Labor-unions. (See Guilds.)
Lactantius, “On the Deaths of Those Who Persecuted (the Christians),”. 
Languages spoken in Italy in the early period;
  influence of other languages on Latin, 22. (See also Greek.)
Latin language,
  extent;
  unifying influences;
  uniformity;
  evidence of inscriptions;
  causes of its spread;
    colonies;
    roads;
    merchants;
    soldiers;
    government officials;
    the church;
    its superiority not a factor;
    sentiment a cause;
    “peaceful invasion,”. 
Latin, colloquial, its study neglected till recently;
  first noticed in modern times by Henri Etienne;
  its forms, how determined;
  ancient authority for its existence;
  evidence of the Romance languages;
  aid derived from a knowledge of spoken English;
  analytical formation of tenses;
  slang;
  extant specimens;
  causes of variation;
  external influences on;
  influence of culture;
  definition of colloquial Latin;
  relation to literary Latin;
  careless pronunciation;
  accent different from literary Latin;
  confusion of genders;
  monotonous style;
  tendencies in vocabulary, 64-7: 
    in syntax;
  effect of loss of final letters;
  reunion with literary Latin;
  still exists in the Romance languages;
  date when it became the separate Romance language;
  specimens quoted. 
Latin, literary,
  modelled on Greek;
  relation to colloquial Latin;
  standardized by grammarians;
  style unnatural;
  reunion with colloquial Latin;
  disappearance. 
Latin, preliterary. 
Laws of the Twelve Tables;
  excerpt from. 
Living, cost of, comparison with to-day. 
Livius Andronicus. 
Lucan’s account of the death of Curio.

Matius, Gaius,
  early life and character;
  with Caesar in Gaul;
  friendship with Caesar, passim;
  accepted no office;
  devotion to Caesar;
  unpopularity due to it;
  correspondence with Cicero;
  defence of his devotion to Caesar;
  prompted Cicero’s best philosophical works;
  later life;
  literary works. 
Menippean satire. 
Milesian tales. 
Money, unit of.

Naevius. 
Ninus romance;
  and Petronius.

Organization, of capitalists (see Corporations);
  of labor (see Guilds). 
Oscan.

Paternalism,
  beginnings of, in Rome;
  effect on people. 
Patron, office of;
  benefactions of. 
Pervigilium Veneris. 
Petronius, Satirae;
  excerpt from;
  original size;
  motif;
  Trimalchio’s Dinner;
  satirical spirit;
  literary criticism;
  Horatian humor;
  cynical attitude;
  realism;
  prose-poetic form;
  origin of this genre of literature;
  the Satirae and the epic;
  and the heroic romance;