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... became bound to the soil . Such a radical shift in the status of the working man not only affected the laws of the time , but must have influenced the selection of excerpts from earlier codifi- cations and perhaps have instituted ...
... became bound to the soil . Such a radical shift in the status of the working man not only affected the laws of the time , but must have influenced the selection of excerpts from earlier codifi- cations and perhaps have instituted ...
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... became so common that ferrum and ferramenta seem sometimes to be employed generically for " implements " or " utensils , " even when the material used is bronze . Rome looked with disfavor upon most of the industrial and 4 ROMAN ...
... became so common that ferrum and ferramenta seem sometimes to be employed generically for " implements " or " utensils , " even when the material used is bronze . Rome looked with disfavor upon most of the industrial and 4 ROMAN ...
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... became valuable , and what had hitherto been a menial service began to be considered an art.5 The cocus and his ars continued to rise in money value as the desire for delicacies increased . The elder Pliny offers a delightful " fish ...
... became valuable , and what had hitherto been a menial service began to be considered an art.5 The cocus and his ars continued to rise in money value as the desire for delicacies increased . The elder Pliny offers a delightful " fish ...
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... became increasingly necessary and useful in the state . Our investigations have revealed only one significant passage which bears directly upon tanners . This is in Juvenal's fourteenth Satire in which the poet deplores the avaricious ...
... became increasingly necessary and useful in the state . Our investigations have revealed only one significant passage which bears directly upon tanners . This is in Juvenal's fourteenth Satire in which the poet deplores the avaricious ...
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... became a successful lawyer , and that another who used to carry wood on his back was able later to count his eight hundred thousand sesterces.33 The duties of the pueri salariorum , of whom mention has been made above , are matters for ...
... became a successful lawyer , and that another who used to carry wood on his back was able later to count his eight hundred thousand sesterces.33 The duties of the pueri salariorum , of whom mention has been made above , are matters for ...
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Page 33 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 3 - Apollo. natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte quaesitum est: ego nec studium sine divite vena nec rude quid prosit video ingenium; alterius sic 410 altera poscit opem res et coniurat amice.
Page 47 - ... munera nunc edunt et verso pollice vulgus cum iubet, occidunt populariter; inde reversi conducunt foricas, et cur non omnia? cum sint, quales ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum extollit quotiens voluit Fortuna iocari.
Page 28 - Varro, qui priore anno praetor fuerat, loco non humili solum, sed etiam sordido ortus. Patrem lanium fuisse ferunt, ipsum institorem mercis, filioque hoc ipso in servilia eius artis ministeria usum.
Page xiii - Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit, Callidus excusso populum suspendere naso.
Page 57 - Irasci nostro non debes, cerdo, libello. Ars tua, non vita est, carmine laesa meo. Innocuos permitte sales. Cur ludere nobis non liceat, licuit si iugulare tibi?
Page 2 - Aemilium circa ludum faber imus et unguis exprimet et mollis imitabitur aere capillos, infelix operis summa, quia ponere totum nesciet.
Page xi - POPULATION idea of the way in which he was employed, or earned a living. This is by no means an easy task, for these small people, as we have already seen, did not interest their educated fellow-citizens, and for this reason we hear hardly anything of them in the literature of the time. Not only a want of philanthropic feeling in their betters, but an inherited contempt for all small industry and retail dealing, has helped to hide them away from us...
Page 30 - Equum empturus solvi iubes stratum, detrahis vestimenta venalibus, ne qua vitia corporis lateant: hominem involutum aestimas? Mangones quicquid est, quod displiceat, aliquo lenocinio abscondunt, itaque ementibus ornamenta ipsa suspecta sunt : sive crus alligatum sive brachium adspiceres, ionudari iuberes et ipsum tibi corpus ostendi.
Page 92 - Cinnam, Cinname, te iubes vocari. Non est hic, rogo, Cinna, barbarismus? Tu si Furius ante dictus esses, fur ista ratione dicereris 1.