[References are to pages.]
- Acta Diurna,
282ff.
- Advocates, methods of,
345;
- great importance of,
355;
- cheap pettifoggers,
356;
- high abilities of some lawyers,
358.
- Agrippa, Baths of,
361.
- Aliens, vast numbers of,
123;
- colonies of, in Rome,
145.
- Amphitheater,
394ff.;
- (see Gladiator Contests).
- Antiques, often spurious,
58.
- Apicius, the gourmand,
100.
- Aqueducts,
303–304.
- Arch, use of,
13.
- Architectural Forms, usually Greek,
12;
- use of arch and vault in,
13.
- Architecture, very grandiose,
258.
- Arena, arrangement of,
392;
- (see Gladiator Contests).
- Armor, of legionaries,
318.
- Army, real master of the Empire,
307;
- held under stiff discipline,
308;
- stationed on frontiers,
308–309;
- legions in,
309 ff.;
- size of,
331;
- efficiency of,
332;
- no reserves to,
332;
- (see Legionaries).
- Arria (wife of Cæcina Poetus),
76.
- Atrium,
42,
43.
- Auctions,
226.
- Audiences with emperors,
296.
- Augurs and augury,
418–419.
- Augustus, tomb of,
372;
- deified,
439.
- Auspices, taken in Senate,
340.
- Auxiliary cohorts,
327–328.
- Ball games,
206.
- Banks and bankers,
227 ff.;
- a great banker,
228;
- forms of investment,
229;
- trust business of,
229;
- savings banks,
230;
- safe deposits,
230;
- deposits in Temple of Vesta,
231.
- Banquets (see Dinners).
- Barber shops,
90,
91.
- Basilica Æmilia,
271.
- Basilica Julia,
272–274.
- Baths, popularity of,
358;
- luxurious private,
359;
- private-owned,
360–361;
- large government-owned,
360;
- great Baths of Trajan,
361 ff.;
- crowds at,
362;
- often a kind of club house,
362–363;
- entrance to,
363;
- interior of,
364;
- cold room (frigidarium),
365;
- swimming pool,
365;
- tepidarium,
365–366;
- hot baths (caldaria),
366;
- extreme luxury of,
367;
- restaurants and shops at,
367–368;
- parasites at,
368.
- Beards, revival of,
91.
- Beast fights,
399.
- Beggars, multitude of,
252.
- Bonuses (donativa),
245.
- Books,
209 ff.;
- format of,
210;
- mounting and rolling of,
211;
- copying of,
212;
- publication of,
212,
213.
- Bread,
103,
104.
- Breakfast (jentaculum),
110.
- Building materials used in Rome,
10.
- Bulla,
186.
- Caldaria,
366.
- Camp of prætorian guard,
311.
- Camps, military,
330.
- Campus Martius, view from,
7;
- general description of,
280;
- great porticoes along,
368;
- public buildings upon,
369.
- Carriages, varieties of,
455–456.
- Catacombs, used by Christians,
473.
- Cemeteries,
179–180.
- Cena (see Dinner).
- Centurions, in legions,
323–325.
- Chairs, forms of,
55–56.
- Charioteers,
383;
- (see Circus).
- Chests,
57.
- Children, legal status of,
184;
- exposure of,
184;
- very desirable,
185;
- ceremonies after birth,
185;
- names given,
186–189;
- care in educating,
189;
- toys and pets,
190;
- taught Greek,
191;
- schooling and education,
192 ff.
- Christianity, pagan account of,
449;
- persecution of,
450–451;
- charges against,
451;
- attitude of educated men towards,
452.
- Christians, gathering of, in the Catacombs,
473.
- Circus, popularity of,
382;
- charioteers in,
383;
- racing factions in,
383;
- wagering in,
384;
- Circus Maximus,
384 ff.;
- race track,
384;
- procession before races,
385–386;
- beginning of races,
386;
- dangers in races,
387;
- proclaiming victors,
387–389.
