Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . *^ 1 Ter. And. iv. 1. 59. 6 arundo velvirga,Sen. 55. Met. i. 563. Suet. Tib. Hec. iv. 1. 6. Plaut Const. 1*4. 10 Juv. ix. 84. xii. 91. 26. Juv. vi. 346 Amph. i. 2. 31. 7 beware of the dog. Sen. 95. Peis. v. 180. 13 304. 2 servabat. —Suet. Vit. 16. Sen. 11 Ov. Trist. Hi. 1. 3!). 11 Ter. Heaut. il. 3. 37. 3 Ov. Fast. i. 138. Nep. Ira, iii. 37. 29. Plin. XV. 30. s. 39. Eun. iv. 6. ib. Plaut. Han. 12. Gell. xii. 10. PJaut. Most Sen. Polyb. 35. Mart. Aul. i. 2. 25. Juv. vi. 4 catenatus, Colume


Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . *^ 1 Ter. And. iv. 1. 59. 6 arundo velvirga,Sen. 55. Met. i. 563. Suet. Tib. Hec. iv. 1. 6. Plaut Const. 1*4. 10 Juv. ix. 84. xii. 91. 26. Juv. vi. 346 Amph. i. 2. 31. 7 beware of the dog. Sen. 95. Peis. v. 180. 13 304. 2 servabat. —Suet. Vit. 16. Sen. 11 Ov. Trist. Hi. 1. 3!). 11 Ter. Heaut. il. 3. 37. 3 Ov. Fast. i. 138. Nep. Ira, iii. 37. 29. Plin. XV. 30. s. 39. Eun. iv. 6. ib. Plaut. Han. 12. Gell. xii. 10. PJaut. Most Sen. Polyb. 35. Mart. Aul. i. 2. 25. Juv. vi. 4 catenatus, Columel. 8 Cic. Rose. 20. viii. 1. 346. Tjrsef. 10. Ov. Am. i. Arnob. vi. Liv. v. 47. 12 and thou shalt be 15 Ov. Art. A. ii. 2-14. ti. 1. 25. the guardian of the Met. X. 384. Am. i. 0. 5 H.,r. i. 5. 65. Mart. 9 Plaut. Cure. i. 1. 76. oaken crown tliat 24. Tibul. i. 7. 67. Petroii. hangs in tlie midiile,— lij Prop. iv. li. 26. SPIKNING AND WEAVING. 451. Key Knockers {marculi v. mallei) were fixed to the doors, or bells(tintinnabula) huno- up, as among us.^ The porter usually asked those who knocked at the gate, whothey were. He admitted or excluded such as his masterdirected. Sometimes he was ordered to deny his masters beingat home.^ Besides the janitor, the emperors and great men hadpersons who watched or kept guard in the vestibule (excubIxEvel custodia),^ to which Virgil alludes, ^n. vi. 555, 574. A door in the back part of the house was called posticum, velposticum ostium, or pseudothtrum, v. -on; that in the fore-part, ANTICUM.^ 3. The janua, or principal gate, was the entrance to theATRIUM, or AULA, the court or hall, which appears to have beena large oblong square, surrounded Avith covered or archedgalleries.^ Three sides of the atrium were supported on pillars,in later times, of marble. The side opposite to the gate wascalled TABLiNUiw; and the other two sides, ale. The tablinumwas filled with books, and the records of what


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