The Common People of Ancient Rome / Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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Chapters (46)
- The Common People of Ancient Rome
- Studies of Roman Life and Literature
- Frank Frost Abbott
- New York Charles Scribner's Sons
- Prefatory Note
- The Common People of Ancient Rome
- How Latin Became the Language of the World
- The Latin of the Common People
- The Oath of Strasburg of 842
- The Poetry of the Common People of Rome
- I. Their Metrical Epitaphs
- II. Their Dedicatory and Ephemeral Verses
- The Origin of the Realistic Romance among the Romans
- Diocletian's Edict and the High Cost of Living
- Extracts from Diocletian's List of Maximum Prices
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXX
- Articles of Food90
- Wages Per Day
- Private Benefactions and Their Effect on the Municipal Life of the Romans
- Some Reflections on Corporations and Trades-Guilds
- A Roman Politician
- (Gaius Scribonius Curio)
- Gaius Matius, a Friend of Cæsar
- "Non enim Cæsarem ... sum secutus, sed amicum."
- Index
- Footnotes
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