- Circus, Flaminian,
370.
- Circus Maximus,
384 ff.
- Citizenship, desirability of,
146;
- case of St. Paul,
147.
- Claudius Etruscus, powerful freedman,
142.
- Clientage, old type,
147–148;
- new type,
148.
- Clients, morning salutation by,
148–149;
- doles given,
150;
- attend their patron,
151;
- undergo insults,
151,
152.
- Clothing (see Garments).
- Cohorts, city (cohortes urbanae),
313.
- Collegia,
249 ff.
- Color, used upon sculpture,
259.
- Column of Trajan,
278–280.
- Concrete, great use of,
11.
- Congiaria,
244.
- Cookery, refinements in,
109,
110.
- Correspondence,
208.
- Couches, general use of,
54.
- Country, around Rome,
5;
- view of,
5,
6.
- Country-life, Roman love of,
453–454;
- (see Villas).
- Court, imperial;
- (see Emperor).
- Courts, law,
353 ff.;
- (see Legal Procedure).
- Crowds, typical, upon a Roman street,
21.
- Curia,
272.
- Curia Julia, arrangement of,
339.
- Cybele, worship of,
441.
- Daily Gazette (Acta Diurna),
282 ff.;
- entries and gossip in,
284,
285.
- Decurions, provincial nobles,
152.
- Deified Augustus and later emperors,
439.
- Dining room (triclinium),
45,
46.
- Dinner (cena),
111 ff.;
- time for,
111;
- standard number for,
113;
- preparing for,
114;
- arranging couches,
115;
- serving of,
116;
- courses at,
117;
- drinking bout after,
118;
- garlands and perfumes at,
119;
- very elaborate banquets,
120;
- simple home meals,
121.
- Dinner hunters,
112;
- at baths,
368.
- Discomforts of life in Rome,
33.
- Doles, public, of grain,
242,
243;
- distribution of,
244.
- Domus (mansions),
39 ff.;
- often several owned by one magnate,
39;
- plan of early,
40;
- plan of developed,
40,
41;
- price of a handsome,
41;
- entrance to,
42;
- atrium of,
42,
43;
- decorations of,
43;
- peristylium,
44;
- triclinium,
45,
46;
- special rooms in,
47;
- garden behind,
47;
- slaves’ quarters,
48;
- floors and windows of,
49;
- frescos in,
50;
- statues in,
51,
52,
53;
- furniture in,
54 ff.
- Donativa,
245.
- Drinking bout (commissatio),
118.
- Eagle of legion,
325.
- Eating-houses,
235,
236.
- Education, selection of school,
192;
- extent of literacy,
193;
- instruction of girls,
193;
- for lower classes,
193,
194;
- low-grade schools,
194;
- cruelty in schools,
195;
- superior types of schools,
196;
- methods of teaching,
197;
- reading and writing,
198;
- arithmetic,
199;
- grammarians’ high schools,
199;
- passion for oratory,
200;
- rhetoric schools,
201;
- mock debates,
202;
- popularity of rhetorical studies,
203;
- philosophy, study of,
204.
- Egypt, worship of its gods,
442.
- Emperor, center of social life,
294;
- “friends of Cæsar,”
295;
- audiences with,
296;
- ruin through disfavor of,
296,
297;
- favor most valuable,
298.
- Emperors, cult of the deified,
439–440.
- Emporium,
240.
- Encampments, military,
330.
- Entrance to house,
42.
- Epicureanism, popular,
407.
- Equites, second class nobles,
153;
- qualifications and honors of,
154,
155;
- review of,
156.
- Escorts, of rich nobles,
25.
- Factions, in circus,
383.
- Fame, passion for, in letters,
214,
215;
- in poetry,
216.
- Familia of slaves,
129,
130;
- organization of,
131.
- Festivals, great number of,
374;
- passion for spectacles,
375;
- (see Games, Public).
- Fetiales,
422.
- Fire department,
304 ff.
