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Panem et circenses
 Definition
Bread and circuses
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Carpe diem
 Definition
Sieze the day
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Lex
 Definition
law
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Civis
 Definition
Citizen
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Tria nomina
 Definition
Three names of a Roman citizen
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Lus latii
 Definition
Latin rights
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Paterfamilias
 Definition
Father of the famliy
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Patria potestas
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Power of life and death over children
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Matrona
Definition
Wife
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Contubernium
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Type of marriage used by soldiers; not recognized by law
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Dos
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Dowry
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Manus
 Definition
Husband's legal control over wife
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Nutrix
Definition
Nurse
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Ludus
 Definition
Elementary school for boys and girls
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Cena
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Dinner
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Damnatio memoriae
 Definition
Public erasure
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Pietas
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Piety
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Parentalia
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Festival/dinner banquet honouring death
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Collegia
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Funeral club
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Columbarium
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Underground tombs
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Negotiatores
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Large scale traders
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Vernae
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Being born into slavery
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Latifundia
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Agricultural work
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Peculium
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Money given to slave by master--saved to buy freedom
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Manumission
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Freeing of a slave
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Macellum
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Gourmet meat, fish, vegetable market
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Thermopolium
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Wine shop; sex; gambling
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Venatio
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Animal hunt in arena--gladiators
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Bestiarius
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Beast fighters (gladiators)
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Dextrarum iunctio
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Joining of hands as a symbol of marriage
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Liberta/libertus
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Free woman/man
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Horrea
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Grain warehouse
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Garum
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Stinky fish sauce
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Mappa
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Napkin (iiindispensible)
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Thermae
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Forum baths, Pompeii
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Tepidarium, caldarium,frigidarium
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Warm room, hot room, cold room
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Imperatrix
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Female commander eg. Agrippina the Younger
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Judicial Magistrates
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Judge in criminal and civil cases
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Pater Patriae
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Father of the country
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Maiestas
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Treason law--delatation and delator
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Civis Romanus Sum
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Emperor Caracella, granted citizenship to all free men within his empire
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Paedegogues
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Male slaves who raised/looked after children
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Ludii Magister
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School master
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Grammaticus
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Grammar teacher
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Epodes
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After songs (Horace)**Remember Odes
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Iius Romani
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Roman rights
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Res Gestae
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Deeds of Deified Augustus
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Pax Augusta
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Peace of Augustus
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Toga praetexta; toga virilis
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Toga worn by senators and young boys; toga worn by men
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Stola; pallium
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Elaborate outer tunic gathered at waist and worn by women; cloak worn by women