The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature

Project Gutenberg's The Common People of Ancient Rome, by Frank Frost Abbott This 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 at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Author: Frank Frost Abbott Release Date: August 19, 2004 [EBook #13226] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COMMON PEOPLE OF ANCIENT ROME *** Produced by Distributed Proofreaders [Transcriber's note: This book makes use of the Roman denarius symbol. Because this symbol is not available in Unicode, it has been replaced by the ROMAN NUMERAL TEN (U+2169) with a COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY (U+0336) in the UTF-8 version.] THE COMMON PEOPLE OF ANCIENT ROME STUDIES OF ROMAN LIFE AND LITERATURE BY FRANK FROST ABBOTT Kennedy Professor of the Latin Language and Literature in Princeton University NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Copyright, 1911, by Charles Scribner's Sons Printed in the United States of America Dedicated to J. H. A. PREFATORY NOTE This book, like the volume on "Society and Politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, their occupations and amusements, and with their social, political, and economic conditions.