- Fish, great demand for,
106.
- Flamens,
420.
- Flavian amphitheater,
394–397.
- Floors, of houses,
49.
- Flowers, varieties supplied from villa gardens,
458.
- Flute-blowers, guild of,
251.
- Fora, centers of Roman life,
254;
- series of,
256;
- crowds in,
256,
257;
- centers for new,
257;
- grandiose architecture in,
258;
- use of color on sculptures,
259;
- entrance upon the series,
260;
- Temple of Venus and Rome,
261,
262;
- colossal statue of Nero,
262;
- Arch of Titus,
262;
- Temple of Vesta,
265;
- Temple of the Divine Julius,
265;
- Old Forum,
265 ff.;
- of the Emperors,
275 ff.
- Foreign cults, numerous in Rome,
437;
- why popular,
438;
- cult of Cybele or “Great Mother,”
441;
- Isis worship,
442;
- ceremonies at Temple of Isis,
443;
- Serapis worship,
445;
- Mithras worship,
445;
- nobility of Mithras cult,
446;
- Taurobolium ceremony,
448–449;
- Christianity, pagan view of,
449 ff.
- Fortresses, frontier,
330.
- Forum, morning visit to,
111;
- of Julius,
276;
- of Augustus,
277;
- of Nerva,
278;
- of Trajan,
278;
- (see Old Forum and Fora).
- Forum Romanum,
265 ff.;
- (see Old Forum).
- Fountains, public,
20.
- Freedmen, how created,
140;
- status of,
140,
141;
- humble types of,
141;
- wealthy,
142;
- importance of,
143.
- Frescos, in a Roman house,
50,
51.
- “Friends” of Emperor,
295.
- Frigidarium,
365.
- Fruits,
104,
105.
- Fullers,
89.
- Funeral monuments,
179,
182.
- Funerals, great interest in,
172;
- preliminaries to,
173;
- procession of “ancestors,”
174;
- exhibits in procession,
175;
- orations at,
176;
- tombs,
177–180;
- funeral pyre,
180,
181;
- for poorer classes,
182.
- Gain, passion for,
220.
- Galli,
441.
- Gambling, mania for,
375.
- Games, children’s,
204;
- played on boards,
205,
206;
- out-door,
206.
- Games, public, passion for,
375;
- mania for gambling at,
375;
- vast scale of,
375–376;
- great expense of,
376;
- popularity of,
377;
- seating at,
378;
- (see Theater, Circus, and Amphitheater).
- Gardens, public, around Rome,
372.
- Garlands, at dinners,
119.
- Garments, types of,
80 ff.;
- toga,
81;
- tunica,
84;
- capes, cloaks, and gala garments,
85;
- women’s stola and palla,
86,
87;
- materials of,
88;
- use of silk,
89;
- changing styles of,
89.
- Gladiators, notice of display of,
29;
- popularity of,
392;
- (see Gladiator Contests).
- Gladiator contests, enormously popular,
389;
- at funerals,
390.
- Gladiator schools,
390;
- inmates usually criminals,
391;
- severe training in,
392;
- typical arrangement of,
393;
- Flavian Amphitheater,
394–395;
- its interior arrangements,
395–396;
- procession before contests,
397;
- criminals thrown to beasts,
398;
- fights with wild beasts,
399;
- interval in sports,
400;
- distribution of lottery tickets at,
400;
- beginning of regular,
401;
- chariot warfare,
402;
- cavalry combats,
403;
- signals for ruthlessness and signals for mercy,
403;
- “Netters” and “Thracians,”
404–405;
- reward of victors,
405–406.
- Glass, used in windows,
49.
- Gluttony,
100–102.
- Golden Milestone,
269,
270.
- Gourmandizing, delight in,
100.
- Government of Rome,
299 ff.;
- city præfect,
300;
- curators and commissioners,
301;
- water supply of,
301–302;
- great aqueducts,
303;
- police and fire department,
304–305.
