A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger DictionaryHarper, 1846 - 373 pages |
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... was called the aes manuarium . AES UXO'RIUM , was a tax paid by per- sons who lived as bachelors . It was first imposed by the censors in B. c . 403. Various penalties were imposed by Augustus upon 12 AGASO . those who lived in a state of.
... was called the aes manuarium . AES UXO'RIUM , was a tax paid by per- sons who lived as bachelors . It was first imposed by the censors in B. c . 403. Various penalties were imposed by Augustus upon 12 AGASO . those who lived in a state of.
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... censor , complained that the Romans of his time began to despise ornaments of this de- scription , and to prefer the marble friezes of Athens and Corinth . The rising taste which Cato deplored may account for the superior beauty of the ...
... censor , complained that the Romans of his time began to despise ornaments of this de- scription , and to prefer the marble friezes of Athens and Corinth . The rising taste which Cato deplored may account for the superior beauty of the ...
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... censor , and was named after him , the Aqua Appia . Subsequently seven or eight aquae- ducts were built , which brought an abundant supply of water to Rome . The specus , or water channel , was formed either of stone or brick coated ...
... censor , and was named after him , the Aqua Appia . Subsequently seven or eight aquae- ducts were built , which brought an abundant supply of water to Rome . The specus , or water channel , was formed either of stone or brick coated ...
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... censor . A single magistrate had the power of proroguing the comitia by the formula se de coelo servare . [ AUSPICIUM . ] The law obliged him to give notice before- hand , so that it can only have been a religious way of exercising a ...
... censor . A single magistrate had the power of proroguing the comitia by the formula se de coelo servare . [ AUSPICIUM . ] The law obliged him to give notice before- hand , so that it can only have been a religious way of exercising a ...
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... censor are spoken of as capita , sometimes with the addi- tion of the word civium , and sometimes not . Thus to be registered in the census was the same thing as caput habere : and a slave and a filius familias , in this sense of the ...
... censor are spoken of as capita , sometimes with the addi- tion of the word civium , and sometimes not . Thus to be registered in the census was the same thing as caput habere : and a slave and a filius familias , in this sense of the ...
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