Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde FowlerThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Social life at Rome in the Age of CiceroAuthor: W. Warde FowlerRelease Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11256]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOCIAL LIFE AT ROME ***Produced by Ted Garvin, Nicolas Hayes and PG Distributed ProofreadersSOCIAL LIFE AT ROME IN THE AGE OF CICEROBY W. WARDE FOWLER, M.A.'Ad illa mihi pro se quisque acriter intendat animum, quae vita, quae mores fuerint.'—LIVY, Praefatio.AMICO VETERRIMOI.A. STEWARTROMAE PRIMUM VISAECOMES MEMORD.D.D.PREFATORY NOTEThis book was originally intended to be a companion to Professor Tucker's Life in Ancient Athens, published in Messrs.Macmillan's series of Handbooks of Archaeology and Art; but the plan was abandoned for reasons on which I need notdwell, and before the book was quite finished I was called to other and more specialised work. As it stands, it is merelyan attempt to supply an educational want. At our schools and universities we read the great writers of the last age of theRepublic, and learn something of its political and constitutional history; but there is no book in our language whichsupplies a picture of life and ...