common people of ancient Rome
Subtitle: studies of Roman life and literature
By: by Frank Frost Abbott.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1911
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Latin language; Latin literature -- History and criticism; Rome -- Social conditions
Notes: "The article on 'The origin of the realistic romance among the Romans' appeared originally in Classical philology."--Prefatory note.
Table of contents: title: How Latin became the language of the world.; title: The Latin of the common people.; title: The poetry of the common people of Rome: I. Their metrical epitaphs.  II. Their dedicatory and ephemeral verses.; title: The origin of the realistic romance among the Romans.; title: Diocletian's edict and the high cost of living.; title: Private benefactions and their effect on the municipal life of the Romans.; title: Some reflections on corporations and tradeguilds.; title: A Roman politician, Gaius Scribonius Curio.; title: Gaius Matius, a friend of Caesar.