S.E. SEVER sur Twitter : "Grant Snider of Incidental Comics illustrates the ups and downs of "adopting" #literature. The Sayricon of Petronius: Index. Sacred Texts Classics Petronius Index (Latin) Translated and Introduced by ALFRED R. ALLINSON This English translation of the Satyricon has been cross linked at the verse level with the adjoining Latin version. Note that there is no Latin version of Chapter Two of the English translation. Title PageIntroductionChapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourChapter FiveChapter SixChapter SevenChapter EightChapter NineChapter TenChapter ElevenChapter TwelveChapter ThirteenChapter FourteenChapter FifteenChapter SixteenChapter Seventeen. Cassius Dio — Book 58. Cassius Dio Roman History Thayer's Note: Before e-mailing me with questions, comments, or corrections involving the numbering of Books, chapters, and sections in this text, please read the orientation page. 11 Tiberius left Rome at this time and never again returned to the city, though he was forever on the point of doing so and kept sending messages to that effect. 1a He caused the Romans a great deal of calamity, since he wasted the lives of men both in the public service and for his private whim.
For example, he decided to banish the hunting spectacles from the city; and when in consequence some persons attempted to exhibit them outside, they perished in the ruins of their own theatres, which had been constructed of boards. 3a Among the many excellent utterances of hers that are reported are the following. 7 Sejanus was rising to still greater heights. p2036 Neither Sejanus nor anyone else took these omens to heart. Private Life of the Romans, Ch. 2. 38. The Threefold Name.
Nothing is more familiar to the student of Latin than the fact that the Romans whose works he reads first have each a threefold name, Caius Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Publius Vergilius Maro. This was the system that prevailed in the best days of the Republic, but it was itself a development, starting in earlier times with a more simple form, and ending, under the Empire, in utter confusion. The earliest legends of Rome show us single names, Romulus, Remus, Faustulus; but side by side with these we find also double names, Numa Pompilius, Ancus Martius, Tullus Hostilius.
It is possible that single names were the original fashion, but in early inscriptions we find two names, the second of which, in the genitive case, represented the father or the Head of the House: Mārcus Mārcī, Caecilia Metellī. A little later such a genitive was followed by the letter f (for fīlius or fīlia) or uxor, to denote the relationship. Johnston's Private Life of the Romans: Table of Contents. Johnston's Private Life of the Romans, Ch. 11.
403. It is evident from what has been said that abundant means were necessary to support the state in which every Roman of position lived. It will be of interest also to see how the great mass of the people made the scantier living with which they were forced to be content. For the sake of the inquiry it will be convenient, if not very accurate, to divide the people of Rome into the three great classes of nobles, knights, and commons into which political history has distributed them. The “nobles” during the Republic had come to be the descendants of those men who had held curule office. As the senate was composed of those men who had held the higher magistracies, the nobles and the senatorial families were practically the same, for the political influence of this group was so strong that it was very difficult for a “new man” (novus homō) to be elected to office. 404. 405. 406. 407. 408. 409. 410. 411. 412. 413. 414. 415. Johnston's Private Life of the Romans, Introduction.
3. In the same way, the daily employment of a slave, his keep, his punishments, his rewards are properly considered under the head of Private Antiquities. But the State undertook sometimes to regulate by law the number of slaves that a master might have, and the State regulated the manumission of the slave and gave him certain rights as a freedman. All such matters belong to Public Antiquities.
So, too, a man might or might not be eligible to certain priestly offices, according to the particular ceremony used at the marriage of his parents. It will be found, therefore, that the study of Private Antiquities cannot be completely separated from its complement, though in this book the dividing line will be crossed as seldom as possible.2 4. FIG. 3 A ROMAN TEMPLE IN FRANCE This building is now used as a Museum of Numismatics in Nîmes (Nemausus), France. 8.
Systematic Treatises4 1. Encyclopedic Works Other Books 1. Corpus of writing tablets from Roman Britain - guide to curse ta. 'Curse tablets' and other documents on metal from Roman Britain Description Lead 'curse tablets' comprise thin rectangular sheets which, when complete and unrolled, generally measure 6 - 12cm long and 4 - 8cm wide, although many survive only as fragments. Though often described as 'lead', metallurgical analysis of tablets from Bath, for example, shows that many are better characterised as pewter, given their high tin content. The sheets, having been cast and / or flattened, were generally trimmed to provide a roughly rectangular surface area. The text was inscribed on the tablet with a point, perhaps a stylus like those used to write on wax tablets, and the tablet was then rolled or folded with the written surface innermost, and the ends folded over. This is the state in which they are usually found. In Britain the majority of lead tablets seem to have been deposited on temple sites, famously at Bath and at Uley in Gloucestershire.
Return to top Handwriting and language Subject matter. Justin Paola's Collection of Roman Emperors. A Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors The goal of this page is to present an illustrated list of Roman Emperors. While I was in Rome In July of 1995 the idea for this page hit me at some point in the Vatican museum.
I had seen lists of emperors on the net and I figured these lists would be much more interesting if they had pictures as well. Thus, I tried to snap pics of as many emperors as I could find in various museums. While I did quite a bit of reading before I went to Rome, and I could identify many of the more famous Roman Emperors, I ended up missing quite a few that I'm sure I had stood right next to many times. Anyway, what follows is a list of the Roman emperors and whenever possible, their busts and/or any other contributions they made to Roman art or architecture.
This list is now essentially complete with respect to my trip to Italy in July of 1995, and you can see I'm missing quite a few emperors. All sculpture photos are Copyright 1995 Justin D. Comments? More Emperors...