- Grain, trade in,
242;
- doles of,
243;
- distribution of,
244.
- Grammarians’ schools,
199.
- “Great Mother,”
441.
- Greek language, constantly used in Rome,
22,
23.
- Guests at dinner, proper number nine,
113;
- arrangement on couches,
115.
- Guilds,
249;
- very ancient ones,
250;
- importance of,
251;
- festivals of,
252.
- Hadrian, prosperity of his reign,
1,
468;
- tomb of,
370;
- his return to Italy,
469;
- his procession entering Rome,
470;
- how saluted,
472;
- presides over fêtes,
472–473.
- Hairdressing, women’s,
93;
- ornaments on hair,
93.
- Heating of houses,
49.
- Hills, Seven, of Rome,
9.
- Hospitals, almost nonexistent,
168.
- Hotels, (see Inns).
- House fronts, on typical Roman streets,
18.
- Houses (see Insulæ and Domus).
- Idlers, vast number of,
27.
- Imagines (death masks),
54.
- Impeachment trial, before Senate,
343 ff.
- Industry, quarters for,
238;
- conditions of labor in,
238,
239;
- organization in guilds,
249 ff.
- Inns, usually sordid,
231;
- type of,
232;
- reckonings at,
233;
- frequenters of,
234;
- eating houses,
235 ff.
- Insulæ (tenement houses),
34 ff.;
- typical insula,
35;
- flats in,
36;
- cheap attics in,
37;
- dangers of,
37,
38.
- Isis, cult of,
442 ff.
- Janus,
413.
- Jentaculum (breakfast),
110.
- Jesus, legal status of,
144.
- Jewels,
96 ff.
- Jews in Rome,
145.
- Kissing, habit of, in public,
27.
- Kitchens,
109.
- Lacerna,
85.
- Lacus, Curtius,
274.
- Lares and Penates,
414.
- Latrunculi (game),
205.
- Lawyers (see Advocates).
- Legacies,
170;
- hunting for,
171;
- public bequests,
172.
- Legal procedure, highly scientific,
353;
- great tribunals for,
354;
- forms of verdicts,
355;
- importance of advocates,
355;
- cheap pettifoggers,
356;
- character and slave witnesses,
357;
- use of written evidence,
357–358.
- Legate of the legion,
329.
- Legionaries, enlistment of,
314;
- organization of,
315;
- training of,
316;
- weapons of,
317–318;
- armor of,
318;
- rewards and punishment of,
319–320;
- retiring bonuses for,
329;
- pay and rations of,
320;
- training of,
321;
- non-military labors of,
322;
- petty officers of,
322–323;
- centurions of,
323–324;
- primipilus of,
325;
- eagle of,
325.
- Legions, number of,
309;
- organization of,
315 ff.;
- location and names of,
326;
- commanders of,
328;
- (see also Legionaries).
- Letters,
207,
208.
- Libraries, size of,
217;
- private,
218;
- public,
219;
- of Trajan,
280.
- Literary fame, passion for,
214 ff.
- Luncheon (prandium),
111.
- Magistrates, public honors paid to,
24.
- Mansions (see Domus).
- Manumission,
139,
140.
- Marble trade,
241.
- Marriage, men often reluctant to marry,
61;
- usually arranged by girls’ parents,
63;
- marriage treaties,
64;
- betrothal before,
65;
- dowries,
66;
- dressing bride,
66,
67;
- actual ceremonies of,
67 ff.;
- contract of,
68;
- wedding procession,
69;
- ceremonies at bridegroom’s house,
70;
- often unhappy,
72;
- divorce, easy and frequent,
74;
- happy marriages,
75.
- Masks, death (imagines),
54.
- Matrons, honors paid to,
71,
72;
- (see Women).
- Meals and meal times,
110 ff.
- Meat and poultry,
105.
- Medicine (see Physicians).
- Mimes,
380.
- Mithras, worship of,
445–446.
