Presided over by tribunes of the plebs, whom the concilium also elected. Two consuls were elected to serve simultaneously for a one-year period. Though still prestigious, the consulship offered little real power in the imperial age. Upwards of a dozen horses would be kept at some of them for these official postmen. Much of our knowledge of Epicures comes from the writings of Lucretius.
Luxuries cause pain.
He did not think that the gods influenced human life in any way. He believed that the human soul was both mortal and material, and perished along with the body at death. Horace and Martial both mention it. Made from the Aminean grape, a variety brought to Italy by Greek colonists who first settled at Cumae near the Bay of Naples. A white wine, it was aged for 10 to 20 years, until it became the color of amber.