. 14. 46.]

[Footnote 448:  Lucilius, fragm. 30; 120 foll.; 168, 327 etc.  Varro wrote a Menippean satire on gluttony, of which a fragment is preserved by Gellius, vi. 16.]

[Footnote 449:  See the interesting passage in Cic. pro Murena, 36. 75, about the funeral feast of Scipio Aemilianus.]

[Footnote 450:  Catull. 47. 5:  “vos convivia lauta sumptuose De die facitis?”]

[Footnote 451:  26. 65 foll; Hor. Od. iii. 19, and the commentators.]

[Footnote 452:  ad Fam. vii. 26, of the year 57 B.C.  The sumptuary law must have been a certain lex Aemilia of later date than Sulla.  (See Gell. ii. 24:  “qua lege non sumptus cenarum, sed ciborum genus et modus praefinitus est.”) This chapter of Gellius, and Macrob. iii. 17, are the safest passages to consult on the subject of the growth of gourmandism.]

[Footnote 453:  See Munro, Elucidations of Catullus, p. 92 foll.]

[Footnote 454:  Tibull. ii. 1. 51 foll.  Cp. ii. 5. 83 foll.  Several are also described by Ovid in his Fasti.  A charming account of feste in a Tuscan village of to-day will be found in A Nook in the Apennines, by Leader Scott, chapters xxviii. and xxix.:  a book full of value for Italian rural life, ancient and modern.]

[Footnote 455:  Wissowa, Religion und Kultus, p. 366.  “Feriae” came in time to be limited to public festivals, while “festus dies” covered all holidays.]

[Footnote 456:  de Legibus, ii. 8. 19:  cp. 12. 29.]

[Footnote 457:  Georg. i. 268 foll.  Cato had already said the same thing:  R.R. ii. 4.]

[Footnote 458:  Thus Ovid describes the rites performed by the Flamen Quirinalis at the old agricultural festival of the Robigalia (Robigus, deity of the mildew) as if it were a curious bit of old practice which most people knew nothing about.—­Fasti, iv. 901 foll.]

[Footnote 459:  Greenidge, Legal Procedure in Cicero’s time, p. 457.]

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