- Morning, how spent by gentlemen,
110.
- Morra, game of,
205.
- Mosaics, in Roman mansion,
43.
- Names, intricacy of,
186;
- irregular,
187;
- of slaves,
188;
- of women,
188;
- confusion of,
189.
- Nero, colossal statue of,
262.
- Notices, public,
29.
- Old Forum,
265 ff.;
- noble traditions of,
266;
- impression created by,
267;
- crowds in,
268,
269;
- area of,
268,
269;
- western end of,
269;
- Rostra,
269;
- Golden Milestone,
269,
270;
- Tullianum,
270,
271;
- Basilica Æmilia,
271;
- Temple of Janus,
271;
- Senate House,
272;
- Basilica Julia,
272;
- Lacus Curtius,
274.
- Olive oil,
107.
- Omens, belief in,
419–420.
- Oratory, passion for,
200;
- training in,
201 ff.;
- in Senate,
343 ff.
- Ostia, trade through,
239.
- shipping at,
247;
- naval shipping at,
248;
- harbor town at,
249.
- Pænula,
85.
- Palace, imperial,
288 ff.;
- magnificent aspect of,
289;
- famous buildings in,
290;
- triclinium and throne-room of Domitian,
291–292;
- enormous luxury of,
292;
- swarm of officials present in,
293.
- Palatine, view from,
260;
- history of,
286;
- fine residences upon,
287;
- Augustus settles upon,
287–288;
- commanding view from,
288;
- imperial palace upon,
288 ff.
- Palla,
88.
- Pantheon,
280–282.
- Pantomimes,
381;
- high art in,
382.
- Papyrus,
209,
210.
- Parasites, swarm of, in Rome,
27;
- at dinners,
112,
113;
- at baths,
368.
- Park system around Rome,
280;
- toward Tiber,
369.
- Patria Potestas,
184.
- Paul, legal status of,
147.
- Pavements, in Roman streets,
18.
- Pax Romana, blessings of,
1.
- Pearls,
97.
- Perfumes,
98;
- at dinners,
119.
- Peristylium,
44.
- Pet animals,
58;
- of children,
190.
- Philosophy, study of,
204.
- Physicians, no training required,
160;
- superior class of,
161;
- fashionable doctors,
161,
162;
- instruments and books of,
163;
- famous remedies of,
164;
- absurd medicines,
164;
- theriac,
165;
- fear of poisons,
165,
166;
- disciples of,
166;
- quack doctors,
167.
- Placards, public,
28,
29.
- Plebeians, the “mob,”
145.
- Pliny the Younger’s Tuscan villa,
459;
- charming location of,
460;
- view from,
461;
- terraces and porticoes of,
462;
- bed-chambers of,
463–464;
- gardens of,
465.
- Poetry, passion for,
216.
- Police department,
304–305.
- Pontiffs,
417.
- Population of Rome,
3,
4.
- Porticoes, along Campus Martius,
368–369.
- Portrait busts, trade in,
246.
- Præfect, of city of Rome,
300;
- of the police (vigiles),
306;
- of the camps,
328.
- Prætorian guard,
309–311;
- præfect of,
311;
- camp of,
311–312;
- organization of,
313.
- Prætorian præfect,
311.
- Prayer, formal, at sacrifice,
428.
- Priests, duties of,
417;
- (see Flamens).
- Primipilus,
325.
- Processions, attending great nobles,
24.
- Provincials, status of,
143.
- Public games,
375 ff.
- Publishers of books,
213,
214.
- Punishments, of slaves,
136;
- of soldiers,
320.
- Regia,
265.
- Regions of Rome,
15.
