LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
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Daily life

Dress, the house, dinner, the baths, marriage and funerals, slaves, names and the calendar.

  1. TogaThe earliest costume of the Roman was a thick woollen cloak worn over a loin-cloth or apron [SUBLIGACULUM]. This woollen cloak was called the toga, and was the dress……15 min read
  2. Domusa house. I. Pre-historic. One……114 min read
  3. Tricliniumproperly a set of three couches round a dining-table, but commonly used also for the dining-room of a Roman house; for its usual position, see DOMUS It was of an oblong s…4 min read
  4. BalneaeBalineae, Balneum, Balineum, Thermae (ἀσάμινθος, βαλανεῖον, λοετρόν, λουτρόν). GREEK BATHS. Bathing was a practice familiar to the Greeks of both sexes from the earliest …54 min read
  5. MatrimoniumNUPTIAE (γάμος), marriage. Greek The history of the marriage relation among the Greeks takes us back to some of the very earliest forms of the connexion between the sexes…61 min read
  6. FunusIt is proposed in the following article to give a brief account of Greek and Roman funerals, and of the different rites and ceremonies connected with death and burial. Th…34 min read
  7. Ludiis a general term comprising the various spectacles and contests of the circus and amphitheatre (ludi circenses), and those of the theatre (ludi scenici) and stadium. 1. …19 min read
  8. Calendariumor rather KALENDARIUM, is the account-book in which creditors entered the names of their debtors and the sums which they owed. As the interest on borrowed money was due o…36 min read
  9. Servus1. Greek. The Greek δοῦλος, like the Latin servus, corresponds to the usual meaning of our word slave. Slavery existed almost throughout the whole of Greece; and Aristotl…49 min read
  10. Nomenname. Greek The Greeks, as is well known, bore only one name (Paus. 7.7.4), and it was one of the especial rights of a father to choose the names for his children, and to…10 min read
  11. TunicaThe χιτὼν or tunica was a shirt: or shift, and served as the chief under-garment of the Greeks and Romans, both men and women. Greek In the earliest period, known to, us …14 min read
  12. StolaThe stola was a garment peculiar to the Roman matron, and was worn as a badge of lawful marriage (cf. V. Max. 6.1; Hor. Sat. 1.2, 94). It was a tunica put on over the shi…2 min read
  13. Libera book. But it must be recollected that these words in Greek and Latin until a very late period mean a book in the form of a roll, as will be explained below, and that th…12 min read
  14. Gladiatoreswere men who fought with swords in the circus, the forum, or in later times in the amphitheatre, for the amusement of the Roman people. (Gladiator est, qui in arena, popu…11 min read
  15. Nundinaethe market day, a regular division of the Calendar, and hence the market itself. The Romans had a system of eight-day weeks, which, like our seven-day weeks……3 min read