- Religion, signs of, everywhere,
407;
- upper classes sceptical,
407–408;
- Stoicism popular,
408;
- revival of, under Empire,
409;
- many foreign cults,
410;
- plebeians very superstitious,
411;
- based on old Italian agriculture,
412;
- native Italian gods,
413;
- Lares and Penates,
414;
- personified virtues as gods,
415;
- legalistic character of,
416;
- priests not sacrosanct,
417;
- Pontifices,
417–418;
- Augurs,
418;
- Flamens,
420;
- Salii,
421;
- Fetiales,
422;
- Arval Brethren,
423;
- rustic,
424;
- soothsayers and astrologers,
424–425;
- sacrifices, private,
425;
- ceremony at temple,
426;
- slaughtering the victim,
427;
- formal prayer,
428;
- Vestal Virgins,
429 ff.;
- (see Foreign Cults).
- Restaurants (see Eating-Houses).
- Rhetoricians,
201;
- schools of,
202 ff.
- Rings,
96.
- Robbers, game of,
205.
- Roman Empire very prosperous under Hadrian,
1.
- Rome, beautified by Augustus and later Emperors,
3;
- reaches architectural perfection about 135 A.D.,
3;
- population of,
3,
4;
- crowded condition of,
4;
- country around,
5;
- view from Campus Martius,
7;
- Seven Hills of,
9;
- regions and social quarters of,
15;
- typical street in,
16;
- discomforts of life in,
33;
- vast alien population in,
122;
- divisions of society in,
123 ff.;
- great Jewish colony in,
145;
- plebeians in,
145,
146;
- life in, extravagant and expensive,
221;
- a city of investors and buyers of luxuries,
222;
- great shopping quarters in,
223;
- industrial quarters in,
210 ff.;
- city government of,
299 ff.
- Rostra,
269.
- Sacrifices, private description of,
425 ff.
- Salii,
421.
- Salutations, form of, in public,
26.
- Sandals,
95.
- Saturnalia,
437.
- Schools (see Educators).
- Scribblings, upon every wall,
30,
31.
- Sculptures, trade in,
246;
- often colored,
259.
- Seat of honor, at festivals,
378.
- Secretaries,
209.
- Senate, outward glory of,
334;
- actual weakness of,
335;
- actual authority of,
336;
- organization and procedure of,
337–338;
- Curia (Senate House) for,
338;
- arrangement of seats,
339;
- precedence in,
339–340;
- opening of session,
340;
- auspices in,
340–341;
- routine business in,
341;
- taking of vote,
342;
- impeachment before,
342–343;
- use of water clocks,
344;
- oratory in,
344;
- advocates before,
345;
- shouts and invectives during debates,
347;
- taking the opinion of,
348 ff.;
- speeches from floor of,
349;
- uproar in,
350;
- formal division in,
351;
- decree of banishment,
352;
- end of session,
352.
- Senate House,
272.
- Senatorial order,
156;
- includes relatives of senators,
158.
- Senators, social glories of,
157;
- form a high aristocracy,
158;
- insignia and titles of,
158;
- great importance of,
159.
- Serapis, worship of,
445.
- “Seven Hills” of Rome,
9.
- Shipping, merchant,
247,
248;
- naval,
248.
- Shoes,
95.
- Shop fronts,
18.
- Shops, vast number of,
18;
- shopping districts in Rome,
223,
224;
- arrangement of shops,
224;
- of barbers,
225;
- superior retail stores,
226.
- Shrines, upon streets,
20.
- Siege warfare,
331.
- Siesta, custom of,
112.
- Silk, use of,
89.
- Slaves, notice to,
42;
- vast numbers of,
124;
- power of master over,
125;
- city slaves and country slaves,
125–126;
- purchase of,
126,
127;
- auction of,
128;
- sale of superior,
129;
- size of household of,
129,
130;
- workmen as,
130;
- duties of,
131;
- organization of,
131;
- discipline of,
132;
- frequently idle,
133;
- degradation of slave system,
133;
- evil results on masters,
134;
- punishment of,
135;
- branding of,
136;
- pursuit of runaways,
137;
- torture of,
138;
- manumission of,
139.
- Society, divisions of,
123,
124.
- Soldiers (see Legionaries).
- Soothsayers,
424.
- Statues, vast multiplication of,
51;
- portrait busts,
52,
53.
- Status, in Roman society,
123.
- Stoicism, popularity of,
408.
- Stola,
87.
- Streets, typical in Rome,
16;
- very narrow,
17;
- paving of,
17,
18;
- shops upon,
18;
- shrines and fountains upon,
20,
21;
- crowds in,
21;
- noise and turmoil of,
23;
- dark and dangerous at night,
32;
- extremely noisy towards dawn,
33.
- Suicide, not condemned,
168.
- Tables,
56;
- costly, of citrus wood,
57.
- Tablets, writing,
207.
- Tactics, in battle,
330.
- Taurobolium,
447.
- Taverns (see Inns).
- Temple, of the Divine Julius,
265;
- of Janus,
271;
- of Mars Ultor,
277;
- of Peace,
276;
- of Venus and Rome,
261,
262;
- of Vesta,
265.
- Tenement blocks (insulæ),
34 ff.
- Tepidarium,
365.
- Theater, not extremely popular,
378;
- stage in,
379;
- spectacles in,
380;
- mimes,
380;
- pantomimes,
381;
- high art in latter,
382.
- Theaters upon Campus Martius,
369.
- Thermopolia,
236.
- Tiber, and valley of,
6;
- barges upon,
240;
- trip down to Ostia,
247;
- shipping upon,
248.
- Time, measured by water clocks,
344.
- Titus, arch of,
262.
- Toga,
81–84.
- Toilets, very elaborate,
94.
- Tombs,
177–180;
- of Hadrian,
370;
- of Augustus,
372.
- Toys,
190.
- Trade, through Ostia and Campania,
239;
- Emporium and wharves,
240;
- upon Tiber,
240,
241;
- in marble and grain,
241,
242;
- in sculptures and portrait statues,
246.
- Trajan, forum and column of,
278–280;
- baths of,
361 ff.
- Travel, modes of,
454–456.
- Traveler’s escorts,
25,
26.
- Triclinium (dining room),
45,
46.
- Trigon (ball game),
206.
- Triumph, ceremonies of a,
470.
- Tullianum,
270,
271.
- Tunica,
84.
- Turia, story of,
78.
- Vegetables,
104.
- Veterans, care and rewards of,
329–330.
- Vesta, Temple of, as safe deposit,
231.
- Vestal Virgins,
429 ff.;
- origin and sanctity,
430;
- temple and residence of,
431;
- how chosen,
432;
- duties of,
433;
- senior vestal (Maxima),
433;
- punishment of,
434;
- great honors of,
435.
- Via Sacra,
261,
263 ff.
- Victory, statue of, in Senate,
340.
- Vigiles, city police,
28;
- description of,
304 ff.
- Villas, several owned by one senator,
39;
- greatly enjoyed,
453;
- comfortable travel to,
454–456;
- multiplication of,
456;
- by the sea shore,
457;
- in the mountains,
457–458;
- near Rome,
458;
- great estates in the hills,
459;
- Pliny’s Tuscan villa,
459 ff.
- Vitellius, imperial glutton,
102.
- Wall scribblings,
30.
- War, ceremony of declaring,
423.
- Water clocks,
57;
- in Senate,
344.
- Water supply of Rome,
301 ff.
- Wealth, vast premium upon in Rome,
220,
221.
- Weapons, of legionaries,
317,
318.
- Wills,
169.
- Windows of houses,
49.
- Wines,
107,
108,
109.
- Writing tablets,
207.
- Women, honorable status of,
60;
- rights and privileges when married,
61,
71,
72;
- have control of property,
62;
- selection of husbands for girls,
63;
- marriage treaties,
64;
- betrothal ceremonies,
65;
- dowries of,
66;
- marriage of,
66 ff.;
- frivolous type of,
72,
73;
- nobler types of,
75;
- famous and devoted wives,
76,
77;
- case of Turia,
78,
79.